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January 6, 2017
House Republicans have spent the last six years fruitlessly trying to repeal Obamacare. Now that the GOP is on the cusp of a successful repeal without any replacement plan, their plan to start a War to Make America Sick Again is so hideously damaging, that just in its first decade Trump and the Republicans will cost taxpayers over four times what the Iraq War cost over a similar time period. But dont worry, a successful repeal of Obamacare by House Republicans will also kill millions of private sector jobs within just a few years.
That kind of flagrant debt-fueled spending to accomplish harm looks unseemly because it is, so Paul Ryans House GOP did the only fiscally responsible thing that he could do: House Republicans voted to hide the actual cost of repealing the Affordable Care Act from the American public and how wed spend $9 Trillion dollars to gut our countrys health care systems and deny access to millions of people. First, a Bloomberg reporter discovered that the Republicans call their needless deficit spike an appropriate level of public debt:
Then it took a slick addition to the House rules in order to orchestrate the GOPs back-room deals which would devastate ordinary Americans that just want to be able to see a doctor when theyre sick, buy healthcare outside the group system and help to pay for health insurance if theyre working and poor.
As Shareblue reports, its no small task to hide $9 trillion dollars, but thats why House Republicans voted to doom the Office of Congressional Ethics, so they could slip the below language into this years House Rules and hope nobody would notice.
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[font size="+1"]Go to article to see the actual text in the bill which states killing the ACA will NOT be subject to CBO cost analysis:[/font]
Republicans Just Voted To Hide Massive Cost Of Obamacare Repeal From Public
http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/01/06/republicans-just-voted-hide-massive-cost-obamacare-repeal-public/House Republicans have spent the last six years fruitlessly trying to repeal Obamacare. Now that the GOP is on the cusp of a successful repeal without any replacement plan, their plan to start a War to Make America Sick Again is so hideously damaging, that just in its first decade Trump and the Republicans will cost taxpayers over four times what the Iraq War cost over a similar time period. But dont worry, a successful repeal of Obamacare by House Republicans will also kill millions of private sector jobs within just a few years.
That kind of flagrant debt-fueled spending to accomplish harm looks unseemly because it is, so Paul Ryans House GOP did the only fiscally responsible thing that he could do: House Republicans voted to hide the actual cost of repealing the Affordable Care Act from the American public and how wed spend $9 Trillion dollars to gut our countrys health care systems and deny access to millions of people. First, a Bloomberg reporter discovered that the Republicans call their needless deficit spike an appropriate level of public debt:
GOP budget says $9 Trillion hike in the national debt is "appropriate" over the coming decade. https://t.co/9nPBKWOJNk pic.twitter.com/EPDJz8n7Vl
Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) January 4, 2017
Then it took a slick addition to the House rules in order to orchestrate the GOPs back-room deals which would devastate ordinary Americans that just want to be able to see a doctor when theyre sick, buy healthcare outside the group system and help to pay for health insurance if theyre working and poor.
As Shareblue reports, its no small task to hide $9 trillion dollars, but thats why House Republicans voted to doom the Office of Congressional Ethics, so they could slip the below language into this years House Rules and hope nobody would notice.
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[font size="+1"]Go to article to see the actual text in the bill which states killing the ACA will NOT be subject to CBO cost analysis:[/font]
(4) LIMITATION.This subsection shall not apply to any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon
(A) repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and title I and subtitle B of title II of the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010;
(B) reforming the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010; or
(C) for which the chair of the Committee on the Budget has made an adjustment to the allocations, levels, or limits contained in the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget.
(A) repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and title I and subtitle B of title II of the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010;
(B) reforming the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010; or
(C) for which the chair of the Committee on the Budget has made an adjustment to the allocations, levels, or limits contained in the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget.
January 6, 2017
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Back in April, 2016, Lilia Shevtsova wrote in The American Interest about the powerful effect of US-European sanctions against Russia and Syria. Frozen assets in the U.S. of the oligarch Yuri Kovalchuk, a close ally of Putin, have totaled $572 million. In Italy, the Rottenberg brothers have also sustained losses worth nearly $40 million.
Curious, right? Putin's intent to seriously damage Hillary Clinton versus the unexpectedly propitious outcome of actually installing a flawed lunatic like Donald Trump paid dividends. Only eight months later, just one month after Election Day, this happened: Fortune Magazine reported:
That $11.3 billion profit certainly makes a Trump victory seem much more financially appealing to the Kremlin indeed. ALWAYS follow the money. This election windfall really helps Putin mitigate losses from those sanctions that Trump will end, that have been costly and inconvenient.
