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CBO warns 23 million people would lose health care coverage within a decade under Obamacare replacement


RT
Thu, 25 May 2017 12:39 UTC
obamacare 2.0, obamacare replacement
© Mike Blake / Reuters
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's latest scoring of the House Republican replacement to Obamacare shows that by next year, 14 million people would lose health coverage, while a total 23 million would lose insurance within a decade.

The CBO's report Wednesday takes into account amendments attached to the American Health Care Act (AHCA) on May 4, shortly before the House bill's partisan passage which was nearly denied by just two votes. This is the AHCA's second scoring by the CBO, which released its first report in March.

Around 23 million Americans would lose health care insurance by 2026, the new report found. The CBO had previously projected 24 million people losing health coverage. However, it remains unclear how much, if any, good news the Senate Republicans can take away from the government report.

Comment: House passes Trump's healthcare bill -- Here's what you need to know

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Attention

University of Maryland enacts anti-hate action plan

Jack Pointer
WTOP
Thu, 25 May 2017 19:48 UTC
press conference
University of Maryland President Wallace Loh, center, with University of Maryland Police Chief David Mitchell, right, and Gordon Johnson, FBI special agent in charge of the Baltimore Field Office.
The killing of Lt. Richard Collins III, a Bowie State University student who was set to graduate this week, is being investigated as a possible hate crime. Suspect Sean Christopher Urbanski was reportedly a member of a white supremacist Facebook group called "Alt-Reich: Nation."

Wednesday evening, Loh urged students to allow authorities the time "to do their work with due diligence."

But beyond that, he said, "we must do more."

The action plan, which is effective immediately, is comprised of these initial steps:
  • Establishing a hate-bias and campus safety task force — composed of faculty, staff, students and alumni — to review relevant policies and procedures. That task force will then submit a report with recommendations and guidelines;
  • Creating a rapid-response team — composed of faculty, staff and students — to provide support for victims of hate-bias incidents;
  • Allocating $100,000 in supplemental funds to the Office of Diversity and Inclusion for supporting diversity and inclusion efforts;
  • Production of an annual report on all campus hate-bias incidents;
  • Asking the university's Athletic Council to consider ways to strengthen intercollegiate athletics policy to prohibit hate-bias symbols or actions in any venue.
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One year after Buenos Aires Zoo closure, hundreds of animals remain behind bars in a noisy limbo

Luis Andres Henao
Associated Press
Wed, 24 May 2017 01:39 UTC
buenos aires zoo closure
The roars of lions, snorts of rhinos and trumpets of elephants still blend with the cacophony of honking buses and screeching cars passing nearby in one of the most heavily congested areas of Argentina's capital.

A year after the 140-year-old Buenos Aires zoo closed its doors and was transformed into a park, hundreds of animals remain behind bars and in a noisy limbo.

Developers last July promised to relocate most of the zoo's 1,500 animals to sanctuaries in Argentina and abroad, but they had made no firm arrangements to do so. And a new master plan announced Tuesday still doesn't specify how they will accomplish it. Many of the animals are so zoo-trained that experts fear they would die if moved, even to wild animal preserves.

Conservationists also complain that the remaining animals still live in antiquated enclosures widely considered inhumane by modern standards - and say the city government's new plan gives few specifics of how improvements will be made.
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Propaganda

Mom shocked as her daughter's photo is used in fake Manchester terror missing child post


NZ Herald
Wed, 24 May 2017 19:20 UTC
Gemma Devine
© InstagramThis photo of 12-year-old Gemma Devine circulated as a missing person.
A mother woke to hundreds of messages of concern after her daughter's photo was plastered all over Twitter as a potential victim of the Manchester terror attack.

The only problem? Rachel Devine's daughter Gemma was in Melbourne.

The 12-year-old was safe in Australia, but someone had mistakenly used Gemma's photo on Twitter, claiming the girl was lost in the panic scenes following the deadly blast at an Ariana Grande concert.

Rachel, a blogger and photographer, has now used social media to correct the misinformation among the hundreds of desperate appeals for lost children caught in the mayhem.

Comment: Crowds flee Ariana Grande concert in Manchester following reports of explosion; at least 22 killed and 59 injured - UPDATES

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Child psychopath: Brooklyn pre-teen's reign of terror over after police finally arrest him for beating 80-year old woman

Chelsea Rose Marcius
Daily News New York
Thu, 25 May 2017 04:34 UTC
Brooklyn 12 year old attacks 80 year old woman
© Gary Hershorn / Reuters/REUTERSA pre-teen terror in Brooklyn attacked an 80-year-old woman three different times — hitting her over the head with a metal rod, setting her jacket on fire with a lighter and punching her in the face, police sources said.
A preteen's reign of terror in a Brooklyn neighborhood — that includes targeting and menacing senior citizens — is over, police sources said.

A 12-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday for beating an 80-year-old woman and trying to light her on fire, authorities said.

Sources described the child as troubled. He has run away from home twice and been assaulted once.

