Thursday, April 30, 2015

Socialism

Water crisis barely impacts Hollywood.

Lake Mead hits landmark low level.

After 40 years, FAA upgrades new traffic control system, and it's twice as good.
"The FAA said the Lockheed Martin-developed ERAM systems “uses nearly two million lines of computer code to process critical data for controllers, including aircraft identity, altitude, speed, and flight path. The system almost doubles the number of flights that can be tracked and displayed to controllers.”"
During the same time, computers have become thousands of times better.

Health Care

Biggest bird flu outbreak in US history not controlled by CDC.

Tax and Spend

Saudis burning through foreign reserves.

Soros is another big lib who loves taxes for others because he doesn't pay them.

Regulation

New regulations force zoos to let their elephant populations die out, making them more endangered.

Misc

Egotistical human scientists surprised monkeys can effectively crack nuts using tools.

Study provides support for Peter Principle. Duh. We've all seen it.

Local

Let's take away police guns and replace them with paint brushes.

Police State

Air Marshal tells the truth about TSA's pseudo-services.
"A current air marshal opined [to Clay] … that TSA is suffering from “a need to justify its existence, and a further need to find reasons to increase its budget.” The air marshal added, “it seemed like every time TSA was up for budgetary funding, we began doing more special mission coverage or VIPR missions.”
The evidence seems to suggest TSA will continue feeding the US population with a fear campaign at every opportunity, however unfounded their messages may be."
The same is true for all government.

Baltimore cops were ordered to stand down while rioters destroyed the place.

Police van carrying soon-to-be-dead prisoner made a secret stop.

Police misrepresent statement from other prisoner in the van.

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Economy

The Reagan recovery versus the Obama non-recovery.

Immigration

Disney replaces hundreds of IT workers with foreigners.

Tax and Spend

Over 30 percent of eurozone debt, over 2 trillion euros, is trading at negative interest rates.

6,400 new Lois Lerner emails recovered, but nobody has gone to jail for perjury.

Environment

The spoils system is thriving in the global warming fraud but also pretty everywhere government goes.

How about some electricity for Africa?

Another temperature record shows an 18 year pause.

Jerry Brown unilaterally orders big CO2 cuts by 2030.

War

How the government's policy of drone assassination backfired.

Police State

CNN reporter criticized for telling the truth about another facet of militarization of police.
"'And a lot of these young people… and I love our nation's veterans, but some of them are coming back from war, they don't know the communities and they're ready to do battle.' "
You can't say that even though it's obviously true.

Erosion of property rights led to the problems in Baltimore.

As the riots in Baltimore show once again, socialist police either can't or won't protect people and property.

Regulation

Music industry lobbying campaign produced extended copyright for music in Canada.

Massachusetts wants to regulate ride-sharing to make it super-expensive and greatly reduce the number of drivers.

When, not if, governments outlaw secure apps, only criminals will have secure apps.

Politics

This supposed map of racism based on searching using the N-word is ridiculous since black people use the N-word far more than whites. However, I agree that race is much bigger problem in Ohio and the Northeast than in the south.

Misc

Comet 67P unmagnetized.

Neanderthal tools were comparable to human tools of the same period. Another egoistic idea falls.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Environment

Global warming frauds are invariable hypocrites. The Guardian is one for promoting divesting pensions from fossil fuels while its pension fund holds fossil fuels.

War on Drugs

Cop explains why the war on drugs leads to oppression of minorities.
"[Interviewer] “So it was racially motivated?
“In most cases I don’t think it was. It’s just easier to bust those guys. You give me a squad of narcs and drug dogs, and we’ll go to some affluent white community. I can walk down the streets sniffing cars, do some knock-and-talks, and I assure you we’ll come across some marijuana parties. I guarantee I can come out of there with some drug arrests. But after the first day, after the mayor’s phone rings off the hook—that’s the end of that operation.”"
Exactly.

Politics

Runaway liberalism in Maryland has left Baltimore in flames.

Health Care

Feds reduce recommended fluoride levels in water. That poison should be eliminated.

Monday, April 27, 2015

War

The people in Bastrop aren't happy about Jade Helm 15 training. They're not paranoid.

Police State

Gangs team up in Baltimore to defend against police.

Environment

The demonization of CO2 is the new attack by Malthusians because of the failed population predictions of the past.

Federal Reserve

Swiss bank refused cash withdrawal from demand deposit by pension fund manager.

Foreign Policy

I'm also skeptical Russian hackers hacked Obama's unclassified emails. It's a convenient story for the warmongers.

Putin documents how US intelligence supported terrorists in Chechnya.

Somebody purged the Clinton Benghazi emails before leaking them to CNN.

Tax and Spend

No matter how many times we're told Greece is going to run out of money, Greece keeps on going as do negotiations.

Regulation

Thanks minimum wage and child labor laws for robots picking fruit.

Economy

Apple sports watch shatters when dropped.

Apple shares jump on iPhone and Chinese sales.

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Economy

The wealth of the super-rich doubled since the financial crisis.

It's nice of the Department of Energy to allow US natural gas producers to become big exporters.

Strong dollar hurting US exporters including Apple.

War

Former UN envoy to Yemen says political deal was close until the Saudis attacked. If true, they Saudis must not have liked the deal.

