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Imagine going back in time 15 years and warning everyone about all the crazy shit coming down the pipe. They would send you to the funny farm!

-The presidential election will be decided by one vote... on the supreme court.

-There will be a nuclear terrorist attack on New York, perpetrated by Israel, the Bush administration, and the Pentagon, with obvious evidence right out in the open, and nobody will question it.

-The attack will be used as bait and switch to wage a $3 trillion war against a country which didn't even have anything to do with the patsies, let alone the actual attack.

-There will be a resurgence of fascism and slavery, and people will call it freedom.

-Two Skull and Bonesmen will run against each other in 2004. They will refuse to talk about it and everyone else will be cool with that. Isn't democracy great?

-TV will be mostly fearmongering, propaganda, celebrity gossip, and reality shows about giant-assed sluts. There will be a time when the truthiest TV news will be on Comedy Central. "The Onion Reality" will acquire meaning.

-A black gay foreign muslim communist will become president. He will spend most of his time golfing, reading from a teleprompter, and watching drone bombings. By any objective measures he will be worse than Bush, but the left will love him, because thinking anything else would be racist.

-The Fed will print tens of trillions of dollars and give it to the banks, including many foreign banks, but hyperinflation will be delayed because the economy will suck so bad that people will hold held their dollars tight. People will be awed by the power of central planning.

-Billion dollar scams will become so common that most will be ignored. Only one person will go to jail, and only because he stole from Zionist charities.

-Housing will be sliced and diced so many ways that people will end up getting foreclosed on by multiple banks that they never even signed with. Nobody will have clear title to their house. And nobody will go to jail.

-They will change the rules so that bank accounts can be raided due to bank failure, in addition to all the other excuses for legalized plunder. Banks will stop paying interest. Despite all this, there will not be bank runs. One might think that's because everyone will be more afraid of cops stealing their cash, but no. It will be because everyone will be brick stupid.

-A passenger jet will be abducted to Diego Garcia. The media will blame terrorists, then aliens and black holes, then back to Kim's giant ass.

-There will be SWAT team raids over raw milk, unpaid student loans, feeding the homeless, etc, etc. Babies will get their faces blown off. The only people who will go to jail (or the morgue) will be the innocent victims.

-The Russians will become the good guys.

But we're just getting started! Think of all the crazy shit coming down the pipe for the NEXT fifteen years! If we don't get at least one hoaxed ailen attack by 2030, Krugman and I will be very disappointed.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-02/2015-will-be-all-about-iran-china-and-russia#comment-5617702

Imagine going back in time 15 years and warning everyone about all the crazy shit coming down the pipe. They would send you to the funny farm!

-The presidential election will be decided by one vote... on the supreme court.

-There will be a nuclear terrorist attack on New York, perpetrated by Israel, the Bush administration, and the Pentagon, with obvious evidence right out in the open, and nobody will question it.

-The attack will be used as bait and switch to wage a $3 trillion war against a country which didn't even have anything to do with the patsies, let alone the actual attack.

-There will be a resurgence of fascism and slavery, and people will call it freedom.

-Two Skull and Bonesmen will run against each other in 2004. They will refuse to talk about it and everyone else will be cool with that. Isn't democracy great?

-TV will be mostly fearmongering, propaganda, celebrity gossip, and reality shows about giant-assed sluts. There will be a time when the truthiest TV news will be on Comedy Central. "The Onion Reality" will acquire meaning.

-A black gay foreign muslim communist will become president. He will spend most of his time golfing, reading from a teleprompter, and watching drone bombings. By any objective measures he will be worse than Bush, but the left will love him, because thinking anything else would be racist.

-The Fed will print tens of trillions of dollars and give it to the banks, including many foreign banks, but hyperinflation will be delayed because the economy will suck so bad that people will hold held their dollars tight. People will be awed by the power of central planning.

-Billion dollar scams will become so common that most will be ignored. Only one person will go to jail, and only because he stole from Zionist charities.

-Housing will be sliced and diced so many ways that people will end up getting foreclosed on by multiple banks that they never even signed with. Nobody will have clear title to their house. And nobody will go to jail.

-They will change the rules so that bank accounts can be raided due to bank failure, in addition to all the other excuses for legalized plunder. Banks will stop paying interest. Despite all this, there will not be bank runs. One might think that's because everyone will be more afraid of cops stealing their cash, but no. It will be because everyone will be brick stupid.

-A passenger jet will be abducted to Diego Garcia. The media will blame terrorists, then aliens and black holes, then back to Kim's giant ass.

-There will be SWAT team raids over raw milk, unpaid student loans, feeding the homeless, etc, etc. Babies will get their faces blown off. The only people who will go to jail (or the morgue) will be the innocent victims.

-The Russians will become the good guys.

But we're just getting started! Think of all the crazy shit coming down the pipe for the NEXT fifteen years! If we don't get at least one hoaxed ailen attack by 2030, Krugman and I will be very disappointed.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-02/2015-will-be-all-about-iran-china-and-russia#comment-5617702

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-02/2015-will-be-all-about-iran-china-and-russia#comment-5617702

Imagine going back in time 15 years and warning everyone about all the crazy shit coming down the pipe. They would send you to the funny farm!

-The presidential election will be decided by one vote... on the supreme court.

-There will be a nuclear terrorist attack on New York, perpetrated by Israel, the Bush administration, and the Pentagon, with obvious evidence right out in the open, and nobody will question it.

-The attack will be used as bait and switch to wage a $3 trillion war against a country which didn't even have anything to do with the patsies, let alone the actual attack.

-There will be a resurgence of fascism and slavery, and people will call it freedom.

-Two Skull and Bonesmen will run against each other in 2004. They will refuse to talk about it and everyone else will be cool with that. Isn't democracy great?

-TV will be mostly fearmongering, propaganda, celebrity gossip, and reality shows about giant-assed sluts. There will be a time when the truthiest TV news will be on Comedy Central. "The Onion Reality" will acquire meaning.

-A black gay foreign muslim communist will become president. He will spend most of his time golfing, reading from a teleprompter, and watching drone bombings. By any objective measures he will be worse than Bush, but the left will love him, because thinking anything else would be racist.

-The Fed will print tens of trillions of dollars and give it to the banks, including many foreign banks, but hyperinflation will be delayed because the economy will suck so bad that people will hold held their dollars tight. People will be awed by the power of central planning.

-Billion dollar scams will become so common that most will be ignored. Only one person will go to jail, and only because he stole from Zionist charities.

-Housing will be sliced and diced so many ways that people will end up getting foreclosed on by multiple banks that they never even signed with. Nobody will have clear title to their house. And nobody will go to jail.

