Thursday, March 31, 2016

Regulation

Of course California's $15 minimum wage will spur automation.

Misc

Scientists surprised by white dwarf with oxygen atmosphere.

Economy

Long lines missing for Apple's newly released products.

Local

DeLish may be next target in war on bars.

Politics

Thanks to the propaganda campaign about the dark net, 70 percent of people globally want the dark net banned.

Two teens arrested for threatening Trump.

When did the Secret Service obtain the power to ban guns anywhere including the Republican convention. I thought Congress had the power to make law.

Police State

FBI used Apple case to make new law requiring backdoors for encryption.

FBI unlikely to share info on iPhone hack with local police.

Feds force Apple and Google to unlock 63 phones using 1789 law.

Misc

Scientists discover quasar jet streams are 100 times hotter than thought possible at 10 trillion degrees. That's because they're electric.

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Local

I-75 downtown construction to finish this year, maybe by Sept. 1. Let's hope so.

Montgomery County union workers get raises.

Media

Top German journalist admits everybody in the mainstream media lies for the CIA because they have to.

Tax and Spend

Taxpayers foot $1.6 billion bill for Google's failed solar power experiment.

Police State

It's not fair to claim FBI unleashed hackers on Apple. It was already a target for hackers because it refused a bug bounty program, and $15,000 is a pittance. But Apple is no longer favored by the government, and that's going to hurt.

Politics

Second lawsuit over Clinton's email server goes forward.

Health Care

Corruption in Big Ag.

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Socialism

Claim Japan's recently launched satellite broke into five pieces.

Police State

Online spying reduces minority speech.

FBI cracks terrorist iPhone without Apple's help. That didn't take long.

Local

Heroin epidemic in Butler county.
"Use of prescription opioid pain-relievers increases the risk of heroin addiction."
No mention of the war in Afghanistan.

Monday, March 28, 2016

Environment

Disgraced global warming fraud from fakegate Gleick resigns.

Sea level falls at island supposedly endangered by rising sea levels.

US heat waves linked to hot sea surface temperatures in Pacific 50 days previously.

El Nino causes record low Arctic ice cap extent.

War

Government failure motivates terrorists and exacerbates their attacks.

Some Muslims stand up against extremism.

Russians help Syrians recapture Palmyra from ISIS.
"Meanwhile, the five year US “regime change” effort in Syria chugs along in a very different way. We learned in a Los Angeles Times report yesterday that the US is now at war with…itself in Syria.
Yes, that’s right. While Syrian government troops and the Russians are dealing a death-blow to ISIS in Syria, one set of rebels supported by the Central Intelligence Agency is at war with another set of rebels supported by the Pentagon."
You can't make this stuff up.

Socialism

Statistics are used to support government growth.

Misc

The sun eroding mountain peaks is more evidence for rapid change of Earth's surface.

Laser could launch spacecraft at relativistic speeds and divert dangerous asteroids.

Regulation

As if California's economy wasn't bad enough, rulers plan to raise the minimum wage from $10 to $15 per hour statewide. There will be consequences.

Local

Local cops ruin Easter with Easter weekend drug enforcement blitz. They ruin all holidays. Fun has been outlawed.

War

Attacks in Europe prove war in Syria has nothing to do with stopping terrorists.

Sunday, March 27, 2016

War on Drugs

Legalization is the cure for the heroin epidemic.

Police State

FBI always had alternatives to unlock terrorist's iPhone.

Politics

Sanders won last three votes in landslide, but all were small states.

Concern that superdelegates may leave Clinton.

Parents rush field and ruin Easter Egg hunt.
"Children as young as four were trampled by adults in a rampage to steal buckets and grab as many of the 9,000 hidden eggs as possible from the third annual free event at the PEZ headquarters."
Blame progressivism for promoting selfishness and lack of cooperation.

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Police State

Cold case from 1957 proves call records of Americans are kept indefinitely.

Police demand access to private DNA databases.

Health Care

States with legal medical marijuana have lower rates of death from prescription painkillers.