Health Care

Superbug terrorizing hospital Kate Middleton plans to have her baby at. They've chosen the private wing of a socialist hospital. It probably doens't have a superbug problem.

Environment

Panel to investigate manipulation of surface temperature data.

That panel's job is to whitewash the corruption of the temperature record.

Politics

How Bill Gates and foreigners use US think tanks to produce favorable laws.

Police State

Declassified report questions effectiveness of NSA spying, but spying continues.

Media

Sharyl Attkisson explains how government and corporations control the news.

NBC leaked eleven lies by Brian Williams to shame into taking a $30 million golden parachute. Must be nice.

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Politics

Republican leaders punishing small-government Republicans by cutting off their funds. This is how it works. If you don't promote big government, you get ousted by the establishment.

Health Care

The anti-vaccine story playbook.

Police State

More evidence the Oklahoma City bombing was an FBI sting operation gone wrong.

More on FBI lab corruption.

Local

Power out in Preble.

I thought Rose music center wasn't going to compete with the Fraze.

Economy

US capital spending drops for seventh straight month.

P&G cutting 6,000 jobs.

Stock markets may have peaked. Or maybe not.

Regulation

Resistance from FCC and DOJ doom Comcast-Time Warner merger. Can't say I'm unhappy.

Media

More Brain Williams lies.

Friday, April 24, 2015

Local

Students demand police records.

ODOT to destroy great, old building.

Politics

Straight Pride posters quickly removed at Youngstown State University. This is blowback from government intervention.

War

Claim that Yemen's Houthis are proxies for Iran are greatly exaggerated.
"Like most popular myths the dominant narrative of the Houthi movement as Iranian proxy in Yemen is based on a kernel of truth: the Houthis share the Iranians’ dim views of American intentions in the Middle East and have sought to take advantage of the Hezbollah model to enhance their political-military effectiveness. "
I should have figured that.
"The Houthis built up their military forces from virtually nothing to as many 100,000 troops today through a series of six wars with Yemeni government troops. In the process they have not only become much better trained, but have acquired a vast pool of arms from Yemen’s black market. A United Nations Experts’ report earlier this year cites estimates that Yemen is awash with 40 to 60 million weapons. The Houthis were also getting a continuing stream of modern arms directly from corrupt Yemeni military commanders from 2004 through 2010. "
Oops.
"And in their eagerness to conform to the general theme of an Iran vs. US-Saudi proxy war in Yemen, the media’s treatment of alleged Iranian arms to the Houthis has ignored the fact that the Houthis had forged an alliance by early 2014 with a far larger source of arms: former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. It was that alliance that propelled the Houthis into power last September, not their ties with Iran."
The US overthrew Saleh in a coup. Iran is a convenient scapegoat.
"In the process, the Houthis acquired a new bonanza of weapons that had been provided by the United States over the previous eight years. According to Pentagon documents acquired under the Freedom of Information Act by Joseph Trevithick, the Defense Department had delivered about $500 million in military hardware to the Yemeni military from 2006 on. The gusher of new US arms included Russian-made helicopters, more than 100 Humvees with the latest armor packages, 100s of pickup trucks, rocket propelled grenades, advanced radios, night vision goggles and millions of rounds of ammunition. "
This would be funny if it wasn't getting people killed.

Pat Buchanan questions why the US is involved in the Yemeni civil war.

War on Drugs

More on DEA orgy scandal.

Economy

Hard work is not sufficient for economic success.

Google Fi was launched way long ago, so it is ahead of its competitors.

Foreign Policy

More on Hillary Clinton selling favors through speaking fees and Foundation donations.
"An attempt to corner the uranium market in the US through a Canadian-owned company, Uranium One, involves more than $35 million “donated” to the Clinton Foundation by one of the principals, as well as Bill Clinton’s personal intervention on the company’s behalf in order to secure mining rights from the dictator of Kazakhstan. Frank Giustra, then head of Uranium One, “donated” an additional $100 million to the Clinton Foundation: in return, his company, which had never been a player in Kazakhstan’s uranium-rich market, was catapulted to the top tier of global energy producers. Giustra sold off his stake in the company in 2007, garnering tens of millions in the process.
The company was sold off to Rosatom, a Russian state-owned enterprise, in three transactions, a process that should have triggered oversight by a high-level government watchdog agency that monitors the acquisition of strategic resources by foreign governments. As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton must have played a key role in giving Washington’s imprimatur to the sales, and it’s clear from the record that the buyers made a concerted effort to influence her through huge donations to both the Foundation and the Clinton family’s personal bank account."
It's good to be the king.
"Is Russia going to get a “monopoly” on uranium worldwide? That’s highly unlikely, if not utterly impossible, and yet what this whole episode underscores is that government controls on who can own what only ensure that those who are boldest about bribery ultimately succeed in getting their mitts on the goods: regulations devised to supposedly ensure “national security” wind up achieving the exact opposite."
Exactly.
"Word is out that the Clinton Foundation is revising its 990s – the forms nonprofits must submit that show their sources of income. This is a tacit admission that everything that’s about to come out in the Schweizer book is largely true, not to mention the investigative reporting that’s been done by Reuters and others. "
So the Clintons are scrubbing them clean.
"So the question now is: will they get away with it? My guess is: yes. That’s because, as I’ve just shown, American foreign policy has been the instrument of the corporate class since the turn of the last century. This is what empires are all about – and, as imperiums go, ours is in a class of corruption all by itself."
They'll get away with it, but I doubt Hillary will get elected.

