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January 31, 2004
Here are the 2003 “Grow-a-Brain” Political Links
(See The Collection about "Tire Dumps" at the bottom of the page)
15 "2003 Congressional Pig Book" from CAGW (PDF format)
ACLU ,The American Civil Liberties Union - 8/10/03
Alphabetical List of Class Actions
Anarchists and Fellow Travellers from "Sniggles" - 9/20/03
A sculptor killed by the Spanish Oil spill
Bilderberg Group, the most powerful men on Earth ? (From "Reality Carnival") - 9/20/03
By Tina Mion - The Wives of Presidents
2004 Election - 12/13/03
California Recall Election Circus 2003 - 8/10/03
Carol Lay on Iraq sloganeering
Chinese Propaganda Posters from Stefan Landsberger and World Wars posters
Compiled Bush approval rating graph and George W Bush Speechwriter
Cory Everson is the GOP Babe-of-the-Week. And there are Voluptuous Archives - 11/17/03
Current news from the Project on Government Secrecy and articles by its editor Steven Aftergood - 12/21/03
Dancing Hillary - 10/22/03
Dan Quayle Museum (From Open all Night) - 8/1/03 (and Quayle Quotes - 9/21/03)
'Das Kapital' in Lithographs (From "Dublog") - 8/2/03
Dictatorships and Friendly Dictators Trading Cards - 10/31/03
Directory of Terrorist Organizations (From FAS)
DOJ's guidelines for "Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations"
"Do you want to buy the Presidential Bus?" (From LinkDump) - 10/1/03
Elections Around the World
End of the World - 10/31/03
Eric Blumrich's spiteful "I Hate Republicans" ditty - 10/25/03
"Face" of a politician - 10/18/03
FBI files of famous persons obtained under the FOI act (From Chris Benson's Blog) - 12/22/03
"Fog of War" , the new Erroll Morris movie about Robert McNamara - 12/15/03
Forms of Government (From Phrontistery)
From "Liberties Disappearing before our Eyes" By John W. Dean: "Terrorism, by definition, is an effort to terrify, frighten and intimidate. Terrorists can't vanquish their enemies, only hurt them, so they deliver their hurtful messages of hate through violent attacks against innocent people. As horrible as terrorism can be, it must be understood in context. Compared with the policy of mutually assured destruction of the Cold War (with its inherent potential of annihilating humankind), national security experts will tell you, privately, that terrorism's threat to Americans appears to fall somewhere between that of killer bees (which scare people but take very few lives) and drunken drivers (who frighten very few people while killing 17,000 annually)" - Why aren't you scared? - 10/16/03
Gingrich & Clinton re-arranged (1998-old page, sorry!) - 7/30/03
"Give war a chance" - Rush Limbaugh's Bumper stickers (From Shitfit) - 12/25/03
House of Commons naked 2004 MP calendar . (From B3TA) - 12/20/03
If you were listening for the real "State of the Union" address tonight, you may have heard that we are doing very well... MadKane's 2004 State of Disunion Crossword Puzzle - 1/20/04
Images of Bush (From Consumptive) - 10/23/03
John's Dean's article - "Missing Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Is Lying About The Reason For War An Impeachable Offense?"
Kenn Blanchard is a Black Man with a Gun - 11/24/03
May '68 graffiti: "Art is dead, don’t consume its corpse"
Measure your Ecological Footprint
Michael Moore and Woody Harrelson's Voice Yourself . (Here is an Anti-Michael Moore site Bowling for Truth - 9/7/03)
Milosevic Trial at the Hague - 11/23/03
Miniature Earth and World Processor
NARA, US National Archives & Records (From Lisa de Araujo's Burnt Toast)
Nonviolent Action Handbook, Learn how-to - 9/14/03
North Korea - The Official Website ... I meant to say, "The Democratic People's republic of Korea"... - 8/17/03
NRA's Blacklist - The National Rifle Association publishes a list of its "enemies." It's a 19-page list of people, companies, and causes it believes are "anti-gun" - 1/6/04
Open Secrets - Who owns your politician?
