Local

Policeman fired for not charging firefighter with OVI despite him driving the wrong way and crashing on 35. This is a rare case of a policeman being fired.

Foreign Policy

Cyber-security conflicts makes Chinese government suspicious of US companies.

Regulation

Obama's consumer protection agency to build giant financial database on virtually all Americans. This is expanding the police state under the guise of consumer protection.

Economy

Peter Schiff on income inequality baloney.

Big bubble in luxury, especially New York condos.

Inflation keeps the rich up and the poor down.

Police State

Daniel Ellsberg knows Snowden has no chance at a fair trial in the US.

NSA collecting pictures of faces and putting them in its facial recognition database. Of course it is.
More on the Seattle cops' civil rights lawsuit claiming they have the right to inflict violence as they see fit.

"At present, in most of the country a police officer who brutalizes or kills somebody without moral justification can take refuge in the “totality of circumstances” test. In practice, this is nothing less than an unalloyed entitlement to kill first, and devise a suitable rationale after the fact."

Good insight into police state mentality.

LAPD gets some drones from Seattle and promises to use them for very limited reasons. The good guys in LAPD would never break a promise.

Feds investigate Icahn, Walters and Michelson for insider trading.

War

More on the Libyan coup.

VA audit confirms executives falsified records to obtain bonuses.

US military brass brief Bilderbergers.

"Samsom confirmed that the morning meeting had been about what was happening in Ukraine, which explains why Rasmussen and Breedlove were hot-footing it out the door straight afterwards. Their job was done. Or just starting.
And make no mistake. Bilderberg is part of their job. This wasn't a jolly. This was briefing papers, dress uniforms and military aides. Land Rovers packed with military bodyguards.
This is Nato business. US military business. Government business."

"Bad enough that you've got military chiefs briefing arms companies bosses - in private - about their hopes and dreams for Ukraine. But you've also got billionaire speculators and the heads of gigantic private equity funds listening in.
People who stand to make a killing out of knowing where and when the bombs are going to fall, how many and on whom."

No kidding.

Leaked Bilderberg meeting agenda.

Obama lawlessly releases Taliban fighters from Guantanamo without notifying Congress. Five traded for captured US soldier.

Education

Seven oldest children of homeschool family all went to college by the age of 12. This shows how fantastically superior homeschooling is to government schools.

Politics

More on the Bilderberg conference. Spies, CEOs and politicians meet.

Global Warming and Energy

Record 3,100 days since major hurricane hit US.

War

The Pentagon must be having trouble recruiting troops if they're allowing illegal immigrants to join.

War on Drugs

SWAT grenade injures toddler in para-military drug raid.

Misc

WWII-era Israeli espionage and smuggling network. This is no surprise.

Sports

We've seen for years how the state uses mental health decrees as a weapon against the people, but this mental heath attack against Donald Sterling is the first time I've seen it against a former plutocrat. This is another example illustrating government has all the power. One day a plutocrat seems to have all the power like Donald Sterling or Bear-Stearns. The next day government breaks them like twigs under jackboots. This might be the most corrupt application of mental health attack I've ever seen.

Global Warming and Energy

Even the IPCC admits Antarctic ice is growing, reducing sea level rise.

War

The US wants control in Ukraine, not peace, the same as everywhere else.

"Monday’s ruthless attack by the Ukrainian government in Donetsk in which up to 100 people were killed was a clear indication of this. Although the government labeled the offensive as an "anti-terrorist" operation, the reality is that it was either a case of Ukraine killing its own people, or it was a military assault against a sovereign population, depending on one’s interpretation of the Donetsk People’s Republic referendum of May 11 in which the people overwhelmingly voted for independence from Ukraine."

The US wants to rule the world.

The US hasn't won in Ukraine yet, but it has pushed China and Russia closer.

Ukrainian puppet-master wants direct US support.

I imagine if a person had the power to steal all the money he wanted and kill all the people he wanted, even for a good person, that would be hard to resist. So Obama might blunder into war in Syria. What a joke. That's like saying Capone might blunder into a war with prohibitionists. Too funny.

Police State

I'm all for rules restricting police use of force, but what is the DOJ doing dictating rules to Seattle police? That's a federalization of police.

"The civil-rights suit, filed in U.S. District Court, contends the changes have effectively created “hesitation and paralysis” among officers, stripping them of their constitutional and legal right to make reasonable, split-second judgments in the line of duty."

In upside-down world, cops sue for the civil right to attack people.

"Just two weeks ago, a Seattle Police Department report revealed steep drops in the enforcement of lower-level crimes, traffic offenses and infractions in recent years as officers have displayed less willingness to seek out illegal activity."

This is wonderful news for the people of Seattle.

"The suit alleges officers have turned in Tasers in large numbers because of confusion about how and when to use them and will testify about an “insidious” reluctance to respond to backup calls, all out of fear of being exposed to unreasonable discipline or termination. "

More good news.

"The city and DOJ civil-rights attorneys agreed to the reforms in 2012 after the Justice Department found that officers had engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive force, a conclusion the lawsuit rejects as flawed and unproved.
The Justice Department also cited troubling evidence of biased policing."

I don't doubt either of these charges, but the proper response is to fire and prosecute perpetrators.

"The new use-of-force policy, which went into effect Jan. 1, for the first time defined “force” as any physical coercion by an officer in the performance of their duties, and advised when it can be used and how much is appropriate under the circumstances.
Officers must report all but the most minimal use of force to supervisors, and shall “use only the force necessary to perform their duties” and “with minimal reliance upon the use of physical force.”
They also are required, if circumstances allow, to attempt to de-escalate tense situations through “advisements, warnings, verbal persuasion, and other tactics” to reduce the need for force.
When using force is unavoidable, the policy cautions officers to use only the force necessary to make the arrest, and says that their conduct before force was used may be considered by the department in determining whether force was appropriate."

This should be every police department's policy, but not dictated by the DOJ.

"I would like to say the policy is overly broad, poorly written and somewhat confusing."

Exactly what one would expect from the feds.

