Steve Wozniak: 'US would look like Dubai if it didn't spend all its money on military', Snowden=Hero [View all]

[nationalize the fed]

Stephen McBride ArabianBusiness Sunday, 24 May 2015

"Everything is first-class," says Nerd-in-Chief Steve Wozniak of Dubai, as we sit down to chat on the sidelines of this month's Gartner Symposium at the Madinat Arena.

"The United States used to talk, when I was growing up, like that's what we were. The US would look like this if we didn't spend all our money on the military." SNIP

...And "Woz" is equally approachable for normal people. He speaks passionately about everything and does not appear to edit himself. When we start to talk about privacy and I ask him whether he thinks NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is a hero or a villain his answer is prompt and unabashed.

"Total hero to me; total hero," he gushes. "Not necessarily [for] what he exposed, but the fact that he internally came from his own heart, his own belief in the United States Constitution, what democracy and freedom was about. And now a federal judge has said that NSA data collection was unconstitutional."...

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Dubai in the 1960's



Dubai in 2012



Dubai before the boom: Staggering pictures show how emirate went from desert backwater to the Manhattan of the Middle East in just 50 years
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2144613/Pictures-Dubai-1960s-1970s-city-fishing-settlement.html

Here's where the US spends money (Figures from 2014- click link below and see the present amounts. >$2000 PER SECOND-that's $20,000 per TEN SECONDS)



https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/