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>> I will go to any extent necessary, to never allow this on my vehicle.

I completely echo your sentiment but already see that the car manufacturers and legislators are already removing such freedoms of choice from us. New US laws have already been made that all new cars must include tech to spy on drivers and new tech is being added to remotely control cars.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ne...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wh...
http://rt.com/news/remote-car-...

I quite seriously expect the value of old pre-computerized cars to go up significantly just because of stuff like this, however you can bet the legislators will also keep finding new ways to get cars they cant spy with or control off the roads.

One of the more positive things that has happened recently is that they got starved for victims so they started attacking their own political camps. They were basically doing purity tests. Once everyone is a liberal how do they justify their existence? well... they then ask "how liberal are you"... and they just start goal posting moving to make sure they have enough people to be outraged with at any given time.

So anyway, they were doing that and eventually they hit a segment of their own political contingent that fought back. And now they're a little baffled because a lot of the wind has gone out of their sails. They're getting attacked from all sides now and they're losing credibility rapidly.

Its funny because they're such dogmatic robots that they don't really understand what happened.

We'll see... they'll either be suppressed to the general good of society or they'll osterize most of their political base which will lead to a structural schism in the faction which will weaken them collectively.

Hit. Nail. Head. I wish I had mod points today. What's happening with liberalism today is a case study in self destruction. All we need to do is sit back and watch it play out.

Like those ideological purity tests...if we started measuring conservatives on the basis of how conservative are you, it would surely mark the beginning of the end. Liberal purity tests have pushed their kind so far to the extreme, they're now attacking themselves. And their tactic of keeping one constituency or another outraged at any given time has totally backfired.

I don't really blame liberals for being baffled. They've spent so much time in an echo chamber, they've lost touch. When reality finally slaps them in the face, it is only natural for them to try to figure out what happened. The question is, do they have the capability to make the necessary changes in order to correct their course?

Somehow I doubt it. Liberals are so

...and wear sunscreen

It's not an "IF" as to whether Assange cherry picks things for political reasons. He does. There are lots of things he's deliberately kept back with threats to release if certain things happen that he doesn't want (unredacted cables, files against NewsCorp, etc). The most famous was his "insurance file" which was to be released "should anything happen to him", which was left vague enough that it wasn't clear whether he was talking about "being killed" or simply "being sent to Sweden" (the statement being made during his fight to avoid surrender to Sweden). The scummiest blackmail on his part, IMHO, was his threatening to release unredacted documents that could get various aid/human rights organizations' employees killed if said organizations didn't provide him money (most famously his $700k shakedown of Amnesty International).

He refers to the leaks in Wikileaks' possession as his "property", and made all Wikileaks staffers sign an onerous NDA imposing ridiculous fines if they do anything to reduce the monetary value of said property, such as by leaking it.

Funny you should mention Mrs Clinton: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hi...

She's not the first lawyer to have do this. It's baked into the foundation of the country.
Remember John Adams (who later became second president of the USA) and the Boston massacre?
http://www.john-adams-heritage...

@anon: "Holy fuck that's amazingly creepy. Hillary Clinton effectively got a man who raped a 12 year old off scot-free. Your champion of liberalism and women's rights, right there."

'Hillary Clinton asked to be removed from a 1975 rape case in which her client was accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl' ref

Funny you should mention Mrs Clinton: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hi...

A functional democracy?

Are you fucking kidding?

A democracy requires a free and open market of ideas. Do you really believe such a market exists in Iran?

Iranian Chain Murders
Internet Censorship in Iran
Blogger jailed for "propaganda against the state"

It doesn't take much of a Google search to find examples of suppression of free speech in Iran.

I'm sure the Iranian regime has deserved "better press [than] they have tended to get since Khomeiny toppled the puppet shah." "Better press" would have made the pure evilness of the regime much better known.

The "demented ravings of some of their past leaders?" How about the demented ravings of their current leaders (and here)?

- The west is plotting to "arouse the sexual desires" in Islamic Iran
- Israel is run by sub-human leaders
- Death to America
- Israel is the sinister, unclean rabid dog of the region
- Every Muslim who does not want to fight Israel is violating religious law
- The destruction of Israel ... is one of the pillars of the Iranian Islamic regime

In any case, yes, Al Gore is acting out of greed and self interest; without "climate change" as his hobby horse, the guy would be utterly irrelevant.

