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Ron Paul speaks out against billionaire Republican donor Sheldon Adelson

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Monday, November 17, 2014

Video: Romney Praises Gruber at 2006 RomneyCare Signing Ceremony

“Jonathan Gruber at MIT devoted hours and hours to an essential econometric model"

by Infowars.com | November 17, 2014

MIT professor Jonathan Gruber’s influence over government-run healthcare appears to be even more far-reaching than previously thought.

Video posted by GotNews.com reveals Gruber’s direct involvement in Massachusetts’ healthcare bill under Governor Mitt Romney.

“Jonathan Gruber at MIT devoted hours and hours to an essential econometric model,” Romney said.

This “econometric model” can now be seen in President Obama’s “Affordable” Care Act, which has been everything but affordable for the American public.

Despite attempts by the Obama Administration to distance itself from Gruber, countless videos continue to expose his major role in deceiving the public.

This latest video serves to illustrate the clear agenda of both parties at the top – higher prices, less care and more government control.

Video: Romney Praises Gruber at 2006 RomneyCare Signing Ceremony
Mikael Thalen
Tue, 18 Nov 2014 01:10:08 GMT

Obamacare = A Death Panel For The U.S. Economy

Michael Snyder
Activist Post
Did you know that some Americans are being hit with health insurance rate increases of more than 500 percent?
Taking advantage of "the stupidity of the American voter", the Democrats succeeded in ramming through one of the worst pieces of legislation that has ever come before Congress.
The full implementation of Obamacare has been repeatedly delayed, but now we are finally starting to see the true horror of this terrible law. Thanks to Obamacare, millions of American families are losing health plans that they were very happy with, health insurance rates are skyrocketing, millions of workers are having their full-time hours cut back to part-time hours, rural hospitals all over the country are dying, and thousands of doctors are being driven out of the industry thus intensifying the greatest doctor shortage in U.S. history.
Obamacare is a slow-motion train wreck of epic proportions, and the full effect of this law is only beginning to be felt. In the end, the economic impact of this law will likely be measured in the trillions of dollars.
One of the primary reasons why Democrats experienced so much pain during the recent elections was because millions of Americans are receiving some very disturbing letters from their health insurance providers. At a time when U.S. incomes are stagnating, health insurance rates are rising to absolutely ridiculous levels.

As the New York Times recently reported, even the Obama administration is admitting that "substantial price increases" are on the way...
The Obama administration on Friday unveiled data showing that many Americans with health insurance bought under the Affordable Care Act could face substantial price increases next year — in some cases as much as 20 percent — unless they switch plans.

The data became available just hours before the health insurance marketplace was to open to buyers seeking insurance for 2015.

An analysis of the data by The New York Times suggests that although consumers will often be able to find new health plans with prices comparable to those they now pay, the situation varies greatly from state to state and even among counties in the same state.
Originally, Barack Obama promised that if we liked our current health plans that we could keep them. Well, it turns out that was not true at all. Instead, the vast majority of us will eventually have to move to new plans if we have not done so already. This is particularly true for those that purchase health insurance individually. The following is an excerpt from an NBC News investigation...
Four sources deeply involved in the Affordable Care Act tell NBC News that 50 to 75 percent of the 14 million consumers who buy their insurance individually can expect to receive a “cancellation” letter or the equivalent over the next year because their existing policies don’t meet the standards mandated by the new health care law. One expert predicts that number could reach as high as 80 percent. And all say that many of those forced to buy pricier new policies will experience “sticker shock.”
This is something that actually happened to me. I received a letter in the mail informing me that my new health insurance policy which meets the requirements of Obamacare will cost me nearly twice as much as my old one.
Needless to say, I was not too thrilled about that.
Other Americans are being hit even harder. For instance, one family down in Texas got hammered with a 539 percent rate increase...
Obamacare is named the "Affordable Care Act," after all, and the President promised the rates would be "as low as a phone bill." But I just received a confirmed letter from a friend in Texas showing a 539% rate increase on an existing policy that's been in good standing for years.

As the letter reveals (see below), the cost for this couple's policy under Humana is increasing from $212.10 per month to $1,356.60 per month. This is for a couple in good health whose combined income is less than $70K -- a middle-class family, in other words.
These rate increases are coming at a time when the middle class in the U.S. is already steadily shrinking. A lot of families that are already stretched to the breaking point are making the very painful decision to give up health insurance entirely. At this point, there are millions of families that simply cannot afford it.
But Obama is not about to let those people off the hook. In fact, huge tax penalties are on the way for those that do not participate in the new system...
Penalties for failing to secure a health-insurance plan will rise steeply next year, which could take a big bite out of some families’ pocketbooks.

