Immigration

House Republicans including Paul Ryan are sneaking around behind the scenes, using the budget fight as cover to pass amnesty. This might be what this entire charade is about.

War on Drugs

After 80 years of the war on drugs, one media outlet admits the obvious:

"The international war on illegal drugs is failing to curb supply, despite the increasing amounts of resource being ploughed into law enforcement activities, finds research published in the online journal BMJ Open.

Since 1990, the street price of illegal drugs has fallen in real terms while the purity/potency of what's on offer has generally increased, both of which are indicators of availability."

But the war on drugs has been fabulously successful at stealing money, killing people and imprisoning millions. To our rulers, that makes it a resounding success.

Health Care

Some dufus professor at Pace University in New York, as if New York was known for start-up computer businesses, says that Obamacare will promote start-up businesses because entrepreneurs were unable to buy health insurance before, but now they can. This is absurd. The economic fallacies and propaganda never end. How far does the media have to sink to find some idiot to make a statement like this? Apparently none of the ultra-leftist professors around Silicon Valley would make this claim, and rightly so.

Workers having hours cut and having to pay more for health care. Thanks, Pelosi. I mean Obama.

Obamacare page deletes claim offering free health care.

Not only will taxpayers fund government cadillac health care plans, but those plans will include abortions.

Another story promoting eating insects, this time in the form of insect flour.

I'm skeptical that New York City's obesity rate is really up 25 percent since Bloomberg took office in 2002. That's incredible.

Freedom of Speech

The latest attempt to censor the internet is a international treaty called the Trans Pacific Partnership. Like they say, freedom is never free. We have to defeat this plan, then we'll have to defeat the next, ad infinitum.

Tax and Spend

Discussing a possible shutdown, the AP confuses Wall Street with the economy.

Lew Rockwell's analysis from 1996 shutdown.

Panda cam would go dark during a shutdown.

The latest propaganda wants us to believe that shutting down the government will cost us money.

"If past shutdowns are any indication, closing down the federal government will cost American taxpayers, according to the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Budget."

Bipartisan is a four letter word.

"And all those federal salaries that aren't being paid? No savings are likely. Although furloughed workers are not guaranteed reimbursement, in past shutdowns they have received retrospective compensation for hours lost."

Don't do that then.

National parks may close.

Working feds get overtime and weekends.

DHS employees will continue to oppress us. Government will not shut down the police state.

Government has shut down 17 times since 1976, and nothing has changed.

Pat Buchanan defends Republicans based on polls, but Republicans aren't fighting Obamacare because of principle.

The shutdown has officially begun.

Government agent Google pays only 12 million pounds in income tax in UK.

"Google was also accused of a ‘sleight of hand’ by not including the £3billion sales figure in its UK accounts, which suggest that it accumulated sales of only £506million, leading to profits of £36.8million.
But the £3billion figure for UK sales is included in its US accounts. The online search giant has long claimed that its UK operations are a service arm of its Irish division."

Google is obeying plutocrat law. Every plutocrat does it. We should not attack Google for this. We should hope every person joins them in paying so little.

The Polish government defaulted on bonds held in the private sector.

"The government announced a 100 percent default on these bonds."

That's not a haircut. That's cutting foolish investors off at the neck. It's going to happen to US bond holders too.

War

Bombings in Iraq expand into former safe havens.

UK tries to recruit a cyber-warfare army.

I'm skeptical of this plan to destroy Syria's weapons. I bet the rebels follow these inspectors and grab some of those weapons.

Two US generals forced to retire over Afghanistan attack. Wow. Somebody was held at least a little bit accountable for failure in the field. I can't remember that happening in any war in the last decade.

Swiss wargame simulates invasion by bankrupt French. Smart.

A US Navy blimp is reportedly mapping Baltimore. I don't feel safer. I feel less safe.

The sanctioned US leak about intercepted communication between Zawahiri and Yemeni al Qaeda leader caused more damage than the leaks by Snowden. Well, duh. Why is anybody surprised by this?

Media

Under pressure, CNN cancels Hillary Clinton documentary. NBC follows, scraps Hillary mini-series. This is sad. Every now and then something good happens in the political world, some one in a million thing, that gives people false hope for the future.

Politics

Political violence on the rise in Greece. Greece president vows to obliterate Golden Dawn. This sounds like the holy war being waged by the US backed military coup in Egypt versus the Egyptian brotherhood. This kind of political violence is going to spread everywhere in the western world with possible exception of Switzerland. We're going to suffer a western civilization spring that is more destructive than the Arab Spring.

Obama is not only bankrupting the country, he's bankrupted the DNC.

Police State

NSA spying sparks race to create off-shore, secure data havens.

NSA employees caught spying on loved ones "resigned before we could give them a slap on the wrist." That's OK then.

NSA's map of American lives shows it is not just potentially misusing the information it illegally collects on Americans, it's doing so in practice.

France may fine Google for non-compliance with French privacy laws, but they can't comply because of NSA.

Economy

Because there are fewer opportunities, workers aren't changing jobs as much. This depresses wages.

Ohio wages rise slower than inflation.

Local

40 people fly Predator drones out of Springfield Air National Guard Base, but they need ten more pilots.

Springfield center of Ohio's attempt to bring drone business to the state.

Article claims local region would lose $5 million in salary per day if the government shuts down. What it really means is taxpayers would save $5 million a day in local salary lost.

The headline reads, "Little immediate impact expected locally from government shut down" You can't make this stuff up.

Air Force museum to shut down if no budget is passed.

Wouldn't it be nice if these 300 guardsmen were furloughed? Imagine how much better of we would be if they were creating wealth instead of destroying it.

"The local Air Guard base has an annual economic impact of nearly $100 million on Clark County."

First stolen.

Ohio cuts taxes via tax credits for six businesses in hopes they will create jobs. Too bad we all can't be so lucky, but this shows our government understands that lower taxes boost the economy. They just don't care.

I see 28 obituaries on the DDN obituary page, several of which died violently and were in stories because of it, but the only the non-violent death of some government school employee makes the major news. The lives of parasites are supposedly more valuable than us serfs. He gets a second article. This is the second story about the Wright State coach who also wanted to be a Navy SEAL.

Federal Reserve

Number of banks offering free checking falls while bank fees reach record highs.

Economy

Crony capitalism is not capitalism. That's why it's such a bad name. Advocates of free market capitalism lost half the battle when they allowed that term to be used.

