The state is truly a monster. I'm surprised the state doesn't just press the children into perpetual military service.

Cops? Shaking people down? I'm shocked, simply shocked...

The document announces a shift in focus from terrorists to “state actors” that “are challenging international norms.” It is important to understand what these words mean. Governments that challenge international norms are sovereign countries that pursue policies independently of Washington’s policies. These “revisionist states” are threats, not because they plan to attack the US, which the Pentagon admits neither Russia nor China intend, but because they are independent. In other words, the norm is dependence on Washington.

Good work by PCR.

Keeping an empire together requires tossin' out the bodies. Look at the Russian and Chinese records and you'll see similar or larger police murder rates.

No wonder they give the big torturers like the USA a pass.

Recorded on a tombstone in 200 BC.

Gotta make sure to stay out of databases if you value your life longterm.

If they weren't looking to get out before...

They've still got a long way to go.

Standing up to the reich worked when tried. A lot more resistance is what Germany really needed, not obedience to authority.

Similar properties, but without needing to be single-walled.

People who seriously care about limiting code and terminal output to 80 columns are clowns. Like Pike explains, I don't even use fixed width font in my terminal.

Wow, looks like a powerhouse documentary. Out now, and has slick Willy on tape denouncing the drug war for the right reasons. Mind you this is while Hillary is still humping the drug war.

The pentagram's megalomaniacal space weapon program. Like I suspected, rail guns in space.

Thank you DEA for creating the narco-state, and it metastasizing into Texas. May their names be erased from history.

Good on em.

Collective thought? I'll believe it when we can know the outcome from humans, who can communicate the results.

It takes two to tango. Greece not blameless, but for the ECB to not have seen this coming is impossible.

There's a reason it's called a "theory". I find it hilarious that positivists take it basically as an article of faith considering the lack of fossil evidence. They should have the courage to become methodological dualists and make their thinking a bit more consistent and rational.

Good, running a search engine isn't a crime.

Hilarious that the commies don't really get the irony here. Godless commies wouldn't hesitate to nail up christ to their idol.

BONUS: Commie Pope: "Unbridled capitalism is the dung of the devil". Clearly a person who believes market exchange isn't loving your neighbor. These types are incorrect; as market prices are the only way an individual can efficiently allocate resources and improve their lives through the division of labor and mutually beneficial exchange, allowing "unbridled" market interactions is totally loving behavior.

Naked Capitalism has a good perspective on the article.

After accelerating in the late 1990s, productivity growth has slowed markedly in the past decade. The slump is a bit of a mystery given the rapid pace of technological progress, which should generally allow companies to produce more per hour of work.

Is it possible that after seeing generation of productivity gains creamed off by owners, American workers have finally figured out there’s nothing in it for them, so why do it?

Incentives do matter, and guess who's stealing all the productivity gains? It's not the owners, it's inflation (just 2% a year can eat all productivity gains), which means the central bank (which means the government and their cronies).

As expected, cop in no trouble.

In order to enter Gaza, you pass through the Erez terminal with your government press office credential, which means you’re one of very few people who can get in or get out. And you wander down a long corridor, which is a cage, and then you arrive at a metal door at a concrete wall. The metal door opens, it shuts behind you, and you’re inside what is effectively a walled-off ghetto.

You look down this endless wall, to your right, and you see a remote-controlled machine gun perched on the wall. That’s the spot and strike system, which is operated by an all-female unit of Israeli soldiers in the Negev Desert, tens of kilometers away, by remote. And what they do is, they watch the buffer zone?—?this 300-kilometer area that Palestinians are forbidden from entering inside the Gaza Strip. And anyone who enters who they determine to be a “terrorist,” they eliminate with the push of a joystick button from a remote-controlled machine gun. It’s just that dystopian.