Plus, there's that privatization thing. Whenever anything becomes federalized, the next step is corporatized ("privatized"). Not only does this cede extraordinary power to the power elites, they have probable monopoly on genetic engineering knowledge, plus future tissue engineering for organ/limb replacement, etc., etc., ad infinitum. They forever work to keep their monopolies on capital, land and knowledge.
Exactomundo! Next step: privatization of the national DNA database.
Let's recall the timeline: Freshman Senator Obama attempts to get national DNA database legislation enacted, and it fails.
Next President Obama begins process to promote national DNA database, while appointing various Monsanto people to his administration, and former Monsanto exec now head of the World Bank. Also, pharmaceutical industry lobbyists appointed to DHS (as in Tara O'Toole and company).
..were all these highly opinionated people when Billy Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (which allowed for censorship in America by the absolute corporate consolidation of the US media)?
Private Insurance Exchanges (designed in Enron in 1999) -- On the Internet, no one knows you're a supercomputer.
Because the People's Liberation Army (the Chinese military) owns all those factories which American-based multinationals (and Japanese-based multinationals, and European-based multinationals) shipped all those jobs off to....just saying....
Oooh....ooh...ooh...maybe if Korporate Amerika offshores their last ten jobs to China, they'll become democratic? Ooh...ooh...ooh...And maybe the Ameritard will never learn....
Micro$oft has tried and tried to gain membership in the Illuminati, but with no success. Sure, the AT&T was kicked out of it, and sure those Roscrucians are a picky bunch, but still...
Oh puuuhhhhlease....Cathedral and Bazaar was such a complete crock.
The only reason the largest software pirate on the planet, Micro$oft, had all that time to futz around with an endless version number of windows, was because they had the greatest monopoly the world has ever seen: DOS LICENSING.
And the only reason they ever achieved OS supremecy was that they licensed, then copied (i.e., stole) into Windows OS everyone else's original technology. End of that story.
And now the World Domination Society controls everything....
...why anyone would want to bank with Citi in the first place is beyond sanity?
Do they love Robert Rubin and the dissolution of the American economy? Do they love the serf-creation machine of Goldman Sachs, JPMOrgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Citi and BofA?
Do they love all that energy/oil speculation to raise everyone's prices at Citi's Phibro?
Absolutely, dood, only Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley, together with Hank Paulson, Larry Summers, Robert Rubin, Timothy Geithner, and Alan Greenspan are guiltless. You've really got everything figured out, dood! (Damn guards, the cause of ALL problems.)
I predict this guy will vote for the Pallin/Boehner ticket in 2012.
any semblance to democracy in America has long since expired, Jerep, and we've long been living in a Socialist Plutocracy, socialism for the ultra-rich, and everyone else on their own.
The tax and legal system have long since been restructured to favor the rich. Anyone who hasn't figured it out yet: there is no economy --- the American economy, over a forty year period, was disassembled and sold off by all those billionaires we have here today.
This guy, Aneesh Chopra, I'm not familiar with him. Is he from the TaTa Group? Or one of the others from India? Is he here on an H1B, or H2B, or H2C, or L-1, O-1, or P-1, P-2, or P-3?
Inquiring minds (who don't bother following Sarah (the space cadet) Pallin) want to know?????
And on a more serious note, since we are talking about the military-congressional-corporate-complex here:
From an interview with Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn, creators of The Endless Forest:
"We think our contemporary world is a horrible place. Our cultures are being swallowed by the economic machine, politics have degraded into cheap television propaganda, and violence is condoned, if not encouraged, as the way of choice for dealing with any conflict. All of this is against a backdrop of ever-increasing poverty and the diluting of humanistic democratic ideals into free markets and globalization. Direct political action has been perverted by fashion and media and only contribute to the overwhelming climate of antagonism and violence. People are becoming increasingly sour, mean, and cynical --- which throws us into a vicious circle that can only be broken by extreme events."
