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Long time activist in areas relating to industrial toxics, media content and control, death penalty, Mumia Abu-Jamal, hemp prohibition, civil rights, insurance influence in public governing, religious influence in public governing, unsafe foods, environmental issues, regressive "fees" to replace legitimate taxation, and the scapegoating of "sinful" tobacco for the health harms of industrial toxins, carcinogens and so forth.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, October 31, 2014 Voting Cartoons
Voting related political cartoons.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 6, 2013 Chemical Industry Protection Act
Will the Chemical Safety Improvement Act make industrial chemicals exempt from public or government scrutiny?
SHARE Thursday, June 21, 2012 It's Not Nice To Scapegoat Mother Nature
If one thinks the US Government supports democracy, one might believe also that a cigarette is automatically tobacco.
SHARE Saturday, March 3, 2012 EPA Finds Dioxin Not-So-Bad
The EPA protects the chlorine cartels by playing down and ignoring as many negative aspects of dioxin as possible.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Agent Orange Brand Cigarettes
To paraphrase Jesse Ventura...When government says it's going to protect you, watch out, you're gonna lose your liberties!
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 13, 2011 Health Insurance and Wall Street
The health care mandate is not just an enormous gift to Big Insurance, it's yet another Obama Administration gift to Wall Street.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Wars? What Wars?
Leftists use right-wing rhetoric.
SHARE Saturday, December 11, 2010 U.S. Surgeon General Strikes Again
Is the US Surgeon General a member of the Dioxin Denial Society, or the Chlorine Industry Protection Alliance?
SHARE Thursday, November 4, 2010 Update On National & Global Nov 9 Mumia Actions
A Federal Court hearing will take place Nov 9 in Philadelphia to decide between death or life in prison for Mumia Abu-Jamal. Neither of those "choices" is remotely acceptable. The whole world is watching this.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 4, 2010 How Smoking Bans Serve the Corporatocracy
Those who believe that mainstream media, and corporate-allied public officials, are on Our Side, or are Remotely on the Left, might think again.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, June 4, 2010 U.S. Medical Science Corrupted By Chlorine Cartel
All, not just some, of the mainstream health and science agencies and businesses and related organizations pretend to not know what a cigarette actually is. This serves the interests of industrial chemical interests, primarily chlorine, over the vital health needs of people.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 27, 2009 Health IN$URANCE
The current health insurance bills are con jobs....of, for, and by the Insurance Industry.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 12, 2009 How The Left Serves the Corporatocracy
It may be impossible, noting the trillions of dollars at stake, that Insurance Industry PR agents have not created fake "universal health care" groups etc. It's hard to tell if any such groups are legit. But, by their ineffectiveness, by their repetition of the word "affordable, by their lack of fruit, shall you know them.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 5, 2009 Reject the CORPORATE OPTION for National Health Care
No one, progressive or conservative, would vote for or in any way support Private Insurance Control of the country's health program if they knew just a bit more about the private insurance industry.
Who's in charge here? Not we, the people...yet.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, September 7, 2009 Health Care Cartoons
It helps to know who, or what, private insurers really are. One must know the enemy.
Question is...Do you know where YOUR health insurer invests what was supposed to be your health care money?
SHARE Monday, September 7, 2009 Health Care Cartoons II
More cartoons on the Health Care issue...remembering the advice: Sometimes you gotta draw a picture.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 21, 2009 Why The FDA "Tobacco Control" Act is Bad Law
The recently-enacted law giving the FDA power to "control tobacco"---but not the deadliest parts of typical cigarettes---is bad law. It may sound wholesome, progressive and even "green", but a loot at the details shows otherwise.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 16, 2009 Should Obama Sign Tobacco Bill?
Illegitimate Law is inevitably sold as "for the kids" or "for our safety". Who can then be against the "kids" or "safety"?
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 5, 2009 The Pesticide Industry Protection and Dioxin-Ignoring Act
The current push to have the FDA "regulate tobacco"...risks of inhaling any particulate matter from any kind of smoke notwithstanding...is a descendant of Reefer Madness cannabis Prohibition of another public-domain natural plant...and for the benefit of the same chemical, oil, chlorine, etc industries. It's not For Our Health, as they put on the label.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 19, 2009 Current U.S. Health System a Success
From the corporate point of view, the US health system is a big success...for some reasons that are rarely mentioned.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 13, 2009 FDA To Promote Increased Smoking
The FDA, packed to the hilt with representatives of the very industries that thoroughly contribute to cigarette adulterants, is to "regulate tobacco".
The Ku Klux Klan could better regulate Civil Rights.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 9, 2009 Big Dioxin's Assaults on Smokers and Health Policies
Based on searches at the site of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, it becomes clear that this prominent supposed health advocate organization is part and parcel of the health-damaging industrial system.
SHARE Tuesday, February 3, 2009 "Fire Safe" Means Not Fire Safe
..."fire safe" does not mean fire-safe. Philip Morris...says "There is no "fire-safe" cigarette."
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 22, 2009 Pesticide Industry War On Mothers
A look at how evidence of the harms of industrial toxins and carcinogens is stolen, in this case, specifically in the area of mothers and children.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Our Stolen Evidence...Against the Pesticide/Dioxin Cartel
The supposedly wholesome anti tobacco crusade is not what it seems. For just one thing, just about every disease known to be caused by pesticides and dioxin are now blamed on "smoking"...though no plant, even tobacco, is capable of causing such a plague. This is a theft of evidence against the industrial chemical industries. It is a global scale evasion of PR disasters and liabilities, and criminal charges.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Private Insurance Is Incompatible With Public Health
Some basic, but undiscussed, health insurance points to raise with presidential candidates, media, and others in this "campaign season".