Medicare Overpays $6.7 Billion in one Year for Office Visits and Evaluations, but No Action Planned to Fix Problem

 

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Medicare Overpays $6.7 Billion in one Year for Office Visits and Evaluations, but No Action Planned to Fix Problem
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Sat, 31 May 2014 03:42:50 GMT

Dinesh D’Souza’s ‘America’ warns Hillary Clinton will ‘finish off’ the country

Dinesh D'Souza's 'America' warns Hillary Clinton will 'finish off' the country

BY PAUL BEDARD | MAY 30, 2014 | 1:51 PM

TOPICS: WASHINGTON SECRETS BARACK OBAMA HILLARY CLINTON BILL CLINTON 2016 ELECTIONS DINESH DSOUZA SAUL ALINSKY

In his highly anticipated new book and movie "America," conservative author Dinesh D'Souza is warning that Hillary Clinton won't be a clone of her moderate husband, but will instead take the baton fromPresident Obama to continue radicalizing the country and “undo the nation's founding ideals.”

"America -- Imagine a World Without Her," published by Regnery and set for release Monday, charges that as students of radical organizer Saul Alinsky, Obama and Clinton could have enough time to “unmake and then remake America” into a nation the founding fathers wouldn't recognize.

 

“They may not be responsible for the suicide of America, but they certainly will have helped to finish off a certain way of life in America, and they will leave us with a country unrecognizable not only to Washington and Jefferson but also to those of us who grew up in the 20th century,” wrote D’Souza.

“If they succeed, there may be no going back. Then it will be their America, not ours, and we will be a people bereft of a country, with no place to go,” he adds on page 87.

“America” is D’Souza’s latest book and movie on how he sees progressive politics hurting the nation. He also created the movie “2016: Obama’s America,” which was the second highest-grossing political documentary.

An advance copy of the book provided to Secrets suggests that progressives aim to remake the nation into one that is less powerful, less wealthy and less influential. If that happens, he warns, “We have committed national suicide.”

He focuses on Obama’s and Clinton’s links to Alinsky in a chapter titled “The Plan.” He claims the two followed the radical’s master plan that they hide their views and ideas until they get into power.

“If you see early pictures and video of Hillary, she looks and sounds like a former hippie. Overtime, however, Hillary started dressing like a respectable middle-class mother and speaking in a clipped, moderate sounding voice. Young Barack Obama, too, looked like a bit of a street thug -- in his own words, he could have been Trayvon Martin. Over time, however, Obama started dressing impeccably and even practiced modulating his voice,” the popular author writes.

“Hillary and Obama have both learned the Alinsky lesson that your should aggressively pursue power while pretending to be motivated by altruism,” he added.

“More importantly, Hillary and Obama both adopted Alinsky’s strategic counsel to sound mainstream, even when you aren’t,” wrote D’Souza. “These are the ways in which our two Alinskyites make themselves palatable to the American middle class, which to this day has no idea how hostile Hillary and Obama are to middle-class values.

“If Hillary Clinton is elected in 2016, the baton will have passed from one Alinskyite to another. In this case, Alinsky’s influence will have taken on a massive, almost unimaginable, importance. Obama will have had eight years to remake America, and Hillary will have another four or perhaps eight to complete the job,” he wrote.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/dinesh-dsouzas-america-warns-hillary-clinton-will-finish-off-the-country/article/2549114

Vets Around the Country Describe VA Hospital Experiences

VETS AROUND THE COUNTRY DESCRIBE VA HOSPITAL EXPERIENCES

Horrible care, delays and oversights

Image Credits: Billy Hathorn / Flickr

by ASSOCIATED PRESS | MAY 31, 2014

 

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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs became an explosive political story this week, culminating with the resignation of VA Secretary Eric Shinseki.

The final straw appeared to be a report that described chronic wait times at the Phoenix hospital and found that about 1,700 veterans in need of care were “at risk of being lost or forgotten.” The VA and independent investigators with the Office of Inspector General are still in the process of uncovering problems at dozens of other VA facilities around the country while some lawmakers are calling for criminal probes.

As the investigations unfold, The Associated Press reached out to veterans in Arizona and several other states to recount their experiences with VA medical care. Some described delays and oversights. Others said they were pleased with their care.

