I received this letter from a friend and I really think it hits the nail on the head as to why we are in such difficult times. Thanks for allowing me to use it Ron.
OBAMA'S "CZARS"-- Read who is really running our country and realize what their job positions are :
OBAMA'S CZARS
CZAR Position Summary
Richard Holbrooke
Afghanistan Czar
Ultra liberal anti gun former Gov. of New Mexico. Pro Abortion and legal drug use. Dissolve the 2nd Amendment
Ed Montgomery
Auto recovery Czar
Black radical anti business activist. Affirmative Action and Job Preference for blacks. Univ of Maryland Business School Dean teaches US business has caused world poverty. ACORN board member. Communist DuBois Club member.
Jeffrey Crowley
AIDS Czar
Radical Homosexual.. A Gay Rights activist. Believes in Gay Marriage and especially, a Special Status for homosexuals only, including complete free health care for gays.
Alan Bersin
Border Czar
The former [failed] superintendent of San Diego Pub. Ed. Ultra Liberal friend of Hilary Clinton. Served as Border Czar under Janet Reno – to keep borders open to illegal’s without interference from US
David J. Hayes
California Water Czar
Sr. Fellow of radical environmentalist group, “Progress Policy”. No training or experience in water management whatsoever.
Ron Bloom
Car Czar
Auto Union worker. Anti business & anti nuclear. Has worked hard to force US auto makers out of business. Sits on the Board of Chrysler which is now Auto Union owned. How did this happen?
Dennis Ross
Central Region Czar
Believes US policy has caused Mid East wars. Obama apologist to the world. Anti gun and completely pro abortion.
Lynn Rosenthal
Domestic Violence Czar
Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Vicious anti male feminist. Supported male castration. Imagine?
Gil Kerlikowske
Drug Czar
devoted lobbyist for every restrictive gun law proposal, Former Chief of Police in Liberal Seattle. Believes no American should own a firearm. Supports legalization of all drugs
Paul Volcker
E conomic Czar
Head of Fed Reserve under Jimmy Carter when US economy nearly failed. Obama appointed head of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board which engineered the Obama economic disaster to US economy.. Member of anti business “Progressive Policy” organization
Carol Brower
Energy and Environment Czar
Political Radical Former head of EPA - known for anti-business activism. Strong anti-gun ownership.
Joshua DuBois
Faith Based Czar
Political Black activist-Degree in Black Nationalism. Anti gun ownership lobbyist.
Cameron Davis
Great Lakes Czar
Chicago radical anti business environmentalist. Blames George Bush for “Poisoning the water that minorities have to drink.” No experience or training in water management.
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HEALTH CARE REFORM
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Sen. Cornyn's Health Care Reform Alert
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released his 2,074-page health care bill, which Senate Budget Committee analysis shows will cost American taxpayers $2.5 trillion when fully implemented over ten years.
Until we have had a chance to read the full 2,074 page Reid Bill, it’s impossible for Americans to fully grasp what the Majority Leader has cooked up behind closed doors. It is my hope that Sen. Reid will afford all Americans the same courtesy that he had: ample time to study the legislation and deliberate the best way to proceed.
What we do know so far, as reported by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), is that this bill will have a wide, negative impact on Americans across the board – from seniors on Medicare to small business owners to future generations of Americans who will be footing the bill. The bill will increase taxes on all Americans by nearly half a trillion dollars and breaks the President’s pledge not to raise taxes on working families earning less than $250,000—at a time that unemployment is at a 26-year high.
While CBO has not been given time to analyze the Reid bill’s impact on premiums, every other independent analysis to date has found that Reid’s new mandates and taxes will increase health care premiums on American families. The Reid bill increases taxpayer spending and liability for health care over the next ten years—instead of reforming our already insolvent entitlement programs. It will gut the already insolvent Medicare program by $464.6 billion, hurting access to care for seniors. It includes a government-run public option that will, according to CBO, have premiums higher than private plans and cause millions of Americans to lose the coverage they currently have. The largest expansion of Medicaid since it was created means the Medicaid program will be the only coverage option for 60 million Americans. It will also impose $28 billion in punitive taxes on employers who do not comply with Washington’s new job-killing mandates.
These initial findings are troubling, to say the least. My staff and I will be pouring over the 2,074 pages, assuming we are given the time to do so. You can access the full text of the Reid bill from my web site:http://cornyn.senate.gov/public/?p=HealthCareReformHQ.
It is essential that Congress take the time get health care reform right. If the President and Majority Leader are more interested in getting health care reform right for all 300 million Americans than they are in putting a political feather in their cap for the midterm elections, this shouldn’t be an issue.
Senator John Cornyn wants to keep Texans informed and engaged as the debate on health care reform moves forward in Washington. Please visit www.cornyn.senate.gov and www.facebook.com/Sen.JohnCornyn to share your ideas for how best to reform our health care system and to recommend others who might want to join the dialogue by receiving these Health Care Reform Alerts. - Blog post
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Ukraine, WHO And The Geopoliti
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Ukraine, WHO And The Geopolitics Of Swine Flu Panic
By F. William Engdahl
Latest reports of what is being called a deadly Swine Flu outbreak in Ukraine according to on sight reports appear to be a political concoction by a threatened government to avoid election defeat and possibly declare martial law. The details indicate how convenient the current WHO "Swine Flu" H1N1 "pandemic" scare is for regimes in trouble.
