Federal Reserve

Just when the US ended QE, Japan's central bank announces a giant increase in QE, sending the stock markets to new highs. I'm sure the plutocrats made a bundle.

Regulation

French town bans clown costumes.

Police State

The only reason nobody talked about the security problems caused by the internet of things before devices were built is government, not consumers, is pushing it.

Judge explains why suddenly government is pushing for biometric security on devices, and it's not security.

"Circuit Court decision from Virginia where a judge has ruled that a criminal defendant cannot use Fifth Amendment protections to safeguard a phone that is locked using his or her fingerprint. According to Judge Steven C. Fucci, while a criminal defendant can't be compelled to hand over a passcode to police officers for the purpose of unlocking a cellular device, law enforcement officials can compel a defendant to give up a fingerprint. The Fifth Amendment states that "no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself," which protects memorized information like passwords and passcodes, but it does not extend to fingerprints in the eyes of the law, as speculated by Wired last year. Frucci said that "giving police a fingerprint is akin to providing a DNA or handwriting sample or an actual key, which the law permits. A passcode, though, requires the defendant to divulge knowledge, which the law protects against, according to Frucci's written opinion.""

Suddenly the push to replace passwords with biometrics becomes clear. I'll stick with my password.

Apple puts private user data into cloud for easier access by NSA without consent.

Misc

Unable to find evidence of dark matter, theorists come up with silly new theory.

"In fact, a particle with some properties opposite to those of physicists' current favorite dark matter candidate—the weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP—would do just as good a job at explaining the stuff, a quartet of theorists says. Hypothetical strongly interacting massive particles—or SIMPs—would also better account for some astrophysical observations, they argue."

Can't find WIMPs. Imagine SIMPs and call it science.

Education

Virginia school claims no duty to protect students.

Government continues to use student loans to wage war on private schools.

Health Care

Maine judge restricts Ebola nurse's movement, but rejects house arrest quarantine.

Obama to import more Ebola.

Canada suspends visas for Ebola countries.

CDC removes warning that Ebola can spread from coughs and sneezes from website.

Economy

We've been hearing for decades about robots were poised to take over our lives. Where are they? Where are the flying cars?

One hero killed, another injured in SpaceShip2 crash.

Starbucks to deliver coffee and food.

$500,000 a month apartment in NY sets record.

Smart phones will soon be able to partially detect lies. I wonder how much trouble the failures will cause.

Global Warming and Energy

Violent tornadoes are declining in America.

Making the case the el Nino is already occurring, but very weak.

Article claims gas prices should keep falling, but they're already rising locally.

Japan restarts nuclear plant within 40 miles of active volcano that just killed 57 people.

Record low temperatures again.

War

The war on terror has created more terrorists.

"Going back a decade or so to when Bush launched the war on terror, which I see as a consequence of or at least highly congruent with the Cheney-Powell-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz (CPRW) defense strategy, the terrorist numbers are also iffy. The Wikipedia article on al-Qaeda says that in 2002 there was a core membership of 170. But how many trained fighters were there in its camp?
In the mid-80s, there were “thousands” of mujahideen in Afghanistan who might be considered as possible terrorist members when that war wound down. One source says tens of thousands. In Iraq, al-Zarqari’s contingent was estimated at 1,000-3,000 fighters."

But now...

"The CIA says that ISIS has 20,000-31,500 fighters. Iraqi sources say 100,000. Other estimates are 20,000-50,000."

That's a lot more, and it doesn't include al Qaeda affiliates.

15,000 foreign fighters join the terrorists in Syria and Iraq. Great strategy. Fighters are from 80 countries. The war on terror might be the greatest disaster in US history.

1,000 foreign fighters head to Syria each month to join ISIS, undeterred by air strikes.

Troops to be banned from paying for sex in South Korea? This is doomed to fail.

More US troops committed suicide than were killed in war in 2012 and 2013.

Pentagon tries to quash Foxnews interview with SEAL who supposedly killed bin Laden.

Politics

More race-baiting by Democrats.

The Constitution can't protect anybody. It's provides false hope.

Politicians are monitoring whether or not you vote.

Tax and Spend

Hungary halts plans for internet tax after protests.

Since the Fed ended its bond-buying program, investors can expect negative return on their bonds. Again I say it will be interesting to see how this affects the bond market.

Government employees made $20 billion in secret purchases in recent months.

"The purchases, known among federal employees as “micropurchases,” are made by some of the thousands of agency employees who are issued taxpayer-funded purchase cards. The purchases, in most cases, remain confidential and are not publicly disclosed by the agencies. A sampling of those purchases, obtained by the I-Team via the Freedom of Information Act, reveals at least one agency used those cards to buy $30,000 in Starbucks Coffee drinks and products in one year without having to disclose or detail the purchases to the public.

A series of other recent purchases, reviewed by internal government auditors, include wasteful and inappropriate purchases by government employees -- including a gym membership and JC Penney clothing -- that were not detected or stopped until after the purchase was completed."

Ridiculous.

Local

Bomb threat at Miami.

Snow possible overnight.

City crony to demolish eyesore walkway above Ludlow. Socialism allows people to steal money to build eyesores, then steal more money to tear them down.

Another wreck. Another power outage. Pole on fire knocks out power.

Thanks to all the spending Huber Heights is doing, rulers want voters to approve three levies. I hope they all fail.

War on Drugs

Three American siblings found dead near Matamoros.

Education

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War

Sec. of Defense Hagel blames global warming for perpetual war.

Budget cuts blamed for B1 bomber friendly fire deaths in Afghanistan.

