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President Elect Trump's Plan for Healthcare Reform
Post Date: 2016-11-25 15:29:19 by packrat1145
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It is clear to any objective observer that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which has resulted in rapidly rising premiums and deductibles, narrow networks, and health insurance, has not been a success. A Trump Administration will work with Congress to repeal the ACA and replace it with a solution that includes Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), and returns the historic role in regulating health insurance to the States. The Administration’s goal will be to create a patient-centered healthcare system that promotes choice, quality and affordability with health insurance and healthcare, and take any needed action to alleviate the burdens imposed on American families and businesses ...
Trump's Plan for VA Reform
Post Date: 2016-11-25 15:17:39 by packrat1145
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Today, too many of our nation’s veterans are not receiving the timely and effective care they need, wherever and whenever they need it. They sometimes face long drives, waiting backlogs and excessive red tape in pursuing the effective assistance they have earned by serving their country. Too often, they are hindered and not helped, by government employees who are not up to the task of providing competent answers to their situations. The Trump Administration will transform the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to bring it into the 21st Century by providing state-of-the-art treatment for all physical and mental health care needs of our veterans. Likewise, any ...
President-Elect Trump Announces Additional Agency Landing Team Members
Post Date: 2016-11-25 15:05:32 by packrat1145
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Department of Defense Trae Stephens Employer (current or most recent): Founders Fund Funding source: Volunteer Department of Justice Lizette Benedi Herraiz Employer (current or most recent): Strayer University Funding source: Volunteer Steven Engel Employer (current or most recent): Dechert LLP Funding source: Volunteer Thomas Wheeler Employer (current or most recent): Frost Brown Todd, LLC Funding source: Volunteer Stefani Carter Employer (current or most recent): Stefani Carter & Associates, LLC Funding source: Volunteer Department of Energy Kelly Mitchell Employer (current or most recent): Multi-Automatic Tool & Supply Co. Funding source: Volunteer Department of ...
Cops and Big Pharma Shamefully & Quietly Kill Legislation Allowing CBD Oil for Epileptic Kids
Post Date: 2016-11-25 10:07:20 by Deckard
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Idaho is having a hard time letting go of Reefer Madness. Despite being bordered by four states with legal medical cannabis, Idaho’s prohibition is so complete that it crushes the hopes of kids suffering from epileptic seizures. An investigation by Eric Boehm at Reason.com found that “cops, prosecutors, and lobbyists conspired to restrict a promising cannabis-derived seizure treatment.” “In Idaho, a bill to allow people like Josh Phillips to access CBD oil was passed by the state legislature in 2015, only to be defeated by a group of powerful special interests—including cops, prosecutors, and pharmaceutical companies—with direct access to policy makers in ...
Newt Gingrich is not a fan of Mitt Romney (For Sec of State)
Post Date: 2016-11-24 16:14:35 by packrat1145
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Newt Gingrich blasted Mitt Romney as a prospective secretary of state, arguing that the front-runner to fill the position holds a worldview that’s incompatible with the “Trump vision of foreign policy.” “I can think of 20 other people who would be more naturally compatible,” Gingrich said Tuesday on Fox News‘ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “Romney does represent a very different viewpoint — authentically. I’m not sure whose secretary of state he would be,” he added, without elaborating on Romney’s global vision. Asked to detail who would be a better selection than Romney, Gingrich named former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, ...
Donald Trump Taps Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education
Post Date: 2016-11-24 16:04:09 by packrat1145
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President-elect Donald Trump has tapped charter school advocate and billionaire businesswoman Betsy DeVos as his pick for education secretary, his transition team announced Wednesday. DeVos, who met with Trump in New Jersey over the weekend, is the second woman Trump intends to nominate for his Cabinet. Earlier Wednesday, he announced plans to nominate Gov. Nikki Haley, R-South Carolina, to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. "I am honored to accept this responsibility to work with the President-elect on his vision to make American education great again,” said DeVos in a statement. “The status quo in education is not acceptable. Together, we can work to make ...
Student’s Reaction to Trump Win: ‘Suck It Up, Pussies.’ Police Are Investigating This Hate Crime.
