Thursday, 7 November 2013

Pasangan yang menawarkan diri (volunteered) untuk melaksanakan OBAMA, kehilangan insurans kesihatan di bawah ObamaCare . . .

Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama bercakap semasa perhimpunan kempen November 5, 2012 di Madison, Wisconsin. (U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally November 5, 2012 in Madison, Wisconsin. (AFP Photo/Mark Hirsch  - think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

SitiWanMahani - (Indah Kabar dari Rupa) Pasangan San Francisco yang menganggap diri mereka liberal lama dan penyokong Presiden Barack Obama mengatakan ciri undang-undang penjagaan kesihatan presiden telah meninggalkan mereka bergelut untuk mencari pelan insurans yang baru.

Menurut laporan ProPublica diterbitkan pada hari Rabu, arkitek Lee Hammack mendakwa pengalaman pahit itu bahawa keluarganya telah mengalami akhir-akhir ini adalah “yang paling melampau” cerita-cerita sob dikesan oleh media sejak Akta ‘Affordable Care Act‘ presiden mula mengambil permohonan bulan lepas.

Apa yang dipanggil “ObamaCare” telah dibelenggu dengan masalah sejak sebelum rakyat Amerika mampu untuk membeli polisi pada 1 Oktober, tetapi tajuk-tajuk utama pada minggunya kerana telah dikuasai oleh cerita-cerita orang-orang yang telah ditendang daripada pelan penjagaan kesihatan atau tidak dapat mendaftar sama sekali akibat kero-sakan dengan laman web di mana akan menjadi - dasar pembeli tidak boleh mendaftar.

Hammack memberitahu ProPublica Charles Ornstein bahawa dia dan isterinya Joellen Brothers kedua-duanya dalam kesihatan yang cemerlang dan menganggap diri mereka sebagai “buaian Demokrat” yang telah membantu kempen untuk Obama dalam pilihan raya presiden yang lalu. Apapun, roll-daripada ObamaCare bulan lepas telah mening-galkan mereka terpaksa mencari pelan perlindungan kesihatan yang baru, dan nampaknya tanpa sebarang sebenar atau sebabnya.

Ornstein disiasat tuntutan pasangan itu dan mendapati bahawa rancangan terbaru mereka - dasar bulanan $ 550 melalui Kaiser Permanente - sememangnya sesuai dengan acuan apa undang-undang presiden memerlukan rakyat Amerika untuk membeli. Walau-pun begitu, bagaimanapun, suami dan isteri telah diberitahu oleh Kaiser baru-baru ini bahawa rancangan mereka akan tamat pada akhir tahun ini, dan semua pilihan yang mereka lihat sekarang kos ke atas sebanyak 2 kali untuk perlindungan yang sama atau lebih buruk lagi.

“Reaksi pertama kami adalah jelas ada mendapat menjadi beberapa kesilapan,” kata Hammack membuka surat pembatalan dari Kaiser.” Ini adalah sebelum bursa dibuka. Kami cepat tenang. Kami yakin bahawa ini semua akan diluruskan keluar. Tetapi ianya tidak.”

Ternyata, Hammack dan Brothers tidak sahaja yang menerima surat itu. ProPublica diten-tukan bahawa 160,000 pelan hanya dalam negeri California telah dibatalkan oleh syarikat itu, dan hasilnya dalam banyak kes melibatkan bekas dasar pemegang bergelut untuk mencari pelan yang baru yang berpatutan dan dengan manfaat yang sama.

“Pilihan baru mereka sememangnya lebih mahal” Ornstein belajar, bagaimanapun, dan rancangan akan melibatkan manfaat yang “tidak kelihatan apa-apa yang lebih baik.”

Apabila dihubungi untuk Komen oleh outlet berita siasatan, seorang wakil untuk Kaiser mengakui bahawa ke atas sebanyak 35,000 dasar-dasar lain yang serupa dengan Hammack dan Brothers’ telah dibatalkan, dan dasar-dasar baru yang jatuh di bawah Akta Penjagaan Mampu (Affordable Care Act) mungkin tidak boleh didapati pada harga yang sama.

“Dalam beberapa kes, kita mampu untuk mencari perlindungan untuk mereka yang kurang mahal, tetapi dalam kebanyakan kes, kita tidak kerana, dalam bentuk segi ekonomi tulen, mereka adalah orang-orang yang mendapat manfaat daripada sistem semasa . . . Sekarang bahawa peraturan pasaran yang berubah-ubah, akan ada orang yang berbeza yang mendapat manfaat dan orang yang berlainan yang tidak,” kata jurucakap Chris Kaiser Stenrud.

