It’s known by climatologists as the ‘Little Ice Age’, a period in the 1600s when harsh winters across the UK and Europe were often severe.
The severe cold went hand in hand with an exceptionally inactive sun, and was called the Maunder solar minimum.
Now a leading scientist from Reading University has told me that the current rate of decline in solar activity is such that there’s a real risk of seeing a return of such conditions.GO READ THE WHOLE THING.
If it hadn’t been for the ongoing epic failure of healthcare.guv—ObamaCare—we may have missed the long road of computer scandals that seems to now serve as the government’s way to feed mega money to their friends and supporters.
Indeed, the ObamaCare website failure may unwittingly end up blowing the whistle on one of the biggest government slush fund set ups in latter day history because the runaway costs on healthcare.gov uncovers a long trajectory of failed multi-million dollar government websites that point to coincidences way too many.
CGI, the Canadian company that launched healthcare.gov, is peopled with friends of the Obamas, including Michelle Obama’s Princeton school chum, Toni Townes-Whitley.
CGI is not just the company behind the healthcare.gov epic fail. CGI is also the company behind the $2.7-billion failed, Liberal-launched Canadian Gun Registry that was so plagued with corruption and mismanagement it brought on an investigation by Canadian Auditor General Sheila Fraser.
Government website glitches can make for perfect stall tactics allowing timelines for election-bound politicians to get past elections like the upcoming 2014 midterms.
Healthcare.gov—Jeff Zeints-guaranteed as “good to go” by the end of November 2013—can rely on a company that could have already proven itself “too big to not fail”.
Obama’s biggest alibi over the past five years has been he “didn’t know”. As of this morning it was revealed Obama didn’t know America was spying on 35 world leaders. What goes on in NSA must stay in the NSA.
But how could Obama really know that the Canadian gun registry database originated with CGI and that because of long delays and cost overruns on a diabetic registry, CGI’s contract was cancelled by the Ontario Liberal Government in 2012.?
As folk might suspect by now, CGI’s documented failures of the past are just the openers on the tawdry tale of big government slush funding via nosediving computer contracts that cost taxpayers unretrievable millions of dollars.
Let’s go back to computer slush funds games in 2003.
Why?
Because Laura Jarrett’s father-in-law Bas Balkissoon, Jarrett’s daughter Laura Jarrett was involved in the City of Toronto’s MFP computer leasing scandal that skyrocketed from $43 million to more than $100 million, as the scandal’s self-professed ‘whistleblower’.None of the $100 million from the public purse or the $15 million judicial inquiry called by then mayoral candidate Councillor David Miller into the MFP scandal was ever recovered—and to this day, no one has ever been brought to justice.
Miller did go on to be Toronto mayor for two terms. Our hero Coun. Bas Balkissoon, left his council seat—mid-term—to run for the Ontario LIberals in the 2005 by-election: “In the Liberal nomination prior to the by-election, the Party chose to use a clause in its constitution that declared other candidates invalid, effectively handing the nomination to Balkissoon.” (Wikipedia).
As a whistleblower on his way to a ready-made future, Balkissoon blamed staff and not councillors for the burgeoning MFP computer scandal.
In a February 2003 interview with Toronto Free Press (TFP), the forerunner to Canada Free Press (CFP), Balkissoon, gave fellow councillors involved in the computer scandal a pass, instead blaming “senior staff”. (TFP, Feb. 10, 2003).
“It was senior staff. Council was truly unaware. Council sets policy. It cannot micro-manage and cannot be expected to micro-manage the business of the city,” Balkissoon said.
While Balkissoon acknowledged the $15 million inquiry into the MFP computer scandal’s potential for publicity for municipal politicians in an election year, he supported Mayor David Miller’s motion to extend the inquiry “wholeheartedly”.
“The media is making him (Miller) the hero,” he said.
“Balkissoon also credited the whistle blowing of TFP columnist and former City Treasury employee Jeff Goodall for early suspicion on the MFP computer lease scandal.
“Goodall, who wrote a letter to city CFO Wanda Liczyk complaining that dozens of stale-dated cheques in amounts of up to one million dollars were being ignored, was fired after writing about the cheques in a TFP column.
