Foreign Policy

US aggression against Russia includes corporate threats, bond and currency manipulation as well as economic coercion.

MSNBC tells the truth about Clinton's email server corruption. She may be toast.

Economy

The war on cash is actually an ancient war on commerce outside government control.

War

The war on terror is a fraud.

"We are dealing with a criminal undertaking at a global level…The global war on terrorism…is fake, it’s based on fake premises. It tells us that somehow America and the Western world are going after a fictitious enemy, the Islamic state, when in fact the Islamic state is fully supported and financed by the Western military alliance and America’s allies in the Persian Gulf. They say Muslims are terrorists…they’re not the product of Muslim society, and that should be abundantly clear…The global war on terrorism is a fabrication, a big lie and a crime against humanity."

The US funds both sides in all its wars recently.

"The idea is called ‘false flag terrorism,’—the idea that powerful people are involved in supporting, perpetuating, and fabricating terrorist attacks, like 9/11 and what recently happened in Brussels, in order to create a heightened national global security state to justify the infiltration of other countries for ulterior motives. This motive, many believe, is for the creation of a New World Order. Don’t get me wrong, these attacks do happen, and people do die, but the story behind them is, I believe, as do many others, a lie." 

That's why it's covered up. If the US releases the 9/11 report implicating the Saudis, the Saudis will likely turn around and implicate the US. Governments are not monolithic.

"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al-Qaeda, and any informed intelligence officer knows this. But, there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an intensified entity representing the ‘devil’ only in order to drive TV watchers to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism."

Another example of the myth of the kingpin.

Media

ESPN columnists criticizes staged patriotism at sporting events, calling it a sign of advancing authoritarianism. He'll probably be fired before the day is out.

Health Care

Supposedly inert ingredients in RoundUp cause health problems.

How the Zika virus became a huge problem, and business, overnight.

First Zika-deformed baby born in US in New Jersey.

Regulation

Why modern Luddites attack Uber.

War on Drugs

Blame progressives, not Republicans, for the war on drugs.

Socialism

Mainstream economists and Clinton advisor supported socialism in Venezuela.

Politics

Plutocrats unite against Trump because he threatens their crony fortunes.

War

Obama's latest drone strike violated agreement with Pakistan which will have consequences.

Environment

The Daily Mail admits Antarctica isn't melting.

Greens blame Trump for unraveling of Paris climate accord.

Sea level declining along North Atlantic coast.

Health Care

I bet Zika drops out the news after the Rio Olympics.

Socialism

The consequences of socialism in Venezuela.

War

Chris Kyle of American Sniper fame lied about his medals.

Video of American special forces soldier in Syria.

Regulation

Paris taxis improving to compete with Uber.

Health Care

Criticism of study claiming cell phones cause cancer.

Politics

After the big propaganda push, Americans don't trust AI. What a surprise.

Education

Apple's Tim Cook joins the effort to force children to code in government schools.

Police State

FBI raids security researchers who discover security leaks.

I doubt TSA's failures are really causing Americans to lose faith in government, but we can hope.

TSA delays cause deaths on the highway.

Misc

Rosetta finds building blocks of life on comet 67P because it came from a planet. Such for a frozen snowball.

Tax and Spend

Legislature doubles tax credits for movies, but doesn't cut taxes for you. Movies are big propaganda.

Local

EC council lowers speed limits for cronies.

Police State

Why is anybody surprised at discoveries by undercover prisoners?

Health Care

Websites for finding healthy food.

War

Secret EU plans for its own army.

Economy

Number of millennials living with parents reaches 130 year high.

Education

To make institutionalized education more irrelevant, University makes Angelina Jolie a professor. But it will probably make more money.

Police State

Secret Senate bill would grant FBI warrantless and secret access to email and web history of anybody as if the Constitution didn't exist.

TSA delays on Memorial Day. 

Corruption by ousted head of security.

“Hoggan also was identified as one of the senior TSA officials who used forced transfers to punish agency employees who spoke out about security lapses or general mismanagement. Those allegations, first raised by TSA whistleblowers, caused considerable anger among members of Congress at three hearings held this month and last.