Sekarang kata Hammack dia mempertimbangkan pilihan yang agak luar biasa untuk tanah yang berpatutan pelan berpendapatan kurang banyak supaya subsidi persekutuan boleh membantu kos yang lebih rendah daripada dasar dia ditinggalkan untuk berfikir.

Walaupun pengalaman, bagaimanapun, Hammack dan isterinya memberitahu ProPublica bahawa mereka tidak bersedia untuk membuang dalam tuala berhubung dengan koman-der-in-chief  lagi.

“Kami tidak mengubah pandangan kami kerana keadaan ini, tetapi ia akan mendatangkan mudarat kepada mendengar Obama berkata, hanya pada hari yang lain, bahawa jika rancangan kami telah jatuh ia kerana ia tidak ada apa-apa yang baik, dan kos kami akan naik hanya sedikit,” kata Hammack . “Kami berpuas hati bahawa akhbar adalah pada kes ini, tetapi kecewa bahawa penjaga ACA (Badan Pencegah Rasuah) seolah-olah tidak pernah mendengar.”

Couple who volunteered for Obama lost health insurance 
under Obamacare . . .

A San Francisco couple that considers themselves longtime liberals and supporters of President Barack Obama say the president’s hallmark health care legislation has left them struggling to find a new insurance plan.

According to a ProPublica report published on Wednesday, architect Lee Hammack claims the ordeal that his family has endured as of late is “the most extreme” of the sob stories picked up by the media since the president’s Affordable Care Act began taking applications last month.

So-called “Obamacare” has been plagued with problems since before Americans were able to buy into policies on October 1, but headlines in the week since have been dominated by tales of people who’ve been kicked from health care plans or were unable to sign up altogether due to glitches with the website where would-be policy-buyers can sign up.

Hammack told ProPublica’s Charles Ornstein that he and his wife Joellen Brothers are both in outstanding health and consider themselves to be “cradle Democrats” that helped campaign for Obama during the last presidential election. Regardless, the roll-out of Obamacare last month has left them forced to find a new health coverage plan, and apparently without any real rhyme or reason.

Ornstein investigated the couple’s claims and found out that their most recent plan - a $550 monthly policy through Kaiser Permanente - indeed fit the mold of what the president’s law requires Americans to buy. Even so, however, the husband and wife were told by Kaiser recently that their plan would expire at the end of the year, and all the options they’re seeing now cost upwards of double for equal or worse coverage.

“Our first reaction was clearly there’s got to be some mistake,” Hammack said of opening up the cancellation letter from Kaiser. “This was before the exchanges opened up. We quickly calmed down. We were confident that this would all be straightened out. But it wasn’t.”

As it turns out, Hammack and Brothers weren’t the only ones who received such letters. ProPublica determined that 160,000 plans in just the state of California were being cancelled by the company, and the outcome in many instances involves former policy-holders struggling to find a new plan that is affordable and with similar benefits.

“Their new options were indeed more expensive,” Ornstein learned, however, and the plans would involve benefits that “didn’t seem any better.”

When reached for Comment by the investigative news outlet, a representative for Kaiser acknowledged that upwards of 35,000 other policies identical to Hammack and Brothers’ were cancelled, and new policies that fall under the Affordable Care Act may not be available at the same price.

“In a few cases, we are able to find coverage for them that is less expensive, but in most cases, we’re not because, in sort of pure economic terms, they are people who benefited from the current system ... Now that the market rules are changing, there will be different people who benefit and different people who don’t,” said Kaiser spokesman Chris Stenrud.

Now Hammack says he’s considering a rather unorthodox option to land an affordable plan - earning less many so federal subsidies can help lower the cost of the policies he’s being left to ponder.

Despite the experience, however, Hammack and his wife told ProPublica that they aren’t ready to throw in the towel with regards to the commander-in-chief just yet.

“We’re not changing our views because of this situation, but it hurt to hear Obama saying, just the other day, that if our plan has been dropped it’s because it wasn’t any good, and our costs would go up only slightly,” Hammack said. “We’re gratified that the press is on the case, but frustrated that the stewards of the ACA don’t seem to have heard.”


Pemimpin perisikan United Kingdom untuk memberi keterangan untuk kali pertama sejak kebocoran Snowden . . .

