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Bill Moyers talks with George Soros about the Financial Crises

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:18:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Listen to the podcast or go to Bill Moyers Journal and watch the video.

Excellent interview with surprising assessments of current policy and market ideology.

Clip Source: www.pbs.org

October 10, 2008

Bill Moyers talks with one of the world's most successful investors George Soros about the global capital meltdown, how he saw it coming, and what can be done now.

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Tags: money, economy, credit, finance, politics

The Conservative Nanny State

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:25:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer

Clip Source: www.conservativenannystate.org

In his new book, economist Dean Baker debunks the myth that conservatives favor the market over government intervention. In fact, conservatives rely on a range of “nanny state” policies that ensure the rich get richer while leaving most Americans worse off. It’s time for the rules to change. Sound economic policy should harness the market in ways that produce desirable social outcomes – decent wages, good jobs and affordable health care.

Tags: money, economics, economy, politics, conservatives

McCain & the S&L Financial Scandal

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:21:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: John McCain was THE principle beneficiary of Charles Keating, the man behind the S&L Crises.

Clip Source: my.barackobama.com

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Tags: crime, politics, president

Biden v. Palin VP Debate Analysis

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:23:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: He's really, really FRANK.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: politics, vote, elections, president

The inevitable collapse of the dollar

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:24:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The path that we're on right now is not sustainable."

"The portfolio adjustments will be swift and severe."

"There's going to be a major realignment of global living standard."

"Every knows the dollar could collapse, but nobody knows where it will start."

Clip Source: www.brasschecktv.com

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Tags: money, government, politics, society

McCain/Palin Health Insurance Plan

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:53:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide
competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would
provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst
excesses of state-based regulation."

John McCain

Clip Source: www.johnmccain.com

Straight Talk on
Health System Reform

Tags: mccain, politics, government, healthcare

Eat Me, Joe Biden

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:48:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: As a life long independent, I think Obama could have done better.

Clip Source: www.rollingstone.com

Put a mythical six chimpanzees to work on a mythical six typewriters and one of them might eventually type out Hamlet, but I feel fairly confident that a billion years could pass before any healthy primate would make it even halfway through the unlikely sentence Donald Rumsfeld impeded the Iraq war effort. Yet there was Joe Biden, saying it on live television last week.

Tags: politics

Broken Levees, Broken Lives: A Post-Katrina Focus On Healthcare

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:25:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hospitals still closed after Katrina. For-profit hospitals see no profit in New Orleans.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: healthcare, katrina, politics, human rights

Teenage Sex Offenders? Ten Year Old Sex Offenders?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:01:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Kids don't get in trouble, they're put in trouble. Adolescent sex offender treatment and registration laws become a modern witch hunt. Bad laws win elections, destroy lives.

Clip Source: www.ethicaltreatment.org

He is looking at being put on the public registry when he turns 18, along with his picture...Because of the registry and the stigma which accompanies it, we have had suicides, attempted suicides and youths who are ready to give up.

Tags: sex, laws, politics, justice, psychology

SWAT OVERKILL: More Common Than You Think

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:52:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And, in a case that is now drawing national attention, 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston, who lived in a high-crime neighborhood of Atlanta, recently opened fire on police when they broke down her door while executing a drug warrant. They returned fire, killing her. It’s hard to believe any of this would have happened had the police taken a less aggressive approach in the first place.

Clip Source: www.popularmechanics.com

SWAT Overkill: The Danger of a Paramilitary Police Force

SOLDIERS AND POLICE are supposed to be different. Soldiers are aimed at enemies from outside the country. They are trained to kill those enemies, and their supporters. In fact, “killing people and breaking things” are their main reasons for existence.

Tags: police, corruption, law, politics, justice

Drug War Bloating Police And Prison "Industries."

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:33:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What ever happened to the days of Andy of Mayberry? Today's law enforcement officers are dressing up like paramilitary thugs in some futuristic sci-fi where "if you ain't cop, you're little people."

Clip Source: www.enterstageright.com

Drug war very effective -- at bloating police, prison 'industries'

Seeing a new source of funds for local police equipment, staff and operations, "Every congressman has raised their hand and said, 'I need relief from this problem, too,' " explains UCLA public policy professor Mark A.R. Kleiman.

Tags: police, drugs, law, justice, politics, corruption

U.S. Mayors Conference Backs Single-Payer

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:37:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Grass roots political support for Single Payer Health Insurance Program is strong.

Clip Source: www.pnhp.org

U.S. Conference of Mayors Backs Single-Payer National Health Insurance

The U.S. Conference of Mayors, meeting in Miami, adopted a resolution this morning in support of single-payer national health insurance.

The assembly, in unanimous vote, backed a resolution calling for the enactment of the “United States National Health Insurance Act,” H.R. 676. The bill, which is also known as the “Improved and Expanded Medicare for All Act,” is sponsored by Rep. John Conyers of Michigan and 90 other members of Congress.

Tags: healthcare, single payer, politics

Bill Moyers Journal: It's Not About Oil

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:11:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Bill Moyers hits the nail on the head again..

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: oil, iraq, bush administration, lies, politics, news

Keith Olberman w/ Jonathan Turley on Failing To Impeach

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:52:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When checks and balances break down

Clip Source: impeachment.kucinich.us

“…clear Presidential crimes…”

So says Constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley in an interview with MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann about Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s 35 Articles of Impeachment against President George W. Bush – a document that Olbermann calls “a remarkably lengthy and thorough record of high crimes and misdemeanors.

Tags: bush, impeachment, video, congress, politics

House Votes to End Big Oil's Tax Breaks

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:48:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Extra money to go to green tech .... supposedly.

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

House Votes to End Big Oil's Tax Breaks

But hours after crude oil hit a new high of $102 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, most lawmakers said they saw no reason why the oil industry couldn't pay an additional $1.8 billion a year in taxes over the next 10 years.

"We don't think it's asking too much to ask them to assist in a partnership to help find out whether there's a better way to meet our energy needs," said Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. He called the money raised from the oil giants "grains of sand on the beach."

Tags: oil, gas, taxes, politics