woooooohooooo yeeehaw . bring it. let the good times roll. us rednecks will be fine
woooooohooooo yeeehaw . bring it. let the good times roll. us rednecks will be fine
u and everyone else… be it your rotting dead corpse or your attitude
woooooohooooo yeeehaw . bring it. let the good times roll. us rednecks will be fine
good old barry just gave all government employees (civilian and military) a 1% pay raise a day or two ago … ironic huh
grass lands, i didn't say what i said to you in a negative way - i just made a general statement
Parallel construction is a police process of building a parallel - or separate - evidentiary basis for a criminal investigation in order to conceal how the investigation began. [1]
The Special Operations Division (SOD) of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration advises DEA agents to practice parallel construction when creating criminal cases against Americans that are actually based on NSA warrantless surveillance.[1]
LOS ANGELES, CA — As drivers prove their innocence at warrantless police checkpoints this New Year, they will not only be scrutinized over their potential consumption of alcohol. A new technology will enable the police to detect and arrest drivers for having marijuana, narcotics, and “other drugs” in their bloodstreams.
The recently unveiled device is a portable saliva swab analyzer, capable of immediately sampling body fluids for the presence of foreign intoxicants. The machines were paid for by grants from the state.
“Traditionally, our office has focused on drunken driving cases,” Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer said. “We’re expanding drug collection and aggressively enforcing all impaired-driving laws.”
Portable saliva test. (Source: NBC Los Angeles)
Portable saliva test. (Source: NBC Los Angeles)
The city attorney said that he had “anecdotal” evidence that medical marijuana users were endangering the streets. The new tactics were applauded by the checkpoint lobbyist group, MADD.
During police roadblocks, drivers are stopped without probable cause and forced into non-consensual interactions with government agents in which they must demonstrate their sobriety before being allowed to continue traveling down the public street.
The saliva swabs are but one of the searches that police can coerce a driver into allowing. Should the driver refuse a saliva search, the police can seek a warrant for a forced blood draw. Often in large checkpoint operations, a judge is placed on-call or on-site to sign such warrants to confiscate blood.
Such events are called “No Refusal” checkpoints, and they are gaining popularity in many states, such as Tennessee and Georgia. And with the new focus on targeting marijuana and narcotics, we can probably expect to see more of them than ever.
Officials claimed the device could detect marijuana, narcotics, and “other drugs.” With approximately 7 out of 10 Americans taking some sort of prescription drug, according to the Mayo Clinic, the question is raised about how many drivers will be arrested because of their prescribed medications.
In a free society, people would not have to be hassled and forced to prove their innocence while traveling down public streets. Police would be better utilized by spreading themselves out and actually looking for reasons to justifiably stop vehicles for breaking traffic laws. Innocent people should not have to deal with constant encounters with the police, which always carry a potential for violence and life-changing consequences.
The direction this thread has taken, is not about crying how bad everything is, as some seem to be interpreting it, but instead to simply open the eyes of the folks that are hypnotized and are NOT aware where everything is going in relation to the US economy.
The thing is, because the US Dollars are the current global "reserve" currency, once they lose all their value, which is only a matter of time, that's going to take down the whole global financial system, or at least a large part of it.
If the US Dollars were not the reserve currency, they would already be worth about as much as Zimbabwean dollars.
Iraq wanted to start selling their oil in another currency, and look what happened to them.
But, as the current Syria crisis showed, USA is not the primary world power anymore, and most likely never will be again.
To be aware that a Financial Tsunami is coming is NOT a childish action, but instead an opportunity to get yourself and your family ready for when it hits.
And, as I said a few times already, and will most likely say it again, it is not a question of "if" it will happen, but "when."
Taking into account what the Federal Reserve and the Federal Government are currently doing, printing FIAT US DOLLARS, the chances are almost zero that they will stop.
This irresponsible behavior will lead to a devaluation of the US Dollar, hyperinflation, and eventually to skyrocketing interest rates.
Once these interest rates hit around 10% per year, and the dollar is worthless, the US Government will be forced to default on their debt.
Anyone that has half-a-brain can imagine what that will lead to inside the US borders and what that will do to the global economy.
Happy New Year everyone!
And yet....I have better things to trip on.
It's amusing how everyone thinks they know "what's going on". It's also amusing that "what's going on" is never anything positive.
So all those out there with a full brain (unlike myself...as I know I'm a 1/3 of a brain at best)...spend their time worrying about stuff that they...should by now..realize they have no control over...and/or still do not have a full grip on. Seems like a complete waste of time and a trip to me.
The average citizen is oblivious. So what? It seems to me...the whole damn world is run on smoke and mirrors...and it also seems to me...that you folks have plenty of time on your hands to worry about it. It's a plump life...is it not?
I run a real estate business in an Eastern European country.
In the end of 2008, when the Financial Crisis started, it almost completely wiped out my business, so I became very interested in what started it.
I wanted to know the root of the problem.
Obviously, the biggest problem was ME. That was primary.
But, the global debt was secondary. The US and European economies really crashed hard, and none of my clients could get bank loans to buy the properties I was selling.
I don't worry about these things (US and European Debt), I simply take them into account.
Fundamentally, I think everything is as it is.
It's not bad or good, our interpretation makes it one or the other.
You probably know my perspective from reading my threads in the Den.
I think that this waking state, that as a rule we consider to be physical and real, is nothing more than a dream. It has the same structure as our dreams, and the only difference is in our dreams we are not as attached to our bodies.
Happy New Year
Now that we have the first estimate of Q1 GDP growth in both rate of change and absolute current dollar terms ($16,010 billion), we can finally assign the appropriate debt number, which we know on a daily basis and which was $16,771.4 billion as of March 31, to the growth number. The end result: as of March 31, 2013, the US debt/GDP was 104.8%, up from 103% as of December 31, 2012 or a debt growth rate that would make the most insolvent Eurozone nation blush. There was a time when people were concerned about this unsustainable trajectory, but then there was an infamous excel error, and now nobody cares anymore.
In fact, moar debt is moar best-er.