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Trump: 'Obamacare Unfortunately Will Explode,' and Democrats 'Own It 100%'

Guess this answers exactly who owns it.

Trump: ‘Obamacare Unfortunately Will Explode,’ and Democrats ‘Own It 100%’

"....The president said the losers are Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), “because now they own Obamacare.”

“They own it 100 percent own it, and this is not a Republican health care. This is not anything but a Democrat health care, and they have Obamacare for a little while longer until it ceases to exist, which it will sometime in the near future, and just remember, this is not our bill. This is their bill. When they all become civilized and get together and try to work out a great health care bill for the people of this country, we’re open to it. We’re totally open to it,” he said.

In an attempt to explain the cancellation, Trump said, “We were very close. It was a very, very tight margin.  We had no Democrat support. We had no votes from the Democrats. They weren’t going to give us a single vote, so it’s a very difficult thing to do.” ....."

http://defiantamerica.com/trump-obamacare-will-explode-democrats-own-it-100-percent/

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Health Care Bill's Failure: Just Part of the 'Art of the Deal'

I feel thing happened just like they were supposed to in order to get a more concise better worked program for everyone.

Health Care Bill’s Failure: Just Part of the ‘Art of the Deal’

"President Donald Trump faces three irreconcilable factions: the GOP establishment, conservatives, and Democrats. He must bring them together — to “deliver the goods,” a key rule in The Art of the Deal. But first he must show them “the downside” — and convince them they will fail on their own.

So he let them make the first move — and he exposed two things about them: first, that they had not come up with a plan that was ready for prime time; second, that they had not done any of the political legwork necessary to sell their plan to voters.

Trump gave Speaker Paul Ryan and the House Republican leadership enough rope to hang themselves. Instead of dictating terms to him, they will now depend on him to save them, politically. They must accept whatever plan he will put forward.

But Trump will not make the next move. He will let the conservatives move first. They are the big winners in the first round — much more so than the Democrats, who are enjoying the spectacle of Republican dysfunction but have no role to play yet. ...."

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/24/health-care-bill-failure-art-of-the-deal/

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Autopsy Results From Vince Foster's Exhumed Body–Cause Of Death To Be Changed

Autopsy Results From Vince Foster’s Exhumed Body–Cause Of Death To Be Changed

"A string of events this week has led to incredible results in a 23-year-old case that had gone completely cold. After a reporter for The Washington Examiner was shot dead in front of his home and a letter was sent to his editor on his behalf, an investigation began into the death of Clinton attorney Vince Foster. Foster’s death in 1993 had been ruled a suicide.

With new evidence, Rep. Trey Gowdy successfully petitioned a federal judge to have the body of Vince Foster exhumed for autopsy. The body wasn’t autopsied before burial the first time, which aided in the theory of a cover-up. Forensic specialists examined the body last night at the Naval Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, concluding that the cause of death for Mr. Foster should be changed from suicide to homicide.

LT Col. James McFitting, head of the hospital’s forensics lab, told reporters in his office that Foster had not one but two gunshot wounds, both of which would have been fatal. There would be no way he could have pulled the trigger himself a second time. The wounds were also in the back of his head, meaning unless he reached all the way around to make it look like a murder and fired two identical guns at the same time, the original story was impossible......."

http://www.usapoliticstoday.com/autopsy-results-vince-fosters-exhumed-body-cause-death-changed/?utm_source=BDT&utm_medium=BDT&utm_campaign=BDT

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Watch These Geopolitical Flashpoints Carefully

Watch These Geopolitical Flashpoints Carefully

Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,
Source: ZeroHedge

"Anyone who has been involved in alternative geopolitical and economic analysis for a decent length of time understands that the establishment power structure thrives according to its ability to either exploit natural crises, or to engineer fabricated crises.

This is not that hard to comprehend, but for some reason there are a lot of people out there who simply assume that global sea-change events just happen “at random,” that the elites are stupid or oblivious, and that all outcomes are a matter of random chance rather than being directed or manipulated.  I call these people “intellectual idiots,” because they believe they are applying logic to every scenario but they are sabotaged by an inherent bias which causes them to deny the potential for “conspiracy.”

To clarify, their logic folds in on itself and becomes faulty.  They believe themselves objective, but they abandon objectivity when they staunchly refuse to consider the possibility of covert influence by organized special interests. When you internally dismiss the possibility of a thing, no amount of evidence will ever convince you of its reality.  This is how the “smartest” people in the room can end up being the dumbest people in the room....."

".....To this end, a Hegelian model of problem – reaction – solution is required. You cannot influence people to volunteer for servitude and submission unless they are sufficiently terrified of the alternative.

