Estados Unidos envía bombarderos nucleares a Corea del Sur
La misión de los aviones, que pueden transportar armas convencionales y nucleares, "demuestra la capacidad de Estados Unidos para llevar a cabo ataques de largo alcance, con alta precisión y rapidez a su antojo", dice el comunicado.
El anuncio del ejército de EE.UU. a principios de este mes acerca de que estaban volando bombarderos B-52 sobre Corea del Sur para participar en los ejercicios de rutina provocó una airada reacción del régimen de Kim Jong Un, lo que ha desatado un torrente de amenazas en las últimas semanas.
No hubo una reacción inmediata al comunicado de Estados Unidos por parte de la Agencia Central de Noticias norcoreana.
"Estados Unidos se mantiene firme en su compromiso de alianza para la defensa de la República de Corea, para disuadir la agresión, y para garantizar la paz y la estabilidad en la región", dice el comunicado, utilizando el nombre oficial de Corea del Sur. "El bombardero B-2 es un elemento importante de la duradera y sólida capacidad americana de disuasión extendida en la región Asia-Pacífico".
La divulgación de los vuelos B-2 se produce un día después de que Corea del Norte dijo que estaba cortando el "teléfono rojo" militar con Corea del Sur, lo que provocó nuevas expresiones de preocupación por parte de las autoridades estadounidenses sobre la retórica reciente de Pyongyang. Hay varias líneas directas entre el Norte y Corea del Sur.
"Corea del Norte no es un tigre de papel, por lo que no sería inteligente considerar su comportamiento provocativo como mera bravata", dijo el miércoles un funcionario de EE.UU.
El secretario de Defensa de EE.UU., Chuck Hagel habló por teléfono con su homólogo surcoreano, Kim Kwan-jin, la noche del miércoles, dijo el secretario de prensa del Pentágono George Little, señalando el "aumento de la tensión en la península coreana".
El reciente ruido de sables desde Pyongyang incluye amenazas de ataques preventivos nucleares contra Estados Unidos y Corea del Sur, así como la declaración de que el armisticio que detuvo la guerra de Corea en 1953 es nulo y sin efecto.
El martes, Corea del Norte dijo que que planeaba preparar a sus unidades militares de combate para posibles ataques contra bases estadounidenses.
La mayoría de los observadores dicen que Corea del Norte aún está a años de distancia de tener la tecnología para ofrecer una ojiva nuclear en un misil, pero sí tiene una gran potencia militar convencional, incluidos misiles balísticos de alcance medio capaces de transportar explosivos de alta potencia por cientos de kilómetros. http://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2013/03/28/estados-unidos-envia-bombarderos-nucleares-a-corea-del-sur/
Corea del Norte alista misiles para apuntar contra objetivos de EE.UU.
"Si ellos hacen una provocación temeraria con enormes fuerzas estratégicas, el Ejército Popular de Corea debe atacar sin piedad la parte continental de EE.UU., su fortaleza, sus bases militares en los lugares de operaciones en el Pacífico, incluyendo Hawai y Guam, y las que están en Corea del Sur" añadió KCNA.
La decisión de Estados Unidos de volar bombarderos B-2 sobre Corea del Sur durante los ejercicios militares fue "un ultimátum que podría provocar una guerra nuclear a toda costa en la península coreana", agregó la agencia estatal de noticias.
http://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2013/03/28/corea-del-norte-prepara-misiles-para-apuntar-contra-objetivos-de-ee-uu/
Were Saudis Behind Benghazi Attack?
The hacker known as Guccifer first came to prominence in February after breaching the AOL email account of Dorothy Bush Koch, the sister of George W. Bush. Guccifer released photos of Bush’s amateurish oil paintings and details regarding the ailing elder Bush. The mainstream media idiotically focused on Bush’s prowess as an artist rather than the fact that the public was being offered a glimpse into the secret world of the elite that pull the levers in American society and the world.Guccifer’s real treasure, however, came in the form of a series of emails hacked from the AOL account of former Bill Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The emails are significant because there is one dated September 12, 2012, which of course was the day after the attack on the Benghazi consulate. Blumenthal cites a number of what can only be called spies throughout the world in order to supply Clinton with a clear picture of current events.
