Slashdot Mirror

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...

Or from 2008

https://www.politifact.com/fac...

Or last year

https://www.11alive.com/articl...

Or just in general

https://www.globalresearch.ca/...

Quoting the Slashdot story summary: "The US imprisons more people than any other country in the world."

It is more correct to say, "The US imprisons a higher percentage of its people than any other country in the world."

Prison is a big, profitable business in the United States. The companies that manage prisons are paid up to $70,000 per prisoner, per year.

Articles:

The Economics of the American Prison System (May 21, 2018)

The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery? (Nov. 7, 2018)

I decided to give the article a read to see where they got that number. I don't even know where to start with how wacky their logic is. So far as I can tell, they're tying everything around the neck of the US that they can, regardless of how tenuous the connection is.

For instance, the US "killed" 1.8M in Afghanistan, not because of our post-9/11 invasion (12K deaths), but rather because the Soviets killed that many in the '80s, and the Soviet invasion is apparently our responsibility. That's on top of the 2.5M we "killed" in Cambodia, because Pol Pot. I kid you not. As it turns out, we also killed everyone who died in the Vietnam (7.8M) and Korean (4.5M) wars, all of whom were "victims", and not a single one of which was an enemy combatant. Likewise, we "killed" 3M people as part of the 1971 genocide and civil war in Bangladesh (née East Pakistan), since the country was a Cold War ally of ours, which apparently means that we pulled the trigger ourselves.

The article brings up some valid points (e.g. El Salvador), and there's no denying that the US bears some degree of responsibility in a number of these, but the headline is sensationalist garbage and nonsensical to the extreme. Were we to apply their logic to everyone else who also bears responsibility for these events, we would have collectively "killed" far more people than were even alive since WW2, let alone than the number who actually died.

“Hackers working on behalf of China's Ministry of State Security breached the networks of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and IBM, then used the access to hack into their clients' computers, according to five sources familiar with the attacks.”

The Truth About Cambridge Analytica-SCL: Psy-ops by UK-US Deep State Actors

“Its ‘hard sell’ was a demonstration of how the UK government could use a sophisticated media campaign of mass deception to fool the British people into the thinking an accident at a chemical plant had occurred and threatened central London.”

Blow it out your ass, you've been building military bases all over the fucken planet for years.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/...
The last couple years all the wars have been started (but lost) by America to fuel your fucken broken assed economy.
The great American collapse (like the collapse of the Soviet Union) is inevitable.
I personally think it could't happen to nicer warmongers.

I've been a Slashdot commenter since this was a newfangled "weblog" called Chips & Bits. If you'd like to have an argument, you can try to refute what I said. Calling me a dirty foreigner and spewing whataboutism isn't an argument.

Putin is in power today because of the Western neoliberals who dynamited the Russian economy, caused mass deaths, and tampered in an election. More info: http://www.globalresearch.ca/u...

Because it would be so damn difficult to get him extracted from the UK?

Yeah, it would. See the recent denial of extradition for an alleged hacker based on how the U.S. tortures and abuses prisoners. Which is no exaggeration after Obama had Chelsea Manning tortured for 18 months with solitary confinement and then sentenced in a kangaroo court.

And, in the same post, trying to spin the NYT as "neo-conservative"...dude, you're smokin' some good shit there.

I don't think you understand the term neo-conservative. It very specifically refers to an interventionist view of US foreign policy. And yes, the NYT has always been neo-conservative in its editorial policies.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/...

At the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday, FBI Director James Comey said a number of curious things, but one comment in particular stood out. When asked about Russian influence in the U.S. election and the ability to combat a foreign actor’s misinformation campaign, the Director said, “We need to arm ourselves with good troll armies pushing back.”

https://ivn.us/2017/05/03/come...

The U.S. Department of Defense spent an average of more than US$626 million annually on propaganda

Countries are allowed to defend themselves you know - Anyhow, it is perfectly fine for America to do this - that's the hidden issue with whataboutism. While presumably to show that your hated opponenet is hypocritical, it merely says that it is okay for you, the aggrieved innicent to do it, because your hated enemy does it. And two groups doing the same thing have to be the same.

Ain't it great tovarish?

Pentagon employees account for 40 percent of the federal public relations workforce and also have the highest combined salaries, the audit revealed.

These 2 are about America expanding it's propaganda to domestic audiences, that's a kind of trolling isn't it? http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/... https://www.globalresearch.ca/...

My Gawd! This is an outrage. Time for only other countries, preferably ones who know of 'Murrica's evil wayds to disseminate any news to Americans.

