Economy

Idiotic Kenyan president burns 105 tons of ivory, reducing supply and making poaching ivory even more lucrative.

"Burning the ivory accomplishes the exact opposite of what their objective is. It raises the price of ivory because it reduces the supply and leaves the demand unchanged, ignoring psychological effects on buyers that may either discourage them from buying ivory or speeding up their demand for it. Selling the ivory would have depressed the price and discouraged the poaching."

This shows the terrible cost of socialists miseducating people.

Environment

Global warming frauds want to tax meat ostensibly to reduce global warming.

The more people know about climate science, they less they're concerned about global warming.

War

Poor Obama official forced to claim there's no boots on the ground in Iraq or Syria.

Feminists will force women to declare for the draft.

US troops who repeated attacked an Afghan hospital not charged with war crimes. They were just following orders should be no defense.

Foreign Policy

The US starts another campaign against Switzerland, calling it a pirate haven. US rulers hate the greater freedoms in Switzerland.

Local

OVI checkpoint near Flanagan's makes me wonder if the cops are targeting its new owners. I routinely check OVI checkpoint stories, and I never noticed a checkpoint there before.

Tax and Spend

Government to claim over half of Prince's estate.

Sports

A hacker, the NCAA and now the Dolphins have all victimized this young man. He didn't deserve humiliation. He missed press conference, probably because the Dolphins told him too. Later he met with the press, claimed he had an allergic reaction, and wouldn't talk about the past, undoubtedly because the Dolphins told him to.

Napoleon Goodell calls Tunsil's humiliation part of draft-day excitement. NFLPA blasts Goodell, as well they should.

Politics

Latino immigrants becoming citizens to vote against Trump.

Despite being eliminated by voters, Cruz claims Indiana will determine Republican nominee. What else would you expect him to say? He's trying to keep Trump from a majority.

One of the positives about Trump is he claims he will oust the neocons.

Obama loves his terrible legacy.

"Obama’s legacy: Politics of anger, fights, division"

Saul Alinsky would be proud.

Choosing the right bathroom used to be easy.

Progressives only care about feelings when it benefits their pro-government-coercion agenda.

Fed employees donate to Hillary.

Economy

Silicon Valley startup bubble declining.

Intel cancels Atom chips, abandoning the tablet and smartphone market. Wow.

Carl Icahn dumps all Apple stock. He knows Apple is a bubble company.

Police State

Child porn suspect jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt his hard drive. So much for the constitutional protection against self-incrimination.

Supreme Court radically expands FBI hacking power, as if FBI cars about legal restrictions.

Despite spending $1 million for the iPhone hack, the FBI doesn't know how it works.

Judge Napolitano takes police state spying theory to its ultimate conclusion.

"Would all of our lives be safer if the government could break down all the doors it wishes, listen to all the conversations it could find and read whatever emails and text messages it could acquire?"

Of course not!

"Perhaps."

Is Napolitano an idiot? Not perhaps, but hell no. The government already does this, and it makes us less safe.

Dennis Hastert sentenced to prison for structuring, not any real crime.

Congress slams TSA in public, funnels it money when the cameras are off.

Police State

TSA screeners quitting in droves as agency gets worse, not better.

Politics

Trump has already received more votes than Romney and will likely receive more votes than any Republican in primary history.

Police State

Former Tor developer hacks Tor users for FBI.

Economy

I hope Intel crashes and burns for focusing on IoT.

Politics

51 percent of millennials reject capitalism. Why Lew Rockwell is optimistic is beyond me.

Local

Dayton's rulers try to shut down several bars and party stores.

Health Care

Foods high and low in pesticides.

Media

In blowback against leftists hijacking the Hugo awards, this year's nominees are dominated by conservatives.

Education

Silicon Valley execs urge congressmen to fund computer science so they don't have to pay so much to programmers.

Regulation

Mitsubishi admits cheating on mileage reports for 25 years.

Sports

Ruling against Brady animates players to reign in Goodell, thank goodness. He's detrimental to the league.

Politics

Trump crushes competition to sweep today's primaries while Clinton beats Sanders but not by nearly as much. Trump has more delegates than his next three competitors combined.

Democrat turnout down millions from 2008.

700,000 Christian activists boycott Target because it allows men to enter women's restrooms if they claim to identify as women.

Health Care

De Niro accidentally brought the problems with vaccinations into the public eye.

Environment

Solar Impulse 2 illustrates problem with solar power.

Mindless pay for Tesla bubble.

War

Confirming my opinion ISIS is unsustainable, it executes 21 commanders.

Despite allowing San Bernardino terrorists in without vetting their social media accounts, Obama still isn't vetting social media accounts of Syrian refugees.

Economy

Apple to announce worst quarter in 13 years.

IPhone sales down as Apple misses targets.

David Stockman laughs at the stock rebound.

