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Click on the logo for the index of campaigns, the latest of which is against Kraft Foods for dumping toxic ingredients into food sold in the USA, ingredients not allowed in Europe and not included in Kraft products sold in Europe.

Most Americans do not realize that the USA is now a dumping ground for both toxic chemicals in food and other products, and unsafe products, because the Congress and Executive of the USA have been bribed to look the other way. The Federal Government, for example, now sets CEILINGS on environmental controls rather than floors, and this is one reason so may states are beginning to exercise their rights of nullification (one step down from secession from the United STATES of America.

Europe is more responsible, and hence a safer environment, for humanity. For the USA to become a dumping ground for toxins and products not allowed in Europe is an indictment of Congress and secessive Executives, and the two-party tyranny that has consistently betrayed the public trust and helped transfer the public dollar from the payer to the special interests looting the public treasury with Democratic and Republican party line voting that has been bought, not won on the merits of public intelligence. ENOUGH!

2009/08/242009/08/24

Journal: Beyond Partisanship on Health Care

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The White House and Congress are betraying the public trust on the current health care “debate” which is both uninformed and duplicitous–the White House KNOWS it has not done its homework; it KNOWS it does not have a Whole of Government strategy for governance within our means; and it KNOWS the planned bill is unaffordable, unexecutable, and good ONLY for the profits. Until we take the profit and the waste out of health care, and address health care in four parts (see the illustration below that leads to the chapter on The Substance of Governance by Robert Steele), AND as part of a twelve-policy harmonization of means, ways, and ends, what passes for a government in the USA will continue to be criminally insane or insanely criminal. It is what it is. Time to change that.

2009/08/232011/10/22

Journal: Why the Gang of Six is deciding healthcare for 300 million of us

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Six senators representing 3 percent of the population are running things because the White House wants it that way

By Robert Reich

Aug. 23, 2009 | On Thursday, the so-called Gang of Six – three Republicans and three Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee – met by conference call and, according to Max Baucus, D-Mont., the committee's chair, reaffirmed their commitment “toward a bipartisan healthcare reform bill” (read: less coverage and no public insurance option). The Washington Post reports that the senators shared tales from their home states, where some have been besieged by protesters angry about a potential government takeover of the nation's healthcare system.

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It's not even as if the gang represents America. The three Dems in the gang are from Montana, New Mexico and North Dakota – states that together account for just over 1 percent of Americans. The three Republicans are from Maine, Wyoming and Iowa, which together account for 1.6 percent of the American population.

So, I repeat: Why has it come down to these six? Who anointed them? Apparently, the White House.

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2009/08/192009/08/20

Journal: Senator Moves to Stop Scientific Ghostwriting

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By NATASHA SINGER

Published: August 18, 2009

A growing body of evidence suggests that doctors at some of the nation’s top medical schools have been attaching their names and lending their reputations to scientific papers that were drafted by ghostwriters working for drug companies — articles that were carefully calibrated to help the manufacturers sell more products.

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2009/08/192009/08/20

Journal: Freshmen Dems torn by party, voters on health care

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By MIKE BAKER and BOB LEWIS , 08.19.09, 03:09 AM EDT

The newcomers are caught in a crossfire between their congressional leaders to the left and conservative constituents to the right, and they hold clout that could determine if health care legislation passes – and in what form.

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“I hope the freshmen have their eyes open to what's going on out here – to see that they need to represent the people that put them in office,” he said.

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2009/07/262009/07/26

Journal: Health Care 101 and the Implosion of Washington

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Below are links to two stories on health care, both offering strong points of view, neither being completely accurate or particularly coherent in stratgic analytic terms.

Health Care 101:

Health Care is a four-part affair, and any policy proposal that fails to address all four parts is unaffordable, unsustainable, and a betrayal of the public trust.

Health Care is part of the mosaic of threats and policies that demand coherency and holistic handling by the President and Congress. Although President Obama knows that a strategic analytic model exists (it was put under his hotel room door in Des Moines) he has chosen to allow the Democratic partisan mafia to manage policy in the old way, as ideologically-driven pork, rather than in the new way, as an intelligence challenge. In the below graphic, please note that if cow shit is poisoning spinach (Agriculture) and Water from the tap is now “Blue Death” in many places, at the same time that energy and electronmagnetic polution are inflicting all poor urban children with severe asthma, then “health care” in narrow (nearly idiotic) manner now being considered by Congress is a fiction.

Finally, health care is unaffordable and unsustainable for as long as three conditions exist:

1) it is not a public service and is driven by profit (withdrawals of cash from the system)

2) it allows for 50% of every dollar to be waste as documented by PriceWaterHouseCoopers and

3) it seeks to control inputs rather than outcomes

Below are today's two stories, each offering a perspective not the whole picture properly analyzed.

The Hidden Healthcare Nightmare

When an insurance firm boss saw a field hospital for the poor in Virginia, he knew he had to speak out. Here, he tells Paul Harris of his fears for Obama's bid to bring about radical change