Police State

Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter back Apple against FBI while Bill Gates backs FBI.

Local

Critics call for better gun laws after church shooting.

Shooter was mentally ill and violent. You know he was on government drugs.

Local

Arcade developers seek tax breaks.

Dayton has the worst performing schools in the state.

Education

Terrible Chicago government schools make computer science a graduation requirement.

Misc

Scientists surprised by supernova that has lasted three years.

Police State

Apple CEO compares FBI demands to creating software cancer.

Carnegie Mellon subpoenaed for attacking Tor on behalf of FBI.

Federal Reserve

Impact of negative interest rates (NIRP).

"In European countries where NIRP reigns, so far, the banks are charging only large account holders for their deposits. So, these large account customers are scrambling to move their money out of banks and into assets that do not depreciate. The scramble for high grade securities has resulted in some securities being sold at a premium (i.e., the customers will get back less than they invested)."

So banks are being depleted. Oops.

Economy

Record 359 stocks under a dollar.

Education

Schools spend millions on white privilege training for teachers.

Federal Reserve

Negative interest rates will cause people to save, not spend like rulers wants.

War on Drugs

Legal marijuana suppliers must pay 70 percent federal income tax.

War

Putin takes lead in Syrian ceasefire agreement. Turkey continues shelling.

Russians mass troops on Turkey border.

I'm happy NATO is breaking down, but I haven't seen anybody pull out yet.

Al Qaeda buys and sells CIA weapons on Facebook.

Regulation

Blaming Uber for mass shooting to boost regulations. More. You don't hear about the taxi driver killing twelve in mass shooting or the Uber driver who prevented a mass shooting using his concealed weapon. Shooter had police training.

"The 45-year-old graduated from Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC) in 1992 with an associates of applied science degree in law enforcement and criminal justice, a KVCC spokesperson confirmed. He began studying at the school in 1989.
Dalton did not actually enroll in the police academy at the school. State officials have yet to confirm whether he completed an academy program elsewhere, according to a report from WOOD TV."

We'll see. More.

Environment

Statistical analysis claims planet will not warm this century.

Stunning hockey stick graph shows how access to energy improved the human condition.

Even the global warming cheerleaders at Nature admit hiatus is real.

Health Care

Farm animals whose meat is sold in supermarkets routinely fed GM crops.

Billions in fraudulent Obamacare payments.

Misc

Magnetic field detectors found in eyes of dogs and other animals.

Politics

Trump wins big in Nevada.

"Not only was it a win in the Silver State, but it was a win with a huge margin. With all of the expected vote in, Trump dominated the race with 45.9%. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz featured in another tight battle for second, with Rubio claiming 23.9% of the vote and Cruz 21.4%."

Trump beat both combined.

"Still, Trump noted his showing among Latino Republicans in his victory speech: "Number one with Hispanics... I'm really happy about that," he said."

That scares Democrats.

Australian Parliament votes against strong encryption.

Secession isn't just for America anymore. More.

Somebody tell the Pope employers aren't slavedrivers. Government makes it hard to stop businesses, so it creates wage slaves. 

Police State

While propagandists told us most Americans side with the FBI against Apple, millions protested forcing Apple to hack its iPhone.

Police State

Cops want DNA from genealogy sites.

DoJ wants Apple to decrypt twelve more iPhones.

Bill Gates sides with FBI against Apple.

Environment

I'm skeptical of claim oceans level rose faster in the last century than in the last 3,000 years.

Regulation

Driving angry is more dangerous than driving using phone.

War

Turkey's war puts stress on NATO.

"Erdogan has also thrown down the gauntlet against the opposition parties in his own parliament, some of whom he has also described as “terrorists.” Having already hobbled his country’s press, its judiciary, its military and law enforcement and having made it a crime to protest against his policies or “insult” government officials, he is now intent on obtaining for himself near dictatorial powers as president."

This is happening here too.

"As Erdogan passionately wants his war and his mandate, the Ankara bombing comes at a perfect time for him. Which should be suspicious. The Turkish military high command is known to be strongly opposed to any large scale intervention in Syria, but the killing of soldiers by the bombers might be intended to undermine its resistance. Inevitably, a Syrian Kurd of unknown antecedents has been blamed by name for the attack and also linked to Turkey’s own Kurds."

Convenient.

"A Kurdish splinter group the Kurdish Freedom Hawks (TAK) has taken credit, but it contradicts what Turkey is claiming about the provenance of the attack and might be a ploy intended to enhance the group’s reputation. But to be sure, apart from revenge the Kurds logically would have no motive to provoke an onslaught by the overwhelmingly more powerful Turkish military. Quite the contrary."

Who benefits?

Socialism

Speculation on the process of civilizational collapse includes studying the collapse of the Roman empire and other collapses from history.