"Mahoney in 2009 was given 30 days off without pay after an 18-year-old Explorer cadet he had been supervising accused him of kissing her and putting his tongue in her mouth. "

Killing people gets you promoted. Kissing a girl cost a month's pay. Why didn't she keep her mouth closed? That's suspicious. I don't trust either of these people.

Bipartisanship prevents cuts to the police state.

Judge Napolitano reviews Greenwald's book on meeting Snowden and NSA revelations.

Economy

Government revises down Q1 GDP from 0.1 percent growth to 1 percent reduction. Naturally they blame the weather and say Q2 will be great.

"GDP was initially estimated to have grown at a 0.1 percent rate. It is not unusual for the government to make sharp revisions to GDP numbers as it does not have complete data when it makes its initial estimates."

Revisions down. They rarely make revisions up because the process is designed to report inflated numbers.

On market corruption and buying gold and silver to protect yourself from it.

"I really could have used the assistance of Peter Schiff, at EuroPacMetals.com, who writes “We can’t ignore it anymore – the markets are rigged,” and that “Even if banks and governments are manipulating the day-to-day price of gold, the metal’s long-term fundamentals are stronger than ever. In fact, the reasons for them to suppress the gold price are the same reasons for us to buy gold in the first place.”
To me, he saying that the government is suppressing the price of gold at the same time that you want to buy it!  Wow! So, thank you, government morons" ...
"And speaking of government morons, from Reuters we get the revelation that “U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White flatly rejected claims that retail investors are being fleeced by high-frequency traders who can use their speed to jump ahead with buy and sell orders that fetch better prices.”"...
"Ms. White literally, if Reuters is to be believed, told a U.S. House of Representatives panel that “The markets are not rigged,” which shows a remarkable, unbelievable, incomprehensible ignorance of the massive corruption between the federal government and the markets that literally sustains the bloated bond market, the bloated stock market, the bloated housing market, the bloated student loan market, the bloated consumer debt market, the bloated corporate debt market, the bloated derivatives market, and literally everything else, as part of the unbelievable powers the corrupt government granted itself with the infamous Exchange Stabilization Act, which literally requires bringing together the head regulators and honchos of all these markets, and have them come up with coordinated interventions in the markets to keep them from falling! That’s what they do! By law!"

Legalized and illegal corruption. There seems to be no boundary.

Local

Sheriff's deputy caught selling cell phones while on duty, gets three day vacation.

Cement truck takes out power pole and lines in Miamisburg.

Austin center rulers to expand JEDD looting area. These crooks never get enough.

Health Care

Just say no to government vaccine registries.

Health Care

Reality in the form of realizing people are motivated by self-interest supposedly increases risk of heart disease and dementia. This sounds like propaganda to scare people from seeing how society really works.

Socialism

New York City battles rat epidemic.

"It will target so-called “rat reservoirs,” which are areas where rodent populations survive and thrive, such as subways, sewers and city parks."

All owned by government.

Freedom of Speech

Reporters arrested for recording Bilderberg meeting.

China cracks down on instant messaging.

Global Warming and Energy

Pollution in London worse than Beijing because government regulations favor diesel over gasoline because diesel produces less CO2.

Economy

Goldman-Sachs president admits the Fed has made trading activity abnormal.

Local

Overdose deaths, especially from heroin, spike.

Tax and Spend

IRS agents treat taxpayers as prey.

"Former IRS revenue officer Richard Yancey, in his memoir Confessions of a Tax Collector, recalls that his supervisors routinely employed “the language of war” and dehumanized their victims. One of them ended a profanity-laced tirade by telling Yancey: “Deadbeats – if it were up to me, I’d line ‘em all up against a wall and shoot them.” "

That's because we are prey to them.

How the Federal government wastes money with grants.

War on Drugs

Asset forfeiture has skyrocketed over the last two decades.

Politics

European elections were more about rejection of the EU than the rise of the right wing.

Tea party candidates win four of four primary runoffs in Texas. They've lost everywhere else so far.

War

Syrian President Assad refuses to surrender last of WMDs.

Kerry announces $5 billion fund to bribe foreign governments under the guise of fighting terrorism. I guess they needed more bribe money.

US warns Americans to leave Libya because of the violence they produced when they ousted Qaddafi.

Self-interest constrained by socialism is the cause of VA problems.

"Emails and VA memos obtained exclusively by The Daily Beast provide what is among the most comprehensive accounts yet of how high-level VA hospital employees conspired to game the system. It shows not only how they manipulated hospital wait lists but why—to cover up the weeks and months veterans spent waiting for needed medical care. If those lag times had been revealed, it would have threatened the executives’ bonus pay."

This shows how socialism perverts self-interest.

"What’s worse, the documents show the wrongdoing going unpunished for years, even after it was repeatedly reported to local and national VA authorities. That indicates a new troubling angle to the VA scandal: that the much touted investigations may be incapable of finding violations that are hiding in plain sight.
“For lack of a better term, you’ve got an organized crime syndicate,” a whistleblower who works in the Texas VA told The Daily Beast."

Government is an organized crime syndicate.

Iraq death toll tops 4,000 for year.

Obama directive for military to use force against Americans.

Global Warming and Energy

Lake Superior still has ice for the first time this late in the satellite era.

Former Pentagon staff poised to profit from Pentagon's global warming alarmism.

"Retired military officers deeply involved in the climate change movement — and some in companies positioned to profit from it — spearheaded an alarmist global warming report this month that calls on the Defense Department to ramp up spending on what it calls a man-made problem."

What a fraud.

Exposing his socialist core, that socialists invaded the environmental movement, and that he's a fraud, Prince Charles call for the end of capitalism as we know it to fight global warming. This guy is about to become king.

Socialism

The Labor Department hides government employees in its list of biggest employers in each state.

War on Drugs

NYC cops to carry heroin overdose antidote.

Police State

Why NSA spying is a threat and Snowden did right by exposing it.

Snowden interview.

Local

Government ownership of water has made them unsafe for swimming.

Government ownership of roads means traffic will be messed up in 17 places. I bet there are way more than that.