...except that Al Gore's wealth wasn't built on his involvement in the climate change debate. Arguably, his activism in the arena has *cost* him money. I guess you could argue that Gore is acting out of self interest...but greed? Not so much.

It's finally making it's way through the courts...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/th...

In the age of cheap body fat % measuring devices, why not make body fat % the standard? I'm tall and borderline overweight according to BMI, but I have about 14% body fat percentage. It's much easier to compare across body types with that metric than BMI. Yet I've never had a doctor record my body fat %, only height and weight.

Except for one problem, a recent study (highlighted on 60 minutes) found that older people live longer if they have a bit of extra body fat. One of the reasons posited by the researchers was that their systems have extra energy stores to get them through being sick, etc.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wa...

Are these the same people who opposed Bush's SUV subsidy that meant you could get discount Hummers?

Or is this a different group of subsidy-haters?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/th...

"So now a chiropractor in Sausalito can buy a top of the line Hummer for that $102,581 and then claim a $75,000 deduction for capital equipment, an $8,274 post-Sep. 11 bonus capital equipment deduction and a first-year depreciation allowance of $3,861. The total deduction: $87,135. Assuming the driver is in the top income bracket, the federal tax savings for buying a Hummer is $33,634."

In a school system whose policies literally cannot differentiate between an actual loaded and cocked gun and a half-eaten pop-tart, do we really expect these people to be smart enough to tell when a BLASTER is fake? I mean, ASIDE from the fact that ALL blasters are fake? Come ON, really!

http://gawker.com/5988299/scho...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex...

To even BEGIN doing this we would first have to teach the "authorities" the difference between "fact" and "fiction" which we already KNOW is beyond their poor mental capabilities!

Kate's the editor-in-chief of Maxim right? She's pretty good. I didn't know she knew how to linux! you learn something new everyday!

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/maxim-editor-in-chief-kate-lanphear-on-sexiness-what-men-want-now/

> People believe the Tea Party was all white, because the media edited out the black people from the pictures

Oh puhlease. So it isn't 100% white, just 89%. Big deal. Just 1% of tea party supporters are black.

> People believe the elderly fools in the GOP represent the mainstream (every party has its embarrassments), because that's the only view the media will give.

Like Michelle Bachman, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Rick Perry? Or maybe Huckabee and Cruz? They aren't podunk polliticians from some backwater with backwater ideas - all republican nominees for president serious enough to be invited to the debates by the party itself.

> Did you know that the average GOP congresscritter is actually a few years younger than the average Democrat?

Don't make mountains out of molehills. Republicans in congress average 55 years versus democrats at 60 years. They are both still old. What matters is the age of the voters and there is a big age gap there and it started in 2004.

> That the Citizens United ruling did not say that corporations are people (but instead that tightly-held corporations are effectively partnerships)?

That is like complaining Palin didn't actually say she can see russia from her house. Literalism isn't necessarily the best way to communicate truth.

> Indiana's recent Religious Freedom Restoration Act was effectively the same as the one Clinton signed into law in the 90s amid no controversy?

Times change. Are you trying to argue that times shouldn't change? I guess that would be a conservative viewpoint.

> That the frequency of rape on college campus is actually lower than in America as a whole?

That is probably true, I couldn't find confirmation. I am pretty sure that practically all violent crime is less on college campuses than it is in America as a whole. You know, because colleges don't matriculate many violent criminals. It is weird you think that is meaningful.

> That polls of right-wings voters show the leading issues right now are economic, foreign policy, and immigration, and that social issues like gay marriage and abortion aren't important enough to make the short-list?

And yet prominent republican politicians put that stuff on their short list. For example, all the GOP contenders for president this year defended that Indiana law you mentioned. The 'media' didn't make them do that.

But you keep right one believing the problem is the media misrepresenting the republicans, it is a conspiracy!

Neither of those claims are pertinent. You are discussing the negotiations, not the fact that the Bush administration made the agreement that caused the withdrawal of the troops.

Also, while the first is true, the second is false.

