White House postpones Obamacare’s employer mandate until after midterm elections

From The Daily Caller:

Businesses won’t be fined for not providing insurance to their employees for one more year, the Obama administration said Tuesday evening, announcing that they would delay the implementation of that mandate in the Affordable Care Act until 2015 — after the midterm elections.

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Two points:

1. The government will be able to collect a “”tax” for another year without having to provide any services other than workfare to the same people who supposedly could not implement national health care.

2. The removes the health care issue for the mid-term elections.

We must admit that the government played their hand (and us) well.

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A Police State

For those who don’t believe we are already living in a police state. This article, by way of the Tennessee Campaign for Liberty tells us what to expect if traveling through TN this weekend. My question is, “Why the Homeland Security? Why are they necessary to be involved in stopping DUIs on Tennessee highways?”

http://tncampaignforliberty.org/wordpress/2013/07/independence-day-road-checkpoints-this-week/

Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security, Tennessee Highway Patrol Announce Fourth of July Safety Campaign
Monday, July 01, 2013 | 11:49 am

NASHVILLE — The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security and the Tennessee Highway Patrol today announced plans for an impaired driving enforcement campaign for the upcoming Fourth of July holiday weekend. This traffic safety effort will feature an aggressive “No Refusal” enforcement, beginning at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 3 and ending at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, July 7.

Twenty-one people died in 17 crashes on Tennessee roadways during the 2012 Fourth of July holiday period. That’s a fatality rate of one death every six hours.  Of the twenty-one people killed last year, 10 (47.6%) were alcohol related. Seven of the 18 (38.9%) vehicle occupants killed were not wearing safety restraints. Three motorcyclists also died during last year’s July 4th holiday period.

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Drone attack kills 17 in Pakistan’s Waziristan region

A U.S. drone strike killed at least 17 people in Pakistan’s restive border region early on Wednesday, Pakistani security officials said, in the biggest such attack this year, and the second since Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif took office.

Two missiles hit a house near the main market in Miranshah, the provincial capital of the tribal region of North Waziristan. The region is considered a Taliban stronghold.

Many were wounded in the attack, local tribesman Kaleemullah Dawar said, but rescuers delayed for fear of falling victim to a second attack, a common tactic with drone strikes.

Sharif, who won elections in May, has called for an immediate end to U.S. drone strikes on the grounds that they are a breach of Pakistan’s sovereignty. The U.S. says it is attacking militants in areas the Pakistani army cannot reach.

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Barclays, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Ratings Cut by S&P

Barclays Plc (BARC), Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) and Credit Suisse Group AG (CS) had their credit ratings lowered by Standard & Poor’s as new rules and “uncertain market conditions” threaten their business.

Long-term counterparty credit ratings for Barclays and Deutsche Bank were cut to A from A+, while Credit Suisse Group was reduced to A- from A, S&P said yesterday in a statement. S&P also affirmed its A long-term rating and A-1 short-term rating on UBS AG (UBSN), according to the statement. The outlook for all four companies is stable.

Banks are still in recovery from the 2008 financial crisis, which drove some economies into recession and spawned new regulations and legal probes. The four European lenders are among the most exposed to proposed rules that could reduce revenue from trading and investment banking operations, the ratings firm said.

“We consider that these banks’ debtholders face heightened credit risk owing to the industry’s tighter regulation, fragile global markets, stagnant European economies and rising litigation risk stemming from the financial crisis,” S&P said. “A large number of global regulatory initiatives are increasingly demanding for capital market operations.”

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Rescue on the mountain

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KYrkuMpkcI

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A Not So Happy Fourth of July

By Alan Caruba

As Americans celebrate the Fourth of July in 2013, many are unaware that Obamacare is the law of the land. It is the nationalization of what was regarded as the finest health care system in the world and it is filled with hidden taxes, fines, the insertion of the government between patients and their physicians, and it will wreak havoc on the nation’s economy, increasing unemployment, impacting small businesses and large. Nationalization is socialism!

The protests against Obamacare gave rise to the Tea Party movement and a recent Rasmussen poll found that “26% of Obama supporters view the Tea Party as the nation’s top terror threat.” A slim majority, 51%, of likely voters, however, still regard radical Muslims to be the biggest threat.

Even more ominous is news that the U.S. agency, FEMA, has signed an agreement with the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry to provide “security at mass events.” The notion of Russian troops on U.S. soil to control Americans is an abomination. We fought a Revolution when the British did this following the Boston Tea Party.

On this Fourth of July we have been witness to the failed policies of the President elected in 2008 and again in 2012. His conduct is more that of a monarch or dictator, indifferent and resentful of the judiciary and of Congress. He is surrounded by appointees who oversee elements of the government that increasingly give evidence of seeing Americans as “the enemy.”

On this Fourth of July, scandals abound and remain to be investigated, from “Fast and Furious”, a gun-running scheme from within the Department of Justice to the attack on September 11, 2012 on our ambassador to Libya who died in Benghazi along with three other brave Americans. The cover-up continues.

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Michelle Obama Calls on Youth to Be ‘Citizens of the World’

Obama AfricaFirst lady Michelle Obama called for young people in both South Africa and the United States to be “citizens of the world” through the use of social media.

“For you guys to begin to talk to each other and realize that you have so much in common whether you are in Soweto or Houston or anywhere in the world there is so much we can do together,” the first lady said. “And I want you all to start thinking about being citizens of the world, and in order to do, that you’ve got to start reaching out, and this is just the beginning.”

