Politics

Trump's mike was defective at the first debate.

Misc

Rosetta crashes onto comet 67P. The comet looks more like a desert canyon than a dirty snowball.

Local

Dayton murder count spikes.

Environment

Anti-coal policy produces blackouts in Australia. Wind farms cause outage.

Global warming frauds go to jail. Hopefully many follow.

Police State

Police systematically abuse confidential databases nationwide just as one would expect.

Regulation

Tech giants minus Apple unite to control AI. You can bet they'll buy and share patents to squeeze the market.

Local

Downtown bubble mistaken for renaissance.

Federal Reserve

Fed unabashedly in the tank for Clinton.

Health Care

Bayer taking over Monsanto is the worst of both Big Pharma and Big Ag.

Police State

Homicide rates spiked in 2015, but they're still historically low.

Education

Student loan scam killed ITT Tech.

Tax and Spend

Headline says NASA's Hubble definitively images water vapor erupting from Europa, but when you read the article, it says what "may be water." Great propaganda. It got me to read the article. It may be water, but let's not announce it before it's known. Whatever they're made of, these plumes are probably electrically generated like the ones on Saturn's moons.

Media

WABC pulls Michael Savage to protect Clinton.

War on Drugs

Feds ban herb because people use it instead of Big Pharma drugs.

Misc

Astronomers recognize major filaments that form the basis for the structure of the Milky Way.

Cosmologists used to claim planets formed around young stars, but now they form around ancient stars too.

Hacked IoT devices being used to launch massive DDoS attacks.

Someone is learning how to take down the internet.

Environment

Record Arctic sea ice expansion.

Regulation

NAACP backs Uber against regulation because it serves black neighborhoods that taxis don't.

Health Care

Older adults who vaccinate against the flu are as likely to visit the doctor with flu-like symptoms than those who don't.

"The Centers for Disease Control lists the effectiveness of flu vaccines for years 2005-2016 which never exceeded 60% and was as low as 10% in 2004-05 and 20% in 2005-06 and 23% in 2014-15.  [CDC.gov, April 15, 2016]  It’s a crapshoot chance you might avert the flu by undergoing vaccination. "

No thanks.

Local

Special financing for the Arcade.

Environment

Corrupt EPA kowtows to green groups.

Police State

Cops caught on camera stealing said camera are stupid, corrupt, arrogant or all three.

Media

Youtube censors critics of government.

Economy

Fannie and Freddie lower lending standards.

Economy is actually in recession.

Politics

Of course the FBI never intended to prosecute Clinton.

Obama used pseudonym to email Clinton on her personal server and lied about it.

It doesn't surprise me that Bush the Younger and Michele Obama are friends.

War

Beer cans with dog tags of dead warfighters.

Pentagon, meaning taxpayers, to pay for sex change surgery.

US helps ISIS in Syria then demonizes Russia.

Education

Demonzing ITT Tech when all schools are failing students. This is a socialist who hates profit.

Lack of play time stunts kindergartners development.

War

Clinton helped create ISIS.

Socialism

Government owns children and will take them from parents whenever it decides.

Politics

Dead people voting like crazy in Colorado, and I guarantee they're voting Democrat.

Clinton meltdown after Lauer interview.

War

Bombing everything. Gaining nothing. Sometimes the titles say it all. But only from the point of view of serfs. From the point of view of rulers, they're getting richer while us serfs get poorer. No thanks.

Police State

Cops rail houses based on IP only, attacking innocents as a result.

Court rules against 3D printed guns, insuring only criminals will have 3D printed guns.

Local

The crony Arcade project still can't take off so "special financing" is being considered.

City rulers wave off $500,000 Arcade back taxes.

After a decade and $300 million, I-75 project completed for the moment.

Socialism

Some self-proclaimed intellectual just noticed socialism was a disaster in East German and capitalism a success in West Germany.

Politics

One of the most profound quotes ever.

"The late Frank Zappa declared: “Politics is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.”"

Excellent.

Numbers belie black lives matter protests.

