Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor, Just Plain Crazy, Politics As Usual on Jul 4th, 2009
Mary from Pacific Views with another post spelling out exactly what Goldman Sachs did to crash the economy.
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on Jul 4th, 2009
How the tobacco lobby wrote the new anti-smoking legislation:
JUAN GONZALEZ: The White House has called the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act the, quote, “strongest measure protecting children from the dangers of smoking to date.”
But not everyone agrees. Several public health professionals have come out strongly against the new legislation. They argue that it [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on Jul 4th, 2009
Remember that Rolling Stone piece about Goldman Sachs I mentioned the other day? Here’s another post from Matt Taibbi that should raise serious concerns about the stranglehold the company has on the economic markets:
“In a move set to infuriate and send many Zero Hedge readers over the top, the NYSE has taken action to make [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on Jul 3rd, 2009
Rolling Stone finally linked to the Matt Taibbi story. Go read all about how Goldman Sachs rules our world.
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor, Politics As Usual, Recession Depression on Jul 2nd, 2009
Via Lambert, this from Naked Capitalism: Is the new government program to aid underwater homeowners really predatory lending? Sure looks like it:
Why would you trade a non-recourse loan from which you can walk away for a recourse loan that guarantees you’ll end up as bad as some poor slob at Tappahannock? It doesn’t seem like [...]
Posted in Corporate Statism, The Body Electric on Jul 2nd, 2009
I wonder when people are going to wake up to the fact that they’re guinea pigs for the drug industry?
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Two popular anti-smoking drugs will now carry warnings about the risk of severe mental health problems, the Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday.
The FDA said Chantix and Zyban will carry the warnings [...]
Posted in American Empire, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Jul 2nd, 2009
Juan Cole writes about how Dick Cheney is worried that the sacrifices made on behalf of capturing Iraq’s oil fields will be wasted. He quotes a new report from the Public Record that reviews the documentary record:
‘ [An] April 2001 report, “Strategic Policy Challenges for the 21st Century,” was prepared by the James A. Baker [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jul 1st, 2009
From Coalition of the Obvious, via Avedon, this useful “compare and contrast” on national health care systems. It especially means something to me because a few years back, after my unemployment ran out and I was working an hourly job, I developed pneumonia and couldn’t afford to pay for a chest x-ray. (I don’t remember [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on Jun 30th, 2009
Matt Taibbi on Goldman Sach’s response to his recent Rolling Stone piece. Go read it all, but this is priceless:
After my Rolling Stone piece about Goldman, Sachs hit the newsstands last week (unfortunately the piece is not yet up on the magazine’s web site, so I can’t link to it yet — but it is [...]
Posted in Class War, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 29th, 2009
A heart attack patient denied a blood test because he apparently still owed $7 on a previous test.
Posted in Class War, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on Jun 29th, 2009
Go read:
Playing along isn’t working. So how about rounding up all the members of the Progressive Caucus (and their many allies around the country) and opting out? Leave the Democractic Party. Form a third party of their own (or just join the Greens). All of a sudden the Democratic Party has a numbers problem. All [...]
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on Jun 29th, 2009
It’s getting to the point where I don’t even want to read Simon Johnson anymore:
Buried in the late wire news on Friday – and therefore barely registering in the newspapers over the weekend – Treasury announced the rules for pricing its option to buy shares in banks that participated in TARP.
The Treasury Department said the [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Fuck the Poor, Politics As Usual on Jun 28th, 2009
Great article in Esquire.
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor, Politics As Usual on Jun 27th, 2009
I guess it’s the food industry’s version of taking the 5th Amendment? It’s already past time for a rigorous overhaul of the FDA. During the BushCo years, staffing was deeply cut, compliance and disclosure was simply voluntary - and did you know they stopped doing random inspections? Maybe if enough people stop buying processed foods, [...]
Posted in Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 27th, 2009
9.2 Million people are already insured by a single payer system in this country.
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor, Politics As Usual, Recession Depression, Republicans Are Good With Money on Jun 26th, 2009
I wish I’d been paying closer attention to this, because now I have a whole lot of questions that weren’t there before I read Matt Taibbi’s latest story for Rolling Stone: “How Goldman Sachs took over Washington by engineering every major market manipulation since the Great Depression.”
