Health Care

This anti-aging cream sounds like a scam to get people's DNA.

Federal Reserve

Swiss gold referendum overwhelmingly defeated.

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Russia allows citizens to carry arms for self-defense.

Politics

William F. Buckley was a CIA tool.

Immigration

Argentinians trying to escape their government to US with their money.

Police State

On the pattern of police shooting people carrying toys.

Education

For profit schools fight Obama's regulation attack.

War

Kurds claim ISIS launched an attack on them from Turkey.

"The Islamist militant group ISIS launched an attack Saturday on the Syrian border town of Kobani from Turkey, a Kurdish official and activists said, although Turkey denied that the fighters had used its territory for the raid."

This is a mess.

Despite training and equiping the Afghan army since 2001, they are ill equipped to fight the Taliban.

After the US overthrew the popular coup in Egypt, terrorist skyrocketed.

Economy

Sony's computers have been hijacked for five days.

"According to one insider who spoke to TheWrap: “Every PC in the company is useless and all of the content files have either been stolen or destroyed or locked away.”"

This is amazing. I hope corporations wake up and get serious about internet security.

Tax and Spend

Obama accelerated federal spending to make Q3 look better than it really was to boost Democrats in the election.

"“Real federal government consumption expenditures and gross investment increased 9.9 percent in the third quarter,” reports the Bureau of Economic Analysis, “in contrast to a decrease of 0.9 percent in the second. National defense increased 16.0 percent, compared with an increase of 0.9 percent. Nondefense increased 0.4 percent, in contrast to a decrease of 3.8 percent.”
The last time that national defense and federal spending accelerated this much in one quarter was back in the second quarter of 2009 according to an analysis by the BEA.
The last time that non-defense spending went up this amount was back in the third quarter of 2012.
You might remember it.
That was the time when none of the economists noticed that the administration, in a bid to hold on to the White House, accelerated federal spending in the quarter moving expenditure up from the 4^th quarter into the 3rd. How economists missed the fact that federal spending was moved up in 2012 is still a mystery to me, but it wasn’t until the 4^th quarter, after the election, that the results were apparent."

Every dime government spends is political.

Health Care

Obama's big business cronies threaten to withdraw support for Obamacare.

Obamacare has done so much damage to our health care system, a record number of Americans are foregoing care.

Federal Reserve

The Fed's zero interest rate policy has cost Americans trillions over the last few years.

Politics

Everybody in government is a Gruber.

Global Warming and Energy

Grubers control climate policy too.

War

US flies 85 percent of air strikes in new Iraq-Syria war.

Russia and the currency war.

Eduction

For 35 years I've argued the Department of Education is the most evil and destruction organization in America, so I'm sympathetic to this future fiction story about a family sparking a rebellion over government schools.

Foreign Policy

This is a great way of expressing foreign policy from the other perspective: Will Iran commit Hari Kari? Iran's rulers don't look at it this way, but that's a failure to grasp reality. If they don't make a deal, US rulers will kill them along with many of their people. At some point, pride has to give to give way to survival. At least I hope. Might can never make right, but being right and dead is useless.

Local

There's no such thing as free shuttles.

Politics

Israeli rulers want to pay Arabs to leave their apartheid state.

Tax and Spend

Treasury issues $1 trillion in new debt in eight weeks to roll over old debt.

War

US escalating genocide in Eastern Ukraine.

Taliban steps up attacks.

Obama to demand psych evaluations of Syrian terrorists. You can't make this stuff up.

Global Warming and Energy

France plans to tax diesel fuel out of existence.

Australian Prime Minister increasingly heroic on climate change.

Economy

I remember when $80 oil was a high end price. Now nobody can afford it.

Keynesians rule in Japan. The people are losing badly.

Ameica has no greater economic mobility than Medieval England. I believe this is true. I believe Hans-Hermann Hoppe told us this. And it wasn't always this way.

Police State

Police stop people from cleaning up after the riots in Ferguson. Why are those idiots, oppressed by socialists, attacking businesses?

Foolish Ferguson protesters chant they pay the oppressors, as if they were the ones in power.

Blue privilege is real.

"“Any time I’m involved in an officer-involved shooting, be it a fatal one or non-fatal, it is always during my initial investigation listed as an assault on law enforcement,” explained the St. Louis County Police Detective who inaugurated the investigation of the Michael Brown shooting. “Officer Wilson … was the victim of the assault we were investigating.”
Once it had been established that the living, armed individual was the “victim” and the dead, bullet-ridden body had belonged to the “assailant,” continued the detective in his September 3 grand jury testimony, “One of the sergeants with Ferguson [gave] me a brief walk-through to start my investigation so I [could] have a logical starting point from where I would start my video, photographs, and looking for evidence.”
That unnamed sergeant, most likely, was the supervisor who had told Darren Wilson to leave the scene after the shooter told him that Brown had tried to take his gun."

This shows the corruption starts from the first moment of the shooting, and there's no such thing as an independent investigation.

"From its inception, the shooting of Michael Brown was not investigated as a potential criminal homicide, and the inquiry was an exercise in validating the killer’s story, rather than testing it against the available evidence. "

This is how they all work.

Here's another symptom of the police state.

"FBI data released over the past month reveals that so-called “justifiable homicides” reached a record high last year, while the number of officers killed in the line of duty fell to its lowest level in decades.
According to the data, which appeared in a Monday article on theWashington Post web site, 461 American civilians were killed by on-the-job police officers in 2013, while 27 police officers were killed by civilians."

Predators and prey.

"The article notes the correlation between the record killings and the militarization of American police over the same period, “fueled by a glut of surplus military equipment heading home from Iraq and Afghanistan.” The FBI’s “justifiable homicide” figures increase steadily around 1998, the year after the start of the US Government’s Defense Logistics Agency’s 1033 program, which parcels out surplus military equipment to state and local police."

That's not surprising.

"The FBI figures for “justifiable homicide,” defined by the agency as “the killing of a felon by a law enforcement officer in the line of duty,” is widely acknowledged to be an undercount, according to thePost, because the methodology is not uniform from state to state. There are no comprehensive nationwide statistics on police brutality, despite the government being required to do so by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act passed in 1994. However, a Facebook page titled “Killed by Police,” which posts links to news stories on police killings, has counted more than 1,450 killings by police officers since its launch on May 1, 2013."

