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Pennsylvania Certified Nurse Midwives

2008-12-11T12:52:26-05:00

Oh, yeah, and I have been in practice 9 years, have never ever had any claims (or complaints), and have had my own practice for 5 years.....still hanging on here............

Pennsylvania Certified Nurse Midwives

2008-12-11T12:46:23-05:00

I have a big problem right now, and I am asking for contributions.....let me tell you my story.

I have a very small rural independent midwifery practice. When you pay malpractice insurance in PA, you must also pay the state. This is the MCARE fund. This fund is supposed to pick up any overage in costs after your malpractice is tapped out. For the past few years, there was an MCARE abatement, that meant you didn't have to pay the extra fee....so, the legislation was up for renewal in PA so that I wouldn't have to pay, but wouldn't you know it, it passed the house, but the senate refused to consider it (it was attached to another healthcare bill to cover all PA residents) and they went home on holiday. Now, of course, I have been told that I must come up with 2,889 dollars by November 27. Today is Dec. 11, and I have called everyone I know, and some I don't to try to continue to provide women's healthcare in Brookville.

So, I have been asking everyone for donations to pay this thing, since I have a busy practice for a small town, but I give a lot of free care (omg what's that!!!) to people who cannot afford it and teens so that they don't get pregnant.

So, if you can help, please please contact me at maryholliscnm@yahoo.com

Thank you in advance....
Mary

The Bush Administration is funding Reporters Without Borders

2008-04-14T16:46:08-04:00

The Bush Administration is funding Reporters Without Borders
http://pasadenanewprogressive.blogspot.com/2008/04/bush-administration-is-funding.html

I have been investigating Reporters without Borders ever since they performed a "media propaganda siege" in my city, Pasadena California, with their ugly, disruptive protests of the Beijing float in the 2008 Rose Parade.

The fact that they are also very involved in the torch rally protests really worries me! This group has been verified as accepting money from a propaganda wing of the U.S. State Department (NED). Their suspicious activities in Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela have been reported on.

And then, on Friday, this news appeared - now they are conclusively linked financially to the Bush Administration!

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Breaking news:

This news item appeared last week:

Source: MSNBC

BREAKING NEWS: White House says a presidential aide has resigned after engaging in improprieties using USAID grant money

updated 22 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The White House says an aide to President Bush has resigned because of the alleged misuse of grant money from U.S. Agency for International Development.

Presidential spokesman Scott Stanzel says the former aide, Felipe Sixto, had been a special assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs. Stanzel said Sixto was promoted to that position on March 1 and that he came forward on March 20 to tell his superiors about the alleged wrongdoing.

Stanzel said it involved improprieties involving the use of grant money and Sixto's former employer, the Center for a Free Cuba. Stanzel says the matter has been turned over to the Justice Department.

excerpt from MSNBC:

"An aide to President Bush has resigned because of his alleged misuse of grant money from the U.S. Agency for International Development when he worked for a Cuban democracy organization.

The Center for a Free Cuba describes itself as an independent, nonpartisan institution dedicated to promoting human rights and a transition to democracy and the rule of law in Cuba."

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excerpt from the Diana Barahona article [which is reprinted on my blog]:
http://www.counterpunch.com/barahona05172005.html

"Thierry Meyssan, president of the Paris daily, Red Voltaire, published an article in which he claimed Menard had negotiated a contract with Otto Reich and the Center for a Free Cuba (CFC) in 2001. Reich was a trustee of the center, which receives the bulk of its funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development."

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excerpt from the Jean-Allard article:
http://www.cuba-solidarity.org/news.asp?ItemID=457

“The Center for Free Cuba is an organization created to overthrow the Cuban Revolution and restore the Batista regime via its representatives embedded in the Bush government. It is presided over by the owner of Bacardí Rums, directed by former terrorist Frank Calzón and it is attached to a CIA office, Freedom House,” he wrote.

According to Meyssan, a journalist who is president of the prestigious Red Voltaire (www.redvoltaire.net), the contract was signed in 2002 when Reich was representing the US government as special envoy to the Western Hemisphere.

“In 2002, Reporters Sans Frontières signed a contract with the Center for a Free Cuba with unknown terms, and later received an initial subsidy of $24,970 euros. That subsidy increased to $59,201 euros in 2003 and its amount for 2004 is unknown,” the reporter wrote."