The globalists tend to use what I call a “scattershot effect” when it comes to creating or managing chaos. They set the stage for multiple flashpoints around the world and wait to see which of them works and which of them fails. If you have enough of these flashpoints in place, statistically there is a high probability that at least some of them will succeed. We saw this in obvious form a few years ago when covert intelligence agencies instigated the “Arab Spring” insurgencies in Libya and Egypt among other nations, along with the funding and training of terrorist groups in Libya and Jordan that went on to become ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and at nearly the same time we had elitist lapdogs like John McCain in both Syria and Ukraine helping to foment unrest and civil war....."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-24/watch-these-geopolitical-flashpoints-carefully

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BREAKING: Nebraska Democrats Caught Handing Out Voter Registration Forms to New Refugees

BREAKING: Nebraska Democrats Caught Handing Out Voter Registration Forms to New Refugees

".....Kleeb described the items in the basket, which included a voter registration form.

“We made sure that we had individuals write a little note to the families, and then inside each basket there’s also a letter from the Nebraska Democratic Party welcoming the family to Nebraska,” she said.

“It’s signed by me as chair of the party, and then we include a sticker in here for them to put on their car. It also includes a voter registration form,” she added...."

http://defiantamerica.com/ebraska-democrats-handing-voter-registration-forms-refugees/

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Secret Service braces for 'outsider' director from the military

Exclusive: Secret Service braces for 'outsider' director from the military

".....Agents and officers are expecting Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, a retired Marine general and former head of U.S. Central Command, to tap another general to head the Secret Service and help reform the agency and impose more rigorous and even-handed discipline, according to two knowledgeable sources.

President Trump's appointment of a general to the top Secret Service post, at the behest of Kelly, is expected to take place soon – with employees anticipating an announcement some time in the next week. Former Director Joseph Clancy retired from the agency for a second time March 3, and acting director William Callahan has taken on the top leadership role over the last three weeks in his absence......"

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/exclusive-secret-service-braces-for-outsider-director-from-the-military/article/2618315

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BOMBSHELL: Trump Surveillance Data Captured Due to Obama Spying on Israel, not Russia

Another theory which makes an interesting (long) read. Per usual, you decide.

BOMBSHELL: Trump Surveillance Data Captured Due to Obama Spying on Israel, not Russia

"....Why is this important? It was followed up a few weeks later with President-Elect Trump reportedly pressuring Egypt to refuse to support a blatant anti-Israel resolution in the U.N. Security Council. Shortly afterwards however, it passed with President Obama ordering U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power to abstain from a vote which condemned Israel’s settlement policies. This was followed up by a shortsighted, rambling final speech by then Secretary of State Kerry slamming Netanyahu, the Israeli policies, and accusing the U.S. ally of obstructing peace in the region. President-Elect Trump and P.M. Netanyahu were not pleased in this least by this course of action (from NBC News): ....."

....Hopefully Congressman Nunes and the Israeli intelligence services will start to reveal more about the vile anti-Israel operations conducted by President Obama and his regime to tilt the balance of power away from our allies and towards nations like Iran. In the end, it is quite obvious to this writer as to how this data was obtained and why there has been wide dissemination of this information by the former administration as they sought to essentially blackmail Israel and humiliate President Trump before he has a chance to remove the remnants of the Obama appointees operating against the Trump administration from within the U.S. Government."

http://johngaltfla.com/wordpress/2017/03/22/bombshell-trump-surveillance-data-captured-due-to-obama-spying-on-israel-not-russia/

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The Divided Deep State Is A Symptom, Not The Disease

Good article if you have time to read it.

The Divided Deep State Is A Symptom, Not The Disease

Source: ZeroHedge

Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog

"A funny thing happens when a nation allows itself to be ruled by Imperial kleptocrats: such rule is intrinsically destabilizing, as there is no longer any moral or political center to bind the nation together. The public sees the value system at the top is maximize my personal profit by whatever means are available, i.e. complicity, corruption, monopoly and rentier rackets, and they follow suit by pursuing whatever petty frauds and rackets are within reach: tax avoidance, cheating on entrance exams, gaming the disability system, lying on mortgage and job applications, and so on.

But the scope of the rentier rackets is so large, the bottom 95% cannot possibly keep up with the expanding wealth and income of the top .1% and their army of technocrats and enablers, so a rising sense of injustice widens the already yawning fissures in the body politic....."

"....As the Power Elites squabble over the dwindling crumbs left by the various rentier rackets, there's no one left to fight for the national interest because the entire Status Quo of self-interested fiefdoms and cartels has been co-opted and is now wedded to the Imperial Oligarchy as their guarantor of financial security.

The divided Deep State is a symptom of this larger systemic political disunity. I have characterized the divide as between the Wall Street-Neocon-Globalist Neoliberal camp--currently the dominant public face of the Deep State, the one desperately attempting to exploit the "Russia hacked our elections and is trying to destroy us" narrative--and a much less public, less organized "rogue Progressive" camp, largely based in the military services and fringes of the Deep State, that sees the dangers of a runaway expansionist Empire and the resulting decay of the nation's moral/political center....."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-23/divided-deep-state-symptom-not-disease

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