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Listed as the most viewed video of the day on YouTube.  Obama’s first weekly address (now a video rather than radio address) to the nation outlines his recovery spending plan for the nation.  Pending the passage of the bill, details and updates on the program will be found at the new Recovery.gov website.

Highlights of the program include a 3-year plan to double alternative energy production, three thousand miles of new power lines (I suspect many of those will be from the new distributed power sources), energy efficiencies for federal buildings and weatherizing 2.5 million homes.  There is a 5-year plan to computerize medial records, and a stopgap measure for healthcare coverage of the newly unemployed.

Everything is available from The White House website.  Remember: if it’s created by the US government, it’s either classified or it’s public domain.

Found through digg, Tim Dickenson over at Rollingstone has written a nice article summarizing the current rules that the Bush administration is pushing into place a the last minute, when political capital is meaningless.  I find it shocking that we still allow unilateral rule changes that can affect so much of the country without any kind of review.  Well, maybe not that shocking.

The torching of major environmental and medical protections are just a part of the ongoing “gutting of America”.  Read the original for all the details.