Police State

Another report that one government's corporate tech companies weakened encryption so the NSA could break it.

Microsoft Security Essentials misses 39 percent of malware, probably all of which is produced by NSA.

NSA's metadata collection program has stopped zero attacks. Government said this, not me. This won't stop for the same reason the great global warming fraud won't stop. Money. The participants get rich off the stolen money.

The government wants to seize control of internet security, and DHS wants to turn it over to unpaid college interns. I have no words.

For those who didn't know, police are tracking your car via license plate cameras.

Federal Reserve

Earlier this year I predicted the Fed would have to reduce money printing based on inflation. The Fed just announced it would reduce money printing.

Mainstream Forbes says the Fed has failed at everything it has tried to do for 100 years, and it's right. The mainstream is turning on the Fed. Sooner rather than later, it's going to be abolished.

China wants gold, not dollars.

Economy

Ohio loses 12,000 jobs and probably more college graduates.

The government wants us to believe that the economy grew at 4.1 percent in Q3. That's inflation, not growth. Grab onto your wallets. This inflation is why the Fed is tapering.

Politics

Obama's biggest supporter Boehner thinks shuffling his staff will dissipate the anger he has earned.

Ohio lobbyist pleads guilty to corruption for doing what every plutocrat does with every politician. This is business as usual. This guy messed up in some other way we'll never know about.

Local

City government is doing another plutocrat neighborhood upgrade, this time around Children's Hospital, called the DaVinci Project.

State government gives city government more stolen money to destroy wealth. Are you kidding me?

Tree trimmer cuts power to 2,500.

Cityfolk goes from bad to worse, disbanding completely. City government is responsible for this.

Economy

Home sales down nationally and jobless claims rise.

Immigration

Border agents help smuggle illegal immigrants into the US.

Tax and Spend

45 percent of Ohio companies which receive state tax dollars fail to meet their promises. I'm surprised it's that low. This destroys the justification for giving stolen money to companies.

Despite making $1 billion, Facebook will pay no taxes. If everybody had the same deal, this country would be soaring to the future.

Global Warming and Energy

Bizarrely warm temperature readings in Russia allow frauds to claim November 2013 was the hottest November on record, but the satellites show this is false.

"Dr. John Christy gives these values for the satellite data sources of global temperature and their ranks:

• UAH Nov 2013 9th warmest Nov (0.20 C cooler than warmest Nov.)
• RSS Nov 2013 16th warmest Nov (0.22 C cooler than warmest Nov.)

And, when we look at the UAH map of the world, while Russia was certainly warmer, it wasn’t as warm as NCDC makes it to be"

The frauds are wrong again.

Greek economic problems prove people only care about the environment when they're standard of living is high. This is why economic freedom is the key to a clean environment.

The oceans aren't warming either.

Politics

72 percent of Americans have come to realize Big Government is the biggest problem America faces. Funny how the politicians they vote for see it so differently.

Health Care

Obama again lawlessly changes Obamacare to allow people to buy catastrophic health care coverage.

Half of super-market chicken breasts contaminated with super-bugs.

71 percent of Americans oppose Obamacare.

"“Folks, there’s 71 percent of voters opposing Obamacare,” he said, during his most recent broadcast. “That’s 71 percent of a universe of people that the Republican Party could forge a relationship with — a political voting relationship,” he said, Breitbart reported.
“And they haven’t, outside of three or four Republicans, made one effort to do it, which leads to an obvious conclusion: Maybe the Republicans don’t really dislike Obamacare that much.”"

I've been saying that since the moment it passed.

Scientists researching reversing death.

War

US General in charge of nuclear missiles fired for drinking and womanizing.

Police State

Microsoft has its own digital crime unit police force to fight cyber-crime. There's nothing creepy about this.

Maybe they can solve this cryptolocker scam.

Report claims NSA is manipulating bank accounts.

Foreign Policy

US spying costs Boeing military jet deal with Brazil.

Putin jealous of Obama because of NSA.

Local

Home prices fell for the second consecutive month.

Politics

Treason is so limiting, that treasonous government employees have no fear.

Energy

Government gives another plutocratic tax break to Tesla.

Health Care

Cell phone use correlates with lower grades and anxiety. I'd add bad parenting, but the study didn't address that.

Tax and Spend

Big government Senate Republicans did what Republicans always do, just like Boehner's House Republicans did, which is raise taxes and increase spending. Let's hope those thieves of both parties all burn in hell. More.

Media

The politically correct Nazis remove patriarch from Duck Dynasty. I appreciate that money was more important to him and his family than the evil that attacked him.

Foreign Policy

Sentiment for boycott against Israel grows. Academics endorse boycott.

Misc

Major Android botnet steals text messages and logs them into Chinese servers. Maybe Google will get serious about anti-malware software for Android.

