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The Republicans just want Obama to fail in everything.
Possible good new interview on NSA spying?
I present the case of former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/093013-nsa-nacchio-274344.html
Palindromedary ~ La Raza, a Mexican resource group, recently hosted a telephone town meeting I was a part of that answered random questions and provided resources for people on the ACA. I listened as long as I could, about two hours, and all the questions I heard had positive answers. There is a lot of misinformation and apprehension out there, but most of the scenarios I heard had welcomed answers. We might want to play this one by ear. Also, there are resources within the government and the insurance marketplaces available by telephone that can answer specific question for specific applications and situations. I didn't write down the resources at the time because the ACA isn't going to affect me. However, I doubt the ACA is going to have nefarious fine print for most people. It's more the loopholes that the insurance companies either figured out or might have built into it that I worry about. Besides, if it really did hurt people and help the insurance industry, why would the Republicans waste so many resources and so much clout trying to destroy it? It seems more likely that they are desperately trying to stop it. Anything that scares the Republicans is usually good for the nation. Also, Thom endorses the ACA. That alone should tell you something.
RACadmin: Thanks for the video, again. I didn't get much out of what Obama said about the ACA..there were lots of things he didn't cover. Of course, there are lots of details that will only fit in a copy of the law itself and I understand that it would have been impossible for Obama to explain every situation in just a few minutes. But many of us saw a sales job dealing with generalities...like, "don't worry about it...just sign on the dotted line". It is the "fine print" that we are worried about.
Yes, we could get copies of the law and spend a great deal of time trying to understand it all...but it would be nice if they at least hit some of the key points that should have been right up front....like... Is it true that the actual out-of-pocket each month for premiums will be automatically subsidized by the government, providing we qualify. And is it true that the insurance companies won't be able to charge premiums based upon preexisting conditions... What happens if you turn 65 and are eligible for medicare in 2014...can you opt out and not get fined if you turn 65 and get medicare in January of 2014....what about February of 2014..what about July of 2014? I imagine that those who turn 65 in 2014 would most likely drop their ACA insurance once they get medicare. Will there be some fine print that says that if you drop out from the insurance that you have to pay an early release fee?
So, these are just a few questions that don't seem to be mentioned or answered. And I'm sure there are others who have many more questions about their particular needs. Mostly what I see is a sales job rushing us to get signed up. That never works out except for the salesman.
Palindromedary ~ Thanks for those links. I'll have to check out that show. Unfortunitely it will have to be tomorrow. It's getting late and I want to be alert when I see it. Good night and thanks again!
I think if more people understood just what the ACA does and what will change and what will not, as fare as affecting everyones healthcare insurance or the lack thereof, only one in about 10 stand to be hurt only if governors of individual states choose not to get on board... This Youtube video does an ecellent job of explaining the new Affordable Care Act...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZkk6ueZt-U&feature=player_embedded%20
I only wish more would watch it and then they would realize that everything Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have been saying along with the Tea Party half witts and their supporters is a crock... and, I'd rather have a Democrate as a friend then a Republican as an enemy... especially if I lacked healthcare...
why are those with healthcare complaining and trying to prevent those without it from obtaining it or making it affordable to them? Rush Limbaugh gets paid $50 million a year to talk out his ass and complain into a golden microphone on hundreds of clear channel radio stations... why should he care if Scott Walker, the Governor of Wisconsin rejects federal money tofurther fund the Medicaid program due to increased need and a bad econemy, while rejecting the new raised poverty income level to 138% , or about $15,000 a year due to inflation adjustments as set by the federal government... and, why should he care if Walker insists that the level be held back to 100% of what it was years ago or about $11,000 a year ? instead, both Rush and Walker seem to think people on such incomes can fend for themselves while they have contributed to the healthcare provided those who hold office as tax payers regardless their low income... Hence the Medicaid program as was established years ago as a way to provide for those who by no fault of their own as tax paying or unemployed should and deserves to receive healthcare.
Glad you liked the video... here is another one you might like...
Obama Clearly Explains "Obamacare" https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=HsW0l139JD0
first time I saw the broadcast was when I found it on youtube... I did not see it aired live on tv... Also, Like you, I do not listen to Fox News much at all for the same reasons. However, I do tune in once in a while to keep abreast of their tactics , or if they are still going on and on and on over and over and over again beating the dead horse thinking that maybe the day after or the next, thinking to themselves that they will convince someone other, that may be listening, to agree with them...
DAnneMarc: Of course you can always watch Breaking the Set on the internet:
I can usually get today's show by doing a YouTube search on Breaking the Set and then selecting "today" in the filters. Here's today's Breaking the Set show:
Published on Sep 30, 2013
Abby Martin Breaks the Set on the NSA's Six Degrees of Implication, Israel Apartheid State, Seymour Hersh on Media Lapdogs and Bin Laden's Mythical Death, Erasing Memories and other Weird Science Innovations.
LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet
FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin
EPISODE BREAKDOWN: On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin remarks on the latest NSA revelation, showing how the agency compiles charts on not only you, but your connections to friends, and friends of friends. Abby then speaks with Miko Peled, Israel peace activist and grandson of one of Israel's founding fathers about his book, 'The General's Son' which dispels the myths and misconceptions about the Jewish State, and the true nature of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Abby then gives props to world renowned journalist Seymour Hersh, for calling out the abysmal failure of the corporate media in the US, saying that the MSM should fire 90 percent of its reporters and that "not one word" of the bin laden death narrative is true. BTS wraps up the show highlighting a few of the most breakthrough scientific discoveries including freezing light, memory erasing genes and 3D printers in space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFK3MroYrpY
Max Keiser is another interesting show on the economy.
RACadmin: For starters...I never watch Fox Snooze because I consider them traitors to the majority of Americans. I voted for Obama the first time but now know that Obama is not all he pretended to be when he campaigned.
Thanks for that video, though, if it is on the level, and not hiding anything, it sounds good. I have also heard other comments on TV from news commentators saying things that are opposite from what I originally feared. I originally believed that we would have to shell out the full amount of the premium every month and then get reimbursed for it at the end of the tax year. Those commentators said that the government will pay the insurance companies and you only have to pay the difference.
The other thing I believed was that insurance companies may not be able to turn you down for preexisting conditions but that they sure would be able to charge you premiums based on those preexisting conditions. So, now I hear that that is not true. The insurance companies will not be able to charge you more for preexisting conditions.
I sure hope this is all true..it could change my mind about Obama Care.
But, there is something else about Obama Care that we might have to look out for...I don't know exactly where this information comes from..but I heard stories about people rushing to get insurance just to learn that the insurance company they signed up for had small print saying they didn't cover cancer preexisting conditions. That you had better be very careful who you get insurance with because you may be getting suckered in. I know this sounds like it conflicts with what I said before about not being charged more for, or not being turned down for, coverage based on preexisting conditions and they may not turn you down or charge you more...just that they won't cover some things like cancer. Read the fine print!
mroher - I would tend to change the wording from God bless these noble men & women to something more like the reverse of the coin - & God damn them all, & their hipocritcal so-called compassionate conservative Christion agenda. Taking food from the hungry and needy children & giving the $$ to their corporate farmer followers, taking health care from those who need it and maybe can't afford it.
What would Jesus say about this ? remember - his words - feed the hungry, cloth the naked, shelter the homeless. Do unto the least of you as you would have done to me - Well, we know now - they hung him on a cross - thats what the GOP is doing to the American people.
The GOP caving into a small minority of Tea bagger congresspeople is disgusting at this point.
those most affected probably can't organize a class action lawsuit but they can as you say, help expose them to others for the jack-ass(s) they are... here is how I am exposing one in particular and suggesting others do the same... every little effort on the part of others to get their message accross in creative ways to help reveal these game players for what they are will sure help to get their ass' thrown out of office come next election before they, by hook or crook, gain seats in the Senate. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is one of those Governors playing games with implementation of the ACA and the expansion of Medicaid coverage to include those up to 138% the Federal poverty level... He rejected additional federal grant funds for the expanded coverage claiming his prior changes to both Medicaid and Badgercare were such that it was not needed and now, his latest actions, the one in which a letter was sent out informing the new cuts he made to both programs, which included lowering medicaid elegibility from 138% to below 100% poverty level, claiming those affected that would be dropped from Badgercare and those dropped or nolonger covered under Medicaid according to his new rules can purchase insurance through the new healthcare exchanges he, at the same time, wants to delay or defund... implying if he is successful, those losing coverage can go without and wait a year hoping after next years election, if the Republicans win majority in the federal senate, they can do away with covering those people altogether... Walkers latest actions prompted a letter from Tammy Baldwin
If The Affordable Care Act get's bumped another year what is to stop it from getting bumped again next year? This could theoretically continue indefinitely until another President takes over that won't veto repealing it. Of course, this is the intent of The House Teapublicans. Their playing "Keep Away" with Obama Care. The Senate and the President have to hold firm on this one. Anything else is a pure sell out; although, not really a surprise.
They have to shut down the government in order to save it. Time to draw another "red line" in the sand Mr. P.
Palindromedary ~ Of course not. Lot's of people can't shoot straight. It's actually very hard to hit your own brain--especially if it's real small like right wingers. Now if he unloaded all six bullets, and then reloaded... and fired off a few more, then I would be suspicious.