Quoting from Immunity for troops was Iraq deal breaker

Immunity is a standard agreement wherever U.S. forces are deployed.

Look, I get it, blaming President Obama for an early troop withdrawal has become accepted truth for many. That doesn't mean it's true, though. You have two options - continue to cling to a falsehood, defending it with ever more unlikely claims, or move on.

Social liquidity is very low in the U.S. so if you are born poor, hard work will not be enough to bring you out of it, you also need luck.
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what we need is a system that isn't stacked against people based on what family they were born into.

My family immigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s with only $1000 and the clothes in our suitcases (our (Asian) home country feared mass emigration, and limited how much money you could take with you to the equivalent of about $500 per adult). For years we lived in low-income housing, bought staples from the local Salvation Army, and rummaged other people's garage sales trying to find bargains. We were basically lower class, except we had no preconceptions about what we were "supposed" to do. Nobody telling us like you are that "the system" was stacked against us so it wasn't worth trying to fight it. We fought tooth and nail to better our lives.

Today we're in the lower fringes of the upper class. Most of my extended family immigrated shortly after, and most of them have "made it" into comfortable middle-class lives. A few are upper-class (including one who owns a multimillion dollar cell phone store chain), and one is still stuck in low-income housing. So we are not an outlier. This is what you can really do in this country if you don't have any preconceptions about breaking out of the lower class, and really try to succeed.

If you have the willpower and the ability, you can succeed in this country regardless of what circumstances you were born into. Hard work can in fact bring you out of poverty. If you believe it when others tell you otherwise, you've already given up on the game of life. You cannot succeed if you don't try, and telling people it's not worth trying is consigning them to their current state for the rest of their lives.

In general society would benefit a lot from funding all or part of everyones education with taxes. Even if you don't intend to study more yourself you benefit from people around you getter more educated.

The U.S. already spends more on education per student than any other country. The problem isn't funding for education.

IMHO the problem is a lack of desire to take advantage of that education to better yourself and your circumstances. My parents were flabbergasted at the quality of education that was being provided "for free" by the government here, and made sure my sister and I always kept up with our schoolwork. It was an opportunity they never had when they were kids (unless you count forced indoctrination into Imperial Japanese philosophy that all other Asians were put on Earth serve them). And they made damn sure we took full advantage of it. That's the main difference I saw between myself and the other students. I never took public education for granted because my parents emphasized how fortunate I was to even have it.

I doubt you find many german areas where commuting by bus is common.

About half of the rides on German public transport are by bus:

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Pre...

Railway is cheaper because it is cheaper, energy wise etc. As I pointed out several times now: the subsidizes are extremely low in relation to the effect (billions of passenger kilometers per year).

Even according to the UK government, railway passenger subsidies are around $ 0.10 per kilometer, https://www.gov.uk/government/...

Germany is under EU investigation over its massive subsidies for rail service (in addition to postal and energy). Germany's rail system also enjoyed a government-granted monopoly for a century.

Energy savings from rail are modest because trains are often not filled to capacity.

Here is an excellent summary of the history, financing, and cost of transportation:

http://www.downsizinggovernmen...

Also keep in mind: the number is per capita not per student/pupil so the amount of money for a student/pupil in the USA is even lower as the ratio between adults and youngs is bigger.

No, sorry, not true: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us...

The United States spent more than $11,000 per elementary student in 2010 and more than $12,000 per high school student. When researchers factored in the cost for programs after high school education such as college or vocational training, the United States spent $15,171 on each young person in the system — more than any other nation covered in the report.

No. The anti-vax movement has been largely driven by greed, stupidity, and the parents need to "blame" someone.

