US public TV governing boards are dominated by business executives.

Business also dominates public TV stations through its money.

Turkey is blocking Kurds from joining the defense of Kobani, while allowing reinforcements to join PISSI.

Ebola virus may persist a human's semen and milk months after the person has recovered from it.

For the fascist plans of US officials, terrorism (real or imaginary) is the gift that keeps on giving.

The author makes a mistake by saying that "we" have adopted these foolish attitudes, because that effectively insists the reader can't reject them. We can all reject them — it just takes a tiny bit of moral fiber. I reject them every time they come up, and you can, too.

Clinton has openly endorsed the policy of endless war.

Put this together with NSA snooping and the systematic dishonesty of the mainstream press, and it adds up to 1984 lite.

The main threat to Americans comes from plutocracy. Plutocracy could kill millions of Americans in the coming decade, mainly through the poverty it imposes. Compared with this, underground terrorists are a tiny threat.

Back when Dubya was president, I speculated that he and al Qa'ida were both working to cause the endless war that suited them both. It seems the same for the US and PISSI. Not that they have explicitly conspired to do this together. Rather, each side expects to gain domestic power from endless war. So PISSI offers bait, and the US government jumps for it.