Right to Keep and Bear Arms

One of many good reasons gun registration should be outlawed is police target gun owners.

Federal Reserve

Inflating by the central bank in Japan has ended Japanese saving.

"The savings rate in the year through March was minus 1.3 percent, the first negative reading in data back to 1955, the Cabinet Office said. Real earnings fell 4.3 percent in November from a year earlier, a 17th straight decline and the steepest tumble since December 2009, the labor ministry said today."

Yet Abe just won a massive electoral victory. Flight to the dollar masks US problems.

Regulation

Here's a list of smart pens that capture writing and drawings. Somehow Apple has patented a pen that does the same. IZombies will act like it's a new invention.

Obama has written 21,000 regulations so far.

Socialism

If you judge government departments by their stated goals, they are all dismal failures. Government failure across the board. Except for the Department of Justice.

A complementary, libertarian judgment of the state.

"The state happily exploits that source of confusion, posing as the ultimate protector of the lives, liberties, and property of its subjects. It misleads the public into getting the nature and function of the state precisely backwards; to believe that the state only taxes so it can protect, when in reality only (ineptly) protects so it can tax. This is the chief myth that the state propagates to cover up its criminality."

The pseudo-services.

"So myth-propagation is a vital prop for the state. That is why, as Rothbardtaught, potentates have always partnered with intellectuals, like priests, academics, journalists, and schoolteachers to brainwash and bamboozle the public into seeing the state as legitimate."

This is why the myth of legitimacy is crucial.

California firefighters suspended for alleged sex tape on firetruck. If they don't have the tape, what were the other offenses?

Misc

Dust configuration on Comet 67P shown by Rosetta spacecraft looks like electrically charged dust in experiments.

A second cloud mysteriously escaped the Milky Way's supposed black hole.

Tax and Spend

Detroit paid advisers $170 million for bankruptcy advice.

Local and state governments almost bankrupt will get worse in 2015.

Federal student debt over $800 billion. I thought it was already over $1 trillion.

War

US sends five prisoners from Guantanamo to Kazakhstan.

Over 400 killed in Iraq.

Informed diatribe against the US policy of perpetual war.

US Army considers waiving combat training for hackers. All this government training for hackers is destroying the internet.

Look for the new year to bring more conflict.

Pat Buchanan predicts more war.

Economy

Despite the least jobless claims this year in 14 years - since the dot.com bubble - jobless claims rose to end the year. Of course a lot of those lack of jobless claims is because people dropped out of the workforce.

The bubble in Chinese production is forcing some to move to Africa.

"Hebei may simply be at a loss as to how to scale back businesses that they recognize have become massively bloated. Officials in China’s construction-related industries clearly have too much capacity and too little demand."

That's a bubble.

Billionaires pretend philanthropy while gratifying themselves. There's not a big market for space tourism. Plutocrat self-gratification posing as philanthropy has been around for a century.

Crisis in the German economy. That's not good.

"There is no country that has suffered the pains of Russian sanctions in the West more than Germany because the Russian market has compensated Germany in the past years, covering up many problems of the German economy from the euro crisis. As the economy has turned down inside the EU, German sales of products declined. That decline was replaced with Russian buyers of everything from food to German cars. With Russian trade now cut off, the economic decline in Germany is starting to become visible. There is also a rising anti-foreigner trend emerging in Germany with the economic decline in motion. The German Press, perhaps the last real free press, warn of the coming police state in Germany."

Sounds like the US, but flight to the dollar enables US rulers to loot us more.

Dow closes up 11 percent for the year.

Police State

Because of the government failure to stop hack attacks, private companies are retaliating on their own.

Police use doppler radar to determine if people are home. That's clearly an invasion of privacy. Walls are designed to keep information from passing outside them.

Nationally, red light cameras are on the decline, but speeding cameras are on the rise.

Government failure and fraud in accusing North Korea of Sony hack. List of sources.

The feds are so incompetent on the Sony hack, everything they do is clownish.

FBI can't catch hackers, so it's going after US companies who retaliate.

FBI fails again with warning based on fake threat.

You're either a cop or little people.

Totalitarianism is rapidly approaching in the US.

"NSA spies on us illegally and in detail, recording telephone conversations, reading email, recording our financial transactions, on and on. TSA makes air travel a nightmare, forcing us to hop about barefoot and confiscating toothpaste. The police kick in our doors at night on no-knock raids and shoot our dogs. In bus stations we are subject to search without probable cause. The feds track us through our cell phones. Laws make it a crime to photograph the police, an out-and-out totalitarian step: Cockroaches do not like light. The feds give police forces across the country weaponry normal to militaries. Whatever the intention, it is the hardware of control of dissent. Think Tian An Men Square in China."
"Fools say, “If you are not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.” This might be true, or partly true, or sometimes true, or occasionally plausible, if government were benevolent. It isn’t.
The feds—whatever the intention of individuals—are setting up the machinery of a totalitarianism beyond anything yet known on the earth."

It's here.

"The crucial question: Do we have more to fear from largely imaginary terrorists, or from the FBI? Your chances of being killed by terrorists are essentially zero, even if you live in Washington or New York, and far less if you live in Memphis or Raleigh-Durham. (To express this we need the concept of negative zero, which I hearwith offer to the mathmatical community.) Your chances of living in an electronically locked-down police state are very high. This is far more dangerous to what the United States was than even a successful bombing of a mall."

No kidding.

"Those [FBI] at the policy level are another thing.  Many are intelligent, some extremely so. They understand not just the laws, but law. Many have educations of the first quality. Harvard was not always a prep school for I-banking. They are familiar with history, understand the philosophy of constitutional government, and understand the consequences of our current direction. They know what they are doing. And keep doing it."

Evil, not stupid.

