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“$19,000 Premiums, Up 4x Since Passage”: The ‘Crippling Effect’ Of Obamacare On The Middle Class

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– “$19,000 Premiums, Up 4x Since Passage”: The ‘Crippling Effect’ Of Obamacare On The Middle Class:

The past month has seen a veritable litany of reports that have slammed Obamacare, from sources on both the left and the right. Some examples:

As we have warned over the years, all of this was expected, and is precisely what happens when the government tries to take over a critical industry. It may have had “good intentions” but the result has been a total failure.

And nowhere is it seen better than from the laments of those whom it was supposed to benefit, such as Ed Elliott, who has laid out precisely what the “Affordable Care Act” means for the US: “This is crippling effect of ACA on small biz owners & middle class. $19000/yr premiums up 4x since passage.“

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OBAMA FORCES GIRLS TO SHOWER WITH TRANNY TEENS

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President Barack Obama’s Department of Education has threatened to cut funding to an Illinois school district if it doesn’t allow a male transgender student to use the girl’s locker room and showers, according to the Chicago Tribune.

See the report here:
https://youtu.be/llI7XcA-ZDs

Read more:
http://conservativetribune.com/girls-…

Staged Migrant Crisis To Bring About Merkel’s Downfall

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… so that the Bilderberg rat Merkel (CDU) can leave the sinking ship, making place for another Bilderberg puppet Chancellor coming from the SPD this time. (Maybe even Olaf Scholz?)

And then, under the next Bilderberg puppet SPD Chancellor, Germany will be (totally) destroyed … and not only Germany.

On the elite agenda are tax-hikes, bail-ins, civil unrest, financial/economic collapse, civil war and then ‘real’ war, i.e. WW3.

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– Merkel May be Forced From Office Over Refugees:

Merkel’s refugee policy has really divided Europe, no less her own country. This issue appears staged to bring about her downfall. It was 17 days ahead of the ECM turning point on September 13 (2 x 8.6) when Merkel reimposed border controls; the cornerstone of Europe was to be the freedom of movement. She has certainly divided Europe. It is starting to appear that her days are numbered.

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72-Year-Old Woman Shot Dead by Israeli Soldiers in West Bank

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72-Year-Old Woman Shot Dead by Israeli Soldiers in West Bank

– 72-Year-Old Woman Shot Dead by Israeli Soldiers in West Bank:

The Israeli military claims an old Palestinian woman was shot dead after she attempted to run over soldiers. The latest wave of violence in the Holy Land has already claimed dozens of lives.

 The tragic incident took place in Halhul on the West Bank. Relatives of the 72-year-old woman, who lost her husband in the 1988 Intifada, say she had no reason to try to hit Israelis with her car and she was just driving by. Israel Defense Forces’ spokesperson countered that the Palestinian woman slowed her car down near a checkpoint and then speeded up, aiming at a group of soldiers. They opened fire at the car in response, the IDF says.

Halhul saw a similar car ramming attack this Wednesday, when an Israeli police officer shot dead a driver after another officer was injured.

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George Soros Admits Involvement In Migrant Crisis: ‘National Borders Are The Obstacle’

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– Soros Admits Involvement In Migrant Crisis: ‘National Borders Are The Obstacle’:

Billionaire investor George Soros has confirmed he wants to bring down Europe’s borders, following the accusation made last week by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Last week, Mr Orban accused Mr Soros – who was born in Hungary – of deliberately encouraging the migrant crisis.

“This invasion is driven, on the one hand, by people smugglers, and on the other by those (human rights) activists who support everything that weakens the nation-state,” Mr Orban said.

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Hog roasted! Lewes bonfire burn effigy of Cameron with a pig’s head (VIDEO)

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– Hog roasted! Lewes bonfire burn effigy of Cameron with a pig’s head (VIDEO):

Just when Prime Minister David Cameron thought the laughter and ridicule of the #PigGate scandal had smoldered out, the people of Lewes decided to mark Guy Fawkes night by burning an effigy of the Tory leader – naked with a pig’s head in his lap.

The Sussex town is famous for making its Bonfire Night festivities go with a bang, and hasn’t disappointed this November 5.

Twitter user @MattyJam92 spotted this year’s Guy, which is traditionally burned atop a bonfire, being towed into place Thursday morning. Unlike the more common effigies of Guy Fawkes, the English Catholic who attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605, Lewes burned a compromising incarnation of the prime minister.

The #PigGate scandal, which stemmed from a startling claim that Cameron put “a private part of his anatomy” into a dead pig’s mouth at a student initiation ceremony while a student at Oxford, led to an endless barrage of jokes and mockery. The PM has denied the claim, made in an unauthorized biography of Cameron by former Tory party donor Lord Ashcroft.

What Yellen Knows

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– What Janet Knows:

What Janet knows, as The Burning Platform’s Jim Quinn exclaims, is that a 1% increase in interest rates would increase the interest on the National Debt from $400 billion per year to $600 billion per year, a 50% increase.

