Regulation

Google rejects French order to extend phony right to be forgotten to world.

Tax and Spend

Detroit school district doesn't pay teachers, shorts others.

Puerto Rico to default.

Foreign Policy

Obama locks away Iran nuke deal papers although they're not classified.

More classified emails on Hillary's server. This story keeps going and going and going because more keep getting released.

Local

Trotwood cop who had sex while on duty resigns.

Experts advise the rapist refrain when pulled over, bend over and take it.

Cops have all the power.

Man dies in custody of Dayton police.

The rapist's doctrine.

"In other words: If a cop seeks to abduct you without legal justification, you should submit in the serene confidence that your deprivation of liberty will be temporary and trivial. I have referred to this as the “Rapist Doctrine,” since rapists and police officers are the only assailants whose victims are encouraged to submit."

Outrageous.

Company requests $400K from Miamisburg to stay in the city.

Media

Rolling Stone editor who oversaw the fake UVA rape story resigns. About time.

Health Care

Contrary to headlines, teens are having as much sex as in the past.

Spacial physical activity like climbing trees or balancing on beams significantly improve memory.

Federal Reserve

The establishment is beginning to comprehend the damage done by ZIRP.

War

Al qaeda abducts US-backed Syrian rebels.

Politics

Since Hillary announced for the presidency, donations and donors to the Clinton corruption foundation have skyrocketed.

John Stewart and Daily Show exposed as Obama stooges.

Economy

Hackers hack OnStar app and unlock GM cars.

How China's crash affects the world economy.

"China – in midst of an economic slowdown, an equity market calamity and trying to keep its real estate bubble from bursting – absorbs some 50 percent of copper, iron ore and coal exports. Thus, nations rich in commodity resources, such as Canada, Australia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Russia, Nigeria, Angola, Chile and Indonesia, are in recession or heading into one as demand for their exports declines worldwide."

Uh-oh.

Another tepid economic report.

Foreign Policy

Putin kicks the CIA's coup promoters out of Russia.

More on Hillary's illegal emails regarding her illegal war.

Police State

The deep state in Turkey and America.

"In truth America’s deep state is, not unlike Turkey’s, a hybrid creature that operates along a New York to Washington axis. Where the Turks engage in criminal activity to fund themselves, the Washington elite instead turns to banksters, lobbyists, and defense contractors, operating much more in the open and, ostensibly, legally. U.S.-style deep state includes all the obvious parties, both public and private, who benefit from the status quo: including key players in the police and intelligence agencies, the military, the treasury and justice departments, and the judiciary. It is structured to materially reward those who play along with the charade, and the glue to accomplish that ultimately comes from Wall Street. "

Sounds right to me.

"America’s deep state is completely corrupt: it exists to sell out the public interest, and includes both major political parties as well as government officials. Politicians like the Clintons who leave the White House “broke” and accumulate $100 million in a few years exemplify how it rewards. A bloated Pentagon churns out hundreds of unneeded flag officers who receive munificent pensions and benefits for the rest of their lives. And no one is punished, ever. Disgraced former general and CIA Director David Petraeus is now a partner at the KKR private equity firm, even though he knows nothing about financial services. More recently, former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell has become a Senior Counselor at Beacon Global Strategies. Both are being rewarded for their loyalty to the system and for providing current access to their replacements in government." 

Nice work if you can get it.

Google to turn encryption keys for cloud computing over to customers, making it impossible for Google to give their data to the government, secretly, legally or not. Government will go nuts.

Thank goodness a New York judge ruled chimps are not people. Activists won't stop trying.

Local

Few local police forces use body cameras.

Benefits of body cameras.

A second cop supported the lies of the murder cop at UC.

Tax and Spend

Cash-strapped British cities shut of street lights and find no increase in crime or crashes. Another government lie exposed.

Social Security statements admit benefits will be cut.

Of course IRS people intentionally destroyed Lois Lerner's hard drive.

Environment

Yet another prediction that electric cars are the wave of the future starting now.

New report exposes political collusion between EPA and green groups.

Big game hunting helps save endangered species.

Regulation

Union cabbies break Uber windows in Mexico City, demand ban. This is a good reminder of what unions are really about.

Education

Reducing school to four days a week benefits students.

Sports

To put a black hat on their witch hunt, the NFL filed a lawsuit against Brady as soon as Napoleon handed down his decree to head off Brady filing a lawsuit against them.

"The move to consolidate the lawsuits involving Brady in New York is seen as an initial victory for the NFL in that the league was successful in choosing the jurisdiction where the arguments would be heard.
The NFL's action was part of what seemed to anger Patriots owner Robert Kraft in his Wednesday remarks, when he appeared to direct a salvo at NFL general counsel Jeff Pash in saying, "Now the league has taken the matter to court, which is a tactic that only a lawyer would recommend."
Judge Richard M. Berman will likely hear the NFLPA's motions. Berman, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, has been characterized as a "liberal judge."" 

Kraft is right. It's a witch hunt,and he was a fool not to see that from the beginning.

Tax and Spend

IRS chose not to search five of six locations for Lois Lerner's emails and used IM to keep communications secret.

We keep reading that judges and Congress threaten to hold the head of the IRS in contempt, but they never do.