What a gas!! Loved all those green thingy lines -- really gucci, doods and doodettes!
Geez, and those guys -- those were the same buckaroos at the 1999 Silicon Valley conference where they made that fantasy proclamation about something called "The New Economy" (where they hell did they hide that thing, anyway????). That's where no money had to be spent on any hardware or install testing, all the software was downloaded from the 'net (I believe that's what they called those interpipe thingies).
Oh yeah...I take this very seriously guys.
Especially because, wooooo, looky there, there's my fav braless newsy, Leslie Stahl, go baby go!!!!
Geez Louise! I haven't seen here on the TV since I gave up watching that 60 Minutes show when she gushed over that Taliban jet pilot, who lived in the US but occasionally went back to Afghanistan to bomb the hell out of those innocent civilians who refused to join the Taliban. (Now those are the bad guys? Am I right here -- or still confused????)
Of course, it is great research, but also quite obvious to the rest of us as viral transfer of DNA material has been known for quite some time, and numerous research grants were submitted in the late '70s and early '80s --- unfortunately that was the time of the anti-science of Reagan and the first wave of neocons.
I really don't know how to respond to a post like yours -- perhaps you unaware of the article and history of modern life -- perhaps you're simply unaware.
to put it as unsophisticated as possible -- the American intelligence community is majority privatized -- that means no FOIA, no transparency, no control, and 1,000 times the cost. PERIOD!
... but then there are similar ones about skirting US labor laws by outsourcing..
Dood, I already had this conversation about thirty years ago, and I realize you exist in a chronic state of mental obliviousness and befuddlement, so I'll take it slowly: sizable number of jobs are offshored, decreasing the tax base, whereby all those F/W taxes onced flowed into. Now, the multiplier effect kicks in, and numerous other jobs disappear because they depended upon not only the direct money flows from once-employed American workers, but those indirect tax flows from those once-employed American workers' F/W taxes.
Now, with those decreasing taxes into the American decreasing tax base, calculate all those decreasting taxes of corporations which refuse to pay fed taxes by utilizing various forms of "profit laundering" (read GAO-08-957 report). NO MORE TAX BASE.....really, ever heard that tiresome phrase "Do the math"???
Now, that recent BLS report of a few months back, which crunched those private sector job creation numbers (Ha...ha!) and found out that effectively there was ZERO job creation in the private sector over the past ten years. This is a direct result of having reached critical mass in the category of jobs offshoring and FDI. Get the picture, amigo???
Hillary Clinton? Would that be the same Hillary Clinton who gave a speech in India, reassuring them that more Americans would be made unemployed and their jobs offshored to India?
Would that be the same Hillary Clinton, chair of the MCC, which helped to finance the overthrow of that democratically-elected Honduran president?
Would that be the same Hillary Clinton with the pro-war voting record when she was a senator?
Would that be the same Hillary Clinton who gave a speech before the Council on Foreign Relations, sucking up to them and claiming she would follow their every guidance?
Just trying for a little clarification here.....
A tougher trade policy with China??? Someone's been smoking the strong stuff.....with a corporate fascist state now extant in America and the banksters controlling the show....how could you possibly even suggest such an extravagance????
I like your thought processes. Poul Anderson's Operation Changeling (short story in F&SF which was later expanded to Operation Chaos), Stirling's Drakon, a true SF action and tech opera extraordinaire, Iain Banks' stuff, as you suggested, along with Sturgeon's classics.
The great thing about the original Outer Limits was that it utilized stories by Heinlein, Asimov and many others (and I recall Harlan Ellison's knockout, The Glass Hand, or some similar title, with actors Robert Culp and Maria Perez).
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Did this involve that Huffington Post censorship of Jesse Ventura?
Thought so.....
..who wear those super-expensive Burberry trench coats. Mofos.....
Harvard, YALE, Princeton, bullets, bombs and banks.
Spot on, JWSmythe, spot on, citizen!