That figures too.

"Sheriff’s deputies in Los Angeles gunned down Eduardo Bermundez, 26, and Ricardo Avelar-Lara, 57, early in the morning of Sunday, November 16, after Bermundez was alleged to have threatened someone with a handgun that later turned out to be a replica.
This was at least the fourth police murder this year involving a person holding a toy or replica weapon. It follows the deaths of John Crawford III for carrying a pellet gun and Darrien Hunt for carrying a replica samurai sword. Only a week ago, police killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice on a Cleveland playground for carrying a toy pistol."

This is a pattern. I wonder if they're purposely killing people with toys to implement gun control. I bet their training teaches them not to bother differentiating.

Do police recruit psychopaths or do they create them or both?

We're supposed to be happy that panel appointed by rulers is nearing a decision on the chocking death of a poor man in New York City. This should be a jury, not a panel.

Misc

Comet 67P lander Philae might have bumped into something on its first bounce.

Intergalactic lightning from a supposed black hole appears to break the speed of light.

"Measurements of this gamma ray 'lightning' showed it was travelling across the event horizon - the boundary where nothing can escape the intense gravity of the black hole - at rates that appeared to be faster than the speed of light."

So many errors. So much hubris.

Research suggests Antikythera Mechanism much older than Archimedes and Greeks, possibly Sumerian. More.

Great prepper gift guide.

Sports

I don't doubt the NFL is calling more penalties on Seattle to try and derail them. They're in a small market.

Ray Rice wins his appeal.

""In this arbitration, the NFL argues that Commissioner Goodell was misled when he disciplined Rice the first time. Because, after careful consideration of all of the evidence, I am not persuaded that Rice lied to, or misled, the NFL at his June interview, I find that the indefinite suspension was an abuse of discretion and must be vacated," Jones' decision stated.
"I find that the NFLPA carried its burden of showing that Rice did not mislead the Commissioner at the June 16th meeting, and therefore, that the imposition of a second suspension based on the same incident and the same known facts about the incident, was arbitrary," Jones also wrote.
"The Commissioner needed to be fair and consistent in his imposition of discipline."

It's good to see somebody slap Napoleon Goodell down.

I'm skeptical about this story of the missing Ohio State football player. He texted is mom about concussions. His phone was tracked. This is a stunt. It may turn out bad, and I hope it doesn't, but it's still a stunt.

Socialism

Large water main break shuts all lanes on PCH in Malibu. I bet those rich people are unhappy.

Economy

The foolish internet of things will be used to kill somebody.

Immigration

Obama says only native Americans can be angry about illegal immigration. Everybody born here is a native American, but he doesn't care.

Politics

How the Bilderberg organization works.

Obama unleashed. I wrote about that.

Police State

Grand juries are intentionally corrupt.

"The government only needs to present whatever evidence they want. There is no obligation to present all the evidence because the Supreme Court has ruled that the Grand Jury is NOT entitled to all the evidence, since the trial jury will correct any deficiencies. The problem – indictments are not rendered against government people and handed out like candy for their enemies."

Exactly.

"The argument for such secrecy was unanimously upheld by the Supreme Court in Douglas Oil Co. of Cal. v. Petrol Stops Northwest, 441 US 211 (1979). The dissenting opinion was joined by Justices Burger and Stewart still concurred with the Court’s opinion as to the importance and rationale of grand jury secrecy. The gist of that secrecy was people would be afraid to appear and rat out others the government wanted to indict if they were not protected. That was the same reasoning behind the Venetian Mouth of Truth and the other side is that fake evidence enters because there is no check and balance against witnesses who can then say anything to sway the Grand Jury to whatever direction the government desires. Very, very bad decision. There is no accountability whatsoever."

That's exactly what the government wants.

Government failure in Ferguson proves government can't protect people.

"The looters and rioters in Ferguson have sent a message: the state is impotent when it comes to protecting life and property. Yet these two protections are basic to the theoretical justification for the state’s possession of a lawful monopoly of violence. The state of Missouri visibly shares this with looters. “Sorry; there is nothing much we can do.” The looters knew this, and they acted accordingly."

Yet people still support the state.

Police immediately corrupted the Ferguson crime scene.

Mexican president wants to disband corrupt local police forces. That's all of them.

Police arrest man for pointing a banana at them.

Global Warming and Energy

Reflective paint could cool urban heat islands.

Coldest Thanksgiving since 1930.

War

US special forces raid al Qaeda residence in Yemen.

US troops calling air strikes in Iraq. I call that combat, not advising, not training. They lied.

More on Obama's expansion of the war in Afghanistan.

26 things our rulers don't want us to know prove war against ISIS is a fraud.

"9.There are Western Special Forces and Western intelligence operatives within the ranks of the ISIL. British Special Forces and MI6 have been involved in training jihadist rebels in Syria.
10. Western military specialists on contract to the Pentagon have trained the terrorists in the use of chemical weapons.

“The United States and some European allies are using defense contractors to train Syrian rebels on how to secure chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria, a senior U.S. official and several senior diplomats told CNN Sunday. ( CNN Report, December 9, 2012)

11. The ISIL’s practice of beheadings is part of the US sponsored terrorist training programs implemented in Saudi Arabia and Qatar."

None of that surprises me.

"17. US and allied bombings are not targeting the ISIL, they are bombing the economic infrastructure of Iraq and Syria including factories and oil refineries."

I've pointed that out many times.

Regulation

Google's competitors lobby to break up the company. Symbolic vote.

EU pressures Google to remove option for uncensored search.

Tax and Spend

UK grants Scotland the power to tax. This is not a good thing.

Socialism

Storm knocks out power to 428,000 people.

Economy

$35,000 Thanksgiving dinner. I wonder if it comes with bubbles.

Local

Bike trail to be built in southern Montgomery County despite will of people.

"The connector would tie the 2.5-mile Medlar Trail – which ends at the Great Miami River Trail - with a path ending at Byers Road. The trail stopping at Byers Road runs north and south, linking to a series of routes, including one traveling across Interstate 75 past Austin Landing in Miami Twp. and into Washington Twp."

