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Welcome to the

Frankly Speaking

Web Pages

(revised)

Part One - The HOME Pages

beliefs-- Press Here for the Statement of Beliefs page.

wrong--Press Here for the HOW I GOT IT WRONG page

mirror - Press Here to learn what else is in Tom Sawyer's mirror site

The "Managed News" Series

(Tom Sawyer has placed the Managed News series of posts on his Web Site and has indexed themJ

Managed News

Part Two - The SECRET and UNREPORTED War Against Affordable Health Care in the United States, 1995-2000

An Overview Containing Links to all of the Web Pages Below:

Overview

A. The Sovereign Power of an Informed Electorate

The Delegated SOVEREIGN POWER of the American People

Representative Government CANNOT EXIST Without an INFORMED ELECTORATE

The COGNATE Rights of the American People

The FUNDAMENTAL PERSONAL RIGHTS of the American People

B. Destruction of the Free Press in the United States

On the Right of the American People to Receive Information

Pro and Anti-Environment Votes in the Congress, 1995-2000

The Votes Themselves

Eighty Attempts to Legislate Affordable Health Care, 1995-2000

The PARAMOUNT RIGHT of the American People to an UNCENSORED PRESS - AP v. United States 326 U.S. 1 (1945)

C. Censoring the News on Affordable Health Care

Easily-Available Information on U.S. Health Care the Media Doesn't Publish

The Collusion Between the Republican Party and the Mainstream Media to CENSOR the news on U.S. Health Care

D. What Does U.S. Health Care Cost?

U.S. Health Care Costs from 1994 to 1998 -- Where the Money is Coming From

Who Actually Pays the Health Care Bill in the United States, 1960 to 1998

E. How Do U.S. Per Capita Health Care Costs Compare with those of Other First World Countries?

Comparing U.S. Per Capita Health Care Costs to those of Other First World Countries, 1960-1967

Comparing U.S. Health Care Standards to those of Other First World Countries

F. The Uninsured and Insured in the U.S. and Health Care Cost Growth for the 231.5 Insured in this Country

Census Data from March 2000, Cost Growth Data from September 2000

G. The Highest Prescription Drug Costs in the World

Prescription Drug Costs in the United States from 1993 to 1998

Who Pays for U.S. Prescription Drug Research and Development?

The "Most Favored" Customers of the Pharmaceutical Industry and How They Stayed that Way

My Price and Your Price for the Same Prescription Drug

A Prescription Drug Price Comparison Spreadsheet

Taxpayer Subsidies for the Prescription Drug Industry

H. Massive Fraud Throughout the Entire U.S. Health Care System

The Story of Health Care Fraud, 1995-2000

Estimates of Fraud in the U.S. Health Care System, 1990 to 1998

The 1995 Reno-Shalala Press Conference on Health Care Fraud

The Inspector General's Letter

I. A STRONG Patients' Bill of Rights

The History of the Unsuccessful Attempts for a STRONG Patients' Bill of Rights, 1995-2000

J. The Numbers Still Do Not Add Up

Part Three -The SECRET and UNREPORTED War of the Republican Party Against Health, Safety and Environmental Regulations, 1995-2000

A. Federalism Turned on Its Head

The Pro- and Anti-Environment Blocs

The Compilation of Votes 1998-2000 (spreadsheet)

B. The SECRET Veto Letters, 1995-2000

Introduction

1995

Part Four - The Information Pages

A. The U.S. Budget

1940-2004 - Graph showin budget deficits and surpluses

1962-2005 - Budget (deficits/surpluses, national debt, interest on debt )

1962-2005 - Net interest on national debt as per cent of income taxes collected each year

1940-2005 - Budget -Receipts/Outlays in current & constant 1996 dollars

1940-2005 - Individual & Corporate Income Taxes as a per cent of GDP

B. Crime Statistics

1995 to 1998 -Reductions in Homicide Rates - U.S. Cities

1979 to 1998 - U.S. Crime Rates (homicides, rapes, robberies)

C. Medical Care and Medicare Statistics

The Growing Difference in Per Capita Health Costs, U.S. and Other Countries, 1960 to 1997

1994 to 1998 - Medicare recipients, U.S. population, GDP, per capita health costs