Faustian choice Obama created in Syria and Iraq.

Global Warming and Energy

Paper relates warming since 1950 to ENSO and cloud cover.

The Weather Channel contradicts founder's dismissal of global warming fraud.

Federal Reserve

Here's how the Fed's money-printing spree worked out for you.

"The Federal Reserve has finally ended its quantitative easing programs. Since the financial crisis of 2008, the Fed has pursued what seemed like an endless policy of asset purchases. As recently as September 2008 the monetary base in the US was just a hair over $800 bn. Today this figure is just shy of $4.2 trillion, for a total increase of 425%."

Guess what that means for your dollars.

"For its part Janet Yellen and her gang of Fed economists are probably pretty pleased with themselves. Unemployment is down, headline inflation remains muted, and the word on Wall Street is that a worse crisis has been averted. The stock market is at record highs, and banks (and bankers) are back to their pre-crisis eminence."

In other words, the fat cats are rolling the Fed's newly printed dough.

"One of the true marks of a great economist is an ability to see past the obvious outcomes and into the veiled results of policies. Friedrich Bastiat’s great essay on “that which is seen, and that which is not seen” provides a cautionary parable that disastrous analyses result when people don’t bother looking further than the immediate results of an action.
Nowhere is this lesson more instructive than with the Fed’s QE policies of the past 6 years."

Prepare for a proportional bust.

Police State

Autopsy performed by family of victim in Ferguson shooting contradicts leaked autopsy from government.

Facebook data mining for political sentiment for the CIA.

Politics

Video from Illinois shows voting machine changing vote for Republican to a Democrat. The fraud is exposed.

Democrats resort to race-baiting to draw out black vote. What's new?

I had no idea who Tim Cook was until he made Apple the gay company.

"When Apple chief executive Tim Cook said Thursday that he is “proud to be gay,” he did not only become the first openly gay leader of a major U.S. company. He also swept his obsessively private company into the forefront of one of America’s most public movements, cementing its place in the debate over equality in the workplace and beyond."

I guess if you can't beat them with innovation, you try politics. This is a sure sign Apple is in decline. Buy low; sell high.

More evidence voter fraud, especially by non-citizens, is swinging close elections to Democrats. More. Voter fraud is everywhere, and it has been for a 100 years.

Hillary rally leaves seats empty. I'm not sure this means anything.

Foreign Policy

Sweden recognizes Palestine as a country.

Economy

Government claims economy grew at 3.5 percent clip in Q3. What a crock. Analysis.

"Gross Domestic Product has been reported to be an unexpectedly high 3.5% in the third quarter (on an annual basis). However the growth was led by a “surprisingly” high increase in defense spending and a reduction in the trade deficit (which accounts for 2% of the 3.5%). The last time defense spending had a surprising increase was the third quarter of 2012 (also a quarter leading up to an election) there was a sharp fall off in defense spending the next quarter. The GDP deflator was 1.3% for the quarter on an annual basis."

Phony. Phony. The trade deficit reduction was probably weapons sales to the Saudis.

France, the fifth biggest economy in the world, joins the PIIGS in debt crisis. We need a new acronym.

Local

Downtown gas leak forces evacuation of two blocks.

Metroparks stormtroopers electrocute man for running for no reason, and they say this is justified.

Dayton's rulers are looking to paint the floodwall already covered in graffiti. Guess what's going to happen after all the taxpayer money is spent.

Maybe the P&G distribution center is behind the recently reported logistics central planning.

Tax and Spend

No evidence for the three proposed types of dark matter, but lots of money spent.

IRS increasing abuse of structuring.

Spain passes "Google" tax.

"Spain's parliament has approved new intellectual property laws that allow news publishers to charge aggregators each time they display news content in search results."

They didn't think this through. In order to avoid the tax, Google and other aggregators won't list mainstream sources, so they'll become less relevant and die sooner.

Health Care

All it takes is better visa checks, not closed borders, to keep Ebola out of the US. But Obama doesn't want to keep Ebola out of the US.

Maine nurse defies quarantine to go for a bike ride.

Obama elevates Ebola warriors in space suits to angel status. Everybody is wrong in this Ebola deal. The nurse who doesn't want to be quarantined is wrong. The people who want to quarantine her are wrong. The CDC is wrong. Obama is wrong. They're all wrong. All of these people are suffering from the pretense of knowledge.

CDC warns sneeze could spread Ebola, but they were forced to admit this a while ago.

Remember when Obamacare was about the supposed right to health care?

"Roy Cordato has written an insightful piece on Obamacare at the Carolina Journal, demonstrating that the “right” to health care granted by Obamacare is really a “legal obligation” to purchase health care insurance:"

Surprise!

Pentagon studies how to treat troops with Ebola because they're sending into an Ebola hotspot without hazmat suits. What could go wrong?

Thousands of troops in addition to what has been reported are being sent to Africa to get infected with Ebola.

"The federal government has announced that thousands of additional US soldiers are being sent to Liberia. General Gary Volesky said the troops would “stamp out” ebola.The official story is that combat troops are being sent to build treatment structures for those infected with ebola.
Why combat troops? Why not send a construction outfit such as an engineer battalion if it has to be military? Why not do what the government usually does and contract with a construction company to build the treatment units? “Additional thousands of troops” results in a very large inexperienced construction crew for 17 treatment units. It doesn’t make sense.
Stories that don’t make sense and that are not explained naturally arouse suspicions, such as: Are US soldiers being used to test ebola vaccines and cures, or more darkly are they being used to bring more ebola back to the US?"