Worldwide media reports in recent days have painted a picture of Ukraine as being under the Black Plague or worse. One of the most egregious panic-mongers has been Pittsburgh Swine Flu "mapper" Dr Henry Niman who earlier falsely predicted H5N1 Avian Flu would mutate into a deadly human-to-human pandemic. It didn't.
Niman's map of the spread of alleged H1N1 Swine Flu since April has given WHO, the US Government and CNN and major media a convenient graphic to create the image of a new type of "bubonic plague" threatening mankind unless we react with massive doses of untested vaccines from such unscrupulous pharma bigs like GlaxoSmithKline or Novartis or Roche with its dangerous Tamiflu drugs.
Early on Niman reported about events in Ukraine: "The rapid rise in reported infections, hospitalizations, and deaths in the past few days raise concerns that the virus is transmitting very efficientlythe spike in fatalities and the frequency in hemorrhagic cases in Ukraine have raised concerns." Niman added the alarming note, "The number of infected patients has almost doubled to just under million, compared to the report two days ago."
That's pretty scary stuff. It conjures images of the reports of the Black Death in 1348 which is said to have killed up to 60% of Europe's population. Though that history has been challenged, the image as well as the equally terrifying if incorrect panic image of the so-called Spanish Flu of 1918, are being applied in Ukraine.
Reality check?
The WHO, the de facto criminal organization responsible for declaration of the H1N1 Pandemic last summer, allowing Governments like the USA and Ukraine to declare martial law and a national state of emergency, suspending all rights and imposing arrests and detentions, has validated the dubious Ukraine claims of out-of-control spread of Swine Flu. A WHO press statement November 3 declared, "Laboratory testing in Ukraine has confirmed pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in samples taken from patients in two of the most affected regions. As the pandemic virus has rapidly become the dominant influenza strain worldwide, it can be assumed that most cases of influenza in Ukraine are caused by the H1N1 virus."
The WHO added, "The outbreak in Ukraine may be indicative of how the virus can behave in the northern hemisphere during the winter season, particularly in health care settings typically found in Eastern Europe. Given the potential significance of this outbreak as an early warning signal, WHO commends the government of Ukraine for its transparent reporting and open sharing of samples." The samples have been sent to the WHO Mill Hill Influenza Reference Lab in London, not exactly inspiring confidence in a scientifically honest report given the record of UK health authorities in manipulating data to please the vaccine giants like GlaxoSmithKline.
WHO "strongly recommends early treatment with the antiviral drugs, oseltamivir or zanamivir, for patients who meet treatment criteria, even in the absence of a positive laboratory test confirming H1N1 infection." That means Tamiflu, the highly dangerous drug whose major shareholder includes former Pentagon head Don Rumsfeld. And it means GlaxoSmithKline, maker of the reportedly equally dangerous rival Relenza drug. The drugs produce precisely the symptoms of severe lung complications found in flu and in some cases have reportedly caused death.
Ukrainian election geopolitics
The bizarre developments in Ukraine over the past two weeks are being blamed inside the country on intense Ukrainian election politics. In four months national elections in Ukraine are due. Among rival candidates are Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and her chief rival, Arseniy Yatseniuk.
Since Washington financed and organized the 2004 Orange Revolution that brought a pro-NATO Victor Yushchenko in as President, Ukraine politics has been a geopolitical tug-of war between Moscow and Washington. How the current political games around allegations of H1N1 panic play into that tug of war is not yet clear.
The recent speech in Warsaw by Vice President Joe Biden offering Poland and the Czech Republic a "new and improved" version of US anti-missile defense against Russia only four weeks after Obama announced the US was backing out of a controversial earlier missile defense plan for the two eastern European countries underscores the shambles of US strategic policy towards Russia. Russia has been quick to take advantage as might be expected, as a US missile shield on its borders, as I detail in Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order, gives the US a long-sought nuclear primacy over its only potential strategic rival on the planet. At that point the resistance of the rest of the world to incalculable or objectionable US policies, whether in Iraq, Afghanistan, Georgia or wherever, becomes moot.
It's clear Moscow has been working quietly to bring Ukraine, an original part of Kiev Rus, and a strategically essential part of the Russian economy, back into a more friendly "NATO-free" relationship after five years of Orange Revolution chaos in Ukraine under Yushchenko. .
Yatseniuk, a 35 year old former banker and aide to Washington's darling, President Viktor Yushchenko, has charged that Tymoshenko is deliberately fostering unnecessary panic in order to impose martial law and suspend elections that she might well lose to Yatseniuk.
There definitely are political games going on by one or another faction in the economically devastated Ukraine. Oleksandr Bilovol, Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Health, claims the outbreak of flu cases in Ukraine has been essentially contained in 11 out of 25 Ukrainian regions, with the number of people allegedly stricken with H1N1 only 15% higher than figures reported in previous years. "Figures in other the regions are in line with 2007 and 2008," Bilovol said. As well the number of reported deaths is also in line with deaths annually attributed to ordinary influenza.
