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The Medical Industrial Complex: The Shocking Corporate Take-over of Life Itself |
| Uploaded by democracynow on Oct 31, 2011 www.DemocracyNow.org - One of the major themes raised by the Occupy movement is the increasing power of large corporations over more and more aspects of our lives. We spend the hour looking into the issue of the corporate control of life itself. Our guest, Harriet Washington, is a medical ethicist and has just published a book that examines the extent to which what she calls the medical-industrial complex has come to control human life. In the past 30 years, more than 40,000 patents have been granted on genes alone — many more patents are pending. Washington argues that the biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies patenting these genes are more concerned with profit than with the health or medical needs of patients. Her new book is called, "Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself — And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future." Watch Part 2 of 3: http://youtu.be/jsERASQXeCg |
| Date: 2011-11-10 20:46:15 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 852 - Votes: 13 - Rating: 5 |
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Raw Video: 'Occupy' Protesters Heckle Michele Bachmann |
| Published on Nov 10, 2011 by AssociatedPress Occupy Wall Street protesters interrupted a foreign policy speech by Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, saying she was more concerned with dividing Americans than helping them. (Nov. 10) |
| Date: 2011-11-10 20:36:59 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 822 - Votes: 9 - Rating: 5 |
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Soldier Found Guilty in Afghan Thrill-Killings |
| Published on Nov 10, 2011 by AssociatedPress A U.S. Army soldier accused of exhorting his bored underlings to slaughter three civilians for sport was convicted of murder, conspiracy and other charges Thursday in one of the most gruesome war crimes cases to emerge from the Afghan war. (Nov. 10) |
| Date: 2011-11-10 20:31:18 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 830 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 |
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John Nichols: In State After State, Remarkable Wins for Progressive Politics |
| Uploaded by democracynow on Nov 9, 2011 www.DemocracyNow.org - Advocates for labor, women's, and immigration rights are celebrating a number of key victories in Tuesday's state elections. In Ohio, voters defeated Republican Gov. John Kasich's controversial limits on the collective bargaining rights of state employees. In Arizona, Russell Pearce, the architect of the state's controversial anti-immigration law has lost his state senate seat in an unprecedented recall vote. Meanwhile in Maine, voters have defeated a Republican measure that barred same-day voter-registration on election day. For analysis, Democracy Now! speaks with reporter John Nichols of The Nation magazine. "There were many political insiders who said, 'Oh, don't pick this fight.' You'll note that President Obama and the Washington Democrats stayed clear of this battle in Ohio," Nichols says. "But in Ohio, on the ground, this grassroots movement, which literally put thousands and thousands of people at the doors, turned back a national conservative agenda. That's a big deal." |
| Date: 2011-11-10 20:23:09 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 849 - Votes: 3 - Rating: 5 |
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Generic Republican Candidate |
| Uploaded by JimmyKimmelLive on Nov 8, 2011 Jimmy Kimmel Live - Generic Republican Candidate |
| Date: 2011-11-10 20:16:33 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 825 - Votes: 10 - Rating: 4.7 |
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Comedian Lee Camp: Afraid To Stand Up Against Your Corporate Abusers? Try Some Occupy![Warning: Extreme language] |
| Uploaded by LeeCamp2 on Nov 10, 2011 This one goes out to all of you afraid to join the Occupy movement. It's okay. You can walk out that door. You can leave your corporate abusers. We're here for you. |
| Date: 2011-11-10 20:08:41 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 871 - Votes: 16 - Rating: 4.57 |
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Scientist Who Testified In Support Of Mining Around The Grand Canyon Stands To Make $225,000 From It |