Rhetorical questions all. These troops will survive because they'll well fed, then the government can use their blood to produce antibodies for others.

Education

More college students support killing newborn babies.

"“We encounter people who think it is morally acceptable to kill babies after birth on a regular basis at almost every campus we visit,” said Mark Harrington, director of Created Equal. “While this viewpoint is still seen as shocking by most people, it is becoming increasingly popular.”"

This is what government control of education produces. People without empathy or appreciation of life.

Economy

Microsoft security consortium cleans up malware from Chinese hackers.

World debt tops $100 trillion.

Politics

Since politics is conflict, the bigger government gets, the more conflict we have.

Alaskan Democrat won't say Obama's name.

MIsc

Scientists surprised to discover electrical activities on the sun.

Federal Reserve

Fed ends QE but keeps interest rates at zero, where it's been since 2008. That's insane. It'll be interesting to see what this does to markets in general and the bond market in particular.

Global Warming and Energy

EPA bans noble gas argon. This shows its real agenda is harming capitalism, not protecting the environment.

Tax and Spend

Hungary taxes internet bandwidth, enabling it to limiting alternative media.

100,000 Hungarians march against internet bandwidth tax. Now that's a protest.

Media

Carrying out its role as protector of the state, Time Magazine attacks Ron Paul.

Police State

More on police stealing naked pictures from phones and sharing them with peers.

The deep state.

"How do Wall Street, oil companies and the shadow government agencies like the CIA and NSA really shape the global political order?
That’s the question author Peter Dale Scott examines in his forthcoming book “The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil and the Attack on U.S. Democracy,” due out on Nov. 12. Scott, a professor emeritus of English at Berkeley and former Canadian diplomat, is considered the father of “deep politics”—the study of hidden permanent institutions and interests whose influence on the political realm transcends the elected."

Don't forget Google.

"But a much larger role for the private sector has come with the increased outsourcing of the government’s intelligence budget. Tim Shorrock revealed in 2007 that “about 70 percent of the estimated $60 billion the government spends every year on . . . intelligence” is now outsourced to private intelligence contractors like Booz, Allen & Hamilton (now Booz Allen Hamilton) and SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation). (4)"

That would be good news if it was true, but I don't believe it.

People trust NSA more than Google. Apparently they haven't figured out the two are basically the same organization.

The AP is unhappy the FBI put up a fake website using its name to catch a crook. Poor AP. They support government abuse of the rest of us, but whine it happens to them.

FBI posed as hotel repairmen and entered rooms without warrants. The AP would be all for that because they don't own a hotel.

War

In 1993, Dick Cheney used the war on drugs as an excuse for the US to intervene militarily everywhere in the world. Now it's the war on terror. Of course, as soon as the war on terror started, they named drug dealers as terrorists. The two have always been the same.

Health Care

In a good reminder that government is always aggression and threats of violence backed by violence, and that police exist to protect the government, not the people, Maine sends state troopers to forcibly keep nurse in a quarantine she entered voluntarily.

Maine nurse slams politicians.

I'm not the only one who realized the CDC mantra regarding the spread of Ebola was more dogma than science.

"“There’s some imperative to prevent panic among the public,” says Dr. Beutner, “But to be honest, people have not examined that with transmissibility in mind. I don’t completely trust people who’d say that as dogma.”"

Neither do I.

The chaotic procedures used in the Dallas hospital where the first African Ebola patient died.

Since Ebola kills like scurvy, vitamin C may be key to surviving it.

More evidence the Ebola outbreak was a US bioweapons accident.

With foreign aid to Liberia reduced, fewer Ebola cases are popping up.

Australia shuts borders against Ebola.

Italians angry US troops quarantined there instead of US.

Government's war on raw milk.

Doctors reject Obamacare exchanges.

"Over 214,000 doctors won't participate in the new plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA,) analysis of a new survey by Medical Group Management Association shows. That number of 214,524, estimated by American Action Forum, is through May 2014, but appears to be growing due to plans that force doctors to take on burdensome costs. It's also about a quarter of the total number of 893,851 active professional physicians reported by the Kaiser Family Foundation."

What a disaster.

Socialism

DHS investigator of Secret Service prostitution scandal resigns over hiring prostitute.

Immigration

Tech companies treat immigrant workers as indentured servants. This is why they want so many more of them. The US, which wants to collect all the information on you and I, plans to destroy H1B records.

The Washington Post and La Raza tell illegal immigrants where they can fraudulently vote.

Local

Wright State Research Institute flies first drone.

Another wreck. Another power outage.

Politics

Wisconsin crowd exits while Obama speaks.

Maryland voting machines change Republican votes to Democrat votes.

"“We’ve heard from scores of citizens in our district and around the state who have had this problem where they hit one button to vote for one person, and when they go to the summary they see that the other person was checked,” said Del Nik Kipke, (R) Anne Arundel County."

At least they have a check.

Democrats are running from Harry Reid as well as Obama.

Police State

The government is spying on your snail mail too.

"“It appears that there has been widespread disregard of the few protections that were supposed to be in place,” Mr. Simon said."

What a surprise.

Education

US ranks 27 out of 34 in math.

Global Warming and Energy

Winter came a month early.

Climate change is not our fault.

Study claims to have found oil from Deepwater Horizon oil spill on sea floor.

Socialism

Britain expects blackouts this winter because the government doesn't produce enough power.

"The capacity crunch has been predicted for about seven years. Everyone seems to have seen this coming – except the people in charge.
–Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 10 June 2014"

Socialism in action.