Three of the whistleblowers appeared before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on April 27.

“Many of the people who broke our agency remain in key positions,” testified Jay Brainard, the TSA security director in Kansas. “These leaders are some of the biggest bullies in government.”

Brainard was given a forced transfer from Iowa to Maine in 2014.”

Of course the union wouldn’t like him. 

The deep state is exposed by rookie mistake.

"The US authorities have disciplined 41 Secret Service personnel for improperly accessing and leaking the personal information of a congressman who had scrutinized the agency, the Department of Homeland Security said."

The senior deep-staters get away with it.

Environment

If Mars is coming out of an ice age, why are its poles accumulating ice? I don't think scientists know what they're talking about. They're looking at one snapshot in time. More pretense of knowledge. Still, nobody can blame humans and SUVs.

Politics

Half of misogynistic tweets come from women.

Prosecution of sailor for mishandling classified information shows double-standard applied to Clinton.

Health Care

Superbug is resistant to all antibiotics.

New York City to levy salt fines.

War

System US uses to coordinate nuclear forces, it uses eight inch floppies.

Police State

Facebook eavesdrops on phone calls. NSA records them.

Misc

Scientists surprised by planets around star supposedly too young to have them.

Environment

Antibiotics, which are overused, cause cows to double greenhouse gas emissions.

Local

The skyscraper curse hit Dayton before.

"Dayton’s first skyscraper opened in 1969 and topped out at 331 feet. It was later eclipsed by the Winters Bank Tower in 1971, (now the Kettering Tower) at 405 feet tall."

This time will be worse.

Endangered freshwater mussels relocated so River Run development can add boulders.

Education

Brainwashing run amok at Oberlin College.

"Students at Oberlin College are asking the school to put academics on the back burner so they can better turn their attention to activism. More than 1,300 students at the Midwestern liberal arts college have now signed a petition asking that the college get rid of any grade below a C for the semester, and some students are requesting alternatives to the standard written midterm examination, such as a conversation with a professor in lieu of an essay.
The students say that between their activism work and their heavy course load, finding success within the usual grading parameters is increasingly difficult. "A lot of us worked alongside community members in Cleveland who were protesting," Megan Bautista, a co-liaison in Oberlin's student government, said, referring to the protests surrounding the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by a police officer in 2014. "But we needed to organize on campus as well — it wasn't sustainable to keep driving 40 minutes away. A lot of us started suffering academically.""

Nuts.

Regulation

High minimum wage laws make robots cheaper than workers at McDonalds.

Economy

Chinese company Foxconn replaces workers with robots like happened in the US decades ago.

"One factory has "reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots", a government official told the South China Morning Post. "

This is great news for the Chinese economy.

Tax and Spend

Venezuela sells off gold reserves to pay debts.

Foreign Policy

State Department Inspector General report blasts Clinton for private server. This has no governmental impact, but it might have political impact. Why did it take four years?

Health Care

FDA to redefine healthy. Never give government power over words.

Tax and Spend

French tax collectors raid Google.

Environment

Record 127 months since a major hurricane hit US.

War on Drugs

Now marijuana alters DNA and causes cancer. Be very afraid.

Economy

Microsoft performs Windows 10 upgrade even if users close out of notification window.

Police State

Israeli firm claims software can tell if people are terrorists or pedophiles by looking at the faces.

TSA ousts head of security over long lines. I bet the union wanted him out.

Silicon Valley erecting barriers so FBI can't force companies to turn over data.

Even small cities are employing mass surveillance.

Local

Montgomery County to auction fairgrounds.

Fifteen projects changing downtown are full of malinvestments.

Tax and Spend

New taxes in Greece draw protests from middle class professionals.

Immigration

Record number of illegal immigrants entered in April.

Media

Facebook admits bias against conservatives, but blames rogue employees.

Federal Reserve

Bail-ins are the law in Europe.

The Fed's corrupt measure of inflation guarantees it will continue printing.

Politics

David Stockman refutes the Clinton boom, showing it was a product of Greenspan's Fed and ended in the inevitable bust.