| From Think Progress: Scientist Who Testified In Support Of Mining Around The Grand Canyon Stands To Make $225,000 From It: Grand Canyon Stands To Make $225,000 From It By Public Lands Team on Nov 4, 2011 at 3:13 pm By Jessica Goad, Manager of Research and Outreach, Center for American Progress Action Fund. As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, Republican members of Congress have been waging a war to open 1 million acres around the Grand Canyon to uranium mining. Last week Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar took one of the last steps in withdrawing the area from new mining claims. But in response, Republicans have introduced H.R. 3155, the Northern Arizona Mining Continuity Act of 2011, to keep the decision from moving forward. The issue has become “one of the top legislative priorities of Republicans in Congress” as Energy and Environment Daily reported this morning. At a hearing yesterday on the bill in the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forest and Public Lands, Republicans called a witness to the stand who is a retired United States Geological Survey scientist. Dr. Karen Wenrich noted in her testimony supporting the bill that the Bureau of Land Management has “vastly overstated the environmental harm caused by past and potential uranium development.” However, under questioning from Representative Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), it became clear through public Securities and Exchange Commission filings that Wenrich stands to make $225,000 by selling 61 uranium claims that she owns only if the Interior Department’s withdrawal does not go forward. GRIJALVA: Ms. Wenrich, let me ask you a couple of questions. Do you stand to benefit personally if the Department’s proposed withdrawal is terminated? In other words, would you benefit financially if the bill you are testifying on were enacted and became law? WENRICH: Just like everybody in northern Arizona I stand to benefit from having a job. But if you’re thinking that that’s going to affect my testimony I might point out to you that I am a research scientist with a PhD, I have done almost all of this research prior to this. GRIJALVA: Ok but I’m asking about if…well Mr. Chairman, let me just submit for the record copies of a Securities and Exchange Commission filing by American Energy Fields, Inc. that states that the witness will receive at least $225,000 for selling 61 uranium claims that she currently owns in northern Arizona once the withdrawal is terminated. Is that SEC filing correct, Ms. Wenrich? WENRICH: I think you need to give me the courtesy of explaining the fact that everything that I have done in this research was prior to me owning those claims that I started two years ago. All research is based on previous work that was done long prior to this when I was a government scientist and when I worked for the International Atomic Energy Agency as a scientist. I believe in giving all the facts and I challenge you to find where my facts are erroneous. So I think whatever my career opportunities are irrelevant to what I’m presenting here. GRIJALVA: Question: is the filing correct or not? WENRICH: I just said it was correct. GRIJALVA: It was? WENRICH: Yes, it is correct. Watch it: This is the third time in the last three years that Wenrich has been sought as a witness by Republicans (she also appeared before the committee in 2008 and 2009). This time around, her financial stake in the withdrawal was readily apparent after a June 2011 report went into the issue more in depth. The overwhelming efforts to open up the lands around the Grand Canyon to uranium mining is just one example of how Republicans in Congress are trading our public lands for corporate profits. Other instances include the giveaway of the world’s third-largest copper deposit to a mining company that will pay no royalties, a bill to let go of some of the nation’s wildest places, and the GOP’s continued defense of subsidies for oil and gas companies that have already accrued more than $100 billion this year http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/11/04/361820/scientist-who-testified-in-support-of-mining-around-the-grand-canyon-stands-to-make-225000-from-it/ |
| Date: 2011-11-10 17:58:00 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 848 - Votes: 4 - Rating: 5 |
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Gingrich: 'I Don't Know Whether Global Warming Is Occurring' |
| Uploaded by climatebrad on Nov 9, 2011 11/8/11: Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says his ad with Nancy Pelosi on global warming for Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection was the |
| Date: 2011-11-10 12:02:00 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 824 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 |
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Robert Reich at OCCUPY SF: You Can't Stop This Once It's Started |
| Uploaded by karinmoveon on Nov 3, 2011 Robert Reich visits Occupy San Francisco and talks with occupiers about why we are in this moment together. Directed by Jacob Kornbluth Executive Produced by Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation Produced by Laura Dawn for MoveOn Media & Jacob Kornbluth |
| Date: 2011-11-10 10:45:16 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 848 - Votes: 6 - Rating: 5 |
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Big Oil Lobbyist: There Are No Loopholes |
| Uploaded by climatebrad on Nov 6, 2011 11/6/11: Asked why big oil companies are opposing the elimination of tax subsidies for their industry when they're making $100 billion profits, American Petroleum Institute lobbyist Mary Durbin claims, "There are no loopholes." |
| Date: 2011-11-10 08:05:36 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 818 - Votes: 2 - Rating: 3 |
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