[NukeNet] Kucinich: Nuke Power, N-Weapons, "Free" Press

[Bill Smirnow]

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Subject: [abolition-caucus] Save Democracy: Supportt Inclusion of Kucinich
in all debates!!


Dear Friends,

It's just an outrage that Dennis Kucinich was kept out of the Iowa debate on
health care, when he's the only one arguing for a single payer, not for
profit health care system of all the candidates---and adding insult to
injury-the debate is "sponsored" on Public Television by AARP, which nets
millions from the private insurers, etcetera, ad nauseum.  Whether you
support Kucinich or not, we must stand for free and fair debate with all
points of views expressed, particularly on our PUBLIC AIRWAVES and on our
Public TV.   How dare we let the corporations hijack the health care debate
and keep America stupid about its options?  I  propose that whoever you are
supporting for president, you still send letters to PBS, AARP, editors,  and
money to Kucinich at http://www.dennis4president.com/home/    Keeping him in
the race will keep the other candidates more honest.   They want to gag him
so they don't have to take a stand on our positions.  The most disgusting
thing was Harkin's Bar-BQ in Iowa where Dennis was excluded.  Of course, he'
s the ONLY candidate who DOES NOT support the harebrained ethanol scheme to
make corporations rich while we burn food for fuel, using lots of carbon as
well, and not using those resources for sun, wind, geothermal, tidal,
hydrogen fuel cells, as Dennis advocates in his Public Works Green Program.
The Republicrats, including Harkin, are slobbering at the corporate trough
to get in on the government funded ethanol bonanza!!  Now that Edwards has
taken a half step in calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons, let's
hope that with Dennis in the race we can get Edwards to stop his
enthusiastic support for the evil twin of nuke bombs, nuke reactors, which
he would recklessly spread around the world, driven by commercial greed and
an awful disregard for the consequences.  Since today's NY Times wrote about
the foreign money that the highest poll-rated Democrats and Republicans are
amassing, I am sending this message across the globe.  Please know that in
America, only Dennis Kucinich is on the record in suppor of the elimination
of nuclear weapons and reliance on clean safe energy as well as a Department
of Peace, the peaceful use of a space, and a commitment to end preemptive
war as US policy.  Anyone can support him!
http://www.dennis4president.com/home/
Alice





Published on Thursday, September 20, 2007 by CommonDreams.org

AARP To Kucinich: Drop Dead

by Russell Mokhiber

AARP President Bill Novelli is a company man.

No, the company is not AARP.

Novelli doesn't give a damn about AARP or its 38 million members.

If he did, he wouldn't be selling down them down river by opposing a single
payer system that would benefit not just AARP members, but everyone in the
country.

Novelli doesn't give a damn about the health of the nation.

What he cares about are the health insurance companies.

Novelli - a founder of the giant Porter Novelli corporate public relations
firm - jumped to AARP in 2000.

But he never shed his corporate skin.

Case in point?

On Thursday night, AARP will host a debate in Iowa on the issue of health
care.

Republicans and Democrats running for President will attend.

Of all of the Democrats and Republicans in the race, guess who is the only
one who would put the Novelli's buddies in the health insurance industry out
of business?

Guess who is the only candidate among the Democrats and Republicans who
would create a Canadian-style single payer, everybody in, nobody out, no
deductibles, no co-pays, no in-network, no out-of-network, streamlined
system that would save billions of dollars in administrative costs, deliver
a higher quality health care system, and cover everyone?

Yes.

And guess who was not invited to confront Novelli's corporate brotherhood of
profit and death?

You guessed it.

Congressman Dennis Kucinich.

Why?

Well, Kucinich would put out of business Novelli's corporate support
system - including United Healthcare and Aetna.

Earlier this year, both these health care industry giants signed a contract
with AARP that will net AARP a cool $4.4 billion over seven years.

Kucinich said that AARP sponsorship of the Presidential forum "is like
having Haliburton or Blackwater sponsor a Presidential forum on doing away
with no-bid government contracts to private contractors - or an oil company
sponsoring a forum on reducing the world's dependence on oil."

"Millions of trusting AARP members have bought Medicare-supplemental and
prescription drug insurance plans from AARP, believing that they were
getting a good deal," Kucinich said. "It turns out, however, that AARP is
taking a $4 billion cut by steering its members to profiteering private
insurance companies trying to capitalize on fear and confusion."

"The fact that Senators Clinton, Obama, and former Senator Edwards are
pushing plans to keep the for-profit private insurers in business and in
control may explain why they are willing to participate in this fake and
tainted debate," Kucinich said.

Kucinich also questioned the decision by Iowa Public Television to televise
the Presidential forum and simulcast it to other PBS stations in other
states.

"Profit-driven and politics-driven media conglomerates are controlling what
we see on TV and what we hear on the radio. Public broadcasting should
represent a higher, more ethical standard. In this case, public broadcasting
will shamefully promote private interests."

We're all getting old.

But we don't have to all join AARP.

If your not a member yet, don't join.

If you are a member, call Novelli and tell him to take a hike.

Then sign on with any Presidential candidate who supports single payer.

Russell Mokhiber is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Crime
Reporter.

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