Tax and Spend

State and local tax haul at record highs.

"According to the Census Bureau, “revenues from state and local individual income taxes, general sales and gross receipt taxes, motor fuel taxes, motor vehicle taxes and taxes on alcoholic beverages each hit all-time highs in the second quarter of this year.”"

And people wonder why the economy stays in the gutter.

Global Warming and Energy

The debate on global warming comes down to how sensitive the climate is to CO2. IPCC AR5 doesn't provide a number, unlike the previous four reports.

IPCC AR5 hides the pause.
Environmentalists were getting nowhere blaming military sonar for whale deaths, so now they're blaming Exxon's sonar.

The market for expensive electric cars is nil.

"Turns out the Tesla is the third best-selling high-end car in California (where it doesn’t get too cold, an important consideration for an electric car) just behind the Mercedes-Benz E-Class and the BMW 5.
Sounds good – and is touted that way by the moo-cows of the media. But how many cars did Tesla actually sell?
So far, about 4,714. Out of about 1.6 million cars sold in California annually.
And with regard to those 4,714 Teslas, “sold” is probably not quite the right word to describe a transaction that involves a $7,500 kickback from Uncle (who steals it from you and me first) plus another $5,000 kickback from the state of California, which of course has stolen it first from the poor fools out there who continue to buy Corollas and Camrys and so on at full-fare on their own nickle. California also throws in – courtesy of more of other people’s money – a “credit” for installing the high-voltage charging station the Tesla needs in order to take less than several hours to re-juice itself. The charging station costs a another couple thousand for the electrician and the necessary parts."

Even in California.

Politics

The Diner from Hell (How Democracy Really Works).

People tend to not like political activists, so political activists make change harder.

Swiss bring weapons to vote.

Media

Seymour Hersh says everything the media tells us is a lie.

"The Obama administration lies systematically, he claims, yet none of the leviathans of American media, the TV networks or big print titles, challenge him.
"It's pathetic, they are more than obsequious, they are afraid to pick on this guy [Obama]," he declares in an interview with the Guardian."

I've been saying that since Obama first ran for president.

War

Number two man in charge of US nuclear forces suspended for gambling investigation.

Raid on Osama bin Laden's compound and his death a lie.

War on Drugs

Another consequence of the war on drugs is creation of a flesh-eating drug.

"Made of codeine, a painkiller often used in cough syrup, and a mix of other materials including gasoline, paint thinner, and alcohol, Krokodil become popular in Russia because it costs 20 times less than heroin and can be made easily at home."

Prohibitionists are sadists.

Police State

NSA literally maps the lives of Americans.

"McGruber writes "The New York Times is reporting on yet another NSA revelation: for the last three years, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans' social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information. 'The agency can augment the communications data with material from public, commercial and other sources, including bank codes, insurance information, Facebook profiles, passenger manifests, voter registration rolls and GPS location information, as well as property records and unspecified tax data, according to the documents. They do not indicate any restrictions on the use of such "enrichment" data, and several former senior Obama administration officials said the agency drew on it for both Americans and foreigners.'"

Just as one would expect. More.

New technology greatly enhances eavesdropping capability.

An inspector general won't help Americans against the NSA. Inspector Generals are tools government agencies use to create the appearance of propriety.

Car monitoring devices from insurance companies can track where you go. Why would anybody think otherwise?

Misc

Another private spaceship rendezvous with space station.

Upgraded SpaceX Falcon rocket successfully launches Canadian satellite into orbit.

Hand held laser rifle cuts through steel.

Claim that Rudolf Hess's mission to Britain was actually a peace treaty proposal offered by Hitler in which Germany would withdraw from western Europe in return for western European countries remaining neutral while Germany attacked Russia.

Health Care

Here's a bunch of baloney about Ohio health insurance marketplaces.

"While some members of Congress are still out to kill the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare, insurers are jumping at the chance to compete in the new health insurance marketplaces created under the law.
On Tuesday, most states will unveil new health insurance marketplaces, where millions of Americans — including nearly 1.5 million uninsured Ohioans — can shop for and purchase health insurance coverage in one place.
But the marketplaces won’t just create opportunity for individuals and small businesses to buy insurance for the first time. They will also open new opportunities for insurance companies by making private coverage more affordable for the uninsured more widely available to those who currently don’t have access to coverage."

We're supposed to believe government created a marketplace and government made health insurance cheaper. Both are absurd. This is a propaganda story intended to convince people Republicans are bad for wanting to defund Obamacare. You can tell from the first line.

It's might generous of FDA rulers to allow people with diabetes to buy an artificial pancreas. I wonder how long they prevented people who want this from buying it.

25 alternatives to flu shots to prevent flu.

Local

Another I-75 crash near Route 4. When I wrote my I-75 story, David Ley told me the ramp from I-75 to Route 4 was scheduled to be completed in July 2013. It's not completed. It doesn't look like it's started.

Police send HazMat crew for dirty diaper.

Media

At least one news outlet reports that, despite all the alarmism about terror and mass shootings, Americans are actually safer than in the past.

Police State

Microsoft gives statistics on law enforcement requests for information and compliance, but it doesn't include National Security Letters.

More on illegal NSA spying in the 1960s and 1970s.

More on NSA workers spying on spouses and loved ones, called LOVINT. More.

Health Care

Ohio begins $134 million Medicaid reform.

Tax and Spend

FHA loses $5 billion on reverse mortgages, will receive a $1.7 billion bailout.

Economy

US drops to seventeen on Cato's index of economic freedom.

War

Why is it now time to defund the Syrian rebels? We should have never have funded them. This is more info on how the rebels have rejected western attempts at control but love the weapons the US has been giving them for two years, which they will use against Americans as soon as possible.

"Once you go down this rabbit hole, you wind up in a kind of Syrian Wonderland, where things get curiouser and curiouser.
There we learn this radicalization is the fault of those unreliable Americans, who have "betrayed" the rebels by not bombing and failing to arm them with the really big guns. According to Syrian National Council spokesman Louay al-Mokdad, "they told us they signed this because they lost all hope in the international community. They said: ‘We are really tired, Bashar al-Assad is killing us, all the West is betraying us, and they want to negotiate with the regime over our blood.’"
Yes, those poor babies are tired – after all, beheading infidels really takes it out of you! It’s hard on the arms. Burning churches, destroying entire villages, not to mention car-bombs – what could be more exhausting? I mean, have a heart!"