At the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday, FBI Director James Comey said a number of curious things, but one comment in particular stood out. When asked about Russian influence in the U.S. election and the ability to combat a foreign actor’s misinformation campaign, the Director said, “We need to arm ourselves with good troll armies pushing back.”

https://ivn.us/2017/05/03/come...

The U.S. Department of Defense spent an average of more than US$626 million annually on propaganda

Pentagon employees account for 40 percent of the federal public relations workforce and also have the highest combined salaries, the audit revealed.

These 2 are about America expanding it's propaganda to domestic audiences, that's a kind of trolling isn't it?
http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/...
https://www.globalresearch.ca/...

Washington's False Flag: United Nations Confirmed that US Supported Syrian "Rebels" Were Using Chemical Weapons
https://www.globalresearch.ca/...

WikiLeaks Secret Cable: "Overthrow The Syrian Regime, But Play Nice With Russia"
https://www.zerohedge.com/news...

Independent Swiss Lab Says 'BZ Toxin' Used In Skripal Poisoning; US/UK-Produced, Not Russian
https://www.zerohedge.com/news...

UN Confirmed.

Washington is Lying.

The Media is Lying.

The Chemical Weapons Attack is being used as a "False Flag", a pretext and a justification to wage an illegal war of aggression.

The United Nations in a 2013 report confirms that Syrian opposition "rebels" (supported by Washington) "may have used chemical weapons against [Syrian] government forces."

The UN report refutes Washington's allegations that the government of Bashar al Assad was using chemical weapons against his own people.

What the UN mission findings confirm is that the US sponsored opposition "rebels" largely composed of Al Qaeda affiliated groups, financed and supported by the Western military alliance were responsible for these 2013 chemical weapons attacks.

Moreover, as confirmed in an earlier report, the Al Qaeda rebels were being trained in the use of chemical weapons by specialists on contract to the Pentagon.

Washington (which supports the opposition rebels in the use of chemical weapons) rather than Damascus is responsible for extensive crimes against humanity.

So was Habeas Corpus.

The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.

Sleep tight, Citizen.

He was facing a possible 99 year sentence in the US. If his crimes were as harmless as you state then it certainly would have been less.

Wut.

Aaron Shwartz was threatened with 35 years for what was, at worst, trespassing. That's what the Feds do - threaten draconian prison terms that would make Saudi Arabia blush in order to get people to accept plea deals, saving the prosecutor the work of having an actual trial. That's why Chelsea Manning pled to a 35 year sentence despite it being a much longer sentence than spies who sold secrets for actual money after Obama's unlawful command influence in her trial - something that has gotten other soldiers out of discharges.

US has meddled in the elections and politics of other countries for decades, including 1996 Russian presidential elections, the Georgian politics during and after the Rose Revolution of 2003, Ukrainian politics and elections of 2003 and during and after the 2013-14 constitutional crisis. Not to mention the open aggression against the governments of Iraq (2003), Libya (2011), and Syria (2011 through now).

That is a good point why facebook is dangerouis. But again, that does not explain how this is more evil than taking away the water from people and selling it back at them: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt20...

Or making money by using IP laws to put people into slavery like dependency: https://www.globalresearch.ca/...

Compared to that, facebook and Google are blips on the radar.

How Syria's White Helmets became victims of an online propaganda machine

Syria : White Helmets ... EXPOSED!

White Helmets' bizarre ‘mannequin challenge’ in Syrian warzone

Brilliant! Unedited, fake White Helmets 'rescue' video

Fake News Alert: CNN Finally Admits “White Helmets” Staged Fake Video

White Helmets”and the winnner isanything but truth

Meet The Man Behind The Propaganda Rami Abdul Rahman

The Truth Behind The Oft-Quoted Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights run by immigrant from his UK home

The rubber babies of Aleppo

Don't forget globalresearch.ca.

Ha, so that 'miracle' played itself out quite a bit when the Pilgrims tried building their Communism and then almost died from hunger because that's what Communism (any collectivism actually) does, it removes personal responsibility together with personal ownership and then everybody suffers.

You seem to be confusing inexperience with the mechanisms of survival in an unfamiliar place with the methodology of organization.

Most likely, a deliberate choice, meant to advance your ideological cause under a cloak of altered reality.

It wasn't until the people become selfish that USA succeeded.

What are you talking about? Plenty of selfish people existed in the USA, they didn't miraculously find success. Many of them tried and failed, without the benefit of anyone like say, Squanto.