I like how the media are now using the term "police-involved shooting"  when a cop shoots somebody.

Trotwood taxes land so much owner can't pay, then uses land bank fraud to seize the land. This is robbery.

Boil advisory in North Hampton.

War

Nigerian defense chief says the government has located the kidnapped girls, but then he stages a protest to convince people he can't mount a rescue attempt.

VA pays many malpractice claims.

"The label, “delay in diagnosis,” appears 525 times in the VA data on paid claims, ranking fourth highest. Those claims resulted in 167 deaths, according to the data, with payouts totaling $115 million. An example from the Dayton VA was a case paid in 2006 for $275,000 after the family of a deceased patient alleged VA staff failed to timely diagnose an infection after a total hip surgery.
“Delay in treatment” appeared 491 times, with a total price tag of $100.3 million. An example from the Dayton VA includes a 2010 allegation that a veteran lost his leg after delayed treatment of a graft. The VA denied that claim."

This is what one would expect from socialized medicine.

Why government is obsessed with running not just VA hospitals.

"The reason for this of course is that by providing health care directly through VA health care and VA hospitals, government can more easily subsidize and favor certain corporations and other government contractors who provide drugs, equipment and services to VA providers. If veterans were simply given stipends, then the veterans themselves might choose the “wrong” (i.e., not-politically-favored) providers."

Of course.

Obama announces plan to extend Afghan war past 2014. It's funny how the press has twisted this to say he's ending the war.

Man now bigwig at Google helped NSA capture all cell phone calls in Afghanistan. More.

Marines prepare to evacuate US embassy in Libya. That's what happens when the US turns over a country to terrorists, which they're trying to repeat in Syria.

Under phony, new president, Ukrainian soldiers kill 50 separatists.

Politics

Europe's rulers seek away to reject the will of the people while pretending legitimacy.

2014 Bilderberg membership list.

Economy

Orders for durable goods up.

The housing market is declining except for the 1 percent.

Health Care

Organic brands subsidize and support GMO use by parent companies.

Police state attacks Amish farmers over raw milk.

Media

Greenwald will supposedly publish names of Americans spied on by NSA. He might not live that long.

Politics

I would love to see Republicans replace Boehner, but I'd rather see voters replace him.

War

Veteran appeals process takes an average of 19 months, delaying benefits.

Global Warming and Energy

Human activity can't be blamed for Antarctic ice sheet collapse.

China to scrap millions of cars to cut pollution.

Freedom of Speech

Twitter caves to governments and censors information.

Misc

Researchers to put humans in suspended animation.

Registry entry enables Windows XP computers to get updates through 2019.

Economy

Poor, abused Apple, which hates consumers, continues to use IP to block Samsung phones.

Misc

After all the hyperventilating about carbon fiber, bamboo is a more cost-effective product. More malinvestment.

Global Warming and Energy

Fraud who wrote about global cooling the 1970s now says he was wrong, the planet was warming all along.

Of course climate scientists are being pressured financially and socially to support the fraud. Everybody makes money on the fraud. They don't want real scientists to upset the apple cart.

War on Drugs

Drug cartels hang two mannequins in effigy in El Paso.

Education

Lawsuit claims Spanish high school teachers and a councilor inducted students into death cult.

Government technology advances allow it to build a database on every child. That was the goal all along, not education.

War

VA goes to private hospitals for help.

Obama said VA would lead in health care reform.

VA employees caught falsifying records.

Vets bodies left in morgue for over a year.

VA scandal tip of the corrupt, Pentagon iceberg. Ron Paul's insight.

Pentagon to close 21 facilities in Europe, saving $60 million.annually. I'm all for cuts, but the Pentagon pays more for hammers than this.

146 killed, 82 wounded in Iraq.

Politics

Michelle Obama pulling a Hillary, trying to set up her own political career.

I wholeheartedly agree that libertarians should never underestimate the state.

"Because the state has the capacity to raise enormous amounts of money and to bamboozle the great mass of the public, it can employ these two tactics — outsourcing of operations and use of raw force — pretty much as it finds optimal. It is a mistake to underestimate the state simply because its visible face consists of seemingly idiotic politicians."

It's not just that. If you think of the state as a service organization, like many people erroneously do, you see all its services are terrible. It looks like incompetence. It's only when you realize the goal is to maximize the theft of money and to maintain control that you realize the state is brutally efficient.

Federal Reserve

Rising food prices blamed on California drought. If there was no California drought, they would be blamed on something else. Never on printing money. Fortunately, there's always something.

Police State

Simpsons gets it.

Federal grants are paying for stingray cell phone spy devices for cops.

Foreign Policy

Blaming western colonialism for the conflict between the US and Russia and China.

War

Drones should have been hack resistant from the beginning.

150 killed, 127 wounded in Iraq.

Socialism

In another socialist disaster, all of Portland must boil water. Only government and natural disasters can create crises on this massive of a scale.

War

In typical Republican fashion, Boehner calls to privatize VA, but Republicans could have done that when Bush was in office and they controlled both houses. They didn't. They didn't even try. This is another lie.

Economy

Amazon refuses to publish some books from publishers it doesn't like. That's its right.

Global Warming and Energy

Fiat Chrysler CEO asks people to not buy the company's electric car which government forces him to sell because he loses $14,000 per car.

Global warming frauds misrepresented the study about satellite measurements of Antarctic ice.

Local

Dayton's NCAA run brought $73 million to the city, and cops used $57,000 of it to beat students up.

Police State

In a wonderful example of how corrupt our two-tiered non-justice system is, Colts owner Jim Irsay charged with two misdemeanors for crimes that would put a non-plutocrat in prison for years or decades. I'm happy for Irsay, who shouldn't have been charged with anything, but this shows the aggression the government is waging against serfs.

"Irsay was arrested March 16 near his home in the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel for allegedly operating a vehicle while intoxicated. He had $29,000 in cash and "numerous" bottles of prescription drugs in his vehicle at the time of his arrest, police said."

This article even protects Irsay by not saying how many pills he had, none of which he had prescriptions for. What a travesty.