Some jaw-dropping revelations are revealed in the September 12 email, involving the Muslim Brotherhood and the CIA.
First, on the day of the attack on the Benghazi consulate, Libyan President Mohammed Yussef el Magariaf summoned his advisors to discuss the attack, among them members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Per the email:
During the afternoon of September 11, 2012 new interim President of Libya Mohammed Yussef el Magariaf spoke in private with senior advisors, including the members of the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood, to discuss the attacks by demonstrators on U.S. missions in Tripoli and Benghazi.
Second, the attack on the Benghazi consulate was in part due to revenge for the CIA supporting the Qaddafi regime.
Third, when Qaddafi was overthrown, the rebels found a treasure trove of documents linking the CIA to the Qaddafi regime.
Again, continuing with the September 12, 2012 email:
At the same time, this individual noted that several of el Magariaf’s advisors share his concerns in this matter, pointing out that the return of Qaddafi’s intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi for trial in Libya has heightened public interest in the liaison relationships conducted by the CIA and British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) with Qaddafi’s intelligence and security services. These same individuals note that they believe Islamist militia forces under the command of General Abdelhakim Belhaj captured files and documents describing this relationship from Qaddafi’s offices in Tripoli.
By February 13, 2013, Blumenthal had discounted the ludicrous “protest turned violent” story regarding the attack on the Benghazi consulate. It was clear according to his sources that it was a terrorist attack by the group Ansar al-Sharia, of which Hillary Clinton early on publicly stated was untrue, despite the al-Qaeda-linked group taking credit for the attack, and despite the fact that this information was sent to the White House Situation Room hours after the attack on the consulate.
According to Blumenthal’s February 16, 2013 email to Clinton, the Benghazi attack was well-planned and well-funded by Saudi billionaires:
The attack…originated with wealthy Sunni Islamists in Saudi Arabia. During July and August 2012 these financiers provided funds to AQIM [Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb] contacts in Southern Europe, who in turn passed the money onto AQIM operatives in Mauritania. These funds were eventually provided to Ansar al Sharia and its allied militias in the Benghazi region in support of their attack on the U.S. consulate.
Blumenthal’s email correlates with information revealed in the recently published book Benghazi: The Definitive Report, in which it is reported that the Benghazi attack was in retaliation for the CIA’s secret war—led by John Brennan, now CIA chief— against Ansar al-Sharia and other terrorist groups in North Africa.
The question becomes: if the CIA was backing Qaddafi, why then did NATO, with Obama at the helm, decide to topple the Qaddafi regime? Why is the Obama administration now backing the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya and Egypt? The answer may lie in the fact that Obama is largely aligned with globalists, and the Muslim Brotherhood’s stated goal is a global, totalitarian caliphate. Globalists tend to be uber-secularists, eschewing all forms of religion or morality, whereas the Muslim Brotherhood calls for a theocratic police state mandating strict adherence to morality through sharia. But as Jim Marrs points out in his extensively researched book The Rise of the Fourth Reich, the globalists often create artificial conflicts in order to make money and to further their goal of a totalitarian utopia.
Irregardless, it is clear from Libyan President Magariaf’s close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood that the Obama administration decided to switch sides from Qaddafi to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Further, it is no secret that Obama called for the removal of long-time U.S. and Israel ally Egyptian President Hosni Muburak and is now backing Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi. Additionally, the Obama administration has extensive ties with Muslim Brotherhood front groups, including the so-called “outreach” groups CAIR and ISNA, both designated as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation terrorist-funding trial—organizations that the Obama administration has admitted to having literally hundreds of meetings with.
