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My ongoing theme is always the truth , as I see it , and the exposure of lies, deception and manipulation wherever they exist. I remain firmly convinced that the world can no longer resist its innate urge to unite and co-operate with one another and we are very close to the point where war can no longer be an option if this transformation is to occur. Website: allenroland.com Email: allen@allenroland.com
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Monday, November 09, 2009

 

COCO BEFORE CHANEL / MY REVIEW

Coco Avant Chanel Movie Poster Banned in Paris 

This Parisian movie poster was banned in Paris because Tautou was pictured smoking a cigarette.

Audrey Tautou's fierce performance as Coco Chanel is a must see tour de force for two reasons ~ she fully captures an ambitious emotionally damaged  woman who uses love to eventually claim her gift and, in the process, illuminates the true intent of love: Allen L Roland

I went to see this film with no expectations but was more than pleasantly surprised. The film, as the title suggests, depicts the early life of a woman who probably became the single most important figure in 20th century fashion ~ but writer and director Anne Fontaine artfully creates a touching story within that story that stands by itself as a testament to the will and courage of the truly gifted among us.

All of us are emotionally damaged in childhood, as Coco most certainly was as an orphaned young child, but not all of us have the courage and will to rise above that carnage and capture our original joy, intention and purpose. 

Fontaine, perhaps unconsciously, captures that journey which almost always coincides with the heart's journey ~ for each of Coco's love relationships end up helping and eventually support her deep unfolding desire to make a statement in the world of fashion.

There is a lesson here ~ for the true path of the heart should always eventually lead to the full and honest expression of yourself and your gift ~ as Coco's most certainly does.

A.O Scott, N.Y. Times, calls the film " An unusually vivid and convincing account of the historical past, composed in the present sense. Though its moods and methods are different, Coco before Chanel  shares with Jane Campion's Bright Star a fascination, at once intense and dispassionate, with the lives of women in earlier centuries...Coco and Fanny Brawne, the heroine of Ms. Campion's film, are not victims of oppression or paragons of resistance but rather individuals, made not of ideology or wishful thinking but of flesh and blood."

And that is precisely my point in this reviewfor Tautou's Coco is all flesh and blood playful and difficult, chain-smoking and sarcastic, trusting and wary, vulnerable and hard but underneath it all ticks a burning ambition and a song to sing.

Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/11/09.html

Freelance Online columnist Allen L Roland is available for commentsinterviews and speaking engagements ( allen@allenroland.com )   

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com   He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net 

 

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Saturday, November 07, 2009

 

HUBBLE ULTRA DEEP FIELD   REVEALS UNIFIED FIELD / VIDEO   

This high-resolution image of the HUDF includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colors. The smallest, reddest galaxies, about 10,000, are some of the most distant galaxies to have been imaged by an optical telescope ~ existing at the time shortly after the big bang.

The Hubble ultra deep field not only reveals billions of galaxies, like ours, but more importantly it reveals  the strong force or Asymptotic Freedom ~ which is the glue holding the universe as well as the subatomic world together. It is also the Unified Field : Allen L Roland  

This Hubble ultra deep space photo is the deepest image of the universe ever taken, looking back approximately 13 billion years, and it was used to search for galaxies that existed between 400 and 800 million years after the Big Bang. This  HUDF image was taken in a section of the sky with a low density of bright stars in the near-field, allowing much better viewing of dimmer, more distant objects. The image contains an estimated 10,000 galaxies. 

Remember, We are talking about Galaxies here ~ not Stars. For your information, there are over 400 billion stars in our own Galaxy and we are attached to one of them. Our sun star completes one cycle around our own Galaxy every 200 million years.

On March 28th of 2009 I wrote  THE BIG BANG, ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM AND THE UNIFIED FIELD in which I posited that as the Universe expands it is, in reality, feeling an increasing innate urge to unite.  http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/03/28.html 

In that regard, Science will surely remain one-eyed and lacking in depth-perception until it acknowledges the equal validity of subjective, sensory and spiritual experience in its findings.  And it will continue to record the letter of mere mechanics, and miss the true spirit that brings it all to life, until it comes to recognize the universal urge to unite ~ even within the molecule itself ~ as being the universal attractive force of love. 

As such, the one constant of the universe can no longer be light at 186,000 miles per second for even light particles are subject to Asymptotic freedom or the force field of love ~ this driving urge to unite ( Unified Field ) which exists not only beyond time and space but also deepest within ourselves.  Thus, we are all united and part of a loving and indivisible whole and we resist this universal pull at our peril.

