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Will Wilkinson's assumption is that the top pay is proformanced based.
"The way in which the working rich get paid has changed, too. The annual compensation of hedge fund jocks, Wall Street rainmakers, and corporate honchos is increasingly determined by performance-based bonuses, which have made the incomes of America's biggest earners increasingly sensitive to the vicissitudes of the market."
If this is so why then did Merrill Lynch pay their execs 5.8 Billion in bonuses, after a record loss of 28billion dollars last year. Pay for performance is a lie.
Rasta/Weldon listens to "Democracy Now?"
Bill J,
Thanks so much for the link. I sent it to both my senators. (My representative is a Republican against health care reform. He can fend for himself!)
Lee,
http://www.pleasecutthecrap.typepad.com/
http://pleasecutthecrap.typepad.com/main/
I am a regular blood donor, I will not give to the Red Cross due to the controversy
surrounding the salaries paid to the CEO and others.
http://pleasecutthecrap.typepad.com/main/
http://democratichealthcareturncoats.webs.com/
I can't find cuthecrap.com What is the correct address?
MORE OF THE ZIONIST CENSORSHIP, INHUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVITIES AND “PUBLICITY STUNTS ” (AS THOM TERMS IT) FOR HIS CHARITY FUNDED AND SUPPORTED ISRAELI FASCIST STATE
WILL THOM HARTMANN HAVE THE SPINE TO FEATURE THESE ACTIVISTS ON HIS SHOW TO TALK ABOUT THE HEAVY HAND OF ISRAELI AUTHORITARIANISM, FASCISM AND APARTHEID?……NOT F’N LIKELY.
Israel Deports Three US Peace Activists
Three US peace activists from Minneapolis have been deported from Israel after trying to enter the country as part of a human rights delegation. Israeli officials reportedly said the three were security risks and would not be allowed to enter the country. The activists are Sarah Martin, a sixty-nine-year-old retired nurse, and two members of the Anti-War Committee, Katrina Plotz and Karen Sullivan.
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/8/4/headlines
MORE OF THE ZIONIST CENSORSHIP, INHUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVITIES AND "PUBLICITY STUNTS " (AS THOM TERMS IT) FOR HIS CHARITY FUNDED AND SUPPORTED ISRAELI FASCIST STATE
WILL THOM HARTMANN HAVE THE SPINE TO FEATURE THESE ACTIVISTS ON HIS SHOW TO TALK ABOUT THE HEAVY HAND OF ISRAELI AUTHORITARIANISM, FASCISM AND APARTHEID?......NOT F'N LIKELY.
Israel Deports Three US Peace Activists
Three US peace activists from Minneapolis have been deported from Israel after trying to enter the country as part of a human rights delegation. Israeli officials reportedly said the three were security risks and would not be allowed to enter the country. The activists are Sarah Martin, a sixty-nine-year-old retired nurse, and two members of the Anti-War Committee, Katrina Plotz and Karen Sullivan.
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/8/4/headlines
Network:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=network+movie&hl=en&emb=0&aq=4&oq=...
mstaggerlee,
The job for anyone interested in 'hard" news is to sift through the seeming "most reliable" sources (including newspapers, news magazines, etc., along with on-air, online sources) to try to get a glimpse of the "truth." (International sources add perspective to this, too.)
Was there EVER a completely reliable source of information --- including Walter Cronkite?
I found the link on Dailykos:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/4/761608/-Tea-Baggers-FAIL-to-disru....
mstaggerlee
Media Culpa
The various media organizations have their favorite sources to go to on topics. I’ll include the Thom Hartmann Show and other progressive shows in that.
They have people they’re comfortable with, who know how to deliver their messages in a way that is desired by the particular program and who won’t stray off the reservation into the wilds of uncomfortable reality and truth.
A lot of the stories aired on regular TV news shows are actually based on “video press releases” prepared by companies like Public Strategies, Inc.. I believe PSI has a division that creates these “video press releases”. The same goes for many newspaper stories which are based on press releases. There was brouhaha a few years ago when it was revealed that the Bush Administration was using “video press releases” with actors playing the role of a reporter. The networks promised that they would reveal the sources of such stories. I don’t know what’s happened to that.
Looking at it from the other end, I once heard that more people with degrees in journalism go into public relations than into journalism. I know that my goddaughter did that.
oooops.... I posted the wrong comment.. therefore posting the same comment twice.. my bad
re: Elizabeth Dole and the Red Cross
There was a book published in the late 90s called "Bad Blood" by Judith Reitman. It was about the Red Cross, how its practices and lack of safe procedures helped spread HIV/AIDS and Elizabeth Dole's role, as head of the Red Cross, in suppressing the story.
The book was suppressed. I heard Reitman interviewed on Pacifica Radio. She talked about the story and said that she had been booked on several TV shows to talk about it, but that all the interviews were canceled after the shows received phone calls from the Red Cross.
One thing I remember from the interviews I heard was that the Red Cross was eventually made to operate its blood bank operations under the standards and scrutiny of the FDA or some other government agency. With entrepreneurial creativity, the Red Cross turned the fact that they were under government supervision into a selling point. The Red Cross advertised itself as “the only government approved blood bank.”
The problem with coming up with a plan for town-hall presenters is that most Republican representatives and not a few blue dogs would welcome the "input" of tea-baggers so that they can go on the media and back to work and say that they met with constituents who were so forcefully opposed to any reform of the for-profit health insurance industry.
re: Elizabeth Dole and the Red Cross
There was a book published in the late 90s called "Bad Blood" by Judith Reitman. It was about the Red Cross, how its practices and lack of safe procedures helped spread HIV/AIDS and Elizabeth Dole's role, as head of the Red Cross, in suppressing the story.
The book was suppressed. I heard Reitman interviewed on Pacifica Radio. She talked about the story and said that she had been booked on several TV shows to talk about it, but that all the interviews were canceled after the shows received phone calls from the Red Cross.
One thing I remember from the interview was that the Red Cross was eventually made to operate its blood bank operations under the standards and scrutiny of the FDA or some other government agency. With entrepreneurial creativity, the Red Cross turned the fact that they were under government supervision into a selling point. The Red Cross advertised itself as “the only government approved blood bank.”
Is there a link to the announcement given before the health care meeting re the tradition on democracy etc that headed of the teabaggers?
Thom,
I stopped believing in The Red Cross when Elizabeth Dole became its head.
Thom,
This disruption of the democratic process bears a striking parallel to the act of flag burning. I think it is interesting to see the difference between what actions set off people from each side of the aisle. This may be one of the most revealing differences between idealistic virtues of both parties.
Keep it up.
West
Quark,
¡No Problema!
Good points today from callers! Try tea bagging at Goldman Sachs.
did Exxon ever make reparations for the Valdez - corporations no compassion
Caller- great idea! Televised debates! yes!
YES!!!! Re:
TFF
Trucker has great point, lets call it Health Care Direct.