Regulation

Obama's so-called Transpacific trade deal is really about regulating the entire economy, not so much trade.

Media

Even though he's a disgraced serial liar, NBC doesn't want to fire Brian Williams.

War on Drugs

More than fighting the war on drugs, the DEA is a powerful US tool for empire.

Health Care

Scientist pushes fake story about the health benefits of chocolate to show the corruption in the scientific press.

Yay eggs and butter. Boo sugar.

Obamacare premiums to skyrocket.

"The cost of Obamacare could rise for millions of Americans next year, with one insurer proposing a 50 percent hike in premiums, fueling the controversy about just how “affordable” the Affordable Care Act really is."

Just like many of us said.

Environment

Despite the well-known problems, EPA pushes more biofuels.

Politics

NSA officials fearmonger because they fear losing their jobs.

Rand Paul pledges to end NSA spying tonight.

I don't believe for a minute NSA will stop listening.

More on Hastert's non-crimes.

"Now Hastert has been charged with two noncrimes: allegedly "structuring" over $1 million in cash withdrawals from several banks (i.e. taking out less than $10,000 repeatedly); and allegedly lying to FBI agents about what he had done with the money. "

Non-crimes for sure.

Tax and Spend

Somebody noticed Elon Musk soaked up tax dollars to become a billionaire. All billionaires got that rich because of government.

Still no deal and no consequences for Greece.

Export-Import bank is welfare for plutocrats.

Local

Storms knock out power as always.

Police State

Judge sentences Silk Road founder to life in prison.

Cops ticketing speeders make us less safe, not more safe.

"Merely by pointing out that if the object of the exercise actually was “our safety,” then such a thing as unmarked cop cars would not exist. The fact that they do exist proves that what they’re after is money above all else."

They don't want to slow people down. They want to make people pay them money.

Cops have already killed nearly 400 people this year, many more than FBI reports.

Foreign Policy

Just like exiled Iraqis lied about Saddam Hussein, exiled Iranians claim Iran is working with North Korea to develop a nuclear warhead.

Health Care

UN guidelines would harm health care for elderly. Ignore them.

Politics

Dennis Hastert accused of sexual misconduct. They all do that too.

Socialism

The head of Mexico State taxi group threatens to hunt down Uber drivers.

Economy

Google offers unlimited free storage for photos and videos.

Revised figures show the economy shrunk in Q1.

Police State

The timing of the FIFA arrests right before the organization's presidential election was obviously designed to oust long-time president as Putin says.

"He sees it as punishment for continuing to support Russia as host for the 2018 World Cup.
There have been increasing calls to strip Moscow of that privilege, in protest at military action in Ukraine.
"We know the pressure that was exerted on him [Blatter] with the aim of banning the 2018 World Cup in Russia," Mr Putin said on Thursday, offering Fifa's embattled leader his firm backing.
He then accused the United States of mounting a campaign to "persecute" Sepp Blatter for resisting."

I wouldn't doubt it. Blatter was re-elected anyway.

War

US to send troops to fight in Nigeria's civil war.

Ceasefire in Ukraine is failing.

The US, which has never held back an attack for fear of civilian casualties, claims it hasn't attacked ISIS's headquarters in Syria because it might kill civilians.

"U.S. intelligence analysts have identified seven buildings in downtown Raqqa in eastern Syria as the main headquarters of the Islamic State. But the buildings have gone untouched during the 10-month allied air campaign.

And just last week, convoys of heavily armed Islamic State fighters paraded triumphantly through the streets of the provincial capital Ramadi in western Iraq after forcing Iraqi troops to flee. They rolled on unscathed by coalition fighter-bombers.

U.S. and allied warplanes are equipped with the most precise aerial arsenal ever fielded. But U.S. officials say they are not striking significant - and obvious - Islamic State targets out of fear that the attacks will accidentally kill civilians."

Please. The US could have blown those ISIS trucks away without killing any civilians as they headed down the highway to Ramadi. The US doesn't want to stop ISIS because it created ISIS ans ISIS is doing what the US wants.

"According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group based in Britain that tracks the conflict through a network of contacts in Syria, more than 120 civilians have been killed by coalition strikes inside Syria.

By far the largest episode was in the remote northeastern village of Bir Mahli, where more than 60 people were reported killed this month in a series of strikes, including numerous women and children. Military officials acknowledged that the coalition had struck the village, but said those killed were Islamic State fighters."

So much for the claim the US cares about killing civilians.

Investigation uncovers hundreds of accidents at US bioweapons labs.

26 people now treated for live anthrax sent by US military labs.

Environment

Graph shows the impressive failure of climate models.

Very bad.

Government flood warnings went unheeded in Texas.

There's still snow in Boston. Ice ages start when all the snow doesn't melt in the summer.

US drought falls to lowest level since 2011.

Socialism

Desert lake in California drying up.

Economy

JP Morgan to cut 5,000 jobs. Too little, too late.

Misc

I was informed dinosaurs were warm-blooded when I was a kid. Now scientists pretend this is big news. What a joke.

War

Emails show then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wanted to arm Libyan jihadists to overthrow Qaddafi.

Here's a description of the impossible problem in Iraq.

"Baghdad has asked the Kurdish government to allow 20,000 refugees from Anbar province to relocate there because they will not be allowed into the capital. The fear is that terrorists will be hidden among the displaced."

This first paragraph of this article illustrates the impossible problem in Iraq and with it, the impossible problem of central planning of war.

