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I sure hope the Ebola virus doesn't make it through the southern border or you're going to have an epidemic going back to the dark ages.
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Charities already rake way over 5 billion.
The hardest piece to find about charity isn't money, money in charities is enough for most of World troubles to be long gone. But the key piece, the honest charity, is so rare that hardly we can find one. Most are just in charities for profit from it, not to do any change in the planet.
What we have a lot of now are corporate charities, places that corporations can offset their taxes by giving to. Just take a look at who the top 50 corporate givers are - http://foundationcenter.org/findfunders/topfunders/top50giving.html. I would imagine most churches use their money for direct aid to the poor not sure how the corporate money gets used. |
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What I've seen this story do is give nostalgia to those military supporters that were pro-Iraq war before it was obvious what a farce it was. Suddenly, Ventura is some bad guy to telling it like it is to some sniper in a bar and the guy loses his cool and goes at another retired SEAL which should never have happened. You respect your retired peers in such elite units.
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Obama has cut spending, had to deal with Bush’s mess, does not have the SS surplus that Reagan, Bush and Bush used to hide much of their record deficits and much of Obama’s deficit is the caused by the shortage in the SS fund. Then Obama has had to deal with Republicans’ promise to screw up everything until we get rid of the Black President.
So get this through your heads. The Republicans are the one who waste money, they increase welfare (much of it is for the rich) and even with their record tax increases they set record deficits.
Good lord, why would you vote for a Republican?
Spending has decreased from Obama's all time high record budget deficits because 5-6 years later the overseas conflicts have seen a reduction in troop allocations. And to illustrate a point, yes Bush was the type of neocon republican that campaigned on having a restrained foreign policy but who governed like an imperialist. He's the type of republican the OP would say other republicans refer to as a RINO. A RINO is someone who fools the party base into thinking they have conservative (fiscal) roots and then governs like a democrat. This is where the modern Tea Party came from: at the time a disgust by both republicans and democrats fed up w/ outrageous federal spending. However, since religious and social issues were injected into the TP and Fox and their buddy radio hosts hijacked it in many ways, they were able to spread division and liberals did their job of making their own hate the TP as some group the Koch brothers funds to screw over poor people. I'm more of the Liberty Movement type as that's unplugged from religious baggage and focuses solely on the Constitution and foreign non-intervention. Both the LM and TP are united when it comes to taking down RINOs who are fully backed by all the main corporatist interests that progressives claim to hate yet confuse the situation and actually prefer the RINOs to those in their party who are trying to shed the Bush-Cheney mantle piece. Weird. In reality, cutting government spending w/ a meat hook and getting to resemble some semblance of Constitutionality would create opportunities across the board for everyone. Welfare programs, as an example, do nothing besides lock someone into a lifetime of dependency at no chance at upwardly movement. Charitable handups help out people in a pinch but would keep them trying to do better for continual help. When the government is paired back, that frees up plenty of money and cut regulations that allow businesses to prosper and expand and hire more. Now we just have part time, seasonal and minimum wage jobs available w/ little or no middle class jobs being offered. Lastly, not only should the budget be balanced like anyone else has to do but ya gotta start paying down the debt because if interest rates are hiked, then good bye to national defense and other current expenditures. It's been the Bush republicans and the fraudulent Obama progressives that have orchestrated every bailout from TARP to the Stimulus bullshit and all of it benefited corporate wall street interests while screwing over the average person and home owner. They've been driving up the cost of tuition on all young people by guaranteeing student loans which gives no incentive for colleges to cut costs. When government subsidizes something you always get more of it at a greater cost. Interesting that cell phones, tvs, computers, lasik and plastic surgery have come down in price over the years - all of which are low regulated markets. And the only way the government has been able to do all of the above and fight ridiculous wars all this time is because of the Federal Reserve monetizing the debt - aka counterfeiting money which kills savers and inflates the money supply. How in the world can anyone be involved in Bitcoin if they don't understand what it actually does and it's long term goal? It's honest money yet I bet the dyed in the whole lefties here that bend over backwards doing rolling donuts to confuse and obfuscate the situation are here only to ride the money train in their own greedy way rather than glowingly realize that Bitcoin is going to free the average person from corporate bankster interests that have been sucking everyone dry since at least 1913. And finally, since that time frame the government has only grown to epic proportions and less and less opportunities have been allotted to each subsequent generation. You can't deny that. |
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Usually when speaking of Arabs these days one word pops up right away: Terrorism.
Terrorism is probably the worse way of fighting ever. ...