But first, the “good” news:
WASHINGTON — Landmark legislation to [...]
Posted in Corporate Statism, Imaginary Global Warming on Jun 26th, 2009
We can vacation in Iceland instead!
(ANSA) - Rome, June 25 - The Sahara Desert is crossing the Mediterranean, according to Italian environmental protection group Legambiente which warns that the livelihoods of 6.5 million people living along its shores could be at risk.
”Without a serious change of direction in economic and environmental policies, the risk will [...]
Posted in Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor, Politics As Usual on Jun 25th, 2009
Jim Hightower:
Like a Fourth of July crescendo of fireworks, our gasoline prices are rising higher and higher. While this is tough on consumers, we’re assured by a covey of tongue-clucking industry analysts that nothing can be done about it, for it’s simply the law of supply and demand in action — so suck it up, [...]
Posted in Class War, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 24th, 2009
Christy Hardin Smith:
For the last year or so, we’ve been dealing with a family health care crisis. Most of you know that both my in-laws were hospitalized for months last summer, only to have my mother-in-law pass away last October.
Since that time, my father-in-law moved in with us because he could not live [...]
Posted in Class War, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime on Jun 24th, 2009
You mean crazy Michael Moore was right again? And it really was about controlling the oil?
WASHINGTON — Documents gathered by lawyers for the families of Sept. 11 victims provide new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and other extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal family, but the material may never find [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 24th, 2009
Former CIGNA PR rep Wendell Potter is testifying before a Senate committee this afternoon. Coincidentally, my friend D. sent a link to this recent interview in the Columbia Journalism Review, and you should read the whole thing. And after you read it, you should bookmark it. Whenever you see an erroneous story about healthcare reform, [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 24th, 2009
Looks like someone wants to make restitution:
The much-maligned health insurance industry is braced for another black eye today as the Senate hears testimony from a former insurance company executive.
Wendell Potter, who worked in public relations for Cigna and Humana Inc., for more than 20 years before retiring in 2008, is scheduled to testify this afternoon [...]
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on Jun 23rd, 2009
I just thought I’d point out the most obvious reason why even supportive Democrats are dragging their feet: the longer they go without taking a stand, the longer it will be before Big Pharma and the insurance companies set the hounds loose on their personal lives and finances.
Expect to see lots of “scandals” in the [...]
Posted in Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on Jun 23rd, 2009
I once did a three-hour interview with a prominent Republican state legislator, famous for being the leader of the state’s pro-life movement. (He confided to me that nothing he did for the movement was ever enough, that they might even be, yes, a tad wacky.)
Despite our many political differences, we did hit it off and [...]
Posted in Corporate Statism, Politics As Usual on Jun 23rd, 2009
Link:
“Are Republicans in this to preserve the healthy functioning of a competitive private market or preserve the profits of the currently dominant insurance companies?”
Ezra, hon. I know you work for a Very Serious Publication now, but did you really just ask that question with a straight face?
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 23rd, 2009
Lambert:
The public option is not some sort of compromise. It is not some kind of gentle glidepath to single payer, since the legislation will be designed to make the transition to single payer FAIL, as Kathleen Sibelius admits. And as the public option FAIL takes 10 years or so to play out, it will suck [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 23rd, 2009
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 22nd, 2009
And in other “news”:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans are struggling to pay for healthcare in the ongoing economic recession, with a quarter saying they have had trouble in the past 12 months, according to a survey released on Monday.
Baby boomers — the generation born between 1946 and 1964 — had the most trouble and were the [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 22nd, 2009
Krugman on the congressional fight for healthcare reform:
I’m not that worried about the issue of costs. Yes, the Congressional Budget Office’s preliminary cost estimates for Senate plans were higher than expected, and caused considerable consternation last week. But the fundamental fact is that we can afford universal health insurance — even those high estimates were [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor, Just Plain Crazy, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 21st, 2009
Digby on rationing healthcare.
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