Photo by George Rex/flickr.com  (think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

SitiWanMahani - 3 ketua risikan utama United Kingdom dijadualkan untuk memberi keterangan di hadapan pemimpin-pemimpin Parlimen Khamis dalam apa yang akan menjadi kali pertama mereka bercakap secara terbuka mengenai ayat-ayat yang dinyatakan oleh Edward Snowden awal tahun ini.

Pengarah Ibu Pejabat Kerajaan Britain Komunikasi (GCHQ), ketua perkhidmatan kese-lamatan dalam negeri MI5, dan ketua perkhidmatan perisikan asing MI6 masing-masing akan memecahkan kesunyian mereka di televisyen nasional.

Ia akan datang pada hari yang sama bahawa peguam untuk David Miranda, rakan lama wartawan Glenn Greenwald, akan berhujah di hadapan Mahkamah Tinggi British bahawa penahanan 9 jam di Lapangan Terbang Heathrow di London pada musim panas ini melanggar hak Miranda.

Soal Parlimen ketua-ketua perisikan dijangka sesi bukti perhimpunan akibat bantahan awam terhadap GCHQ dan Agensi Keselamatan Negara Amerika Syarikat. Perdana Menteri UK David Cameron dan sekutu-sekutunya dalam parti Konservatif, ketika malu dengan kebocoran, telah mempertahankan program perisikan sebagai aspek yang perlu kesela-matan negara.

“(Ketua-ketua risikan) secara tradisinya beroperasi di belakang tabir,” kata jurucakap kerajaan kepada Reuters.” Tetapi mereka lebih umum daripada mereka telah bertahun-tahun. Ini adalah satu langkah ke hadapan dari segi ketelusan.”

The United Kingdom’s three primary intelligence chiefs are scheduled to testify in front of parliamentary leaders Thursday in what will be the first time they speak publicly on the revelations disclosed by Edward Snowden earlier this year.

The director of Britain’s Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ), head of the domestic security service MI5, and the head of the foreign intelligence service MI6 will each break their silence on national television.

It will come on the same day that lawyers for David Miranda, longtime partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, will argue in front of the British High Court that his nine-hour detention at London’s Heathrow Airport this summer violated Miranda’s rights.

Parliament’s questioning of the intelligence heads is expected to be an evidence-gathering session as a result of the public outcry against the GCHQ and US National Security Agency. UK Prime Minister David Cameron and his allies in the Conservative party, while being embarrassed by the leaks, have defended the intelligence programs as a necessary aspect of national security.

“(The intelligence chiefs) have traditionally operated behind a veil,” a government spokesman told Reuters. “But they are more publicly available than they have been in many years. This is a step forward in terms of transparency.”

Perdana Menteri Britain, David Cameron  (British Prime Minister David Cameron (AFP Photo/Leon Neal  - think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

UK intelligence leaders to testify for the first time 
since Snowden leaks . . .

Sumber berkata soalan akan memberi tumpuan kepada jika pendedahan melanggar privasi individu, bukan pada bagaimana mereka mempengaruhi keupayaan UK untuk mengumpul risikan atau dalam hal-hal operasi.

GCHQ adalah yang paling berpengaruh daripada 3 agensi, dengan lebih daripada 6,000 kakitangan yang membawa siber peperangan di Britain.

Cameron, menyangkal idea bahawa GCHQ dan lain-lain telah pergi terlalu jauh dalam usaha pengawasan mereka, telah mengancam untuk menggunakan kuasa untuk meng-hentikan akhbar daripada menyiarkan maklumat lanjut. Pemimpin British juga telah mendakwa bahawa parlimen memanggang telah dirancang lama sebelum kebocoran Snowden dan soalan-soalan tentang privasi vs keselamatan adalah tidak sebagai tindak balas kepada ia.

Walaupun Parlimen membincangkan keluar jatuh peguam David Miranda akan cuba untuk meyakinkan mahkamah tinggi bahawa pihak berkuasa melanggar undang-undang dengan pegangan Miranda apabila beliau melalui Heathrow pada 18 Ogos. Miranda, kebangsaan Brazil, adalah dalam transit antara Berlin dan Rio de Janeiro selepas dia ber-temu dengan Laura Poitras, seorang wartawan yang telah bekerja dengan Greenwald memecahkan berita itu berdasarkan kepada dokumen yang disediakan oleh Snowden .