-They will change the rules so that bank accounts can be raided due to bank failure, in addition to all the other excuses for legalized plunder. Banks will stop paying interest. Despite all this, there will not be bank runs. One might think that's because everyone will be more afraid of cops stealing their cash, but no. It will be because everyone will be brick stupid.

-A passenger jet will be abducted to Diego Garcia. The media will blame terrorists, then aliens and black holes, then back to Kim's giant ass.

-There will be SWAT team raids over raw milk, unpaid student loans, feeding the homeless, etc, etc. Babies will get their faces blown off. The only people who will go to jail (or the morgue) will be the innocent victims.

-The Russians will become the good guys.

But we're just getting started! Think of all the crazy shit coming down the pipe for the NEXT fifteen years! If we don't get at least one hoaxed ailen attack by 2030, Krugman and I will be very disappointed..

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-02/2015-will-be-all-about-iran-china-and-russia#comment-5617702

Imagine going back in time 15 years and warning everyone about all the crazy shit coming down the pipe. They would send you to the funny farm!

-The presidential election will be decided by one vote... on the supreme court.

-There will be a nuclear terrorist attack on New York, perpetrated by Israel, the Bush administration, and the Pentagon, with obvious evidence right out in the open, and nobody will question it.

-The attack will be used as bait and switch to wage a $3 trillion war against a country which didn't even have anything to do with the patsies, let alone the actual attack.

-There will be a resurgence of fascism and slavery, and people will call it freedom.

-Two Skull and Bonesmen will run against each other in 2004. They will refuse to talk about it and everyone else will be cool with that. Isn't democracy great?

-TV will be mostly fearmongering, propaganda, celebrity gossip, and reality shows about giant-assed sluts. There will be a time when the truthiest TV news will be on Comedy Central. "The Onion Reality" will acquire meaning.

-A black gay foreign muslim communist will become president. He will spend most of his time golfing, reading from a teleprompter, and watching drone bombings. By any objective measures he will be worse than Bush, but the left will love him, because thinking anything else would be racist.

-The Fed will print tens of trillions of dollars and give it to the banks, including many foreign banks, but hyperinflation will be delayed because the economy will suck so bad that people will hold held their dollars tight. People will be awed by the power of central planning.

-Billion dollar scams will become so common that most will be ignored. Only one person will go to jail, and only because he stole from Zionist charities.

-Housing will be sliced and diced so many ways that people will end up getting foreclosed on by multiple banks that they never even signed with. Nobody will have clear title to their house. And nobody will go to jail.

-They will change the rules so that bank accounts can be raided due to bank failure, in addition to all the other excuses for legalized plunder. Banks will stop paying interest. Despite all this, there will not be bank runs. One might think that's because everyone will be more afraid of cops stealing their cash, but no. It will be because everyone will be brick stupid.

-A passenger jet will be abducted to Diego Garcia. The media will blame terrorists, then aliens and black holes, then back to Kim's giant ass.

-There will be SWAT team raids over raw milk, unpaid student loans, feeding the homeless, etc, etc. Babies will get their faces blown off. The only people who will go to jail (or the morgue) will be the innocent victims.

-The Russians will become the good guys.

But we're just getting started! Think of all the crazy shit coming down the pipe for the NEXT fifteen years! If we don't get at least one hoaxed ailen attack by 2030, Krugman and I will be very disappointed.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-02/2015-will-be-all-about-iran-china-and-russia#comment-5617702

Imagine going back in time 15 years and warning everyone about all the crazy shit coming down the pipe. They would send you to the funny farm!

-The presidential election will be decided by one vote... on the supreme court.

-There will be a nuclear terrorist attack on New York, perpetrated by Israel, the Bush administration, and the Pentagon, with obvious evidence right out in the open, and nobody will question it.

-The attack will be used as bait and switch to wage a $3 trillion war against a country which didn't even have anything to do with the patsies, let alone the actual attack.

-There will be a resurgence of fascism and slavery, and people will call it freedom.

-Two Skull and Bonesmen will run against each other in 2004. They will refuse to talk about it and everyone else will be cool with that. Isn't democracy great?

-TV will be mostly fearmongering, propaganda, celebrity gossip, and reality shows about giant-assed sluts. There will be a time when the truthiest TV news will be on Comedy Central. "The Onion Reality" will acquire meaning.

-A black gay foreign muslim communist will become president. He will spend most of his time golfing, reading from a teleprompter, and watching drone bombings. By any objective measures he will be worse than Bush, but the left will love him, because thinking anything else would be racist.

-The Fed will print tens of trillions of dollars and give it to the banks, including many foreign banks, but hyperinflation will be delayed because the economy will suck so bad that people will hold held their dollars tight. People will be awed by the power of central planning.

-Billion dollar scams will become so common that most will be ignored. Only one person will go to jail, and only because he stole from Zionist charities.

-Housing will be sliced and diced so many ways that people will end up getting foreclosed on by multiple banks that they never even signed with. Nobody will have clear title to their house. And nobody will go to jail.

-They will change the rules so that bank accounts can be raided due to bank failure, in addition to all the other excuses for legalized plunder. Banks will stop paying interest. Despite all this, there will not be bank runs. One might think that's because everyone will be more afraid of cops stealing their cash, but no. It will be because everyone will be brick stupid.

-A passenger jet will be abducted to Diego Garcia. The media will blame terrorists, then aliens and black holes, then back to Kim's giant ass.

-There will be SWAT team raids over raw milk, unpaid student loans, feeding the homeless, etc, etc. Babies will get their faces blown off. The only people who will go to jail (or the morgue) will be the innocent victims.

-The Russians will become the good guys.

But we're just getting started! Think of all the crazy shit coming down the pipe for the NEXT fifteen years! If we don't get at least one hoaxed ailen attack by 2030, Krugman and I will be very disappointed.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-02/2015-will-be-all-about-iran-china-and-russia#comment-5617702

Imagine going back in time 15 years and warning everyone about all the crazy shit coming down the pipe. They would send you to the funny farm!

-The presidential election will be decided by one vote... on the supreme court.

-There will be a nuclear terrorist attack on New York, perpetrated by Israel, the Bush administration, and the Pentagon, with obvious evidence right out in the open, and nobody will question it.

-The attack will be used as bait and switch to wage a $3 trillion war against a country which didn't even have anything to do with the patsies, let alone the actual attack.

-There will be a resurgence of fascism and slavery, and people will call it freedom.

-Two Skull and Bonesmen will run against each other in 2004. They will refuse to talk about it and everyone else will be cool with that. Isn't democracy great?

