The new guy is the same as the old guy

wkmac

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Baba,

Appreciate your post above and tip of the hat for posting the link. Although I'm guessing you may support the recent legislation of war funding, on the subject of "CHANGE" you might find Jeremy Scahill's piece from Alternet very interesting. It IMO confirms your title of "the new guy is the same as the old guy!" I like The Who's version, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" but then I'm an old fart so there you go!
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Hope you enjoy the read.

Shame: The 'Anti-War' Democrats Who Sold Out

To add a little fuel to the fire, all is not well in donkeyland as some progressive democrats don't appreciate "The Big Boss's" strongarm and are speaking out!

All let's not forget Glenn Greenwald

And Baba, you'll appreciate some of Glenn's comments on "Obama's Transparency"!

The video from Democracy Now (radical right wing bastion:happy-very:) at the link above also documents the White House visitor log you linked about!
 

wkmac

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When ctizens put all their trust and hope on one person through government, they will always be dissapointed.

ups,

Your comments made me think of this from a few months back.


[video=youtube;jA_95TnGK_Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA_95TnGK_Q&feature=related[/video]
 

diesel96

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Whats really going on is the progressive majority is watching their Democrat party evolve into Republicans right in front of our very own eyes, and we need to put an end to it by the end of next year. Mostly due by what was handed down to this Administration. Question is, will Obama succomb towards his predessessors or will he snap out of it and listen to the people who put him in office. Enough with this bipartisan crap, stop trying to please the neo-cons and the far religious right. Cut our defense spending, stop spying on our citizens, stop bailing out and rewarding failed Wall Street crooks, start recognizing Gay Rights and legalize Marijuana...our kids generation hopefully will have this all figured out, it would just be nice if we made it easier for them.....and to think most of us laughed at Kucinich, Nader and Paul, they're starting to sound saner by the day.
 

wkmac

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June 24, 2009

More Corporate State Shenanigans

Posted by Karen De Coster on June 24, 2009 07:22 AM |

Creditors of Protein Sciences Corporation (of Meriden, Connecticut) filed an involuntary Chapter 7 petition to force the company into bankruptcy and liquidation. A day later, the U.S. government announced a $35 million federal contract for Protein Sciences Corp. “to develop a faster way to make vaccines for pandemic influenza.”
How did this come about? Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd, a senior member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, who said, “I am proud that a Connecticut company will be a leader in flu vaccine innovation and production.”There’s also a contract extension available that would value the contract at $147 million.
If anyone wants to do the research to look at campaign contributions on the part of Protein Sciences and its executives to Chris Dodd (and others), as well as the ties between company’s management and government (the revolving door), I’d be delighted to see it.

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wkmac

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And again from Karen

June 23, 2009

Obama Sells Big Pharma-Corporate State Ripoff

Posted by Karen De Coster on June 23, 2009 07:52 AM |

Is there something wrong with this headline on Bloomberg News today? “Obama Gets Drug-Industry Booster With Pledge That Keeps Elderly Medicated.” Here are a few snippets:
The pharmaceutical industry pledge includes $30 billion “that could be used” to provide discounts for medicines, said Reid H. Cherlin, a White House spokesman. That will help narrow a gap in Medicare drug coverage known as the doughnut hole. The allowances will encourage patients to remain on expensive brand- name medicines even when cheaper generic copies are available, Tim Anderson, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in New York, said in a note to clients yesterday.
“Filling the doughnut hole should help seniors stay on their branded therapies and lessen the tendency for seniors to switch from brands to generics once they hit the donut hole,” Anderson said. “This is critical because once patients convert to generics, they seldom revert back to the brand and are essentially lost to cheaper generics forever.”
This entire deal is nothing more than corporate state-special interest politicking on the part of Big Pharma, Big Government, and enriched special interests, with all players openly admitting their very specific goals. As the article clearly states, Big Pharma is willing to cut slightly into its profit margins in exchange for turning people - especially the elderly - into lifetime customers. Perpetual drug zombies buying their patent-protected, overpriced drugs. Another part of the deal is that government has promised it will “inoculate” Big Pharma from proposed regulations that would cost it some more dough.
And yet, this scam is being sold by Obama & Friends as beneficial to the American middle class. It’s nothing more than another corporate state crime of rob-and-redistribution. Wealth will be redistributed from the wage-earning middle class to the welfare state poor and the corporate state rich, all in plain view and plain language, for all to bear witness.

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