Tymoshenko declared the outbreak as the threat of the third level the highest possible to unlock spending of up to 3 billion hryvnias to combat the swine flu. Among measures imposed by the decree include shutting down schools and public gatherings for three weeks across Ukraine, with the government also considering introducing restrictions on movement of people between the regions.
Yatseniuk said the ban on public gatherings spreads fear and panic helping Tymoshenko to promote herself on television, while hindering other presidential candidates to campaign.
Yatseniuk is Tymoshenko's biggest rival as both compete for votes in western regions of Ukraine. He is perhaps the only candidate that may challenge Tymoshenko in the first round of vote on January 17, 2010 to enter the runoff with opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych.
Yatseniuk said the panic spread by the government helps overshadow issues politically damaging to Tymoshenko, including pedophile and the murder scandals involving Tymoshenko lawmakers, and Ukraine's dismal economic performance.
Prime Minister Tymoshenko, whatever the real facts of the case, is using the WHO Swine Flu panic scenario to the hilt. In a recent statement, she stated, "We cannot relax even for a moment because the World Health Organization predicts two more waves of flu, including the bird flu, are expected in Ukraine. There is no alternative to vaccination. The entire world is going this way" A day earlier she admitted she was not vaccinated and that she prefers "like all other people" plans to rely on garlic, onion and lemon as a way of preventing the flu.
Ukraine Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn accuses Tymoshenko as well, declaring, "You've organized the flu epidemic in order to avoid responsibility for not supplying heat to houses, schools, higher educational establishments, and kindergartens," he said in Parliament. And Orange Revolution President, Yushchenko has declared there was no reason for declaring an emergency in Ukraine. "There are no such reasons," Yushchenko said. "I am not a supporter of measures that freeze the country, restrict its operation to levels that is hard to justify."
Ihor Popov, Deputy Chief of Staff to Yushchenko, said that in case of emergency the election, which is due on Jan. 17, 2010, would have to be "rescheduled."
Germany joins Swine Flu corruption
Not only is the Ukrainian government apparently using fears of Swine Flu pandemic to change the domestic political calculus, and President Barack Obama using the fears to impose an unnecessary state of emergency. Now it comes out that the responsible German health authorities are caught in a corrupt conflict of interest with the very pharma giants profiting from government decisions on "anti-swine flu" vaccines.
The recent issue of the German weekly Der Spiegel, reports that members of the European Scientific Working Group on Influenza (ESWI), which claims to be an independent scientific advisory body advising EU member governments on policies regarding H1N1 influenza, is anything but independent. It's being financed by Big Pharma. ESWI claims it brings together scientific "key opinion leaders in influenza." However the sole financial backers are 10 pharmaceutical companies, including GlaxoSmithKline -- manufacturer of the German swine flu vaccine -- and Roche -- producer of the antiviral drug Tamiflu.
The group lists Walter Haas as one of its scientific advisors. Haas coordinates Germany's flu pandemic preparedness measures at the Robert-Koch-Institut (RKI), the federal institute for disease research. ESWI portrays itself as an independent group of scientists. But even the organization's own statute tells a different story, describing its role as advising politicians and health authorities on "the benefits and safety of influenza vaccines and antivirals" and initiating "a policy for antiviral provisions."
The degree of fraud, deceit, official coverup and outright criminal endangerment of the broad population by the current Swine Flu hysteria is seemingly without precedent.
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HEALTH CARE
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Description:A few months back I received a notice that my Medicare Premium would increase in 2010 which is ok prices for everything go up almost ever year. Today I heard on the noon news that some of my Medicare medical benefits would be cut to pay for a Nationalized Health Care system that will be of no benefit to me and will be a detriment to my health. I also noticed if you are 64 years old and younger and have an underlying medical condition, you can get a swine flu shot, if you 65 or older crawl off in a corner and die. How is this not rationing health care. Our taxes will go up the minute the bill goes into effect and yet no one will receive any benefits from this bill until 2014. Wouldn’t that fall under “NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION” ?By the way since AARP jumped in bed with obama,Pelosi ,reid and the other liberals, I cut up my card months ago and mailed it back, instead of my dues. It would be nice to see a few others back me up. I would like to see them go belly up , wonder if obama would bail them out.
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Who's really in charge?
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SHAME LOUISIANA
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Will it take 100 million dollars of pork money (our tax dollars) to buy one democrat health care vote in the senate? That is the question that democrat Senator Landrieu of Louisiana will have to answer.
Democrat Cold Cash Represenative Bill Jefferson of Louisiana only received a 13 year jail time for $90,000 of bribe money in his freezer. Nothing unusual for corrupt politicians from Louisiana.
Jefferson and Landrieu have an excuse, they are democrats. What is your excuse Anh Cao, the only Republican Represenative in the Congress that voted for Obama's socialist health care bill?
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SOUNDS RACIST
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"You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man" Rev. Jesse Jackson This remark was proably directed against Represenative A. Davis, Democrat, Alabama for voting against the health care bill.