Rampant government secrecy.

Federal Reserve

Venezuela orders planeloads of bank notes to feed its hyperinflation.

List of stories promoting going cashless.

Environment

Under pressure, Denmark withdraws sea ice extent data contradicting the establishment.

Police State

Automatic software updates already constitute a backdoor into cell phones including iPhone.

Economy

Big tech companies form IoT alliance to set standards.

Local

Government and its utilities have wiped out trees in Dayton, so rulers want new regulations to grow new trees.

Despite chase, police fail to catch serial robber.

War

Two US-backed groups attack each other

Terrorist attack in Turkey possible false flag to gin up international support for its artillary campaign against Syria.

The US is bombing Libya again.

Police State

Apple's newfound concern for privacy is good business.

"Cyber law attorney Catherine Gellis described Apple's position in a different manner. "Apple is trying to deliver an invulnerable product," she told me. If Apple can break its own code, then its new iPhone is "no longer a secure device. It's no longer invulnerable." You could say the government is demanding that Apple disprove its marketing claim that its phones are so secure that even Apple cannot hack into your data."

Exactly.

"Cook, Sanchez and Gellis fear that if the government succeeds in using the All Writs Act of 1789 to force Apple to undo its security measures, there's no way the Department of Justice stops with Farook's work phone. Indeed, Sanchez thinks that's the idea. He suspects this effort is less about Farook's phone and "more about finding a high-profile case to push a novel and somewhat unprecedented" use of an 18th century law."

True.

""I just don't see them doing that to Apple," former CIA spokesman Bill Harlow told me. Harlow doesn't think Uncle Sam would haul such a large corporation into court unless there was no other recourse. For one thing, "These are all senior government lawyers who want to get jobs with Apple" when they leave the government."

Lucky for Apple.

Local government had cheap software to unlock iPhone, but never used it.

Regulation

Underhanded TPP change.

"A sneaky and underhanded change to the TPP, spotted by the EFF and summarized here by Jeremy Malcolm, means much stiffer penalties for copyright "infringement:" Under the TPP's original terms, a country could limit the exposure of the owner of such a website to prison time, or to the seizure and possible destruction of their server, on the grounds that by definition their infringement didn't cause any lost sales to the copyright owner. (Note that they would be liable for civil damages to the copyright owner in any case.) Although a country still has the option to limit criminal penalties to "commercial scale" infringements (which is so broadly defined that it could catch even a non-profit subtitles website), the new language compels TPP signatories to make these penalties available even where those infringements cause absolutely no impact on the copyright holder's ability to profit from the work. This is a massive extension of the provision's already expansive scope."

Of course.

War

US-backed jihadists fighting each other in Syria.

Politics

Trump wins South Carolina and Clinton wins Nevada.

Republicans set turnout record in South Carolina as Democrat turnout falls in Nevada.

Jeb Bush drops out of race as book exposes Bush family crimes. Includes link to Clinton family crime book.

New Polish government labels Lech Walesa a traitor.

Environment

US strong-arming Volkswagen into producing electric cars in the US and setting up a chain of charging stations.

Scalia's death benefits greens.

After destroying Zimbabwe's productive farms because they were owned by white people, Mugabe blames climate change and demands billions from US.


Increasing CO2 is making deserts bloom.

Beepolalypse was a fraud.

NOAA forecasts rapidly dwindling el Nino followed by cold la Nina.

Economy

Women pay more for "the same" products.

Windows 10 resets default programs to Microsoft products.

Health Care

Eating high cholesterol foods doesn't increase heart disease risk.

Misc

Stars form along electric filaments.

"Philippe André, Principal Investigator for the Herschel Gould Belt Survey wrote:
“The greatest surprise was the ubiquity of filaments in these nearby clouds and their intimate connection with star formation.”"

"“…these observations revealed that filaments, which may extend to several light-years in length, appear to have a universal width of about one third of a light year. This suggests that something fundamental is lurking underneath.”"

Cosmology is about to be turned right-side up.

Federal Reserve

Banks are so heavily controlled by the government, they could officially become public utilities.

ECB bans €500 note.

Push to eliminate $100 bill.

Why Japan implemented negative interest rates.

Monopoly goes cashless.

Treasury deposits at the Fed keep climbing, but the money supply YoY growth remains flat.

Socialism

Socialist Brazil gives up trying to to clean water for Olympics.

Regulation

China bans all foreign media from publishing online without permission.

Economy

IPhone sales fall.

Buyers pay women less on eBay.

Despite the record bubble in car sales, GM had to issue $2 billion in bonds to cover pension shortfall. Corporate pensions are still in the dumps.

OPEC's oil price quandary.

US states compared to other counties.

Local

Proving government can't protect you, the same man robs six stores in 24 hours.

