Peace activist Cindy Sheehan talks about her campaign at the elite playground on Martha’s Vineyard where the Obamas are on vacation.
http://www.cindysheehanssoapbox.com/
http://prisonplanet.tv/
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http://www.environmentalhealthtrust.org/
Devra L. Davis, PhD, MPH
Designated a National Book Award Finalist for When Smoke Ran Like Water (2002, Basic Books), Devra Davis is Director of the world’s first Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health. Her recent book, The Secret History of the War on Cancer, was a top pick by Newsweek and is being used at major schools of public health, including Harvard, Emory, and Tulane University. The multidisciplinary Center for Environmental Oncology includes experts in medicine, basic research, engineering and public policy, who will develop cutting-edge studies to identify the causes of cancer and propose policies to reduce the risks of the disease.Dr. Davis’s career has spanned all areas of academia, public policy, and scientific research. President Clinton appointed the Honorable Dr. Davis to the newly established Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, (1994-99) an independent executive branch agency that investigates, prevents, and mitigates chemical accidents. As the former Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services, she has counseled leading officials in the United States, United Nations, World Health Organization, and World Bank. She also served as a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—the group awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.Dr. Davis holds a B.S. in physiological psychology and a M.A. in Sociology from the University of Pittsburgh. She completed a Ph.D. in science studies at the University of Chicago as a Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellow and a M.P.H. in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University as a Senior National Cancer Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow. She has also authored more than 170 publications in books and journals ranging from the Lancet and Journal of the American Medical Association to Scientific American and the New York Times.Honored for her research and public policy work by various national and international groups, she is member of both the American Colleges of Toxicology and of Epidemiology. She was honored by the Betty Ford Comprehensive Cancer Center and the American Cancer Society with the Breast Cancer Awareness Award, commended by the Director of the National Cancer Institute for Outstanding Service, and has recently been appointed a Global Environmental advisor to Newsweek Magazine.She recently was the recipient of a Women’s Leadership Exchange Compass Award, presented by OPEN: The Small Business Network from American Express, for breaking the paradigms of how women are perceived over the last ten years.
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Highlighting the vital role small businesses play in our nations economic recovery, U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk unveiled the Small Business Bill of Rights 10 policies to support the nations largest employer small business.
1. Protect secret ballots in union elections
2. Lower health costs with lawsuit reforms and interstate competition
3. Lower energy costs with credits for efficient equipment and hybrids
4. Permit children to continue business with low/no death tax
5. Exempt small businesses from capital gains tax for 10 years
6. Make immigration laws easy to comply with
7. Create a Patent Office fast lane for small business innovation
8. SBA to limit federal paperwork for small businesses to 200 hours annually
9. Prevent AMT from taxing the middle class
10. Reduce deficit to encourage jobs and improve credit
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Regents’ Professor Mark A. Nichter is one of the most prominent scholars of medical anthropology in the world. A professor in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, he helped set up India’s first school of public health. He played a pivotal role in developing an international clinical epidemiology network that operates in 41 countries. His research addresses most of the major public health issues that dominate the news today, including childhood illness, sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, diabetes and tobacco use. He built a doctoral program that attracts students from all over the world. Recently named a Regents’ Professor, Nichter said, “I have spent much of my life demonstrating how anthropology can contribute to real world problem solving.”
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The Stench of Truth 224
Letters I’ve written on these issues. Use them as you see fit.
Reject Bernanke:
Dear Senator Casey:
In your new legislative session you will be asked to confirm Ben Bernanke as the Federal Reserve chairman for another term of office. I strongly urge you to reject his nomination and force him out of office. His policies have done nothing but prop up failing banks and financial institutions, most notably Goldman Sachs, at the expense of the people of this country and other rival firms.
Mr. Bernanke has utterly failed to put forth a policy which gets help to people in this country who are struggling under massive debt, loss of jobs, foreclosures, etc. It is about time that someone takes the initiative and tells these appointees that it is time for them to go home.
As my Senator I expect that you will do everything in your power while in office to see to it that your constituents needs are met and that in these trying times policy will be geared toward helping working families and individuals.
The Federal Reserve under the direction of Bernanke has embarked on a dangerous road that could lead to hyperinflation or some other calamity. It is time that we stop rewarding failure in this country.
Reject Bernankes re-nomination and appoint someone who has a new policy that will directly aid people in this country and not prop up failed banking houses that will give multimillion dollar bonuses to their CEOs and upper management. We need sound fiscal policy and we need a Federal Reserve chairman who is completely devoid of ties to Wall Street which has completely dominated all financial policy in this country for too long and which has led us into the economic mess that we are in.
You can take a step in the right direction towards getting the country out of the hands of Wall Street speculators by rejecting Bernankes reappointment to the FED chair.
Thank You:
Napolitano needs to go:
Dear Senator Casey:
I am writing today to urge you most strongly to admonish or ask for the dismissal of Janet Napolitano from her position as head of Homeland Security as she has supported the Homegrown Terrorism report which was a cobbled together mess compiled from outdated sources by the Southern Poverty Law Center which styles itself as an anti-hate group but which is in reality an anti-free speech group which uses outdated and erroneous information to justify its labeling of groups as hate groups.