It was personal too. Hillary Clinton not only supported the sanctions, but made it crystal clear that as President she would continue a hard line against Syria and Russias brutality. Not only would the current economic sanctions remain in place, but she promised more actions. Hillary was Putins number one threat to his power and to his countrys economic stability.
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Follow The Money, See Why Trump Is Putin's Useful Idiot
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/12/follow-money-see-why-trump-putins-useful~~
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Back in April, 2016, Lilia Shevtsova wrote in The American Interest about the powerful effect of US-European sanctions against Russia and Syria. Frozen assets in the U.S. of the oligarch Yuri Kovalchuk, a close ally of Putin, have totaled $572 million. In Italy, the Rottenberg brothers have also sustained losses worth nearly $40 million.
Ms. Shevtsova emphasizes that these sanctions have exacerbated the economic recession in Russia: by accelerating capital flight and shrinking internal financial resources; by restricting Russias access to international financial markets and triggering a financial crunch; and by creating crisis of confidence in international business circles regarding Russia. As a result, Russia could find no buyers or investors for its government-owned oil companies.
In March 2016, President Obama extended the sanctions on Russia for another year. (Apparently, this shocked the Kremlin, which expected that the U.S.-Russian agreement on Syria would mean softening of the sanctions regime.) Existing measures will stay in place as Russias actions continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, the U.S. Presidents decree says.
Curious, right? Putin's intent to seriously damage Hillary Clinton versus the unexpectedly propitious outcome of actually installing a flawed lunatic like Donald Trump paid dividends. Only eight months later, just one month after Election Day, this happened: Fortune Magazine reported:
Russia said on Wednesday it sold a stake in oil giant Rosneft for 10.5 billion uros ($11.3 billion) to Qatar and commodities trader Glencore.
That $11.3 billion profit certainly makes a Trump victory seem much more financially appealing to the Kremlin indeed. ALWAYS follow the money. This election windfall really helps Putin mitigate losses from those sanctions that Trump will end, that have been costly and inconvenient.
It was personal too. Hillary Clinton not only supported the sanctions, but made it crystal clear that as President she would continue a hard line against Syria and Russias brutality. Not only would the current economic sanctions remain in place, but she promised more actions. Hillary was Putins number one threat to his power and to his countrys economic stability.
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January 6, 2017
Re the hack of DU: did you inform those whose email address was obsconded with by the hackers?
January 4, 2017
Cybersecurity experts are facing the daunting reality that they may have reached the limit of what humans can achieve in cyber defense. Thankfully, the answer to this issue may already have arrived, following in the form a platform known as AI-Squared.
Rise of the robots.
Unveiled to the world in April, AI-Squared is a collaborative project between MITs Computer Science and AI Laboratory (CSAIL) and a machine-learning startup known as PatternEx. Its function - to identify cyber-attacks.
The platform combines Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Analyst Intuition (AI) - hence the name AI-Squared. It works by parsing huge amounts of data - generated by users -- searching for odd activity using a recurrent neural network in combination with machine learning techniques. This is a process known as unsupervised learning, and it's used to find anomalies - the proverbial needles in the haystack.
Once identified, the platform notifies a human analyst, presenting its findings. The human analyst then confirms whether the user activity is an attack or a genuine visitor, which is relayed back to the AI. The AI turns these decisions into a model for use the next day. This is a process known as supervised learning.
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The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Defense - (Hello Hal 9000)
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/281040Cybersecurity experts are facing the daunting reality that they may have reached the limit of what humans can achieve in cyber defense. Thankfully, the answer to this issue may already have arrived, following in the form a platform known as AI-Squared.
Rise of the robots.
Unveiled to the world in April, AI-Squared is a collaborative project between MITs Computer Science and AI Laboratory (CSAIL) and a machine-learning startup known as PatternEx. Its function - to identify cyber-attacks.
The platform combines Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Analyst Intuition (AI) - hence the name AI-Squared. It works by parsing huge amounts of data - generated by users -- searching for odd activity using a recurrent neural network in combination with machine learning techniques. This is a process known as unsupervised learning, and it's used to find anomalies - the proverbial needles in the haystack.
Once identified, the platform notifies a human analyst, presenting its findings. The human analyst then confirms whether the user activity is an attack or a genuine visitor, which is relayed back to the AI. The AI turns these decisions into a model for use the next day. This is a process known as supervised learning.
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