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Obamacare To Increase Individual-Market Premiums By Average Of 41%

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“One of the fundamental flaws of the Affordable Care Act is that, despite its name, it makes health insurance more expensive. Today, the Manhattan Institute released the most comprehensive analysis yet conducted of premiums under Obamacare for people who shop for coverage on their own. In the average state, Obamacare will increase underlying premiums by 41 percent. As we have long expected, the steepest hikes will be imposed on the healthy, the young, and the male. And Obamacare’s taxpayer-funded subsidies will primarily benefit those nearing retirement—people who, unlike the young, have had their whole lives to save for their health-care needs.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/11/04/49-state-analysis-obamacare-to-increase-individual-market-premiums-by-avg-of-41-subsidies-flow-to-elderly/

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Bureaucrats Against Healthcare Access: Remote Area Medical

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“Remote Area Medical (RAM), a Tennessee-based charity that is completely privately funded, offers a glimpse of what voluntary health care might look like. The group treats all comers at free, weekend clinics dotted across the country.  At a typical event, over a thousand patients arrive in the wee hours of the night to make sure they get a spot in line. Many drive for hours and sleep in their cars.  But rather than welcome the organization, which operates at no cost to taxpayers, most state governments actively impede their efforts.  Unfortunately, few states allow health workers licensed in other states to see patients—even when they are working for free.”

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/bureaucrats-against-healthcare-access

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An Evening in Satoshi Forest

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“By combining permaculture, food forests, and aquaponics, Satoshi Forest will not only be a sanctuary for the homeless where they can sleep undisturbed from local authoritarian figures, but a self-sustaining ecosystem that provides food to feed those in need. Because of the low impact style of food forests, the upkeep is optimized and food output high once it gets growing.  Satoshi Forest is more than just a place for people to camp and grow their own food; it is the answer to the question, ‘Who will feed the poor?’ The people voluntarily participating in the counter economy and Bitcoin-fueled markets have already proven how effective mutual aid combined with direct action is.”

http://www.bitcoinnotbombs.com/an-evening-in-satoshi-forest/

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A Letter to America from the Son of an American

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“What about me, the European with American ancestry? When I was a kid, I thought it was great being half American. We used to visit my grandparents, and bring back things like root beer and peanut butter. My mother once made pumpkin pie for me to take to school, and this was something that none of the other kids had ever tasted. I told my friends about how great it was visiting my grandparents and what a great country America is.  Now, things have changed. The banks here have started treating me and my family like criminals and lepers.”

http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2013/11/04/a-letter-to-america-from-the-son-of-an-american-by-aj/

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Foreign Tax will affect thousands of Americans living abroad

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“As CCTV’s Kristiaan Yeo reports many Americans who are living abroad are now giving up their citizenship due to the upcoming legislation that is forcing them to pay double taxation. Affected Americans are not only divorcing their homeland but even consider the ‘worst threat’ to their families.”

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Government Alienates Americans Abroad By Criminalizing the Innocent?

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“Jim welcomes Mark Nestmann, President of the Nestmann Group, Ltd.; Marylouise Serrato, Executive Director of American Citizens Abroad; Daniel Küttel, American expatriate living in Bremgarten, Switzerland; and Douglas Benedict, Canadian citizen and retired investment advisor. Daniel and Douglas share personal testimonials as expatriates enduring the overzealous pursuit of a government that has wrongfully identified them as tax evaders. Mark sheds light on the draconian FATCA compliance regulations that have erroneously identified law-abiding citizens as suspects, and Marylouise provides insight into the challenges of Americans who have elected to live abroad.”

http://www.financialsense.com/financial-sense-newshour/2013/10/22/expat-roundtable

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Poland seeks media blackout in trial over secret CIA prison it hosted

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“Poland’s government has asked the European Court of Human Rights to exclude the media and the public from a court hearing next month on whether Poland hosted a secret CIA prison on its territory.  The request for a private hearing was criticised by a Polish human rights group, which accuses the state of trying to conceal its involvement in the CIA‘s ‘extraordinary rendition’ programme behind a veil of secrecy.  The Strasbourg– based court scheduled a public hearing for Dec. 3 to hear arguments in the cases of two men who say they were held in a CIA-operated jail in Poland. It will be the first time the allegations have been tested in open court.”

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/poland-seeks-media-blackout-in-trial-over-allegations-it-hosted-secret-cia-prison-29712125.html

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Swiss bankers stay home amid US global tax evasion manhunt

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“As a US hunt for tax evaders and their accomplices gains momentum, many Swiss bankers are afraid to go abroad for fear of arrest, one business leader said.  ‘In my opinion, some 1,000 Swiss bankers no longer dare to go to the United States, or even travel abroad,’ Martin Naville, the head of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, was quoted as saying.  Swiss banks and industry representatives are increasingly cautioning bankers who have worked with US clients to refrain from travelling outside Switzerland. The long-time tax haven’s banks are believed to have accepted tens of billions of undeclared dollars from US citizens, though they now refuse such money.”

http://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/1341767/swiss-bankers-stay-home-amid-us-global-tax-evasion-manhunt

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Obamacare is Eliminating My Health Insurance

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“I now find myself in the absurd position of losing my health insurance because the professional liars and thieves in D.C. have dictated that everyone have health insurance!  I had health insurance, but, thanks to constant meddling by the idiots in D.C., I am not only losing the insurance policy that I had, but I am also losing even the possibility of purchasing an insurance policy that suits my needs and my business’s needs.   I now have the choice of going without health insurance altogether (and paying a $95 fine to the morons who eliminated my insurance policy in the first place), or I can purchase an insurance policy that will be horrendously more expensive than I can afford.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/10/mark-r-crovelli/i-have-a-very-dangerous-job/

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Why Snowden’s Passport Matters

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“Cancelation of the passport wasn’t just an effort to prevent the whistleblower from getting to a country that might grant political asylum. It was also a declaration that the U.S. government can nullify the right to travel just as surely as it can nullify the right to privacy.  Since 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has affirmed with clarity: ‘Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.’ The only other words of Article 14 specify an exception that clearly doesn’t apply: ‘This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.'”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/norman-solomon/why-snowdens-passport-mat_b_4150236.html

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