Post Date: 2016-11-24 05:59:48 by Deckard
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Edgewood College calls post-it-note a cowardly act of hate and intimidationAt Edgewood College, police are investigating a post-it-note that was deemed a "hate crime" by college officials. The post-it-note says "Suck it up, pussies!" Whoever wrote it also drew a winking, tongue-out smiley face, like this: ;P The message is evidently one student's response to the Madison, Wisconsin, college's overwhelming dejection following Donald Trump's election to the presidency. Students had been invited to express their feelings about the election by writing them on post-it-notes and placing them on a designated table. The post-it-note in question appeared in the ...
Trump Gives Hillary a Get Out of Jail Free Card. Or Does He?
Post Date: 2016-11-23 15:14:32 by nolu chan
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Trump Gives Hillary a Get Out of Jail Free Card. Or Does He? by Sprott Money Nov 23, 2016 12:07 PM Trump Gives Hillary a Get Out of Jail Free Card. Or Does He? Written by Nathan McDonald (CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL) One news headline, that has many of those who supported Trump throughout his candidacy pulling their hair out in rage this weekend, is the one that stated Trump would not prosecute Hillary Clinton for her illegal use of a private email server during her time as the Secretary of State. At face value, this is quite frustrating and annoying, as it goes against one of Trump's campaign promises to hold Hillary accountable for some of her past crimes committed which broke many ...
'Model' New Orleans cop had secret life for years as serial sexual predator, police say
Post Date: 2016-11-23 10:34:22 by Deckard
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For years, the New Orleans Police Department held Marcellus White out as a model cop. His work mentoring young Iberville housing development residents won him an “Angel Award,” glowing newspaper profiles and the praise of future NOPD Superintendent Eddie Compass.But lurking beneath the surface, New Orleans police now allege, was a serial sexual predator.White now stands accused of molesting and assaulting at least four boys over the course of 16 years.On Monday, he was rebooked on 13 new sex crimes counts, two months after he was first accused of raping a 14-year-old boy this spring. Magistrate Commissioner Brigid Collins set his bail on the new counts at more than $2 million. ...
The Alt-News “Empire” Readers Strike Back With A Boycott Agenda
Post Date: 2016-11-23 09:57:05 by Deckard
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By Catherine J. Frompovich In case you are not an online subscriber of Natural News, you may not be aware of a boycott that started November 20, 2016 to expose the ‘real fake news network CNN’, which perpetrated much false and probably intentional misleading news during this last presidential campaign and election cycle season. By specifically boycotting that network’s paid sponsors and advertisers, Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, thinks an economic ‘shake down’ of CNN ought to make a real difference in highlighting honest and transparent news reporting not only at CNN but within the entire mistrusted U.S. press and media, which Mike calls ...
Anonymous Just Took Down Website of Company That Sells Concussion Grenades to DAPL Cops
Post Date: 2016-11-23 09:47:29 by Deckard
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Anonymous suddenly took an active role in the battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline, knocking offline the website of ‘less-than lethal’ weapons manufacturer, Safariland.com — whose tear gas canisters, concussion grenades, and other weapons were used by police against peaceful water protectors in an all-out assault Sunday night. One young water protector, Sophia Walinksy, now faces the possibility of amputation, after one such device exploded point blank on her arm, shredding it down to the bone. A 13-year-old girl was shot in the face with a rubber bullet, and two tribal elders suffered cardiac arrest during the brutal police offensive and had to be resuscitated on ...
When It Comes to Fake News, the U.S. Government Is the Biggest Culprit
Post Date: 2016-11-23 05:19:26 by Deckard
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“We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.”—Former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg Let’s talk about fake news stories, shall we? There’s the garden variety fake news that is not really “news” so much as it is titillating, tabloid-worthy material peddled by anyone with a Twitter account, a Facebook page and an active imagination. These stories run the gamut from the ridiculous and the obviously click-baity to the satirical and politically manipulative. Anyone with an ounce of sense and access to the Internet should be able to ferret out the truth and lies ...