This remark sounds racist to me. I think black people could come up with better leaders than the Jesse Jackson's and Al Sharpton's. If you are black, vote democrat. If you are black, vote for health care and if you are black, you must support Obama.
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So how do you like the changes
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I see and hear about all the bills , stimulas packages, bringing foreign combatants to standing trial on American soil. How do the liberals feel now about the change they so swifly voted for? I've noticed the smiles have turned into a look of concern on the faces of the people I know voted for this change. The Idiology of the current administration is just bewildering to me. Commom sense seems to escape the people who have the most power to do the most good for our country.
I was listening to a gentleman today on the radio explain his anger with bureacracy because he , a hard working american could not get a swine flu shot because he was not in was the high risk catagory. But the clinic did have an excess of the doses of the vacine on hand. Yet prisoners were able to be vacinated so as not to have the swine flu spread among gaurds and those guards in turn spread it among the free population. The health bill that Ms Pelozi so happily announced to americans that passed the house, seems to state that if you as an american citizen do not chose to enroll in the govenment health care systen you could face a fine, and failure to pay that fine ,possible imprisonment.
So lets see if i got this right. If I dont participate in the proposed government run health care and go to jail for not paying the fine imposed by the govenment. I get my vacinations regardless of my health. I get my housing free and get fed everyday. And your taxes pay for it all. Or I participate in the program by letting the current administration Take more of my hard earned money through taxes to pay for all of these programs and trials and run the risk of poorly adminstered health care because I may not fit into a certain catagory. If i get sick I cant work. But wait, The Obama machine taxed the rich guy who employed me, so much that the work I do for him is no longer finacially viable. Unemployment insurance pays for government health care and some food for me and my family. I lose my house , my car, my dignity. A prisoner with out walls.
To extreme? Some common sense thought and this becomes a very possible and scary possiblity given the unreal idiology of the administration in charge charge of OUR Country at this very moment.
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It's not right, but it's the r
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Being a liberal with some (and by some, I mean very, very few like two or three few) conservative ideals can leave you torn sometimes. Like gun laws. Imagine how much crime would go down if we get got rid of guns altogether. However, even I know about the black markets and underground. If people really want them, they'll get them somehow or find some loophole so they can get one.
But this is what's getting me torn now. Desertion in the military. What brought this up? Well I've actually been waiting for someone else to bring it up, especially with what's going on. I don't know if it's being kept quiet so people don't raise eyebrows or if it's just rare. I read an article about a woman who missed her flight to Afghanistan because there was no one to take care of her 10-month old child. Leaving it behind to a home where it can't be properly cared for is worse than missing a flight. Here's the full article (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_re_us/us_soldier_mom_deployment) but I'm sure there are procedures in place for these kinds of situations. There has to be, the military is a normal option for those who need training and skills and will be paid to do so. At least that's what one recruiter told me as he handed me a bunch of pamphlets. My health won't allow me to join, however. They'd say no thank you at my first physical.
Now I don't know much about military law and I'm not going to pretend I know it. Truth is, all I know is desertion normally means treason, treason means life sentence. I know that some people fled to Canada during the Vietnam or Korean Wars to avoid being drafted. I think they were either pardoned or stayed put. I have no idea. My parents were like kids when these wars started. You don't read or hear about it often, but I'm sure there are a few deserters in this war. When my friend was at basic training, he mentioned in a letter about how someone managed to sneak off base without being noticed and they made it as far as the nearby airport before the MPs caught up with them. He didn't know if the person got arrested or put in jail because technically they were in basic training. He said being half starved, sleep deprived and being constantly yelled at does things to your mind. Some people even crack after only a few days or even two or three weeks.
The recruiters don't always tell the truth, so of course it's a big shock when the things they're being told there are different than what the recruiters told them. Most of the people going into the military now are doing so for job security, education, training and getting money for college. In reality, many would rather not fight unless it's their job or it's to protect something, from our ideals to their fellow soldiers. If they need that person, they're to go there. Is that really the mark of a good soldier and the bean counters who see human lives as statistics? If they say to, are the soldiers who chose to go into this life of their own free will supposed to give up their lives, many for a cause they honestly don't understand. Is it "another day, another fight, but nothing real to show for?" Are you really a coward if you don't fight? Are you always a traitor if you don't follow orders, even if you know those orders are morally wrong? You're "un-American" if you don't support the war? These are the messages I've seen and heard so many times I've actually lost count.
Who says peace isn't allowed in our world? Why does it have to be this way? Peace and decency are further from reach than ever before. Why...no, how does power find a way into the hands of crazies? If many had a choice, they would never harm another, but sometimes it's not what we want to do, it's what we have to do.
Before he left, a friend gave me one of his A7X CDs. I only listened to the song MIA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8SWV5FsCd8&feature=related)once because it made me cry. Was this really the plan they had for him all along? He's still alive. I'm grateful, but what did he get himself into? He sighed a five year contract and it's been three. What will he do when he's done? I don't want to distract him or the others over there, so I don't ask. Situations are supposed to change over time, but as I look at the old music videos I watched only two years ago and it seems it's still a very valid video. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Pm5QPckIE)
Honestly, is it really so un-american to question the things were and are?