War

David Stockman wants to abolish NATO because Russia is not a threat.
"The whole confrontation with Russia including the self-inflicted economic folly of the anti-Putin sanctions is the handiwork of a war machine and its bureaucratic auxiliaries that are long past their sell-by date. That is, the entire “Russian threat” narrative is concocted by generals, admirals, spies, diplomats and other national security apparatchiks who would otherwise be out of power, jobs, and cushy pensions." 
But then there's the dollar.

Media ignores the death of a million Muslims by western governments.
"A little more than a week ago, as Mohammed Ali Kalfood reported in The Intercept, “Fighter jets from a Saudi-led [U.S. and U.K.-supported] coalition bombed a market in Mastaba, in Yemen’s northern province of Hajjah. The latest count indicates that about 120 people were killed, including more than 20 children, and 80 were wounded in the strikes.” Kalfood interviewed 21-year-old Yemeni Khaled Hassan Mohammadi, who said, “We saw airstrikes on a market last Ramadan, not far from here, but this attack was the deadliest.” Over the past several years, the U.S. has launched hideous civilian-slaughtering strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Libya, and Iraq." 
This is part of their role as propagandists for rulers.

Snowden reports Turkey warned Belgian officials about the terrorists who bombed airport before the attack.

Environment

Marxism and environmentalism includes great quotes from environmental Marxists.

Greens ignore whale slaughter because they're focused on global warming. Scarcity in action.

Federal Reserve

Blaming tech for coming bank problems.

Health Care

Statin drug use linked to heart problems, but only after six years.

Socialism

Obama says there's no great difference between capitalism and communism.

Politics

Trump won Louisiana, but Cruz got more delegates.

Republican confidence in political process plummets.

Neocons prefer Clinton over Trump.

Pat Buchanan explains what the establishment plans for Trump.
"Goals of the anti-Trump conspirators: Manipulate the rules and steal the nomination at Cleveland. Failing that, pull out all the stops and torpedo any Trump-led ticket in the fall. Then blame Trump and his followers for the defeat, pick up the pieces, and posture as saviors of the party they betrayed."
Well said.
"Indeed, if the supreme imperative for Kristol and the “Never Trump” conservatives is to defeat him, they have become de facto allies of George Soros and MoveOn.org, Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street — and the party of Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, and Hillary Clinton."
They are.

Friday, March 25, 2016

Police State

Former Bush official praises Snowden for his restraint.
"Wilkerson said, "I think Snowden has done a service. I wouldn't have had the courage, and maybe not even the intellectual capacity, to do it the way he did it. There's a logic to what he has done that is impressive. He really has refrained from anything that was truly dangerous, with regard to our security -- regardless of what people say. He has been circumspect about what he's released, how he's released it, who he's released it to.""
Good for him.

Web of socialist intelligence agencies makes adapting difficult. That's an understatement.

Google warns gmail users of government attacks because of its support for Apple.

Google's warning about unencrypted email prompts other services to encrypt.

FBI monitors people with pro-peace bumper stickers.

Economy

The smartwatch bubble is bursting.

War on Drugs

Illegal drugs should be decriminalized because the war on drugs is a failure. There's too much money to be made on keeping them illegal, but the next crash may change priorities.

Environment

Rockefeller group admits funding media hit job against Exxon.

Politics

Most Americans believe Palestinians occupy Israeli territory, not vice-versa.

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Education

Challenging STEM orthodoxy.

Police State

Blaming Apple's lack of a bug bounty program for reason hackers would help FBI hack iPhone. I'm sure plenty of people would love to stick it to Apple. This could cost Apple a fortune.

Misc

Microsoft AI adopts racist speech within hours of being unleashed on Twitter. More.
"Recently, Microsoft put an AI experiment onto Twitter, naming it "Tay". The bot was built to be fully aware of the latest adolescent fixations (e.g. celebrities and similar), and to interact like a typical teen girl. In less than 24 hours, it inexplicably became a neo-nazi sex robot with daddy issues. Sample tweets from it proclaimed that "Hitler did nothing wrong!", then went on to blame former President Bush for 9/11, stated that "donald trump is the only hope we've got", and other similar instances. As the hours passed, it all went downhill from there, eventually spewing racial slurs and profanity, demanding sex, and calling everyone "daddy". The bot was quickly removed once Microsoft discovered the trouble, but the hashtag is still around for those who want to see it in its ugly raw splendor."
Now we know what Twitter does to teens, albeit to a lesser extent, I hope. Funny how they throw support for Trump in there as if it's equivalent.

