Articles Posted July 2010
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Adachi’s Pension Deception:
Billionaire Speculators Pricing Kids
out of Health CareThe common wisdom in conservative economic circles as trumpeted by FoxNEWS these days in serious, stentorian tones, is that the economy is broke rather than broken, and that we are saddled with massive unfunded pension and health care liabilities, which are deemed unaffordable and unsustainable. The solution, according to those whose economic ideology got us into this mess, is to cut wages, pensions and health care, and to welcome these austerity measures and our new status as serfs as inevitable. The unacceptable alternative to austerity for them would be that those responsible for the economic mess be wiped out in a wave of bankruptcies, which would mean them. To avoid this, they will spend lavishly to convince us that we are to blame for their errors and convince us to transfer the meager resources of hundreds of millions of us into their coffers to make them not just whole, but to further enrich them.
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Cell Phone Health Hazards: Better Safe Than Sorry
On May 6, 2010, the President’s Cancer Panel reported that “the true burden of environmentally induced cancers has been grossly underestimated” and named cell phones and other wireless technologies as potential causes of cancer that demand further research and precaution.
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Adachi Ready to Submit Pension Reform Petitions
“I am confident that we have the 46,000 signatures needed today to qualify for the November ballot,” Adachi said in a statement released to FCJ. “The voters of San Francisco have overwhelmingly responded to the need for sustainable pension reform by signing these petitions. Now the Department of Elections has up to 30 days to confirm our effort to take this critical budgetary issue to the entire electorate.”
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God Bless America
Every few years, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence updates its God Bless America poster to show the alarming difference between the number of gun murders in other developed countries vs. the number in the United States.
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BP, US Government Suspends First Amendment?
July 4, 2010 As BP makes its latest attempt to plug its gushing oil well, news photographers are complaining their efforts to document the slow-motion disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are being thwarted by…
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CAKE Returns to San Francisco
for “Climatepalooza” Solar Benefit ConcertThe eco/environmentally-conscious pop/rock outfit from Sacramento, who rely on solar energy to power their music studios, held the concert to raise money to help solarize the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Community Center, “a non-profit that helps more than 600 children, seniors, and families each day in San Francisco, with a focus on low to moderate income families,” said Paul Scott, Executive Director of One Atmosphere, a non-profit organization “dedicated to combating global warming whose prior work with the Sierra Club and the City of San Francisco has been enthusiastically endorsed by Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, and many others.”
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Gonzalez Interviewed on Adachi Pension Reform Measure
The measure, which is expected to go before voters in November, aims to rein in unsustainable health and pension costs, projected to exceed $1 billion by 2016 if needed reforms are not enacted.
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