tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20832002471329072182024-03-06T11:02:26.733-09:00Progressive AlaskaSpreading the word about the growing presence of progressive Alaskans and their powerful ideas on the webPhilip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.comBlogger4300125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-47045172282479302812014-02-13T06:54:00.004-09:002014-02-13T06:54:42.863-09:00Bartlett Club Today: Open Mike<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Philip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-77297601357019706902014-02-06T07:06:00.001-09:002014-02-06T07:06:28.899-09:00Bartlett Club Today: Chancy Croft on Parnell's Big Oil Multi-Billion Dollar Giveaway<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Philip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-11955044902547270502014-02-03T20:27:00.001-09:002014-02-03T20:27:33.845-09:00U.S. Begins to Quietly Ban Items from Japan Due to Fukushima Radiation Problems<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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From <a href="http://www.seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-food/US-bans-Japan-agricultural-products-due-to-radiation-Fukushima-potential-dangers-of-low-radiation.php">Seattle Organic Restaurants</a>:<br />
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According to <a href="http://www.fda.gov/newsevents/publichealthfocus/ucm247403.htm" style="color: #1fa2e1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">FDA’s website</a>, FDA is processing all food products from Japan in four categories:</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Category 1: Products that the Japanese government has restricted for export or sale. (These products are prevented from entry to US):</strong></div>
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<li style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;">Prefectures, and dace, ayu, and cherry salmon (yamame) from Fukushima.</li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;">Spinach, lettuce, celery, cress, endive, escarole, chard, collards, and other head-type leafy vegetables from the Fukushima Prefecture.</li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;">Turnips and other non-head type leafy vegetables, as well as broccoli, cauliflower, flower head brassicas (i.e. broccoli and cauliflower), mushrooms bamboo shoots, and Ostrich fern from the Fukushima Prefecture.</li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;">Sand lance from Fukushima Prefecture</li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;">Milk from the Fukushima and Ibaraki Prefectures.</li>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Category 2: Products from Fukushima, Ibaraki, and Tochigi Prefectures that Japanese government has not currently banned:</strong></div>
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Under Import Alert 99-33, the authorities may detain dairy and fresh produce Fukushima, Ibaraki, and Tochigi Prefectures when they arrive in the U.S.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Category 3: Foods and feed products that are not covered by FDA’s Import Alert coming from these three Japanese Prefectures: </strong></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Category 4: All the other FDA-regulated food products from Japan that are not listed in the Import Alert and do not belong to other categories</strong></div>
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Authorities will review these products using standard procedures, and as part of this may monitor and sample products as resources permit.</div>
Philip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-46536233276337754682014-02-02T23:10:00.002-09:002014-02-02T23:10:44.586-09:00Peyton Manning Interviews Russell Wilson Before Superbowl XLVIII<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/9uzJYlbhH54" width="560"></iframe>
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Juan Cole has written an informative essay on this: <i><a href="http://www.juancole.com/2014/02/cheapening-politics-interview.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter">The Cheapening of American Politics: Why did Obama reward O’Reilly with an Interview?</a></i>Philip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-14994096858832335712014-02-02T12:08:00.003-09:002014-02-02T12:08:57.194-09:00Super Bowl Special - Toast Served at the Big Game<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/G5f-MS-vzOA" width="560"></iframe>Philip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-55230515553267432272014-02-01T12:55:00.002-09:002014-02-01T12:55:30.176-09:00Come Hear the Anchorage Civic Orchestra Next Friday - The Classical Era<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Philip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-58790496256965904142014-02-01T12:53:00.004-09:002014-02-01T12:53:17.978-09:00Too Bad This Isn't An Ad at Tomorrow's Super Bowl<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/mR-tbOxlhvE" width="560"></iframe>Philip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-76850532338175399802014-02-01T12:36:00.003-09:002014-02-01T12:36:56.733-09:00Osama bin Freedom Industries? Tom Tomorrow's Take<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Philip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-85240024836954161002013-12-15T18:12:00.004-09:002013-12-15T18:12:29.926-09:00The World According to Monsanto: The Full Movie<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/N6_DbVdVo-k" width="560"></iframe>Philip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-19289909445795113072013-12-08T21:14:00.002-09:002013-12-08T21:14:22.735-09:00If Accurate, This is Very Scary: "7,500,000 Bq/m3 of “Strontium-90″ detected from groundwater near [Fukushima] reactor 1"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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7,500,000 Bq/m3 of “Strontium-90″ was measured from groundwater. The sampling date was 9/11/2013. They haven’t announced it for 3 months.</div>
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The location is in the seaside of reactor1. Tepco has been analyzing the groundwater around the reactor buildings.</div>
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This November, Tepco confirmed reactor1 directly leaking the coolant water out of the vessel.</div>