"Several players, including Washington Redskins safety Ryan Clark and NFLPA president Eric Winston, have been critical of Goodell's approach in dealing with Irsay's situation. Clark talked about the hypocrisy of the NFL and of Goodell, saying essentially that punishment would have been handed down more quickly for a player in a similar situation. "

The hypocrisy of the NFL is a reflection of the hypocrisy of the two-tiered justice system.

After Microsoft refused FBI's national security letter, FBi got a regular warrant, showing these unconstitutional programs are baloney. Good for Microsoft.

Because government didn't get involved, this passer-by saved a toddler from falling. If government had been involved, the child would most likely be severely injured.

Misc

Big Bang cultists, who have been surprised by everything they find, claim they've found everything they predicted except background neutrinos. I bet the "find" them soon. In fact, I bet background neutrinos explain much of the universe such as quantum mechanics, but the establishment won't understand.

War

NSA recording all calls in Afghanistan. Fat lot of good that's doing US troops. What a waste.

Health Care

Product replaces showers, soap and shampoo with bacteria. I bet our ancestors jumped in water often.

Tax and Spend

318,000 federal workers owe $3.3 billion in back taxes.

Foreign Policy

While Americans were fighting for their lives in Benghazi, instead of sending them help, the White House was scolding YouTube for posting the bizarre, anti-Muslim video. This points again to the importance of the video to finding out who orchestrating this attack, using the video as a cover. More evidence Obama and Clinton used jihadists to assassinate Ambassador Stevens.

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Restaurant with no guns sign robbed at gunpoint. Might as well put a sign asking to be robbed.

War on Drugs

Teen could get life in prison for pot brownies. It was a lot of brownies, but come on. This shows how, once you give somebody the power of coercion, they never stop.

Sports

I love seeing Napoleon Goodell exposed as the piece of crap that he is with his double-standard regarding discipline for Colts owner Irsay compared to his tyrannical abuse of players. This shows again that rules are for serfs, never rulers.

Economy

Ron Paul is not happy about about China surpassing the US economy.

"Last week World Bank economists predicted that China would soon displace the United States as the world’s largest economy. The fact that this one-time economic basket case is now positioned to surpass the US is one more sign of the damage done to American prosperity by welfare, warfare, corporatism, and fiat money."

China will have a bust.

Three of America's five fastest growing cities are in Texas.

Police State

Government hypocrisy over charging Chinese hackers with crimes while creating and supporting the greatest hacking organization in the world: the NSA.

Bipartisan majority in House passes phony NSA reform bill. Get ready for another, probably false flag, terrorist attack.

Education

US in denial about poor math education because of politics.

"He said the tendency to make internal comparisons between different groups within the US had shielded the country from recognising how much they are being overtaken by international rivals. "The American public has been trained to think about white versus minority, urban versus suburban, rich versus poor," he said.'"

Politics.

Global Warming and Energy

Obama henchmen to cut estimates of recoverable, American shale oil in blatantly political maneuver.

Federal forecasters finally get with the program and predict a lower than average hurricane season. Watch it be higher. More from NOAA.

Global warming group to spend $100 million on seven races in 2014.

Graph shows that trend of droughts is flat to slightly falling over the last 30 years.

War

Study determines drone decapitation strategy against al Qaeda is ineffective because al Qaeda is bureaucratic.

"Jordan's theory explains why it never seems to make a difference when the US government announces that it's killed an al-Qaeda #2 or #3. This happens pretty often: as The Onion once put it, "Eighty percent of al-Qaeda no. 2's now dead." Yet somehow al-Qaeda's core leadership has survived and remained relevant."
"There's no obvious connection between number of decapitation strikes and a reduction in al-Qaeda violence in any of the four theaters she examined. The data supports the theory: al-Qaeda seems pretty resilient in the face of decapitation strikes."

Not surprising. The drone decapitation strategy is a political strategy.

North and South Korean warships fire at each other. Fortunately both have terrible aim and the shells missed.

Evidence US behind Libyan coup.

"It’s just a coincidence that Gen. Khalifa Hifter (sometimes spelled Hiftar) launched his Libyan coup only four days after the US deployed 200 troops to Sicily – a "crisis response team" sent at the State Department’s request. Another coincidence: US-backed Gen. Hifter lived in Washington, D.C. for decades, a few convenient miles from the CIA’s Langley headquarters."

Here we go again.

US aggression is driving China and Russia together not only economically, but militarily.

Left touted VA as healthcare model for all of us. Thank goodness they haven't gotten there yet.

More on abysmal failure of socialized medicine at the VA.

VA admits 23 vets died because of delays, so you know the number is much higher.

You would think that if government could get one thing right, it would be securing nuclear weapons. It failed.

The conflict in Egypt has reached civil war status.

"Unbowed by a savage crackdown, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood promises a war of attrition against the army chief who ousted it from power and appears certain to win next week's election."

The US is setting the world on fire.

Media

I said long ago that Hollywood would eventually not need new stars; they would simply animate classic stars into movies. It's happened with Paul Walker.

"Universal — using face-replacement technology and the late Paul Walker's brothers to finish the film — is in a negotiation to get reimbursed as the costs soar past $250 million."

Welcome back, John Wayne.

Regulation

On the side, leftists are complaining women get paid too little compared to men. On another side, leftists demand paid menstrual leave for women. You can't make this stuff up.

Federal Reserve

Philadelphia Fed president worried about trillions of money printed by Fed. You don't say.

War

Apparently the VA has its own police force, thwarted from investigating drug dealing, theft and abuse.

Obama sent 80 US troops to Chad in search of kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls.

Politics

Big-government, Republican establishment crushes tea party pretenders. It's freaking scary that they want to give all this information to hackers.

Tea party, beaten into submission, on life support.

Democrat congressman claims they've proved communism works. He'll probably get re-elected.

