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White House To Ignore Court Ruling, Keep Issuing Obamacare Subsidies

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“The Obama administration will continue handing out Obamacare subsidies to federal exchange customers despite a federal court’s ruling Tuesday that the subsidies are illegal.  A D.C. Court of Appeals panel ruled Tuesday morning that customers in the 36 states that didn’t establish their own exchange and use HealthCare.gov instead cannot be given premium tax credits, according to the text of the Affordable Care Act itself.  But White House press secretary Josh Earnest said that while the case continues to be battled out in the courts, the administration will continue to dole out billions in tax credits to federally-run exchange customers.”

http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/22/obama-administration-to-ignore-court-ruling-on-obamacare-subsidies/

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Democrats steamed that White House let the CIA censor a torture report

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“Senate Democrats engaged in a tug-of-war with the White House over heavy redactions to its long-delayed torture report remain furious that President Obama allowed the CIA to censor the document.  Months ago Democratic lawmakers asked the White House to lead the process of declassifying the report and are now blaming Obama for ceding that ground to the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.  The White House is not saying exactly who was involved in the redaction process, but declassification decisions of such magnitude usually involve close scrutiny from top officials at the CIA, ODNI and National Security Council.”

http://washingtonexaminer.com/democrats-steamed-that-white-house-let-the-cia-censor-a-torture-report/article/2551749

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Ron Paul: Why Won’t Obama Just Leave Ukraine Alone?

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“On Friday, President Obama requested Congressional approval to send US troops into Ukraine to train and equip its national guard. This even though in March, the president promised no US boots on the ground in Ukraine. The deployment will be funded with $19 million from a fund designated to fight global terrorism, signaling that the US considers the secessionists in Ukraine to be ‘terrorists.’  But let’s not forget that this whole crisis started with the US-sponsored coup against Ukraine’s elected president back in February. The US escalates while it demands that Russia de-escalate. How about all sides de-escalate?”

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2014/august/03/why-won%E2%80%99t-obama-just-leave-ukraine-alone.aspx

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U.S. “Humanitarian” Bombing of Iraq: A Redundant Presidential Ritual

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“As all of this demonstrates, there certainly are some heinous, violent people in the world: often including America’s closest allies and the ones who unleash the violence documented here, as well as those at whom that violence is directed. But perhaps some perspective and serious skepticism is warranted the next time we’re relentlessly bombarded with messaging about The New Greatest Villainous Threat in History – and especially manipulative accusations that opposition to U.S. military attack is indicative of support for those New Villains – as a means to secure acquiescence to the next bombing campaign.”

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/08/us-bombing-iraq-redundant-presidential-ritual/

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Rand Paul: Blame Dick Cheney for Iraq violence, not Obama

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“Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. said many critics who blame the president for the ferocious Islamist insurgency in Iraq, like former Vice President Dick Cheney, should take a look in the mirror.  ‘I don’t blame President Obama,’ Paul told NBC News. ‘Has he really got the solution? Maybe there is no solution.’  Paul said those who have questioned the president’s approach should ask the same questions of those who supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq: ‘Were they right in their predictions? Were there weapons of mass destruction there? Was the war won in 2005, when many of those people said it was won?’  ‘They didn’t, really, I think understand the civil war that would break out,’ Paul said.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rand-paul-blame-dick-cheney-for-iraq-violence-not-president-obama/

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US Falls Apart, Stock Market Booms?

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“Current (public) scandals include Libor manipulations, the gold price-fix scandal and so-called flash trading exposed by financial journo Michael Lewis. Now there is another scandal being brought into the public view via Wall Street on Parade, which last week posted an article entitled, ‘Lawsuit Stunner: Half of Futures Trades in Chicago Are Illegal Wash Trades.’  Securities marts in the US and throughout the world have always been controlled by insiders that will gain advantages as they write the rules and implement them. In our hyper-regulatory climate, driven by international interests, trading has been centralized by force, giving insiders huge incentives to use all sorts of trickery.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/35508/Anthony-Wile-US-Falls-Apart-as-Stock-Market-Booms/

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Ron Paul: Celebrate Independence Day By Opposing Tyranny

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“The idea of opposing — by force if necessary — a tyrannical government has been turned into a celebration of tyrannical government itself! The evidence is all around us. How would the signers of the Declaration of Independence have viewed, for example, the Obama Administration’s ‘drone memo,’ finally released last week, which claims to justify the president’s killing American citizens without charge, judge, jury, or oversight? Is this not a tyranny similar to that which our Founders opposed? And was such power concentrated in one branch of government not what inspired the rebellion against the English king in the first place?”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/35434/Ron-Paul-Celebrate-Independence-Day-By-Opposing-Government-Tyranny/

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Bill Bonner: America’s War in Iraq Was a Fool’s Errand

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“With the US Army moving quickly up the Italian peninsula, Benito Mussolini knew it was time to get out of town.  The war was almost over for the Italians. But it was not a pretty ending.  The next day, the partisans shot Mussolini and his mistress… before hanging them from meathooks suspended from the roof of an Esso gas station in Milan (the same place that fascists had displayed the bodies of fifteen Milanese resistance fighters a year earlier).  What was Mussolini’s crime?  He had led Italy into a disastrous war.  So our question for our fellow Americans is this: Are there no gas stations in the continental USA?”

http://www.bonnerandpartners.com/americas-war-in-iraq-was-a-fools-errand/

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Civilian casualties authorized under secret US drone-strike memo

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“A secret Obama administration memo disclosed Monday outlines the legal justification for the government’s drone-targeted killing program, a lethal strategy that authorizes the killing of innocents as collateral damage.  The memo (PDF) describes the government’s legal underpinnings for its so-called overseas targeted-killing program where drones from afar shoot missiles at buildings, cars, and people. It began under the George W. Bush administration but was broadened under Obama and now includes the killing of Americans.  The Obama administration fought for years to keep the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel memo from becoming public.”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/civilian-casualties-authorized-under-secret-us-drone-strike-memo/

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When Obama Told the Truth About Gitmo . . . and Then Forgot

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“Obama just sent five Gitmo prisoners back to Afghanistan in exchange for an American soldier who may have deserted. Drudge fills the page with stories.  The entire focus is on the American. What about the five released prisoners, who never received a trial?  Obama is at long last pulling troops out of Afghanistan, yet he is still holding prisoners captured in Afghanistan, who were never given a trial.  If the war is over, shouldn’t we close Guantánamo? ‘Never,’ Republicans say. ‘This is a great way to spend our tax dollars. This is America’s version of Castro’s concentration camps in Cuba. We deserve one, too!'”

http://teapartyeconomist.com/2014/06/04/obama-told-truth-forgot/

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