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Exactly. And there's no evidence that drinking more than that has any benefit whatsoever.

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

For all the complaints leveled at the NSA there has been no proof that they have ever used that information against it's own citizens.

From this Reuters story:

One current federal prosecutor learned how agents were using SOD tips after a drug agent misled him, the prosecutor told Reuters. In a Florida drug case he was handling, the prosecutor said, a DEA agent told him the investigation of a U.S. citizen began with a tip from an informant. When the prosecutor pressed for more information, he said, a DEA supervisor intervened and revealed that the tip had actually come through the SOD and from an NSA intercept.

"I was pissed," the prosecutor said. "Lying about where the information came from is a bad start if you're trying to comply with the law because it can lead to all kinds of problems with discovery and candor to the court." The prosecutor never filed charges in the case because he lost confidence in the investigation, he said.

http://www.reuters.com/article...
http://www.bbc.com/news/259075...
http://www.cnet.com/news/snowd...

If you can't be assed to google for 5 minutes, I cannot be assed to provide proper links.

>"Parallel Construction" [wikipedia.org] is a fundamental part of police work now.

So true and yet an utterly chilling sentence.

A DEA official said, "Parallel construction is a law enforcement technique we use every day. It's decades old, a bedrock concept."

Where the state is engaging in perjury, openly and without shame, what justice can there be?

I agree that the surveillance issue is bad but it's much worse when the DEA creates false evidence trails to hide the surveillance links to their own programs and that of the NSA. This puts the basic principles of justice out the window when you have DEA agents lying on the witness stand about how they obtained their information. A judge could ostensibly throw out convictions or exclude evidence based on those facts, sanctioning prosecutors for knowingly allowing this to happen at trial. It's fucking stupid to expose the nation to this kind of risk.

No, your stupid choice to live in a Hot area that has a history of water problems.

In a state that uses 70 million gallons of water a year on fracking.

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

Colour me entirely unsurprised. This investigative article has details of many more billions of the Pentagon's wasted taxpayer money - and the real number could be dramatically higher. We'll never know, because the Pentagon has failed to perform the required audits of its accounting ever, despite tens of billions still being sunk into modernising its infosystems.

A few random details of what we do know:
- $5.8B of inventory "lost" between 2003-2011.
- $9B of ledger adjustments simply made up to get the books to balance in 2012, up from $7.4B the previous year.
- "Probably half" of its $7B general inventory is in excess of needs, but they're still spending $700+M buying more of the same.
- Hundreds of thousands of contracts that have not been audited for completion. Solution: raise the threshold to contracts worth $250+M.

There's much worse, but you wouldn't believe it coming from a random Slashdot post. Read the article.

Just over a week ago the Russian ambassador to Denmark threatened Denmark with nuclear weapons. Please find me a comparable example of the US making a similar open threat involving nuclear weaopns anytime recent.

Russia threatens to aim nuclear missiles at Denmark ships if it joins NATO shield

In an interview in the newspaper Jyllands-Posten, the Russian ambassador to Denmark, Mikhail Vanin, said he did not think Danes fully understood the consequences of joining the program.

"If that happens, Danish warships will be targets for Russian nuclear missiles," Vanin told the newspaper.

This is on the heels of a stand-off that lead to the death of the Prosecutor who didn't punish cops that killed a 15 year old protestor a year ago. One can't help but wonder if this "power outage" was a ham-fisted attempt at controlling the spread of news and stifling the people's ability to communicate and organize.

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

Nuclear has by far the lowest [environmental impact], but for the same reason that many environmentalists are still opposing the Keystone pipeline despite the reality of more incidents of environmental damage from the alternative (inefficient rail shipping with nearly 100x the rate of environmental exposure), it's all about emotion for many in the movement, not about what's truly, measurably better for the planet.

Yes, the total economic loss due to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, estimated at $240-500 billion, is nothing but emotion.

The total cost of resettlement, cleanup, and paying medical claims due to Chernobyl is estimated by Belarus at $235 billion.