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BOOM: Tickets to a Hillary Speech Drop 66% Because No One Wants to Go

 

Hillary Clinton is the presumptive Democratic nominee for President in 2016, but her campaign for the oval office may not be the sure thing that her supporters think it is. Hillary’s approval numbers have been steadily declining because of her lies about Benghazi.  She has been heckled at prior speeches, while receiving the “Liberty Medal“,

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BOOM: Tickets to a Hillary Speech Drop 66% Because No One Wants to Go
Ben Marquis
Sat, 31 May 2014 16:23:04 GMT

‘SQUIRMING’ JOHN KERRY EXCUSED FROM TESTIFYING ON BENGHAZI TERROR ATTACKS

‘SQUIRMING’ JOHN KERRY EXCUSED FROM TESTIFYING ON BENGHAZI TERROR ATTACKS

http://www.infowars.com/squirming-john-kerry-excused-from-testifying-on-benghazi-terror-attacks/





House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa released the Secretary of State from a subpoena to testify before a committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, alleging Kerry was attempting to “distract” from the panel’s work.

Rep. Issa, (R-Calif.), said Kerry agreed to appear before the Oversight and Government Reform panel on June 12 as a means to avoid testifying before a later scheduled Select Committee panel.

The congressional committees have been called to investigate the September 11, 2012 attack on the US diplomatic mission, which led to the death of four Americans, including US Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens.

Issa said he was forced to release Kerry from testifying.

“It’s been disappointing to watch a long serving former senator, like Secretary Kerry, squirm his way to what I’m doing today – releasing him from the upcoming hearing commitment he made only after we issued him a subpoena,” Issa said in a statement.

In the aftermath of the tragedy, Republicans were anxious to label the event a terrorist attack, with possible connections to Al-Qaeda, while the Obama administration explained the assault as a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Islam film, Innocence of Muslims, which cast the Prophet Muhammad in an unfavorable light.

However, the day after the attack, Barack Obama told reporters at the White House that Benghazi was an “act of terror.”

Republicans believe that President Barack Obama’s administration hushed up details of the Benghazi tragedy to protect his re-election campaign. Democrats accuse the Republicans of spinning the investigation to score political points ahead of the November mid-term elections.

The game of partisan politics, meanwhile, continues as the Republicans accuse the Democrats of stonewalling a proper investigation into the events of the attack, which include the release of communications and other documents related to the event.

“In attempting to cover up documents like the September-14 email from Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, President Obama, Secretary Kerry, and other officials have no one but themselves to blame for the increased scrutiny they should soon expect,” Issa said.

The Republican from California had twice subpoenaed Kerry to testify about emails and other files that the Obama administration had released to congressional investigators.

Kerry told the Oversight committee he would be willing to testify in June, and Issa agreed.

Later, White House officials explained that if Kerry testified before the House Oversight committee, there would be no need for him to appear before the Select Committee, which promises to be a more active investigation into the actions of the Obama administration before, during and after the Benghazi attack.

“While Speaker [John] Boehner and I had both originally concluded that Secretary Kerry needed to promptly testify and explain why his department had withheld subpoenaed documents, neither of us immediately recognized how opponents of congressional oversight would use this as an opportunity to distract from the select committee’s effort,” Issa said.

Issa expressed frustration with Obama’s officials, charging them with attempting to “distract” from the investigative work of the committee.

“Seeing Secretary Kerry and others, who have worked to obstruct critical oversight of Congress’ investigations into Benghazi, attempt to use the upcoming June-12 hearing as a shield against the Select Committee tells me it’s time to reassess,” Issa said.

Issa seemed ready to pass the baton to the Select Committee, headed by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., which was opened following the investigative work of the Oversight panel.

“No matter how long the investigation of a terrorist attack that killed four Americans takes, getting the full truth is what matters,” he said. “The Select Committee is the House of Representatives’ commitment to getting this truth.”

“It will conduct its investigation in the face of an all-hands-on-deck effort by defenders of the principal actors to further obscure the facts.”

Bilderberg Takeover Could Spark 1776 WorldWide!

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Fact Check: Clinton’s Benghazi chapter has holes