We are rapidly reaching the point in our evolution of consciousness where psychology, science and religion are all becoming aware of the growing need for a radical empiricism ~ or a deeper way of experiencing things starting with ourselves.  

Let me use the findings of the recent Nobel Prize winning researchers, Politzer, Gross and Wilczek, to prove my point. They won the 2004 Nobel prize in physics for their studies of the " strong Force " ~ the powerful and mysterious energy that holds the nuclei of atoms together.

They explained the mystifying qualities of the strong force, which holds together the fundamental building blocks of nature, called QUARKS, to form protons and neutrons ~ two of the basic components of atoms.

Now, this is when it gets really interesting.

Independently, they developed the theory and the mathematical equations to show that Quarks are held together by the strong force  ~  which, unlike any other force in the universe, gets stronger as the quarks get farther apart ~ a concept now known as "Asymptotic Freedom ".

The simplest analogy is to a rubber band encircling two objects. When the objects are close together, the rubber band fits loosely. But as they are drawn apart, the rubber band stretches, trying to pull them back together.

Now, here is my take on these findings as applied to my Unified field of Love and Soul Consciousness.

The strong force in the atom is the urge to unite which is the principle property of my Unified Field. It is the same urge to unite that Bose and Einstein found when they discovered that photons (light particles) have a tendency to travel together versus act randomly ~ which eventually led to the discovery of the laser.

It is also the same urge to unite that Teilhard de Chardin speaks of when he wrote ~ If there were no real propensity to unite , even at a prodigiously rudimentary level, indeed, in the molecule itself ~ it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up in the ' hominized ' or human form.

It is also the same urge to unite that loved ones feel when they are separated from each other ~ and the further apart the stronger the pull to be back together ~ even from beyond time and space and even lifetimes for that matter as I most certainly feel with my beloved Keiko.  

Now wouldn't it make sense that Galaxies would be affected by this same asymptotic freedom as they move away from each other as those quarks are feeling in the depths of the sub atomic world ? So the strong force in the atom is operating in deep space keeping the galaxies together like it also operates in keeping the nuclei of atoms together. 

Breathtaking isn't to realize that a force field operating deepest within our own molecular structure is also operating and has been operating since the Big Bang in the deepest regions of space.

In fully opening my heart, not only have I discovered the Unified Field of love and soul consciousness but I have gained access to the Universe ~ for in seeing through my heart I can see and feel my oneness with the Universe. But I actually have accessed a universal state of love and soul consciousness which I once knew as a very young and innocent child.

As Mafouz once wrote ~ When the heart achieves its desire, you shall transcend time and space ~ and my heart's desire has always been to love so deeply that I would become a fragment of life's heart.

As such, the strong force in the atom is the Unified Field ~ the basic attractive force of the universe which thrillingly exists in the world of the atom as well as in deep space ~ and this is the truth that shall set everything ablaze. 

It was Teilhard de Chardin, the explorer of the soul whose life's work was the reinterpretation of Christianity in the light of evolution, who wrote in his last unpublished work " Le Christique " ( The Promised Land ) of the inevitable consequences when love was identified as the most primal and universal psychic energy ~  " Sooner or later there will be a chain reaction ~ for the truth has to appear only once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze. "

Now watch this four minute video othe Hubble ultra deep field and realize, as I have, that only love can connect us to both the vastness of the Universe and the unknown subatomic world of the atom ~ which should make us all feel far less insignificant as well as deeply connected.  http://www.flixxy.com/Hubble-ultra-deep-field-3d.htm  

Perhaps it's really as simple as this quote by William Blake ~ We are put on Earth a little space to bear the beams of love.

Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/11/07.html

Freelance Online columnist Allen L Roland is available for commentsinterviews and speaking engagements ( allen@allenroland.com )   

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com   He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net 


 

Allen Roland’s weblog: http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/
Website: www.allenroland.com
ONLY THE TRUTH IS REVOLUTIONARY


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Friday, November 06, 2009

 

36 HOUSE MEMBERS DEFEND GOLDSTONE REPORT / 344  CONDEMN IT

In what has to be the most blatant act of allegiance to AIPAC versus their constituencies ~ the House of Representatives denounced the balanced and responsible Goldstone Gaza war crimes Report 344 to 36 despite the fact that every Israeli human rights NGO denounced the Gaza war and supports the Goldstone Report : Allen L Roland

Despite the fact that a Rasmussen poll during the Gaza war found 55% of Americans opposed it and only 33% supported it ~  344 spineless members of  Congress followed the money, sold their souls to AIPAC ( American Israel Public Affairs Committee ) and their generous pro-Israel campaign contributions and condemned a truly balanced and responsible UN Report by the highly respected Judge Richard Goldstone. 