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Source: Ben Garrison

Interest rates back at NORMAL historical rates that we had as recently as 2007 would increase the interest on the National Debt to $1 trillion per year, a 150% increase.

Plus, the National Debt increases by $1.5 billion per day, so our interest bill goes up by $35 million per day already.

Do you really think Yellen is going to be increasing interest rates?

US Planes Shot Doctors Fleeing Kunduz Hospital

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US Planes Shot Doctors Fleeing Kunduz Hospital

– US Planes Shot Doctors Fleeing Kunduz Hospital:

US is #1 at bombing hospitals – both the number and implementation

Originally appeared at Huffington Post

The medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders released its internal report on Thursday about the October attack on its hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, and again cast doubt on the U.S. government’s insistence that the attack was not intentional.

The report, which found that the U.S.-led attack killed at least 30 people, describes in brutal detail the severity of the attack, noting that “patients burned in their beds” and that “medical staff were decapitated and lost limbs.”

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US to Equip Coast Guard, Customs Personnel With Radiation Detectors

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– US to Equip Coast Guard, Customs Personnel With Radiation Detectors:

DHS announced that the US nuclear detection office awarded a multimillion dollar contract to provide wearable radiation detector devices to the Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, and Transportation Security Administration.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The US nuclear detection office awarded a multimillion dollar contract to provide wearable radiation detector devices to the Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, and Transportation Security Administration, the US Homeland Security Department (DHS) said in a press release on Thursday.

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MI5 ‘Secretly Collected Phone Data’ For Decade

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– MI5 ‘secretly collected phone data’ for decade:

MI5 has secretly been collecting vast amounts of data about UK phone calls to search for terrorist connections.

The programme has been running for 10 years under a law described as “vague” by the government’s terror watchdog.

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Influential US Army Reform Advocate Claims a Russian Tank Brigade Would ‘Annihilate’ Its US Counterpart

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– Influential US Army Reform Advocate Claims a Russian Tank Brigade Would ‘Annihilate’ Its US Counterpart:

A retired former officer favored by ex-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and with outsized influence among officers argues US Army formations have too much tail, too little bite to prevail against a ‘near peer’ opponent

Originally appeared at Politico

For those villagers eagerly snapping pictures on the side of a road in the Czech Republic in late September, the appearance of the line of U.S. “Stryker” armored fighting vehicles must have seemed more like a parade than a large-scale military operation. The movement of some 500-plus soldiers of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment from Vilsack in Bavaria to a Hungarian military base was intended to strengthen U.S. ties with the Czech, Slovak and Hungarian militaries and put Russia’s Vladimir Putin on notice. Dubbed “Dragoon Crossing,” the tour traced a winding 846- kilometer tour that featured airdrops and simulated bridge seizures to show America’s Eastern European allies that the U.S. military could respond quickly to any threat. “We are demonstrating operational freedom of maneuver across Eastern Europe,” Col. John V. Meyer III told a reporter for the Army’s website, “and that is having the strategic effect of enabling our alliance, assuring our allies, and deterring the Russians.”

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EU Predicts 3 Million More Migrants Could Arrive by End 2016

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– EU Predicts 3 Million More Migrants Could Arrive by End 2016:

BRUSSELS—The European Union is predicting that 3 million more migrants could arrive in the 28-nation bloc by the end of next year, with the refugee emergency already providing a stern test of EU capacities to offer shelter and welcome.

More than 700,000 people have come to Europe seeking sanctuary or jobs so far this year, overwhelming reception centers and border authorities.

EU autumn economic forecasts released on Thursday show that based on current migrant entries and a “technical assumption” about future flows, arrival rates are unlikely to slow before 2017.

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China Buys Another 14 Tons Of Gold In October As FX Reserves Unexpectedly Rebound

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– China Buys Another 14 Tons Of Gold In October As FX Reserves Unexpectedly Rebound:

Today we got yet another confirmation that China’s July announcement on its gold holdings merely broke the seal of accumulation when the PBOC reported that its total gold holdings as of October 31 had risen to a record $63.3 billion, up $2.1 billion from $61.2 billion at the end of September, and an increase of 14 tons based on the month-end LBMA gold fix price. This represents the fifth consecutive month in a row in which China has added to its gold.

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Washington Prepares For World War III

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– Washington prepares for World War III:

The US military-intelligence complex is engaged in systematic preparations for World War III. As far as the Pentagon is concerned, a military conflict with China and/or Russia is inevitable, and this prospect has become the driving force of its tactical and strategic planning.

Three congressional hearings Tuesday demonstrated this reality. In the morning, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a lengthy hearing on cyberwarfare. In the afternoon, a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee discussed the present size and deployment of the US fleet of aircraft carriers, while another subcommittee of the same panel discussed the modernization of US nuclear weapons.

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Congress Proposes A Chilling Resolution On Social Security

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In the 2015 report of the Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees they state very plainly:

 “Social Security as a whole as well as Medicare cannot sustain projected long-run program costs…”, and that the government should be “giving the public adequate time to prepare.”