German spies assisted NSA in spying against Germans and Europeans.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Politics

Ten Republicans confirm Obama's latest radical leftist AG nominee.

Bruce Jenner tells tslking head, "I am a woman."

Environment

Snow in 23 states.

Federal Reserve

Deutsche Bank accepts $2.5 billion fine for manipulating interest rates, whatever that means. It also agrees to fire scapegoats.
"We must remember that markets do not just manipulate themselves: It takes deliberate wrongdoing by individuals."
What does that mean?

Socialism

Secret Service delayed over a year to fix an alarm at Bush the Elder's home.

Foreign Policy

Petraeus' sentence might be light, but he was prosecuted for corruption nobody is prosecuted for.

Putin allies paid Clinton Foundation, and Hillary allowed Russian company to corner the market on uranium.
"Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well."
That's convenient.
"And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock. "
When the New York Times publishes truth about Clinton, you know she's in trouble.

Fraud discovered at Clinton Foundation. What a surprise.

Republicans may slip Benghazi report into 2016 to further hamper Hillary. Republicans don't care about Benghazi any more than Clinton, Obama and Democrats.

Tracking Hillary's use of fake accents all over the country.

China warns of growing North Korea nuclear arsenal. China. They made it possible.

Environment

More predictions from earth day 1970 include global cooling and running out of oil.

War

Obama apologizes for killing American and Italian hostage in drone strike.
""As president and as commander in chief, I take full responsibility for all our counterterrorism operations," including the one that inadvertently took the lives of the two captives, a grim-faced Obama said in a statement to reporters in the White House briefing room."
Is he resigning? Did he fire anybody? What does taking responsibility mean?

Pentagon denies Russian allegation of US troops in eastern Ukraine.

The Saudi's war on Yemen is causing the price of oil to rise. That's an ulterior motive.

How war in Libya launched the human refuge boat crisis.
"The “indigenous, pre-Arab inhabitants of North Africa,” Berbers, as they are known in the West, have long since had a hand in human trafficking. As part of an agreement he made with Silvio Berlusconi’s government, “Col. Gadhafi had agreed to crack down on the trade in people.” For prior to the dissolution of Libya at the behest of Barack Obama’s Amazon women warriors – Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice and Samantha Power – Libya had a navy. Under the same accord with the Berlusconi government (and for a pretty penny), Gadhafi’s admiralty stemmed the tide of migrants into Europe."
Oops.

Local

17 months to upgrade intersection.

Misc

Scientists surprised by stellar explosion. At least the article doesn't say it shouldn't exist.

Global telescope array to image Milky Way's center in hopes of seeing the event horizon of a black hole. I predict scientists will be surprised.

Second, 4x bigger Yellowstone super-volcano magma chamber discovered.

Health Care

Blood tests without needles.

Economy

ITunes stops working for Windows XP users.

IWatch launch suggests poor demand.
Thanks to sales of pickups and SUVs, GM's profit was eight times higher than in Q1 2014.

Ford lays off 700 workers making small cars, electrics and hybrids.

Police State

Galaxy S5 leaks fingerprints. You know NSA is collecting them.

Researcher documents how trivial it is to bypass OS X security, just the way NSA likes it.

We already knew the USPS photographed each piece of mail and built a database of tos and froms.

Security companies exaggerate Iran's cyberthreat just like the politicians they emulate.

Miami launches crime prediction software project.

Marines practice riot control.
"However, the video, which shows Marines taking on irate demonstrators with pepper spray, batons and rifles, will only serve to heighten concerns that the U.S. Army and the federal government are preparing for more civil unrest in America in the aftermath of the Ferguson, Missouri riots.
The fact that the training exercise has been presented for the consumption of the American public also raises questions as to its intended purpose.
In anticipation of Jade Helm, a nationwide military exercise set to begin in July during which troops will operate undercover amongst local populations, there have been numerous instances of troops and National Guard conducting martial law-style drills."
They plan to wage war on us.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

War

ISIS and Taliban declare jihad on each other.

Socialism

New York buses can't reject ads claiming "Killing Jews is Worship." Talk about highlighting the insanity of socialism.

Immigration

Immigration numbers projected to explode.
"Legal and illegal immigrants will hit a record high of 51 million in just eight years and eventually account for an astounding 82 percent of all population growth in America, according to new U.S. Census figures."
Ouch.

EU to wage war on migrant smugglers.

Health Care

Chinese scientists genetically modify human embryo.

UK denying health care to smokers and obese people and rationing joint replacements.

Local

Ohio Senate unanimously allows outdoor alcohol in entertainment districts.

Economy

Google launches cell phone service with prices based on resources used. What a crazy idea.

Sharia compliant sex shop opens in Mecca.

Police State

Man beaten by police gets $650,000 settlement because the beating was caught on camera.
"A video shot from a KNBC helicopter hovering above the arrest captured the scene. KNBC reported that Pusok appeared to be kicked 17 times, punched dozens of times and hit by a baton as well."
SOP.

More on the hundreds of FBI false convictions.

Police forced to change behavior because of so many cell phone cameras. Hooray.

War on Drugs

DEA chief resigns after sex party allegations.

