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Senate Asks Trump Associates for Records of Communication With Russians
New York Times
WASHINGTON The Senate Intelligence Committee, seeking to accelerate its broad investigation intoRussian meddling in the presidential election, has asked a number of high-profile Trump campaign associates to hand over emails and other records of ...
The Senate sent a revealing list of demands to Carter Page about his Russia tiesBusiness Insider
After promising to cooperate, ex-Trump adviser Carter Page turns inquiry back on Senate panelWashington Post
No Evidence of Russian Collusion With Trump CampaignPJ Media
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Abedin - Google News: Special Prosecutor Called To Investigate Huma Abedin - Liberty News Now
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:29:08 -0400

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Special Prosecutor Called To Investigate Huma Abedin
Liberty News Now
Huma Abedin, vice chair of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign for President of the United States was revealed to have emailed classified information to her then-husband Anthony Weiner. On Thursday, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) was reported to ...
Abedin Emails Show Clinton Foundation-State Department Haiti LinksRight Side News
How big was influence of Huma Abedin's family?WND.com
Louisiana Senator Kennedy questions Comey about Clinton-to-Abedin to Weiner email controversyBayoubuzz
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Donald Trump: Trump's assault on Obamacare
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:28:57 -0400
Republicans celebrate House vote to repeal Obama's healthcare plan

 Donald Trump
Trumpism - Google News: Obama's Macron Endorsement Is an Effort to Stop the Spread of Trumpism - The Nation.
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:28:44 -0400



Obama's Macron Endorsement Is an Effort to Stop the Spread of Trumpism
The Nation.
Barack Obama is popular in Franceso popular that earlier this year young people in Paris organized a slightly surreal Oui on peut (Yes we can) campaign to convince the 44th president of the United States to run for president of France in 2017.

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Fri, 05 May 2017 15:28:26 -0400



Trump Campaign Associates Questioned Over Russia Ties
Wall Street Journal (subscription)
WASHINGTONThe Senate Intelligence Committee has sent letters to at least four former associates of the Trump campaign asking for information and records about their activities before and after the 2016 election, a sign that the committee's probe into ...



 trump russian ties - Google News
Trump FBI file - Google News: Fake news? A look at what didn't happen this week - Ravalli Republic
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:28:08 -0400



Fake news? A look at what didn't happen this week
Ravalli Republic
FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump, center, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, third from right, Vice President Mike Pence, second from right, and his wife Karen, right, and the Trump family, glances towards the ...

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Comey - Google News: Comey pressed for anti-Trump dossier in classified Russia report, sources say - Fox News
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:27:25 -0400

Fox News



Comey pressed for anti-Trump dossier in classified Russia report, sources say
Fox News
FBI Director James Comey considered an anti-Trump dossier compiled by a former British intelligence officer so important that he insisted the document be included in January's final intelligence community report on Russian meddling in the U.S. election ...
Comey Refuses To Publicly Address FBI Ties To 'Peeing Russian Prostitutes' DossierBreitbart News
Senators Ask Comey: Is Trump Dossier Firm Linked To Russian Intelligence? [VIDEO]The Daily Caller

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Fri, 05 May 2017 15:27:09 -0400

Fox News



Comey pressed for anti-Trump dossier in classified Russia report, sources say
Fox News
FBI Director James Comey considered an anti-Trump dossier compiled by a former British intelligence officer so important that he insisted the document be included in January's final intelligence community report on Russian meddling in the U.S. election ...
Senator: Wait, The Firm Behind Trump Dossier Was Funded By Russia?The Federalist
Senators Ask Comey: Is Trump Dossier Firm Linked To Russian Intelligence? [VIDEO]The Daily Caller
Trump Slams Democrats For Using Discredited Dossier To Justify Russia ProbeWestern Journalism

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 trump and russia - Google News
russia helping trump - Google News: Comey pressed for anti-Trump dossier in classified Russia report, sources say - Fox News
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:26:54 -0400

