Like a Swarm of Lethal Bugs:

Like a Swarm of Lethal Bugs: The Most Terrifying Drone Video Yet - The Atlantic

Paid for by the tax payer, ostensibly to protect the tax payer, eventually turned loose on the tax payer to protect the landed gentry from the tax payer.

So has it been. So shall it ever be.

It's About Time

Mitch McConnell On Obama Inauguration Speech: 'The Era Of Liberalism Is Back':

We have suffered the consequences of Ronald Reagan and his ilk long enough. The Reagan /Bush's credit card bills have come due and only "We" the people can pay them off and right the ship of state. So stop your Mitching and get out of the way



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Damn the Documents! Full Denial Ahead.

Romney Invested in Medical-Waste Firm That Disposed of Aborted Fetuses, Government Documents Show | Mother Jones:

From the consistently inconsistent wonderful world of U.S. politics desk.

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Obama Trade Document Leaked, Revealing New Corporate Powers And Broken Campaign Promises

Obama Trade Document Leaked, Revealing New Corporate Powers And Broken Campaign Promises:

Since the last century suborning sovereignty has helped diminish all out military conflict. Just one more example of goose sauce being gander sauce or some other such Myth the Rominee nonsense. We are all global geese and ganders now. We are given the choice to vote for one side or the other of the same coin. This is how consumer greed is good, me first attitude is working for us all.

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Bipartisan deal to reject Simpson-Bowles - The Washington Post

Wonkbook: House reaches bipartisan deal to reject Simpson-Bowles - The Washington Post:

"Whatever it is, I'm against it!" G.M.

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Balloon Juice » Our Productivity Problem: US Workers Won’t Be Treated Like Zoo Animals

Balloon Juice » Our Productivity Problem: US Workers Won’t Be Treated Like Zoo Animals:

As Henry Ford knew, you still need people who can buy the stuff you are making. Without consumers their is no need to build stuff no matter how inexpensively you make it, and you can only pay people so much in a society to sell and customer service each other when none of them produce anything.

We really need to re-eVALUEate. There I typed in with the full knowledge that life is to short to sweat the spelling.

Knowing what will happen when those millions of Chinese workers are replaced by machines know the shit storm that follows has no app to solve that.

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If I Could Talk To The Animals

Foxconn Chief Equates Employees To Animals | TechCrunch:

Sounds like a comment made in a debate between Republican presidential wannabes. Only the English to English translation excuse is lost.

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We Have All Been here Before

The 'Arab spring' and the west: seven lessons from history | Seumas Milne | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "It's déjà vu all over again". Berra explained
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