Over twenty years ago, the estate recovery clause was added to Medicaid. If you are 55 or over and receive Medicaid coverage, the state you live in can seize your estate when you die to recover the costs they paid out for your health care.
As I confirmed during my December visit, there is evidence of backlash against North Carolina oligarchist "Puppet Master" Art Pope's way-far-right agenda.by NoahThere are two Popes in the news lately. Both represent organizations that claim to speak for Jesus Christ. One's name is Pope Francis, leader of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis is the better-known of the two, and his actions befuddle and anger U.S. Republicans. The other's name is Art Pope.
By Kevin Barrett | Press TV | December 27, 2013
With some people – the really bad liars – it’s easy to spot what criminologists call “guilty demeanor.”
When George W. Bush sat reading to schoolchildren on the morning of 9/11, remaining in the classroom for almost ten minutes after supposedly learning that America was under attack, the guilty look on his face was palpable.
Jewish Power is the ability to get us to stop talking about Jewish Power. Gilad Atzmon.
Since 1998, Antiwar.com has been in the forefront of the battle for peace and the restoration of the Constitution: I have personally written thousands of columns commenting on this or that aspect of the struggle, and my co-writers have contributed many tens of thousands of words to that same effort. And so I’m wondering: have […]
Despite an atmosphere of deep mutual distrust, two major rival Syrian Kurdish bodies have agreed to attend an expected international conference on the fate of Syria, known as Geneva II, on the side of the Syrian opposition forces, Syrian Kurdish sources told IPS. That is contingent on the possibility that only two sides will be […]
It was a year much like any other – until it wasn’t. In the Balkans, the tone for 2013 was set in December 2012, when the Empire-installed regime in Belgrade pledged to break Serbia in exchange for lording over its ruins. But the understanding of Empire’s Balkans policy was much illuminated in late January, by […]
On December 26, 1963, hastily pushed up in response to public demand, Capitol Records released their first Beatles record, a single of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" backed with "I Saw Her Standing There." It wasn't the first Beatles release in the U.S., but it was the first by the group's official label (or any major one), and the first properly promoted and distributed. The rest, as they say, is history.by NoahAs a youngster in the early 1960s, I had a portable radio.
At least 20 people were killed and 29 more were wounded in scattered violence across Iraq.
I have been tracking events pertaining to the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March, 2011, for well over two and one half years now, and what I see is a situation that is absolutely not improving at all....
Yes, I am back... And I will be resuming writing articles, and of course my weekly rant, very shortly..It was a much needed break... I was seriously suffering from burnout the last few weeks with a horrendous work schedule, family issues and needs, and of course trying to keep up with this blog.....
[We continue the encore presentation of Noah's 2012 Idiocracy series. When I told him I was rerunning the series (begun last night with Part 1), he replied, "Running Idiocracy works fine.
by Finian Cunningham
The annual Christmas celebrations around the world conjure up a kaleidoscope of emotions, ranging from the sombre to the joyful, from pity to awe.
One thing often missing though from the celebrations is a connection between the original historical event – some 2,000 years ago – and how this story relates to present reality.
Unsurprisingly, truly unsurprisingly, the new saviours (alleged) of the Egyptian people have now labelled Muslim Brotherhood a "terrorist organization"Yawn. This convenient branding will be used to further degrade and destabilize Egypt.But, Egypt is not going to be alone in this campaign of destruction.
Xinhua News Agency
December 26, 2013
4 killed in U.S. drone strike in NW Pakistan
• At least 4 were killed in a U.S. drone strike late Wednesday night in Pakistan’s North Waziristan.
• U.S. unmanned aircraft fired two missiles at a house suspected of being a militant hideout.
• At least 166 people have reportedly been killed in such strikes so far this year.
When the NSA’s bulk collection of every single American’s phone records was disclosed this past summer, defenders of the program argued it was not invasive surveillance because it’s only metadata (who you called, when, and for how long) and doesn’t include the identity of the callers or the content of the conversation. “There are no names, there’s no content in that database,” Obama said in June.