Former Navy SEAL-turned-transgender runs afoul of TSA. This is the kind of conflict government engenders.

War

Pentagon inspector general identifies $6.6 trillion in Army accounting problems.

"Indeed, in a report released in June, the Defense Department’s inspector general admitted that just one branch of the military, the Army, made $6.5 trillion in wrongful adjustments to accounting entries. In many cases, the Army had no receipts or even invoices to support those expenditures. Incredibly, according to the report, in some cases, the Army simply invented the adjustments out of thin air.
Just like the Fed.
In case you are wondering, this isn’t exactly a new problem. Back in 2001, former Department of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made this astonishing admission:
“According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions.”"

But trust them anyway.

War

It's the US versus the US in Syria.

US and Russia accuse each other of violating ceasefire.

Environment

Recycling electronics is a waste so much of it is a sham.

Regulation

Self-driving car regulations.

Economy

Big bust in art market.

Federal Reserve

China's debt could spark a banking crisis.

War

Navy sailors will undergo mandatory transgender training.

Tax and Spend

More than $1 trillion fighting terrorism since 9/11.

Health Care

Bayer buys Monsanto.

Politics

Chelsea Clinton charges $500 to speak at university.

Narcissist Obama says not supporting Clinton disrespects him.

Economy

If Apple abandoned its self-driving car plans, that would be smart.

Consumer debt increases to nearly $1 trillion.

Uber slammed for raising fares to get more cars to help evacuate bomb scene.

Regulation

Netflix pushes FCC to use coercion to boost its business.

Volkswagon engineer plead guilty to making cars run better than government allows.

Police State

GCHQ, and therefore NSA, building nationwide firewall to censor content ostensibly to fight cybercrime. More.

Stingray manuals show how easy mass surveillance is.

Sex toys spy on users.

Mattel sued for having toys spy on kids.

Local

DPS teacher accused of sexually abusing eight-year-old for years.

Immigration

Ironically, Mexico to build a wall on its southern border to keep illegal immigrants out.

Tax and Spend

Government infrastructure spending proposed by Clinton and Trump does not grow the economy.

Record tax haul for the feds in the first 11 months of the fiscal year.

Why the EU is doomed.

Misc

Indus civilization may have thrived for 700 years with no government, royalty or weapons.

Self-driving cars hit Pittsburgh streets. Uber.

Mobileye drops Tesla because it's unsafe.

Scientists noticed electrical activity on the surface of the moon.

Cases of domestic violence against men triple over last decade.

War

Air Force grounds F-35s for crumbling insulation in fuel tanks.

Drone dragnet for battlefields will be used against Americans. More.

Post-9/11 wars have cost nearly $5 trillion.

Suspected terrorist link between New York and New Jersey bombs and stabbing attack in Minnesota.

Environment

Soil's minerals are flowing into the ocean, so remineralizing with ocean minerals revitalizes soil.

Despite supposedly being the hottest year on record, Arctic sea ice dropped only to second lowest level on record.

Global warming frauds want to abandon the term climate change now.

Reminder how badly scientists mis-predicted solar cycle 24.

California regulates cow farts.

NOAA cancels la Nina watch during la Nina.

War

US-backed Syrian rebels turn against US special forces.

"A video shows US commandos fleeing a town as American-backed Syrian rebels hurled a barrage of insults and abuse at them.Footage captured a chanting crowd of fighters from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) surrounding US troops in the town of al-Rai near the Turkish border.One rebel was heard yelling that Americans wanted to 'wage a crusader war' against Syria - showing the intricate web of alliances in the war-torn country, where many of America's allies are fighting each other."

America's stupidest war goes mainstream.

US troops bomb Syrian forces to give ISIS an advantage.

Misc

Scientists surprised to discover Pluto emits X-rays.

Politics

Hayek is respected by the mainstream for his politics, not economics, and that's why Mises is ignored.

Because social media is controlled by government's corporate agents, political correctness is being forced on the big networks.

Health Care

Paleo diet for heart health.

