Russia has given itself the power to ban foreign-linked NGOs (and businesses) arbitrarily. It merely has to label them as "undesirable" — no trial is needed.

The US has already gone even further; it can arbitrarily shut down any NGO (or business) and imprison the people who work with it. It merely has to label them as "terrorist" — no trial is needed.

An employee of the US Department of Veterans Affairs says that the agency spends billions of dollars without going through competitive bidding or contracting.

The end of "containment" of the Soviet Union in 1990 also left the US military uncontained.

Now it gets constantly more expensive, and (counting mercenaries) ever larger, and can attack anywhere — but victory is impossible.

New York City has exempted multi-million-dollar apartments from property tax.

Well, not totally exempted, only 99%.

The CIA insists it did not drug prisoners in the 2000s, but it appears the CIA never conducted an investigation to determine this.