Last night you may have heard me grousing about how Martin Scorsese left out the real life political corruption in the story of the Jordan Belfort scandal that shook Wall Street in the '90s. Belfort gave thousands of dollars to notorious Wall Street shill Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) and, at D'Amato's urging, a check for $100,000 to the RNC in a vain hope to get the FBI off his back. Scorsese left that out iof his 3-hour film, The Wolf Of Wall Street, which opened yesterday.
Younes Arar:
Now: Gaza under fire…Three Israeli occupation terrorist airstrike so far, 26 December, 2013.
@Hanood12:
#Israel has officially launched the commemoration of the fifth anniversary of Operation Cast Lead War 2008 – 2009! #GazaUnderAttack
Álvaro Herraiz San Martín:
Confirmed 2 injured in Shifa Hospital, #Gaza.
#Gazaunderattack:
Álvaro Herraiz San Martín:
#israel is bombimg #Gaza
Shiya’eya, Shekher ‘Adwan, Maghazi and Rafah Area.
#Gazaunderattack
Mohammed Omer:
Dual-citizen nominee’s lifetime benefit to Israel comes at a heavy cost to America
by Steve McGee In science, one likes to have more examples than theories. – Dusan Djuric Those words, spoken whimsically about cosmology, apply to climate science as well. The theory of the sensitivity of climate to the radiative forcing imposed … Continue reading →
The Alt Media series of interviews continues on Trans Resister Radio with an interview with Guy Evans. Guy is the creator and host of the Smells Like Human Spirit podcast. Here he gives his views on podcasting and alternative media in general. He and Aaron point out that simple things such as a conversation between friends can be an incredibly engaging format for alt media to utilize.
December 26, 2013 (Tony Cartalucci) - Anti-regime protesters sought to occupy the Election Commission venue at the Thai-Japanese Stadium in Din Daeng, Bangkok for the third day today in attempts to disrupt the regime's show-elections scheduled for February 2, 2014, but were met instead by regime police.
Voice of Russia
December 23, 2013
UK’s GCHQ doing the NSA’s heavy lifting – George Galloway
John Robles
Photo: Flickr.com
Lately, I've been writing a bit about a book I'm reading, Prediposed by John Hibbing, Kevin Smith and John Alford.
RT | December 25, 2013
A Drone Survival Guide with hints and tips on how to thwart the “robotic birds” has been published on the internet. With over 30,000 drones expected to be flying over the US by 2030, the Guide urges readers to familiarize themselves with the craft.
Voice of Russia
December 25, 2013
NATO countries show anti-Russian sentiment – Lavrov
NATO member countries show anti-Russian sentiments as they are guided by fears of the Cold War times, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov believes.
“It’s unproductive and short-sighted to be guided by fears of the long-gone times [the Cold War times],” the Foreign Minister said in an interview to RT television.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Erich Maria Remarque: Selections on war
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Erich Maria Remarque
From The Road Back (1930)
Translated by A.W. Wheen
Raddad’s testimony is the story of Palestinians, again and again, it is the story not shown in the corporate media. [interview from IMEU]
By Thomas S. Harrington | Common Dreams | December 25, 2013
As has been widely reported, the American Studies Association, the umbrella organization of academics devoted to the study of US literature, history and culture, recently voted to join the movement to boycott Israeli academic institutions.
Note: This is based on this article I posted on April 21, 2012, with the exception that it was about the 99-year charter misinformation, and I have substituted 100-year, which is the alternative misinformation that some people were spreading in 2013 even after the 99-year charter claim had been shown to be false. There was […]
Months after the events took place, Pulitzer prize winning journalists and others are finally reporting about the lies and manipulations of the US government regarding the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria.