War

Another battle in Falluja.

The Washington Post calls Obama's secret wars "foggy".

Police State

Balloons trigger White House lockdown.

Regulation

Copyright law misused to remove data from internet.

Overtime regulations disproportionately harm young workers and startups, supporting the status quo.

Health Care

Swimming pool chemicals unsafe.

Environment

Gravytrainers want $10 billion in tax dollars to save Great Barrier Reef.

Local

Cops swarm elementary school.

Another lockdown at Beavercreek High School.

Education

Obama's unnatural bathroom fixation rules. Creepy.

Police State

How the Pentagon punished NSA whistleblowers.

Tax and Spend

Treachery continues in Greece as austerity increases to obtain aid.

Foreign Policy

Obama official admits lying about Iran deal.

Regulations

Supposed safety regulations make cars heavy, fuel guzzling and expensive.

Health Care

Government dietary guidelines are unhealthy.

More dangers than glyphosate from Monsanto's Roundup.

The 250,000 medical error deaths don't include outpatient deaths.

Politics

Can men who identify, whatever that means, as dogs hike their legs or defecate in public parks or on your lawn?

Health Care

The mainstream is catching on the low salt fraud.

Economy

Robots monitor cattle on Australian farms. A perfect job for drones.

Socialism

Hamburgers cost $170 in Venezuela.

Police State

TSA threatens delays will get worse.

TSA in crisis. Union wants to hire 6,000 more perverts.

TSA's wasted money.

"Union leaders want you to think the fault lies with a stingy Congress unwilling to fork over enough money to fill screener shortages. White House spokesman Josh Earnest poured more partisan fuel on the fire last week by blaming the nationwide slowdowns on ‘’the inability of Republicans in Congress to govern the country.’’
What a load of flying horse hockey.
The 15-year-old Transportation Security Administration now has a massive annual budget of nearly $7.6 billion and a workforce of nearly 60,000. They had enough tax dollars to waste on an idiotic $1.4 million iPad app that randomly points left or right; $3 million on more than 200 useless explosive detection ‘’puffer’’ machines that didn’t detect explosives reliably; and unknown gobs in awards and automatic bonuses to senior TSA managers at a time when the agency was repeatedly failing internal tests of its ability to stop weapons, bombs and terror threats.
Yet, last week, with airlines, airports and customers all raising holy hell, Congress scraped together $34 million more to pay TSA screeners overtime and fund nearly 800 more screeners to address the summer travel crush.
It’s still not enough of course. It’s never enough."

No kidding.

Supposed civil rights defender comes to love and defend NSA.

Environment

Changes to GISS dataset make it seem global warming is worse.

Tax and Spend

Five tech companies hold 30 percent of US cash overseas to avoid taxes.

Politics

Silicon Valley's workforce is diverse, but it's the wrong kind of diverse. Too many Asians and not enough blacks and Hispanics. Ridiculous. They don't need to change anything.

Police State

Apple introduces more intrusive security to thwart FBI.

TSA exploits EgyptAir crash.

Health Care

Life expectancy has increased by five years worldwide over the last twenty years.

Economy

Job losses in Ohio second only to Pennsylvania.

Boom in travel highlights bubble about to pop.

We've long known how to cure poverty.

Local

Dayton-area home sales hit record in April, proving the bubble is still growing locally.

Bidding for fairgrounds property. What a novel idea.

Media

Media slanders Trump by identifying a delegate of his charged with crimes.

War

Special Ops wars are unaccountable, shadow wars.

Terrorism suspected in disappearance of Egyptian airliner.

NATO finishes biggest buildup of forces to threaten Russia since the Cold War.

Tax and Spend

Climate research focused on modeling, not science, costing billions. That's an impressive gravy train.

I think this sudden TSA problem is intentionally designed to get more money, and I'm not alone although this is the first article I've seen mention it. Another convert believes this is another example of Washington Monument Syndrome.

Congressman X tells the truth about rulers.

China's economy is even more cronyist than ours, so I imagine their research is as well.

