Blue Cross Blue Shield subscribers in Alabama noticed added fees That state’s portion of the company decided to itemize the fee and directly attribute it to the Affordable Care Act
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Two-thirds of Americans say this is the worst Congress EVER
A new poll by CNN found that two-thirds of Americans believe this is the worst Congress ever A further three-quarters believe the 113th Congress has done nothing to address the country’s problems Both Republicans and Democrats share the pessimistic view… Read More ›
Thousands urge Turkish PM’s resignation as graft scandal shakes gov’t
Edited time: December 26, 2013 01:28 Demonstrators run away as they clash with riot police (unseen) during a protest against corruption in the Kadikoy district of Istanbul on December 25, 2013 (AFP Photo / Bulent Kilic) Thousands of demonstrators… Read More ›
The Nationwide Network Working to Bring Mobile Biometrics to Your Community
December 18, 2013 A video from Alcatel-Lucent demonstrating mobile facial recognition technology that would be used with the FirstNet network. Public Intelligence A federal law passed in February 2012 to help middle class families by creating jobs and cutting payroll… Read More ›
Mao Zedong remembered: China’s multi-faceted deep-thinking leader
EEV: What is significant, this enlightening article was reported by the BBC. – More, because Mao is the George Washington figure, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, the great unifier of his ancient, far-flung and multifarious people. Sidney Rittenberg met Mao… Read More ›
Doctors Sue United Healthcare for Bad Faith
BROOKLYN (CN) – A 22,000-member physicians’ group sued United Healthcare Insurance, claiming the money-grubbing, multibillion-dollar insurance company is illegally terminating them from its Medicare network on Jan. 1 to cut its losses from reduced federal payments under the Affordable Care… Read More ›
Leadership: The Road To War Is Paved With Chinese Intentions
December 22, 2013: China continues to aggressively confront American ships and aircraft that come close to Chinese ships in international waters. The latest incident was on December 5th when a Chinese destroyer cut in front of an American cruiser… Read More ›
Phone companies might have to store snoop data instead of NSA, Obama says
PUBLISHED : Sunday, 22 December, 2013, 5:49am UPDATED : Sunday, 22 December, 2013, 5:49am The Washington Post US President Barack Obama winds up a press conference on possible NSA reforms. Photo: AFP US… Read More ›
The gathering storm: A look back on middle-class Europe’s last carefree Christmas before the onset of World War One
From the following summer, Britain, mainland Europe and a large part of the rest of the world changed for ever ” There are “striking and unsettling parallels”, Emmerson says, with the “geopolitics of the world today”. He does not go… Read More ›
US Aircraft Attacked, Fighting Escalates In South Sudan
Dec. 21, 2013 – 04:33PM | By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | Reports indicate three V-22 Ospreys were fired on while conducting an evacuation mission in South Sudan. (Bell Helicopter) JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN — US aircraft flown into South Sudan to help… Read More ›
Russia to block websites that call for rioting, ‘extremism’ without court ruling
Published time: December 21, 2013 09:54 Russia’s lawmakers have passed a bill authorizing prosecutors to issue emergency orders without a court ruling that block websites promoting rioting, racial hatred or extremism. Critics fear the law may infringe… Read More ›
Just THREE kids in Camden, N.J. scored college-ready
Posted By Eric Owens On 2:26 PM 12/20/2013 The new superintendent of public schools in Camden, N.J. announced this week that only three — THREE! — students in the entire district who took the SAT during the 2011-12 academic year… Read More ›
Top US General fired for drunken Moscow trip with mysterious women
Michael Carey: The US general with a finger on the button – and a foot in his mouth Report claims Air Force general displayed behaviour ‘unbecoming to a gentleman’ on official trip to Russia Craig Whitlock Friday, 20 December 2013… Read More ›
Global Arctic wars already started
Adrian Salbuchi is a political analyst, author, speaker and radio/TV commentator in Argentina. Published time: December 19, 2013 11:02 RIA Novosti / Anna Yudina Today’s globalized geopolitical grand chessboard often plays out in interestingly complex and roundabout ways. Such… Read More ›
Chinese tycoons top list of Britain’s richest property investors / Neither Wang or Cheng appeared in the top 250 last year
Wang Jianlin and Cheng family top rich list as Duke of Westminster falls down asset rankings PUBLISHED : Thursday, 19 December, 2013, 11:37pm UPDATED : Friday, 20 December, 2013, 4:32am Christy Choi christy.choi@scmp.com Tycoons from China have come from nowhere… Read More ›
Warren Buffett Made $1.5 Million Per Hour in ’13
Thursday, 19 December 2013 Through Dec. 11, Buffett’s net worth—at least on paper—shot up by $12.7 billion to $59.1 billion in 2013 from $46.4 billion at the start of the year, according to Wealth-X, the wealth research firm. That… Read More ›
$1,000 BOUNTY offered for FINGERPRINTS of a GLOBAL SPY CHIEF
Privacy campaigner: NSA, GCHQ, NZSIS* – take your pick By John Leyden Posted in Security, 18th December 2013 14:31 GMT Privacy campaigner Simon Davies is offering a $1,000 bounty for the capture of the DNA and fingerprints of spy… Read More ›
Merkel compares NSA to ‘Stasi police’ in heated exchange with Obama
