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hey, non-US citizen here. assuming you're a US citizen based on your "outrage".

the point of your defence budget (how large is it again) is to project power through the military and intelligence services.

it is ASTOUNDING that only now you seem to have realized what the US intelligennce apparatus is doing. of course they are collecting all the data, they are basically replicating google to be able to search within digital data. maybe only on foreigners, but what kind of stupid distinction is that? we have a found an al-kaida member, but he is US so hands off?

welcome to the rest of the world. ever travelled? your data is one of many intelligence databases.

i am human being, but somehow it is ok for you to spend gobs of money on monitoring ME, but once you realize it might affect YOU you suddenly get "outraged".

seriously, what DID you THINK all those intelligence services with multi-billion budgets were DOING?

looking forward to the protest by US neckbeards around the country. hope time-warner produces enough guy fawkes masks, should raise the price too. USA USA USA.

Myself and plenty of other US citizens and residents understand the imperialistic tyrrany of the fed.

The problem is that 90% of the population isn't engaged, is brainwashed by national news networks, and is complacent in their lives eating McDonalds and watching Desperate Housewives. They accept being exploited and the atrocities they vote in with their amazing public service of going to a polling place for 10 minutes every 2 or 4 years (and they never vote for their local mayors or judges).

The only way anything would truly change in the USA is if that massive body that spans 2 deviations of income in both directions of the bell curve lost their ability to keep fattening themselves up or if they tv went out.

"...your defence budget (how large is it again)"

It's about the size of the 10 biggest following countries COMBINED! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_e...

That is YOUR hard earned tax money at work AGAINST YOU.

Black projects are not listed in a public budget. The premise of it being tax money is also suspect. The US government does not get all of the money from taxes despite the popular notion. I agree with your gist however; A modern day human sacrifice.

Could you list some of the other sources of government funding? The only one I can think of is the alleged CIA drug trafficking scandals from decades past.

Illegal arms trafficking, which was somewhat more thoroughly proven than the CIA making a profit from its illegal drug trafficking. Its involvement, however, was pretty cut-and-dried, and goes far beyond being an "alleged scandal".

The CIA's drug trafficking activities over the decades are a matter of historical record:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politics_of_Heroin_in_South...

This of course does not cover Afghanistan and Iran/Contra.

Here's a paper examining CIA Black Funding simply by looking at the trillion or so dollars of misallocated DoD money over fifty or so years:

http://www1.american.edu/salla/Articles/BB-CIA.htm

A trillion here and there and pretty soon you're talking real money.

>> hey, non-US citizen here.

> That is YOUR hard earned tax money at work AGAINST YOU.

The guy you're yelling at is a non-US citizen who's point is "for the love of god, you ignorant american, how did you not see what's been happening until now?"

It's completely stupid that this is even a topic on HN, but the worst part is the amount of mindless shitposting going on. I mean, you just replied to a person who starts off with a disclaimer about being a not-american, and your response culimates in righteous but misplaced indignation.

Fooey.

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