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Only 1 in 3 who want H1N1 shot can find it

Only about a third of adults who have tried to get a swine flu vaccine have been able to get it, according to a new national poll... more

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Half of U.S. kids will receive food stamps

Half of American kids will live in households receiving food stamps before age 20, according to a study reported Monday in... more

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90% Of Black Children Will Be On Food Stamps

Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and... more

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How Goldman Sachs secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash

In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages,... more

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9 banks fail in 1 day; $2.5 billion hit to FDIC insurance fund

Federal regulators have shut the doors on part of a small banking empire built by a string of 28 acquisitions over the past two... more

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Welpoint CEO Braley Called Out for her $1.8 Million Salary and Welpoint's $91 Billion

Protesters in San Francisco rally for healthcare, not wealthcare.

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Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own

Regional telco TDS Telecommunications last week issued a press release announcing a major milestone for the company: 50Mbps... more

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FOX News is on a Witch Hunt

FOX News is on a witch hunt, aimed at destroying the Obama administration and the progressive movement. Theyve already succeeded... more

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Shiloh Pepin passes at 10 Years Old

Shiloh Pepin, a girl who was born with fused legs, a rare condition often called "mermaid syndrome," and gained a wide... more

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Rape in the Ranks Film: Effectively Banned in the US

A French filmmaker made a documentary on women in the military routinely raped. The film cannot get distribution in the US but will be screened in New York this week (note the news video above is not related to the film). More from http://IVAW.org/membersspeak/rape-ranks below:
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French filmmaker Pascale Bourgaux spent one month travelling in the U.S. in 2007 interviewing women raped in the U.S. military. Her documentary "Rape in the Ranks" has been shown on European TV but not in the U.S.

The documentary was selected for the New York Independent Film Festival and will be shown Monday evening, October 26 at 5:45pm at the City Cinema East, 181 2d Ave, NYC.
Following the showing of "Rape in the Ranks", we will have a panel to discuss rape in the US military at the Telephone Bar and Grill, 149 2nd Ave (212-529-5000).
See http://nyfilmvideo.info/2009-new-york-october-film-schedule-tickets/monday-october-26th-film-schedule-tickets-scree-2.htm

Filmmaker Pascale Bourgaux is available for interviews. Her telephone is 212-982-0684 and 646-2638402
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It is hard to find anything about this film on the net. Not even on IMDB. Is that because it's French? Is it because perhaps military operatives have made sure nothing gets publicized? I'm just asking.

Here is a synopsis a reader located (http://current.com/1fv8i4c):

Rape in the Ranks: The Enemy Within, 28 Minutes

They enlisted in the army, ready to lay down their lives for their country. They were trained to fight off with the enemy without... but not the enemy within. They weren’t raped by Iraqis or Afghanis, but by fellow American soldiers! Tina, Jessica, Suzanne and Stephanie are dual victims. After being raped by a fellow unit member they have been ignored by U.S. military officials. The Pentagon has acknowleged receiving 3,000 reports of sexual assault in 2006 alone. To counter the escalating problem, the Pentagon launched a rape prevention program in 2004. The number of reported sexual assaults has since skyrocketed, but not the number of convictions. Only 2% of accused rapists are ever brought before a court-martial. Very few women have been willing to speak out, but Tina, Jessica, Suzanne and Stephanie decided to stand up and openly talk about their ordeals. Unable to stand the nightmarish daily rapes by her commander in Iraq, 21-year-old Suzanne refused to report back for mission. She was brought before a court-martial. 25-year-old Jessica was raped in the U.S. and Korea, yet still dreams of going back to active service and seeing her attackers brought to justice. Stephanie has come to regret never reporting her own rape and perpetuating the law of silence. 20-year-old Tina, who was raped in Iraq, is no longer around to recount her nightmare. She supposedly “killed herself.” Her mother claims she was murdered. This report tells the story of their pain, revolt, and uphill battle for justice.
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Visit the Stop War Project: http://stopwar.lafilmonline.comA French filmmaker made a documentary on women in the military routinely raped. The film cannot get distribution in the US but... more

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The Magic Paint Roller

"In an effort to establish new platforms for public art and performance, the multimedia duo SWEATSHOPPE has developed a new... more

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Hire the Autistic

Did you ever wonder why rainman with all his amazing math and logic skills couldn't get a real job and be a productive member... more

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Getting the Guys to Help

In a bold new strategy, women’s rights advocates in Africa are using clever, non-confrontational techniques to win power for women. It’s all about getting the men on board by convincing them equality is in their own interest.