-TV will be mostly fearmongering, propaganda, celebrity gossip, and reality shows about giant-assed sluts. There will be a time when the truthiest TV news will be on Comedy Central. "The Onion Reality" will acquire meaning.

-A black gay foreign muslim communist will become president. He will spend most of his time golfing, reading from a teleprompter, and watching drone bombings. By any objective measures he will be worse than Bush, but the left will love him, because thinking anything else would be racist.

-The Fed will print tens of trillions of dollars and give it to the banks, including many foreign banks, but hyperinflation will be delayed because the economy will suck so bad that people will hold held their dollars tight. People will be awed by the power of central planning.

-Billion dollar scams will become so common that most will be ignored. Only one person will go to jail, and only because he stole from Zionist charities.

-Housing will be sliced and diced so many ways that people will end up getting foreclosed on by multiple banks that they never even signed with. Nobody will have clear title to their house. And nobody will go to jail.

-They will change the rules so that bank accounts can be raided due to bank failure, in addition to all the other excuses for legalized plunder. Banks will stop paying interest. Despite all this, there will not be bank runs. One might think that's because everyone will be more afraid of cops stealing their cash, but no. It will be because everyone will be brick stupid.

-A passenger jet will be abducted to Diego Garcia. The media will blame terrorists, then aliens and black holes, then back to Kim's giant ass.

-There will be SWAT team raids over raw milk, unpaid student loans, feeding the homeless, etc, etc. Babies will get their faces blown off. The only people who will go to jail (or the morgue) will be the innocent victims.

-The Russians will become the good guys.

But we're just getting started! Think of all the crazy shit coming down the pipe for the NEXT fifteen years! If we don't get at least one hoaxed ailen attack by 2030, Krugman and I will be very disappointed.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-02/2015-will-be-all-about-iran-china-and-russia#comment-5617702

Imagine going back in time 15 years and warning everyone about all the crazy shit coming down the pipe. They would send you to the funny farm!

-The presidential election will be decided by one vote... on the supreme court.

-There will be a nuclear terrorist attack on New York, perpetrated by Israel, the Bush administration, and the Pentagon, with obvious evidence right out in the open, and nobody will question it.

-The attack will be used as bait and switch to wage a $3 trillion war against a country which didn't even have anything to do with the patsies, let alone the actual attack.

-There will be a resurgence of fascism and slavery, and people will call it freedom.

-Two Skull and Bonesmen will run against each other in 2004. They will refuse to talk about it and everyone else will be cool with that. Isn't democracy great?

-TV will be mostly fearmongering, propaganda, celebrity gossip, and reality shows about giant-assed sluts. There will be a time when the truthiest TV news will be on Comedy Central. "The Onion Reality" will acquire meaning.

-A black gay foreign muslim communist will become president. He will spend most of his time golfing, reading from a teleprompter, and watching drone bombings. By any objective measures he will be worse than Bush, but the left will love him, because thinking anything else would be racist.

-The Fed will print tens of trillions of dollars and give it to the banks, including many foreign banks, but hyperinflation will be delayed because the economy will suck so bad that people will hold held their dollars tight. People will be awed by the power of central planning.

-Billion dollar scams will become so common that most will be ignored. Only one person will go to jail, and only because he stole from Zionist charities.

-Housing will be sliced and diced so many ways that people will end up getting foreclosed on by multiple banks that they never even signed with. Nobody will have clear title to their house. And nobody will go to jail.

-They will change the rules so that bank accounts can be raided due to bank failure, in addition to all the other excuses for legalized plunder. Banks will stop paying interest. Despite all this, there will not be bank runs. One might think that's because everyone will be more afraid of cops stealing their cash, but no. It will be because everyone will be brick stupid.

-A passenger jet will be abducted to Diego Garcia. The media will blame terrorists, then aliens and black holes, then back to Kim's giant ass.

-There will be SWAT team raids over raw milk, unpaid student loans, feeding the homeless, etc, etc. Babies will get their faces blown off. The only people who will go to jail (or the morgue) will be the innocent victims.

-The Russians will become the good guys.

But we're just getting started! Think of all the crazy shit coming down the pipe for the NEXT fifteen years! If we don't get at least one hoaxed ailen attack by 2030, Krugman and I will be very disappointed.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-02/2015-will-be-all-about-iran-china-and-russia#comment-5617702

Imagine going back in time 15 years and warning everyone about all the crazy shit coming down the pipe. They would send you to the funny farm!

-The presidential election will be decided by one vote... on the supreme court.

-There will be a nuclear terrorist attack on New York, perpetrated by Israel, the Bush administration, and the Pentagon, with obvious evidence right out in the open, and nobody will question it.

-The attack will be used as bait and switch to wage a $3 trillion war against a country which didn't even have anything to do with the patsies, let alone the actual attack.

-There will be a resurgence of fascism and slavery, and people will call it freedom.

-Two Skull and Bonesmen will run against each other in 2004. They will refuse to talk about it and everyone else will be cool with that. Isn't democracy great?

-TV will be mostly fearmongering, propaganda, celebrity gossip, and reality shows about giant-assed sluts. There will be a time when the truthiest TV news will be on Comedy Central. "The Onion Reality" will acquire meaning.

-A black gay foreign muslim communist will become president. He will spend most of his time golfing, reading from a teleprompter, and watching drone bombings. By any objective measures he will be worse than Bush, but the left will love him, because thinking anything else would be racist.

-The Fed will print tens of trillions of dollars and give it to the banks, including many foreign banks, but hyperinflation will be delayed because the economy will suck so bad that people will hold held their dollars tight. People will be awed by the power of central planning.

-Billion dollar scams will become so common that most will be ignored. Only one person will go to jail, and only because he stole from Zionist charities.

-Housing will be sliced and diced so many ways that people will end up getting foreclosed on by multiple banks that they never even signed with. Nobody will have clear title to their house. And nobody will go to jail.

-They will change the rules so that bank accounts can be raided due to bank failure, in addition to all the other excuses for legalized plunder. Banks will stop paying interest. Despite all this, there will not be bank runs. One might think that's because everyone will be more afraid of cops stealing their cash, but no. It will be because everyone will be brick stupid.

-A passenger jet will be abducted to Diego Garcia. The media will blame terrorists, then aliens and black holes, then back to Kim's giant ass.

-There will be SWAT team raids over raw milk, unpaid student loans, feeding the homeless, etc, etc. Babies will get their faces blown off. The only people who will go to jail (or the morgue) will be the innocent victims.

-The Russians will become the good guys.

But we're just getting started! Think of all the crazy shit coming down the pipe for the NEXT fifteen years! If we don't get at least one hoaxed ailen attack by 2030, Krugman and I will be very disappointed.