"The suspect in all of those cases, said Dayton Det. Curry Mire, is being described in all cases as “a white male, approximately 6 feet tall, 180-200 pounds, with a lazy eye.”
Mire said the man made no attempts to cover his face during the robberies."

But the police can't catch him, and they won't. If he's caught, it will be by a serf.

Police State

Succinct description of the debate of surveillance versus privacy.

"The question of how to balance government surveillance with individual privacy is really quite simple. On one side the government believes that the investigation of someone who is either planning or has actually carried out a crime should be without any conditions, that all evidence potentially relating to the event should be accessible to law enforcement. On the other side, citizens have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their day to day activities, meaning that the government should have to demonstrate indisputable “probable cause” to a judge before undertaking any intrusion into an individual’s private space. And even then, the intrusion should be narrowly defined to include only the actual criminal activity under investigation."

That's the mainstream version of the debate.

"Cook did not note his other concern—creating a backdoor for the U.S. government would cost Apple much of its huge overseas market, after consumers there turned to other phones with unbreakable encryption. It would be devastating for the company."

Apple real concern.

Mom of man killed by terrorist sides with Apple.

DOJ blames marketing for Apple's position, and that's a perfectly good reason for it.

NC senator wants to criminalize Apple's refusal.

Government changed the iPhone's password, instigating all these problems.

Loon McAfee offers to crack terrorist's iPhone for FBI. Idiot doesn't seem to know he'd be opening Pandora's box.

Robots produce perfect legal briefs, reducing the need for lawyers.

Judge orders FBI to turn over code it used to hack and run child pornography site.

War

Obama bans media coverage of US war in Middle East.

US pays for Turkey's wars through NATO.

Police State

Headline implies since Apple has unlocked previous devices, it should unlock the terrorist's phone for the FBI, but you have to dive into the article to discover it's a different technical problem.

Snowden calls for Google to stand with Apple. Google does. Government won't let this stand.

NSA director blames success of Paris attacks on strong encryption.
Copyright police state treaty nearly finished.

"CETA contains provisions that would compel countries to implement Internet censorship through site blocking, anti-circumvention laws as seen in the US, and compel border security to seize digital storage devices (i.e. cell phones) at the border for the purpose of looking for copyright infringement."

Wonderful.

Misc

Scientists surprised by rate of destruction of NEO asteroids.

"'The next big question for me is what actually causes that destruction,' Granvik added."

Electricity.

Environment

January hottest anomaly on record and Arctic sea ice extent dropped.

Economy

Company introduces $3.66 android phone in India. That's awesome.

Local

Dan Foley introduces power play plan for Montgomery Country to subsume Dayton. More propaganda.

Regulation

Congressmen want to block sale of Chicago Stock Exchange to China.

War

That Saudi-led wargame is really an invasion of Syria from Turkey.

"But it was Turkey’s dramatic moves on Saturday that led us to wonder whether the first shots of World War III had been fired. As often happens in world-changing events, the Turkish artillery attack on Syria juggles around alliances and partnerships in a dizzying fashion. On Saturday the Turks began shelling Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) forces inside Syria at a military base the Kurds had just liberated from ISIS occupation."

Let's hope this breaks up NATO. The ceasefire plan only came along because Washington woke up to the potential of all-out war.

Gulf allies are concerned a truce might keep Assad in power, so breaking up Syria may happen.

Obama's moderate Syrian rebel deception.

Nuclear material stolen from US firm in Iraq. There's the WMD.

Politics

Further proving the differences between men and women, individual cells in organs know their gender.

Police State

Good for Apple for refusing to unlock phone of dead terrorist for FBI because they can't. This would set a precedent. The government will use this case to push for backdoors. More. Potential consequences if the FBI wins include empowering China and Russia to do the same.

TSA shuts down small airports.

Economy

As socialism advances, gadgets, and everything else, don't last as long, creating more trash. When the bust hits, people will want goods to last longer, but only until the next boom.

David Stockman lampoons establishment articles reminding us it's not 2008.

Health Care

Thanks to government, some Parmesan cheese brands contain no cheese and lots of wood.

Local

Highest Dayton city employee salaries for 2015 show bureaucrats officially make far more money than politicians.

Tax and Spend

Government buys popular support with other people's money.

Misc

Scientists develop Star Trek-like storage crystals that record fantastic amounts of data and retain it. If true, the establishment will do everything possible to keep this technology from coming to market.

I hope Tor goes mainstream.

Environment

NASA claims January was the hottest month on record. It wasn't around here.

El nino causes Death Valley to bloom with flowers.

Economy

Big price cuts on Apple watches prove they're not selling.

Apple bricks phones if you try to repair them. Apple has that right. Don't buy them. This is another consequence of IP.

Sports

Napoleon Goodell made $34.1 million in 2014.

