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UK High Court Gives OK To Investigation of Data Siezed From David Miranda
cold fjord writes with this snippet from The Guardian: "The high court has granted the Metropolitan police extended powers to investigate whether crimes related to terrorism and breaches of the Official Secrets Act have been committed following the seizure of data at Heathrow from David Miranda... At a hearing ... lawyers for Miranda said they had agreed to the terms of wider police powers to investigate a hard drive and memory sticks containing encrypted material that were seized on 18 August. Previously the inspection had been conducted on the narrower grounds of national security. Following the court ruling, the police will now be allowed to examine the material to investigate whether a crime of 'communication of material to an enemy' has been committed as well as possible crimes of communication of material about members of the military and intelligence services that could be useful to terrorists." Related:
Reader hazeii writes "The BBC are reporting that the files seized from David Miranda (as a potential terrorist — see the earlier Slashdot story) 'endanger agents' lives.' Given that Miranda (and other Guardian journalists) seem to have been exceedingly careful not to release anything that could actually damage national security, and that the source of this information is a 'senior cabinet adviser,' one wonders what exactly the point of this 'news' is."
And nothing will ever change. You want to know why? I'll tell you anyways. It is because you haven't the slightest clue about what you are talking about. I will demonstrate this a bit for you.
Most educated people were never under the disillusion that we were a democracy. We are a republic that uses democracy as part of the process to select the people who "represent" all of us. That 1% is included and our representative's jobs are to help ensure we can make money and earn a living. That also includes the 1% who seem to be able to do it more and better then the rest of us. Anyways, what you see as the 1% running the country is smoke and mirrors exaggerated due to your inabilities. I have those same inabilities but I'm not under any illusion that something is owed to me that is being possessed by the 1%.
And both- that's right, both of these problems are exactly caused by government involvement. Medical costs started rising for the general population when the government created the HMOs and attempted to get out of paying for medicare coverage. College costs rise on a curve directly associated with the availability of loans, grants, and money to go to college. The problem in both cases is that the government half assed a solution that was just as bad as the disease given enough time.
Well, the only thing here is the chained CPI for Cost Of Living Adjustments and wanting to privatize the social security. Of course Obama supported the Chained CPI for COLA because there is sound ideology behind it even if you do not agree with it. While it might be a cut in technical terms, it does help address a problem that will eventually become a crisis if nothing is done. It is also one of the least intrusive or damaging remedies on the table.
As for privatizing social security, you will earn a larger return on monies paid into social security if it was invested in relatively safe investments in the market. Some of these supposedly safe investments aren't actually safe any more seeing how large cities like Detroit are filing bankruptcy and will likely get out of needing to repay bond holders (which could still be retirement investments). But the reality is that until that happened, even with the stock market crash, no money would have been lost to retirees due to the types of investments the privatized social security would be eligible for. The major sticking point is that the US federal government is currently required to purchase US bonds with the excess funds collected and that creates a large slush fund for congress to spend without any concept of paying it back. For some, this disappearing is hailed as a good thing, for others, it is disaster because they would need to find other ways to waste money in congress. The Social Security trust fund currently owns better then 16% of US government debt in the form of bonds issues by the federal government. That is something like 2.7 trillion if IRCC. Of course US treasury notes or bonds would be a qualified investment under the privatization plans that had been discussed over the past decade or so. It Wouldn't change as much as people fear. The biggest problem would be that when people die, the money doesn't stay in the trust. But seeing how you mentioned benefits, you are likely only talking about the chained CPI which Obama supported too.
I hate to break this to you, but closing of services rests on the white house. the sequester which was agreed to by the democrats only dictated a reduction in spending