Wednesday, 18 December 2013 In an angry exchange with Barack Obama, Angela Merkel has compared the snooping practices of the US with those of the Stasi, the ubiquitous and all-powerful secret police of the communist dictatorship in East Germany, where… Read More ›
Engineers Claim They Were Fired for Refusing to Sign off on Defense Fraud
By MATT REYNOLDS LOS ANGELES (CN) – A defense contractor fired two engineers for refusing to lie about flawed missiles that could endanger Navy pilots, the men claim in court. Tom Donnelly and Paul Braatz sued Alliant Techsystems… Read More ›
Italy’s president fears violent insurrection in 2014 but offers no remedy
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Economics Last updated: December 17th, 2013 Hundreds of students wrap themselves in an Italian tricolour during a Pitchforks Movement protest in Turin on Wednesday. (Photo: EPA) Events in Italy are turning serious. President Giorgio Napolitano… Read More ›
Moscow confirms deployment of ( Short range Nukes ) Iskander missiles on NATO borders
Published time: December 16, 2013 18:12 Iskander high-precision missile system in place during military exercises. (RIA Novosti/Alexei Danichev) The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed media reports on the deployment of short-range Iskander missiles in the country’s west, near its… Read More ›
People born in the 1960s and 1970s will have to rely on inheritances if they are to be better off than their parents in retirement, a study has found
Post-war pensions boom ‘is coming to an end’ Only people who receive a large inheritance will be able to enjoy a more comfortable old-age than previous generations, Institute for Fiscal Studies report finds People born in the 1960s and 1970s… Read More ›
EPA reels as climate-change expert awaits sentencing for $1m CIA fraud
• John Beale pretended to be CIA agent for a decade • Republicans round on agency chief Gina McCarthy Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent theguardian.com, Monday 16 December 2013 14.19 EST EPA administrator Gina McCarthy testifies before a Senate committee… Read More ›
Colorado sheriffs refusing to enforce state’s new strict gun law branding it ‘unconstitutional’
By James Nye PUBLISHED: 02:18 EST, 16 December 2013 | UPDATED: 06:32 EST, 16 December 2013 All but seven of Colorado’s 62-elected sheriff’s are refusing to enforce a law they have sworn to uphold by failing to enact universal… Read More ›
China bitterly attacks Japanese prime minister over air zone remarks / “The Diaoyus are an inherent territory of China. Japan’s seizure and occupation of the islands are illegal and invalid”
China bitterly attacks Japanese prime minister over air zone remarks Shinzo Abe’s comments that Beijing is violating freedom of aviation are condemned as ‘malicious slander’ Staff and agencies in Beijing theguardian.com, Sunday 15 December 2013 00.02 EST Shinzo Abe,… Read More ›
Is Europe on the verge of a popular uprising?
Europe’s ‘crisis after the crisis’ poses uncertainty in 2014 14 Dec 2013 The question was asked by one of Greece’s most respected newspapers as another year of painful austerity drew to a close. If public anger does explode on… Read More ›
You can STILL be jailed for being a republican, government confirms, and it remains illegal to even ‘imagine’ overthrowing the Queen
Government admits it mistakenly included a law that threatens to jail for life anyone who has called for the abolition of the monarchy on a list of recently repealed offences John Hall Friday, 13 December 2013 The government has confirmed… Read More ›
US and Chinese warships nearly collide amid tensions over airspace
USS Cowpens was near Liaoning aircraft carrier in South China Sea when another Chinese ship closed in, officials say Reuters in Washington theguardian.com, Friday 13 December 2013 22.30 EST China’s Liaoning aircraft carrier on an East China Sea exercise in… Read More ›
2012 solar storm points up need for society to prepare/ Adopted new worst case space weather scenario
CU-Boulder scientist: 2012 solar storm points up need for society to prepare December 9, 2013 • Institutes A massive ejection of material from the sun initially traveling at over 7 million miles per hour that narrowly missed Earth last year… Read More ›
‘Affluenza’ Springs Teen in Fatal DWI in Texas / “felt wealth bought privilege and that there was no rational link between behavior and consequences”
By DAVID LEE FORT WORTH (CN) – A Texas judge believed a teenager’s “affluenza” defense regarding the drunken driving deaths of four people and sentenced him to only probation, outraging the victims’ family. Judge Jean Boyd sentenced Ethan Couch, 16,… Read More ›
Snowden latest: NSA stalks the human race using Google, ad cookies
Every single day, every word you say, every game you play, they’ll be watching you Every single day, every word you say, every game you play, they’ll be watching you By Iain Thomson Posted in Security, 12th December 2013… Read More ›
Queen angry at police officers eating her Bombay mix, court hears
Royal protection officers were warned to stop eating snacks meant for the Queen according to News of the World memos It was suggested that the Queen became so incensed she began marking the bowls to check if the levels were… Read More ›
Hunt for mysterious interpreter who faked sign language at Mandela memorial / Catastrophic Security Failure
Published time: December 11, 2013 21:06 President Barack Obama delivers a speech next to a sign language interpreter (R) during the memorial service for late South African President Nelson Mandela at Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg.(AFP Photo / Alexander… Read More ›