Federal Reserve

Like the rest of the world, the Fed will implement negative interest rates, and that policy will also fail.

Health Care

Zika virus over-hyped like previous bogus claims.

Link between Glyphosate, GM crops and health.

The establishment acknowledges vigorous exercise shrinks tumors.

War

Saudis launch massive, 20 nation military drill.

Politics

Heart attack blamed for Scalia's death, but this doesn't sound like a heart attack:
""We discovered the judge in bed, a pillow over his head. His bed clothes were unwrinkled," said Poindexter.

"He was lying very restfully. It looked like he had not quite awakened from a nap," he said.

Scalia,79, did not have a pulse and his body was cold, and after consulting with a doctor at a hospital in Alpine, Poindexter concluded resuscitation would have been futile, He then contacted federal authorities, at first encountering a series of answering services because he was calling on a weekend."
and no autopsy was ordered.

"Guevara also rebutted a report by a Dallas TV station that quoted her as saying that Scalia had died of “myocardial infarction.” In an interview with The Washington Post, she said she meant only that his heart had stopped.“It wasn’t a heart attack,” Guevara said. “He died of natural causes.”"

Even if they do an autopsy now, it won't be credible.

Clinton already controls half of superdelegates in South Carolina and Nevada.

Tax and Spend

Universal basic income will encourage people to quit low-paying jobs.

Regulation

Voters to settle regulation fight between Uber, Lyft and Austin.

Misc

Now astronomers are surprised by supernova imposters.

Misc

The discovery of quasars that turn off in ten years falsifies quasar theory.

"This is a bit of an embarrassing moment for black hole and quasar scientists. The conventional wisdom was found to be dramatically wrong."

But that didn't stop the claims about gravity waves.

Star rapidly changes brightness, leading to crazy theories about Dyson spheres or alien megastructures.
 

Federal Reserve

The negative interest rate doom loop. Negative interest rates make people hoard cash. This is why bankers want to ban cash.

"on negative rates – instead of making them punitive on the banks allow the banks to earn the spread, make them punitive to savers.. Cash shd be charged interest – put the micro chip in large denom notes/tax cash withdrawals.. encourage spending not saving .. mortgage rates can be negative and banks can still earn a spread. The spread is the problem not the rate."

Yikes.

Socialism

Electricity rationing in Venezuela.

Foreign Policy

Europe would be better off if the US stopped trying to solve its problems. I'm skeptical of any story that talks about Russian aggression.

Ten secret CIA prisons.

Immigration

Cubans crossing into Laredo, Texas en mass. Why not go straight to Miami?

Politics

Never complain. Never explain.

Justice Scalia died meaning Obama gets to replace him.

McConnell vows to block any Obama nominee so next president will replace Scalia. Democrats demand he allow a vote.

Eerie story about greens.

"The Supreme Court’s decision this week to halt President Obama’s sweeping climate change regulation for power plants is causing environmentalists and experts to wonder whether they need a backup plan."

And Scalia ends up dead in Big Bend state park.

Environment

Record Valentines Day cold.

Study claims dirty air kills 5.5 million annually.

Penguins are the new polar bears.

War

US continues to arm rebels after negotiating Syrian ceasefire. Anybody who played Civilization could have predicted this.

French PM says more major terror attacks are certain.

Police State

GCHQ hacking ruled legal.

Part three of three of cointelpro intelligence trolls.

Misc

Einstein doubted and tried to retract gravitational waves.

Regulation

US copyright law forces Wikimedia to remove Diary of Anne Frank.

Health Care

Breakfast cereal is terrible for kids.

Federal Reserve

Foreign countries running out of physical dollars, and bankers are scared. Why? Dollars buy more oil now, so fewer are needed to buy it.

Economy

San Francisco real estate has already fallen because of tech stock drops. Bye-bye bubble.

More bad things about Windows 10.

Health Care

Advancing socialism creating gap in life expectancy between rich and poor as well as well gap.

Media

Apple films TV series. We're getting like Japan where giant crony corporations do everything.

Environment

Urban heat islands exist even in the Arctic.

El Nino weakening.

Solar cycle 24 continues lowest in 200 years.

Study blames parched earth absorbing sea water for lower than predicted sea level rise.

Politics

Hillary Clinton made over $2 million in speaking fees from Wall Street in seven months.

DNC repeals rule so Clinton can get more money from lobbyists.

Twitter to influence election for Democrats.

Thank government schools for millennials choosing socialism over capitalism.

Trump doubles support from Latinos over rivals.

Police State

More on Assange's victory at the UN.

FBI arrests Cliven Bundy, who recently held off BLM and FBI officials and whose son led the Oregon protest and was recently arrested.

The whole point of the IoT is spying.

War

Obama lied about ending the Afghan and Iraqi wars.

