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August 28, 2009
Bill Moyers: Money-Driven Medicine video
Bill Moyers: Money-Driven Medicine video
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August 27, 2009
What happened on 9-11-01?
Thom Hartmann radio show segments here
Dr. Jones comments on NIST report on building 7
National Geographic channel on 9-11 "conspiracy"
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August 23, 2009
Buzzirk? FDI? Traverus?
founder
FDI flash overview - sample rep web site template
David Manning is founder and CEO of Traverus wireless.
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August 18, 2009
Ralph Nader on Health Care "reform" and Obama's corporate collusion
Ralph Nader on Health Care "reform" and Obama's corporate collusion
Nader interviewed on Democracy Now
The big mistake that the Obama administration made was they did not have continual public congressional hearings documenting the greed, the fraud, the $250 billion in billing fraud and abuse alone that the GAO years ago has documented. They didn't document the $350 billion of waste, the overhead of Aetna and UnitedHealthcare and other health insurance companies with their massive executive salaries and bureaucracies. They did not document the deaths, the injuries, the sickness that hundreds of thousands of Americans go through every year because they can't afford healthcare.
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August 16, 2009
The Brutal Truth about America's Health Care
The Brutal Truth about America's Health Care
The packed bleachers in the LA Forum tell a different story. The mobile clinic has been organised by the remarkable Remote Area Medical. The charity usually focuses on the rural poor, although they worked in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Now they are moving into more urban venues, this week's event in Los Angeles is believed to be the largest free healthcare operation in the country.
Doctors, dentists and therapists volunteer their time, and resources to the organisation. To many US medical professionals, it offers a rare opportunity to plug into the public service ethos on which their trade was supposedly founded. "People come here who haven't seen a doctor for years. And we're able to say 'Hey, you have this, you have this, you have this'," said Dr Vincent Anthony, a kidney specialist volunteering five days of his team's time. "It's hard work, but incredibly rewarding. Healthcare needs reform, obviously. There are so many people falling through the cracks, who don't get care. That's why so many are here."
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August 15, 2009
FDR on social values vs. profit
As Franklin Roosevelt put it in his first inaugural address:
"The moneychangers have fled from their high seats
in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore
that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of
the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply
social values more noble than mere monetary profit."
If our own progressives could merely be as left as our former President once was, we might solve the urgent problems of the day. Unfortunately, today's progressive movement is composed of single issue movements that fail to peel the onion to the center and find the common core that links all of their issues to a single cause.
So long as competition is at the heart of most of the world's economic systems, and so long as profit is the measure of whether one survives within that competition, then such niceties as pollution, extinction, global warming, energy depletion, maintenance of biospheres, over-fishing, and wars for natural resources and markets, cannot be averted. For every economic entity, it is fight or die, whatever the consequences for the future. For if Exxon grows an environmental conscience, then the only result will be its acquisition by those energy companies which failed to grow one.
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Ross McCluney on the end of our species
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August 13, 2009
Video - Web Side Story
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Atheist Brother Sam is angry - See why! Video.
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August 10, 2009
The next sexual revolution?
Newsweek article on a different style of relationship
Great commentary from an atheist polyamorist
And the AOL Health Front Page article... .the reaction to the Newsweek story just keeps on giving
Mentioned in Polyamory In The News
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"Polyamory is simply the recognition that love is not a zero-sum game. I can love one person, and that in no way diminishes my capacity for loving another. Hence, I can love, and be in love with, a number of different people."
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August 1, 2009
Shooting beauty film trailer
Disabled persons are given cameras - see what happens.
SHOOTING BEAUTY trailer from George Kachadorian on Vimeo.
Bent's tireless dedication to Shooting Beauty is more than a labor of love -- it is a grassroots effort to change the way we look at people with disabilities... [After] more than a decade of personal and professional sacrifice, Bent and [director George] Kachadorian are ready to launch their joint masterpiece...
Shooting Beauty tells the inspirational story of an aspiring fashion photographer named Courtney Bent whose career takes an unexpected turn when she discovers a hidden world of beauty at a center for people living with significant disabilities. Shot over the span of a decade, this film puts you in Courtney's shoes as she overcomes her own unspoken prejudices and begins inventing cameras accessible to her new friends. Courtney's efforts snowball into an award-winning photography program called "Picture This"--and become the backdrop for this eye-opening story about romance, loss and laughter that will change what you thought you knew about living with a disability--and without one.
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