This is a scam.

Federal Reserve

Contrary to claims, Bitcoin is not anonymous.

Regulation

Like I pointed out before, the government demands cars supply deadly airbags.

War

What do we have to show for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?

"In both countries, that power quickly succeeded in its stated objective of “regime change,” only to find itself mired in deadly conflicts with modestly armed minority insurgencies that it simply couldn’t win. In each country, to the tune of billions and billions of dollars, it built up a humongous army and allied “security” forces, poured money into “reconstruction” projects (most of which proved disasters of corruption and incompetence), and spent trillions of dollars of national treasure.
Having imagined that, ask yourself: How well did all of that turn out for this other power? In Afghanistan, a recent news story highlights something of what was accomplished. Though that country took slot 175 out of 177 on Transparency International’s 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index, though its security forces continue to suffer grievous casualties, and though parts of the country are falling to a strengthening Taliban insurgency, it has for some years proudly held a firm grip on one record: Afghanistan is the leading narco-state on planet Earth.
In 2013, it upped its opium poppy cultivation by 36%, its opium production by almost 50%, and drug profits soared. Preliminary figures for this year, recently released by the U.N., indicate that opium cultivation has risen by another 7% and opium production by 17%, both to historic highs, as Afghanistan itself has become “one of the world’s most addicted societies.”"

And now the US is back at war in Iraq.

"In other words, after 13 years of doing its damnedest, on one side of the Greater Middle East this power has somehow overseen the rise of the dominant narco-state on the planet with monopoly control over 80%-90% of the global opium supply and 75% of the heroin. On the other side of the region, it’s been complicit in the creation of the first terrorist mini-oil state in history, a post-al-Qaeda triumph of extreme jihadism."

This is what passes for success in Washington.

Global Warming and Energy

WaveNET modular, floating ocean wave energy generation system looks interesting. This is the most interesting renewable energy idea I've ever seen.

Media

The press wants to talk about 2016 so they don't have to talk about the Democrats' overwhelming defeat.

Police State

This Hong Kong headline reports something you'll never read about US cops: seven Hong Kong cops arrested for beating protester.

Criticism of Ferguson police and security plan.

"Law enforcement officials had more than three months from the August shooting death of Michael Brown to Monday's reveal of the grand jury decision to prepare for protests.
Yet many of the tactics used by Missouri prosecutors and police — from scheduling the announcement at night to not deploying National Guard troops — puzzled experts and are being questioned by residents in the wake of destructive protests in Ferguson that appeared to spiral out of control.
"They said they had a plan. They said they were going to protect our businesses and community," said Rob White, pastor of Peace of Mind Church and a protest organizer. "That plan failed miserably.""

Like somebody else said, they let them destroy stuff to show what happens if they aren't aggressive. This is another grand government failure, and it was intentional. What it shows is socialist police cannot be trusted. They should abolished so people can hire much more effective private security at a much lower price.

National Guard troops deployed on the second night reduced violence.

On the corrupt grand jury process:

"New York state Judge Sol Wachtler once famously remarked it's so easy to get a grand jury to indict, they'd indict a ham sandwich if that's what the prosecutor wanted.
Except when it comes to police officers."

That's because prosecutors manipulate grand juries so they don't indict police officers.

Foreign Policy

Britain's GCHQ paid telecom companies to tap lines. I'm sure NSA did the same.

Health Care

How does a tiny US firm get the rights to an Ebola vaccine developed by the Canadian government through Merck?

Local

New technology makes it more efficient for police to write tickets. Wonderful.

Instead of studying science, technology, engineering or math, STEM students are writing laws. This illustrates what this STEM scam is really all about indoctrinating children deeper into government's pocket.

Dozens protest outside Beavercreek police department.

Miami County engineer predicts 70 percent of salt.

The DDN promotes logistics, the new talking point of government.

Politics

Race relations were better before Obama, and he does manipulate minority communities along with the rest of his constituents.

The Pope finally criticizes government.

"Europe’s era of philosophy and “great ideas” has been replaced by the "bureaucratic technicalities” of European Union institutions, Pope Francis has warned. "

About time.

Regulation

Germany to force 30 percent quota for women on company boards.

Immigration

Obama admits he changed immigration law, but he doesn't admit that's illegal, though he used to.

62 percent of voters oppose Obama's illegal action.

"Just 26 per cent are in favor of Obama's plan."

He doesn't care.

Obamacare grants incentive to hire illegal immigrants.

"President Obama’s temporary amnesty, which lasts three years, declares up to 5 million illegal immigrants to be lawfully in the country and eligible for work permits, but it still deems them ineligible for public benefits such as buying insurance on Obamacare’s health exchanges.
Under the Affordable Care Act, that means businesses who hire them won’t have to pay a penalty for not providing them health coverage — making them $3,000 more attractive than a similar native-born worker, whom the business by law would have to cover."

Nice.

Federal Reserve

Deutsch Bank says helicopter money and debt cancellation is coming.

Bankers talking about having central banks buy gold from individuals. This would be the step before confiscating it.

Education

Student debt by major and state.

University considers ban on underage drinking as if they didn't realize it was already banned.

Health Care

FDA's calorie regulations include movie theaters.

Bubonic plague outbreak in Madagascar.

War

France withholds delivery of Navy vessel to Russia over Ukraine.

Putting US tanks in Eastern Europe is dangerous.

Economy

The supposed tech worker shortage doesn't really exist.

Sony Pictures hacked. Computers being held by ransomware. Security will finally get serious about ransomware now. Ransom goes into second day.

Budweiser retires Clydesdale ads, thinking they keep millennials from drinking their crappy beer. This is going to backfire.

Police State

Escalating the war on the internet, David Cameron accuses internet companies of harboring terrorists.

Cleveland police say the toy gun held by the 12 year old boy they killed was indistinguishable from a real one. This is immaterial. If he had been holding a real gun, they shouldn't have killed him. They should have disarmed him. By all accounts, the boy threatened nobody after police arrived.