Immigration

Feds grant amnesty to over 600,000 Dreamers.

Politics

I thought everybody knew the Clinton's marriage was phony.

Economy

China is at the core of the global bubble, as it pops, it will spread everywhere.

"The meme of the day—–that China doesn’t have so many gamblers—-is hilarious. From stem to stern, China’s version of red capitalism has evolved into the greatest gambling den in history. The whole thing is a giant punt—from 60 million empty high rise apartments, to ghost cities and malls, to endless bridges, highways and airports to nowhere, to laying down more cement in three years than the US did during the entire 20th century."

That's a good description of a bubble of malinvestment of massive proportions.

"As the communist oligarchs desperately hop from increasingly gimmicky stimulus ploys to the mailed fist of economic repression, one thing is quite predictable. Even its phony numbers machine will not much longer be able to hide the fact that the Chinese economy is grinding to a halt, and that the miracle of red capitalism was never remotely what Wall Street cracked it up to be."

Central planning rum amok.

Environment

Gore effect follows Gore to Australia's coldest July in 19 years.

Health Care

British columnist calls for "euthanasia vans" to kill off the too many old people in Britain.

GM rice supposedly reduces greenhouse gas emissions and increases food produced. I thought regular rice was just fine.

The organic label doesn't mean much because the government controls it.

Scientists re-create historically deadly virus to study it and kill millions.

Foreign Policy

The new US-Iran relations.

After fawning over Rand Paul a couple months ago, Justin Raimondo jumps off the bandwagon again over Paul's criticism if the Iran deal.

"What makes a sad situation far worse is that Sen. Paul’s turn toward the neocons hasn’t helped him one bit: instead, it’s hurt him. In the past few months his support, once in the double digits, has been cut in half. The latest PPP poll has him down to a mere 4 percent. This dramatic drop coincides precisely with his efforts to appease people who are never going to support him."

Raimondo has it backwards. He isn't trying to appease the warmongers. He was previously trying to appease libertarians. As I said all along, he has no libertarian principles, and wishing he did doesn't it make it so.

Obama keeping Iranian side deals secret.

Sports

Computers and cameras used to call balls and strikes in minor league game.

Police State

Kentucky man arrested for shooting down drone.

Recent examples of car hacking are reminiscent of the crash that killed reporter Michael Hastings right before he published an explosive story about intelligence agencies.

CISA is about getting Google and every other tech company to share data with the NSA. They already do that.

"CISA is an out and out surveillance bill masquerading as a cybersecurity bill. It won’t stop hackers. Instead, it essentially legalizes all forms of government and corporate spying.Here’s how it works. Companies would be given new authority to monitor their users -- on their own systems as well as those of any other entity -- and then, in order to get immunity from virtually all existing surveillance laws, they would be encouraged to share vaguely defined “cyber threat indicators” with the government."

The key here is making it legal. It prevents suing the companies.

I've always advised webcams be covered. The mainstream is catching on.

Local

University of Cincinnati cop indicted for murdering unarmed black man during traffic stop. This is incredibly rare.

Body camera footage condemned the murderer.

"He also said that the body camera footage of the killing was “invaluable” and that without it he would probably have believed Tensing’s erroneous account of the incident."

Deters admits institutional bias in favor of cops. This is why cops hate body cameras, and we should demand them.

Trivial offenses carry death sentences.

"Deters said Tensing wasn’t dealing with somebody wanted with murder, just someone who did not have a front license plate."

Death sentence.

No cameras when deputies killed another man.

For trying to save taxpayer money by refusing travel authorizations, Huber Heights's mayor is accused of racism with complaint to NAACP.

Dayton's rulers relax water protection regulation.

Federal Reserve

Governments wage war on physical cash because it's hard to steal and without it, bank runs are impossible.

Economy

Analysis traces economic disasters around the world to socialist education of rulers in Britain and the US.

Police State

Privacy does exist, but not online.

Politics

America's Yankee problem.

Note to Rand Paul: What went wrong was you assumed you'd get your father's supporters even though you never stood for libertarian principles. Libertarians saw through your couple of high-profile gimmicks. Look at the bright side. You'll have 30 years or more of stealing our money.

War

In a good reminder the police state and war always go hand in hand, Wesley Clark calls for internment camps for disloyal Americans for the duration US never-ending wars.

The cities with the largest sexual disease problem are also the cities with the largest military populations.

General Smedley Butler laments being a gangster for the US state.

Local

Police tase and arrest man for refusing an illegal order to exit his vehicle.

Misc

Pluto's collapsing atmosphere suggests the planet is young.

Four buried skeletons from Jamestown unearthed, as if their burials didn't matter.

If you want me to believe the microwave EMD drive, send a ship to the moon in four hours. You spend billions on trivia.

Health Care

Another large study debunks mammograms.

GM salmon hit the water.

The BBC discovered that animal fat like lard is better to cook with than vegetable oil including sunflower oil. Welcome to paleo.

Politics

Big Democrat donor backs Bush. That doesn't surprise me.

Police State

Photos purporting to show Boston Marathon bombing was a hoax.

War

Fear that Jade Helm may be cover for false flag terrorist event.