Foreign Policy

Google teams with White House and State Department to dominate foreign policy.

British spies can access bulk collection data on Americans and others without a warrant. I imagine the Big Five countries can all do this.

War

Israeli soldiers have a suicide problem too.

"In the weeks after Israel and Hamas agreed to an open-ended ceasefire, three Israeli soldiers decided to end their lives with their own weapons. And what was especially striking about their suicides was that all served in the same unit, the Givati Brigade, which had a reputation for its ruthless ferocity, considerable bravery, and the use of Old Testament religiosity to justify the merciless operations of its commander, Colonel Ofer Winter."

Ferocity.

Canada's aggression made it a target for terrorists.

Pentagon admits airstrikes have not stalled ISIS gains.

War on Drugs

The search for missing students in Mexico has led to the discovery of many mass graves all thanks to US prohibitionists.

Media

Former CBS reporter who quit because CBS killed stories critical of Obama claims government hacked her computer.

"A former CBS News reporter who quit the network over claims it kills stories that put President Obama in a bad light says she was spied on by a "government-related entity" that planted classified documents on her computer. In her new memoir, Sharyl Attkisson says a source who arranged to have her laptop checked for spyware in 2013 was "shocked" and "flabbergasted" at what the analysis revealed. "This is outrageous. Worse than anything Nixon ever did. I wouldn't have believed something like this could happen in the United States of America," Attkisson quotes the source saying."

Wake up, America.

Misc

Compendium of survival knowledge to jump start civilization.

Hopefully Rosetta's study of comet 67P will change comet science for the better. Latest information from Rosetta.

Rosetta mission predictions.

Establishment scientists are beginning to study electrical effects of solar plasma.

White House hacked.

Tax and Spend

Obama uses manufacturing as an excuse to steal over $550 billion from Americans and further depress our economy.

Local

Federal judge sides with plutocrat Premier Health. Of course it did. The merits of the case are immaterial.

Hooray for the Clark County Sheriff.

"Clark County’s sheriff said his department will not participate in another “no refusal” OVI checkpoint like the one held Friday because of the amount of negative feedback from the community.
“If this is not a positive event then we need to find another way to do our job and create an environment of public safety, and I’m intending to do that,” Clark County Sheriff Gene Kelly said."

A small victory for the people. Now if we could get them to stop doing everything else that isn't a positive for the people.

"Meanwhile, Clark County got a decrease in grant money from the federal government for its OVI checkpoints this coming year. It averaged about one a month last year, Biles said, and will only have five more until next October."

Another small victory.

Health Care

Next generation GM crops, even more toxic, hit the market.

USDA replaces whole milk in school lunches with chocolate skim milk.

Ohio doesn't adopt mandatory Ebola quarantine policy.

I thought the second Dallas nurse had been declared Ebola-free before.

Some people may not be receiving the best Ebola treatment available.

Obama plans to bring foreign medical personnel who contract Ebola to the US for treatment. He's a menace to all Americans.

Local

The Enterovirus-D68 virus hits locally.

"The Ohio Department of Health has received positive test results for eight cases of Enterovirus-D68 at Dayton Children’s Hospital, and 11 cases at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, confirming an outbreak of infections that had been suspected for at least two months."

Lovely.

Crash knocks out power in Huber Heights.

Beavercreek police chief to retire.

"Evers said his retirement plans are unrelated to the officer-involved shooting at Walmart and declined to make any further statements today."

He ought to resign over that shooting.

Economy

First commercial mission to the moon launched from China because the US is too socialist.

Tax and Spend

Steve Balmer to get $1 billion tax write-off for buying Clippers.

Health Care

More on forced quarantines.

New York and New Jersey tighten quarantine rules.

Army to quarantine soldiers returning from Ebola duty.

Global Warming and Energy

Joe Bastardi predicts El Nino will show up this year.

Fraud blames harsh European winters on melting sea ice.

Politics

Various competing interests take over different factions in the government. Government's powers are prizes for whoever controls them.

Rand Paul might be the only politician who doesn't support perpetual war.

War

716 killed in Iraq.

Blowback in Canada for war.

Education

Edward Snowden to speak to Harvard Law students. The establishment is collapsing.

Media

Jedi-ism has become a serious religion.

Tax and Spend

Unconstitutional law allows IRS to seize assets of people even if they've committed no crime, and needless to say, the IRS uses this law to oppress people who can't fight back.

"“I don’t think they’re really interested in anything,” Mr. Potashnik said of the prosecutors. “They just want the money.”"

Yep.

Misc

Chemicals in comet 67P.

"If you like the smell of rotten eggs, horse urine, formaldehyde, bitter almonds, alcohol, vinegar with a hint of sweet ether, you'd love the smell of a comet."

That's not what dirty snowball smell like around here. Somebody tell NASA to stop telling kids to eat it.

Astronomers surprised by pulsar they believe should not exist.

Federal Reserve

Banker suicides continue.

Media

Former CBS reporter writes how media protects Obama.

Local

Huber Heights's rulers estimate $250,000 profit from music center boondoggle in 2015. That would be just over 1 percent profit. If this is accurate, it's a terrible investment. But it's not accurate. It's an overestimate.

Montgomery County central planners want to make centrally plan us into a logistic hub.

"Montgomery County officials plan to retain existing logistics and distribution companies and aggressively court new ones through marketing, visiting with businesses, developing the local workforce and creating a new logistics training center."

What if people don't want to be in logistics? Too bad for them.