Paleo not debunked.

Foreign Policy

US plans to destabilize Russia are nuts.

Education

ITT Tech is the second major for-profit college to declare bankruptcy.

Federal Reserve

Deutsche Bank rejects $14 billion DoJ fine.

Tax and Spend

China keeps dumping US debt.

Local

30 heroin overdoses in Middletown this week.

Economy

Oil prices fall because of lack of demand.

Tax and Spend

Of course EU finance ministers support $21 billion tax ruling against Apple. Apple forgot it's only allowed to exist as a tool for stealing money for rulers.

Tax and Spend

The national debt has exploded under every president since Reagan worse than the president before regardless of party.

War

The Daily Mail acknowledges US in perpetual war.

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Gays for guns. Everybody should be for guns.

Not one mass public shooting took place where people were allowed to carry guns.

Police State

Because of the failure of socialist police, private patrols take to streets in Chicago. This is great news for the people of Chicago.

Health Care

British hospitals overwhelmed.

Socialism

Pittsburgh rulers welcome testing of self-driving cars by Uber that some believe aren't ready.

Politics

Clinton can lie, cheat, steal, and kill, but the press finally called her out for calling Trump supporters deplorable.

"The Democratic presidential nominee sparked an uproar late Friday when she described Trump's supporters at a fundraiser.

"To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables," Clinton said. "Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it."

She added, "And unfortunately, there are people like that and he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric."

Clinton then said some of these people were "irredeemable" and "not America.""

Trump put his foot in his mouth for quite a while, not she's being covered for doing the same.

The FBI is divided over Clinton's malfeasance.

Federal Reserve

Wells Fargo executives get off scot free after corruption purge of 5,300 as if they didn't have institutional support.

War

US and Russia announce Syrian ceasefire and agreement to attack ISIS. Hillary must be apoplectic.

Health Care

Super-gonorrhea outbreak in UK.

Venezuelans turn to black magic and animal sacrifice because of shortage of medical supplies.

Politics

If you thought online voting was a good idea, Soros's support should convince you otherwise.

Obama grants immunity to a second crook who helped cover up Clinton's emails.

Regulation

Car dealers want to block Tesla in Ohio and elsewhere.

Police State

A reminder of 19 things we don't know about 9/11 that feed conspiracy theories.

Economy

Apple removed headphone jack from iPhone 7 because it owns the world's largest bluetooth company. This illustrates how giant corporations, like governments, make irrational decisions because they don't have prices to guide them.

Fed threatens to raise interest rates, markets crash.

Education

Bomb threat cancels big-time high-school football game.

Foreign Policy

Turkey caught in the middle of US aggression against Russia.

Police State

Private contractors under TSA control perform better for cheaper than TSA agents.

"The article also cites a Homeland Security report which discovered that investigators were able to smuggle a test bomb past security checkpoints in 67 out of 70 tests."

Some security.

America's incarceration problem.

"Data provided by PrisonStudies.org is helping shed light on America’s incarceration problem, demonstrating that only the small archipelago of Seychelles, located in the Indian Ocean off East Africa, has a higher incarceration rate than the U.S. But when studied carefully, the rates demonstrate yet another trend: America’s white prison population has been increasing in recent years while the number of blacks in prison has been dropping — and nobody is talking about it."

Police are equal opportunity kidnappers.

Tax and Spend

Finland prepares universal basic income.

Economy

The US is in a depression.

Politics

The long timeline of Clinton investigations.

Merkel's extreme policy on immigration has produced an extreme right-wing party in response.

Environment

Record wheat harvest during hottest year ever.

Global warming profiteers call for more tax money.

Zika spraying wiping out bees.

Governments have failed to preserve endangered species so east African species are going extinct.

Regulation

Tech giants form AI consortium so they can control the patents and market.

War

The Pentagon fears killer AIs because it's creating them.

Demonized then attacked by Bill Clinton, Slobodan Milosevic is posthumously cleared by World Court of war crimes to silence from the media.

