Regulation is always put in to prevent "stupid things" from happening. Remove the regulation and stupid things will resume.

1. Negotiate secret deals to deregulate
2. Watch the collapse
3. Create one-world-currency-system
4. Profit! (for them) Enslavement! (for the rest of us)

Meanwhile, the people they hire to use guns and other enforcement measures are "just doing their jobs."

Not paying attention? Russia is also breaking free of the petro-dollar monopoly. You may not think much of it, but the fact has been that all oil and gas has been traded in US dollars around the globe. That has been one of the reasons US dollars have maintained any value at all. With so much of the US production and even many services going overseas, we simply aren't producing anything here. At least not the way we once did and still can.

There are nations interested in de-Americanizing the world. I can't say I blame them right now. But as things fail to turn around or get corrected, we in the US are going feel the hurt in ways which are painful to imagine.

Been saying this for years now since the earliest reports of NSA spying and the cooperation of technology companies came out. Most people kept saying it was nonsense that global trust in US technology can never be lost if only because ours is "the best" and is too expensive to replace. Seems to me that's not a deciding factor these days. The bad behaving US government is causing real harm to business now. As soon as business begins to realize how toxic that relationship is, they will stop doing it. But then again, we still have lots of companies trying to send (outsource) tech to China... China who has a long history of taking the tech and spinning it off on their own. Hoy myopic can they be?

Well, I certainly called that one. See the latest news on FIFA security woes? More of those rabid fans.

If the user/owner controls the switch? Great. But if the carrier/government does? No.

I'd love to have a kill-switch in my phone that, when receiving a code that only I have would result in a wipe and disabling of the device. That way if the government comes along and steals my property, I can do something about it. "Tampering with evidence?" No, that was a "malfunction" and we just lost the hard drives.

How does this get -1? I think I would like to hear from people who disagree with this perspective.

I suspect the word "conspiracy" is the problem. A conspiracy has ALREADY been proven in this case. They already admitted to targeting specific people for additional scutiny and persecution. That is conspiracy. The point now is to find out how far up it goes.

Then read it. And check out http://www.ae911truth.org/ while you're at it.

Actually, what they WANT is the Lerner emails which went out on the internet. The internal ones are less likely to be interesting.

Now you know how architects and engineers feel about the 9-11 story.

Anyone even essentially familiar with email systems and technologies are coming out of the wordwork as an expert calling BS on the executive branch's lie. We've seen that lie before with the Bush administration and, if I recall, fewer people had as much to say other than "if their systems suck that bad, something should be done about it." In any case, not making a claim that either side is any different in that regard, but I am saying it's not the first time that lie was attempted.

But I see another similarity in another government lie. The 9-11 report says a lot of things about how/why the buildings fell as they did. And just like people in IT, people in architecture and engineering are still calling BS on the official story. Having worked for an AE firm, I can tell you there was no controversy on the topic. They all knew it was BS.

That's actually NOT TRUE as has been shown time and time again. And trying to turn bad areas into good ones ("gentrification") is widely fought as well. So moving the people doesn't work. Improving the neighborhood doesn't work. Please read the history of Liberia.

Actually, it's interesting you mentioned manipulations by other nations. Turns out one of the core causes of the global banking meltdown was manipulations by other nations' banks to push for reduced regulatory limits and stuff like that. Brazil actually refused any of that and didn't suffer from the collapse. Now if you are saying that "they are allowed less participation because they didn't jump on the bandwagon to hell" then okay, I concede that point. But as far as other manipulation? Not seeing it -- you'll have to cite something.

Fact: violent crime DID happen -- just less of it
Fact: violent crime before the world cup is a huge problem in S.Africa
Fact: violent crime after the world cup is a huge problem in S. Africa
Fact: a virtual martial law had to be declared in order to have any form of peace and it wasn't because of some sort of "disaster" but rather to keep the NATURAL level of violent crime down to acceptable levels.

Please feel free to dispute any of those.

I would encourage you to look closer. Just because the mainstream media didn't cover the trouble doesn't mean it didn't happen. Other news sources would disagree with your assertion that horrible things didn't happen to the visitors in S.Africa. But it is certainly true that crime was reduced while the world cup was being held, so in "relative terms" it's true. But it was also extremely temporary. They almost literally declared martial law in the region where the cup was held, but surrounding areas? Not so much. Visitors who wandered outside of designated areas did so at their own peril and were informed of such.

The word "bubble" comes to mind.