Police State

I've never understood this internet of things. Why would I want my refrigerator on the internet to be hacked? Then I realized NSA would love to have my refrigerator connected to the internet so it could monitor everything I ate, but since it didn't offer anything to me, I didn't see it going anywhere. Now I know why Google wants it. Google plans to use ad subsidies to entice people to purchase internet appliances so NSA can spy on them better and make money. It's twisted. I remember when the internet standards were pushing push technology, and I was one of the few people who fought it. Everybody around me thought it would be great. I knew it would be a nuisance or worse. I was right then, and now the internet of things is basically a bribe to invite unwanted ads and spies into your house.

The White House and House of Representatives make spying reform proposal worthless, just as predicted.

Real ID license with microchip coming to Ohio.

DHS has spent $4.5 billion building a new headquarters in Washington, D.C., but nothing has been built.

Health Care

Because they too are controlled by the government, nominally private hospitals have similar problems to VA hospitals.

Obamacare's insurance company bailout. Why do you think they agreed to this disaster?

More than a million school children have rejected Michelle Obama's crappy lunches.

Immigration

Obama to declare a bunch of land on the New Mexico-Mexico border as a national monument.

"The Obama administration is set to designate a 600,000 acre national monument in south-central New Mexico to be managed and controlled by the Bureau of Land Management, a federal agency. The designated land will be called the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, and environmentalists have long-sought the designation.
Utah Republican Rep. Rob Bishop, the chairman of a key subcommittee, blasted the plan in a letter Monday, saying it would allow the region to become an unfettered drug corridoor."

Obama doesn't care.

Education

No shortage of STEM workers.

Tax and Spend

Nearly 11 million on disability, a new record.

Health Care

Government is creating deadly new diseases.

The reason Obama pushed online medical records is so the government could spy on them.

"The federal government is piecing together a sweeping national “biosurveillance” system that will give bureaucrats near real-time access to Americans’ private medical information in the name of national security, according to Twila Brase, a public health nurse and co-founder of the Citizens Council for Health Freedom.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response is currently seeking public comment on a 52-page draft of the proposed “National Health Security Strategy 2015-2018” (NHSS)."

No surprise there.

War

Blast kills 118 in Nigeria as US troops search for kidnapped girls. Two bombs.

Focus on Boko Haram threatens Americans.

VA Whistleblower demoted and harassed. Obama expects his kind of bullying to make this issue go away, but it's only going to get worse. More revelations to come.

"The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) and the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America unveiled an encrypted web submission form Thursday soliciting horror stories in the wake of a nationwide furor about fudged wait time records and related veteran deaths in Phoenix."

Smart to protect whistleblowers.

"“This is an agency which has a track record of being uniquely intolerant to well-taken whistleblowing,” he says. “The gap between legal rights and reality is tragically broad for VA whistleblowers. … It’s almost the bureaucracy’s lowest common denominator, both in terms of quality of performance and in terms of secrecy enforced by repression.”"

Exactly what you would expect from a socialist organization.

Global Warming and Energy

Climate change alarmism hits Ohio.

Study shows sea levels rising at seven inches per century with no acceleration. That's from 1993-2012.

Pat Sajak might have just ended his career. Following Obama's lead, leftists are destroying everybody who disagrees with them.

Federal Reserve

Peter Schiff speculates the ECB is buying US bonds through Belgium, not the Fed.

China and Russia agree to use their own currencies for trade, cutting out the declining dollar. Uh-oh.

Local

Big tax break for Fuyao.

"The Ohio Tax Credit Authority voted 4-0 to award Fuyao Glass America at 15-year, 75-percent tax credit for the company project in Moraine."

Everybody could use a big, permanent tax break.

Police OT costs $57,000 for them to beat up UD students during NCAA celebrations.

Boil advisory in Verona.

Foreign Policy

The CIA corrupted vaccination programs, leading to the murder of health care workers, by conducting fake ones.

Chinese government bans purchase of Windows 8 computers for government. This article mentions Microsoft stopping support for Windows XP as a motive, but I bet fear of spying was the bigger motive.

Politics

Dinesh D'Souza makes plea deal for illegal campaign contributions.

"The right-wing author admitted Tuesday in Manhattan Federal Court Tuesday that he skirted campaign caps by reimbursing friends for $20,000 in donations to Republican Wendy Long's 2012 Senate campaign."

This is another thing that everybody does, but only Republican supporters get charged for.

Police State

In a good reminder that the government views us all as prisoners, TSA moves its nude-scanners into prisons.

Driverless cars, since they would get few if any tickets, would reduce police revenue. Good.

Lavabit founder finally tells his story of how government oppression forced him to shut down his company. His story is a lot different, more complete, and more believable than the feds'.

"In Virginia, the government replaced its encryption key subpoena with a search warrant and a new court date. I retained a small, local law firm before I went back to my home state, which was then forced to assemble a legal strategy and file briefs in just a few short days. The court barred them from consulting outside experts about either the statutes or the technology involved in the case. The court didn't even deliver transcripts of my first appearance to my own lawyers for two months, and forced them to proceed without access to the information they needed.
Then, a federal judge entered an order of contempt against me – without even so much as a hearing.

But the judge created a loophole: without a hearing, I was never given the opportunity to object, let alone make any any substantive defense, to the contempt change. Without any objection (because I wasn't allowed a hearing), the appellate court waived consideration of the substantive questions my case raised – and upheld the contempt charge, on the grounds that I hadn't disputed it in court. Since the US supreme court traditionally declines to review decided on wholly procedural grounds, I will be permanently denied justice.

In the meantime, I had a hard decision to make. I had not devoted 10 years of my life to building Lavabit, only to become complicit in a plan which I felt would have involved the wholesale violation of my customers' right to privacy. Thus with no alternative, the decision was obvious: I had to shut down my company."

Taking away recourse to defend oneself is the hallmark of a police state.

"The government argued that, since the "inspection" of the data was to be carried out by a machine, they were exempt from the normal search-and-seizure protections of the Fourth Amendment."

This parallels the farcical NSA semantic game about collecting versus gathering.

Socialism

GM recalls another 2.79 million vehicles.

