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It could still be a missile; witnesses weren't specific. And that it was the only instance of it diverted to that northerly flight plan is just a tad suspicious.

My Photoshop skills are easily up to whatever images either sides' propaganda arm produces. Give me eyewitnesses.

BTW, yes I can spot a Boeing at FL33, with a $10 pair of binocs I could tell a 737 from a 767.

Yea because Israel would never do anything like that:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-student-union-set-up-war-room-to-sell-gaza-massacre-on-facebook/5392888

I.e. " Do you want to be part of russia, or not part of Ukraine".

Huh? The 1992 constitution of Crimea sees it as an autonomous republic of Ukraine. Maybe You, I or both of us are misunderstanding something here.

Regarding the Russian passports, I guess it has something to do with dual citizenships, i.e.:

[...] if [a Ukrainian] citizen acquired citizenship of (was naturalized by) another country, then in legal relations with Ukraine, the person is recognized as a citizen of Ukraine only. Thus, presently, according to the legislation of Ukraine dual citizenship is not prohibited, but also is not recognized [...]

It's also pretty much plausible and conceivable that the passport was used only for ID purposes and they had lists of eligible voters beforehand (at least that's the way it works in Germany: you just have to present a valid ID and be on the list).

And, re: "beating non russian looking voters", regardless of whether it actually happened (source?), there were not too many of those:

where they now form ~ 12% minority

(Crimean Tatars & ethnic groups in Crimea).

I'm not a jingoist. America (and any major power) is going to have black marks on it's record.

Agreed.
What I'm really trying to achieve here, is to cut through the thick fog of propaganda (from all sides) and get at the core of the issue (i.e. discrimination of a large part of the population by a (then) unelected government).
If I put myself in their shoes, I can totally understand the wish to distance themselves from a seemingly oppressive regime (not everyone welcomes their new overlords as we do here on /.), and being a semi-autonomous region (e.g. unlike Kosovo), they made use of their right to do so.

In addition, there were international observers present during the referendum.
And, as a last one, (internal Russian politics notwithstanding,) this is long but raises some interesting points: http://original.antiwar.com/ju...

You mean like the plan for killing Occupy high profile members from a couple of years ago? Or the political prosecution of Aaron Schwartz? Or the more recent classifying peaceful protests as terrorism? It is already there, just that most people didn't realized it yet.

It's what the scientists believe.

Really, there's a whole lot of weirdness going on in the IPCC. They come out and claim increasing certainty in global warming, while supporting scientists ask how there can be increasing certainty when their own experiments have lower confidence. The viewpoint from the United States is distorted due to inferior technology and medieval scientific procedures; the modern world has advanced far beyond the primitive tribes of the far west.

What I find sad is that so many people feel like they are doing something when they tweet.

- Ms. Obama could have taken action against radical Islamic organizations. Instead, a sharpie, a piece of paper, a tweet - and she's done. Thanks, Michelle, good job.

- Ms. Obama could have a chat with her hubby about the way the USA supports terrorist organizations even giving aid to organization like Al Qaeda that the US is supposedly fighting.

But no, that would require actual effort and taking a genuine stand. Whereas Twitter costs nothing, risks nothing and does nothing - but you can pretend otherwise.

Chernobyl Death Toll: 985,000, Mostly from Cancer and still counting as of (April 26, 2010) from just 6 Megaton's worth of Fission Byproduct release into the biiosphere.

Imagine what would happen if their was a significant release of the 150,000 Megatons of Fission Byproducts humanity has lying about at/in/near NPP's!

Relevant news: On Democracy and Orchestrated Overthrows in Venezuela and Ukraine

The National Endowment for Democracy has been seen working behind the scenes in Ukraine, Venezuela, Turkey...

Also check out operation Gladio: secret networks of far-right groups orchestrating false-flag and other attacks against communist or any other left-wing movements in Europe, since WWII. 1992 BBC documentary (bad quality though) "killed hundreds of innocent Europeans and attempted to blame the deaths on Baader Meinhof"

This shit comes back to bite you, erodes US credibility.

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

Revealed: secret plan to push'happy' pills
http://www.theguardian.com/soc...

