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So you've signed up for health care on the ObamaCare exchanges. Think you're covered? Not quite.
As with any insurance plan, new enrollees still have to pay their first month's premium to lock in coverage. But the deadlines for that task are different all over the country, adding to the confusion over an already-perplexing sign-up process.
"It makes an already kind of chaotic situation even more chaotic,"
Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers said.
The deadlines in the ObamaCare enrollment process have been a moving target. For those seeking coverage for the start of the new year, the deadline to sign up was originally Dec. 15. Then it was moved to Dec. 23, and then again to Dec. 24. Even after that deadline passed Tuesday night, the administration announced that those who ran into technical problems on HealthCare.gov could still seek an exemption and get covered by Jan. 1.
Divide and conquer, works everytime... The Egyptian Revolution has been completely neutralized and its revolutionary energy funnelled back towards tight control of the masses by the small US-backed Egyptian elite.
Egypt's military-backed interim government has declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group, criminalising all its activities, its financing and even membership to the group from which the country's ousted president hails.
The announcement on Wednesday is a dramatic escalation of the fight between the government and the Brotherhood, which has waged near-daily protests since the 3 July popularly backed military coup that toppled President Mohamed Morsi. An Egyptian court had
banned the group in September.
Hossam Eissa, the minister of higher education, read out the cabinet statement after a long meeting, saying: "The cabinet has declared the Muslim Brotherhood group and its organisation as a terrorist organisation."
Anyone caught smoking on high-speed trains will be fined up to 2,000 yuan ($330) as of Jan 1, according to a railway safety regulation issued by the State Council.
The penalty aims to ensure normal operation of the railway system and passenger safety as China's railway system readies for the annual challenge of coping with an expected 258 million passenger journeys during the 40-day Spring Festival travel season.
Passengers intercepting trains, walking on railway lines, jumping off running trains or throwing garbage from trains will also face a fine of up to 2,000 yuan, the safety regulation said.
According to an official from the Beijing Railway Bureau who spoke on condition of anonymity, the fine is expected to considerably reduce the number of smoking passengers and ensure travel safety.
We don't need no 'education'... we don't need no thought control...
About one-third of Maryland colleges and universities have decided to follow a recent national trend to ban smoking on college campuses.
The majority of institutions clearing the air are community colleges and the 10 campuses within the University System of Maryland, which adopted a system-wide smoke-free policy last year. Only two private schools in the state, both with religious affiliations, have enacted smoking bans.
Across the country, colleges and universities are rapidly adopting smoke-free policies. Since 2010, the number of smoke-free campuses has more than doubled, and 1,127 institutions now prohibit puffing on their premises, according to the American Nonsmokers Rights Foundation, which collects national data on smoke-free initiatives.
"We're seeing activity in all corners of the country and by all kinds of campuses," said Liz Williams, a project manager for the American Nonsmokers Rights Foundation. "In the last four years, we've seen a massive uptake [of smoke-free policies]."
RTTue, 24 Dec 2013 09:15 UTC
© AFP photoIraqi security forces inspect the site of a blast in Bartala in the Nineveh province, north of Baghdad, on January 16, 2012.
Iraq has too many competing interests, internal and external, and there is too much struggle for power on many sides, so it's unlikely that the parties behind the violence will let it get better, Lily Hamourtziadou at Iraq Body Count, told RT.
RT: You've been researching the victims of terrorism in Iraq for a long time. Where do you get the information and how credible is it?
Lily Hamourtziadou: Our research is daily and what we do is we check many media sources, any media source that is available to us in English or in Arabic. We collect any information we have on civilian casualties on a particular day. We have a very large database that contains names, ages, places where attacks have taken place, as well as who the perpetrators were if they are identified. And that enables us to monitor the violence, to provide some statistics and to see whether it is increasing or decreasing, who is doing the killing, who the targets are.
Comment: Invade a country using a lame, baseless, BS excuse like 9/11 and the 'war on terror', bomb said country to kingdom come, 'shock and awe' it to death, topple its government, install a central bank, destroy its economy, erase everything familiar to its people, murder a significant percentage of the civilian population, traumatize and scar the ones who survive the bombs, install a puppet government,steal, seize and control their natural resources, pretend you're going after 'terrorists', reduce the lives of civilians to a bleak, precarious, unstable, hopeless existence, profit off of stolen treasures and plundered resources, and then sit back and watch havoc play out in the streets, or what's left of the streets.
Just in case anybody still seriously believes the lie that the U.S.actually invaded Iraq to fight any 'war on terror', or that Iraq had anything remotely to do with the U.S. government's official lies regarding 'terror attacks' in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C. on September 11, 2001.
RTWed, 25 Dec 2013 13:29 UTC
© RIA Novosti / Kirill Kallinikov
Both print and online Russian media have been informed of the four swear words that must never appear either in articles or in readers' comments. Newspapers and websites which don't comply could lose their license.