"Far from conspiring with the convicted Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, Milosevic actually “condemned ethnic cleansing”, opposed Karadzic and tried to stop the war that dismembered Yugoslavia. Buried near the end of a 2,590-page judgement on Karadzic last February, this truth further demolishes the propaganda that justified Nato’s illegal onslaught on Serbia in 1999."

More war.

Health Care

AMA, med schools and cronyism.

Federal Reserve

Wells Fargo fires 5,300 for creating over a million fake accounts and funding them with money stolen from customer accounts. This can't be limited to Wells Fargo.

Environment

United CEO is smart to prepare for harsh winter because of Farmer's Almanac.

Foreign Policy

Obama calls Americans lazy.

Former Warsaw Pact countries push for national autonomy against EU in wake of Brexit.

Regulation

Michigan allows self-driving cars to drive without driver.

Economy

British production increases after Brexit.

Politics

Trump calls for building a bigger military while criticizing Clinton for using it.

Local

Dayton hires firm to design outdoor amphitheater at Dave Hall Plaza.

Whaley calls tax hikes an opportunity and cheers subsidized building.
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United for Opportunity

On September 6, I was joined by Commissioners Joey D. Williams, Jeffrey J. Mims, Chris Shaw and community leaders including representatives from labor, faith, education and community organizations to share information about the proposed ¼ percent increase in Dayton's earned income tax. The issue will appear on the November 8 general election ballot.

Dayton faces a $5 million deficit next year--and it will only grow. The City budget is the same size it was in 1998, and 700 jobs have been cut. The last increase in the Dayton income tax was 32 years ago, and the City has cut all it safely can.

Here's how the new tax dollars will be used:

* Keeping high-quality emergency medical response and fire protection.
* Improving neighborhood safety with community-responsive policing.
* Perform needed repairs, repaving and maintenance of streets citywide.
* Keeping city parks and lots mowed and well maintained.
* Providing affordable, quality preschool for all Dayton 4-year-olds. 

Dayton's earned income tax (including the increase) doesn't tax Social Security, retirement or investment income. It is an investment of just $1.60 a week for someone earning $35,000 a year, and it applies to all people working in Dayton.

Please confirm you are registered to vote by October 11 and consider this important initiative for Dayton's future.

Historic Tax Credits Making a Big Difference in Dayton

Redeveloping or renovating a decades-old property is a complicated, expensive venture. Developers usually have to work diligently to piece together financing packages to make these dream projects possible. The City of Dayton works closely with the private sector to assist in securing resources, including Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credits. There is a great deal of renovation and adaptive re-use underway (or planned) in Dayton today, made possible partly by these tax credits. I hope you are also excited to see these wonderful properties finding new life in our city:

Delco Building, 329 E. First (loft apartments/retail, Water Street District).

	Delco Bldg., Water Street District

Weustoff and Getz, 210 Wayne (residential/commercial). 
DPL Steam Building, 617 E. Third (Riazzi Asset Management offices).
Fire Blocks District, 100 block of E. Third (residential/entertainment).
Two Grafton Hill Homes, Central Ave. and Federal St. (for students/employees associated with Grandview Hospital). 

In addition to these historic tax credit projects, the proposed Dayton Arcade redevelopment has earned a commitment of $20 million in Ohio Housing Finance Agency tax credits.

"

Health Care

Doctor consortium bypasses Obamacare. Government will attack it.

Education

ITT Tech closes all its schools after government cuts of funding. Even private schooling is controlled by government.

Tax and Spend

EU orders Apple to pay $14.5 billion in taxes.

Foreign Policy

Blaming Putin for everything.

Socialism

Socialism wrecks the family by design. More.

Federal Reserve

Germans withdrawing money from banks.

Environment

Zika spray wipes out honey bees.

Education

School playground equipment was a lot more fun in 1900.

War on Drugs

DEA bans opioid alternatives during opioid epidemic. I thought Congress had to write laws.

Police State

Tech giants back Microsoft in fight against gag orders.