This is our government's fault, but for the opposite reason. Arming the rebels empowered the jihadists who now control the movement. Remember how the US invasion of Iraq brought al Qaeda in on its coattails? This is worse.

"So does this mean our recently stepped-up effort to arm the rebels is a non-starter? Not so fast: President Obama recently signed a waiver exempting the Syrian rebels from a law prohibiting US aid to terrorist groups."

It's official. Obama is arming terrorists.

"It all works out very neatly for both sides: the rebels get their guns, and the administration gets a fresh justification for the Surveillance State, because, you know, the Bad Guys really are out to get us. Yes, war is a racket, as Gen. Smedley Butler famously opined, but more than just money is involved. "

Upside-down.

McCain's ties to Syrian jihadists.

Tax and Spend

The feds are taking over Detroit's bankruptcy to guarantee the maximum looting.

"Graves will report directly to U.S. President Barack Obama, Sperling and Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the head of the Office of Management and Budget."

This is going to screw the people of Detroit over even more.

Maine residents considering secession in response to 25 percent tax assessment increases.

Police State

Politicians claim they want to rein in NSA spying, but the reality they want to solidify its legality. Senators attack media.

"Many members of the Senate Intelligence Committee who gathered on Thursday for a hearing on the National Security Agency had harsh words for a foe they thought had deceived the American public and spread mistrust about U.S. intelligence methods.
If you were thinking that foe was the NSA itself, you'd be wrong. It was the media!
Multiple senators, while defending the NSA's tactics and surveillance programs, made sure to get a dig in at those awful people in the media who revealed those tactics to the world."

The media better watch out. Government allows it to exist only if it serves government.

Off duty DHS agents shoots car in road rage. dhs

Global Warming and Energy

IPCC takes a new tact to scare people, setting an arbitrary upper limit on CO2 emissions that will be surpassed in decades. This is exactly what governments want to advance their socialist, redistributionist agendas, but it has no relationship to climate.

"The world’s top climate scientists on Friday formally embraced an upper limit on greenhouse gases for the first time, establishing a target level at which humanity must stop spewing them into the atmosphere or face irreversible and potentially catastrophic climatic changes."

We've heard this so many times. Al Gore, James Hansen and others have predicted points of no turning back, and they've been passed, so they just push them down the road. Now the IPCC is doing pulling the same stunt, but they were smart enough to put theirs decades down the road to keep the issue alive for decades. But nature won't accommodate them again.

"The panel, in issuing its most definitive assessment yet of the risks of human-caused warming, hoped to give impetus to international negotiations toward a new climate treaty, which have languished in recent years in a swamp of technical and political disputes. The group made clear that time is not on the planet’s side if emissions continue unchecked. "

This is funny. Not funny, ha ha, but funny, evil. Faced with irrefutable evidence of a 16+ year pause, they ramp up the alarmism.

Expensive energy kills poor people.

IPCC AR5, the summary for policymakers of which was released today, is already obsolete.

"For example, just this past May, a blockbuster finding was published that the climate sensitivity—how much the earth’s average surface temperature increases as a response to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations—is some 40% less than the average value characteristic of the collection of climate models that the IPCC used to produce the projections of future climate change—projections which are at the heart of the IPCC reports. But by the time this paper was published (and several others with similar conclusions), it was far too late to go back and try to fix the climate models and then rerun the projections.
The  fact is that the IPCC’s climate models need fixing. Prima facie evidence is that they cannot even track the evolution of broadest measure of climate, the earth’s average temperature, for the last 10-20 years.  Despite this being widely obvious to everyone, it didn’t find its way into the scientific literature (although not without trying) until earlier this month.
As a result, the latest science on two key issues: how much the earth will warm as a result of human greenhouse gas emissions, and how well climate models perform in projecting the warming, are largely not incorporated in the new IPCC report."

That's good for the politicians who fund the frauds.

"Which renders the new IPCC report, and its “four years’ work by hundreds of experts” not only obsolete on its release, but completely useless as a basis to form opinions (or policy) related to human energy choices and their influence on the climate.
The IPCC report should be torn up and tossed out, and with it, the entire IPCC process which produced such a misleading (and potentially dangerous) document."

That would be bad for the politicians who fund the frauds, so it will never happen.

This is why I call them frauds:

"The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is criticising the IPCC for its deliberate attempt to obscure the reality of an ongoing temperature standstill and its failure to come clean about the failure of its models."

They lie to make money.

Report almost universally panned.

Local

I had no idea John Boehner's political district ran from Westchester in a "C" shaped formation around Dayton to include Troy, Piqua and Springfield. It seems odd that a man from Tipp City would be in his district, but I applaud the man for challenging Obama's biggest ally in the House.

Band director pleads guilty to having sex with students.

I-75 wreck just before construction.

Misc

I don't know what to make of this story about light-molecules, colloquially tied to lightsabres. I think quantum mechanics is a bunch of crap. It assumes a vacuum, but we now know there is no vacuum in local space. Local space is filled with neutrinos like the oceans are filled with water molecules. Electromagnetic waves are less likely to be particles than they are to be waves traveling in the neutrino sea just as waves travel through particles in the ocean.

Regulation

Ohio's rulers to allow people to drive 70 mph on some Ohio roads. It makes me want to bow down and kiss their rings for the generosity.

Semi-autonomous car made legal in Japan.

Sports

EA paid $40 million to settle the lawsuit with former college players. So they got next to nothing. EA paid next to nothing. There are no winners here, but the big loser is the consumer because of IP laws. This settlement is ridiculous. These players are voluntary public figures. Using their likenesses is natural and free.

War on Drugs

I don't condone Miley Cyrus's drug use, but her success exposes the lie about drugs keeping people from being successful. Some of the most people in the world commonly use drugs, and that's been the case for centuries at least. Shaman used to be the most powerful people in their cultures, and they used drugs regularly.

US veteran becomes contract killer for drug kingpins.

Economy

The housing bubble continues to inflate in August.

Regulation

Dealers have blocked Tesla from direct sales at malls, but Amazon to sell the Nissan Note, for now.

Health Care

Here's another edible insect story: Bill Clinton donates $1 million to edible insect farmers.

Colorado farmers allegedly responsible for listeria outbreak arrested.

"Prosecutors said the federal Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined the Jensens didn’t adequately clean the cantaloupe."

They let Monsanto GM crops run wild, but they arrest you for not adequately cleaning a cantaloupe.