The list of unprintable words was compiled by Roskomnadzor (Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications) and include:
"Obscene terms for male genital organs, obscene terms for female genital organs, obscene terms for sexual intercourse and obscene terms for a woman of easy virtue, as well as all of the derivatives from the above mentioned words," a watchdog's document reads, as cited by Izvestiya daily.
All the other explicit words and phrases will be allowed if content they appear in is marked with a 16+ age limit. In the case of TV and radio, users of bad language will only be able to have their say after 9 pm.
© The Quote Factory.com
Albert Einstein
said:
A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of the truth.
Indeed, scientists have shown that people
will go to absurd lengths - and engage in mental gymnastics - in order to cling to their belief in what those in authority have said.
Part of the reason so many are so vulnerable to naive belief in authority is that
we evolved in small tribes ... and we assume that the super-elites are just like us.
In reality, there are millions of psychopaths in the world ... and they are largely running D.C. and on Wall Street.These people have no hesitation in lying to promote their goals.
The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
told Morley Safer of
60 Minutes and
CBS News:
Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you're stupid. Did you hear that? - stupid.
And studies show that the super-rich
lie, cheat and steal more than the rest of us.
© UnknownRob Kirby of Kirby Analytics
Financial analyst Rob Kirby says,
"There is colossal fraud and price control going on. There are no free markets." Kirby goes on to say, "What we've seen over the last six months is a ramp-up in interest rate swaps to the tune of $12 trillion . . . . What the build in these interest rate swaps is achieving, it's stemming the rise in interest rates." Kirby, who has 15 years experience in trading derivatives, says these complicated derivatives overseen by the U.S. Treasury control the price of virtually everything. Kirby contends, "I refer to this as a price control grid. They are able to dictate and arbitrarily set the price of all strategic goods in the market, whether it's capitol, whether it's energy or whether it's precious metals." As an example of control, Kirby explains, "We have 10-year U.S. bond rates under 3%, and I would say the United States is actually insolvent, and we have countries like Greece where 10-year bonds are yielding over 9%." When does this end? Kirby points to the finite physical gold market and massive Chinese global buying for a clue. Kirby says,
"When China doesn't get their gold, that's when this ends, and that might be when we have a war."
Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with
Rob Kirby of KirbyAnalyitics.com.
Comment: Kirby has some very important messages - particularly for those in the US. As he says, the fuse is lit, we just don't know how long it is.
Jacob Zamansky, Zamansky & Associates partner, Scott Reckard,
Los Angeles Times reporter, and Marc LoPresti, LoPresti Law Group, discuss the accusations levied against Wells Fargo Bank who is accused of opening customer accounts, without consent, to me...
Comment: Did you hear the circular justification for the fraud?. Fraud is committed due to the fines that were levied (for another fraud). Customer is no where in the argument even when they claim Customer is important. That's how psychopathic wishful thinking goes.
Gili Cohen, Shirly Seidler, Chaim Levinson and Reuters
HaaretzTue, 24 Dec 2013 07:06 UTC
3-year-old Palestinian killed as IDF attacks six targets in Gaza; Defense Minister: Gaza won't be quiet as long as Israel isn't quiet; IDF shoots Palestinian near security fence.
© ReutersPalestinian shouts as he inspects a Hamas training camp after being hit by Israeli air strike in Gaza Strip, Dec. 24, 2013.
The Israel Defense Forces struck targets in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday afternoon, hours after a contract worker employed by Israel's Defense Ministry was shot and killed Tuesday by gunfire originating from the coastal territory.
The Israel Air Force attacked six separate sites across the territory linked to Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. Palestinians said that a 3-year-old girl was killed in one of the attacks on the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, and that her mother and brother were wounded. The Associated Press said a total of 10 people were wounded in the attacks.
The IDF said in a statement that the Israel Air Force, tanks as well as infantry corps soldiers attacked two sites in the southern Strip, though ground forces did not enter the territory. The IDF said that one of the targets was a weapons building site and defined the second as a "terror infrastructure" site. The IDF also struck two additional sites in the central Gaza Strip and another "terror infrastructure" sites in the north as well.
"The IDF responded with a wave of attacks and are currently considering our next steps," a senior IDF officer said. He added that while the army wants to avoid an escalation, soldiers in the Gaza Division were on high alert "in case the situation deteriorates."
Hamas told Israel's Ch. 10 following the attacks that it was not interested in an escalation with Gaza.
Comment: The main goal of smoking bans is "to change societal behavior" by stigmatizing smoking, making it less convenient and less socially acceptable. By raising the stakes, it helped transform a complaint into a right, so that people annoyed by tobacco smoke now felt justified in demanding that it be eliminated everywhere they might want to go, including other people's property.
In short, they have conditioned the majority of the people on the planet to behave like Nazis and think it is normal.
See also:
The devious plan of anti-smoking campaigns to control people and stop them from using their brain
Let's All Light Up!
5 Health Benefits of Smoking
Nicotine Lessens Symptoms Of Depression In Nonsmokers
Nicotine helps Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Patients
Brain Researchers: Smoking increases intelligence