Accused Boston Marathon bombers have been slimed and the jury pool tainted by claims the older brother killed somebody else, but the government won't allow the younger brother's lawyers access to information about that case.

FAA closes air space over Ferguson again to prevent news helicopters from reporting.

German government discovers a backdoor for NSA into Windows 8.

Private sector security has succeeded in Ferguson where government has failed.

Ferguson police allowed the rioters to burn private sector buildings while protecting government buildings.

On corrupt police practices in Ferguson and most likely everywhere else.

"The most important details in Darren Wilson’s grand jury testimony come on pages 77-78 of the transcript. Asked if he had filled out an incident report on the shooting, Wilson explained that the “protocol” in such cases is to “contact your FOP [Fraternal Order of Police] representative and he will advise you of what to do step by step.”
When asked if he had committed his recollections to paper in a diary or journal, Wilson replied: “My statement has been written for my attorney.”
“And that’s between you and your attorney, then?” asked the exceptionally helpful prosecutor, who received an affirmative reply.
“So no one has asked you to write out a statement?” the assistant DA persisted.
“No, they haven’t,” Wilson acknowledged.
Like anybody else suspected of a crime, Wilson was presumed innocent and could not be forced to incriminate himself. Unlike a Mundane suspected of homicide, however, Wilson was given the luxury of crafting his story to fit subsequent disclosures, in consultation with a police union attorney who added the necessary melodramatic flourishes."

It's good to be the king's guard.

Killer cop says the right thing.

"Wilson told ABC News that he did not execute Brown on August 9 but was in fear for his life and was just doing his job. "

Drudge says he said something else, but it isn't in the article.

"'Did what was trained to do'..."

That must have been edited out of the article because that makes him sound guilty.

"Wilson told ABC News that Brown reached into his car and grabbed his gun."

This part doesn't sound credible. Cops are trained in weapon retention, and the cop had the car as a barrier.

This rioting was planned.

It's ironic that most of the businesses destroyed in Ferguson were owned by minorities. I don't understand why rioters attack private business owners instead of the government they are protesting. Maybe they know the government will more likely kill them.

Tax and Spend

NASA plans to launch four spacecraft at once to study the phony theory of magnetic reconnection. Hopefully the spacecraft convince scientists electric currents create the magnetic fields they're so confused by.

Misc

Electric discharges on the sun cause lightning on Earth.

Asteroid from Mars believed to be only known conglomerate in high demand. It looks like it was fused and charred, probably in an electrical discharge.

Health Care

While Obama was lying about Obamacare cutting premiums, Gruber was warning him it would increase the cost of policies.

Bigtime new FDA regulations for restaurants. That ought to put a bunch of them out of business.

Economy

Cars easy to hack.

War

Regin Malware linked to NSA and Britain's GCHQ.

China develops world's first supersonic drone.

Immigration

Fewer highly productive foreigners coming to the US.

Obama's temporary amnesty to cost taxpayers $2 trillion over their lifetimes.

Tax and Spend

The IRS sends billions in tax refunds to prisoners who file fake returns.

Global Warming and Energy

Global warming frauds surprised Antarctic is much thicker than they expected.

After years of predicting too many hurricanes, NOAA finally copies Joe Bastardi's prediction for few hurricanes, then proclaims success.

Focusing on CO2 because that's where the money is creates bad forecasts and endangers lives.

Great Lakes has earliest ice cover in 40 years.

Nine years is the longest period without a major hurricane hitting US since Civil War.

Federal Reserve

Germans riot against ECB, but not because its stealing their money and giving it to the PIIGS. They rioted because of a new ECB building.

"Protesters had overcome the fences for the new ECB headquarters, but were pushed back by the police. The new building will cost taxpayers more than one billion euros and will be significantly more expensive than planned."

Just print the money.

Foreign Policy

In a good reminder that the two parties work together to steal our money, oppress and kill us, House Republicans whitewash investigation of Benghazi to cover up for Obama and his CIA weapons-smuggling program. Boehner and Obama are like brothers from other mothers.

Israel continues to undermine negotiations over Iran's nuclear program.

Police State

Anonymous takes down Cleveland's website because cop shot dead boy with toy gun. That'll teach cops not to kill unarmed children.

Cleveland police say the kid's toy was an air gun indistinguishable from a real gun. Sounds familiar. It worked here, so they're copying that line. What a terrible justification.

DHS to destroy Einstein surveillance data which can only mean their trying to cover something up.

Regulation

FAA's drone rules - laws unconstitutionally written by the executive branch - create colossal mess.

Obama quietly prepares to unleash 3,415 new regulations.

"While Americans are focused on what delicious foods they’re going to eat for Thanksgiving, the White House is focused on releasing its massive regulatory agenda — marking the fifth time the Obama administration has released its regulatory road map on the eve of a major holiday."

Sneaky.

Tax and Spend

NASA spending other people's money trying to get companies to mine asteroids. Investors can risk their own money doing that.

Politics

Obama forces Chuck Hagel to resign as Secretary of Defense. It sounds like he was just a pawn to make it appear Obama was trying to be bipartisan.

Apparently Hagel wasn't enough of a warmonger for Obama.

"The officials characterized the decision as a recognition that the threat from the militant group Islamic State will require different skills from those that Mr. Hagel, who often struggled to articulate a clear viewpoint and was widely viewed as a passive defense secretary, was brought in to employ."

Those sneaky Democrats aren't peaceful at all. This means more war.

Misc

Rational observation about the so-called singularity: don't worry. Researchers can't even copy an amoeba.

Scientists discover that galaxies and supposed black holes align with each other along the filaments that connect them. That's because the filaments are the electric currents that create and power them.

Education

New York high school teaches students how to survive a stop-and-frisk encounter with police. Finally, something useful is being taught in government schools.

Local

Wind, not fragile power lines, blamed for power outages today.

Sinclair makes national news for indoor drone facility.

FAA OKs drone flying out of Springfield over Ohio State farmland.

Four local Friendly's shut down.

Politics

Obama says he's been very restrained. I guess we should bow down and thank him, but he's telling the truth. Political reality kept him from doing more damage than he wanted to so far.

Health Care

Canada legalizes medical heroin.