Big Pharma Could Win International Price Monopoly, Unlimited Profits in 'Free Trade' Deal
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

US patent moves are 'profoundly bad' in leaked TPP treaty
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1...

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a proposed free trade agreement under negotiation between Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam. Leaked documents show the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) is pressuring TPP countries to expand pharmaceutical monopoly protections and trade away access to medicines.
http://www.citizen.org/TPPA

The medical industry the third-leading cause of death in the United States; after heart disease and cancer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

Big Pharma Shamelessly Shills Dangerous Bone Drugs You Don't Need
http://www.alternet.org/story/...

The H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating the Data to Justify a Worldwide Public Health Emergency
http://www.globalresearch.ca/t...

"Somewhere in Rayong or Chon Buri on the coast of Thailand, a young woman may at this very moment be baring her arm for a shot of an experimental Aids vaccine that many of the leading scientists in the field say categorically has no hope at all of working.

She will be one of 16,000 volunteers recruited for the second large-scale Aids vaccine trial, a $119m exercise many scientists believe is a farce."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/scie...

Fraud has become so endemic in this country that it's woven its way into America’s DNA. 2). Big Pharma Fraud.
http://www.alternet.org/story/...

Drug Makers New Targets for U.S. Fraud Inquiries, Report Says
http://prescriptions.blogs.nyt...

Merck drew up a "hit list" of doctors that needed to be "neutralized" because they criticized the now banned drug Vioxx.
http://science.slashdot.org/st...

Merck invents its own journal to publish bogus research findings to promote it's own products.
http://blog.bioethics.net/2009...

Why Aren't These Fraudulent Papers Retracted?
http://truth-out.org/news/item...

Doubts about Johns Hopkins research have gone unanswered, scientist says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

A National Survey of Physician–Industry Relationships
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/1...

And US propaganda is different how exactly? Because you think the US Government is on the same team as you perhaps?

Issues like this are not singular, but if you are going to call out Russian propaganda then call it out on both sides. US propaganda is portraying Russia in Crimea like the US invasion of Iraq, but it's not even close. I keep waiting for US media to start falsely claiming that Russians are out murdering everyone in the Ukraine and that actually started happening today when reporters were telling stories about people disappearing.

First, look at Crimea from a military strategy point. Russia has had military and naval bases there for decades. If the Philippines had a revolt you are telling me the US would sit and do nothing to protect their military bases there? Come now, you and I both know we would and should. We have those bases for the same reason Russia has bases in Crimea. In fact the US has over 800 bases (depending on the source over 1,000) and is exerting pressure on not just Russia but China. You would be well suited to read that whole article by the way, since it backs most of my statements.

The US denounces military expansion by other countries, but we continue to expand ourselves. This is in addition of course to drone strikes in dozens of countries, the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war, and funding and providing weapons for the majority of colored revolutions which caused lots of death and destruction.

Next, Crimea was about to be an independent autonomous country free of the Ukraine in May. They tend to side with Russia since Russia has lots of military there, and until Nikita Khrushchev gave the land to the Ukraine was part of Russia. This part gets magically lost by any US media discussing Crimea. I work with many people from Russia, Georgia, and the Ukraine. They tend to laugh at how bad US propaganda is, and how it portrays very little truth. Eastern Ukraine is pro Russian, and Western Ukraine not so much. What you hear in the US is the Western spin, and what you hear in Russia is Eastern spin. Somewhere in the middle is the population of the Ukraine and Crimea, who want both sides to leave them alone and let them decide their own future.

Let me be very clear, I'm not backing Russia nor do I think Russia is necessarily correct. At the same time, I'm not backing the methods the US has been using for imperialism either.

Didn't we see the most growth in Democracy during times of peace where the US was the example for other countries to follow? We were founded with expressly that concept in mind, we are not supposed to invade or go to war. We are supposed to defend ourselves and be an example for other countries to follow.

We are failing in that regard today, and the increases in turmoil all over the world is in great part due to US meddling and instigating conflicts. Imperialism has changed, where instead of the US taking over a whole territory US and US Friendly businesses take over instead. No need for troops when you control the economy, but making millions off people poor causes lots of resentment.

and to back that up some more. These old reports lists US ownership to be just about equal with UK http://www.globalresearch.ca/w... AND.. BP, Transocean and Anadarko were the main players in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. http://www.globalresearch.ca/u...

and to back that up some more. These old reports lists US ownership to be just about equal with UK http://www.globalresearch.ca/w... AND.. BP, Transocean and Anadarko were the main players in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. http://www.globalresearch.ca/u...