Federal Reserve

Abolishing the e500 note has made it more valuable.

Venezuela may be forced to embrace the dollar.

Economy

As the bust grows, Chromebooks outsell Macs for first time. Apple is the world's preeminent bubble company.

Police State

Police don't need technology to end high speed pursuits. They just need to get over their 'roid rage and stop chasing people to death.

TSA worker shortage blamed for delays.

Tor developer flees country in fear of FBI.

The fruits of war fall to the police and are used against us.

Local

Despite law, New Miami has stolen $50 grand with speed cameras.

Turning off cameras in Springfield produced no change in accident rates.

Sports

Ninety percent of native Americans fine with Redskins name.

Health Care

After heart disease and cancer, doctors are the third leading cause of death in America.

Tax and Spend

USDA instructs people on how to shop for groceries. This shows the contempt government has for people and families.

Federal Reserve

Texas government charters private gold depositories.

Police State

Iran monitors Instagram to arrest models who pose without headscarves.

Russian facial recognition app latest attack on privacy.

Cops caught using police helicopter to spy on naked people and people having sex.

Environment

People have been claiming the Great Barrier Reef would be killed off for 30 years, but it hasn't happened yet.

GM farming produces super-weeds.

Colonialism and racism impact global warming fraud.

Even Cracked realizes climate engineering schemes could (and would) backfire horribly, doing unimaginable damage.

Education

Why would anybody be surprised that using laptops in class is counterproductive for students.

Local

Dayton rulers want to restart red light cameras.

Health Care

Unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions.

Media

Political cartoonist fired for reporting Big Ag CEOS make more money than thousands of farmers combined after big advertiser threatens to pull ads.

Facebook not only biases news to the left, it censors conservatives. Why is this news? This is dog bites man.

Politics

The transgender bathroom movement considered a Cloward and Piven tactic to create unrest. Makes sense.

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Analysis shows how to stop school mass shootings, and it's exactly what we knew all along.

War

All these lies about the war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria were pointed out as lies when they were originally said.

Tax and Spend

Generals claim Russia will outman and outgun US if we don't increase military spending.

Police State

Britain jails YouTube hoaxsters for pranks. I doubt they would do the same to Jimmy Fallon.

Environment

April claimed record hottest.

Economy

Microsoft auto-scheduling upgrades to Windows 10 for older operating systems.

Health Care

How to grow 25 specific fruits and vegetables.

Foreign Policy

CIA admits sending Mandela to jail.

Environment

The claim that five of the Solomon Islands were submerged by global warming is a lie. Of course it is. Nobody have lived on islands millimeters above the water anyway.

Socialism

Response to ten common objects to capitalism.

Socialist disaster in Venezuela. President claims US fomenting coup. That's undoubtedly true too.

Federal Reserve

Money-printing is socially as well as economically destructive.

Police State

Cuts, not TSA activity, blamed for airport delays. TSA blames the passengers.

Feds caught planting secret microphones to record conversations in SF bay.

"FBI agents hid microphones inside light fixtures and at a bus stop outside the Oakland Courthouse without a warrant to record conversations, between March 2010 and January 2011.
Federal authorities are trying to prove real estate investors in San Mateo and Alameda counties are guilty of bid rigging and fraud and used these recordings as evidence." 

No doubt they're doing it everywhere.

Economy

Tech layoffs on the rise.

If online privacy fears really keep half of people from shopping online, then big box retailers have incentive to hire hackers.

Regulation

To protect against minimum wage laws, Wendys plans to covert 6,000 restaurants to kiosk self-service.

FCC bans all changes to routers by users.

Sports

Cheerleaders get concussed more than football players. The establishment won't like that.

Economy

Google passes falling Apple as most valuable company.

Socialism

Aircraft fragments believe to be from MH370 washed up on Mauritius and South Africa.

Police State

Murder rates spike in major cities. This is part of Obama's legacy.

System empowers police to watch all public surveillance cameras. My all-seeing eye is here.

Politics

Bill Clinton flew on sex offenders jet more often than admitted.