"So far this year, GM has recalled 13.6 million vehicles in the United States. An undisclosed number of additional cars are expected to be called back today in two additional campaigns. Less than five months into the year, GM has surpassed its annual record of 10.7 million vehicles recalled in the U.S. in 2004.

With 15.6 million vehicles recalled worldwide so far in 27 campaigns, GM has surpassed Toyota Motor Corp’s recall tally stemming from its sudden acceleration crisis. In a detailed review of recall numbers since 2000, no automaker has come close to GM’s recall count. Ford Motor Co. recalled 21 million vehicles in 1981, but it was only to warn them that 1970-79 cars and trucks could roll away — not to make any mechanical fix."

Nobody should have bought one.

GM's solution to bad design is to ban engineers from using 69 words in emails that might lead to liability.

Tax and Spend

$60 million high school stadium boondoggle in Texas closed for safety reasons.

Socialism

Government control of the water supply has left Texas communities with only a 90 day supply.

Federal Reserve

How inflation ruins our lives.

"The house auction loser thinks, “Aw, shucks, I got outbid, and didn’t get the house. Them’s the breaks, I guess,” never imagining it’s the government’s doing.
The late-receiver of new money thinks, “Man, my wages aren’t keeping up with rent and groceries. Times sure are tough,” never imagining it’s the government’s fault (except perhaps to foolishly think the minimum wage should be higher).
The saver who is temporarily out of his contract work with a busted leg thinks, “Wow, I’m burning through my savings a lot faster than I thought I would,” never imagining the government’s role in his predicament."

I like the link to the minimum wage issue.

Police State

More on FBI agent who killed friend of accused Boston Marathon bomber.

Local

This is the most honest paragraph written by the DDN about the Fuyao deal.

"Ohio beat out other states, including Michigan, to lure Chinese auto glass manufacturer Fuyao to the former GM plant in Moraine by traveling the globe, schmoozing with company officials and putting together a top-secret incentive package."

They should have said that from the beginning.

"Taxpayers have so far been kept in the dark on details of the government incentive package, but the Ohio Tax Credit Authority will likely take up the issue when it meets on Tuesday.
Given the size of the project, the fierce competition to win Fuyao and the Kasich administration’s history of using incentives to lure businesses to come or stay in Ohio, the package is expected to be worth millions of dollars to the Chinese company."

No doubt. The government steals so much money, no company will come here with a promise to reduce the amount it steals.

Construction cones will be everywhere.

Police radio traffic on the nights UD won in the NCAA tournament when were cops were accused of brutality.

War

142 killed, 59 wounded in Iraq.

Syrian rebels armed by US wants Israel out of Syria. Who couldn't predict this?

The VA has been engulfed in socialized medicine scandals my whole life. Of course Obama knew. It's constant. There's no reforming it. Obama criticized Bush over VA in 2007.

Gunmen take over Parliament in Libya, and US prepares troops in response as if waging war in Libya hasn't done enough damage.

Tax and Spend

Credit Suisse plead guilty to conspiracy to aid tax evaders.

Thanks to high salaries and big pensions, government workers are the fastest growing class of millionaire.

Fallacies of a negative income tax.

Foreign Policy

Cisco asks Obama to stop NSA from adding spyware to routers.

NSA records every phone call to from and inside the Bahamas.

Global Warming and Energy

Satellite claims Antarctic is losing ice, contradicting other reports.

"The East had been gaining ice in the previous study period, boosted by some exceptional snowfall, but it is now seen as broadly static in the new survey."

I'm skeptical.

Examining little ice age art for evidence of climate change.

War on Drugs

Scientists discover war on drugs is a failure. Duh. I wonder how much taxpayers paid for that.

Politics

Apparently Operation American Spring sprung a leak. Nobody showed up.

Police State

Police admit returning veterans real target of militarization of police.

"In an interview with Fox 59, a Morgan County, Indiana Police Sergeant admits that the increasing militarization of domestic police departments is partly to deal with returning veterans who are now seen as a homegrown terror threat."

This is only partly true. The government looks at every American, including veterans, as a homegrown terror threat.

Global Warming and Energy

In a spectacular piece of news, Australian government intends to cut global warming propaganda by billions.

"The funding for all government programs related to climate change is set to shrink at an alarming rate, going from $5.75 billion this year to a scant $500 million in the next four years."

We should declare a world-wide, week-long holiday.

Six weeks ago, government non-experts said gas prices would peak in April. My gas pump says otherwise. People are getting worried as if government non-experts were anything but political tools.

Media

Kim Jong Un's ex-girlfriend, reportedly executed, shows up alive at event. Maybe Dennis Rodman is right.

Misc

Physicists surprised study contradicts simple theory of static electricity, a theory I never bought into. Hydroxide is produced by comets.

Three-quarters of Swiss reject minimum wage increase, and half reject new fighter jets. Too bad they didn't retain banking privacy.

Great Galileo quote:

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

Nice.

Local

The DDN puts a passive spin a story about cops hitting parked cars. We're supposed to believe it wasn't their fault.

War

Gov. Kasich names Springfield man admiral of all-volunteer, Ohio naval militia. Good for this man, and this might be the least bad thing the Governor does.

Book claims Flight 370 was shot down during US-Thailand war games. This might explain why the US, which does it best to dominate everything in the world, has been invisible in the search.

Health Care

Claim that HIV does not cause AIDS.

Mayo clinic cures cancer with measles vaccine.

Foreign Policy

Gold and the dollar underlie current global tensions.

Claim that the Fed secretly purchased $141.2 billion in Treasuries by laundering the purchase through Belgium.

"Some country or countries, unknown at this time, for reasons we do not know dumped $104 billion in Treasuries in one week."

Coincidentally, this happened around the New Year, about the time Russia suddenly became public enemy number one.

Politics

Skepticism about the kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls.

"Many Nigerians wonder whether Boko Haram really exists. The supposed radical Islamic organization has been blamed for the killings of thousands of people. Yet details about the group are so murky that many observers suspect it may be more mythical than real. According to one theory, the real killers are mercenaries paid to stage false-flag “Islamic terror” in order to justify foreign intervention in oil-rich Nigeria."

