Michael Moore Today
"I strongly support universal, single-payer, government- provided or government-funded health care."
-- Al Gore
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Al Gore for President 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITnMmDWmt2w&mode=related&search=
Michael Moore Wants Nobel Prize Winner Al Gore For President
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr_lWtVVRTo&NR=1
October 18th, 2007 12:21 pm
Gore lauds Chicago; his fans push for '08 run
Gore: City sets standard for U.S.
By Kristen Kridel / Chicago Tribune
Less than a week after winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his crusade against global warming, former Vice President Al Gore lauded Chicago Wednesday as a leader in the fight for the environment.
Chicago earned the role by promoting environmentally friendly programs such as Smart Bulb, the Chicago Climate Exchange and rooftop gardens, Gore told the Economic Club of Chicago.
"The rest of our country looks to Chicago," he told about 2,000 people gathered at the Hyatt Regency Chicago hotel. "If you start banging the drums, the rest of the country and world will respond."
Still riding on the steam of the award, Gore said that the current climate crisis is the most dangerous the planet has ever faced.
"We can't keep thinking of the atmosphere as an open sewer," he said.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10435
Michael Moore on healthcare for immigrants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH6OyfXdFJ8&mode=related&search=
Health care is a right
http://current.com/items/84987281_health_care_is_a_right
Draft Gore - The Conscience of the Democratic Party
http://www.draftgore.com/
October 15th, 2007 4:23 pm
Iraq War Veteran Returns Medals In Protest
By Leslie Carto / FOX 4 News
A veteran of the Iraq war is returning his medals and calling the war an illegal invasion.
Specialist Mike Sanger returned his medals to Kansas Congressman Dennis Moore's office. He said he did it because Moore supported the war, but doesn't support his needs as a veteran.
Sanger served in Iraq for a year as an Army military police officer. He now believes the war is illegal and said countless Iraqis are dying for several corporations to make money.
Among his medals, Sanger returned the National Defense medal, the War on Terror medal and a combat medal. Moore was not in his office. An aide listened as Sanger read the names of the soldiers from Kansas who died in Iraq.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10411
Ohio guardsman recruits brother, earns $2K
Staff report
Posted : Sunday Oct 14, 2007 9:31:34 EDT
The Ohio National Guard reached its 1,500th recruit under the Guard Recruiting Assistance Program when Spc. Ian Spence enlisted his brother, Alex, and pocketed $2,000.
It was Spence’s fourth referral under the GRAP, according to an Army press release.
Ohio National Guard soldiers across the state have earned more than $3 million since the program’s inception almost two years ago, recruiting from among friends, relatives, classmates and co-workers, the release stated.
The program allows traditional Guard soldiers to volunteer to become recruiting assistants, or RAs, by taking a brief online training course.
There are about 5,500 RAs in Ohio and each recruit who ships and graduates from basic training earns the RA $2,000.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/10/army_ohiorecruits_071014w/
October 15th, 2007 5:04 pm
Two journalists killed in Iraq in 24 hours
BAGHDAD (AFP) — A freelance journalist was shot dead near Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk on Monday, less than 24 hours after a reporter for the Washington Post was killed in Baghdad, a media watchdog said.
Paris-based Reporters Without Borders named the freelance journalist as 32-year-old Dhi Abdul-Razak al-Dibo and said he was killed in an ambush by unidentified gunmen near the oil city, 180 kilometres (110 miles) north of Baghdad. His two bodyguards were injured in the attack.
The Washington Post wrote on its website that reporter Salih Saif Aldin, 32, who had been reporting on clashes between militiamen and insurgents in Baghdad's Sadiyah community, was fatally shot on Sunday.
The Post said he was the first reporter for the newspaper to be killed during the Iraq war.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10412
October 15th, 2007 8:24 pm
President Bush visits Memphis for fundraiser
WMC-TV
President Bush visited Memphis Monday to attend a private fundraiser for Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander.
Alexander, an outspoken Republican critic of Bush's war strategy, has stood with him in rejecting Democratic legislation that would mandate troop withdrawals.
Bush arrived aboard Air Force One at Memphis International Airport shortly after 3:00 p.m. Monday.
After exiting Air Force One, Bush took a moment to share a photo opportunity with White Station High School senior Chi Zhang. Zhang, a recipient of the President's Volunteer Service Award, is a volunteer with Hands-On Memphis and founded the Multi-Cultural Learning Program, a youth organization promoting academic and cultural excellence and community service.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10416
October 15th, 2007 6:56 pm
A month after killings Iraq insists Blackwater quit
By Sabah Jerges / AFP
BAGHDAD - Iraq insisted on Monday that US private security firm Blackwater and "other companies who commit crimes" leave Iraq after its guards opened fire in Baghdad a month ago killing up to 17 civilians.
