Puppet Masters
Didn't any Obama geniuses read the newspaper? The US is a high tech/software/eCommerce powerhouse. We're really good at this stuff.
So why did the Obama administration give a $1 billion plus ObamaCare website contract to a UK company that is already under investigation for everything from gross incompetence to government fraud to sexual assault?
Follow the money. The corporate felons spent $1 million on lobbying (read that "legalized bribery to dirtbag politicians.")
That's a 1,000 to 1 return on their investment (bribe to contract size.)
Why can't every American get in on this corporate gravy train? Think of the good it would do the country.
I'd be happy to give Obama $1,000 to get a million dollar contract to create a web site. I'd even make sure it works. Which government punk do I give the money to?
In a bizarre announcement yesterday, the U.S. Treasury Department boasted that the government of Jordan had closed on a $1.25 issuance of sovereign debt guaranteed by the U.S. government.
While I am not sure how common it is for our nation to guarantee these types of issuances (comments would be appreciated), the announcement represents a gigantic slap in the face on multiple levels.
From the U.S. Treasury Department's press release:
While I am not sure how common it is for our nation to guarantee these types of issuances (comments would be appreciated), the announcement represents a gigantic slap in the face on multiple levels.
From the U.S. Treasury Department's press release:
This guarantee marks the conclusion of a process that President Obama set in motion in March 2013 when he visited Jordan. During his visit, President Obama noted that a U.S. guarantee, "can help deliver the results that Jordanians deserve... to see their schools better, their roads improved, healthcare, clean water all enhanced, the training that I know a lot of Jordanians seek, particularly young people, to get a job or to turn entrepreneurial skills into a business that creates even more jobs." That vision was further affirmed by the signing of a loan guarantee agreement in Amman on August 14, 2013.Did you catch that? The Treasury Department expressed its preoccupation with Jordanian healthcare on the same day it is revealed that the top hospitals in America will not accept Obamacare.
© David Levene
Paul Gambaccini has been arrested and bailed as part of Operation Yewtree.
Paul Gambaccini has been arrested and bailed as part of Operation Yewtree.
Gambaccini, whose broadcasting career spans 40 years at the BBC, was held on Tuesday as part of the inquiry into alleged sexual offences by Jimmy Savile and others.
Scotland Yard has refused to name the 64-year-old, but Gambaccini's identity was confirmed by sources on Friday.
The DJ, who is one of Britain's best known broadcasters and foremost authorities on music, becomes the 15th arrest under Operation Yewtree since it began a year ago.
He was arrested under the "others" strand of the investigation, meaning the allegations are not directly linked to Savile. He was held at an address in south London before being taken into police custody.
Shortly after 6pm on Tuesday Scotland Yard announced that the 64-year-old had been bailed to a date in early January "pending further enquiries".
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Scrooge McDuck
Scrooge McDuck
The billionaire founder of one of the world's largest investment firms has acknowledged that he has gotten incredibly wealthy "at the expense of labor" and is calling for higher taxes on the rich to help curb growing economic inequality.
In an 'Investment Outlook' newsletter titled "Scrooge McDucks," Bill Gross, founder and chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) wrote:
Having benefited enormously via the leveraging of capital since the beginning of my career and having shared a decreasing percentage of my income thanks to Presidents Reagan and [George W.] Bush via lower government taxes, I now find my intellectual leanings shifting to the plight of labor."Having grown rich at the expense of labor, the guilt sets in and I begin to feel sorry for the less well-off," Gross writes.
He continues:
I would ask the Scrooge McDucks of the world who so vehemently criticize what they consider to be counterproductive, even crippling, taxation of the wealthy in the midst of historically high corporate profits and personal income to consider this: Instead of approaching the tax reform argument from the standpoint of what an enormous percentage of the overall income taxes the top 1 percent pay, consider how much of the national income you've been privileged to make.Indeed, the top 1 percent of US income earners made 19.3 percent of national household income in 2012, its largest slice of the proverbial pie since the IRS began keeping records a century ago. Since the Great Recession officially ended in 2009, 95 percent of all income gains went to the top 1 percent of earners.
© The Rundown Live
The Wausau Herald has come out suggesting Common Core opponents offer only "fringe conspiracy theories". Well here is a conspiracy for you.
Check out these other Common Core
- Common Core Government Course teaches Students To "Legalize" Prostitution.
- New Common Core Standards 3 X 4 = 11 Is Okay Answer
- Common Core Turns Students Into Lab Rats
Parents and Students are still enraged at Albany High School over a persuasive writing assignment that required the students to create an argument on why "Jews were evil and the source of Germany's problems."
But no one in the administration has been willing to tell us how many policies have been purchased, and this may be the reason: CBS News has learned enrollments got off to an incredibly slow start.
Early enrollment figures are contained in notes from twice-a-day "war room" meetings convened within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services after the website failed on Oct. 1. They were turned over in response to a document request from the House Oversight Committee.
The website launched on a Tuesday. Publicly, the government said there were 4.7 million unique visits in the first 24 hours. But at a meeting Wednesday morning, the war room notes say "six enrollments have occurred so far."
They were with BlueCross BlueShield North Carolina and Kansas City, CareSource and Healthcare Service Corporation.
Glenn Greenwald, the man behind the reports on the NSA global spy program, spoke to El Mundo journalist German Aranda and stressed that the US espionage activities went much further than just Europe.
"There are a lot of countries, and journalists in a lot of different countries, who have been asking for stories and to work on documents for a long time," Greenwald said. He added that he was working as fast as possible to "make sure that all of these documents get reported in every single country there are documents for, which is most countries in the world."
Shedding light on the NSA's motives in compiling metadata on citizens, he said the spy organization's main aim was to store the information to be able to dip into it whenever necessary.
The previous high of $238 billion was set two years ago.
The Washington Times reports that the sudden increase can be attributed to the government's "replenishing its stock of 'extraordinary measures' - federal funds it borrowed from over the last five months as it tried to avoid bumping into the debt ceiling."
Since May, the federal debt barely increased, staying right around $16.7 trillion. But Congress's recent deal, which went into effect on Wednesday, completely suspended the government's borrowing limit.
When the debt ceiling increased on Wednesday, the Treasury Department was subsequently able to refund pensions and programs that had been unfunded since May.
Israeli warplanes struck a military base near the Syrian port city of Latakia this week, an Obama administration official told CNN on Thursday.
An explosion at a missile storage site in the area was reported in the Middle Eastern press, but an attack has not been confirmed by the Israeli government.
The target, according to the Obama administration official, was missiles and related equipment the Israelis felt might be transferred to the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah. The official declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the information.
A federal appeals court has blocked a judge's ruling that demanded changes to the New York police department's controversial stop-and-frisk policy and ordered she be removed from the case.
In a victory for the outgoing mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, the court said Shira Scheindlin's ruling, in which she declared the practice to be unconstitutional, would be stayed pending the outcome of an appeal by the city.
Comment: How many is that now since the Savile scandal broke last year? 10, 12?
The only conclusion we can draw at this point is that the BBC is a den of pedophilia and other crimes against children.
And this institution has been instrumental in shaping the way an entire country (and extended global 'Commonwealth') thought for over 90 years??