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I am not surprised
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I wish I could say I am surprised but I'm not. The goverment wants to be incharge of our health care. So now they are putting it out there that women should not have mammograms til they are 50 years old. This is a hint of what we have to look forward to when we choice to have the goverment tell us who and how we should run our life. Those of you who want goverment health care I hope you do not ever get Breast Cancer because you will not find out til you turn 50 and God forbid it wont be too late to take care of it.
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Rationing of Health Care
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Due to American Cancer Society ads, I started doing breast self-exams when I was 35. The third month, I found a lump. My doctor said I was too young to worry about it. I thought about the American Cancer Society ads about mammograms. I went to a different doctor, got a mammogram. I had cancer. That has been 30 years ago. The new guidelines are just wrong and I think just rationing of health care
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Breast Cancer Survivor
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Due to American Cancer Society ads, I started doing breast self-exams when I was 35. The third month, I found a lump. My doctor said I was too young to worry about it. I thought about the American Cancer Society ads about mammograms. I went to a different doctor, got a mammogram. I had cancer. Since I had early diagnosis, I did not have chemo. I did have a mastectomy. That has been 30 years ago.
I had no history of breast cancer in my family. I had two small daughters who I wanted to live long enough to raise. Now I have six wonderful grandchildren. My husband and I are proud to be event chairs for the 2010 Southwest Missouri Cattle Barons’ Ball to raise money for the American Cancer Society. August 2009 was our inaugural Southwest Missouri Cattle Barons’ Ball and we raised $502,000. Our goal this year is $750,000. I hate to think that much of that money may have to be used to try and get us where we were years ago.
The new guidelines are just wrong and I think just rationing of health care. I am just sick about it. All the talk about false positives and how it upsets women is malarkey!!! Trust me, I’d rather have and unjustified scare than a missed cancer diagnosis.
Karen Martin
Springfield, Missouri
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about new breast cancer screen
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I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 36. While I know that these guidelines are supposed to be for the general puplic, I think I would be considered the general public. This kind of information that comes out concernes me as I found a lump in my breast through self exam. I found it early and am now a survivor of 11 years. There was not history of breast cancer in my family, in fact no strong history of cancer at all. I was not even predisposed to cancer, it just happened hormonally. If had waited till the doctor found it or God forbid till a mamogram at 40 or later I might be dead. I know I am only one story, but I beg to differ. I would rather get these things checked out. It's better to get these things early rather than later. What really worries me is that if the government starts imposing these guidlines that the insurance companies will follow suit, and do these people have the medical background and expertise to really make these decisions.
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Are you kidding me!?
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Well, it has started, and of course it has started with women. Watch out America, this is just the start of things to come...the Government wants women to wait till they are 50 to get a mammogram and then one every two years. I think we all know a woman whose life was saved waay....before 50 by an exam. This is just their way of getitng out of paying for a huge part of health care costs for women once they pass their health care plan..what's next, no pap smears til we are 50?
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RATION HEALTH CARE .....NEVER
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By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Cancer experts fear new U.S. breast imaging guidelines that recommend against routine screening mammograms for women in their 40s may have their roots in the current drive in Washington to reform healthcare.
Critics of the guidelines, issued on Monday by the U.S. Services Task Force, an independent panel sponsored by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Quality, say the new guidelines are a step backward and will lead to more cancer deaths.
Here are some of their concerns.
* Dr Carol Lee, chairwoman of the American College of Radiology Breast Imaging Commission, said she fears insurers -- both private and public -- will use them to pare back health costs.
"These new recommendations seem to reflect a conscious decision to ration care," Lee said in a statement.
She said since the onset of regular mammogram screening in 1990, the death rate from breast cancer, which had been unchanged for the preceding 50 years, has decreased by 30 percent.
* Dr Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, said the influential group will not change recommendations for routine mammograms for women starting at age 40.
But he is worried that women will become so confused by the conflicting recommendations they will stop getting mammograms altogether. "Frankly, from our point of view that would be the worst possible outcome," Lichtenfeld said in a telephone interview.
* Lichtenfeld and other doctors are worried that insurance companies and government insurers will seize on the recommendations as a way to control rising health costs.
"What is going to happen is insurers are going to say, 'The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force doesn't support screening. We're not going to pay for it,'" said Dr Daniel Kopans, professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and a senior radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
"There were no new data to assess. One has to wonder why these new guidelines are being promulgated at a time when healthcare is under discussion and I am afraid their decision is related to saving money rather than saving lives," Kopans said.
* "The USPSTF recommendations are a step backward and represent a significant harm to women's health," Dr W. Phil Evans, president of the Society of Breast Imaging, said in a statement.
"At least 40 percent of the lives saved by mammographic screening are of women aged 40-49. These recommendations are inconsistent with current science and apparently have been developed in an attempt to reduce costs. Unfortunately, many women may pay for this unsound approach with their lives."
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Side Two of the Story?