Nearby star system shatters fantasies about our solar system and stellar systems in general.

Freedom of Speech

Beatles release previously unreleased recordings to extend copyright.

Police State

NSA weakens encryption standards so not only it, but every government and hacker, can break them.

FBI is seizing lots of bitcoins.

Not too long ago, the feds, assisted by locals, set up a road block and arbitrarily pulled over people in Texas, asking for DNA samples. Yesterday they did the same in Pennsylvania.

In typical government double-speak, some panel pretends it wants it both ways with NSA, "A board set up to review the NSA's vast surveillance programs has called for a wide-ranging overhaul of National Security Agency practices while preserving 'robust' intelligence capabilities." And I want NSA to deliver fresh ice cream that doesn't make my mouth cold. What a travesty.

Judge Napolitano reminds us how Orwellian the NSA is.

Politics

Eric Margolis on polarizing Nelson Mandela.

"In those days, the US and Britain branded Mandela and the ANC as “terrorists.”   White civilians were killed, restaurants and bars bombed. I joined a special South African unit up on the Limpopo River trying to protect isolated, elderly white farmers from  being murdered by gangs of ANC gunmen.
In fact, most of the ANC’s white victims were civilians.  Hundreds of blacks accused of collaboration with the government were “necklaced” (burned to death by having gasoline-filled tires put around their necks). It was your typically brutal, dirty revolutionary war, the kind I’d covered in Africa, Asia and Latin America"

Not much like Gandhi.

Misc

The Nazi economy was a Keynesian dream, but it starved the German people.

Walter Williams explains to the Pope that the free market is the best economic system.

More criticism of the Pope's economics.

Tax and Spend

NASA orders three urgent spacewalks to fix ISS cooling system, but it won't be finished for over a week.

Freedom of Speech

Swedish man fined $650,000 for uploading one pirated movie.

Local

I'm not impressed that this project started on a napkin because it steals $12 million from taxpayers. Start a project on a napkin and then raise the money for it voluntarily.

Student who tried to commit suicide sues school district for failing to address constant bullying. This will probably go nowhere, but I it's good to see government schools put on the defensive.

Global Warming and Energy

Claim that climate for the last several hundred years was determined almost completely by natural solar, AMO and PDO cycles.

Because of recent cooling, period without global warming extends to 17 years and three months.

"It is intriguing, and disturbing, that WattsUpWithThat is just about the only place where you will be allowed to see this or any graph showing the spectacularly zero trend line through 207 continuous months of data.
CO2 concentration continues to climb. Global temperature doesn’t. Absence of correlation necessarily implies absence of causation. Game over, logically speaking."

Too bad logic isn't the driving force behind the global warming frauds. Stolen money is.

"Maybe natural influences are still strong enough to pull in the other direction and cancel the predicted warming. Maybe the models got the forcing wrong, or the feedbacks wrong, or the climate-sensitivity parameter wrong, or the amplification equation wrong, or the non-radiative transports wrong."

Or all the above wrong.

Global warming conference sponsored by big oil companies.

The ethics of geo-engineering.

Federal Reserve

The fed turns 100 next week.

"One would think this anniversary would elicit some sort of public recognition of the Fed’s growth from a quasi-agent of the Treasury Department intended to provide an elastic currency, to a de facto independent institution that has taken complete control of the economy through its central monetary planning. But just like the Fed’s creation, its 100th anniversary may come and go with only a few passing mentions."

I bet it gets mentioned a lot at Mises.org and LewRockwell.com.

Foreign Policy

NSA claims it saved the country by detecting a Chinese malware plot to wipe out all the computers in the US. Exaggerate much?

Tech plutocrats pressure Obama over NSA spying that costs them business.

Police State

Red light camera use dropped in US for first time.

Feinstein signals she would consider cutting NSA phone surveillance. She must be tired of having her phone tapped.

Health Care

Journal removes GMO study because it shows bad results. More corruption of science.

Microsoft exec formerly in charge of Microsoft Office to oversee healthcare.gov website. Funny how they picked an executive from a company known for not embracing the internet and from a division that doesn't involve the internet. Cronyism is it's own motivation.

How government regulations made health care so expensive.

"Since the early 1900s, medical special interests have been lobbying politicians to reduce competition.  By the 1980s, the U.S. was restricting the supply of physicians, hospitals, insurance and pharmaceuticals, while subsidizing demand.  Since then, the U.S. has been trying to control high costs by moving toward something perhaps best described by the House Budget Committee: “In too many areas of the economy – especially energy, housing, finance, and health care – free enterprise has given way to government control in “partnership” with a few large or politically well-connected companies”  (Ryan 2012)."

True.

China spreads antibiotic resistance through waste water treatment plants. To solve this problem, start by razing the old hospitals that breed these bugs.