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(cf, Leaking part of reactor1 is made of “poly vinyl chloride” [<a href="http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/11/leaking-part-of-reactor1-is-made-of-poly-vinyl-chloride/" style="border: 0px; color: #b71406; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/11/leaking-part-of-reactor1-is-made-of-poly-vinyl-chloride/">URL</a>])</div>
Philip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-12787916896155013982013-12-06T23:57:00.001-09:002013-12-06T23:57:42.404-09:00Doug Fine's Too High to Fail<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On Sunday, I'll be hosting author and journalist Doug Fine <a href="http://fdlbooksalon.com/2013/12/08/fdl-book-salon-too-high-to-fail-cannabis-and-the-new-green-economic-revolution/">at the <em>Firedoglake Book Salon</em></a>, as he fields questions about the rapidly changing scene regarding cannabis legalization on the state level in the U.S.A.<br />
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Since publication last summer of the paperback edition of his look at organic, outdoor medicinal cannabis cultivation in California's Mendocino County, the political field on the legalization issue in various states is changing rapidly. Fine regards the passage of ballot initiatives calling for a legalization regime for recreational use in Washington state and Colorado as seminal. "It is no stretch to say that the Berlin Wall of the Drug War fell," wrote Fine in the augmented paperback edition.<br />
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I loved <a href="http://www.dougfine.com/too-high-to-fail/"><em>Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution</em></a> so much, I soon read the author's two other books, <a href="http://www.dougfine.com/not-really-an-alaskan-mountain-man/"><em>Not Really an Alaskan Mountain Man</em></a> and <a href="http://www.dougfine.com/farewell-my-subaru/"><em>farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living</em></a>.<br />
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Because Fine's book is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/books/review/too-high-to-fail-by-doug-fine.html?_r=0">one of the most important yet published</a> on failings and stupidities of the War on Drugs, he has been in demand for public speaking engagements on legalization issues and their ramifications. He has taken a holistic approach toward how legalization, cultivation, marketing, product development and hemp-cannabis infrastructure might rationally work. In that, he is in the forefront.<br />
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He recently returned from Europe, where he gave talks as part of <a href="http://norml-uk.org/2013/11/doug-fine-european-drug-peace-tour-london/">his Drug Peace Tour</a>. Here he is, on November 13th, addressing the London, UK branch of NORML. It is over 80 minutes long, but well worth watching:<br />
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<em>image: Doug Fine, at his Funky Butte Ranch, with two of his goats</em>Philip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-51794821041218767892013-12-04T19:39:00.004-09:002013-12-04T19:39:40.519-09:0021 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better than Obamacare<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><b><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/22/21-ways-the-canadian-health-care-system-is-better-than-obamacare/">--- by Ralph Nader</a></b></i><br />
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Costly complexity is baked into Obamacare. No health insurance system is without problems but Canadian style single-payer full Medicare for all is simple, affordable, comprehensive and universal.</div>
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In the early 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson enrolled 20 million elderly Americans into Medicare in six months. There were no websites. They did it with index cards!</div>
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Below please find 21 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better than Obamacare.</div>
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Repeal Obamacare and replace it with the much more efficient single-payer, everybody in, nobody out, free choice of doctor and hospital.</div>
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Love, Canada</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 21:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, everyone is covered automatically at birth – everybody in, nobody out.</div>
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In the United States, under Obamacare, 31 million Americans will still be uninsured by 2023 and millions more will remain underinsured.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 20:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, the health system is designed to put people, not profits, first.</div>
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In the United States, Obamacare will do little to curb insurance industry profits and will actually enhance insurance industry profits.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 19:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, coverage is not tied to a job or dependent on your income – rich and poor are in the same system, the best guaranty of quality.</div>
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In the United States, under Obamacare, much still depends on your job or income. Lose your job or lose your income, and you might lose your existing health insurance or have to settle for lesser coverage.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 18:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, health care coverage stays with you for your entire life.</div>
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In the United States, under Obamacare, for tens of millions of Americans, health care coverage stays with you for as long as you can afford your share.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 17:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, you can freely choose your doctors and hospitals and keep them. There are no lists of “in-network” vendors and no extra hidden charges for going “out of network.”</div>
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In the United States, under Obamacare, the in-network list of places where you can get treated is shrinking – thus restricting freedom of choice – and if you want to go out of network, you pay for it.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 16:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, the health care system is funded by income, sales and corporate taxes that, combined, are much lower than what Americans pay in premiums.</div>
