The anniversary of the fall of the Wall in Berlin came on 9 November this year, but
the Western, and especially the US mainstream media have conveniently left out
some crucial facts and put in some fiction for others in the meantime and giving a
complete distortion of history which they have been so good at doing and talking
about how "The USA fights for freedom. . ." as Jackson Browne says in that one song.

But the problem is is not quite that damn simple, and actually the Western powers,
especially the USA had a lot to do with that Berlin Wall going up, and this is something
people should know about when they start making judgments about same.

Before 1961 and the wall going up those in East Berlin with jobs in West Berlin and
would go to their jobs during the daylight hours and return in the evening, thus they
weren't being kept in East Berlin, but the West was aggressively recruiting the best
and brightest with the East paying the price for having provided a free education for
these people. The East was losing their best skilled labor and the West was engaging
in a campaign of crude sabotage against the East. The Western aggressive campaign
of recruiting the best and brightest employees from the East had resulted in a shortage
of skilled labor and critical problems for the Eastern economy as a result, and this along
with the crude campaign by the West at sabotaging and subverting the East is what caused
the East to put up the Wall.

The USA in the 1950s put together a harsh campaign of subverting and sabotaging the German
Democratic Republic very early on including recruiting some to kill prominent figures in that state,
to put soap in the powdered milk going to school children, to derailing freight trains severely injuring
employees, and many other actions to politically and economically destabilize the state. The CIA
and others in the US national security apparatus aggressively recruited, trained, and equipped
those Germans in the East and West who would engage in this campaign against the East.

These other things included destructive actions against public buildings, power stations, bridges,
canals, docks, public transportation, and setting fire to a tile producing factory. But that wasn't at all
the end of this weird "crusade" to bring "freedom" to the "terrible Communists" in the Democratic
Republic. No, these "wonderful people" recruited by the US national security apparatus also
did such things as carry out attacks on those taking part in the World Youth Festival in East
Berlin with fire bombs and other explosives and equipment for puncturing tires, as well as
otherwise seeking to disrupt this event by fabricating invitations to some and cancellations to
others. US agents also forged and sent out a large number of food ration cards to people to
stir resentment, confusion, and shortages. But they also distributed fabricated tax notices,
government directives and documents to create havoc among the people of the GDR or
German Democratic Republic. Add to this such things as burning 12 cars of a freight train,
destroying air pressure hoses in others, the fatal poisoning of 7000 cows at a cooperative diary,
making use of acids to damage critical factory equipment, putting sand in a factory turbine causing
production at same to come to halt. inciting production slow downs of employees, and these
"freedom loving types" also used stink bombs to disrupt political meetings as part of their
"Christian crusade" against "terrible" atheistic Communists in the GDR.

In the 1950s officials from Moscow and the GDR complained at the United Nations and to Moscow's
former allies in the West even providing the names and addresses of the parties responsible
for sabotage and espioniage directed against the GDR and calling for closing of the offices
of those responsible. The West ignored the hell out of it and acted as if it were innocent.
Eventually the GDR would restrict Western access to the state.

Use of para military actions against the German Democratic Republic which Moscow
created out of its zone of military occupation and government in eastern Germany out
of response to the Western powers creating the Federal Republic is something most
in the West have no knowledge of. They don't, with maybe some exceptions, even
know that it was the West which created a state first in the part of Germany where it had
authority to carry out the military occupation and government following the Second
World War based on the Yalta and Potsdam agreements and also in likely violation
of both those agreements which called for all Germany to be deNazified, demilitarized,
war criminals prosecuted, and then after a period of time civil authority returned to Germany
and not the division which resulted and which the West caused.