Another Blumenthal email from March 13 of this year states that even though the Obama administration knew that Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi had instituted de facto martial law, the U.S. was still planning on providing up to one billion dollars in aid, along with supporting $4.5 billion from the IMF.
The Muslim Brotherhood is an organization that has vowed to destroy the United States, with the stated goal of subsuming the world under the thumb of a global, Islamic totalitarian government.
Why then are Obama and his rogue CIA chief John Brennan backing the Muslim Brotherhood?
A better question might be: Why has Congress not charged Obama and John Brennan with treason?
Americans Are Migrating To More Free Republican States
The “Freedom in the 50 States” study measured economic and personal freedom using a wide range of criteria, including tax rates, government spending and debt, regulatory burdens, and state laws covering land use, union organizing, gun control, education choice and more.
It found that the freest states tended to be conservative “red” states, while the least free were liberal “blue” states.
The freest state overall, the researchers concluded, was North Dakota, followed by South Dakota, Tennessee, New Hampshire and Oklahoma. The least free state by far was New York, followed by California, New Jersey, Hawaii and Rhode Island.
Read more: http://clashdaily.com/2013/03/americans-are-migrating-to-more-free-republican-states/#ixzz2OvhqvMM6
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Obama Administration Seeks To Nullify The Nullifiers
This is what the Obama administration hopes to get out of Oklahoma. As we posted recently, the Oklahoma House had passed a law that prohibited the Obamacare mandate from being implemented in the state of Oklahoma. It hasn’t been signed by the Governor, but if it is, the Obama administration will ignore it and continue to enforce their “one-size-fits-all” healthcare plan on every state including Oklahoma.
Oklahoma’s Insurance Commissioner John Doak has already gotten notification from the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO), a division of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS), stating that the federal government will proceed to take over the insurance industry in Oklahoma as planned, regardless of any state laws that contest it.
However, in a press release, Insurance Commissioner Doak stated that he won’t be giving up just yet:
“Oklahoma Insurance Department will not be participating in a collaborative effort with the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) to enforce the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Oklahoma Insurance Department regulates the health insurance policies sold in the state and responds to consumer questions and complaints. Our consumer assistance team receives over 30,000 phone calls, and our website receives over 1,000,000 visits each year. We will continue to serve these consumers by adhering to our duties under the State Constitution and Statutes. The consumers are the ones who are going to bear the costs of these unnecessary federal regulatory burdens. In addition to adding new fees to health insurance products that will increase prices both inside and outside the exchange, the ACA requires plans to add expensive and often unnecessary coverage benefits. These costs will impact young adults most severely due to the law’s requirement that older Americans pay no more than three times the premium of young adults. A survey of insurers by the American Action Forum found that average premiums for young, healthy adults may triple going into 2014.”
He’s not saying that the Affordable Care Act will make health care unaffordable just because he doesn’t like the Obama administration. Even the Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius admitted that insurance premiums are going to have to go up under Obama’s mandate, but that it’s OK because people are “really going to see much better benefit for the money that they’re spending.”
I hope Oklahoma doesn’t back down. I just wish they had left those provisions in their nullification bill that would have required jailing any federal agents that attempted to enforce Obamacare on Oklahoma.
20 casas al borde del precipicio tras enorme alud de tierra en el estado de Washington
Miró por la ventana, y 20 árboles grandes habían desaparecido.
Una casa se deslizó hacia el océano, pero todo el mundo estaba a salvo.
El vecindario se encuentra sobre una falla y ha sufrido una gran cantidad de lluvias este año.
Mira el video (en inglés) del lugar:
El papa Francisco lava los pies a 12 jóvenes presos
La decisión de Francisco de celebrar la Misa con los jóvenes delincuentes en el centro Casal del Marmo representa una ruptura con la tradición, pero está en sintonía con su posición de sencillez y humildad adoptada que se ha visto desde que fuera elegido nuevo pontífice de la Iglesia Católica.