"Why? Partly because they are screened to be as they are. Just as the military attracts highly aggressive men, who then want a war in which to use their training (would Tiger Woods practice his golf swing for a lifetime without wanting to be in a tournament?) politics attracts and favors the unprincipled and manipulative. It is a playground for psychopaths, for the charmingly conscienceless, for the utterly self-concerned. These now rule us."

Yep.

While the Boston Marathon bombing suspect will be unable to get a fair trial anywhere, the worst venue for him is Boston, so the judge denied a request to move the trial out of Boston.

Review of skeptical coverage on the Boston Marathon bombing narrative.

"In the course of our inquiries, we have found and documented a veritable mountain of dubious official claims, inconsistencies and outright lies—plus a concerted campaign to prejudice the public regarding the accused, prior to trial. We have also reported on a campaign of harassment against prospective witnesses whose knowledge might cast doubt on the accepted narrative. We have made no judgments or claims about guilt or innocence, but we are certain that the full story has been obscured from the very start. The big question? Why. "

I doubt we'll ever know.

In the incredibly rare case FISA rejects a warrant request, FBI just issues a national security letter instead. The process is kabuki theater.

As if police weren't militarized enough, police have received a surge in military equipment since Ferguson riots.

Local

Tipp City police to wear body cameras.

RTA deploys prototype trolley.

Gold Star Chili, which recently shut down downtown as is going to close near the Fairfield mall, considers expanding in Dayton with new stores. The boom-bust cycle is like a yo-yo.

The bubble has reached Dayton to the extent local rulers think the economy is actually getting better. I doubt they know it's a Fed-fueled bubble.

Health Care

I was skeptical that obesity was falling among teenagers. Now we learn it's on the rise. The previous report was a lie.

Big Pharma benefits from the Ebola outbreak, leading to suspicion it was intentional.

British nurse with Ebola being treated with surviver blood plasma and Big Pharma concoction.

Freedom of Speech

Freedom of speech is systematically under attack worldwide.

Russia arrests Putin critic.

China jails filmmaker for documentary about quest for Chinese constitution.

Turkey arrests Edrogen critic over tweet.

Cuba arrests dissidents before free speech rally.

War

Obama lies about ending wars while he keeps fighting them.

Global Warming and Energy

Arctic cold in California, snow in southwest.

Global sea ice and Antarctic sea ice set record high.

CO2, because it's plant food, makes rain forests grow faster.

Politics

How the CIA took down Joe McCarthy.

Health Care

FDA screws up flu vaccine again, helping produce another brutal flu season.

"This season is looking particularly bad because the predominant strain, H3N2, is not covered by the current flu vaccine and tends to have more severe symptoms, Smith said. H3N2 accounted for the majority of the strains tested by the CDC so far this season, according to a health advisory issued in early December.
The H3N2 flu strain isn't uncommon; it's just not what was predicted when the flu vaccine was created, Smith said. What's included in the U.S. vaccine is determined each year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration based on recommendations from the World Health Organization. It takes about six months to produce, according to the CDC."

More government failure. This is how the lack of prices in socialism produces a counterproductive pseudo-service.

"Still, getting a flu shot is the number one way to protect yourself against getting the flu, Smith said. And even though this year's shot doesn't include protection against H3N2, it will protect against other strains and also cause your body to create antibodies that will provide some protection, according to the CDC."

This is baloney. It will make more people sick.

The government plans to build a genome database of babies, and some parents are allowing it.

Regulation

China blames Google for Gmail outage as the service returns.

Obama dictated 75,000 pages of regulations in 2014.

Foreign Policy

CIA claims U2 spy planes responsible for most early UFO sightings.

Local

Home prices are inflating in Dayton.

Consolidation of car dealerships is another symptom of the bubble economy. Bubbles always spark mergers.

Federal Reserve

The Swiss central bank is printing like crazy too.

"During the last 80 months, the SNB’s balance sheet has soared from 100B CHF to 530B CHF——a 5X explosion that would make even Bernanke envious. Better still, a balance sheet which stood at 20% of Swiss GDP in early 2008—-now towers at a world record 80% of the alpine nation’s total output. Kuroda-san, with a balance sheet at 50% of Japan’s GDP, can only pine for the efficiency of the SNB’s printing presses."

There's no security there.

Socialism

Somebody found the wreckage of missing AirAsia flight.

Venezuela is crashing and burning.

Police State

Because so few cops are killed in the line of duty, any small increase is a large percentage.

NSA has attacked and broken nearly all VPNs.

"While some VPN technologies—specifically, those based on the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPTP)—have previously been identified as being vulnerable because of the way they exchange keys at the beginning of a VPN session, others have generally been assumed to be safer from scrutiny. But in 2010, the NSA had already developed tools to attack the most commonly used VPN encryption schemes: Secure Shell (SSH), Internet Protocol Security (IPSec), and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption."

Using Star Trek names to advance oppression is unseemly.

More government failure: With their claim that North Korea hacked Sony debunked, FBI tries to salvage it by wondering if North Korea hired the Sony hackers.

"As North Korea lacks the capability to conduct some elements of the sophisticated campaign by itself, US investigators are looking at the possibility that Pyongyang "contracted out" some of the cyber work, according to the official, who was not authorised to speak on the record about the investigation."

Just weeks ago, after the FBI declared North Korea performed the hack, the press dutifully reported on Come on. North Korea's elite hacker team. Now they don't have the capability for the hack. Make up your mind, propagandists. This shows the superiority of private investigators.

More government failure: massive gun smuggling on airline.

New York police effectively on strike.

"NYPD traffic tickets and summonses for minor offenses have dropped off by a staggering 94 percent following the execution of two cops — as officers feel betrayed by the mayor and fear for their safety, The Post has learned."

