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Sebelius speechless after reporter tells her how unpopular Obamacare is in Oklahoma

Daniel Halper
The Weekly Standard
Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:01 UTC
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An Oklahoma reporter told Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius how unpopular Obamacare is, rendering the cabinet secretary speechless:

"At last check, 64 percent of Oklahomans aren't buying into the health care plan, they don't like Obamacare, and they've been pretty vocal about it," said the reporter. "Now that's going to be -- still continue to be -- a tough sell, but we'll see how that plays out over the coming months."

Then he waited for Sebelius to reply. And waited.
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Ecuador's Correa does not recognize Ukraine's illegitimate government


RT
Sun, 30 Mar 2014 10:04 UTC
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© Reuters/Guillermo GranjaEcuador's President Rafael Correa
Ecuador has said it will not deal with the coup-appointed government in Kiev and has called for fair elections. President Rafael Correa declared he would only negotiate with a "legitimate government" that represents the will of the Ukrainian people.

In his weekly address to the Ecuadorian people, Correa explained why Ecuador had abstained from the UN General Assembly vote Thursday that passed a resolution condemning Crimea's union with Russia.

"We will not fall for a farce, we will only deal with a legitimate government," said Correa, adding that Ecuador does not recognize the current government that is the product of a coup d'état. To win the support of Ecuador, Ukraine should hold democratic elections and establish a legitimate government chosen by the Ukrainian people, Correa said.

Moscow has also decried the coup-appointed government that came to power in Kiev at the end of February following weeks of bloody protests in the Ukrainian capital's Independence Square.
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Kerry makes unscheduled trip to Israel after Paris talks with Russia's Sergei Lavrov


Yahoo! News
Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:12 UTC
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US Secretary of State John Kerry was en route to Israel from Paris on Monday in a bid to prevent the collapse of the crisis-hit peace talks ahead of an April 29 deadline.

Kerry will possibly hold meetings in Jerusalem and Ramallah over Monday and Tuesday, a senior US official said in France, without elaborating.

The US peace efforts are teetering after Israel refused to free a group of 26 veteran Palestinian prisoners under an agreement which brought the sides back to the negotiating table in July 2013.

Kerry's arrival in Tel Aviv is likely to coincide with a meeting of the Palestinian leadership called by president Mahmud Abbas in Ramallah at 1600 GMT to discuss the latest standoff.

Furious Palestinian officials have warned that unless Israel changes its stance on the prisoner releases it could signal the end of the talks.
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North and South Korea exchange fire near maritime border

Euan McKirdy and Stella Kim
CNN
Mon, 31 Mar 2014 08:35 UTC

A day after raising the possibility of further nuclear tests, North Korea has engaged in provocative live-fire exercises near the South Korean maritime border, leading to an exchange of fire between the neighbors.

The semiofficial South Korean news agency Yonhap reported Monday that the North had begun the drill just after noon. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed that some North Korean ordnance landed in South Korean waters and that the South responded with fire.

The Joint Chiefs said the North Korean offshore military exercise began about 12:15 p.m. Monday and said that "a part of North Korea's shelling reached South Korean side of the NLL (Northern Limit Line) and we (South Korea) responded with K-9 self-propelled guns into the North Korean waters above NLL."

The statement is in line with Yonhap's report that the North fired "several" artillery shells, to which the South Korean military responded with self-propelled artillery fire. The South Korean K9 howitzers have a 24-mile (40-kilometer) range.

It is not clear how many of the shells fired by North Korea reached the Republic's territorial waters. Although there was a lull, North Korean offshore firing seems to have resumed, with Yonhap quoting a resident of Baekryong Island, which is in close proximity to the the Northern Limit Line.
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Israel is neither friend nor ally to the United States

Philip Giraldi
Veterans News Now
Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:45 UTC
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I would like to go a bit beyond the comments that both of my colleagues have made and suggest not only that Israel is no ally, but also that it is not actually a friend, because it does actual damage to the United States through using its considerable access to Congress and the media to promote policies that are neither good for the United States nor for Israel. I'm sure you've all heard the expression that a friend does not let a friend drive drunk. Well, the United States has been driving drunk for quite some time, and that dangerous behavior has to some extent been caused by Israel and its many supporters in Washington.

Israel might or might not have been an actual enabler of the disastrous American invasion of Iraq but it is undeniably true that the American officials extremely close to the Israeli government were behind the rush to war and the forgery of phony intelligence that fed the process. If the Washington goes to war with Iran in the near future it will not be because Tehran actually threatens America, it will be because Israel and its powerful lobby in the U.S. have succeeded in creating an essentially false casus belli to mandate such action.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who once commented that 9/11 was good for Israel, has repeatedly sought to commit our government to draw red lines that would narrow options for the White House and de facto require it to take action with the military against Iran. Congress is meanwhile advancing legislation that would commit the United States to intervene militarily in support of a unilateral Israeli attack, meaning that Israel could easily be empowered to make the decision on whether or not the US goes to war.
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Obamacare: A national catastrophe

Alan Caruba
Warning Signs
Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:25 UTC
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If you type in "Obamacare" on Wikipedia you will discover 25,500,000 links. That's a lot of news coverage and related commentary about the Affordable Care Act. Most of it is negative. The more people have learned about it, the less they like it and, if we had a Congress that could or would do anything about it, it would have been repealed by now.

