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Sebelius Comes “Clean” On Obamacare Enrollment Numbers – 79% Miss (Full Report)

Despite rewriting history as usual, proclaiming that the administration 'knew' early numbers would be low (not true since they estimated 500,000 and are rumored to only have ~50,000), and changing the definition of what an enrollee is, and managing our expectations via Carney's press conference, we are intrigued to see what the "huge demand" Kathleen Sebelius expected for Obamacare has actually resulted in… Perhaps she needs to call the helpline! Remember, as Peter Schiff noted, the website can be fixed, but Obamacare can't (unless, of course, more keg-standers and sluts sign up).

*OBAMACARE ENROLLS 106,185 IN PRIVATE HEALTH PLANS IN OCTOBER
26,794 on Federal Exchange
79,391 on State Exchanges

Bear in mind that this 106,185 includes those who added the plan sto their carts but did not pay – which has a ~70% cancellation rate across e-commerce platforms.

As TPM notes,

The administration was expecting 500,000 enrollments in October.

But as, one supporter of the law noted, "I think there's no number that's too low, the main thing that we're going to learn is that the website isn't working."

That internal memo with the 500,000 figure also projected a significant uptick after the first month. The administration was aiming for 3.3 million enrollments by Dec. 31 — meaning about 85 percent were expected to occur during November and December.

Here's what she promised… "the good news is you can get started today…"

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will release a report on the numbers at 3:30 p.m., and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will discuss the findings on a press call then.

Remember how they crowed of the "interest"…The following inverted pyramid highlights the dismal reality of the Affordable Care Act as of a month ago…

We wonder just how much has changed in the last month…

rpt_enrollment.pdf

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Three Shot In Pittsburgh High School Shooting – Live Webcast

Lately not a day seems to pass without some tragic mass shooting. The latest comes from Pittsburgh, where Channel 11 News reports that three people were shot Wednesday afternoon outside Brashear High School.

According to emergency dispatchers, police were sent to the school on Crane Avenue just before 3 p.m. Wednesday.

Channel’s Rick Earle has confirmed that authorities are looking for a shooter in the woods behind the school.

At this time, the extent of the victims’ injuries is unknown

Live webcast:

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RBS: "The Fed Is Now Responsible For Monetizing A Record 70% Of All Net Bond Supply"

The following statement and chart from the RBS’ Drew Brick pretty much explains it all: “QE has seen the Fed extend its dominion on the US curve away from the short-end and into longer duration paper is patent, too. On a rolling six-month average, in fact, the Fed is now responsible for monetizing a record 70% of all net supply measured in 10y equivalents. This represents a reliance on the Fed that is greater than ever before in history!“

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RBS: “The Fed Is Now Responsible For Monetizing A Record 70% Of All Net Bond Supply”

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Did LBJ Kill Kennedy? (And Why It Matters): Q/A with Roger Stone

Stone, a well-known political operative and Richard Nixon
loyalist, lays out his case in The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case
Against LBJ, written with Mike Colapietro.

“Did LBJ Kill Kennedy? (And Why It Matters): Q/A with Roger
Stone” is the latest from ReasonTV. Watch above or click the link
below for full text, links, downloadable versions and more.

View this article.

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A. Barton Hinkle on Why Virginia Should Legalize Marijuana

Virginia has a lot to gain from
joining Colorado and Washington in bringing marijuana out of the
shadows, but doing so will be a long slog. A. Barton Hinkle gives
five good reasons why Virginians should push forward with the
effort, pointing out that prohibition is expensive, unnecessary,
and hurts people.

View this article.

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The Snowden of the '70s

This issue. More than a
decade before Edward Snowden was born, a whistleblower calling
himself Winslow Peck gave the New Left magazine Ramparts
an insider’s
account of the National Security Agency, an institution
that at that time was shrouded in even more secrecy than today.
Peck, whose given name was Perry Fellwock, went on to help launch
Counterspy, a magazine devoted to exposing the activities
of America’s intelligence agencies. And then he left activism
behind. Today he is an antiques dealer on Long Island.