More government failure. Strongman tactics.

Economy

Hacker group selling DDoS attacks.

Google makes cool products that nobody wants to buy.

Home prices fell nationally.

Oil price hits new low, but it can't last. The Saudis are running a record deficit. Fracking growth is slowing.

Police State

License plate reader looks at faces.

Federal Reserve

Money-printing by central banks boost net worth of world's richest.

"The richest people on Earth got richer in 2014, adding $92 billion to their collective fortune in the face of falling energy prices and geopolitical turmoil incited by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The net worth of the world’s 400 wealthiest billionaires on Dec. 29 stood at $4.1 trillion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world’s richest."

If only I'd have known then what I know now. Pfft. I would never have become a crook.

Misc

US population tops 320 million.

"The U.S. population is seen at 320.09 million people as of Jan. 1, up 0.73 percent from a year earlier, the Census Bureau said on Monday. "

That's plenty for me.

AirAsia flight denied permission to increase altitude above storm. That's what socialism does.

Politics

Obama and Hillary Clinton are the most admired Americans. Excuse me while I puke.

Leftism is a religion. So say we all.

Foolish Americans create the Bush-Clinton dynasty.

Radical leftists to take charge and destroy Greece. Greece might be the trigger for the collapse of the rest of the world.

Health Care

Doctor returns to Scotland with Ebola.

The CDC has enabled a flu epidemic in the US. Thanks. So much for disease control.

Global Warming and Energy

NASA's CO2 satellite, if allowed to operate and the data is honestly reported, will destroy the CAGW fraud. There are three possible ways for NASA to deal with this:

"1) NASA will continue to report transparent scientific results that will quickly and stunningly turn CAGW upside down. We will all realize that global CO₂ emissions are not at all as taught, preached or predicted. That human emission to global atmospheric CO₂ concentration is and always has been a small single-digit contribution. That if we shut human CO₂ emission down completely tomorrow little would happen to the future trajectory of global CO₂ concentration. And indeed, had we humans never industrialized, little would be different about that trajectory over the past 60 years right up to today.
2) NASA will homogenize the data with such effort as to make the original data set unrecognizable. There will be lots of hand waving and we’ll endure continued lame explanations such as in the caption that was released with this initial data set.
3) The OCO instrument will suffer a premature and catastrophic failure."

We have some history to guide predictions:

"When the first versions of the OCO were being launched I thought to myself: Great, let’s cut to the chase scene, grab the crucial data, and get this AGW malarkey over with quickly. But then scenario 3) happened…twice.
Scenario 2) has been observed from more organizations and more times than can be counted.
Scenario 1) requires so much crow eating by so many organizations and over so short a period of time as to be entirely politically unacceptable even as it is scientifically accurate. I doubt it can be allowed to happen."

I agree number one will not be allowed to happen.

New species, not extinctions, discovered in 2014.

War

Israeli soldier shoots dead Palestinian teenager in the west bank for throwing rocks.

Media

Security company identifies six hackers it says perpetrated the Sony hack. None are North Korean. One is a disgruntled ex-employee. The FBI is worse than useless. By picking  fight with North Korea, it made things worse for us.

Two LA-based Sony hack suspects. I don't know if they overlap the former, but they sure don't fit with the FBI lies.

Government failure in the Sony hack makes the case for private security.

Regulation

China blocks gmail.

Local

Crash knocks out power.

Water main break in Kettering.

Dorothy Lane concludes $1.3 million upgrade.

Politics

The liberal agenda has wiped out black progress and wealth creation.

Carl Sagan quotes about Jefferson:

"Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule."

And...

Government schools don't teach skepticism of government. I'm surprised Jefferson didn't foresee that when he advocated government schools.

Freedom of Speech

MPAA lies about big settlements for download sites.

Local

Dayton council votes to expand downtown ward 1 to include Art Institute, Masonic Temple and Annunciation Church to protect their alcohol sales from vengeful voters.

Regulation

Federal regulators target Christmas lights.

Socialism

Now there's a 162 people on the missing plane. Or is it 161? This incompetence is ridiculous.

War

We're supposed to believe the war in Afghanistan is over, but it's not.

Police State

Poor killer cops claim to feel under attack from the allies in the Federal government. This is baloney. They never get prosecuted.

Just as one would expect, NSA owns corporate encryption. It knows your passwords. Local encryption is the only hope for privacy, and that's questionable.

Health Care

Contrary to what we've been told, infant-parent co-sleeping is good for babies.

Global Warming and Energy

Contrary to lies we've been told, grazing cattle is good for the environment.

Federal Reserve

China to begin currency swaps and trading in yuan with Russia, Malaysia and New Zealand.

Global Warming and Energy

Massive snowfall in Alps.

Health Care

When you artificially set the price of something below market value, you get shortages. For NIH, that means operations for 3,000 people have been canceled for lack of beds.

Socialism

Another Malaysian airline lost a plane, this time going from Indonesia to Singapore.

Economy

Putin's economic interventions hurt the Russian economy, not help it.

Halloween is socialist. Christmas is capitalist.

"Halloween has a socialist tenor. Menacing figures arrive at your door uninvited, demand your property, and threaten to perform an unspecified "trick" if you don't fork over. That's the way the government works in a nutshell.
Thanksgiving has been reinterpreted as the white man, after burning, raping, and pillaging the noble Indian, trying to make amends with a cheap turkey dinner. New Year's can be ruined as the beginning of a new tax year, and the knowledge that the next five or six months will be spent working for the government.
That's why I love Christmas. To this day it remains a celebration of liberty and private life, as well as a much-needed break from the incessant politicization of modern life. It's the most pro-capitalist of all holidays because its temporal joys are based on private property, voluntary exchange, and mutual benefit."

