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FEDERAL RESERVE:

This article claims that faulty software has frozen bank accounts and messed up balances.

""'RBS and Natwest have failed to register inbound payments for up to three days, customers have reported, leaving people unable to pay for bills, travel and even food. The banks — both owned by RBS Group — have confirmed that technical glitches have left bank accounts displaying the wrong balances and certain services unavailable. There is no fix date available.' Customers of NatWest subsidiary Ulster Bank in Ireland have also been left without banking services. RTE reports that 'the problem had arisen within the systems of parent bank RBOS when an incorrect patch was applied.'""

Another possibility is the software wasn't faulty at all. This bank could be in trouble, and this could be a way to hide the trouble until the government can print more money for the bank. Or it could be a dry run for when all bank accounts are frozen shortly.

POLICE STATE:

Ex-Penn State coach Sandusky found guilty on most charges. It's a shame this process and conviction were grotesquely tainted by a grand-standing AG and sheriff. This should have been a cathartic event for the victims, and hopefully it still is, but it's sickening how the self-interest of evil people drawn to government's power of coercion can taint such a proceeding. Frankly, despite all the propaganda, or maybe because of it, promoted in the media by the prosecutors and their political allies, I'm skeptical of the decision. In a free society, very little doubt would last past a conviction. It's only our grossly unjust and abusive conviction system that can produce such doubt when the evidence seems so clear.

WAR:

One problem of war is enemies always cross borders to hide. The aggressor is forced to either allow them to operate across the border or it must invade another country. We remember how this worked out for us in Vietnam. The same thing is happening along the Afganistan-Pakistan border. The solution is not to invade Pakistan. The solution is to end US government aggression in Afghanistan.

Roosevelt used to send PT boats to harass Japanese ships, hoping the Japanese would attack them so he could declare war. Today, Syria shot down a Turkish, a member of NATO, plane. A simple analysis would conclude western powers used this plane to start a war.

"The official Syrian Arab News Agency, known as SANA, said the aircraft, flying low and fast, violated Syrian airspace over the Mediterranean Sea and was shot down by ground fire. It said the plane was hit about half a mile from the Syrian coast and crashed into the sea."

How many times will we allow our rulers to kill people to advance their interests?

LOCAL:

In another good reminder that the government owns your property, not you, government is telling Yellow Springs residents where they may and may not garden on the property they thought they owned. It's funny to see the leftists in Yellow Springs standing up for property rights against the socialist government. The glove is on the other foot for them.

VP Biden forced to cancel trip to my hometown of Hamilton. Hurray for Hamilton.

MISC:

AMD video chip top of the line. It's unfortunate their CPUs no longer compete for that title.

For decades or more ICAAN has held a monopoly on DNS names. This shows that in the free market monopolies are still restrained by the market, unlike government.

God bless Alyson Hannigan.

Are Christmas trees a representation of our solar system's chaotic past? This seems even further out there than the Venus as recently born planet from Saturn turned comet turned planet seems.

Apparent strings of Birkeland currents creating stars in the Southern Cross nebula. This picture is beautiful and enlightening (no pun intended).