Tax and Spend

NASA claims to have discovered two pints of frozen wanter in a cubic foot of Martial soil. I'm skeptical. This is just what NASA needed to promote funding of more missions, including manned missions, to Mars. This sounds too good to be true, so it probably is.

Global Warming and Energy

The German government exhorts the global warming frauds to stick to the fraud.

"German ministries insist that it is important not to detract from the effectiveness of climate change warnings by discussing the past 15 years’ lack of global warming. Doing so, they say, would result in a loss of the support necessary for pursuing rigorous climate policies."

The threat is obvious: Ignore the data, just push the politics or else you will lose your cushy taxpayer funding.

Analysis exposes how the frauds make global warming appear greater by fraudulently reducing the values of the temperature record of the past.

"The warm peaks from the 1930s and 40s had been adjusted downward by 3 to 4°F and these adjustments created dubious local warming trends as seen in examples from other USHCN stations at Reading, Massachusetts and Socorro, New Mexico."

Dubious is a politically correct description.

National Geographic takes the alarmism to extreme by showing picture of statue of liberty half-way underwater. We need a word much more powerful than absurd.

War

Sophisticated US arms being stolen in Libya and showing up in the hands of terrorists.

Education

Documentation supporting the infantization of Americans.

War on Drugs

Special interests keep marijuana illegal.

"Police unions, private prison corporations, alcohol and beer companies, pharmaceutical companies, and prison guard unions are said to be in the top five in terms of lobbying and paying lawmakers to keep marijuana illegal. Hey, this is DEMOCRACY at work. This is the best system on earth, right?"

Rule by special interest is what the US exports through war.

Foreign Policy

NSA proves our government doesn't answer to us.

"The Edward Snowden March 2009 memo which reveals that the National Security Agency (NSA) is illegally spying on American citizens and then passing the raw information it obtains on to Israel is particularly shocking because it demonstrates with documentary evidence just how Washington’s inside the beltway crowd places its relationship with Israel above its responsibility to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States. But equally interesting is the tale of the dog that did not bark in the night. The crowds of angry Americans concerned about their loss of privacy gathering in front of the White House failed to materialize because the story, unreported in most of the media, quickly disappeared down the memory hole. The Washington Post placed it on a back page while The New York Times did not report it at all, Managing Editor Dean Baquet calling it a story that was neither "significant" nor "surprising" as determined by his "news judgment.""

Not surprising.

NSA targets India for intense spying.

Freedom of Speech

UK officials want Google to block piracy sites, comparing piracy to child porn.

Police State

Google bug sends chats to wrong recipients, probably because of code required by the NSA.

NSA chief calls ubiquitous spying a noble mission.

NSA spied on Americans in the 1960s.

Nobody trusts the government to restrict NSA.

TRAPR parodies TSA's VIPR program.

After pilot uploaded video showing no security for airplane ground crews, government took revenge by revoking his federally approved flight firearm and his local sheriff revoked his concealed carry license. Don't mess with TSA.

FISA court puts no limits on how many phone records of Americans NSA can collect.

Tax and Spend

The sorry state of Ohio's roads and bridges blamed on disfunction in Washington as if it's a new thing, not government in general.

War

Syrian rebel groups repudiate US backed rebel faction.

Politics

Rand Paul and three Democrats introduce bill to rein in NSA.

Local

Franklin's rulers generously allow food trucks on their roads.

Federal Reserve

Big traders beat the Fed announcement by milliseconds, making billion dollar trades. This doesn't sound like technological feat. This sounds like a good old fashioned leak.

Health Care

FDA warns about antibiotics it already OKed from Big Pharma.hea

Obamacare to cost $3,000 per year. That's a lot less than employer plans, but employers aren't going to give the money they used to spend on health care to the employee.

Rand Paul vaulted to prominence with his filibuster over Obama assassinating Americans with drones, now Ted Cruz does the same with a 21 hour speech critical of Obamacare.

Politics

It's not enough for Obama to be a fake politician and a fake president, he's also a fake Twitterer.

"Among influential U.S. political tweeters, President Barack Obama is the undisputed king of the fake followers. A MailOnline analysis ranks his sizable Twitter following as the most deceptive total among the 21 most influential accounts run by American politicians: More than 19.5 million of his 36.9 million Twitter followers are accounts that don't correspond to real people.
The four phoniest accounts in the sample, which included Democratic and Republican Party leaders in Washington, D.C., were those belonging to President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, first lady Michelle Obama and the White House communications shop."

Of course they were. Anybody who honestly thought differently is a fool. Lies, damn lies and Twitter lies.

Misc

Software coders at Mozilla attempt to debug scientific code, potentially embarrassing scientists. No good deed goes unpunished.

The Big Bang never happened.

War on Drugs

I don't understand this race to regulate e-cigarettes except as a way to keep them from cannibalizing the tobacco market. This sounds to me like government, the FDA, breaking its back to benefit tobacco companies. Maybe even to benefit illegal drug producers. Nowhere in this article is there a claim that e-cigarettes are dangerous, and that's because the government hasn't had time to fund bogus studies to make that claim. They'll be following shortly.

War

Boeing exploits a backdoor into plans to replace a pilot in a fighter plane by outfitting an old F-16 and flying it as a drone. This story is about the drone aspects of the program, but this is really about replacing pilots of leading edge aircraft in flight with ground-based drone pilots.

Divisions widen between Syrian rebels.

US making unrealistic and hypocritical demands on Syria regarding the destruction of its chemical weapons. Yawn.

Regulation

Car dealers in California, unable to restrict Tesla into third party sales, complain about its website.

Every regulation defies the laws of economics, but California's new regulation requiring social media outlets allow teens to delete posts defies economic and internet reality. This seems humorous in its face, but it's evil in substance. This is the nose of the camel in the tent. They've passed one regulation on the internet. There's no moral or principled foundation to resist them now. This is terrible news.

Global Warming and Energy

The head of the IPCC denies the pause in global warming despite the facts. That's because he's paid by governments who want the global warming fraud advanced.

Popular Science got so mad at commenters who exposed their propaganda, they cut off comments. I bet that has a negative impact on their business.

The argument continues over whether IPCC AR5 will admit global warming is not a big deal or not. Just publish the damn thing so we can argue over the real report, not the leaked one. Until that happens, this is just entertainment for some, boring for me.