Right ot Keep and Bear Arms

479 sheriffs refuse to enforce some gun control laws. Don't count on it. Here's the list.

Media

Foxnews draws more viewers than CNN,CNNHN, and MSNBC combined.

Socialism

Of course GM won't voluntarily reimburse the US Treasury for $10 billion in bailout losses.

Misc

Possible source of Microsoft Windows XP horrifically slow update problem discovered, but Microsoft has failed to fix it twice.

Local

In another consequence of government's corruption of science, Dayton is short of salt because the government bought into the great global warming fraud.

"More than 14 inches of snow have already fallen in the Dayton area this winter season, which is 11 inches above normal.
More precipitation has meant more work for local road crews and higher demand for salt, brine and related products.
Fred Stovall, director of public works said the City of Dayton has used about double the amount of salt used by this time last year."

They haven't dropped one iota of salt on my street.

Health Care

The FDA goes after antibacterial soaps. Apparently that's the greatest to health in the US. I think the FDA should have to prove it benefits people.

The establishment attacks multi-vitamins and supplements again.

"Among those begging to differ are a vitamin industry group and one of the researchers whose studies prompted the editorial.
"While those in the ivory tower may say that people just need to eat their sardines and salads, in the real world there are nutrient gaps," says Duffy MacKay, of the Council for Responsible Nutrition, which represents supplement makers."

Exactly, but the establishment must protect Big Pharma's profits.

British drug company to stop paying doctors to promote and prescribe its drugs. Wow. So Britain has a direct kickback system. They must be going to adopt the indirect US system.

Superbugs created by decades of government misuse of antibiotics are breaking out of hospitals and into the community.

Global Warmingand Energy

Highest paid EPA employee busted for bilking taxpayers out of a million or so dollars.

"The EPA’s highest-paid employee and a leading expert on climate change deserves to go to prison for at least 30 months for lying to his bosses and saying he was a CIA spy working in Pakistan so he could avoid doing his real job, say federal prosecutors."

Typical.

Gore's prediction that the North Pole would be ice free by last Saturday is proven false.

Mexico opens up to foreign investment in oil production which will increase supply.

War

John Kerry frighteningly declared Kim Jong-un as bad as Saddam. I hope he doesn't mean the US is planning to invade North Korea.

After harder core jihadists oust top US proxy commander in Syria, US attempts to ally with the harder core jihadists. This is going to get Americans killed.

Police State

NSA does damage control on 60 minutes, but can't be believed or trusted.

Judge grants injunction against NSA phone collection program, doubting its constitutionality in a preliminary ruling, but nothing will change. It's funny how the article uses the words 'likely' and 'appears' because they know nothing will change too.

Exactly as predicted by the blackmail organization, NSA put attorney who filed the lawsuit under surveillance.

Internet security guru Bruce Schneier reportedly lost his job because of his criticism of NSA and its British counterpart. If you work for a corporation, you can't criticize the god of government.

Presumed innocent man, former chief of staff to a senator, forced to live with parents under house arrest, wear tracking ankle bracelet and denied internet access while awaiting trial on child porn charges. Whatever happened to bail?

Global Warming and Energy

Over half the US is covered in snow, the most in eleven years.

Federal Reserve

I doubt the Fed will reduce printing.

War

Redacted portion of 9/11 report detailed Saudi state support for the hijackers.

13,900 men were raped last year in the US military.

Regulation

Former Google lawyer to run US patent office. That's convenient for Google.

More light bulbs to be banned at the beginning of the year.

The government has no business being involved in marriages including polygamy.

Foreign Policy

US and Chinese warships nearly collide in South China Sea. This is like six year olds wrestling in the back yard. Apparently the Chinese had ordered the US ship to stop.

"According to the officials, the run-in began after a Chinese navy vessel sent a hailing warning and ordered the Cowpens to stop. The cruiser continued on its course and refused the order because it was operating in international waters.
Then a Chinese tank landing ship sailed in front of the Cowpens and stopped, forcing the Cowpens to abruptly change course in what the officials said was a dangerous maneuver.
According to the officials, the Cowpens was conducting a routine operation done to exercise its freedom of navigation near the Chinese carrier when the incident occurred about a week ago."

That sounds provocative.

More on the supposedly rogue CIA agent who disappeared in Iran.

"In the case of the Illicit Finance Group, the same pattern occurs: within the larger intelligence community, an obscure sub-agency with a mind of its own pursues its own agenda – with productive results for the War Party. A CIA investigation shows Jablonski and her colleagues did their best to cover up Levinson’s activities on their behalf. Jablonski was fired, along with several of her co-workers, and a good number of others were "disciplined.""

I wonder how much they were paid.

"And of course it’s just a coincidence that the issue of Levinson’s disappearance – and the fact that the CIA paid an agent to discredit Rafsanjani and other Iranian moderates – has been revealed just as sensitive negotiations between Washington and Tehran have reached a critical juncture."

