Monthly Archives: May 2017

Obamacare for some: 49% price hike since 2014, premiums of $14,300

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“Millions of Obamacare customers who do not qualify for financial aid to lower the cost of their health insurance — or who opt not to apply for such assistance — pay the full cost of coverage for their plans.  While the Republican Obamacare replacement bill pending in Congress would increase the number of people who would qualify for subsidies, the bill is also expected to increase average premiums over the next two years higher than they would be under Obamacare.”

Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/11/these-folks-dont-get-obamacare-subsidies-now-and-it-is-really-costing-them.html

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California’s Single-Payer Health Plan Costs More Than the State’s Whole Budget

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“The list of states that have tried to go single-payer is still a small sample size, but a fairly wide ranging one. It includes states with large populations and small ones. States with a variety of economies and tax systems. States that are growing quickly and those that aren’t.  Despite that range of variables, one thing remains constant: state-level single-payer health plans would require massive increases in tax revenue, equal or larger than the amount of revenue consumed by every other state-level program in a single year.”

Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/23/california-single-payer-health-care-cost

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One of the world’s largest financial services firms is mining bitcoins

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“Abigail Johnson, chief executive of Fidelity, announced that her customers would be able to see cryptocurrency balances on Fidelity’s website, if they held an account with Coinbase, one of the largest providers of storage and trading services in the cryptocurrency business.  Johnson also revealed a number of other Fidelity projects underway to figure out how to harness the potential of bitcoin and other digital currencies.  One of Fidelity’s projects is mining bitcoin and ethereum, which Johnson said was started for educational purposes, but now turns a tidy profit.”

Read more: https://qz.com/990229/one-of-the-worlds-largest-financial-services-firms-is-mining-bitcoins/

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Centuries-old disfiguring plague breaks out due to the war in Syria

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“Doctors in Lebanon are trying to control an outbreak of a centuries-old disease that has re-emerged because of the war in Syria.  The ‘Aleppo boil’, named after the northern Syrian city, had largely been contained before the start of the conflict.  Health workers treating refugees fear it could get worse.”

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A Story of Slavery in Modern America

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“Lola’s travel papers had expired in 1969, five years after we arrived in the U.S. She’d come on a special passport linked to my father’s job. After a series of fallings-out with his superiors, Dad quit the consulate and declared his intent to stay in the United States. He arranged for permanent-resident status for his family, but Lola wasn’t eligible. He was supposed to send her back. Lola’s legal status became what Filipinos call tago nang tago, or TNT—’on the run.’ She stayed TNT for almost 20 years.”

Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/

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1Password adds ‘travel mode’ to keep passwords safe at the (US) border

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“Increasingly, people are being asked to turn over and unlock their phones at the border, and doing that can expose a huge amount of data. Add in an app like 1Password — a central repository for a ton of private data — and it’s easy to see why someone would be worried about having to hand over their phone.”

Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/23/15681990/1password-travel-mode-feature-added-security

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Manchester Bomber Was Product of West’s Libya/Syria Intervention

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“A radicalized Libyan whose family fled Gaddafi’s secular Libya, and later trained to be an armed ‘rebel’ in Syria, fighting for the US and UK ‘regime change’ policy toward the secular Assad government, Salman Abedi was the direct product of US and UK interventions in the greater Middle East.”

Read more: http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2017/may/24/manchester-bomber-was-product-of-wests-libyasyria-intervention/

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A new GOP bill would make it virtually impossible to sue the police

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“Republicans in the House and Senate recently introduced a bill they’re calling the Back the Blue Act of 2017. The bill would create new federal crimes, impose federal police over the will of local officials and voters and shield police officers from virtually any civil liability, even in cases of egregious misconduct.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2017/05/24/a-new-gop-bill-would-make-it-virtually-impossible-to-sue-the-police/

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10 More Crazy Conspiracy Theories That Became Conspiracy Facts

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“Thanks to intrepid journalists, whistleblowers, hacktivists, and leakers, the human race continues to tear down the wall of lies erected by the corporatocracy.”

Read more: http://theantimedia.org/10-conspiracy-theories-2/

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The Bizarre Story Behind the FBI’s Fake Documentary About the Bundy Family

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“The FBI’s decision to create a fake media company raises critical questions about the federal government’s practice of impersonating the press.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2017/05/16/the-bizarre-story-behind-the-fbis-fake-documentary-about-the-bundy-family/

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