"So never mind that earnings have fallen five straight quarters and at $86.53 per share are now down 18.5% from their September 2014 LTM peak. Also, ignore the fact that this quarter will be down 10% and that there is no rational basis for a rebound any time soon."

So...

"In a word, the stock market is not worth even 15X its current earnings or 1300. At length, the carbon units out there catching today’s bouncing dead cats will thank their lucky stars if their losses are only 40% from here."

But when?

Police State

DNI Clapper credits Snowden with advancing encryption by seven years, but he thinks it's a bad things.

Great quote from Glenn Greenwald.

The CIA is not only collecting all your data, it's trolling you too.

Regulation

All new diesels emit more pollution than allowed.

Politics

With all the transgender bathroom conflict, we need separation of bathroom and state, property rights, to resolve it.

Education

Schools help police spy on students.

Economy

Apple accounts for 40 percent of Silicon Valley's sales.

Obama tells Brits he saved the world economy.

Foreign Policy

Germans turn on Obama. About time.

Health Care

Prince had an opioid pain killer addiction.

Regulation

San Francisco requires all new buildings to use solar power.

Economy

US suicide rate hits 30 year high led by middle aged white people. Just wait until the next crash.

Chinese company plans to give away Tesla killer electric cars for free.

Socialism

40 days of blackouts come to Venezuela.

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Chelsea Clinton says leftists can implement gun control since Scalia died. I doubt she said he died mysteriously.

Immigration

Of course ISIS plots to enter the US through Mexico. They can join the illegal immigrant families crossing at a record pace.

Foreign Policy

Emperor Obama tries to bully Brits into staying in the EU. Brits angered. I hope his threat backfires.

Federal Reserve

The 500 euro note won't be banned, just phased out.

China moves yuan closer to gold.

Media

Time Magazine points out the US is broke, and leftists go nuts. How dare a leftist media icon tell the truth?

Regulation

Microsoft and Google agree to stop filing regulatory complaints against each other and attack everybody else instead.

Police State

Documents reveal British spies, like their US counterparts, have been spying on millions of people who have no security concerns, wasting tremendous resources and making it harder to stop and catch terrorists.

Politics

Clinton superpac caught hiring trolls to rewrite social media in Clinton's favor.

Foreign lobbyists are a consequence of empire.

Two interactive charts show Google is far and away Obama's biggest corporate crony with 427 meetings and 252 revolving-door jobs.

Environment

Venus's poles are significantly colder than expected, colder than any place on Earth, which is significantly uncuts the greenhouse heating theory.

If the global warming science is settled, why not fire all the global warming scientists?

Columbia's global warming frauds forced to admit CO2 is beneficial to crops and plants.

Seven failed Earth Day predictions.

Misc

Claim ravens are as smart as chimps despite small brains sounds politicized.

Researchers accidentally make battery that could last a lifetime, so we'll never see it.

War

The lesson of Vietnam.

"Can America be defeated this way again? Unlikely. The all-voluntary military means that body bags will contain only elements of society that the ruling classes don’t care about. Wars now chiefly involve bombing enemies who have no way of fighting back. Reliance on drones means no casualties at all, and the use of robots in ground combat, long a pipe dream, is nearing reality. The media are under control. America still loses its wars in the sense of not getting what it wants, but the public doesn’t care and you cannot sap a drone’s will. Here is the lesson of Vietnam."

But drone pilots quit even though replaced.

Drone whistleblowers.

Major F-35 software problems.

Health Care

Prescription drugs get recycled into food and back into people.

Economy

Nissan catches Mitsubishi lying about fuel efficiency on Japanese-only cars, costing the company $1.2 billion in stock losses.

Uber out-competing rental car businesses.

Foreign Policy

Google and other internet giants endorse TPP.

"Tech experts from every major advocacy group working to defend Internet users’ rights vehemently oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, but a trade association that represents major web companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, and Uber just endorsed it.
The TPP was negotiated in complete secrecy by government bureaucrats and corporate lobbyists from industries that hate the Internet—including the ones that wrote terrible censorship bills like SOPA. It’s great for incumbent corporations, but terrible for individual internet users, startups, and the tech economy as a whole.
BREAKING UPDATE: reddit comes out saying they do not support the TPP, distances themselves from Internet Association statement." 

Good for reddit.

Police State

Milwaukee police test GPS bullet trackers instead of chasing cars.

Judge throws out evidence obtained from warrantless FBI hack.

FBI found nothing of use on terrorist's iPhone.

"Jenna McLaughin summed up in a February 26 The Intercept article what seemed to be the FBI’s real motivation in seeking the court order: “It’s becoming increasingly clear that law enforcement doesn’t really think there’s any important data on San Bernardino killer Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone and that it has more precedent-setting value than investigative value.” McLaughlin then proceeds in her article to detail several reasons to believe there would be little to no investigative benefit gained from overcoming the iPhone’s security. Among other reasons, McLaughlin notes that the FBI already had “plenty of phone data, none of which indicated any overseas terror connection;” that the local police chief had said there was “a reasonably good chance that there is nothing of any value on the phone;” and that the iPhone was Farook’s employer-owned work phone that — unlike his laptop computer and two personal phones — he had not bothered to demolish."