“In retrospect, Jeff’s complaints did raise a red flag with me,” said Balkissoon.
We move ahead to the most security-protected insider wedding of the century.
“At the 290-guest wedding of his son Tony to Valerie Jarrett’s daughter Laura, Bas Balkissoon was seen in deep conversation with Barack Obama and Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder. (Toronto Star).
The Star ended its story by emphasizing that “Balkissoon is no slouch at politics”.
“Prior to his coming to Queen’s Park in a 2005 by-election he was a prominent Toronto councillor and was credited for blowing the whistle and exposing the MFP computer-leasing scandal”.
Make that the $115-million computer-leasing scandal and inquiry that covered for his Liberal councillor colleagues by blaming staff and one that never retrieved a penny for Toronto taxpayers.
Yes, Laura Jarrett’s father-in-law did well for himself. When you Google his picture, you will find Barack Obama’s in the middle.
Democrat Senate intelligence chair Dianne Feinstein calls for ‘major review’ of NSA spying and says it’s a ‘big problem’ if Obama was unawareThe U.S. Senate’s top foreign intelligence official said Monday in a scathing statement that she is ‘totally opposed’ to spying of the sort that has gotten the Obama administration into hot water this week.Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat who chairs the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee, seemed miffed at the idea that she and her colleagues were out of the loop when the president’s men conducted surveillance on foreign leaders in Europe and Latin America.And she said President Obama’s lack of knowledge about monitoring of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phones going back to 2002 posed ‘a big problem.’So she’s tightening the leash.'The White House has informed me that collection on our allies will not continue, which I support,' said Feinstein.'But as far as I’m concerned, Congress needs to know exactly what our intelligence community is doing. To that end, the committee will initiate a major review into all intelligence collection programs.'It’s highly unusual for the majority party in either house of Congress to attack a sitting president in the same party over foreign policy.But ‘unlike NSA’s collection of phone records under a court order,’ she said Monday, ‘it is clear to me that certain surveillance activities have been in effect for more than a decade and that the Senate Intelligence Committee was not satisfactorily informed. Therefore our oversight needs to be strengthened and increased.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2478601/Senate-intelligence-chair-says-totally-opposed-spying-friendly-nations-Obama-finds-staring-party-Congress.html#ixzz2j7T4dLfS
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Ladies and Gentlemen - the future King of the United Kingdom.
A plan to create the world’s largest single civilian computer system linking all parts of the National Health Service is to be abandoned by the Government after running up billions of pounds in bills. Ministers are expected to announce next month that they are scrapping a central part of the much-delayed and hugely controversial 10-year National Programme for IT.Instead, local health trusts and hospitals will be allowed to develop or buy individual computer systems to suit their needs – with a much smaller central server capable of “interrogating” them to provide centralised information on patient care. News of the Government’s plans comes as a damning report from a cross-party committee of MPs concludes that the £11.4bn programme had proved “beyond the capacity of the Department of Health to deliver”.The Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said that, while the intention of creating a centralised database of electronic patient records was a “worthwhile aim”, a huge amount of money had been wasted.
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Do I have to make the first month’s payment when I enroll BEFORE I find out what the subsidy is?
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Give me a moment and I will research that before you.
[07:30:37 am]: NAME REDACTED
If you qualify for a tax credit it should be included in the plans your looking to enroll in to.
[07:30:56 am]: Me
It is not indicated ANYWHERE.
[07:31:32 am]: NAME REDACTED
Have you gotten a statement that say’s you qualify for a tax credit?
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Yes, a pdf
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NAME REDACTED, while I appreciate your efforts, YOU DID NOT ANSWER A QUESTION MOST BASIC TO THIS ENTIRE EFFORT. Is there no one there who can tell me if I must pay 100% of the premium before enrollment, and why no tax credit amount is indicated?
[07:40:48 am]: NAME REDACTED
We have some glitches in healthcare.gov, which is why a lot of information isn’t showing up yet.
[07:40:56 am]: NAME REDACTED
I apologize for the inconvenience.