For Napolitano to rely upon the work of this group which itself relied on outdated and bogus information contained on websites which contained no original research and which subsequently labeled war veterans as potential domestic terrorists as well as those who support the constitution. This is shameful and a disgrace. This woman should hold no public office, let alone an office which purports to provide security for the homeland from terrorists when she has totally given up on her duties to rely upon accurate information to compile reports which would be used by the government and police groups.
Please take action on this matter as it is a very important matter, which should not go unnoticed.
Sincerely:
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Dora Barilla, MPH, of the Health Policy and Management department at the Loma Linda University School of Public Health discusses her area of expertise.
http://publichealth.llu.edu
http://www.designsforhealth.org
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President Bush Discusses Stem Cell Research Policy / Video. Creative Commons license: Public Domain.
Description: George Bush Discusses Stem Cell Research Policy Date: 7/19/2006 Length: 15.42 minutes Political Video Link: http://www.politicalvideo.org/node/1927Original Link: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/07/20060719-3.html
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Congress has just passed and sent to my desk two bills concerning the use of stem cells in biomedical research. These bills illustrate both the promise and perils we face in the age of biotechnology. In this new era, our challenge is to harness the power of science to ease human suffering without sanctioning the practices that violate the dignity of human life. (Applause.)
In 2001, I spoke to the American people and set forth a new policy on stem cell research that struck a balance between the needs of science and the demands of conscience. When I took office, there was no federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research. Under the policy I announced five years ago, my administration became the first to make federal funds available for this research, yet only on embryonic stem cell lines derived from embryos that had already been destroyed.
My administration has made available more than $90 million for research on these lines. This policy has allowed important research to go forward without using taxpayer funds to encourage the further deliberate destruction of human embryos.
One of the bills Congress has passed builds on the progress we have made over the last five years. So I signed it into law. (Applause.) Congress has also passed a second bill that attempts to overturn the balanced policy I set. This bill would support the taking of innocent human life in the hope of finding medical benefits for others. It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect, so I vetoed it. (Applause.)
Like all Americans, I believe our nation must vigorously pursue the tremendous possibility that science offers to cure disease and improve the lives of millions. We have opportunities to discover cures and treatments that were unthinkable generations ago. Some scientists believe that one source of these cures might be embryonic stem cell research. Embryonic stem cells have the ability to grow into specialized adult tissues, and this may give them the potential to replace damaged or defective cells or body parts and treat a variety of diseases.
Yet we must also remember that embryonic stem cells come from human embryos that are destroyed for their cells. Each of these human embryos is a unique human life with inherent dignity and matchless value. We see that value in the children who are with us today. Each of these children began his or her life as a frozen embryo that was created for in vitro fertilization, but remained unused after the fertility treatments were complete. Each of these children was adopted while still an embryo, and has been blessed with the chance to grow up in a loving family.
These boys and girls are not spare parts. (Applause.) They remind us of what is lost when embryos are destroyed in the name of research. They remind us that we all begin our lives as a small collection of cells. And they remind us that in our zeal for new treatments and cures, America must never abandon our fundamental morals.
Some people argue that finding new cures for disease requires the destruction of human embryos like the ones that these families adopted. I disagree. I believe that with the right techniques and the right policies, we can achieve scientific progress while living up to our ethical responsibilities. That’s what I sought in 2001, when I set forth my administration’s policy allowing federal funding for research on embryonic stem cell lines where the life and death decision had already been made.
This balanced approach has worked. Under this policy, 21 human embryonic stem cell lines are currently in use in research that is eligible for federal funding. Each of these lines can be replicated many times. And as a result, the National Institutes of Health have helped make more than 700 shipments to researchers since 2001. There is no ban on embryonic stem cell research. To the contrary, even critics of my policy concede that these federally funded lines are being used in research every day by scientists around the world. My policy has allowed us to explore the potential of embryonic stem cells, and it has allowed America to continue to lead the world in this area.
Since I announced my policy in 2001, advances in scientific research have also shown the great potential of stem cells that are derived without harming human embryos. My administration has expanded the funding of research into stem cells that can be drawn from children, adults, and the blood in umbilical cords, with no harm to the donor. And these stem cells are already being used in medical treatments…..
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At a Barney Frank town hall meeting in Dartmouth, MA, a constituent asks, “Why are you supporting this Nazi policy?”
Frank responds: “On what planet do you spend most of your time?” He then calls her approach “vile, contemptible nonsense.” He closes by saying: “Trying to have a conversation with you would be like arguing with a dining room table.”
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http://www.ronpaul.com/
” Congressman Ron Paul’s audit the Fed bill HR 1207 Has officially been gutted. Thanks to North Carolina Democrat Mel Watt .just before the bill was to have received a full overwhelmingly positive committee vote. Congressman watts chairman of the subcommittee on domestic monetary policy and technology. Whose district is home to the headquarters of the Bank of America removed key provisions from congressman Paul’s bill.
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