Yep.

Contrary to early reports, FBI paid over $1 million for iPhone hack.

Environment

Solar activity could be the cause of global cooling.

"The highest levels of the atmosphere are not well understood, especially the thermosphere where the Sun’s energy begins to interact with atmospheric particles. Just how this relationship works continues to be investigated, however TIMED detected a tenfold decline in the thermosphere’s temperature since 2002."

That's bigtime global cooling.

Local

Dayton city government owns the sorry convention center.

Some restaurant scaling back its hours is apparently big news, but I've never heard of it.

"Those regular hours are 5-9 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday; 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday; and 5 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday." 

That's not many hours to begin with. If Rue Domaine's chef is so good, they must have a terrible marketing campaign.

Police State

If a court is troubled by surveillance excesses at NSA and FBI, then it will fix everything.

Environment

Global warming makes the weather nicer.

"Winter temperatures have risen substantially throughout the US since the 1970s, but at the same time, summers have not become more uncomfortable."

That's great.

Health Care

Monsanto's Roundup's glyphosate found in common breakfast foods.

War

New document links Saudi government to 9/11 hijacker.

Police State

Many questions remain about the Boston Marathon bombing.

Local

Boy arrested for making joke about shooting up school.

"The boy told police “he was just joking around” and no weapons were found, Gehringer added."

Then the proper response was to advise him against making bad taste jokes like that, not arresting him. The charge is inducing panic, but people can't induce panic. Others panic on their own.

Subsidized malinvestment hotel planned for Water Street.

Economy

Goldman-Sach's profit falls 40 percent in Q1, falling for the fourth straight quarter.

Massive Intel layoff and change of focus sounds like corporate suicide. Slumping PC demand means we are in a recession.

Federal Reserve

Negative interest rates boomerang on central banks seeking yield.

Negative interest rates literally show we live in upside-down world.

"In the new reality of negative rates, borrowers get paid and savers get penalized"

Insane.

Health Care

As predicted, Obamacare expenses force largest health insurance company to withdraw from most Obamacare exchanges. This is what Obamacare was designed to do so leftists can blame the market and implement socialized medicine.

Media

Media celebrates rap song calling for assassination of Trump and riots if he gets elected.

War on Drugs

The deep state, CIA and illegal drug trade.

Environment

Since Europe destroyed its coal industry, China will supply coal-power electricity to it. Ironic.

I doubt the revelation that Democrat AGs colluded with green activists to punish skeptics is that big a deal. Of course they did.

Thanks to el Nino, March 2016 was hottest March on record.

Foreign Policy

Saudis threaten to dump the dollar if Obama declassifies 28 pages of the 9/11 report that implicates them.

War

While claiming to export democracy, Obama admits his war on Syria has made elections impossible. He's only saying that because Assad will be re-elected anyway. The truth.

"Syria held parliamentary elections at 7,000 polling stations, keeping the voting open an extra five hours to accommodate the massive turnout. All were allowed to vote, even displaced Syrians from the two provinces still terrorized by Washington and Israeli-backed ISIS.
Washington is angry because Syria held elections before Washington had time to purchase its slate of politicians and organize Washington-funded NGOs to take to the streets to protest and to claim that Assad had stolen the election.
Despite the massive voter turnout and extended hours for voting, the US State Department set the tone by declaring that the elections are not legitimate in Washington’s eyes and do not represent “the will of the Syrian people.”"

The same rulers who deny democracy in the US deny it abroad too even while proclaiming to be exporting it.

Obama sends more troops to Iraq to fight, not advise.

"The loss of Staff Sergeant Louis F. Cardin, who came under attack from ISIS forces last month, brought home the fact that the Americans have been dragged back into the quagmire they thought they had escaped. Particularly telling were the circumstances of Cardin’s death: he came under fire at Fire Base Bell, an exclusively US military facility. It is the first such base established since the phony “withdrawal” announced with such fanfare by President Barack Obama – and surely will not be the last."

It never ends.

Generals advocate unilaterally cutting the US nuclear arsenal.

Tax and Spend

Bill Gates calls on government to spend more on research and development so cronies like him can profit.

Misc

NASA images discrete jets in Enceladus that it can't explain, so it calls them an illusion.

I doubt any scientist predicted such complexity in ocean currents, and the tremendous number of swirls suggest Birkeland currents.

"Ocean currents are complex and highly dynamic, and therefore need to be monitored constantly."

Why would they be highly dynamic unless driven by Birkeland currents?

Politics

Why Clinton will skate.