Also about the Boston Marathon bombing and the Sandy Hook massacre.

Nigeria is another basket case of a state, and the US should not be involved. 

Police State

As always, the government is leaking information to bias the jury pool against accused Boston Marathon bomber, and the judge is allowing it.

"Tsarnaev’s lawyers in a May 2 motion argue that the media has been made privy to secret grand jury testimony not yet revealed to them by prosecutors, and want the judge to probe those leaks in a hearing."

This corruption is standard operating procedure.

War

Around 90% of all deaths in war are civilians.

"Since the end of World War II, there have been 248 armed conflicts in 153 locations around the world. The United States launched 201 overseas military operations between the end of World War II and 2001, and since then, others, including Afghanistan and Iraq …."

Wow.

Economy

Amazon slows shipment of book in dispute with publisher. This sounds like the same issue between Netflix and ISPs like Comcast. Maybe we need shipping neutrality to protect the shipping of packages the same way we need net neutrality to protect the shipping on internet packets. Socialism is all about making everybody, every product and every service equally poor.

Misc

How did a drone get more aggressive? Did it attack? If you don't want people to watch you on the beach, buy a private beach. This highlights the common misconception about privacy. It's not a right. It's a function of property rights.

Health Care

Hospital lays off workers because of Obamacare.

Depression hurts brains, but calling it "hood disease" in poor people doesn't help anybody.

Global Warming and Energy

German climate scientists express concern over fascist attacks on global warming skeptic. Upside-down world. Distinguished climate scientist concurs.

Pseudo-scientists discovered in scientific fraud promoting phony AGW.

Rgulation

Apple and Google's Moto division settle patent disputes so they can waste more resources fighting bogus patent disputes of others like Samsung.

German rulers threatens to break up Google. This is good reminder the government has all the power.

Politics

Family dynasties are at the heart of the US empire like any other.

"Today, it is the industrial, financial and corporate dynasties that have risen to unparalleled positions of authority in the age of globalization. And yet, while some of their names ring familiar to the ears of many, they are frequently thought of as relics of past centuries rather than titans of today, or their names are altogether unfamiliar, as is their positions and influence within our societies. We see power – typically – in terms of those who hold political office: prime ministers and presidents who we elect, as is consistent with our belief that we live in democracies. We see competing factions of political parties vying for office, with us – the people – as the ultimate arbiters of who gets to hold power. The influence of globalization’s dynasties remains unseen, or, misunderstood."

The Kennedys, Bushes, and Clintons are just the most visible.

"While modern dynasties share many characteristics of past ruling families, they have their major distinctions, largely derived from the fact that most of them do not hold formal political or absolute authority. Past dynasties typically held absolute authority over their local regions, states or kingdoms. That type of authority does not exist at the major state, regional or global levels today, with few exceptions, such as the ruling monarchs of the Gulf Arab dictatorships. Yet, while the mechanism of authority is less centralized or formalized in the modern world, the scope and reach of authority – or influence – has expanded exponentially. In short, while in past eras, a single family may have exerted absolute authority over a comparably small region or empire, today, the indirect influence of a dynastic family may reach across the globe, though it remains far from absolute."

With all the increase in wealth you would expect.

"Some of the names of these dynasties are better known than others, like Rothschild and Rockefeller, while others are better known within their own countries or barely known at all, like Agnelli (in Italy), Wallenberg (in Sweden) and Desmarais (in Canada). Each family dynasty has their own unique history, with power concentrated in particular companies or family offices. Many, if not most, of these families also have significant connections with each other, acting as joint shareholders in various companies, sitting on the same boards and mingling in the same social circles. They cooperate and they compete with each other for influence in Globalization’s ‘Game of Thrones’."

I wonder who the others are.

Last week Obama was against election in Ukraine. This week he's for them.

There as many black racists as white. Bigot might be a better word.

The free market punishes discrimination, but it does not end it.

The most racially divisive first lady of the most racially divisive president with the most racially divisive Attorney General who were married by the most racially divisive preacher I've ever heard of complains about growing racial division. I wonder what might have caused it.

War

Yemen is the model for the new normal wars in Africa, and that's the reason Obama and his minions suddenly care about kidnapped school girls.

210 killed, 120 wounded in Iraq.

Police State

Article explains the word games NSA uses to lie about spying on Americans.

"It's what Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper meant when he lied to Congress. When asked, "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" he replied, "No sir, not wittingly." To him, the definition of "collect" requires that a human look at it. So when the NSA collects—using the dictionary definition of the word—data on hundreds of millions of Americans, it’s not really collecting it, because only computers process it."

Like that matters, and like moving the data from an NSA computer to a telecom company computer in a phony reform matters.

Spying is meant to crust dissent, and it's very effective, at least overtly.

The FBI always justifies killing people.

"Last summer, after the in-FBI-custody shooting of Ibragim Todashev, a friend of the elder Boston bomber, the Bureau told the same story they have been telling since 1993 – this was justified. Furthermore, documents acquired by The New York Times last June showed that there were more than 150 FBI shootings by agents in the last 20 years – almost half fatal – and every single one was ruled justified after internal investigations. "

Imagine that, when the same organization investigating the shooting, perform the shooting.

"This week the Boston Globe finally revealed the identity of the FBI agent who shot Todashev as Aaron McFarlane, 41. McFarlane, turns out is a former Oakland, California police officer who had a concerning and controversial career at that concerning and controversial police department. Shooting Todashev after he reportedly flipped a table and attacked agents with a metal broom handle could have been justified in the moment. But it’s a hell of a lot harder to feel sure about that after months of lying and evasion by the FBI about the case, as well as their continued refusal to release unredacted documents or Agent McFarlane’s name."

I'm skeptical too.

About the FBI shooter.

"Now, in an excellent piece of investigative journalism, the Boston Globe has uncovered the identity of the agent, 41-year-old Aaron McFarlane, who joined the Bureau in 2008 after retiring on a $52,000 lifetime annual disability pension from a short stint as an officer in the Oakland Police Department."