Regulation

EU charges Russia's Gazprom with anti-trust and overcharging.

A nineteenth century case against patents.
"“Among French economists, Michel Chevalier was probably the most emphatic in the joint antagonism to tariffs and patents, declaring that both ‘stem from the same doctrine and result in the same abuses.’”"
A patent drives up the cost of a good, but it does more than that.

Politics

Pictures of Bruce Jenner in a dress.

Transgender teen to wear make-up in drivers license photo.

Obama issues nearly daily executive actions.

Tax and Spend

IRS cuts taxpayer help lines, failing to answer 8 million phone calls.

IRS to miss more phone calls.
"If you tried to contact the IRS with a question about your taxes this year, chances are you didn't get a response. The IRS estimated that it would only answer 17 million of the 49 million calls received this filing season. Taxpayers lucky enough to have the IRS answer their calls waited an average of 34.4 minutes for assistance--nearly double the wait time last year (18.7 minutes)."
They did it on purpose.

US built replicas of Iran's nuclear facilities.

Obamacare makes it easier for people to apply for welfare like food stamps.

Four MSNBC hosts owe back taxes. Liberals always push for higher taxes because they don't pay them.

Environment

People are trading in their hybrids for SUVs.

Frauds move tipping point prediction back another 25 years.
"How many climate deadlines and incontrovertible tipping points have been noisily proclaimed over the years, only to be quietly forgotten or shamelessly rescheduled, when the deadline passes uneventfully?
The Earth League, a group composed mostly of climate personalities nobody has never heard of, have just extended the green point of no return to 2040 – a whopping 25 years from today."
They'll move it again before then.

List of failed predictions from first earth day.

It's snowing in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.

Regulation

Government tries to steal Ohio man's animals because of regulation change.

Foreign Policy

Asian and African nations challenge the world order. If somebody knows what the world order is please post it and the criteria.

Economy

Trader arrested for acting like a central bank algorithm, but not being a central bank.

Critical bug in software is like dog bites man. Everything is buggy by design.

War on Drugs

Adderall isn't the only drug people are using to become more productive with their brains. But don't allow steroids. There will be no productivity advances in muscles. And god forbid you use a drug to have fun.

Supreme Court minorly restricts use of drug dogs in traffic searches with no consequence.

Local

RTA bus crashes into construction zone and gets stuck.

Bike share farce launches May 5, will end soon after,

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Environment

More on the North Pacific warm blob of ocean causing California's drought.

Health Care

More studies show GMOs and Roundup unsafe.

Chinese sue government over GMOs and Roundup. They have more freedom than Americans.

Police State

Baltimore admits to using Stingrays 25,000 times with a warrant in the last eight years. That's ridiculous.
"According to recent court testimony reported by The Baltimore Sun, the city's police have used Stingray devices with a court order more than 25,000 times. It's a massive number, representing an average of nearly nine uses a day for eight years (the BPD acquired the technology in 2007), and it doesn't include any emergency uses of the device, which would have proceeded without a court order."
This shows warrants are rubber stamps.

Politics

New York judge recognizes personhood of two chimpanzees. Court removes habeas corpus judgment, revoking personhood for chimps, thank goodness.

Bush was president between Clinton and Obama.
"It is like the presidency of George W. Bush never happened and we went straight from Clinton to Obama. I have gotten e-mail from some of these groups for years. There has never been any mention of how Bush expanded Medicare, started two wars, destroyed the free market to save it, doubled spending for the Dept. of Education, practically doubled the national debt, increased the national security state, sowed the seeds for all of Obama’s bad policies, and gave us the first trillion dollar deficit."
But all that was justified.

If you ever see a wild animal that looks like Hillary Clinton, kill it.

Jeb Bush claims the best part of Obama's tenure is NSA's mass spying.

Monday, April 20, 2015

Education

School teaches transgender lesson to kindergartners and gives ridiculous excuse.
"“We have a practice of if a topic is considered sensitive, parents should be informed,” superintendent Allyn Hutton told SeaCoastOnline.com."
No school should teach about transgenders ever. They should teach reading, writing and arithmetic.

Tax and Spend

Greeks raid government coffers and send money to central bank.

DARPA funding dark web services on Tor.

Environment

Blob of warm water blamed for extreme US winters.

Regulation

Automakers claiming copyright infringement to prevent third parties from repairing cars.

Please privatize air traffic control.

Politics

I like Kasich's quote about standing out among Republican presidential hopefuls.
"I’m just John Kasich. If it works, great. If not, I’ll play more golf."
He doesn't seem to covet the office. That's a plus.

Jeb Bush is already pushing for the left.

Federal Reserve

Chase joins the war on cash.

Socialism

The consequences of socialist water control in California.
"California has met the future, and it really doesn’t work. As the mounting panic surrounding the drought suggests, the Golden State, once renowned for meeting human and geographic challenges, is losing its ability to cope with crises. As a result, the great American land of opportunity is devolving into something that resembles feudalism, a society dominated by rich and poor, with little opportunity for upward mobility for the state’s middle- and working classes. "
In other words, it's just like socialism everywhere.

No free market in water in California.

California wants to drain water from other farmers.

A reminder California is a desert.

40 states face water problems.

35 percent of Israeli drinking water from desalination which California doesn't have because prices have been held artificially low.

Shortages in Venezuela.