Maybe some here from a Muslim background could weigh in on this. But I know in the USA nobody has been informed about these issues. You should listen to the Michael Savage show sometime, he rages on the Muslim Bro-hood when he's not going off on illegal immigrants. He's pretty smart and has an interesting perspective, tho I'm not saying I totally agree w/ him. His show typically tunes in an audience of above average intelligence unlike the other right wing drivel shows. Only thing I don't like about him is he hasn't realized what a genius liberty savior that Rand Paul is or is complicit to look the other way. |
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Ohio (Quinnipiac): Clinton 46, Paul 42 - Everyone else FAR behindOhio Poll just released today by Quinnipiac:
Clinton: 46 (+4)
Paul: 42
Rand is tied with Clinton among voters ages 18-29, 44-44
Clinton: 48 (+11)
Bush: 37
Clinton: 46 (+9)
Christie: 37
Clinton : 47 (+7)
Kasich: 40
Margin of Error: +/- 2.7%
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/ohio/release-detail?ReleaseID=2066A year ago, Hillary was easily above 50% margin and Rand was in the mid-low 30s. I should also mention for those that are unfamiliar that Ohio is a huge swing state that is a battleground so it's a lot different than if I posted a poll from Arkansas.
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It's like spying is the new norm and we're all supposed to be like, "So what!" I wonder if Rand is going to come out and say something about this today.
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Also, I hope you realize that Shroomskit is just kidding with his recent bearishness and that 2BTC nonsense. He's no more of a true trollbear than Proudhon. Perhaps your comedy detector needs adjustment.
I don't believe it was even possible to have lost 1 BTC in 6 trades. I could totally believe it if the dude was messing with shitcoins. Talk about bag transferring.  |
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Spent about 30 coins on mining supplies last year, that was my learning curve. Yep |
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Kind of scary to see a country filled up with religion fanatics to held such many weapons as USA does... Hope "God" doesn't unleash them! , in the US, Muslims vote as a block democratic. Quoted for the lulz. LOL....some athiests are not. For example, those who lean toward Ayn Rand may be athiests who are pure capitalists. And I've certainly met some, let's say from Muslim origins, whom I respect highly. But they weren't exactly, "Muslim".... Those who lean toward Ayn Rand are the objectivists, which is kind of cultish, it's not about capitalism... I believe the vast majority of people in this forum are atheist and/or anti-theist not only because of education/skepticism but also because of anti-authoritarianism, and I don't see many commies around.  Capitalism is the economic lynch pin of Objectivism because in its laissez faire form, it's the ultimate respect and morality that rewards individual rights and the exercising thereof to one's fullest potential. According to Rand, a right is a moral principle defining and sanctioning man's freedom of action in a social context. Labor ownership is a corollary of one's basic right to life. That said, I have no comment nor care about this forum's makeup of religion or lack thereof. |
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Nothing really surprises me anymore in what this government does in this so-called war on terror. It's like they're not even taking it seriously or making a mockery of it. Expanding their data bases is all they seem to care about but then of course, the needle in the haystack becomes that much more obscure and unlikely of detecting.
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Ya, it's mostly a routine propaganda technique used to gin up domestic unity against the imperialist enemy they've learned about as soon as the could walk and talk. The brainwashing that goes on in the classrooms over there is pretty creepy.
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I suppose as long as this is contained between Israel and Hamas that is the best that can be hoped for at this point. Seems as Israel is content to keep up their part while Hamas gets rid of their missile caches but it's not like they won't get more from Turkey and maybe even the DPRK. I just don't see how this religious holy war can ever be truly squashed.
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USA is becoming a service economy.
Much like Haiti is a service economy - where the 99.9% services the 0.1%. Real wealth that results in a middle class is always going to come from manufacturing and other high revenue industries. There's a reason why China's middle class has been exploding in size while the middle class in the US has been contracting.
Another reason college degrees are mostly a thing of the past or otherwise you don't have a chance in life after starting off your 20s w/ student loan debts while being relinquished to a service economy. Furthermore, these youths won't be purchasing homes for the most part leaving the retirees w/o the added bonus to their retirement savings that they'd been counting on. Except the old people vote and everyone generation X and younger is: "lol I'm too kewl 2 vote". So trust me, if old people were reduced to eating dog food they'll have a power session in the senate to save the retirees. Well, these retirees I'm speaking of are the Baby Boomers whom were the spawns of the "Greatest Generation" whom I joke as the greediest generation since they shelled out all the kids, let govt grow to where it is today as they're the genius voters that started the trend and then sit back and sop up all the medicare and social security that legitimately was spent years if not decades ago. The GGs and what's left of their spouses are sitting back collecting, eating out, getting their hair done every week while most of their progeny are retiring nowadays w/ little to nothing in their savings and have cashed out their 401Ks years ago if not in a current depleted state. Some of Gen Y are doing fine as they made it good before shit happened in the mid to late aughts but many of the millennials are flatout screwed if they have no exposure to Bitcoin. |
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They do this a handful of times per year whenever the US and the South have their military exercises at sea. DPRK doesn't have a weapon capable of firing on the US mainland and their supposed largest submarine fleet in the world is a laugh riot. They have plenty of missiles stationed at strategic areas to lob at Seoul, way more than Hamas has to send into Israel. So, that's about all they got. It must creep Jr Kim out when he views footage of the South and US showing off their carrier and destroyer fleets w/ all the suped up aircraft on board. Anyways, this may be old news, it's hard to tell since it's so routine.