You're calling missing by a few tenths of a degree "not even close"? We're experiencing possibly the lowest solar activity in hundreds of years and the temperatures are higher than we've seen in hundreds of years. It seems that something other than the sun is causing warming somehow. Hmmm... I wonder what it could be?

Yeah I guess we need to put the UK on the state sponsor of terrorism list.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/b...

http://www.theinsider.org/news...

I am sure the US has done similar, but it just shows that false flags are in their go to playbooks.

Backdoors in this case of the edge network for this administrator are well know.

http://gigaom.com/2013/12/29/n...

Governments don't like the internet. They want it changed.

http://www.zdnet.com/surprise-...

So far one man, worth millions, with a great future ahead of him "decided to hang himself" over that same legislation.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/i...

People are seeing the connections through whistle blowers and alternative media.

http://www.infowars.com/hillar...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

French Invade Mali after Fed refusal of Gold...

I am sure it is JUST a cooincidence Gold is the only major export of MALI:

http://www.silverdoctors.com/j...

Troll.

So be it.

I like that Voluntary there. I am sure the Irish people put into indentured service really wanted to reduce their numbers to about 200,000 thousand and be sold off at a rate of 5 to a black slave. http://www.globalresearch.ca/t...

against us ordinarian unchosens outcomes are not in question? http://www.globalresearch.ca/w...

Slashdot only allows anonymous users to post 10 times per day (more or less, depending on moderation). A user from your IP has already shared his or her thoughts with us that many times. Take a breather, and come back and see us in 24 hours or so. If you think this is unfair....... pretend somebody cares

"Dont be naive."

You missed something. There is "plausible deniability". Then there are numerous issues that the president is never told.

The US Has 761 Military Bases throughout the world.

The Worldwide Network of US Military Bases

> Users of Truecrypt should be extra careful of physical security of their systems to prevent investigators from gaining access to the contents of physical memory."

By investigators, do you mean government workers conducting industrial espionage?

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/nsa-busted-conducting-industrial-espionage-in-france-mexico-brazil-and-other-countries.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-04/asio-arrests-key-witness-in-east-timor-spying-scandal/5132954
http://www.globalresearch.ca/canada-spied-on-brazils-government-as-part-of-global-commercial-espionage-campaign/5353642
http://www.smh.com.au/national/australian-spy-agency-helped-bhp-negotiate-trade-deals-20131106-2x1sw.html
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131111/11532125198/australia-spied-japan-to-help-companies-negotiate-trade-deals.shtml
http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/12/02/revealed-the-government-agency-stealing-ideas-from-businesses/
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0000940560
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/16/gchq-intercepted-communications-g20-summits

In the NSA there is no racism, there is clasism. You have the "normal" people that must be watched, herded, manipulated, iied and considered with no rights, of which any vulnerability is exploited, every minor offense is collected for a potential future use, and every hot photo or video is shared for fun.

In the other hand you have the favored ones that are untouchables, the aligned politicians, CEOs of collaborating companies, good part of the 0.01%, certain foreigners and people that buy their pertenence to that class putting enough money high enough, no matter which shady thing they are doing, even accidentally collected info is promptly discarded.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him..

Cardinal Richelieu

Good luck with that, this is all the respect that had the NSA workers for the US soldiers in afganistan and their wives/girlfriends in 2008, maybe thet will respect you instead. And it could get much worse

Like a basic income, financed by a balance-sheet entry. Consider, for example, Richard Cook's article, An Emergency Program of Monetary Reform for the United States:

A Social Credit system would be implemented through simple bookkeeping. The funding of the National Dividend would be drawn from a national credit account which would include all factors which give rise to production costs and create new capital assets.

No need to regulate dealers. Simply give everyone a choice whether they want to enter the market and do something like deal, or not. With a basic income, an individual can pursue his own ideas, taking risks in the lab, rather than in finance.