Pat Buchanan inadvertently echoes my skepticism that Iraqi troops fled from ISIS in Ramadi.

""What apparently happened was that the Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. … We can give them training, we can give them equipment; we obviously can’t give them the will to fight."
Thus did Defense Secretary Ash Carter identify the root cause of the rout of the Iraqi army in Ramadi.
Disgusted U.S. military officers say the 1,000 ISIS fighters who overran Ramadi were outnumbered by the defenders 10 to 1.
Why did the Iraqi army run? And what motivated the fighters of ISIS to attack a city whose defenders so vastly outnumbered them?"

It makes no sense if you believe the establishment story. It also makes no sense the US didn't strike the ISIS convoy if you believe the establishment story. Why didn't US air power, supposedly fighting ISIS, blast this convoy to dust? We're being lied to.

TomsDispatch rejects lies.

Now 26 people have been treated for military anthrax.

Claim Bush's surge in Iraq was a failure.

Environment

Tesla recharges batteries with a diesel generator.

Government knew of flood risk in Texas, did nothing. Typical.

Politics

Battle over re-authorizing bulk NSA spying exposes progressives as the power-hungry monsters they have always been.

Democrats have owned corruption in Congress for a century. Republicans have been pikers compared to them, but Republican former House speaker Dennis Hastert has been indicted for corruption. I'm sure he's guilty. They're all guilty. But he's singled out for political purposes by Obama's henchmen.

Tax and Spend

Socialist Neil DeGrasse Tyson urges the US to challenge China to a space race, but he isn't going to pay for it.

The taxman is flying planes to surveiy you property.

Local

Gambling crackdown targets Springfield and Clark County bars. Gambling is only legal in crony businesses.

FBI still investigating police shooting of John Crawford III at Beavercreek Walmart. This isn't that hard. They're working on a cover-up.

Foreign Policy

Another way the US has become the Soviet Union.

"During the Cold War Washington was concerned about communists fomenting street protests that they could turn into revolutions, with groomed politicians waiting in the wings to take over the new government, thus expanding the Soviet empire. Today this is precisely what Washington does.
We recently witnessed this operation in Ukraine and now it seems to be underway in Macedonia."

And Russia itself.

I wonder at the hypocrisy of resisting China's land grab in the South China Sea. Governments are always grabbing land.

Tax and Spend

David Stockman hopes for Greece to default to wipe out all Europe's debt, ushering in the painful correction in history, and hopefully ending all central banks. That's why it won't happen.

NASA's next Mars rover will cost over $425 million.

Environment

NOAA predicts lower than normal Atlantic hurricane season.

California giving away solar panels to poor people. It won't be long before we read what a disaster this is.

Obama EPA and Army Corp of Engineers seizes power over all water, not matter how tiny, in US.

War

I suspect Obama's proxy army in Syria, ISIS and al Qaeda affiliate al Nusra Front, are the model for destroying Iran.

"A Defense Intelligence Agency analysis of the Syrian civil war, dated August 12, 2012, starts out by drawing the battle lines, noting that the “major forces driving the insurgency” are “the Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI [al-Qaeda in Iraq]” and are being supported by “the West, Gulf countries, and Turkey.” Russia, Iran, and China are said to support the Assad regime. The war won’t unseat Assad, but will develop, predicts the memo, into a “proxy war.” In order for the West to win that war, the author recommends setting up “safe havens under international sheltering, similar to what transpired in Libya when Benghazi was chosen as the command center for the temporary government.”"

The US and its allies did that for both ISIS and al Nusra Front. Obama is following a playbook that's been around a while.

"In a matter-of-fact tone, the memo projects the establishment of “an Islamic State through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria.” While positing that this could endanger the unity of Iraq, the memo goes on to say that this project is supported by “Western countries, the Gulf states and Turkey,” and makes this alarmingly prescient prediction:"

The CIA probably convinced the jihadists to change their name to ISIS or IS.

"“… [T]here is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist Principality in eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime, which is considered the strategic depth of the Shia expansion (Iraq and Iran).”
Such a development would create “the ideal atmosphere for AQI to return to its old pockets in Mosul and Ramadi” – which is precisely what has happened. Mosul fell last year, and Ramadi was just taken, much to Washington’s consternation.
Far from being taken by surprise, the rise of the Islamic State was anticipated – and facilitated – by this administration. Critics of our Syria policy, including this writer, have been saying this for quite some time, but this DIA memo documents and confirms it for the first time."

Yep.

US trains and equips terrorists, the people's Mujahedeen or MEK, to rebel against Iran. 

DIA responds with non-response to claim that US policy promoted ISIS as documented by recently released, under FOIA, DIA memo on the subject.

Using fog of war as an excuse for killing civilians with drones is illegitimate.

Elon Musk's SpaceX cleared for military launches. Of course. He's a plutocrat.

Another report Russia is massing troops and weapons on Ukrainian border.

"The scene at the base on the Kuzminsky firing range, around 50 km (30 miles) from the border, offers some of the clearest evidence to date of what appeared to be a concerted Russian military build-up in the area."

That's not exactly the border. It's a Russian base. Maybe they're preparing to repel a NATO invasion.

US trains and equips terrorists, the people's Mujahedeen or MEK, to rebel against Iran.

Four people exposed to anthrax because US military accidentally shipped live samples.

Local

Unemployment rates dropped in April.