Yes the new prices will be interesting.
Putin Kills "South Stream" Pipeline, Will Build New Massive Pipeline To Turkey Instead (12/01/2014)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
"massive gas pipeline that will travel from Russia, transit through Turkey, and stop at the Greek border – giving Russia access to the Southern European market. In effect, Russia will still have access to the Southern Stream endmarkets"

Egalitarianism

Wage gap myth:

http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf

Majors by Gender: Is It Bias or the Major that Determines Future Pay?

There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap

The Gender Pay Gap is a Complete Myth

Gender pay gap is not what activists claim

Equal pay statistics are bogus because they don’t compare like with like

Fair Pay Isn’t Always Equal Pay

Wage Gap Myth Exposed -- By Feminists

5 Feminist Myths That Will Not Die

The Wage Gap Myth

Don’t Blame Discrimination for Gender Wage Gap

The pay inequality myth: Women are more equal than you think

Women Now a Majority in American Workplaces

Labor force participation rate for men has never been lower.

Share of Men in Labor Force at All-Time Low

Women In Tech Make More Money And Land Better Jobs Than Men

Female U.S. corporate directors out-earn men: study

Female CEOs outearned men in 2009.

Women between ages 21 and 30 working full-time made 117% of men’s wages.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, single women between 22 and 30 years old earn an average of $27,000 a year. That’s 8% more than comparable men.

Workplace Salaries: At Last, Women on Top

Young Women’s Pay Exceeds Male Peers

The 15 Jobs Where Women Earn More Than Men

Women aged between 22 and 29 earn over £10 per hour on average, compared to men their same age who earn just under this amount.

Young women now earn more than men in UK

The Nobel peace prize winner of 2009 just bombed his 7th Muslim country.

True but I have friends who make more consulting in engineering than that guy does. I suspect they have more fun too.

What could be more fun than bombing seven countries after winning the Nobel Peace prize?

You saw the DEA do it with phone call records.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... Sept 4 2013
".... to place its employees in drug-fighting units around the country. Those employees sit alongside Drug Enforcement Administration agents and local detectives and supply them with the phone data from as far back as 1987.""
Thats just one tiny project with once set of data.
Water news http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
Power news http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
Thats just for one classic storage site thats in the news a lot.
Re So what would it really take to put this sort of thing together?
"The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control" 11 July 2014
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
"At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US, says whistleblower William Binney – that's a 'totalitarian mentality'"
Should give an average reader an idea of the US internal scale to store, track, index, search, voice print, call to, call from, other numbers, work back from hops surrounding people of interest.
ie well funded, all of the USA, over years, aspects of calls stored for years ready to be found in storage if seen at a protest, near a protest or near a person who was near a person at a protest.
ie you just need a lot of tame Room 641A like access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I'm always happy to provide citations.

China/Russia dropping the dollar: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7c79...

China/Russia dropping the dollar: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...

Unfunded liabilities (conservative), with a nod to the horribly underfunded private and municipal pensions: http://www.forbes.com/sites/re...

Keep in mind that once the dollar is effectively an also-ran currency, interest rates will go up on US treasuries. This will make the current debt interest payments unsustainable once the old debt is rolled into newer, higher-interest debt.

What do you have to say when presented with this information?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...

One cannot blame Cisco since, like any company, it will operate at the margin of the law irrespective of the consequences to the national economy. A country's economy is an national strategic asset not a free-for-all playground. Hell, this concept is not anathema to reasonable interpretations of capitalism. A balance must exist between allowing companies to flourish without falling in cannibalism (stakeholder capitalism vs shareholder capitalism kinda thing.)

That balance is lost in this country. Or perhaps it never had it but it was never a problem until globalization and other factors kicked in.

Regardless, this is another reason to tax capital gains the same (or as close) as income. This buy-back (on top of the layoffs) is pretty much a swap from income gains to capital gains which are taxed more favorably.

Or better yet, this is another reason to revamp our entire tax system : close all loopholes (including offshoring ones), lower tax brackets (both capital and income) while broadening the tax base and/or implement a value-added tax, eliminate double taxation, don't penalize companies from moving capital and operations abroad, BUT instead create incentives for *all* companies (national and foreign) to invest locally.

This Cisco thing is just a symptom of a greater malady.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...

Russians published their satellite data and detailed radar records. Data clearly implicates Ukraine army. Interviews with locals who seen this incident seem to confirm russian version. Yet western media managed to black it out completely. Russians asked US and Ukraine to publish their data. US is hiding its satellite data and istead published some joke screenshots. Ukraine government went even further: their security services confiscated data from air traffic control (there was also some BBS news on this topic, yet I didn't bookmark link for it).

It's all about BRICS and petrodollar. US thinks Putin has to be removed at all costs in order to keep petrodollar ponzi scheme working. This is pretty good summary of this whole Ukraine debacle.

Russians published their satellite data and detailed radar records. Data clearly implicates Ukraine army. Interviews with locals who seen this incident seem to confirm russian version. Yet western media managed to black it out completely. Russians asked US and Ukraine to publish their data. US is hiding its satellite data and istead published some joke screenshots. Ukraine government went even further: their security services confiscated data from air traffic control (there was also some BBS news on this topic, yet I didn't bookmark link for it).

It's all about BRICS and petrodollar. US thinks Putin has to be removed at all costs in order to keep petrodollar ponzi scheme working. This is pretty good summary of this whole Ukraine debacle.

No, you're DEMONSTRATABLY not. Most people in the US are dissatisfied with the number of vacation days ( http://www.zerohedge.com/news/... ) yet lack ANY power to change it. If the market actually worked (hint: it doesn't) then employers offering more vacation days would get better employees, gain a competitive advantage and crush employers with less vacation time.

Of course, in reality it's a race to the bottom. If a minimum vacation time wasn't set by law, then there'd be NO vacation time at all in a short amount of time.

You're so full of shit, Kiev is obviously hiding something because the first thing the Kiev military did was confiscate all ATC data, none of you Americans know what happened but you're the loudest in the world to scream "OMG RUSSIA DID IT!!1!1!!1!!", you guys and your comments make Americans look like fucking idiots.

MAS/MH17 never flew to that area, period, and the one day they did that they got shot.

Read the part in bold shill, Vagelis Karmiros compared days of Flightaware data, you fucking shills can't even get your facts straight.

Kiev forced MH17 to fly low

Ukraine authorities instructed MH17 to fly at 33,000 feet

SEPANG: The Ukrainian air traffic control (ATC) did not permit Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 to scale 35,000 feet, MAS director of operations, Captain Izham Ismail said on Saturday.

