The Right Wing vs Real Americans

This is part 3 of a 3 part episode on energy policy. In the part, we discuss the health effects of nuclear energy with energy expert, Russel. He discusses how a United Nations regulation keeps important information on nuclear power from public knowledge. You will also find out what, why and how French lobbyists are invading Washington and spending millions of dollars buying American politician's votes.

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Safe Energy Analyst

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Music: Constancy Part Two, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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This is part two of three on clean coal and energy production. Today we are going to hear Russell Lowes talk about nuclear power and renewable energy. He makes the following points. That non-renewable energy is not all the same. The energy industry has worked a lot on efficiency. There is a lot of potential to be more efficient and that will help the environment.

References:

Safe Energy Analyst

Nuclear Information and Resource Service

Institute for Energy and Environmental Research

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Music: Constancy Part Two, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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This is part one of three on clean coal and energy production. Today we are going to hear Russell Lowes talk about "clean coal," a catchphrase that has handed out a lot these days by energy producers. Many people are worried about their energy and how sustainably it is produced. Russell will try to explain things.

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Music: Constancy Part Two, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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This is part three of three on health care in America - We have seen some of the real dangers that the right wing has promoted when they protect high cost health insurance that keeps corporate profits high. Health company executives make millions of dollars a year, up to twenty five million for top CEOs so they are willing to fight hard to keep the United States from building a national health care system that lowers costs to you.

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US Rep Eliot Engel (D-NY17)

Vermont Single Payer

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This is part two of three on health care in America. Health care executives have used advertising and the media to push the view that Health *care* is an all-or-nothing proposal. They take advantage of the fact that most Americans don’t know of any alternatives or how well most alternatives work every day in every other industrialized nation on Earth. Overall, nationalized systems are much more efficient and lower the cost of health care to the patients and also the country. But lower costs completely opposes the goals of Health Administrators, who trying to protect their high salaries by *raising* costs.

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Healthcare Arizona

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Music: Constancy Part Two, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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This part one of a three part series on health care in America. One of the most biggest concerns in the US today is Health Care. The government has been discussing and debating it for years. Health Insurance companies fill up television time with their own views. The average person can hardly get in their opinion. This is Ben Jenkins. In the next few episodes, we will talk about some of the real issues involved, that you don’t always hear about on the news or on television. We will even hear from a nurse who treats patients and would like to see them get better care. But we will also hear about the people fighting against health care for Americans and why the Right wing is fighting to keep you from getting the care you deserve.

For many Americans, the major health problem today is obesity. Just look at television or even Internet ads. Almost any form of media is dominated with diet aids, stomach slimming exercises and weight loss secrets. The industry in the US alone was recently estimated at 25 billion dollars a year. But even with such an obviously major health problem that decreases lifespan and lowers productivity nationwide, Health Insurance companies try to dispute the value of fighting obesity.

Health Insurance companies are administrative, not medical. And some studies estimate that almost one third of total health care cost goes to administration. This is twice as high as countries that have national health care systems. So the companies have a large financial interest in keeping a system that is heavily weighted to the administrators. Please listen online or download the show.

links:
Obesity and Smoking Costs
Healthcare CEO Pay
Obesity fine in Arizona
Obesity and productivity
Obesity Caused by Virus
Administrative Costs

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This is part three of three on Bank of America. The leaked documents not only showed us what the Bank was really doing but also showed us how far the right wing will go protect their interests at the expense of real Americans.

We are back with more on the Bank of America and the banking crisis. In the first part of this story, we spent a lot of time talking about HBGary and HBGary Federal - computer security companies whose website and network were pretty much destroyed by internet attacks. The group called Anonymous was fighting back when they found out that HBGary was using them to get publicity. In the process, the world found out what else HBGary was doing inside their company and their high profile client, the Bank of America.

This is where HBGary finally comes in. When the group Anonymous read their internal emails, they found out that HBGary was doing more than just computer security. They were using their computers to make false identities on the internet... a large number of false identities whose job it was to loudly and publicly defend the Bank of America. They hoped a fake grassroots campaign of support from a large number of seemingly indepenent people would drown out any public outcry against them...

learn more: http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2011/0314/Bank-of-America-accused-by-anonymous-website-of-hiding-data

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Today we will hear more about the Bank of America and the banking crisis.  In the first part of this story, we spent a lot of time on HBGary and HBGary Federal - computer security companies whose website and network were destroyed by internet attacks by some members of the group called Anonymous.  They were fighting back when they found out that HBGary was using them to get publicity.  In the process, the world found out what else HBGary was doing for their high profile client, the Bank of America.

In the first part of this report, we found out how the bank caused a crisis in the banking system.  When the truth came out, they didn't really face any long term penalty from either the government or the public.

Still, the Bank of America was worried about being caught making bad loans so they went further to try and fix their any potential damage to their public image.  This is where HBGary finally comes in.  When the group Anonymous read their internal emails, they found out that HBGary was doing more than just computer security.  They were using their computers to invent false identities on the internet... a large number of false identities whose job it was to loudly and publicly defend the Bank of America.  Using their software, one person could write an opinion that would get multiplied and posted around the internet under many different users on a wide variety of websites for public view.  The HBGary product was careful enough to make the identities different and realistic sounding.  Even the comments were composed to not sound like they came from the same template.    They hoped a fake grassroots campaign of support from a large number of seemingly indepenent people would drown out any public outcry against them.

This strategy is based on a phenomenon called "social proof."  In short, if one person criticizes the Bank of America but thirty or forty reply to defend the bank, the average person will ignore the facts and instead try to go along with the majority.

learn more: http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2011/0314/Bank-of-America-accused-by-anonymous-website-of-hiding-data

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Music: Constancy Part Two, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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In the first of three parts we will set up background on how the Bank of America documents ended up on the open internet. This way, you can see that the Bank of America document manipulation story is part of a larger right wing network that includes the government and government contractors. The leaked documents not only showed us what the Bank was really doing but also showed us how far the right wing will go protect their interests at the expense of real Americans.

Today we are going to talk about Bank of America, the banking crisis in America and how the Bank was trying to modify public opinion to deal with the negative image that came out of the crisis. Along the way we will talk about how the US government comes in and what companies the Bank was using, directly and indirectly to change the public perception.

Recently, two major news stories came together. First, from the world of business and government, the second from technnology and government. The first story was the subprime mortgage crisis. This story featured several banks including the Bank of America and how they gambled and lost on risky home loans. The US government covered their losses and bonuses were handed out to the executives who carried out this plan...

Learn more:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/16/945768/-UPDATED:-The-HB-Gary-Email-That-Should-Concern-Us-All
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/HBGary

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