For activists focused on women’s rights in Africa, this fall brought a whirlwind of conflicting news. First, the devastating: On Sept. 28 in Guinea, during protests against the ruling military junta, masses of women were publicly assaulted and raped by government forces. The sexual violence, which took place at a sports stadium in the coastal capital city, Conakry, echoed that of other conflict around the world. But this time, images of the stripped, humiliated women were captured on cellphone cameras and distributed internationally, resulting in a Page One New York Times exposé.

A week later, across the continent in Somalia, came a human rights victory. Fourteen villages in the country’s northeast Puntland region publicly vowed to abandon female genital mutilation, declaring the Koran does not require the procedure. Two thousand people, including local village chiefs and religious leaders, attended the ceremony to announce the policy change, which was the culmination of a two-year education effort by women’s rights organizations.

At the center of both these stories is an undeniable, yet uncomfortable truth: The fate of women in traditional societies is often in the hands of men. It is men who perpetrate sexual and domestic violence, and men who have a stranglehold on political power in societies obsessed with sexual chastity and obedience. Women’s rights activists have learned that without the support of men there is little hope for empowering African women. Since the 1990s, a number of advocacy groups have developed sophisticated strategies for pursuing feminist aims through non-threatening outreach to men, eschewing the sort of Western paternalism that, in past decades, allowed local opinion leaders to brand opponents of female genital mutilation and proponents of family planning as latter-day colonialists, to be resisted by right-thinking Africans.

The idea that it is men’s duty to protect “weak” women is deeply ingrained, but activists have found they can use this to their advantage.

More @ linkIn a bold new strategy, women’s rights advocates in Africa are using clever, non-confrontational techniques to win power for... more

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Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License By Louisiaiana Judge

Marriage equality activists pushing for a repeal of DOMA and the legalization of same sex marriage frequently point to our ugly... more

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16-year-old headmaster teaches hundreds of kids

Babar Ali is, quite possibly, the youngest headmaster in the world and, again, quite possibly, the only one to teach pupils in... more

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Piano Stairs

We believe that the easiest way to change people's behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory.

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Credit Card Reward Points: The Real Deal

An interesting graphic on the topic from mint.com.

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Public Option: Obama's Health Insurance Jobs Program

President Obama recently mentioned at a town hall on health care reform that he didn't support a single payer system because it would be too disruptive. He didn't explain what he meant by disruptive but industry professionals assume he refers to health insurance industry management and employees who would become jobless in short order under a single payer system. It's not clear if management outnumbers other employees.

Obama is keeping these insurance industry jobs on as part of the government public option plan to persist health insurance industry control over people's health care. Even without a public option, insurance companies stand to have an even better stake in the health care market. The future looks bright for health care insurance employees who will be able to continue their never ending thankless job of denying health claims to people in need of medical care.

The 45,000 people who die every year due to lack of health care and from denial of insurance as well as the 14,000 daily who lose their health insurance are apparently forsaken for the few hundred thousand jobs in the health insurance industry. What's a few hundred thousand lives and disrupted families every few years to as many well fed well paid industry office workers' jobs? We need to have at least one or two industries that continue to make record profits while the rest of us face financial ruin.

The move by Obama is in line with America's ongoing shift toward corporate welfare socialism. The U.S. is the only industrialized nation that does not have a single payer type system to ensure all it's citizens have health care and have healthy productive lives. It's not certain if this fact is the symptom or the result of America slipping into the list of third world countries where 5% or less of the population control 95% or more of the country's wealth and power. America is no longer considered a democracy by most people who understand the meaning of the term. We are at best an oligarchy, with our government under corporate control by the wealthy few.

In light of America's failure to deliver health care, despite our advanced technology (only available to the very rich here) we now rank 37th in the world in health care. France is number one.

My suggestion is that Americans stop buying health insurance if they can avoid it. Vote with your wallet. That's the only thing these people understand.
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This video is a clip from a longer film currently in production. The title of this clip is based on Dr. Susie Baldwin's reaction to Obama's statement that a Single Payer system would be too disruptive, as seen in this video. So blame her for it.

Much of this video was shot at the recent Mad as Hell Doctors' rally in Hollywood last week. Special thanks to Dr. Jo Olson, Dr. Susie Baldwin, Dr. Paul Panacek, Dr. Nikki Mihara, and Dr. Horace Williams for their participation.

This video also on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uLHn_V3hSw
See more on this project or join us at http://outinthestreetfilms.comPresident Obama recently mentioned at a town hall on health care reform that he didn't support a single payer system because... more