A March 28 Associated Press poll revealed that only 26% of Americans support Obamacare, a point less than December 2013 and January 2014.

The Republicans in the House of Representatives have voted more than 60 times to repeal or dismantle Obamacare. The Senate, namely Harry Reid its Majority Leader, has killed all efforts to address what is clearly a national catastrophe. When passed in 2009, not one Republican member of Congress voted for it. When it was passed, then Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, famously said they had to pass the 2,700 page act in order to find out what was in it.

In 2010, voters gave power in the House to Republicans, but the Senate remained under Democrat control. The fact that Barack Obama, when campaigning to become President in 2008 and thereafter lied repeatedly to Americans about it has tarnished his reputation and his approval ratings. Since then he has altered the law unilaterally despite the fact that he utterly lacks any constitutional right to do so.
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Flashback The wonderful American world of informers and agents provocateurs

Todd Gitlin
The Huffington Post
Thu, 27 Jun 2013 10:51 UTC
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© Marcus DemeryHas the FBI launched a war of entrapment against the Occupy Movement? Alleged police infiltrators "Gloves" and "Mo" in a black bloc on May 1 in Chicago.
Only Martians, by now, are unaware of the phone and online data scooped up by the National Security Agency (though if it turns out that they are aware, the NSA has surely picked up their signals and crunched their metadata). American high-tech surveillance is not, however, the only kind around. There's also the lower tech, up-close-and-personal kind that involves informers and sometimes government-instigated violence.

Just how much of this is going on and in how coordinated a way no one out here in the spied-upon world knows. The lower-tech stuff gets reported, if at all, only one singular, isolated event at a time -- look over here, look over there, now you see it, now you don't. What is known about such surveillance as well as the suborning of illegal acts by government agencies, including the FBI, in the name of counterterrorism has not been put together by major news organizations in a way that would give us an overview of the phenomenon. (The ACLU has done by far the best job of compiling reports on spying on Americans of this sort.)

Comment: For further reading on agent provocateurs, see:

The Agent Provocateurs in Occupy's Midst
British Government's Agent Provocateurs Exposed!

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Catholic church alleges Kenyan tetanus vaccine campaign conceals sterilization agenda

Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo
Thu, 27 Mar 2014 07:30 UTC
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A concerning new report from the head cardinal of the Catholic Church in Kenya alleges that a WHO/UNICEF sponsored tetanus vaccination campaign may conceal an agenda of forced contraception for over 2 million Kenyan women.

In a move that is garnering international attention, the head of the Catholic Church in Kenya has raised suspicions about the World Health Organization and UNICEF's tetanus vaccine campaign in their country, which is exclusively targeting over two million Kenyan women of children bearing age (14-49), to the exclusion of males and those younger who may be at higher risk from lethal harm from the tetanus infection.[i]

The vaccination campaign began in September of last year, is in the second of a planned three phases, and now covers 60 districts in that country. The final round is slated to begin in September of this year.

As reported on March 27th in the StandardDigital, John Cardinal Njue is alleged the WHO/UNICEF tetanus campaign has been uncharacteristically shrouded from public awareness relative to other national health initiatives that are preceded by a public launch where the public has an opportunity to ask questions. A Citizennews.co.ke news story filmed testimony of John Cardinal Njue voicing his concerns, which can be viewed here.
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Flashback As Western economies tank, Russian capitalism soars

Ben Aris
The Telegraph, UK
Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:42 UTC
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Spend, spend, spend: Russians are stocking up on luxuries... while tens of millions of Westerners are forced into austere squalor
Consumer credit in Russia: high spending and low debt

It's Saturday afternoon in the Evropeisky (European) Shopping Centre, which stands on the banks of the Moskva River just a short distance from Russia's White House, the home of the government. What was, only a few years ago, a barren patch of wasteland that played host to an informal cigarette wholesale market, is today a sparkling new mall which houses hundreds of shops and boutiques and attracts crowds of eager shoppers.

This scene at the Evropeisky wouldn't look out of place in any major city in the world, except for one thing: with 811 customers per square metre, the Evropeisky is by far the world's busiest shopping centre in terms of traffic.

Despite the recent economic slowdown, shopping is booming in Russia, driven largely by soaring consumer credit. Even if we exclude the Evropeisky from the statistics, Russia's major retail centres are now enjoying a level of customer attendance comparable to the best shopping centres in the world.

Comment: It rather sounds like we all need to join the Russian Federation, or the upcoming Eurasian Union...

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Lavrov, Kerry discuss federalizing the Ukraine into autonomous regions


RT
Mon, 31 Mar 2014 05:13 UTC
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Although expressing different points of view on the roots of Ukraine crisis, Russia and the US have agreed to seek common ground to deescalate tensions and implement necessary reforms, having in mind that Ukrainians themselves should decide their future

"We have conducted intensive negotiations in the first place, on the crisis in Ukraine," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after four hours of negotiations with his US Secretary of State John Kerry . "We expressed dissenting views on its causes, but agreed to seek common ground to resolve the situation in Ukraine."

The diplomats shared with each other their suggestions on how to deescalate the situation, but both agreed that the Ukrainian people should take the leading role in deciding their own future.

"We have agreed to work with the Ukrainian government, the Ukrainian people in the broadest sense, to achieve the implementation of such priority measures as minority rights, language rights, disarmament of provocateurs, implementing constitutional reforms and having free and fair elections under international supervision," Lavrov told journalists.
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