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In the United States, under Obamacare, for thousands of Americans, it’s pay or die – if you can’t pay, you die. That’s why many thousands will still die every year under Obamacare from lack of health insurance to get diagnosed and treated in time.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 15:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, there are no complex hospital or doctor bills. In fact, usually you don’t even see a bill.</div>
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In the United States, under Obamacare, hospital and doctor bills will still be terribly complex, making it impossible to discover the many costly overcharges.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 14:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, costs are controlled. Canada pays 10 percent of its GDP for its health care system, covering everyone.</div>
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In the United States, under Obamacare, costs continue to skyrocket. The U.S. currently pays 18 percent of its GDP and still doesn’t cover tens of millions of people.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 13:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, it is unheard of for anyone to go bankrupt due to health care costs.</div>
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In the United States, under Obamacare, health care driven bankruptcy will continue to plague Americans.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 12:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, simplicity leads to major savings in administrative costs and overhead.</div>
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In the United States, under Obamacare, complexity will lead to ratcheting up administrative costs and overhead.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 11:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, when you go to a doctor or hospital the first thing they ask you is: “What’s wrong?”</div>
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In the United States, the first thing they ask you is: “What kind of insurance do you have?”</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 10:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, the government negotiates drug prices so they are more affordable.</div>
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In the United States, under Obamacare, Congress made it specifically illegal for the government to negotiate drug prices for volume purchases, so they remain unaffordable.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 9:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, the government health care funds are not profitably diverted to the top one percent.</div>
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In the United States, under Obamacare, health care funds will continue to flow to the top. In 2012, CEOs at six of the largest insurance companies in the U.S. received a total of $83.3 million in pay, plus benefits.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 8:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, there are no necessary co-pays or deductibles.</div>
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In the United States, under Obamacare, the deductibles and co-pays will continue to be unaffordable for many millions of Americans.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 7:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, the health care system contributes to social solidarity and national pride.</div>
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In the United States, Obamacare is divisive, with rich and poor in different systems and tens of millions left out or with sorely limited benefits.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 6:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, delays in health care are not due to the cost of insurance.</div>
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In the United States, under Obamacare, patients without health insurance or who are underinsured will continue to delay or forgo care and put their lives at risk.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 5:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, nobody dies due to lack of health insurance.</div>
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In the United States, under Obamacare, many thousands will continue to die every year due to lack of health insurance.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 4:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, an increasing majority supports their health care system, which costs half as much, per person, as in the United States. And in Canada, everyone is covered.</div>
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In the United States, a majority – many for different reasons – oppose Obamacare.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 3:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, the tax payments to fund the health care system are progressive – the lowest 20 percent pays 6 percent of income into the system while the highest 20 percent pays 8 percent.</div>
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In the United States, under Obamacare, the poor pay a larger share of their income for health care than the affluent.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 2:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, the administration of the system is simple. You get a health care card when you are born. And you swipe it when you go to a doctor or hospital. End of story.</div>
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In the United States, Obamacare’s 2,500 pages plus regulations (the Canadian Medicare Bill was 13 pages) is so complex that then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said before passage “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Number 1:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In Canada, the majority of citizens love their health care system.</div>
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In the United States, the majority of citizens, physicians, and nurses prefer the Canadian type system – single-payer, free choice of doctor and hospital , everybody in, nobody out.</div>
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For more information see Single Payer Action at <a href="http://www.singlepayeraction.org/" style="color: #cf1028; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.singlepayeraction.org</a>.</div>