Socialism

Self-driving cars do pretty much the same thing people at intersections without traffic lights.

Immigration

Border agents ordered to lie about numbers of illegal aliens.

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Politics

Neocons fear Trump's revenge. That's why they're willing to run third party to deny him a victory.

The neocons aren't going away; they just move to wherever they're best suited.

Federal Reserve

Paper notes are not money.

Debt is not money.

Misc

Great criticism of claim of discovery of gravitation waves. It more likely detected a local geomagnetic shift instead.

Comparing hurricanes and storms to sunspots.

Environment

Canadian arctic was significantly warmer a few millennia ago.

Rockefeller Fund dumps fossil fuel stocks.

Sea level has been falling on the Atlantic seaboard.

War

There are no moderate rebels in Syria.

Talks consider dividing Syria into a federation of tribes.

Released Guantanamo prisoners have killed Americans. That's what happens when you release prisoners of war.

ISIS has sent 400 terrorists into Europe as refuges to commit terror attacks. More.

Police State

Whistleblower admits NSA is so overwhelmed with data, it's ineffective.

FBI backs down from Apple, at least temporarily, paying a firm to crack the iPhone. If successful, this will be terrible for Apple and its customers.

Apple switches to Google cloud because it fears its servers have been backdoored.

Regulation

Copyright laws are biased against little guys, causing problems for them at YouTube.

Economy

Jaguar to make nine exclusive, $1 million bubble cars.

Lincoln puts a wardrobe and intercoms in Navigator.

War

Paris terrorists used burner phones, not encryption.

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Environment

Whistleblower exposes Big Ag's control of USDA.

Monsanto lies about Roundup.

Police State

Somebody finally noticed the internet of things is the NSA's dream come true.
"“The notion that there are legal checks and balances in place is a fiction,” Tynan says."
Of course.

Socialism

A children's book about Stalin's communism.

Socialism starves people.

Monday, March 21, 2016

Economy

US home sales plummeted in February, the opposite of Dayton.

Immigration

Obama ordered DHS not to deport illegal immigrants.

Regulation

New York Attorney General stops fantasy sites from taking money.

Local

February home sales up 15 percent over last February.

Dayton's rulers are one-trick ponies, giving more property to a crony to develop housing and commercial space. Clearly this is a politically-tested term.

Sunday, March 20, 2016

War

Are we supposed to be surprised terrorists improve tactics before attacks?

Politics

George Soros board member runs voting machine company.

Mexican government pushes to convert as many Mexicans into US citizens are possible before November's election.

Health Care

Boil older eggs for 11 minutes starting them in hot water for the best results.

Education

Techies just noticed CS for all means lower wages for coders.

War

ISIS kills US marine in Iraq.

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Regulation

FDA director is Big Pharma alum.

Vermont forces food companies to label GMO foods.

Environment

US tornado deaths near lowest ever in supposed warmest year ever.

NOAA declares current el Nino greater than 1997-1998, but ridiculously says it has little effect on record warm temperatures.

Contrary to recent claims, sea level rise continues at the pace it has for centuries.

Tax and Spend

Foreign governments dumping US debt to finance their own ailing economies.

Federal budget reaches $4 trillion.

Politics

Fed employees donate four times as much to Clinton as to all other candidates combined.

Of course the establishment will steal the Republican nomination. This is their public plan.

Buchanan calls the people who broke up Trump's Chicago rally brownshirts.

Trump protestors block streets.

Federal Reserve

Swiss banks, suffering reduced profits because of negative interest rates, raise mortgage rates to compensate.

The Fed admits it won't raise rates further.