"Obama is, of course, lying when he says that he will allow an investigation to proceed unimpeded. The attorney general and FBI director work for him, and he is keenly aware of what is going on. He doesn’t have to say anything at all for Loretta Lynch to understand that it might be in the administration’s interest to slow down or kill the process. As Obama has one major legacy issue in the waning days of his presidency, to make sure that the Democratic Party holds onto the White House, to torpedo Hillary Clinton through prosecution over mishandling classified information would be unthinkable for him and the people around him. He does not have to send a signed presidential memo or have an off the record conversation to make sure that his associates appreciate that point."

Geraldi gets it.

Pat Buchanan responds to Republican leaders and their corrupt primaries.

"Like the 1919 World Series, the fix is in.
The rules are the rules, says Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus in defense of what went down in Colorado and Wyoming.
Priebus is correct. The rules are the rules. But what is also true is that the rules have been and are being manipulated by party elites to frustrate the expressed will of a Republican electorate, and to impose a nominee other than the clear winner of the primaries.
Republican elites are engaged in a conspiracy to frustrate and overturn the democratic decision of the Republican electorate."

Of course they are.

"Even the neocons, the dominant element among the 121 foreign policy experts who declared in an open letter that they will never work for President Trump, testify to this.
They see Trump’s victories as a repudiation of their legacy, and a Trump presidency as the end of their post-Cold War ascendancy."

We can only hope, but I doubt they'll turn down cushy government jobs if asked. Hopefully Trump won't ask.

Massive chaos in New York City primary will undoubtedly benefit Clinton.

The evil of governments produces satanic political movement.

Police State

Cellphone middleman service allows hackers like the NSA to locate, read texts and listen in on phone calls with only a phone number.

"Also from the report, "60 Minutes contacted the cellular phone trade association to ask about attacks on the SS7 network. They acknowledged there have been reports of security breaches abroad, but assured us that all U.S. cellphone networks were secure.""

Baloney. It hasn't been fixed in over a year because NSA doesn't want it fixed.

Government failure motivates millionaires to flee Chicago. Funny they don't mention taxes.

Federal Reserve

Fed execs have series of secret meetings including Yellen with Obama.

Media

Only 6 percent of Americans trust the media.

Education

Subprime student loans. Obama doesn't want them paid back.

Economy

The mildest winter on record means the economy is weaker than claimed.

War

Blaming Clinton and Petraeus for disaster in Syria.

"Hillary Clinton and CIA director David Petraeus had a brilliant idea: they would fund, arm, and train a proxy army in Syria, overthrow the regime of strongman Bashar al-Assad, and jump on the rapidly moving train of the “Arab Spring” to extend US influence in the region. What could go wrong?"

Like Libya.

Terrorist attacks are retaliation for war.
"After a Russian commercial airliner was downed over Egypt’s Sinai last October, Western media reported that the Islamic State bombing was retaliation against Russian airstrikes in Syria. The killing of 224 people, mostly Russian tourists on holiday, was matter-of-factly treated as an act of war by a fanatical group without an air force resorting to terrorism as a way to strike back.

Yet, Western militaries have killed infinitely more innocent civilians in the Middle East than Russia has. Then why won’t Western officials and media cite retaliation for that Western violence as a cause of terrorist attacks on New York, Paris, and Brussels?

Instead, there’s a fierce determination not to make the same kinds of linkages that the press made so easily when it was Russia on the receiving end of terror. [See Consortiumnews.com’s “Obama Ignores Russian Terror Victims.”]"

True.
The myth of ISIS exposed in assault.

"The notion that a rabble of 20-something ISIS kids can stand up to highly trained heavily armed western troops and their native auxiliaries is absurd. ISIS is what the Ottomans used to call, “bashi-bazooks,” armed street thugs used for looting and attacking civilians."

But they make for great fearmongering.
"The small Russian air contingent in Syria has proven far more effective than the US and its allies. The mighty US Air Force has continued pinprick attacks on ISIS positions in what has become a pantomime war. It’s almost as if the western powers are playing make-believe in Syria.Perhaps they are.  The Saudis and Turks, both very close US allies, have been arming and supplying ISIS in order to topple the Damascus-based Shia regime of President Bashar Assad. Washington has gone along with this covert fight while lamenting the terrors of “terrorism.”
Washington’s strategy in Syria has become so comically inept that the Pentagon and CIA are actually backing rival Syrian jihadist groups who are fighting with one another. The Russians are mocking Washington. Who can blame them."

Fake war with real deaths.

Regulation

US targets Mercedes diesels after VW.

"At the three pointed star.At its line of BlueTec diesel engines.
Which are alleged to be “cheating” Uncle’s emissions tests, the same accusation that’s rocked VW and which may, ultimately, end VW (via potential liabilities/fines in excess of $50 billion)."

Consumers be damned.

"Either way, Benz is now the target as VW’s list continues to worsen.Or rather, diesel engines – generally – appear to be the target.
Uncle seems determined to purge them from the marketplace. One wonders… why?"

Obama hates America.

''First VW – the one car company that was selling affordable diesels – diesels that (interestingly) undercut the economic rationale for hybrid cars and to an even greater extent electric cars."