[07:41:58 am]: Me
Having been an IT professional… these are not glitches. I feel sorry for you. You are having to answer for a complete roll out failure. Good Luck
For a smart man, President Obama professes to know very little about a great number of things going on in his administration.Is it my imagination, or is the Obama administration becoming more and more like the plausible-deniability Nixon administration?
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It stretches credulity to think that the United States was spying on world leaders without the president’s knowledge, or that he was blissfully unaware of huge technical problems that threatened to undermine his main legislative achievement. But on issues including the IRS targeting flap and the Justice Department’s use of subpoenas against reporters, White House officials have frequently given a variation on this theme.
Question: What did Obama know and when did he know it?
Answer: Not much, and about a minute ago....
Iran has passed the “point of no return” in its nuclear weapons program and could soon have the ability to enrich enough missile-grade uranium to build a bomb in just two weeks, the former deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency told reporters on Monday.Olli Heinonen, who served at the IAEA for 27 years until 2010, said the advanced centrifuges that Iran recently began installing in its enrichment facilities will “radically reduce the so-called breakout time” for the regime to quickly produce enough weapons-grade uranium to build a nuclear weapon.Iran announced in January it would install 3,000 IR-2 centrifuges in its Natanz facility. These produce a four to five times greater output than the older model, according to the Institute for Science and International Security.A recent ISIS report estimated Iran could achieve breakout in one month, based on its current capabilities. This highlights the advancements Iran has made in its program since last year, when ISIS estimated it could produce the necessary amount of weapons-grade uranium in two to four months.Heinonen said this window could shrink further.“I believe that if certain arrangements are done, [the breakout time] can even go down to two weeks,” said Heinonen.
A new wave of bank closures have been taking place in the state of Michigan, namely affecting Muslim and Arab Americans. An event reminiscent of the 9/11 aftermaths, closures have been targeting both for-profit and nonprofit companies and organizations, as well as sole individuals.
"They are primarily business accounts being closed, of both nonprofits and businesses," said Dawud Walid, Executive Director of Council of Islamic Relations(CAIR) Michigan chapter. CAIR-Michigan has asked the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to look further into the matter.
"There are numerous cases like this in Michigan, and we started hearing about them last year, with the closing of bank accounts of three different Islamic organizations," said Dawud. These organizations were closed by JP Morgan Chase Bank.
A recent incident, also involving Chase Bank, included Alif Arabic, an online Arabic school. The business, which teaches Arabic to non-Arabic speakers, said Chase Bank gave a 10-day notice, and gave no reason for closing their bank account.
The Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) and Arab-American Civil Rights League have also received numerous complaints in the Dearborn, Mich. area. "Between CAIR and another organization in the area, we have received about thirty complaints," said Walid.GO READ THE WHOLE THING.
US based Imam, Yasir Qadhi preaches openly that non muslims lives are forfeit and their property is legal for muslims to take in jihad, (and this would include women as sex slaves) yet no charges are brought against him. Tennessee imam:
Jews and Christians filthy, their lives and property can be taken in jihad by the Muslims
Note also his words about jihad, quoting Muhammad: “I have been commanded to fight the people until they testify la illaha illa Allah [there is no god but Allah].” And Qadhi says:
“The life and property of a mushrik [one who worships others besides Allah] holds no value in the state of jihad….which means if they don’t sayla illaha illa Allah, their lives and property are halal” — that is, permitted to be taken by the Muslims.
Five House Democrats are asking the Obama administration to seek a refund from the companies that built the ObamaCare website, which has so far failed to work for most people trying to sign up for health insurance.
“It is no secret that the website has not performed in a satisfactory manner,” wrote Reps. Ron Barber (D-Ariz.), William Enyart (D-Ill.), Pete Gallego (D-Texas) Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Filemon Vela (D-Texas).
“As a result, we ask that you review the contracts and determine whether CGI Federal and/or any other company involved in the construction of the website has violated the terms of its agreement or is in constructive breach of the contract.”
The Democrats made the request to Attorney General Eric Holder in a letter released today, but sent late last week. The letter says the administration must “seek to hold contractors accountable for their unsatisfactory work.”
