Sen. Angus King (I-ME) on Sunday criticized former Vice President Dick Cheney (R) for defending the enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA under the Bush administration.
“If he doesn’t think that was torture, I would invite him anywhere in the United States to sit in a waterboard and go through what those people went through, one of them 100-plus-odd times,” King said on MSNBC’s “Up With Steve Kornacki,” as recorded by Mediaite.
“That’s ridiculous to make that claim. This was torture by anybody’s definition. John McCain said it’s torture and I think he’s in a better position to know that than Vice President Cheney.”
Cheney defended the interrogation practices in March during an interview with American University television station, ATV.
“Some people called it torture. It wasn’t torture,” he said.
King cited the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into interrogation practices under the Bush administration and said that the CIA’s worst offense was “misrepresenting it the way they did throughout a number of years.”
“To say it was carefully managed and everybody knew what was going on, that’s absolute nonsense,” King said.
Everyday Americans get up in the morning and go to work. They provide their services to companies and corporations. In return they expect a living wage. They expect that their work entitles them to financial security and healthcare security. For thirty plus years both have been eroding.
When President Obama ran for president in 2008 he understood that the root of every American’s economic security laid with ensuring every American would have access to affordable health care. He knew a single-payer health care system was the most effective system. However he was pragmatic enough to settle for RomneyCare on Viagra to begin the codification of health care as a right.
The reason health care reform has always eluded presidents of the past is because of ideological rigidity. President Obama minimized his ideological rigidity to the consternation of his left flank to get an imperfect law that will ultimately get improved. A few months ago I wrote a piece that placed this into context:
The genius in achieving the passage of Obamacare is immediately evident after reading the transcribed talk titled “A Brief History: Universal Health Care Efforts in the US” given by Karen S. Palmer MPH, MS in San Francisco at the Spring, 1999 Physicians For A National Health Program (PNHP) meeting. The talk revealed the headwinds that have blown over every President attempting to pass some form of universal healthcare. Doctor associations, insurance industry, unions, and other groups have always created opposition in some combination that guaranteed failure. She described the reason for failure as follows.
Political naiveté on the part of the reformers in failing to deal with the interest group opposition, ideology, historical experience, and the overall political context all played a key role in shaping how these groups identified and expressed their interests.
In effect, the very compromises President Obama has been knocked for are the compromises that allowed the passage of the Affordable Care Act. It was a running start that will need modification. The president is cognizant of this fact and he stated that much in the State Of The Union Speech on January 25th, 2011.
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The LA Times has a piece today about the next battleground for Obamacare: rate increases for 2015. The warnings are already coming thick and fast:
WellPoint Inc., parent of California’s leading health insurer in the exchange, Anthem Blue Cross, has already predicted “double-digit-plus” rate increases on Obamacare policies across much of the country.
…. Health insurers aren’t wasting any time sizing up what patients are costing them now and what that will mean for 2015 rates. Hunkered down in conference rooms, insurance actuaries are parsing prescriptions, doctor visits and hospital stays for clues about how expensive these new patients may be. By May, insurance companies must file next year’s rates with California’s state-run exchange so negotiations can begin.
I hope everyone manages to restrain their hysteria over this. Here in California, we’ve played this game annually for years. Health insurers in the individual market propose wild increases in their premiums—10 percent, 20 percent, sometimes even 30 percent—and then dial them back a bit after consumer outrage blankets the media and the Department of Insurance pushes back. But even then, we routinely end up with double-digit increases. Just for background, here are the average annual rate increases requested by a few of California’s biggest insurers over the last three years:
Anthem Blue Cross: 10.7%
Aetna: 12.1%
Blue Shield: 15.4%
HealthNet: 12.0%
And this doesn’t include changes in deductibles or out-of-pocket maximums. Add those in, and the annual proposed increases are probably in the range of 15-20 percent. Obamacare, of course, limits both those things, which means that in the future insurance companies will have to put everything into rate hikes instead of spreading the increases around to make them harder to add up.
Bottom line: if we end up seeing double-digit rate increases, it will be business as usual. Insurance companies will all blame it on Obamacare because that’s a convenient thing to do, but the truth is that we probably would have seen exactly the same thing even if Barack Obama had never been born. Let’s all keep our feet on the ground when the inevitable huge rate increase requests start flowing in.
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Deposed President Viktor Yanukovych broke his cover Friday, pledging to “keep fighting” Ukraine’s new rulers– but analysts dismissed his comeback prospects as “highly unlikely.”
“It does not really matter what Yanukovych says now, he is finished,” said John Lough, Associate Fellow at the Russia and Eurasia Program at Chatham House. “He can’t return to the country because he is wanted man. There is no way back for him in Ukraine.”
