Politics

Around the world, government's are stoking nationalism while using the gun to remain in power.

A hundred year war on freedom started in 1913.

"Robert Nisbet once observed that in 1913, the year he was born, the only contact that the average US citizen had with the federal government was the Post Office. For Veryser as well, 1913 was a pivotal year. "Before World War I," he writes," government based public policy on so-called classical economic theories about money and trade." But that quickly changed, as reality-based economic policy quickly gave way to revered abstractions and their constant companion, government power.
One seldom hears an economist cite Aristotle’s dictum that a science can be only as exact as its subject matter permits. Human beings are not equilateral triangles. Veryser recounts how, for the last hundred years, several generations of self-appointed whiz kids routinely manipulated the political economy, causing the "boom and bust cycle" and making the 1913 dollar worth one penny today.
Oh – and they never apologized."

Never.

Reuters explains why Republicans didn't cave on taxes this time.

"Spending cut showdown threatens Obama's second-term agenda"
"Obama's approval rating dropped to 47 percent in a Gallup poll on Friday, down from 51 percent in the previous three-day period measured."

It's all about politics on both sides.

Only government's crony capitalists wouldn't know whether they bribed a government agent or not.

"In its annual regulatory report published by the commission on Friday, the Sands reported that its audit committee and independent accountants had determined that “there were likely violations of the books and records and internal controls provisions” of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. "

This isn't limited to gambling companies.