The US has no allies except Israel, which leads it around by the nose - all of the rest of the so-called allies are really vassals. Do you really think the Dutch vassal will publish or do anything its US master doesn't like?
Re Spitzer, he was a PEP, a Politically Engaged Person, that is, a politician -- an officeholder, party candidate or party official -- or a close relative of one. The UN maintains a worldwide list of PEPs and as well as a list of terrorists. By law in the US, Canada, Europe, Japan and other countries, a PEP cannot open a bank account without permission of a bank executive and all banking transactions of PEPs are monitored and reported to the government. So that is how Spitzer was caught.
It started even earlier - the Alien and Sedition Acts. But forgetting that and the Civil War, US Border Patrol has always had the dictatorial attitude and most Americans were fine with that.
Read Hannah Arendt's book, _The Origin of Totalitarianism_. Her thesis was that imperialist acts abroad escaping punishment led to fascism at home. Her prime example was Germany and its pre-WW I treatment of the Noma and Herrero peoples in German South-West Africa (massacres and concentration camps) and the US treatment of the Filopino people (bodies floating down rives and concentration camps documented by a Congressional committee).
Yes, but the GOP obstructiveness had nothing to do with his de facto decision to keep Gitmo open or kill US citizens without a trial. And for Americans (I don't really care about this one), his failure to put through single-payer medicare when he had a majority in both houses instead of the pale imitation of the Swiss medicare policy.
There are probably other instances of failure but I don't follow your politics that closely.
So there is more to Obama's failures than GOP obstructiveness.
They were not there to convert but to conquer. Christians were not forced to convert in the Middle East as the Caliphate collected an additional tax from "People of the Book" (Christians and Jews). The majority of Christians converted only about 150 years later. (A History of Civilizations - Grammaire des civilisations - by / par F. Braudel)
You pay for public-financed health care with a Value-Added Tax. In my country, health care is not a federal matter, it is provincial with the feds never contributing more than 25% of it. Where are the States in the US on this matter? Why doesn't one of them set up a public option?
we beat the Romans. They had 'panem et circenses'. We just have 'circenses'. A lot cheaper...
The US has no allies except Israel, which leads it around by the nose - all of the rest of the so-called allies are really vassals. Do you really think the Dutch vassal will publish or do anything its US master doesn't like?
Re Spitzer, he was a PEP, a Politically Engaged Person, that is, a politician -- an officeholder, party candidate or party official -- or a close relative of one. The UN maintains a worldwide list of PEPs and as well as a list of terrorists. By law in the US, Canada, Europe, Japan and other countries, a PEP cannot open a bank account without permission of a bank executive and all banking transactions of PEPs are monitored and reported to the government. So that is how Spitzer was caught.
It started even earlier - the Alien and Sedition Acts. But forgetting that and the Civil War, US Border Patrol has always had the dictatorial attitude and most Americans were fine with that.
Read Hannah Arendt's book, _The Origin of Totalitarianism_. Her thesis was that imperialist acts abroad escaping punishment led to fascism at home. Her prime example was Germany and its pre-WW I treatment of the Noma and Herrero peoples in German South-West Africa (massacres and concentration camps) and the US treatment of the Filopino people (bodies floating down rives and concentration camps documented by a Congressional committee).
Yes, but the GOP obstructiveness had nothing to do with his de facto decision to keep Gitmo open or kill US citizens without a trial. And for Americans (I don't really care about this one), his failure to put through single-payer medicare when he had a majority in both houses instead of the pale imitation of the Swiss medicare policy.
There are probably other instances of failure but I don't follow your politics that closely.
So there is more to Obama's failures than GOP obstructiveness.
They were not there to convert but to conquer. Christians were not forced to convert in the Middle East as the Caliphate collected an additional tax from "People of the Book" (Christians and Jews). The majority of Christians converted only about 150 years later. (A History of Civilizations - Grammaire des civilisations - by / par F. Braudel)
You pay for public-financed health care with a Value-Added Tax. In my country, health care is not a federal matter, it is provincial with the feds never contributing more than 25% of it. Where are the States in the US on this matter? Why doesn't one of them set up a public option?