United States citizens are increasingly enslaved, manipulated and...

Bruce Ivins at a news conference and with good reason. Anyone familiar with the case is well aware that Dr.

[ozzie]

You;re enslaved all right mate - only most of your compatriots don't realise it! Well, the other 95% of the world's population DOES realise it, so here's a touch of reality for you:
What passes for political "debate" in your blighted Empire consists of stupefying, hypocritical and shameless charades, which lead us to tag your entire country as brainless and clueless.
Honestly, we just stand back in awe of the seemingly unending nature of the stupidity and avidity, death and destruction, hypocrisy and falsity that emanates from your Imperial rulers, your unprecedented armed forces and public debt, your military-industrial-government complex and your appalling apology for a media.
Most of us can't even understand WHY all of you have to constantly compete about who is the most "patriotic" and and who loves their country the most, and who has been in the armed forces and perhaps killed Iraqi and Afghani babies - and for what? For oil? To allow the continuation of profligacy and environmental destruction? To allow planes to use oil to constantly criss-cross your country on journeys to nowhere, to more new exurbs that look exactly like the last ones?
Do you understand that to most of the rest of the world, especially to us Australians (who you profess to "love", without knowing or understanding anything about us, or realising that we HATE what your rulers have been doing and we tossed out our government for collaborating with them)- excessive flag-waving "patriotism" is ABHORRENT, a suspect and dangerous emotion?
And our countries survive just fine without this sort of flag-waving nonsense, except for a bit of fun at sporting events! Yes, tiny New Zealand is doing beautifully without that particularly ludicrous form of "patriotism", so are the Nordic countries, Switzerland, Canada and of course Australia - ALL WAY AHEAD of the so-called "Land of the Free" in quality of life in EVERY worldwide survey
Ally that "patriotism" with US "exceptionalism" and the ludicrous idea that so-called "Christians" could persistently ask for a particular piece of land to be "blessed" without giving a STUFF about the rest of the world - and you have such abhorrent situations as the idea that your so-revered armed forces have the right to kill any number of innocent Iraqi or Afghani or Pakistani people they wish, including their beautiful, precious, beloved little children ("thou shalt not kill"? "suffer the little children"?) in order to follow some twisted idea that this will somehow "defend" the lives of US-citizens?
What drives the beyond-breathtaking ignorance even about your OWN COUNTRY displayed by people interviewed on the street by your Jay Leno - are they putting tranquillisers in your water supply or spraying your skies with it? Why are these people giggling so inanely? Why are they so robotic and fat and stupid? Why are they so inarticulate they can hardly put 2 words together?But all over the world, we understand what your "government" and its big-Pharma mates and military masters of war are no doubt busy doing, polluting and drugging your country and your people ALL the time.(Which is probaly nothing compared to what they are doing in less visible places - what goes on in Guam, Cuba, Diego Garcia, the MArshall Islands, on secret navy ships and hidden overseas bases, etc etc?)
As for the current "financial crisis" - words fail to express the pathetic enormity of the hypocrisy being displayed by a regime that supposedly believes in the "free market", engaging in the biggest nationalisation of private businesses of all time, and the transformation to a Socialist economy which is far "worse" than Communism - because at least under Communism , people are guaranteed healthcare!

[Ubu the fecalphiliac]

hurts to say it, but you got it right. Our empire is like a hamster-cage full of chemicals. we are so stupid we don't even realize we are slaves, much less understand technology, the universe, and the true state of reality. Its unfortunate, but hey, thats totalitarianism for ya.