The implication is they were working for Israel.

Tax and Spend

All three Republican House leaders voted to increase spending and raise taxes in the bipartisan budget agreement. They are what they vote for.

Economy

Google has purchased nine robotics companies in the last six months including one that makes research robots for the military.

Health Care

Obamacare significantly impacts small businesses.

Washington Obamacare exchange erroneously debits bank accounts.

Police State

More on FBI's terrorist entrapment program.

French electronic surveillance is worse than the NSA.

More information on NSA's spying on games.

"In the time since I spoke to General Wallace, virtual worlds have bloomed. The number of Second Life accounts, for example, has grown to 36 million registered users, according to its creator, Linden Labs. And it seems, as the Times and ProPublica reported, that a surprising number of those new visitors were from the U.S. Intelligence Community. Second Life, in fact, became so thick with spies from the Pentagon, the CIA, and the FBI that it was necessary to create what one of the leaked documents called a "deconfliction" group to keep them from duplicating their efforts, spying on one another, and so turning their online push into a digital snarl.
And yet, after all that virtual snooping, there is no evidence that the untold millions of dollars spent infiltrating digital spies into worlds of pixies, scantily-clad lion-women, and pony skeleton avatars (no, I’m not making these up) has uncovered any terrorists or foiled any al-Qaeda plots. It has, however, allowed the U.S. government to penetrate the lives of the young (and increasingly, the not-so-young) in new and intrusive ways."

Just amazing.

"It should be no secret that the United States has the biggest, most efficiently organized, most effective system for recruiting child soldiers in the world. With uncharacteristic modesty, however, the Pentagon doesn’t call it that. Its term is "youth development program."
Pushed by multiple high-powered, highly paid public relations and advertising firms under contract to the Department of Defense, the program is a many splendored thing. Its major public face is the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps or JROTC."

I never thought of it that way.

Politics

After his anti-capitalist paper, the Pope is forced to announce he's not a Marxist.

Education

Police pat themselves on the back for confronting school shooter within 1 minute, 20 seconds. They seem surprised that having men confront a shooter tends to stop attacks. This would have ended much sooner if the teachers and students had been allowed to carry firearms.

Gunman was opinionated socialist. The press doesn't usually let anything relationship to the left out.

The number of children prescribed anti-psychotics triples in a decade.

Misc

Argon gas is not so noble after all. That's probably true of all noble gases.

China's moon lander and rover take propaganda pictures of each other.

Health Care

US butter consumption reaches highest level in 40 years.

Paleo diet taking over the NBA. This is excellent news.

Police State

NSA can't figure out what documents Snowden copied.

Indiana state police admit using cell phone tracker to collect bulk cellphone data.

Investigation embarrasses Boston police into stopping use of license plate scanners.

Pension fund sues IBM over $12 billion loss it claims was caused by IBM working with NSA. Like IBM had a choice.

NSA piggybacks on consumer tracking because it can.

NSA can easily crack standard cell phone encryption.

Local

Nan Whaley spent the second most ever to buy mayoral election.

Wreck cuts power to hundreds.

China lands rover on the moon, the first soft landing on the moon since 1976.

Foreign Policy

Iceland kicked out FBI agents who showed up unnanounced to investigate Wikileaks.

Federal Reserve

Bitcoin has attracted so much real money that Litecoin is right behind. Make your money now. They're even more worthless than the dollar. I'm sure people have made millions off these phony currencies, but they're small fry compared to the billion or trillions people have made of the phony dollar.

Economy

NAFTA is not a free trade agreement because free trade requires no agreements.

Misc

Yellowstone super-volcano bigger than previously thought.

Freedom of Speech

North Korean government erases uncle of Dufus Kum Stupid Young Leader from internet after he executes him.

Foreign Policy

Pat Buchanan doesn't like the US being obligated to go to war with China over a couple uninhabited islands claimed by Japan.

"South Korea is also in a quarrel with China over a submerged reef in the Yellow Sea known as Ieodo, but to China, Suyan. Seoul has built a maritime research station on the reef, the value of which is enhanced by the oil and gas deposits in the surrounding seabed."

Oil and gas, just like with the Japanese islands. North Korea is also threatening South Korea, and the US is on the hook to defend it from them too.

Tax and Spend

Ohio wildlife agents hunt deer while on duty.

Gosh knows we need to spend stolen money on spacecraft to receive laser communications from Alpha Centauri. Maybe this has something to do with the NSA chief's Star Trek command center.

Ohio's plutocrats made tons of money, and because Ohio is such a big government state, they made more money than most plutocrats across the nation.

"Ohio’s ultrawealthy population grew again this year and it expanded at a faster rate than most U.S. states, according to a report by Wealth-X, a wealth research firm."