After the failure of the Chevy Volt, GM doubled-down and failed in the Cadillac version.

Police State

Prosecutor admits he was not as interested in justice as winning when he put the wrong man on death row for 30 years.

Multiple decades of corrupt testimony from FBI. This has been known for a decade.

More corruption at the FBI crime lab.

As one would predict, the FBI absolves sheriff's department of wrongdoing in the shooting death of unarmed man by volunteer with phony training records. That's how much serfs matter to rulers' enforcers.

More on the shooter's training.
"Bates also vehemently denied a Tulsa Worldreport that he was not properly trained. The newspaper reported that while state records show Bates had clocked a required nearly 300 hours of training since 2008, supervisors at the Tulsa County sheriff's officer were told to falsify the records."
Like he can be believed.

Cop caught on camera beating man he stopped for speeding charged. Another camera catches a corrupt cop.

Economy

Dark web service selling zero-day exploits. Why should governments be the only people with them?

Google's mobile results to favor mobile websites. This will favor big business over small businesses.

Verizon offers customizable TV bundle.

Tallest residential building west of Mississippi planned for Austin. The skyscraper curse tells us Texas is due for a crash too then.

Local

Cop with body camera de-escalates situation instead of killing somebody. This is why all cops should have body cameras.

Silly UpDayton summit summary.

Power out in Vandalia.

Health Care

Synergy of vitamins and minerals is required for them to work well.

Measles outbreak over, but vaccination legislation advances in California.

Breast cancer cases projected to increase by 50 percent by 2030. Nice job, CDC.

Obamacare exchanges grossly lying about number of enrollees.

War

Political murders in Kiev and US troops to Ukraine.

The Saudi's are supporting al Qaeda in Yemen.
"The US military has gone all around the globe, striking Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, and Libya, in search of Al Qaeda “safe havens” – and yet the biggest safe haven of them all, the center of the vipers’ nest, has remained sacrosanct. All but four of the 9/11 hijackers were citizens of the Kingdom, and that government has spent billions spreading the fundamentalist Wahabi version of Islam – the religious doctrine that inspires and motivates the terrorists – to the four corners of the earth.
And there is a more direct connection than just ideological affinity at work here: there are 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 detailing the involvement of foreign governments which we are not allowed to read. Those members of Congress who have read it strongly hint that the Saudi government was heavily involved in the planning and preparations for the attack.
When are we going to stop pretending the Saudis are our allies?"
Some Saudis are and some aren't. Saudis are individuals like everybody else.
"Is there a way out? Yes, but it will take a President with guts – and a willingness to break with the Washington consensus — to do it. We must cut our ties to the Saudis, make peace with Iran, stop supporting the Syrian rebels, and tell the Israelis they’re on their own. We must stop blocking the creation of a Palestinian state, stop canoodling with Egypt’s military dictatorship, and – most of all – stop appeasing the real sponsors of terror in Riyadh. Sen. Paul had the right idea when he suggested we ought to be boycotting the Saudis – not because they aren’t feminists, but because they, and not the Iranians, are the principal sponsors of terrorism in the world.
Oh yes, and while we’re at it, let’s release those 28 pages – that will shut down the caterwauling of the foreign policy “experts” faster than you can say 9/11."
I won't hold my breath.

Yemen air war another disaster.
"“A U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in discussing briefings on the air war, called it a ‘disaster,’ saying the Saudis don’t have a ‘realistic endgame’ for the bombing."
I wonder who else that could be said of.
"No air campaign like this can possibly be conducted without a great deal of planning and coordination. The U.S. role in Yemen has been absolutely essential.
The Saudis could not have launched such a campaign without the U.S. approval and cooperation. The attacks on the people of Yemen, aimed at the Houthis in particular, are very much the responsibility of the U.S. and Obama, who made the decision.
The U.S. is providing essential military components of the campaign."
Of course. This article exhibits cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, it calls US wars irrational. On the other, it points out that politicians continue profiting from them. That's hardly irrational.

Why is a US aircraft carrier instead of Saudi Arabia intercepting an Iranian convey in Yemen?

Wondering of the Saudis drove down oil prices to harm Russia in return for the US supporting their attack on Yemen.

A million refugees trying to flee the western war disaster in Libya face drowning in the Med.

Armed national guard troops train in public park.

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Police State

Cops kill another unarmed man, this time in Baltimore.

Local

Power out in Dayton again.

Media

Talking head explains that socially engineering strong women onto TV made Americans ready for a female president. Maybe, but Hillary.

Tax and Spend

Greece has EU over a barrel as it threatens default.

Socialism

Home solar power causes problems for giant, socialized power grids.

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Education

Brain scan shows rebellion in teens sparked by separation from parents and interaction with peers. In other words, government schools cause rebelliousness.

Misc

Americans and east Asians traded as long ago as 2,600 years.

Socialism

Dry wells in California.

Environment

EPA brainwashed children to avoid baths. Just ridiculous.

Beverly Hills ordered to cut water use by 36 percent.

This March was hottest March on record according to NOAA's corrupt temperature database.

Smart gadgets are expensive and offer little savings in return. But they spy on people, and that's the real point.

War

ISIS blows up bank in Afghanistan.

Iran warns Saudis over Yemen.
"Despite Iran's call for peace, it is being credited for also being involved in the Yemen conflict - but on the opposite side. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the US army has foiled smuggling attempts from Iran to Yemen intended to transfer equipment to Houthi rebel fighters. "
Americans are killing and dying in another civil war.