Defense contractor hires former Air Force director, naturally.

Politics

Clinton's legacy of corruption.

"- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- Second president accused of rape**
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court" 

Yet Bill ruled two terms and Hillary is running for a third.

Hillary breaks out her fake southern accent.

Carly Fiorina stalk Clinton, holding a press conference outside Hillary's event. She crushes Hillary on MSNBC. This is clearly a Republican strategy to undermine gender bias in Hillary's favor the way Republicans failed to do with Obama's racial advantage.

Republican warmongers team up against Rand Paul, so he must be doing something right.

Local

It stormed, so power went out.

Immigration

Appeals Court continues injunction against Obama's amnesty. He doesn't care. He'll keep doing it anyway.

Economy

$500 million house planned in Los Angeles.

Politics

Obama did his best to pack the courts with radical leftist judges, but he's still having trouble getting them to bless his power grabs.

Assassins targeting intellectuals in Pakistan.

Federal Reserve

Bank of America advises holding more gold and cash to hedge against stock bubble.

Tax and Spend

More on government's plan to steal pensions and 401ks.

IRS hackers get info on 100,000 taxpayers.

War

Air Force unveils stealth missile that wipe out electronics, taking everybody back to the pre-electicity age.

Prediction of US-China war in South China Sea.

US, Australia and Japan war games off South China Sea.

Sports

Whether or not teams can beat the point spread produces large changes in TV ratings.

Health Care

Government finally admits cholesterol science flawed and sugar is the problem.

Media

Headlines are not the be-all and end-all goals of scientist. Government money is. Headlines are just a means to that end. It's no coincidence the corrupt study cites is about the politically-charged issue of gay marriage. It's ridiculous this article fails to mention the elephants in the room: politics and government.

Despite faked study, personal stories can convert people on gay marriage issue.

Contrary to what media would have us believe, men prefer intelligence over other factors in a female mate. But not on TV.

Environment

More honey bee losses reported.

First four months of 2015 hottest on record according to Met Office. Look for even more corruption of data this year than usual because the frauds want to say the pause has ended.

Heat wave in India kills 800 and melts roads.

Computer game claims freon ban fixed the ozone hole.

Tax and Spend

Supreme Court ruling laid groundwork for government to seize private pension plans.

Economy

HSBC and Goldman warn of economic calamity.

Health Care

Probiotics reduce allergies.

It looks like the press is trying to intimidate Supreme Court justices into upholding Obamacare again. It worked last time.

Local

Education bubble prompts $17 million housing expansion by UD.

If it's a street by Miami Valley Hospital, it must be rebuilt.

War on Drugs

War on drug overdoses surpass deaths by government roads.

Foreign Policy

Article leaks the real motivation behind nuclear negotiations with Iran.

"Iran has agreed to grant United Nations inspectors "managed access" to military sites as part of any deal to curb Iran's nuclear program, a negotiator said Sunday, the Associated Press reported."

So the US can use the UN to spy directly on Iranian military sites in order to better target them in a future war.

Regulation

Regulators wouldn't let Comcast merge with Time Warner, so Time Warner will be absorbed by smaller Charter Communications.

Misc

Scientists believe they've discovered the biggest, most active, longest lasting black hole ever. They're wrong.

War

Putin blames CIA for terrorism in Chechnya.

Obama tries to claim the US is fighting no ground wars. Tell that to the family of the latest US fighter killed in Afghanistan.

The Iraqi army is getting beat up for fleeing Ramadi. I bet we find out they were ordered to leave like last summer in Tikrit. Or was it Mosul?

Iraqi and Iranian generals dispute claim Iraqi troops had no will to fight.

""Carter was likely given incorrect information because the situation on ground is different," al-Hadithi told the Associated Press. "We should not judge the whole army based on one incident."
Al-Hadithi said the Iraqi government believes the fall of Ramadi was due to mismanagement and poor planning by some senior military commanders in charge. He did not elaborate, nor has any action been taken against those commanders.
In Iran, the daily newspaper Javan, which is seen as close to the Revolutionary Guard, quoted Soleimani as saying the U.S. didn't do a "damn thing" to stop the extremists' advance on Ramadi.
"Does it mean anything else than being an accomplice in the plot?" he reportedly asked, later saying the U.S. showed "no will" in fighting the Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS."

The US definitely has no will. It's fight against ISIS is a sham.

Pakistanis silence critics of US drone attacks.

"Early last year, Pakistani anti-drone activist Kareem Khan received an unannounced visit at his Rawalpindi home from over a dozen unidentified men, some in police uniforms. He was subsequently abducted without being offered any explanation and, over the course of the next nine days, interrogated about his anti-drone work and tortured. After a local court ordered Pakistan’s intelligence agencies to produce Khan he was released and told not to speak to the media.
Khan was due to travel to Europe to testify before parliamentarians about a December 2009 U.S. drone strike on his North Waziristan home that killed his brother and son along with a local stonemason staying with his family. He had also filed a case against the Pakistani government for its failure to investigate the deaths of his family members."

He must have been making headway.

Police State

FBI investigates Uber users hacked and charged for phantom rides.

County Sheriff used Stingray over 300 times without warrant.

NASA joins project to create search engine for the Dark Web.

Police blow up pressure cooker in man's car because his license had been revoked. Why didn't they just watch the car?

28 shootings, 9 fatal, in Baltimore over Memorial Day weekend.