Virgil: It’s on! The Battle for Blue Collar America: Remembering the Forgotten Man
Post Date: 2016-11-22 13:20:53 by nativist nationalist
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In the last installment, we examined some positive historical precedents for a new president’s foreign policy. In this installment, we will consider positive precedents for a new president’s domestic policy. 1. The Democrats’ Struggle to Remember Their Roots For the Forgotten Man, and the Forgotten Woman, it’s nice to be remembered. During the campaign, Donald Trump revived the phrase, “Forgotten Man,” which echoes back to the Depression years of the 1930s. Specifically, it harkens to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the great mid-century champion of blue-collar Americans. As FDR said during the 1932 presidential campaign, while challenging incumbent Herbert ...
Trump "Exploded" At Media Execs During Off-The-Record Meeting: "It Was A F--king Firing Squad"
Post Date: 2016-11-22 06:29:30 by U don't know me
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Trump "Exploded" At Media Execs During Off-The-Record Meeting: "It Was A F--king Firing Squad" by Tyler Durden Nov 22, 2016 5:40 AM Earlier today we reported that in a "summit" organized by Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, executives and anchors from the major US media outlets, including CNN president Jeff Zucker, ABC News president James Goldston, Fox News co-presidents Bill Shine and Jack Abernethy, and NBC News president Deborah Turness, visited Donald Trump at his Trump Tower penthouse for an off the record meeting. Courtesy of the Post, we have a complete list of the participants at the Trump media meeting: the hour-long powwow included ...
Facebook and Google Ready to Kill Alternative Media for the Government
Post Date: 2016-11-22 05:43:46 by Deckard
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This week three media goliaths — Facebook, Google, and Twitter, who collectively act as information gatekeepers for the Internet — announced they would begin implementing censorship practices against news sites they deem misleading. Web sites that publish “fake,” misleading, or even satirical news will now be subject to a sliding scale of infractions that will target ad revenue and social media algorithms. Without ad revenue from monetization platforms like Google Adsense, many of these sites would not be able to continue publishing, and without Facebook’s distribution platform, even sites with good organic reach could find their traffic severely crippled. ...
Steve Bannon Vows ‘Economic Nationalist Movement’ from White House — ‘As Exciting as the 1930s, Greater than the Reagan Revolution’
Post Date: 2016-11-21 15:51:21 by nativist nationalist
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What he seems to have carried from a boyhood in a blue-collar, union and Democratic family in Norfolk, Va., and through his tour of the American establishment, is an unreconstructed sense of class awareness, or bitterness — or betrayal. The Democratic Party betrayed its working-man roots, just as Hillary Clinton betrayed the long-time Clinton connection — Bill Clinton’s connection — to the working man. “The Clinton strength,” he says, “was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That’s how you win elections.” And, likewise, the Republican party would come to betray its working-man constituency forged under Reagan. In ...
Drugs Are Killing More Americans Than Road Crashes
Post Date: 2016-11-21 00:49:54 by nolu chan
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Drugs Are Killing More Americans Than Road Crashes by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge Nov 20, 2016 10:30 PM So much for the so-called 'war on drugs'... The United States has been gripped by a heroin and opiate epidemic with user numbers recently hitting a 20 year high. In 2014, the number of U.S. heroin users passed the million mark with deaths from overdoses rising steeply. And as Statista's Niall McCarthy writes, drugs are now killing substantially more Americans every year than car crashes. In 2004, 30,711 deaths were drug related compared to 42,836 in motor vehicle accidents. A decade later, drug-induced deaths reached 49,714 while road crash deaths fell to 32,675. ...
Two Tweets That Perfectly Sum Up Liberals Before And After Trump Became President
Post Date: 2016-11-20 15:15:10 by no gnu taxes
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Laci Green @gogreen18 Regardless of the outcome, we are clearly a *deeply* divided and broken country. So much work ahead to mend, heal, and restore the U in USA. 11:15 PM - 8 Nov 2016 3 hours later. We are now under total Republican rule. Textbook fascism. Fuck you, white America. Fuck you, you racist, misogynist pieces of shit. G'night. 2:52 AM - 9 Nov 2016
Innocent Couple Locked in a Cage for Months Because Cops Mistook Baking Soda for Cocaine
Post Date: 2016-11-20 14:22:42 by Deckard
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Fort Chaffe, AR — On May 8 of this year, Gale Griffin and her husband Wendall Harvey, who’ve been driving trucks together for the last seven years, were targeted by public servants whose job it is to seek out arbitrary substances deemed illegal by the state. While it is certainly bad enough that the state kidnaps, cages, and kills people for ingesting a substance that makes them happy — they are often dead wrong — and innocent people suffer at the hands of police incompetence. After being falsely accused of possessing cocaine, Griffin and Harvey are living proof that the war on drugs lays waste to any and all lives, not just those who use drugs. In May, Griffin and ...
