tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post4426322792758724315..comments2023-11-05T03:25:20.581-08:00Comments on STOP THE MADNESS: CHAPTER TWENTY. BROKEN CHINA: THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF THE HIVE MINDRick Staggenborg, MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16587630200799702811noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post-11579687338372287652010-08-08T22:31:36.185-07:002010-08-08T22:31:36.185-07:00I just came across this tidbit. It seems that the ...I just came across this tidbit. It seems that the artists in China have a little latitude in promoting democracy: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/08/china-s-modern-master.htmlRick Staggenborg, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16587630200799702811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post-25583746200742450812010-08-08T16:59:00.530-07:002010-08-08T16:59:00.530-07:00Wyden's bill was so bad that it received bipar...Wyden's bill was so bad that it received bipartisan support before if was rejected by the Democratics in favor of the Public Option bait-and-switch Rahm Emmanual engineered prior to public debate on health care reform. It cost shifted the burden of paying for medical insurance to the worker. To justify this typical Republican move, he forced the CBO to assume that workers would get the money back in higher wages. This laughable assumption was integrated into the extremely sketchy analysis, as required by law. Obviously, this cut the estimated costs and hid the reality of this shafting of unions once again by a purported "Democrat."<br /><br />To add insult to injury, Wyden used his corporate war chest to assault the American worker in an advertising campaign to convince voters in Portland that they were unAmerican because they "refused to pay their fair share" of the cost of paying off his corporate donors of the medical-industrial complex.<br /><br />Considering that unions were a major force in getting Wyden elected at the beginning of his career, you have to wonder why he keeps getting re-elected. Perhaps it is time for the People of Oregon to look for someone who will work for the interest of Oregonians and all Americans instead of the corporations.Rick Staggenborg, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16587630200799702811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post-14713860166226580212010-08-08T16:58:19.381-07:002010-08-08T16:58:19.381-07:00Freeing the world from the threat of war and world...Freeing the world from the threat of war and worldwide enslavement by the international corporate terrorists who start them will require democratic reform in China, which if I am not mistaken is still roughly one quarter of the Earth's population.<br /><br />The best way to get the CCP to peacefully relinquish power if to show them that democratic reform is in their own best interest as well as that of its People. The students at Tiannamin Square, the Falun Gong and the thousands of Chinese citizens who have read the Nine Commentaries on the CCP and renounced their Party membership have frightened the members of the Chinese government, but not yet sufficiently to stop their persecution.<br /><br />We have to help the Chinese break down the Great Firewall of China by which the CCP is vainly trying to isolate the Chinese People so that they can continue to be victims of their propaganda by which they enforce Party discipline and edicts upon the citizenry.<br /><br />I discovered early on that it is possible to bypass diplomatic channels to get a message to a foreign government so as to influence tem to act in the mutual interest of their nation and ours. I wrote a letter to the Chinese ambassador to the UN during the early stages of the health care "reform" debate, suggesting as the Founder of Soldiers For Peace International that they make clear to Congress that they would not pay for the insurance industry bailout. <br /><br />This was shortly after China had announced that it was going to greatly reduce its purchase of T-bills. These are the promissary notes by the US Treasury that finance profligate US spending for the benefit of the corporations that have purchased the loyalty of many of our Senators.<br /><br />To my immense satisfaction, approximately one week later I received a call from a friend who excitedly informed me that NPR had just reported that "The Chinese government has announced that they are watching the health care reform debate in Congress with great interest."<br /><br />The Senate had been put on notice that they were going to have to find an American ox to gore to pay for the bailout, since theyy had made it quite clear that they werenot going to pour their national resources down that rathole. <br /><br />Predictably, they ignored the warning and once again tried to put the burden on the American worker, who just as predictably fought back through their union leadership.<br /><br />Ron Wyden had spent six years dreaming up a bailout for the medical insurance industry he labelled the "Healthy Americans Act." It may have been good for the short-term economic health of the medical insurance, pharmaceutical and corproate health care industries that comprise the medical-industrial complex, but it was good for neither the American worker nor the US economy and they let him know it.Rick Staggenborg, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16587630200799702811noreply@blogger.com