Local

The list changes, but road construction never ends.

Here's how you attract business.

"The state has offered “The Long Home” up to $288,355 in refundable tax credits and “Goat” another $570,573. The amount of those awards will be finalized once shooting is finished."

It works for all businesses, not just movies.

Police State

Blacks killing other blacks at record pace in Baltimore.

Tax and Spend

Greece to miss IMF payments. Let's see if this rocks markets. Let's see if bankers cave.

War

So the Saudis helped create, arm, train, equip and fund ISIS, and ISIS turns around and attacks in Shiite village in Saudi Arabia.

Saudis and Qatar funding al Qaeda affiliate al Nusra Front in Syria.

US military whistle-blower exposes CIA funds ISIS.

Snowden leak shows ISIS is a product of the CIA and other western governments.

"The NSA document states the group was established by U.S., British and Israeli intelligence as part of a strategy dubbed “the hornet’s nest” to draw Islamic militants from around the world to Syria.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi [CIA asset and head of ISIS] “took intensive military training for a whole year in the hands of Mossad, besides courses in theology and the art of speech,” the documents explain, according to Gulf Daily News, a Bahrainian source."

Snowden scores again.

Here's why the US and its allies created ISIS.

"use the Jihadists as the vehicle of choice to achieve a political goal: depose of Syria’s president Assad, who for years has stood in the way of a critical Qatari natural gas pipeline, one which could dethrone Russia as Europe’s dominant – and belligerent – source of energy,"

Oil is security for the dollar.

"That may all have changed now when a declassified secret US government document obtained by the public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, shows that Western governmentsdeliberately allied with al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups to topple Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad.
According to investigative reporter Nafeez Ahmed in Medium, the “leaked document reveals that in coordination with the Gulf states and Turkey, the West intentionally sponsored violent Islamist groups to destabilize Assad, despite anticipating that doing so could lead to the emergence of an ‘Islamic State’ in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

According to the newly declassified US document, the Pentagon foresaw the likely rise of the ‘Islamic State’ as a direct consequence of the strategy, but described this outcome as a strategic opportunity to “isolate the Syrian regime.” 

And not just that: as we reported last week, now that ISIS is running around the middle east, cutting people’s heads of in 1080p quality and Hollywood-quality (perhaps literally) video, the US has a credible justification to sell billions worth of modern, sophisticated weapons in the region in order to “modernize” and “replenish” the weapons of such US allies as Saudi Arabia, Israel and Iraq."

It always comes back to profiteering.

US taxpayers paid for the roads the Soviets used to invade Afghanistan, and Osama bin Laden followed the Soviets.

Education

Google and Gates join Bank of America in trying to corrupt the Khan Academy.

Misc

Even many AI experts are afraid of AI.

Health Care

Medical nonsense and made-up recommendations.

Misc

Scientists surprised by star, develop theory with no internal consistency.

"Although scientists are still not exactly sure how this process unfolds, one of the theories suggests that as these massive stars evolve, the outer hydrogen envelope, which is loosely bound, becomes vulnerable to gravitational stripping, possibly by a nearby companion star. This process can eventually lead to the stripped matter spilling out, creating a disk around the binary system."

Up is down in gravity-world.

War

ISIS controls more than half of Syria.

Shiite militias fight ISIS near Ramadi. Iraq is broken up, just like US policy wanted. The government is a token.

Health Care

Emails show FDA was warned about superbugs in medical scopes, but it did nothing.

9,000 years of dentistry.

War on Drugs

Church of Cannabis starts in Indiana. This won't end well.

Socialism

Blame socialism for the Amtrak crash.

Economy

One of my criticisms of Keynesians is they treat all work the same. Digging ditches with a spoon and filling them back in is treated the same as doing something productive. This article about how GDP misrepresents the economy is the first time I've seen a Mises scholar make that point.

"For example, even if a ship — built at great expense — cruised without passengers, fished without success, or ferried without cargo; it nevertheless contributed to GDP. Profitable for investors or stranded in the sand; it added to GDP. Plying the seas or rusting into an orange honeycomb shell; the nation’s GDP grew."

Good to see.

Why do we want higher housing prices?

David Stockman reports our economy stinks and stocks are in a bubble.

"Sooner or later you can’t squeeze more profits from a stone cold economy.So why should earnings be valued at an all time high when the US economy is now growing at just one-third of its historic rate?"

That makes no sense.

"To wit, the US economy has actually shed 2 million full-time, higher paying “breadwinner” since December 2007—-down from 72 million to just 70 million in the April report. Accordingly, the net 3 million gain in the total payroll count is entirely attributable to a 2 million pickup in the part time economy—restaurant’s, bars, retail and  personal services—-and a 3 million gain in the fiscally dependent HES Complex (health, education and social services)."

That's not good.

Environment

CIA programs studying global warming shut down after 23 years.

Heavy snow in New England.

Police State

Judge acquits Cleveland police officer who fired some of the 137 bullets at two unarmed victims. Legalized corruption.

Falsely convicted man freed from death row after 28 years.

Judge orders criminal complaint against reality TV star destroyed to protect him.

One cop publishes what many think, only "blue" lives matter. This is the philosophy that kills so many Americans.

We're supposed to believe NSA stopped bulk collection of phone data on Americans because the Senate failed to renew the provision. How stupid do they think I am?

Politics

NSA reform bill fails in Senate.

