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WikiLeaks: uses the internet to publish secret documents that someone thought should be made public. Why do we not know what our government is really doing ?

The Life You Can Save A call to action and a book by Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton.

Doubleday just released Bill Moyer’s new book entitled “Moyers On Democracy.” An excerpt from it is printed here; it ends with this paragraph:

Ban Cluster Bombs

111 nations gathered recently to ban horrific weapons known as cluster bombs, the United States was conspicuously absent. Once again, President Bush came down on the wrong side of international peace.

These bombs are one of the most disgusting practices that the U.S. military engages in, and it kills children.

The next President could change that. I've asked Obama, McCain and the rest to do the right thing and sign the ban. Will you join me by asking them, too? It only takes a minute...

Cluster bombs are designed to open in mid-air, dispersing hundreds of smaller ?bomblets.? The resulting blasts kill indiscriminately, spraying over an area roughly the size of three football fields. Approximately 30% of ordnance from each bomb will fail to explode on impact, creating virtual minefields that will kill and maim innocent civilians for decades to come--many of them children.

One US commander reportedly refused to use cluster munitions in Iraq, citing mortal danger to his troops. If knowledgeable soldiers are at risk, what will be the fate of an 8-year-old child who, indulging her natural inclination to explore, stumbles upon a small, colorful metal ball in the sand?

111 nations, representing 2/3 of the world's population have acted. Thousands of Americans are encouraging the next President to do what's right and sign the ban. Join us...

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CVS Quits US Chamber of Commerce Over 'Craven' Ties to Tobacco Industry (7/8/2015)

Not My Chamber Members of the US Chamber of Commerce are hard right-wing Republicans. Don't do business with them.

INSURERS FUNDED CHAMBER ATTACK ADS , reports National Journal’s Peter Stone: “Just as dealings with the Obama administration and congressional Democrats soured last summer, six of the nation's biggest health insurers began quietly pumping big money into third-party television ads aimed at killing or significantly modifying the major health reform bills moving through Congress. That money, between $10 million and $20 million, came from Aetna, Cigna, Humana, Kaiser Foundation Health Plans, UnitedHealth Group and Wellpoint, according to two health care lobbyists familiar with the transactions. The companies are all members of the powerful trade group America's Health Insurance Plans. The funds were solicited by AHIP and funneled to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to help underwrite tens of millions of dollars of television ads by two business coalitions set up and subsidized by the chamber. Each insurer kicked in at least $1 million and some gave multimillion-dollar donations. ‘There's no question that AHIP has quietly solicited monies from their members which were funneled over to the chamber for their ads,’ said a source. The total donated by the health insurers, according to one estimate, was as much as one-quarter of the chamber's total health care advertising budget. A spokesman for Kaiser said it contributed funds to AHIP last year for positive ads on health care reform, and that AHIP has told the insurer that none of its monies were sent to the chamber.”

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