I get bored in lines and if there are advertising that I am interesded in displayed I will be more entertained. I can do without adds for tampons and justin bieber albums. That is the usefulness to me.

What benefit are some people being denied. The benefit of seeing ads they are not interested in?

Would you not be better served by a worker that you can say "no thanks" to as opposed to a CCTV system that will scan your face and pop up ads as you browse for your butter as it feels fit, not as you see fit? I think you are making my argument for me, though you may not realize it. The "automated" system will not be yours to turn off as you see fit, it turns on as the company sees fit.

Reference please. Where is your proof that the government was involved when it was the government that found it and stopped it.

You did not try very hard.

No, I am claiming that they will be easily caught and stopped if they tried it.

Because everything that the GCHQ does is public information available for you to scrutinize? Even if you knew something you would receive data on request? Come now, you can't be that daft can you?

We should just go back to hangings. It works for killing Nazis and war criminals.

Why not try burning at the stake? Why hide the barbarism? We should revel in it, put it on TV, let everybody know what our government is doing on their behalf. History has a few more we could try; why not crucifiction? That would undoubtedly act as a deterrent. Drawing and quartering? The most inventive I've heard of is the Blood Eagle.

Just putting people to sleep, like a beloved pet, seems to obscure the true horror.

The main argument I have against execution, however, is that a certain percentage of the executed are subsequently exonerated. Keeping them in jail for life, rather than on 'death row', is far cheaper (due to the extra expense of defending against the lawsuits, and the added security. Not to mention the use of rare drugs...), and has the added benefit of allowing these people who were wrongly convicted to be released when their innocence is determined. We can also use them as slaves while in jail.

Considering that Arafat walked away from a deal with Rabin that met all of the PLO's demands I think he was really more concerned about maintaining a legacy as a freedom fighter rather than face the possibility of actually advancing that goal and becoming a lackuster first president of Palestine.

Consider that's Zionist revisionist history. Arafat was willing to make huge concessions to Israel, letting them keep a great deal of land illegally sized in the 1967 war. Israel kept moving the goalposts on the peace deal until it fell apart.

Because Israel doesn't want peace, it wants land and complete military dominance in the region. It's why Bibi is running around right now threatening Iran for having the nuclear weapons program his own minister of defense says Iran doesn't have.

Ugh.

So people have bought then, hook, line, etc., the total lie that Assad used gas on his own people. He didn't.

http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/1958

http://rt.com/news/turkey-syria-chemical-weapons-850/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2418378/Syrian-hostage-Domenico-Quirico-overheard-rebels-blame-Damascus-chemical-attacks.html

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/504735/20130909/syria-chemical-attack-assad-rebels-blame-hostage.htm

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/08/syria-chemical-weapons-not-assad-bild

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/06/syri-j13.html

http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-saudis-supplied-rebels-with-chemical-weapons/168135/

http://consortiumnews.com/2013/09/06/obama-warned-on-syrian-intel/

http://www.voltairenet.org/article180149.html

http://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-military-and-intelligence-officials-to-obama-assad-not-responsible-for-chemical-attack/5348576

http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/29/verify-chemical-weapons-use-before-unleashing-the-dogs-of-war/

Why don't we stay the fuck out of syria. Neither side likes us. We can't 'win' anything.
We're going to piss away a bunch more lives and money we don't have, for what?

Because Israel was always under threat from Iran/Syria and... surprise... the house of Saudi doesn't like them either (Sunni vs Shia). So, they need somebody with enough clout to handle the hot potato, even against UN council, and the US of A seem vain (or, is it moronic already?) enough to think they can do it, perhaps even doing it alone.
This will be a good business period for Saudis (selling more oil) and Russia (keeping Syria armed enough), awful for Turkey, Lebanon and possibly Jordan (dealing with refugee exodus).

The hacker uploaded a load of email correspondence for several security contractors to pastebin, their wives and a colonel or two. it is being taken offline as fast as it is being distributed... it certainly does look damning evidence. Is anybody surprised given that we know Syria has been on the chopping block ever since "The New American Century" was published...