Environment

Negative feedbacks are real and large as they must be for us to exist.

Federal Reserve

The consequences of the European Central bank ending the 500 euro note.

War on Drugs

Immorality of the war on drugs.

War

Rulers in Washington are addicted to war.

Despite pledge, Obama continues to support jihadists in Syria.

Tax and Spend

Senate Republicans pass appropriations bill that spends more than Obama requested.

Government will default on its debt because it must.

Police State

Four cops won't be charged for gunning down man in wheelchair.

Spy truck disguised as a Google street view vehicle.

Economy

Law firms purchase AI attorney.

Old housing models are returning thanks to government's war on affordable housing.

Median incomes are going down.

Foreign Policy

Ten ways Israel and Saudi Arabia are the same.

The IMF exacerbates and increases conflict.

Media

More evidence Facebook manipulated news with leftist bias. Zuckerberg denies, so it must be true.

Democrat congressman supposedly wrote an anonymous, tell-all book slamming the American people.

Being right and being wrong don't matter. Saying what people want to hear matters.

Conspiracy theory is a term used by the CIA to silence criticism of dubious government claims.

Misc

Tesla model S goes rogue and crashes.

Regulation

NASA releases 56 patents to the public domain. Why does NASA, supposedly owned by taxpayers, keep any patents from the public domain?

Most EU car companies cheat on emissions, and Tesla squashes it's own hype.

Politics

Facebook execs donate mostly to Clinton.

Tax and Spend

Another record tax haul through April.

Now Elon Musk is pushing mass transit.

Musk's Solar City stock crashes.

Economy

Middle class incomes have declined in four out of five cities this century. Tell me about it.

Local

Dayton Water Festival today. I've never heard of it.

Trotwood boil advisory lifted.

Health Care

Corporate brands cheating on organic labeling.

Media

Netflix cuts six days of commercials per year for viewers. Now if only they would show the things I want to watch.

Police State

British court rules hacker doesn't have to turn over encryption keys. This decision won't last.

Politics

Sanders crushes Clinton in West Virginia, but they both get 17 delegates.

National Archives refuse to release Clinton's Whitewater indictments. Indictments aren't protected like grand juries themselves. They're public.

Trump's nationalism is like a version of states-rights against globalism.

Education

IBM's Watson masqueraded as a graduate teaching assistant for five months before anybody noticed. Kiss college professors goodbye.

War

Government schools make it easier to manipulate the public into supporting war.

The war in Iraq wiped out Iraqi Christians.

"He has never apologized to his fellow Christians, even though one Iraqi prelate, Patriarch Raphael Sako,  tells an indifferent world that Bush’s wars accomplished what Moslems hadn’t been able to do for 1400 years — destroy Christianity in the Middle East.
Now Iraqi Father Douglas Bazi tells Catholics gathered at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chaldean Catholic Church in Orangevale, California, that 1.8 million Iraqi Christians have been killed or driven from the country. Only some 200,000 are left."

If the war in the Middle East is a modern crusade, Christians are losing badly.

Regulations

FTC orders mobile giants to reveal process for fixing security problems. I hope they fight.

New York forces bars to serve alcohol to pregnant women.

DOJ sues NC over bathroom law.
 
FDA back-door bans e-cigs.

FDA wants to define the world 'healthy'.

Local

Boil advisory again in Trotwood. They're popping up like crazy.

Even local rulers are against merging Dayton and Montgomery County.

"The plan calls for replacing most elected offices with appointed positions."

As if the people need less power.

Environment

Contrary to popular belief, Earth's topsoil is young and needs to be conserved.

Claim that global warming has causes five Solomon Islands to become submerged. This will be debunked almost immediately.

Electric cars as dirty as the dirtiest combustion engine.

Australian government to dump herpes virus into river to kill invasive carp. What could go wrong?

Aborted el Nino in 2014 led to record el Nino in 2015.

Obama's White House showed bad faith in global warming case. Say it isn't so.

I predict the death of the Great Barrier reef is greatly exaggerated.

Health Care

Vaccinated people spreading mumps.