“The penalty is meant to incentivize people to get coverage,” said senior analyst Laura Adams of InsuranceQuotes.com. “This year, I think a lot of people are going to be in for a shock.”

In 2014, Obamacare’s first year, individuals are facing a penalty of $95 per person, or 1 percent of their income, depending on which is higher. If an American failed to get coverage this year, that penalty will be taken out of their tax refund in early 2015, Adams noted.

While that might be painful to some uninsured Americans who are counting on their tax refunds in early 2015, the penalty for going uninsured next year is even harsher. The financial penalty for skipping out on health coverage will more than triple to $325 per person in 2015, or 2 percent of income, depending on whichever is higher.

Children will be fined at half the adult rate, or $162.50 for those under 18 years old.
No wonder so many people are so angry with the Democrats.
And as Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Jonathan Gruber has so infamously observed, Obamacare never would have become law if the American people had been told the truth about what it would do to them.
It has been documented that Gruber has visited the White House about a dozen times since 2009, and he has been one of the leading intellectual proponents of Obamacare. A video in which he states that "the stupidity of the American voter" was "really critical" to the passage of Obamacare has gone viral over the past week. I have posted a copy of this video below...
What he is essentially saying is that the Democrats purposely deceived the American people because it was the only way that Obamacare was going to become law.
And this is a man that has become very wealthy advising government on healthcare matters. According to an article in the Washington Post, he has made millions of dollars from "consulting" in recent years...
Not all of the contracts could be found on public Web sites, but here is a sampling. In some cases, Gruber worked with other consultants, so the fees were shared. These figures also might not represent the final payout, and of course these are gross figures, before expenses. But it’s safe to say that about $400,000 appears to be the standard rate for gaining access to the Gruber Microsimulation Model.

Michigan: $481,050
Minnesota: $329,000
Vermont: $400,000
Wisconsin: $400,000

Gruber has also earned more than $2 million over the last seven years for an ongoing contract with HHS to assess choices made by the elderly in Medicare’s prescription-drug plan.
If you are Gruber, life is quite good.
But for most of the rest of America, the economic pain continues.
For example, one recent study found that almost half of all Floridians cannot even afford "to pay for basic necessities"...
Nearly half of Florida households do not earn enough to pay for basic necessities, according to a report released Tuesday by the United Way that seeks to cast a light on the large group of state residents who struggle financially but do not meet the official criteria for being in poverty.

While 15 percent of Florida households are below the poverty level, another 30 percent are financially insecure — a figure that also applies to Sarasota and Manatee counties — based on a new measurement developed by the United Way.
If all those people cannot even afford the basics, how are they going to pay for Obamacare?
This law is going to financially cripple millions of American families. It truly is a death panel for the U.S. economy. And because Barack Obama can veto anything that the Republicans in Congress do, we are stuck with it for at least another two years (and probably longer).
So what about you?
Have your health insurance premiums gone up yet?
Please feel free to add to the discussion by posting a comment below...
This article first appeared here at the Economic Collapse Blog. Michael Snyder is a writer, speaker and activist who writes and edits his own blogs The American Dream and Economic Collapse Blog. Follow him on Twitter here.

Obamacare = A Death Panel For The U.S. Economy
Activist
Mon, 17 Nov 2014 13:13:00 GMT

The medical shadow government

Dees Illustration
Jon Rappoport
Activist Post
Over the last 50 years, tireless researchers have uncovered and revealed the existence of various elites that control governments and populations:
Banks, super-banks, the military-industrial complex, intelligence agencies, psyop propagandists, Wall Street, and so forth and so on.
For some reason, these researchers, many of them, have a blind spot when it comes to the ongoing operations of a shadow medical government.
Blind spot. And also fear. Fear of criticism and ridicule for exposing sacred sacraments of society—like vaccination.
Like psychiatry.
Like (phony) epidemics.
This tells you how strong and pervasive the pro-medical propagandists are. How much media power they wield. How much science they can fabricate. How thoroughly they can discredit and exile their critics, when those critics cut too close to the bone and expose too much truth.
Truth?
For example: by conservative assessment, the US medical system kills 225,000 people a year like clockwork. Which comes out to 2.25 million American killings per decade. (Barbara Starfield, JAMA, July 26, 2000, “Is US health really the best in the world?”)