Goldstone, both a Jew and a Zionist, rightfully condemned Israel's policy of collective punishment of a people under effective occupation, destroying their means to live a dignified life as well as the trauma caused by the kind of military intervention the Israeli government called Operation Cast Lead.  http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/10/29.html

With that in mind Bill Moyers had a classic 20 minute must see interview with Dr Goldstone last week which was fair, impartial and most revealing ~ because Goldstone comes across as extremely fair in his analysis as well as honest and meticulous in his findings.

Here's the video and transcript ~ http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10232009/watch.html

This is another classic example of how America's Congress only answers to special interest groups ( such as AIPAC ) and Wall Street Corporate Lobbyists ~ while ignoring the wishes, desires and feelings of Main Street America.

These obviously biased Lawmakers approved a non-binding resolution that called the Goldstone report  “irredeemably biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy.”

The symbolic measure also urges President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “to strongly and unequivocally oppose” any discussion of the report or action on its findings in any international setting ( such as the UN )

What a blatant sellout ! 

Congressman Kucinich rightfully stated: "Today we journey from Operation Cast Lead to Operation Cast Doubt. Almost as serious as committing war crimes is covering up war crimes, pretending that war crimes were never committed and did not exist ... Because behind every such deception is the nullification of humanity, the destruction of human dignity, the annihilation of the human spirit, the triumph of Orwellian thinking, the eternal prison of the dark heart of the totalitarian."  ( Video / 2 minutes  )     http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23899.htm

Those that voted against this resolution are to be congratulated and they were:

Baird
Baldwin
Blumenauer
Boustany
Capps
Carson (IN)
Clarke
Clay
Davis (KY)
Dingell
Doggett
Edwards (MD)
Ellison
Filner
Grijalva
Hinchey
Johnson, E. B.
Kilpatrick (MI)
Kucinich
Lee (CA)
Lynch
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
Miller, George
Moran (VA)
Olver
Pastor (AZ)
Paul
Price (NC)
Rahall
Snyder
Stark
Waters
Watt
Woolsey (CA)  My representative

As Tikun Olam correctly writes ~ " The Goldstone Report seeks to end Israeli impunity.  It seeks to bring international law to bear on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  It seeks to place limits and constraints on Israeli behavior during war.  This is a struggle on which the IDF, the Israel lobby, and U.S. Congress are on the losing side of history. This is not Congress’ finest hour " http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2009/11/04/house-denounces-goldstone-baird-courageously-dissents/

The time has now come for Independents to form a third party, which will truly reflect the will of the people, and make its presence dramatically felt before the 2010 mid-term elections.

Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/11/06.html

Freelance Online columnist Allen L Roland is available for commentsinterviews and speaking engagements ( allen@allenroland.com )   

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com   He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net 

 


 

Allen Roland’s weblog: http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/
Website: www.allenroland.com
ONLY THE TRUTH IS REVOLUTIONARY


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Wednesday, November 04, 2009

 

READ FINE PRINT IN HEALTH CARE REFORM PLAN

 

Read the fine print in the 2000 page Health Care Reform Plan. That's about 400,000 words and with an estimated 10-year cost of $894 billion, that comes out to about $2.24 million per word. Be forewarned ~ hidden in its legalese are huge payoffs for the too big to fail Insurance Industrial complex: Allen L Roland

Take the time to read the fine print of this monstrosity and be prepared for sticker shock. Here's an example courtesy of Julie Applebee, Kaiser Health news. FINANCE BILL'S FINE PRINT MAY CAUSE STICKER SHOCK FOR SOME CONSUMERS ~ which appears to be the old political bait and switch.
 
Excerpt:   "  The first year the legislation would take effect, people getting subsidized coverage would be required to pay from 2 to 12 percent of their incomes for insurance. The government would pick up the rest of the tab. People with lower incomes would pay less and those with higher incomes more. But in the second year, it changes. From then on, it is based on a percentage of the premium that was paid the first year, no matter how far premiums rise. For years, health insurance premiums have risen faster than wages, and the trend is expected to continue.  "People are going to have to keep paying more and more,” says Judith Solomon, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan Washington research group that looked at the effect in a recent paper. "  http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2009/October/29/Premiums.aspx

So here's how it is suppose to play out ~ Obama gets his severely depleted Health Care Reform Bill , which doesn't take effect until 2013, but just in time for the mid-term and Presidential elections and the Insurance Industrial Complex gets its pound of flesh bailout but the American taxpayers don't get what they really wanted ~ Single Pay Health Insurance.