Economy

Google patents creepy, anthropomorphic spy teddy bears.

Tax and Spend

Treasury yields rise because core inflation rose.

War on Drugs

40 killed in shootout between Mexican police and drug cartel.

Socialism

Californa farmers make deal for water.

GM accused of criminal activity in cover-up on ignition switch problem.

Economy

Government's response to frequent slow economic growth in Q1 is to change the statistics.

Nobody wants to talk about the new tech bubble.

Google indexes only a tiny fraction of the web. The Dark Web is much bigger than the regular web.

Police State

Heavy government infiltration of motorcycle gangs.

Police training is supposedly changing.

"The friendlier attitude reflects a campaign underway here and elsewhere around the U.S. to "demilitarize" the police and produce officers who think of themselves as guardians of their communities, not members of an occupying force."

This sounds like propaganda.

War

Captured reporter claims ISIS could nuke US.

"In his latest work, presumed to be written under pressure but in his hall-mark style combining hyperbole, metaphor and sarcasm, he says that President Obama’s policies for containing Isil have demonstrably failed and increased the risk to America.

He raises a “hypothetical” possibility under which Isil operatives in Pakistan bribe an official to provide them with a nuclear device which is smuggled into America via Libya, Nigeria, South America and Mexico."

Thanks, government.

Politics

Senate Republicans boost President Obama, showing once again they're his allies.

"“This is an important bill, likely the most important bill we will pass this year. It’s important to President Obama,” Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and primary author of the bill, said at the close of debate.
TPA’s fast-track provisions would allow Congress, under strict timelines, to consider trade deals with a simple up-or-down vote without any amendments or requirements of a Senate super-majority to end debate. That would help Obama complete the final details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), with the other 11 nations, a bloc that represents about 40 percent of the global economy."

His trade bill is still classified.

Boehner praises agreement and pushes to pass Obama's secret trade treaty.

Americans vastly overestimate LGBT population.

Foreign Policy

Macedonia might be the next Ukraine. That dovetails into this story about NATO forcing Greece to stay in the eurozone. Don't believe any of it. It's too volatile for central planners to control.

Hillary Clinton caught in another email lie.

"Still, on the day of its scheduled release, the State Department, at the request of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, labeled a part of a November 2012 e-mail to her about arrests in the Benghazi killings as classified, and kept it secret. That’s a problem for Clinton because she said the private e-mail address she chose to use while secretary was never the vehicle for classified information."

Oops.

China jams US drone.

Police State

 A new Tor client built to thwart NSA is an heroic idea, but evil NSA has bazillions of resources to break it, which they will in no time.

Politics

Candidates are foundering about questions regarding the Iraq war.

Misc

Asteroids and comets exist in a continuum.

The dog-human relationship goes back 40,000 years.

Local

City gives stolen money to crony companies.

"The city of Dayton will reimburse seven companies nearly $265,000 for creating 514 jobs in the last few years."

Companies create jobs to increase profit. That's reward enough. Stop using that as an excuse to steal our money.

Politics

Croatians threaten founders of Liberland micronation.

Rand Paul filibusters against NSA bulk spying. We'll see if it has any effect on Patriot Act renewal or the presidential race.

Hillary Clinton hires illegal immigrant on purpose.

Federal Reserve

Governments want to ban cash to save banks.

Banning cash will prevent bank runs, giving banks more power.

Central banks want to ban cash so they can impose negative interest rates.

France restricts cash payments.

Denmark considers banning cash.

Restrictions on cash at JPMorgan Chase and in Switzerland. 

Five big banks plead guilty, whatever that means, to manipulating currencies and interest rates, whatever that means, and will pay $5 billion collectively.

Misc

Researchers find stone tools believed to be 3.3 million years old, 700,000 older than the previously oldest tools.

Sports

While this article blames both Goodell and the players union for deteriorating conditions in the NFL, it's clearly Goodell's aggression against the players, his narcissism, and hubris that has led the NFLPA to respond so bitterly. It's about time somebody else is pointing out Goodell is dragging the NFL into decline.

Police State

Government connections to Waco shootout revealed. One suspect is a former police detective, and government won't aggressive prosecute those arrested, claiming lack of funds. This is starting to stink of a government plot to get more money.

Long history of government infiltrating motorcycle gangs and performing false flags.

Socialism

Former water bureaucrat wants to end water subsidies and the Bureau of Reclamation.

Water deals made in California.

Environment

Obama will save the bees.

NASA blames luck, not weather patterns, for no major hurricane hitting the US in record long time. NASA wants a major hurricane strike so it can stoke fears of global warming again.

Oil pipeline spill hits California coast.

Cold kills 20x more people than heat.

Snow in seven states.

War

Soldiers use their government credit cards on strippers.

If US rulers cared about antiquities, they wouldn't have created ISIS.

Obama declassifies Osama bin Laden papers to undermine Hersh's story of his assassination.

Here's a list of, supposedly, Osama bin Laden's books.

Tax and Spend

Volunteers in Oregon help state confiscate more money via a drive per mile fee.

109,930,090 Americans participated in overlapping food assistance programs

Health Care

Flame retardant chemicals do more harm than good.

Link between nightshades and arthritis.

VA has fired almost nobody.

"Boehner, R-Ohio, said he is especially frustrated that so few VA officials have been fired, despite evidence that at least 110 VA facilities kept secret lists to manipulate and hide long wait-times. "

Just as you would expect.