Sorry for the sarcasm buddy. To really answer your question, of course he was murdered. In fact, it was one of those "setting an example" murders. You know, where the evidence is so preposterous that it shows how powerful the murderers are that they have total control over the authorities, who don't even suspect foul play from the word go. You know, like when an engine and transmission end up 100 yards down the street from a car explosion and the police immediately announce that it was impact with a tree that caused it.
Personally, I think that Webb's murder simply lends more credibility to the theory that he worked on; that is, that crack is and always has been federally pushed for nefarious purposes. How is any other conclusion possible? Two different shots to the head and an "at the scene suicide declaration" are meant to discourage any other such journalistic probes into crack cocaine drug trafficking. There must actually be far more to this conspiracy than meets the eye. Frankly, I think my theory nailed it. At least I believe that it is the tip of the iceberg if nothing else.
Thanks for the heads up on RT and FSTV. I suspected as much. They are two good reasons to consider getting The Dish. Thank goodness for youtube.
Even if the Government shuts down, all members of Congress still get paid.
God bless these noble men and women !!!
Can the Americans who will be most affected and hurt by a government shutdown file a class action lawsuit against the jack-ass repooblicans who are causing this?
Aliceinwonderland ~ Now that you mention it I do remember. Please pardon my faulty memory. Castlemont High School. I know that area quite well. Recently the school has been fixed up quite a bit. You might not recognize it. The demographics have stayed the same though. You certainly know what you are talking about. Sorry I forgot. You are right, we do agree on much. Much more than not. Peace!
RELAX, Marc! I think our "disagreement" is based more on semantics than on actual substance. I would be the last person to deny or minimize anyone's legitimate right to a piece of the pie, as in socioeconomic assimilation. I guess I had trouble with the "white" part of that phrase. My comment wasn't from a socioeconomic perspective so much as a cultural one.
Over the years I have steadfastly refused to accept any notion of whiteness and prosperity being synonymous, despite artificial barriers to prosperity faced by non-whites in this rigged, racist system of ours (which I am well aware of; and unlike so many white people, am not in denial over). Prosperity is one thing, "white culture" another... in my mind at least. But it seems to me that you & I agree on this more than you apparently think we do.
Take a deep breath, buddy! We're on the same page here.
You might not remember this because I mentioned it so long ago, but I grew up in Oakland. I went to Castlemont High School. (Does that ring a bell?) And I lived in the S.F. Bay Area the first thirty years of my life. So I am no stranger to black culture. It has had a huge impact on my music as well as my worldview.
Far as crack cocaine and AIDS are concerned, I tend to be skeptical of conspiracy theories without proof. But knowing the evil lurking behind the veil, I wouldn't put it past those fascists to wipe out "undesirables" via biological weaponry, or by any other means. Whether or not your hunches prove factually correct, they are well-founded. - Alice I.W.
I don't think the American people will be fooled. They weren't the last time--when they voted Clinton in for a 2nd term and Gingrich left in disgrace (he says he quit--right).
Congress keeps getting paid, though--not even IOUs. Too bad so few of them need the money.
DAnneMarc: Funny! I was just thinking about Gary Webb, reporter for the San Jose Mercury News who wrote the 3 part series "Dark Alliance", and the story of Freeway Ricky of South Central LA just before I clicked on your link. Was Gary Webb assassinated and made to look like a suicide...with TWO gunshot wounds to the head?
I'm really looking forward to the new movie coming out in 2014 called "Kill the Messenger" which is about Gary Webb.
http://www.movieweb.com/news/kill-the-messenger-begins-production-in-atl...
I don't know about crack but AIDS sure looked like it was created in the lab and distributed in the injections the government was giving people in those target communities.
"As soon as homosexuals signed up as guinea pigs for government-sponsored hepatitis B vaccine experiments, they began to die with a strange virus of unknown origin. The hepatitis B experiments began in Manhattan in the fall of 1978; the first few cases of AIDS (all young gays from Manhattan) were reported to the CDC in 1979."
http://rense.com/general45/cant.htm
I believe I read Cantwell's book "Aids and the Doctors of Death" back when it first came out...but I forgot a lot of that stuff. It was odd how the AIDS virus turned up in every community around the world where they were giving Helpatitus-B shots back then.
DAnneMarc:Actually, that's Abby not Amy...Abby Martin and she has a very good and very rebellious, against entrenched authority, show. She'll go after Obama or any other fake Democrats as much as she'll go after any scum bag Republican. It looks like you can only get (Russia Today) RT on DishTV. Cable or AT&T won't let FSTV, LinkTV, or RT channels fly on their networks. I believe it is more political than anything. They don't want the people to hear the truth.
Thom Hartmann show is on both FSTV and RT. I didn't think cable carries FSTV..maybe I'm wrong on that one???
They have some really cute women on RT...I'm not as old as I sometime pretend ;-}
Man, that sure was a lot of wind and rain!!! I'm still soggy.