He said MH17 planned to fly at 35,000 feet but according to the ATC, there was other traffic at that time, and the ATC ordered the doomed plane to fly at the next best altitude at 33,000 feet, which was above the restricted altitude.

Kiev forced MH17 to deviate from its usual safer flight path

Was Flight MH-17 Diverted Over Restricted Airspace?

Flight path image

Perhaps the best visualization of what the issue is, comes from Vagelis Karmiros who has collated all the recent MH-17 flight paths as tracked by Flightaware and shows that while all ten most recent paths pass safely well south of the Donetsk region, and cross the zone above the Sea of Azov, it was only today's tragic flight that passed straight overhead Donetsk.

You're so full of shit, Kiev is obviously hiding something because the first thing the Kiev military did was confiscate all ATC data, none of you Americans know what happened but you're the loudest in the world to scream "OMG RUSSIA DID IT!!1!1!!1!!", you guys and your comments make Americans look like fucking idiots.

MAS/MH17 never flew to that area, period, and the one day they did that they got shot.

Read the part in bold shill, Vagelis Karmiros compared days of Flightaware data, you fucking shills can't even get your facts straight.

Kiev forced MH17 to fly low

Ukraine authorities instructed MH17 to fly at 33,000 feet

SEPANG: The Ukrainian air traffic control (ATC) did not permit Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 to scale 35,000 feet, MAS director of operations, Captain Izham Ismail said on Saturday.

He said MH17 planned to fly at 35,000 feet but according to the ATC, there was other traffic at that time, and the ATC ordered the doomed plane to fly at the next best altitude at 33,000 feet, which was above the restricted altitude.

Kiev forced MH17 to deviate from its usual safer flight path

Was Flight MH-17 Diverted Over Restricted Airspace?

Flight path image

Perhaps the best visualization of what the issue is, comes from Vagelis Karmiros who has collated all the recent MH-17 flight paths as tracked by Flightaware and shows that while all ten most recent paths pass safely well south of the Donetsk region, and cross the zone above the Sea of Azov, it was only today's tragic flight that passed straight overhead Donetsk.

If the CNN party line is some kind of 'evidence' that 'shows beyond reasonable doubt' to you then you must be really fucked in the head.

You want to be a judge, at least get Kiev to explain a few simple things first, Malaysia released the ATC record of MH370 shortly after it disappeared, so why is Kiev hiding the ATC record of MH17? What is Kiev hiding?

I am not trying to convince you shills, to you censoring truth is just a job, I am just laughing at your foolishness, this is not the good old year 2001 days where you could bullshit your way through by repeating CNN's narrative, the internet is the cat that got out of the bag and NSA/GCHQ are desperately guarding all social media with shills, thinking it can change people's mind.

Americans are afraid to post what they really think after the Prism leak, they don't want to goto gitmo, but don't be fucking stupid, just because you don't see their comments here doesn't mean you shills have convinced them. Independent media such as Veterans Today and Infowars have waken millions of people up.

The "OMG RUSSIA DID IT!!!1111!1!1!!" CNN party line requires total silence regarding Kiev ATC so I know for a fact you shills won't even dare talking about this:

Kiev forced MH17 to fly low

Ukraine authorities instructed MH17 to fly at 33,000 feet

SEPANG: The Ukrainian air traffic control (ATC) did not permit Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 to scale 35,000 feet, MAS director of operations, Captain Izham Ismail said on Saturday.

He said MH17 planned to fly at 35,000 feet but according to the ATC, there was other traffic at that time, and the ATC ordered the doomed plane to fly at the next best altitude at 33,000 feet, which was above the restricted altitude.

Kiev forced MH17 to deviate from its usual safer flight path

Was Flight MH-17 Diverted Over Restricted Airspace?

Flight path image

Perhaps the best visualization of what the issue is, comes from Vagelis Karmiros who has collated all the recent MH-17 flight paths as tracked by Flightaware and shows that while all ten most recent paths pass safely well south of the Donetsk region, and cross the zone above the Sea of Azov, it was only today's tragic flight that passed straight overhead Donetsk.

If the CNN party line is some kind of 'evidence' that 'shows beyond reasonable doubt' to you then you must be really fucked in the head.

You want to be a judge, at least get Kiev to explain a few simple things first, Malaysia released the ATC record of MH370 shortly after it disappeared, so why is Kiev hiding the ATC record of MH17? What is Kiev hiding?

I am not trying to convince you shills, to you censoring truth is just a job, I am just laughing at your foolishness, this is not the good old year 2001 days where you could bullshit your way through by repeating CNN's narrative, the internet is the cat that got out of the bag and NSA/GCHQ are desperately guarding all social media with shills, thinking it can change people's mind.

Americans are afraid to post what they really think after the Prism leak, they don't want to goto gitmo, but don't be fucking stupid, just because you don't see their comments here doesn't mean you shills have convinced them. Independent media such as Veterans Today and Infowars have waken millions of people up.

The "OMG RUSSIA DID IT!!!1111!1!1!!" CNN party line requires total silence regarding Kiev ATC so I know for a fact you shills won't even dare talking about this:

Kiev forced MH17 to fly low

Ukraine authorities instructed MH17 to fly at 33,000 feet

SEPANG: The Ukrainian air traffic control (ATC) did not permit Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 to scale 35,000 feet, MAS director of operations, Captain Izham Ismail said on Saturday.

He said MH17 planned to fly at 35,000 feet but according to the ATC, there was other traffic at that time, and the ATC ordered the doomed plane to fly at the next best altitude at 33,000 feet, which was above the restricted altitude.

Kiev forced MH17 to deviate from its usual safer flight path

Was Flight MH-17 Diverted Over Restricted Airspace?

Flight path image

Perhaps the best visualization of what the issue is, comes from Vagelis Karmiros who has collated all the recent MH-17 flight paths as tracked by Flightaware and shows that while all ten most recent paths pass safely well south of the Donetsk region, and cross the zone above the Sea of Azov, it was only today's tragic flight that passed straight overhead Donetsk.

Kiev forced MH17 to fly low

Ukraine authorities instructed MH17 to fly at 33,000 feet

SEPANG: The Ukrainian air traffic control (ATC) did not permit Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 to scale 35,000 feet, MAS director of operations, Captain Izham Ismail said on Saturday.

He said MH17 planned to fly at 35,000 feet but according to the ATC, there was other traffic at that time, and the ATC ordered the doomed plane to fly at the next best altitude at 33,000 feet, which was above the restricted altitude.

Kiev forced MH17 to deviate from its usual safer flight path

Was Flight MH-17 Diverted Over Restricted Airspace?