To protect themselves from NIRP, Germans are pulling money out of banks and putting it in safe deposit boxes. This is foolish. The government and its banks will steal from those boxes. The Japanese were smarter to buy safes.

A reminder that bail-ins are government policy.

Economy

Subprime loans becoming a problem in the auto bubble.

Police State

Obama fearmongers about encryption.

The three major points Apple makes against the FBI: privacy, slavery, and freedom of speech.

The FBI is worse than when J. Edgar Hoover ran it.

Texas cops use covert tour busses to spy inside cars for seat belt violations.

Show of force in Britain ostensibly to protect against terrorist attacks is more likely intended to prevent Brexit.

War

Kerry keeps asking Obama to attack Syria directly, and Obama says no.

Politics

Petraeus, a rising star who had his wings clipped, says Hillary is being treated fairly.

War

Shock headline of our generation: few women show interest in infantry jobs open to them.

Economy

The tech bubble has popped in Silicon Valley.

Google sells off recent robot company acquisition. This shows how booms fuel acquisitions and busts fuel divestitures.

Apple uses Google cloud services for iCloud, strongly encrypting its data.

Regulation

FCC to allow Charter's acquisition of Time Warner.

Fast food CEO invests in automation because regulations make hiring people too expensive.

Environment

NOAA joins NASA, claiming February hottest on record by large amount.

Misc

Scientific papers inadvertently note Pluto is a charged body.

In another obvious example of the politicization of science, study claims female animals look drab to avoid sexual harassment, not for survival purposes.

The center of the Milky Way is the source for the most energetic cosmic rays in the galaxy, but they come from Berkeland currents, not a black hole.

Astronomers discover exoplanet that behaves like a comet.

Police State

Apple CEO notes FBI errors regarding terrorist's iPhone. Apple employees plan to thwart government order to hack iPhone.

The law may be clear that government can't force Apple rewrite its code for the FBI, but law can be changed at any minute by a judge.

US government has forced many companies to hand over source code.

Police finally capture Paris terrorist living under their noses in Brussels.

After doxing himself, former bigtime hacker gets job at corporate security firm.

Mass surveillance has shut down minority views, exactly as desired. The surveillance state works.

Government accidentally publishes the target of its LavaBit probe was Snowden as many thought.

Government, the FBI and NHTSA just noticed hacking cars was a threat.

Local

Police chase driver until she kills others. Again, socialists can't rationally evaluate the costs of their actions. Cops always say deadly chases were justified because of this.


It might help black boys, but this will hurt the education of everybody else. Socialists don't realize resources spent on one thing have to be taken away from other things.

Oakwood team wins state academic decathlon, setting a new record.

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Police State

DOJ threatens to sieze iOS code over terrorist iPhone.

Local

This will supposedly be the last year for the Montgomery County Fair at the current fairgrounds.

Environment

The government makes all food and environmental problems worse.

Monday, March 14, 2016

War

Putin declares success and begins withdrawing main force from Syria.

Immigration

Released illegal immigrants commit lots of crimes including murder.
"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has revealed that 124 illegal immigrant criminals released from jail by the Obama administration since 2010 have been subsequently charged with murder."
"What's more, her report said that in 2014, ICE released 30,558 criminal aliens who had been convicted of 92,347 crimes. Only 3 percent have been deported."
That's nuts.

Politics

Progressivism was created by big business to benefit big business.

Before Ohio primary, Kasich promises amnesty in first 100 days.

Fed employees shower Democrats, especially Clinton, with money.

Dinesh D'Sousa tells the truth about Democrats.
"“The Democrats want us to believe they're the party of equal rights and human rights and civil rights. The truth is the Democrats are the party of slavery, and Indian removal, of broken treaties and the Trail of Tears, they're the party of segregation and Jim Crow and lynching and the Ku Klux Klan, they're the party of Japanese internment, and opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Bill of 1968,” he said. “This is their actual history so what they do is they try to cover it up.”"
It's nice of somebody besides me to point this out.

Anonymous ramps up attacks on Trump.

Health Care

This Zika scare sounds like propaganda to allow testing of GM mosquitos.