A hypothetical nuclear disaster in France similar to Fukushima is estimated to cost $580 billion. Other estimates run much higher.

Some Iraqis may have very well wished for the U.S. to remove Saddam Hussein from power. That has no bearing on the misrepresentation of the intelligence by the Bush administration in order manipulate the country into going to war. It also has no bearing on the bungling ineptitude of the Bush administration in prosecuting that war and the subsequent occupation of Iraq.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

Read Cobra II. It's a very balanced account of the planning and prosecution of the war. Rumsfeld micromanaged the military, and unfortunately for everyone involved he was grossly incompetent.

http://www.amazon.com/Cobra-II...

"Almost 1000 soldiers died!"

What about the Iraqis that just up above you claimed we were trying to save? Over 200,000 dead documented by Iraq Body Count. These deaths are all a result of the invasion of Iraq and the power vacuum which ensued.

https://www.iraqbodycount.org/

"you learn from the mistakes and move on"

The U.S. borrowed the money to pay for the war. The final tab will be in the trillions.

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

Tens of thousands of American lives have been shattered, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives have been shattered, millions of Iraqis have had to flee their homes, barbaric ISIS has taken over parts of the region that the Bush administration intentionally weakened. Iran has turned into a major player in the region. The war was a complete, unmitigated strategic disaster.

As such they have avoided crippling austerity.

Utterly false:
Iceland seeks end to austerity with new center-right government.
And the "...politicians who caused the mess" were re-elected in 2013.

http://www.reuters.com/article... NSA ~ RSA

They were selling below the cost for some time. Right now, the price tag is $23.4M per one RD-180 unit for ULA, out of which $20.2M goes to Russia. This is also an interesting number, since we were discussing the Angara above: If $20M+ were the cost (equal to or higher than the price, if the Russians are actually right about the price dumping thing) of two chambers and a turbopump, how much should the engines for Angara, with five chambers and five (somewhat smaller) turbopumps cost? $50M+ would appear to be the case if price per turbopump kW were fixed, but I find it likely that a greater number of smaller turbopumps is somewhat more expensive - after all, it's more components to manufacture, assemble, and test. And the turbopumps are definitely a significant portion of the cost. Let's say $55M-$60M? But that's just the five engines. Now you also have to manufacture the five cores, the second stage, its own engine, the cryogenic stage, its own engine, and control systems for all that. (Not to mention that two fuel systems on the pad - one of them deeply cryogenic - are quite certainly going to be more expensive to run.) All that while keeping in mind that Proton people basically say they can launch a Proton for you for less than $70M.. So if the RD-170-lineage engines are so expensive, despite having been in large-scale serial production for at least the last 15 years, how is Angara supposed to end up cheaper than the Proton?

In the last decade coal consumption has sky rocketed.

Past performance is not an indication of future returns.
China is embarrassed by the choking pollution from its coal plants and is either replacing them with cleaner energy or moving them to the middle of no where.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/05/us-china-parliament-ndrc-idUSKBN0M108V20150305
Mar 5, 2015

The [Chinese] National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said in its annual report on Thursday that it would implement policies aimed at reducing coal consumption and controlling the number of energy-intensive projects in polluted regions.

China is trying to strike a balance between improving its environment and restructuring away from an economy dominated by energy intensive industries like steel making and construction towards one focused more on consumption and the service sector.

Which is interesting that China is still pursuing the Nicaraguan canal so it can more easily access South America's resources.
Before the canal, China was considering building a railway across Columbia as an alternative to the Panama Canal choke point.

This is, at best, a failure to understand what I said.

I mentioned parallel construction. Clearly you didn't understand:

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

The NSA is free to pass that information to other, interested, parties. That includes State/local police/FBI/whomever. It invalidates every single point you just raised.

I'm not saying that for-profit universities are bad because they seek a profit. But there is an undeniable trend: For-profit colleges are worse than non-profit colleges by almost every metric.

Motivations: Yes, some non-profit universities are spending enormous amounts of money on sports, but sports spending is an investment that returns profits that are used for education. For-profit schools, on the other hand, spend more than $400,000 a day on ads while downsizing their teaching staff.