Flight path image

Perhaps the best visualization of what the issue is, comes from Vagelis Karmiros who has collated all the recent MH-17 flight paths as tracked by Flightaware and shows that while all ten most recent paths pass safely well south of the Donetsk region, and cross the zone above the Sea of Azov, it was only today's tragic flight that passed straight overhead Donetsk.

Kiev forced MH17 to fly low

Ukraine authorities instructed MH17 to fly at 33,000 feet

SEPANG: The Ukrainian air traffic control (ATC) did not permit Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 to scale 35,000 feet, MAS director of operations, Captain Izham Ismail said on Saturday.

He said MH17 planned to fly at 35,000 feet but according to the ATC, there was other traffic at that time, and the ATC ordered the doomed plane to fly at the next best altitude at 33,000 feet, which was above the restricted altitude.

Kiev forced MH17 to deviate from its usual safer flight path

Was Flight MH-17 Diverted Over Restricted Airspace?

Flight path image

Perhaps the best visualization of what the issue is, comes from Vagelis Karmiros who has collated all the recent MH-17 flight paths as tracked by Flightaware and shows that while all ten most recent paths pass safely well south of the Donetsk region, and cross the zone above the Sea of Azov, it was only today's tragic flight that passed straight overhead Donetsk.

Wrong, what else could force MH17 to deviate from its usual safe path and fly straight into a known war zone?

Kiev forced MH17 to fly low

Ukraine authorities instructed MH17 to fly at 33,000 feet

SEPANG: The Ukrainian air traffic control (ATC) did not permit Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 to scale 35,000 feet, MAS director of operations, Captain Izham Ismail said on Saturday.

He said MH17 planned to fly at 35,000 feet but according to the ATC, there was other traffic at that time, and the ATC ordered the doomed plane to fly at the next best altitude at 33,000 feet, which was above the restricted altitude.

Kiev forced MH17 to deviate from its usual safer flight path

Was Flight MH-17 Diverted Over Restricted Airspace?

Flight path image

Perhaps the best visualization of what the issue is, comes from Vagelis Karmiros who has collated all the recent MH-17 flight paths as tracked by Flightaware and shows that while all ten most recent paths pass safely well south of the Donetsk region, and cross the zone above the Sea of Azov, it was only today's tragic flight that passed straight overhead Donetsk.

Wrong, what else could force MH17 to deviate from its usual safe path and fly straight into a known war zone?

Kiev forced MH17 to fly low

Ukraine authorities instructed MH17 to fly at 33,000 feet

SEPANG: The Ukrainian air traffic control (ATC) did not permit Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 to scale 35,000 feet, MAS director of operations, Captain Izham Ismail said on Saturday.

He said MH17 planned to fly at 35,000 feet but according to the ATC, there was other traffic at that time, and the ATC ordered the doomed plane to fly at the next best altitude at 33,000 feet, which was above the restricted altitude.

Kiev forced MH17 to deviate from its usual safer flight path

Was Flight MH-17 Diverted Over Restricted Airspace?

Flight path image

Perhaps the best visualization of what the issue is, comes from Vagelis Karmiros who has collated all the recent MH-17 flight paths as tracked by Flightaware and shows that while all ten most recent paths pass safely well south of the Donetsk region, and cross the zone above the Sea of Azov, it was only today's tragic flight that passed straight overhead Donetsk.

Poor little Bush can't handle the truth, here is what actually happened outside the American brainwash echo chamber:

Kiev forced MH17 to fly low

Ukraine authorities instructed MH17 to fly at 33,000 feet

SEPANG: The Ukrainian air traffic control (ATC) did not permit Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 to scale 35,000 feet, MAS director of operations, Captain Izham Ismail said on Saturday.

He said MH17 planned to fly at 35,000 feet but according to the ATC, there was other traffic at that time, and the ATC ordered the doomed plane to fly at the next best altitude at 33,000 feet, which was above the restricted altitude.

Kiev forced MH17 to deviate from its usual safer flight path

Was Flight MH-17 Diverted Over Restricted Airspace?

Flight path image

Perhaps the best visualization of what the issue is, comes from Vagelis Karmiros who has collated all the recent MH-17 flight paths as tracked by Flightaware and shows that while all ten most recent paths pass safely well south of the Donetsk region, and cross the zone above the Sea of Azov, it was only today's tragic flight that passed straight overhead Donetsk.

Poor little Bush can't handle the truth, here is what actually happened outside the American brainwash echo chamber:

Kiev forced MH17 to fly low

Ukraine authorities instructed MH17 to fly at 33,000 feet

SEPANG: The Ukrainian air traffic control (ATC) did not permit Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 to scale 35,000 feet, MAS director of operations, Captain Izham Ismail said on Saturday.

He said MH17 planned to fly at 35,000 feet but according to the ATC, there was other traffic at that time, and the ATC ordered the doomed plane to fly at the next best altitude at 33,000 feet, which was above the restricted altitude.

Kiev forced MH17 to deviate from its usual safer flight path

Was Flight MH-17 Diverted Over Restricted Airspace?

Flight path image

Perhaps the best visualization of what the issue is, comes from Vagelis Karmiros who has collated all the recent MH-17 flight paths as tracked by Flightaware and shows that while all ten most recent paths pass safely well south of the Donetsk region, and cross the zone above the Sea of Azov, it was only today's tragic flight that passed straight overhead Donetsk.

I know I know, I can't believe this is Slashdot.

After reading 350 comments of Russia bashing I pointed out to some of them that Kiev is hiding all the ATC record and MH17 was forced by Kiev to deviate from its path and altitude, and the fucking idiots panicked and modded me down, one of them asked me for citation before I told him to simply fucking Google "MH17 deviated".

Ukraine authorities instructed MH17 to fly at 33,000 feet
  Was Flight MH-17 Diverted Over Restricted Airspace?

Americans, if you want to bash the Russians, you don't have to suck Kiev's dick to do it, why are you so afraid? Are you afraid that you'll not be known as the "good guys" anymore? Don't worry about that, people outside haven't considered you guys as the "good guys" for years.

After reading the comments here it is obvious the Americans are living in a different reality than the rest of the world.

Half the comments here are shills repeating the CNN narrative that everyone outside the US know is false.

MH17 was forced by Kiev to fly low so it'd get hit easier

Ukraine authorities instructed MH17 to fly at 33,000 feet

SEPANG: The Ukrainian air traffic control (ATC) did not permit Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 to scale 35,000 feet, MAS director of operations, Captain Izham Ismail said on Saturday.

He said MH17 planned to fly at 35,000 feet but according to the ATC, there was other traffic at that time, and the ATC ordered the doomed plane to fly at the next best altitude at 33,000 feet, which was above the restricted altitude.