Fox News



Comey pressed for anti-Trump dossier in classified Russia report, sources say
Fox News
FBI Director James Comey considered an anti-Trump dossier compiled by a former British intelligence officer so important that he insisted the document be included in January's final intelligence community report on Russian meddling in the U.S. election ...
Senators Ask Comey: Is Trump Dossier Firm Linked To Russian Intelligence? [VIDEO]The Daily Caller
Senator: Wait, The Firm Behind Trump Dossier Was Funded By Russia?The Federalist
Spy behind Trump dossier says info was never meant for public eyesCNN
Western Journalism -Independent Journal Review
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 russia helping trump - Google News
Trump - Google News: Amid Presidential Access Questions, Former Trump Campaign Manager Quits Lobbying Firm - NPR
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:26:41 -0400

NPR



Amid Presidential Access Questions, Former Trump Campaign Manager Quits Lobbying Firm
NPR
Shortly after the November election, President Trump's initial campaign manager Corey Lewandowski launched a new career co-founding a lobbying firm called Avenue Strategies. But he did not register as a lobbyist. That caused critics to demand ...

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emails investigation is Russia-Trump set-up - Google News: Amid Presidential Access Questions, Former Trump Campaign Manager Quits Lobbying Firm - NPR
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:13:32 -0400



Amid Presidential Access Questions, Former Trump Campaign Manager Quits Lobbying Firm
NPR
That caused critics to demand investigations into his lack of registration, and now, Lewandowski is quitting. Barry Bennett, who co-founded the firm, said in an email to NPR that Lewandowski has left "to focus on his speeches and some politics ...

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 emails investigation is Russia-Trump set-up - Google News
trump investigated by the fbi - Google News: Congress, law enforcement officials concerned Russia is trying to discredit FBI probe - CBS News
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:13:05 -0400

CBS News



Congress, law enforcement officials concerned Russia is trying to discredit FBI probe
CBS News
CBS News has learned that members of Congress and U.S. law enforcement officials are increasingly concerned that Russia is already trying or will try to discredit the FBI counterintelligenceinvestigation. The probe into whether Trump campaign ...
Remember the Russia investigation? Here's what's been happening.Mic
Here's What The Senate Intel Committee Wants From Former Trump Adviser Carter PageThe Daily Caller
Senate Committee Asks Carter Page to Reveal Russian ContactsNBCNews.com

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 trump investigated by the fbi - Google News
trump and intelligence community - Google News: Rand Paul Demands Info: Was I Surveilled By WH, Intel Community? - TPM
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:12:45 -0400

TPM



Rand Paul Demands Info: Was I Surveilled By WH, Intel Community?
TPM
Two of Paul's tweets link to a call from Circa for the Trump administration to release records showing how often government officials have searched National Security Agency intercepts for intelligence on U.S. presidential candidates, members of ...
Rand Paul requests info on whether Obama surveilled himThe Hill
Rand Paul wants to know if the Obama administration ever spied on himWashington Examiner
Exclusive: Rand Paul Says Obama Administration May Have Spied on His CampaignBreitbart News

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 trump and intelligence community - Google News
Trump FBI file - Google News: Senate Committee Asks Carter Page to Reveal Russian Contacts - NBCNews.com
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:12:21 -0400

Washington Post



Senate Committee Asks Carter Page to Reveal Russian Contacts
NBCNews.com
The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked former Trump adviser Carter Page to provide a list of his contacts with Russian officials and turn over any emails or other communications with Russians, according to a letter Page provided to NBC News ...
After promising to cooperate, ex-Trump adviser Carter Page turns inquiry back on Senate panelWashington Post

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 Trump FBI file - Google News
trump russian money - Google News: Senate Committee Asks Carter Page to Reveal Russian Contacts - NBCNews.com
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:12:12 -0400

NBCNews.com



Senate Committee Asks Carter Page to Reveal Russian Contacts
NBCNews.com
Among the House lines of inquiry, one official familiar with the investigation told NBC News, is to what extent Russian money bailed out Trump's real estate empire after the 2008 real estate crash. The letter to Page asked him to list any Russian ...
Remember the Russia investigation? Here's what's been happening.Mic
Senate Asks Former Trump Adviser for Documents on his Contacts With RussiaNBC Bay Area

