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TAX AND SPEND:

Online resource reports federal spending.

US to run another $1 trillion budget deficit. All spending bills originate in the Republican controlled House. What does this tell us about Republicans?

HEALTH CARE:

Thanks to the government, low income people take more prescription drugs, and are therefore more likely to die. In other words, poor people are more vulnerable to government's poisoning of them, making them chronically ill and increasing their mortality rate.

POLICE STATE:

Anonymous and Wikileaks expose another secret government surveillance program monitoring Americans, not terrorists, not foreigners, but Americans.

"Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology — and have installed it across the US under the radar of most Americans, according to emails hacked by Anonymous."

TrapWire. What a telling name.

"WikiLeaks began releasing those emails as the Global Intelligence Files (GIF) earlier this year and, of those, several discussing the implementing of TrapWire in public spaces across the country were circulated on the Web this week after security researcher Justin Ferguson brought attention to the matter. At the same time, however, WikiLeaks was relentlessly assaulted by a barrage of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, crippling the whistleblower site and its mirrors, significantly cutting short the number of people who would otherwise have unfettered access to the emails."

Gosh, I wonder who might have done that. Once again Anonymous and Wikileaks performs a great service for Americans, exposing that our government is the greatest threat we face. Also note the story is reported by Russia Times, not a US media outlet.

WAR:

More evidence that Romney will be just like Obama, or worse.

"I don't believe at this stage if I'm president that we need to have a war powers approval or special authorization for military force. The president already has that capacity now."

Every president builds on the evils of the previous president.

Another supposed ally in Afghanistan kills three Americans. Another supposed ally killed three other Americans the same day. US troops have been in Afghanistan for 11 years, but they still can't tell friend from foe even when they've trained them. Get out now.

POLITICS:

Romney officially names budget fraud Paul Ryan as VP running mate. Wikipedia wins again. Democrats think this works in their favor. I don't know. It actually draws a tiny - very tiny - distinction between Obama and Romney that didn't exist before. I think that works in Romney's favor. The Ryan budget is a joke.