Nice.

Politics

Lying Obama says the US is less racially divided than when he took office. He's purposely dividing Americans any way he can.

Foreign Policy

North Korea blames US for internet outage.

Panned in the US, "The Interview" gets great reviews in China and really does threaten North Korean regime. Maybe the CIA was behind the film.

War

F-35 sensors ten years out of date.

US airstrikes ostensibly against ISIS in Syria cost over $1 billion so far.

"US and coalition airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria have killed nearly 1,200 people ‒ including 52 civilians ‒ and wounded at least 800 others at a cost of more than $1 billion since the bombings began in September."

The war profiteers love it.

Defeat of ISIS wouldn't end violence in Iraq.

Epidemic of PTSD in female soldiers not from war, but from being raped.

Misc

Scientists discover nearby dwarf galaxy they consider a fossil.

Scientist claims neutrinos travel faster than light.

"The result relies on tachyons having an imaginary mass, or a negative mass squared. Imaginary mass particles have the weird property that they speed up as they lose energy – the value of their imaginary mass being defined by the rate at which this occurs. According to Ehrlich, the magnitude of the neutrino's imaginary mass is 0.33 electronvolts, or 2/3 of a millionth that of an electron. He deduces this value by showing that six different observations from cosmic rays, cosmology, and particle physics all yield this same value within their margin of error."

Wouldn't surprise me.

Local

Dayton doesn't have customers, so it can't have customer service.

"Delivery of services is a primary function of city government, and the city is not adequately serving its citizens if they have difficulty accessing services or have an unpleasant experience while interacting with employees, said Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley."

The problem is socialism.

Police chase man for traffic violation until he crashes at high speed, luckily surviving.

Foreign Policy

Now Russian hackers attacked Sony.

War on Drugs

Study claims marijuana use has increased in Colorado. How come I never hear about Washington? No mention of whether use of harder drugs has decreased.

Freedom of Speech

Open source version launches 370 copies of Pirate Bay.

Regulation

Minimum wage Ohioans to get 15 cent raise to $8.10 per hour. Let's see if all 300,000 stay in work.

Government's giant crony internet corporations exempt themselves from "do not track".

Politics

Linking 9/11 and the anthrax attacks.

Jeb Bush tries to hide his crony ties.

War

Kerry requests more troops to fight ISIS.

Economy

Lizard Squad claims it took down Xbox and PS4 networks on Christmas to force Microsoft and Sony to improve security.

Education

New MIT web development language Ur/Web is worth watching.

Required school reading includes books with teen sex.

Republicans support crappy, expensive school lunch welfare.

Police State

NSA reveals twelve years of improper and illegal spying.

Snail mail imaging and surveillance program.

Local

Construction company sees 100 percent growth in sales, but probably is unaware that's bubble activity.

Fairborn rulers claim tax increase will increase development.

Global Warming and Energy

Fraud uses modeled data instead of measured old data because he says old data isn't high enough quality.

Health Care

UK doctors ordered to report weight gain of patients.

Regulation

Putin makes a mistake putting price controls on vodka. This will produce shortages, and that will make people angry.

Politics

I bet this email by Jeb Bush hoping to cut Florida state employees by half was phony.

A Christmas Story contrasts with how progressives have crippled families.

Media

Just like the Sony email said, "The Interview" stinks.

Security expert suspects disgruntled employ, not North Korea, hacked Sony. Maybe it was an employee who tried to keep the company from wasting money on a terrible movie, and got burned for his effort.

"First of all, there is the fact that the attackers only brought up the anti-North Korean bias of “The Interview” after the media did—the film was never mentioned by the hackers right at the start of their campaign. In fact, it was only after a few people started speculating in the media that this and the communication from North Korea “might be linked” that suddenly it did get linked. My view is that the attackers saw this as an opportunity for “lulz”, and a way to misdirect everyone. (And wouldn’t you know it? The hackers are now saying it’s okay for Sony to release the movie, after all.) If everyone believes it’s a nation state, then the criminal investigation will likely die. It’s the perfect smokescreen."

The FBI didn't say that because it doesn't fit their narrative. Maybe it's a false flag.

"You don’t need to be a conspiracy theorist to see that blaming North Korea is quite convenient for the FBI and the current U.S. administration. It’s the perfect excuse to push through whatever new, strong, cyber-laws they feel are appropriate, safe in the knowledge that an outraged public is fairly likely to support them."

False flag.

Economy

Hackers take down Xbox and Playstation networks on Christmas day.

Misc

The velocity of the jets leaving Comet 67P is far too fast and remain columnated far too long to be explained by sublimating gas.

Police State

Border patrol agent electrocutes man to death.

NYPD arrests people for social media posts they claim are terrorist threats to kill police.

War

Navy sells "Top Gun" aircraft carrier for 1 cent.

Ukrainian government escalates genocide against rebel states by starving pensioners.

Global Warming and Energy

Democrat National Committee lies about global warming.

Rare blizzard brings white Christmas to Hawaiian mountains.

Foreign Policy

North Korea's elite hacking force.

How the CIA funds itself through legal and illegal operations.

"In it, Scott marshals evidence that the proceeds of several U.S.-Saudi arms deals are the common denominator tying together every major “deep state” event involving the U.S. since 1976. "

That means it's an unaccountable and therefore rogue agency.

"In 2004, Time and USA Today ran major stories about two of the chief Afghan drug traffickers, Haji Juma Khan and Haji Bashir Noorzai, alleging that each was supporting al-Qaeda, and that Khan in particular “has helped al-Qaeda establish a smuggling network that is peddling Afghan heroin to buyers across the Middle East, Asia and Europe.” (6) Later it was revealed that both traffickers were simultaneously CIA assets, and that Khan in particular was “paid a large amount of cash by the United States,” even while he was reportedly helping al-Qaeda to establish smuggling networks. (7)" 

The CIA has been involved in illegal drugs forever.