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 trump russian money - Google News
trump russian candidate - Google News: Senate Asks Former Trump Adviser for Documents on his Contacts With Russia - NECN
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:12:02 -0400

NECN



Senate Asks Former Trump Adviser for Documents on his Contacts With Russia
NECN
In this Friday, July 8, 2016, file photo, Carter Page, then adviser to U.S. Republican presidentialcandidate Donald Trump, speaks at the graduation ceremony for the New Economic School in Moscow, Russia. One of President Donald Trump's former foreign ...

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FBI politicization - Google News: Dem Senator: You Know, The Comey Letter Was Just As Bad As The FBI's Wiretapping Of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Townhall
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:11:48 -0400

Townhall



Dem Senator: You Know, The Comey Letter Was Just As Bad As The FBI's Wiretapping Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Townhall
He could sit on the Weiner development until after the election, but he would be accused ofpoliticizing the investigation for withholding information about a presidential candidate. If he revealed that they would review the new emails 11 days prior ...

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 FBI politicization - Google News
Russian Intelligence services and organized crime - Google News: The Scandals of Donald Trump: Presidential Edition - The Atlantic
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:11:38 -0400

The Atlantic



The Scandals of Donald Trump: Presidential Edition
The Atlantic
The Senate Intelligence Committee, which is one of several bodies investigating Russianinterference in the election, sent letters to Carter Page, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, and Michael Flynn, among others, requesting their emails and records of other ...

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 Russian Intelligence services and organized crime - Google News
Lawfare - Hard National Security Choices: Today's Headlines and Commentary
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:11:21 -0400
A U.S. service member was killed yesterday in an operation against al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabab in Somalia, the Washington Post reports. The incident comes several weeks after the White House approved an expanded role for U.S. forces in the country, allowing military members to routinely accompany local forces on offensive operations against the extremist group. Foreign Policy notes that the service member killed was a U.S. Navy SEAL and that the casualty marks the first U.S. combat death in Somalia since 1993. The Wall Street Journal confirms that Pentagon officials have noted that the incident appears to be the first U.S. combat death in Somalia since the 1993 killing of 18 U.S. service members in Mogadishu.
The Post reports that North Korea has accused South Korea and the United States of plotting an assassination attempt of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un using biochemical agents. This isnt the first time North Korea has made such claims, none of which have been verified, and experts on the North Korea-U.S. relationship say the claim is unlikely to be true.
United States and allied military will be prohibited from much of Syrian airspace pursuant to a deal struck between Iran, Russia, and Turkeyaccording to the New York Times. It is not clear whether the United States has agreed to that prohibition or whether Russia will enforce the no-fly zone. The centerpiece of the deal is the establishment of four de-escalation zones, in which Syrian government and opposition forces have agreed to stop fighting, but that aspect of the agreement has not been accepted by all opposition groups. The Timesexplains that some rebel groups saw too many loopholes for the Syrian government in the proposal for de-escalation zones. At Just Security, Nathalie Weizmann distinguishes between these de-escalation zones and so-called safe zones. The Wall Street Journal reports that United States officials are wary of the deal, particularly in light of Irans role as one of three guarantor countries, along with Russia and Turkey. The Washington Post highlights that the deal may not be especially different from previous failed cease-fire deals in Syria.