Dennis Kucinich summed up this injustice on the House floor yesterday ~ as he fought for the right of States to secure a single payer plan.

" Even though insurance companies make money not providing health care, the so-called reform bill gives so much power and money to the insurance companies that we are giving far too much for the few benefits which the bill may confer ... For example ~ The Insurance companies get at least another 26 million customers, they will receive at least an extra $ 50 billion in new revenue and, get this, they will be able to raise premiums 25%, even though in each of the last four consecutive years the industry has raised premiums by double digits."

So here we go again, Wall Street got bailed out by TARP and the Insurance weasels will be bailed out by the Health Care Reform Plan HCRP and who, once again, did not get what they wanted but is footing the bill ~ the American taxpayer.  Once again, it will be a victory for Wall Street's too big to fail and a defeat for Main Street's too small to matter 

Read the fine print and support the Kucinich Amendment (H.R. 676) which must be put back in the health care bill, not just to protect the rights of states to pursue single payer, but to protect the rights of consumers to be free of the economic death grip of the insurance companies.

You can also urge your Senators and Representatives to support the Single Payer Health Plan (H.R. 676) by signing this petition:
http://www.democrats.com/single-payer-petition 

Allen L Roland                      http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/11/04.html

Freelance Online columnist Allen L Roland is available for commentsinterviews and speaking engagements ( allen@allenroland.com )   
 
Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com   He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net 
 
Cartoon courtesy of Tom Toles / Washington Post

 

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ONLY THE TRUTH IS REVOLUTIONARY


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Monday, November 02, 2009

 

WALL STREET CRIME SYNDICATE  / GOLDMAN SACHS EXPOSED 

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Greg Gordon, McClatchy News Investigative reporter, reveals how Goldman Sachs didn't tell buyers of 40 Billion in toxic Mortgage securities that it was secretly betting the other way ~ standard fare for a Wall Street crime syndicate that is about to become exposed : Allen L Roland

As I have said for some time, it's an Oligarchy, folks ~ the tyranny of the elites with government and Wall Street ruled by the powerful few ~ and  the Obama administration is part of it. 

In other words, Wall Street is the only game in town and it's crooked ! Ben Bernanke is a stooge for the Oligarchy along with former NY Fed chief and present Sec of the Treasury ~ Tim Geithner. http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/09/21.html

Here is Greg Gordon's, McClatchy News, detailed article on how Goldman Sach's scammed the system by selling toxic mortgages that they knew were not being reviewed ~ and then secretly bet the other way with high flying derivativeshttp://www.truthout.org/1101095

But better yet listen to the highly respected Gerald Celente, who pulls no punches, announce that the political system is failing the America people and that the Banks ( Oligarchy ) are robbing us blind " Worldwide we are being set up for the greatest Depression and here, in the United States, it will be called Obamageddon." 
 
Here is Celente's must see video interview ~
Gerald Celente on King World News | Part 1/4
 
If you're not outraged, you're on life support. As Celente predicts ~ watch for the formation of an angry Progressive / Libertarian third party before the mid-term elections in 2010 and I'll be an active participant. 
 
Allen L Roland           http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/11/02.html
 
Freelance Online columnist Allen L Roland is available for commentsinterviews and speaking engagements ( allen@allenroland.com )   
 
Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com   He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net 
 

 

Allen Roland’s weblog: http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/
Website: www.allenroland.com
ONLY THE TRUTH IS REVOLUTIONARY


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Sunday, November 01, 2009

 

WHY I DON'T TEXT MESSAGE 

 As I have told my friends ~ the reason I don't have a cell phone or text is because I like my privacy and enjoy being out of reach and in the moment wherever I am. It's refreshing, somehow the world survives and I apparently avoid accidents and brain tumors : Allen L Roland

LY   Love You

ROTFL   Rolling on the floor laughing

T2UL8R   Talk to you later

IHAHCAWTU  In hospital after having car accident while texting you  

AAW / NBB    Alive & Well   /  No broken bones    

IHNDE  I had near death experience

IHAVSETLBBTL  I heard a voice saying embrace the light by being the light

SMHND   Scratching my head in disbelief

TOH   Typing one-handed 

TFIA  The food is awful 

VSF  Very sad face  

YAA   Yet another acronym!   

NMTWD    No more texting while driving  

PCIW2HYV   Please call, I want to hear your voice 

GFN    Gone for now   

OMG / TW2DACSOMB  Oh my God / They want to do a cat scan on my brain 

 

 Allen L Roland          http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/11/01.html 

Freelance Online columnist Allen L Roland is available for commentsinterviews and speaking engagements ( allen@allenroland.com )   
 
Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com   He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net 

 

Allen Roland’s weblog: http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/
Website: www.allenroland.com
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Saturday, October 31, 2009

 

CAN A TRUE PUBLIC OPTION BE RAISED FROM THE DEAD ?