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And now, for the rest of the story... I'm not Paul Harvey so I'll just throw this out here for your enjoyment,
Was the Ford Hood massacre a White Psyop?
This was sent to us by a South American reader(Hat tip : Blanko). Was this the result of a lone wolf or something far more sinister? While this act should be condemned , we must also remember that those who orchestrated 9/11, lied about Iraq(resulting in the deaths of over 1.3 million of its citizens) cannot be trusted to speak the truth. The following article raises some very interesting points. In what one Russian Military Analyst (jokingly?) speculated could possibly be a “very sick” way of publicizing a new American movie opening this week about the US Pentagons decades long experiments in mind-control technology (“The Men Who Stare At Goats”), has instead, according to these reports, resulted in a tragic massacre of at least 13 US Soldiers preparing for deployment to the Iraq war from the giant US military base of Fort Hood, Texas. From Western propaganda news media reports on this massacre the American people are being told that a US Army Military Trained Psychiatrist, Major Nidal Malik Hasan [photo top left], became despondent over his recently receiving orders to deploy to Iraq and in “typical” lone gunman fashion “decided” to open fire on hundreds of his fellow soldiers killing and wounding them without discrimination. Completing the “new legend” (in almost record time too) about this “lone gunman” being made responsible for this massacre, the Western propaganda machines are reporting such idiocies as Major Hasan having previously “complained to relatives of harassment by fellow-officers mocking him for being Middle Eastern” (Major Hasan’s parents came from small Palestinian town near Jerusalem) and his “attracting the attention of police six months ago for internet postings analyzing the motives of suicide bombers that was not formally investigated”. Interesting to note in these reports, however, about Major Hasan is his past psychiatric training, paid for by the US Military, at Virginia Tech University where he graduated from that schools Center for Applied Behavior Systems with a degree in biochemistry, a school which FSB reports have long warned “is most likely” one of the US Department of Defenses top PSYOP training centers and where in April, 2007, it suffered the worst school massacre in US history when a Chinese student named Seung-Hui Cho, reported to be a subject to mind-control experiments, single-handedly gunned down 32 fellow students. Even more interesting to note is that from the initial chaotic scene of the Fort Hood massacre not just the wounded Major Hanson taking into custody, but so were three other “alleged” gunmen, two of whom were released leaving one, at last report, still in US Army custody. Now to understand the circumstances that placed Major Hasan at Fort Hood in the first place one has to understand that he was one of the US Militaries top PSYOP specialists and had received his medical degree, with honors, from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2001, and did his internship at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Major Hasan then became one of the top researchers at the US Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress in the field this US Military funded organization stated was: “Center scientists are actively engaged in studies of military deployment, combat stress and the mental health of active duty, Guard and Reserve and veterans. This research helps military command (leaders, physicians and mental health providers) mitigate, respond to and foster recovery from the consequences of war and other military extreme environments that can occur in combat, peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance. In addition, a primary focus of the Center is conducting studies of the impact of deployment on servicemen and women and their families. This research includes surveillance of psychiatric problems among battle injured soldiers, and measuring the psychological effect of treating severely injured and disfigured soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan on health care providers at institutions like Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center.” [Note: The US Military has completely removed the website of their Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress organization early on the morning of 6 November 2009] From his position at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Major Hasan became one of the originators of what is called the US Army’s “Warrior Combat Reset Program” set up to help American soldiers returning from war zones, or being redeployed to them, cope with what is called post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and which according to these reports led to his being at Fort Hood to “electronically prepare” an experimental group of US Soldiers for their return to the Iraq war zone. Important to be understood about these reports is their detailing that nearly all of the US Military Forces are suffering what is termed a “catastrophic” level of stress disorders, murders, rapes and suicides so bad that American commanders are now warning that the readiness of their forces in is danger of “outright collapse”, and which is no wonder being that in just three short months this will become the longest war in US history. Making the recycling of these battle hardened US Soldiers (to keep killing and dying for reasons they don’t even know about anymore) even more crucial are new American Military reports stating that over one-third of “Americans ages 17-24 are unqualified for military service because of physical and medical issues.” So to yesterday’s massacre at Fort Hood, and Major Hasan’s “true role” in it, we need to turn to a little known, but extremely shocking case filed in the United States this past spring by a San Francisco lawyer named Gordon Erspamer and alleging: “That [US] government scientists conducted human experiments at Edgewood is not in question. “The program involved testing of nerve agents, nerve agent antidotes, psychochemicals, and irritants,” according to a 1994 General Accounting Office (now the Government Accountability Office) report (PDF). At least 7,800 US servicemen served “as laboratory rats or guinea pigs” at Edgewood, alleges Erspamer’s complaint, filed in January in a federal district court in California. The Department of Veterans Affairs has reported that military scientists tested hundreds of chemical and biological substances on them, including VX, tabun, soman, sarin, cyanide, LSD, PCP, and World War I-era blister agents like phosgene and mustard. The full scope of the tests, however, may never be known. As a CIA official explained to the GAO, referring to the agency’s infamous MKULTRA mind-control experiments, “The names of those involved in the tests are not available because names were not recorded or the records were subsequently destroyed.” Besides, said the official, some of the tests involving LSD and other psychochemical drugs “were administered to an undetermined number of people without their knowledge.” And among