When you look at the concentration of media ownership (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_ownership), it is obvious that the mainstream media is bought and paid for. The modern media is simply a propaganda machine for the powers that be. Anyone who believes them is a sucker.

Tell me again why the U.S. needed to be involved in Libya and needs to be involved now in Syria? Are those nations a threat to the United States? I am not seeing the threat and I am not seeing how our involvement is helping the situation inside those nations or .

Perhaps some intel types didn't share the data because it was the intel types who groomed the bombers and encouraged and enabled them to carry out the attack. They want to keep the fear going to show us that we need an all-powerful government to protect us!

Are you saying that the U.S. government will always be able to borrow as much money as it wants for as long as it wants? If that is the case, then why bother to collect taxes? If the U.S.'s ability to borrow is unlimited, then why worry about revenue at all? The U.S. government can always borrow all of the money that it needs, right? I like it! Let's abolish taxes!

Therefore.... what exactly? Are you advocating that we must give up our rights and freedoms in order to have security? Are you unaware that those who give up essential liberty to obtain safety deserve neither liberty nor safety and will lose both? Do you believe that the government can and should ensure our safety? Are you advocating a tyrannical nanny state in the name of security? You don't come out and say it, but based on your implication, I am guessing that your answer to these questions would be "yes".

Oh, and you might want to check out this article: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/thomaspascoe/100024081/the-gold-price-crash-is-further-evidence-of-market-rigging/

Gold is not merely a commodity, it is the ultimate store of wealth. When monetary systems collapse, as the dollar is sure to do, those who have physical gold have wealth. Are you completely unaware of the $16 trillion dollar federal debt and another $70-200 trillion in unfunded government liabilities? Those obligations will never be met by tax revenue. The only way that they will be paid is by printing mountains of paper dollars. If you believe that the un-backed dollar will always be strong and a reliable store of wealth, you are dreaming. I am thrilled that the price of gold has dropped -- that means it's time to buy more physical gold! I hope the price drops even further!

The stock market is being artificially levitated by all of the stimulus money from the government and the fed. As soon as the stimulus money stops flowing, the stock market will crash like a junkie.

Gosh, it's too bad Mitt Romney didn't get elected. Then we could have had a Republican administration presiding over an economic collapse instead of a Democratic administration. Wouldn't that have been wonderful?

Too many Republicans believe that endless war is what our American empire must have in order to survive. I believe that an nation built on constant warfare cannot long endure.