Like I said.

"For one, Uncle kvetches about too much oil being used. Well, diesels use less oil. If half the cars on the road had diesel engines under their hoods (as in Europe) Uncle would have much less to kvetch about with regard to how much oil the populace uses.That is to say, much less in the way of plausible justification for onerous regulations such as the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) fatwa. It’s set to uptick to 50-plus MPG on average by model year 2020 – less than four years distant. Not a single gas-engined car makes the cut.
But diesel-powered cars could. "

Good theory.

"Diesels – especially affordable ones, like VW was selling – also make hybrids and electric cars (especially) seem silly.Why – other than green preening – would any person merely interested in an extremely efficient automobile even consider a $35,000 Tesla (with a best-case range of maybe 200 miles) when they could buy a $22k Jetta TDI… or even a $35,000 diesel Mercedes (with a range of 700 miles)."

Great article.

Politics

Our corrupt primary system.

"While the turnout in the Democratic primaries and caucuses has not matched the Obama-Clinton race of 2008, Sanders has rallied the young and working class, turned out the biggest crowds and generated the greatest enthusiasm.But on the Republican side, the party has had the largest turnout in American history. And the reason is Trump."

Yep.

Social justice issues being fought in video games and science fiction circles.

Putting America first hinders one-world-government ambitions.

Police State

More on CIA funding cosmetics firm to collect DNA.

Democrat AGs colluded with green activists to prosecute global warming skeptics.

Health Care

Some people with supposedly genetic diseases are perfectly healthy, just like I've always said.

Tax and Spend

Taxpayer-funded solar company in Spain declares largest bankruptcy in country's history.

Foreign Policy

Saudis threaten sell-off of US assets if Congress passes bill that would hold Saudi rulers criminally accountable for their roles in 9/11.

"Several outside economists are skeptical that the Saudis will follow through, saying that such a sell-off would be difficult to execute and would end up crippling the kingdom’s economy. But the threat is another sign of the escalating tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United States."

Injustice for all.

Multiple Clinton connections in Panama papers.

Local

Beavercreek's new school superintendent will make $160,900 base salary, making him the highest-paid school district administrator in the area. Nice.

Immigration

Plutocrats behind non-profit that lobbies for local officials to take in Syrian refugees.

War

Turkey and US proxies fighting each other in Syria.

Foreign Policy

Rhetoric designed to cover up the fading of the US empire.

Pat Buchanan wonders about US aggression.

"And America is beginning to buckle under the weight of its global obligations.
And as we have no claim to rocks or reefs in the South China Sea – Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines do – why is this our quarrel?"

The dollar is the vital interest.

"As for Iran, the U.S. intelligence community, in 2007 and 2011, declared with high confidence that it had no nuclear weapons program. "

But it sold oil not denominated in dollars. North Korea counterfeits dollars.

"In 2004, Taiwan’s central bank issued a warning that supernotes had been turning up on the island. This caused a panic, and the Taiwanese banks were overwhelmed by customers seeking to return $100 bills totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, most of them perfectly genuine. “It was effectively a run on the dollar,” says Asher. “No one knew if their money was real or fake.”"

Can't have that. Buchanan's great conclusion:

"This is not isolationism. It is putting our country first, and staying out of other people’s wars. It used to be called patriotism."

When did patriotism get warped into being synonymous with warmonger?

Great job putting Baltic provocation in perspective.

"With that out of the way….

Russian attack jets flew “dangerously close” to a U.S. Navy destroyer numerous times in the Baltic Sea this week….

“We have deep concerns about the unsafe and unprofessional Russian flight maneuvers.”

Wouldn’t it make more sense to write “US Naval destroyer sails dangerously close to the major Russian city of St. Petersburg”?

From US European Command officials (US European Command?  Does that make any sense?):

“These actions have the potential to unnecessarily escalate tensions between countries, and could result in a miscalculation or accident that could cause serious injury or death.”

Does he mean the actions of US Naval destroyers sailing dangerously close to St. Petersburg?"

But the Russians are bad guys.

 

Economy

Economist claims American productivity miracle is over, but credits technologies with achieving it instead of blaming government for ending it.

Apple cuts iPhone production again.

Police State

CIA investing heavily in firms that do social media mining and surveillance.

Socialism

US government ranks worse than 17 industries tested for cyber-security, but the government claims to want to secure the internet for us.

Police State

Case from 2003 shows FBI first hacked computers to defeat encryption.

Microsoft sues DOJ to end secrecy of demands for data.

Tax and Spend

Four reasons government spending is worse than taxes.

Misc

It seems a new observation every day falsifies Big Bang theory, yet the theory persists.

War

US ship provokes Russian base, and US gets mad when Russian planes respond.

Local

Greene County prosecutor appoints the same special prosecutor who fixed the grand jury so it wouldn't charge the murderer of Crawford to run the grand jury for the 911 caller who put the murder into action.