War

How many times have western rulers claimed Russia invaded Ukraine only to have it not be true?

"“Russia reinforced what Western and Ukrainian officials described as a stealth invasion on Wednesday [August 27], sending armored troops across the border as it expanded the conflict to a new section of Ukrainian territory. The latest incursion, which Ukraine’s military said included five armored personnel carriers, was at least the third movement of troops and weapons from Russia across the southeast part of the border this week.”
None of the photos accompanying this New York Times story online showed any of these Russian troops or armored vehicles."

Stealth invasion must mean it's invisible to all the US spy technology.

Most advanced spyware launched against Russia and Saudi Arabia.

"A cyber snooping operation reminiscent of the Stuxnet worm and billed as the world’s most sophisticated computer malware is targeting Russian and Saudi Arabian telecoms companies.
Cyber security company Symantec said the malware, called “Regin”, is probably run by a western intelligence agency and in some respects is more advanced in engineering terms than Stuxnet, which was developed by US and Israel government hackers in 2010 to target the Iranian nuclear programme."

It's odd that those two countries were targeted. The only thing they have in common is both produce a lot of oil, but that can be said for more countries.

Immigration

Obama has made all law-abiding Americans look like fools.

"The political, psychological and moral effects of Obama’s action will be dramatic. Sheriffs, border patrol, and immigration authorities, who have put their lives on the line to secure our broken borders, have been made to look like fools. Resentment and cynicism over Obama’s action will be deeply corrosive to all law enforcement.
Businessmen who obeyed the law and refused to hire illegals, hiring Americans and legal immigrants instead, and following U.S. and state law on taxes, wages and withholding, also look like fools today.
Obama’s action makes winners of the scofflaws and hustlers.
Bosses who hired illegals off the books will also receive de facto amnesty. La Raza is celebrating. But, make no mistake, a corrupt corporate crowd is also publicly relieved and privately elated.
Immigrants who waited in line for years to come to America, and those waiting still, have egg on their faces. Why, they are saying to themselves, were we so stupid as to obey U.S. laws, when it is the border-jumpers who are now on the way to residency and citizenship?"

Anybody who supports this coercive system is a fool.

Foreigners love Great Pharaoh's plan. Maybe he forgot he's president of the US, not Latin America.

Global Warming and Energy

Obama publicly attacks Australian PM over global warming against the advise of the US ambassador.

"The US embassy, under the leadership of ambassador John Berry, advised the President, through his senior staff, not to couch his climate change comments in a way that would be seen as disobliging to the Abbott government, sources have revealed. Historians of the US-Australia relationship are unable to nominate a case of a visiting president making such a hostile speech for the host government. — Greg Sheridan, The Australian, 23 November 2014"

No surprise there.

Police State

Judge unseals records on 529 secret uses of Stingray cell phone tracking.

"According to the Charlotte Observer, the records seem to suggest that judges likely did not fully understand what they were authorizing. Law enforcement agencies nationwide have taken extraordinary steps to preserve stingray secrecy. As recently as this week, prosecutors in a Baltimore robbery case dropped key evidence that stemmed from stingray use rather than fully disclose how the device was used."

This judge just blew the lid off their secrecy.

"The newspaper also reported on Friday that the Mecklenburg County District Attorney’s office, which astonishingly had also never previously seen the applications filed by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD), will now review them and determine which records also need to be shared with defense attorneys. Criminals could potentially file new claims challenging their convictions on the grounds that not all evidence was disclosed to them at the time."

All used in cases prosecuted should be shared with defense attorneys, but I doubt the prosecutor will see it that way. Defense attorneys should be checking these records themselves instead of waiting on the prosecutor.

"Worse still, local cops have lied to courts (at the direction of the United States Marshals Service) about the use of such technology. Not only can stingrays be used to determine a phone’s location, but they can also intercept calls and text messages. While they do target specific phones, they also sweep up cell data of innocents nearby who have no idea that such data collection is taking place."

Apparently they don't want to mention the FBI.

""As soon as the DA’s Office has a list of cases associated with the orders, the office will review those cases individually to determine whether the information was shared with defendants," the statement read. "If prosecutors find that the information was not shared, the office will then work to determine whether the information should have been included in the discovery process. The DA’s Office continues to stand by its law enforcement partners as we all work to protect the rights of individuals while also keeping our community as safe as possible.”"

I like how they say "should have". It all has to be shared.

Cleveland cop shot 12 year old boy carrying toy gun. More info.

"Police officers in Cleveland fatally shot a 12-year-old boy wielding what turned out to be a replica gun after receiving a 911 call saying a "juvenile" was scaring people with a gun that probably was fake."

I wonder what part of probably fake he didn't understand. Apparently the kid didn't threaten anybody.

Ron Paul explains it was good the fraudulent USA Freedom Act was defeated.

Federal Reserve

The Netherlands repatriates 122 tons of gold from the New York Fed, exposing the lie about the Fed's refusal to ship Germany's gold back to Germany.

Immigration

Black activists condemn Obama's temporary amnesty.

Now that Obama made his big splash and he's fundraising off of it, lawyers are trying to downplay the numbers.

"U.S. President Barack Obama's executive action easing the threat of deportation for 4.7 million undocumented immigrants is unlikely to cover many of those eligible because of practical hurdles, immigration lawyers said.
High application costs, extensive documentation requirements and lengthy waiting periods for approval sharply reduced participation in a 2012 executive action aimed at undocumented immigrants brought to the United States by their parents as children, and the process is expected to be even more arduous this time around, the lawyers said."

Let's hope few take advantage.

Obama's announcement expected to encourage 100,000 new illegal immigrants to flood US.

Health Care

Doubling saturated fat intake doesn't increase fat in blood, but increasing carbs increases fatty acid associated with heart disease in blood. Hello, paleo.

Supreme Court to hear case about Obamacare subsidies.

Global Warming and Energy

China's updated energy plan doesn't cut fossil fuels showing that agreement with Obama was a farce.

Google true believer green engineers conclude renewable energy won't work.