Media

Stephanopoulos and ABC are still covering up Stephanopoulos's close ties with the Clinton Foundation.

Environment

California governor Brown signs CO2 reduction agreement that will push more businesses out of California.

Education

Some school's diversity officer, whatever that is, calls for killing all white men, but keeps her job, so far.

Sports

I wonder if the other owners agree to oust Goodell when his contract was up to get Kraft to surrender to penalties. I hope so.

Socialism

The Amtrak crash is looking more like the Germaniwings crash.

Misc

ISS gets laser cannon to target space debris forcing it into Earth's atmosphere to burn up. Cool.

Scientists surprised by ballerina rocks on comet 67P

Police State

Judge Napolitano points out the obvious about NSA spying, but the more often it's said, the better.

"The NSA spies on all people all the time, and it's too much information for them to sift through in a timely manner," Judge Napolitano said. "That's not my opinion. That's the opinion of former NSA senior executives who were responsible for formulating the software that permits the NSA to do it."

This is why NSA always fails to stop terrorist attacks. NSA adds to the haystack instead of reducing it.

Saudi Arabia seeks to hire eight more executioners as number of beheadings skyrocket.

Having failed to stop the biker gang war in Texas so far, it'll be interesting to see if police can stop it now that it's started in earnest.

Some of the dead bikers may have been killed by cops.

Obama bans some, but not all, military equipment transfers to police.

Police blame restaurant for failing to stop gunfight, but that's not its job. That's government's job.

Police confiscation of cash on the rise.

Politics

The British election benefits secession movement. It's odd the Scottish independence movement won a huge minority in Scottland but the independence referendum failed. I wonder who counted those votes. I doubt Cameron will let Britain withdraw from the EU either.

Since older people are more likely to vote Republican, Republican voters are dying at a faster rate than Democrats. Of course, as people get older, more switch from Democrat to Republican than otherwise.

Obamas rich. Clintons richer.

"At a time the world is talking about the growing income inequality across the globe, American politicians are coming under increasingly scrutiny for their buccaneering ways that has led some to suggest the country is fast becoming a plutocracy."

Becoming?

Black social problems are a relatively new thing, a product of civil rights aggression, not slavery or discrimination.

Regulation

The latest attack on Uber is a class action suit seeking to declare its drivers employees instead of contractors.

Camaro's base engine is now a four cylinder.

Los Angeles raises minimum wage from $9 to $15 by 2020. This will be reversed or it will throw people out of work right and left.

"Tuesday’s vote could set off a wave of minimum wage increases across Southern California, and the groups pressing for the increases say the new pay scales would change the way of life for the region’s vast low-wage work force."

By making them unemployed. This will force businesses that can move to move, throwing every wage employee out of work. Many businesses that can't move will go bankrupt, throwing every wage worker and business owners out of work. The demand for labor will fall, lowering real wages and forming a black market. This is nuts.

Value of taxi medallions plummet because of ride-sharing.

Government's airbags in Japanese cars recalled because they explode and kill people.

War

Pakistani account of bin Laden's assassination confirms most of Hersh's account, but unsurprisingly absolves Pakistanis of collusion.

Tax and Spend

Republican budget increases spending over proposed budget.

NASA is suddenly warning New Horizons probe could be destroyed in Pluto flyby. What have they realized?

Supreme Court rules two states can't tax the same income. You would think that wouldn't need a court case.

The reason China began buying US debt again is to subsidize exports as its own economy flounders.

Local

Cops chase stolen car until it crashes.

Beavercreek school locked down.

Minimum wage workers can't afford rent. Entry level jobs aren't supposed to pay rent. Minimum wage jobs are jobs people take in high school. You're not supposed to stay in them as an adult. The increasing rent is a product of the housing bubble.

Dayton to raise fees on downtown property.

Health Care

Bird flu spreads like wildfire through CAFOs.

Scientists, no doubt paid by taxpayers, discover what everybody already knows.

""Competition among males for reproduction provides a really important benefit, because it improves the genetic health of populations," the lead researcher at the University of East Anglia says in a press release. "Sexual selection achieves this by acting as a filter to remove harmful genetic mutations, helping populations to flourish.""

I like how they phrase this about why men exist, as if the default is women only. Obviously sexual reproduction provides a survival benefit and more genetic diversity.

Environment

Claim the honey bee die-off is a hoax.

Immigration

Obama wants to end illegal immigration enforcement by local and state cops because he wants to end illegal immigration enforcement.

Foreign Policy

Hillary Clinton used multiple email addresses while Secretary of State, and she lied about it.

Health Care

Farming started making human legs weak.

War

ISIS brazenly declares victory in Ramadi, unafraid of supposed US air strikes. Baghdad is next. Massive military parade.

Just three days ago Obama told news outlets to stop using background ISIS video.

"“We are urging broadcasters to avoid using the familiar B-roll that we’ve all seen before, file footage of ISIL convoys operating in broad daylight, moving in large formations with guns out, looking to wreak havoc,” said Emily Horne, spokeswoman for retired Gen. John Allen, the State Department’s special envoy leading the international coalition against ISIL.
“It’s inaccurate — that’s no longer how ISIL moves,” Horne said. “A lot of that footage is from last summer before we began tactical strikes.”"

What about that daytime massive military parade?

Obama supports child soldier slavery in South Sudan while denouncing it elsewhere.

House Republicans increase war spending.