Fact Check: Clinton’s Benghazi chapter has holes

By Catherine Herridge
Published May 31, 2014
FoxNews.com

Excerpts of Hillary Clinton's forthcoming memoir obtained by Politico conflict with the factual record about what happened during and after the 2012 Benghazi terror attack.
Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., who sits on the newly formed Benghazi selectcommittee and the House Intelligence Committee, told Fox News before the excerpts were released that he is concerned the administration has not fully grasped the impact of the terrorist assault.
"We know that intelligence analysts on the ground knew instantaneously that this was Al Qaeda and its affiliates who had led this attack. And yet it took an awfully long time -- indeed today, it's still not clear this administration has acknowledged the depth and the risks associated with what it means to have an Al Qaeda affiliate actually take down an American [consulate]," he said.
In the limited excerpts published Friday from Clinton’s Benghazi chapter, the former secretary of State continued to defend the administration from what she termed a “political slugfest.”
Specifically, she defended the flawed explanation -- used by then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice five days after the attack -- that an obscure anti-Islam video fueled a protest gone awry in Benghazi.
"There were scores of attackers that night, almost certainly with differing motives," Clinton wrote, according to Politico. "It is inaccurate to state that every single one of them was influenced by this hateful video.It is equally inaccurate to state that none of them were. Both assertions deny not only the evidence but logic as well."
Further, she reportedly wrote that Rice relied on existing intelligence in making her statements.
But former CIA deputy director Mike Morell, who now works for Clinton's principalgatekeeper Philippe Reines at the D.C. consulting firm Beacon Global Strategies, testified in April that it was Rice who linked the video to the Benghazi attack. Morrell, who still faces allegations he misled Congress over the so-called talking points, said the video was not part of the CIA analysis as Clinton seems to suggest.
Morell told members of the House Intelligence Committee that Rice’s claims about the attacks evolving from a protest were “exactly what the talking points said, and it was exactly what the intelligence community analysts believed.”
However, he said: “When she talked about the video, my reaction was, that's not something that the analysts have attributed this attack to."
An independent review of more than 4,000 social media postings, conducted by a leading social media monitoring firm in December 2012, also found the YouTube video was a non-event in Benghazi.
“From the data we have, it’s hard for us to reach the conclusion that the consulate attack was motivated by the movie. Nothing in the immediate picture -- surrounding the attack in Libya -- suggests that,” Jeff Chapman, chief executive with Agincourt Solutions (now Babel Street), told Fox News.
Chapman said his analysts reviewed postings in Libya, including those from Benghazi, over a three-day period beginning on Sept. 11, and saw “no traffic in Benghazi in the immediate lead-up to the attack related to the anti-Islam film.”
The first reference to the anti-Islam film appears to be a retweet of a Russia Todaystory that was not posted until Sept. 12 at 9:12 a.m. local time. The translation reads, “U.S. ambassador killed in Libya during his country's consulate in Benghazi - Russia Today http://t.co/SvAV0o7T response to the film abuser.”
In addition, the video was also described as a non-event by Greg Hicks – deputy to Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in the attack -- in his May 2013 congressional testimony before the House oversight committee.
Clinton went on to write: "Every step of the way, whenever something new was learned, it was quickly shared with Congress and the American people.There is a difference between getting something wrong, and committing wrong.A big difference that some have blurred to the point of casting those who made a mistake as intentionally deceitful."
But the written testimony of Morell shows the administration continued to stick with the “hateful video” explanation long after physical evidence and other intelligence showed there was no demonstration. Morell told the House Intelligence Committee that by Sept. 18, 2012, consulate security video reviewed by the Libyans showed it was a direct assault.
Yet, a week later, before the United Nations on Sept. 25, 2012, President Obama was still relying on the flawed explanation.
“There is no speech that justifies mindless violence. There are no words that excuse the killing of innocents.There's no video that justifies an attack on an embassy,” he said.
As part of its ongoing reporting, Fox News was first to report on Sept. 17, 2012, based on an intelligence source on the ground in Libya, that there was no protest.
Separate from the talking points, Clinton's defense of Rice could also be problematic because Rice inaccurately stated on three network Sunday shows -- ABC’s “This Week,” NBC’s “Meet the Press” and “Fox News Sunday” -- that security was "strong" or "significant" at the consulate on the day of the attack.
She told “Fox News Sunday” that former Navy SEALs Ty Woods and Glen Doherty, who died in the attack, were there to “provide security,” incorrectly linking them to consulate security.
At a press conference earlier this month, Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., said the administration should explain who briefed Rice on the talking points as well as the consulate's security status, and the individual or individuals should be fired. And if nobody briefed her on that, Graham said, Rice should resign.
"They're completely incompetent, or they were misleading her about the level of security because we were six weeks before an election, or she made it up on her own,” Graham said.
On requests for additional security, Clinton continued to insist that she never saw those cables, and the fact that they were addressed to her as secretary of State was a “procedural quirk.”
Fox News was first to report on an August 2012 State Department classified cable that said the U.S. Mission in Benghazi convened an "emergency meeting" less than a month before the assault and concluded Al Qaeda had training camps in Benghazi and the consulate could not defend against a "coordinated attack."
The authenticity of the classified cable, addressed to the office of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has never been challenged. It was significant enough that then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey told lawmakers during congressional hearings that they were briefed on the cable’s warnings. Clinton, though, claimed it was not brought to her attention.
The cable marked "SECRET" summarized an Aug. 15, 2012 emergency meeting convened by the U.S. Mission in Benghazi. It states that the State Department’s senior security officer, also known as the RSO, did not believe the consulate could be protected.
According to a review of the cable, the Emergency Action Committee was also briefed "on the location of approximately ten Islamist militias and AQ training camps within Benghazi … these groups ran the spectrum from Islamist militias, such as the QRF Brigade and Ansar al-Sharia, to 'Takfirist thugs.'"
In addition to describing the security situation in Benghazi as "trending negatively," the cable said explicitly that the mission would ask for more help. The details in the cable foreshadowed the deadly attack on the U.S. compound.
While the administration’s public statements have suggested that the attack came without warning, the Aug. 16 cable undercuts those claims – as it warned the Benghazi consulate was vulnerable to attack and indicates the presence of anti-U.S. militias and Al Qaeda was well-known to the U.S. intelligence community.
The Clinton book excerpts published Friday represent a fraction of the entire Benghazi chapter, which reportedly is 34 pages long.