Environment

NASA claims February hottest ever by shocking margin.

Police State

Google and others improve encryption.

The UN joins the police state.
"Six months after giving birth to a cluster of nebulous Sustainable Development Goals that aim to dramatically change the economic, social and environmental course of the planet, the United Nations is working on a drastic renovation of global data gathering to measure progress against its sweeping international agenda."
No thanks.

Health Care

It's about time somebody, in this case Dr. Mercola, blamed dermatologists and their demonization of sun for skin cancer.

Sunday, March 13, 2016

Police State

TSA makes for long lines airports.

Politics

Blaming agent provocateurs for violence at Trump rallies.

Soros's MoveOn.org raising money from instigating violence at Trump rallies.
"“Last night, without consulting local police, Donald Trump abruptly cancelled a rally in Chicago in the face of massive and overwhelmingly peaceful student-led protests,” MoveOn.org wrote in an email Saturday to members. “We’re being flooded with aggressive emails and social media posts from Trump supporters. Some of them are threatening. We refuse to be intimidated by Donald Trump, Fox News, or anyone else.”"
Then they act like they're the victims.

Dayton protester planned his run to the stage.

Trump blames Sanders supporters.

Right-wing anti-immigration party trounces Merkel in Germany.

David Stockman reminds us Trump is as bad as the rest on spending.

Republican establishment considers taking a dive to get Clinton elected. Remember that before Trump entered the race, he called Bill Clinton.

War

ISIS uses chemical weapons in Iraqi town of Taza.

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Socialism

Fresh from killing a protester in Oregon, BLM starts another land battle.

Foreign Policy

Obama flies to Britain to campaign against Grexit, sticking his nose where it doesn't belong.

War

North Korean sub goes missing during US-South Korean drill for North Korean invasion.

Health Care

I can't wait to here what screw-up led to this delayed flu outbreak.

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Using pseudoscience to promote gun control.

Misc

Microsoft upgrading Windows 7 PCs to Windows 10 without users realizing it.

Politics

The anti-Trump establishment also hates Democracy.

Bill Ayers and radical leftists shut down Trump rally by threatening violence. Cruz blames Trump.

Secret Service protects Trump at Dayton rally.

Police State

Snowden calls bull**** on FBI over Apple demands.

Obama backs FBI. Imagine if government required every diary to be unencoded.

Education

FBI program gets students to spy on each other.

Friday, March 11, 2016

Regulation

The unequivocal damage from minimum wage.
"The victims of such policies are “disproportionately young, from the ages of 18 to30″ and “are locked out without any prospect of finding a good job,” thanks to high minimum wages.
“[A] generation of young people is unable to get adequate training, develop careers, and save for their future . . . .  These young people are also more likely to engage in crime.”"
Young black men.

Politics

Clinton's IT expert delivers damning evidence against Clinton, but it won't make a difference.

Former US Attorney believes a grand jury has been empaneled to investigate Clinton.

Establishment shills for Clinton.
"In what has to be some kind of record, the Washington Post ran 16 negative stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 hours, between roughly 10:20 PM EST Sunday, March 6, to 3:54 PM EST Monday, March 7—a window that includes the crucial Democratic debate in Flint, Michigan, and the next morning’s spin"
Sounds like a record.

Plutocrats secretly meet to stop Trump.

The good, the bad and the ugly is a good description of Trump.

Economy

Stocks are back up for now, but it won't last.

War

After praising his lawless war on Libya, Obama blames Europeans, especially British PM Cameron, for its subsequent disintegration. That's because he's conservative.

Generals want to continue Afghan war.

Environment

Los Angeles claims it seeded clouds to increase rain by 15 percent during el Nino drought.

GM mosquitos to be tested in Key West.

$50 million green energy fraud was easy.

Health Care

Anxiety drugs overdoses skyrocket.

Local

Developer pulls out of the city's deal for old DDN property.

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

Illegal Immigration

Kansas City mass murderer was illegal immigrant previously deported.

Regulation

Canada mandates half of films have women directors.

Police State

German court rules against Facebook like button.

Snowden claims FBI already has ability to unlock iPhone.