these “experiments” conducted on US Soldiers by their government, and according to FSB files was a “research specialty” of Major Hasan’s, one was one called Radio Hypnotic Intracerebral Control Electronic Dissolution of Memory (RHIC-EDOM) which was pioneered for the US Military in the 1960’s by New York University Professor J. Anthony Deutsch who…“indicated that the mind is a transmitter and if too much information is received, like too many vehicles on a crowded freeway, the brain ceases to transmit. The Professor indicated that an excess of acetyl choline in the brain can interfere with the memory process and control. He indicated excess amounts of acetyl choline can be artificially produced, through both the administration of drugs or through the use of radio waves. The process is called Electronic Dissolution of Memory (EDOM). The memory transmission can be stopped for as long as the radio signal continues.” So strong was the American Military and Intelligence establishments’ belief that only by “erasing” the previous “battle stained” memories of their Soldiers could they be made to continue killing and dying that in 2007 they contracted with Russia’s Psychotechnology Research Institute in Moscow to purchase a system called Semantic Stimuli Response Measurements Technology (SSRM Tek) which is a software-based mind reader that tests a subject’s involuntary response to subliminal messages and which was used by the Soviet Military on Russian troops being redeployed to Afghanistan. Unfortunately for the Americans, and who were undoubtedly warned by their Russian counterparts about this, the previous Soviet experiments using SSRM Tek software combined with RHIC-EDOM technology had a very dangerous side-effect of “triggering immediate battle memories” instead of “erasing” them and resulting in masses of Russian troops who were undergoing these experiments to “erupt” in “immediate violence” which left an estimated 37 of them dead when they began (for no apparent reason) to begin firing upon each other.
In the United States today 13 American Soldiers lie dead, and many more are wounded leaving countless numbers of wives, children, fathers and mothers to mourn over their seemingly senseless killing. But, like the events of 9/11, the assassinations of their President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert, and the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King have shown us, these Americans have been well schooled in seeing only what they are told to see when tragedies like these, and Fort Hood now, occur. Sometimes the childlike stories concocted by their propaganda masters to explain these horrific events are enough to placate the American people, but one has to wonder when at least some of them will wake up to the stark and brutal truth about what is happening to them. One can only wonder if these Americans had demanded the truth before if these Soldiers were massacred would still be alive? That is not in our knowing. But what is in our knowing is this, before they awaken from their long slumber these Americans can expect many more such deaths. We’re sure their propaganda organs are up to the task.
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A Letter To the President
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Mr. President,
I didn't vote for you. Maybe you will stop reading right there. But then again, maybe this once you should listen. The reason I didn't support your campaign is because I thought you were too inexperienced, too liberal and far too swayed by narrow political groups. But you won anyway. That's the way it is in America, the guy with the most votes wins. And being an American, I celebrate that idea. Although I didn't like your ideas, I honestly had hoped you meant what you said and that you would succeed.But as time wears on and your administration progresses, it has become obvious not only are you inexperienced, but that you are disdainful of many Americans who are suffering under your regime. I say "suffering" because what else do you call it when effectively over 17% of the population is unemployed or underemployed?
I'm a middle class, college educated 53 year old woman. I have never asked for a handout. My husband and I worked all of our lives to buy our own home, raise our own kids and simply live. We don't have time to start over. Yet the economy keeps my husband marginally employed through a commission sales position that frankly hasn't paid much because nobody is buying in this economy. I look with trepidation at the moves made by the school district where I teach. With shrinking property values the tax revenue that funds the district is shrinking. Jobs are going to go away. At 53, just where am I supposed to find a job, Mr. President? It would take three years to retrain, and by then I would be 57. Who is going to hire a 57 year old entry level employee? No rational company will hire someone at that age and train them knowing they would not be there for more than a few years.
And what of my kids? My kids worked full time all the way through college. What little they got in help was in the form of academic scholarships. There were not special programs to pave their way, no mentors to make sure they succeeded. They have some education loans, but not as much as most grads. But even after six months, my son is stuck in his college job as a fastfood manager because there are no jobs for him even as a college grad. (BTW, remember "fastfood"-many liberals categorized those jobs as ones Americans wouldn't do in justifying illegal immigration.) Now faced with dwindling job prospects at the age of 23, my son is moving back home. My daughter is moving into a spare bedroom at a friend's house. Even though they paid rent on their own through college, the economy is such that they cannot afford to pay rent and their college loans. They are deferring marriage, kids, jobs because of an economy that seems only to serve the government infrastructure. The rest of the market is flat. And with the pending additional burden of a health insurance penalty, even what few entry level jobs are out there will go away. What do you expect these kids to do...wait a few years? How many? Five, ten, fifteen? And in the meantime the favoritism of affirmative action will insure that even if my kids qualify for a job that they will have to wait behind others based on nothing more than race.While you and your handpicked cabinet of liberals and the Congress seem content to eviscerate the economy piece by piece, do you not understand that the relentless implementation of more corporate taxing ends up being a tax on all of us? Maybe when you were in law school, you missed this point, but corporations are NOT alive. When you tax a corporation, whether it is for transporation or manufacturing or energy use or profits, those costs are rolled into the cost of the product. And that means that we, the American consumers, pay that tax. It just passes through like grass through a goose. So for all your self-congratulatory talk about "taxing profits" and "penalizing corporations" you are really only penalizing US, the American people. We are the ones suffering with fewer jobs and higher prices.
