shaitan's Comments (93)

“All this hyperventilation about the Berlin Wall when in these times we have Israel and the US have been building ugly walls--one in occupied Palestine, the other on the US Mexican Border-- based on Fear, arrogance and apartheid by those who have power and wish to dominate their neighbors. The Mexicans can justly say that the border lands and all the way up to California were stolen from them and of course the Palestinians can say the same about Israel stealing the whole of Palestine.”

“I thank you Ariana for articulating what many of us who supported Obama have been asking these last 9 months--Where is the Obama we worked for and voted for?”

“Time to tax the Goldman Sachs, Jp.Morgan etc Bankers at 90% on the big salaries and bonuses they have given themselves trading with Taxpayer provided funds and provide that money to those who have lost their jobs and homes thanks to the shenanigans of GS, JP Morgan etc.”

“Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, Tim Geitner, Alan Greenspan, Bill Clinton, Phil Graham--there are the prime culprits for what has happened--they abolished the Glass-Steagal regulation preventing Banks from trading stocks on Wall Street.”

“Tell Boren to give up his Govt Health Plan that tax we are paying for.”

“What is Obama's real game plan on the PO?”

“Tax the bonuses at 90% rate to help the unemployed.”

“Right You Are!”

“How come the Huff Post moderator did not post my comment that the public call on these Blue Dogs to give up their government paid for health care perks? If Blue Dogs dislike a public option so much why should the pub;ic pay for their option?”

“We must insist that all the Republicans and Blue Dogs and any others in Congress against a public option ,give up their Government provided Single Payer Health Plans and pensions. Why should they use our taxpayer money to get benfits that they wish to deny to ordinary citizens. They need to put their money where their mouth is.”

“CounterPunch vol.16, No 15 pdf, Megrahi’s Release:,How Libya Was Framed for the Lockerbie Bombing
By Alexander Cockburn, clearly shows why the Libyan who was convicted was not the real culprit, that there is good evidence, including a CIA investigation, that the incident was Iran's revenge for the shooting down of its civilian plane. Read that before you making more comments.”

“Israel has, with US connivance, violated more than 68 UN resolutions against taking over Palestinians' land, not to mention the many almost unanimous UN resolutions that were vetoed by the US. For more than 40 years Israel has expanded settlements while giving lip service to Peace. Jews around the world should realize that Israel has become a disgrace to all humane values that Jews used to be associated with by emulating the lebensraum and other ethnic cleansing and genocidal policies against Palestinians that were used by the Nazis against Jews. Israel may get its way as long as it has US support but Israel is accumulating a lot of bad KARMA. It may take a while--even hundreds of years, but sooner or later a new Exodus of the Europeans who forced their way into Palestine in 1948, is inevitable­..”

“Obama is too willing to cave in when in fact he could push back. His base is going to desert him as he continues on this giving in to Blue Dogs, insurance companies, the Israel Lobby , FISA weakening, Goldman Sachs et all. All the talk about Change meant nothing The Democrats just lost me as a supporter. Any health care bill that is signed by congress will be meaningless. As for his Secretary of Health, Secretary of Treasury and Chief Economic Advisor, the minute they were announced as his nominees, I knew the whole OBAMA show was a charade. I feel sad for the country which has been a dying Elephant for sometime with all its handlers behaving like Carrion, only caring about picking up their own bits of meat until they pick the bones clean..”

“Obama is too willing to cave in when in fact he could push back. His base is going to desert him as he continues on this giving in to Blue Dogs, insurance companies, the Israel Lobby , FISA weakening, Goldman Sachs et all. All the talk about Change meant nothing The Democrats just lost me as a supporter. Any health care bill that is signed by congress will be meaningless. As for his Secretary of Health, Secretary of Treasury and Chief Economic Advisor, the minute they were announced as his nominees, I knew the whole OBAMA show was a charade. I feel sad for the country which has been a dying Elephant for sometime with all its handlers behaving like Carrion, only caring about picking up their own bits of meat until they pick the bones clean..”

“Obama is too willing to cave in when in fact he could push back. His base is going to desert him as he continues on this giving in to Blue Dogs, insurance companies, the Israel Lobby , FISA weakening, Goldman Sachs et all. All the talk about Change meant nothing The Democrats just lost me as a supporter. Any health care bill that is signed by congress will be meaningless. As for his chief of Satff, Secretary of Health, Secretary of Treasury and Chief Economic Adviser, the minute they were announced as his nominees, I knew the whole OBAMA show was a charade. I feel sad for the country which has been a dying Elephant for sometime with all its handlers behaving like Carrion, only caring about picking up their own bits of meat until they pick the bones clean..”

“Swift2 you are wrong about Dr. Weil. Read my comment abve when it is posted.”