You can read lots of articles about the subject.

Of course, you won't, but that's hardly surprising.

lol...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://web.stanford.edu/class...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/t...

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

Protip: If you find yourself in a rioting mob, leave.

In many countries the Police have been caught instigating riots (also Canada and some evidence in the USA) during peaceful protests. If people stopped protesting just because violence began then a) this would enable the police to completely stop peaceful protest and b) it would encourage more violence because the police would see the tactic as useful and successful. So no; peaceful protesters should not stop just because someone else begins a riot. They just should move away and not get involved.

Sounds like a cheap version of the wealth-sharing program that awful Gaddafi allowed Libyans to benefit from:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/l...

Here's what got him killed (thanks to central bankers):
https://www.rt.com/news/econom...

That's why the lead investigator at the UN mentioned that the Ghouta attack in 2013 was most likely done the rebels then.

http://www.reuters.com/article...

Also the CIA already knew that the rebels had access to Sarin; again certain information is cherry picked to suit the narrative that suits the government.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/s...

Maybe instead of stopping to research the matter the minute you find something that corroborates your opinion, you should investigate a bit further. Just the fact that you don't read about these bits of news in the US media, does not mean there is no information available.

Before the West imported large numbers of Muslims, we did not have . . . somewhere between 6 and 12% of the terrorism we get in the West today.

I fixed that so the viewers at home could see the truth rather than a complete fabrication with no basis in reality. But by all means, don't let facts and data get in the way of a good old fashioned islamophobic blame-the-brown-people polemic.

Slashdot says "Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!" - I don't know why but I'll split up the reply.

Yea right. And Timothy McVeigh wasn't a right wing Militia member that blew up a building and killed an entire daycare's worth of kids.

No-one has said they don't exist.
What he said was:

Because conservatives aren't as hateful and violent as liberals?

Which is correct.
This is the situation in the US:
source.
"Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Soil by Group, From 1980 to 2005, According to FBI Database"
Latino: 42%
Extreme left wing: 24%
Jewish: 7%
Islamic: 6%
Communist: 5%
Others: 16%
There is non specifically for right-wing, I don't know what others include, maybe they consider right-wing the norm/need no title and all 16% is right-wing? Even if that was the case the extreme left with 24% is more.

Here in Sweden our security police used to regard the left-wing as the biggest threat and the ratio between them and the right was 9:1 or higher. Last time I saw it they mentioned Islamic threat instead. I assume the left may be a bigger threat to the democracy but Islamic a bigger threat when it comes to deadly violence.

The CIA must be one of the most evil organisation you Americans have.
They are the private 'government overthrow agency' of big business.
Watch you back Trump, if you try to dismantle them.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/a...

That's funny especially since it's mostly Republicans that believe that conspiracy crap. Look on any of those Conspiracy sites... Conservative as heck. Stop twisting things.

Any of 'those' conspiracy sites? Do you have any idea how prejudice that statement sounds? tell me more about how 'those' people who visit 'those' sites think. You sound like such an expert on the psychology of large groups of people you arbitrarily group together and slap some label on.

GMO foods. Definitely not conservative.

Vaccination. Definitely not conservative.

Big Pharma. Definitely not conservative.

You may not be aware of all the nutjobs on the left, but there is plenty of nuttiness to spread across the entire political spectrum. Believing in hoaxes and BS is a human attribute that gets exhibited by conservatives and liberals alike.

Sanders is a Marxist who honeymooned in USSR

You a Hillbot or a Bushbot? It was always hillaryious to see the former insisting that Sander's would be smeared as a wannabe communist, given that's a copy of paste of Republican attacks on Bill Clinton from '92.

and praised Venezuela of Hugo Chavez

By smearing him as a dictator?

What is it with Bots and living in their own alternate realities?

I suffered a few minutes of NPR

Why would you subject yourself to that right wing rag?

Apparently the only officials from Louisiana or the feds that NPR has any interest in hosting are climatologists. No FEMA, no state first responders; just climatologists.

One night I was channel surfing and caught part of an olympic soccer match. I never watched anything else, but I'm sure that means NBC aired nothing but soccer matches over weeks of coverage. Because reasons.

While discussing the floods with the climatologists, both the federal and state climate guys made the mistake of mentioning the fact that the high costs and displacement are as much to do with recent property development as the amount of water. You could clearly detect the host's frustration as he attempted to get these hapless officials back on the rails speculating about climate and saying disparaging things about fossil fuels.