I finally agree with tech alarmists. There will be an autonomous robot arms race. It's funny they suddenly care when it's robots. Governments will never ban them, though they might pretend to.

College ironically weakens the military because more teens are going there.

Regulation

NHTSA forces Fiat-Chysler into largest buy-back ever.

Federal Reserve

Recently resigned Greek finance minister admits he broke into Greeks treasury computers at the request of the Prime Minister and set up a means to switch payments to drachma.

Local

In upside-down world, Clark County sheriff threatens peaceful flag owners to appease violent aggressors.

"A fight at the Clark County Fair prompted by the display of a Confederate battle flag has led the sheriff to ask fairgoers not to bring the flags to the event.
A man wearing a Confederate battle flag belt buckle and with one draped over his shoulders was approached by a group Friday night at the fairgrounds, according to a Clark County Sheriff’s Office report.
No one was hurt in the brief fight, but a 17-year-old boy was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct after arguing with deputies who responded to the situation, the report says." 

Why weren't all the aggressors arrested?

Economy

Global trade deal eliminates tariffs on electronics. I'm skeptical of what else is in this deal.

China's stock market experiences record one-day collapse.

Misc

German scientists confirm mysterious EM microwave drive that nobody can explain.

Sports

Goodell has painted himself into a corner with his abuse of Brady, and the NFLPA is trying to save his bacon.

Tax and Spend

Boston's mayor refuses to sign Olympic contract for 2024 amid weak public support.

Health Care

Obesity becoming leading cause of cancer.

Some vaccines could make pathogens more dangerous.

Tax and Spend

Court invalidates Chicago pension reform. Pensions have to be cut everywhere.

Environment

Historic droughts on four continents.

Politics

Kasich is a big spender, typical of Republicans. So is Scott Walker. So is Chris Christy.

Theory the White House is targeting Hillary with investigation to hinder her candidacy. An alternative theory is this is a whitewash designed to inoculate her against attacks from Republicans. In fact, it could do both, the first in the primary and the second in the general election.

Hillary's lies have been turned into a meme. This could be the end.

War

A hundred Afghan police and guards join the Taliban and take a large police base.

US and Turkey to create a safe zone in Syria for Syrian resistance and refuges. Supposedly this will thwart ISIS, but I think it will provide them safe haven.

Regulation

Email reveals MPAA and Mississippi Attorney General collaborated to run a smear campaign against Google.

Permission to marry is not the same thing as freedom to marry.

China lifts ban on gaming consoles. I wonder how many insiders bought stock and made a killing on this announcement.

Health Care

Contrary to what we've been told and the war on men, testosterone promotes cooperation and altruism within the group.

Another shooter with mental health problems was almost certainly on Big Pharma meds.

War

Pentagon asks armed citizen guards to quit protecting its disarmed recruiters.

ISIS's Jihadi John flees ISIS into Syria.

Politics

UK government buys influence with Clintons with 50 million pound donation to Clinton slush Foundation.

Europe is being ruled by left-wingers, but left-wingers are fomenting a revolution. Against themselves.

Local

Because Hamilton is so stuck in the past, the film industry is thriving. This redneck picture is cringe-worthy.

Health Care

Sugar feeds cancer and promotes heart disease.

Misc

Pluto's atmosphere is greater than thought and lower pressure than thought, as if it was new and quickly disappearing. Pluto may be young.

More evidence Pluto is young.

"

• There are few craters and some areas are almost completely without craters, which is an unexpected find that suggests to the researchers Pluto was formed within the last 100 million years. Since Pluto is not close enough to another large body for tidal forces to create tectonics, it is now thought Pluto may have been hot and active in the recent past due to internal stresses.
• Pluto has an atmosphere that reaches a thousand miles into space. Spectrographic analysis indicates a mixture of nitrogen and hydrocarbon sandwiched between molecular nitrogen in the upper atmosphere and hydrocarbon at the surface.
• A tail of ionized nitrogen plasma blows in the solar wind from Pluto, extending 68,000 miles into space. New Horizons team estimated this tail is the result of solar winds stripping as much as 500 tons per hour of Pluto’s atmosphere. This is far more energetic than anything they expected to find. Mars was found to have a plasma tail carrying an estimated 1-ton per hour of material, in spite of its proximity to the sun.

" 

None of this makes sense unless Pluto is young.

Wal Thornhill skewers modern cosmology.

Health Care

Female gaming characters are hot, not bulimic.

Local

Socialists love some Chamade students are working to end hunger in a travesty waste of resources. If you want to end hunger, become a farmer.

Economic fallacy: splurging, i.e. consuming, on weddings doesn't help the economy.

Huber Heights mayor refuses to sign councilmen's travel requests. Good for him.

War

The US isn't taking sides in the Shia-Shiite civil war. It fomented the war and it exploits the war.

Foreign Policy

Now we're supposed to be scared Russia has satellites than can be weapons like the US.

Without irony, government uses government hack as excuse for bigger government.

Environment

Bees at record numbers.

Bee die-off a hoax.

NASA GISS incorporates NOAA's corrupt data.

Economy

Cars hacked through entertainment system. NSA thanks you for your discovery.

All smartwatches are a security risk. Everything attached to the internet is a security risk. NSA is probably behind the concept.

