The world has been informed that their main order of business will be to find some way of restraining bankers' pay – rather than concentrating on the infinitely more important question of how to ensure something this horrific never happens again…"
"The core problem over the past few decades was not bankers' greed or the complex financial instruments that enabled them to satisfy it. It was the immense pyramids of debt built up by the Anglo-Saxon half of the world, and the equally massive mountains of savings created in the other.
Almost everything that occurred in the past couple of years was, directly or indirectly, a consequence of this…"

BJP Back On Aggressive
Hindutva Track

Health care costs are double other countries with worse outcomes. Up to 2004, these ideas were never on the agenda. In 2008 this changed. Manufacturing industry came out for universal health care since their survival was endangered by skyrocketing costs

9-8-2009
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee
Email: lakotarockie@sbcglobal.net
Contact: Tara Pretends Eagle - Media Coordinator 216: 650-7444 "Sundance Chief, Ben Carnes in 4th day of Fast
in Honor of Leonard Peltier:
Seeks meeting with President Obama" As a result of Leonard Peltier’s recent PAROLE DENIAL, Sundance Chief, Ben Carnes, a member of the Choctaw Nation, is in Washington, D.C. at Lafayette Park Fasting in front of the White House. This is in response to President Obama’s refusal to meet the Leonard Peltier-
Defense Offense Committee (DOC). Carnes will Fast until September 12, 2009, Leonard Peltier’s 65th Birthday,
in hopes of securing a meeting with President Obama. **************************************************24-hour, world wide, 65th Birthday Vigil will be celebrated around the world!!*** *Beginning 8:45 AM, September 11th through Leonard’s 65th Birthday on September 12th!*

"Supporting universal health care does not make you socialist or even a liberal, it makes you a human being. And it makes you an ambassador for the American dream which, in the mind of Thomas Paine, was a dream for every human being, not just Americans. As we struggle to get health care to all people, we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils, but remember your dream — the true American dream, a human dream. Whatever we win through reform is just first step toward a day when every human being has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

Manhattan Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ruled against the central bank yesterday, rejecting the argument that loan records aren’t covered by the law because their disclosure would harm borrowers’ competitive positions.

"..It is hard to make sense of economic news in the best of times. These are not the best of times. Much of the "good" news pertains to a relatively small cross section of the US. Much of the "bad" news involves reporting on widely suffered pain. Housing market numbers perfectly illustrate this. We have been told for 4 months that we have/are turning the corner. Asset markets have been soaring. Spirits have clearly been lifted for many. The problem remains that improvement has been heavily concentrated in the upper tiers of the economy. These folks are over-represented in the media and public consciousness. Our celebrity worship, athlete obsession and overwhelming disinterest in real people's material conditions all speak to this. The bottom 80% of Americans are suffering, their children are suffering. People's lives and conditions are not getting better. Sooner or later, this produces disaster. The divergence of fortunes was a significant cause of the great crash from 2007-2009.."

US President Barack Obama has lost his messianic status in the row over health care reform, say German media commentators. The debate reveals the downside of America's ideological aversion towards government: Americans are ready to put up with an inferior health service in the name of freedom, it seems.