Sounds like confirmation bias. Yours, not the reporter from National Pentagon Radio. Yes, it's a problem when greedy developers are allowed to build in flood plains and sell to unsuspecting homeowners. But so many people are putting on their tunnel vision glasses to stare at that tree, and ignore the forest that is a once-in-a-thousand year flood putting land under water that has been dry since before this country's founding.

Try Chernobyl and Fukushima Radiation Reduces Animal and Plant Numbers, Diversity, Lifespan, Fertility, Brain Size, Increases Deformities and Abnormalities.

Lol. That is a blog post, not a study.

Try Chernobyl and Fukushima Radiation Reduces Animal and Plant Numbers, Diversity, Lifespan, Fertility, Brain Size, Increases Deformities and Abnormalities.

The one exception to this union employees, since their contracts are usually tied to minimum wage.

Usually in real life? Or usually in what you post?

It would be pretty funny if the government passed two minimum wages. Say one for regularly scheduled work during regular working hours, and a different one for jerk-around shift work. Go, unions, go.

Even with a PhD in economics, it's hard to sort out the wins from the losses concerning minimum wage—at least not without first applying a clarifying, buttery lens of ideology.

Every economic scheme redraws the map of winners and losers, both in the short term during the adjustment period, and in the long term in the equilibrium condition. Your analysis of the winners and losers strikes me as being about as reliable as a Magic Eight Ball. It's a Potemkin village of a model of a simplification.

With some actual lumber, you could also have pointed out that many contractual elements of society make a sharp distinction between "employed" and "not employed", neither of which is an entirely appropriate term when you're making $3/hour.

The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?

All of their workers are full-time, and never arrive late or are absent because of family problems; moreover, if they don't like the pay of 25 cents an hour and refuse to work, they are locked up in isolation cells.

Employed, or not employed? Are they counted in the jobs statistics, or not counted in the jobs statistics?

Maybe we should split the difference and settle on a minimum wage at which your economic relationship counts as having a real job. Then we could have the jobless rate as one statistic (including everyone stuck in a McJob), and the McJobless rate counting only those who don't even have a proper McJob (the truly unemployed, as well as the private prison workforce compensated in derisive glass beads).

I, for one, would dearly enjoy hearing some politician explain how the jobless rate went up by 5%, while the McJobless rate when down by 10% in the same reporting period. For the third consecutive time.

Sure, pay the underclass like shit. We don't need no stinking minimum wage. But integrate it into the political discourse until the facts of life in upwardly mobile America are discussed regularly on Fox News in all their naked glory.

Agreed:

"Non-Muslims Carried Out More than 90% of All Terrorist Attacks in America"

http://www.globalresearch.ca/n...

"Right-Wing Extremists Are a Bigger Threat to America Than ISIS"

http://www.newsweek.com/2016/0...

The US would happily increase cooperation with Russia if only Russia would stop sabre rattling.

Actually, the USA has over 1,000 military bases abroad - many of them in Asia, as close as possible to the frontiers of Russia, China, and Iran. Not to mention its 11 (give or take) massive carrier battle groups which prowl the oceans to intimidate other nations.

Russia has, from memory, three or four small military bases outside its own borders. Apart from Syria, where it is fighting terrorism (because someone has to, and the USA isn't) they are all in friendly nations next door to Russia itself - Belarus, Armenia, etc.

When the USA sails its carrier battle groups or other naval units a few miles from Russia and China, in waters many thousands of miles away from the USA, that isn't sabre-rattling.
When the USA organizes "NATO" military exercises that involve large numbers of soldiers and weapons parading around a few miles from Russia, that isn't sabre-rattling.
When the USA places German tanks as close to St Petersburg as they were in autumn 1941, that isn't sabre-rattling.
When the USA places missile stations that could, without anyone knowing, be equipped to fire offensive nuclear missiles, within a few miles of Russia that isn't sabre-rattling. (Although it is exactly equivalent to the Soviet actions to prevent which President Kennedy precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis).

But when the Russians or Chinese calmly announce the measures they have taken to defend themselves, or when they conduct military exercises entirely within their own borders - THAT is apparently sabre-rattling.

See http://www.globalfirepower.com.... Clue: Russia is the 5th-ranked in military spending, slightly below the UK. Its spending is less than one twelfth of the USA's.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/p...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Let's start with your mention of Iceland. I live in Iceland. So let's just say that I know a little something about countries whose currencies have crashed.

First I would like to apologise on behalf of a former idiot prime minister of ours who began sounding the war drums when Iceland did the correct thing in defaulting and jailing malfeasant bankers!

