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Adreana Langston
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California Community College President Oakley speaks on a new master plan for the CCC system - July 2017 by Adreana Langston
What the Right understands about its radicals that the Left doesn't understand about Leftist.mp3 by Adreana Langston
Jeremy Corbyn puts a lie to the truism that electorate won't accept progressive agenda.mp3 by Adreana Langston
Listen to Kevin claim that for every story like his daughter's (who was helped by ACA) there are FIFTY stories of someone for whom ACA was a harm, and then not give ONE example of a friend, co-working or family member.
Listen to Kevin claim that this shows government should not be involved in healthcare at all and then Lulu Garcia Navarro, to her shame, never ask him a follow up question about how his family and community was fairing with healthcare BEFORE ACA when the federal government wasn't as involved (which was actually never seeing as how medicaid has been "yuge" for some time now).
Does Mrs. Tolson realize how many times Trump "as a business person" went bankrupt? Does she know how many contractors sued him because he never paid them for his work? Does she realize how many of his casinos lost money? Does she realize that he became a reality T.V. star because he could no longer get loans, even from Russian banks, in real estate and was no longer being taken seriously as a developer?
When I listen to Trump supporters Rena and Kevin I worry about how rageful and deeply betrayed they are gonna feel when/if his administration comes crashing down. Originally broadcast on NPR Weekend Edition Sunday on Mother's Day 2017.
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro checks in with two Trump supporters on the how the president is doing. Kevin Eisbrenner is from Michigan and Rena Tolson is from Maryland.
When I listen to Trump supporters Rena and Kevin I worry about how rageful and deeply betrayed they are gonna feel when/if his administration comes crashing down. Originally broadcast on NPR Weekend Edition Sunday on Mother's Day 2017.
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro checks in with two Trump supporters on the how the president is doing. Kevin Eisbrenner is from Michigan and Rena Tolson is from Maryland.
When I listen to Trump supporters Rena and Kevin I worry about how rageful and deeply betrayed they are gonna feel when/if his administration comes crashing down. Originally broadcast on NPR Weekend Edition Sunday on Mother's Day 2017.
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro checks in with two Trump supporters on the how the president is doing. Kevin Eisbrenner is from Michigan and Rena Tolson is from Maryland.
This is what scares me about these answers. Rena claims Trump followed a process. That is FACTUALLY INACCURATE. The facts are that Trump did NOT follow a process when firing Comey which is WHY the Administration has had two or three different narratives about how things went down. Which is WHY Rosenstein is having a hearing on Monday May 15th.
Having your personal bodyguard fly to Los Angeles to deliver a pink slip to the FBI head is NOT following any established Washington process.
But this woman is not being coy. She TRULY believes this. And that's what's scary. These folks are living in a separate realm regarding where they get their information.
What also scares me is that while Kevin acknowledges there is something worth investigating regarding Flynn, he and Rena both seem certain no evidence will be found of collusion between Trump's campaign staff and the Russian State. Again, these people are in a different informational realm that is scary to me. Because Paul Manaforte, who was indeed part of Trump's campaign staff, looks AS worth investigating as Flynn.
Listen to Rena attribute the jobs growth improvement to Trump when A) Trump hasn't passed his tax bill yet OR any repeal and replace bill OR any Chinese product tarriff bill. B) The regulation rollback from the EPA isn't even 30 days old. So how is this woman attributing job growth to something Trump did? Oh wait, could it be the growth in jobs in private prisons after Jeff Sessions' announcement of the re-introduction of Mass Incarceration? But that only happened the second week of May 2017.
Also, listen to the how she calls undocumented immigrants "illegal people".
I am baking a crow pie for Mara Liasson right now because she is gonna have to EAT these words.
A) Comparing the delusion of the "left" to the delusions of the "right" that WERE STOKED by Trump himself with his INSISTENCE on the lie that Obama was not born in the United States (an insistence he did not give up until way into his presidential campaign) just IRKS me to no end.