Economy

Never buy a new car.

Politics

Sanders won the Michigan primary, but Clinton got more delegates. Yet Democrats claim to support democracy.

AG Lynch reminds everybody she doesn't have to charge Clinton despite her crimes. She won't. The fix is in.

Misc

Scientists surprised by particle discovered by LHC.

Without every observing ice, scientists claim Rosetta's ice is as old as the solar system. Too funny.

War on Drugs

Character assassination of Maria Sharapova.

War

F-35 has major radar flaw.

Pentagon admits flying surveillance drones over US.

Local

Fairgrounds fiasco is full of mystery from the agency which owns the fairgrounds to the third party who pulled out.

Tuesday, March 08, 2016

Tax and Spend

One in seven Americans got food stamps in 2015.

Nobody wants to talk about the US current unfunded liability (debt) of $210 trillion.

War

Turk government seizes largest newspaper to silence dissent of war.

Politics

Fed governor donates to Clinton.

Judge Napolitano still believes Clinton will be arrested for her email scandal.
"Also this past weekend, Gen. Michael Hayden, formerly director of the CIA and of the National Security Agency, stated on CNN that it is a near certainty that the Russian government and others had access to Clinton’s non-secure server and all it contained."
If she was going to be prosecuted, she would have been arrested already while the investigation continued.

I doubt the neocons are dead.

Misc

Microsoft is coopting open source projects.

Police State

Hacker to uncovered Hillary Clinton's email server and hacked celebrities to be extradited to US and disappeared.

FBI agents under investigation for shooting at Oregon protester killed by police and covering it up.

FBI expands access to NSA data on Americans.

Skepticism that FBIs blunders with the terrorist iPhone were accidental. They're convenient.

Environment

Global warming will not cut food production by a quarter, probably not at all.

Monday, March 07, 2016

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Another armed citizen prevents mass shooting.

Misc

Idiotic, idiot-proof, safety devices don't make us safer.

Refuting claim Hubble telescope saw oldest, farthest away galaxy.

Politics

Government of the politicians, by the generals, for the cronies. Great title.

British voters denied access to vote against withdrawing from EU.

Raimondo and Stockman on why the establishment hates Trump.

Education

Government schools ruin education.
"In 1930, 3 million American adults could not read.  Most of those 1 million white illiterates and 2 million black illiterates were people over age fifty who had never been to school. (Regna Lee Wood)In 2003, 30 million American adults could not read.  Most had been to school for many years.  (70% of prison inmates could not read; 19% of high school graduates could not read) (Illiteracy Statistics)"
No kidding.

War

Just before the terrorist attack on Turkish troops, a false flag was predicted.

The war in Syria is part of the larger war for the dollar, oil and drug trade.

Gender sanity.
"Physiology doesn’t lie: Women are less effective than men at meeting military objectives, and far more likely to be injured in combat. Let’s stop denying reality in a misguided effort toward “equality” and agree that women should not be drafted to combat roles.Men were built for fighting. Women were built for childbearing. It’s interesting to note how stubbornly true—even obvious—these statements remain, despite aggressive efforts to bury them.
"
At least somebody said it.

Saudis and principalities impose travel ban to Lebanon.

Federal Reserve

ECB bans 500 euro note.

Stockman on the plan to ban the $100 bill.

Home safes sold out in Japan.

Even BIS admits negative rates are counterproductive. More.

Gold rises.

The role of degraded currency in the collapse of the Roman Empire.

Environment

Google challenge produces giant leap forward for solar power government has failed to produce for decades.

Police State

Amazon changes course, reinstates encryption on fires.

Economy

Free trade is key to economic success.

Gold-plated phones are a bubble activity.

Sunday, March 06, 2016

Police State

Maryland appeals court upholds suppression of Stingray evidence.

Police deprive victims of sleep to get them to confess to crimes they didn't commit.

Economy

A container ship curse tracks the skyscraper curse.

Socialism

Collapse of maple syrup cartel shows how markets overcome even government-backed cartels.

Tax and Spend

The US government is bankrupt, and it's largest asset is student loans.