Dia berhenti di lapangan terbang Heathrow di bawah jadual kontroversi 7 hingga Kega-nasan 2000. Peguam Miranda telah berusaha untuk menentukan mengapa dia berhenti di tempat pertama serta butir-butir mengapa laptop, telefon, dan lain-lain data- syarikat penerbangan telah dirampas.

Peguam bagi pihak polis dan Pejabat Negeri telah menegaskan bahawa Miranda dihen-tikan kerana kebimbangan terhadap keselamatan negara dan, khususnya, bahawa dia telah terlibat dalam keganasan kerana bahan dalam miliknya.

Draf muktamad dalaman lembaran edaran pelabuhan polis (PCS), yang menggariskan sebab-sebab kejutan singgah Miranda berkata, Miranda mempunyai potensi untuk “bertindak bertentangan dengan kepentingan UK keselamatan negara,” seperti yang dipetik oleh ‘The Guardian’.

“Kami menilai bahawa Miranda sengaja membawa bahan, pembebasan yang akan membahayakan kehidupan rakyat,” PCS diteruskan. “Selain itu pendedahan, atau ancaman pendedahan, direka untuk mempengaruhi kerajaan, dan dibuat bagi maksud mengga-lakkan sebab politik atau ideologi. Sehubungan itu, termasuk dalam definisi keganasan dan oleh itu kita meminta supaya perkara ini diperiksa di bawah jadual 7.”

Pendengaran dijangka lebih banyak pada akhir minggu ini.

Sources said the questions would focus on if the disclosures violated individual privacy, not on how they affected the UK’s ability to gather intelligence or on operational matters.

The GCHQ is the most influential of the three agencies, with more than 6,000 staff members that lead Britain’s cyber-wars.

Cameron, refuting the idea that the GCHQ and others have gone too far in their surveillance efforts, has threatened to use his power to stop the press from publishing more details. British leaders have also claimed that the parliamentary grilling was planned long before Snowden’s leaks and the questions about privacy vs. security are not in response to it.

While parliament is discussing the fall out, David Miranda’s attorneys will try to convince the high court that authorities broke the law by holding Miranda when he was passing through Heathrow on August 18. Miranda, a Brazilian national, was in transit between Berlin and Rio de Janeiro after he met with Laura Poitras, a journalist who has been working with Greenwald to break the news based on the documents provided by Snowden.

He was stopped at Heathrow airport under the controversial schedule 7 to the Terrorism Act 2000. Miranda’s attorneys have sought to determine why he was stopped in the first place as well as details of why his laptop, phone, and other data-carriers were confiscated.

Lawyers for the police and for the Home Office have maintained that Miranda was stopped because of concerns over national security and, more specifically, that he was involved in terrorism because of the material in his possession.

The final draft of the police’s internal port circulation sheet (PCS), which outlined the reasons for Miranda’s surprise layover, said Miranda had the potential to “act against the interests of UK national security,” as quoted by The Guardian.

“We assess that Miranda is knowingly carrying material, the release of which would endanger people’s lives,” the PCS continued. “Additionally the disclosure, or threat of disclosure, is designed to influence a government, and is made for the purpose of promoting a political or ideological cause. This therefore falls within the definition of terrorism and as such we request that the subject is examined under schedule 7.”

The hearing is expected to be over by the end of the week.


PANGKALAN Tentera United Kingdom dalam ‘PAIP di Timur Tengah, Mediterranean comms’ . . .

Sebuah jet Typhoon daripada Tentera Udara Diraja British (RAF) mendarat di pangkalan British di Akrotiri, berhampiran bandar Limassol 29 Ogos 2013. (A Typhoon jet of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) lands at a British base at Akrotiri, near the city of Limassol August 29, 2013. (Reuters/Yiannis Nisiotis  – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

SitiWanMahani - Cyprus Timur Tengah, Afrika Utara dan komunikasi Eropah sebaha-gian besarnya dikawal oleh perisikan British, bersarang di pangkalan tentera UK di Cyprus, media mendedahkan. Swasta komunikasi diplomatik dan perniagaan didakwa semua berada di bawah pengawasan.

Cyprus adalah tempat di mana banyak trans-Mediterranean kabel gentian optik dari Timur Tengah, Afrika Utara dan Eropah datang ke pantai, menjadikannya hab komunikasi pilihan yang tepat untuk menanam alat mengintip.

Satu laporan siasatan bersama oleh pasukan media merentas Eropah kini mendakwa peluang itu tidak sia-sia dengan Ibu Pejabat Komunikasi Kerajaan Britain (GCHQ).