"The key problem appears to be that the cost of manufacturing the components of the renewable power facilities is far too close to the total recoverable energy – the facilities never, or just barely, produce enough energy to balance the budget of what was consumed in their construction. This leads to a runaway cycle of constructing more and more renewable plants simply to produce the energy required to manufacture and maintain renewable energy plants – an obvious practical absurdity."

At least it should be obvious.

Multi-year drought was worse in California around the 1920s.

War

Israel's punitive destruction of homes of Palestinians considered a war crime. This seems to be designed to force Palestinians out of Israel.

Obama releasing last terrorists out of Guantanamo so he can close it.

The Turks consider some Kurd fighter to be terrorists, but they're training Kurd fighters. This is going to backfire on them.

Economy

Why is Google using limited helium resources for its Project Loon internet balloons instead of plentiful hydrogen?

Local

This is the time of year cops prey on people who have exercised their natural right to drink.

Health Care

The US sends 4,000 troops to combat Ebola in Africa, but meanwhile bandits steal infected blood samples.

Tax and Spend

30,000 Lois Lerner emails recovered from backups, just like anybody with any brains knew would happen. She's going to pay. Somebody in the IRS decided they weren't going to fall on their sword, they were going to make her pay.

Here's what our taxes are paying for, regardless of party.

"Controversy is surrounding a sex education conference in Oregon as the event has hosted students as young as 11 years old. The conference gives tips on masturbation, using internet porn and quirky alternatives to sex.
Lesson plans taught at the Oregon Adolescent Sexuality Conference include tutorials on porn websites, pamphlets on sexting and information about “teledildonics,” or the remote use of sex toys over the Internet, KOIN-TV reports.
The pamphlets handed out at the conference suggest other ways students can engage in intimate activities without having intercourse, including bathing together, shaving each other, wearing each other’s underwear, role playing, buying an extra-large pair of pajama bottoms to sleep in together, lap dances and strip teases.
“Eat pop rocks while making out, look at porn or stars, chocolate, role-playing as a nurse, school girl, cops & robbers,” were some of the other alternative activities.
“Teledildonics basically refers to the control of sex toys over the Internet; the remote use of sex toys,” said keynote speaker Cory Silverberg in an audiotape obtained by KOIN 6 News after the conference from an attendee."

This is government in a nutshell.

Immigration

Once again the greatness of the American people is illustrated by their peaceful reaction to Obama's criminal announcement of temporary amnesty to illegal aliens. This restraint and focus on production is what made America the greatest country the world has ever known. On the other hand, Obama has spent six years attacking Americans, especially blacks, and blacks have had enough and are finally angry.

DHS obeys Obama's lawless order instead of the constitutional law, declaring...

"illegal immigrants will be given work permits, Social Security numbers and protection from deportation, the DHS guidelines are instructions for the nation's immigration and border security officers as they administer the president's directive.
The new priorities are striking. On the tough side, the president wants U.S. immigration authorities to go after terrorists, felons, and new illegal border crossers. On the not-so-tough side, the administration views convicted drunk drivers, sex abusers, drug dealers, and gun offenders as second-level enforcement priorities. An illegal immigrant could spend up to a year in prison for a violent crime and still not be a top removal priority for the Obama administration."

There is no tough side. All of them took an oath to defend the constitution, so they should all be fired.

Boehner, McConnell and the rest of the Republican leaders happily take vacation since Obama did what they wanted.  Obama mocks them. He blasts Boehner. He's an idiot. He got what he wanted. Boehner and McConnell got what they wanted. Obama shouldn't have attacked them, but he did, and they will respond.

Obama announces his own lawlessness with egoist bragging.

"Kinda hard to find words other than “tyrant” and “dictator” for a politician who announces as Obummer did, “…to those Members of Congress who question my authority to make our immigration system work better, or question the wisdom of me acting where Congress has failed, I have one answer: Pass a bill.” In other words, “Do as I decree, Congresscriminals, or I’ll usurp your legislative role.”"

I have plenty of words to describe Obama, but none of them are bad enough.

Foreign Policy

The empire's client states-competitors want to neuter the empire's agents. In this case, the EU wants to break up Google.

US warns Americans to avoid Acapulco, the most iconic vacation spot in Mexico.

In some sort of bizarre propaganda presentation, the CIA supposedly admitted it knew something about weapons transfers from Libya to Syria that precipitated the Benghazi attack. Hello. The CIA was running guns. It didn't know about it. It was doing it. That's why the attacks happened.

Boehner and company whitewash Obama's gun-running from Libya to Syria that killed four Americans.

War

NSA now admits other countries besides China are able to cripple the US government's fragile power web. Since US hackers can do the same to foreigners, this is the mutually assured destruction. This is publicized as a tool to steal more of our money, but it should be understood as a failure of government which should be abolished.

For many years, propagandists told us the US wanted to end the war in Afghanistan at the end of 2014. President Obama managed to extend that war to 2016. Now Obama is secretly boosting combat troops.

US secretly waging war in Chad.

Economy

Hot air from governments sent stocks to record highs in the US and globally.

Police State

Ohio men freed for wrongful conviction after 39 years.

"The Ohio Innocence Project at the University of Cincinnati College of Law took Ricky's case several years ago, after the Cleveland Scene published an article calling into question the convictions. The big break came, however, when Ed Vernon, now in his 50s, was in the hospital and, when visited by his pastor, broke down and confessed that he had not seen anything. In fact, he had been on a school bus blocks away and had only heard the shots, but had made up the entire story under police pressure. He told his pastor that living with the lie had been a cloud over his life. His pastor then told him that he had to come forward and correct this injustice.
On Monday and Tuesday, in powerful courtroom testimony, Ed Vernon, choking back tears, explained that at first he believed, in his 12-year old mind, that he was "doing the right thing" by making up the story to help police solve the crime. But his mother knew he was lying, and told him that when the police called him downtown to identify the suspects in a line-up, he should refuse to identify them, and "that would be the end of it." He did as his mother told him, but the detectives would not accept his recantation. Detectives took him into a room and screamed at him, threw objects around the room, and told the crying 12-year old that his parents would be sent to prison for perjury if he didn't change his story. They got him to sign a statement implicating the suspects with details about the murder that they fed to him, and had him claim in the statement that he didn't identify the suspects in the line-up because he too scared."