It's terrible for regular people and for businesses that have to buy things form overseas. Because the price of all imported goods skyrockets when your currency crashes.

Of course it does! People stop buying stuff they do not need and this helps correct trade deficits.

By and large, no, no, and no. 1) The biggest groups looking to relocate are British banks.

Eh? No British banks are looking to locate to EZ. The ECB has regulations that prohibit naked short selling when they think the markets have got it wrong so London as a financial centre has little to fear.

FWIW, Iceland was somewhere I was looking at if the UK had chosen to remain in the EU. Despite being in both EEA and EFTA, Iceland due to climate and cost of living is not a major immigration target yet has a relatively high standard of living. I have no problem with immigration, I do have a problem with a mass influx of unskilled migrants who will, ultimately and irreparably damage social cohesion across the entire continent. I recognise the divide and conquer game when I see it and it does not matter if it's Soros funding "Welcome to the EU" leaflets on Lesbos, Soros funding his Non-Governmental Organisations in the Ukraine or Soros feeding money into Black Lives Matter. I see it as purposely divisive and destructive and am ashamed to live in civilisation where his 'open borders' bullshit is allowed to continue unchallenged. If he cares to take the locks of his own doors he can have all the open society he wants. The rest of us will continue with necessary control over national borders and interpersonal boundaries.

Perhaps you shouldn't be so sure of yourself. Glyphosate may not be lethal immediately as used, but it does appear to have unexpected detrimental effects. And then there's the really bad "inert" ingredient effect to consider.

It's not all about LD50 numbers. O2 or H2O can both kill you, yet, like salt, you must have them. Glyphosate has no beneficial health properties, it merely makes farming "easier" apparently. We grew crops successfully long before glyphosate, maybe we should review that effort. Considering one of the linked stories, in western societies incidences of various chronic diseases has increased markedly since Glyphosate entered wide-spread use.

I don't doubt that GM crops are safe. But what about the dirty tricks companies play, such as patenting a gene sequence? Or writing contracts that forbid farmers from harvesting seed, forcing them to buy new seed each time? Or deliberately modifying the genome so the plants are fine with respect to food, but don't produce viable seeds?

Are those things really in society's interest?

Sometimes.

And they're not all "dirty tricks," although some of them are really, deeply inappropriate.

Big companies that spend billions on research legitimately should be able to patent their discoveries for a while in order to fund the research. That's the whole idea of patents. The case law on patentable subject matter is a real mess at best, and more realistically is intellectually dishonest. (More out of frustration with the existing rules than out of any real intent to be evil.)

The contracts are perfectly fine when there is competition--the problem arises when one company has too much market power and abuses it, creating contracts of adhesion in an anti-trust monopolistic way.

As to modifying the plants so they don't produce viable seeds, the LAST thing we want is lots of GMO activity where the plants have the potential to reproduce on their own. Bioengineering is a field of incredible potential and incredible danger. It may give us the opportunity to grow new trees that can handle our warmed planet--but it also risks creating invasive species that never existed in nature.

But what about the dirty tricks companies play, such as patenting a gene sequence?

Why is that a "dirty trick"? If the gene sequence is novel, or used in a novel way, then how is that different than patenting anything else?

Or writing contracts that forbid farmers from harvesting seed, forcing them to buy new seed each time?

That isn't a "dirty trick" either, since farmers can NOT SIGN THE CONTRACT and grow non-patented seeds instead.

Or deliberately modifying the genome so the plants are fine with respect to food, but don't produce viable seeds?

Two problems: 1. Nobody actually does this. The technology exists, but it is not in use. 2. It would be a GOOD THING if this technology was put to use, because it would prevent GMO pollen from spreading through the environment unintentionally.

The suicide seeds were shelved because of protests from anti-GMO activists that were worried about having less to protest about. Which shows they are more interested in protesting and activism than actually solving problems.

I don't doubt that GM crops are safe. But what about the dirty tricks companies play, such as patenting a gene sequence? Or writing contracts that forbid farmers from harvesting seed, forcing them to buy new seed each time? Or deliberately modifying the genome so the plants are fine with respect to food, but don't produce viable seeds?

Are those things really in society's interest?

They're not even remotely US backed militarily

Yes, they are: http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

Not to mention that the so called "maidan revolution" was planned and financed by the US itself:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/n...

And the result was roughly the same as the US in Afghanistan and Syria: utter military humiliation. Plus a sovereign default and a massive recession. A gorgeous welcome to the "free world".

