The following rush transcript probably contains errors and/or omissions…
Govt Clowns, America Equals Syria, Snowden Speaks, Obamacare Opens
Trash and burn – that’s what they’re doing in Washington… to the tune of 100 million dollars a day of our money… as the morons in Washington shut down the government. It’s the worlds’ biggest temper-tantrum as our elected representatives star in an epic fail of doing their job.
Me, I’d fire them all. Hopefully you’ll have the sense to do the same come next election day.
Perhaps our dysfunctional, ego and power-mad government is simply copying Syria, whose foreign minister on Monday called their populist revolution against dictator Hafez El-Assad “Terrorism”, and called their crushing use of military force against the uprising a “War on Terror”. Is anyone here noticing the parallel with America’s “War on Citizens” here?
Let’s see: Syria is known to harbor one of the largest stockpiles of chemical weapons and agreed to join the worldwide treaty banning them. America harbors the largest stockpiles of NUCLEAR weapons, and agreed to join the worldwide treaty banning them.
Hmmmm… moving right along…
Edward Snowden continues to blow the whistle today. In a written statement for the Eurpoean Parliament Committie on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (sheesh, what a mouthful), Snowden writes that the mass surveillance of whole populations is “the greatest human rights challenge of our time”. Snowden continues:
The success of economies in developed nations relies increasingly on their creative output, and if that success is to continue we must remember that creativity is the product of curiosity, which in turn is the product of privacy.
A culture of secrecy has denied our societies the opportunity to determine the appropriate balance between the human right of privacy and the governmental interest in investigation. These are not decisions that should be made for a people but only by the peopler after full, informed and fearless debate.
Yet public debate is not possible without public knowledge – and in my country the cost of one in my position of returning public knowledge to public hands has been persecution and exile.
An amazing man, as it turns out!
In other news, Sex, spies, and society scandal are the subject of a new musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. US home prices are up 12.4 percent from a year ago. Somali militants are found to be mixing business and terror: not a particularly fun lot. Finally, despite the government shutdown, Obamacare exchanges open today, making it possible for untold numbers of economically disadvantaged, the unemployed, and those with pre-existing – or those who could unexpectedly face those challenges in the future – to buy health insurance.
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