This is the norm in the US. The officers who pressured him into lying will never be punished. Naturally prosecutors fought this act of justice.

"Jackson, who steadfastly refused to entertain a deal on Monday at the start of the hearing to admit guilt in exchange for being released from his life sentence immediately, walked free this morning with all charges dropped and his name cleared once and for all."

That shows how evil prosecutors are. They offer deals the devil would envy.

More about NSA's supposed internal debates about spying on everybody every minute of every day.  Even if this is true, it's propaganda. It doesn't matter.

Sharyl Attkisson's book, from a former CBS top correspondent targeted by Obama, describes how the real police state operates in practice, not just theory.

Global Warming and Energy

Entrepreneurs switch coal plants to burning natural gas.

Harvard Law students file suit to force Harvard to divest fossil fuel stocks. I hope the court tosses this.

Michigan breaks century-old snow record.

Local

Water main break in Washington Twp.

Misc

Scientists surprised by comets and asteroids.

Computers are making people dumb.

Praise for Hoppe's new book that turns conventional wisdom about government upside-down.

Scientists surprised that Antarctic mountains appear so youthful.

"Though the Gamburtsevs are contemporaries of the largely worn-down Appalachians, they looked more like the Rockies, which are nearly 200 million years younger.
More surprising still, the scientists discovered a vast network of lakes and rivers at the mountains’ base. Though water usually speeds erosion, here it seems to have kept erosion at bay. The reason, researchers now say, has to do with the thick ice that has entombed the Gamburtsevs since Antarctica went into a deep freeze 35 million years ago."

Or a lot more recently.

Politics

20,000 libertarians supposedly moving to New Hampshire.

Immigration

Obama lawlessly grants temporary amnesty to more illegal alien workers than jobs have been created since he was inaugurated.

Obama is more of a rogue president than the establishment has yet to admit.

Geraldo Rivera cheers and blames the tea party.

Boehner and McConnell, since they've been pushing for amnesty for years too, are worried about rank and file Republicans, not Obama's amnesty.

Immigrants from Ebola countries can stay too.

Mexico to charge fee to Americans to enter.

Economy

US most charitable country.

War

NSA says China can shut down US power grid. That's what we get for allowing government to control it.

Under its last lawful president, the Ukraine government had been increasing its gold reserves. As soon as the US coup happened, the coupmeisters sent that gold to the US.

"Needless to say there was no official confirmation of any of this taking place, and in fact our report, in which we mused if the “price of Ukraine’s liberation” was the handover of its gold to the Fed at a time when Germany was actively seeking to repatriate its own physical gold located at the bedrock of the NY Fed, led to the usual mainstream media mockery.
Until now.
In an interview on Ukraine TV, none other than the head of the Ukraine Central Bank made the stunning admission that “in the vaults of the central bank there is almost no gold left. There is a small amount of gold bullion left, but it’s just 1% of reserves.” "

Sounds like confirmation to me.

List of Muslim countries US has bombed or occupied since 1980. And Americans fall for the claim they hate us for our freedom.

Pentagon secretly paid ransom to free Bergdahl.

Health Care

Fraud in Obamacare enrollment numbers.

"Here’s another bit of news for the “news” networks to black out, while they’re busy keeping the Gruber Revelations away from their viewers: a ridiculous scam was used to inflate the ObamaCare enrollment numbers by nearly half a million people.  First we lost a million “enrollees” who were never actually legitimate applicants, and now we lose another 400,000 who only signed up for dental plans, not health insurance."

SOP.

Establishment farmers poison their wheat before harvesting.

"Standard wheat harvest protocol in the United States is to drench the wheat fields with Roundup several days before the combine harvesters work through the fields as withered, dead wheat plants are less taxing on the farm equipment and allows for an earlier, easier and bigger harvest"

Thanks, government.

"According to the US Department of Agriculture, as of 2012, 99% of durum wheat, 97% of spring wheat, and 61% of winter wheat has been doused with Roundup as part of the harvesting process. This is an increase from 88% for durum wheat, 91% for spring wheat and 47% for winter wheat since 1998."

Who needs paleo to stop eating wheat?

Global Warming and Energy

Australian Foreign Minister slams Obama for lying about the Great Barrier Reef. Nice.

Worst snow in western New York in memory.

Three more feet of snow forecast for Buffalo.

Jacksonville breaks 141 year old low temperature record.

Federal Reserve

Cronyism discovered between New York Fed and Goldman Sachs.

"From his desk in Lower Manhattan, a banker at Goldman Sachs thumbed through confidential documents — courtesy of a source inside the United States government.

The banker came to Goldman through the so-called revolving door, the symbolic portal that connects financial regulators to Wall Street. He joined in July after spending seven years as a regulator at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the government’s front line in overseeing the financial industry. He received the confidential information, lawyers briefed on the matter suspect, from a former colleague who was still working at the New York Fed."

What a surprise. This is how all of government works.

"William C. Dudley, president of the New York Fed, says, “I don’t think anyone should question our motives.”"

That sounds like a veiled threat.

Police State

Ferguson police covering up deleted emails requested by media.

Amnesty International releases tool to hunt down government spyware.

Misc

Scientists surprised by gamma ray burst.

US one of the least happy countries.

Economy

Super-rich hoard cash, eschewing bonds. This is probably because the Fed stopped buying them through QE.

Freedom of Speech

China to limit free speech on the internet to maintain stability. I think they mean maintain power. They could embrace freedom instead, but that'll never happen.

Police State

If I'm supposed to be comforted by the claim that a few NSA insiders complained the NSA was overstepping its authority, I'm not.

"Years before Edward Snowden sparked a public outcry with the disclosure that the National Security Agency had been secretly collecting American telephone records, some NSA executives voiced strong objections to the program, current and former intelligence officials say. The program exceeded the agency's mandate to focus on foreign spying and would do little to stop terror plots, the executives argued.

The 2009 dissent, led by a senior NSA official and embraced by others at the agency, prompted the Obama administration to consider, but ultimately abandon, a plan to stop gathering the records."

This story is suspiciously released the day after the Senate refused to make token changes to NSA, so I'm skeptical of its veracity.

