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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama Debate per NPR

NPR pointed out on the February 26th 2008 debate that Hillary Clinton said Barack Obama’s health care plan looks like it was written by health insurance companies. There’s additional information on this NPR could have provided.

Has anyone ever seen the movie Sicko? Requiring everyone in American to buy a health insurance policy is just what health insurance companies want–even if the government has to pay for it. It strikes me as odd people don’t see this is just like the Medicare bill pushed through by Billy Tozan. That’s what Hillary Clinton wants to do and what Mitt Romney did Massachusetts. Michael Moore has posted the health lobby campaign contribution info on his web site. Clinton was top and Romney was second last time I checked, but it looks like Barack Obama has moved up to second place.

If you agreed with what Michael Moore had to say about health care, you would have wanted to read up on Dennis Kucinich, but you would never find out about his plan’s or policies from NPR.

That’s what really determines how electable a candidate is–whether or not the media tells you a candidate is electable. Does the media choose to give that candidate any coverage. If you watch Orwell Rolls in His Grave, you find out there is no longer a legal obligation to give candidates equal air time.

NPR mentioned people are concerned about NAFTA, (a law passed by the Clinton’s) but they never mention why:

We have already seen the devastating effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement in Massachusetts. According to conservative estimates, more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost in the last decade alone. Nationally, at least 3 million jobs have been sent offshore, and the wage gap continues to expand.
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Our trading partners have suffered, too - with huge increases in inequality and massive displacement. For example, at least 1.3 million Mexican farmers have lost their livelihood under NAFTA. As a result, the number of annual immigrants from Mexico to the United States surged from 332,000 in 1993, the year before NAFTA went into effect, to 530,000 in 2000 - a 60 percent increase.

NPR didn’t mention the war in Iraq, but here’s an interesting bit of information NPR never mentions. Hillary Clinton has received more money from the Weapons Industry than any other Presidential candidate, and that includes Republicans.

For Republicans Ron Paul has received the most money in campaign contributions from people enlisted in the military. For Democrats Barack Obama has received the most campaign contributions from people enlisted in the military. You can Google this and find article after article. Here’s an article that was published in the Huffington Post

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Buying The War

The PBS documentary Buying The War hosted by Bill Moyer, is an excellent documentary on the controlled media.

We can’t expect the mainstream media to be critical of it’s self, but luckily we have Bill Moyer to do it for us.

Bill Moyer interviews people like Bob Simon who had been stationed in Iraq and walked the streets of Baghdad.

Mr. Moyer also interviews the authors of a variety of books on the news coverage leading up to the Iraq war:

James Bamford author of A Pretext for War
Michael Massing author of Now They Tell US
Norman Solomon author of War Made Easy
Eric Boehlert author of Lapdog

There are a couple of interesting connections to make from this film.

One, is William (Bill) Kristol is mentioned as being one of the political pundits who convinced the American People there was a connection between the Iraq, Saddam Hussein and 911. William Kristol is the chairman of Project for the New American Century.

Two, is Michael Gerson was Bush’s speech writer who helped convince the American people there was a connection between Iraq, Saddam Hussein and 911. Michael Gerson left his position as a speech writer for Bush to write for the Washington Post. At the time WP was laying off journalists. All you have to do is Google Michael Gerson to see he is indeed writes for the Washington Post and he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, AKA CFR.

Rather than take my word for it, watch Buying The War and judge for yourself.

I would like to make the suggestion that if you watch the video on PBS’ web site, and find it important, consider making a donation as I have. Bill Moyer won’t be able to continue his work, if we don’t support him.

If you don’t think you agree with Mr. Moyer, at least watch the video before forming an opinion. You can’t credibly dispute an issue (although many people try) unless you have actually examined the material so you know what you’re disputing.

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Chris Hedges on Fascism in the US

This is a Chris Hedges interview on CBC’s The Hour

Chris does an excellent job of explaining how US citizens are becoming radicalized by a loss of good paying jobs and a future.

Rather than turning their anger on the government who is selling them down the river so CEOs can make 400 to 500 times more than the average employee, their anger is being channeled on their fellow citizens.

Chris Hedges points out that both Republican’s and Democrats have forsaken the poor of the US.
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.Chris He doesn’t provide examples of the Democrats and Republicans forsaking the poor in the US, but I would like to bring up immigration as an example. Republicans say it’s great because no one wants these jobs, but who goes out and talks to the construction workers who have lost their jobs?My mother used to be a house keeper, but she couldn’t get more than $6 an hour for that job now.US citizens have lost these jobs, but does your house cost any less? Has it prevented the cost from going up? Who’s pocketing all the money?Democrat’s don’t care because they say it’s a racial issue. People who are angry about losing these jobs are racists. What about the factory workers who have lost their jobs to China? The millions who are losing their jobs to India, and other Asian countries.Other examples:Nixon opened up trade with China Nixon took the US off the Gold Standard

Bill Clinton pushed through NAFTA

Our trading partners have suffered, too - with huge increases in inequality and massive displacement. For example, at least 1.3 million Mexican farmers have lost their livelihood under NAFTA. As a result, the number of annual immigrants from Mexico to the United States surged from 332,000 in 1993, the year before NAFTA went into effect, to 530,000 in 2000 - a 60 percent increase.