THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T WANT REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS AND IN THE WHITE HOUSE

The recent oil spill and the problems with chemicals (affecting the health of human beings and all living things) have taught us that it is absolutely essential that we regulate corporations. Republicans, conservatives and Libertarians believe in a hands-off policy in regards to regulation of corporations. Their energy and environmental policies have created a nightmare for many families (for us). Please watch Dr. Sanjay Gupta's special about toxic cities which aired back in February, and is being aired again (with updates) June 2nd and 3rd at 8pm on CNN (I watched a repeat of part 1 around 2 and 4am).

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ABOVE VIDEO CAN BE SEEN AT: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#37479885

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Update: June 8, 2010

BP's Long History of Destroying the World
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Companies, Hospitals move away from toxic material

Toxic America

Toxic Towns: People of Mossville 'are like an experiment'

Dioxins and their effects on human health

BPA Ban Introduced; US Lawmakers follow Canada and Europe in Outlawing Toxic Plastic Chemical March 2009

Greenpeace

Tox Town

Mossville, Wilma Subra, Dorothy Felix

ABOVE VIDEO CAN BE SEEN AT: http://www.saferstates.com/2009/04/flame-retardants.html

PRESIDENT OBAMA ROCKS THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT'S DINNER

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The president rocks the house (White House - smile).
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JAY LENO BOMBS AT WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT'S DINNER BY DAN ABRAMSON, MAY 2, 2010
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CNN TRYING TO GRAB HEADLINES AND STIR UP TROUBLE WHILE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS STILL THE PARTY OF NO

CNN's viewership must be off, because why would they try to stir up trouble by saying America's patience may be wearing thin with President Obama? His administration has been around, what, about 65 days. Come on CNN do you really think Americans are buying into your ridiculous rantings?

Another headline for everyone .... Guess what? .... come on guess ..... ok I'll tell you

The REPUBLICAN PARTY is still the Party of "NO"; and now it's the Party of RUSH; the Party of CHENEY; and the Party AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Bipartisanship? Forgive me, but who keeps saying "NO" to the President's very popular agenda and THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? Yep, you've got it ... the REPUBLICAN PARTY!

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SHOUT OUTS AND KUDOS TO CNN, MSNBC 1600 and CHRIS MATTHEWS TODAY

I've beaten up cable news and commentary today and a while back, so it is my pleasure to congratulate CNN, MSNBC 1600 and CHRIS MATTHEWS today for balanced objective news reporting and commentary. We'll be keeping a watch on cable and lend our comments on how they perform regarding responsible and fair reporting. Unfortunately, we cannot give high marks to FOX news or Chris Plante. Sorry.

PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN DELIVERS MOVING AND ELOQUENT ADDRESS BEFORE JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS, RECEIVES LITTLE COMMENT BY CNN, RT WING, ETC. MEDIA

Prime Minister (Labor Party) Gordon Brown of Great Britain/N.Ireland spoke movingly and eloquently before the Joint Session of Congress yesterday, amid an uproarious applause; might say he received more adulation than President Obama (too close to tell).

With this amount of praise and adulation, you would think you would have heard more about, and more focus on, the Prime Minister’s address coming from our mainstream media and our cable channels. Except for C-SPAN where I saw the Prime Minister speak, there was scarce coverage. Well, those aforementioned channels did mention that the Queen bestowed knighthood on Senator Ted Kennedy. Other than that, not much else. Wonder why … don’t you?

Well here’s what I think. The kind of address the Prime Minister made (coming from a Labor Party member), would be difficult for a conservative. Bits of the speech … maybe.

This is the kind of speech a Labor Party makes, the kind of speech a Democratic Party would make.

The Prime Minister talked about the people, the world, the poor, the powerless, children who are tortured, those who suffer, the environment, a green economy, and leveling the playing field so all can participate.

“Our first responsibility is to help the powerless.” … “Wherever there is hardship, wherever there is suffering, we cannot, we will not, pass by on the other side.”

“For let us remember there is a common bond that unites us as human beings across different beliefs, cultures and nationalities. It is at the core of my convictions.”

Perhaps "this focus" is why we didn’t hear much about the Prime Minister’s speech from our mainstream media and CNN and right-wing media.


Here’s an outline of what Prime Minister Brown said:

1. The Prime Minister praised the United States.


2. A Knighthood for Senator Edward Kennedy from the Queen … and thoughts on the American Spirit.


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“Throughout your history Americans have led insurrections in the human imagination, have summoned revolutionary times through your belief that there is no such thing as an impossible endeavor”

“What mattered more was this enduring truth – that you, the American people, at your core, were, as you remain, every bit as optimistic as your Roosevelts, your Reagans and your Obamas”

“You have shown that while a terrorist may destroy buildings and even, tragically, lives, they have not, and will not ever, destroy the American spirit”


3. Transatlantic Relationship: “Brown used the phrase “special relationship” twice – preferring instead formulations using words such as “friendship” or “partnership”. He also explicitly drew in the rest of Europe into the transatlantic relations Britain often likes to see as between it and the US.”

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“You now have the most pro-American European leadership in living memory … There is no old Europe, no new Europe, there is only your friend Europe.”


4. Values: The Prime Minister extended his sections on America and transatlantic relations to talk about the ‘common bond that unites us as human beings’. He turned to values he said her learned as a child and some ‘ancient truths’.


