BREAKING: Jesse Ventura Willing to Run as "Libertarian" in 2016 Presidential Race! – Video

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On The Josh Tolley Show (10/22/13) Gov. Ventura told talk-show host Josh Tolley that if the Libertarian Party would grant him ballot access he would indeed b...

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SHUTOUT: Libertarian Robert Sarvis calls debate process a farce

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BLACKSBURG, Va. (WTVR) In a statement released following Thursday nights Virginia gubernatorial debate in Blacksburg, Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis called the political system a farce.

Weve allowed our political system to become closed off from competition and good ideas, by letting the major-party candidates choose the terms of debate and exclude candidates like me. Its long past tragedy. Its become a complete farce, his statement read.

Sarvis was reacting to being left out of Thursdays debate, despite his contention that he has enough support to warrant inclusion. Recent polls show Sarvis getting between 8 and 10 percent of the vote.

Before the debate, Sarvis told CBS 6 political reporter Joe St. George why he believes his campaign has struck a chord with fed up Virginia voters.

Elections are about accountability and this is the perfect election in which to hold both parties accountable. They nominated two candidates who exemplify the worst of their parties and were the only campaign thats running a positive campaign standing on principles of freedom and the rule of law.

Following the debate, Sarvis offered his take away.

The debate didnt offer much value for voters. This is what two men without ideas or depth look like, he said in a statement.

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Japan protests over South Korea drill on disputed islands

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Islands disputed by two Asian neighbours are at the centre of a fresh flare-up of tension.

South Korea has flexed its military muscles, staging a defence drill to drive back any foreign landings from the outcrop it calls Dokdo. This has outraged rival claimant Japan. Tokyo has formally protested, deploring an unacceptable exercise on what the Japanese know as the Takeshima islands.

We have maintained that the Takeshima islands are both historically and under international law Japanese territory and that is why we have lodged our protests, said Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga.

Seoul however defends its right to stage the drill. South Korean Defence Ministry spokesman Wee Yong-sub said that the exercise was aimed at preventing people from Japans far-right from landing illegally on the islands.

South Korea staged the drill, while celebrating what it calls Dokdo Day. Koreans still harbour bitter resentment of Japanese colonial rule from 1910 to 1945.

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Japan deploys YouTube as new weapon in islands dispute

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By Ramy Inocencio, for CNN

updated 5:35 AM EDT, Fri October 25, 2013

This disputed islands in the East China Sea are known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.

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Hong Kong (CNN) -- Japan is using YouTube to bolster assertions of ownership over islands also claimed by neighboring China and South Korea.

Japan's Foreign Ministry published the two videos on its official YouTube channel, under the username MOFAchannel, October 16.

In one, Tokyo's claim over the Senkaku islands -- known as the Diaoyu islands in China -- are supported through old black-and-white photographs and a timeline of events starting with a document dating back to 1895.

In the other, similar pictures and a chronology of events starting from 1900 illustrate Japan's claim to the Takeshima islands, known as the Dokdo islands in Korean.

Both videos have received more than half a million page views since they were published.

China and South Korea both criticized Japan's social media push.

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Former DJ in court in Virgin Islands on sex charge

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By JASON BRONIS/Associated Press/October 25, 2013

ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) A retired New York radio personality accused of trying to set up a sexual encounter with a 7-year-old girl said he wont fight extradition to New Jersey during a court appearance Friday in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

David Herman did not enter a plea on a charge of attempting to transport a minor with intent to engage in sexual acts. He faces up to life in prison.

Hermans lawyer and two supporters declined comment after the hearing.

Magistrate Judge George Cannon ordered that Herman be returned to New Jersey, but it is unclear when he would be transferred. Assistant Federal Public Defender Gabriel Villegas said Herman had health and medical issues that should be treated in the U.S. mainland, but he did not elaborate.

Herman, a pioneering rock and roll disc jockey at former FM radio station WNEW, lives in Airmont, New York, and St. Croix.

Authorities say he exchanged online messages with an undercover agent posing as a 36-year-old woman with a young daughter. Prosecutors said Herman tried, in multiple phone and online conversations, to arrange illegal sexual encounters with the child in New York and Bergen County, until indicating he wanted to fly the pair to St. Croix so he could have sex with the girl there.

Herman bought airline tickets Sept. 30 for the woman and her child to fly from LaGuardia airport to St. Croix, according to prosecutors. He arrived at the airport Thursday to pick up the woman and child, according to the U.S. attorneys office, but was instead met by agents with U.S. Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who arrested him.

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New boss for fixing the balky health care website

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WASHINGTONNearly a month into the dysfunctional rollout, the Obama administration acknowledged the wide extent of its health care website's problems Friday and abruptly turned to a private company to oversee urgent fixes. Setting a new timetable, officials said most issues will be repaired by the end of November.

It will take a lot of work, but "HealthCare.gov is fixable," declared Jeffrey Zients, a management consultant brought in by the White House. By the end of next month, he said, there will be many fewer signup problems such as computer screen freezesbut he stopped short of saying problems will completely disappear.

The administration also said it is promoting one of the website contractors, a subsidiary of the nation's largest health insurance company, to take on the role of "general contractor" shepherding the fixes.

Quality Software Services Inc.owned by a unit of UnitedHealth Group was responsible for two components of the government's online insurance system. One is the data hub, a linchpin that works relatively well, and the other is an accounts registration feature that initially froze and caused many problems.

Zients reported that his review found dozens of issues across the entire system, which is made up of layers of components meant to interact in real time with consumers, government agencies and insurance company computers.

HealthCare.gov was supposed to be the online portal for uninsured Americans to get coverage under President Barack Obama's health care law. Envisioned as the equivalent of Amazon.com for health insurance, it became a huge bottleneck immediately upon launch Oct. 1. A major embarrassment for the administration, it is likely to end up as a case study of how government technology programs can go awry.

The briefing from Zients came a day after executives of QSSI and the other major contractor, CGI Federal, told Congress that the government didn't fully test the system and ordered up last-minute changes that contributed to logjams. Next week, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill.

Visiting a community health center on Friday in Austin, Texas, Sebelius said that "in an ideal world there would have been a lot more testing." But she added that her department had little flexibility to postpone the launch against the backdrop of Washington's unforgiving politics. Republicans hoping, in the words of their TV ads, to "defund Obamacare" precipitated a government shutdown.

Some Republicans have been calling for her ouster, and she addressed that issue a day earlier in Phoenix. She said, "The majority of people calling for me to resign I would say are people who I don't work for and do not want this program to work in the first place." She added, "I have had frequent conversations with the president, and I've admitted to him that my role is to get the program up and running and we will do just that."

Zients gave some new details about the extent of the problems, but administration officials are still refusing to release any numbers on how many people have successfully enrolled. Although 700,000 have applied for coverage through the new online markets, it's believed only a fraction of that number actually have managed to sign up. Prior to the website going live, an administration estimate projected nearly 500,000 people would sign up in October alone.

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