Politics

Of course the Clintons use Clinton Foundation money as slush fund, and of course unions are pouring in millions.

Economy

The Q-value of the stock market is highest since the dot.com bubble, signaling a crash.

Dow and S&P set new records.

Misc

Scientists surprised by full-sized galaxies with on 1 percent of the stars of Milky Way.

Local

I predicted the new bike-share thing would be declared a success even though nobody would use. Having watched it a week or two, I've seen two riders only on one day out of hundreds of bikes every day. But since nobody can measure otherwise, this is reported as a success.

"The most popular trips so far: RiverScape MetroPark to Courthouse Square, Patterson Canal to Oregon District East, and Riverscape to Oregon District West."

Did any of those replace a car? Of course not.

"By Friday, a total of at least 1,500 trips had been taken. And that’s with the University of Dayton in summer session. Once students return, the expectation is that use of the bikes will increase sharply."

Compared to hundreds of thousands of bike hours? What a joke. Great success!

Sports

Hooray for Dan LeBatard for taking on Napoleon Goodell in public.

"That his random punishment system, making up the rules as he goes, keeps negative stories in the news cycle longer than normal as we debate and await over-punishment is not great for that image and integrity he's trying so zealously to protect."

:LeBatard is not brave enough to call Goodell the narcissist he is, but he makes it clear. Good for him. He'll be suspended and fined by ESPN for telling the truth. LeBatard isn't a coward, like everybody else at ESPN;

"We don't do this in other sports with more uniform penalty codes and less off-field integrity policing, arguing for weeks and months what a penalty should be because we have no earthly idea what it will be. So, in the negative-news cycle at least, Goodell somehow makes the league's image worse while trying to make it better, which is awfully clumsy work by someone who has put himself in charge of public relations." 

LeBatard gives Goodell the escape clause. Goodell isn't selfish and evil. He's stupid. Wrong. I shouldn't be angry LeBatard fails to go all the way. I should be happy he breaks the sports establishment at all.

"You know when Goodell went from very popular to very unpopular? There was a tipping point."

It was the day he was hired, being a worthless, punitive bureaucrat instead of a businessman.

Police State

GCHQ hackers granted immunity from hacking.

Education

Asian-Americans hit Harvard with discrimination lawsuit.

"One such study shows Asian-Americans had to score an average of 140 points higher than white students on their SAT test to have an equal chance of getting in."

Wow.

Scientists discover the obvious: students do better without stupid-phones.

Funny how Gates and Zuckerburg tell the same lies about STEM and foreign workers.

Immigration

Backed-up immigration cases reach all-time high of 445,000.

Environment

China and India demand the $100 billion they were promised by western nations at one of the global warming sham conferences.

The establishment is predicting a super-el Nino in the fall, twice as bad as 1998. We'll be able to test those predictions in six months or so. I bet it's wishful thinking because that will allow them say the pause ended.

War

US decides to stop lying about US troops fighting in Syria with story of US troops killing ISIS leader.

Syrian war to explode again.

"The new war pact was made between Obama’s regional darlings, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, who agreed to step up deeper military cooperation and establish a joint command in the occupied Syrian region of Idlib.
Turkey and Saudi Arabia are now openly backing Islamic extremists under the newly rebranded “Conquest Army.” The on-the-ground leadership of this “new” coalition consists of Jabhat al-Nusra – the “official” al-Qaeda affiliate – and Ahrar al-Sham, whose leader previously stated that his group was the “real al-Qaeda.”" 

Lovely. Obama used the war on terror authorization to justify fighting in Syria, but he's not fighting against al Qaeda. He's fighting with al Qaeda.

Reminder than the US prosecuted a veteran for fighting alongside Jabhat al-Nusra.

ISIS takes Ramadi.

US to send weapons to ISIS in Ramadi, pretending to fight ISIS.

Federal Reserve

Supposedly going cashless is the only solution for Argentina's banking problems.

Regulation

Canadian Prime Minister sends letter to record companies confirming copyright extension for sound recordings, a nice political gift.

Committee votes to ease private sector space regulations, but not by much. These regulations are why private industry hasn't taken over space.

Hacker took over airplane and flew it.

Socialism

I doubt government will allow self-healing concrete to be used on roads because roads are socialist jobs projects.

Economy

Even the cheerleaders at the DNN admitted the economy still stinks.

$46.5 million painting.

Bubble. We're doomed.

Local

FAA allows Sinclair to fly drones.

War on Drugs

Marijuana is safer than prescription drugs and treats multiple illness including heart disease and cancer.

Education

White students more likely to be bullied than minorities. Of course they are. There's more of them. Every student gets bullied until they punch a bully in the eye. This has become another politically correct problem thanks to government schools.

Media

As predicted, dozens of media outlets and figures donated to Clinton Foundation.

Police State

Private peace officers face far greater dangers than socialist police.

"During the same fifteen-year-period in which roughly 700 police officers weren’t able to make the end-of-shift phone call, at least 1863 private security officers were killed while carrying out a contractual commitment to protect others against criminal violence."

You never hear about that.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect 2 sentenced to death just like his lawyer and her government masters intended.

After publicity, IRS to return $107 thousand it stole from business owner under the pretense of structuring.

Federal Reserve

China is printing money to keep its economy from correcting, like everybody else.

War

Turks, Saudis and Qataris are helping al Qaeda and ISIS in Syria.