Wow.

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– Congress Proposes A Chilling Resolution On Social Security:

On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt arrived at his desk to sign the Social Security Act into law.

It had been a contentious legislative process, something like the Obamacare of its day.

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Judge Andrew Napolitano: Hillary Clinton, The Mistress of Deception

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Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is the senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel. Judge Napolitano has written seven books on the U.S. Constitution. The most recent is Suicide Pact: The Radical Expansion of Presidential Powers and the Lethal Threat to American Liberty. 

– The Mistress of Deception:

by Andrew P. Napolitano

The self-inflicted wounds of Hillary Rodham Clinton just keep manifesting themselves. She has two serious issues that have arisen in the past week; one is political and the other is legal. Both have deception at their root.

Her political problem is one of credibility. We know from her emails that she informed her daughter Chelsea and the then-prime minister of Egypt within 12 hours of the murder of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, that he had been killed in Benghazi by al-Qaida. We know from the public record that the Obama administration’s narrative blamed the killings of the ambassador and his guards on an anonymous crowd’s spontaneous reaction to an anti-Muhammad video.

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Former Reagan Administration Official Warns That Financial Disaster Is Dead Ahead

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– Former Reagan Administration Official Warns That Financial Disaster Is Dead Ahead:

Why won’t the American people listen to the warnings?  David Stockman was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1981, and he served as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1985.  These days, he is running a website called “Contra Corner” which I highly recommend that you check out.  Stockman believes that a global “debt super-cycle” that has been building for decades is now bursting, and he is convinced that the consequences for the U.S. and for the rest of the planet will be absolutely catastrophic.  His findings are very consistent with what I have been writing about on The Economic Collapse Blog, and if Stockman is correct the times ahead of us are going to be exceedingly painful.

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Japan Times: “Time has come for an ‘honorable retreat’ from Tokyo 2020 over Fukushima”

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– Time has come for an ‘honorable retreat’ from Tokyo 2020 over Fukushima:

Dear Olympics minister Toshiaki Endo,

Let me begin this message by offering you my sincerest condolences. Condolences for what? For the death of the belief that a trouble-free 2020 Tokyo Olympics would serve to showcase Japan’s economic revival.

Up to this point, the exact opposite has been the case, due to the scrapping of plans for a very expensive new National Stadium, the scuttling of the Olympic logo amid charges of plagiarism and newspaper headlines alleging, for example, that “Japan’s Olympics fiascoes point to outmoded, opaque decision-making.” Even more recently, Japan sports minister Hakubun Shimomura offered to resign over the Olympic stadium row.

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Former US Air Force Lieutenant: Obama’s Syria Strategy Is An “Illegal Embarrassment”

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– Former US Air Force Lieutenant: Obama’s Syria Strategy Is An “Illegal Embarrassment”:

If there’s anything that should have become abundantly clear over the past several months it’s that Washington’s “strategy” in the Mid-East is coming apart at the seams.

To be sure, there’s no reason why intelligence officials in the US should have ever thought the Syria gambit was going to work. Playing on the Sunni-Shiite divide can certainly be effective when it comes to creating chaos but it’s a notoriously risky way to go about things and it’s fraught with uncertainty. 

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Tory health minister deliberately blocks law to give NHS cheap drugs when patents expire

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– Tory health minister deliberately blocks law to give NHS cheap drugs when patents expire:

Alistair Burt denied accusations that the parliamentary manoeuvre was ‘disgraceful’

A Conservative health minister has deliberately blocked a new law to provide cheap and effective drugs for the NHS by championing medicines whose patents have expired.

Alistair Burt spoke for nearly half an hour to “filibuster” the proposed Off-Patent Drugs Bill, a plan that had cross-party support from backbenchers.

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“Get Covered” America Or “Take Cover” America

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– “Get Covered” America Or “Take Cover” America:

Isn’t it interesting the mainstream media makes barely a peep about the ongoing and worsening Obamacare debacle. Healthcare premiums, co-pays and deductibles are soaring, while doctor and plan choices contract to a minuscule level.

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Source: Townhall

Recent surveys reveal the hardship being inflicted upon families across the nation. As The Burning Platform’s Jim Quinn details, those who are willfully baffled by the lack of consumer spending need look no further than Obamacare and its impact on the budgets of hard working Americans.

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GM Free India Slams Application for GMO Mustard Commercialization

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– GM Free India Slams Application for GMO Mustard Commercialization:

Following a news report confirming that an application for approval for commercialization of GM mustard has been moved with India’s apex regulatory body GEAC (Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee in the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change), the Coalition for a GM Free India reminded the government about the serious consequences of this GMO’s release, and warned the government of serious resistance all over the country.

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Farmer Unions and citizen groups had earlier started a Sarson Satyagraha urging the government not to jeopardise our food, farming and environment by introducing GM mustard.

This is the first time India would be considering commercial cultivation approval of any GM food crop after an indefinite moratorium was placed on Bt brinjal five years ago in February 2010.

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