it would be a good move if Babylon plans on selling hollow stones via sockpuppets.
nobody would see the difference.
Err.. maybe that is possible too.
I think the most plausible possibility is that politicians are just stupid/evil and are probably shorting clay to hell with Babylon federal reserve printed salt-money. ;-)
Lately would seem that bank/politician interests are far from the US American ideals of the constitution or just those of 50 years ago. They are knowingly destroying many industries (motor=detroit -> china) just for financial benefit/scam. So that politician linkage with their own country interest seem to be broken lately. You have just to read some politico.com articles to see that something fails.
site looks interesting, you can never have enough variation of news coverage.
is it independent or slightly "painted"?
It seems to be a nice reference for political issues.
I like this search on it about bitcoin. I try to check it out frequently ->
http://find.politico.com/?reporters=&dt=all&key=bitcoinIn these articles you see what might be (for a foreigner) a rotten point of the actual american politicians and probably most modern democracies. The lobbies and the revolving doors..
They care too much (and i mean too much about lobbies and about getting their part of the cake on any issue) more than work for the country
+ In the case of bitcoin they say "the main problem of bitcoin is that it does not have lobbies" ->
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/bitcoins-washington-problem-95803.html?hp=f1+ Also as a reflection of the "real interests" of these people you see how politico.com points at how big the real interest of politicians might be for bitcoin:
"Bitcoin campaign Donations" where they care a bit too much on how if possible are they going to get money using bitcoins donations
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/bitcoin-campaign-donations-96301.htmland
"Bitcoin and Politics: What Could Go Wrong?"
http://bloom.bg/17JYJPUInteresting articles from a politician mind. (<---- caution advised !!)
So that was the reason i said that maybe all the NSA stuff is just about some financial/lobby interest and who cares about national interests? If all the US IT industry is going to hell, well maybe we then should short it to hell.
Look, even the russians lobby American politicians
http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/09/03/obama-putin-russia-syria-congress/2756801/All i am talking about it is from the ignorant point of view of a foreigner so take it with caution.