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Crude Cracks $102 As Egyptian Army “Ready To Die”

WTI Crude futures just topped $102 per barrel (the highest price in 14 months) as Reuters reports 16 dead and Egypt’s high command saying the army was ready to die to defend Egypt’s people against terrorists and fools, in a response to Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. Their comment (via Facebook) read “We swear to God that we will sacrifice even our blood for Egypt and its people, to defend them against any terrorist, radical or fool,” was issued 3 hours after Mursi’s TV statement.

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Top 5 Reasons I Stopped Caring About Politics

By Paul Rosenberg, FreemansPerspective.com

Freeman's Perspective

When I was young, I felt a need to understand politics, and I spent time studying. But as time progressed, I received diminishing returns on that investment. And in the past few years, I have given it up altogether.

These days, my concern with politics is limited to things like these:

  • Who is making war, and where?
  • Where is the crime occurring in my area?
  • Are there laws that will force me to move my businesses offshore?

Beyond that, I’m really not interested. I see the headlines, but I seldom read the stories. And I’m very happy saying, “I haven’t looked into it,” when people ask my opinion on the day’s ‘news.’

Here’s why:

#5: It eats up a horrifying amount of time and energy

Seriously, start counting the number of hours you spend on this stuff. How many hours listening to political radio, watching political TV, and reading political newspapers?

Then start thinking about the intense energy you spend on it. We all have limited reserves of energy; do you really believe that politics is the highest and best use for yours? What about using your energy to build your business? Or to nurture your children? Or to help a neighbor? There must be a
dozen things that are more important than obsessing over the votes of congressmen or Supreme Court judges.

#4: It’s an addiction

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Airplane Of Bolivian President Denied Passage Over French, Portuguese Airspace Due To Snowden Suspicions

Moments ago a rather surreal episode of international diplomacy, or rather lack thereof, took place when the airplane of Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced to land in Austria over suspicions that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was on board, a claim Bolivian authorities denied. The reason: France and Portugal reportedly refused to allow the flight to cross their airspace due to concerns that Snowden may have been aboard the plane. It is what international law allows countries to deny their airspace to presidents of sovereign countries, when the only transgression is unproven speculation of harboring a whistleblower. Of course, with both insolvent countries bent over and in dire need of some all too precious Uncle Sam liquidity, we can see how they would do anything and everything to gain some favor with Obama.

Per RT, David Choquehuanca, the Bolivian Foregin Minister, refuted the idea Snowden was on the plane, saying “we don’t know who invited this lie, but we want to denounce to the international community this injustice with the plane of President Evo Morales.”

Others in South America are also angry, with Ecuador foreign affairs minister Ricardo Patino taking the lead:

  • ECUADOR NOT SEEKING SPY PROGRAM DETAILS FROM SNOWDEN: PATINO
  • ECUADOR WON’T TRADE FAVORS WITH U.S. ON SNOWDEN ASYLUM: PATINO
  • SOUTH AMERICA MUST ‘REACT’ TO BOLIVIA TREATMENT: PATINO
  • U.S. PROTECTING ECUADOR FUGITIVES: PATINO

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LIMBAUGH: VERY BAD NEWS FOR REPUBLICANS

Radio powerhouse Rush is warning Republicans they could lose their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives because they’re being “skunked” on key issues such as immigration.

“Absolutely it’s possible,” the politically right-leaning Limbaugh said during a phone appearance Tuesday morning on “Fox & Friends.” “Because the Republicans are in the process of engaging in policies guaranteed to lose them elections.”

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Freedom From War: The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World

 

E. To Keep the Peace:

During Stage II, states shall develop further the peace-keeping processes of the United Nations, to the end that the United Nations can effectively in Stage III deter or suppress any threat or use of force in violation of the purposes and principles of the United Nations:

(a) States shall agree upon strengthening the structure, authority, and operation of the United Nations so as to assure that the United Nations will be able effectively to protect states against threats to or breaches of the peace.
(b) The U.N. Peace Force shall be established and progressively strengthened.
(c) States shall also agree upon further improvements and developments in rules of international conduct and in processes for peaceful settlement of disputes and differences.

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h/t Ron

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Just Sayin

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Obama: ‘Planet Will Boil Over’ If Young Africans Are Allowed Cars, Air-Conditioning, Big Houses

Obama in Johannesburg

Obama in Johannesburg

President Barack Obama said at a town hall event in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday that unless we find new way of producing energy “the planet will boil over” if people in Africa are allowed to attain air conditioning, automobiles and big houses.

“Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over — unless we find new ways of producing energy.”

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Remind Me Why Obama Is Funding al Qaeda

Syria: New Terrorist Training Ground Up to 6,000 jihadists now fighting with al Qaeda groups

Militants in the al-Jazeera region on the Iraqi side of the Syria-Iraq border / AP

Thousands of foreign terrorists traveled to Syria over the past several months to wage jihad, or holy war, in what U.S. officials say is fast becoming a new international terror training ground.

Most of the foreign terrorists are fighting for the al Qaeda-linked group the al-Nusra Front and are coming from around the world, mainly from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Libya, and Tunisia, by crossing the Syrian border with Turkey. The al-Nusra Front is the most well organized and ideologically motivated armed opposition group after the secular Free Syrian Army.

“The Syrian opposition is benefiting from a steady flow of foreign fighters who seem to be joining a variety of Islamist-oriented brigades or, on a smaller scale, starting up nationality-based units,” said one U.S. official familiar with internal reports on the region.

Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official and former staff member of the White House National Security Council, added: “Syria is the new epicenter for the global jihad with would be ‘martyrs’ arriving from across the Islamic world to fight Assad. They are getting experience in the terror arts they will bring home.”

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