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<br />Philip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-74085216151624507882013-11-30T21:33:00.001-09:002013-11-30T21:33:44.957-09:00Obey!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/hH6UynI5m7Y" width="560"></iframe><br />
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The <a href="http://www.anchoragecivicorchestra.org/">Anchorage Civic Orchestra</a>
will be giving our 2013 Fall Concert on November 22nd. Back in late
August, when we began our once-per-week rehearsals, a member observed
that our concert will occur on the 50th anniversary of the assassination
of President John F. Kennedy.<br />
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The theme of our concert is <a href="http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2013/11/anchorage-civic-orchestra-on-november.html"><em>Four Centuries of American Music</em></a>,
with works written in the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries being
programmed. After mulling over the idea for four days, I wrote this
simple, direct elegy over Labor Day weekend.<br />
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The music doesn’t take a point of view in a sense of reflecting my
opinions on why or how President Kennedy was killed. It is merely a
civic tribute to the man, and what he gave that day. The sound track of
the <em>Youtube</em> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI">MIDI</a> version, created with <em>Finale</em> notation software and <em>Garritan</em> orchestral sound samples.<br />
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I will conduct its premiere on Friday, November 22nd, in Anchorage.Philip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-76838377209747667092013-11-13T14:24:00.004-09:002013-11-13T14:24:50.636-09:00Robert Reich to Address Bartlett Club Thursday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I would be there if I could. Glad to see this event happening.</div>
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<br />Philip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-59651232457717557982013-11-10T00:23:00.001-09:002013-11-10T00:23:23.939-09:00'Fukushima beyond tragic, it's a crime'<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="312" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/rHl8MDPRiKE" width="555"></iframe>Philip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-68560853119359180132013-11-03T16:35:00.000-09:002013-11-03T16:37:35.558-09:00Paul Jay's Real World News Interviews with Max BlumenthalSaturday I hosted a two-hour on-line <i><a href="http://fdlbooksalon.com/2013/11/02/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-max-blumenthal/">firedoglake Book Salon</a></i> with Max Blumenthal, author of <i>Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel</i>. I've known Max since 2008, when he came to Alaska to perform research on Sarah Palin's religious background, and religious followers.<br />
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<i>The Real World News</i>' Paul Jay interviewed Max recently, in five parts. Here they are:<br />
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<br />Philip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-20020927207149267262013-10-29T05:54:00.001-08:002013-10-29T05:54:33.554-08:00I Will Be Hosting Max Blumenthal This Saturday, at Firedoglake's Book Salon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bestselling author Max Blumenthal's new book, <i><a href="http://truth-out.org/video/item/19670-max-blumenthals-goliath-life-and-loathing-in-greater-israel-part-i">Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel</a></i>, came out on October 1st. Reception to the book has been mixed, as it is a scathing look at the growing racism, jingoism and authoritarianism inside Israeli society.<br />
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I will be hosting Max at <a href="http://fdlbooksalon.com/2013/11/02/fdl-book-salon-goliath-life-and-loathing-in-greater-israel/">the two-hour on-line forum</a>, held between 1:00 and 3:00 pm Alaska time.<br />
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Come join us. Ask Max anything that comes to mind.<br />
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Here is the latest video interview with Max on his new book:<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="416" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/nYeQwkI95yg" width="555"></iframe>Philip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-4996324093013127002013-10-29T05:46:00.000-08:002013-10-29T05:46:08.262-08:00Vince Beltrami to Address Bartlett Club This Thursday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Should be good. Vince is an excellent, knowledgeable speaker on labor issues - as one would expect.
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My teaching schedule this semester keeps me from being able to attend the Bartlett Club. Finally, beginning in January, for the first time since Spring, 2011, I'll be able to once again attend this important weekly forum.Philip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-79587047329520330642013-10-19T10:46:00.003-08:002013-10-19T10:50:54.506-08:00As U.S. Seacoast Shows Signs of Fukushima Cesium Contamination, Radiation Levels Spike at the Meltdown Site<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is only <a href="http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=11613">the beginning</a>:<br />
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<i>New testing done by Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering found Fukushima cesium in US Pacific sea weed. </i></blockquote>
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<i>The samples were standardized against a known amount of cesium 137 and cobalt 60. The finding of cesium 134 would indicate this is at least partially from the Fukushima nuclear disaster. </i></blockquote>
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<i>“Washington State Pacific coast eel weed sample contained 0.22 pCi/g of Cs134 and 0.24 pCi/g of Cs137.</i></blockquote>
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<i>It also contained 0.1 pCi/g of Co60”
These values converted to the more common bq/kg are: </i></blockquote>
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<i>Cesium 134: 8.14 Bq/Kg<br />Cesium 137: 8.88 Bq/Kg<br />Cobalt 60: 3.7 Bq/Kg</i></blockquote>
Meanwhile, in the wake of last week's typhoon, radiation levels in water at the site have jumped significantly:
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