Adrian Chen of Gawker tracked Fellwock down, and after
a rather distrustful start (“I believe that you’re honest, but who
knows about the people in your office? Who knows about your boss,
what kind of deals he’s doing?”) the man once known as Winslow Peck

granted Chen an interview. Their conversation covers everything
from Fellwock’s disappointment with the way that original
Ramparts article came out to his guilt over the treatment
of a Counterspy colleague who got accused of being a
police plant. Here’s an excerpt from Chen’s story:

It turns out that constant brooding over
the machinations of the surveillance state is not conducive to a
sound state of mind. Counter-Spy staff worked in a haze of
mistrust. “You’d be sitting with people and you knew that somebody
was wondering about somebody else at that table,” said [magazine
staffer] Harvey Kahn, “were they being controlled by somebody else?
Or unconsciously being manipulated?”

It was not a fantasy: The COINTELPRO papers had revealed security
agencies kept close tabs on radical publications. In the late ’60s,
the CIA dedicated a 12-man team to undermining Ramparts,
according to Angus Mackenzie’s book Secrets: The CIA’s War at
Home.

“It was intense,” said Fellwock. “Clearly it really upset the
security agencies, what we were doing. They were all over us. I
just generally accepted that the next person in the next booth
would be some security person following me.”

“It seems like that is still kind of implanted in your thinking,” I
said.

“Yeah, that’s why I got paranoid when you called me, you really
evoked a lot of old memories and feelings that I haven’t had in 30
years.” He sighed. “But if I could live with it back then, I guess
I could live with it now.”

I could pick a few nits with Chen’s account—he
has Counterspy dissolving in 1976, for example,
but it actually continued publishing into the ’80s—but overall it’s
a strong piece. You should
read it.

Bonus 1970s anti-intelligence-agency activism links:
“What
It Would Take To Stop the Spying” and “Agee’s
Revenge.”

from Hit & Run http://reason.com/blog/2013/11/13/the-snowden-of-the-70s
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The Snowden of the ’70s

It turns out that constant brooding over
the machinations of the surveillance state is not conducive to a
sound state of mind. Counter-Spy staff worked in a haze of
mistrust. “You’d be sitting with people and you knew that somebody
was wondering about somebody else at that table,” said [magazine
staffer] Harvey Kahn, “were they being controlled by somebody else?
Or unconsciously being manipulated?”

It was not a fantasy: The COINTELPRO papers had revealed security
agencies kept close tabs on radical publications. In the late ’60s,
the CIA dedicated a 12-man team to undermining Ramparts,
according to Angus Mackenzie’s book Secrets: The CIA’s War at
Home.

“It was intense,” said Fellwock. “Clearly it really upset the
security agencies, what we were doing. They were all over us. I
just generally accepted that the next person in the next booth
would be some security person following me.”

“It seems like that is still kind of implanted in your thinking,” I
said.

“Yeah, that’s why I got paranoid when you called me, you really
evoked a lot of old memories and feelings that I haven’t had in 30
years.” He sighed. “But if I could live with it back then, I guess
I could live with it now.”

Bonus 1970s anti-intelligence-agency activism links:
“What
It Would Take To Stop the Spying” and “Agee’s
Revenge.”

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INTRoDuCiNG WiLLiaMBaNZai7'S SPeCiaL EDiTioN oF HoLiDaY PuKeS…

Here they are. WilliamBanzai7’s Special Holiday Puke Fine Art Print Editions just in time for the Christmas Holidays…

Dear Friends,

Here before you is a truly historic series of images that I have painstakingly adapted to the current state of sordidly odiferous political/financial affairs.

Years from now, there will be little doubt over what the artist was seeing and thinking contemporaneously in the year 2013.

I am not going to oversell these pictures. They speak for themselves.

They also demonstrate how history truly rhymes on Wall Street.

I have all of these in very large high resolution files. So every print will match the highest standards of fine art print production.

As you can see, I have departed from normal practice by offering these prints in an assortment of sizes. I have done this solely to maximize your

participation by spreading price points. Bear in mind that the amount of personal time and effort involved is the same irrespective of print size.

Each print will be signed, numbered and dated December 25, 2013.

I know that many of you are suffering various levels of economic hardship in these trying times. As is always the case, you are free to print these off for your own personal use.

I truly appreciate all the the moral and financial support that I receive from all of you.

As you know, the primary reason that I am doing these prints is to signify my gratitude in return for your generous support for my endeavors.

It is my sincerest wish that the situation will turn sooner than later so that each and everyone of us can return to personal prosperity.

Best wishes to you all,

And Fuck You Ben Bernanke!

WB7

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INTRoDuCiNG WiLLiaMBaNZai7’S SPeCiaL EDiTioN oF HoLiDaY PuKeS…