“Nobody ousted me,” he insisted to reporters in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, saying that Kiev’s interim rulers “represent the absolute minority of the population of Ukraine.”
“It does not really matter what Yanukovych says now, he is finished.”
The Russian government, which has mostly let its military activity in Crimea do the talking, officially backs Yanukovych’s position– but experts said the chances of Putin backing the ex-leader’s claims with military support were very slim.
“Absolutely NO role for Yanukovych either in Crimea or Ukraine,” Carnegie Moscow Center’s Director, Dmitri Trenin, wrote on Twitter, adding that Friday’s press conference was “an exercise in cowardice and duplicity.”
Yanukovych is “a pawn in Russia’s game,” said Lough. “It doesn’t mean anything that Russia is allowing him to speak out. It is of no material concern what Yanukovych says now, although obviously it is of interest.
“Russia’s basic position that is that Yanukovych has been unfairly removed by neo-fascist forces and remains the legitimate leader of Ukraine. Its real position is still unclear, but Russia has an interest in slowing down the emergence of a new order in Ukraine and the uncertainty over Yanukovych serves that purpose.”
Another nail in his coffin could come from the International Monetary Fund, whose practice is to support transitional governments as long as there is a general international consensus.
“Realistically, Yanukovych’s comeback appears highly unlikely,” said Lilit Gevorgyan, analyst at IHS Global Insight. Although she added that a period of economic austerity tied to an IMF bailout “could make Yanukovych – or a re-orientation to Russia – more appealing for many Ukrainian voters in the coming months.”
“There is no real love for him in Moscow…The word on the street there is that Putin had no time for him.”
This leaves Yanukovych’s personal and political future very uncertain.
Yanukovych is staying at private premises in Rostov-on-Don, instead of a government residence for top officials, according to Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
A Russian lawyer told the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper that if Yanukovych were formally accused of murder, Russia should extradite him, the Washington Post reported.
“Based on the norms of international law and signed mutual treaties,” Alexander Treshev said, “Russia would have to do it.”
Despite refocusing Ukraine away from Europe and towards Russia, Yanukovych has lukewarm backing from the Kremlin.
“There is no real love for him in Moscow,” said Lough. “From Russia’s point of view he hadn’t been an effective leader and their relationship was troubled. The word on the street there is that Putin had no time for him.”
Lough added: “He has blood on his hands. He was forcibly ejected from the country and there is now a broad consensus there now that he was a very poor president.”
Bill Maher may have broken up with MSNBC, but he’s still paying close attention to just how much coverage the network gives to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R).
Maher brought MSNBC host Rachel Maddow onto his HBO show Friday night and pressed her to explain why the network gives so much airtime to the scandal surrounding the Christie administration’s involvement in closing lanes on the George Washington Bridge.
“I am totally obsessed with the Christie story, unapologetically,” Maddow said, comparing it to her past coverage of disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
“I should have said that, yes, this is not the same as Benghazi,” Maher said. “I made that analogy, I said ‘This is your Benghazi.’ Benghazi is nothing. There is no scandal there. This is an actual scandal. It’s just that it’s not Watergate.”
“When there are gonzo political corruption stories, you cover them,” Maddow responded. “The most interesting thing about the Christie one is that we still don’t know what happened. It’s still not resolved. We still don’t have an explanation.”
National Review writer Charles C.W. Cooke ventured another theory about why MSNBC has hammered Christie in recent weeks: to “get rid of Chris Christie” from the 2016 presidential field.
“So you think that I’ve created the bridge story out of whole cloth in order to elect a Democrat in 2016?” Maddow asked with a mocking laugh, concluding that the bridge scandal was simply “an ongoing story worth covering.”
Doctors finally determined that his gut produces ethanol from yeast, and other alcohols from metabolizing other bacteria. For a long time, the syndrome had a terrible impact on his life—hurting both his academic and social lives, forcing him to quit sports, and ultimately causing him to get by on disability for years thanks to a host of other health issues including irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, and anxiety. He’s learned to hack his diet, eating mostly meat, vegetables, nuts, and seeds, but “the underlying cause of the condition has not been successfully treated,” he says, so he still suffers from many chronic symptoms. Has he ever purposely eaten a bunch of sugar to get drunk? Nope, because “the negative consequences outweigh the momentary pleasure,” he says. “People may assume this condition is a cheap way to get drunk for recreational purposes; that’s unfortunately not the reality. … It’s always been the case that I feel more hungover than drunk.” Click for the full interview.