Global Warming and Energy

Walrus beach parties are nothing new and should be celebrated.

NPR cuts back global warming fraud coverage.

Quick reminder that 1934 is the hottest year on record.

We can't forget NOAA and NASA systematically manipulate temperature data to make global warming appear worse, and that's why 1934 isn't considered the hottest year on record.

Global boom in hydro-power means reduction in free-flowing rivers.

Coolest year on record so far in US.

War

US Marine killed in Baghdad from non-combat injury while 286 others were killed in fighting.

Iraqi forces retake town near Baghdad from ISIS.

Putin criticizes US for supporting terrorists.

Police State

California Highway Patrol cop caught stealing nude picture from victim's cell phone and passing it to peers admits this is a common game cops engage in.

"An East Bay California Highway Patrol officer accused of stealing nude photos of a DUI suspect is speaking out, claiming that officers have stolen images for years.
Officer Sean Harrington of Martinez reportedly confessed to stealing explicit photos from the suspect’s phone, and said he forwarded those images to at least two other CHP officers.
According to court documents obtained by the Contra Costa Times, Harrington told investigators this kind of image stealing has been going on for years in the state law enforcement agency, stretching all the way from Los Angeles to his own Dublin station."

He's in big trouble not for stealing the picture and passing it on, but for telling the truth.

Group claims reporters misquoted forensics expert to support exoneration of Ferguson cop who killed unarmed black man.

Health Care

Scientists engineer stem cells to kill cancer cells without harming healthy cells. If this works, it will be buried.

It's about time somebody considered the civil rights implications of forced quarantine.

"I am a nurse who has just returned to the U.S. after working with Doctors Without Borders in Sierra Leone - an Ebola-affected country. I have been quarantined in New Jersey. This is not a situation I would wish on anyone, and I am scared for those who will follow me."

This is another reason medical personnel call in sick instead of treating potential Ebola victims.

Misc

Scientists surprised that evolution happens rapidly when a species is under pressure.

Media

Mirror admits to hacking and wiretapping while Piers Morgan was editor.

Local

Feds steal money to pay for local trails.

Sports

At the request of the NFL, NCAA and other major sports leagues, a judge blocked sports gambling in New Jersey.

"After a week of rapid-fire legal filings, Judge Michael Shipp ruled the sports leagues would suffer irreparable harm if thoroughbred track Monmouth Park began accepting sports bets Sunday as planned."

How?

"Before it's over, the Department of Justice also could weigh in. For now, though, the NCAA, NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB have stopped bettors from legally wagering on their games in New Jersey."

Why? What do they gain? It seems to me, the more people who bet on sports, the better for the leagues.

"Monmouth Park has spent the last month and a half preparing to turn its sport bar and restaurant into a sportsbook. It has hired employees and formed an independent regulation committee, the Independent Sports Association.
The park was expecting thousands of bettors to attend Sunday."

The ruling unequivocally harmed those guys.

Federal Reserve

Asians recognize western central banks are manipulating the price of gold, keeping it artificially low, so people in India, China and Russia are buying it as fast as they can.

Despite all the trillions of dollars and euros printes since 2008, 25 European banks fail stress test.

Regulation

Government has killed the V8.

Democrats on FEC board want to create onerous new regulations on blogs and news sites like Drudge.

Misc

Good background on the misunderstanding of redshift.

Google exec breaks parachute record with jump from over 135,000'.

Introductory Austrian Business Cycle Theory resources.

I read stuff like this a lot.

"NOAA forecasters estimate an 85% chance of M-class flares and a 45% chance of X-flares on Oct. 24th. If an explosion does occur, it will be geoeffective because the sunspot is directly facing Earth."

But since CME's have angular momentum from the rotation of the sun, a CME from a sunspot directly facing Earth should angle past the Earth. That implies another force, like the electrical force, is overcoming that angular momentum.

Foreign Policy

Putin calls out US foreign policy of selfishness and domination.

Politics

Somebody smashed the Ten Commandments statue they didn't like at Oklahoma Capitol.

The first thing I noticed when I first moved south was that racial tensions were significantly reduced compared to the north, exactly opposite of what I'd been taught. When I came back north, I immediately noticed how much worse they were. Finally, here's an article noting that.

Hillary Clinton says businesses don't create jobs.

Even the Washington Post is forced to admit illegal voters swing elections. More.

Top Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett implicated in Fast and Furious cover-up.

Global Warming and Energy

The global warming frauds are the real climate deniers.

EU agrees to cut 40 percent CO2 emissions by 2030. This will never happen. Poland threatened to veto it, but I don't know how that works. This might break up the EU.

More on John Coleman's refutation of CAGW.

Of course ocean circulation impacts climate more than minor changes to the atmosphere.

It's been a record nine years since a hurricane last hit Florida.

Tax and Spend

Court acknowledges IRS targeted conservative group, but dismisses case anyway.

"As USA Today reports, U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton said that “the IRS has assured the public that they’re no longer screening applications for tax exemptions based on its political leanings” and ruled that “Unless an actual, ongoing controversy exists in this case, this court is without power to decide it.”"

This is ridiculous. First, why would you take the IRS's word for it? It lied about it for years. Second, for every wrong there is a remedy. Naturally the judge protected his fellow crooks. Analysis.

"Judge Reggie Walton of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia dismissed almost all counts brought against the tax-collecting agency in two cases, ruling that both were essentially moot now that the IRS granted the groups their tax-exempt status that had been held up for years.Walton, a President George W. Bush-appointee, also said individual IRS officials could not be fined in their individual capacity for allowing such treatment because it could hurt future tax enforcement."