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excerpt from the Reporters Without Borders website, financial disclosure information, year 2006:
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22503

Private donors:

Donations by private foundations (the Soros Fondation, the Center for a Free Cuba, the National Endowment for Democracy and the Fondation de France)

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john mccain

2008-03-12T21:21:06-04:00

When I think of J. McCain as the next President, I become quesy. Here is a man that spent 5.5 yrs in prison with 3.5 of those years in solitary confinmenet. Prior to release he was subject to torture and beatings. In addition, with his acknowledged penchant to have an uncontrollable temper, this man as the Commander-in-Chief may place the homeland at risk. I can see this man being worse than warmonger Bush. Bush bombed Iraq, McClain may be waiting to bomb Viet Nam to excersize his demons. At a minimum, McCain needs psyc. evaluation to test his suitability.

How The Monster Came Back

2008-03-09T06:26:32-04:00

The reasons for Hillary’s comeback are made clear in a most pithy and revealing piece written about her by the Matrix-Evolutions Group as was posted on many Obama and McCain blogs.

The Revolutionary Party endorses Barack Obama as the next president of the United States.
This is the most important election America will ever have, possibly the last if Obama is not elected.

The Revolutionary Party derives its politics from an equation for evolution that has been accepted by science for the last eighty years and that we trust as much as religious believers trust Pat Robertson. Mathematics doesn’t lie, at least not as well as Robertson does. Anyway, an analysis based on the equation indicates that the so-called war on terror will inexorably ratchet up to world war level, a pretty horrible thought given a world armed with nuclear weapons. For that reason we support Barack Obama as the only real anti-war candidate.

Hillary? In our opinion, she is the more all round competent candidate and has been upended by Obama to a great degree because he is trim and youthfully enthusiastic. But before Hillary came Bill, which should cause us to stop and think.

The value of our mathematics based analysis lies in its ability to objectively distinguish between the good guys and the bad guys. The technical aspects of the analysis make it slow reading for those without a science background, so we will give its conclusions first here and save the detailed reasoning for later…

…And to be completely and totally unkind – and very logical -- doesn’t it make you wonder about the guy’s wife? Really, does any intelligent female over the age of 22 think that Hillary actually felt bad about Bill and Monica? Judging from the observable obvious that Bill is no more than Hillary’s showboat, the best educated guess is that is Hillary is lesbian, a married one, not that unusual in modern America. If Hillary was mad about anything with Monica, it was that she didn’t get a shot at her too. Watch one of Hillary’s girlfriends surfacing soon to clarify Hillary’s preference as to penile object.

The smiling Clintons are so phony and so odd in this area that one would not be surprised to find that the unconfident Chelsea Clinton developed as such as a result of some form of child abuse. Chelsea does not look happy. Neglect by the Clintons is hardly to be overlooked as this ambitious pair had better things to pay attention to in their furious political rise to the top than their daughter. And sexual abuse is not to be totally ruled out either given Bill’s sexual tastes.

The best bet to end the war and end our American style police state is to vote for Barack Obama. Not for Hillary, who is sufficiently self-serving and devious that one would not be surprised to see her team up with Huckabee on a national reconciliation ticket to satisfy her political ambition. Hopefully Obama will not be removed by the ruling class by assassination, which they would do if methods to remove him don’t work. These could include much media humiliation or using their federal prosecutors on a leash to try Resko at this most inopportune time or even Resko inventing a story about Barack in order to trade 15 years over his head for two. Or something like that.

I ran for President in 2000 as a write-in candidate and would consider doing it again, if it were necessary to keep the beautiful voice of resistance in play. But only in the event that Obama is derailed by the conservatives, which we very much fear because these people will do anything to retain power, including staging all sorts of political theatre at Barack’s expense and detriment. Or worse.

Dr. and Mrs. Calabria
http://www.matrix-evolutions.com

Please quick tell somebody on Hillary’s campaign staff what is going on with these trashy Obama sites.
Martha Turner

Superbug and the Military Evacuation System from Iraq

2007-12-18T17:48:07-05:00

Hi Marcie,

sorry to hear about your husband. Keep us up to date on his condition and The Superbug itself.