In 1946 the British and US governments adopted the same currency for their zones, leaving
the French and Russian zones with two currencies where there had been four originally. The
French zone with pressure from the US and British authorities adopted the same currency in
1947 and Moscow wasn't invited to and not allowed to adopt the same currency. With the
Western powers at the end of the Second World War firmly in control of the international
financial institutions, their currency was in solid shape, but not so with the currency in
Moscow's zone. Responding to this slight toward this ally, Moscow in 1948 began a blockade
by land of its zone to tell the West to go to hell with its lock out of Moscow from this new currency
and with the impending economic squeeze it would put on Moscow's zone of occupation in
eastern Germany.

The West then claimed falsely that the Moscow was the aggressor and began its airlift of
what was then its part of Berlin, which was also divided at the time into Russian, French,
British, and US zones. When the smoke cleared and the crisis ended in 1949 the Cold War
between the West and Moscow already in progress intensified.

The West which has so strongly condemned the division of Germany and Europe, actually created
that very division in 1949 by creating the Federal Republic of Germany in its zone of occupation, thus
almost surely violating the Yalta and Potsdam agreements which it had committed to, thus giving Moscow
the right to create its own state in its zone which it did at the end of 1949. All this was despite the advice
of George Kennan, who had been the chief hard liner on Moscow at the end of and after the Second World
War, as Kennan had predicted that creating such a state would lead to the division of Germany and the
rest of Europe as well, as it did. Knowing the geography, anyone could see with the large body of land
Germany occupied in the middle of Europe that this would be the case. But it was to no avail.
Eventually the GDR would restrict Western access to the state.

What might well have been a short term occupation of Germany and Europe turned into a long term
military confrontation between East and West,, due to the West breaking its word on these agreements and other
aggressive actions such as the USA threatening to use the Atomic Bomb against Moscow
in 1946 if it didn't get its military contingent it had in Iran out, the use of the Marshall Plan
to only aid the part of Europe in the Anglo US sphere of influence, even though that in Moscow's
sphere of influence had suffered far more than had Western Europe in that war, siding with monarchists
and Nazis, the bitter enemies of Moscow and its former Western allies in that same war over
Communists but also liberals, progressives, and just plain socialists who sought to restore democracy
to Greece, in this birthplace of democracy in the civil war which broke out in 1947 with the West calling this
supporting "freedom." Had John Pilger been covering this he might easily have called it part of the USA's
"war on democracy."

Paul Hochfeld, MD who is an emergency room doctor in Corvallis
OR and one of the Mad as Hell Doctors spoke with me earlier this year in
an interview about the need for single payer, as it provides quality health care for
all at less expense and provides for "someone" to run such a system, and
we now have no system, but a complete mess insuring a shortage
of primary care doctors. Dr Hochfeld has made a documetary on
the health care crisis in this country and what should be the solution
with single payer. I have to add with some person or persons in
charge of such a system in the federal government, we could have
accountability which is now completely and absolutely lacking.

The Mad as Hell Doctors was a group which advocates a single
payer health system and set out from Oregon a while back to cross
the country and to make a stop in Washington in the US Capital to
speak out there in the seat of the US Government on this matter,
crossing the USA speaking out as they went on the advantages of
a single payer system of health care. They crossed the country in
what they referred to as a Care A Van.

Now the Wall Street Journal, the voice of big business in this country,
no less says we have a shortage of surgeons so severe that people
are now getting surgeons who are temporaries going from one town
to another. The American College of Surgeons condemns this practice
This mouthpiece for big business says this shortage of surgeons has
been going on for 25 years and is most pronounced in rural area. This
has literally then become a matter of life or death, and especially in
these rural areas.

Most doctors, most health economist, and most of the American people
back single payer, Dr Hochfeld has said in an article which came out
December 30th last year in the Corporate Crime Reporter.

Why hasn't this country adopted single payer which would, as it
should, establish health care for all as an "inalienable right" as Thomas
Jefferson would so aptly put it?

Start with what ought to be clearly and absolutely obvious to everybody.
The health insurance and pharmaceutical industries having it so
good riding a gravy train and making piles of money, and thus aren't
the least bit interested in single payer, which is so predictable. They
just want to keep their gravy train going.