Proving the infantilization of people continues, study shows contactless cards are insecure. It's like transmitting information in the open across distances has consequences. Who would have thought?

I'm confused by this claim that government taxation is counted twice in the GDP calculation, but I agree we should only worry about what's left in private hands. 

War on Drugs

Ohio's marijuana legalization backers threaten to sue officials for illegally invalidating signatures.

Politics

McCain covered up evidence of POWs remaining in Vietnam.

Racism is a self-serving, fluid, political concept, not a definition.

Clinton and Obama allies begin whitewash criminal investigation into Hillary's emails to allow her to play the victim of a right-wing conspiracy.

Immigration

Obama's executive orders grant amnesty to nine million illegal immigrants.

Illegal immigrant crime spree in Texas since Obama took office.

War

Armed citizens protect military recruiters, and in response the Pentagon orders recruiters to report them to the police.

Economy

Caterpillar sales signal a global depression.

Google's market cap record warns the bubble may be about to burst.

"Google’s record market cap gain on Friday was actually a squeaker. At $66.9 billion it easily passed in one day the entire $50 billion market cap of Caterpillar’s global heavy machinery and engine franchise built up over a century. But only by a hair did it best Cisco’s $66.0 billion gain on April 17, 2000.
But perish the thought that Friday’s fireworks had any resemblance to the shooting star act of Cisco and hundreds of other tech high-flyers 15 years ago or the epic bloodbath that commenced shortly thereafter.
Then again, something was going on with the GOOG beyond the fundamentals. Notwithstanding that Google is one of the most fantastic value creating enterprises on the planet, there was nothing in Friday’s earnings report for Q2 that warranted a 16% re-rating of its market cap."

That's what happens with every tech bubble.

Environment

Al Gore's prediction that Arctic ice would disappear by 2014 was wrong.

Prediction that el Nino will be a big one. If so, it probably will make the year the hottest on record.

Police State

Congress restricting passports to keep Americans from escaping.

Israel to imprison stone throwers for 20 years.

Regulation

Taxi and limo drivers sue Uber for $410 million in Ontario.

New York's rulers buy votes by raising minimum wage to $15. There goes New York's economy.

Environment

Arctic expedition suspended because of too much ice.

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Armed private citizens are showing up at military recruiting centers to protect the military. Upside-down world for benefit this time.

Police State

Context and concern that NSA can hack and crash cars.

Misc

Carbon-dating inaccurate because of modern carbon.

Freedom of Speech

The government can kill critics by hacking their cars.

Local

Foley's fellow commissioners reject his power grab.

Politics

Congress uses hack of Office of Personnel Management as an excuse to pass CISA, the latest version of the super-cyber-spying bill it's tried to pass several times before though it would do nothing to stop such hacks. More. More. More.

Socialism

Corruption in Obamaphone program.

Tax and Spend

With this punitive Greek deal, Europe's rulers are destroying the euro, supposedly to save it.

"Now no one in their right mind could think that lending another $96 billion to an utterly bankrupt country makes any sense whatsoever. After all, the Greek economy has shrunk by 30% since 2008 and is wreathing under what is objectively a $400 billion public debt already in place today."

This is about survival for the rulers.

"So even before the latest dose of Troika economic punishment further debilitates its economy, Greece at this very moment has a de facto public debt of $400 billion sitting atop $200 billion of GDP." 

Punishment is the key observation.

"No, the problem is the rampaging printing press of the ECB. The latter has fundamentally falsified the price of debt, and thereby unleashed throughout Europe a deadly brew of phony economic growth in the early years and then egregious fiscal profligacy when the growth bubble cratered after the 2008 crisis."

No surprise.

Planned Parenthood received over half a billion tax dollars annually.

Environment

The declining economy is the primary factor in US CO2 emissions reductions.

Arctic ice extent growing.

The military has dumped tons of unexploded bombs including mustard gas off the US coast.

Police State

Former NSA hacker hacks into Jeep and crashes it.

I don't need a study to tell me FBI hacks are corrupt, but I'm happy it's being publicized.

Health Care

Woman born with HIV in remission despite no treatment for 12 years. This questions the HIV-AIDS hypothesis.

Economy

New corporate headquarters could signal a top in the stock market, similar to the skyscraper index.

Apple shares fall farther.

Thanks to Obama and his central bankers, more Americans live in poverty than after the official recession. Especially blacks and Hispanics.

Thank the Fed for the new real estate bubble.

"Rates are low, the weather is hot, and builders are more active than they’ve been in years. “Groundbreakings on new homes surged 26.6% and permits to build new homes rose 30% in June compared to one year ago, the U.S. Commerce Department said Friday,” reports Forbes. Housing construction hasn’t seen this kind of action in eight years.
Nevermind that median income has gone nowhere for two decades except down the last seven years. Plus, plenty of scar tissue remains from the housing crash with nearly 16.5 million homes vacant and over five million homeowners still underwater."

Insane.

War

Even though the Afghan war is supposedly over, US troops bombed friendly Afghan troops, killing ten.

Foreign Policy

While discussing the Iranian deal, Pat Buchanan seems to be in denial that the US is already allied with ISIS and al Qaeda in Syria.