No. The anti-vax movement has been entirely driven by unethical pharmaceutical behemoths killing/maiming thousands of children in third world countries, unloading worthless crap on ignorant asshats and raking in massive unearned profits on the misery of millions.
  Glaxo Smith Kline was fined a paltry amount after performing unethical "experiments" on children and killing fourteen of them. Would you trust these jackasses to inject your kids? Hell, their own scientists had to be bribed to cover that shit up. Faked vaccine data lessens confidence in Merck products.
  Merck has lied for years about the efficacy of their vaccines. Why would anybody trust them?
Other countries ban defective vaccines, it's not rocket science to shun poisonous garbage that makes your populace sick and decreases productivity for potentially years. MMR vaccine, lookin' at you.
And that's not even counting poor vaccine quality control, a persistent issue for these massive corporations. In that one case Merck got caught before they could offload those 1,000,000 deadly doses on some unfortunates in Africa and collect tax credits for their philanthropy from the IRS.
FFS even the Nigerians are skeptical by now. Looking at the preponderance of shady practices, outright lies and poor quality of your average vaccine peddler it's no wonder the anti-vax movement is gaining momentum. But don't take my word for anything, go get your annual flu vaccine and risk paralysis or worse, and forget about that "immune system" crap the hippies are trying to foist on everybody. Nutrition isn't that important and you have a basement to live in and keyboard crumbs to make.

This is old news for a different part of the country. North Texas has been in drought for several years now, and they put this idea into practice:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/toilet-to-tap-wastewater-recycling-begins-in-wichita-falls-texas/

Prove it: name a single white person unjustifiably killed by police in the last 3 years.

Paul Heenan

His "crime" was coming home too drunk to identify his own house.

Prove it: name a single white person unjustifiably killed by police in the last 3 years.

Tyler Comstock

Your move.

And an ex-CEO.

The Lena Rossi image is famous, but tossing it into a CS class with a bunch of eighteen-year-old men is just asking for a hostile work environment for any women in the class.

How so? Women like to look at the female form about as much as men. Remember this next time you catch flack for checking out women: Your partner was probably looking too.

If anything, it would be the boys in that CS class that you should think would be uncomfortable since some might not have seen a nude women before, but of course, the girls would have seen themselves nude at least several times.

I wonder if you ask some nude African natives whether their nudity was "hostile" to one sex or the other if they wouldn't simply laugh at your clothes?

If they need a warrant (from the FISA court) to access the data (just like previously)

Well, if you put the "just like previously" part into your own post, then we aren't disagreeing, that this is not much of an improvement — and that was my premise.

That agreement now established, let's move on to what's wrong with the existing Act — and what's likely to remain wrong even after the proposed amendments are passed...

And the problem with FISA-court is that — unlike all other courts — it does not hear both sides . They may deny the rubber-stamp allegations, but they have only rejected 11 surveillance requests out of 33900 submitted since the court's inception to 2013...

how is it not abiding by the fourth amendment?

I said nothing about the Forth Amendment, actually. Whether it even applies to one's communications is no immediately obvious. No, my claim is not whether Patriot Act violates the Constitution, but whether or not the upcoming changes to it constitute a discernible improvement.

Would you prefer that law enforcement/spy agencies had to be fully tied and unable to conduct investigations?

I would prefer, that the government had no way to force private companies to preemptively record data about me just in case it may be needed by some future investigation.

Without being so forced, some companies may still prefer to do it seeking your business and others may choose not to seeking that of libertines. The existing regulatory mandate — cooperate with the FBI or else — troubles me greatly, and should trouble everyone...

There wasn't enough fuel to sustain orbit. The team responsible for this went to heroic lengths to keep it in orbit --- including at one point venting the spacecraft's helium to give it a final boost. This was all done so the probe could keep sending back data, which it did happily. In the end we got approximately four times the expected data we wanted from the probe.

Not bad for government contractors.

You can't have it both ways, chuck. If you want men to be sensitive and vulnerable... willing to cry... and share their feelings... then you need to not tell them they're man babies whenever they point out that the system is in some respects biased against them.

When did I say I wanted men to be "sensitive and vulnerable...willing to cry...and share their feelings"? I mean, goddamn, all you do is share your feelings like a toddler with a wet diaper. I'm advocating growing up.

As to raping and killing women, this is just idiotic strawman... who is advocating that?

I'm glad you asked:

https://storify.com/a_man_in_b...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

https://www.boston.com/news/lo...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ga...

You drew a face on your ass... then pulled your pants down, opened your asshole, and made shit come out of the mouth your drew on your butt. You are speaking... shit.