Federal spending as percentage of GDP for each state.

Foreign Policy

US threatens banks to prevent them from buying Russian bonds even though it's legal.

Federal Reserve

Dodd-Frank wiped out small banks.

Holding cash makes you a terrorist or drug dealer.

Negative consequences of negative interest rates.

Banning cash to save the system.

Ramping up calls to ban cash.

Yellen warns of negative rates.

War

Obama to escalate war on Syria.

The west is intentionally breaking up Arab countries.
"In his testimony before a US Senate committee to discuss the Syria ceasefire, Secretary of State, John Kerry revealed that his country is preparing a “Plan B” should the ceasefire fail. Kerry refrained from offering specifics; however, he offered clues. It may be “too late to keep Syria as a whole, if we wait much longer,” he indicated.The possibility of dividing Syria was not a random warning, but situated in a large and growing edifice of intellectual and media text in the US and other western countries. It was articulated by Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institute in a Reuter’s op-ed last October. He called for the US to find a “common purpose with Russia”, while keeping in mind the “Bosnia model.”
“In similar fashion, a future Syria could be a confederation of several sectors: one largely Alawite – another Kurdish – a third, primarily Druse – a fourth, largely made up of Sunni Muslims; and then a central zone of intermixed groups in the country’s main population belt from Damascus to Aleppo.”
What is dangerous about O’Hanlon’s solution for Syria is not the complete disregard of Syria’s national identity. Frankly, many western intellectuals never even subscribed to the notion that Arabs were nations in the western definition of nationhood, in the first place. (Read Aaron David Miller article: Tribes with Flags) No, the real danger lies in the fact that such a divisive dismantling of Arab nations is very much plausible, and historical precedents abound."
Playing god, or rather the devil, in Syria as Hillary did in Libya.

Google's Eric Schmidt gets a job at the Pentagon.

Environment

Oregon bans coal by 2035.

Ten failed polar bear predictions.

Greenland ice sheet melting from soot, not global warming.

Misc

Scientists to drill into crater from impact that supposedly destroyed the dinosaurs.

Politics

Bill would ban government from buying Apple products until it breaks iPhone encryption for FBI.

Entitlements show progressives won.

Friday, March 04, 2016

Environment

Global warming frauds at NASA change satellite data to erase the pause.
"Climate change doubters may have lost one of their key talking points: a particular satellite temperature dataset that had seemed to show no warming for the past 18 years."
Politics, not science, is behind this change. Criticism.
"The paper is for MT, not LT…but I think we can assume that changes in one will be reflected in the other when Mears completes their analysis.From what little we have looked at so far, it appears that they did not correct for spurious warming in NOAA-14 MSU relative to NOAA-15 AMSU…see their Fig. 7c.  They just leave it in.
Since this spurious warming is near the middle of the whole time period, this shifts the second half of the satellite record warmer when NOAA-14 MSU (the last in the MSU series) is handed off to NOAA-15 AMSU (the first in the AMSU series).
Why do we think NOAA-14 MSU is at fault?
1) AMSU is supposed to have a “Cadillac” calibration design (that’s the term a NASA engineer, Jim Shiue, used when describing to me the AMSU design, which he was involved in).
2) NOAA-14 MSU requires a large correction for the calibrated TB increasing with instrument temperature as the satellite drifts into a different orbit.  The NOAA-15 AMSU requires no such correction…and it wasn’t drifting during the period in question anyway.
So, it looks like they decided to force good data to match bad data.  Sound familiar?"
Yes.

El Nino makes February warmest ever.

Real data shows pause ending because of el Nino, but it will be back afterward.

Economy

IBM to lay off 1/3 of US workforce as bust grows.

Police State

ISIS employs non-US strong encryption. This will enable calls for one world government anti-encryption. This is why rulers love terrorists.

Feds switched from Blackberry to iPhones because of Apples default encryption, and the FBI wants to break it.

Government makes the internet insecure.

Amazon crumbles under anti-encryption pressure, removing encryption from Kindles.

DOJ grants immunity to State Department employee who set up Clinton's private server.