Plus, there's that privatization thing. Whenever anything becomes federalized, the next step is corporatized ("privatized"). Not only does this cede extraordinary power to the power elites, they have probable monopoly on genetic engineering knowledge, plus future tissue engineering for organ/limb replacement, etc., etc., ad infinitum. They forever work to keep their monopolies on capital, land and knowledge.
Exactomundo! Next step: privatization of the national DNA database.
Let's recall the timeline: Freshman Senator Obama attempts to get national DNA database legislation enacted, and it fails.
Next President Obama begins process to promote national DNA database, while appointing various Monsanto people to his administration, and former Monsanto exec now head of the World Bank. Also, pharmaceutical industry lobbyists appointed to DHS (as in Tara O'Toole and company).
Anybody got a problem with that logic?
Private Insurance Exchanges (designed in Enron in 1999) -- On the Internet, no one knows you're a supercomputer.
Because the People's Liberation Army (the Chinese military) owns all those factories which American-based multinationals (and Japanese-based multinationals, and European-based multinationals) shipped all those jobs off to....just saying....
Oooh....ooh...ooh...maybe if Korporate Amerika offshores their last ten jobs to China, they'll become democratic? Ooh...ooh...ooh...And maybe the Ameritard will never learn....
Micro$oft has tried and tried to gain membership in the Illuminati, but with no success. Sure, the AT&T was kicked out of it, and sure those Roscrucians are a picky bunch, but still...
In future Russia, LHCs will not exist......(sorry, I had to sneak that one in!).
Oh puuuhhhhlease....Cathedral and Bazaar was such a complete crock.
The only reason the largest software pirate on the planet, Micro$oft, had all that time to futz around with an endless version number of windows, was because they had the greatest monopoly the world has ever seen: DOS LICENSING.
And the only reason they ever achieved OS supremecy was that they licensed, then copied (i.e., stole) into Windows OS everyone else's original technology. End of that story.
And now the World Domination Society controls everything....
...why anyone would want to bank with Citi in the first place is beyond sanity?
Do they love Robert Rubin and the dissolution of the American economy? Do they love the serf-creation machine of Goldman Sachs, JPMOrgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Citi and BofA?
Do they love all that energy/oil speculation to raise everyone's prices at Citi's Phibro?
Excellent point, plus you may wish to peruse this post as well as this follow up post on the matter of the costs of healthcare.
Next, get really politically active....
Absolutely, dood, only Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley, together with Hank Paulson, Larry Summers, Robert Rubin, Timothy Geithner, and Alan Greenspan are guiltless. You've really got everything figured out, dood! (Damn guards, the cause of ALL problems.)
I predict this guy will vote for the Pallin/Boehner ticket in 2012.
any semblance to democracy in America has long since expired, Jerep, and we've long been living in a Socialist Plutocracy, socialism for the ultra-rich, and everyone else on their own.
The tax and legal system have long since been restructured to favor the rich. Anyone who hasn't figured it out yet: there is no economy --- the American economy, over a forty year period, was disassembled and sold off by all those billionaires we have here today.
This guy, Aneesh Chopra, I'm not familiar with him. Is he from the TaTa Group? Or one of the others from India? Is he here on an H1B, or H2B, or H2C, or L-1, O-1, or P-1, P-2, or P-3?
Inquiring minds (who don't bother following Sarah (the space cadet) Pallin) want to know?????
...visas issued. How do you say "cyber warrior" in Punjabi?
Politically correct need not reply -- the class war has been in progress for quite some time now....how many CEOs did you off today?
From an interview with Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn, creators of The Endless Forest:
"We think our contemporary world is a horrible place. Our cultures are being swallowed by the economic machine, politics have degraded into cheap television propaganda, and violence is condoned, if not encouraged, as the way of choice for dealing with any conflict. All of this is against a backdrop of ever-increasing poverty and the diluting of humanistic democratic ideals into free markets and globalization. Direct political action has been perverted by fashion and media and only contribute to the overwhelming climate of antagonism and violence. People are becoming increasingly sour, mean, and cynical --- which throws us into a vicious circle that can only be broken by extreme events."