"From the beginning, the government wanted to replace this company after the incident," Sami al-Askari, adviser to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, told AFP.
US State Department officials in Iraq, who employ Blackwater as their guards, had however asked that an investigation be held into the September 16 incident before any decision was taken, he added.
"Now after the investigations are almost completed, at least by the Iraqi side, and it has been proved definitely that the shooting of civilians was unjustifiable and brutal, the Iraqi position has become firmer," Askari said.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10414
Monday, October 15th, 2007
THE REAL RUDY: RADIOS
Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films is calling for an investigation of the Giuliani administration's failure to provide New York City firefighters with radios that could have saved lives on 9/11. BNF's latest short video documentary, THE REAL RUDY: RADIOS, features parents of firefighters who died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 explaining that the radios that firefighters carried into the World Trade Center were obsolete and incapable of receiving police broadcasts. As a consequence, firefighters in the North Tower never received an alert from an NYPD helicopter that the building was in danger of collapse, and remained in place while police officers evacuated. The building's collapse killed 121 firefighters. The Giuliani administration, these families assert, had seven years to replace these antiquated radios and failed to do so.
See the video here: http://therealrudy.org/blog/15917-the-real-rudy-radios
THE REAL RUDY: RADIOS is being released alongside a petition requesting that New York City Councilman Eric Gioia initiate a public investigation to answer these questions:
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=929
THIS MUST BE INVESTIGATED
http://therealrudy.org/radios
Abizaid: ‘We’ve Treated The Arab World As A Collection Of Big Gas Stations’
During a round table discussion on “the Fight for Oil, Water and a Healthy Planet” at Stanford University on Saturday, Gen. John Abizaid (Ret.), the former CENTCOM Commander, said that “of course” the Iraq war is “about oil“:
“Of course it’s about oil, we can’t really deny that,” Abizaid said of the Iraq campaign early on in the talk.
“We’ve treated the Arab world as a collection of big gas stations,” the retired general said. “Our message to them is: Guys, keep your pumps open, prices low, be nice to the Israelis and you can do whatever you want out back. Osama and 9/11 is the distilled essence that represents everything going on out back.”
Abizaid has previously argued that the U.S. would need “to keep a long-term military presence in Iraq” in order to protect “the free flow of goods and resources” such as oil, but his Stanford comments go much further in pinning oil as a prime motivator for the war.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/15/abizaid-middle-east-gas-station/
October 15th, 2007 6:04 pm
Clinton on Iran: All options must remain on table
By Steve Holland / Reuters
WASHINGTON - Democrat Hillary Clinton, under fire from rivals for a muscular attitude toward Iran, said on Monday "all options must remain on the table" if Tehran does not comply with nuclear nonproliferation requirements.
In an article for Foreign Affairs magazine, the Democratic presidential candidate said the United States should be prepared to offer incentives if Tehran ends its nuclear weapons ambitions, renounces sponsorship of terrorism, supports Middle East peace and plays a constructive role in stabilizing Iraq.
Oil-rich Iran denies trying to develop a nuclear weapon, saying its atomic program is for peaceful energy purposes. But the United States and its European allies believe Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants a nuclear bomb.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10413
Bush talks of threats, concerns and U.S. judges
March 14, 2002 Posted: 3:14 AM EST (0814 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush said Wednesday he is "deeply concerned" about Iraq, not that concerned about Osama bin Laden and plans to keep all options on the table -- including nuclear weapons -- to protect the United States from any attacks.
During his first formal news conference of the year, Bush said he is committed to modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal while reducing the number of nuclear warheads.
But he said the key word of the U.S. nuclear policy is deterrence.
"We've got all our options on the table because we want to make it very clear to nations that you will not threaten the United States or use weapons of mass destruction against us or our allies or friends," said Bush.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/03/13/Bush.news.conference/index.html
October 17th, 2007 1:13 pm
Bush's approval at new low in Reuters: 24 percent
By Mark Silva / Chicago Tribune
President Bush's approval rating has reached a new low in the newest Reuters/Zogby Poll -- with just 24 percent of those surveyed approving of Bush's job performance. That is down from 29 percent last month.
It is lower than the latest register of Bush's approval rating in the Gallup Poll -- 32 percent in Gallup's newest October survey.
The newest gauge arrives as President Bush prepares for a press conference in the West Wing this morning -- at 10:40 am EDT -- and as the president prepares to fend off an override of his veto of an expansion of children's health care on Capitol Hilll tomorrow.
Public approval for the job that Congress is performing -- 11 percent in the new survey -- matches the all-time low that Reuters found last month.