NATO moves Patriot missiles to Warsaw.

Health Care

Antibiotic resistance found in gut bacteria of isolated Amazonian tribe.

Police State

Dutch to prosecute Uber for ignoring ban.

Twitter moves non-US accounts to Ireland to escape NSA.

FBI lied about hair evidence in trials for over two decades.
"The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed or died in prison, the groups said under an agreement with the government to release results after the review of the first 200 convictions."
SOP.

Head of FBI's anthrax investigation files whistleblower lawsuit claiming the investigation was stonewalled and manipulated into framing a patsy.
"Executive management at FBI Headquarters assigned responsibility for the anthrax investigation (code named “AMERITHRAX”) to the Washington Field Office (WFO), dubbing it the single most important case in the FBI at that time. In October 2002, in the wake of surging media criticism, White House impatience with a seeming lack of investigative progress by WFO, and a concerned Congress that was considering revoking the FBI’s charter to investigate terrorism cases, Defendant FBI Director Mueller reassigned Plaintiff from the FBI’s San Diego Field Office to the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters and placed Plaintiff in charge of the AMERITHRAX case as an “Inspector.” While leading the investigation for the next four years, Plaintiff’s efforts to advance the case met with intransigence from WFO’s executive management, apathy and error from the FBI Laboratory, politically motivated communication embargos from FBI Headquarters, and yet another preceding and equally erroneous legal opinion from Defendant Kelley – all of which greatly obstructed and impeded the investigation."
No surprise, but this should be interesting.

Local

Dayton may require banks to waste profits. This means Dayton's savings is more vulnerable.

Economy

The Battle of Endor was stimulus.

Friday, April 17, 2015

Police State

FBI kidnaps security researcher and steals his equipment because he joked about hacking an airliner. Apparently airliners are vulnerable. Maybe they don't want anybody to figure out the CIA hacked and crashed MH370.

Federal Reserve

Counties joining China's development bank to escape US controls against energy development.

War

313 killed in Iraq.

479 killed in Iraq.

Ukraine's coupmeisters are killing opposition leaders.
"Kalashnikov, a former member of the Ukrainian parliament and a very vocal and visible critic of the Kiev regime, was found shot to death in his home. This time, the authorities are having a hard time spinning it as a “suicide,” although they haven’t come right out and said it was murder. Kalashnikov had recently been campaigning for the right of Ukrainians to celebrate the victory of the Allies during World War II – a controversial topic in Ukraine, where sympathy for the Third Reich and its Ukrainian collaborators is rife among supporters of the current government. He had reportedly received numerous death threats because of his stand."
It makes sense Obama would ally with neo-nazis. They both believe in using violence to advance their interests.

The US and Russia are closing in on direct war in Ukraine.
"What makes the article timely is the report that Canada will be sending 200 soldiers to western Ukraine to join 800 Americans and 75 Brits on a yearlong assignment to train the Ukrainian army."
This is in direct violation of the ceasefire agreement.
""Putin is not the hardest of the hard-liners in Russia," write the authors. "Russia’s establishment falls into … a pragmatic camp, which is currently dominant thanks principally to Putin’s support, and a hard-line camp" the one Putin adviser calls "the hotheads."
The hotheads believe the way to respond to U.S. encroachments is to invoke the doctrine of Yuri Andropov, "challenge the main enemy," and brandish nuclear weapons to terrify Europe and split NATO.
Russian public opinion is said to be moving toward the hotheads."
US policy of war and aggression always bolsters the radicals.
"As of now, the Minsk II cease-fire of February seems to be holding. The Ukrainian army and pro-Russian rebels have both moved their heavy weapons back from the truce lines, though there have been clashes and casualties."
Hard to believe.
"Or would we start up the escalator to a war with Russia that few Europeans, but some Americans and Russians, might welcome today?"
Fortunately the Europeans have cooler heads.

Thanks to the US war in Libya, Libyan pirates seize Italian fishing vessel. Italian navy gets vessel back.

Education

Leftists hate the fact that boys and girls are different, so LA schools will create a girls-only STEM school and a boys only English language school. Stop socially engineering people.

Local

Cancer cases expected to skyrocket. Lovely.

Ohio taxpayers to pay for new administration building for bank.

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Health Care

Video of junk food going through the digestive system.

Education

155,000 New York students boycott Common Core tests.

Socialism

The rangers protecting these rhinos are doomed to fail.

Judge rules GM can't be sued for ignition switch deaths.

Police State

Video of National Guard troops marching in residential streets and stopping traffic.
"OMG how frightening!” one YouTube commenter responded, while others insisted the patrols were a routine occurrence. "
It's more frightening as it becomes more normal.

Groping passengers is standard operating procedure for TSA.

TSA gropers are protected from prosecution.

Unpaid Tulsa deputy who shot man already tackled had falsified training records. This cop-wannabe bought a deputy's badge.

Immigration

DHS has morale problem too, blamed on immigration policy.

Politics

I bet Hillary believes she'll fool people by flying coach and carrying her own luggage. Everything she does is so out of touch it backfired on her.

Hillary confiscates cell phones and cameras before meeting with people.