Navy launches 132 ft. drone boat to hunt submarines.

CIA claims ISIS can make and use chemical weapons.

Iraqi Shiite militias fighting US-CIA-backed Syrian rebels. Nice work, government.

Tank tries to be good at everything so will be good at nothing. This is a product of runaway military spending.

War kills republics.

Regulation

Google expands right to be forgotten.

Misc

Winners more likely to cheat is a propaganda to turn economic losers against winners. They're more likely to cheat because they think they can get away with it. Everybody is programmed to cheat. Peaceful, voluntary interaction reduces the motive. Government increases it.

More on supposed discovery of gravity waves.

It doesn't help when you announce one of the scientists who supposedly discovered gravity waves has dementia.

Criticism of the claim.

"LIGO is said to measure ripples instigated by the vibration in spacetime as they pass through the Earth. What effect are those ripples supposed to cause? An expansion of the planet smaller than one-ten-thousandth the diameter of a proton (10^-19 meters)."

This claim won't stand.

"Seismic noise is a problem because the detector is near an interstate highway and a rail line. When trains went by, the interferometer was knocked out. Nearby logging is also a continuing problem. The team claims that dampening and filtering systems solved those issues."

Yeah, right.

Model of black hole merger supposedly discovered by LIGO.

"Dubbed GW150914, the gravitational waves detected by LIGO are consistent with the merger of 36 and 29 solar mass black holes at a distance of 1.3 billion light-years."

It's also consistent with Star Trek.

War on Drugs

Kroger to sell opium overdose medicine without prescription. I should hope so. If somebody is overdosing, it's a little too late to get a prescription.

Socialism

Oregon protesters surrender under threat.

Foreign Policy

FBI may have leverage over Clinton with aides, but dozens of people went to jail covering up Clinton crimes in the past.

Clinton Foundation subpoenaed.

Health Care

Nutrients change how genes operate.

Economy

Semiconductor bigwigs meet to discuss the end of Moore's Law.

Gold demand skyrockets amid crash.

Coffee hits $15 a cup on San Francisco area.

Media

Big headlines for supposed discovery of Einstein gravitational waves. I bet this is disproved to no fanfare.

Socialism

Despite failing every time, the idea of socialism marches on.

Tax and Spend

Gridlock in Washington is a myth, and this chart shows it has no impact on spending.

Economy

Elon Musk's government-subsidized companies have lost him $3.5 billion so far this year.

Supreme Court overturns Obama's emissions regulations.

Foreign Policy

Clinton shared top secret info with a dozen email accounts of aides on her private server.

Putin's internet czar wants to ban Windows on Russian government computers because of spying. Smart.

Environment

Here' comes another polar vortex NOAA claimed we wouldn't have this year.

Politics

New Hampshire voters deal the establishment a huge defeat with giant Trump and Sanders victories.

"The other big story of this election is the implosion of Marco Rubio, the fair-haired boy of the neoconservatives. His third place finish in Iowa was touted so loudly by his fanboys in the conservative media that one would have thought he taken first prize. Yet his cringe-worthy performance in the debate – it looked like his neoconservative handlers programmed him with the wrong software – and now his relegation to a humiliating fifth place in New Hampshire has almost certainly sunk his campaign. He will probably continue into Super Tuesday and perhaps beyond, but that’s only because he doesn’t seem to have an “off” button, or maybe it’s just stuck: in any case, it’s far too late to send him back to the factory for repair."

Well deserved.

Delegate corruption in New Hampshire.

"Hillary Clinton is expected to leave New Hampshire with just as many delegates as Bernie Sanders, even after he crushed her in Tuesday’s presidential primary."

Trump better watch his delegates.

Bernie Sanders reading list.

War

More than 285 killed in Iraq as Iraqi forces retake Ramadi. The Russian intervention in Syria has really hurt ISIS.

Turkey slams US for supporting and arming Kurds.

Police State

Electrocuting people with tasers messes up their brain. Who would have thought?

FBI complains it can't break some encryption after the crime. Good.

Senate backs down from CIA chief who spied on the Senate. The CIA is in charge here.

Local

Whaley says Dayton job growth is highest in 18 years.

Health Care

The good news in dietary guidelines changes includes removing limits on cholesterol, but the saturated fat myth remains.

How to find out if your doctor is being bribed by Big Pharma.

Federal Reserve

Chinese bust a bunch of loan frauds, just one tiny bit of the massive credit system corruption.

Politics

Republicans tend to grow government more than Democrats, but only because Republicans used to resist more when in them minority.

Socialism

The central planning mindset has won.