Surely Donbass people were helped by Russia, I don't deny that. I guess they simply chose better friends.

"...people who can be considered to be experts in the field..."

What are the qualifications for being a 'climate scientist'? How long has the discipline been around?

Science in the service of politics

Now go ahead, take a dump on Lindzen and/or GlobalResearch.ca. You know you want to.

Nuclear does kill a lot of people.

Thank you for another great posting. Perhaps you have seen this status of Fukushima No4 spent fuel cooling pool. This is the thing that has made me crap my pants about Fukushima from day one. Hope you find it interesting.

Yeah, and people are happily moving back that were evacuated from Fukushima now. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...

Wow, 7000 return and 100,000 still can't - gee you really got me there. For the people around Chernobyl though? Perhaps they don't deserve our empathy because, well, they were soviet's back then.

I don't have to explain shit.

Perhaps you don't know? So here is a explanation of the global danger that Fukushima reactor 4 still poses to all of us e.v.e.r.y.d.a.y. and the nature of a plutonium fire. It really shows the regard the Japanese government has for the residents of Fukushima.

Muslims are responsible for the vast majority of terrorism in the world today.

In the Middle East where they mostly kill other Muslims that might be true. In the West however, that is miles away from the truth.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/n...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://www.vocativ.com/news/25...

These articles do a pretty good job of citing sources.

Not that I think this will change your opinion though. Your dumb assumption of 20% of all Muslims being radicalized shows that you don't care about terrorism and just want to demonize Muslims. If 212 million people where crazy terrorist radicals the world would be on fire now as opposed to the safest it's been in god only knows how long.

Meh. I'm just going to go with statistics. Even among radical Christians the number of terrorist acts stands at a tiny percentage compared to the number of terrorist attacks among radical Islamists.

Not sure what statistics you're looking at, but if you were to take your own advice, you'd see I'm right

You can't deny this correlation, because it exists.

There are lots of correlations that exist. But trying to boil it down to one group or religion is just hogwash. You're drinking the Kool Aid, my friend. Hell, the Buddhists are killing people left and right in Burma, but you excuse that as some sort of "one off". So many examples of crazy people doing things in the name of one religion/philosophy or another, but you choose to try to classify it as all being one group?

Please see here for some more information.

Journalist Michael Hastings Was Investigating CIA Director at Time of Deadly Crash--

this guy was hit with that hack. said his car was doing funny stuff day before, borrowed friends car, drove his again and BOOM!

http://www.globalresearch.ca/j...

Dead people are bad for an economy, period. If the uber-capitalists really wanted to promote capitalist economies, they should be pouring money into research for life-extension and anti-aging therapies and technologies, plus of course way of increasing fertility and getting people to have more kids.

Sounds to me like the very definition of a Ponzi scheme. Oh, wait... I guess that's how our economy already works.

Hey, these guys sound real awesome. I know! Let's give them $150 billion dollars in order to pretend they're not building nukes for a little while! And then when they break the agreement, we'll just pretend they didn't. Let's also pay them a nice bribe of another billion to return our soldiers they took hostage. But doing that would make our President look incompetent, so we'll still do it but just have our buddies in the media completely ignore the story.

Lets remember that only one country has ever actually used Nuclear weapons against any target, and was probably not even necessary to end that war.

Let us keep in mind that the US has been killing innocent people by way of drone strikes for more than a decade now. It can easily be argued that the US is the worlds largest exporter of terror weapons. In fact, our terrorist activities dwarf any in the history of mankind. We have become so adept at it that we can detonate bombs from 5000 miles away with accuracy measured in centimeters. We can do that without even risking our own people at all. If the terrorists could do that, The US would be short a few hundred politicians, and the white house would have been target #1.

The thing you have to remember about terrorism is that it takes two sides to fight. As long as we keep bombing them, we keep the cycle of hate going, and they keep bombing us. That sounds suspiciously like the definition of insanity.

Conspiracy theories are interesting, but let's just skip to the facts:

http://www.truthandaction.org/...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/t...

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

You can go on growsing about who borders on what with whom and Russia wanting to trash talk or whatever else now.

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There are multiple empty houses for every man, woman, and child in America, thanks to the mortgage scam.

I'd love to see a citation for that. The United States population on July 4, 2015 was 321,442,019. According to this source, 5 million homes had been repossessed as of April, 2015, with an additional 3 million forecast for the next three years or so.

That's a lot of repossessed homes, but 8 million is not a multiple of 321 million, unless by "multiple" you mean "0.025".