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What baffles me is how come the subway system has never seen major terrorist attacks despite having very low security and carrying millions of New Yorkers (or citizens of other cities) a day.

I am very thankful for this, but wondering why. If someone wanted to cause a massive amount of damage it would not be difficult to do.

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Perhaps terrorism isn't quite the threat to us that the US state makes it out to be.

It increasingly looks like the "ruling 1%" are preparing for social unrest, respectively for the protection of their power and wealth which will be questioned.

This is the feeling I increasingly get with all this. If this turns out to be the case, I can only imagine that this works for a while until those doing the enforcing realize that they have more in common with the 99% and then turn on the 1%.

And that's where the increasing economic pressure comes in:

Keep the minimum wage inhumanely low, keep talking about the "american dream" and how everybody is just a temporarily embarrassed millionaire [0] and watch people keeping their mouths shut.

[0] http://www.temporarilyembarrassedmillionaires.org/

There were attacks in London, and a while before that quite a few bombings in the Paris metro. The US don't have a lot of terrorist attacks overall, so I suppose that simply makes it less likely that any particular target might be bombed.

er.. London?

and Tokyo?

Moscow probably had a couple if I can recall...

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