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Posted: 28 Jan 2012 10:19 AM PST

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PLEASE Keep up the pressure on these cold-footed senators all day Monday!

Dear Single-Payer SB 810 Supporters:

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The California Senate is just 2 votes short to pass its single payer health care bill, SB 810 - the California Universal Healthcare Act, before the end of this legislative session on Tuesday, January 31, 2012.

Four Democratic Senators have not voted either way on this bill. Its author, Senator Mark Leno, can bring the bill up for reconsideration, as long as he knows that he has two more votes!!

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Obama and Geithner: Government, Enron-Style
POSTED: December 20, 10:06 AM ET

Strongly recommend this piece at the Huffington Post by Jeff Connaughton, a former aide to Senator Ted Kaufman. Jeff is one of the smartest guys on the Hill and is particularly strong on issues surrounding Wall Street and the regulatory system. In this piece, he takes apart the oft-stated mantra that what Wall Street firms did during and after the crisis was maybe unethical, but not illegal.

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Boys and girls, this is extremely bad news and may indicate that we have reached an irreversible tipping point. Some of these bubbles are 1km in diameter.
Russian research team astonished after finding 'fountains' of methane bubbling to surface
http://edpearl.blogspot.com/2011/12/shock-as-retreat-of-arctic-sea-ice.html

Steve Connor
Independent UK: 13 December, 2011

Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region.

The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head of the Russian research team who has been surveying the seabed of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf off northern Russia for nearly 20 years.

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica.

I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people at Occupy LA. I was sitting in City Hall Park with a pillow, a blanket, and a copy of Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Being Peace” when 1,400 heavily-armed LAPD officers in paramilitary SWAT gear streamed in.

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