Why We Must Oppose Bilderberg

 

31 MAY 2014

Episode 291 – Why We Must Oppose Bilderberg

Posted by Corbett

As the Bilderbergers gather in Denmark to discuss this year’s agenda, James Corbett presents “Why We Must Oppose Bilderberg” to the We The People Anti-Bilderberg Conference taking place in Copenhagen. Learn more about the history,aims, and goals of the Bilderberg Group, why they must be opposed, and how best to do it on this special edition of The Corbett Report podcast.

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Documentation

We The People Bilderberg Counter-conference

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David Cameron on Transparency

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04:20

Hillary Clinton on Transparency

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04:41

Candidate Obama on Transparency

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05:19

Meacher on Cameron and his cabinet meeting at Bilderberg

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06:44

Obama and Clinton meet at Bilderberg 2008

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07:46

Bilderberg and The Logan Act

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10:37

CFR War and Peace Studies Group

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15:27

Dutch Prince Bernhard ‘was member of Nazi party’

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18:42

Prince Bernhard accused of helping Nazis flee

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19:31

Revealed: The secret report that shows how the Nazis planned a Fourth Reich…in the EU

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20:22

Information on Jozef Retinger and Bilderberg

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21:23

Recordings From the First Bilderberg Meeting in Oosterbeek, Netherlands, 1954

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23:20

Leaked meeting minutes from Bilderberg conference in September 1955

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24:55

Davignon spills the beans on Bilderberg and the Euro

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27:45

Former Nato Secretary-General Admits Bilderberg Sets Global Policy

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28:21

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

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28:56

This Chart Shows The Bilderberg Group’s Connection To Everything In The World

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30:39

Information on George Ball presentation at 1968 Bilderberg (see pg. 21)

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31:52

Recordings From the First Bilderberg Meeting in Oosterbeek, Netherlands, 1954

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Westbrook Pegler writes the very first newspaper article about Bilderberg in 1957

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Luke Rudkowski And Dan Dicks Arrested At Bilderberg 2014

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Contributed by James Corbett of The Corbett Report.

Why We Must Oppose Bilderberg
Contributing Author
Sat, 31 May 2014 19:00:24 GMT

Police State High: School Bans Backpacks, Seals Lockers, Forces Bathroom Registrations

Police State High: School Bans Backpacks, Seals Lockers, Forces Bathroom Registrations

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Mac Slavo

If drones over America, heavily armed law enforcement agencies, and a massivegovernment surveillance web hasn’t yet convinced you that the United States is rapidly moving towards a police state then maybe the following report out of New York will be an eye opener.

Indoctrination centers abound across the land of the free, with high schools now taking a queue from the TSA:

A New York high school is the latest in the nation to ban backpacks following several bomb threats, and has even taken extra steps, including sealing up students’ lockers.

For the last two weeks of the school year, students at Wantagh High School — located about 34 miles east of New York City — are being forced to carry their books and belongings in plastic bags, sign in and out to use the bathroom and submit to searches when entering the building. But the sealing up of lockers took school security to a new level.

Today’s pedagogic institutions are redefining what the word freedom actually means and students are falling right into line:

“It is an inconvenience, but it’s like an airport really,” Erik Beuttenmuller, an 11th-grader at the school told Fox 5 New York.

Karl Denninger of The Market Ticker weighs in:

What are we teaching our kids when we send them to prisons for 13 years out of their lives?

Yeah, bad things happen once in a while.  But the key here is “once in a while.”  They don’t happen often, statistically-speaking, and if we actually gave a damn about what was going on in these schools and excluded the abusive “kids” who are not there to learn but rather want to raise hell and abuse others we wouldn’t be having these problems.

Instead what we do is teach our kids that mass guilt is the response to one person who does an evil thing.  Rather than punish bad acts we exercise prior restraint.  We teach our kids from the first day that there are no individual consequences and rewards, only collective ones.

And the fact is that none of this actually makes anyone safer.

What it does do is condition our kids to living in a police state.

Congratulations America, because it will be you that gets shoved in the oven.

Mac Slavo is the Editor of SHTFplan.com

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