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Essential services are being privatised the world over. Whether
it's water, gas, electricity or the phone network, everywher from
Sao Paulo in Brazil to Leeds in the UK is following the US economic
model and handing public services over to private companies whose
principal interest is raising prices. Yet it's one of the world's
best kept secrets that Americans pay astonishingly little for high
quality public services. Uniquely in the world, every aspect of US
regulation is wide open to the public. How is this done and why has
this process not taken root elsewhere? How is regulation threatened
even in the United States? And what power does the public have to
ensure that services are regulated along these US lines?;This
volume, based on work for the United Nations International Labour
Organisation, is a step-by-step guide to the way that public
services are regulated in the United States. It explains how
decisions are made by public debate in a public forum. Profits and
investments of private companies are capped, and companies are
forced to reduce prices for the poor, fund environmental
investments and open themselves to financial inspection.
Danny Schechter the "News Dissector," a veteran journalist,
filmmaker, and participant in many social movements, began covering
Occupy Wall Street for Al Jazeera and other leading websites,
international TV News programs, and Progressive Radio Network
shows. Occupy collects his essays, blog reports, and movement
documents. As the filmmaker behind "In Debt We Trust" (2006) and
"Plunder: The Crime of Our Time" (2010), Danny Schechter has
specialized in exposing Wall Street crime in three books and many
reports. He says, "This is the movement we have been waiting for to
'fight the power.' Even as debt strangled millions, and
unemployment rose alongside foreclosures, economic issues only
remained fodder for boring pundits and self-styled experts. There
was no activist response. Until now." Schechter explains, "Occupy
Wall Street has a way of touching you personally with its gutsy
honesty and democratic spirit. Yet, I was not always uncritical. I
want it to succeed, but I'm also aware of its many contradictions
and internal conflicts." *Occupy* provides the News Dissector's
in-depth assessment of a global revolt in the making. DANNY
SCHECHTER is a writer, television producer, and independent
filmmaker who also speaks about media and financial issues. He is
the editor of Mediachannel1.org and blogs daily as the News
Dissector at NewsDissector.net. Schechter is the author of fourteen
books and has produced and directed more than thirty documentaries
and television specials. His blog was named the 2009 "Blog of the
Year" by the Hunter College Media Department of the City University
of New York.
Armed with more than 50 classified documents, confidential memos,
and secret plans, Greg Palast cuts through the TV news baby-talk.
It was he who first uncovered how Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris
stole the 2000 election. Harris calls him "twisted," but heres the
new twist revealed in this CD: John Kerry won in 2004, and 2008 is
already fixed. 1 CD.
A close presidential election in November could well come down to
contested states or even districts--or an election decided by vote
theft. The book names the filthy-rich sugar-daddies who are funding
the Super PACs of both parties told with Palast's no-holds-barred,
reporter-on-the-beat style.
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