Governance: Yes, another legitimate gripe with non-profit universities. But once again, for-profit universities do it worse. Read the consumerist link I posted earlier. Widepsread misrepresentation of graduation and placement rates. Falsification of grades to prevent students from failing out. Termination of faculty members that failed too many students.

Outcomes: Yep, there are lots of recent graduates of non-profit universities who are jobless. But how many of them went to universities that have campuses with 0% graduation rates? You have to wonder what they point of a university is when it fails to graduate any students. There's also the fact that many for-profit colleges are charging $20,000 - $30,000 for associate'sdegrees. You could get that for less than $2,000 at you local community college.

Private universities are a response to current realities: many low-risk jobs require a paper degree, but no actual skills. Many traditional universities are needlessly stupid and expensive if all you want is that paper. And there is plenty of free money to go around, irrespective of merit.

100% true. But I don't have anything against private universities. In fact, I went to a private university. That said, it was a non-profit, regionally accredited private university -- the complete opposite of the nationally accredited for-profit universities that were mentioned in the articles that I linked to. Private does not equal for-profit, and that is an important distinction to make. This image sums it up nicely.

You are insinuating that the Chinese government are sending infiltrators in a long game to influence American elections but you're completely wrong about that. The rich Chinese people are having kids in the United States as a Plan B if China decides to kill everyone when the political winds change.

Let me explain. In China, almost every way of making big money is technically illegal. The government owns all the land, and the means of production are owned by the government or government oligarchs. The rich got that way by breaking laws, and bribing the right people. Once in a while, there are political changes. New people are installed; older ones fall out. Then when there's a consolidation of power, the laws are suddenly enforced against you. That means that the disfavored are facing long jail terms or even execution.

http://blogs.reuters.com/nader...

You have Chinese nationals buying real estate in the United States and European countries as a Plan B. Their kids are raised outside Chinese, if they can afford it, to make sure that they don't get ensnared in any uprisings. If things go wrong, then you can escape with your life to the United States.

>Read: http://www.reuters.com/article... [reuters.com]

Welcome to Slashdot, where a vote by a state legislature gets moderated up higher than a congressional report detailing all the chemicals used in fracking.

>http://www.newsweek.com/theres...

Or where a person tries to cover up the fact that he got proved wrong because he hasn't checked his facts since Gasland came out in 2010 by stating, "Well, there's still more stuff we can know."

Shall we take a peek at what you originally claimed? Ah yes - "because the companies using it refuse to disclose what's in it."

Bullshit. And you know it's bullshit. Don't try to cover it up by saying, "Well, we don't know *everything* about all the chemicals". This is not the same, and you know it.

That's quite simply not true.

It quite simply is true.

Read: http://www.reuters.com/article...
http://www.newsweek.com/theres...

But get your facts straight. The US government, and all other governments hate money laundering.

HSBC to pay $1.9 billion U.S. fine in money-laundering case

(Reuters) - HSBC Holdings Plc agreed to pay a record $1.92 billion in fines to U.S. authorities for allowing itself to be used to launder a river of drug money flowing out of Mexico and other banking lapses.

Mexico's Sinaloa cartel and Colombia's Norte del Valle cartel between them laundered $881 million through HSBC and a Mexican unit, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.

In a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department, the bank acknowledged it failed to maintain an effective program against money laundering and failed to conduct basic due diligence on some of its account holders.

Under the agreement, which was reported by Reuters last week, the bank agreed to take steps to fix the problems, forfeit $1.256 billion, and retain a compliance monitor. The bank also agreed to pay $665 million in civil penalties to regulators including to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury Department.

Money laundering is required by drug cartels and terrorist organizations, which are both pursued relentlessly by governments, It's illegal corruption.

You are confusing this with legal corruption. Legal corruption is the normal order of events where the rich and powerful are allowed to do things that would be wrong if you did them, along with getting free money from the government that comes out of your pocket. You are a source of wealth for the rich, and the government is the middle man.