It's greed trumping need as I would hasten to add.

AARP is right in there with the health insurance and pharmaceutical
industries fighting single payer, while putting on act of being a good
guy as Dr Hochfeld says. They makes a pile of money from the profit
side of the organization and talk as if their non profit and profit side
are completely separate, but AARP is in this fight, not for anybody's health
but for the money. Thus the American Association of Republicans for
Privatization (AARP) has shown its true colors.

Furthermore, AARP's influence is pervasive as it is successful at passing
itself off as the good guys as Dr Hochfeld points out. Dr Hochfeld also said
that AARP has even threatened legislators in Oregon who vote for single
payer that AARP will make sure they're defeated. This organization, Dr
Hochfeld says, has been spending piles of money lobbying to stop single
payer for years. Dr Hochfeld tells how AARP seeks to demonize single
payer with the "socialized medicine" label.

This is the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries' line as well
along with all the talk about people losing their choices, which health
care as the health insurance now runs it, means no choice. The health insurance
industry decides who can see which health care provider, what health care that
person can get, how much, the amount to pay, the amount of coverage
by the health insurance industry, and this includes pharmacies to go to
get prescriptions, which ones are allowed, which amount of coverage,
the payment, and right on through-- no choice. With Single payer, all
the people can see any damn health care provider they want to see, when
they want to see that provider as long as that provider is available and it's
for needed health care, and nobody goes without health care. Add to
that a good estimate is that it would save a third of a trillion dollars. But
that would take money away from the bean counting, parasitic health
insurance industry and its welfare program for itself.

Meanwhile showing just how "humanitarian" the US health insurance industry
is, in the blue state of New York, the Guardian health insurance company
has dropped a whole line of coverage to drop such "dogs" as one top executive
at that company said in an email of 37 year Ian Pearl, who has muscular
distrophy even though this is the coverage Pearl relies on to keep him alive.

But not to be outdone in this competition for rank hypocrisy are those in congress
who while themselves using a form of a single payer system vote against it for
their constituents, and this includes that infamous senator from Montana and for
the health insurance industry who needs no introduction, but surely "deserves
and comment on, which he will get here.

Therefore, let's not fail to "thank" Max Baucus for his mandatory, fine those who don't
purchase health insurance they don't really choose or which they can't even afford,
and selling himself as the prostitute for hire for the health insurance industry pimps.

AARP along with the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries want
the kind of "change" they can believe in, change in their pockets which they
line with our money. They just want to have funds.

Having joined this outfit just as I retired years ago when I thought it was
an advocate for retired people, I just continued my membership, but the
things AARP says in its magazine show what it's all about, and that's good
to know to insure we know how phony it is and how this outfit puts its greed first.
Then it's "divided we fail" if the hierarchy in AARP doesn't get what it wants.
As a member of AARP, I happen to know first hand how this organization,
these "good guys" pressed for a "compromise" resulting in cuts in Medicare
coverage of prescriptions, and after that happened AARP was right there
to tap into this new involuntary market to make lots of money. This shows
how much of an axe those running AARP have to grind to make sure single
payer doesn't pass. It would substantially, if not overwhelmingly cut down on
their revenue. Thus we have AARP alligned with those who put greed over
need. AARP has been able to play this role of being an advocate by the US
mainstream media playing right along and passing this off as the gospel truth.

Thomas Jefferson, for all his faults put it so well when he said, "Greed degrades."

Meanwhile the country's mainstream media also fails to or virtually fails to cover
Dr Hochfeld and the majority of doctors favoring single payer. The same is true
of other health care providers who favor single payer. The same media if it does
cover single payer, always comes up with BS put down that could easily be
knocked down by Dr Hochfeld or many other health care providers, but lack
of coverage insures that never happens-- more on this and reasons for same
later.