Chernobyl Death Toll: 985,000

http://www.globalresearch.ca/new-book-concludes-chernobyl-death-toll-985-000-mostly-from-cancer/20908
 

between 1986 and 2004
All studies done on cleanup workers showed average percentage of cancer deaths to be same as for example in the US in the same period = there was no significant bump over a large population

Chernobyl Death Toll: 985,000

http://www.globalresearch.ca/new-book-concludes-chernobyl-death-toll-985-000-mostly-from-cancer/20908

we can dance around the word "proven", but deaths there certainly have been.

What's really dumb is that you could have made your point without including that stupid statement as your first paragraph. Fossil fuels are currently killing people in fairly large number and have the potential, through climate change, to kill millions. Nuclear accidents are killing people, but improved technologies have the potential to limit this and nuclear power need not be "dirty" in normal use. None of that means we should decrease our investments in renewables.

Why try to hide it? http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-cia-has-attempted-to-assassinate-50-foreign-leaders-including-chavez/5326864

The US government is all for fundamental freedoms, providing your use of them can be logged, queried at will and used against you later.

No, I'm afraid not. Let's go down the amendments one by one and see where we come out:

First amendment: Freedom of speech and the press.
The United States has no Journalistic shield law. Basically, if a whistleblower drops of some incriminating government documents, publication can land you in jail. Failing to reveal your source? That's a one-way trip to Guantanamo. Then there's the designated Free Speech Cages, surrounded by police, cameras, and barbed wire, and usually located far away from a place where your protect might be visible. Failure to protest within the cage will and you in a different cage. Don't worry -- they pre-construct them for all major events at nearby warehouses.

The right to bear arms
In New York and elsewhere... yeah, no. There are so many examples of the constant attempts to remove this or at least regulate it to the point it is effectively removed, I won't provide more examples. Go look them up yourself.

Not having soldiers quartered in your home
Yeah... a guy was recently arrested, beaten, and dragged out of his house for refusing to allow the police entry, so they could pitch a tent and enact surveillance of one of his neighbors. The story has since vanished off the internet, and very few sites still have any information on it.

Unlawful search and seizure
The Department of Homeland Security has granted itself the ability to declare arbitrary constitution-free zones, which cover approximately 80% of the US population -- as most of the population lives within 50 miles of one of the country's borders, and that's one of the areas covered.

Right not to self-incriminate
unless of course, the FBI thinks you might have child porn. ...

I could go on, but I think you get the point: They're not for all fundamental freedoms... they just want them on paper, but not in reality. Subtle difference.

I don't know what to believe anymore: http://www.globalresearch.ca/deleted-daily-mail-online-article-us-backed-plan-for-chemical-weapon-attack-in-syria-to-be-blamed-on-assad/5339178

The correct answer is that it is a forgery. So you shouldn't believe it at all.

Britam Defence, David Goulding and Philip Doughty

An article on 29 January reported allegations on the internet that the US Government had backed a plot to launch a chemicals weapons attack in Syria and blame it on the Assad regime. ... We now accept that email was fabricated and acknowledge there is no truth in any suggestion that Britam or its directors were willing to consider taking part in such a plot, which may have led to an atrocity.
We apologise to each of them and have agreed to pay substantial damages.

...because with all that radioactive water dumping into the Pacific, any fish from that ocean will start absorbing radioactive elements. Bart's three-eyed fish will seem tame in comparison, because at least you can see the problem.

Even better? Radiation is cumulative, so propensity for tissue damage rises with each exposure and the radioactive elements build up in the animal's body. There is no safe level of radiation exposure (source: Hellen Cadicott)

Still even better? Expect the higher-order fish (the ones that eat other fish) to end up will even more radiation exposure. Guess what's at the top of the food chain? That's right: those hairless chimps are flocked.

Try the fish!

A small quibble, if you will.

"Iran? They took over our embassy in the 70's, didn't they? Never mind that the embassy was taken over by citizens angry at the US for overthrowing their government."

Long memory, those students, who in summer of '79 took the embassy in retaliation for what we and the Brits engineered by way coup d'etat over Mossadegh in 1953 so's to put Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in power. I reckon they were far more angered at the predations of SAVAK, the Shah's secret police, and thus us by extension for putting him in power.

I mean, you're right, of course, but at the end of a chain, not the beginning.

Btw, for an interesting little bit of reading,
http://globalresearch.ca/the-1979-iranian-us-embassy-siege-and-hostage-crisis-was-it-a-covert-cia-operation/30291
might as well add some cayenne to the stew.