Clinton Foundation to continue accepting foreign donations. This is a money laundering scheme to steal the election. Think of the money as going in Bill Clinton's pocket then coming out of Hillary Clinton's pocket into her campaign. 

Elections don't matter because the police state runs the government.
"Indeed, as I point out in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, it really doesn’t matter what you call them—the 1%, the elite, the controllers, the masterminds, the shadow government, the police state, the surveillance state, the military industrial complex—so long as you understand that no matter which party occupies the White House in 2017, the unelected bureaucracy that actually calls the shots will continue to do so."
NSA is in charge.

Federal Reserve

Citi economist recommends abolishing cash so the Fed can implement negative interest rates and steal the last of our wealth.

Misc

Icy "tendrils" around Saturn come from Enceladus "geysers". More like Birkeland currents.

Media

Science fiction publishers accept only leftist authors. No wonder I haven't liked any sci-fi in so long.

Environment

I expect Obama to take advantage of the Paris global warming fraud meeting to harm America as much as possible.

War

ISIS consolidates power around Ramadi.

Low morale is another problem the Pentagon can't solve by throwing money at it.

Remember how US strikes in Yemen were supposed to stop al Qaeda? Al Qaeda just took over a Yemeni province.

UN envoy to Yemen quits.

ISIS reportedly in Mexico eight miles from US border.

Regulation

Skepticism over GAO claim hackers can use in-flight wifi to hack planes.

Microsoft pushed the antitrust lawsuit against Google in the EU.

Local

Month long drug investigation ends in arrest of three men.
"Task force detectives were joined in the investigation and raid by agents with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration."
All this manpower and tax money spent for month only nets three arrests and will have zero impact on the drug supply and use.As always, taxpayers lose and rulers win.

Lower gas prices haven't sparked big spending increases, thank goodness. They've only been lower for a few months. Hopefully people are saving.

Economy

ESPN doesn't recognize the bubble in baseball team payrolls.

Goldman-Sachs bubble profit at five year high with every unit surpassing estimates.

Apple slips the iWatch release from April to June.

The wealthy and celebrities in California pay for plenty of water.

Tax and Spend

The fading distinction between tax avoidance and tax evasion.

War on Drugs

Corporate climbers using legal, brain-enhancing drugs, but don't use steroids.

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Environment

Heavy snow in the Rockies.

Socialism

California's water suppliers cut deliveries by 15 percent.

Economy

The Financial Times just noticed there's a global real estate bubble.

Ron Paul says the dollar is experiencing a bubble.

Police State

Convicted Boston Marathon bomber's family tried to fire his lawyers because they refused to expose the government for the bombing, but the defendant wouldn't allow it.
"In one of her first arguments before the jury after entering a not-guilty plea, Clarke said that her client is indeed responsible for the “senseless, horrific, misguided acts.” But in committing these crimes, she argued that he was acting under the direction of his older brother Tamerlan, who was killed in a shootout with authorities soon after the bombing.
This line of defense has outraged many of Tsarnaev’s relatives, who have tried to convince him to dismiss Clarke and ask for a lawyer who will argue his innocence. “Why do we even need defense attorneys if they just tell the jury he is guilty?” his aunt asks. “What’s the point?”"
I wondered the same thing. The only people who gained from that is the government.

DHS adds 62 million rounds of AR-15 ammo.

Health Care

The US doesn't acknowledge the dangers of sugar.

Politics

Businesses don't systematically pay women less. The gender gap is a myth.

Hillary Clinton's Wall Street backers.

Hillary caught lying about her grandparents being immigrants.

Clinton campaign orchestrates pretend spontaneous event in Iowa.

Education

Parents opting children out of Common Core tests all across the country. They should opt them out of government schools.

War

The more the US military invades Africa, the more radical Islam spreads across the continent.
"This is no less true of the relationship between American invasions, occupations, wars, raids, interventions, and drone assassination campaigns, and the growth of terror outfits (and the fragmentation of states) in the Middle East. That someone should draw a lesson or two from all this and not do essentially the same things over and over again may seem reasonable enough on the face of it, but evidently not in Washington. "
It's all about money.

Misc

Stone tools believe to be 3.3 million years old found.

Regulation

Now we find out airliners can be hacked.

EU to charge Google with anti-trust.

More on Louisiana's ban on cash for second-hand sales.

Tax and Spend

Obamacare fines, taxes and paperwork cause headaches.

Cronyism and increasing the minimum wage increases food stamp usage.

Fed's set record tax haul so far this year. 74,608 pages in federal tax code.

China's holdings of US debt fell more than Japan's making Japan the biggest holder, but the key is both are falling.

Local

Legislature to punish Dayton for not turning off red-light and speeding cameras by withholding money. More.

Fire cuts off power in Grafton.

Dayton government settles Water Street easement lawsuit, costing taxpayers $625,000.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Education

American millennial among the worst job skills in the world. More.

Politics

Women twice as likely as men to receive tenure as men in STEM education.

Police State

Simplistic ideas about creating passwords help NSA.

TSA not only targets women and children, they target men to grope too.

Local

Huber's Heights's rulers plan open house for Rose Music boondoggle.

Boil advisory in Pleasant Hill.

Foreign Policy

Trade agreements and fast-tracks are give-aways to corporate cronies to harm people.

Monday, April 13, 2015

Health Care

VA officials retaliate against whistleblowers by illegally accessing their health records.