Predictable.

Social Security is a Ponzi scheme.

War

Al Qaeda in Yemen gains sympathy from US drone strikes. Exactly.

Book exposes Israeli government's evil.

"How else are we to explain the fact that, during the attack on Gaza, IDF soldiers killed an eight-year-old child, one Ibrahim Awajah, and used his corpse for target practice? This was no isolated incident: one by one we read the stories of disgusting atrocities carried out by the IDF – how they lobbed a shell into the living room of Izeldeen Abuelaish, a Harvard-trained fertility doctor and medical researcher who had helped many Israelis have children. The shell decapitated two of his daughters and "shredded" his other children "to pieces." As this was going on, Israelis sat on Parash Hill, near Sderot, which offers a clear view of the Gaza Strip, watching the slaughter and cheering as if it were the latest hit movie – spectators to their own moral degeneration."

That last reminds me of the Israeli Mossad agents who cheered on 9/11 when planes hit the World Trade Center.

Politics

Tea Party approval rating reaches record low at 30 percent. I'm sure that's still higher than Republicans and Democrats.

It's not preposterous to call the Pope a Marxist. He's proclamations to the contrary are immaterial. He attacked free markets, declared that income inequality is the defining issue of our day, and that is Marxist philosophy. Oddly, Woods offer no arguments to support his dissent and instead shovels even more well-deserved criticism on the Pope.

Police State

NSA chief shows NSA mentality.

"NSA Director Keith Alexander, testifying before the Senate this week, got weirdly petulant, asking his critics how he was supposed to do his job without collecting metadata on American communications. 'If we can come up with a better way, we ought to put it on the table and argue our way through it,' he said"

It never crosses his mind to limit spying to people who he has reason to believe might be threats. To him, every American is a potential enemy. And because he preys on the American people, and the American people one day will have had enough of it, he's right. He doesn't work for us. He works against us.

Our lying rulers tell us they're going to continue spying on us, but we should be mollified by their claim they're going to add safeguards. That's like sharks telling their victims not worry because the sharks are going to add safeguards.

Google removes recently released privacy feature from Android, claiming releasing it was an accident.

FBI agents provocateur entrap another patsy, this time in Kansas, in fake terrorist plot. It looks like this guy was motivated by the US drone war on Yemen.

TSA treats Americans the same way the military treats Guantanamo prisoners. No surprise there.

Global Warming and Energy

Company gets $226 million in tax dollars to sell small nuclear reactors which it could have done without the millions of tax dollars.

Historic snowstorm shuts down Jerusalem and the Middle East. Weather isn't climate, but the blow to the frauds can't be denied.

Over 2,000 cold and snow records set in America last week.

Global warming frauds go off their rocker with Jason ad.

No human has seen such a weak solar cycle.

As scary as the press wants us to believe the arctic, methane time-bomb is, it hasn't done anything yet and is unlikely to as the planet cools.

Snow in Egypt for the first time in 112 years.

War on Drugs

Another abominable consequence of government's war on drugs is people abusing pets to obtain drugs from vets.

Education

From 25 to 44 percent of Ohio third graders can't pass test to get into fourth grade right now.

Colorado schools shooter shoots self.

Local

Another broken power pole. In a separate event, thousands lose power.

Power knocked out in Yellow Springs. OVI blamed, not stupid, monopoly power poles.

Government interference forces private ambulance company into bankruptcy. More.

Task force breaks its own arms patting itself on the back for seizing $1 million in drugs, enriching Mexico's drug cartels and missing hundreds of millions of drugs in the process.

I-75 crashes which the DDN has worked hard not to report for a while. I understand they're so common, I can see them from my balcony, but they're dog bites man stories and our rulers don't want them reported.

Crony corporation General Electric (GE) to open center at UD. Hooray for all the recipients of stolen money.

Sports

The PGA is also a non-profit.

Foreign Policy

CIA pays man to spy in Iran, then denies it when he went missing seven years ago. Though he was sent by CIA agents, the CIA says it was unauthorized. It sounds like they're still lying.

Federal Reserve

Government intervention is wiping out small banks to the point we have the fewest banks in the US since the Great Depression.

"The number of banking institutions in the U.S. has dwindled to its lowest level since at least the Great Depression, as a sluggish economy, stubbornly low interest rates and heightened regulation take their toll on the sector.
The number of federally insured institutions nationwide shrank to 6,891 in the third quarter after this summer falling below 7,000 for the first time since federal regulators began keeping track in 1934, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp."

Those stubbornly low interest rates are set by the Fed.

"The decline in bank numbers, from a peak of more than 18,000, has come almost entirely in the form of exits by banks with less than $100 million in assets, with the bulk occurring between 1984 and 2011. More than 10,000 banks left the industry during that period as a result of mergers, consolidations or failures, FDIC data show. About 17% of the banks collapsed."