Foreign Policy

Brazilian president attacks NSA surveillance in speech at UN. Let's hope the conference becomes a NSA bashing conference. Apparently this broke some unwritten convention and won't be repeated. The Brazillian president is playing us for fools just like our own rulers.

The Register kills the NSA over its pretense of hiring a Civil Liberties Officer:

"In other news, the Spanish Inquisition want an equal opprtunities officer"

The end is nigh.

Obama gave no signs of hope at UN about diplomacy with Iran.

US foreign policy of aggression, or more accurately war, against North Korea has led to the North getting improved equipment for making nuclear weapons.

Obama caught lying about not smoking at the UN.

Police State

A Georgia cop has issued 800 tickets to drivers for texting at red lights. He admits safety is not his concern.

Man arrested for speaking out against Common Core standard at town hall meeting. Public outrage caused the prosecutor to drop the charges.

NSA owns Google, so this marketing ploy about encrypting searches just enhances NSA's claims to care about privacy. It does nothing to protect searches from NSA, to whom Google serves them up on a platter. Every commenter is just as skeptical.

Update on NSA perversions.

I have no idea who the Internet Society is - it sounds pretty pretentious to me - so I'm skeptical of their concerns about NSA spying. This could easily be a front to convince people NSA is OK later.

Columbus police headquarters evacuated because of imaginary bomb threat.

Obama's hypocrisy and oppression over the media.

Connecticut trying to hide the 911 tapes from Newtown school massacre. This is another example of how government is not "of the people", and even if it is forced to release those tapes, it still will not be "of the people" because the people will have forced it to do the right thing.

Obama's adoptive hometown of Chicago is the murder capital of the US.

Education

Government schools can't teach reading, writing or arithmetic, but California schools will brainwash children into believing copying and improving on the work of others is bad.

"The fifth-grade lesson introduces the Creative Commons license, in which rights holders grant limited permission on re-use. But even in explaining the Creative Commons, the lesson says that it’s illegal to make any copies of copyrighted works. That’s a message that essentially says it’s even unlawful to rip CDs to your iPod."

This is what government thinks elementary school children should be learning in school.

Local

Cops chased somebody into a fatal crash in Middletown. Police defend their choices which killed the driver. Did you expect them to apologize?

"“He made a dumb decision,” Terrill said. “That’s unfortunate, but that’s what happened.”"

So they killed him. It's all his fault. It's not like the police laying spikes on the road had any role in killing him.

Dayton employment falls to lowest level in two years.

Montgomery County spends $30,000 of other people's money to buy used tires.

Health Care

GM alfalfa infiltrating food supply.

New FDA regulations could force small farmers out of business, meaning more food would be from unhealthy CAFOs.

Politics

First blacks elected to German parliament.

Global Warming and Energy

Early snow in California.

Tax and Spend

All of our money goes to Washington D.C.

Property taxes in New Jersey up 13 percent under Christie, but the executive doesn't control tax rates.

War

Pentagon prepping for large scale economic and political collapse.

Co-founder of the Trilateral Commission explains why public opinion overruled the warmongers on Syria.

"“Given the contemporary reality of what I have called in my writings ‘Global Political Awakening,’ a policy of force based primarily on Western and in some cases former colonial powers does not seem to me a very promising avenue to an eventual solution to the regional problem,” said Brzezinski, referring to the situation in Syria."

In other words, it's a lot harder for the government to get away with lying and manipulating us than it used to be.

Pat Buchanan describes how, thanks to Putin, the situation with Syria is far better than it was several weeks ago.

Egyptian court bans Muslim Brotherhood and orders confiscation of all their assets. Banning them won't get rid of them, but looting them will weaken them.

Three Americans among terrorists in Kenyan mall attacks.

Education

This creepy biometric classroom idea is about turning children into robots.

Here's why the system of higher education is doomed. The reasons are more fundamental than this chart, amazing as it is.

I think student debt is worse than this chart shows. Student debt now tops $1 trillion.

College professor busted for filming upskirts of students.

Media

Biden views Colorado flood damage. Where are the attacks on Obama for not being there?

Sports

NCAA will reform in hopes of staying in power, but they won't allow players to be paid, and since that is the focal issue regarding the NCAA, reform is useless.

Misc

Apple sold a record nine million iPhones over the weekend. I guess iZombies don't care about NSA fingerprinting and a slow new operating system. Despite giving NSA backdoors into its products, Apple says "trust us" on the fingerprint. Yeah, right. Bloomberg calls iPhone's fingerprint scanner protection against NSA. The propaganda is flowing thick.

Retired economist says the Austrians were right, and he can only say this now because he's retired. This is more evidence that non-Austrian economists like Bernanke and Krugman know they're stealing from people and harming our economy.

Fukushima remains dangerous.

Something weird is going on when government officials all around the country blame toilet wipes for clogged sewers at the same time.

Immigration

Illegal immigrants coming back to US because of the propaganda about a the economy improving.

Foreign Policy

Kerry to meet Iranian Foreign Minister in hopeful development, but I doubt anything will change.

Iran's overtures to Obama gives him a chance to have a foreign policy success at time when he looks terrible.

Americans are more afraid of Iran getting the bomb than the Soviets having the bomb because Iranians are Muslim, Muslims flew planes into US buildings, and fearmongering about Muslims has a basis in fact that hits home. Soviets didn't fly planes into US buildings. Neither did any communists.

The man who made the anti-Muslim movie that was wrongly blamed for inciting the Benghazi attacks to be freed Friday. The big question is who was really behind this movie. I doubt anybody will ask.

Police State

NSA wants to hire an Orwellian named Civil Liberties and Privacy Officer to fool people into believing it cares about those things.

It can't be an accident that the Washington Post is calling for a phony Privacy Czar the same day. This is orchestrated.

In an article about an independent panel reviewing NSA spying, even the Washington Post puts the word independent in quotation marks.

"Stung by public unease about new details of spying by the National Security Agency, President Barack Obama selected a panel of advisers he described as independent experts to scrutinize the NSA’s surveillance programs to be sure they weren’t violating civil liberties and to restore Americans’ trust.
But with just weeks remaining before its first deadline to report back to the White House, the review panel has effectively been operating as an arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees the NSA and all other U.S. spy efforts."

I'm shocked.

The navy yard shooter, suffering from schizophrenia, had called police for help and they refused to help him.