Superbug and the Military Evacuation System from Iraq

2007-12-16T09:56:13-05:00

The Superbug, which is Extremely Drug Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii,is not a new problem it has just been covered up.
My husband brought it back via the field hospital Dogwood, Landstuhl, Walter Reed, and then to Orlando Regional Medical Center in Florida in July of 2003.
This superbug has already infected civilians hospitals all across the UK, US, Australia, and many of the coalition countries.
This bug could have been contained if the DoD had put as much effort into containing it as they did covering it up.
Unfortunately this is not the only bug they have fast tracked to drug resistance and spread.

Marcie Hascall Clark
www.iraqinfections.org

Open Thred

2007-11-18T19:16:35-05:00

Whats on your mind?

Open Thread

2007-11-15T20:44:11-05:00

So the question is, what are you going to do?

I'm going to talk about the Moratorium on a radio show and then join a vigil downtown at rush hour.

I see my link didn't work. It's http://www.IraqMoratorium.org and you'll find all sorts of info and ideas there.

Open Thread

2007-11-15T20:42:01-05:00

Friday is Iraq Moratorium #3.

On Friday, Nov. 16, antiwar activists will take the “Anti-Torture Train” to San Jose, Calif., where more than 20 groups are sponsoring a march, picket, and news conference in front of a corporation that organizers say profits from illegal kidnappings and torture by handling the logistics for the CIA's so-called "extraordinary rendition" flights – torture flights.

On the way, they will leaflet Caltrain passengers to educate them about U.S. torture policy, the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" of suspects to other countries for abusive interrogation, and efforts in Congress to end the practice.

In New York City, a morning rush hour action at Union Square will feature hand-painted Pietas and black-clad leafleters.

Protesters in a number of cities will bang pots and pans in front of Congressional offices, as part of the Raise Hell for Molly Ivins campaign, inspired by the late progressive columnist and activist.

In Minneapolis and St. Paul, a student walkout is planned at a number of schools and campuses at noon, with an all-day teach-in and workshops, reminiscent of the 1969 Vietnam War Moratorium, at Macalester College.

Students from 15 colleges and universities in the Boston area, dressed in black, will walk in a silent procession to call for an end to the war in Iraq.

In hundreds of other communities across the country, groups will hold vigils or rallies, while tens of thousands of individuals take some personal action to call for an end to the war.

It’s all part of the third Iraq Moratorium Day, a loosely-knit nationwide effort that asks people to take some action, either individually or collectively, on the third Friday of every month.

That action can be as simple a gesture as wearing a black armband or button for the day, as big as participating in a large-scale protest, or a lot of things in between. The group’s website, link has a list of suggestions, tools for organizers, a list of upcoming actions, and reports on previous month’s events.

The Moratorium, inspired by the Vietnam War Moratorium in 1969, is designed to grow, expand and escalate over time, recognizing that the struggle to end the Iraq war will be a long-term one. Organizers say interest and participation are steadily growing.

“Clearly, a solid majority of the American people oppose the war, think it is a mistake, and want our troops home,” Eric See, a Moratorium organizer in California, said. “Every opinion poll tells us that. The Moratorium offers people a chance to translate those feelings and opinions into action, and to take some personal responsibility for ending the war.”

The Moratorium marches on while the antiwar movement continues to discuss strategy, tactics and where to go from here.

Its job is not to persuade Americans to oppose the war. They already do.

The challenge is to find a way to reach them, mobilize them, and get them to become active, vocal advocates to end the war.

The Moratorium does not try to dictate what anyone should do, but encourages coordinated actions on the same day and its website serves as a clearinghouse to collect and share information about what is happening nationally on Moratorium Day.

The effort has the endorsement of dozens of organizations, including veterans, labor and peace groups, and the usual sprinkling of celebrities. But its focus is on getting individuals involved, especially those new to the peace movement, and getting the new Silent Majority to speak up.

(Bill Christofferson, a Vietnam veteran, former journalist and longtime political consultant, now retired, is a volunteer with the Iraq Moratorium. He lives in Milwaukee.)

Open Thread

2007-11-15T19:12:25-05:00

Open to whatever you want to talk about. Let go...

Telco Immunity

2007-11-14T19:29:11-05:00

I say congress should call the Telco's bluff. They say they need immunity because it could cost them millions. So pass a law that limits the damages. I don't care if it is $1. The point, as I see it, is not to punish the Telco's, but it's to get at the truth so we can punish Bush and Cheney. That is the only way where going to keep our rights.

What do you think?

General Open Thred

2007-11-14T19:12:48-05:00

Whats going on now?

General Open Thred

2007-11-14T17:27:47-05:00

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