Federal Reserve

Diplomacy ended German's quest to repatriate its gold stored in the New York Fed, and this may have consequences for the Swiss.

"Now the question is, just how will the US pressure the Swiss “diplomatically” to make sure its own gold repatriation referendum does not succeed. Because if Germany failed miserably to obtain 674 tons of gold in 2013, it is assured that Switzerland will find absolutely nothing in its quest to obtain more than double, or 1,500 tons, of gold as a successful November 30 referendum outcome would require.
Then again, considering it was Obama’s action that destroyed the Swiss banking sector after the US crushed the centuries-long tradition of “Swiss banking anonymity”, this could be just the right action with which “neutral” Switzerland could finally take its revenge on the regime that cost it what was for centuries the primary source of capital inflow into the small and so very prosperous (until then) central-European nation."

I hope the Swiss referendum passes.

Media

Nielson will track Netflix and Amazon video.

Billboard will count streaming. These services are evolving to stay relevant.

Global Warming and Energy

Seven die from snowstorm.

Buffalo buried in snow.

"Even for Buffalo, a place that typically shrugs at snow, this was an epic snowfall, the kind of onslaught folks will be telling their grandchildren about.

The Buffalo area found itself buried under as much as 5½ feet of snow Wednesday, with another lake-effect storm expected to bring 2 to 3 more feet by late Thursday."

Watch out for global warming.

One-fifth of Ohio's corn crop got buried in snow. This is a good reminder that global cooling shortens the growing season and reduces the food supply.

"“The farmer is at the whim of mother nature and, with the spring we had and then with the fall being wet, the farmers just could not get into the fields to get what they needed to get done,” said Mandy Havener, organization director for the Miami County Farm Bureau."

The season was shortened in spring and fall. Eight feet in three days.

Power grid sets new record.

El Nino may be coming back.

The US spends over $8.8 billion annually directly in taxes promoting the global warming fraud, but the media wants to focus on one PR firm that uses a fraction of the resources to combat the fraud. This article is seriously biased. Converting average citizens from the fraud is a good thing, and it's not astroturfing.

The total cost of the global warming fraud is significantly higher than $8.8 billion annually.

Immigration

After pretty much gutting border security, we're supposed to be happy and believe that Obama plans to increase border security with his delaying of deportations. I like the term temporary amnesty.

Obama lies about flip-flopping on executive power over illegal immigrants.

Obama plans a prime time announcement on forced integration tomorrow. Announces announcement on Facebook.

Networks decline to show Obama speech.

"“In 2006, Bush gave a 17 minute speech that was televised by all three networks that was about deploying 6000 national guard troops to the border. Obama is making a 10 minute speech that will have a vastly greater impact on the issue. And none of the networks are doing it. We can’t believe they were aggrieved that we announced this on Facebook,” a senior administration official told POLITICO."

That's another lie. The networks declined before Obama announced the announcement on Facebook.

"But on Wednesday morning, with plans underway for a Thursday night address on Obama’s plans to issue executive actions on some of the most sweeping immigration reform in decades, those feelers came back with a negative report. None of the major networks wanted to take time away from their primetime programming for Obama’s 8p.m. speech. So the administration did not send out a formal request to the networks and took to Facebook to publicize the speech with a special video message from Obama along with a link to the livestream."

Obama's henchmen like like he does.

DHS warns Obama's action will bring a new surge of illegal immigrants. That's what Obama wants.

It is a slap in the face to the American people and the Constitution, but Obama hates both. Republicans can't do anything about it even if they wanted to. I bet they secretly want Obama to do this so later they can claim they have to accept the status quo. Like Obamacare, Republicans will probably accept it as a fait accompli.

Obama wants to throw the nation into crisis.

This could be a modern day Fort Sumpter. Obama said he wanted a presidency like Lincoln's. It was obvious to me that meant he wanted a civil war. He was coy about this stuff, but he didn't lie.

Obama wants violence. These people keep talking as they think he doesnt' know what he's doing, but he does. He's doing it on purpose. I wonder if he timed this announcement to coincide with the Ferguson grand jury announcement, expected Friday, to maximize rioting and violence.

Regulation

I'm shocked that government-mandated airbags injure and kill people, so the government wants them recalled.

FTC uses absurd economic argument to block merger.

War

A computing problem called the halting problem proves computers cannot correctly decide whether or not to kill a human. The Pentagon won't care.

Ukrainian president planning genocide in eastern Ukraine.

""Their children will hole up in basements!" screeched Ukrainian "President" Poroshenko, the oligarch and "Chocolate King." "This is how we will win this war!" He was talking about the children of the people of East Ukraine, whose cities are being bombed from the air by the US-supported Ukrainian military. Thousands have been killed, mostly civilians: Ukraine’s war on its own people has displaced nearly a million people. Many have fled to neighboring Russia, while a little under half a million are classified as internally displaced refugees. The Ukrainian military, which claims to be fighting "terrorists," is using cluster bombs – weapons that are banned in the civilized world, but freely used by Ukraine’s military, which includes the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion."

No wonder Putin is angry. On the other hand, this is what happens when you asymmetrically invade another country.

Fighter jets shot down MH17 over Ukraine.

US turning Russia into an enemy again.

Jesse Ventura has it right.

"Ventura did say, however, that he isn't anti-veteran. After all, he is one himself, having served in the U.S. Navy Underwater Demolition Team member during the Vietnam War.

"You can hate the war and not hate the vet. The veteran is a pawn. They have to do it. They are not given a choice," he said. "Our vets are honorable people... I bear no grudge.""

I think most are honorable people  I don't agree with all the veteran hate at LewRockwell.com. I disagree with that, the knee-jerk support for open borders and the knee-jerk push for not voting.

"In particular, Ventura took issue with the large dollar amount pinned to foreign wars, arguing that "international corporations" are the ones who "truly run our country today."

"That's why wars are fought -- so the profiteers of war can make money," Ventura said, pointing to the large portion of the annual budget that goes toward national security and defense.

"If we weren't involved in these wars, we would have more freedom," he said."

Venture is right about that too.

Israeli drone pilot can live with killing civilians. The people he killed can't.