You know, that's not the first reference you've made to stuff going in and out of butts. This is more verification of my theory that Men's Rights Activists became whiny manbabies because of trauma associated with potty training. You just couldn't make mommy proud, and now you're going to show them bitches!

Here's a class of drugs you've never heard of before, called amphetamines. Here's a photo of what you look like if you take them a lot: those awful before-and-after photos

Now go take some Adderal. It's the same, just weaker. You'll be fine. Go make a little more money. Fuck sleep and living well.

There is a precedent for this. Genshiro Kawamoto likes to give away houses too. Just look at what he did in 2007 in Hawaii.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/va...

"Supporting the coup in Ukraine"

Um, no. Russia stopped being the left when the USSR collapsed, under Putin it's firmly far-right, which is why they host annual far-right parades:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/...

And why they host and fund European neo-nazi parties like the BNP and use the police to push away anti far-right protesters from these folks in Moscow:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fa...

Whilst also enacting laws that make it legally acceptable to persecute minorities.

But regardless, you were wrong when you used the word "legitimate". The only coup in Ukraine was the one Putin now admitted to carrying out in Crimea, and that wasn't legitimate as recognised by pretty much every country in the world except Russia which deem Crimea to still be Ukrainian territory. Overthrowing a corrupt leader with majority popular support is key facet of democracy- if a leader is no longer serving the people and the people get rid then that is not a coup- the process was wholly legal because Yanukovych stepped down and ran away as soon as the Ukrainian parliament voted to begin the impeachment investigation process, which in the face of the fact that he was clearly corrupt would've all but guaranteed a vote to actually impeach him had he hung around to give them the chance. The idea of the Ukraine situation being a coup is firmly a Russian ultra-nationalist position, and ultra-nationalism is a viewpoint that sits firmly within the far-right of the political spectrum. This is because Russian ultra-nationalists are the only folks who love Russia so much in spite of it's authoritarian leadership that's created a failed democracy, it's low life expectancy, it's widespread poverty, it's gross corruption, and abysmal stance on human rights that they can't admit to themselves that maybe people like the majority of Ukrainians don't want to be close with Russia, simply because it's shit. Why would you want to be more like Europe's continuously declining dump when you could instead be more like the growing and prospering ex-Soviet countries instead?

You're right that there are plenty of valid criticisms of Hillary, but I can't really see how Clinton standing up to Putin's far-right, arguing against Putin's Crimean coup (where he installed a Russian puppet leader with military force), and standing up for democracy is a "legit criticism" unless you're the sort of far-right Russian adoring ultra-nationalist that loves Putin in the first place.

Besides, I think just about all US presidential candidates agree on this anyway (and in fact the other things you listed), but that's because standing up for democracy, and standing against far-right imperialism is overwhelmingly a no-brainer given how badly it ended when we didn't do that last time.

If you're looking for a Putin-esque far-right type operator in the US presidential elections, which your critique of candidates standing against that implies you are, then you're probably out of luck. Sarah Palin would've been the closest thing you could've had because she too was a firm ultra-nationalist.

You're seriously underestimating the connectedness and security of cars. They're already networked and hackable remotely.

http://content.time.com/time/b...
http://online.wsj.com/news/art...
http://www.consad.com/content/...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/th...
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/...

I'm imagining the new vehicle thefts that will occur with driverless vehicles. No witnesses, no concern over kidnapping charges. Which truck had the diamonds again?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ca...

Fiorina frequently has been ranked as one of the worst CEOs of all time.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/am...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/3050209...

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...

http://ca.complex.com/pop-cult...

Oh... and this....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You're requesting a cite for remedial knowledge of the subject? This is no more obscure than Saddam not having WMD's or Bush ignoring the Taliban's offer to hand over Bin Laddin before he invaded Afghanistan.

• SECRETARY LEON PANETTA: ....I think the pressure of the sanctions, I think the pressure of diplomatic pressures from everywhere -- Europe, United States, elsewhere-- is working to put pressure on them, to make them understand that they cannot continue to do what they're doing. Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No.

Did these people sue when the bakery refused to sell them a cake?

Where was your outrage then?

LK

So the KKK can force a black or Jewish printer to print posters for their next rally, then?

If you answer no, you agree with the govenrnor of Indianapolis. If you answer yes, you're in favour of slavery (forcing the printer to serve against their will). Pick one.