Government hates the little guy.

"The consolidation could help alleviate concerns that the abundance of U.S. banks leads to difficulties in oversight or a less-efficient financial system."

Government hates the little because its so much easier to control few giant corporations than many small businesses.

""Seven thousand is still an awful lot of banks," particularly in an era where brick-and-mortar branches are becoming less profitable, said David Kemper, chief executive of Commerce Bancshares Inc., a regional bank based in Missouri. "There's no reason why we need that many banks, especially if those smaller banks have a much lower return on capital. The small banks' bread and butter is just not there anymore." "

It's not there anymore because the government is killing small businesses and wiping out the middle class.

"Still, the falloff is raising alarms among boosters of community banks, who say such lenders—which represent the vast majority of U.S. banks—are critical to the economy because they are more likely to make small-business loans."

The government doesn't want that, so it's putting and end to it.

"Unlike before the financial crisis, new startup banks aren't rushing to take the place of exiting institutions. Every year from 1934 to 2009, investors in the U.S. chartered at least a few and sometimes hundreds of new banks, according to the FDIC data. The Bank of Bird-in-Hand opened in Bird-in-Hand, Pa., on Monday—it was the first new bank startup in the U.S. since December 2010."

Just the way government wants.

""You are talking perhaps anywhere from 8 to 16 inches of paper," the bank's attorney, Nick Bybel, said of the application."

And nearly a year and $800,000 in expenses.

Local

What in the world does Montgomery County need $811 million to spend on?

Economy

Warren county racino opens. As Ohio racinos open, slot revenue at casinos falls.

Sports

It's not just the NFL promoting the establishment agenda. ESPN refuses Christmas ad because it mentions God and Jesus, and it runs an Obamacare ad. None of this should be surprising. the NFL and Disney are giant corporate agents of the government.

Education

Public backlash pressures school to drop sexual harassment charges against six year old who kissed classmate.

Media

Washington Post shows its bias by requesting gun violence stories for the anniversary of Sandy Hook massacre.

Native South African, American journalist, and author of an acclaimed book on South Africa calls Mandela the Che Guevara of South Africa.

"Cut to the year 1992. The occasion was immortalized on YouTube in 2006. Mandela’s fist is clenched in a black power salute. Flanking him are members of the South African Communist Party, African National Congress leaders, and the ANC’s terrorist arm, the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), which Mandela led. The sweet sounds of the MK anthem mask the ditty’s murderous words:

Go safely mkhonto
Mkonto we Sizwe
We the members of the Umkhonto have pledged ourselves to kill them – kill the whites

The catchy chorus is repeated many times and finally sealed with the responsorial, “Amandla!” (“Power”); followed by “Awethu” (“to the People”). Mandela’s genial countenance is at odds with the blood-curdling hymn he is mouthing. The “kill the whites” rallying cry still inspires enthusiasm at funerals and at political gatherings across South Africa, and has been, in practice, a soundtrack for the epic murder campaign currently being waged – however seldom it is acknowledged – against the country’s Boers. This is a side of the revered leader the world seldom sees. Or, rather, has chosen to ignore. Indeed, it appears impossible to persuade the charmed circles of the West that their idol (Mandela) had a bloodthirsty side, that his country (South Africa) is far from a political idyll, and that these facts might conceivably be important in assessing him."

No wonder he went to prison. South Africa seems to be fascist in favor of blacks now instead of fascist in favor of whites.

Netflix got more Golden Globe nominations than ABC, NBC and CBS.

Health Care

Issa accuses Sebelius of obstruction.

"Issa's Committee has been looking into the details of how Obamacare was implemented, along with the major problems with Healthcare.gov and has requested a number of documents from HHS, none of which he's received. The documents requested pertain to companies hired by HHS to build and operate Healthcare.gov.
"The Department [HHS] subsequently instructed those companies not to comply with the Committee's request. The Department's hostility toward questions from Congress and the media about the implementation of Obamcare is well known. The Department's most recent effort to stonewall, however, has morphed from mere obstinacy into criminal obstruction of a congressional investigation," Issa wrote."

This is entertaining. Obama would have been smart to fire her months ago, and I still think she'll get the ax.

Obama calls in celebrities to spout propaganda about Obamcare.

Obamacare raised taxes on braces and eyeglasses.

Taxpayers spent over $5 billion for over 300,000 enrollees.

"($4.5 billion + $677 million = $5,177,000,000 ÷ 364,682 = $14,196)"

$14,196 per enrollee.

Government intervention creates shortages of health care including drugs.

Obama's promise that people could keep their health care plans named lie of the year.

The Dallas Buyers Club exposes government's corporate crony system.