Menurut Itali L ‘Espresso, pemasangan rahsia nama kod ‘Pemerum’ terletak di wilayah Station Ayios Nikolaos, sebahagian daripada di Kawasan Pangkalan Sovereign British Dhekelia, di timur pulau itu. Stesen ini bersenjata dengan gigi antena dan radar imbasan gelombang udara selama beratus-ratus kilometer di sekitarnya.

Perkhidmatan rahsia British telah ditoreh ke dalam sekurang-kurangnya 14 kabel dasar laut melalui Cyprus menggunakan splitter optik pasif, tuntutan laporan. Ini kononnya membolehkan GCHQ untuk memproses berjuta-juta e-mel, sms mesej dan panggilan telefon setiap hari untuk sentiasa dimaklumkan mengenai hampir apa-apa aktiviti di rantau itu.

“Beberapa kabel menyambung Cyprus kepada Israel dan Syria, sasaran yang jelas untuk Anglo-Amerika mengintip. Kabel lain dijalankan dari Cyprus ke Lubnan, Cyprus ke Mesir dan Turki ke Greece dan Itali,” L’ Espresso dilaporkan.

Dalam bahan-bahan yang diterbitkan secara berasingan, akhbar Yunani Ta Nea dan televisyen saluran TV Alpha, serta dan harian German Sueddeutsche Zeitung, mendedahkan bahawa perkhidmatan rahsia British telah memantau organisasi perdagangan dan individu dari rantau Timur Tengah dan kerajaan Mediterranean  untuk tempoh yang tidak didedahkan.

Jerman harian, biasa dengan beberapa dokumen yang dikemukakan oleh pemberi mak-lumat dan bekas kontraktor NSA Edward Snowden, juga mengekalkan mereka mempunyai bukti kehadiran perisikan Amerika di dasar British di Cyprus.

“Dokumen itu berkata kakitangan perisikan Amerika yang diperlukan untuk berpakaian sebagai pelancong, kerana UK telah berjanji kerajaan Cyprus hanya kakitangan British akan bekerja di sana,” kata L’ Espresso.

Apabila ibu pejabat GCHQ di Cheltenham telah dihubungi untuk mendapatkan komen mengenai isu itu, mereka mengeluarkan jawapan standard: “Ia adalah dasar lamanya kita tidak mengulas mengenai perkara perisikan.”

Berita itu datang di atas diturunkan dalam akhbar Independent di UK, yang mendakwa bahawa GCHQ digunakan di UK kedutaan Berlin untuk mengintip Bundestag yang berdekatan, serta pejabat Canselor Angela Merkel. Walaupun laporan dalam Washington Post menegaskan bahawa agensi perisikan UK memintas maklumat dalaman dari rangkaian swasta Google dan Yahoo dan diberi makan kepada rakan sejawatannya di Amerika, NSA.

Ayat-ayat yang telah meninggalkan kerajaan British merah di muka. Pada akhir Oktober, Perdana Menteri, David Cameron menegaskan media perlu berhenti menerbitkan pende-dahan Snowden, mengatakan mereka menjadikan negara ini “kurang selamat.”

“Saya rasa ia adalah lebih baik untuk merayu kepada rasa surat khabar ‘tanggungjawab sosial. Tetapi jika mereka tidak menunjukkan beberapa tanggungjawab sosial ia akan menjadi sangat sukar bagi kerajaan untuk berdiri kembali dan yang tidak bertindak,” katanya.

UK’s military base in Cyprus ‘taps into Middle East, 
Mediterranean comms’ . . .

Mideast, North African and European communications are largely controlled by British intelligence, nesting at a UK military base in Cyprus, media reveal. Private, diplomatic and business communications allegedly all come under surveillance.

Cyprus is a place where many trans-Mediterranean fiber-optic cables from the Middle East, Northern Africa and Europe come ashore, making this communication hub a perfect choice to plant a spying device. 

A joint investigative report by a cross-European media team now claims the chance has not been wasted with Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).

According to Italian L’Espresso, a secret installation codenamed ‘Sounder’ is situated on the territory of Ayios Nikolaos Station, a part of in the British Sovereign Base Area of Dhekelia, in the east of the island. The station is armed to teeth with antennas and radars scanning the airwaves for hundreds of kilometers around.

British secret service has tapped into at least 14 undersea cables passing through Cyprus using passive optical splitters, the report claims. This allegedly enables the GCHQ to process tens of millions of e-mails, sms messages and phone calls on a daily basis to stay informed about practically any activity in the region.