Politics

Buchanan slams Ryan. He is the third highest-ranking official in the government.

The war on men has left 1 in 6 either jobless or in prison. You can also blame the war on drugs and the mimimum wage.

War

US forces still fighting in combat in Afghanistan.

Foreign Policy

Clinton's State Department tech staffer's emails are missing. This is Obama's modus operandi.

Police State

Twitter will get slapped down by government for barring intelligence agencies from accessing its data mining operation.

Security researcher arrested for reporting vulnerabilities in voting machines. Don't mess with the people who rig elections.

Media

Facebook journalists routinely suppressed conservative news stories.

Leftist pans Captain America for being heterosexual.

Misc

Scientists surprised to find supposed black holes are aligned.

War

ISIS launches another chemical attack in Iraq.

Environment

Since subsidies have failed to transform the energy sector, more subsidies will be given to green energy.

Elon Musk is the leading green crony capitalist.

Politics

Obama calls everybody but leftists fools.

Regulation

Austin drives Uber and Lyft out of town.

Police State

Prisons switching to virtual visitation so they can charge for video chats.

Economy

Lyft plans self-driving taxi fleet by 2017.

Silicon Valley cutting costs.

Foreign Policy

US funding child spies in Somalia.

Environment

If San Diego really does switch to 100 percent renewables by 2035, prepare for blackouts.

Politics

Prediction that Trump will have to cave to the Republican establishment, then he'll lose to Clinton. If he does, he'll lose.

Trump endorses low interest rates.

Environment

Self-serving Elon Musk calls for revolt against fossil fuels.

Solar plane illustrates how inefficient solar power is.

Asia to expand coal power generation despite Paris agreement.

Regulation

KFC opens a pilot store in China using robots to take orders. Fast food workers will rue pushing a higher minimum wage.

Patent trolls have a favorite judge.

Local

More bubble businesses planned for Water Street.

Seven threats led to evacuations in three Warren County school districts this week.

Health Care

Good health does not come from health care. It comes from a healthy lifestyle.

Media

NBC News sat on story of infamous hacker hacking Clinton's illegal server.

Police State

Police use Stingray, supposedly just to catch terrorists, to catch $50 chicken wing thief. I bet they use it to spy on their girlfriends more than anything.

Clinton's top aide and Weiner's wife Huma interviewed by FBI over email server.

Regulation

Everybody wants higher wages, but the ruthlessness of consumers determines them.

FDA seizes power over e-cigs.

War on Drugs

The story of the CIA pushing LSD.

Environment

Cloud seeding in Nevada.

Federal Reserve

Banks all over the world are lowering rates toward zero.

Politics

Trump not only rails against perpetual war but against Wall Street and the Fed.

After trying to destroy Trump for obvious reasons, the establishment now pretends to accept him. Of course they want to at least co-opt and corrupt him, like they did Reagan, but somebody also shot Reagan.

Now that Trump won some bozo, Piers Morgan, claims he was unstoppable.The market does everything better than government, so in that sense it makes sense a top capitalist would defeat politicians.

Campus noose drawing created by black students to heighten racial tensions, but they won't be charged.

"Two black students at Salisbury University drew a stick figure hanging from a noose on a whiteboard in the taxpayer-funded school’s library, police say. The image also featured the word “Nigger!” (with the exclamation point) and the hashtag #WhitePower.

Wow. I have no words. Whoever drew this in Blackwell is sick. This makes me angry as hell. pic.twitter.com/I3YwmgxkUW

— Bri. (@Briyaa) April 10, 2016

The hoax incident caused great calamity on the 8,657-student campus in Salisbury, Md. The Salisbury University Police Department initiated a hate-crime investigation. However, upon learning that the unidentified students are black, authorities chose to file no charges, reports The Daily Times, a local newspaper."

This is Obama's legacy.

Tow truck driver refuses to tow Sanders supporter claiming socialists don't pay. I believe him.

War

US airstrikes killing more civilians including hundreds in Mosul.

Warmonger love the war on terror.