An example of inequality under the law is Mitt Romney's 401K. He has somewhere between $21 million and $101 million in a tax free IRA account. Most people have around $42,000 in their IRA according to the article. Until recently you were limited to around $6000 a year contribution account, and it was just increased to $16,500. So, ignoring appreciation in your IRA account, and using the $16,500 amount, it would take you around 60 years to get $1 million.

When this came out his lawyers said it was all legal and he paid all the necessary taxes. I believe that. You, however, have a fixed amount of money that you can save on taxes retirement; it's not based on your income in any way. He lives by one set of rules, you live by a completely different set of rules. Legal corruption.

As for free money from the government, what do you think the TARP bailout was about?

The Senate Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the TARP concluded on January 9, 2009: "In particular, the Panel sees no evidence that the U.S. Treasury has used TARP funds to support the housing market by avoiding preventable foreclosures". The panel also concluded that "Although half the money has not yet been received by the banks, hundreds of billions of dollars have been injected into the marketplace with no demonstrable effects on lending."

Government officials overseeing the bailout have acknowledged difficulties in tracking the money and in measuring the bailout's effectiveness.

During 2008, companies that received $295 billion in bailout money had spent $114 million on lobbying and campaign contributions. Banks that received bailout money had compensated their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in 2007, including salaries, cash bonuses, stock options, and benefits including personal use of company jets and chauffeurs, home security, country club memberships, and professional money management. The Obama administratio

Whenever statistics is used to talk about discrimination (sexual, racial, religious), two conflicting sets of axioms are employed by the people arguing. Allow me to enumerate:

• All groups of people (genders, races, religions) are, on average, the same and any statistically-observed differences in their behavior or treatment can only be due to bigotry.
• All groups of people (genders, races, religions) are, on average, treated the same and any statistically-observed differences in their behavior or treatment can only be due their own differences from others.

Obviously, the first axiom — and conclusions — is the politically-correct official stance championed by the government. And I'd like to share it too. But it contradicts some of the well-known facts:

1. Vastly more Black kids (67%!) are growing up in single-parent households than any other race.
2. Asian kids — who should be, if the "Whites-are-racists" narrative is to be believed, be suffering just as well — are, in fact, doing so well, college admission boards (adherents of the first axiom) penalize them by about 140 points compared to Whites. It is so ugly, some Asians choose to not answer the "race" question on their application at all.

So, the first axiom is shot by reality...

Maybe, it is all about single-parenthood — all human cultures were highly suspicious of bastard children (the very term is a derogatory one). And not because the mother "sinned" — if that were the case, her subsequent marriage would not have absolved the child — but because it is much harder for a single parent to raise a child into a decent human being. So, the "preconditioned" response this study exposed may not be so much about race per se, as about the likelihood of the person to be not right in the head — they are about 2.5-3 times more likely to have grown up without a father.

It'd be interesting, if the study used Whites, who've grown up in those parts of the world, where Blacks' incidence of single-parenthood is not so awfully lopsided. And compared them with the American Whites.

In 2009 the top 50% of income-tax payers paid 97.75% of the total tax [ntu.org]. Do you suppose, the bottom 50% could pay much less than 2.25% — and would it help them, even if it could be arranged? So, as suspected, you don't have any substantiation to your claim, that the "top 1%" impoverishes everybody else. Class warfare much?

This is the only interesting statement in your post, 1 fact and a false conclusion. Of course the top 50% paid the majority of the taxes. In 1910, the top 10% paid the majority of the taxes. Some stats: there were 305M in the US in 2009, of which roughly 74M were children and 40M were over 65. So excluding people like Buffet (a top 0.001%er over 65 and an outlier) we'll say there were roughly 190M eligible working people, of which 117M reported wages/salaries which gives you a working population of roughly 61%, just to put employment in proper perspective. Average income was $54,265 for those 117M people, yet the average per capita income was more than $38K as total income was $11,852,715,000,000, or roughly $101K per taxpayer. Yet these numbers are somewhat off, as "taxpayer" can be a single individual or married couple, but the back of napkin calculations jibe with the Dept of Labor of a workforce about 60% employed, so I'll call it a wash.