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Air Force has deployed its newest combat planes, stealthy F-35A fighters, to Europe for training missions with NATO allies, a move intended in part to deter rising Russian aggression, the Journalreports. The training exercises lay the groundwork for the United States to permanently base several of the aircraft in Europe, shoring up NATOs deterrence posture, explained the head of U.S. Air Forces in Europe.
Iraqi forces have launched a new offensive against ISIS in an effort to oust the group from Mosuls Old Citywrites the Journal. Operations in the city are complicated by the presence of civilians, leading allied forces to forgo heavy weaponry, as the fight to regain the city enters its seventh month, the Journal explains. U.S. military personnel are more engaged than in previous efforts, with posts closer to the front lines in order to facilitate cooperation between U.S. and its allied Iraqi forces.
The Pentagon will send President Trump its troop recommendations for Afghanistan within the weeknotes the Hill. In a Washington Post op-ed, Michael Gerson examines President Trumps options in Afghanistan, arguing that [t]he choices are being clarified in a context that is the clearest strength of the Trump presidency: his first-rate national security staff.
Meanwhile, President Trump is facing increasing opposition to his controversial pick for Secretary of the Army, Mark Green, over his anti-LGBT commentsThe Hill reports that ten retired military officers have urged the administration to rethink the pick, calling Green unfit to serve. The Hill also notes that 41 civil rights groups have joined together to urge the Senate Armed Services Committee to reject Greens nomination.
President Trump met yesterday with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull aboard a U.S. aircraft carrierreports the New York Times. Despite reports of a confrontational phone call between the two in the early days of the administration regarding an Obama-era refugee deal, the meeting appeared to go smoothly. President Trump admitted to the tense phone call yesterday in one breath, but called it fake news in another, explains the Washington Post.
A global coalition of former military leaders and diplomats have created a Nuclear Crisis Group to advise world leaders and members of President Trumps administration on de-escalating nuclear tensionsPolitico reports. The group, dubbed a shadow security council, is comprised of former officials from China, India, Pakistan, Russia, and the United States, including President George H.W. Bushs ambassador to the United Nations Thomas Pickering. The officials warn of a deteriorating global political climate, citing tensions with North Korea and nuclear build up in India, Pakistan, and China.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Thursday that he called Chinese President Xi Jinping at the behest of President Trump to pressure China to exert its influence over North Korea, the Wall Street Journal reports. The comments come after Trump faced substantial criticism over his warm call with Duterte, accused on human rights violations in his anti-drug campaign, in which President Trump invited Duterte to the White House and praised Dutertes drug policies.
President Trump is scheduled to meet with the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, and president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, in his first presidential visit to Europe at the end of the monthreports Politico. President Trump will be attending a NATO summit in Brussels and a G7 meeting in Sicily.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked Trump associates including Roger Stone, Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Michael Flynn to provide emails and other records of their communications with Russian officials. The Times writes that the Committee may issue subpoenas if the four men are not forthcoming.