Aliceinwonderland ~ I suppose that would depend on what we mean by 'assimilate.' If we are talking about the socio-economic level than I totally disagree. I have lived all my life in an African American community. There is resentment amongst younger black men and women and the uneducated about white middle class America; however, amongst the vast majority of educated and adult blacks I have found a strong desire to succeed. That doesn't necessarily mean 'to become' white middle class as much as simply 'to become as' white middle class and live in harmony with white people as equals while maintaining a black identity and culture. Remember, there is nothing wrong with wanting to be treated equally. That is a common desire that we all share. That is all I am saying. Equal rights and equal opportunity for all is a goal we should all aspire to. Perhaps 'assimilate' is a poor choice of words.
By the way, in defense of those 'younger black men and women and the uneducated' that I mentioned above, I should also mention that it is this same disdain for the status quo of the middle class that is also rejected amongst the younger white men and women and the uneducated as well. This is not a 'black' phenomenon at all. This problem happens in all members of the American culture and all subcultures that lived in this country for at least three generations. That's the time I calculate that it takes to fully destroy what remains of a people's original culture and replace it with the artificial American culture. This is an American problem. It is related to the fact that the commercial media and society causes a deep resentment in people who have to work hard and study just to be eligible to participate in it. These victims--if you will--reject both the social goals and the means to achieve those goals in society. If you can put yourself into their shoes--and we all have at one time or another--who can blame them?
As far as crack is concerned I agree with your assessment. The for-profit Prison Industrial Complex is obviously a means to attack and subjugate the black community. Crack helps make that possible, however, it is no easy matter to prove that crack is an intentional warfare weapon and I certainly have no proof myself. If anyone else on this blog does have any to offer it would be appreciated. The only reason I mention crack in that way is because of my recollection of how it and AIDS appeared on the scene shortly after President Ronald Wilson (666) Reagan's regime began. It was just too much of a coincidence for me a brush off that easily. AIDS was an answer to the prayers of a certain Jerry Falwell. As far as crack is concerned? I don't know if you've ever learned about how they used to make free base out of cocaine. I was told that it is very difficult process--time consuming, expensive, and sometimes a huge waste of money. Now all of a sudden, rock is made cheaper than the source, the cocaine itself. It is impossible to produce this stuff the way it is claimed. I can't believe that this technique was discovered or invented anywhere other than a high tech pharmaceutical company with the help of the federal government resources. The reason is obvious. Didn't Reagan declare a full blow out war on drugs right after the advent of crack. It is my belief that crack was the 9/11 false flag of the 80's. AIDS, its sister chemical warfare weapon, was used to attack groups of people seen as threats to the establishment. People without families and with good income who have the spare time and resources to attack effectively.
The government isn't going to announce a chemical weapons attack. They aren't going to use the military to deploy it. Do you really think any government is stupid enough to use a chemical weapon in the form of a bomb with its name on it? Oh, yeah, I forgot about Syria, Iraq, and Israel. Of course, Syria and Iraq didn't get away with it too long did they? Israel only is getting away with it because the US is aiding and abetting their crimes. The US know better than to do that themselves. If they did, they never would have gotten away with it this long.
On the other hand maybe I'm just paranoid. However, I have found that my first instinctual response to any situation is usually correct. I usually regret not following my gut response. Other than instinct I have nothing else to offer. Sorry.
http://newsone.com/2033054/black-urban-legends-crack-black-community/
The house GOP wanting to extort the Senate and the President into enacting their ideological agenda and then claiming that the Senate and Prez are to blame for shutting down the economy if they don't cave in to these demands is sort of like a rapist saying that their victim was asking for it.
Once a bill is passed into law, the government should regard it as a debt that WILL be paid. There shouldn't be a separate vote to "OK" the payment of that debt. A commentator on one show had it right when she said that the GOP may as well be saying that they will destroy the US economy unless a colony on Mars is approved. NOT the way to conduct the people's business!
Palindromedary ~ Interesting question. I wish I could give an interesting opinion. However, quite frankly, I don't get RT TV here. If I did I might watch more TV than I do. If you can find out if it is available in expanded regular cable in the SF Bay area and let me know the channel that would be great. As it is I spend most of my time with the box off. The few chances I get to see RT TV is here with you guys; or, whenever you post a youtube link.
If you are right about it having no sponsors then I would assume that the next logical reason for the hip hop music bits would be to appeal to their demographic base. Not only is Amy young but their research must show that their demographic is comprised mostly of young people. Go figure! I guess you're not as old as you think you are.
By the way, look at it this way, If Amy, and her show content, are really appealing to that younger demographic that is great news. That means that the younger generation is more aware of the con of the elites than most older people are. Thats great news for the future. Don't you agree?