“A number of cables connect Cyprus to Israel and Syria, obvious targets for Anglo-American spying. Other cables run from Cyprus to Lebanon, Cyprus to Egypt and Turkey to Greece and Italy,” L’Espresso reported.

In separately published materials, Greek newspaper Ta Nea and television channel Alpha TV, as well as and German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung, revealed that British secret services have been monitoring governments’ trade organizations and individuals from the Mideast and Mediterranean region for an undisclosed period.

The German daily, familiar with some documents presented by whistleblower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, also maintains they have evidence of American intelligence’s presence at the British base on Cyprus.

“The document says American intelligence staff are required to dress as tourists, because the UK has promised the Cyprus government that only British staff will work there,” L’Espresso said.

When GCHQ headquarters in Cheltenham were reached for comment on the issue, they issued a standard reply: “It is longstanding policy that we do not comment on intelligence matters.”

The news comes on top of a revelation in the UK’s Independent newspaper, which claimed that GCHQ used the UK’s Berlin embassy to spy on the nearby Bundestag, as well as the office of Chancellor Angela Merkel. While a report in the Washington Post maintained that the UK spy agency intercepted internal information from Google and Yahoo’s private networks and fed it to its American counterpart, the NSA.

The revelations have left the British government red in the face. In late October, Prime Minister David Cameron insisted the media should stop publishing Snowden’s disclosures, saying they make the country “less safe.”

“I think it’s much better to appeal to newspapers’ sense of social responsibility. But if they don’t demonstrate some social responsibility it would be very difficult for government to stand back and not to act,” he said.


Iraq 2013: Tahun PEMBUNUHAN Beramai-ramai (Promo) . . .



SitiWanMahani - Iraq 2013: Tahun pembunuhan beramai-ramai (Promo) RT.com akan melancarkan satu projek khas untuk menandakan skala mengerikan keganasan di Iraq.

Iraq 2013: Year of Carnage (Promo) RT.com is launching a special project to mark the appalling scale of violence in Iraq. Coming soon http://Iraq2013.rt.

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Spectacular video: Jetman soars alongside iconic Mount Fuji in Japan


SitiWanMahani - Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy has completed a flight near the iconic Japanese landmark, Mount Fuji, in his custom built jet suit, his first such flight in Asia. Rossy, also known as "Jetman" performed his stunt on the carbon-Kevlar jetwing with four engines celebrating Mount Fuji's designation as a world heritage site.

Pengembara Swiss Yves Rossy telah selesai penerbangan berhampiran mercu tanda ikonik Jepun, Gunung Fuji, dalam jet suit itu adat-dibina, penerbangan seperti yang pertama di Asia. Rossy, yang juga dikenali sebagai “Jetman” yang dilakukan aksi beliau pada karbon Kevlar Jetwing dengan 4 enjin meraikan penetapan Gunung Fuji sebagai tapak warisan DUNIA.


Wednesday, 6 November 2013

LONDON Mask March: pergelutan dengan polis sebagai perhimpunan sekutu Anonymous . . .



SitiWanMahani - Di London unggun api dinyalakan di luar pintu Buckingham Palace den-gan orang ramai memakai topeng putih yang terlibat dalam pergelutan dengan polis. Terdapat adegan yang sama berhampiran Parlimen juga. laporan RT Sara Firth.

Baca kemas kini hidup RT mengenai bantahan perarakan (Read RT's live updates on the march protests)

London Mask March: Scuffles with police 
as Anonymous allies rally . . .

In London a bonfire lit outside the gates of Buckingham Palace with crowds wearing white masks involved in scuffles with police. There were similar scenes near parliament too. RT's Sara Firth reports.


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Musuh dalam: Taliban Pakistan . . .



SitiWanMahani - Daripada batas-batas bagi kebanyakan Pakistan, keuntungan laporan ini jarang akses ke sudut yang amat bermasalah Pakistan. Tentera mendakwa ia mem-punyai Waziristan Selatan di bawah kawalan, tetapi Adakah ia sebuah bom berdetik fahaman pelampau?

Di sebuah hospital tentera di Islamabad, beratus-ratus askar “yang mendalam rosak dan orang Kurang Upaya” dirawat. Mereka telah datang dari tali pinggang puak Barat, di mana selama 9 tahun Pakistan telah telah melaksanakan sebahagian besarnya tersem-bunyi perperangan menentang pengganas.