Health Care

The sugar conspiracy.

"If, as seems increasingly likely, the nutritional advice on which we have relied for 40 years was profoundly flawed, this is not a mistake that can be laid at the door of corporate ogres. Nor can it be passed off as innocuous scientific error. What happened to John Yudkin belies that interpretation. It suggests instead that this is something the scientists did to themselves – and, consequently, to us.
We tend to think of heretics as contrarians, individuals with a compulsion to flout conventional wisdom. But sometimes a heretic is simply a mainstream thinker who stays facing the same way while everyone around him turns 180 degrees. When, in 1957, John Yudkin first floated his hypothesis that sugar was a hazard to public health, it was taken seriously, as was its proponent. By the time Yudkin retired, 14 years later, both theory and author had been marginalised and derided. Only now is Yudkin’s work being returned, posthumously, to the scientific mainstream."

Money and power.

Economy

World's largest coal producer goes bankrupt like Obama promised.

Thank the Fed and Obama for electric car bubble powering $1 billion factories.

Environment

Government loves expensive Teslas but not cheap Elios.

Government control of water is destroying world's best oysters.

Immigration

Open borders are anti-libertarian. Imagine if somebody said your property must have open borders.

Police State

Claim FBI bought a zero-day bug from hackers to hack iPhone.

Politics

Obama admits double standard on classified material to protect Clinton.

Judge Napolitano criticizes Obama for his remarks about Clinton's crimes but still doesn't realize the fix is in.

This year Americans finally realized elections are rigged.

"The 2016 election has been a wild ride, with two insurgent grassroots campaigns literally giving the political establishment a run for its money. But as the events of this presidential primary season play out, it’s becoming clear the U.S. election — and even more so, the presidential race — is a big scam being perpetrated on the American people.
Events from the last week have exposed the system as an illusion of choice and a farce. They have reinforced at least one study showing the U.S. is an oligarchy rather than a democratic republic." 

It's about time.

Tax and Spend

EU to force companies to report global taxes.

Obama to forgive student loans to anybody who fills out a form claiming their disabled.

Foreign Policy

After banning people, WADA decides it doesn't have enough evidence that meldonium is a performance enhancing drug. This is a failure for US rulers.

US-backed puppet in Ukraine resigns.

Health Care

Doctors who receive money from Big Pharma prescribe more brand name drugs.

Government censors anti-vaccination film by threatening film festival.

War

Time spews anti-Putin propaganda to promote increasing NATO.

US to import 358 Syrian refuges a week.

Politics

Clinton plans to raise taxes $1 trillion over ten years.

If Hillary cares to much about equal pay, why does her foundation pay women so much less than men?

If you didn't realize Obama, not the FBI and not the DOJ, has decided Clinton will not be indicted, you're naive.

Foreign Policy

Swiss banker blows whistle on CIA being responsible for Panama papers leak, as I suspected.

Tax and Spend

Government collects record taxes in first half of fiscal 2016.

Local

Judge again delays depositions in Crawford civil suit to benefit the killers.

Fair board keeps Montgomery Co. fair at Dayton fairgrounds through at least 2017.

Health Care

The whooping cough vaccine doesn't work.

Health Care

Poor people in richer cities tend to live longer than those in poorer cities, like Dayton, which is one of the worst.

Police State

Security cameras sold on Amazon found infected with malware. I wonder who did that.

Misc

Astronomers surprised to find jets supposedly from supermassive black holes are aligned over billions of light years.

War

Property rights limit the development and spread of WMD.

Tax and Spend

Criticism of the subsidized Tesla model 3 and the biased media coverage.

"The mass market acceptance of the new Tesla will depend on a whole new rent-seeking project:

The establishment of a network of Tesla “supercharger” fast-charging stations all over the country.

Guess who’s gonna pay for that, too?

And I guess it’s just more “shit-talking” on my part to point out the hilarity of describing as “fast” a recharge time that’s still “about half an hour or so.”" 

We pay for it.

George W. Bush and NASA saved Elon Musk's SpaceX from bankruptcy.

Federal Reserve

How ZIRP created the global bubble and raising rates popped it.

"The U.S. dollar (USD) is the global economy’s primary reserve currency. When the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates to zero (Zero Interest Rate Policy, ZIRP), it weakened the dollar relative to other currencies. In this ZIRP environment, it made sense to borrow dollars for next to nothing and use this free money to buy bonds and other assets in other currencies that paid higher yields. Many of these assets were in emerging market economies such as Brazil.
As a result of this enormous carry trade, an estimated $7 trillion was borrowed in USD and invested in other currencies/nations.
Once the Fed started making noises about “normalizing”/raising interest rates in the U.S. (i.e. signaling the markets that a trend change was at hand), the dollar strengthened and the carry trade started reversing: those who had bought assets in other currencies with borrowed USD started selling those assets, which pushed emerging market currencies and markets off a cliff."

Great.