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NASHVILLE — Tennessee officials evidently don’t read classic literature — specifically, Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” Otherwise, they could have avoided panic attacks over worries the United Auto Workers union may come to Chattanooga’s Volkswagen plant.
Heck, forget Frankenstein and his monster.
If these red state politicians simply practiced the principles of a smaller, crony-capitalism-free government, they possibly wouldn’t find themselves in this predicament.
Or, at the very least, they shouldn’t have given more than $ 260 million to VW of Chattanooga — which has 3,000 workers — without at least having a stipulation that no union or works council could assert itself there.
But, as Laura Elkins, spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development told Tennessee Watchdog on Friday, state officials made no such demand.
Workers at the VW plant will decide this week whether they will join the UAW.
As Tennessee Watchdog previously reported, talks between the UAW and VW workers revolve around whether the UAW should form what has thus far been known as a European-style works council, which no other U.S. automobile factory has.
Depending on who you ask, a works council is also one of two other things — a prelude to forming an actual union or no different from already having one, said National Right to Work Foundationspokesman Patrick Semmens.
A union isn’t legally required for the type of activity that goes on in works councils, at least not in the United States, according to the NRTW website.
Tennessee is a right-to-work state, meaning workers can’t be fired for not joining the UAW and paying union dues.
The story has attracted a lot of national attention.
TO UNIONIZE OR NOT: Workers as a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., soon may be asked if they want to join the United Auto Workers labor union.
The LA Times, for instance, quotes State Sen. Bo Watson, R-Hixson, as saying the state might not give any more incentives to VW if workers choose to unionize.
“You might argue that Watson’s position is actually a good-government one; chasing industrial investment with tax incentives smacks of crony capitalism. Throwing subsidies at the likes of VW also tilts the playing field in favor of one global competitor over the others, and a foreign one at that,” according to the Times.
“The problem for Watson is that Tennessee has already embraced this sort of government interference in the marketplace, with gusto.”
Former Chattanooga mayor and now U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, a Republican who helped bring VW to the state, has publicly criticized the UAW vote, according to TheState.com
As Tennessee Watchdog has already reported, Republican Gov. Bill Haslam’s office wouldn’t answer our questions about whether he tried to offer more taxpayer subsidies to VW in exchange for company officials keeping the UAW out.
According to Shelley’s novel, it didn’t take long for Frankenstein to disavow his experiment. The monster swore revenge on his creator and later caused irreparable harm to his life. In turn, the creator swore to destroy what he built.
If the UAW establishes itself in Tennessee, these same leaders, mostly Republicans, could find themselves challenged by Democrats on a larger scale.
Republican leaders may or may not see the UAW as a monster, but it is an entity that endangers their best interests.
It’s possible market forces alone might have brought VW to the state, along with the UAW, regardless — but we’ll never know. We do know state officials made the process a whole lot easier.
Tennessee leaders made this bed for themselves and now they — and unwitting taxpayers — have to sleep in it.
NEW DELHI, India — To outsiders, India’s approach to the Sochi 2014 games looks like an Olympian-scalekludge.
Just a week or so before departing, the Indian team didn’t know if it would have enough money to buy skis, or even flights to the Russian resort.
There has also been controversy over what flag they’d compete under.
Since December 2012, their country has been banned from the games because the Indian Olympic Association had elected “tainted” officials. The association is holding fresh elections to be held on Feb. 9. So although they’ve had more than a year to address the ban, they chose to do so two days after the opening ceremonies.
Because of this, the nation’s three athletes — slalom skier Himanshu Thakur, cross country skier Nadeem Iqbal and veteran luger Shiva Keshavan — will compete under the Olympic flag rather than the Indian one.
Even the athletes’ visas were in jeopardy. Paperwork stuck in Moscow needed to be rushed via courier to Delhi only the day before they departed for Sochi.
Cause for panic?
Not at all.
Everything came together at the last minute.
The Indian government stepped in with a modest grant of $ 16,700 to cover airfares and skis.
Online donations worth $ 6,000 have been pledged from the US via online currency Dogecoin, a “crypto-currency” similar to Bitcoin.
The Winter Games Federation of India has arranged for skis, boots, poles and suits to be shipped directlyto Sochi.
In fact, just-in-time improvisation is integral to the Indian way of life. There’s even a word for it — jugaad.
India’s last minute push for Sochi is “very jugaad,” says Jaideep Prahbu, a professor of business and enterprise at Cambridge University. “They are responding to harsh circumstances by improvising a good-enough solution with limited resources. It’s a good enough solution, not the best solution.”