Ron Paul praises the Iranian deal.

Politics

The characteristics of serial killers sound a lot like politicians.

If Mormons were liberal, polygamy would quickly be legalized.

McCain implicated in Vietnam POW cover-up.

Veteran attacks McCain. Trump made McCain's hero card a campaign issue.

Europeans want to leave the EU and the eurozone.

Police State

NSA teaches children to hack computers at camps. What could go wrong?

Tax and Spend

Punitive EU rulers are intentionally punishing Greeks.

"There are few parts of the Greek economy left untouched by the steep increase in the sales tax from 13 to 23 percent. The new rates have been imposed on basic goods, from cooking oil to condoms, as well as to popular services, such as taxi rides, eating out at restaurants and ferry transport to the Greek islands."

This will crush the tourist industry.

Puerto Rico on verge of default.

Foreign Policy

Obama bribes Netanyahu to drop resistance to Iran deal with a 50 percent increase in military aid.

David Stockman approves of the Iranian deal.

The State Department is stonewalling FOIA requests.

Health Care

Birth defects linked to solar cycle.

Environment

NOAA continues rolling with claim June was hottest June ever.

First half of year was hottest ever.

Another explanation for the pause. Apparently the authors didn't get the memo that NOAA erased it.

Socialism

Ohio's road work zones are dangerous.

"An average of nearly one crash occurred in state construction zones every two hours on Ohio roadways last year, leading to more than 1,000 injuries and 17 deaths."

But the government loves road construction.

An 'A' rated bridge collapses in California.

Education

The feds plan to take over charter and private schools which receive federal money. Just say no to federal money.

Economy

The fake rape profiteers don't like consent app.

Apple fights back, claiming Watch owners are more satisfied than the first iPhone owners. Or Apple could be lying. The difference here is the iPhone was the first of its kind. The Watch is not. It can compared to others.

Speculators drive down gold price after China reports less than expected stocks, but could be lying.

Robots will take jobs, but that will make us all richer.

People won't riot. They'll be too rich.

War on Drugs

Marijuana legalization backers fail to get enough signatures in Ohio. These guys aren't doing a good job. I haven't seen one petition.

War

Because of bureaucratic red tape, the military is overpaying for satellite communications.

Lockheed-Martin to buy Sikorsky.

Misc

Philae lander silent for eleven days.

If a molecular transistor can reliably manipulate single electrons, what happened to quantum uncertainty, tunneling, particle-wave duality, and other supposed quantum effects?

Smithsonian crowd-sources funds to save Neil Armstrong's spacesuit instead of using tax dollars. The whole Smithsonian should be crowd-sourced.

War

Video claims a fighter jet brought down MH17, then the rebels downed the fighter.

Environment

Another prediction that snow will disappear.

Economy

Apple patents snooping on your bank account balance.

Tax and Spend

Compare this private sector attempt mine an asteroid to NASA's $700 million boondoggle that returned nothing but a couple of sad T-Shirts.

Environment

Global warming frauds use rejected forecasting methods.

"With Scott Armstrong, I had published a paper evaluating the procedures that the IPCC were relying on for their scenarios of future dangerous warming[1]. We found that the procedures violated 72 out of 89 relevant evidence-based forecasting principles.

Gore is losing notional bet.

Politics

The illegality of the Nixon administration is now legally business as usual.

Police State

UK wants to increase jail time from two years to ten years. IP laws have always been illegitimate, but they've gone nuts.

Local

Richmond cop chased himself into a crash and was injured.

Health Care

The FDA's oxycontin is the hottest selling narcotic in history.

Tax and Spend

Municipal pensions underfunded by $1 trillion and growing.

Immigration

California happily issues half of new drivers licenses to illegal immigrants.

Economy

Apple to declare biggest annual profit ever despite problems. Houses with termites look great until they fall down.

Google's one day rally biggest in history.

Local

Welfare and other government programs destroyed west Dayton.

"More than $783M spent in public and private investment since 2001, city says."

The solution is to stop the welfare and other government programs. This would change the trajectory of west Dayton overnight.

"The city’s west side lacks opportunities, basic amenities like a grocery store and a block-by-block vision for growth that addresses inequality and blight, critics said."

No central plan will help.

Trotwood cop had sex while on duty.

Reduced funding blamed for reduced road paving.

Politics

Government and its corporate agents pay people to lie and attack truth-tellers on the internet. We already knew Obama's leftist Twitter trolls were fake.

War

Evidence MH17 was destroyed over Ukraine by an Israeli Python air-to-air missile.

Regulation

AI pioneer jumps on dangerous AI bandwagon.

Regulation has hindered, but not yet crashed, the economy.

"Regulation is to entrepreneurs as putting barbed wire on a banister is to keeping grandma from sliding down; it slows her down but doesn’t stop her."

Great quote.

Environment

Global warming is the lowest concern for people in UN poll.

Sorry NOAA, the pause continues.

"But what Michaels and others say is more problematic is the growing divergence between NOAA’s new temperature data versus satellite data and records from the UK Met Office. NOAA’s data shows significantly more warming than Met Office or satellite records."

NOAA's gone rogue.

Wildfires in Greece are suspicious.