For example: for the 300 official mental disorders, there is not a single definitive physical diagnostic test to confirm the disorder. There are only the highly toxic drugs used to treat patients.
For example, none of the heralded so-called epidemics of the past 15 years have panned out. They were all duds. But much fear (and compliance) was generated.
For example: contrary to assurances that vaccines are remarkably safe, the system for counting severe adverse reactions is irretrievably broken. Using rational guidelines for the US, an independent estimate of between 100,000 and 1.2 million severe reactions per year has been made. (Barbara Loe Fisher, National Vaccine Information Center)
The story that emerges from these and other factors has a distinct shape. It is a story of sustained war against the population.
It’s long past the time for the perpetrators to claim innocence or ignorance.
And when researchers rightly claim, for instance, that the real aim of the Surveillance State is control of the population, they should begin to understand that the medical shadow government has the same goal—except that it engages in direct and widespread killing and maiming.
Its agenda involves putting every person on the planet inside a cradle-to-grave system of medical compliance and highly toxic treatment.
This system has an additional effect: as a cover story, through disease invention, it obscures actual environmental causes of illness and death—corporate pollution, sustained generation-to-generation malnutrition and starvation, contaminated water supplies and a general lack of basic sanitation, to name a few.
And as for surveillance, universal medical ID packages and patient treatment records (including psychiatric) are fertile territory, to say the least.
Medical shadow government: a casebook on how to weaken, debilitate, confuse, and kill populations.
Image: Dees Illustration
The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com

The medical shadow government
Activist
Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:47:00 GMT

Obama in 2006: I Have Stolen Ideas From Jon Gruber Liberally

Obama in 2006: I Have Stolen Ideas From Jon Gruber Liberally http://www.infowars.com/obama-in-2006-i-have-stolen-ideas-from-jon-gruber-liberally/

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Paralyzed Iraq War Veteran Who Joined Army Because of 9/11 Writes Last Words to Bush & Cheney

Posted on November 16, 2014November 16, 2014 by George Orwell's Ghost Posted in Other News
Paralyzed Iraq War Veteran Who Joined Army Because of 9/11 Writes Last Words to Bush & Cheney
Submitted to Zero Hedge by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Last March, I came across a letter written to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from a paralyzed and dying Iraq war vet named Tomas Young. It touched me to such an extent, that I highlighted it on Liberty Blitzkrieg at the time. He died on Monday, the day before Veterans Day. If you really want to honor our nation’s soldiers, you should read the following and share it.
RIP Tomas Young.
Full letter below from Counterpunch.

My Last Words to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
by TOMAS YOUNG
I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives. I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.
I write this letter on behalf of husbands and wives who have lost spouses, on behalf of children who have lost a parent, on behalf of the fathers and mothers who have lost sons and daughters and on behalf of those who care for the many thousands of my fellow veterans who have brain injuries. I write this letter on behalf of those veterans whose trauma and self-revulsion for what they have witnessed, endured and done in Iraq have led to suicide and on behalf of the active-duty soldiers and Marines who commit, on average, a suicide a day. I write this letter on behalf of the some 1 million Iraqi dead and on behalf of the countless Iraqi wounded. I write this letter on behalf of us all—the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief.
I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole.
Your positions of authority, your millions of dollars of personal wealth, your public relations consultants, your privilege and your power cannot mask the hollowness of your character. You sent us to fight and die in Iraq after you, Mr. Cheney, dodged the draft in Vietnam, and you, Mr. Bush, went AWOL from your National Guard unit. Your cowardice and selfishness were established decades ago. You were not willing to risk yourselves for our nation but you sent hundreds of thousands of young men and women to be sacrificed in a senseless war with no more thought than it takes to put out the garbage.
I joined the Army two days after the 9/11 attacks. I joined the Army because our country had been attacked. I wanted to strike back at those who had killed some 3,000 of my fellow citizens. I did not join the Army to go to Iraq, a country that had no part in the September 2001 attacks and did not pose a threat to its neighbors, much less to the United States. I did not join the Army to “liberate” Iraqis or to shut down mythical weapons-of-mass-destruction facilities or to implant what you cynically called “democracy” in Baghdad and the Middle East. I did not join the Army to rebuild Iraq, which at the time you told us could be paid for by Iraq’s oil revenues. Instead, this war has cost the United States over $3 trillion. I especially did not join the Army to carry out pre-emptive war. Pre-emptive war is illegal under international law. And as a soldier in Iraq I was, I now know, abetting your idiocy and your crimes. The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history. It obliterated the balance of power in the Middle East. It installed a corrupt and brutal pro-Iranian government in Baghdad, one cemented in power through the use of torture, death squads and terror. And it has left Iran as the dominant force in the region. On every level—moral, strategic, military and economic—Iraq was a failure. And it was you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who started this war. It is you who should pay the consequences.
I would not be writing this letter if I had been wounded fighting in Afghanistan against those forces that carried out the attacks of 9/11. Had I been wounded there I would still be miserable because of my physical deterioration and imminent death, but I would at least have the comfort of knowing that my injuries were a consequence of my own decision to defend the country I love. I would not have to lie in my bed, my body filled with painkillers, my life ebbing away, and deal with the fact that hundreds of thousands of human beings, including children, including myself, were sacrificed by you for little more than the greed of oil companies, for your alliance with the oil sheiks in Saudi Arabia, and your insane visions of empire.
I have, like many other disabled veterans, suffered from the inadequate and often inept care provided by the Veterans Administration. I have, like many other disabled veterans, come to realize that our mental and physical wounds are of no interest to you, perhaps of no interest to any politician. We were used. We were betrayed. And we have been abandoned. You, Mr. Bush, make much pretense of being a Christian. But isn’t lying a sin? Isn’t murder a sin? Aren’t theft and selfish ambition sins? I am not a Christian. But I believe in the Christian ideal. I believe that what you do to the least of your brothers you finally do to yourself, to your own soul.
My day of reckoning is upon me. Yours will come. I hope you will be put on trial. But mostly I hope, for your sakes, that you find the moral courage to face what you have done to me and to many, many others who deserved to live. I hope that before your time on earth ends, as mine is now ending, you will find the strength of character to stand before the American public and the world, and in particular the Iraqi people, and beg for forgiveness.
-Thomas Young