The U.S. supported Pol Pot.

Cold-war anti-Communism worked against the interests of the U.S. The U.S. is worse off because of it.

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/17/world/death-of-pol-pot-the-diplomacy-pol-pot-s-end-won-t-stop-us-pursuit-of-his-circle.html
DEATH OF POL POT: THE DIPLOMACY; Pol Pot's End Won't Stop U.S. Pursuit of His Circle
By ELIZABETH BECKER
Published: April 17, 1998

In one of the cold war's proxy battles, the United States took China's side against the Soviet Union, which meant accepting the Khmer Rouge as the legitimate Government of Cambodia in opposition to the Vietnamese-imposed regime in Phnom Penh. Previously, the United States had sided with China to punish the Soviet Union for its 1979 invasion of Afghanistan.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/how-thatcher-helped-pol-pot/5330873
How Thatcher helped Pol Pot
By John Pilger
Global Research, April 11, 2013

Declassified United States government documents leave little doubt that the secret and illegal bombing of then neutral Cambodia by President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger between 1969 and 1973 caused such widespread death and devastation that it was critical in Pol Pot’s drive for power.

“They are using damage caused by B52 strikes as the main theme of their propaganda,” the CIA director of operations reported on 2 May 1973. “This approach has resulted in the successful recruitment of young men. Residents say the propaganda campaign has been effective with refugees in areas that have been subject to B52 strikes.”

http://articles.latimes.com/1997-06-24/local/me-6271_1_pol-pot
In the Dock With Pol Pot: Uncle Sam
An immoral connivance between China and the U.S. allowed killing fields to flourish.
June 24, 1997
Robert Scheer

Pol Pot's major war crimes were committed between 1975 and 1979 and the U.S. government knew the full extent of that horror during all the ensuing years in which it tried to bring him back to power as part of the U.S.-China sponsored coalition

President Carter's National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski has admitted, "I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. . . . Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him but China could." But the U.S. did support Pol Pot covertly, including whitewashing his crimes. As Ben Kiernan points out in an indispensable Yale University Law School monograph entitled "Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia," the CIA in May of 1980 "denied that there had been any executions in the last two years of the Pol Pot regime." In fact, half a million innocent people were killed during that period. Even well after the "killing fields" were unearthed, the U.S. continued to legitimize the Khmer Rouge, voting at the U.N. Geneva Conference in 1981 to defeat an ASEAN proposal that the Khmer Rouge be disarmed.

What? I guess you have not been paying attention. Censorship is common in the U.S today, it is not mandated directly by laws, but rather "You scratch my back, and scratch your back" tactics in the media world.

Here is a good overview on what is happening in the U.S and this is not a wiki article.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/modern-media-censorship-in-america/10415

How about a conspiracy theory.

We know that Bin Laden worked for and was funded by CIA during the cold war.
What if he still is on the CIA payroll and planned the attacks against WTC to increase CIA's funding and power.
After the staged man-hunt his death was faked and he now has a new identity and is living comfortably.

But again, there isn't that much militarization in today's world. There are a number of states and super-states that could easily eclipse the US's current military, if they were to put significant effort into it.

That is sheer desperation. Sure, if you construct a fantasy world in which other nations have more military power than the United States, you would have a point. But let's stick to reality instead of your imagination:

The US Military has bases in 63 countries. Brand new military bases have been built since September 11, 2001 in seven countries.

In total, there are 255,065 US military personnel deployed Worldwide.

These facilities include a total of 845,441 different buildings and equipments. The underlying land surface is of the order of 30 million acres. According to Gelman, who examined 2005 official Pentagon data, the US is thought to own a total of 737 bases in foreign lands. Adding to the bases inside U.S. territory, the total land area occupied by US military bases domestically within the US and internationally is of the order of 2,202,735 hectares, which makes the Pentagon one of the largest landowners worldwide.

No other military in world history has been so widely deployed as that of the United States. Troop deployments are overwhelmingly supportive of host countries, and warm relations between soldiers and local populations are the norm. However, the first priority in deployment strategy is not a particular foreign government's desire to keep a certain number of American troops in its country, but the American need to align its forces against contemporary and future threats. Better data about the deployment levels of American forces will hopefully contribute to an understanding of the consequences of past strategies and the development of future strategies.