Medical Care Facts and Figures

D. Republican Election Fraud in Florida

Introduction

http://www.netmagic.net/~franklin/Table1.Florida.html

http://www.netmagic.net/~franklin/Table2.Florida.html

http://www.netmagic.net/~franklin/Table3.Florida.html

Part Five -The MEDIA Pages

MW1--Press here to go to MEDIA pages introduction

A. The CENSORSHIP of the News by the Mainstream Media

The People's Right to Know

On the Kindness of Strangers

Red Lion

B. BLACKING OUT, DISTORTING and IGNORING certain news items for political partisan purposes
1. A Watchdog Information Portal (WIP) to Provide Information that has been BLACKED OUT, DISTORTED, or IGNORED by the Mainstream Media

CPD1-- The Mainstream Media -- a CLEAR and PRESENT DANGER to American Democracy

A Watchdog Information Portal- Concept 1 - The Fundamental Problem

A Watchdog Information Portal - Concept 2 - Some Specifics

WIP Index

WIP 01 -- Our Enemy -- the Mainstream Media

WIP 02 -- To Gain an Understanding of the Clinton "Scandals" and the Impeachment.

WIP 03 -- The Federal Judiciary as a Weapon Against the Interests of the People of the United States

WIP 04 -- Our Legislators and Our Legislatives

WIP 05 -- Educating Ourselves and Our Children

WIP 06 -- Our Health and the Nation's Health

WIP 07 -- Civil Rights

2. TO DESTROY OUR DEMOCRACY

MD1-- THE WATCH DOG THAT DID NOT BARK

MB1-- THE BLIP NEWS AND THE DRIP NEWS TECHNIQUES IN THOUGHT CONTROL

MA1-- ARKANSAS: A RIGHT-WING MEDIA, UNPUNISHED CRIMINAL ACTS, AND A CORRUPTED JUDICIARY

3. On the CORRUPTION of REGIONAL and LOCAL NEWSPAPERS

MC1-- A LETTER TO JERRY CEPPOS

MF1--BLIP NEWS, MERCURY NEWS

4. ON THE ENVIRONMENT -- the taking of Public Property for Private Political Power

MG1--The 105th Congress -- When the Evil that Men Do is Never Reported.

5. ON HEALTH CARE

See Part Two Above

6. ON EDUCATION -- the "ME" Series

The Destruction of Public Education

The ESTIMATED Costs of Vouchers based on a Nationwide Average of 11.22%

STATE-BY-STATE Costs of Vouchers based upon ACTUAL Fall, 1995 Statistics

C. WHAT THE WHITEWATER SMEAR CAMPAIGN WAS INTENDED TO HIDE

Another Reagan Legacy - A List of 167 S&Ls that failed 1985-1988 with bailout costs Greater Than $50 MILLION DOLLARS per S&L

A Reagan-Bush Legacy -- A list of 283 S&Ls that failed 1989-1992 with bailout costs Greater than $50 MILLION DOLLARS per S&L

The Total List - 450 S&Ls that failed from 1982 to 1992 with bailout costs Greater than $50 MILLION DOLLARS per S&L

READ THE NUMBERS -- The bill to the American Taxpayer = $411.6 BILLION DOLLARS!

MZ3- How to Estimate the Cost of Criminal Fraud during the S&L Crisis

MZ1--102 QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LOOTING OF AMERICAN SAVINGS AND LOANS DURING THE REAGAN, BUSH AND CLINTON ADMINISTRATIONS

MZ2--WHO IS PROTECTING L. JEAN LEWIS FROM PROSECUTION FOR PERJURY?

D. THE WHITEWATER SMEAR CAMPAIGN

MM1-- THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA'S ROLE IN THE WHITEWATER SMEAR CAMPAIGN

MN1-- THE ANATOMY OF A COVERUP. . . . .THE ANATOMY OF A SMEAR

MO1-- HOW THE SMEAR BEGAN - WASHINGTON POST/L.JEAN LEWIS CONNECTION -1

MR1-- HOW THE SMEAR BEGAN - WASHINGTON POST/L.JEAN LEWIS CONNECTION -2

MQ1-- HOW THE SMEAR BEGAN - FOSTERGATE

E. THE SMEAR BY YEAR AND MONTH in the Mainstream Media (News Articles, Editorials, Columns) --The "MT" Series

The Overall Timeline:

MT00- TIMELINE OF THE SMEAR - May 1993 to April 1999

1993-GOP Preparations for 1994

MT1--October 1993 -THE START- OCTOBER 31 TO DECEMBER 31, 1993

1994-a Mid-Term Election Year

MT2--January 1994 (STEP 1 - GET A WHITEWATER SPECIAL COUNSEL APPOINTED)

MT3-- February 1994 (STEP 2 - NEUTRALIZE CLINTON APPOINTEES TO THE S&L REGULATORY AGENCIES)

