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Medicare for All: Yes We Can by Holly Sklar - Common Dreams More Americans die of lack of health insurance than terrorism, homicide, drunk driving and HIV combined. Grandma could be dead from lack of health insurance before she turns 65 and gets Medicare - 80 percent of first-time grandparents are in their 40s and 50s. America is the only country that rations the right to health care to those 65 and older. Lack of health insurance kills 45,000 American adults a year, according to a nMr. Kristof is off today.  MoDo, in “The Devil Wears Crocs,” says the painful periods for W. and Bill Clinton, falling low after starting with such grand hopes, are recounted in two new books.  The Moustache of Wisdom, in “The New Sputnik,” says China is embarking on a new, parallel path of clean power deployment and innovation. It is the Sputnik of our day. Unfortunately, we’re still not racing.  Mr. Rich gives us “Obama at the Precipice,” in which he says President Obama, like the young PresidBANGKOK – The passage of a U.S. bill capping carbon emissions before a major U.N. climate conference in December would help the United States extract concessions from other countries, though time is running out, the chief U.S. negotiator at climate talks in Bangkok said Sunday. "The more specific we can be, the easier it is to press others to be equally specific," Jonathan Pershing told The Associated Press. "We have a lot of things we want from countries. We want significant action from otBy John McLaughlinIt was a startling admission.  Prior to passage of “Cap-and-Trade” legislation by the House of Representatives, Mr. Henry Waxman , House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman and co-sponsor of the bill, in responding to a question from Mr. Joe Barton at a May 22 hearing, admitted the following:I certainly don’t claim that I know everything that’s in this bill.  I know we left it to ….we relied very heavily on the scientists on the IPCC and others and the consens

Stumbled on this one sometime Wednesday.  It’s been something of an annoyance that for the last several weeks the "transcript" links at the event homepages of the American Enterprise Institute appear to have all been broken. But it would seem that someone at AEI kept a copy of the entire pre-conversion tree for the event pages in an accessible but obscure place at the Institute. Anyway, I’m finally finished with an initial pass through what appears to be the whole set. Doomers, enjoy, therAfter hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization that the Fed could start scaling back on emergency support of the economy. US equities dropped further later in the week on renewed concerns about the state of the troubled housing market and weaker-than-expected durable goods orders. In addition to global stock markets declining, risky assets such as commodities,

By: Bob McCarty Bob McCarty Writes File this under “never would have guessed it.” In a piece published today at Right Truth , writer R.J. Godlewski unwittingly provides the evaluatory “tools” needed to connect the future of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility with President Barack Obama’s relentless assault of the nation’s oil and natural gas industry. Before I continue riding this train of thought, take a moment to read the first two paragraphs of Godlewski’s piece: In a mAh, this was the week of the Glenn Beck frog scandal – read all about it here : You know the old saying, if you put a frog into boiling water, he’s going to jump right out, because he’s scalding hot, but if you place the frog in lukewarm water and gradually raise the temperature, it won’t realize what’s happening and die? Okay. Toss live frog in pot of boiling water, track in, and solemnly intone your point: Barack Obama has galvanized the country, because o“Megan Fox and U2″ September 26th, 2009 Saturday Night Live was last Fall’s biggest pop culture sensation. With Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin impression saving the show from a weak Obama impression, and Thursday timeslots building the show’s reputation, it built to some of its best numbers ever and its cache went beyond viral internet sensations written by Justin Timberlake/Lonely Island and into the show itself. But suddenly, coming back this Fall, there is no election to provide a new imprNote: While this blog is almost entirely China focused, the following post wraps up coverage of the Fifth Annual Clinton Global Initiative Meeting and does not address US-China business or development issues. To my regular readers, I promise to have something China-related for you soon! Robert Frank, Senior Writer for the Wall Street Journal has written an excellent article, The Real Star at Clinton Global Initiative , which begins: “I have always wondered if the Clinton

In the midst of a week when climate change finally stole back some of the spotlight that had been hogged by health care reform for months, the Senate fought off a potentially devastating attempt to emasculate the EPA and its recently won power to regulate greenhouse gases. Senator Lisa Murkowski tried to sneak in an amendment to the EPA fiscal 2010 spending bill that would have limited the agency’s ability to regulate emissions to only mobile sources. This means thaDave Clark Yahoo News 27 Sep 09; PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania – Climate change campaigners expressed dismay on Friday after the leaders of the world's most important economies failed to earmark funds to pay for a deal to cut carbon emissions. States are due to hold a global summit -- billed as the last chance to halt global warming -- in Copenhagen in December in order to agree on ambitious new targets for cutting the production of greenhouse gases. Emerging economies, led by a skepticalDespite the threats of climate change to Australia it is still business as usual. Resources are the key to Australia's prosperity. Australia is selling as much gas and coal and uranium as we can whilst paying lip service to the environment. Bill Leak No where are the contradictions starker than in SA where the Rann Government is spruiking the long-term economic and social benefits of mining development. BHP Billiton has been mining the Great Artesian Basin for years at noFile this under “never would have guessed it.” In a piece published today at Right Truth , writer R.J. Godlewski unwittingly provides the evaluatory “tools” needed to connect the future of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility with President Barack Obama’s relentless assault of the nation’s oil and natural gas industry. Before I continue riding this train of thought, take a moment to read the first two paragraphs of Godlewski’s piece: In a matter of a few short months, Pres