Historically, we have used a stepped tax system. With the first income tax, the first step only included the top 10%, as the income level was set to that level, so only people earning above that mark paid tax. The overly complex graduated system we have now in simple terms is setup so that people that earn more pay more tax, but has devolved to the point that you pay tax even if you're below the median income (say, if you're single with no kids and no mortgage, ie, no deductions)

All I'm promoting is that the tax system gets reset to a simpler system keyed to inflation, so that people making 125% of the median pay no tax, and people above it do. Remove most, if not all deductions, and be done with it. (This is similar to the "flat tax" proposals that have been floating about) If you're concerned that I'm attempting to shift the tax to others, don't be, I'll fall into the "taxed" group. I'd be happier if people above me on the scale weren't paying less than I do however.

To quote a friend of mine: "I'm happy to pay taxes, it means I'm making money".

Heh, yeah, that's exactly why I bothered to stick the word "probably" in there. Plenty of less reputable news sources have been making hay of Kerry's Sept 11 visit with the king of Saudi Arabia ahead of the Nov 27 OPEC proclamation.

But yeah, the Saudis have enough of their own reasons to try to slow down the energy production of other states.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great...

They know their supply of ridiculously cheap oil is finite, and a lot of the middle East /is/ starting to look forwards for ways to diversify their economies. This move might buy them a little more time in the... long/medium run.

Somehow I doubt having overconfident civilians in a chaotic situation with guns will help anything. Surprise is a key element of terrorism, and well-intentioned people with guns may not have the opportunity to respond when something bad does happen. You're more likely to get injured civilians shot in the crossfire from friendly fire or just poor aim. Heck, it's hard enough getting police to use/refrain-from-using firearms appropriately in crowded areas.

Since the US is the number 2 polluter in the world!

http://www.reuters.com/news/pi...
(probably not the most accurate report but good enough example).

If it comes from the disk firmware, even Gentoo can't get rid of it!

Who is training them? In fact, try considering who created them.

Chickens flying everywhere...

> Who ISN'T on a terror watch list these days ?

Actual terrorists. The boston bombers were reported to the FBI by Russian security services but nobody was watching them.

Bombing a public street is not a threat to the profits of any major corporation. Therefor, not important. The FBI no longer has any resources to protect citizens. They are all looking for IP pirates.

> Who ISN'T on a terror watch list these days ?

Actual terrorists. The boston bombers were reported to the FBI by Russian security services but nobody was watching them. One of the Hebdo shooters was known to have gone to Yemen and studied with the underwear bomber the other had been to jail for recruiting extremists and still nobody was watching them.

Try looking for real perspective than repeating FUD and misreading facts;

http://link.springer.com/artic...

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

http://blogs.scientificamerica...

http://news.discovery.com/eart...

http://www.insidescience.org/c...

Now, generally im against no bid contracts, but this one makes sense.

Using Boeing makes sense. If Airbus was used, it would be more expensive because it would have to be stripped down and built back up again to make sure it was free from European listening devices. After all, if the US already does this to other countries with its presidential Boeing airplanes and Merkel's cell phone. It can't really complain when other countries retaliate and try to do the same thing back to the US White House.

No they aren't.

That's an issue with "how," not "what."

Like it or not, the DEA is doing the job they're supposed to do. If you want them to do what you said, then get the laws changed.

No they aren't.

They do admit what they can figure out about the success of this year's flu shot.

Not in their advertising.

Do you have any evidence that anybody makes much money on flu shots?

Sure, no problem. First-page hits for "flu vaccine profit". Your inquiry is disingenuous, if you cared you'd have used google.

First, warm, but not the hottest dozen in history. Do you even realize when you're being absurdly hyperbolic?
http://c3headlines.typepad.com...
(from the 1990 IPCC report: http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports...)

