If it were not for people, there would be no Health Crisis.

The legislation the Senate is discussing now is quite interesting and telling by what's there, or not.

See: http://democrats.senate.gov/reform/patient-protection-affordable-care-act.pdf

 A convenient search tool at the site finds the number of times a word appears in the legislation:

Nutrition   29 times
Tobacco   25
Smoking   11
Obesity     9
Exercise    9
Behavior   8
Lifestyle    5

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PRESIDENT OBAMA ~ TAX EXEMPT U.S. FOUNDATIONS OF OUR AMERICAN WEALTHY ELITE HAVE BECOME TAX EVASION FOUNDATIONS THAT NEED NEW FEDERAL GUIDLINES.....FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TAX EXEMPT SLUSH FUND FOUNDATIONS FOR OUR U.S. WEALTHY ELITE AMERICANS ARE TOO COMMON AND COSTING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS IN POSSIBLE TAX REVENUE.

**WHERE ARE THESE SO CALLED CHARITABLE BILLIONAIRES WHEN OUR AMERICAN PRESIDENT AND COUNTRY TRULY NEED THEIR HELP AND LOBBY SUPPORT FOR MIDDLE~CLASS AND WORKING POOR AMERICANS HEALTH~CARE & LEGAL~CARE???

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AMERICA’S SUPERMAX PRISONS DO TORTURE
by Kiilu Nyasha
November 22, 2009

President Barack Obama has clearly stated, “We don’t torture.”

Oh, yes we do.  Big time.

A myriad of studies have clearly shown that human beings are social creatures – making prolonged isolation torture.

The New Yorker published an article March 30, 2009 by Atul Gawande titled, Hellhole: The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture?

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Be American Buy American Cars and Products !
Be American! Buy American!!

I am an Indian living in Madras/Chennai. I don’t have any vested interest in the US economy. I only seek that Indo-US strategic partnership to counter terrorism grows from strength to strength.

Be American Buy American Cars and Products ! Administration alone can not help economic recovery. The people also should cooperate. They may start by buying American cars- even used ones thus creating an impression that American cars are just as good as any which is also true. After all mass production and use of car for transport was an American idea and a standard of living based on that became later the American dream.

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INTERNATIONAL LIAISON COMMITTEE P.O.

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Carnage at Fort Hood, Texas
[NOTE: This is a rewritten version: 11/6/09] (c) '09 Mumia Abu-Jamal

    Once again, an American soldier has gone on a rampage, shooting other American soldiers.

    What makes this news even more remarkable than usual is the fact that the shooter is more than a soldier -- he's a doctor -- and a psychiatrist!

    Oh -- and he's Muslim.

    Major Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan reportedly opened fire against fellow soldiers, wounding several dozen, and killing at least 13 (at last count).

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INTERNATIONAL CALL TO TEACH "JURISDICTION" NAMED JURISDICTION HEADACHE AT LAW PRACTICE ET AL

November 21, 2009

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Ofume - Jurisdiction

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 NIGERIA: CAUSE OF ELECTION FRAUD AND LACK OF GENUINE DEMOCRACY  This article is highly abused and Publishers advise readers to request for hard copies with signature.   November 18, 2009

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    11/21/09
Contact: Zoe Beavers 304-854-7372
Email: news@climategroundzero.org

PETTUS, W. Va. – Early this morning two concerned citizens, Dea Goblirsch and Nick Martin, locked down to a drill rig on Coal River Mountain’s Bee Tree mountaintop removal site, effectively stopping blasting. Two others, Grace Williams and Laura Von Dolen, joined them in direct support, holding a banner with the message “Save Coal River Mountain”.

These nonviolent protestors have taken this action to bring attention to the extreme danger facing residents of the Coal River Valley from blasting near the Brushy Fork Impoundment. They plan to stay locked down until law enforcement removes them.

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California UC Students Receive Education in Capitalism 101

 

Stewart A. Alexander

For California Governor

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The mass repression of the 36th Polytechnic Anniversary March in Athens has led to reactions from students, pupils and even some rectors, as arrested protesters are taken to court. Meanwhile the anti-guerrilla farce was exposed once again with the latest girl arrested set free in lack of evidence.

The day after the mass repression of the 36th anniversary march of the Polytechnic Uprising and Massacre, which saw the detention of 277 people in Athens only, and the arrest of 13 throughout the country, the reaction to the latest leg of socialist counterinsurgency was voiced today 18/11 in a variety of way.

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This is a first posting on the developing situation in Athens where the 36th anniversary of the Polytechnic Uprising against the colonels' junta has been marked by long and sustained battles with the police during which hundreds of people have been detained. At the time of writing all central Athens is off bounds.

21:30 17 November 2009 At the time of writing all central Athens is off-bounds and cordoned off by thousands of police forces as battles between protesters and police are developing after the end of the 36th anniversary march for the Polytechnic 1973 uprising and massacre.

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Following a fantastic response at the London bookfair to this issue, Black Flag is even more proud than usual (so that's pretty damn proud) to do our usual giveaway of one particularly thoughtful article from the latest magazine, issue 230 to show roughly what we're about and encourage people to buy, distro and volunteer to help out the real deal in paper, thus keeping us running.

This issue, Brighton SolFed writes in Black Flag about the class logic behind the destruction of the post war social contract...

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

• Cover story: Examining the new welfare bill and why its regressive politics must be fought
• Theory: Exploring the roots of anarchist economics

Posters, stickers and images produced by Situationist-influenced group King Mob.

Taken from www.revoltagainstplenty.com

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Eddy Cherki and Michel Wieviorka's account of the workers' self-reduction of prices movement in the Italian city of Turin in the 1970s.

To consider the new developments in social struggle within Western Europe since 1968, one must turn to Italy. The organization of the worker's movement, often on a mass scale, has assumed original forms. Urban struggles have led to organized union and political neighborhood actions with stakes tied to consumption.

Reactions towards the latest arrest in relation to urban guerrilla group Nuclei of Fire, as lack of evidence points at criminalisation of the anarchist scene in toto.

After an initial freeze, the arrest of a 22 year old girl last Friday in relation to the urban guerrilla group Nuclei of Fire Conspiracy (also transl. as Cells of Fire), reactions start pouring both by the guerrilla group itself, and by aspects of the social anarchist movement.

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A short account of the role of the Black Sea Greeks in the Makhnovist movement.

Greeks had settled along the north coast of the Black Sea in what is now Ukraine and Crimea from at least the 5th Century BC. At the time of the Revolution of 1917 there were around 180,000 of these Pontic Greeks in the region.

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The Socialist government has launched a rehearsal of repression in preparation for the anniversary of the November 17 1973 and the December 2008 Uprising. In the last few days two people have been arrested and most central Universities in Athens have been sealed.

The rehearsal of repression in scope of the next thirty days including the anniversary of the 1973 and 2008 uprisings as well as the trial of Alexandros Grigoropoulos' assassins came when on the 11th of November many students found their universities sealed on the pretext of the swine flu outbreak.

The Greek government's effort to hide the closing of Kuneva's case in plain sight.

In the last week Konstantina Kuneva's case made it into the front pages. Kuneva herself spoke to tv channels and newspapers. The ministry of employment offered her an apartment.

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Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt details the turbulent history of government attempts to sell off the postal service and how consultants conspired to present public sector looting as sheer imperative.

While the government may have shelved plans to privatise the Royal Mail, the self-affirming logic of neoliberalism that informed the plans persists. Published in mid-July 2009, this article provides useful background to the 2009 postal strikes.