"If you thought the Soviet Union’s collapse meant the end of central planning, you were wrong. Central planning is alive and well. In fact, it’s even stronger now than it was during the Soviet Union’s heyday. What’s even more disturbing is that many who would strongly oppose Soviet-style central planning and who consider themselves to be defenders of free markets fail to recognize their acceptance of central planning and see no contradiction between their acceptance of central planning and their alleged support of the market economy."

I agree. It's maddening.

Economy

Just five days ago, some bigwig predicted zero chance of a US recession.

Police State

The Internet of Broken Things.

Hackers leak list of FBI employees after leaking list of DHS employees.

Environment

Record number of sharks attacks on humans in 2015.

EPA wants to ban converting street cars to race cars.

Local

More development in Dayton outside the Dayton Partnership tax district.

Zika virus reaches Ohio and Indiana.

War

Nice analysis of Obama's policy and the Pentagon's actions regarding Syria.

Obama backs off policy of ousting Assad to work with Russians.

"Supporters of the armed opposition are already expressing anger over what they regard as an Obama administration “betrayal” of the fight against Assad. But the Obama policy shift on Syria must be understood, like most of the administration’s Middle East policy decisions, as a response to external events that is mediated by domestic political considerations."

Putin saved Obama again.

Health Care

GM corn toxic to cows.

Foreign Policy

The US changes story about boats captured in Iranian waters.

Tax and Spend

Obama to introduce radical $4 trillion budget, hiding it on the day of the New Hampshire primary.

Economy

Scary selloff of EU banks.

"Lackluster profits and negative interest rates, have prompted investors to dump shares in the sector that was touted as one of the best investment ideas just a few months ago."

What a surprise.

Greek stocks crash.

Tech stocks lead US stock fall.

Regulation

Further proving net neutrality is uneconomic, India shuts down Facebook's free internet because of net neutrality.

War

NATO buildup along Russian border forces Russian forces to respond.

Poltics

Sanders polls within margin of error with Clinton nationally.

Young Democrats recognize Clinton is a corporate sellout.

Like many tech companies, Github committing suicide by diversity PC.

Nobody is investigating the fishy results in Iowa which confirms corruption by Clinton and Cruz.

Fraud of Democratic Socialism.

Police State

UN court rules in favor of Julian Assange for being unlawfully detained for five years.

Data mining your information gets scarier.

Environment

Another Little Ice Age implicated in fall of Roman Empire.

Education

Ohio schools illegally restrain students.

Ohio seeks to imprison parents for 23 years for missing homeschooling paperwork deadline.

Health Care

Health benefits of dark chocolate.

Federal Reserve

Iran to sell oil in euros, not dollars to escape US control.

War

North Korea launches satellite into orbit.

Health Care

Article claims Zika virus reduces American travel to South America, but the South American economy is trashed because of socialism. This is fishy.

Politics

Kasich does well with Democrats.

Clinton is stealing delegates from Sanders in Iowa. Of course she is. It's rigged.

Socialism

Democracy and socialism, and therefore politics, go hand in hand.

Misc

Quasar dims into normal galaxy in just 12 years, contradicting the theory it should millions of years and destroying quasar theory. This observations supports Arp's theory that galaxies birth quasars which then become companion galaxies.

NASA claims water icebergs are floating - moving - on nitrogen glaciers on Pluto. Where's the energy come from? Electricity. So much for dirty snowballs.

Health Care

Healthy diet and exercise prevent and fight cancer.

Economy

Even the mainstream media is admitting this crash will be like nothing seen before.

Media

Clooney kills another movie. Why does anybody put him in a movie?

Foreign Policy

The British report blaming Putin and Russians for the polonium murder of Alexander Litvinenko is full of doubt.

The State Department admits Clinton's criminality.

"On the Friday before Monday’s caucuses, the State Department, which Clinton headed in President Obama’s first term, revealed that it discovered 22 top-secret emails on the private computer server to which Clinton diverted all her governmental email traffic. This acknowledgment marks a radical departure from previous State Department pronouncements and is a direct repudiation of Clinton’s repeated assertions."

"Last Friday, the State Department revealed that 22 emails it found on Clinton’s private server were in fact top secret, and were in fact marked top secret, and were in fact sent to or received from President Obama. This is a revelation that substantially undermines Clinton’s political arguments and is catastrophic to her legal position."

Since Obama is implicated, I doubt he will concur.

"Late Monday afternoon, before the Iowa caucuses convened and after Clinton’s political folks had lobbied their former colleagues at the State Department to re-characterize what they found and revealed late last week, the State Department reversed itself and claimed that the 22 emails were not “marked” top secret. It was too little and too late. The cat was out of the bag and Iowa Democrats knew it. Few really believed that the State Department would state publicly that the 22 emails were top secret and then state publicly that they were not, without a political motivation and irrespective of the truth. All this is infuriating to the FBI, which perceives these word games as mocking its fidelity to the rule of law."

