Russia Occupies Ukraine

Finally, Russia has occupied the Crimean region and deployed a big number of military men to monitor and control the crisis. But, it has not been made public that what military strength have Putin deployed in the region. The president of Russia Vladimir Putin dismissed all the warnings leveled from world leaders and escalated serious crisis in the whole region.

On the contrary, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev discharged the allegations and said that “Moscow has not decided yet when to deploy forces”. In addition, the Russian upper house (parliament) has approved the request of Putin for deployment of forces in the Ukraine and gave the green signal for military force to fullest extent.
Putin had informed the parliament that Russian people living in the Crimea region were being inhumanly treated and Russia should forward to protest the rights of its citizen. On the other hand, the Ukraine leaders denied the Russia blame of mistreating its people and said that it was being pampered to launch onslaught over the territory of Ukraine.

The invasion of Russia escalated more problems in the world politics. President Obama made a call to Russian president and spoke with him more than 90 minutes to know the gravity of the tension. It is said that Putin had categorically said to President Obama that it was Russian right to safeguard the rights of its citizen living in the Crimean region.

On the other hand, according to White House press release, President Obama said that “Russia’s continuous violation of territorial integrity and Ukraine Sovereignty would grossly affect its image at world level”. Besides, after the message of Obama to Russia, all the senior members of Army and senate asked for the prompt reply to the Russian move and said that Russian must be informed that what repercussions it will face for violating the sovereignty of Ukraine.

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Weather Affects Car Sales

The automobile industry has been grossly affected by the weather. And, it is said in a report that the cars selling ratio in the last month had a big effect over the marketplace. On the other hand, Edmunds.com the industry analysts declared “winter” the winner.

Sr. Analyst Jessica Caldwell said that weather lasts grave impacts over the car dealings and assumed that the sales in the coming month may also be affected to some extent. Needless to say that weather had badly affected the marketplace and forced people to stay in their homes. Unless it does not behave friendly, it would keep affecting the pace of progress, says Edmunds.com.

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On the basis of weather condition, Edmunds.com has predicted the February cars sell at 1,201,445, up 18.9% which would surely be more pathetic from the previous month. The true car President said that “the unfriendly condition of weather is creating more troubles for us”. On the other hand, analyst are not optimist over Truecars and expecting the sale in February 1,197,000 units.

No doubt, the industry is facing a serious setback and the spending on incentives, as per Truecars, will go on hiking. But, March is supposed to be a good month for the car companies. It is assumed that it may help the dealers to recover from this weather loss.Lastly, the Truecars expects SAAR (Seasonally Adjusted Annualized Rate of sales) 15.4 million and Edmunds.com has predicted it 15.5 million.

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Ellen DeGeneres Returns to host the Oscars

Ellen DeGeneres has been selected along with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Neil Patrick Harris, and Hugh Jackman for hosting the Oscar award. She has not been chosen for the first to host the program. No doubt, she is cunning, candid, comedian, and soul of wit.

In November 2001, after few months of 9/11 attacks she jokingly said that “What would provoke the Taliban more than watching a suited gay surrounded with community of Jews”. This joke brought a tremendous popularity in her professional career and she happened to be considered as funny TV host.

She has remained a regular host for Emmy awards and happened to host Academy Awards in 2007. Apart from this, she looks quite good when she hosts a TV show. It is said that she loves dancing and she has taught Gangnam Style dance to Britney Spears in her TV show.

No doubt, she is also famous for interviewing people. She is diligent and professional media personality. Her open mindedness combined with funny gossips earned her a big fandom. And, this is the reason that she spends most of her online time on twitter. Exactly, she is a tweeting machine and shares thought provoking messages through her tweets. It is assumed that her one tweet is read by 25.1 million people and she has viewership of 40.3 million people.

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Obama administration quietly issues fix for troubled health care websites

States owned websites of Obama health care have been consistently facing the technical problems. To address those problems, Obama administration has quietly issued a law to help the affected states. Most of the states problems have been fixed and Massachusetts, Oregon, Maryland and Hawaii are still facing the technical problems.

It goes without saying, the policy fix is meant for all states and the Republican states had defaulted to federal control online sign up in their own states. It is said that the democratic led states have been benefited from the move and a big number of them faces sheer criticism at their home.

Besides, Kitzhaber announced the change when the federal Health and Human Services Department updated this change on its official web portal. He said in his statement that “I appreciate the federal government for its move for helping more Oregonians to get the financial assistance”.

On the other hand, HHS said that those people who were unable to sign up due to technical problems may still claim the federal tax credits.Obama administration has been consistently stressing over the online sign up for getting the taxpayer-subsidized insurance and the recent policy change is also significant to some extent. Yes, tax credits have grossly helped the administration to reduce the cost of policy and in this year all citizens of United States are required to get the coverage virtually. It must be noted that the applicants who intend to apply for this amnesty, must meet with the eligibility criteria.

Besides Obama administration has said in the recent statement that “We understand that some states have faced serious technical problems in enrollment process and automatic eligibility determinant”.

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