On Loud and Clear, I heard just now that Obama has just bought a 12 million
dollar estate on Martha's Vineyard.
On the Rolling Stone Useful Idiots podcast I was reminded by the individual
being interviewed, that the House approved compromise bill on pharmaceutical
costs, is a giveaway to the pharmaceutical companies. The bill should have
required government discounts on all medications for Medicare and Medicaid
recipients. Instead, it is supposedly a compromise with 35 drugs and then a
ten year wait before any more discounts. 25 or 35 medications is a tiny
percentage of those being sold so basically, the industry is now protected
from any further action on pricing for at least 10 years.
On Loud and Clear, Peter Kuznick, who wrote The Untold History of the United
States with Oliver Stone, explained how the US supported extremist Muslims
in Afghanistan during the Carter administration, in order to induce the
Russians to attack Afghanistan so that Russia would be bogged down in an
unwinnable war. Carter had good instincts at first, but was convinced by
Brazinski. The motivation? The government in Afghanistan was socialist,
aligned with Russia.
Miriam