Foreign Policy

The establishment is just figuring out the US and Saudis colluded to drop oil prices.

Socialism

Socialism, not low oil prices, sent Venezuela to the brink of collapse.

War on Drugs

Homeless moving to Colorado for medicinal marijuana.

Federal Reserve

G20 agrees to rob bank deposits during next banking crisis.

War

Israel's war on Palestinians has galvanized Palestinians and global support them.

Claim US shot down MH370 because they believed the plane had been hacked by terrorists who were going to us it as a weapon.

"He also said islanders had found an empty fire extinguisher from the plane in the water near Baarah island.

The Senegal-born Frenchman, who is now a successful novelist, also told a radio station he was warned not to investigate MH370 by an intelligence source, who spoke of 'risks' and counselled him to 'let time do its work'."

I wonder if this will boost sales of his next novel.

Freedom of Speech

Ninteen year old UK man arrested for tasteless tweet.

Politics

Netanyahu disqualified as party leader in a sign his party is tired of him.

Israel has widespread political corruption too.

Wealthy donors support Democrats as always. 

Health Care

The Ebola outbreak significantly slowed down when outsiders backed away.

The know-it-alls at Atlanta CDC exposed a dozen scientists to Ebola.

Researchers claim thinking about exercise kept immobilized muscles strong, but they can't know if those muscles were stress isometrically.

Sedentary life is making our bones weak.

"We can be as strong as an orangutan—we're just not, because we are not challenging our bones." 

Go paleo.

Misc

I doubt anybody believes the world is getting worse right now, but the western world at least soon will.

Picture of German and British troops who posed together during WWI Christmas truce.

Because the government has no power in Zimbabwe, the elephant population is on the rise.

Police State

Police body cams reduce conflict between police and serfs, and that's a good thing.

"Their results are now in: "The experiment showed that evidence capture is just one output of body-worn video, and the technology is perhaps most effective at actually preventing escalation during police-public interactions: whether that's abusive behavior towards police or unnecessary use-of-force by police." The simple knowledge that both parties are being watched puts a damper on violence. "During the 12-month Rialto experiment, use-of-force by officers wearing cameras fell by 59% and reports against officers dropped by 87% against the previous year's figures.""

This is awesome, but it won't stay that way. Government will corrupt that system to its advantage.

Woman jailed for moving to empty row on jet.

Regulation

Regulating tech causes the same problems as regulating anything else.

Media

Sony releases "The Interview" online today on a dedicated server and on Google and Microsoft services. Apple says no.

More skepticism of FBI's claim North Korea is behind Sony hack.

Health Care

The establishment just discovered that weight training is better for burning fat than running.

Vermont forced to drop socialized medicine plan because it costs too much.

Foreign Policy

North Korea to have 80 nukes by 2020. Maybe we should end the war with them.

Misc

It makes sense that the brains of smartphone users have adapted to using them. The same is true for any frequent activity like work.

Regulalation

Obama pushes 1,200 new regulations in last 15 days of year.

Tax and Spend

David Stockman slams Congress for its phony appropriation process.

"And one that was of its own making at that. After all, we are already 75 days into the new fiscal year, yet Congress had not yet passed a single appropriations bill.  So once again it had set itself up for the usual midnight scramble behind closed doors where the pork barrel overflows and sundry K-street lobbies stick-up the joint and then demand immediate passage—–sight unseen—–in the name of keeping the Washington Monument open on the morrow."

Exactly.

"Yes, this game has been going on for years. But the fact that the nation’s leading financial newspaper was witless enough to describe it as a “success” is something comparatively new. What has happened is that the deafening clamor from the Wall Street casino for endless winnings has subordinated all else. Even a brief government shutdown is now verboten——-not because it would have any deleterious effect in the real world where virtually 80% of domestic operations are exempted under the “health and safety” clause, anyway. No, the purported danger is that it might prompt a panicked sell-off in the stock market."

Stockman should run for president.

"Rosy Scenario as now embedded in the CBO projections, of course, will never materialize. CBO is currently projecting, with no embarrassment at all, that the US will go without a recession between 2009 and 2024; that 16 million new jobs will be created over the next ten years compared to 3 million during the last decade; that real GDP will grow at better than a 3% rate until we hit permanent full-employment compared to just 1.7% per year since the turn of the century; and that wages and salaries will grow at a 5.3% rate during the next decade compared to 3% during the prior 10 years. And that’s just a smidgeon of the unwarranted optimism built into Washington’s fiscal projections."

That's been going on forever.

France's Holland's 75 percent supertax to expire after damaging the country.

The IRS has managed to frustrate the investigation into its harassment of conservatives, but there's no question about the harassment.

War on Drugs

Cops are unconstitutionally seizing property of people who don't sell drugs but are near to those who do to pay for police pensions.

"Philadelphia drops a Civil Asset Forfeiture case to prevent any court from ruling just seizing people’s property is unconstitutional. Phily.COM has reported the case of Christos Sourovelis and Doila Welch,who were both caught up in having their homes seized to pay police pensions when the police arrested a relative they claimed was dealing drugs on their properties. Today, you basically have to shun relatives and never pick up a hitch-hiker in trouble for if they have any drugs, even marijuana, there go your assets.
The prosecutors, only after these people had money for lawyers and the press got involved, moved for dismissal in Common Pleas Court. The prosecutor agreed to drop the cases against properties as long as both owners took “reasonable measures” to ensure no further drug crimes occurred there.
Here is the entire problem. Only the rich can win for it is your burden to fork-over huge legal fees. If you do not have the money for lawyers, there goes your property."

