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"As to date, the M.O.D. is not aware of any evidence which might substantiate the existence of extraterrestrial life forms, the matter of abduction by ‘aliens' remains a nonissue as far as the M.O.D. is concerned."
The health-care mess isn't merely the unintentional result of political dysfunction, in other words.It is also the deliberate consequence of the way in which American policymakers have come to think about insurance.
The Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their--or at least their cell phones'--whereabouts. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers say that "a customer's Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the phone company reveals to the government its own records" that show where a mobile device placed and received calls.
Related entries--category "Pure Evil"
Just because you own your house outright doesn't mean Bank of America won't foreclose on it.
[Given that it took at least four days after the earthquake before the U.S. military permitted relief supplies to land at the Port-au-Prince airport, turned away planes from such NGOs as Doctors Without Borders, and that Defense Secretary Robert Gates refused to release aid until a full week had passed, one can hardly call the deployment of 10,000 troops a relief operation.]
How did Haiti get so poor? Despite a century of American colonialism, occupation, and propping up corrupt dictators? Even though the CIA staged coups d'état against every democratically elected president they ever had?
Heart specialists have saved the life of an Israeli man who had refused to visit a doctor for 64 years - and learned the terrible secret of his mistrust of the medical profession.