“Dr. Weil's Self-Healing Newsletter is worth subscribing to. I do and find it makes a lot of sense.
Too many drugs are a "one-size-fits-all" based test on populations and may not be right, either in dosage or in applicability, to a particular individual. As a 20 year recurrent-cancer survivor who chose to take an "alternative" route to treating myself, I am happy that I did not follow standard advice of several oncologists but informed myself of alternatives through personal investigation and writing to people outside the US. If we would take responsibility for our own health and not just take on faith whatever the medical profession tells us--most of them are too busy to keep up with new developments, we would be more healthy as a nation.”

“The same week the Pres. Obama spoke out against expanding settlements he handed the Israelis approx. $3 billion without any conditions. The week after that the Israelis said no way would they stop expanding settlements. Will Obama cave in to Israel and its lobby like all US presidents except Eisenhower? Be interesting to see how this develops.”

“I recommend reading the book Jerusalem 1913 by Amy Dockser Marcus, a former Wall Street Journal reporter. It is a very balanced and good account of a time in the city when Jews, Christians and Arabs lived mostly peacefully and how the Zionist push into Palestine led to the conflict. That is why the book is subtitled The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Too many folks twist history and ignore the people who lived in and took care of that land for centuries. Also you may want to look up the website and books of Israel Shamir, a Russian Poet who was a Jew and served in the Israeli army but now writes and speaks out on what has been happening in Palestine-­Israel.for a long time.”

“A female friend sent me this comment on the public option:
"I don't think this country will ever go for an entirely government-run health care system, nor that such a system is necessarily best in any case. (Just imagine if, down the road, we got a super-conservative government in charge of a federally run health care monopoly. None of us women would be able to get coverage for birth control! I must credit an author whose name I forget, whom I heard on NPR this morning, for pointing out how a single-payer system could be taken over by political concerns.) But a system that makes all private health care providers function as non-profits, and also offers government-run options, might work better than the shareholde­r/expensiv­e CEOs-driven private system we have now. "”

“The Problem With Cooperatives
Limited capacity to compete with the Insurance Corporations
No incentive for Insurance Corporations to make health care plans more affordable
Co-op proposals offer health insurance reform without health care services reform
Shifting the burden to the middle class

There could be some serious fall out when the American public discovers that the Senate version of the '
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"There could be some serious fall-out when the American public discovers that the proposed
health care reform package requires them to buy an expensive private plan or pay a fine, and they are highly unlikely to get any government assistance paying for that expensive private plan. The cooperatives as currently proposed would provide no Medicare-like fall back position, and all of this will cost about $1 trillion. [538] The current proposal is not a pig in a poke – it's pure pork for the health insurance industry. However, we do have an object lesson here. Members of Congress who want to support the insurance industry are far more concerned with what health care reform will cost the Treasury of the United States, and far less concerned with what failing to reform health care will cost the economy of the United States and the people who make that economy grow.
http://desertbeacon.blogspot.com/2009/07/non-profit-health-insurance-co-ops-pigs.html
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“Whatever Obama says, his actions on the ground in Palestine are no different from his predecessors.
as reported by John Paul Roberts on July 1, "The same week that “our” government in Washington told the Governor of California “not one red cent,” President Barak Obama handed over $2.775 billion to Israel.
Online Journal (June 29) reported that the handover to Israel of the unemployed Americans’ tax dollars took place in a “tiny Capitol room” to which members of the press were denied access. I mean, really, who wants the media writing about US taxpayer dollars for Israel’s nuclear weapons while Americans are being kicked out of their homes. Not that, of course, the “Christian” supporters of Israel would mind".."Ca­lifornia, which has become a failed state, has been denied bailout money from Washington. Israel, which has been a failed state for 60 years, can, unlike the American state of California, always count of Washington to deliver the money and the weapons to keep Israel going". I think we will continue to see the same dance to AIPAC music in the Obama years, that has been performed by US Politicians for sixty years.”

“Amy,
I suggest you and the others here read "The Cost Conundrum" by Dr. Atul Gawande in The New Yorker of June I, 2009 or just Google it. You will learn some truths about what really drives health care costs-----the current approach to reimbursement of health care providers!”

“Agree with Gib. If he Obama wanted to make a difference he would already have proposed $2.5 Billion in the Budget for Israel without any conditions, signed up to the $30 Billion for weapons program of GWB or let Steny Hoyer co-sponsor Eric Cantor's program of Status Quo.”

“There was no real "Generous Offer". Read The Truth About Camp David by Clayton E. Swisher or just read the reviews on Amazon. The whole episode was driven by Clinton wanting his wife to be elected in NY and Barack to be elected in Israel and so they both spun lies about what happened, aided by Dennis Ross,”