The Morning Roar: The US's Secret "Cuban Twitter" Plot, The FBI Raids 91 Year Old Collector, and Obamacare Loses 20% of Enrollees
U.S. Created Secret "Cuban Twitter" To Cause Protests & Unrest This is just fantastic, fantastic stuff. If you saw "Argo," this has "future feature film" written all over it in the same vein. Get Ben Affleck on the phone.According to the Associated Press, back in 2010 the US government sought to cause unrest in the population of Cuba through the application...of CUBAN TWITTER.
According to documents obtained by The Associated Press and multiple interviews with people involved in the project, the plan was to develop a bare-bones "Cuban Twitter," using cellphone text messaging to evade Cuba's strict control of information and its stranglehold restrictions over the Internet. In a play on Twitter, it was called ZunZuneo — slang for a Cuban hummingbird's tweet.Documents show the U.S. government planned to build a subscriber base through "non-controversial content": news messages on soccer, music and hurricane updates. Later when the network reached a critical mass of subscribers, perhaps hundreds of thousands, operators would introduce political content aimed at inspiring Cubans to organize "smart mobs" — mass gatherings called at a moment's notice that might trigger a Cuban Spring, or, as one USAID document put it, "renegotiate the balance of power between the state and society."
I'd mock this more, but it's actually one of the government's better ideas...however... Why are we still trying to overthrow the political system in Cuba? Wouldn't a better solution still be to simply eliminate the travel and trade restrictions with that country and let their people make their own choices? Should the lure of democracy be strong enough, the people will rise up just fine without our interference, and bolstered by a thriving marketplace and US tourism and products the incentive is there. And even if they don't, Cuba hasn't exactly been a top of mind threat anytime since the Cold War. Unless you consider the illegal import of cigars a threat.FBI Raids 91 Year Old Collector's Home - Has No Idea If Items Were Obtained IllegallyThe State moves in mysterious ways. The most recently mysterious is performing an armed raid against a 91 year old collector of indian artifacts in Indiana. Some of these quotes will alternately confuse you, cause your blood to boil, and entice your copy of the Constitution to burst into flame. Who needs coffee when you have State-perpetrated injustice to get you going in the morning?
FBI agents Wednesday removed "thousands" of cultural artifacts, including American Indian items, from the private collection of a 91-year-old Rush County man who had acquired them over the past eight decades.Robert A. Jones, special agent in charge of the Indianapolis FBI office, would not say at a news conference specifically why the investigation was initiated, but he did say the FBI had information about Miller's collection and acted on it by deploying its art crime team.The aim of the FBI's efforts is to determine what each artifact is, where it came from and how Miller obtained it, Jones said, to determine whether some of the items might be illegal to possess privately.Jones acknowledged that Miller might have acquired some of the items before the passage of U.S. laws or treaties prohibited their sale or purchase.
So let me get this straight. They don't know what the artifacts are. They don't know where they came from. They don't know how he got them and if it was legally or illegally. And even if it was illegally, it may have been legal when he did get them. Does that about sum it up?How does this warrant a raid? How did this even get reported? Under what possible legality can this action against a man's private property be justified? It can't. This man's life's work has been stolen by the state without reason and the odds of him getting any of it back before he dies are slim to nil.Obamacare Loses 20% of Enrollees The bad returns on Obamacare keep coming and of the supposed 7.1 enrollees (most of which are still Medicare enrollees and not new healthcare subscribers) 20% haven't paid their first month's premiums. What does that mean?
One of the biggest players in Obamacare's exchanges says 15 to 20 percent of its new customers aren't paying their first premium—which means they're not actually covered.The latest data come from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, whose members—known collectively as "Blues" plans—are participating in the exchanges in almost every state. Roughly 80 to 85 percent of people who selected a Blues plan through the exchanges went on to pay their first month's premium, a BCBSA spokeswoman said Wednesday.If the nationwide payment rate, across all carriers, remains at 80 to 85 percent, the 7.1 million sign-ups Obama announced Tuesday would translate into somewhere between 5.7 and 6 million people who are actually covered.
What a massive impact on the health coverage of Americans, countrywide. Signature achievement, ACHIEVED! Read The Morning Roar every weekday Monday-Friday!The Lions of Liberty are on Twitter, Facebook & Google+Receive access to ALL of our EXCLUSIVE bonus audio content – including “Conspiracy Corner”, “Degenerate Gamblers” and the “League of Liberty Podcast” by joining the Lions of Liberty Pride and supporting us on Patreon!