SOP.

Prescription pain killers kill more Americans than cocaine and heroin combined.

Local

Shooting shows Dayton Mall and malls in general should allow concealed carry.

Global Warming and Energy

Brits are waking up to the tremendous costs of their useless green policies.

In a further sign that the corrupt temperature record has become unglued from the real climate, early winter is happening all around the globe while the record-keepers claim this is the warmest year on record.

"“The first ten months of 2014 (January–October) were the warmest such period since record keeping began in 1880,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported. “2014 is currently on track to be the warmest year on record.”
Satellite records show that 2014 will not be the warmest year on record, but satellites are not used by government weather and climate agencies to make their average global temperature estimates."

The non-satellite records are corrupt.

Police State

Kasich signs bill virtually ending red light and speeding camera tickets.

"On Friday, Gov. Kasich signed into law Ohio Senate Bill 342, which prohibits citations to be issued for traffic violations recorded by speed-detection and red light cameras unless police officers are stationed at the devices at the time of the infractions."

Good deal.

"“We may see an increase in serious-injury crashes and right-angle collisions at these intersections we’re losing cameras at,” said Jason Ward, the photo enforcement administrator with the Dayton Police Department."

At the same time, you'll see a decrease in rear-end collisions. This guy is upset he just lost his title if not his job.

More government failure: NSA failed to prevent the murder of the two New York cops even though the killer announced his intentions online.

The murder of those cops was blowback for a failed justice system allowing cops to get away with murder.

Now a man has been arrested for using the same phrase as the murderer.

Even more government failure: Despite monitoring some of the terrorists, NSA British and Indian intelligence failed to prevent the Mumbai terrorist attack.

Politics

Florida surpasses New York in population.

The socialist roots of the Republican party.

Rulers lie about rape for personal gain.

"Authorities from Barack Obama on down have cited the phony statistic that one in five college women is raped. Phony because it's based on a 2007 survey conducted in two Midwestern schools not of a random sample, but of a small number of self-selected respondents and includes unwanted touching and kissing as "sexual assault." "

Yep.

"A Department of Justice survey released this month presents a different picture. Between 1995 and 2013, it reports, an average of 0.61 percent of female students were raped or sexually assaulted every year -- 2.4 percent over four years, not 20 percent. Moreover, DOJ reports, that rate has been declining significantly in recent years, in line with a national decline in violent rape."

It it wasn't for the politicization of rape, resources spent ginning up phony statistics, those numbers would be lower.

War

Ukraine wants to join NATO.

The invasion of Panama heralded all the US wars since.

"In and out. Fast and simple. An entrance plan and an exit strategy all wrapped in one. And it worked, making Operation Just Cause one of the most successful military actions in U.S. history. At least in tactical terms."

That was the model.

"But the invasion of Panama should be remembered in a big way. After all, it helps explain many of those events. In fact, you can’t begin to fully grasp the slippery slope of American militarism in the post-9/11 era – how unilateral, preemptory "regime change" became an acceptable foreign policy option, how "democracy promotion" became a staple of defense strategy, and how war became a branded public spectacle – without understanding Panama."

I don't remember Panama being a spectacle.

Former NSA and CIA director Hayden is cashing in at the Chertoff Group.

Economy

The Fed's Dow tops 18,000.

"Investors welcomed the latest encouraging news on the economy as the government said the U.S. grew at the fastest pace in more than a decade in the third quarter."

Everybody knows this was phony because Obama pulled Q4 military spending into Q3 to manipulate the election.

Yellen, after Bernanke, is responsible for the stock market bubble.

Google unveils fully functional self-driving car prototype.

Media

Now Sony plans to release "The Interview". I doubt any movie in history has had as much publicity.

Sony's cave to the hackers is a vote of no confidence in government. Government failure.

The desire to attack men drove the false Rolling Stone UVA rape story.

Federal Reserve

Russia forced to rescue bank.

Politics

Apparently this Grimm guy must have threatened the establishment, so they charged him with tax fraud. Charlie Wrangle never gets charged with tax fraud. None of Obama's tax cheat appointees got charged with tax fraud. This is political, not legal.

Upon further review, I read Grimm was trying to protect bank whistleblowers even though this article attempts to discredit his bill. I think the bankers had Grimm removed.

Freedom of Speech

In contrast to North Korea, Pirate Bay is back online.

Foreign Policy

Hackers take down North Korean internet.

"'Their networks are under duress,' Mr. Madory said. 'This is consistent with a DDoS attack on their routers,' he said, referring to a distributed denial of service attack, in which attackers flood a network with traffic until it collapses under the load.""

I wonder who might have done that (FBI). I've always said states are like children, but they kill people.

US spent billions on cyberwar weapons.

Misc

Paper wonders if peer review doesn't reject genius and new ideas. Duh. That's exactly what it's designed to do. I know this sounds like a break-through, but I bet every journal has carried articles like this over the decades, but nothing changes.

Ice transport sounds like a key entrepreneurial step towards modern society.

US accused of shooting down flight MH370.

Local

So now people are trying to draw a comparison between a concealed carry owner shooting a teen who threatened him with cops killing people for no reason. There's nothing tragic about his death. He initiated the aggression, and his would-be victim responded appropriately. The comment by a cop about this being a tragedy makes me believe they're trying to equate the killing of an armed robber by a concealed carry holder with the unwarranted killing of unarmed men down the highway in Beavercreek and across the nation.

Teen was troubled.

Police aren't charged with killing a peaceful man at Beavercreek Walmart, but four protesters of that killing are charged.

"Dozens of officers from multiple departments respond."

Hooray for not killing anybody.