What’s so impressive about this letter, beyond the incredible emotion and pain behind it, is the fact that Mr. Young was so prescient about so many issues. He highlighted the debacle that became the Veterans Administration scandal before it broke, and he also pointed to the dangerous power vacuum created in Baghdad before the emergence of ISIS. We lost a special soul on Monday.

Paralyzed Iraq War Veteran Who Joined Army Because of 9/11 Writes Last Words to Bush & Cheney
George Orwell's Ghost
Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:04:26 GMT

Sunday, November 16, 2014

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture: Obama Administration Must Release Senate Torture Report

By: Derrick Broze Nov 14, 2014

Houston, Texas November 14, 2014 – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture claims the United States use of torture techniques has contributed to a breakdown of international order, stating that “We no longer have a universal moral condemnation of torture.”

Special Rapporteur Juan Méndez spoke at the Rothko Chapel in Houston on Thursday night as part of an event called “Mainstreaming Torture”. Méndez is a lawyer and a human rights activist who experienced torture at the hands of the Argentinean military. He also wrote the book Taking a Stand: The Evolution of Human Rights.

Méndez moderated a discussion between Dr. Rebecca Gordon, lecturer at University of San Francisco and author of Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States, and Dr. Sarah Sentilles, Assistant Professor at Pacific Northwest College of Art.

During the discussion Special Rapporteur Méndez stated that the Obama Administration’s use of torture was “a violation of obligations and international law”. He challenged Americans to hold elected officials accountable.

“We must hold the U.S. accountable, to do that we need to release the unredacted Senate report on CIA torture.”

Dr. Gordon gave an empowered breakdown of how torture breaks a persons physical, social, and psychological worlds. “The purpose of torture is not to get information but to destroy those organizations that threaten the state.” She said governments use torture to harm and create fear among the enemy, worry that someone may be giving up valuable information. Dr. Sentilles discussed the various forms of torture including rape, solitary confinement, prisons, slavery, and other forms of mental torture.

After the discussion Special Rapporteur Méndez spoke with me about how the United States looks from an international perspective and as a victim of torture himself. He believes a sense of isolationism and American Exceptionalism are some of the reasons why some Americans support the actions.

The Special Rapporteur also said the United States governments refusal to work with international authorities on the issue has made it easier for other nations to shirk their responsibilities when it comes to international human rights laws. He said the United States seems to think “these rules are all okay, but they do not apply to us.” However, he did say he believes there are portions of the American public who do not support these methods.

“We had a sense of moral condemnation that was truly universal. The nations that tortured denied that they did. Now, after 9/11, we have lost a little bit of the moral high ground. But it can be regained and it should be.”

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture: Obama Administration Must Release Senate Torture Report
Derrick Broze
Sat, 15 Nov 2014 02:17:43 GMT

Friday, November 14, 2014

How The Food Industry Is Making You Mentally Ill

How The Food Industry Is Making You Mentally Ill: http://youtu.be/taS-XSHGrpk

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