The judge was doing good right up until that FBI fidelity to the rule of law baloney.

Local

So now the job market is tightening?

"In today’s tightening job market, job skills aren’t always the most important factor for being hired, say the employers making the hiring decisions.
Desperate for quality workers, recruiters say businesses will train new hires to complete tasks if they exhibit so-called soft skills, such as arriving to work on time, showing a willingness to learn and the ability to pass a drug screening."

Nice of them for entry-level, low-paying jobs.

Politics

Record Republican turnout in Iowa.

Ron Paul derails Ted Cruz's bid to attract libertarians by pointing out he's married to a Goldman-Sachs banker.

The CIA is probably funding this secret Cruz super-PAC.

Ted Cruz's team proves he's a neocon insider. At the least the neo-cons have control of him.

Fifteen pages of Rubio betrayal.

Establishment tells Bush to lay off Rubio.

Hillary won't release transcripts of her paid speeches to Goldman-Sachs.

Crime pays Clintons $153 million in 14 years.

Republicans aren't futile in the efforts against progressivism. They're progressives themselves.

""Having failed to roll back any major progressive program in the last 100 years, how does the GOP manage to keep the votes and donations of the rank and file flowing in sufficient quantities to keep the GOP machine in power? Highly paid and talented GOP consultants have brilliantly risen to the challenge.  There must be something that keeps the troops anteing up their votes and legwork and contributions to the mendacious Republican machine that talks smaller government but never delivers. There is. Here is how the scam works. The GOP whips up a personal hatred of prominent Democrats as a red herring to distract their own rank and file away from their lengthy record of failure.""

Divide and conquer.

"How do members of the GOP machine—elected and party officials, government employees and contractors, lawyers, consultants, and lobbyists, keep the gravy train rolling?  Not by proposing to roll back the very same progressive big government that the rank and file basically supports.  That would likely involve losing elections which would threaten to cut off the money spigot.  Rather, the GOP machine deliberately distracts the rank and file’s attention away from ideas, issues and policies, and manipulates the masses into personally hating the leading Democrats du jour."

This is why I say they would rather be the minority party of big government than the majority party of small government.

War

US back into Libya.

"The result today in Libya is utter disarray. But at the time, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – a leading advocate of the bombing who justifies the deed to this day – was ecstatic when told the news of Qaddafi’s death while she was appearing on a TV talk show. Laughingly she shouted to the cameras, "We came, we saw, he died!"
No one is laughing in Washington now. President Obama came, saw and created the very opposite of what he sought, a hardly unusual outcome for the Obama and Bush Administrations in the Middle East. Instead of a pliable dependent government willing to do the bidding of Washington and its NATO foreign legion, there has been an explosion of civil war and Sunni jihadism."

Lovely.

Ban Ki-Moon dared claim both Israeli and Palestinian rulers undermine the peace process. Of course they do. Perpetual war is in their interests.

North Korea tested another nuke.

List of 58 confirmed false flag attacks.

Environment

Genetically engineered trees.

El nino will end the pause, at least temporarily, but it didn't happen in January. The pause is currently 18 years, eight months.

Tax and Spend

Obama proposes $10/barrel carbon tax.

Police State

As if US police aren't bad enough, British police may soon get the power to serve warrants in the US.

"Under the proposed plan, British authorities would not have access to records of U.S. citizens if they emerged in the British investigations."

Right.

Economy

Stocks fall on weak jobs report.

Intel says new technologies will make chips slower but more power efficient, portending the end of Moore's law. It couldn't go on forever.

Politics

We should not celebrate politics, but loath it.

"But to the contrary, we should spurn what the establishment would have us celebrate. Politics operates according to principles that would horrify us if we observed them in our private lives, and that would get us arrested if we tried to live by them. The state can steal and call it taxation, kidnap and call it conscription, kill and call it war.
And yet we are taught to fear capitalism, of all things.
But what, after all, are capitalism and the free market? They are nothing more than the sum total of voluntary exchanges in society."

The wealthiest capitalist mus cow-tow to consumers or be put out of business. In politics, rulers rule serfs.

More on libertarian populism.

Local

After all the years I've advocated it, a restaurant is finally going in along the levy in the Water Street building on Patterson. I doubt it will do well because I doubt Water Street will take off.

Environment

El Nino responsible for 2015 heat, not global warming.

Satellites record warmest January ever thanks to el Nino.

Tax and Spend

Flint lead in water problem shows government science is broken.

Regulations

12 nations sign off on TPP so it should go to the Senate for ratification.

Economy

Layoffs rise but only to six month high.

War

In the new Cold War started in Ukraine and Syria, Russian drill succeeded in Sweden.

F-35 still has massive problems.

Police State

Cops couldn't find him, but a woman turned in Paris attack mastermind, then cops abandon her.