"On Aug. 7, that same Alexis had called police from a Newport, R.I., Marriott. He was hearing voices. Three people were following him, he told the cops. They were sending microwaves through walls, making his skin vibrate and preventing him from sleeping. He had already twice changed hotels to escape the men, the radiation, the voices.
Delusions, paranoid ideation, auditory (and somatic) hallucinations: the classic symptoms of schizophrenia.
So here is this panic-stricken soul, psychotic and in terrible distress. And what does modern policing do for him? The cops tell him to "stay away from the individuals that are following him." Then they leave.
But the three "individuals" were imaginary, for God's sake. This is how a civilized society deals with a man in such a state of terror?"

It's not about a civilized society. It's about individuals. Society didn't fail him. Individual police officers did. Police departments tend to attract violent individuals, not caring individuals, and their training and interactions with other police promote the violent tendencies and quash the compassionate tendencies. This illustrates once again the de-civilizing effect of government.

Response to Krauthammer regarding mental illness.

Background check on shooter missed a firearm arrest.

Federal Reserve

Researcher find link between inflation and laughter in Fed meetings.

Get your money out of banks.

Remember how the government was going to restrict and shrink the too big to fail banks after the bailouts? They lied.

"The too big to fail banks are now much, much larger than they were the last time they caused so much trouble.  The six largest banks in the United States have gotten 37 percent larger over the past five years.  Meanwhile, 1,400 smaller banks have disappeared from the banking industry during that time.  What this means is that the health of JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley is more critical to the U.S. economy than ever before.  If they were “too big to fail” back in 2008, then now they must be “too colossal to collapse”.  Without these banks, we do not have an economy.  The six largest banks control 67 percent of all U.S. banking assets, and Bank of America accounted for about a third of all business loans by itself last year.  Our entire economy is based on credit, and these giant banks are at the very core of our system of credit.  If these banks were to collapse, a brutal economic depression would be guaranteed.  Unfortunately, as you will see later in this article, these banks did not learn anything from 2008 and are being exceedingly reckless.  They are counting on the rest of us bailing them out if something goes wrong, but that might not happen next time around."

Thanks, government.

"Ever since the financial crisis of 2008, our politicians have been running around proclaiming that they will not rest until they have fixed “the too big to fail problem”, but instead of fixing it those banks have rapidly gotten even larger.  Just check out the following figures which come from the Los Angeles Times…

Just before the financial crisis hit, Wells Fargo & Co. had $609 billion in assets. Now it has $1.4 trillion.Bank of America Corp. had $1.7 trillion in assets. That’s up to $2.1 trillion.
And the assets of JPMorgan Chase & Co., the nation’s biggest bank, have ballooned to $2.4 trillion from $1.8 trillion.

We are witnessing a consolidation of the banking industry that is absolutely stunning.  Hundreds of smaller banks have been swallowed up by these behemoths, and millions of Americans are finding that they have to deal with these banking giants whether they like it or not."

This is the goal. It's the new feudalism. Government is stealing all the wealth in the country and funneling it into the giant banks. When the economy and the government collapse, they'll own everything. These banks are irresponsibly leveraged, and the derivatives are tried to interest rates. If they go up, the banks go broke. I think they'll just default with impunity and own everything.

The Fed owns more debt than the US government amassed through Clinton.

"Since the beginning of September 2008, in fact, the Fed's ownership of Treasury securities and MBSs has increased seven fold."

With no end in sight.

Local

Miami Twp. central planning Austin Landing. This idea that developers have to ask permission for their plans to develop their own property is outrageous.

Female teacher sentenced for sex with student.

Bomb threat at another local school.

Sinclair pushes forward with hopeful drone program.

Rob Scott forced to resign as Montgomery County Republican Party Chairman.

New development proposed in Middletown. Let's see if Middletown's central planners screw this up.

How is lack of banks in west Dayton a dispute? I understand it could be a problem for people in west Dayton who want banks, but that's not a dispute. PNC owns its branches. It can close them if it wants.

Crash closes northbound I-75 at Main.

Huber Heights selects contractor for $18 million music boondoggle. The timing seems odd since they broke ground, ceremonially at least, in May.

Health Care

Garlic and vitamin D to fight colds and flu.

92 percent of Americans are angry that Obama exempted Congress and Executive honchos from Obamacare.

The reality of Obamacare:

"The marketplaces need robust participation from young, healthy adults who must pay into the system to offset claims from older, sicker residents. But there’s no guarantee young people will participate."

This is dumb. Insurance offers rates based on risk. This isn't insurance. It's theft - because people are forced to buy a plan - similar to Social Security and Medicare.

Obamacare really damages families.

We finally found one program Obama is happy to cut: investigation of health care fraud.

"Deep staff cuts are hitting a federal agency responsible for investigating health-care fraud just as Obamacare is due to kick in, leaving less people to investigate an ever-growing crime that costs taxpayers billions of dollars."

Makes sense.

Not satisfied with the damage it's already done, the FDA will regulate smartphone devices and apps relating to health.

War

The establishment cannot explain why Somali jihadists attacked a Kenyan mall since Kenyans are neither free nor prosperous.

"According to the  Index of Freedom in the  World that attempts to measure economic, civil, and political liberties, Kenya ranks 91 out of the 123 countries included in the index. As for prosperity, based on the CIA World Factbook 2012, Kenya’s per capita GDP was estimated to be $1,700 per year which ranks 192 out of 225 countries."

Theory falsified. The motivation was blowback for invasion.

Politics

Popular official convicted of corruption could spark political uprising in China.

Police State

Boston police chief to resign to take better position, probably for helping cover up the real story behind the Boston Marathon bombing.

Tax and Spend

Private company has glitch in supply rocket for ISS.

"The mission is a challenge for Orbital, which has invested more than five years and about $500 million of its own funds to develop a commercial-cargo capability. But it also presents a dramatic test of NASA's plans to outsource to industry all U.S. resupply missions to the space station. The agency has paid Orbital about $285 million to spur development of the Cygnus and Antares rocket system."

Poor Orbital. NASA only funded a little over a third of its development.

Misc

Apple iPhone 5s fingerprint security already broken.

Global Warming and Energy

Several new species of reptile discovered near LAX. This pretty much destroys the argument that human development is bad for animal diversity. Clearly species adapt and/or thrive on human development. I'm sure the environmental-communists will use this as an excuse to advocate closing LAX and reverting that land to a natural state because a handful of lizards is way more important that hundreds of thousands of people.