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“We do not value the wealthy less when we say that our first duty is to help the not so wealthy. We do not value the powerful less when we say that our first responsibility is to help the powerless.”

“In this most modern of crises I am drawn to the most ancient of truths; wherever there is hardship, wherever there is suffering, we cannot, we will not, pass by on the other side.”

“For let us remember there is a common bond that unites us as human beings across different beliefs, cultures and nationalities. It is at the core of my convictions.”


5. Foreign Policy: Brown turned to joint areas of joint foreign policy – the Middle East peace process, the two wars and towards Iran. He also, as he talked about Africa, recounted the story of a Rwandan boy tortured to death whose final words were of hope in the United Nations.


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“Let me pay tribute to the soldiers, yours and ours, who again fright side by side in the plains of Afghanistan and the streets of Iraq.”

“And our shared message to Iran is simple – we are ready for you to rejoin the world community. But first, you must cease your threats and suspend your nuclear program”.

“The greatest gift our generation could give to the future … could be, for every child in every country of the world, the chance millions do not have today; the chance to go to school.”


6. Economy: Brown referred often to the lessons to be learned from the crisis, but – unlike his appearances in the commons – did not seek to blame Britain’s problems on the US banking sector. He also looked towards global action against tax havens.

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“We need to understand what went wrong in this crisis, that the very financial instruments that were designed to diversify risk across the banking system instead spread contagion across the globe.”

“America and Britain will succeed and lead if we tap into the talents of our people, unleash the genius of our scientists and set free the drive of our entrepreneurs.”

“How much safer would everybody’s savings be if the whole world finally came together to outlaw shadow banking systems and offshore tax havens?”


7. Green Issues: While the environment did not form the largest section of the Prime Minister’s speech, he did give it emphasis – often pairing the environment with the economy as the two most pressing issues facing the world. He also looked forward to this year’s climate change summit in Copenhagen.

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“I come now to talk of new and different battles we must fight together; to speak of a global economy in crisis and a planet imperiled.”

“It is only by investing in environmental technology that we can end the dictatorship of oil, and it is only by tackling climate change that we create the millions of new green jobs we need.”

“I am confident that this president, this congress and the peoples of the world can come together in Copenhagen this December to reach a historic agreement on climate change.”

The entire session (video) can be seen on C-SPAN at:
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/includes/templates/library/flash_popup.php?pID=284421-1&clipStart=&clipStop=

Originating Prime Minister's contents of this story at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/interactive/2009/mar/04/gordon-brown-congress-speech-obama

UNBELIEVABLE!

NEWS FLASH EVERYONE!

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The "Minority Party", the "Party of Bad Judgement", the Party that the people of the United States did not vote for, the Party who ripped the economic fabric from this Nation and the World, the "Party of Nothing" is all over the air waves telling people the Recovery Package is BAD, BAD, BAD. They are everywhere ... CNN, C-SPAN (Oh my god!), FOX NEWS (no surprise), CBS, etc.

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IS THERE A NEWS AGENCY, STATION OR MEDIA CONGLOMERATE CHALLENGING THEM?

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Well we know there are, but except for Rachel Maddow and Keith Obermann, that news media has to beg for money to stay alive because they are not backed by the powerful Rupert Murdochs and various other media conglomerates of this world.

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IS ANYBODY LISTENING TO THE "PARTY OF "NO" the "PARTY OF NOTHING"?

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I DAMN SURE HOPE NOT!

THE EDUCATED CITIZEN AND PROGRESSIVE MEDIA

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We're constantly being fed mainstream establishment and right-wing tainted media. Stations like CNN and FOX NEWS.
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We need transparency and inside information and we haven't been receiving it.
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We believe the sites below offer our citizens, government transparency, provide our citizens with vital information, and disclose what's really going on behind closed doors.
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NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO (NPR)
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Center For U.S. Global Engagement

THINK PROGRESS

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VOICE OF AMERICA

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HUFFINGTON POST

From The "Center For Responsive Politics"

Check Out The Middleclass.org

USA SPENDING DOT GOV

DEMOCRACY NOW

CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

PACIFICA RADIO

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TRACK CONGRESS AT GOVTRACK.US

CLINE CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY

CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS

AIR AMERICA

ROLL CALL

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C-SPAN

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RACHEL MADDOW ON MSNBC

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KEITH OLBERMANN ON MSNBC

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CNN'S: SCREAM BLOODY MURDER

CNN SPECIAL - "SCREAM BLOODY MURDER"

It is with great sadness that we bring you this 8 minute video segment of Christiane Amanpour's 2 hr. CNN special, December 6/7/8, 2008, "Scream Bloody Murder". It is a story of heroes and of 6 stories (in six countries) of genocide, a witness to evil.

We want each of you to take a pledge that genocides/unspeakable evils never happen again. We must be outraged, speak out, cry out to our government and the world and say "stop", "help"!

CNN SPECIAL AIRED December 7th, and December 8, 2008!

Polish Jew gave his life defining, fighting genocide• Priest tried to warn of Cambodia's insanity• 'Idealist' tried to halt Saddam's Kurdish slaughter• Read once-secret Reagan administration documents on Iraq• 'Bombs for peace' after slaughter in Bosnia•

This video contains graphic images. Viewer discretion advised.

Stop/pause music player to the right of this blog before viewing.