No Clear Strategy On China, Experts Say
Dec. 11, 2013 – 07:09PM | By CHRISTOPHER P. CAVAS | A Chinese boy looks at a photo of the Liaoning, China’s first aircraft carrier. The ship gives the Chinese navy more options in projecting power in the western Pacific… Read More ›
Death of global web: Internet will end in 2014 – Kaspersky Lab
Collage: Voice of Russia The Internet as a global network may cease to exist in 2014, giving way to dozens of national webs with limited access to foreign web resources, Alexander Gostev, an expert at the Kaspersky Laboratory, told reporters…. Read More ›
Nature trumps nurture in exam success: GCSE results are ‘mainly determined by genes,’ says landmark study of twins
Conclusion that teachers are less important than biology sparks outrage, as researchers call for national curriculum to be abandoned in favour of personalised lesson plans Richard Garner Wednesday, 11 December 2013 Genetics has a more powerful influence on pupils’ GCSE… Read More ›
Bizarre Complaint Stems From Auto-Complete
By RYAN ABBOTT ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) – The federal government is stalking a former contractor because Google auto-completed his intended search: “How do I build a radio controlled airplane?” to the unfortunate query “How do I build a… Read More ›
Guilty: The ex-assistant city manager facing 17 years jail for ‘corruption on steroids’ by approving enormous salaries and nearly bankrupting the city
Angela Spaccia, 55, found guilty of 11 corruption charges by jury today Bell, Los Angeles officials said to be guilty of ‘grand theft by paycheck’ Her former boss Robert Rizzo had previously admitted 69 charges By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:… Read More ›
Victor Dahdaleh corruption case collapses
Tom Harper Tuesday, 10 December 2013 A major anti-corruption trial brought by the Serious Fraud Office collapsed today following the intervention of the deputy prime minister of Bahrain and sudden withdrawal of key witnesses. Billionaire Victor Dahdaleh — a… Read More ›
Impending Japan-China war has the makings of a Clancy classic
by Mark Schreiber Online: Dec 07, 2013 Print: Dec 08, 2013 Last Modified: Dec 08, 2013 – On Nov. 23, China announced the creation of a newly expanded air defense identification zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea, overlapping a… Read More ›
Heroic Pakistani doctor who helped CIA capture Bin Laden speaks out about prison torture in secret letter smuggled out of Pakistan
Shakil Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA to pinpoint Osama bin Laden in Pakistan before the raid that killed him The doctor was sentenced to 33 years in jail after the mission for ‘conspiring against the state’ While… Read More ›
‘A public safety disaster’: Obamacare could force THOUSANDS of volunteer fire departments to close
The Affordable Care Act forces companies with more than 50 workers to buy them all health insurance or pay hefty fines The IRS says volunteer firefighters are ’employees,’ even though the Department of Labor says they’re ‘volunteers’ Out of more… Read More ›
Spy agencies infiltrate gaming world
Xbox Live among game services targeted by US and UK spy agencies NSA and GCHQ collect gamers’ chats and deploy real-life agents into World of Warcraft and Second Life Read the NSA document: Exploiting Terrorist Use of Games & Virtual… Read More ›
Housing double whammy: A whole generation ‘won’t be able to buy or rent a home’ (U.K.)
Unless we build affordable housing, more and more people will be priced out, say experts Andrew Grice Tuesday, 10 December 2013 A generation of Britons faces a housing “double whammy” as a growing number of people cannot afford to buy… Read More ›
2.5m people will have to take out a loan just to afford central heating this Christmas (U.K.)
Shocking figures revealed as winter fuel costs are hiked by up to £120 Simon Read Monday, 9 December 2013 Some 2.5 million people will have to borrow money to heat their homes this Christmas. The shock statistics are published as… Read More ›
Care at top hospitals is NOT INCLUDED in Obamacare, report reveals
Insurers selling cover on the new exchanges will not offer access to cancer centers, Memorial Sloan Kettering in Manhattan and MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston Access to Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, one of the top research and teaching hospitals,… Read More ›
Workers face biggest fall in living standards since Victorian era ( U.K. )
The number of public sector workers on low wages doubles to more than one million, with women and part-time staff disproportionately affected by squeeze on incomes Nigel Morris Monday, 9 December 2013 The biggest drop in living standards since the… Read More ›
IG finds some not-so-intelligent conduct in the intelligence community
Intelligence community appears to be endemic with fraud i.e. Two owners, who were the only employees of a subcontracting firm, mischarged 1,691 hours to the government for time running “a business for horse saddle padding,” according to the IG report… Read More ›
FDA’s Manure Proposal: What’s the Big Stink About? BYE BYE Large Organic Farming?
If you’ve caught wind of the controversy around proposed laws on food safety, then you know that a lot of folks are knee-deep in talks about manure. Black gold – as farmers have been known to call it – manure makes… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 