Link of the Day: Oct 16 2015: The United States has handed its citizens over to a phenomenally expensive, amazingly ineffective military security apparatus.  Before its size and scope I am virtually speechless. To get a whiff of it I direct you to an article by Tom Englehart, soul of the internet site TomDispatch. Read it here and see if you are not overcome by a sense of hopelessness. The name of the article is How to be “Caught off Guard” in theGreater Middle East. Read it here