Health Care

Obamacare isn't just confusing. It's aggressive. It's expensive. It's designed to destroy private health insurance and enrich Democrat political organizations, and it's working well. This is why Republicans want to defund it and Democrats don't.

DDN news on Obamacare linked on one page.

Local

Car crashing into pole knocks out power.

600 people lose power in Centerville. DP&L is clueless.

War on Drugs

Search: meth lab found at walmart

123,000 results on Google.

Meth lab found in Walmart bathroom. Meth lab found in Walmart parking lot. Meth lab found in Walmart shoplifter's purse. Meth lab found in Walmart shoplifter's backpack.

Misc

Apple cuts off people using using clone iPhone chargers. Apple is losing its shine.

Police State

NSA writes letter to employees and contractors, calling them extended family, saying it's not a rogue agency. Snowden's leaks say otherwise.

Federal Reserve

Peter Schiff says the Fed understands the weakness of the economy, unlike many in the establishment, and that's why it refused to reduce printing.

"Bernanke has maintained that his purchases of government bonds should not be considered “debt monetization” because the Fed intends to only hold the bonds temporarily. In recent years however talk of actively selling bonds in the portfolio have given way to more passive plans to simply hold the bonds to maturity. But this is a convenient fiction. When the bonds mature, the Fed will have little choice but to roll the principal back into Treasury debt, as private bond buyers could not easily absorb the added selling that would be required to repay the Fed in cash. Judged by his own criteria then, Bernanke is now an admitted debt monetizer."

This isn't going to end well.

Foreign Policy

US denies Venezuelan president's plane permission to fly over Puerto Rico.

Iranian president seeking diplomacy with US.

"My sources in Iraq report that since the US invasion in 2003, over 200 Iraqi nuclear scientists and technicians have been mysteriously assassinated.  A number of Iranian nuclear personnel have also been assassinated by bombs, widely believed to be the work of Israel’s Mossad spy agency."

Funny how that doesn't make the news.

Health Care

The CDC is unhappy a real pandemic hasn't appeared to justify its existence, so it imagines a zombie apocalypse.

Economy

Here's an analysis of the Chinese economy.

"DeWeaver: In the 1980s and early 90s, high growth rates were primarily the result of economic liberalization. Since the late 90s, however, Beijing has had to rely increasingly on state-led investment to prop up GDP growth. By now, the efficiency of this investment has declined to the point where it is no longer possible for the economy to grow at double-digit rates. China has reached the limits of investment-led growth, but will be unable to transition to a productivity-led model as long as the economy continues to be dominated by the state. "

On the skyscraper index.

"Mises Institute: In terms of predictions, China has nearly completed its tallest skyscraper. Do you feel that this will result in a correct “signal” of the Skyscraper Curse and “cause” an economic crisis in China?
DeWeaver: Yes, I think the crisis is already here. China is not only home to the world’s tallest building but also to 87 percent of all buildings over 152 meters now under construction worldwide. This skyscraper craze is but one example of the massive misallocation of resources that has resulted from indiscriminate investment promotion by local governments.
Mises Institute: We have also read that they have broken ground for a project to build the world’s tallest skyscraper and that they will complete it in record time. This would result in a world economic crisis signal. What have you heard about this and do you think they will complete the project?
DeWeaver: This project, known as Sky City, was halted a few days after the groundbreaking because the developer had failed to get the necessary government approvals. While the local government no doubt supports it, I think the central government is unlikely to allow it to go ahead. Beijing’s view is evident from a recent editorial in the People’s Daily, which called Sky City “impractical” and “irresponsible” and even cited [Andrew] Lawrence’s finding that record-breaking skyscrapers are often harbingers of economic crises."

Not good.

Sports

Georgia Tech players mark-up wristbands while playing in protest of NCAA.

I did not know the NFL was non-profit and tax exempt. Wow.

Study says NFL players live longer than the general population of males, but people tend to believe otherwise.

Education

Universities try to assimilate MOOCs.

Global Warming and Energy

The claimed sea level rise is drowned by natural sea level variation.

Another prediction of the global warming frauds - that summer Arctic sea ice would be non-existent by 2013 - has been proven false.

Tax and Spend

Economists measure how much our rulers in Washington are looting us.

"While incomes and living standards in the rest of the U.S. have been declining since the beginning of the new millennium thanks to the ever-increasing depredations of Big Government, Central Banking  and Crony Capitalists on productive Americans, things have been going just swimmingly in the Imperial City of Washington, D.C. According to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, average household (inflation-adjusted) income has jumped by 23.3% to $66,583 in D.C. between 2000 and 2012. During the same period median household income for the rest of the country has fallen by 6.6%, from $55,030 to $51,371."

It's obvious.

Health Care

The press wants us to believe that Republicans are going to go to the mat over defunding Obamacare, allowing the government to shut down. I don't believe it.

Police State

The government can't police itself.

"The government's sprawling system of background checks and security clearances is so unreliable it's virtually impossible to adequately investigate the nearly 5 million Americans who have them and make sure they can be trusted with access to military and sensitive civilian buildings, an Associated Press review found."

Yet people trust it to police us.

Same contractor vetted Snowden and the navy yard shooter.

War

US almost accidentally nuked North Carolina in 1961.

US going full speed ahead with killer robot policy. Robots won't suffer from guilt.

Economy

Ohio lost 8,200 jobs in August. How's that recovery working out for you?

Local

Why is West Carrollton selling trees? Sounds like they're subsidized by taxpayers.

Bomb threat closes two Beavercreek schools.

Gas prices jumped over 30 cents. Yesterday I saw a station advertising $3.25. Three hours later, when I pulled in to buy gas, it was $3.55. Fortunately, I continued down the road and filled up at $3.21 before the price increase hit there.

Apparently Sinclair does a bad job at graduating students, so the Feds gave it $2.25 million more of our money to graduate more students.

Sports

Houston Texans running back blasts the NCAA.

""I just feel strong about the injustice that the NCAA has been doing for years," Foster said Friday. "That's why I said what I said. I'm not trying to throw anybody under the bus. ... I feel like I shouldn't have to run from the NCAA anymore. They're like these big bullies. I'm not scared of them.""

And he hits them where it hurts.

""Look at the attention it's getting," Foster said. "They really have us hoodwinked into thinking taking money is wrong as a college athlete. It's wrong for us, but it's not wrong for them. I guarantee every NCAA official has a (BMW) or Benz or something. That's not wrong, but it's wrong for me to get $20 to get something to eat? Dez Bryant couldn't get taken out to dinner by Deion Sanders, his mentor, he sat out a whole season because of that? That's not wrong? But if you can drive around in a Benz, that's OK? It's not right.""