(Of course I would disagree with the Heritage Foundation about the local populace having "warm relations" with occupying forces, but that's just because I don't work at the Heritage Foundation.)

If you know of another nation that comes close to the size, scope, or ambition of the current US military apparatus, please feel free to provide similar statistics. And a source, of course.

"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."
-- Mark Twain

That was an accident. this ones were not, and wasnt exactly transporters on the ground. Weddings, schools, sports, funerals and other "suspicious" meetings of people, most civilians, by far, and that in a lot of countries. Yes, there are been a lot of terrorist attacks this last decade. But the head of the organization behind them wasn't hidden in caves or under false names, but sit in the White House.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/ny-times-scrubs-mention-of-cia-arming-syrian-rebels/5302360

Despite public claims on behalf of the White House that no weapons are being sent to the rebels, reports that the CIA has been doing precisely that have been circulating for months, including a recent story about CIA spies smuggling 14 stinger missiles into Syria so rebels could defend themselves with ground to air technology.

The New York Times admitted in a June 21 report that the CIA was "steering" arms to Syrian rebels from the Turkish border, but claimed the weapons were paid for by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The New York Times' decision to alter the wording of the article is another example of how NATO-aligned media outlets are concerned about overemphasizing western support for the rebels given their involvement in terrorist attacks and other acts of brutality.

I'd recommend against adding racism to your obvious ignorance, however. Even though that feeling is dependent on the possibility that you have a sense of human dignity, which is certainly slim.

You just dis-proved your own point. You, a person working in the government, believes that your constituents are crazy when they might not be. Let's be honest, there are a bunch of wackos out there and many bunk conspiracy theories.

Unfortunately, Chemtrails are real:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/atmospheric-geoengineering-weather-manipulation-contrails-and-chemtrails

http://www.naturalnews.com/037451_chemtrails_conspiracy_theory_geoengineering.html

Most of the things that you see in the sky are in fact normal jet contrails but don't act like nobody has ever sprayed a questionable substance from an airplane. It happens.

I never heard a conspiracy about the Portland water bureau. I do know of real problems with the water in Portland. There have been at least two cases in the last 3 years of the water not being safe to drink downtown. This was reportedly due to someone throwing a contaminant in to an open-air reservoir. I remember seeing signs on every bar and being told that water was not available at a restaurant. They talked quite a bit about putting lids on the open air reservoirs to avoid future contamination. Now they want to fluoridate the water and that is up for debate.

Bad water in Portland:
http://www.kgw.com/news/Boil-water-notice-issued-for-Portlands-west-side-163294096.html

Before you go calling everyone crazy you should consider that there may be cause for real concern behind public outcry. It may not be rational but that is what political debate is all about. People need good information so they can make informed decisions.

Monsanto will copyright all of us, and our clones then start selling as slaves like just few hunderd years ago. it is comming.
and if you do not agree they will kill us same as pigs in Europe or Japan: http://www.globalresearch.ca/monsanto-develops-genetically-modified-pig/2480

It's fucking egregious. Monsanto creates a way to put the average farmer out of business through litigation. Privatized Megafarms then buy out the land from the out-of-business farms for a pretty cheap price. Megafarm then moves in it's own production on a scale 10x that of the previous owner. Chemicals and Bioengineering produce yields far superior to what that land was producing previously. Stock prices soar. Investors are happy. The company grows and cycle continues. Megafarm then monopolizes on both grown product as well as dictating "who holds the seeds". One company now controls the food supply and can basically set any price it wants regardless of quality.

In another 50 years, you won't even be able to plant Pansies without needing a license from Monsanto, Bill Gates, or the Rockefeller foundation. Yeah, Reddit. Tell me more about your hero Bill again.

Both Secretary of State Clinton and President Obama were opposed to the video to cover up their arming of Al Qaeda elements in Libya through the embassy in Benghazi

Wait, what? Did I read that right? Did you just claim that the US funnelled weapons to an Al Qaeda franchaise through the US consulate in Benghazi? Really? And you got a +5 for that bullshit? Man.