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Even if you still smoked cigarettes you could roll your own and save 70%+. You'd be amazed at being able to keep a habit w/ so much savings. Also, less taxes to the man. Hope you're back on track and starting to pound broads again.  |
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I think the next rally, whenever it may come if it comes, could really entice merchants to hang on to some coinage in the short term and sales could likely go up in BTC considering people may be looking to take vacations among other things in speculation profits. Wake me up when GABI sets up shop and see where we're at.
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USA is becoming a service economy.
Much like Haiti is a service economy - where the 99.9% services the 0.1%. Real wealth that results in a middle class is always going to come from manufacturing and other high revenue industries. There's a reason why China's middle class has been exploding in size while the middle class in the US has been contracting.
Another reason college degrees are mostly a thing of the past or otherwise you don't have a chance in life after starting off your 20s w/ student loan debts while being relinquished to a service economy. Furthermore, these youths won't be purchasing homes for the most part leaving the retirees w/o the added bonus to their retirement savings that they'd been counting on. |
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If passed the Corker bill will declare Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine “major non-NATO allies” and move NATO troops and equipment into the former Soviet republics of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. It will put an ABM system on the fast track in Eastern Europe and step up military and intelligence assistance to Ukrainian forces fighting against separatists in Donbass and elsewhere in Eastern Ukraine.
Other suggestions arising from Congress include adding Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Finland, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Sweden to NATO.
The Corker bill will encourage the color revolution crowd to subvert the Russian Federation. “S. 2277 would direct the secretary of state to intensify efforts to strengthen democratic institutions inside the Russian Federation, e.g., subvert Vladimir Putin’s government, looking toward regime change,” writes Patrick Buchanan.
“Efforts to expand NATO are strikingly misguided. Traditional military alliances were created to advance a nation’s security. They were not intended to act as clubs for international business, associations for shared values, or tools for political integration. Military alliances were supposed to prevent and win wars. During the Cold War the U.S. established the alliance to protect the war-ravaged European states from America’s hegemonic adversary, the Soviet Union, and its satellite-allies.”
NATO has morphed from a post-war relic ostensibly designed to protect Europe into a belligerent alliance aligned against the Russian Federation. It works not only to destroy its economic relationship with Western Europe, but foment regime change within its borders.
“Western elites desire to loot Russia, a juicy prize, and there stands Putin in the way. The solution is to get rid of him like they got rid of President Yanukovich in Ukraine,” writes Paul Craig Roberts. I ripped more than I should've from the article but there's still plenty of juicy details at link... http://www.infowars.com/global-elite-agitating-for-war-against-russia/Particularly interesting is the part about the US Agency for International Development aka USAID and what a conduit for regime change and under the table dealings it is while being portrayed as this charitable organization that we foot the bill for. |
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Forcing private companies to become mass surveillance hubsThe Australian government is pushing to implement a ”surveillance tax” on the people of the country in order to pay for a mandate that would see communications companies retaining data on customers for two years.
In a disturbing development that should serve as a warning to Americans, the Australian Attorney-General admitted that the surveillance system is ”under active consideration by the government”.
The Age reports that communications companies believe the compulsory scheme will cost between $500 million to $700 million a year, a cost that will be passed on to the people.
”We’re concerned about the lack of oversight on how this scheme might operate and there are also significant privacy concerns,” said Teresa Corbin, CEO of Australian Consumer Communications Action Network.
Other telco officials estimate that the “surveillance tax” will mean a rise in costs of $5 to $10 extra a month.
Steve Dalby, chief regulatory officer at iiNet testified at a Senate hearing this week that the Attorney-General’s Department considers the ”metadata” that is to be retained to include not only telephone records, but also internet access, email and internet telephony.
The communication data is said to encompass indicators of time, location, sender and receiver, as well as URLs and IP addresses.
It’s essentially the same information that the NSA has been siphoning from Americans’ communications for years, as revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. More... http://www.infowars.com/australian-government-pushing-internet-tax-to-pay-for-nsa-style-spying/
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