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One thing that is often talked about regarding "the most powerful people" is their ethnicity. For instance, a big deal was made regarding President Obama being the first (half-)bla…

You forgot the sarcasm tag.

You shouldn't have been down-voted, as the latest FOMC report does indeed predict Negative Interest Rate Policy for 2015 and 2016. It is coming and it is coming fast.

The problems with LSD: 1 - it's incredibly hard to produce. 2 - it's incredibly hard to ensure something is pure LSD. Those problems are not there for psilocybe mushrooms, for whic…

Yes, and if the police won't actively police every square foot where there are people, they could at least let citizens do so through concealed carry of a weapon. And yet, somehow,…

It seems that clock only took him 20 minutes to make, the night before. He's made other things as well that are impressive. He makes his own radios and fixes his go-kart. Lots of p…

They were enlightened enough to separate State from Church but not State from Market.

They do it without asking (the Federal Reserve Act was passed Christmas Eve 1913 - around the same time the IRS came into being, what a coincidence) and most people do not understa…

CP will only be remotely a good excuse to not do something once we have made spanking children illegal and punishable as assault. It's unbelievable the assault laws discriminate by…

That's a great idea, get it started and the kid will have $100 from me.

JoeAltmaier you are breaching the negativity rules. You're just being negative here by willfully ignoring that said doctor is giving the drug away for free, which is not the usual …

The US Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, does not answer to a body of citizens, unless by that you mean its shareholders.

> Banks don't operate on trust Can you spell LIBOR? Banks do operate on trust, which is what allowed the LIBOR conspiracy to take place. Unless you can list here the "checks and ba…

> run by private companies that sell their services to the government If a company's sole paying client is the government (i.e. the public at large through government coercion) the…

First of all, the US is an Oligarchy, not a Democracy: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746 So whatever the "majority of the population wants" doesn't count, period.…

Please. There are no private prisons. A private enterprise receives 100% of its income from its clients. No prisoner is paying to be incarcerated. What you mean to say is that the …

> Actually More permissive & lax gun laws -> More police militarization to preserve the competitive advantage Are you sure your arrow there means causation? Explain like I'm five, …

That is correct, but the frog died in the process. :)

> I really don't understand why I can't be allowed to speculate/gamble on geopolitical events. That would get people interested in geopolitical events. At least, more interested th…

Not even DNA is safe from lies: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-fo... > Forensic "science" is definitely horseshit though. Of course it is! Any adjectiviz…

> I will stay standing, give the guy my stuff, and then get shot in the face, like it happened to some kid some time ago Don't you see now why the government tells you not to react…

No! When this same problem happens to the police, it is standard practice to sweep it under the rug and provide some excuse that lets everyone know you're on the side of the Govern…

> One of the most important roles police can have is to protect the poor from oppression from the rich How's that working out in the US? Right now there's a Holocaust happening whe…

Socrates (in Meno) helped a slave kid prove to himself that the square root of 2 is irrational, using nothing but a stick and the sand on the ground. I don't think that kid would u…