The likes of China, Great Britain and the US may invest millions of dollars in tightly-planned, decade-long programs that target Olympic medals.
India actually prefers jugaad.
There is more to jugaad than what foreigners might consider to be poor foresight.
You see, Indians hold considerable pride in the philosophy that every problem has a frugal, impromptu solution.
A well-known commercialized example is the MittiCool fridge, which needs no electricity. It is based on clay water pots, which are popular in Gujarat. The water evaporates through the clay pores, producing the cooling effect. The inventor, Manshuk Prajabati, built a pot with a compartment beneath the water which can keep vegetables fresh for up to five days.
Other examples include: heating a saucepan on a clothes iron; mixing drinks in a washing machine; cooling soft drinks in front of an air conditioner; and improvising a truck by cobbling together a pushcart and a water pump engine.
Professor Prabhu, the author of Jugaad Innovation, said “There is a sense in India that the whole system is so complex and unpredictable that there’s no point in planning ahead because things are out of control.”
Almost everything about winter sports in India depends on such shoe-string ingenuity, even though there’s plenty of world-class winter here. The Himalayan mountains at the country’s northern edge are home to hundreds of villages where children delight in the winter snow.
A $ 600 set of skis is beyond the means of most Indians. The country’s average salary in 2013 was 68,747 rupees or about $ 1,100 a year.
So homemade skis are the only option for mountain children. They tend to be made from carved wood, with hacksaw blades stuck on the sides to provide edges. Ski boots are galoshes tied to the ski with twine.
“They have to walk up the mountain so it means they lose a lot of energy up the hill,” said Roshan Lal Thakur, the secretary of the Winter Games Federation of India. “We walk for two hours for 10 minutes of sliding down. But if you see all the talents that are in the mountains, all the kids who have started skiing very young, then you know that much more is possible if we had the facilities.”
India has about 700 competitive skiers, Thakur said, out of up to 50,000 who have learned the basic techniques. That’s not many considering the population of 1.2 billion.
There are three resorts in north India, which lack basic equipment such as machines to groom the slopes.
And if facilities are scarce for skiers, they are non-existent for luger Shiva Keshavan.
He learned to luge at a camp near his school in Manali, Himachal Pradesh. The sport usually requires an ice track, but his first taste of the sport was on a street luge: a sled with wheels.
The 32-year-old is India’s best known winter athlete, having competed in four Olympics so far, and he has built up a network of sponsors that enables him to travel to qualification competitions.
But even he uses jugaad to compete with the Swiss, Italian, British and American lugers who are backed by Formula One racing teams like McLaren and Ferrari, and major corporations such as Dow Chemicals.
The top lugers spend time in a wind tunnel to check their body positions so they produce the least possible drag when sliding down the track at 90 mph.
“Shiva has had no such access to wind tunnel testing,” his wife and manager Namita told GlobalPost. “His equipment lacks mainly in technology which other teams have. It seems that India would have the technology needed, it is just about using it now.”
Keshavan’s approach has been to assemble a volunteer research team, headed by his brother-in-law Nalin Agarwal, to modify an off-the-shelf sled.
“Some of the things Shiva Keshawan has been doing seem to be jugaad,” Professor Prabhu said. “He doesn’t have access to the ideal solution. He doesn’t have McLaren to work with or Mercedes Benz. It’s good enough to get him to the Olympics, but it’s probably not going to break records.”
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(Newser) – When parents covered by ObamaCare have a baby, they can tell their families, friends, and co-workers—but not the federal government. It seems the HealthCare.gov website doesn’t provide that option at the moment, reports AP. Nor can participants report other life-changing circumstances, such as marriage, divorce, a change in income, or a geographical move. The glitch was supposed to have been fixed after the launch, but got shunted aside amid bigger tech problems.
“It’s just another example of, ‘We’ll fix that later,’” says an industry consultant. “This needed to be done well before January. It’s sort of a fly-by-night approach.” So what’s a new mom to do? Report the child’s birth directly to her insurer to make Junior is covered, then report it to the federal insurance marketplace … whenever the fix is made. As of now, there’s no estimate on when that might be.
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At A Political Statement, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us (See this article to learn more about Privacy Policies.). This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information is received and collected by A Political Statement and how it is used.
Log Files
Like many other Web sites, A Political Statement makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user"s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
Cookies and Web Beacons
A Political Statement does use cookies to store information about visitors preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user access or visit, customize Web page content based on visitors browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.
DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on A Political Statement.
Google"s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to A Political Statement and other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL - http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.
These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on A Political Statement send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.
A Political Statement has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. A Political Statement"s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browser"s respective websites.