It was Oregon State Troopers working with FBI, not FBI directly, who killed a peaceful protester.

Immigration

Obama's quiet amnesty.

"In a shocking reversal of policy, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are being told to release illegal immigrants and no longer order them to appear at deportation hearings, essentially a license to stay in the United States, a key agent testified Thursday.
What's more, the stand down order includes a requirement that the whereabouts of illegals released are not to be tracked.
"We might as well abolish our immigration laws altogether," suggested agent Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council." 

Lawless.

Finally an article mentions a link between the war on drugs and illegal immigration.

"Drug cartels bring unaccompanied children to the Rio Grande valley to serve as diversions that distract border security officials from smugglers and drug traffickers, according to a Border Patrol union official."

The link is stronger than that.

"And each new policy, he said, gives the cartels a new loophole to exploit. "Make no mistake, chaos defines parts of our southwest border today," Judd told the lawmakers."

Exactly what Obama wants.

Neo-Nazis vow to protect women from refugees. Tyrants always use protection as a tool to gain support and power.

Local

Crony balks, leaving fairgrounds move remains in limbo.

Crony owner copies Bush's "Mission Accomplished" for Arcade. I'm skeptical.

Politics

Napoleon Goodell to institute Rooney rule for women, as if women play football like black men. He's an idiot.

Time gives Hillary 29th cover.

Rubio wants to make NSA mass spying permanent.

81 percent think the Federal government is corrupt. The other 19 percent work for it.

Progressive's victory includes taking over Republicans.

People we commonly call conservatives or neocon are really progressives.

Federal Reserve

The Fed pays lots of money to the Treasury, tightly linking it to the Treasury.

Germany limits cash withdrawals.

Sports

Texas district cancels tackle football because of danger. Ridiculous. Give them a safe helmet.

Health Care

Governor declares emergency after Zika hits Florida.

Politics

Big win for anti-interventionism in Iowa.

Nobody knows the actual vote counts in Iowa.

Republicans and Democrats agree the system is rigged.

Politically correct diversity drives hiring in tech, not merit. Like self-censorship, this is self-affirmative action.

Free State Project reaches its goal of 20,000 pledges by libertarians to move to New Hampshire.

Non-profits launder political money.

Federal Reserve

The EU doesn't just want to end cash, it wants to end exchange anonymity altogether including bitcoin and prepaid cards.

Economy

Yahoo to lay off 1,700.

Tax and Spend

The US government's arms business.

"America’s military procurement machine may be the single most successful system of wealth transfer ever devised — moving tens of billions of dollars every year from ordinary taxpayers into the pockets of big defense contractors and their allies in Congress. But as a provider of working equipment to defend the United States against realistic threats, it is becoming more and more dysfunctional with every passing year."

No kidding.

Environment

Hackers exploit NASA including climate systems.

While NOAA and NASA keep saying 2015 was hottest year on record, their data says otherwise.

"According to data on the NOAA website, 1997 was truly the hottest year on record at 62.45 ^oF. The average global temperature in 2015 was 58.62 ^oF or 3.83 ^oF below the 1997 temperature."

Oops.

Economy

There's nothing wrong with charging more for power for big users like bitcoin miners.

Police State

Harvard disputes crypto making FBI go dark.

New York wants to ban iPhones and other encrypted tech.

More on the FBI's execution of protester in Oregon.

Google to show wrong results to would-be terrorists as if it knows who is and isn't a would-be terrorist. This is cover for Google manipulating results to people who dissent from government.

Politics

Hillary Clinton won six of six coin tosses in Iowa, giving her the election.

Cruz over Trump over Rubia in close vote.

Health Care

Roundup's glyphosate damages cell mitochondria.

War

Leak of biological weapons from US lab kills 20, sickens 200 in Ukraine.

Tax and Spend

Pentagon to pay for hormone therapy for transgenders.

Immigration

Finland to test drones to stop the flow of refugees through Russia into Finland.

Foreign Policy

The CIA lies to its own people. It's called eyewash.

Police State

The New York Times exposes the fraud behind government's war on encryption.

FBI murders protester in Oregon.

Media

The Guardian lost $120 million last year in its conversion to digital.

Socialism

US economic freedom falls again in Heritage report.

Remembering Stalin the mass murderer.

Politics

Microsoft will count votes in Iowa, but it already declared Hillary the winner.

Hillary's emails contained operational intelligence and put lives at risk.

Wall Street increases funding for both parties.

Jeb super-pac paying people to attend his events just like Democrats.

White mortality rate climbs.

Iowa brings out the politics of ethanol.

Environment

Fisherman don't report 30 percent of the global catch.

Zika outbreak blamed on genetically modified mosquitoes. More on Zika.

Greens urge Obama to use EPA to shut down state economies. That sounds like something he would love to do.