Philip Morris, Inc. Document Site - 9/20/03
"Preserving Life and Liberty", DoJ's PATRIOT Act Promotional Site (From Cryptome) - 8/19/03
Rebuilding America's Defences , the blueprint for the creation of a global Pax Americana (PDF). (From "PNAC") - 9/7/03
Republicans for Sharpton in 2004 (Satire?)
Richard M. Nixon - 12/14/03
Riverbend from "Baghdad Burning" has turned me on to the intelligent writings of Malcom La Gauche and his column "Left is right". La Gauche writes beautifully about other subjects beside liberal politics, for example, this funny essay about the "Street Corner Hall of Fame" in his old Rhode Island's town. He should be famous - 11/3/03
Ronald Reagan Tossing a paper airplane , with Michael Jackson and waiting for Gorbachev (From "Unguarded Moments" ) - 8/19/03
Smart, cynical new questions from ”Get your war on”: - "Do you think our next war will be fought to a) Defend liberty? b) Preserve security? c) Secure democracy, or d) Liberate freedom?" - 12/8/03
Spook Words that will get the CIA, FBI, and NSA to look at your web page , includes words like: SEAL, CBM, e-cash, 1984, Compsec, 2600 Magazine and 300 more (From Reality Carnival) - 9/25/03
Subversive Videos from Jakarta - 9/14/03
S-11 Redux Surfing the Apocalypse - 11 minutes of techno agitprop - 8/22/03
Telecommunications Act of 1996 (From David Isenberg) - 9/20/03
The 1960s, as seen through the Caricatures of "Luís"
The actual Legislated bills by the House & Congress
The Anarchist's cookbook - Just reading this website may get you in prison.
The Buying of the President 2004 (from The Center for Public Integrity)
The Clinton Top 100: Where Are They Now?
The Commission on Presidential Debates
The Constitution of the United States
The Donald Rumsfeld Sound-bite-of-the-Week (From Antiquark)
The Harper Index December 2002
The Jennifer government "NationState"
The Political Compass - Test your political standing
"The Road to Serfdom" By Friedrich A. Hayek - 10/25/03
The Truth about Zimbabwe (From Yummywakame) - 8/9/03
"The United states of Europe" and the European Anthem
Vietnam and Iraq: Are we going in the same direction we did before, or is it A completely different picture ? - 8/18/03
Voice your opinion - Write your congressperson & tell them what you think about their work!
US Presidents: Campaign Slogans , Signatures , Inaugural Addresses and The White house Christmas trees
War photojournalism - "Postcards from Hell" by A Raffaele Ciriello
War Profiteers Deck of Cards - 8/26/03
Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of President Kennedy - 11/15/03
Weapons of mass destruction - 12/13/03
'We need a common enemy to unite us' - Is "Al Qaeda" the modern incarnation of "Emmanuel Goldstein"? and Airstrip One , another Emmanuel Goldstein - 12/28/03
Where are they buried? The Political Graveyard
Where Texas Districts Meet - 10/25/03
Who are the The Chickenhawks ?
Who said: "Free Speech is the right to yell 'Theater!' in a crowded fire"? Only one person could - Abbie Hoffman - 11/22/03
World's Smallest Political Quiz - 8/10/03
Here's something that most people probably hardly ever think about: More than 280 million scrap tires are being discarded in the U.S. every year (1 billion tires world-wide). So where do all these tires go? Here's the Grow-a-Brain 2003 Tire Dump Collection
Filbin Tire Site: Before and After
Hagersville tire fire, the largest tire fire on the planet
Market Status Report on Waste Tires
Mobile Contract Shredding and Tire Shred Embankment
On average, Indiana generates about one waste tire per person per year
The beauty of industrial horror - Edward Burtynsky documents human-made toxic disasters.(From Jwz)
TMI plant in New Braunfels, Texas
Trash Dummies from Shelley Duvall
What's in a tire besides air? De-mystifying the black art of tire designations
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Americans' Future In One Plan
I know that most of you are busy to read my book. As I explained previously that Taman Health Plan (www.trafford.com) takes care of all the health care, Medicare, Medicaid and social security. It will threw away all bureaucracies out of window. Let me explain shortly how it works:
1- There will be no more health care insurance companies, no Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. My plan will take care of all.
