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[aedens]

The Atlantic's Health Care Forum in Washington on Thursday, health care and business professionals said that there’s an increasing trend in the industry toward cutting insurance companies out of the process entirely, as large, regional hospital systems move into the insurance business.

Related: Obamacare - Taxpayers in the Hole for $1.5 Trillion

Dr. Kenneth L. Davis, CEO and president of Mount Sinai Health System, the largest health care provider in the state of New York, said that starting next year, Mt. Sinai will begin offering its own Medicare Advantage plan. It will look for other opportunities to bring premium payments directly into the hospital system, rather than filtering them through insurance companies.
Davis said he expects organizations similar to his to move in the same direction. “Inevitably the large systems are going to move to take part of the premium dollar,” he said.

Schumer will argue Democrats must defend popular government programs, such as extended unemployment benefits and student loan subsidies, to persuade Tea Party voters they could benefit from federal programs.
"The average Tea Party member, like the average American, likes government run Medicare, likes government built highways and water and sewer lines, likes government support for education, both higher and lower," he will say.

The educational system is broken. Ask the protestants and catholics. Have your children independantly tested. Ask them as we did what is going on and they told us point blank. Day care center for criminals and one was going into education but the "savages run the prison". Impossible to convey how broken and disgusting it truly is. I will have then type a paragraph to what is and why education is terminal they said. Rent seeking waste of money.

No we wish to see you disappear as soon as possible since you did such a bang up job here also as we noted...

Puerto Rico - Low Income Taxpayer Clinics (LITCs) The "blueprint " just as before on the sticky wages forumed as was our area was also before. Welcome to what we seen when we watched countless who lost half benefits and one third wages as the taxpayer blindly subsidized the blue prints of plant closing.
Locals note: They are fleeing Puerto Rico for the same reason that everyone else is - decades of dependence on US welfare has destroyed the island's economy and culture. Only criminals and the poor are seen on most streets. This is what "social programs" accomplish.
And now my children you understand why you had been instructed not to join the debt sheep in the educational debt bubble
and other affairs. The enactment of H.R. 2847 came one day after the Senate passed the measure, 68-29, without amending the bill to protect the American worker from losing job opportunities to illegal aliens.

Your 200 year plan for votes has wrought ruin to this country. Term limits should have you as the poster boy.

As for the kill switch notes we had pegged early, we took our lumps from you retards and political dullards since we knew better as we sipped our tea in patience and caring for others actual community needs called work. Red and Blue does not exist in discussions past the welcome mat which is still open to all thinking souls in forbearance since as reminded they will be known by the fruit they bear.

Fed’s 100-year economic system’s been coined and defined: Rubinomics. h/t n
Gut the productivity & lifestyle of the host, enrich yourself while convincing everyone its for their own good...it only takes a certain class of evil...
http://gdxforum.com/forum/search.php?st ... 1&start=10
Ben escapes with his 1983 thesis only.

keywords: term limit refuse remove dlc rhino astro turf cci

[aedens]

The CCI was the clean up crew.

http://www.rff.org/Documents/HafsteadSm ... er2012.pdf

snip... thirty years ago Benny and the Inkjets told the saver they will be destroyed just as the Keynesian's stated and are by the most effective
theft and unparalleled fatal deceit. The IMF "FED" and ECB learned well that moral hazard for socialist theft is alchemy of the High Priests for the Theft for Fun Idiots we just seen.
http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/meltzer/bernon83.pdf
I define the cost of credit intermediation (CCI) as being the cost of channeling funds from the ultimate savers/lenders into the hands of good borrowers. The CCI includes screening, monitoring, and accounting costs, as well as the expected losses inflicted by bad borrowers. Banks presumably choose operating procedures that minimize the CCI. This is done by developing expertise at evaluating potential borrowers; establishing long-term relationships with customers; and offering loan conditions that encourage potential borrowers to self-select in a favorable way.

We seen it and used solar, lunar, warts on toads just as accurate to the lies, theft and Scientific fun like the FED just as Newton did to chide the Powers that be with humor to express the absurdity, insensitivity, paradox, and cruelty of the so called modern world.

trying to figure out a way to arm al-Qaeda in Syria without the American public finding out about it. It appears that becoming entrenched in a Syrian civil war is still very much on the table... The months ahead should be very interesting to say the least.