That's how he gets paid.

Britain considers pulling out of EU over taxes.

War

Right after the Nigerian government made a deal with Boko Haram to recover the kidnapped school girls, Boko Haram kidnaps dozens more women and girls. That's why you don't negotiate with terrorists.

ISIS takes another Iraqi town and chlorine gas was used on Iraqi police. I wonder if this is true.

Canada is surprised that after killing other people for 13 years, somebody attacked them.

Israeli soldiers kill second Palestinian teen in West Bank in a week. This is why that war never ends.

Health Care

First Dallas nurse declared Ebola-free.

First case of Ebola in Mali.

Health care workers scared to travel to Africa. I don't blame them. I bet once the west quits "helping", Africans will beat this Ebola outbreak.

I bet this Liberian slum is more effective than western efforts in Africa.

Ten year old Canadian Ebola vaccine, previously buried, being rushed into human trials.

Concern current Ebola outbreak came from an accident at a US bioweapons lab in that part of Africa.

"Prompted by controversy over dangerous research and recent laboratory accidents, the White House announced Friday that it would temporarily halt all new funding for experiments that seek to study certain infectious agents by making them more dangerous."

Hooray for Obama, but why stop at new funding?

"Dr. Boyle wrote the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the American implementing legislation for the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.
Dr. Boyle served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International (1988-1992), and is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois, Champaign.
WASHINGTON’S BLOG: You said recently that laboratories in West Africa run by the Centers for Disease Control and Tulane University are doing bioweapons research.  What documentary evidence do you have of that?
You mentioned that a map produced by the CDC shows where the laboratories are located on the West Coast of Africa?
DR. FRANCIS BOYLE:  Yes. They’ve got one in Monrovia [the capital of Ebola-stricken Liberia] … one in Kenema, Sierra Leone [the third largest city in the Ebola-hotzone nation], which was shut down this summer because the government there believed that it was the Tulane vaccines which had set this whole thing off.
And then they have another one in Guinea, where the first case [of Ebola] was reported.
All of these are labs which do this offensive/defensive biowarfare work.
And Fort Detrick’s USAMRIID [the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases] has also been over there. So it’s clear what’s been going on there.
CDC has a long history of doing biowarfare work. I have them doing biowarfare work for the Pentagon in Sierra Leone as early 1988."

That's not documentation.

"WASHINGTON’S BLOG:   And how do you know that? Have you seen official documents?

DR. FRANCIS BOYLE:  An official government document: the Biological Defense Research Program, May 1988.  I analyzed it in my book, Biowarfare and Terrorism.
It’s clear that [the U.S. bioweapons researchers] were using Liberia to try to circumvent the Biological Weapons Convention.  And CDC – for years – has been up to its eyeballs in biowarfare work.
They always try to justify the development of offensive biological weapons by claiming it’s being done for “defensive” purposes.  That’s just a lie … and it’s always been a lie.
It’s been the case on Ebola and just about every other biowarfare agent you can think of."

That's why we hear about doctors making deadly diseases deadlier.

"WASHINGTON’S BLOG:  And Obama recently said – as quoted in the New York Times article – that he’s “curtailing” this type of defensive research, or putting it on hold.
Do you believe him?

DR. FRANCIS BOYLE:  That’s the smoking gun, right there. Read that article [the New York Times article quoted above, which notes "a sudden change of heart by the Obama administration" about labs creating ever-deadlier versions of germs which are already lethal]. 
The reason they’ve stopped it is to cover themselves, I think, because they know that this type of work was behind the outbreak of the [Ebola] pandemic in West Africa.
But that’s an admission right there, de facto."

Sounds like it.

"Dr. Boyle made it clear that he is not suggesting – as some others are – that Ebola was intentionally released into the African population. He says he has seen no evidence of intentional release.  He’s speaking about an accidental release of germs from a biowarfare research lab.
He’s convinced, in fact, that this Ebola epidemic in Africa started with the release from a U.S. bioweapons lab in West Africa.   One of the reasons for his conviction that the outbreak started with the release from a bioweapon lab is that this Ebola strain seems to be much worse than those previously seen in the wild."

Maybe someday we'll find out for sure.

US refused to promise it wouldn't weaponize Ebola.

"The United States has withheld assurances from Germany that the Ebola virus – among other related diseases – would not be weaponized in the event of Germany exporting it to the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases."

The evidence keeps piling up.

The Washington Post wants us to think the Russians are responsible. Any chance to demonize the Russians.

Police State

Police developing new chemical weapons. I guess tear gas wasn't good enough.

The overwhelming corruption of our misnamed justice system.

Canadian government uses shooting to become more tyrannical.

"As many comments predicted, the national government has seized this as an opportunity to roll out considerable new regressive legislation, including measures designed to* increase data access for domestic intelligence services, institute a new form of extra-judicial detention, and, perhaps most troubling, criminalize some forms of religious and political speech online."

Never let a crisis go to waste.

Economy

McDonald's to automate ordering to improve service, but you can't dismiss the increasing cost of labor in driving that decision.

Microsoft finally makes money on Surface.

French unemployment hits record high.

Education

NASA taught students comets were like ice cream.

Did companies just discover government schools punish critical thinking?

Homecoming prince shoots up school.

"A student recently crowned freshman class Homecoming prince walked into his Seattle-area high school cafeteria Friday and opened fire, killing one person and shooting four others - including two of his cousins - before turning the gun on himself, officials and witnesses said."

