Rock Star and long-time environmental activist John Hall just won the Democratic primary in an upstate New York district that hosts what could be the world's most catastrophic nuclear plant. He wants it shut, and may soon be in Congress working to do just that.

Hall was a mainstay of the group Orleans. His name is on such well-known hits as "Dance with Me" and "Still the One." When George W. Bush used "Still the One" at GOP rallies in 2004, Hall made him stop.

Now, Hall may be in place to help stop Indian Point, the reactor complex in the 19th Congressional District north of New York City. Indian Point is now best known as the plant that could have been hit on September 11, 2001. The first jet that flew into the World Trade Center flew directly over the two operating reactors there, and could have done apocalyptic damage had it dived down one minute early.

With September being National Women's Health month and election season is in full swing! Help is needed to talk to the thousands of Ohio voters who support family planning services and reproductive choice. Planned Parenthood in cooperation NARAL, Pro-Choice Ohio and America Votes is seeking participation for Choice Days of Action. The days of action will include going door to door to chat and educate voters on the Ohio Prevention First Act and the opportunities they have to protect the reproductive health and privacy of all Ohioans.

The Ohio Prevention First Act is an act aimed at reducing the amount of pregnancies. Features of the act include forbidding health insurers from limiting or excluding coverage for FDA-approved prescription contraception if the policy covers other prescription drugs or devices; . emergency contraception access and education; guaranteeing women's access to prescriptions from pharmacists; honest sexuality education and teen pregnancy prevention; and state funding for family planning services.

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It's true.  It's weird. It's nuts.  The Department of Homeland Security, after a five-year hunt for Osama, has finally brought charges against … Greg Palast.  I kid you not.  Send your cakes with files to the Air America wing at Guantanamo.

Though not just yet.  Fatherland Security has informed me that television producer Matt Pascarella and I have been charged with unauthorized filming of a "critical national security structure" in Louisiana.  

On August 22, for LinkTV and Democracy Now! we videotaped the thousands of Katrina evacuees still held behind a barbed wire in a trailer park encampment a hundred miles from New Orleans.  It's been a year since the hurricane and 73,000 POW's (Prisoners of W) are still in this aluminum ghetto in the middle of nowhere.   One resident, Pamela Lewis said, “It is a prison set-up" -- except there are no home furloughs for these inmates because they no longer have homes.

To give a sense of the full flavor and smell of the place, we wanted to show that this human parking lot, with kids and elderly, is nearly adjacent to the Exxon Oil refinery, the nation's second largest, a chemical-belching behemoth.

I'd actually be fine if ABC aired their Swift Boating mockudrama, The Path to /9/11. They just have to do one little thing:

Every couple minutes they need to interrupt the movie with a black screen that stays around for at least a minute and says, in large readable letters:

TOO BAD THIS FILM HAD TO LIE AGAIN AND AGAIN. THIS IS AS IMPORTANT SUBJECT AS EXISTS. AND THEY TURNED AND TWISTED THE TRUTH, AGAIN AND AGAIN. THEY HAD PEOPLE DOING EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THEY DID DO.

THEY DID IT FOR THEIR LOVE OF POWER.

THEY DID IT TO KEEP THEIR PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON DC, TAKING ACTIONS THAT MAKE TERRORISM WORSE, AND BREED FEAR AND DESPERATION IN THE WORLD.

THEY DID IT BECAUSE THEY'VE LOST THEIR RESPECT FOR TRUTH.

SORRY WE'RE AIRING A FILM WHOSE LIES EMBODY THESE VALUES.

SINCERELY,

ABC

PS-Next time we'll try to get things right. But no guarantees.

I'd be satisfied with that, so long as it repeated throughout the show.

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Paul Rogat Loeb is the author of The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A