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Comment Re:If they can prevent a plane from crashing ... (Score 5, Insightful) 180

> police can determine where the next crime will occur and sometimes prevent it

No need to predict, why the heck have they not stormed the banks, arrested any of the significant financial fraudsters, yet? Oh... yeah, there is only Libery and Justice for some . Silly me.

America’s two-tiered justice system – specifically, the way political and financial elites are now vested with virtually absolute immunity from the rule of law even when they are caught committing egregious crimes, while ordinary Americans are subjected to the world’s largest and one of its harshest and most merciless penal states even for trivial offenses. As a result, law has been completely perverted from what it was intended to be – the guarantor of an equal playing field which would legitimize outcome inequalities – into its precise antithesis: a weapon used by the most powerful to protect their ill-gotten gains, strengthen their unearned prerogatives, and ensure ever-expanding opportunity inequality.

Comment Re:Got to be In it to win it... (Score 4, Insightful) 94

Agreed, however the biggest bidder of all is the Military Industrial Complex. They have developed lots of new toys and techniques to "control crowds". All specifically designed so that you, citizen, are never allowed to trim that derelict hedge... ever. Just look at what they are throwing at Julian Assange/Wikileaks, the first modern journalist/publishing platform designed to inform citizens on how corrupt, dirty and vile our governments have really become.

Comment Re:All charity ends (Score 5, Insightful) 370

Probably feeding the troll, but here goes... running health (amongst other "social" activities) as a business, how is that working out for ya, USA?.

Donor nations were shocked last month, when UNICEF disclosed that it has been forced to pay artificially elevated prices for vaccines under an arrangement called the Advance Market Commitment, which was brokered by Gates Foundation-dominated GAVI alliance, to greatly increase drug company profits. Stakeholders also worry that industry reports of particular vaccine's effectiveness might be skewed by marketing goals.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation proves once again that leopards dont change their spots.

Comment Re:Canadian tax payers demand representation for t (Score 3, Insightful) 129

Well if there was any sort of meaningful political and economic consequence for representing private interests at societies general expense, then this behaviour might stop. But as it is, the same two parties representing slightly different business interests flip in and out of power as they screw up the living standards further, while retired politicians go on to make millions from their time in power. This is not just a Canada/US phenomena, and big mainstream media keeps us all fearful and voting for the same clowns time and again. Sigh.

Comment FBI recruits,plans,funds& thwarts OWN terror p (Score 2) 130

Your examples are comically ironic considering you are trying to justify FBI actions, given that the weight of evidence is in: "Time and again, the FBI concocts a Terrorist attack, infiltrates Muslim communities in order to find recruits, persuades them to perpetrate the attack, supplies them with the money, weapons and know-how they need to carry it out — only to heroically jump in at the last moment, arrest the would-be perpetrators whom the FBI converted, and save a grateful nation from the plot manufactured by the FBI."

http://www.salon.com/2011/09/29/fbi_terror/singleton/

Comment Re:A small ray of hope (Score 1) 301

That's because what they do is knowingly support terrorism, which is completely different.

It would be even funnier... if it was not true. Better to laugh than cry I guess:

A bipartisan band of former Washington officials and politicians... have been paid large sums of money to speak at [terrorist group] MeK events and meet with its leaders

The MeK has engaged in an aggressive legal and lobbying campaign in Washington over the past two years to win its removal from the State Department’s [foreign Terrorist organization] list. . . .

Comment Re:And, of course (Score 1, Troll) 325

People are only willing to pay a little more for clean energy because the full environmental cost of polluting energy has not been realized or seen by the majority, yet. Ask those in expanding tornado zones, or in newly created flood zones what they would pay for clean energy and Ill wager you will get very different results...

Comment Re:So there you have it (Score 1) 389

Am I the only one who expected this to be about some company which tried to patent the wheel?

If only they had invented patents/lawers and all that legislate "innovation and progress" jazz. Just think of the monopolistic royalties that could have been reaped upon mankind, owning rights to the wheel! Dangerous circumventing devices like horses would have been made illegal shortly after invention - smelly unpredictable beasts anyway. Best of all they could have established a fitting punishment for thieving dirty pirates back when and eye for a eye was politically correct thing to do. Piriator/gladiator arenas might have been invested millennia before the Romans came along.

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