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| For those of you that missed this Bill Moyer’s segment last night on single payer health care. David Himmelstein & Sidney Wolfe http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/wp-content/uploads/himmelsteinwolfe.mp4 Why do you suppose for forty years now single payer healthcare has been off the table even though it is favored by a majority of Americans? Could it be that our representatives do not represent us? And if that is [...] At least I’m lucky enough to still have my Oregon job: Oregon’s jobless rate has taken a dramatic jump, to 12.1 percent in March — a rate seen only once before since the years after World War II. The increase could put Oregon on a pace to have the highest unemployment rate in the nation when those figures are released on Friday, state labor economist Art Ayre [...] Noam Chomsky on the economy and democracy Pt2 Noam Chomsky on the economy and democracy Pt3 Stephen’s Angry Mob Will Crush AIG (click to show/hide Colbert video) The government can’t stop AIG but Stephen’s angry mob will crush these punks. He pulls out his pitchfork and gets the audience on his side. [...] Cenk Uygur over at Huffpo sent me this story link this morning. If you want to understand what is really going on re: the banking/wall street fiasco, read this article. Here is an excerpt: The latest bailout came as AIG admitted to having just posted the largest quarterly loss in American corporate history — some $61.7 billion. In the final three months of last year, the [...] Image via Wikipedia Cenk Uygur has a post over at Huffpo that nails down the real issue with CNBC that Jon Stewart so skillfully mocks in the video contained in the post immediately below this one: I have a close friend who works at a business news station — and here is the worst kept secret in show business — it’s all about the access. If [...] | Available Streams 2    | ||||
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