"One thing the movie does well is show how those in charge of these monopoly organizations have little concern for peoples’ welfare, and how real doctors and patients are unable to effectively fight the system. It also depicts the police, the IRS, and border agents are the enforcement arm of this crony capitalist system.
Most people never see the American medical establishment exposed for what it is. Dallas Buyers Club shows the system at its very worst, a crony capitalist combination of the profit motive armed with the vast enforcement power of the federal government."

Government is all about making the plutocrats and other rulers richer at the expense of everybody else, and it does an excellent job of that.

War

It seems the reason the US and UK cut some aid to Syrian rebels is the jihadists ran their favorite rebel out of the country.

UN claims chemical weapons were used in Syria multiple times. No news there. The rebels tried many times to draw the US into the war with chemical weapons false flag attacks.

US drone strike hits wedding convoy in Yemen, killing at least 13. I'm sure not all the casualties were terrorists.

I doubt the US will fight a war with China. I can't remember two nuclear powers waging war. Even India and Pakistan manage not to do it.

Obama's Afghanistan experts testifying before Congress don't know how many American troops have been killed in Afghanistan this year or how much money the US is spending on the war.

Police State

New Zealand Customs officer took all a man's electronic equipment and demanded passwords because he attended a meeting on Snowden's leaks in London.

"The only possibility of why it occurred was his attendance - and tweeting - of a London meeting on mass surveillance sparked by the Snowden revelations, he said.
However, a Customs official has since told him they were searching everything for objectionable material under the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993.

Mr Blackman said he did not have anything of that nature and could not understand why he had been targeted."

Right. His attendance at the meeting was a coincidence.

NSA leaders consider offering amnesty to Snowden to get 1.5 million documents that haven't been released yet back. But they can't get them back. Snowden has already given them away.

Retailers hide cameras in mannequin's eyes for facial recognition that will be collected by the NSA. 

Are we supposed to be surprised that congressmen who oversee intelligence receive millions from intelligence companies? This is what government is all about.

New York to lock down Times Square for a week for the Super Bowl.

Man gets Washington D.C. police to drop speeding camera ticket with simple letter stating the obvious:

"To Whom it May Concern,

I received a letter claiming I committed a violation of a speeding law in the District of Columbia on 04/21/2012. As per the instructions, I am writing to plead ‘not guilty’ to this charge. Although this option is said to result in this matter going to court; it is my suggestion that the charges simply be dropped. This suggestion comes out of respect for tax payers, and my request that their hard earned money not be wasted in such proceedings. As there is no evidence of my involvement with this alleged ‘crime’, as well as the fact that I am not granted my 6th amendment right to face my ‘accuser’ (a camera); I see no way the government could prove my guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. I also see find no legal requirement for me to implicate someone else in this process, as it is the government’s responsibility to prove a person’s guilt. It is also my 5th amendment right to remain silent on the matter.
If it is the government’s decision to move forward in this matter, I would request copies of any evidence the prosecution may have of my involvement in the “offense”; as well as, all maintenance records for the camera(s) involved.
Sincerely,
Nathan Cox
United States Army Veteran"

I hope you don't have to be a veteran to do this.

Government harasses man for Google search, which claims was an auto-complete accident.

Congressmen want to take Obama to court over lawlessness.

Retailers hide cameras in mannequin's eyes for facial recognition that will be collected by the NSA.

Misc

New York courts reject personhood lawsuits for chimps.

Series of videos of comet ISON.

"“The comet’s story begins with the very formation of the solar system,” said Karl Battams, an astrophysicist at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C. “The dirty snowball that we came to call Comet ISON was created at the same time as the planets.”"

Another assertion contradicted by evidence yet presented as fact.

"ISON circled the solar system in the Oort cloud, more than 4.5 trillion miles away from the sun. At some point a few million years ago, something occurred – perhaps the passage of a nearby star – to knock ISON out of its orbit and send it hurtling along a path for its first trip into the inner solar system."

Astronomers have a a good grip on the galactic orbits of nearby stars. They know whether one passed close a few million years ago. Tell us which star and how long ago. They can't know whether it orbited the sun before.

Bots account for 61 percent of net traffic. That's crazy.

Global Warming and Energy

Newly discovered greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels is 7,000 times worse than CO2. We're supposed to be very afraid. I told you the frauds would not go away gracefully. There's too much stolen money at stake. The fact the climate is cooling does not matter to them.

In 1974, frauds blamed extreme weather on growing arctic ice. Too funny.

Tax and Spend

Bipartisan budget deal increases Pentagon spending and taxes.

Stockman calls deal a joke and betrayal. I call it business as usual.

Budget deal funds Obamacare.