"It’s been almost a decade and a half since 9/11, but the foreign-policy establishment still cannot admit that continuous American intervention in the Middle East has been a failure.
I recently attended a conference entitled “Hindsight: Reflections on 15 Years of the War on Terror.” With a wide range of highly respectable speakers, I naively expected that the panels would conclude that the so-called “global war on terror” had been a misguided project ab initio, that the United States continues to repeat mistakes in its national security policy that promote rather than discourage terrorism—and that the terrorism threat itself has been grossly inflated for largely political and economic reasons.
Apart from a single comment by a former U.S. Army general who correctly characterized American involvement in the Middle East as an overly robust response to what is in reality a “low threat, low national interests” situation for Washington policymakers, I was greatly disappointed. Everyone seemed to accept without any real question the presumption that the United States has a preemptive right to use military force to change foreign governments, ignoring that factor as a source of terrorism and only criticizing those actual interventions that have been badly implemented like Iraq and Libya."

No surprise.

Foreign Policy

Infamous hacker claims he repeated hacked into Hillary Clinton's illegal private email server.

The EU was a CIA program from the days of the Marshall Plan. That's why Obama irresponsibly railed against Breexit in Britain. Let's hope it backfires.

Tax and Spend

Elon Musk spends money government steals from him to hire comic book designer to design space suit.

Mayor claims Apple abuses Cupertino by not paying taxes.

Phony free trade agreements.

"One of the biggest controversies in nineteenth century American politics was tariffs – with Big Business manufacturers for them, and farmers and producers of other commodities against them. Corporate behemoths wanted protection from foreign competition, while ordinary consumers wanted lower prices. Furthermore, tariff revenue was used to enrich crony capitalists in the industrialized North: the federal government subsidized the building of railroads, canals, and other infrastructure, while the beneficiaries of this largesse turned cheap tariff-free commodities produced in the South and West into high-priced manufactured goods. "

Protectionism is cronyism. More.

Comparing asset forfeiture to the income tax.

Economy

US median income is falling.

Misc

Astronomers surprised by star because they mistake cause and effect.

Health Care

Another study finds hundreds of thousands of Americans die from medical mistakes annually. More.

Media

Zuckerberg's contempt for journalists.

Politics

Trump and Sanders win Indiana. Cruz withdraws. Kasich to withdraw.

Diverse neighborhoods more prejudiced.

Local

Lebanon school evacuated for third straight day because of threat. What a bunch of clowns.

Police State

40 years ago the Church report exposed the deep state.

"More important was what the Committee actually revealed. Its final report, released on April 26, 1976, detailed a stunningly broad scope of lawlessness and abuses by the intelligence world, which had, under successive presidents, turned its considerable powers increasingly on the American people themselves. Agencies like the CIA and FBI appeared to be acting as governments in themselves, flouting legal restraints as they ran programs that elected officials, even right up to the president, were kept in the dark about."

It's worse today.

Immigration

Panama to send 3,000 Cuban migrants to Mexico to aid in their journey to the US.

Media

Paeon to big-government Alexander Hamilton receives record 16 Tony nominations.

Socialism

Piketty's claims destroyed.

Economic data leaks benefit government cronies.

War

US to deploy troops to Russia's border in Poland and Baltic.

"Friday, Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work announced that 4,000 NATO troops, including two U.S. battalions, will be moved into Poland and the Baltic States, right on Russia’s border.
"The Russians have been doing a lot of snap exercises right up against the border with a lot of troops," says Work, who calls this "extraordinarily provocative behavior."
But how are Russian troops deploying inside Russia "provocative," while U.S. troops on Russia’s front porch are not?"

And we wonder why Russian plans buzz our ships and planes.

""Russia has not accepted the hand of partnership," says NATO commander, Gen. Philip Breedlove, "but has chosen a path of belligerence."
But why should Putin see NATO’s inexorable eastward march as an extended "hand of partnership"?
Had we lost the Cold War and Russian spy planes began to patrol off Pensacola, Norfolk and San Diego, how would U.S. F-16 pilots have reacted? If we awoke to find Mexico, Canada, Cuba, and most of South America in a military alliance against us, welcoming Russian bases and troops, would we regard that as "the hand of partnership"?
We are reaping the understandable rage and resentment of the Russian people over how we exploited Moscow’s retreat from empire.
Did we not ourselves slap aside the hand of Russian friendship, when proffered, when we chose to embrace our "unipolar moment," to play the "great game" of empire and seek "benevolent global hegemony"?
If there is a second Cold War, did Russia really start it?"