Socialism

After stealing the land from white farmers, trashing the economy, Zimbabwe's government wants to give it back fifteen years later. That won't magically solve Zimbabwe's problems.

Foreign Policy

Netanyahu's silly response to Iran deal.

"Secondly, since the Iran deal isn’t a treaty but rather an executive agreement, the President doesn’t even need the consent of Congress: what our solons will be voting on is a Republican-sponsored measure of disapproval. That measure will have new sanctions attached to it, and yet even if it does garner a super-majority, Israel’s amen corner will have scored a hollow victory, since no other countries will honor those sanctions, including especially the other signatories (Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and China). This will merely underscore our weakness in the face of international opinion."

That gives Obama the power to veto.

"The real locus of Israel’s assault on the Vienna accord will take place over the coming months – and years – during which time they’ll be improving their intelligence capabilities in an effort to ferret out violations (or, rather, trumped up charges of violations) on Iran’s part. Accusations that Iran has violated the agreement won’t come directly from Israeli sources: Bibi’s bag men in the US and British media will be the preferred conduit, and we can expect the first fusillades shortly."

They've already started.

Republicans are cornered by Iran deal.

"They agreed to cut their centrifuges by two-thirds, to eliminate 98 percent of their uranium, to halt production of 20 percent uranium at Fordow, to convert the heavy-water reactor at Arak that produces plutonium to a light water reactor that produces one kilogram a year, and to let cameras in and give U.N. inspectors the run of their nuclear facilities.
And how is Israel, with hundreds of atom bombs, mortally imperiled by a deal that leaves Iran with not a single ounce of bomb-grade uranium?" 

It doesn't, but there's money to be made by attacking Iran.

Police State

Shutting down Darkode will have no effect on hackers.

List of ticket quota events show ticket quotas are cops' worst kept secret.

Federal Reserve

Cashlessness growing faster in Europe.

Germany, not Greece, should exit the eurozone.

Media

National Journal suspends weekly print magazine.

Politics

Of course donors give to both Bush and Clinton.

Clinton spends millions to drop in polls.

Trump leads Republicans.

Education

Fed study claims federal student loans increased tuition but didn't increase enrollment.

This contrasts with claim student loans create demand for useless degrees.

Federal Reserve

QE changed investing patterns, creating a bubble in oil that may pop and wipe out fixed income seniors.

Local

Activists urge county commissioners to intervene in Dayton's water regulation debate. They already want to take over Dayton government, so why not? In fact, this seems ready-made to promote Foley's plan.

Yellow Springs police officer who took phone from bystander recording arrest acquitted.

War

Ukraine is the mess Victoria Nuland made with Obama's blessing.

"Then, on Saturday, violent clashes broke out in the western Ukrainian town of Mukachevo, allegedly over the control of cigarette-smuggling routes. Right Sektor paramilitaries sprayed police officers with bullets from a belt-fed machinegun, and police – backed by Ukrainian government troops – returned fire. Several deaths and multiple injuries were reported.
Tensions escalated on Monday with President Petro Poroshenko ordering national security forces to disarm “armed cells” of political movements. Meanwhile, the Right Sektor dispatched reinforcements to the area while other militiamen converged on the capital of Kiev.
While President Poroshenko and Right Sektor leader Dmitry Yarosh may succeed in tamping down this latest flare-up of hostilities, they may be only postponing the inevitable: a conflict between the U.S.-backed authorities in Kiev and the neo-Nazis and other right-wing fighters who spearheaded last year’s coup and have been at the front lines of the fighting against ethnic Russian rebels in the east." 

Lovely.

Government failure as terrorists kills Marines at Tennessee military base.

Foreign Policy

The CIA staged a coup in Syria in 1949 and in Iran in 1953. How's that worked out for us? More on that Iranian coup.

Environment

Ahead of Paris climate summit, NOAA keeps repeating its 2014 warmest ever and 2015 on track to be warmest ever meme based on its corrupt data set.

More NOAA lies.

Claim the missing heat is hiding in the oceans ready to start another warming trend.

Study links solar wind to ocean currents.

Misc

Scientists grow sperm in a lab, inseminate mice. This is the man-haters dream.

Why does a dinosaur have feathered wings if not for flight?

Tax and Spend

Other factors besides Greek debt caused the crisis.

Greeks blame cruel Germans.

As a reward for capitulating, Greece gets mini-bailout and will re-open banks next week.

Greek PM still faces ouster.

IMF demands other European countries give tax money to Greece in fiscal union.

Like Greece, Puerto Rico is collapsing from socialism nearer to home.

Rome on verge of collapse.

"Buried under 14 billion euros ($15.5 billion) of debt, Rome was saved from bankruptcy last year by emergency state funds."

Same socialist story.

$700 million for a couple pictures of Pluto.

Federal Reserve

The Fed ignores congressional subpoena.

Environment

NOAA changes the temperature record again then claims May was the hottest May ever.

NASA GISS adopts NOAA's corrupt sea surface data.

Health Care

CAFOs spread superbugs.

Planned Parenthood sells dead baby parts. Media tries to downplay and dismiss report.

In a big kiss-up to Big Ag, congressional committee bans mandatory labeling of GMOs.