"Deepening unhappiness with President George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress soured the mood of Americans and sent Bush's approval rating to another record low this month,'' Reuters reports today.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10428
October 16th, 2007 3:22 pm
9/11 Rescue Worker and Oklahoma Community Leaders Rally at State Capitol to Save SCHIP
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
What: Protest of President Bush’s Veto on SCHIP
Where: Oklahoma State Capitol, South Plaza Steps
When: Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 at 12 Noon
Oklahomans Urge Veto Override by Congress
Reggie Cervantes, Oklahoma Chapter President of APUHC (American Patients for Universal Health Care), is leading a protest at the South Plaza of the Oklahoma Capitol on Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 at 12 noon. The rally will call upon members of Congress to override President Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
Cervantes, a 9/11 volunteer rescue worker, is featured in the Michael Moore movie about American health care, SiCKO. As a resident of Oklahoma City, Cervantes is concerned about the 148,000 Oklahoma children who do not have health care coverage. She needs medical care for her two children, ages 8 and 10, and herself for PTSD and other ailments she developed after working at the World Trade Center.
"We want to send a message to the White House that Oklahomans love their children and want them to have access to health care through SCHIP. We are urging Oklahoma Representatives Fallin, Cole, Sullivan and Lucas to stand up and override President Bush’s veto," added Cervantes.
Oklahoma Congressman Dan Boren (D), who voted against the bill, announced that he had changed his mind and would vote to override the Bush veto.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10418
October 17th, 2007 3:32 pm
Bush: Threat of World War III if Iran goes nuclear
By Matt Spetalnick / Reuters
WASHINGTON, Oct 17 - U.S. President George W. Bush warned on Wednesday a nuclear-armed Iran could lead to World War III as he tried to shore up international opposition to Tehran amid Russian skepticism over its nuclear ambitions.
Bush was speaking a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has resisted Western pressure to toughen his stance over Iran's nuclear program, made clear on a visit to Tehran that Russia would not accept any military action against Iran.
At a White House news conference, Bush expressed hope Putin would brief him on his talks in Tehran and said he would ask him to clarify recent remarks on Iran's nuclear activities.
Putin said last week that Russia, which is building Iran's first atomic power plant, would "proceed from the position" that Tehran had no plans to develop nuclear weapons but he shared international concerns that its nuclear programs "should be as transparent as possible."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10430
Mom Marches With Dead Son's Photo So You Can See Her Pain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q02vXH61JW0&eurl=http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Presidential candidate defends U.S. Constitution
Exclusive: Senator Chris Dodd Will Put A Hold On Telecom Immunity Bill
By Greg Sargent - October 18, 2007, 1:55PM
Senator Chris Dodd plans to put a hold on the Senate FISA renewal bill because it reportedly grants retroactive immunity to telephone companies for any role they played in the Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping program, Election Central has learned.
Dodd will send a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this afternoon informing him of his decision. Dodd also plans to put up a page today at his campaign Web site where opponents of the immunity provision can register their opposition.
“Later today Senator Dodd will be sending a letter to Majority Leader Reid informing him that he plans to put a ‘hold’ on a bill that would provide for retroactive amnesty for telecom giants that were complicit in the Bush Administration’s assault on the United States Constitution," Dodd spokesman Hari Sevugan told Election Central. "Senator Dodd said that he would do what he could do to stop this bill, and with this announcement he has again shown that he delivers results.”
http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/10/exclusive_senator_chris_dodd_will_put_a_hold_on_telecom_immunity_bill.php
The Military Commissions Act. Warrantless wiretapping. Shredding of Habeas Corpus. Torture. Extraordinary Rendition. Secret Prisons.
No more.
I have decided to place a "hold" on the latest FISA bill that would have included amnesty for telecommunications companies that enabled the President's assault on the Constitution by illegally providing personal information on their customers without judicial authorization.
I said that I would do everything I could to stop this bill from passing, and I have.
http://action.chrisdodd.com/signUp.jsp?key=1570
October 18th, 2007 1:27 pm
House fails to reverse child health veto
By Kevin Freking / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - House Democrats failed Thursday to override President Bush's veto of their pre-election year effort to expand a popular government health insurance program to cover 10 million children.
The bill had bipartisan support but the 273-156 roll call was 13 votes short of the two-thirds majority supporters needed to enact the bill into law despite Bush's objections. The bill had passed the Senate with a bigger than two-thirds majority.
The State Children's Health Insurance Program now subsidizes health care insurance coverage for about 6 million children at a cost of about $5 billion a year. The vetoed bill would have added 4 million more children, most of them from low-income families, to the program at an added cost of $7 billion annually.