MT4-- March 1994 (STEP 3 -USE WHITEWATER TO KILL THE CLINTON HEALTH PLAN )

MT5-- April 1994 (STEP 3 - USE WHITEWATER TO KILL THE CLINTON HEALTH PLAN )

MT7--May-June 1994 (STEP 4-PaulaGATE-THE CLINTTON HEALTH PLAN IS EFFECTIVELY KILLED)

MT8- -July 1994 (STEP 5-WW, Fiske Report, Hearings, LeakGATE-Negative Spinning and Leaking by Congressional Committees)

MT9--August 1994 (STEP 6-Moderate RepublicanFiske out; Right Wing Republican Starr in--more Negative Spinning)

MT10-- September to December 1994 (STEP 7-Mid-Term Elections; THE SMEAR SUCCEEDS!)

1995- GOP Preparations for 1996

MT11-- January 1st to July 31st - 1995 (Dividing the spoils)

MT12-- August 1st to December 31st, 1995

1996-a Presidential Election Year

MT13-- January 1 to March 31,1996 (An Election Year begins)

MT14-- April 1 to June 30, 1996 (An Election Year continues)

MT15-- July 1 to December 31, 1996 (To the Election and beyond)

1997- GOP Preparations for 1998

MT16--January 1 to June 30, 1997 (Campaign GATE)

MT17-- July 1 to December 31, 1997 (CampaignGATE)

1998-a Mid-Term Election Year

MT18--The ChinaGATE 1 Scandal of 1998 (Launching U.S. satellites on Chinese space launchers)

1999- GOP Preparations for 2000

MT19-- The ChinaGATE 2 Scandal of 1999 - Timeline (Nuclear Secrets)

MT20-- ChinaGATE 2 Scandal - Phase 1 Media Coverage (March 1999)

MT21-- The ChinaGATE 2 Scandal -Textual Analysis -The New York Times March 6, 1999

MT22-- The ChinaGATE 2 Scandal - Textual Analysis The New York Times April 8, 1999

MT23-- ChinaGATE 2 Scandal - Phase 2 Media Coverage (April 1999)

MT24-- ChinaGATE 2 Scandal - Summary (in preparation)

MT25-- ChinaGATE 2 Scandal - Phase 3 Media Coverage (May 1999)

MT26-- The ChinaGATE 2 Scandal -Textual Analysis -San Jose Mercury News May 10, 1999

MT27-- The ChinaGATE 2 Scandal -Textual Analysis -San Jose Mercury News May 12, 1999

MT28-- The ChinaGATE 2 Scandal -Information from the GAO Report of October 1988 on Foreign Visitor Controls at Nuclear Laboratories.

F. MAKING THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA ACCOUNTABLE AGAIN OR REPLACING IT WITH ANOTHER FORM OF MEDIA

ME1-- MAINSTREAM MEDIA CONCEPTS

MP1-- A PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE BILL OF RIGHTS

MS1-- SLOGANS FOR THE MEDIA IN A DEMOCRACY

Part Six - The GATE Pages

(the Clinton "Scandals")

A. Welcome to the "GATE" Pages

GW1-- Press here to go to GATE pages introduction

B. TravelGATE

Understanding TravelGATE (House Reports 104-849 and 104-598) -- if you CAN FIND THE material in the PDF version of HR 104-849, that is.

TG1--TravelGATE -- the Unholy Alliance between the Mainstream Media and GOP Right-Wingers in Congress

Contains Highlights from the

1. The Democratic Minority Report on TravelGATE

2. Representative Kanjorski's Views on the TravelGATE Investigation

3. The DoJ Prosecution Memorandum on Billy Dale

4. The Grand Jury Indictment of Billy Dale

C. Understanding FileGATE

1 FILEGATE AND THE BIG LIE

2a FILEGATE - 475-name FBI LIST, PART 1

2b FILEGATE - 475-name FBI LIST, PART 2

3 Right-Wing Stupidity and FileGATE

4a The 978-name FBI List (from Aarhus to Coughlin)

4b The 978-name FBI List (from Courtemanche to Hopcroft)

4c The 978-name FBI List (from Horel to Zare)

D. Understanding Trooper GATE

1 TrooperGATE Began Before Clinton's Election in 1992

Part Seven - The SAVINGS AND LOAN SCAM Pages

A. Press here to go to SAVINGS AND LOAN SCAM pages introduction

B. LIST 1: LOOTED S&Ls; AMOUNTS LOOTED