Tax and Spend

Greece's biggest problem is anti-capitalist culture.

Greek Parliament passes new, more crippling austerity, I think it's punishment, measure amidst Molotov cocktails.

Police State

Woman sues to discover why DHS detains and interrogates her every time she re-enters the country.

War

Jade Helm starts today.

"While the Twitterverse is teeming with Jade Helm commentary, you probably won’t be hearing a whole lot about it from the military. Officials say residents will see little if any of the activity, and military news releases are, ahem, unburdened by an abundance of elaboration."

Unburdened.

Iran blamed for 500 US casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Local

Outside group blamed for Foley's power grab of Dayton. Is Foley being funded by an outside group?

Drone ad running locally.

Sports

Hypocrisy about the best player in my lifetime, Pete Rosel

"Last week, former major league pitcher Curt Schilling expressed disappointment over how Rose seems to overshadow some of baseball's biggest moments."

MLB created that problem, not Pete. Let the greatest hitter in history in the Hall of Fame. I feel stupid just saying it.

Foreign Policy

G5+1 signs nuclear agreement with Iran. More.

Politics

Legislating against offensive behavior, speech and symbols is not consistent with freedom, but it buys votes.

Economy

Leftists have created a bubble in bicycles.

Robots increase productivity. They don't reduce it as modern Luddites claim.

Robots increase productivity in contrast to claims by Luddites.

Health Care

VA waits kill veterans.

"More than 238,000 of the 847,000 veterans in the pending backlog for health care through the Department of Veterans Affairs have already died, according to an internal VA document provided to The Huffington Post."

That's socialized medicine for you.

More on California's forced vaccination law.

More evidence fluoridation doesn't prevent cavities.

Tax and Spend

Greek excesses.

"In a system where bonuses can add 5 to 1,300 euros to a monthly paycheck, some civil servants are paid extra for using a computer. Some get a bonus for speaking a foreign language and others for arriving at work on time, while many foresters get a bonus for working outdoors. All Greek public and private sector workers get 14 monthly salary payments a year, a structure aimed at keeping basic monthly salaries, and the pensions that are based on them, low.

Half a month’s extra salary is paid at Easter and another half during the summer. The 14th salary is paid to civil servants at Christmas when the whole economy is geared to consuming it."

Yet we're told Greeks share little responsibility in their plight.

This is one of the few guys who blames Greece, not its enablers, for Greece's problem.

Prediction that because of open transgender military, people will join to get sex change operations paid for by taxpayers. It won't be long.

Socialism

If not for the socialist monopoly on roads, improvements like plastic would have been implemented long ago.

Misc

Scientists surprised to find Pluto is bigger than thought and is rapidly losing its atmosphere. So much for being old.

Walter Williams on the States' power of secession and the Civil War.

Environment

Global warming meets the war on men.

Police State

The Turing phone claims to be unhackable and unbreakable.I"m skeptical, and NSA is too.

New police state laws in Spain.

Immigration

127 unaccompanied illegal immigrant children caught per day at border in June.

Misc

When trucks stop delivering, society will rapidly collapse.

Socialism

Few use public transport even when it's "free".

"The main benefits the city hoped to gain from such a dynamic move were to reduce carbon emissions and road congestion, ease access to jobs for the lower-income and unemployed, and expand mobility and social inclusion."

Socialism creates those problems. It doesn't solve them.

Regulation

Class action suit challenges copyright of "Happy Birthday".

Local

3-D printing at five local library branches.

War

Claim that intelligence agencies warned Obama about ISIS and Obama remained silent can't be reconciled with overwhelming evidence the US supplied, trained and armed ISIS, practically creating it.

"Why would America allow the metastasis of the very terrorist force it was committed to cauterizing? America does whatever it wants. So, if it did not oppose ISIS, it’s because it did not want to oppose ISIS. And, if it did not want to oppose ISIS, it’s because, somehow, the ISIS advance was consistent with American interests in the region."

Exactly.

11.6 million refuges in Syria.

Much like the war on drugs, no matter how many terrorists they kill in drone attacks, terrorism gets worse.

"As it happens, almost 13 years later, there are just one or two little problems with this scenario of American techno-wizardry pummeling terrorism into the dust of history. One is that, despite the many individuals bumped off, the dust cloud of terrorism keeps on growing. Across much of the Greater Middle East and northern Africa, the drone assassination program continues to act like a recruitment poster for a bevy of terror outfits. In every country (with the possible exception of Somalia) where U.S. drone strikes have been repeatedly employed, the situation is far worse today than in 2001.  In the two countries where it all began, Afghanistan and Yemen, it’s significantly – in the case of Yemen, infinitely – worse." 

This is about the myth of the kingpin.

Police State

Bartender who threatened to poison Boehner found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Son of Boston police captain arrested on suspicion of terrorism. I bet his dad terrorized more people during the Boston lockdown than his son.

TSA forces truckers to get TSA licenses.

War on Drugs

When Mexican drug kingpins are captured, nothing changes, and nothing will change because this one escaped, again.

Health Care

This post decrying the search for cures instead of ongoing treatments for disease is one of the stupidest I can remember. All the US system does is treat disease. It never cures it. It doesn't want to cure it.