Government failure: man who killed two cops in New York had been arrested three times in Clark County. I'm not saying they did the wrong thing. I'm saying socialists can't know what the right thing to do is.

Dayton city government touts job creation while ignoring job destruction, and doesn't provide a link.

"City Has Broad Economic Development Success in 2014

  

New and retained jobs, private sector investment and construction activity are some of the highlights of Dayton's economic successes in 2014. 

Water Street Office Building

Dayton's Office of Economic Development completed eight development agreements valued at $53.3 million, with 367 new jobs pledged and 1,401 jobs retained.

The City of Dayton committed $2.4 million to development agreements, leveraging more than 21 private sector dollars for every dollar invested.

Barry Staff Headquarters

Economic Development staff members completed 252 business visits and provided non-financial, technical assistance for key projects such as the Barry Staff headquarters now under construction near Tech Town.

For more information on business assistance and resources in Dayton, contact the Office of Economic Development at 937-333-3634."

The city is full of crap. Far more jobs have been destroyed or not created because of their tax and spend prolifigation than have been created or retained.

Police State

TSA steals record amount of stuff from travelers.

GCHQ warns it can't track serious criminals. In other words, it's useless. And if it was tracking serious criminals before, why didn't the British police arrest them? This story sounds like propaganda.

Government agents sues Snowden documentary producers for helping him leak secrets of illegal spying.

FBI training Obama's 30,000 domestic army to kill Americans.

Maryland seashore community loves the $1.8 million in heavy weapons and armor it received from the Pentagon.

Milwaukee police officer assaults sleeping man, then shoots him 14 times when he attempts to stop the assault.

""Manney fired his weapon but it did not seem to have any effect on Hamilton, so he continued to fire while walking backwards from Hamilton," according to Manney's account to investigators. "Hamilton fell forward and Manney continued to fire because he perceived Hamilton still to be a threat. He stopped firing when Hamilton was completely on the ground.""

Anybody who has that same gun or ammunition needs a bigger gun. Or more likley this is a lie.

"Police Chief Edward Flynn fired Manney in October, stating that the officer had identified Hamilton as mentally ill, but ignored department policy and treated him as a criminal by frisking him.
The Milwaukee Police Association condemned Manney's firing as politically motivated, and members voted no confidence in Flynn soon after the firing."

Firing is more than most uniformed murderers get.

Of course cops spied on de Blasio. Are you kidding me?

Feds create internal threat team to spy on insiders. The police state always turns on itself.

Politics

Argentine court grants human right of freedom to orangutan. Too bad humans don't have the human right of freedom.

Health Care

CDC hiding the number of potential Ebola cases in US.

"Attkisson said, “I called CDC not long ago and I said how many cases are being monitored in the United States and they said 1,400. I said, ‘Where are these updates on your website? ‘ They said they’re not putting it on the web. This is public information we have a right to know and the media should not hype it, but should cover it.”"

As if government cares or agrees about our right to know.

Federal Reserve

How the Fed manipulates markets, and why it will end.

"I do not think this dropping of the perceived supporting Fed floorboard (imagine a gallows floor being removed) is much talked about among financial commentators, asset managers and certainly not investors.  It’s still the belief that there is the Fed put, forever, witness the market action of the past day.  Despite this continued belief-structure, MSA argues now, that the Fed put is actually kaput!
I suspect by end of Q1 2015 the equity market in U.S. will have rapidly begun to price that prior dominant factor back-out of the market to some large extent."

His faith in Republicans to limit the Fed seems unfounded.

More on Stockman's theory the energy bubble is popping. Includes great analysis of the last housing bubble popping.

"The tsunami of mortgage credit exceeded anything previously imaginable by even the most egregious “easy money” populists. But here’s the preposterous part. The monetary politburo watched this tidal wave rising and did not become alarmed in the slightest. Indeed, Greenspan and Bernanke thought MEW was a wonderful tool to goose household spending and thereby justify its spurious belief that a handful of central bankers could deftly guide the $14 trillion US economy to the nirvana of permanent full employment prosperity."

We know how that worked out. I bet he's going to say the fracking bubble is bigger.

"Substitute the term “E&P expense” in the shale patch for “housing” investment and employment in the sand states, and you have tomorrow’s graphs—–that is, the plunging chart points which are latent even now in the crude oil price bust.  But the full story of the housing bust also reminds that the long caravans of pick-up trucks which will soon be streaming out of the Bakken in North Dakota will represent only the first round impact."

He hasn't said it's worse yet.

"Between 2000 and 2014, China’s credit outstanding soared from $1 trillion to $25 trillion. Consequently, its credit swollen GDP expanded from $1 trillion to $9 trillion in a comparative heartbeat; and its crude oil consumption soared from 2 million barrels per day to 8 million. In short, the Fed exported bubble finance to the entire world, but most especially China and the EM. The upshot was an extended era of booming but phony global growth, and a consequent artificially high oil prices at $115 per barrel."

I should have predicted the China link.

"Like in the case of the housing bubble, the energy boom was an accident waiting to happen— testimony to another even grander experiment by the madmen running the world’s central banks.  It is now exploding right on schedule. The plunging graphs subsequent to the housing bust are now being re-gifted to the energy patch and all the bloated, unstable chains of finance and real economic activity which flow from it."

Housing didn't drop as fast as gas.

"But there is something else even more significant. The global oil price collapse now unfolding is not putting a single dime into the pockets of American households—-the CNBC talking heads to the contrary notwithstanding.  What is happening is the vast flood of mispriced debt and capital, which flowed into the energy sector owning to the Fed’s lunatic ZIRP and QE policies, is now rapidly deflating."

I hate to disagree with Stockman, but I'm a lot better off paying less for gas. I think most every household in America can say the same. The difference between this and the housing bubble is households aren't assuming additional debt like they did during the housing bubble. At least, not yet. Prices have fallen too fast.