El servicio litúrgico en los últimos años se había celebrado en la Basílica de San Juan de Letrán, sede oficial del obispo de Roma.
Cerca de 10 chicas y 40 chicos participaron en la misa, y el papa lavó los pies a 12 de ellos, de diferentes nacionalidades y religiones, según el Vaticano.
Después de la misa, el Papa planeaba reunirse con más delincuentes y funcionarios de justicia en el gimnasio del centro, dijo el Vaticano.
Los jóvenes delincuentes le darán al Papa un crucifijo de madera y un reclinatorio, que ellos mismos hicieron en el taller del centro de detención.
Por su parte, el papa Francisco llevará huevos de Pascua y colomba, torta italiana tradicional de Pascua en forma de una paloma, para todos, agregó la Santa Sede.
Llegando a los "olvidados"
Francisco inició oficialmente su pontificado hace 10 días, después de haber sido elegido Papa en reemplazo de Benedicto XVI.
Desde que asumió el cargo, se ha centrado en un mensaje de ayuda a los pobres y necesitados.
En su primera audiencia general de este miércoles, ante miles de peregrinos congregados en la plaza de San Pedro del Vaticano, habló de cómo seguir a Cristo, que "significa aprender a salir de nosotros mismos ... para conocer a los demás, especialmente aquellos que están más lejos de nosotros, los que han sido olvidados, los que necesitan comprensión, consuelo y ayuda".
También hizo un llamado a poner fin a la violencia en la República Centroafricana, donde una coalición de rebeldes derrocó al presidente Francois Bozize esta semana.
Los servicios de Semana Santa culminarán el Domingo de Pascua con la primera bendición "Urbi et Orbi" del papa Francisco, dirigido a la ciudad de Roma y al mundo. http://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2013/03/28/el-papa-francisco-lava-los-pies-a-12-jovenes-en-un-centro-de-detencion/
Did Hillary commit perjury?
New reports may contradict former secretary’s sworn testimony
Obamacare Jacks Up Health Insurance Claims Cost by 32 Percent
Got a few hundred more dollars to spare? The Obama administration thinks so. That’s why it’s no big whoop that insurance companies could be paying out 32% more for medical claims due to Obamacare.The Associated Press are right on the ball telling us three years too late what most sentient Americans knew all along: Obamacare will lead to cost/price increases. (Don’t know the difference? Contact a basic economics instructor.) According to the Associated Press:
While some states will see medical claims costs per person decline, the report concluded that the overwhelming majority will see double-digit increases in their individual health insurance markets, where people purchase coverage directly from insurers.
The differences are big. By 2017, the estimated increase would be 62 percent for California, about 80 percent for Ohio, more than 20 percent for Florida and 67 percent for Maryland.
And the best part? Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius admitted to reporters on Tuesday that health insurance premiums will go up. Would have been useful information, you know, before all of the Democrat politicians voted for the bill. (Never heard of Kathleen Sebelius? Don’t worry, she will be managing your healthcare under Obamacare. And you and your doctor? Not so much.)
“Claims cost is the most important driver of health care premiums,” said Kristi Bohn, an actuary who worked on the study. Spending on sicker people and other high-cost groups will overwhelm an influx of younger, healthier people into the program, said the report.
To be fair, the report did not estimate the effect of subsidies or insurer competition, and it found that some states, including New York and Massachusetts, will see double digit declines in costs for claims. But try telling that to someone in Ohio where the claims are predicted to increase by 80 percent – see how far that gets you.
There’s no denying that ObamaCare has some benefits, but when the disadvantages are mounting this high against the sparse advantages, it’s clear that this was nothing short of a poorly written piece of legislation that was hastily written to fulfill a portion of a new president’s agenda. If it was written better, maybe it would have gotten …at least one Republican vote. But it didn’t, and now we have everyone arguing about it, differing opinions about the long term costs, and a notably skeptical American population; how many great ideas have this much discontent following them around?