Obama and Cameron also know that their unquenchable thirst to intervene in the Muslim world has yielded lethal results for their own people. Foregoing an adult-like silence, they, like mindless adolescents, cheered on the “freedom-loving democrats” in Tahrir Square, promoting and deepening the chaos that led to the Islamists’ stripping Egypt’s arsenals of modern weaponry and freeing thousands of veteran and talented mujahedin who were incarcerated in Mubarak’s prisons.
On 23rd of December 2013, Bethlehem Unwrapped festival opened with the unveiling of a 8m high life size replica of the separation wall that has been built by Israel in the WestBank. It has been constructed over 8 days in the church yard of St James’ near PiccadillyCircus in central London in a bid to bring some reality of what it is like to live in Bethlehem in 2013.
The New York State AFL-CIO did the above video in regard to their own state. But there isn't a state in the Union that it doesn't apply to. Where is this not relevant: "We need to start looking at things from the perspective of the workers who call our state home, not the corporations who call Ne York their tax break layover." And they offer solutions that aren't in the forefront of politicians who cater to the 1%-- the entire Republican Party and the whole Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- Blue Dogs, New Dems, Third Wayers, et al.
This is not specific to Gaza, but rather to humanity as a whole. Very worth re-listening multiple times.
Akala official youtube
lyric excerpts from a brilliant piece of art:
“…See lately I feel confused with the boxes
Cause to me all they do is breed conflict
It not that I’ve lost touch with the
Reality racism, sexism and nationality
Just to me it all seems like insanity
Why must I rob you of your humanity
Here are the all-time top 10 articles at FauxCapitalist.com by the end of 2013: 1) May 10, 2013: Dr. Stan Monteith, a 35-year orthopedic surgeon on Jeff Bauman’s leg amputations: “I believe that this young man was an actor” 2) June 30, 2010: Australia has $15 an hour minimum wage and is ranked more economically […]
Here is the list of the Top 10 articles written in 2013 for FauxCapitalist.com in 2013. This year, most articles were about non-economic issues. As a result, I will be separately providing a list of the top 10 articles overall, written in all years going back to 2008. 1) Dr. Stan Monteith, a 35-year orthopedic […]
2013 has expectedly been a terrible year for several Arab nations. It has been terrible because the promise of greater freedoms and political reforms has been reversed, most violently in some instances, by taking a few countries down the path of anarchy and complete chaos. Syria and Egypt are two cases in point. Syria has […]
My Christmas holiday frequently includes a series of reunions with other former CIA people, often grouped by the overseas stations that we served in. This year the Istanbul gathering preceded Spain and the Rome Station ca. 1980 soon followed. Some of the retirees are still working for the government as contractors so I try to […]
It's another Scorsese-DiCaprio project-- there have been 5 so far-- so there has been plenty of fanfare. Based on the true story of Wall Street swindler Jordan Belfort, anyone who had hoped the movie-- or the discussion around it-- would serve as an opportunity to take a serious look at Wall Street corruption will be sorely disappointed.
Regime violence will only increase number, resolve of protesters - sham elections being disrupted. December 26, 2013 (Tony Cartalucci) - Several protesters have been sent to the hospital as police began firing tear gas, rubber bullets, and using chemical laden water fired from water canons at the Thai-Japanese Stadium in Din Daeng, Bangkok.
By Eva Bartlett | In Gaza | December 25, 2013
Some things to consider giving Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza on Dec 24:
As our friend Bil pointed out in a comment on our colleague Noah's Sunday evening post "Need a last-minute Christmas gift suggestion?," Noah has not done one of his traditional blockbuster multipart end-of-year holiday series. I'm afraid plates have been rather full in the Noah household this holiday season, but I thought what we might do is to repeat last year's enormously popular series based on one of Noah's favorite films, Mike Judge's Idiocracy.
by Judith Curry I confess that I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much indetermined and unpredictable, to a pretence of exact knowledge that is likely to be false. – Friedrich von Hayek While discussing my recent … Continue reading →