Cops Mistake Man’s Diabetic Episode as ‘Resisting’ — Beat, Taser, Mace and Arrest Him
Post Date: 2016-11-20 14:15:14 by Deckard
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Commerce City, CO — Carl Leadholm was in medical distress and needed help when he was targeted by five Commerce City Police officers. However, his innocence and the fact that he needed help was of no consequence to the officers who mistook low blood sugar for a criminal act. This week, Leadholm filed a federal civil lawsuit against the department for the abuse during that stop that left him beaten and in the hospital. In November 2014, Leadholm’s blood sugar began to drop causing him to swerve while driving. This swerving caught the attention of five of Commerce City’s finest who pulled Leadholm over. However, instead of simply talking to the man and asking him ...
OBJECTified: Life of President-Elect Donald Trump
Post Date: 2016-11-19 14:14:49 by misterwhite
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Good interview with Trump. 100X better than the 60 Minutes hit piece.
“First America-First Victory”: Ford CEO Calls Trump to Cancel Plant Move to Mexico
Post Date: 2016-11-18 22:00:05 by Deckard
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This article was written by Tyler Durden and originally published at Zero Hedge. Editor’s Comment: Though his administration is still taking shape, President-elect Trump may be able to claim his first tangible victory. Though Ford Motors were resistant to Trump’s trade policy positions and threatened to move jobs to Mexico, the CEO has now announced that, instead, production will remain American. Is Trump pulling televangelist-style miracles – with arrangements ahead of time in the back room – or is he making things happen because he is in a position to make good on his policy promises? Either way, Ford and other big companies will be keeping optics in mind when they ...
Draining the Neocon National Security Swamp? Don’t Count on It
Post Date: 2016-11-18 21:01:44 by Deckard
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Now that things have gotten serious, it’s time for Donald Trump to kiss the ring. Since clinching the Republican nomination, Trump’s true colors have started to emerge. He named a former Goldman Sachs partner to run his fundraising efforts, he named petty authoritarian, gangster wannabe Chris Christie to run his transition team, and he chose “everyone’s a terrorist” Rudy Giuliani as his planned head of the domestic gestapo, the Department of Homeland Security. He’s also been endorsed by Orc King Sheldon Adelson, who said he was prepared to spend $100 million to get him elected. Now he’s off to kiss the blood-soaked ...
Trump Scores His First Win in Congress [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-11-17 21:57:23 by buckeroo
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It didn’t take long for President-elect Donald Trump to make his mark on legislation in Congress. Republican leaders announced Thursday they would punt major spending decisions into 2017 in accordance with the incoming administration’s wishes. That means Congress plans to pass only a stopgap bill that will fund the federal government through March rather than an omnibus appropriations bill that would set spending priorities for the first eight months of Trump’s term. “I think the new incoming government would like to have say-so on how money is going to be spent going into 2017,” House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters at a press conference. “We’ve got a ...
Morbid or Touching? W. Paints Portraits of Veterans “Injured Carrying Out My Orders”
Post Date: 2016-11-17 10:59:22 by Deckard
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This article was written by John Vibes and originally published at Activist Post.com. Editor’s Comment: On the surface, there are good intentions here. The Bushes, like other patriotic establishment figures, always honor the troops, and count the sacrifices. Typically, they are stoic and praiseworthy of everything the military does. But underneath the surface, one has to wonder what is really going on inside the disturbed mind of George W. Bush – whose orders for an illegal war in Iraq, and a broader War on Terror in Afghanistan and elsewhere resulted in the deaths of thousands of U.S. troops, tens of thousands of wounded or injured and potentially more than a million civilians ...
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