Hamas Seeks New Doctrine after Gaza War Failures It is too different that the old doctrine, you harram Zionist shoe, instead of Kill All the Jews we will now say Perish all the Juden! EU sued for funding Hamas air strikes on Israel Hamas slams Obama for backing down on demand for settlement freeze Palestinians want peace deal but don't reject Hamas Right. PEACE means DIE JUDEN DIE to them. Netanyahu: Israel seeks peace with Palestinians BiBi... what part of DIE JUDEN DIE do you nThe Hill produces a piece from a familiar genre. It's the 'nervous centrist Democrats think Pelosi is too liberal' genre. In the first midterm of a new presidency, history tells us that the president's party usually does poorly. So, there is at least one metric out there that should make vulnerable Democrats nervous. Democrats are still doing well in the generic congressional ballot question, especially if you discount the unreliable Rasmussen polling. But, as Chris Bowers recently noted, a

He noted that at the Summit, “…we have seen fresh developments, positive momentum in the direction of global action on climate change.” He lauded the statements of the new Japanese prime minister on his program for ambitious national ...The Gardens – Richmond BC Canada. The Gardens, a housing development in Richmond, BC for 550 housing units, will include agricultural plots for food production, community and restaurant garden plots, orchard for food production, and rooftop gardens. From Community Workshop 3 Edible landscape and other educational landscape features and displays could be incorporated into the gardens. The ponds could also serve the dual function of accommodating storm water retention. Community gardens a

A fascinating article was in the WaPo yesterday morning about Democrats having more trouble raising money than they expected. I haven't had the chance to really look closely at the numbers to compare how flat the big dollar fundraising was as opposed to the small grassroots donations but according to the article "The vast majority of those declines were accounted for by the absence of large donors who, strategists say, have shut their checkbooks in part because Democrats have heightened their As we move into climate change debate season again, a timely post from Greg Mankiw about an issue that appears to be dividing the Government and, at least, the climate change activist part of the Coalition. In discussing climate change legislation over at his blog, Paul Krugman says something that I believe to be correct, but he does not fully draw out the logical implications of what he says. Here what Paul writes : And the burden on households from cap and trade depends on what’s Our oil, U. S. need Canada's oilsands may take a daily beating in the international media and from environmentalists, but the arithmetic of U. S. consumption and supply all but ensures a long, prosperous future for our dirty oil. The United States imports 60% of its daily fuel requirements. President Barack Obama has vowed to wean his country off Middle East oil within 10 years. The U. S.'s other nearby secondary suppliers are either hostile or their production is dwindling so q

Brown: Climate Change Bill Could Threaten Manufacturing Industry, U.S. Economy. Posted by Staff on September 22, 2009 |. Sen. Sherrod Brown says that since manufacturing industry is an integral part of the U.S. economy, ...Small Oil Refineries Pull Support For Climate Change Bill. The Hill reports that small oil refineries -- once a strong ally of the climate change bill -- are now withdrawing their support for the. ...US Senate Democrats will unveil their version of a controversial climate change bill on September 30, a congressional source says according to Reuters. The House of Representatives narrowly passed a climate change bill in June that ...I have a story out today about the uphill battle that Barbara Boxer and John Kerry will face when they drop their climate change bill in the Senate, which is likely to be any day now. The short version is that the politics are very ...Has the health care debate — some would say debacle — got you down? Feeling kind of overwhelmed and bruised by the vehemence and posturing of it all? Well, get ready, folks of the sustainability persuasion. You're next.

EU presents 100-billion-euro climate change bill - The latest European and international news with special sections on energy news, european union news, economic news, european commission news, european parliament news, business news, ...A new report from the Congressional Research Service concludes it's nearly impossible to predict the true cost of the House-passed climate change bill. The authors of the report analyzed seven studies on the projected cost of the ...Hopes of passing climate change legislation before the international Copenhagen climate summit are quickly dissipating, as Rachel Morris reports in Mother Jones. It seems unlikely that any major action will be taken before the December ...