The Public Option, like Charley Brown's fictitious Great Pumpkin, keeps periodically rising from the dead to entice the public and scare conservative legislators and then disappears again Now it has become a great ' Bait and Switch ' scenario which so far has completely fooled the American Public ~ for the vast majority of most Americans will still not have access to a Public Option under its current costume: Allen L Roland

I'm so tired of Pelosi's so called 'Robust Public option'  and various other descriptions of a public option Health plan ~ when it's obvious America needs a single pay Medicare type public health plan but eventually will settle for a watered down version of a public option which was not the original actual "option" proposed in the Senate HELP Committee bill and HR 3200 but instead a Senate and House ' reform ' bill ~ which will be available only to about 30 million people, or about one American in ten and, get this, would apparently not be unavailable to the approximately 160 million people already covered through employers. 

As Carolyn Lochhead writes in SF Gate ~ " House and Senate bills limit the option to the smallest businesses and to individuals who cannot get insurance, or whose health care costs exceed 12.5 percent of their income. Even seven years into an overhaul, an estimated 90 percent of Americans, including nearly everyone who has employer-based coverage now, would be shut out of a public option."   Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/10/29/MNAL1ABCOT.DTL
 

It's the old Bait and switch fellow citizens ~ so be prepared to read the fine print before you buy into the long awaited Public Option ~ which may well be as real as Charley Brown's mystical great pumpkin. 

Kip Sullivan explains ~ 
BAIT AND SWITCH ON 'PUBLIC OPTION' FOOLING PUBLIC

Kip Sullivan, Physicians for a Public Health Plan ~  " The New York Times reported on Saturday, October 17, that Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) is warning his constituents that the "public option" is not going to be available to the great majority of Americans. No one who has actually read the Senate health committee's "reform" bill or the House "reform" bill disputes this. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the "option" will be available only to about 30 million people, or about one American in ten. As the Times put it (slightly inaccurately), the "option" in the Democrats' legislation "would be out of bounds to the approximately 160 million people already covered through employers."

Does the public understand this? According to Wyden, they don't. Wyden says his constituents are shocked when they are told the "option" will not be available to the vast majority of Americans. When he began informing his constituents about this truth last summer, "They nearly fell out of the bleachers," he said .  

I have written several papers warning the public that they have been the object of a "bait and switch" campaign by the leadership of the "option" movement. The "bait" in this campaign was the original version of the "option" promoted by Jacob Hacker. This version would have created an enormous public program that would have insured half the non-elderly population. Among several provisions of this first version of the "option" that would have ensured large size was one that said the "option" had to be available to all non-elderly Americans. The "switch" occurred when Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and three chairmen of House committees drafted legislation that would create a very small and weak "option."

After reading Wyden's warning, I examined over 50 polls to see if any pollsters had bothered to investigate the issue Wyden is raising. . . I discovered that the nation's best known polling firms have allowed themselves to be fooled. Pollsters are asking the public the wrong question. They are asking the public to comment on Hacker's original version of the "option" (the "bait"), not the actual "option" proposed in the Senate HELP Committee bill and HR 3200. Not surprisingly, the polls tell us very little about whether the public thinks the "option" will be available to everyone or to just a small minority. " http://prorev.com/2009/10/word_21.html

Why is this not a surprise to me or most Americans ? Because the vast majority of Americans know that Congress listens to special interest groups before they listen to their constituency ~ and then only when their election is at stake.

Next year is a mid-term election ~ so let's turn the tables and demand the truth and transparency regarding the so called Public Option. In summary ~  lost amid the ideological battle for a public option is a key overlooked fact ~ The vast majority of Americans would have no access to a public option even under its most expansive versions.

States should be free to create the best possible healthcare plans for their residents. If Congress gives States the right to "opt-in" or "opt-out" of a national "public option," it must also give States the right to "opt-in" to a State Single Payer plan.

Tell Congress the "Kucinich Amendment" must be included in a "Managers Amendment" to H.R. 3962 immediately. Pelosi will decide on Monday.
http://democrats.com/state-single-payer?cid=ZGVtczY1MzMzZGVtcw%3D%3D

Allen L Roland              http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/10/31.html

Freelance Online columnist Allen L Roland is available for commentsinterviews and speaking engagements ( allen@allenroland.com )   
 
Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com   He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net 

 


 

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