John Williams predicts economic weakness, which is already showing in Q4 numbers after Obama's phony boost of Q3 numbers by pushing military spending from Q4 into Q3, will prompt the Fed to print more money, sparking a dollar sell-off.

Media

Anonymous claims they will release "The Interview". I know a lot of people got burned in the Sony hack, so I feel bad for laughing, but this is too funny.

Anonymous claims hacker aren't North Korean and threatens Sony if it doesn't release "The Interview". It serves US purposes to claim the hackers are North Korean.

Facebook blocks page promoting rally for Putin critic under pressure. So much for free speech on Facebook.

War

Deserters are leaving ISIS, which is executing them. ISIS never had the ability to last.

Global Warming and Energy

Beavers blamed for climate change.

CO2 concentrations over South America and southern Africa cannot be explained by humans burning biomass. This satellite kills the already dead AGW hypothesis. It turns out plants in undeveloped countries are emitting more CO2 than industrialized nations. Oops.

Foreign Policy

The FBI and North Korea are in a hair-pulling contest over Sony hack.

Freedom of Speech

Because of information released by the Sony hackers, Google sues Mississippi Attorney General for colluding with movie industry.

Police State

Chicago study finds red-light cameras don't improve safety. They create more rear-end crashes.

Since lying is at the heart of cops' trade, a judge says they can create false Instagram accounts.

People on Twitter celebrate murder of two New York City policemen in revenge killing. This lack of justice for the victims of police is going to start a civil war. Ferguson police better watch out. People in Ferguson better watch out for the police.

Economy

Hackers do massive damage to German steel plant. Why is a steal plant designed so hackers can take control of it over the internet? And people want to do this to everything with the internet of things.

Tax and Spend

Let's hope this lone Congressman doesn't waste more of our money on NASA.

Local

Dayton and Montgomery County to raise water and sewer rates ostensibly to replace crumbling infrastructure.

Fraze turns a tiny profit for the fourth year in a row, but the profits aren't nearly enough to justify the investment.

Education

Miami University construction bubble tops $400 million.

Economy

Debt collectors hound millions of retired Americans.

Health Care

Flu outbreak spreading rapidly in US. The CDC's false sense of security makes things worse.

Police State

When justice is denied, people engage in revenge. Man executes two New York City policemen in revenge for Garner's killing. Nothing good comes from corruption of justice, that's why the private sector should handle it.

Glenn Greenwald slams Judge Posner for saying privacy is overrated.

"Using his reasoning, Judge Posner, with regard to a trust account of which he’s the trustee, is “concealing the sorts of bad activities that would cause other people not to want to deal with [him].” Note how, in his 2010 Financial Disclosure Report, he tries to hide this information and keep it private (via Dave Maass):"

No dissent is allowed.

Politics

Americans support the CIA's harsh interrogation techniques 2-1, so Feinstein's political move seems to have backfired.

People love, then hate, then love NSA spying.

Foreign Policy

US asks China for help dealing with Sony hack. Where is the super-NSA?

North Korea denies perpetrating Sony hack.

Critics skeptical of FBI's evidence against North Korea.

Sony hackers mock FBI.

Leaked email shows CIA met with Sony. The CIA is still manipulating the media.

Freedom of Speech

Expiring copyright means better products for consumers.

Hollywood is waging war on Google because they believe it promotes copyright violation.

Local

Police carrying narcon credited with saving lives of people who overdosed on heroin.

Huber Heights's council's TIF to steal more money leads to flap with mayor.

"McMasters said he will not issue a retraction, but he did note he would not have distributed the flyer had he known the proposed TIF district was non-school."

The mayor is not invited to their secret meetings. Huber's apex thieves are making the amateur mayor look like a clown because he's trying to limit their thieving.

"“We’ve asked, pleaded and begged for you to be the mayor and work with the city,” Schommer said to McMasters. “This is completely inaccurate and it’s dangerously misleading residents.”"

I don't believe that for a second. These are the same people who wanted to recall the mayor.

Protesters want RTA buses to run over people at Dayton Mall entrances. These buses are menaces. They should be banned. The RTA is just another excuse to steal people's money.

Nationwide protests against police killings shut down Beavercreek Walmart.

War on Drugs

100 years of the war on drugs.

"The War on Drugs was initiated by legislation that was passed not to help drug addicts and protect the innocent, but rather was designed to control and marginalize minority groups and to push the United States into a leadership role in world diplomatic affairs."

And it's still that way today.

Misc

The depression of 1920-1921 cured itself because government didn't intervene.

Birds evacuate before tornadoes, most likely sensing the electricity that spawns them. This is similar to the way animals evacuate before earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunami, most likely for the same reason.

Indian volcanic eruptions implicated in dinosaur extinction.

Global Warming and Energy

NASA satellite shows tremendous, unexpected CO2 over South America and southern Africa. Those locations, China and Indonesia show far more CO2 than the US and Europe. The global frauds sank themselves with this satellite.

War

Over a thousand Israeli bigwigs have signed a letter asking the EU to recognize Palestine as a country.

"We believe that the independence of the Palestinian people in a state of their own, next to the State of Israel, is the basis for peace, and therefore as important for Israelis as it is for Palestinians. This, by the way, has been my firm conviction ever since the 1948 war."

Sounds better than what they're suffering today.

I don't know how Palestinians can blame Israel for breaking a ceasefire for retaliating against a missile attack and taking out that missile battery. Maybe Israel didn't target the missile battery.

Foregn Policy

After caving by not releasing "The Interview", Sony CEO denies caving. Emails reveal Sony execs thought the movie would flop. So did I.

Raul Castro's daughter promises Cuba will not become Americanized.