Swiss voters have approved a radical health policy that offers prescription heroin to addicts on a permanent basis. Under the scheme, addicts visit clinics up to twice a day, where they inject the drug under medical supervision.

After eight years of disappointment, frustration and legal wrangling with the Bush administration, environmental groups think Barack Obama could be the nation’s greenest president. A genuine “environmentalist.”

John Lennon was a ‘man for all seasons’ and will be remembered for many things as he transcended the music of the Beatles, arguably the most popular and influential band ever. President-elect Barack Obama’s success this week has stirred many feelings, old and new, for most Americans including the wide-eyed optimism that was felt when John Lennon wrote, “Give Peace a Chance,” which became the anthem for a new, new world order.

With the election four days away, Amy Goodman od Democracy Now spent an hour with Academy Award-winning filmmaker and author Michael Moore. His film Fahrenheit 9/11 took on the Bush administration. Sicko took on the health insurance industry and now he speaks out on the election, the bailout, healthcare, and 10 “proposed decrees” from a new White House.

Does anyone remember the 1993 movie, DAVE starring Kevin Kline as a regular guy who as a dead-ringer for the President ends up taking his place after the President has a stroke putting him into a coma? As it turns out, he takes the extreme action of reworking the national budget in order to save a $650 million program for helping the homeless. They accomplish this by going through the national budget, one “line item” at a time discovering mountains of unnecessary waste. Sound far fetched? THINK AGAIN…

If I told you that Larry Flynt, publisher of the uber-porn magazine Hustler, was one of the greatest champions of the Constitution’s First Amendment this country has ever produced….would you believe me? Probably not! Well the fact is that we owe many thanks to Larry Flynt for spending tens of millions of his own dollars in the pursuit of protecting and strengthening free speech in America.

This is Michael Moore’s second letter that The Lang Report is publishing regarding the government’s request for $700,000,000,000 to be used to bailout the U.S. economy. Many fear that the decision makers in Washington are, once again, rushing into passing legislation to address a problem that none of them can explain. It is our fear that this bailout is a temporary fix and a band-aid on a problem that will need revisiting again in the near future. Meanwhile, here is what Michael Moore has to say…..

Stand on a sandy shore and feel the wind on your face and ask yourself how much does that breeze cost. Nothing?…..absolutely right! Now ask yourself how much would it cost to capture that wind and turn in into usable energy that’s 100% clean. Not sure? Well, I’ll give you a hint. It cost far less than oil and the resource is endless! Here’s a story that breathes life into the belief that we just might unshackle ourselves from OPEC and begin to restore the American economy and prosperous way of life. Just maybe…..

One of the greatest unsung heroes of the modern day protest movement is Pete Seeger who unfortunately is not well known with the youth of today. It is, however, difficult to emphasize the impact he’s had on me and so many others of my generation (1960s). His ceaseless passion for reaching the hearts and minds of those who will listen is summed up by the inscription on his banjo which reads “This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.”

The Lang Report has been an early adopter in following and advocating for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program whose goal it is to put a low-cost, rugged computer in the hands of every grade-school student in developing countries. It’s the most ambitious effort to provide computers to poor children worldwide, and a South Florida company is handling logistics.