B)Nevermind Russia. The Obstruction Of Justice behind the Comey firing may indeed end up getting Trump impeached. Not right away. But after 2018 when the GOP pre-existing-conditions-and-you're-screwed healtcare plan loses them enough Senate seats for DNC to have a majority in the senate. So for Mara Liasson to say it is delusional to think that Trump may be impeached. Well Mara can just kiss my Black ass!
I think Kevin's answer is reasonable as one can expect from a Trump supporter. But Rena's answer gets on my nerves for these reasons. Saying that the PUBLIC needs to be more gracious to a man who got caught on tape talking about grabbing pussy and trying to fuck other men's wives? Look at Rena Tolson's Twitter feed. She's all about her Christianity. Yet she defends this man.
Her saying people don't care really bugs me as well. I'm a regular person. Yes I live in California but I am not rich.
People I know have pre-existing conditions. So what Trump's doing DOES affect my life.
I DO care about Trump's character because it WORRIES me that White Nationalists are attracted to him BECAUSE he signals to them. His character DOES matter to me also because I think he's brash and that worries me in regards to his dealings with UNHINGED leaders in North Korea.
It's the lying about meetings with people from Russian State that makes this different by Adreana Langston
Push back to Nicholas Kristof's speech in Long Beach, CA on 2017-Apr-17 by Adreana Langston
Anthony B. Iton, M.D., J.D., MPH, Senior Vice President of Healthy Communities, The California Endowment; Former Director and County Health Officer, Alameda County Public Health Department; Former Director, Health and Human Services, and School Medical Advisor, City of Stamford, Connecticut
Where you live shouldn’t predict how long you’ll live, but it does. In many California cities, there is a 15– 20 year life expectancy difference between neighborhoods and that gap is growing. Despite all of the charged political rhetoric about repealing “Obamacare,” this life expectancy difference cannot be explained by lack of access to health care; in fact, research shows that health care is responsible for only about 15 percent of health status. When it comes to your health, your zip code is more important than your genetic code. Why? Using data to study this phenomenon, Dr. Iton has concluded that we cannot address this problem through the traditional medical model. He and his colleagues at The California Endowment have designed a $1 billion, 10-year, multi-site initiative called Building Healthy Communities (BHC) which is designed to break the deadly link between zip code and life expectancy.
BHC is based on the recognition that low-income Californians are often shrouded in a thick fog of unremitting chronic stress. Because of a legacy of racial and economic segregation, anti-immigrant policies and a host of other historical “isms," there are many communities in California where residents are mired in environments that conspire to injure their health. These environments lack basic health protective amenities like parks, grocery stores, decent schools, functioning transportation systems, affordable and decent housing, living wage jobs, and even potable water in some instances. In these environments, community residents are forced to constantly navigate multiple risks without the benefit of significant resources. These neighborhood and community environments are not natural, they are manmade and can be unmade. Building Healthy Communities is an effort that enlists the very residents who have been the targets of exclusion, stigma and discrimination in remaking their environments through holding local, regional and state systems accountable for creating healthy and equitable community environments. The BHC theory of change is about building community capacity (increasing social, political and economic power and changing the narrative about health) to change policy and systems, in order to create healthy environments that will (over time) improve health status. Six years into BHC, the results have been dramatic. Learn how the Building Healthy Communities model can help improve the health of our own communities and families.
The extent to which the proposals would punish the poor was shocking to many in the media -- and statements made by Trump administration officials didn't help. Someone who wasn't shocked was Jack Frech, former welfare director in Athens County, Ohio (and guide for our series, "Busted: America's Poverty Myths"), who has been working with those in poverty for over 30 years. In that time, he has seen many proposals like these, chipping away at the few services available to the poor. Frech talks to Brooke about what he recognizes in the GOP proposals, why he believes the Democrats have often failed to do better, and why many who would be hurt under these plans are still holding out hope that Trump might deliver for them. This piece was original broadcast on WNYC's On The Media: http://www.wnyc.org/story/view-poverty
Corey Robin—professor of political science at CUNY, author of The Reactionary Mind and a formidable blogger on the left—sees a specific evolutionary chain in the American political system. Against journos like Jonathan Chait, Robin has argued that neoliberalism is not just a pejorative synonym for “liberalism.” Its political use, in the U.S. at least, refers to a specific transformation within the Democratic party elite as well as their allied beltway outlets. The formal outlines of neoliberalism were drafted in the pages of the Washington Monthly—most notably Charles Peters’s 1983 “Neo-Liberal Manifesto,” but its influence extended well beyond this journalistic clique. Free-market friendly policies of the so-called “Atari Democrats” culminated in Bill Clinton’s election in 1992, but its deregulating drive began, as Robin reminds us, with the administration of Jimmy Carter.