Foreign Policy

Wikileaks exposes Panama papers leak was from US NGO funded by Soros to target Russia.

Environment

How can government have constitutional obligation to do anything?

Forced to comply with bizarre US emissions standards, VW has pulled diesels from the market.

Misc

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Isaac Asimov

- More quotations on: [Computers]

Health Care

The sugar conspiracy.

Tax and Spend

Government pensions underfunded by $3.4 trillion. That's at the height of the bubble. It can only get worse. Kiss them goodbye.

Immigration

North Korea ghost ships filled with dead bodies wash ashore in Japan

Politics

Colorado cancels Republican primary because people might vote for Trump, instead giving all delegates to Cruz. Cruz celebrates voterless victory, but they call Trump a fascist.

Obama again backs Clinton in email probe, proving his influence by denying it.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov, Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"

- More quotations on: [Violence]

War on Drugs

The WoD leads to victims taking more dangerous synthetic drugs.

Federal Reserve

Clinton emails confirm what I've been saying: the war in Libya was about saving the dollar from gold-backed money. That's why the rebels set up a central bank in Benghazi before the war even started.

IMF supports negative interest rates by the six central banks which have employed them.

War

Casualties in Iraq jump to 318.

US airman who shot his fellows was a former FBI agent, suggesting a false flag.

Police State

Government uses terrorism and child pornography fears to attack dissidents hosting Tor exit node. Even he FBI calls police out.

Economy

All-female ride-sharing to debut in Boston supposedly in response to Uber sexual assaults. Baloney. This will fail spectacularly.

Like Bill Clinton, Obama is pushing subprime housing loans, which, along with Fed, ensures another housing bubble collapse.

Regulation

AI to render all patents obsolete.

Federal Reserve

Despite printing money like crazy, the Yen is rapidly rising.

"But in recent months the yen has been climbing as a result of two factors. Financial markets believe that the Federal Reserve is wary of further increases in US interest rates and were unimpressed when the Bank of Japan failed to respond at its March meeting to the weakness of the dollar."

Funny how they don't mention Japanese hoarding currency in their newly bought safes.

Politics

Boston Globe to publish fake stories about a future President Trump to turn voters against him. I bet they don't do the same for everybody.

Indiana Republicans choose anti-Trump delegates before primary.

Protestors call on conservative British PM Cameron to resign because of Panama papers leak.

The New York Times tells the truth.

"When it comes to nominating presidential candidates, it turns out the world’s foremost democracy is not so purely democratic."

I bet this writer gets fired.

War

US ally beneficiary admits to chemical attack.

Police State

FBI Director puts tape over his webcam.

"Security and privacy activist Christopher Soghoian said, "FBI Director Comey has created a "warrant-proof webcam" that will thwart lawful surveillance should he ever be investigated. Shame on him.""

Terrorists could put tape over their webcams to keep from getting caught.

Health Care

The sorry state of government-controlled cancer treatment.

Former British socialized medicine director dies after waiting nine months without surgery.

Socialism

UN power grab of oceans. It keeps escalating.

War

US-backed jihadists in Syria may have attacked with chemical weapons.

Foreign Policy

I'm convinced the Panama paper leak was a US intelligence operation targeting Russia, as Putin claims, although true. People the US likes were deleted.

Economy

Netflix to raise prices, heralding the end of its golden age. Rising prices will spawn competition, eventually cutting into profits. This is a bad decision.

I doubt China plans to replace workers with robots. They have 1.3 billion people, and that's a lot of supply to keep labor costs down. Plus, if you put 1.3 billion people out of work, they might burn your cities to the ground. I bet these robots are for export.

Environment

NASA ridiculously claims global warming is changing how the Earth wobbles in its orbit.

Global warming skeptics subpoenaed to silence them.

Police State

CIA funds company that makes face gels which collect DNA. Just when you thought government couldn't get any creepier.

The dark web is the government's new bogeyman, but half the content is legal and most of the rest should be.

Government trying to force Apple to unlock another iPhone.

TSA causes long lines at airports. Drudge has finally starting highlighting TSA.

Tax and Spend

Cameron admits stashing money with dad's offshore firm to avoid taxes. Snowden advocates Brits oust him. Clinton-Kremlin connection exposed. They're all doing it, but it's funny how no American bigwigs have been directly implicated.

Economy

Ship building is in a bubble.

Problems at Google's Nest. Good.

I always thought Facebook was a fad, so I won't be surprised if it collapses.

Politics

David Stockman knows why the establishment hates Trump.

"So imagine Woodward’s consternation when Trump——-the very embodiment of a billionaire financial tycoon—–let loose with the following counterpunch:“I know the Wall Street people probably better than anybody knows them,” said Trump, who has misfired on such predictions in the past. “I don’t need them.”
Those last five words are what has the Washington GOP establishment in a cold sweat. The fact is, the Washington based apparatus of the GOP is a beholden lock, stock, and barrel to Wall Street and the broader financial industry for sustenance. That is, PAC funds and the K-street influence peddling rackets which make life in the Imperial City so copasetic for careerist politicians and their apparatchiks."