I remember when this happened and none of the hypocrites who are against this law said a thing in support of these people who wanted nothing more than to buy their child a birthday cake.

LK

I get where you're going but cash is fungible and what the town spends it on, or if it even bothers to comply with state laws about where the money goes, is less easy to control. And if the "town" doesn't have the fine revenue, they have less money to fund the police, so it makes little difference if the cops hand it to the town to hand back to the police. By which I mean the town often appears to be directing the police to raise revenue.

Then you get ridiculous situations like:
http://theind.com/article-8237...
http://theadvocate.com/news/le...

Where the town is collecting ticket revenue and not passing it along to the state as the law requires, ostensibly via some loophole. Then the state suggests putting up flashing "speed trap" signs outside your town, because that's adult.

Or these guys that were running the police force to fund the town:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fl...
So if they can't have the fine revenue they have no use for police at all!

Harrison is such a badass that he survived the crash and was awake and alert when he was taken to hospital.

Looking at the pictures, he glided the aircraft to an open field and landed without the landing gear. This picture shows the cockpit intact, as well as the skidmarks from the belly-first landing.

Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. If the aircraft is still serviceable afterwards, it was an excellent landing.

This was definitely a good landing :)

"EPA's work has always been based on publically available rigorous science." Really? Just one example. There are more.

Ironic, that laughter and bravado coming out from behind that curtain with AC stamped on it. I personally agree with mocking and ridiculing them as you do, but I at least provide them with a moniker with which to start their search.

As for being in fear of his life? Sure should be. Do you keep up with news but just happened to miss that beheading of an infidel by an Islamic nut job recently? Oklahoma, not the Mid East. The woman and her family would most likely disagree that "They have zero power."

Back in 2007, Anderson Cooper asked a pediatrician if PlumpyNut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumpy%27nut) was affecting people in developing countries suffering from malnutrition with peanut allergies. The Dr. said "We just don't see it. In developing countries food allergy is not nearly the problem that it is in industrialized countries." Sounds like this study backs up that claim.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-...

... but anyone as good as this employee would already be employed.

Really?

How old is the Mexican?

First of all, in this job market, if you are unemployed, you are damaged goods because everyone seems to have that attitude of "if you're any good, you'd be employed". Where I live, IBM shut down their complex, Lockheed laid off a ton of guys and other Fortune 500 companies had huge layoffs just to make their numbers look good to Wall Street. So, there were quite a few of out of work (no fault of their own) great engineers and developers. But it was hard because of that idiotic attitude among employers.

Secondly, with similar skills, the employer always goes with the younger person - experience be damned - and if you're over 40, it becomes much more difficult.

The H1-B debate seems to be about "hiring Americans who need jobs over foreigners". I don't want to work with someone hired to fill a quota, whether that quota is "unemployable American who managed to get an engineering degree" or otherwise.

No one has ever said that - ever.

What is happening is that employers are cheating the system. We have engineering firms that get 29,000 applications and none of them are qualified because their hiring system is totally flawed. .

You hired the H1-b because your recruiting system sucks, you're full of shit when it comes to finding a qualified American, or both.

I guarantee you that I could fill that position with an American. 100% sure - BUT it'll cost more than the Mexican.

I hope your company goes bankrupt because you deserve it.

...is bad for you.

And brownies may lead to weight gain --but then again, pot alone does a good enough job by itself.

The problems with corruption in the U.S. government are numerous and severe.

Matt Taibbi gives a huge amount of detail about the collapse of U.S. society as we have known it: The Divide. Quoting from the Amazon web page: "New York Times bestseller -- Named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews".

The book, House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger, tells how Bush and Cheney started a war so that they could make money. One of hundreds of books and articles about the profits and violence and dishonesty: Cheney's Halliburton Made $39.5 Billion on Iraq War. Quoting: "Private or publicly listed firms received at least $138 billion of U.S. taxpayer money for government contracts for services that included providing private security, building infrastructure and feeding the troops."

#1 Best Seller: America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Back-Room Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System.