MH17 was forced to deviated its flight path so it flew straight into the war zone

Was Flight MH-17 Diverted Over Restricted Airspace?
  Flight path image

Perhaps the best visualization of what the issue is, comes from Vagelis Karmiros who has collated all the recent MH-17 flight paths as tracked by Flightaware and shows that while all ten most recent paths pass safely well south of the Donetsk region, and cross the zone above the Sea of Azov, it was only today's tragic flight that passed straight overhead Donetsk.

After reading the comments here it is obvious the Americans are living in a different reality than the rest of the world.

Half the comments here are shills repeating the CNN narrative that everyone outside the US know is false.

MH17 was forced by Kiev to fly low so it'd get hit easier

Ukraine authorities instructed MH17 to fly at 33,000 feet

SEPANG: The Ukrainian air traffic control (ATC) did not permit Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 to scale 35,000 feet, MAS director of operations, Captain Izham Ismail said on Saturday.

He said MH17 planned to fly at 35,000 feet but according to the ATC, there was other traffic at that time, and the ATC ordered the doomed plane to fly at the next best altitude at 33,000 feet, which was above the restricted altitude.

MH17 was forced to deviated its flight path so it flew straight into the war zone

Was Flight MH-17 Diverted Over Restricted Airspace?
  Flight path image

Perhaps the best visualization of what the issue is, comes from Vagelis Karmiros who has collated all the recent MH-17 flight paths as tracked by Flightaware and shows that while all ten most recent paths pass safely well south of the Donetsk region, and cross the zone above the Sea of Azov, it was only today's tragic flight that passed straight overhead Donetsk.

For fucks sake stupid Americans, just google 'mh17 deviated'

The ban was from 0-32,000ft, MH17 was flying at 35,000ft just to be safe, but Kiev forced them to fly at 33,000 to make it easier to get hit.

MH17 Forced by Kiev to fly low

Ukraine authorities instructed MH17 to fly at 33,000 feet

SEPANG: The Ukrainian air traffic control (ATC) did not permit Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 to scale 35,000 feet, MAS director of operations, Captain Izham Ismail said on Saturday.

He said MH17 planned to fly at 35,000 feet but according to the ATC, there was other traffic at that time, and the ATC ordered the doomed plane to fly at the next best altitude at 33,000 feet, which was above the restricted altitude.

Deviated flight path

Was Flight MH-17 Diverted Over Restricted Airspace?
  Flight path image

Perhaps the best visualization of what the issue is, comes from Vagelis Karmiros who has collated all the recent MH-17 flight paths as tracked by Flightaware and shows that while all ten most recent paths pass safely well south of the Donetsk region, and cross the zone above the Sea of Azov, it was only today's tragic flight that passed straight overhead Donetsk.

For fucks sake stupid Americans, just google 'mh17 deviated'

The ban was from 0-32,000ft, MH17 was flying at 35,000ft just to be safe, but Kiev forced them to fly at 33,000 to make it easier to get hit.

MH17 Forced by Kiev to fly low

Ukraine authorities instructed MH17 to fly at 33,000 feet

SEPANG: The Ukrainian air traffic control (ATC) did not permit Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 to scale 35,000 feet, MAS director of operations, Captain Izham Ismail said on Saturday.

He said MH17 planned to fly at 35,000 feet but according to the ATC, there was other traffic at that time, and the ATC ordered the doomed plane to fly at the next best altitude at 33,000 feet, which was above the restricted altitude.

Deviated flight path

Was Flight MH-17 Diverted Over Restricted Airspace?
  Flight path image

Perhaps the best visualization of what the issue is, comes from Vagelis Karmiros who has collated all the recent MH-17 flight paths as tracked by Flightaware and shows that while all ten most recent paths pass safely well south of the Donetsk region, and cross the zone above the Sea of Azov, it was only today's tragic flight that passed straight overhead Donetsk.

This is the 3rd time I've caught you, you're definitely a NSA/GCHQ shill, copying and pasting from a script, just to earn a pay check, thinking you're part of the 'system', while in fact nobody in the higher ups gives a fuck about you.

Everyone outside the US knows the US created the Ukraine crisis, I'll just leave 3 proofs here:
  VP Biden's son joins Ukraine gas company's board
  American Diplomat Caught On Tape Saying "Fuck the EU"
  Was The Price Of Ukraine's "Liberation" The Handover Of Its Gold To The Fed?

So, do you believe abuses like those described here do not happen as a regular course of business: "NSA Employees Routinely Pass Around Nude Photos Obtained Via Mass Surveillance" http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...

I find that naive. Now, do I care? Not really. But I understand why some people might, and I don't consider that privacy purity.

It depends on the fine and the hardware?
France Responds To US BNP Fine, Will Train Hundreds Of Russian Seamen To Operate French-Made Warship (06/04/2014)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
Putin Slams US $9 Billion Fine Against French BNP As "Blackmail" For Russian Warship Deal
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...

It depends on the fine and the hardware?
France Responds To US BNP Fine, Will Train Hundreds Of Russian Seamen To Operate French-Made Warship (06/04/2014)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
Putin Slams US $9 Billion Fine Against French BNP As "Blackmail" For Russian Warship Deal
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...

Re 'My feeling is that European countries want to be friends with the US, because otherwise they get bullied by Russia."
The EU had 2 options - find its own oil and gas globally in the 1950's-70's and undercut protected US/UK oil brands with all the distant start up costs.
Enrico Mattei views on big oil and finding Italy much needed cheap energy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Option two was buy gas from the Soviet Union at set rates with new pipelines.
The Soviet Union and Russia was paid on time and kept to the letter of the contracts with the EU.
The EU and Russia seem to have a new vision of energy exports
Russia Rushes To Seal Ukraine-Bypassing Gas Pipeline: Lavrov Pays Bulgaria A Visit (07/07/2014)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...

Such a coincidence, just today I read this: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/... "10 Facts About The SWATification Of America That Everyone Should Know" "The number of SWAT team raids in the United States every year is now more than 25 times higher than it was back in 1980."

The best way to change that is to legalize all personal drug use. If the War on Drugs was successful at accomplishing any of its stated goals then we could have a debate about this, but it isn't, and no honest person who looks into the matter would conclude otherwise. Anyone who wants to do drugs can easily obtain them.

The only things we can control are whether criminal gangs or legitimate businesses will profit from this, and whether law enforcement gets to keep its single biggest excuse for militarizing itself. The idea that we can stop people who want drugs from using them is a dangerous fantasy with staggering social costs and always has been.

