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US Shuts Down What Happens

Nice write-up.

Let's see how this impacts the US so called non-essential services.

Most of the things might probably be for the good like scientists not scaring people of imagined diseases,

State governments' relevance and their ability to exist independently of Washington will be high lighted

Though some jobs will be lost ,the States may accommodate them.

As things stand the Motto Private Industry sustains will be put to test.

People say that this shut down will affect the World economy.

Call the bluff.

Like, what happens to firemen and policemen who get paid by the government? Will garbage men still come to pick up the stinky trash on your street? Will mommies and daddies who work for the government be in the mood to buy you new Legos? And what is a government shutdown anyway?

A good way to think about the situation right now is this: the federal government runs on money like a car runs on gas. Lawmakers couldn’t agree on where to go or which route to take, so they ended up driving in circles and reading Dr. Seuss books to each other until they ran out of fuel. Some parts of the car will still operate without gas, but many won’t.

US Bugs Indian Embassy Compromises Security

There has been a furor over Snowdon revelations on NSA snooping all and sundry.

But the Indian Embassy probably was busy attending cocktail circuits, while the NSA merrily bugged the Indian embassy in Washington DC, with bugs capable of copying the entire hard Drive of Computers,let alone conversations!

At the political level there is nobody to take care of these small issues as they are busy drafting legislation to save tainted, jailed MPs,Ministers.
Story;

According to the 2010 COMINT (communication intelligence) document about “Close Access SIGADs”, the offices of Indian diplomats and high-ranking military officials stationed at these important posts were targets of four different kinds of electronic snooping devices:

Lifesaver, which facilitates imaging of the hard drive of computers

Highlands, which makes digital collection from implants

Vagrant, which collects data of open computer screens, and