Too bad nobody had a gun to stop him sooner.

Socialism

California town residents have to drive to the fire station for water.

Economy

Car makers will have to recall 30 million cars for defective airbags.

Billionaires buying mega-ranches as well as luxury housing.

Immigration

This story explains why tech companies are pushing for more immigration and amnesty.

"An anonymous reader sends in news about a company that was fined for flying in "about eight employees" from India to work 120-hour weeks for $1.21 per hour. Electronics for Imaging paid several employees from India as little as $1.21 an hour to help install computer systems at the company's Fremont headquarters, federal labor officials said Wednesday."

Don't buy the hype about lack of STEM workers.

Local

Water Street developer purchases another building next to Fifth-Third Field for apartments, retail even though there's all kinds of vacant living and retail space downtown.

$10 million to improve an intersection.

Kroger to extend naming rights on Huber Heights's aquatic center.

Police State

The National Science Foundation will monitor social media to find out who is saying things it doesn't like. The NSA already does this.

Interpol to launch global facial recognition database.

Of course Facebook is a gift to intelligence agencies. That's why it was funded by the CIA.

Federal Reserve

If QE really comes to an end, stock market bears do need to watch out, but I'm not sure it will end.

"The Federal Reserve’s latest asset purchase program, QE3, is coming to an end. What was once an $85 billion a month program, one in which at its peak had been goosing the financial markets and economy at an annual rate of $1.0 trillion – and over its 27 month life will have pumped $1.7 trillion of money into the economy – is going to zero. Given the outsized impact QE has had on the growth of U.S. money supply and thus the U.S. economy, we say investors take note, especially those furthest out on the risk curve, because what was once your primary tailwind could soon become your greatest headwind, maybe even a gale force."

But is it really going to end?

"Now you know why we call this current monetary cycle the Bernanke Risk-On Boom – Bust-to-Be! Unlike in past monetary cycles where money was largely injected into the real economy via bank asset purchases and loans, this inflation cycle is all about huge swathes of money being injected directly into the financial markets via Federal Reserve’s QE asset purchase programs. The banking system, at least to this point, has had a minor role." 

But will Yellen really end it? So Greenspan created the boom then quit, leaving Bernanke to deal with the bust. The Bernanke ignited the next boom then quit, leaving Yellen to deal with the bust. Talk about passing the buck.

The Fed absolutely manipulates the stock market.

"“They are definitely in the market-manipulation business, and nothing has changed,” said James Bianco, president of Bianco Research LLC in Chicago and a longtime student, and critic, of the Fed.
Called the “Greenspan/Bernanke put,” the Fed’s willingness to jump in when stocks fall dates back a quarter-century.
“The put option is back. If the market sells off enough, they will give us QE4,” Bianco told me."

At some point, printing money won't work, but I Yellen will probably keep printing until that point is reached.

Global Warming and Energy

Global warming fraud shows not only his communist motives but his hatred of his fellow men too.

"McPherson has come up with a novel twist on this one. Even though humanity is totally doomed, that doesn’t mean we can now just drop the issue and get back to increasing our standards of living as fast as possible in our last remaining years. Nope, we apparently have a responsibility to destroy ourselves to that other animals can have the planet instead. The method of suicide? We must “terminate industrial civilization.”"

This is the ideological animating force behind the great global warming fraud. Of course the real power behind it comes from greed.

Award-winning graphic novel portrays environmentalist mall shooting terrorist as a hero.

The founder of the Weather Channel destroys CAGW theory.

"There is no significant man-made global warming at this time, there has been none in the past and there is no reason to fear any in the future. Efforts to prove the theory that carbon dioxide is a significant “greenhouse” gas and pollutant causing significant warming or weather effects have failed. There has been no warming over 18 years. William Happer, Ph.D., Princeton University, Richard Lindzen, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Willie Soon, Ph.D., Harvard Smithsonian Observatory, John Christy, Ph.D., University of Alabama and 9,000 other Ph.D. scientists all agree with my opening two sentences."

Poor grammar, but accurate.

El Nino less likely.

Britain to cut subsidies for solar plants to protect farmland.

World food production at record levels.

War on Drugs

The phony war on drugs doesn't work in Afghanistan either.

"This is the unimpeachable rule of the war on drugs: Money goes in, and somehow the worst people benefit, and the drug trade soldiers on and on."

That's for sure.

"According to Stars and Stripes, when U.S. and NATO troops exit the country in a few months, they will leave behind 500,000 acres of poppies. This is a 36 percent increase since 2013. The amount of poppies has in fact been increasing since the U.S. invasion 13 years ago this month."

That's by design. The US needs narco-dollars.

Politics

Because so much stolen money is at stake, nearly $4 billion is being spent on midterm elections. The only way to get the money out of politics is to take the money and power away from government.

Michelle Obama flubs second Dem's bio on campaign trail.

Bullying group slams Monica Lewinsky.

""I find it a bit insulting to the people who have been cyber bullied to have Monica Lewinsky step out and say she's the poster-child for cyber bullying," said Aftab, whose nonprofit is organized in 76 countries and began in 1995.
Aftab said that Lewinsky's baggage would take attention away from the main issue.
"Look at her interviews — it's all about Monica," Aftab said. "She's setting us back years. She doesn't know what she's talking about."
Aftab argued that Lewinsky wasn't cyber bullied after her affair with Clinton was exposed by the Drudge Report, a conservative website, because she became "a public figure and it was newsworthy.""

Sanity, but will it win out over greed?

Monica and Clintons want to rewrite history.