Good for Foster.

Politics

Philip Giraldi is one of the great, honest voices of a government insider. He's also wasting my time about impeaching Obama.

War

Pat Buchanan loses all perspective, gushing over accidental peace with Syria. It's temporary. The US will start a war sooner instead of soon.

Global Warming and Energy

The global warming fraud never ends because it's grotesquely profitable for the frauds.

"The coal industry says the required anti-pollution technology is too costly, but proponents say it's needed to fight climate change."

Something tells me they don't mean the reality of global cooling in the last decade when they mention climate change.

Tax and Spend

I don't usually go to Slate for my space exploration analysis, but this time it's right. Robots are way more cost effective at exploring space. Not that that's a collective point of view. If a group of investors wants to pay to send people to do a robot's job, good for them.

NASA's fantastic publicity stunt fails to discover methane.

Economy

One of the consequences of government killing jobs and empowering employers is workers hate their bosses. That's because they can't quit to work for a better boss.

Police State

Gunman shoot eleven disarmed people in Chicago Park.

NSA has tried to corrupt Linus Torvalds. While Linux is open source, Linus Torvalds is the sole creator of that open source core. This tells us NSA has attempted to corrupt him even though any corruption would be visible and exploitable by anybody with the resources to check like the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, etc. This is more evidence the NSA cares nothing about the regime's stated enemies or terrorists. All it cares about is spying on common Americans, and it doesn't care if the Russians, Chinese, Iranians and Israelis do the same.

Apparently the ACLU is unwilling to take on the NSA, instead attacking the FBI in a battle of alphabet soup distraction.

Local

The government doesn't care about your money, and we know this because the FAA is spending our money promoting recycling at airports.

Local parks allow a free park day for families with children of Dayton Daily Schools. Everybody else can ***k off.

Yesterday I read that gasoline prices over $3 per gallon were the new normal. Today I bought gasoline at $3.21 per gallon. Today I read gasoline prices are going to fall 25 cents by Halloween. These claims are mutually exclusive. I look forward to making fun of the failures.

City government has destroyed a record number of capital structures this year.

Economy

More people take notice of Detroit's entrepreneurial resurgence.

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Starbucks CEO going stupid on guns.

"After months of wrangling over the highly emotional issue, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz on Wednesday announced that guns are no longer permitted in Starbucks stores — or in Starbucks outdoor seating areas."

No longer permitted. That's clear.

"But, to be clear, Starbucks will not slap an outright ban on guns, he says, because enforcing such a ban "would potentially require our partners to confront armed customers.""

That's not clear. No matter how you look at it, this is going to cost Starbucks business and make them more dangerous.

"For Starbucks, which has been embraced by the gun lobby for permitting guns in stores in those parts of more than 40 states that allow them, it's a major change of policy certain to have immediate blow-back from pro-gun enthusiasts."

I wonder if he'll get fired for hurting his business and making them less safe.

Local

The Dayton library has 60 employees that don't even work in the library. That's insane.

Foreign Policy

Original Guardian article reporting the NSA shares raw intelligence including intelligence about Americans with Israel.

Global Warming and Energy

I'm not nearly as hopeful that the IPCC will admit climate is not as sensitive to CO2 as previously claimed. These guys get paid big money to promote the global warming fraud. I doubt they'll bite the hand that feeds them.

Federal Reserve

There's been lots of debate for a long time about whether or not the Fed will ever really slow money printing. Many said it would announce a slowdown today. It did not. This is a big boost for the people who said it would never slow down. Stocks hit a new bubble record in response.

"In a statement following a two-day policy meeting, the Fed said it would continue to buy $85 billion per-month in long-term U.S. Treasuries and mortgage-backed bonds to "help make broader financial conditions more accommodative" to promote a stronger economic recovery. The market was expecting the Fed to start reducing its asset purchases by roughly $10 billion to $15 billion per month."

The policy hasn't worked for years, so best to continue it.

"Virtually every asset class moved higher on the news. Both the S&P 500 and Dow Jones industrial average, which were down prior to the Fed statement, hit record highs after the announcement. The tech-filled Nasdaq rose to a fresh 13-year high."

These are obvious signs of a Fed-induced bubble that keeps getting bigger.

Apparently rents and medical costs aren't inflation.

"U.S. consumer prices barely rose in August, but rising rents and medical care costs pointed to some stability in underlying inflation that could make the Federal Reserve more comfortable trimming its bond purchases."

I wonder who defined those costs out of the inflation statistics.

War on Drugs

One of the consequences of government's absurd alcohol laws is binge drinking by high school seniors. Countries like Germany where children are allowed to drink don't have this problem because drinking is nothing special, though as they get more restrictive, it's becoming a problem there too.

Police State

Always question the government's story about mass shootings and everything else. Witnesses thought the shooting at the navy yard was a drill.

Pentagon official blames budget cuts for attack.

First SWAT team to reach the shooting site was ordered to leave instead helping. I guess they had no-knock drug warrants to serve on some sleeping old lady.

""I don't think it's a far stretch to say that some lives may have been saved if we were allowed to intervene," a Capitol Police source familiar with the incident told the BBC."

Apparently the bosses didn't want that. Naturally the government is lying about this.

"Several Capitol Police sources who spoke to the BBC asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal.
Capitol Police Officer Jim Konczos, who leads the officers' union, said the Cert police train for what are known as active shooter situations and are expert marksmen.
"Odds are it might have had a different outcome," he said of Monday's shooting and the decision to order the Cert unit to stand down. "It probably could have been neutralised."
Gwendolyn Crump, a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police Department, which protects the city of Washington DC, said allegations that a Capitol Police Cert team was on scene and later stood down were "not true".
On Wednesday, the Capitol Police said in a statement its leadership had "opened a preliminary investigation into the allegations".
"The [Capitol Police] offered and provided mutual support and assistance at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday," said spokeswoman Lt Kimberly Schneider."

Cover up.

The US government has betrayed the internet and all of us.

NSA corrupted government encryption standards, proving once again it has nothing to do with fighting terrorism.

How government training undermines the reported role of the police to protect and serve. Actions speak louder than words. The training exposes the real purpose behind the police which is to subjugate the people to our rulers.