Here is part of a transcript of a 60 Minutes show: Dissecting Obamacare:

"Brill argues that Obamacare is the product of what he calls an "orgy of lobbying" and backroom deals in which just about everyone with a stake in the $3-trillion-a-year health industry came out ahead - except the taxpayers.

"Steven Brill: Good news: More people are gonna get health care. Bad news: We have no way in the world that we're gonna be able to pay for it.

"Steven Brill says that the outrage is what the Affordable Care Act doesn't do.

"Steven Brill: It doesn't do anything on medical malpractice reform. It doesn't do anything to control drug prices. It doesn't do anything to control hospital profits.

"Lesley Stahl: So all the cost controlling side of this just went by the wayside?

"Steven Brill: 99 percent of it."

Note that the term Schizophrenic is often wrongly applied to people who merely investigate corruption and have distrust in the powers that be.

Take, for example, this declassified document which lists details of "non-lethal" directed energy weaponry, including the ability to transmit a voice into the head of another individual (V2K, voice to skull).
It uses the microwave auditory effect:

This Heat wave crowd control is maturation of tech listed in document above.

Here we see the weapon fitted for use in LA County Jail.

MEDUSA would apply microwave auditory effect instead of the heat wave.
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It's difficult to tell the difference between a schizophrenic and someone who is being targeted by government agents for uncovering misappropriation of funds, or evidence of a conspiracy. To dismiss individuals concerns and medicate them for such claims without hearing them out is heinous, yet that is what psychiatrists do. I mean, here's a patent for mind influencing device. Is it really that far fetched? Even when the citizenry has trans-cranial tech that can keep people from speaking? It's safe to assume the government has more advanced tech than this... right?

Sure, there are probably more schizophrenic people than those targeted by their own governments, but I put it to you that it is no longer correct to assume by default that a person hearing voices, having strange sensations, and emotions, etc. is insane. At least LOOK for evidence of manipulation. Often these individuals attempt to present a video of a sweeping AM radio tuned to static which can detect EM interference signals along the nonlethal energy weapon beams (just as you get when you put the radio near a microwave). However, such evidence it is summarily dismissed out of hand and not sought in the least by our medical "professionals" despite the growing complaints and demonstrations of such technology's use. A massive disinformation campaign has been ongoing since the mid 70's to keep the use of such tech against the citizens under wraps, and it is now a widely used tool in anti-extremist / anti-protester response forces.

Just like they were right about the government spying on everyone and even seeing through walls the conspiracy theorists were right about tinfoil hats. Yet, the average person still dismisses even the possibility that some people wearing them aren't crazy.

Who's the one that's brainwashed by media? It just might be the psychiatrists.

The problems with corruption in the U.S. government are FAR greater than the average U.S. citizen is willing to consider.

Here is part of a transcript of a 60 Minutes segment: Dissecting Obamacare:

"Brill argues that Obamacare is the product of what he calls an "orgy of lobbying" and backroom deals in which just about everyone with a stake in the $3-trillion-a-year health industry came out ahead - except the taxpayers.

"Steven Brill: Good news: More people are gonna get health care. Bad news: We have no way in the world that we're gonna be able to pay for it.

"Steven Brill says that the outrage is what the Affordable Care Act doesn't do.

"Steven Brill: It doesn't do anything on medical malpractice reform. It doesn't do anything to control drug prices. It doesn't do anything to control hospital profits.

"Lesley Stahl: So all the cost controlling side of this just went by the wayside?

"Steven Brill: 99 percent of it."

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Posting anonymously because so many people don't want to hear how bad things are, and instead become angry at the messenger.

It makes you wounder why we pay attention to any study. Seems like most studies usually have contradictory results and then are summarily reversed years later.

Bush spent with the blessing of a democrat congress. When he left office in 2008, the Nat'l debt had increased by $4 trillion during his presidency from $5.7 trillion to a total of $9.8 trillion. Democrats screamed (even with a democrat congress who approved it all). Obama took office, and the first 2 years every branch of the federal government was democrat controlled; it still climbed. Up until this January, the White House and Senate were still controlled by democrats, and yet the deficit today is $18 trillion. Obama has added twice to it what Bush did. The point? They've both spent like there's no tomorrow. Laying it all at the feet of one party or the other is disingenuous.