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Россия ничего не сможет поделать со вступлением Черногории в НАТО
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В конце прошлой недели парламент Черногории проголосовал за вступление страны в НАТО, добавив альянсу, пожалуй самого бесполезного в военном отношении члена. Данный шаг не имеет смысла, разве что для поддержания шатких надежд Грузии и Украины, что их, возможно, ...

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Merkel Takes on Trump Over Demands for German NATO Spending
Bloomberg
As much as the U.S. government demands meeting NATO's 2 percent defense spending goal by 2024, we will stand just as much by our 0.7 percent spending on development aid, Merkel told an industry club in Hamburg on Friday. Germany spends about ...

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Fri, 05 May 2017 15:08:20 -0400

УНИАН



"Признание Путиным геев в Чечне": Кадыров резко изменил риторику
УНИАН
Ранее Кадыров заявил, что «самый лучший способ вести здоровый образ жизни - правильная ориентация». «Нас всевышний создал мужчинами, женщинами, животными - и где написано в религии или везде, что за кошку надо выйти замуж? Или оставить свое наследство кошке?

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Carter Page rebukes Senate Russia investigators in letter - CNN
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:07:58 -0400

CNN



Carter Page rebukes Senate Russia investigators in letter
CNN
(CNN) Carter Page brushed back the Senate intelligence committee in a letter Thursday, telling members that if they want details about his communications with Russians, they'll need to ask former President Barack Obama. The former foreign policy ...
Senate panel asks Trump aides for details on Russia contactThe Hill (blog)
Senate Asks Trump Associates for Records of Communication With RussiansNew York Times
Senate Committee Asks Carter Page to Reveal Russian ContactsNBCNews.com
CBS News
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fbi - Google News: Breaking: FBI arriving in Belize to investigate expat double murder - Breaking Belize News (blog)
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:01:45 -0400

Breaking Belize News (blog)



Breaking: FBI arriving in Belize to investigate expat double murder
Breaking Belize News (blog)
By BBN Staff: Exclusive reports to BBN indicate that members of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will be assisting the Belize Police Department with the investigation into the double murder of Canadian, Francesca Matus and American, Drew De ...
FBI to aid in investigation of couple murdered in BelizeCBS46 News Atlanta

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Russian Intelligence, organized crime and war on police - Google News: The Triumph of James Comey - Antiwar.com
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:00:58 -0400



The Triumph of James Comey
Antiwar.com
Since FBI Director James Comey has become a kind of arbiter of the political discourse to say his pronouncements have been decisive would not, I think, be an overstatement his appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee was much anticipated ...

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 Russian Intelligence, organized crime and war on police - Google News
putin won US 2016 election - Google News: When west isn't best - Financial Times
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:00:47 -0400

Financial Times



When west isn't best
Financial Times
Vladimir Putin greeting political leaders in Russia, between March and May 2017. Top row, from left: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan; German Chancellor Angela Merkel; Japan's PM Shinzo Abe; Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed Al ...



 putin won US 2016 election - Google News
Trump, Putin, and Pope Francis and the Plot to Kill Pope John Paul II - American Spectator
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:00:27 -0400

American Spectator



Trump, Putin, and Pope Francis and the Plot to Kill Pope John Paul II
American Spectator
On May 13, 1981, shortly after 5:00 p.m., Pope John Paul II, the first non-Italian pope in 455 years, the first Slavic pope ever, and to the great dismay of the Soviet Union an intensely anti-communist Pole from the heart of the Communist Bloc ...

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trump and putin - Google News: Trump, Putin, and Pope Francis? - American Spectator
Fri, 05 May 2017 15:00:13 -0400

American Spectator



TrumpPutin, and Pope Francis?
American Spectator
And yet, the full history of this rather enormous and rather dramatic story has never been released. And maybe that's where our new president, today, could step in. How might this involve DonaldTrump? Here's how: He's one man who could help get to the ...

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Eurasia Review: Zika Virus Could Cost US Billions Of Dollars
Fri, 05 May 2017 14:59:51 -0400
As United States policymakers debate how to devote money and resources to the Zika virus outbreak, understanding the potential economic impact of the virus in the US is key.
Now, using a new computational model described in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, researchers have calculated that Zika, depending on the rate at which it infected people in at-risk states, could result in total costs ranging from $183 million to over $1.2 billion.
Since 2015, a strain of Zika virus originating in Brazil has been spreading internationally, with cases now confirmed in more than 40 countries, including the US. Six states — Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas — are at greatest risk of local Zika emergence. Zika can lead to a range of symptoms including fever, muscle pain, and headaches that have repercussions on medical costs and productivity. In addition, the virus has been linked to more serious Guillain-Barré Syndrome and severe birth defects.
In the new work, Bruce Lee of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Alison Galvani of Yale School of Public Health, and colleagues developed a computational model of the economic burden of Zika in the six most at-risk states under a range of hypothetical scenarios. They were able to calculate economic costs to the country under different infection rates, and determine what infection rates would be needed to reach certain cost thresholds.
Across the six states, they calculated that an attack rate of 0.01% would cost society $183.4 million, including both direct medical costs and lost productivity. An attack rate of 0.025% would cost $198.6 million, 0.1% would cost $274.6 million, 1% would cost $1.2 billion, and 2% would exceed $2 billion.
For comparison, the attack rate of Zika in French Polynesia and that of chikungunya — a similar virus–in Puerto Rico have both exceeded 10%. The numbers reported in this new study did not include any potential impact on tourism or travel, any impact beyond the six most at-risk states, nor lost productivity and medical costs associated with fear of Zika or infected family and friends.
“As we aimed to be conservative in our estimations, our model in many ways may underestimate the economic burden of Zika,” the researchers said. “Our analyses indicate that the health and economic burden of even low attack rates of Zika in the Continental US would be both substantial and enduring.”


