U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio, 10th District) questions Neil M. Barofsky, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), testifying before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, about interest payments made to banks that keep their TARP funds and other government (taxpayer) bailout money with the Federal Reserve, instead of making loans to struggling Americans (the original intent of the TARP, remember?) The Fed makes generous interest payments to the banks for "parking" their "excess reserves" at the Fed.

And guess who will end up paying for this "interest" given to the banks, and everything else? That's right, you and me, John and Jane Q. Suckers!! The dumb, fat sheep!

By the way, Neil M. Barofsky is a good guy here -- don't beat up on him. He's in immediate danger of losing his job (if not his life) becauses he's revealing too many of the Temple's dark secrets. Barofsky deserves our full support.

You can download Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) reports,testimonies and audits at sigtarp.gov. The July 20th, 2009 report, "SIGTARP Survey Demonstrates That Banks Can Provide Meaningful Information On Their Use Of TARP Funds," is esecially interesting and can be downloaded at: http://sigtarp.gov/reports/audit/2009/SIGTARP_Survey_Demonstrates_That_Banks_Can_Provide_Meaningfu_%20Information_On_Their_Use_Of_TARP_Funds.pdf

from: William Hughes

On Aug. 30, 2009, Delegate Karen Montgomery (D-Montgomery County, MD), a vigorous advocate of a Single Payer Healthcare system, spoke at a picnic event, in Wheaton, MD. It was sponsored by the Progressive Democrats of Montgomery County. Mike Hersh, its chair, served as the moderator of the affair. Del. Montgomery said that a new law, HB 487, aka “The Stealth Bill,” was recently enacted in Maryland. It will reveal to the citizens some shocking details about the “hidden” costs of the current, badly-flawed healthcare scheme. For example, she charged that it will help to expose the excessive compensations packages, some as high as “$9 and 10 million a year,” paid to the CEOs of some of the not-for-profit healthcare providers; along with how some of these institutions purchase expensive “yachts;” belong to luxurious “country clubs memberships;” and also retain fat cat “lobbyists” to work “to kill” real healthcare reform in this state and also in the country. Del. Montgomery underscored how these excessive, mostly hidden costs, not truly related to the dispensing of healthcare services, have been routinely passed on by the healthcare providers and/or the insurance companies on to the consumers to pay. For background, See: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7389278051530854476

from: William Hughes

On Sunday afternoon, Aug. 30, 2009, activist/author David Swanson discussed his new book: “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Prefect Union.” His remarks, excerpts which appear here, were made at an event, a picnic, sponsored by the “Progressive Democrats of Montgomery County.” It was held in Wheaton, Maryland, just north of the Washington, D.C. line. Swanson is the cofounder of the popular web site, afterdowningstreet.org For the balance of his national book tour schedule and how to get your hands on a copy of his tome, go here: http://www.davidswanson.org/node/2025 Swanson was introduced at the rally by Mike Hersh, Chair of the Progressive Democrats of Montgomery County.

NATIONAL SECURITY ALERT from Citizen Investigation Team on Vimeo.

Even scientists who helped develop the vaccine say they are not going to take it and urge their friends and family not to take it either, says Wayne Madsen, an investigative journalist and RT contributor. Meanwhile, it has been reported that vets have found traces of the swine flu virus in birds. It was detected in turkeys at farms in Chile. So far swine flu has proved to be very contagious, but not more deadly than the common flu. However, scientists fear it may combine with avian flu, which is currently very dangerous but hard to pass on.

In a cover story for BusinessWeek earlier this month, reporters Chad Terhune and Keith Epstein argue UnitedHealth and other insurers maneuvered to shape healthcare reform for their own benefit. The story is titled The Health Insurers Have Already Won, and the authors argue that the insurers have succeeded in redefining the terms of the reform debate to such a degree that no matter what specifics emerge in the voluminous bill Congress may send to President Obama this fall, the insurance industry will emerge more profitable. We speak with Chad Terhune, senior writer at BusinessWeek, where hes covered healthcare for several years.

Join the fight: http://sickforprofit.com What does UnitedHealthcare CEO Stephen Hemsley have to lose if Congress passes real healthcare reform this year? Well, for starters, his nearly three quarters of a billion dollars in unexercised stock options might lose a few pennies on the dollar.

What does Isabella, a four year-old girl in Winsconsin who is physically incapable of eating and has had to be tube fed her entire life, have to gain from healthcare reform? The treatment she needs to live a normal life.

Brave New Films is launching a major new campaign to reveal the truth about the health insurance industry, and we need your help to do it. Contribute $25 today so we can create more campaigns exposing the obscene wealth of the CEOs of Aetna, CIGNA, Humana and WellPoint and the policyholders theyve abandoned for profit. http://sickforprofit.com/donate

When this video link was first submitted to thepeoplesvoice.org, the videos were not translated. Now they are translated enough for us to understand some of the cruel tortures that innocent Palestinian women were subjected to by sadistic Israelis. America has been blindly supporting this genocidal racism with hundreds of billions of dollars in cash gifts to Israel for fifty years and yet America itself claims to not be a racist state.