Big Pharma drugs change mood. Statins make women angry.

Taxpayers forced to pay death panel doctors to recommend people die.

Economy

Of course automakers want to profit from spy car data.

Facebook fastest company to $250 billion market cap.

Politics

Obama commutes sentences of 46 nonviolent drug offenders. Good for him.

"Monday’s 46 commutations mark the most in a single day since at least the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Obama has now commuted the sentences of 89 people, surpassing the combined number of commutations granted by presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush."

That small number is scandalous.

Tax and Spend

Greek rulers betray voters and accept another terrible bailout deal. What else would you expect from a ruler who was being threatened with a coup and assassination right after he saw the US and Europe implement a coup in Ukraine and nearly implement one in Macedonia?

"To Germany and other nations that went into the negotiations fed up with Greece’s inability to get its financial act together, the outcome was fair and the new requirements necessary to assure that the Athens government lives up to its commitments. But to some Greeks, and to critics of the German-led policy of imposing deep budget austerity as a condition for aid, the deal amounted to an unwarranted violation of Greece’s sovereignty."

This deal is a transfer of wealth from European taxpayers to other European taxpayers since the bankers have already protected themselves. This deal may not fly because...

"European leaders have “kicked the ball back to Athens,” Jorg Kramer, chief economist at Commerzbank in Frankfurt, wrote in a research note. “Greece has to pass numerous, unexpectedly tough reform laws before negotiations about a third bailout program can start.”"

Voters won't like that. I really doubt this is less bad for Greece than an exit.

The Greece crisis is far from over.

Record federal taxes collected through June.

Environment

Storms caused by global warming increase global warming by forcing planes to fly longer. Apparently winds always blow against planes, never with them. The effect is supposedly due to a residual effect where the speedup of flights with the wind is slightly less than the slowdown of flights into the wind. Thinking about it, higher winds would affect both northern and southern flights more than lower winds because planes would have to deflect their course more to counteract the wind either way.

The prediction of the sun going to sleep has advanced from 2030 to 2020.

Federal Reserve

Greece isn't running out of euros because the ECB is starving it. It's running out of euros because it doesn't produce anything people want to buy with euros.

Greek rulers declare six months of cash controls to save lenders. Why should the taxpayers be robbed to save the lenders?

Greeks surprised their no vote didn't gain them a free lunch.

Politics

Offensive Confederate item.

Clintons to be deposed for lawsuit alleging criminal conspiracy.

War

If you believed Obama's claim the war in Afghanistan was over, the 25 victims of a bomb blast outside a US base should convince you otherwise.

Environment

No consequences for climate frauds.

"n Aesop’s story of the boy who cried wolf the consequences included him losing his sheep and his credibility, even if he later told the truth. Today, environmental and climate alarmists who cry wolf don’t lose anything. There is no accountability. In fact, they continue to have credibility, keep their jobs and receive funding as millions of others suffer in a multitude of ways. Failed climate predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) continue as the basis for regulations and policies, that profoundly affect thousands of people’s lives. What is happening confirms H.L. Mencken’s observation,

“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars: the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”

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No kidding.

Science magazines revives the hiatus. NOAA got rid of it, not Science.

Misc

Corruption in economic science.

Tax and Spend

Welfare for feeding children is just another way to steal taxpayer money.

Regulation

A handful of Uber drivers are using the courts to try and force the rest to become employees, not contractors.

War on Drugs

Heroin failure.

Education

Portland school declares peanut butter and jelly sandwiches racist.

Media

Journalists don't want FOIA requests to be public. They want to be paid gatekeepers. This is a smart way to reduce requests.

Police State

UK considers legislation banning end-to-end encryption.

Nice essay explaining the danger of the surveillance state and things you can do to protect yourself.

Health Care

By removing competition, government transformed our health care system into a sickness care system.

Education

Ohio's worst schools are really bad.

Bill promises two years of community college paid for by taxpayers.  This would be a serious drain on the economy as people put off entering the work force for two years.

Regulation

Seattle's minimum wage hike is forcing marginal businesses out of business.

Socialism

Federal buildings in California caught wasting lots of water.

Federal Reserve

Mealy-mouthed Yellen warns of rate hike this year, but she can't be sure.

Tax and Spend

Petulant bankers act like children because Greece's rulers won't do as they're told.

Official federal debt pushes 103 percent of GDP.

War

Citizens organize to monitor military personnel in Jade Helm.

While he doesn't expect it to happen, thank goodness, expert says now is a good time to launch a nuclear first strike against Russia.

Immigration

Decentralization will improve the immigration problem.

Illegal immigrants supposedly benefit the welfare system.

"The benefit multiplies over the long haul. As the baby boomers retire, the post-boom generation’s burden to finance their retirement is greatly alleviated by undocumented immigrants. Stephen Goss, chief actuary for the Social Security Administration, told me that undocumented workers contribute about $15 billion a year to Social Security through payroll taxes. They only take out $1 billion (very few undocumented workers are eligible to receive benefits). Over the years, undocumented workers have contributed up to $300 billion, or nearly 10 percent, of the $2.7 trillion Social Security Trust Fund."

That's not all there is to welfare.