Obama asserts executive privilege over emails between Holder and his wife and mother in Fast and Furious investigation.

As I said, the Saudi were dumping oil to help Obama in the elections. With the election nearly here, they just cut production so prices will be rising soon.

Tax and Spend

Why is the USDA spending money stolen from taxpayers on indoor plumbing for an Alaskan, or any other, village?

The Pentagon is unauditable.

"Year after year, the nonpartisanGovernment Accountability Office (GAO) declares the Pentagon budget to be un-auditable. In 2013, for example, the GAO found that the Pentagon consistently fails to control its costs, measure its performance, or prevent and detect fraud, waste, and abuse."

Why not?

War

ISIS supposedly makes $1 million a month in black market oil sales. US threatens sanctions against buyers.

US building another base in Okinawa against the wishes of locals.

Norwegians developing robot missiles that autonomously identifies targets. I wonder if they codenamed it Skynet.

Misc

The pretense of knowledge in computing.

"Michael I. Jordan skewers a bunch of sacred cows, basically saying that: The overeager adoption of big data is likely to result in catastrophes of analysis comparable to a national epidemic of collapsing bridges. Hardware designers creating chips based on the human brain are engaged in a faith-based undertaking likely to prove a fool's errand; and despite recent claims to the contrary, we are no further along with computer vision than we were with physics when Isaac Newton sat under his apple tree."

I completely agree.

Police State

Proposed life sentence for hackers in UK.

Health Care

Opiods should be a last resort for pain, not the first.

Second Dallas nurse free of Ebola. Apparently the first is not.

Doctor in New York City who had been treating Ebola patients in Guinea tests positive for Ebola. He rode the subway right before test.

Hospitals consider refusing care for Ebola patients.

Hooray for Walmart for opening medical clinics.

In article about Walmart clinics, Ilana Mercer is too right.

"The marketplace brings plenty; the state does the opposite. Yet not a day goes by when consumers, ignorant of the forces that feed, clothe, cure, employ, entertain them and innovate for them, don’t demand that those who’ve done nothing of the kind – the McCains, Obamas, Bushes, Clintons, Keith Alexanders, Lois Lerners, Eric Holders of the world – proceed with force against those who do nothing but."

So true.

War

CFR pulls rug out from under Obama and declares US should ally with Syria and Iran to defeat ISIS. This is a holy crap moment. The Turks will go mad.

Economy

After the great surge yesterday, stocks fall today. The insiders are making billions off the middle class in this rigged game.

Regulation

Michigan bans Tesla direct sales.

Local

Dayton to spend $20,000 stolen from taxpayers on third street bridge. Did they do the same for Main Street or Dayton View?

Huber Heights aquatic center loses money for the second straight year.

Englewood police use elementary school for active shooter drill on a school day.

War on Drugs

US arrests supposed 23-year-old head of Mexican drug cartel in Texas border town. These people come and go from the US freely and climb to the top freely. Nothing changes.

Politics

Now we're supposed to believe Monica Lewinsky was a victim of bullying. The only people I remember bullying her were the Clinton people, not Drudge.

Health Care

Here comes the Ebola vaccine, from Johnson & Johnson in February, they're going to want to force on everybody.

Federal Reserve

The Fed is using low oil prices caused by increased supply as an excuse to keep rates low to fight imaginary deflation. Have you bought meat lately?

Socialism

In a good reminder that everybody acts in their personal interests and therefore can't be trusted with power, Secret Service pulled agents from White House duty to intervene in an agent's personal life.

Tax and Spend

Hungary implements internet bandwidth tax.

Senator Coburn's government waste report includes study on massaging rabbits. I appreciate this report and Coburn goal in compiling, but it's a failure. It changed nothing.

Misc

Solar lightning. It looks like a thunderstorm on Earth from space.

Scientists surprised by discovery of brightest pulsar. This article doesn't explain how they missed it before. It might be new. Great picture.

Genetic scientists believe they have determined the interbreeding period of modern humans and Neanderthals to 45 thousand years ago.

Global Warming and Energy

Claim that warming southern oceans are melting Antarctic ice proven wrong. That was pretty obvious since Antarctic ice overall continues to expand.

Claim that global warming acidifies the ocean proven wrong.

Federal Reserve

The Swiss may have a history of sound money, but their central bankers are printing up a storm like everybody else's.

Politics

Obama admits to leaving unpaid bills in Chicago after he was elected President. White House edits the transcript.

In new poll, 44 percent of women favor Republicans compared to 42 for Democrats. Obama has ruined that advantage for Democrats too.

The CIA tried to stop Panetta's memoir.

Foreign Policy

CEO of French oil company famous for not supporting trading oil in dollars died in air accident in Moscow. That's convenient.

More on Chinese man-in-the-middle attack on Apple users.

War

ISIS seizes weapons airdrop supposedly intended for Kurds.

Turkey's reluctance to help in the fight against ISIS should be a red flag for the mission and for NATO.

Claim that more Vietnam vets have committed suicide than were killed in the war.

Local

Woman arrested on felony charge of inducing panic for claiming she might have Ebola.

What's the problem with carrying knives around a school? If you live near a school in a bad neighborhood, you'd want to carry weapons to protect yourself.

Sinclair to convert fieldhouse into drone range.

Economy

McDonald's and Coke announce terrible earnings because middle class and poor people are getting poorer.

The stock market debacle continues as stocks rise again. These swings are signs of a battle between sanity and money printing.

The Fed's $200 billion of counterfeit money per month is what keeps the market afloat.