The War On Terror Is America's Mania

[mindwalker_i]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/spiegel-commentary-on-us-internet-surveillance-a-911256.html

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Since 2005, an average of 23 Americans per year have been killed through terrorism, mostly outside of the US. "More Americans die of falling televisions and other appliances than from terrorism," writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times, and "15 times as many die by falling off ladders." The US has spent $8 trillion on the military and homeland security since 2001.

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We need a war on televisions.

[grasswire]

1. we need a war on money in politics...

....and the ways our dollars are diverted to war profiteers by "bought" politicians.

[Blue Owl]

2. You're 25x more likely to be struck by lightning than a terrorist

n/t