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AP Top News at 12:56 a.m. EDT: Anxiety over GOP health plan for those with severe illnesses
Fri, 05 May 2017 14:59:16 -0400
As Republicans move closer to dismantling Democrat Barack Obama&apos;s health care law, Americans with serious illnesses are feeling uneasy....

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Eurasia Review: One-Third Of Americans Are On Government Healthcare
Fri, 05 May 2017 14:58:20 -0400
By Ryan McMaken*
The US House of Representatives voted to day to “repeal and replace” Obamacare. Unfortunately, those who use the phrase “repeal and replace” are greatly exaggerating the extent to which the Affordable Care Act is actually repealed.
While perhaps a tiny step in the right direction, the new legislation signals no departure whatsoever from the long-established trend of expanding the role of government programs in subsidizing the regulating the health care industry.
Perhaps worst of all, since this is being called a “repeal,” many may be prompted to think that the US health care system is a “free market” system, or that government spending has only a very small role in the industry.
This couldn’t be further from the truth.
In fact, the US is fourth in the world in terms of per capita government spending on health care, behind only Norway, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. That’s government spending,  not overall spending:
In fact, those numbers from the World Health Organization (WHO) are from 2014, and with the expansion in Medicaid spending under Obamacare, it’s entirely plausible that the US has moved into third place in the past two years.
But how does this translate into actual persons on government programs? Viewed this this angle, we find that full one-third of all Americans are either currently enrolled in a government health program, or have recently been enrolled in one.
There are approximately 55,504,000 Americans on Medicare, which covers the elderly. But there is also an additional 74,506,000 Americans on Medicaid or CHIP. About 11 million of those are dual-enrolled, which means they’re on both Medicare and Medicaid. If we pull the 11 million out of the Medicaid count to avoid double counting, we find that there is a total of 119 million Americans on government programs or about one-third.1
“But, wait!” you might say. “Obamacare expanded the number of people on Medicare, so maybe if we remove all of those people, the numbers will be smaller.”
Yes, it’s true, the numbers will be smaller, but as the Kaiser Family Foundation’s research shows, the pre-Obamacare average for Medicaid/CHIP enrollment was 56.8 million. So, if we go back to that pre-Obamacare number, we end up with about 31 percent of Americans on government healthcare still a hefty number.2
Moreover, given the way the Obamacare “repeal” is written, we shouldn’t expect any sizable long-term decline in Medicaid enrollment. That upward trend is going to continue unless major reforms takes place.
As an additional illustration of the outsized role of government agencies in the industry, we might also look to the fact that government programs are starting to eclipse private sector insurance within the health insurance industry:
Here’s a nugget that encapsulates the health insurance industry, despite all the noise surrounding the future of the Affordable Care Act: In the first quarter of this year, Aetna collected more premium revenue from government programs (namely Medicare and Medicaid) than it did from commercial insurance for the first time ever.
Why this matters: Most people get their health coverage from their employer, and that historically has been the bread and butter of the insurance industry. But the aging population and expansion of Medicaid managed care means insurers are investing more time and money in the lower-margin (but still lucrative) government programs. Aetna, in particular, has invested heavily in Medicare Advantage.
This “free-market” health care system of our doesn’t seem to have much in the way of freedom or markets.
And finally, let’s take a look at growth in federal government spending on health care over time. This is only federal spending and doesn’t include state spending, such as the state-funded portion of Medicaid.
Between 1980 and 2014 that is, before Obamacare health care spending by the federal government increased many times over.. Yes, there has been a surge in spending thanks to Obamacare, but it’s a surge above what was already an immense amount of spending growth that already took place during the George W. Bush years and before. It was Bush, after all, who gave us an immense expansion of Medicare coverage into prescription drugs ten years before Obamacare.3 
If we look at federal health care spending in terms of growth compared to GDP, we find that health care spending has been outpacing GDP for many years4: If the GOP plan passed in by the House today ends up doing anything to restrain these costs, then we might say it’s a small victory. But let’s not pretend that government programs are not the single biggest driver of spending in the health care industry. Indeed, when it comes to spending on welfare programs, the US is a typical Western welfare state. Even with the “repeal” of Obamacare, the myth of the “free-market” American economic system will remain exactly that: a myth.
About the author:
*Ryan McMaken ithe editor of Mises Wire and The Austrian. Send him your article submissions, but read article guidelines first. (Contact: emailtwitter.) Ryan has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado, and was the economist for the Colorado Division of Housing from 2009 to 2014. He is the author of Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre.
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  • 1. The enrollment and benefiary estimates come from the Kaiser Family Foundation. The Medicaid numbers can be found here: http://kff.org/health-reform/state-indicator/total-monthly-medicaid-and-chip-enrollment/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D
    The Medicare numbers are here: http://kff.org/medicare/state-indicator/total-medicare-beneficiaries/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Total%20Medicare%20Beneficiaries%22,%22sort%22:%22desc%22%7D
    Stats on dual-enrollment are here: https://www.cms.gov/Medicare-Medicaid-Coordination/Medicare-and-Medicaid-Coordination/Medicare-Medicaid-Coordination-Office/Downloads/DualEnrollment20062013.pdf.
    Total US population numbers from February 2017 are here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/POP
  • 2. For some similar comparisons, see here: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/medicaid-and-medicare-enrollees-now-outnumber-full-time-private-sector-workers
  • 3. This graph uses data from Table 3.2 of the historical OMB tables: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/omb/budget/Historicals
  • 4. This graph combines Table 3.2 OMB data (https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/omb/budget/Historicals) with GDP totals (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPA)