Second: Climatologists have been scrambling for an explanation of why their models predicted constant warming, but it seems to have vanished for much of the past 15 years.
http://www.reuters.com/article...
This has led to the current theory that the oceans have absorbed far more warming than modeled previously. Could be science, or could be desperately shifting goalposts. Your mileage will vary based on your politics, most likely.

If they did have any talent pre-snowden, I can guaruntee the pushback against hacker types in general would have either got them all fired, or drove them to quit. The government is a bunch of scared idiots who talk a better game than they have, and then try and pawn some unrelated person into doing the work they say the do. What the snowden leaks showed is the NSA has the capacity to attack misconfigured and obsolete systems, and will to do it at absolute scale. All this because they don't really know what they are doing and are thrashing around like a wounded animal.

Also, the NSA fired 90% of its sysadmins right after the snowden leaks where made public.
http://www.reuters.com/article...

Thats not the actions of a proffesional outfit. Thats a stuck pig running around scared for its life, doing extremely desperate measures for damage control.

The leverage we have over the federal government is "No, we won't work for you"

That's what I thought, but apparently Title II reclassifies them as telecom providers, which means that the internet tax freedom act doesn't apply to them:

http://blogs.reuters.com/great...

The price will go up by about 16% unless the internet tax law is changed to also apply to telecoms, which it may as well because the line between telecom and broadband is very much muddled these days, and will be even more so when practically all voice traffic is done over IP.

Or, alternatively, if a new form of Title II is created that applies all of the same effects, without the New Deal era provisions. (The FCC does not have the authority to do this, only congress does. The FCC does however have the authority to reclassify internet providers to existing Title II rules though.)

IMO the best thing to do is to simply remove the New Deal provisions from Title II and just use that, which would probably also lower your cell phone bill (which, depending on your state, you add anywhere from 10% to 25% to your bill, which IMO is due to them still being perceived as a rich man's luxury.)

So you can't trust government when it comes to stopping people with a demonstrated and announced desire to poison, shoot, or blow you up...

:-) Stopping them? You really are a funny guy! That's why I like you so much. Yes, there we are, 'stopping' the next batch.

You are wrong.

The change from selling more energy to selling services which happen to involve energy is called "decoupling", eg selling streetlighting rather than the energy to run street lights. The market is already changing and demand falling and utilities are up sh*t creek if they don't change to avoid a "death spiral".

Eg http://uk.reuters.com/article/...

Rgds

Damon

Water is a more valuable commodity in space mining operations. Gold from space would be worthwhile only if the production costs was less than it is now (~$1,200 per ounce). Going up and down the gravity well is still too expensive

Rape involves penetration, milking some one against their will (human) would probably constitute sexual assault.

Not sure what vegans have to do with meta data collection though... unless the bugged the cheese! Vote with your wallet, don't buy from pizza joints with bugs in the cheese!

Damn, now you have me wondering what cheese made from human milk would taste like...
If you make cheese made from a (willing) vegan's milk, would it be OK to call it vegan cheese?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/02/us-cheese-breastmilk-idUSTRE7413X020110502

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

The problem with islam today is the mainstream muslim population is unwilling to tell their brothers to stop terrorist activity.

Last paragraph of TFA, or 7th paragraph of this:

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

This kind of condemnation isn't uncommon, and if you speak with any Muslim they're all disgusted with these assholes. Do they have to set up billboards?

The FBI doesnt get to make that decision, A Judge or congress will

Yeah, a FISA judge who believes that metadata doesn't require a warrant, when metadata is itself surveillance, by definition.

Whatever - the sooner we admit to the police state and the smoldering remains of the Constitution, the sooner we can get on with fixing the society. Good experiment, this Natural Rights Republic, now it's time to learn from the results (and conclude that a government to protect rights is a logically inconsistent proposition).

Aaaaand unfortunately the sugar and corn industries don't have deep, scrumdiddlyumptious pockets like Mars Inc: http://www.reuters.com/article...

A hardware-maker allowing its devices to be physically compromised by the government is absolutely not mundane--give me one example of this news being reported elsewhere before the Snowden leaks. Our own government disagrees with you, since it has taken great lengths to warn US businesses not to use Chinese networking hardware, for fear that the Chinese would do just what it is proven our own government has done.