"The evidence suggests that the Obama administration has not simply been engaging, legitimating, enriching and emboldening Islamists who have taken over or are ascendant in much of the Middle East ... the Obama administration has been arming them, including jihadists like Abdelhakim Belhadj, leader of the al Qaeda franchise known as the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group."

Gaffney is a far from reliable source but at least he is looking into it and he is right that this is what the evidence suggests. What actually happened is classified and is likely to remain secret for another 20-40 years if it ever gets out, so all we can do is speculate. What I've been hearing through the rumour mill is that it was Qatar directly arming al-Qaeda right under the nose of the US, and Stevens found out about it and was trying to talk one of their factions into giving up their guns. More speculation: "Several sources have pointed to the possibility that a major CIA gun-running operation aimed at arming anti-Assad Al-Qaeda-affiliated forces was in danger of being exposed", which is not inconsistent with either possibility.

If you don't like right-wing sources, here's one from the left: "Benghazi, US-NATO Sponsored Base of Operations for Al Qaeda"

The Federal Reserve is a privately owned bank that prints dollars, and 'lend' it to the Treasury. The Treasury prints bonds and gives them to the Federal Reserve as collateral. This 'wealth' is essentially worthless, which is why the banks have to keep on issuing loans that ultimately end up with the consumers as debt.

"Who Owns The Federal Reserve?"

The Federal Reserve is a privately owned bank that prints dollars, and 'lend' it to the Federal Government at a good rate if interest. The Federal Government taxes you to pay back the interest on the 'loan'.

"Who Owns The Federal Reserve?"

While what you say about fiat dollars is true as far as it goes, it ignores the bigger picture of "Credit as a Public Utility" as discussed by Richard C. Cook at two of the links.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/an-emergency-program-of-monetary-reform-for-the-united-states/5494
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3p48upXJaA&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
"The author of this independent report worked for the Carter White House and NASA, then spent 21 years with the U.S. Treasury Department. In the report, he explains that the U.S. financial system headed by the Federal Reserve System has failed and that only an emergency program of monetary reform can address conditions which may be leading to a catastrophe like the Great Depression or worse. Such an assessment has become increasingly familiar as economic storm clouds continue to gather. But the analysis and recommendations contained in the report may be surprising, even to many progressives. "

Fiat currencies are more than just a "store of value" which is what you are focusing on. Fiat dollars are actually in many ways a very poor store of value (compared to real estate, gold, monopolies, skills, or whatever). Fiat dollars are also a medium of exchange, which transmits signals of "demand". That's why I sometimes call them "ration units". When a society with our sort of heavily-exchange--based economic system has too few such fiat tokens to signal demand, the system does not work well, just the same as if you had too few "Kanban tokens" in a factory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban

Both the USA and China have an inadequate money supply for the current needs of their societies. In the USA this is true for two reasons. One is because most digital currency in the USA has left the real economy most US citizens are engaged in, and those digital blips in banking computers have moved to the zero-sum casino economy of speculative investments in "FIRE" asset inflation. The other is that the Clinton Administration so well managed the US Federal Budget that it moved into surplus and stopped borrowing, which meant new currency was no longer being created and injected into a growing US economy. That helped cause the subsequent economic depression.

To understand this, imagine what would happen to the US economy if everyone stuffed all their US dollars (or digital banking equivalents) into their mattresses. Soon everyone in the USA would be out of work. Why is that? The demand is still there. The infrastructure is still there. The raw material is still there. The reason is that there is no way for "consumers" to send signals (via fiat dollars) to make the system work.

Granted in real life, people would begin to barter, would invent local currencies (search on LETS), or would start trading with foreign currencies. Or people might begin to somehow more formally communicate demand via twitters or emails, which could even get passed around as IOUs as another form of currency. So, there are limits to this thought experiment. But for the sake of the argument we could assume all these other means of exchange had been outlawed (as some countries have done, including to an extent Cuba or the old USSR).

As is suggested at the following link, the main reason for the American Revolution was mainly that got laws passed to prevent American colonists from printing their own money any longer, which led to a depression in the American colonies:
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/06/other-reason-for-american-revolution.html
"This, [Benjamin Franklin] said, was the real reason for the Revolution: "the colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that