In the month of October your administration racked up a deficit equal to the entire last year of President Bush's administration. Your party screamed at his spending. Yet looking back now, it seems as if this Congress and this administration is a runaway monster bent on wrecking the economy. I have to wonder why you are doing this. Do you want us all to abandon our homes to move into federal housing? Do you want to break down our individuality by imposing a rule of law that is so unconstitutional that even some of your own party would oppose it? For the entire summer you alternately ignored and dismissed the fear, the anger and the dismay of so many American over the penalties that will be imposed by your healthcare bill. When even New York writers, not known for the conservative views, startle at the penalties and costs of this bill, then is it not time to step back and stop and refine it to a bill that approaches the central problem of the hardcore uninsured without bankrupting the rest of us for a program that offers far less than we have right now.
Mr. President, I still am not a key supporter. There are too many mysteries in your past. You seem to dislike the people who live between the two coasts. You don't want to entertain the ideas that come from outside your own limited circle. And you seem driven to tax the middle class in order to buy votes. I'm sorry if you are offended by this letter, but quite honestly from what you have done so far, you seem more interested in shoring up your personal agenda than in helping the whole of the nation. And that means you are not a statesman, nor are you wise. It just means you are another politician who has been bought by a controlling majority of rich liberals. And that means the rest of us will lose again, even though we've already lost so much already. - Blog post
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Will we let it be?Will we stan
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Will we let God be taken off our money? Will we let Christmas be taken because its a Christian holiday? Will we let our Children be indoctronated by goverment? Will we stop prayer in any goverment office? Will we let our president get away with saying we are not a Christian Nation? Will we allow a President not prove his American citizenship? Will we allow the congress to run over the Constitution? Will we allow our guns to be taken? WILL we allow our troops to be slaughtered so Obama can take his time to make up his mind and ignore his war experts. Will we allow congress to strong arm congressmen to make them pass the health care bill? Will we allow the president to ignore the clear fact that the fort hood shooter is a islamic terroist? Will we allow the "media (except fox) to ignore all things that arent good for the left and Obama? Will we let the congress pass a bill that most people do not want? Will we allow Nancey pelosie ignore the clear laws she is suppose to act under? Will we let the goverment keep taking over American companies? Will we let Obama uthinize our edlderly? Will we let criminals that Obama put in office as czars continue to be in positions of goverment? Will we allow stimulus money (your money) be given to people spending it wildly and crazy?Will we allow cap and trade to be passed and pay almost 3 times higher energy bills? Will we let a sitting President make apoligies for who we the people are? Will we let the goverment make our children go to school on saturdays and longer hours? Will we allow this administration target fox news because he doesnt like them? Will we allow the tea party free people be told we are dangerous and stupid and all sorts of sick names. Will we be weak and let the left bring toal communism into our country? Will we allow the likes of acorn run our goverment? Will we let unions run our goverment?Will we allow the goverment to cencor or shut down our free speech?Will we wait untill the goverment has set up a inescapable trap before we stop this takeover. Will we stand by and watch all this and much much more happen while we go about life as if it isnt happening?
If you have more "Will we" please list them and let people see what we are doing by doing nothing? Will we stand up or will we crawl?
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President, But not presidentia
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The health bill passes the house with some undelying controversey. The president and congess still havent adressed the issue of our troops oversees. Our family and friends are dying daily. And Obama is jetting off on another trip stating he wants more options and he will address the issue after his trip. THE WAR ON TERRORISM SHOULD BE PRORITY ONE FOR THIS ADMINISTRATION ADDRESS. GIVE THE GENERAL THE PERSONEL AND EQUIPMENT needed to put an end to the war in afganistan. And get our hero's home.
I DONT BELIEVE A PERSON SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO BECOME PRESIDENT IS THAT PERSON HAS NEVER SERVED IN THE MILITARY. It should be a requirement for any nominee for the office, Since that person will be in charge of sending these young hero's into harms way. Why does he refuse to listen to the General he appointed? Because he doesnt have a clear picture of the possible political ramifications, if he makes the wrong decision. Its not a moral delema, it a political delena to this administration.
GOVERNMENT , From the president on down, APPOINTED BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE. This is no longer the case. This administration is only concerned about their agenga they want to impose on the AMERICAN people. WHATS BEST FOR THE PARTY, NOT THE PEOPLE. Show me program the government has implemented that is working. Other than running the military. There are none. And now thats program is in jeopordy. And our country is growing weaker by the day because VICTORY is not something Obama is comfortable accomplishing.
I know, the liberals are going to attack me with words, But everyone Ive talked to and listened to never have a point to their argument. They just want to argue because I dont share their insanity.
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