As someone who has experienced this country's health care first hand, I have
personally had to wait at least an hour and a half to see a doctor in an emergency
facility in metropolitan Minneapolis/St Paul. That's long enough that I or anyone
else could easily have died. It's worse in other major metropolitan areas, and the
Nation even had an article showing that at times people would be moved from
one emergency room to another due to the shortage of doctors. Do believe some
have surely died as result of this health care mess. Others have done without care
they need due to the shortage of primary care doctors and often to not having any
health insurance coverage at all. This was years ago, and things are definitely worse
now.

This country thus has endured as Jefferson would say, "a long train of abuses"
It has health care of, by, and for the health insurance industry with the drug industry
and AARP getting a piece of the action and big time money at our expense. The
health insurance industry, though, is the primary ruler here, with other two simply
being along for the ride. But tyranny it surely is, for none of these institutions with
all their power recognizes they should "derive their just powers from the consent
of the governed." With that in mind, as Jefferson said "governments (institutions
in this case) are instituted to secure "the inalienable rights" of "life, liberty and
pursuit of happiness." With Jefferson also referring at one point to health as being
"essential" for happiness, thus it should be an inalienable right, and when "governments
(again in this case institutions) "become destructive" of such rights, then the people have
"a right to alter or abolish" them, and replace them with "new governments" (in this
case a new institution, single payer) providing proper "safeguards" for the people.
This single payer would definitely do, providing health care "of, by, and for the
people" as Abraham Lincoln would say, and thus end the current health insurance
industry tyranny over the people's health care with that industry's arbitrary authority
and abuse of such power in determining who gets to see which health care provider,
get what health care, what coverage, charging as it so chooses with no accountability
nor consideration of those it rules over and consideration of "deriving its just powers
from the consent of the governed," treating these "subscibers" as lowly subjects, making
victims of them, victims of this same tyranny. It' time to stop this nonsense of letting the
health insurance industry rule while the people pay the price.

The US health insurance industry controls health care and maintains its tyranny by
divide and rule strategy of playing off heath care providers against patients. When
talking to health care providers, the industry blames the patient for abusing the "system"
which really isn't a system, by using it when they don't need it, thus causing high costs.
When dealing with patients, the industry will blame the health care providers for charging
too much. AARP takes the line that the health care providers are at fault with its members,
overwhelmingly patients, but never gets at the real cause of the problem, the health insurance
industry, as AARP is gettting piles of money off this "system," which puts the quid pro quo
back in the status quo, stressing as it does the buying of politicians to get what they want
monetarily.

With the pharmaceutical industry, the key to their piles of
money lies in the fact that with full private control, the industry
can charge what it likes, as long the federal government, once the
people's government, isn't negotiating prices for prescriptions.
This is the conclusion I'm forced to on this.

We need a system Dr Hochfeld is saying. Currently it's clear we don't
have a system, but a hodgepodge and complete mess, and this I'm
forced to conclude.

With Rash Windbag and his tea baggers many of whom surely are a claque
financed by far right/loony right super rich types putting out so many lies, it's
hard for the people of the USA to get to the truth about health care in this country
unless they or someone they know experience that the people of the USA have
first hand experience with the harsh reality of same. But as Rash and his tea
bag crowd neo constipated crowd often like to mix the Christian religion in
this, the Bible passage that says "Ye shall know the truth and it will set you free"
really right on the mark and entirely fair to use.

Now why is the media not covering those health care providers including
doctors who favor single payer.? Why would that be? Hey, how about
the huge amount of MONEY these media types get from big business
especially the health insurance and pharmaceutical industry, which they
might lose if they covered such topics as single payer? This one professor
of mine in a University of Oregon journalism program referred to as thematic bias--
certain topics are just off limits, and this tends to be due to advertising the media
get from certain sources. These media types know which side their bread is
buttered on. Combine this with the fact that the media generally is a big
business itself and it's easy to see why the media cover this issue the way
it does, leaving out all that might not fit its own big business bias, greed and
self righteous selfishness.