To pay for the increase, the bill would have raised the federal tax on cigarettes from 39 cents to $1.00 a pack.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10437
October 17th, 2007 7:16 pm
Advocates protest veto of children's health program
Tulsa World
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Community leaders on Wednesday praised U.S. Rep. Dan Boren while scolding Oklahoma's four other congressional members who are supporting President Bush's veto of legislation to expand a popular health program for children.
Amid reports that the U.S. House is expected to sustain Bush's veto on Thursday, the speakers urged Oklahomans to make last-minute calls to Republican Reps. Mary Fallin, Frank Lucas, Tom Cole and John Sullivan.
Boren, a Democrat, has said he had a change of heart and will vote to override the veto and support a plan to extend coverage to another 4 million children through the State Children's Health Insurance Plan.
Tulsan Hugh Robert applauded the Oklahoma Legislature for its passage of the All Kids Act, which extends health coverage to children in a family of four earning about $60,000. However, those earning income in that range would be required to pay part of the premiums themselves.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10432
October 17th, 2007 5:50 pm
After Comments, U.S. Terror Chief Resigns
By Justin Rood / ABC News
Three days after Americans saw the Bush administration's counterterrorism chief say the Iraq war has likely not made the United States safer from terrorism, the official announced his resignation, citing health reasons.
In an e-mail sent to his staff Wednesday afternoon, Adm. Scott Redd, head of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), said he was stepping down to "take care of some long-delayed surgery that I can no longer neglect."
The center serves as an all-source intelligence operation, synthesizing information from the CIA, the Pentagon, the FBI and elsewhere and analyzing the threat of terrorism to the United States.
A spokesman said that Redd, 63, needed to have both of his knees replaced, which would require a long period of rehabilitation during which he could not work.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10431
October 17th, 2007 9:32 pm
Wallet Forgotten, Romney Borrows Cash
DEWITT, Iowa (AP) - Campaign aide, can you spare a five?
Republican Mitt Romney, the wealthiest presidential candidate with assets of between $190 million and $250 million, had to borrow cash from an aide Wednesday to pay for beverages at the Crossroads Coffee.
Romney ordered a vanilla steamer and offered to buy a cup for his host, DeWitt Mayor Don Thiltgen.
The former Massachusetts governor borrowed $5 from an aide, explaining that he didn't have his wallet.
"I only got three (dollars) in my pocket," he told the mayor.
Thiltgen declined the drink, saying he couldn't accept a gift valued at more than $2.99 - a steamer goes for $3.
Later, Romney visited Necker's jewelers, where he asked the owner about a brown obelisk-shaped fountain. They told him it was a wishing well, prompting someone in the crowd to hand him a penny.
"What do we wish for? I just hope I carry Clinton," Romney said, referring to the county he was in.
He then tossed the penny into the fountain.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10434
October 17th, 2007 9:13 pm
McConnell knew of e-mails about boy
TV interview included denial
By James R. Carroll / The Courier-Journal
WASHINGTON -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell knew last week -- at a time when he was denying it -- that his staff had sent e-mails encouraging reporters to look into the background of a 12-year-old boy used by Democrats to support expansion of a health-care program.
In an interview Friday with WHAS-TV reporter Mark Hebert, the Kentucky Republican said his staff had not been involved in trying to push reporters to look into the financial situation of the boy's family.
But McConnell's communications director, Don Stewart, said in an interview Monday with The Courier-Journal that he had told McConnell about the Oct. 8 e-mails sometime around Thursday, the day before the interview with Hebert.
Stewart also said, however, that he had told the senator he had sent follow-up e-mails within a matter of hours warning reporters off of the story because "the family is legit."
McConnell declined to comment on the matter last night.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10433
Pelosi condemns Democrat for revealing spine, emotion
October 20th, 2007 4:01 am
Pelosi Rebukes Stark for Iraq Comments
By Erica Werner / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rebuked a fellow San Francisco Bay-area liberal Friday for what she said were "inappropriate" comments about Iraq during a congressional debate.
During a debate on children's health care Thursday, Rep. Pete Stark accused Republicans of sending troops to Iraq to "get their heads blown off for the president's amusement."
Condemnations rolled in from Republican politicians, right-leaning bloggers had a field day, and a White House spokesman declined to "dignify those remarks" with a response.
Pelosi issued a statement Friday evening rapping Stark, who is in his 18th term representing the liberal East Bay. He's California's longest-serving House members.
"While members of Congress are passionate about their views, what Congressman Stark said during the debate was inappropriate and distracted from the seriousness of the subject at hand—providing health care for America's children," Pelosi said.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10449
Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) Outrageous Remarks on House Floor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsGaNR9dVPM&eurl=http://devel.michaelmoore.com/
Rep. Pete Stark comes out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgTOzjT3pk0&mode=related&search=
The 'Thank Pete Stark Challenge'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM8R6QofNhA&mode=related&search=
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