He was also a defendant in corruption and brutality trials. The corruption runs deep and wide.

"McFarlane’s record of apparent brutal behavior as a cop in Oakland is relevant to the Todashev case because it could explain why Todashev, who had agreed to talk with McFarlane in Todashev’s apartment, but later, according to Agent McFarlane, jumped up, ran to the front of the apartment, and then allegedly returned from the foyer brandishing a broomstick. Unmentioned in the FBI’s story line of what happened, which was accepted at face value in the investigation conducted by the Orlando Florida State’s Attorney Jeffrey Ashton, was a bruise and a bloody contusion noted by the Orlando coroner on Todashev’s left cheek, right on the outside of the eye socket. The coroner said that injury was evidence of a “hard blow” to the head." 

Apparently the coroner wasn't in on the corruption.

"As I wrote earlier, the pattern of bullets that McFarlane fired at Todashev — three to the upper middle of his back, one to the chest, two to the upper left arm and one into the top of the head, slightly to the rear of the crown, suggest not that he was shot in defense while charging at McFarlane and a Boston State Trooper also in the room, but that he was shot in the back multiple times while in the foyer attempting to flee the apartment — perhaps from a brutal beating."

So the rest of the shots came after he was down?

"As a police detective I showed the coroner’s report to pointed out, the bullets to the raised arm suggest that Todashev, hit three times in the back, may have realized he could not escape, and that he had turned, raising his left arm either defensively (he was a skilled martial arts expert and was right-handed), or along with his other arm in a sign of surrender. The last two shots had to have been the one to the chest, which blew out his aorta and would have been instantly fatal, and the shot to the head, which went straight through the center of the brain lodging in the cerebellum area — also a shot that would have been instantly fatal."

Too much speculation for me.

"Neither Ashton nor the FBI are commenting on the Globe’s article. Ashton never did actually interview McFarlane or the other FBI agent who, inexplicably and in violation of FBI procedure, was not even in the apartment, but was outside during the entire interrogation, keeping a friend of Todashev’s from witnessing anything that was going on with his friend. Ashton instead had to rely on written answers about what happened provided by the FBI from the two men."

That doesn't sound suspicious.

Jury finds former Georgia football coach not guilty on 41 counts related to investment fraud. Where will this guy go to get is reputation back?

You are significantly more likely to be killed by a cop than a terrorist.

Media

Review of Greenwald's new book on Snowden and NSA.

Federal Reserve

Meat prices spike.

War

People seem shocked that US VA socialized medicine has the same problems as socialized medicine everywhere else. The problem is socialism, not the people in charge.

Tax and Spend

The World Bank not only wastes taxpayer money, it harms the countries it claims to help.

Politics

The state is a warlord.

Bill says it took Hillary six months to recover from head injury.

Biden campaign ad illegally launched on government website.

Protest planned for Washington, D.C.

"He also said that more than 1 million militia members have already mobilized for the event — and that projections of 10 million to attend aren’t pie in the sky."

I'll believe it when I see it. I notice the article doesn't give a date, just Friday. The organization site says it starts Friday, May 16, which is now today.

Global Warming and Energy

University invokes copyright to silence critics of pseudo-scientific paper.

Establishment scientists discover link between solar plasma and lightning strikes, proving another claim by electric universe theorists.

"University of Reading researchers found a link between increased thunderstorm activity on Earth and streams of high-energy particles accelerated by the solar wind, offering compelling evidence that particles from space help trigger lightning bolts."

This is awesome.

War on Drugs

Drug legalization puts cartels out of business, but government keeps them in business by attacking other drug markets.

Regulation

Google swamped by takedown requests after ridiculous "right to be forgotten" EU ruling. Maybe people will demand Google remove their homes from street view.

Health Care

Obamacare participants upset over losing doctors.

USDA orders machine guns with thirty round magazines.

"Dept. of Agriculture wants the guns to have an "ambidextrous safety, semiautomatic or 2 round [bursts] trigger group, Tritium night sights front and rear, rails for attachment of flashlight (front under fore group) and scope (top rear), stock collapsible or folding," and a "30 rd. capacity" magazine."

No raw milk for you.

Socialism

GM recalls another 2.7 million cars. What a disaster.

Local

Fuyao deal to purchase part of old, Moraine GM plant finalized.

Regulation

Hours after EU court creates phony "right to be forgotten", Google receives requests. I hope Google fights. Google should refuse these requests and force the EU to block it. Europeans would go nuts and overrule this baloney.

Education

Ten books for a classical education.

Socialism

I have searched numerous article about the San Diego wildfire, and none mention the federal government, BLM or the USFS, but I guarantee these fires are a product of mismanagement by socialism of land owned by the federal government.

I believe I wrote an essay titled government is the enemy of prosperity.

Misc

George R. R. Martin is smart enough to hate modern computers for his work, while using them for things they're good at.

Spurious correlations. Too funny.

Apparently the author of 72 ideas that will simplify your life doesn't understand irony.

It has never made sense to me that our atmosphere has layers and that air masses move without merging into other air masses. Both seem to violate the ideal gas law and the laws of thermodynamics. But since I learned about the electric universe, I see double layers everywhere.

Global Warming and Energy

I'm skeptical of the claim people make mountains grow.

Police State

One hundred SWAT raids take place in the US daily.

Blackphone is in great demand, as I predicted, but where is Silent Circle's secure email?

Spy cars give me the heebie jeebies too.

Tax and Spend

Pfizer and other corporations are moving out of the US to avoid the high US income tax.

"Britain’s corporate income tax is 20 percent, and Pfizer stands to save over $1 billion a year by moving there."

That seems like a no-brainer.

"The real question, however, is not why companies are fleeing the USA, but why our politicians continue to drive them out of the country."

That's a rhetorical question.

"Why not make the United States the largest enterprise zone on earth — by abolishing the corporate income tax?
If the corporate income tax were repealed, no U.S. company would think of moving abroad, and every transnational company would think about moving to the USA."

Pat Buchanan can't really be a babe in the woods. He's too funny. Progressives hate Americans. They hate our wealth.