Also anti-interventionist, you would think liberals would love him.

While claiming not to be interested, Paul Ryan publishes an ad that looks suspiciously like a campaign ad for the presidency.

Bill Clinton slams Obama. This feud may get Hillary indicted. More likely it signals the fix is in.

The same corporations threatening North Carolina with boycotts over sensible bathroom rules do business in countries that oppress gays and transgenders. This value judgment mistakes their motivation. They criticize NC because they believe it will make them more profitable than if they didn't. They're nothing hypocritical about it.

War

Link between drug trade, CIA, war, and deep state.

Republicans suddenly unhappy that US pays for NATO. It's a welfare program. It's about US rulers controlling European rulers. If Europeans had to pay, they would pull out and resist being controlled.

Federal Reserve

Banks are trying to co-opt and control block-chain technology.

Japan forced to print more big bills because citizens are saving more at home.

Yellen claims there's no bubble in the economy.

Economy

Ohio racinos including Dayton and Monroe set record revenue in March.

Environment

Accounting for the margin of error, RSS shows no statistically significant warming for 23 years, 2 months.

El Nino rapidly switching to la Nina.

April snow again blankets upper midwest and northeast.

Police State

Government using spy planes over US cities.

"U.S. Government aircraft are using 'augmented reality' software during flights as they circle above major cities and 'target' Muslim areas.The software, which works through the spy plane's high resolution cameras, can be used by pilots to superimpose information - including the names of house owners and businesses - onto their screens.FBI and Homeland Security can also track the mobile phones of the residents below as dozens of aircraft take to the skies each day."

It would be bad enough if they only targeted Muslims, but that's not true. More.

The head of the TSA landed in Brussels just as the bombs went off offering more evidence for a false flag.

Government sets up fake university to entrap 21 people on visa fraud. Big deal.

FBI claims its iPhone hack tool doesn't work on newer phones. 

War on Drugs

War on drugs does more harm than good.

Misc

Program predicts the future by comparing online data to the past.

AI studies Rembrant then paints a painting in his style.

Local

Vacant tower gets listed as historic for tax credits, but that restricts change.

Tax and Spend

Taxes cost more than food, clothing and housing combined.

British PM Cameron's father is implicated in the Panama papers leak, and Cameron calls it a private matter. Snowden ridicules him.

Economy

Layoffs at Fiat-Chrysler. The auto bubble is popping.

Environment

Study finds greater climate variation in the last 1,200 years than any current climate change.

Police State

Consequences of FBI's hack of iPhone.

FBI briefs Senators about iPhone hack.
FBI unhappy about WhatsApp encryption.

Politics

Man-turned-woman has ears and nose removed to become a dragon-lady. Mutilating oneself should never be supported.

Companies boycott North Carolina for legislating people use bathrooms associated with gender of their birth. Upside-down world.

Tax and Spend

Iceland's PM resigns after Panama papers leak. They're all doing it.

I was skeptical off this leak not including Americans from the beginning. The focus on Putin makes it stink of an intelligence operation.

The CIA would be a powerful force behind the leak. The leak helps Obama push for international tax reform. More convenience.

Economy

Google to intentionally brick Nest hardware in customers' homes. I'd sue.

Police State

WhatsApp turns on end-to-end encryption.

Dubai employs drones to catch litterers.

Health Care

You're ten times more likely to die from medical misadventure at a hospital than in a car crash.

Plan to release GM mosquitoes in Florida has few benefits. It's a pilot program to establish precedent. They'll eventually use it to vaccinate people against their will.

Immigration

Greece sends migrants back to Turkey to shut down flood into EU.

Mexico cracks down on illegal immigration from Latin America.

War

303 killed in Iraq.

Tax and Spend

TSA paid $1.4 million for an app that randomly chooses left or right.

Panama papers show rulers hide money to avoid paying taxes.

"I trust that the world’s most powerful leaders will punish themselves accordingly."

Too funny. More.

Misc

Wal's EU theory that electrons are not elementary particles confirmed.

Economy

The Fed and big banks keep trying to prop up the stock market, but it hasn't gone anywhere since QE ended.

Politics

Manners are required for civilization and democracy, but progressives don't have any.

Regulation

Copyright troll plans to hijack browsers of pirates and demand fines, redefining the term.

Local

Missing Wright Brothers patent found after being misfiled 36 years ago.

Dayton schools do so much damage to children during the regular grades, they want to do more harm to pre-schoolers.

Police State

Publicly available gadget can crack iPhones in six hours, showing the FBI had ulterior motives.

Now the FBI wants Skype records from Microsoft to investigate accused terrorist. Skype is encrypted.

Skepticism about the Boston Marathon bombing case. I bet the movie comes out before the trial to bias the jury towards the prosecution.