2- Basically will be only one Big Health care organization (Taman Health Plan or THP).
3- The center of the plan will be in Washington while the health departments in every state will be the branches.
4- One organized body will be taking care of the Health Care and long term care of all Americans replacing 1500 insurance companies, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
5- This will allow us to provide a uniform service to all Americans every where in both inpatients, outpatients and long term care.
6- When you go to any Duncan Donuts branch your expectation is to have a fresh coffee and a donut with no long wait. We will try to provide a similar predictable service everywhere as Duncan Donuts. With having only one body will be able to do that.
7- The Capital of the plan will be the funds of Medicare and Social Security (before the bankruptcy of both systems). The maintenance will be a yearly tax from each of us (will replace our yearly social security and Medicare holding taxes). A percent of each of us go to his account cards and a percent go to THP itself. The money of the plan will be invested by the investing sector of the plan very likely in Wall Street.
8- We will have 5 ATM cards with a corresponding accounts. Card A (children), Card B (working group 18-65years old), Card C (Medicare card >65 years old), Card D (Medicaid card), Card E ( expensive medicines or investigations).We will have the health cards devoted to health care and long term care. Thus we will have: health cards, banks with accounts to each card and credit card machines in outpatients care and hotelling part of hospitals and nursing homes.
9- Cards will pay for the outpatient medical care including doctors, emergency room visits, investigations, medical supplies, pharmacies and the hotelling part of hospitals and nursing homes. While the medical part of hospitals and nursing homes will be budget by the plan itself.
10- In the first year of issuing cards: Card B and C (most of people) will have a bonus it could be a percent of their Medicare and social security withholding (70 % or so). We will try to be fair to every one but every one has to know that most of us already lost a lot of money with the HMO's. For next year new comers to card B at age of 18 when first issued will have a bonus of 50,000 dollars. It will change every year by a percent a according to inflation.
11- Every one of us will get a statement every one or two months of his card account. Card B account will phase in card C at the age of 65. If card C account is vanished Card D will be issued (hoteling part will be less luxurious). Only few of Card B will have card D if there account vanish most likely those with severe medical problems.
12- So basically most of us will have our own account Card B then card C. Say you are 45 and you have now in your account $ 200,000 you can take one or more years out of work, you Can retire early if you like and with your card you will control all the medical services and its prices.
13- With this card system we will end all bureaucracies of health care, Medicare and Medicaid. No one will stand between you and any medical or long term service (only your card). Shop around with you card, have early health care security and responsibility and invest in your health.
14- We will not need Social Security since after age of 65 we will be able to use our cards to stay in any nursing home each according to his account in card C or card D. So when you invest well in your health you will be able to enjoy a nicer nursing home when you get old (actually it will be also a kind of tourism).
15- The money in cards do not get inherited when we pass away but recycle in the plan to support the next generations.
16- The plan will have very positive effects not only in simplifying our care, save a lot of waste in health care, give early health care security and responsibility to Americans it will also have a positive effect on the economy, saving billions of dollars to Americans, creating jobs in health care and cutting outsourcing.
Very likely, you figure it out by now I could have sold the plan to one of the presidential candidates before the 2004 election for millions of dollars (they already spent 2 billion dollars). It is my gift to the American people (it will help the healing process of the two worlds America and the Muslim/Arabs).
Maged Taman.
Posted by: maged taman at Feb 22, 2005 9:23:51 AM