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contemporary2u··on Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to taxis
Food for thought:

I am working on AI robot that will ultimately replace human programmers/coders/software engineers. It will make human programmers obsolete.

What will most of you do? Will you go back to school to get a new degree/profession? Open a coffee shop perhaps? or apply for peace corps?

It is coming.. just remember that eventually anyone could be the next "taxi cab" driver with his or her job going away to automation.

Our society will have no choice but to adopt in more ways than one.

contemporary2u··on Stop Treating Marijuana Like Heroin
The big question is why drugs are illegal at all?

Drugs are a multi trillion dollar business. 100's of billions of dollars turning the wheels of the shadow economy every day.

Who stands to lose all that money if drugs were legalized? Who is involved in drug business? think of all of the players in the chain..

We know examples of developed countries where drugs are legalized and everyone did not become a junkie over night, or next week, or next year.

Drug money fuels a lot of things in this world, entire countries are built and destroyed using drug money, new political systems are built and presidents elected using drug money. It is convenient "invisible" hand that makes a lot of things happen in this world.

Drug problem is not about me or you becoming a junkie. Its about money, a lot of money, its about economical and political power that comes with it.

The day when drugs are legalized the convenient way to make lots of money out of "thin air" all of the sudden would be gone...

Hearings on the CIA and Drug Trafficking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km0Z2XmzBDw

John Kerry committee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvFr5K8zJRA

Police Officer Mike Ruppert (dead now, shot in the head 2 years ago) Confronts CIA Director John Deutch on Drug Trafficking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT5MY3C86bk

contemporary2u··on Stop Treating Marijuana Like Heroin
Top banker at major Investment bank on Wall street. From what i understand smoking marijuana there is like having a soda..in certain branches/areas anyway.
contemporary2u··on Are the Russians Actually Behind the Panama Papers?
who released this info and for what reasons exactly will always be the question that i think will never be answered, but lets not forget that information itself seems to be legit. Iceland's PM resignation confirms that, at least partially.

Everyone knows that Russia is corrupt up to the top. How? Pretty much every top politician (and their families) in russia own far more than can be purchased on a state salary. Spokes person for Kremlin is spotted wearing 700,000 Euro watch when his official salary is less than 1/10 of that.

A lot of Russian government officials and their inner circles own multi-million dollar properties in: London, Spain, New York, Boston etc. Their families live in the west, their kids go to schools in usa and europe...

Panama papers disclose how these multi million bribes and shady dealings are accepted and how money is transferred and used to buy up assets overseas. Good old days of a bribe in a suitcase are gone... Its hard to fit $300mil of cash in a suitcase (well Italians would argue lol).

IT IS very suspicious that no high profile Americans were caught in this release... It is possible that USA players simply use different entities to set up shell corps and transfer money using different channels.