“Terdapat permainan ini berganda yang telah berlangsung selama bertahun-tahun, Pakistan yang menyokong kehadiran NATO di Afghanistan dan pada masa yang sama membenarkan Taliban Afghanistan untuk mengendalikan menentang tentera NATO”, menjelaskan pakar terkemuka Pakistan pada Islam di rantau ini, Ahmed Rashid. Beliau mendakwa kerajaan duplikasi yang telah radikal variasi tempatan Taliban.

“Kini terdapat sebuah gerakan pelampau yang berskala di Pakistan yang sedang cuba untuk menggulingkan negara.” Ejen-ejen tindakan beberapa keganasan global yang paling buruk dihuni oleh sempadan jauh ini. Lagi ramai penduduk tempatan mendakwa hidup di bawah Taliban “normal” dan “tiada siapa yang takut”.

Mereka menentang campur tangan tentera di rantau ini telah musnah. Dalam usaha untuk memenangi hati dan fikiran, Tentera Darat telah membuka sebuah sekolah tinggi untuk gadis-gadis, bantuan utk berpendapat pekerja adalah yang “amat penting untuk untuk menangani ekstremisme”. Walau bagaimanapun Pakistan Taliban ikrar mereka menen-tukan “untuk memuncak perang".

The Enemy Within: The Pakistan Taliban

Out of bounds for most Pakistanis, this report gains rare access to a deeply troubled corner of Pakistan. The army claims it has South Waziristan under control, but is it a ticking time bomb of extremism?

In a military hospital in Islamabad, hundreds of "profoundly damaged and disabled" soldiers are being treated. They've come from the western tribal belt, where for the last nine years Pakistan has been waging a largely hidden war against extremists.

"There has been this double game that has gone on for many years, of Pakistan supporting the NATO presence in Afghanistan and at the same time allowing the Afghan Taliban to operate against the NATO forces", explains Pakistan's foremost expert on Islamists in the region, Ahmed Rashid. He claims the government's duplicity has radicalised a local variant of the Taliban.

"There is now a full-scale extremist movement in Pakistan that is trying to overthrow the State." The agents of some of the worst acts of global terrorism inhabit this remote frontier. Yet many local villagers claim life under the Taliban "was normal" and "nobody was afraid".

They argue the army intervention in the region has only been destructive. In an attempt to win hearts and minds, the army has opened a high school for girls, which aid workers argue is "critical for countering extremism". However Pakistan's Taliban vow they're determined "to escalate the war".

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SitiWanMahani - Walaupun rakaman video lebih daripada 2 dozen menunjukkan sebalik-nya, Presiden Obama berkata bahawa dia tidak pernah berjanji Amerika mereka akan dapat mengekalkan pelan penjagaan kesihatan mereka di bawah Akta ‘Affordable Care Act’.

Bercakap kepada penyokong di Washington pada Isnin, Obama mendakwa bahawa pada masa lalu, beliau berkata, “Anda boleh menyimpan [pelan anda] jika ia tidak berubah sejak undang-undang yang telah diluluskan.”

Walau bagaimanapun, laporan Caller Daily bahawa terdapat sekurang- kurangnya 29 video yang menunjukkan Presiden meninggalkan perkataan penting, “jika ia tidak berubah” Sebaliknya, beliau jelas menyatakan berkali-kali bahawa “jika anda suka pelan penjagaan kesihatan anda, anda akan dapat mengekalkan pelan penjagaan kesihatan anda, tempoh.”

Baru-baru ini, Wall Street Journal melaporkan bahawa beberapa pegawai White House telah kebimbangan tentang membuat apa-apa ikrar, tetapi yang akhirnya pentadbiran memutuskan untuk bergerak ke hadapan dengan ia.

“Pemudahan dan kemudahan penjelasan adalah premium, dan itu adalah benar sepanjang proses tersebut,” Jon Favreau , yang sebelum ini penulis ucapan kanan Obama, memberitahu kertas.

 Obama denies he made a promise that was videotaped 
two dozen times . . .

Despite more than two-dozen video recordings showing otherwise, President Obama said that he never promised Americans they’d be able to keep their health care plans under the Affordable Care Act.

Speaking to supporters in Washington on Monday, Obama claimed that in the past, he said, “You could keep [your plan] if it hasn’t changed since the law was passed.”

However, the Daily Caller reports that there are at least 29 videos showing the president leaving out the crucial words, “if it hasn’t changed.” Instead, he unambiguously stated numerous times that “if you like your health-care plan, you will be able to keep your health-care plan, period.”

