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For years the FBI circumvented laws in order to eavesdrop on citizens of the USA. Including reporters. Including phone calls twice and three times removed from the original suspect. Including making up nonexistent cases. Including blanket justifications with no specifics available.

All your calls are mediated by Big Brother and the Ministry of Love.

Color me unsurprised.

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All Your Phone Calls

This world is not painted in black and white. Are imperfect elections better than no elections ? Either is better than bombing villagers.

“There is nobody, I mean nobody, stepping up to the plate to fund elections without root and branch reform of the electoral system. Our public back home simply won’t accept it,”

Money and Politics in a Forsaken Land

Will China decouple their currency peg? And stop buying Treasuries? Just as soon as they see that the US consumer is completely tapped out. For now, they use their dollars to acquire natural resources. to fill their own malls for their own people.

“inevitable that the dollar would continue to fall in value because Washington continued to issue more Treasuries to finance its deficit spending.”

“The United States cannot force foreign governments to increase their holdings of Treasuries,”

“trade turnover is falling, which means the U.S. is supplying fewer dollars to the rest of the world,” he added.

“The world does not have so much money to buy more U.S. Treasuries.”

So long, suckers

Wonder why there’s no public option anymore ? Wonder why everybody is going to rake it in, except patients ? Actually, we ought to expect this because the politicians are in bed with the care providers. More, in too many cases, they are one and the same.

Spend a few million to make a few trillion. Hell with the patients.

“At least 166 former aides from the nine congressional leadership offices and five committees involved in shaping health overhaul legislation — along with at least 13 former lawmakers — registered to represent at least 338 health care clients since the beginning of last year, according to the analysis.

Their health care clients spent $635 million on lobbying over the past two years, the study shows.”

“The largest insider lobbying cadre belongs to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA, which employs at least 26 former congressional members and staffers, according to Medill/CRP research.

Two other drug interests, biotech firm Amgen Inc. and the Biotechnology Industry Organization trade group, with at least 24 and 16 insiders respectively”

“Health industry contributions to congressional candidates have more than doubled so far this decade, rising to $127 million in the 2008 election cycle from $56 million in the 2000 election, with disproportionate sums going to the party in power and to members of committees that oversee health care”

Your Health for Sale