"The Israelis seem to be in on the game as well. While they have taken in rebels wounded on the Golan Heights and returned them to their units, there are reports of Israel aiding the Nusra Front with intelligence and even air strikes. "

That's why the war on terror is a sham. The US isn't at war with al Qaeda either. It aids some al Qaeda operations and resists others.

Claim the US has already started WWIII with Russia, China and Iran.

Sports

Brady plans to call Goodell as a witness, keeping him from hearing Brady's appeal.

"If Goodell doesn't relent, the NFL Players Association wrote in a letter to the NFL that "the NFLPA and Mr. Brady will seek recusal and pursue all available relief to obtain an arbitrator who is not evidently partial.""

I love it. Keep hammering that tyrant.

Health Care

Many of the health guidelines preached to us have no scientific bases.

"According to Dr. Kendrick, the linear model for blood pressure—which states the higher your blood pressure is, in a linear fashion, the greater your risk of dying—was also made up.
Ditto for recommended cholesterol levels, and healthy versus unhealthy obesity levels. Believe it or not, none of these are based on real data. The recommendation to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables is equally made up, yet recommendations such as these become set in stone."

Same with alcohol. They're made up.

"Other common tactics of misdirection include the non-disclosure of negative studies and good old-fashioned conflicts of interest. As noted by Dr. Kendrick: “In the States, they have the non-disclosure of negative data on antidepressants. They only publish positive studies, and the negative ones aren’t published. You then have a bias of infinity. There are hundreds of these things that go on.”  "

Mammograms do more harm than good.

Foreign Policy

US provokes China in South China Sea. You won't find any Chinese warships in the Gulf of Mexico.

Economy

Chinese company, not Google, produces world's most advanced artificial intelligence.

Sports

Independent analysis of accusations against Brady and the Patriots regarding deflategate.

"As with much of Wells’s report, innocent explanations for common events were rejected in a style that is more common in wild-eyed conspiracy theories than in a serious investigation that affects a person’s reputation and the future of a significant business in New England."

No kidding.

"In my decades as an investigative journalist reading and evaluating many official reports, I have noted that when lawyers start including details like McNally saying “urinal” instead of toilet, they realize how weak their case is and are putting everything they can dig up on their side of the scales."

I don't know if much experience is necessary to realize that. Napoleon Goodell had already determined the outcome of this report when he assigned Wells to investigate deflategate. This is a great article.

Goodell to hear Brady's appeal. It's a great way to get himself on camera and elevate himself relative to the NFL's most popular player, but it's worthless. The outcome is a fait accompli. This shows the NFL is not interested in the truth or justice. I'm sure this was planned before the penalty was issued. When this blows up in Goodell's face, he's going to get fired. I hope. He's making a travesty of the NFL.

Tax and Spend

Connecticut wants to tax lower wage employees through their employers, putting more out of work.

Police State

Wrongly convicted man pardoned after 29 years in a Virginia prison.

Marines train to subdue citizens in concentration camp.

Media

Political activist working in the media Stephanopoulos admits he donated $50,000 to the Clinton Foundation. It's shocking he's biased. Make that $75,000.

ABC originally claimed Stephanopoulos would be a pundit, then they passed him off as a straight news reporter. He's been working for the Clintons and Democrats the whole time. They all are, but Stephanopoulos even more so.

War

More evidence, Admiral orders pictures of ObL destroyed to thwart FOIA request, Osama bin Laden was really assassinated in 2011 in Pakistan. Maybe he ordered them destroyed so investigators couldn't determine they were fakes.

National Guard paying the NFL for advertising supposedly negates the free-rider argument, but not so fast. The National Guard has to recruit. On the other hand, if the National Guard paid better, they could recruit better.

Navy to reduce fitness requirements.

Sports

Division 1A college football had lowest attendance in 12 years.

Politics

Missouri House speaker resigns after sexting with intern.

Emperor wannabe Rubio has a plan for Europe.

Jeb Bush flip-flops on whether he would have invaded Iraq. At least that's what the press wants us to think.

Health Care

Higher vitamin D levels in pets make them more likely to survive serious illness.

40 percent of US honeybee colonies supposedly died in the 12 month period ending in April.

Taxpayers are supposed to pay for daily pill that is 90 percent effective at preventing HIV in high risk populations at $1,000 a month. Those people should either change their behavior or pay for it themselves.

Girl pronounced brain-dead woke up after being taken off life support just went to prom. Never trust a doctor.

Danish researcher claims psychiatric drugs kill 500,000 westerners a years.

The VA improperly spent - wasted - $6 billion.

Woman charged $38,000 for outpatient surgery.

"Weeks later, the bills arrived at her Lake Havasu City home. Her surgeon, anesthesiologist and X-ray provider submitted bills and were paid nearly $2,250.
Only one remained: Havasu Regional's bill. When it finally arrived last May, what she saw shocked her. An explanation of benefits from her insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, showed she and Blue Cross had been billed $38,526 by Havasu Regional for prep work, surgery and recovery lasting less than three hours."

And people say the US has the best health care system in the world.

If Cuba really had a cancer vaccine, the US wouldn't let it in.

Misc

More evidence humans and Neanderthals interbred.

Scientists discover fish which uses flapping fins to warm blood.

Education

Another sign of the higher education bubble is presidents keep getting paid after they retire.

Socialism

Secret Service agents were drunk. They're probably drunk all the time.

Freedom of Speech

This is scary accurate.