Recently, the Wall Street Journal reported that some White House officials were worried about making such a pledge, but that ultimately the administration decided to move forward with it.

“Simplification and ease of explanation were a premium, and that was true throughout the process,” Jon Favreau, formerly Obama’s senior speech writer, told the paper.



Minggu lepas telah menyaksikan kebanjiran cerita tentang penjagaan kesihatan individu merancang dibatalkan oleh syarikat-syarikat insurans. Sebagai Washington Post berkata, 7-12 Juta Amerika di pasaran individu pada risiko kehilangan liputan, manakala pemanggil Harian mendakwa satu 150,000 pasaran kumpulan kecil tambahan merancang di Kentucky telah dibatalkan.

Menurut Obama, kehilangan rancangan-rancangan ini akan dibuat oleh manfaat peningkatan yang baru, yang boleh dibeli di pasar pada HealthCare.gov atau melalui telefon.

“Jika kita telah membenarkan rancangan-rancangan lama [terus] . . . maka kita telah melanggar janji yang lebih penting - memastikan bahawa rakyat Amerika mendapat akses kepada penjagaan kesihatan yang tidak meninggalkan mereka satu penyakit dari masalah kewangan,” katanya. “Jadi, garis bawah adalah, adalah bahawa kita membuat pasaran insurans yang lebih baik untuk semua orang.”

Merumitkan hakikat bahawa rakyat Amerika boleh membeli pelan lain tidak hanya yang HealthCare.gov terus mengalami isu-isu teknikal. Laporan baru permukaan yang menunjukkan beberapa syarikat insurans adalah individu yang mengelirukan dalam usaha untuk memaksa mereka ke dalam liputan mahal.

Menurut laporan oleh Bercakap Points Memo, syarikat insurans Kentucky berasaskan Humana “telah menolak pelanggan ke dalam pelan insurans Humana yang lebih mahal daripada pelan Humana telah menjual di pasaran ObamaCare , tanpa bantuan kewangan di bawah Obamcare.”

Pelaksanaan Akta ‘Affordable Care Act’ adalah mungkin untuk menghadapi beberapa masalah tidak kira, tetapi landskap semasa seolah-olah menjadi salah satu di mana rakyat Amerika keliru dengan laman web berfungsi, janji-janji yang dibuat oleh pentadbiran, dan muslihat oleh syarikat-syarikat insurans.

Dalam ucapannya, Presiden menafikan katanya kepada Amerika mereka akan dapat mengekalkan rancangan mereka, tetapi mengaku bahawa kesilapan telah dibuat, seperti pengurusan bungled daripada HealthCare.gov .

“Kami mendapat [Obamacare] dilakukan. Sekarang, mari kita menghadapinya, banyak daripada kita tidak sedar bahawa lulus undang-undang itu adalah sebahagian mudah,” katanya.

The last week has seen a flood of stories about individual health care plans being cancelled by insurance companies. As the Washington Post noted, 7-12 million Americans on the individual market are at risk of losing coverage, while the Daily Caller claims an additional 150,000 small-group market plans in Kentucky are being cancelled.

According to Obama, the loss of these plans will be made up by the increased benefits of new ones, which can be purchased in the marketplaces on HealthCare.gov or via the telephone.

“If we had allowed these old plans [to continue]… then we would have broken an even more important promise – making sure that Americans gain access to health care that doesn’t leave them one illness away from financial ruin,” he said. “So the bottom line is, is that we are making the insurance market better for everybody.”

Complicating the fact that Americans can shop for other plans isn’t just that HealthCare.gov continues to suffer from technical issues. New reports are surfacing that show some insurance companies are misleading individuals in an attempt to push them into costlier coverage.

According to a report by Talking Points Memo, the Kentucky-based insurance company Humana “was pushing customers into a Humana insurance plan that was more expensive than the plan Humana was selling on the Obamacare marketplace, without the financial help available under Obamcare.”

The rollout of the Affordable Care Act was likely to run into some trouble regardless, but the current landscape seems to be one in which Americans are confused by a dysfunctional website, promises made by the administration, and maneuvering by insurance companies.

In his remarks, the president denied he told Americans they’d be able to keep their plans, but admitted that mistakes have been made, such as the bungled management of HealthCare.gov.

“We got [Obamacare] done. Now, let’s face it, a lot of us didn’t realize that passing the law was the easy part,” he said.


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