Cyprus to the Russians as Bahamas to the U.S. interest carry shell accounts. Idiots in ECB got the natives involved for trial balloon. Trial run and you bet
the White House says plausible denial will be sacrosanct for half.

As warned: Public market destruction: another bifrucation and select asset stripping ongoing. "Successful" (surviving) companies will continue to buy back stock until they effectively go private. The rest will go to zero for stripping. The public float will be a fraction of what it is today. ZIRP is causing the public equity market to select pick equity, now over eight percent of the market and growing. It will continue to exist as an asset class so it will trade at a discount (risk premium). It will be available, and a vehicle to build and maintain wealth, just not you. Private equity will be the only real equity and there will be a velvet rope. You are not invited, and for the always obtuse way thinking you have been noted.

[Higgenbotham]

http://www.stawealth.com/images/stories ... 032814.PNG

http://drbenway.blogspot.be/2014/02/the ... icing.html

Good article.

A market dominated by a few major financial intermediaries will thus be much more predisposed to boom-and-busts, as opposed to a market with highly distributed direct ownership. Boom-and-bust is embedded in the very fabric of the current market structure.

Combining the chart in the first link with the quote above from the second link, a few major financial intermediaries can use the flow into mutual funds to drive the market higher in the morning (after all it's not their money), then sell their own holdings off in the afternoon. How many times has this been seen in the past 3 weeks? How do they love thee, let me mark the ways...

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Spike it higher with the public's money, then sell it off. The public pays the highest prices. How the game is played.

[aedens]

http://mises.org/daily/6685/Robert-Taft ... olationism

quant pong for gun runners death dealers.

[gerald]

NASA-funded report says society is trending toward big collapse --- March 18, 2014
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas ... 328327.php

"In sum, the authors conclude that collapse is "very difficult" to avoid in the face of economic stratification."

"However, collapse can be avoided and population can reach equilibrium if the per capita rate of depletion of nature is reduced to a sustainable level, and if resources are distributed in a reasonably equitable fashion," the report states."

And our "leaders" are mostly psychopaths --- this does not look promising

[gerald]

In God We Trust -- all others pay cash

( what's next )

"Nail Gun Suicide" Banker's Firm Probed Over Missing Millions
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-2 ... g-millions

state prosecutors launched a criminal investigation and a grand jury over more than $2 million missing from escrow accounts.


The Arapahoe County coroner's office said Talley shot himself in the chest seven times with 2½ -inch finish nails from a nail gun before firing a fatal nail into his head. Police found him dressed for work, sitting in his car in the garage and with the motor running. ( really? all by himself? torture yourself before you off yourself?)

"Records show Title Resources was to confront Talley about the missing escrow funds the morning he died." ( how convenient )


"Before coming to Colorado, Talley was a former regional financial officer at Drexel Burnham Lambert in Chicago, where he met his wife, Cheryl, a vice president at the company. The two married in 1989.

Talley had formed a number of companies, some now defunct, according to the Colorado secretary of state's office. Among them: American Escrow, Clear Title, Clear Creek Financial Holdings, Swift Basin, Sumar, American Real Estate Services, and the American Alliance of Real Estate Professionals."


"Talley's 1989 wedding announcement in the Chicago Tribune noted he was "a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic swimming team."

A spokeswoman for USA Swimming on Thursday said Talley was not on the team."

And a person's past is not relevant? --- Next---

[Higgenbotham]

This reads to me like a standard attempt to buy enough time so that the world will forget what Putin is doing. By referring to "continued rampage of extremists who are committing acts of intimidation towards peaceful residents," Putin is preparing a case for military action in Ukraine, and for not removing his troops from Ukraine's border. He could order his troops into Ukraine next week, and then claim that Obama didn't propose a way to protect "peaceful residents," so he had to do it.

I believe this is likely.

I've posted about episodes of violence that have broken out on or near April 19 over the past few decades. Going back further in time, crisis wars have broken out on or near April 19 too. The American Revolution started with the "shot heard round the world" on April 19, 1775 and the American CIvil War started with the attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861.

[Reality Check]

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An organized, coordinated government plan to produce mass hysteria for a political purpose - you just can not make this stuff up.

If the world doesn't cut pollution of heat-trapping gases, the already noticeable harms of global warming could spiral "out of control," the head of a United Nations scientific panel warned Monday.

And he's not alone. The Obama White House says it is taking this new report as a call for action, with Secretary of State John Kerry saying "the costs of inaction are catastrophic."

Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that issued the 32-volume, 2,610-page report here early Monday, told The Associated Press: "it is a call for action." Without reductions in emissions, he said, impacts from warming "could get out of control."

One of the study's authors, Maarten van Aalst, a top official at the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said, "If we don't reduce greenhouse gases soon, risks will get out of hand. And the risks have already risen."

Twenty-first century disasters such as killer heat waves in Europe, wildfires in the United States, droughts in Australia and deadly flooding in Mozambique, Thailand and Pakistan highlight how vulnerable humanity is to extreme weather, according to the report from the Nobel Prize-winning group of scientists. The dangers are going to worsen as the climate changes even more, the report's authors said.

"We're now in an era where climate change isn't some kind of future hypothetical," said the overall lead author of the report, Chris Field of the Carnegie Institution for Science in California. "We live in an area where impacts from climate change are already widespread and consequential."

Nobody is immune, Pachauri and other scientists said.

"We're all sitting ducks," Princeton University professor Michael Oppenheimer, one of the main authors of the report, said in an interview.

After several days of late-night wrangling, more than 100 governments unanimously approved the scientist-written 49-page summary — which is aimed at world political leaders. The summary mentions the word "risk" an average of about 5 1/2 times per page.

"Changes are occurring rapidly and they are sort of building up that risk," Field said.

[Reality Check]

This reads to me like a standard attempt to buy enough time so that the world will forget what Putin is doing. By referring to "continued rampage of extremists who are committing acts of intimidation towards peaceful residents," Putin is preparing a case for military action in Ukraine, and for not removing his troops from Ukraine's border. He could order his troops into Ukraine next week, and then claim that Obama didn't propose a way to protect "peaceful residents," so he had to do it.

I believe this is likely.

I've posted about episodes of violence that have broken out on or near April 19 over the past few decades. Going back further in time, crisis wars have broken out on or near April 19 too. The American Revolution started with the "shot heard round the world" on April 19, 1775 and the American CIvil War started with the attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861.

There are a large number of military variables influencing when the invading force will want to go in. Weather ( planting season - or tending season for winter crops - taking members of the militias away from their units, clear skies for ground attack aircraft to see their targets, suitability to use your military's technical advantages in asymmetrical warfare), ground conditions ( mud, frozen streams and rivers, height of winter crops, etc. ) Shaping the battlefield through non-violent political means, such as having the militias go home from down town Kiev or removing the Ukrainian blockade from entry and exit points, from Ukraine, out of, and in to, Russian military occupied portions of Moldova ( known as Trans-Dniester), disposition of opposing forces[/size] attempting to spoil your invasion attack.

Where you finally decide to actually go, when you invade will also be a huge factor, if you are going to make a dash across the country to the opposite west central border with Moldova ( the Russian army occupied Trans-Dniester portion of Moldova ) that is very different than a more limited, more difficult, eastern only strategy.

These dozens of conditions will never all line up in favor of the invading force, at some point they will just have to go, and they can not stay ready to go forever.

[aedens]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich

Millions upon million of these running around today. Labeling is pointless since one who disregards the Letter never understood the Word.

Europe's confederations are another rendition of ignorances wrapped in stupidity for sociopaths. How many times do we need to point to the five percent rule.

The real reason for the war is that . . .
Northern industrialists had used trade tariffs to prevent the Southern States from buying cheaper European goods. Europe subsequently retaliated by stopping cotton imports from the South.
Thus the South were being forced to pay more for goods whilst having their income slashed.
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This is when the money changers saw the opportunity to divide and conquer America by plunging it into Civil War. This is confirmed by Otto Von Bismarck when he was Chancellor of Germany
(1871 - 1890), who stated,

"The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe, these bankers were afraid that the United States if they remained as one block and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence which would upset their financial domination over the world.
They foresaw the tremendous booty if they could substitute two feeble democracies, indebted to the financiers, to the vigorous Republic, confident and self-providing.Therefore they started their emissaries in order to exploit the question of slavery and thus dig an abyss between the two parts of the Republic.”

Religion is a excuse since we all know honor the gods in public and count the lucre in private. Faith is separate issue as east is from the west to forbearance.
Cheerful and useful idiots never end as the call for the sleeper to awake as the perfect law of liberty is ignored in simple terms.

Remember who protected the western bullion during the civil war as they steamed into San Fransisco harbor? Few remember and less understand why.