Misc

Images show X-shaped bulge at center of Milky Way, like an hourglass, supporting electric universe theory

War on Drugs

Alcohol and nicotine are two of the five most addictive substances known, yet there's little crime associated with them because they're legal. Cocaine, heroin and barbiturates are the others.

Health Care

Long-term anxiety creates inflammation in the brain that causes memory loss.

Local

Here's where local jobs are coming from.
"An investigation from Dayton Daily News Reporter Thomas Gnaucoming this afternoon shows from mid-November to mid-December, Kettering Medical Center had the third most online jobs listings in the region, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. Competing hospital system Premier Health was fourth in the region.Registered nurses are in high demand in this region. Behind truck drivers, register nurses are the second highest positions sought by employers, according to Gnau’s investigation. More than 560 ads for openings for registered nurses were posted during that same period."
Profiting from illness.
"Gnau reports that technology-oriented jobs in general also are strong in Dayton. Oracle was top on the ODJFS’s online advertising tracker from mid-November to mid-December with 327 online ads."
That won't last.

Socialism

Government, not markets, caused the Flint lead water problem.

Federal Reserve

The downward spiral from ZIRP to NIRP.

The Federal Reserve is a key component of the American Transfer State. Under the guise of “macroeconomic management,” it redistributes vast amounts of wealth on an ongoing basis through inflation. The victims of these transfers are ordinary Americans. The beneficiaries are the government and its elite cronies.The Fed masks the nature of this surreptitious taxation and corporate welfare by performing a simple shell game that is just complicated enough to confound the general public.
How it works.

Regulation

Romania's great internet network is a result of lack of regulation.

Heavy regulations precede US economic busts.
"Typically, cronyism involves support of politicians in exchange for regulations denying others the freedom to compete with the moneyed interests (e.g., monopolies). Less competition leads to higher costs and lower quality. It reduces economic growth, jobs, wages, innovation, and productivity."
Yep.
"Attempts to control economic growth through government spending and/or manipulating interest rates (e.g., stimulate growth with low rates) generally leads to more severe crises."
Lovely.

British government wants to ban adblocking.

Proposal for regulation of data and algorithms. That would be disastrous.

Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Health Care

Women's-only hospital. Imagine a men's-only hospital.

Federal Reserve

Ramping up the rhetoric war on cash. The establishment is still looking for the message or crisis that will give them support to ban cash.

Politics

Trump and Clinton dominate on the first super-Tuesday.

Why the party elite hate insurgent candidates.
"The biggest myth in politics is that political parties are in business to win elections. Thesecriminal cartels are in business to maintain their networks of crony corruption, patronage, and payoff which are their reasons for being. The National Security State, driven by the imperial presidency, an acquiescent congress and a complacent federal judiciary, has destroyed the American Republic. Their parasitic welfare-warfare state, enabled by the Fed, fosters and promotes the profligacy and dependency which is at the root of this destructive process.One of the great lies about American politics is that Republicans genuinely subscribe to a set of core convictions that make Republicans different from Democrats.
Day by day, their meaningless stands on diversionary issues such as immigration, same-sex marriage, or the “war on drugs” have merged until little distinction remains. They are now but factions in the one true political party in America — the Incumbent Party. Despite all posturing and pretense, their only real dispute concerns whose clients will get the loot. . . and whose the bill."
Exactly.

War on Drugs

Obama order the Department of Agriculture to join the DEA in the war on drugs.

Economy

Retail closings continue.

Sports Authority goes bankrupt.

Europe's economy officially contracts.

War

US protects al Qaeda in Syria.

How opium defeated the US in Afghanistan.

Police State

Government has wanted to break in the iPhone for a long time.

Ron Paul claims spying hasn't prevented one terrorist attack.

Local

Article claims Dayton has been in the top ten cities for development for ten years running. What a joke.

Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Foreign Policy

NSA backdoors hurt America and help Russia and China.

IoT device phone home to China.

Police State

Another judge rules government can't force Apple to unlock iPhone, setting up a Supreme Court case.

Apple is no freedom fighter in China.