95% of suicide terrorist attacks are targeted at occupying foreign militaries. 0% of suicide terrorist attacks have been directed at countries not militarily involved in geopolitical disputes.
Government Spending
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Meet the Backers: Bankers Flip-Flop to Romney
The financial sector primarily backed Romney in 2012 after having supported Obama in 2008.
Are most Muslims terrorists? Are most terrorists Muslim?
FACT: Suicide terrorism is NOT primarily a product of Islamic fundamentalism. This is evidenced by the fact that 42% of suicide terrorist attacks from 1981 to 2000 were perpetrated by non-Muslims. Before the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, the world’s leading practitioners of suicide terrorism are the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is a SECULAR Marxist-Leninist…
Government Spending
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GOP Presidential Candidates’ Budget Plans EXPOSED!!!
GOP Candidate Ron Paul has produced a detailed budget containing over $1 trillion in first-year reductions. Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich have only indicated that they would attempt to repeal Obamacare saving an average of $20 billion a year.
Psychology
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Are You Reading this of Your Own Free Will?
Patterns of brain activity predict people’s decisions up to 10 seconds before the people are aware of them, according to new research that casts fresh doubt on whether we have free will. The ancient debate over free will centers on whether it’s an illusion to believe our thoughts and decisions are independent, since our brains really consist of…
Democracy
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Unrepresentative Democracy – Government by the Millionaires and for the Millionaires
In a truly representative democracy, the more public support there is for a policy, the more likely it would be to become law. However, public support has almost no influence on what laws are passed. Whether there is 0% or 100% support for a policy, there’s a 30% likelihood that it will become law….
Military
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Fraudulent Defense Contractors Paid $1 Trillion
Bernie Sanders – U.S. Senator for Vermont WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 – Hundreds of defense contractors that defrauded the U.S. military received more than $1.1 trillion in Pentagon contracts during the past decade, according to a Department of Defense report prepared for Sen. Bernie Sanders. Sanders (I-Vt.) called the report “shocking.”…
Financial Sector
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How the US Monetary System Steals from the Poor and Gives to the Rich
Required viewing for anyone who does not yet understand the complicated mechanism by which the banking system transfers wealth from those at the bottom to those at the top.
Debt
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Housing Bubble Wastes $2 Trillion on 14 Million Empty Houses
Empty houses in the US = 14 million. Median Home Price = $160,000. Money Wasted on Building Unneeded Homes = $2 trillion. Why would Americans be so dumb as to build 14 million houses they didn’t need? The two primary reasons we built too many houses are: The United States spends more than $100 billion annually…
Taxes
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A More Progressive Tax System Makes People Happier
A new study comparing 54 nations found that the more progressive the tax policy is, the happier the citizens are.