Federal Reserve

UK corporations refuse to sell bonds to Bank of England at low interest rates. This means interest rates are higher than the Bank of England claims.

Economy

Economic bell-weather Caterpillar close plants and lay off thousands.

Ethics of entrepreneurship and profits in a free market.

"What can be unambiguously stated about a capitalist’s profit or loss is this: His profit or loss are the quantitative expression of the size of his contribution to the well-being of his fellow men, i.e., the buyers and consumers of his product, who have surrendered their money in exchange for his (by the buyers) more highly valued product. The capitalist’s profit indicates that he has successfully transformed socially less highly valued and appraised means of action into socially more highly valued and appraised ones and thus increased and enhanced social welfare. Mutatis mutandis, the capitalist’s loss indicates that he has used some more valuable inputs for the production of a less valuable output and so wasted scarce physical means and impoverished society."

Unfortunately, this is not true in a coerced market.

"Money profits are not just good for the capitalist, then, they are also good for his fellow men. The higher a capitalist’s profit, the greater has been his contribution to social welfare. Likewise, money losses are bad not only for the capitalist, but they are bad also for his fellow men, whose welfare has been impaired by his error."

In praise of profits.

“The capitalist’s actions and profits are just, if he has originally appropriated or produced his production factors or has acquired them — either bought or rented them — in a mutually beneficial exchange from a previous owner, if all his employees are hired freely at mutually agreeable terms, and if he does not physically damage the property of others in the production process. Otherwise, if some or all of the capitalist’s production factors are neither appropriated or produced by him, nor bought or rented by him from a previous owner (but derived instead from the expropriation of another person’s previous property), if he employs non-consensual, “forced” labor in his production, or if he causes physical damage to others’ property during production, his actions and resulting profits are unjust.”

This is the difference between a free market and a coerced market.

"Logically, the institution of a state has a twofold implication. First, with a state in existence all private property becomes essentially fiat property, i.e., property granted by the state and, by the same token, also property to be taken away by it via legislation or taxation. Ultimately, all private property becomes state property. Second, none of the state’s “own” land and property — misleadingly called public property — and none of its money income is derived from original appropriation, production, or voluntary exchange. Rather, all of the state’s property and income is the result of prior expropriations of owners of private property.
The state, then, contrary to its own self-serving pronouncements, is not the originator or guarantor of private property. Rather, it is the conqueror of private property. Nor is the state the originator or guarantor of justice. To the contrary, it is the destroyer of justice and the embodiment of injustice." 

That's coercion.

Politics

FBI makes public Clinton email corruption investigation documents.

Misc

Astronomers less surprised by second irregularly dimming star.

Tax and Spend

Tim Cook says Apple will repatriate billions in profits to be taxed.

Apple's tax problems with EU and Ireland illustrate why competing tax domains is a good idea.

"Of course, government economists have been doing their part as well to try to sugar-coat the pill of tax increases. They never refer to [the suppression of tax loopholes] as “increases.” They have not been increases at all; they were “revenue enhancement” and “closing loopholes.” The best comment on the concept of “loopholes” was that of Ludwig von Mises. Mises remarked that the very concept of “loopholes” implies that the government rightly owns all of the money you earn, and that it becomes necessary to correct the slip up of the government’s not having gotten its hands on that money long since."

Excellent.

"This might be a fatal mistake which will destroy Brussels’s authority. Indeed, the Irish government just challenged the European Commission and reclaimed its right not to tax Apple. The Irish finance minister warned that he will fight the European Commission through the courts."

Calling it a right not to tax is a bad choice of words.

Prosecutors accuse Duke of scientific fraud to obtain $200 million in research grants. Government money is the problem with science.They all do it. This case had to be extremely arrogant for prosecutors to care.

Environment

Obama agrees to Paris Climate Accords in agreement with China, but the Senate hasn't ratified anything.

Health Care

FDA declares war on anti-bacterial soaps, banning 19 ingredients.

Economy

Walmart to cut 7,000 jobs due to automation.

Local

Victims sue cities over red-light tickets.