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World Socialist Web Site (en): The class issues in the British election
Fri, 05 May 2017 14:57:55 -0400
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Fri, 05 May 2017 14:57:40 -0400
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Senate hearing gives a glimpse of political warfare within the FBI
Fri, 05 May 2017 14:55:57 -0400
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By Patrick Martin
5 May 2017
A four-hour Senate committee hearing Tuesday gave a glimpse of the political warfare raging within the US military-intelligence apparatus, despite its nominally “nonpolitical” pretensions. Rival factions within the FBI fought to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election through illegal leaks to the media and carefully orchestrated political provocations.
The occasion was the annual review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is charged with exercising oversight of the powerful police agency. FBI Director James Comey was the sole witness, and he gave new details about the internal strife within the FBI and the Justice Department, to which it belongs.
Comey was under fire throughout the hearing from senators of both capitalist parties.
Republicans attacked him for allegedly going easy on Hillary Clinton in the course of the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, and for government leaks to the media about alleged connections between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Democrats attacked Comey for the announcement on October 28, 2016, only 11 days before the election, that the email investigation was being revived, while keeping silent about the allegations of Trump-Russia connections until well after the vote, thereby seemingly putting the weight of the FBI on the scales in support of Trump.
Clinton and many congressional Democrats have claimed that the FBI’s unprecedented intervention tipped the balance in a close election and gave Republican Donald Trump a critical last-minute boost. The FBI action broke a longstanding Justice Department rule that no action against any candidate for public office should be announced less than 90 days before an election.
In response to the questioning from both sides, Comey gave a picture of the FBI buffeted by political tensions throughout the presidential election year. He flatly denied suggestions by Judiciary Committee chairman Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, that top FBI officials had been anonymous sources to the media about investigations into either Clinton or Trump.
Comey refused to discuss except in a secret session, with the press and public excluded, recent reports of an email hacked from Democratic Party operatives which said that they had assurances that Attorney General Loretta Lynch would protect Clinton by making sure the FBI investigation “didn’t go too far.”
But he acknowledged that there was mounting dissatisfaction within the FBI in the spring of 2016 over the investigation of the Clinton email affair as it became clear that there was no basis for a criminal prosecution of Clinton or her top aides.
Comey said, in response to questioning by Republican Thom Tills of North Carolina, that he himself had become increasingly concerned that the leadership of the Department of Justice “could not credibly complete the investigation and decline prosecution without grievous damage to the American people’s confidence in the justice system.”
Referring to Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s meeting with former President Bill Clinton on an airport tarmac in Arizona in late June 2016, he continued, “her meeting with President Clinton on that airplane was the capper for me. And I then said, ‘You know what, the department cannot by itself credibly end this.’”
Comey revealed that he telephoned Lynch the next morning to tell her he would announce the conclusions of the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton at a press conference without giving Lynch—his nominal boss—advance notice of what those conclusions were.
Press reports have suggested that there was widespread opposition to Clinton among rank-and-file agents, who are generally aligned with the Republican Party, although many mid-level officials, appointed or promoted under Obama, backed the Democrats. Although Comey avoided discussing the issue, agents in the New York office of the FBI were particularly incensed by the decision not to bring charges, and were leaking information to the press and to Republican politicians like former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