"This kid is a real piece of work," one source said. "He's like a terror in that community."
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New study reveals most Britons feel ethnic minorities are threat to 'Britishness'


RT
Thu, 25 May 2017 21:02 UTC
UK Border
© Oli Scarff / Getty Images
The majority of Britons believe ethnic minorities living in the UK are a threat to their culture, a new study suggests

Up to a quarter of the population thinks immigrants are snatching jobs, while just over a third (34 percent) believe that they take more from the nation than they contribute, according to this year's Aurora Humanitarian Index survey.

The study also found that respondents believe Brexit will have an impact on the UK's ability to deal with the exodus of refugees flowing into Europe from war-torn areas.

A large number of people lack confidence in world leaders to tackle the refugee crisis, the survey found, and when it comes to Prime Minister Theresa May only a minority (15 percent) think she is the best figure to resolve the issue.
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Oops! False alarm sent after New Jersey accidentally activates nuclear warning system during emergency drill


USA Today
Wed, 24 May 2017 03:08 UTC
Hope creek NJ nuclar plant false alarm
© NJ Office of Emergency ManagementThis emergency broadcast regarding the nuclear power plant in Salem County was sent erroneously, authorities said Tuesday night.
So that frightening broadcast alert about an emergency at the Salem County nuclear power plant ... never mind, authorities say.

An emergency broadcast message sent to televisions across south New Jersey around 9 p.m. ET Tuesday was just a mistake, according to state and county emergency management officials.

"There is NO emergency at our Hope Creek nuclear plant," PSEG Nuclear spokesman Joe Delmar said in an email. "We are conducting an emergency drill. Some of the drill scenario was mistaken for an actual emergency. We are working with the NJ Office of Emergency Management to correct this information. Again, there is NO emergency."
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Whistle

Obama administration knowingly let MS-13 gang members into US after they were captured at border

Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Wed, 24 May 2017 00:00 UTC
M-13 gang members
The Obama administration knowingly let in at least 16 admitted MS-13 gang members who arrived at the U.S. as illegal immigrant teenagers in 2014, a top senator said Wednesday, citing internal documents that showed the teens were shipped to juvenile homes throughout the country.

Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said a whistleblower turned over Customs and Border Protection documents from 2014 detailing the 16 people who were caught crossing the border.

"CBP apprehended them, knew they were MS-13 gang members, and they processed and disbursed them into our communities," Mr. Johnson, Wisconsin Republican, said.

Comment: See also: Obama immigration officials released nearly 600 convicted sex offenders back onto US streets

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Seeing through the lies: Germans and Italians don't believe NATO's "Russian invasion" hysteria


Fort Russ
Thu, 25 May 2017 17:58 UTC
Nato
According to a Sputnik survey conducted just before the NATO summit in Brussels, Italians, Germans, and the French largely do not believe in NATO's claims of a possible Russian invasion of Poland and the Baltic states. Meanwhile, Britons and Americans are of a different opinion.

The majority of respondents in Italy (69%) and Germany (60%) and nearly half of Frenchmen (47%) do not believe that Russia has plans to invade Poland and the Baltic states. Such an opinion is held mainly by the older generation with a high level of education.

In the UK and US, on the contrary, well-educated people do not rule out a Russian invasion of Eastern Europe. Forty-three percent of Britons and 55% of Americans, mostly Democrats, agree that such is possible.

Comment: It seems the people in some countries are more immune to the propaganda that is continually put forth by Western media or it could be that the onslaught is not as wide ranging in these countries.

Interestingly enough, another recent poll conducted in the United States found:
"Sixty-five percent of voters believe there is a lot of fake news in the mainstream media," a news report explaining the poll revealed. "That number includes 80 percent of Republicans, 60 percent of independents and 53 percent of Democrats."

[...]

The report concluded that the result is that both Trump's image and US public trust in the media are at all-time lows.
Now only if some Americans and other Western citizens could put 2 + 2 together and see the ties between the media and their respective deep states and that the fake news put out by the various national medias is pushing the agenda of the deep state to demonize and lie about Russia and its intentions. Hopefully, the efforts of honorable people, such as Oliver Stone, can chip away at the false representations.

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London's Stansted airport police arrest man suspected of plotting terrorist attack


RT
Thu, 25 May 2017 19:30 UTC
Two policemen
© Luke MacGregor / Reuters
Counter-terrorism officers have arrested a man at Stansted airport on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack, the Metropolitan Police has said. The suspect was detained before boarding a flight to Turkey.

The suspect was arrested "on suspicion of preparing for acts of terrorism contrary to Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000," according to a Metropolitan Police statement.

The 37-year-old was taken into custody at a South London police station. His arrest was linked to his plans to travel to Syria via Turkey.

Meanwhile, two residential addresses in north London are now being searched. Scotland Yard has noted that the arrest at Stansted has no connection to Monday's Manchester Arena attack.

Comment: See also: Crowds flee Ariana Grande concert in Manchester following reports of explosion; at least 22 killed and 59 injured - UPDATES

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