This snippet originally was broadcast on the CBC Radio show Radio Open Source With Christopher Lydon: http://radioopensource.org/welcome-neoliberal-world/
September 3, 1989 - Top names in the HUD kleptocracy scandal under Reagan appointee Samuel Pierce. WASHINGTON -- The key Department of Housing and Urban Development officials and Republican consultants whose names have surfaced in the HUD scandal:
Samuel Pierce -- HUD secretary, 1981-1989. The only Cabinet member to serve all eight years of the Reagan presidency. Nicknamed 'Silent Sam' for low public profile, he relied heavily on politically appointed aides.
Pierce told House Government Operations subcommittee in May that he did not order any HUD projects funded, or show favoritism. That was contradicted by other HUD officials, who testified later, and by HUD documents.The officials said Pierce ordered funding of projects benefiting friends, former HUD officials, former law partners or well-connected Republicans -- sometimes over obections of career aides. Pierce, 66, is to appear before the House panel Sept. 15 and again in October to explain discrepencies.
In a Los Angeles Times interview published Aug. 25, Pierce denied showing favoritism, saying, 'Everyone was treated the same.'
Deborah Gore Dean -- Pierce's executive assistant, 1984-1987. A one-time bartender at trendy Washington nightspots, Dean, 34, is from a politically well-connected family and who got her first administration job in 1981.
After becoming Pierce's top aide in 1984, she had access to his automatic signing machine, filled the decision-making vaccuum and exercised tremendous power to fund projects in HUD's Moderate Rehabilitation Program. Much scarce 'mod rehab' money went to developers who were either former top HUD officials or who hired well-connected GOP consultants.
Dean refused June 13 to testify to the House panel, citing Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. Her lawyers have tried to win her immunity from prosecution for her testimony, but have failed.
Philip Winn -- assistant housing secretary, 1981-1982. He is now President Bush's ambassador to Switzerland. After leaving HUD, he started a development company called the Winn Group with other former top HUD officials. The group's HUD connections helped it win approval for 1,347 units of 'mod rehab' housing carrying $133 million in government subsidies and $29 million in tax credits.
Philip Abrams -- HUD undersecretary, 1982-1983. He later profited as co-founder of Winn Group; also got over $100,000 in consulting fees for other HUD work.
Lance Wilson -- Pierce's executive assistant, 1981-1984. He hired Dean and recommended she replace him as Pierce's top aide. After leaving HUD, he profited from his partnership in Winn Group and was involved in five projects that got $92 million in HUD subsidies.
The House panel subpoenaed him to testify and produce key documents on Sept. 27. He has told the panel he will take the Fifth Amendment and will not produce the papers.
Maurice Barksdale -- assistant housing secretary, 1983-1985. After leaving, he got $300,000 in consulting fees for helping win HUD funding of several projects.
Joseph Strauss -- special assistant to Pierce, 1981-1983. He later formed a private firm that got $1.3 million in consulting fees for HUD project work; hired former Interior Secretary James Watt as a consultant to lobby Pierce.
R. Hunter Cushing -- deputy assistant HUD secretary for multi-family housing, 1986-1989. He acted in his last days at HUD in a way that may have saved up to $700,000 for a Georgia project in which a 1980 Reagan campaign official was a partner. He took the Fifth Amendment before the House panel June 29 and is scheduled to appear again Sept. 18.
To read the full list of scandal related names: https://www.downsizinggovernment.org/hud/scandals
Paragraph 63 of the article "What Happened To Sandra Bland" by Debbie Nathan in The Nation Magazine May 9/16 2016