If you really want to minimize the impact of the portion of drug users who are irresponsible, a small fraction of what we spend now could be put towards treating it as a public medical/mental health issue, not a criminal/law-enforcement issue. Treatment can be offered to those who need it. Legal drugs would be cheap, plentiful and unadulterated, making their use safer and removing the incentive for the worst of addicts to rob and steal to obtain them. It would also go a long way towards creating the expectation that people should be responsible adults who do not need to be told how to live by a paternalistic government that parasitically profits from their problems.

Such a coincidence, just today I read this: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/... "10 Facts About The SWATification Of America That Everyone Should Know" "The number of SWAT team raids in the United States every year is now more than 25 times higher than it was back in 1980."

Homeland Security will jump on this as the perfect opportunity to build a prison large enough to hold us.

Already been done, at least in the movies.

Escape from L.A.
Escape from New York

That, of course, pubs all of the criminals behind walls, leaving the innocent people outside. And now a slight change of topic: did you know there are so many laws that everyone is guilty of something.

...what an interesting coincidence.

And tightening down the straps on my way too-thin tinfoil cap here, having a humongously-long wall would be handy to use as a backstop for all of the bullets Homeland Security has purchased. The question is: who are they going to put with their back to it?

Or do they really expect Titans to break through?

Yes... but this student is still wrong on petrodollar politics; and I won't even go into that regurgitated propaganda.
There's no "myth". Many countries, Russia and China included, are tired of the arrogance of a single country dominating the world, and are looking for alternatives to the petrodollar monopoly. One recent example is Russian energy giant Gazprom's clients switching from the dollar to euro or renminbi
Russia and China continue calling for the dollar to be replaced as the international reserve currency. They're also setting up the BRICS version of the World Bank and IMF.

So in other news:
russia-china-banking-deal-to-exclude-dollar-in-transactions-symbolic-blow-to-dollar
alternative-to-dollar-close-to-reality-as-brics-coalition-expands-to-80-nations/a>
The-sun-is-setting-on-dollar-supremacy-and-with-it-American-power

Re "If I had data like this, I could probably make a killing in the stock market or provide lots of insider information for hedge funds."
Thats the reality Australia, Canada, UK, NZ, Germany, France, other EU NSA helper nations face internally long term.
Generations of generals, top technical experts and their groomed staff are giving all their nations secure data away to the USA in real time.
How can a bright, local, entrepreneur with job creating, huge profit exports ever hope to compete against the USA? A nations best and brightest telcos are giving their own banking sectors time and trade/time sensitive data to the USA.
A nations telcos are giving their own emerging scientific data to the USA.
A nations telcos are networking their own gov data to the USA when they only ever upgrade to the next generation of junk encryption.
Re "It creates civil war and misery for a lot of people for the benefit of a very few by manipulating unstable systems into chaotic situations."
You can see that every year - the protected and well supported movement of CIA backed 'freedom fighters' help to reduce/split nations to smaller groups needing constant outside support.
How The US Is Arming Both Sides Of The Iraqi Conflict 06/12/2014
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
The only way out is for talented local entrepreneurs to understand what signals intelligence is when they used a phone, fax, network or any other digital device.
The only way out is for talented diplomatic staff to understand what signals intelligence is when they use their bespoke embassy communications equipment.

re "The only thing they're really good at is absorbing a blast coming from under the vehicle."
That was the origin for much of the tech. South Africa had to keep its troops moving down roads that where unsafe.
South African Border War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
All that decades of tech is been repackaged and sold to the US gov for its own distant small wars. The crew survives but the long term health costs add up as some of the energy of the event does shake the human body.
What is left after the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan is been gifted to US cities, states as great "free" tech for any municipal.
Just as the US mil budget had to pay for the construction and running costs so will the local cities, states have to pick up the costs for the mil grade bespoke parts and needed upgrades.
Across America, Police Departments Are Quietly Preparing For War (06/09/2014)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
Yes the "municipal budget" is going to have to stretch far for the parts, skilled staff and new costs ..... thats cash that will have to come from roads, schools, libraries, much needed infrastructure maintenance.
The other option to have enough local raids to self fund with confiscated property auctions. If the paper work is done just right it might bring in extra federal funding per raid too :)

Yeah no money for science, but you can sure give money to the cronies in the Banks, freebies for illegals and everyone EXCEPT it would appear if you are a American citizen or a Veteran.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...

Cost of living for the same STANDARD of living is much higher in Africa than the US. Actually, last I looked, the highest cost of living in the world was in Africa (thanks to inflows of Chinese hot money). http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...

But they still don't have a minimum wage, and their economies are still growing very quickly.

One of the items I discuss, besides our impending burial by an avalanche called WWIII and the technology misused to fight it, is our misuse of technology in general, which i will call rampant consumerism.

Nothing Apple produces makes a better life for anyone.

Neither the factory workers who make the product, or the countires where the resources seem to always attract a terrorist to make industrial goods/central bank...and therefore require a invasion a drone invasion of some kind.

Including all of the lawlessness drone shootings require.

I disagree with Cook's statement this is some sort of better life.

It is not.

It continues NOT to be in fact for just about everyone here reading this.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...

"1) Spend little on R&D for an electric vehicle. Sell it just cheap enough (at a loss if you have to) to meet the minimum requirement. Whine about it.
2) Put some effort and investment in developing an electric car that people will actually want with a manufacturing cost that leads to a price people are willing to pay. Refine the design over time so that it becomes that profit center that saves your bacon when the bottom inevitably drops out of the IC car market as the cost of gas heads toward the stratosphere."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-16/where-worlds-unsold-cars-go-die with 10 billion cars and lots where they simply store and refuse to sell 'normal' cars it is crazy. if the resources to build the cars wasn't used building them just to scrap 12 years later because selling them at a loss is unthinkable... and god forbid any auto plants get shutdown because too many car makers are making too many cars world wide. all that iron all that coal to make steel all those factories cranking out cars faster than ever with not one person on the 'sustainable' track of thinking, you know like shutting plants down, or having 4 day weeks and only 2 8 hour shifts instead of those factories. and now every car has a touchscreen tablet built in. and most of them will never be turned on.

During the Russia Ukrane
we avoided 1 entirely because this hasnt been our style since 1910. We avoided 2 because we have a 25 year track record of failed wars and coups, not to mention king georges debacle in iraq. we also dont pick fights with countries that possess a nuclear fleet or long range bombers. Three works, and it works because we're beholden as members of NATO to protect our allies. because we rely on russia very little (as does russia us) we expect to get away with what basically amounts to a great deal of symbolism.

Wrong, US participated because Biden needed to grab oil for his son. The Farce Is Complete: Joe Biden's Son Joins Board Of Largest Ukraine Gas Producer

Follow the oil.