It was agents from the New York office involved in investigating former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner—the estranged husband of Clinton aide Huma Abedin—who confronted Comey in his office on October 27, 2016 with claims that important new evidence on the Clinton email server had been found on Weiner’s laptop.
What ensued was an openly political debate, with the New York agents pressing for a search warrant and a message to be sent to Congress that the Clinton investigation was being reopened. Comey acknowledged that at least one member of his staff said, “Should you consider that what you’re about to do may help elect Donald Trump president?”
Comey sanctimoniously claimed that he was above such political considerations at the meeting, although he admits being aware that the announcement of a reopened investigation would have a huge impact. The next day, he sent “private letters” to the top Republicans and Democrats on eight congressional committees, knowing that the contents would be released to the media almost immediately.
As Thursday’s hearing went on, a series of Democratic senators sought unsuccessfully to get Comey to release more information about the FBI investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence operatives who allegedly hacked the email system of the Democratic National Committee as well as the email of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
They were joined by several Republicans in portraying Russian hacking as a dire threat to the US political system and to American corporations. Democrat Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota declared, “Russia is actively working to undermine our democracy and hurt American businesses at the same time.” She was echoed a few minutes later by Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who coaxed from Comey the declaration that as far as the US political system is concerned, Russia is “the greatest threat of any nation on earth, given their intention and their capability.”
The Democrats sought to connect the allegations of Russian hacking with demands for the appointment of a special prosecutor to oversee the FBI investigation and any criminal cases that are brought as a result. Al Franken of Minnesota asked Comey if Trump’s tax returns would be relevant in such an investigation, but Comey declined to answer. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut asked directly if Trump was a target of the investigation, and got the same non-response.
While the Democrats and Republicans were at each other’s throats through much of the hearing, re-litigating the role of the FBI during the 2016 elections, they were strikingly united on one issue: securing as much authority as possible for the FBI to spy on American citizens.
Senator after senator declared their support for reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which gives the intelligence agencies the power to intercept communications between Americans and foreigners, and to incorporate the Americans into the vast databases developed on the pretext of combating “terrorism,” but providing an insight into the political views of millions of Americans.
They also endorsed the FBI director’s campaign to gain access to encrypted hardware and software systems, first made public after the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, when Comey waged a public campaign to force Apple to break the encryption of its iPhone.
Comey responded at one point, “I think there’s good news on that front. We’ve had very good, open and productive conversations with the private sector over the last 18 months about this issue, because everybody realized we care about the same things.” He claimed that the US manufacturers were going to develop privacy and security features that would make it possible for them to obey court orders to produce communications.
He added ominously, “I could imagine a world that ends up with legislation saying, if you’re going to make devices in the United States, you figure out how to comply with court orders, or maybe we don’t go there. But we are having productive conversations, right now I think.”
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DEBKAFile: US House approves tighter sanctions on North Korea
Fri, 05 May 2017 14:53:54 -0400
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Le Pen would usher France into the mire. Her rebranding is a sham and the National Front still a racist party.

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