....like the way Wall Street and the Republicrats fight the Class War, only better????
Is there a prize if I got the right answer?????
What a gas!! Loved all those green thingy lines -- really gucci, doods and doodettes!
Geez, and those guys -- those were the same buckaroos at the 1999 Silicon Valley conference where they made that fantasy proclamation about something called "The New Economy" (where they hell did they hide that thing, anyway????). That's where no money had to be spent on any hardware or install testing, all the software was downloaded from the 'net (I believe that's what they called those interpipe thingies).
Oh yeah...I take this very seriously guys.
Especially because, wooooo, looky there, there's my fav braless newsy, Leslie Stahl, go baby go!!!!
Geez Louise! I haven't seen here on the TV since I gave up watching that 60 Minutes show when she gushed over that Taliban jet pilot, who lived in the US but occasionally went back to Afghanistan to bomb the hell out of those innocent civilians who refused to join the Taliban. (Now those are the bad guys? Am I right here -- or still confused????)
Keep on gushing, braless Leslie....
Outstanding concept - and correct, of course!
Of course, it is great research, but also quite obvious to the rest of us as viral transfer of DNA material has been known for quite some time, and numerous research grants were submitted in the late '70s and early '80s --- unfortunately that was the time of the anti-science of Reagan and the first wave of neocons.
I really don't know how to respond to a post like yours -- perhaps you unaware of the article and history of modern life -- perhaps you're simply unaware.
to put it as unsophisticated as possible -- the American intelligence community is majority privatized -- that means no FOIA, no transparency, no control, and 1,000 times the cost. PERIOD!
... but then there are similar ones about skirting US labor laws by outsourcing..
Dood, I already had this conversation about thirty years ago, and I realize you exist in a chronic state of mental obliviousness and befuddlement, so I'll take it slowly: sizable number of jobs are offshored, decreasing the tax base, whereby all those F/W taxes onced flowed into. Now, the multiplier effect kicks in, and numerous other jobs disappear because they depended upon not only the direct money flows from once-employed American workers, but those indirect tax flows from those once-employed American workers' F/W taxes.
Now, with those decreasing taxes into the American decreasing tax base, calculate all those decreasting taxes of corporations which refuse to pay fed taxes by utilizing various forms of "profit laundering" (read GAO-08-957 report). NO MORE TAX BASE.....really, ever heard that tiresome phrase "Do the math"???
Now, that recent BLS report of a few months back, which crunched those private sector job creation numbers (Ha...ha!) and found out that effectively there was ZERO job creation in the private sector over the past ten years. This is a direct result of having reached critical mass in the category of jobs offshoring and FDI. Get the picture, amigo???
Hillary Clinton? Would that be the same Hillary Clinton who gave a speech in India, reassuring them that more Americans would be made unemployed and their jobs offshored to India?
Would that be the same Hillary Clinton, chair of the MCC, which helped to finance the overthrow of that democratically-elected Honduran president?
Would that be the same Hillary Clinton with the pro-war voting record when she was a senator?
Would that be the same Hillary Clinton who gave a speech before the Council on Foreign Relations, sucking up to them and claiming she would follow their every guidance?
Just trying for a little clarification here.....
A tougher trade policy with China??? Someone's been smoking the strong stuff.....with a corporate fascist state now extant in America and the banksters controlling the show....how could you possibly even suggest such an extravagance????
I like your thought processes. Poul Anderson's Operation Changeling (short story in F&SF which was later expanded to Operation Chaos), Stirling's Drakon, a true SF action and tech opera extraordinaire, Iain Banks' stuff, as you suggested, along with Sturgeon's classics.
The great thing about the original Outer Limits was that it utilized stories by Heinlein, Asimov and many others (and I recall Harlan Ellison's knockout, The Glass Hand, or some similar title, with actors Robert Culp and Maria Perez).