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

"Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, at a press conference to release the report, said companies that had used Huawei equipment had reported "numerous allegations" of unexpected behavior, including routers supposedly sending large data packs to China late at night."

And international markets agree with me (and not you) on the gravity of this news for Cisco's outlook:

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

Cisco's CEO, John Chambers:

âoeI do think (the NSA revelation) is a factor in China.â In May 2014, in response to the alleged NSA spying programs, Chambers wrote the Obama Administration, âoeif these allegations are true, these actions will undermine confidence in our industry and in the ability of technology companies to deliver products globally.â

From a former NSA agent:
"The constant stream of news about NSAâ(TM)s activities has raised broader questions, particularly internationally, about the security of technologies coming from U.S. companies. This has been measurably hitting the bottom lines of companies like Cisco and Juniper and caused many companies to look to alternatives like Huawei."

How's that for "mundane"?

Life expectancy for inuits is still about 65 years, over a decade less than in general population (Inuit lifespan stagnates while Canada's rises). Diabetes is more common among them than in general population, too.

There are many factors that contribute to this (access to health care, etc.) and I don't claim to be expert in the subject. Still, I'd be quite hesitant to look at them as an example of healthy lifestyle or something.

The Inuit suffer from diabetes like the Native American tribes in the USA for one reason, they've adopted a western diet based in grains and sugar from their traditional diet which is lower in carbohydrates than the world average.. Sorry to be another low carb fanatic, but time and time again a "healthy" diet according to the USDA isn't healthy.

Life expectancy for inuits is still about 65 years, over a decade less than in general population (Inuit lifespan stagnates while Canada's rises). Diabetes is more common among them than in general population, too.

There are many factors that contribute to this (access to health care, etc.) and I don't claim to be expert in the subject. Still, I'd be quite hesitant to look at them as an example of healthy lifestyle or something.

2) KKK may be "monitored", but they are allowed to speak, demonstrate, organize, and so forth as long as they commit no actual crimes (arson etc).

In the US the KKK is really close to the government. They, and other right wing advocates of violence, get away with a lot of stuff that would end up in big trouble for non-right wingers.

For example, the incoming House Whip, Steve Scalise, gave a well received speech to a white nationalist group in 2002

(Reuters) - U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, gave a speech at a conference of white nationalists when he was a state lawmaker in 2002, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing his spokeswoman.

Spokeswoman Moira Bagley said Scalise, the No. 3 Republican in the House of Representatives, was not familiar with the ideology of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, or EURO, when he attended the event in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, the Washington Post reported.

EURO was founded in 2000 by David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and ran a high-profile race for governor of the state in 1991.

Given the name of the group, and the participation of David Duke, his claim he was unaware of the white racist nature of the gathering are not credible.

As for toleration of right wing threats of violence, there's an ongoing problem in Utah with people with guns threatening Bureau of Land Management employees

(Reuters) - A pair of motorists in a pick-up truck brandished a firearm and flashed a threatening sign at a federal land management agent in Utah, officials said on Thursday, about a month after a widely-publicized armed standoff with a rancher.

...

Crandall said a BLM employee was driving an agency vehicle on Interstate 15 near Nephi, about 90 miles south of Salt Lake City when two motorists whose faces were covered pulled alongside him and made an obscene gesture.

The suspects pulled away but returned minutes later, flashing a gun and a hand-scrawled sign that read: "You need to die," Crandall said.

She said the incident was reported to the Utah Highway Patrol but the BLM agent could not provide investigators with a license plate number because it appeared to be covered with duct tape.

So imagine if some non-honkies in masks threatened a federal employee with guns. There would be a 100 person team from the FBI on the case immediately, and someone would be arrested shortly whether they were involved or not. Not many resources were spent trying to find the perps in this case. Since it's Utah, all that happened is the the BLM has removed insignia from their vehicles.

So not all terrorists are created equal. It counts less if you are white and Christian.