No kidding. More.

ISIS kills Navy SEAL in Iraq.

""It is a combat death, of course. And a very sad loss," Defense Secretary Ash Carter said, referring to the Navy SEAL. Carter was speaking in Stuttgart, Germany, where he was attending a ceremony installing a new commander of U.S. European Command. "It shows you the serious fight that we have to wage in Iraq.""

But Obama said US troops were only advisors. He claims there's no boots on the ground.

Iraqi protestors take over Green Zone.

"The demonstrators that flooded Baghdad are followers of Muqtada al-Sadr, the wildly popular Shia cleric, politician, and militia leader. Under Sadr’s urging, they are demanding an overhaul of the Iraqi government: the replacement of many of the corrupt and sectarian ministers with impartial “technocrats.”"

Dream on.

Politics

Malia Obama to take year off before attending Harvard, but I'm skeptical of the reasons given.

Progressives, left and right.

"But we should not conflate the ideological problems with progressivism and conservatism with the actual threat posed by each. Progressivism has been the overwhelming force in western politics for the last 100 years. Political progressives—defined not by their party, but by their desire to remake man into a more obedient political animal, absolutely dominated the 20^th century."

That's a pretty good description.

"Let’s be clear about supposed conservatives like George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, & company: they're all progressives. Sheldon Adelson, Rupert Murdoch and Fox News are progressive. They all want government to do something rather than refrain from doing something. Their party label is irrelevant, as is their positioning of themselves slightly to the right of Obama regarding the rate at which the state grows in size and scope."

A progressive is somebody who wants to use government's power of coercion to engineer society to their own ends.

Stockman sees little difference in Trump and Clinton.

"This will surely be the most entertaining election in US history, and probably the most pointless, too. After all, Hillary wants to use government to make Government Great Again. And Trump promises to use government to make America Great Again."
"The latter has long since morphed into a Warfare State leviathan. It pursues senseless and destructive foreign interventions that erode, not enhance, the safety and security of American communities. It impairs constitutional liberties at home under cover of exaggerated and often contrived threats of terrorism. And it breeds blowback and terrorism abroad wherever its drones, bombs, occupations and covert machinations intrude in matters that are none of our business."

True.

Environment

UAE plans artificial mountain to increase rainfall.

Local

Lebanon High School evacuated two straight days because of threat.

Economy

Apple shares longest losing streak since 1998. I wonder what happened then.

Chrome passes Internet Explorer in marketshare.

US median income is falling. It never recovered to previous bubble highs this bubble.

It makes sense working mothers, on average, earn less than men or women who aren't mothers. They have to put their children first.

Million dollar home sales slump. 

Health Care

FDA and USDA spend taxdollars to convince people gm crops are safe.

Wealth gap in life expectancy grows.

Sun exposure reduces blood pressure and promotes weight loss.

One in three antibiotic prescriptions is unnecessary.

Education

Microsoft hypocrisy on STEM education.

Health Care

UK GM mosquitoes to be released in Florida to fight the non-Zika virus problem.

War

More evidence MH17 was downed by a Ukrainian fighter.

WWIII, the war for the dollar, has already begun.

Misc

NASA just realized quantum entanglement allows faster-than-light communication.

Police State

Year ago I warned against biometric ID systems because they would allow government to circumvent laws against self-incrimination. The FBI proves me right by forcing victim to unlock phone with fingerprint.

FISA court never rejects FBI or NSA illegal spying requests. More.

Politics

Boehner teams with Obama to make press video. Two peas in a pod.

Immigrant activists continue to incite violence at Trump rallies then blame Trump.

Health Care

Farmed salmon is extremely unhealthy.