William J. Clinton Foundation and Michelle Obama's Obesity Program
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About the Partnership for a Healthier America

The Partnership for a Healthier America is an independent, nonpartisan organization that will mobilize broad-based support for efforts to solve the child obesity challenge. The partnership emerged out of a series of conversations between The California Endowment, Kaiser Permanente, Nemours, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, which is a partnership of the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation.

We Sell Sea Shelves Posted in the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
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We Sell Sea Shelves
By: Jeremy Brown
Publication: Tom Paine.com

Is the federal government poised to sell off the rights to America's continental shelf for billions of dollars, just as the United States sold off digital spectrum rights in the 1990s and the British privatized major resources and industries only a few years before that?

The rebound from recession in the United States under Bill Clinton and the amazing turnaround in the British economy under Margaret Thatcher are customarily attributed to the skill and correct economic policies of those leaders. But the sale of public trust assets at the time indicates certainly boosted government coffers, and offers a glimpse of what the present U.S. administration might have in mind for the continental shelf.


Digital spectrum rights in the 1990s
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It is often forgotten that the airwaves commercial broadcasters use belong to the public. In return for using this valuable public resource for absolutely free, commercial broadcasters have basic “public interest obligations” to ensure that programming reflects the needs and desires of the public . It’s no secret that broadcasters have been shirking this duty for years and that lawmakers and the FCC have failed to hold broadcasters accountable.

Bruce Dixon, editor of Black Agenda Report, has been one of the few reporters to sound the alarm over this boondoggle. In his article “Grand Theft Digital; How Corporate Broadcasters Are Hijacking Digital TV,” he said the FCC’s DTV Web site is devoid of any mention of the taxpayers’ gift to industry.