Tax and Spend

CBO says feds taxing, spending and deficiting more in 2015.

Greece prepares to default, but probably won't.

Environment

Global warming protesters protested in snow in Quebec Saturday.

Regulation

Louisiana not only bans cash in second-hand transactions, it pretty much bans all second-hand transactions. This is crazy.

Foreign Policy

Iran is winning in the Middle East, thanks in large part to US wars.

Netanyahu admits he's been lying about Iran.
"“According to the two senior officials, Netanyahu said during the meeting that he feared that the ‘Iranians will keep to every letter in the agreement if indeed one is signed at the end of June.’
“One official said: ‘Netanyahu said at the meeting that it would be impossible to catch the Iranians cheating simply because they will not break the agreement.'”"
That's because Iranian nukes was never the issue.
"The real issue is Iran’s very existence – its size, its resources, its position as the epicenter of Shi’ite power in the region."
Iran is on the rise because the US has weakened Sunnis and handed Iraq to Shia.

Russia agrees to send advanced surface to air missiles to Iran.

Economy

Almost a million Americans pre-ordered an Apple watch.

Police State

This 18 year old, unfixed security bug could only happen because NSA demanded Microsoft not fix it.

More cops implicated in cover-up of murder-by-cop in South Carolina.

Cops grab children from same "free range" parents.

Police brutality is blowback from US wars.

Local

Every time Huber Heights's music boondoggle lands another performer, the DNN does an article. I don't see them doing articles for every act signed by the Fraze. I like the Counting Crows.

1,500 without power in Preble County.

War

Ron Paul names who profits from militarism.

ISIS and Boko Haram accuses of using rape as war tactic.

Pat Buchanan believes Obama is really fighting ISIS. I don't think so.

Iraqis pull Shiite militia from Anbar, further partitioning the country.

How the Fed funds war.

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Foreign Policy

The real motive behind aggression against Iran.
"What Israel really feared was not Iran’s non-existent nuclear threat  but rather its ongoing support for the beleaguered Palestinians.
Iran became the last Mideast nation giving strong backing to creation of a Palestinian state. The Arab states opposing Israel have been silenced: Syria, Libya and Iraq crushed by war and torn asunder, Egypt and Jordan bought off with huge bribes. The Saudis have secretly allied themselves to Israel. So only Iran was left to champion Palestine.
That is why Israel made such a determined effort to push the US into war with Iran. With the feeble Arab states largely demolished or gelded, Israel’s hold on the Occupied West Bank and Golan would be unchallenged."
I hate to agree with Obama. I guess I shouldn't though. I should be happy he got something right.
"Washington’s Mideast Raj  forms one of the enduring pillars of American global power. Though America consumes less and less Mideast oil each year, its control of  the flow of oil from Arabia to Europe, Japan, China and the other parts of the Asian economy gives it huge strategic leverage. Japan and Germany both vividly remember they lost WWII because of lack of oil.
The 1979 Iranian Revolution gravely threatened this sweetheart arrangement. Iran demanded that its Arab neighbors follow Islam’s calls to share wealth, avoid ostentation, live modestly, and care for the needy – in short, the very opposite of the flamboyant Saudis and Gulf Arabs."
Ironic.
"Washington faces a major dilemma over the isolation of Iran. If sanctions are substantially lifted, Iran will increase oil and gas exports and begin rebuilding its industrial base and obsolete military forces. Europe,  Russia, China and India are all eager to resume doing business with Iran.
But lifting sanctions will make Iran stronger and even more of a political threat to America’s Mideast satraps – who want the Persian genii bottled up. Claims that Mideast states like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE fear a nuclear arm race are spurious. Save Egypt and Jordan, all are next door to Iran.  Nuclear weapons have no use in such close quarters.  Egyptians lack food, never mind nuclear arms."
True.

Why Iran distrusts the US.
"Israel and the U.S. know from their intelligence services that Iran has no active nuclear weapons program, but they are not about to let truth get in the way of their concerted effort to marginalize Iran. And so they fantasize before the world about an Iranian nuclear weapons program that must be stopped at all costs – including war."
I distrust the US too.

Health Care

How to resist Big Ag's control of seeds and the food supply.

Instead of promoting inexpensive healthy lifestyles, US pushes super-expensive man-made DNA test treatments. That's what patents have done to medicine.

The US Ebola treatment centers were a waste as predicted.
"But after spending hundreds of millions of dollars and deploying nearly 3,000 troops to build Ebola treatment centers, the United States ended up creating facilities that have largely sat empty: Only 28 Ebola patients have been treated at the 11 treatment units built by the United States military, American officials now say.
Nine centers have never had a single Ebola patient.
“My task was to convince the international organizations, ‘You don’t need any more E.T.U.s,’ ” said Dr. Hans Rosling, a Swedish public health expert who advised Liberia’s health ministry, referring to Ebola treatment units.
“I warned them, ‘The only thing you’ll show is an empty E.T.U.,’ ” he added. “ ‘Don’t do it.’ ”
The American response, it turns out, was outpaced by the fast-moving and unpredictable disease."
That's just what you would expect from socialism.

Statins, Big Pharma's most profitable class of drug, worsens coronary calcium, associated with heart attacks.

Fearing people's concern for healthy diets, the establishment labels that concern an eating disorder.