"As Redstate.com’s Daniel Horowitz put it: “At issue is the scheduled sequester cuts for 2014 that will trim back discretionary budget authority from $1.027 trillion to $967 billion. The emerging deal will likely reinstate most of that spending for the next two years.”
Ryan and Murray plan to offset the spending with tax increases on airline tickets, Horwowitz noted.
“Do we really need more airfare taxes in order to fund Obamacare and undo the only spending cuts we’ve ever secured?”"

No you don't.

Large majorities of both parties in the House approve the deal.

I don't know why conservatives would consider this a betrayal by Ryan. When has he ever been anything but a big-government supporter? Don't they remember TARP? Don't they remember his giant, ever-growing budget proposal? The question is why did they ever get fooled into thinking he wanted smaller government?

After Boehner questions their credibility, conservative groups question Boehner's credibility. I like to see the people fighting back against Boehner.

""It's just another example of D.C. elitism. They think they know what's best for the rest of the country and they want us to just sit down and shut up," Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, told ABC News today. "

I love it. I wish the tea party would turn libertarian and quit fighting to reform politicans and government and instead abolish it. As their frustration grows, they will. Rush Limbaugh is starting to sound like a libertarian.

Hopefully the bill will fail in the Senate and Boehner will be ousted.

Sarah Palin nails Republicans.

"No one can argue with the fact that Paul Ryan’s compromise budget bill raises taxes and increases spending. Show me one Republican who got elected on that platform. Spare America the Orwellian word games. If the government is taking money out of your pocket to fund its growing Big Brother operations, it’s a tax. Whether money is taken from you via your phone bill, your airline ticket, or your income, it’s a tax. If politicians can’t be honest about this, it’s time to go home."

She's absolutely right.

Health Care

Dad's nutrition at time of conception can impact birth defects.

Federal Reserve

Sports memorabilia auction records like Jorden's flu game shoes are another effect of the Fed's money printing.

Global Warming and Energy

CFC reduction hasn't affected the ozone hole because CFCs don't cause it.

A phony tornado hockey stick.

Education

School accuses six year old of sexual harassment for kissing girl classmate.

Regulation

You would think a ban on loud commercials, because it must be implemented by government's corporate agents of which there are only six major ones in telecom, would be easy to judge whether or not it worked, but nobody knows. What's funny about this is the author laments 232 executives control the media for 277 million Americans, but I bet they support the two party system.

How can a patent lawsuit go on for decades when patents only last 14 years to 20 years?

Tax and Spend

In good economic news, the Air Force will cut 900 civilian jobs. That means 900 people will go from being parasites, dragging our economy down, to productive, boosting our economy.

Party leaders reach a deal to increase spending and not shut down the government. This is a good reminder that bipartisan is a four-letter word meaning cover your wallet. This is what passes for compromise in Washington. Deal rolls back spending growth reductions.

Sports

One article says the NCAA won't allow pay for play while another says the NCAA may allow the five big conferences more autonomy. Why is the NCAA in any position to allow or not allow anything? The big conferences should pull out and do what they want.

MLB follows NFL with stupid rule banning collisions at the plate.

"• Catchers will not be allowed to block home plate.
• Runners will not be permitted to target the catchers.
• The question of whether or not the plate was blocked or the runner targeted the catcher will be reviewable, with an immediate remedy available to the umpires.
• Catchers or runners who violate the new rules will be subject to disciplinary action."

It's up to players and teams to protect players, not bureaucrats. This is going to create a bunch of problems.

The NFL is now a platform for the elitist agenda.

Politics

South Africa's rulers grossly overestimate how much the South African people care about them and their world-wide counterparts.

"So I saw on the news that “officials” in South Africa had calculated that hordes and hordes of the rabble would flock to see a collection of the world’s most esteemed central planners eulogize Marxist terrorist-turned-central planner, Nelson Mandela. These geniuses in all their wisdom calculated that—on a work day—one stadium wouldn’t be enough. No, three additional stadiums in Johannesburg would be needed to accommodate the overflow—where said rabble could watch said parasites on Jumbotrons. How magnanimous! Sadly for the pride of central planners everywhere, only about half a stadiums-worth showed up. Perhaps this is because, unlike with most of the Western press, the downtrodden proles of this country don’t really care for central planners, nor want to deify Comrade Mandela. "

South Africans appear much less impressed with Mandela than our leftist rulers and media.

War

US and UK claim to suspend non-lethal aid to Syrian rebels after they score some victories. This seems bizarre.

"Non-lethal US aid provided to the rebels has included armoured vehicles, night vision goggles and advanced communications equipment."

I doubt the rebels enemies see this as non-lethal. I doubt they suspended the lethal aid the CIA has been providing for a couple years.

If Americans are safer today, then perpetual war works to make us safer. I don't believe it for a second, and this is why:

"Terror is certainly up and more lethal in a number of places overseas but it is neither monolithic nor pervasive. And it would also be correct to note that the surge is mostly in those places that have been destabilized by the United States for various reasons. "

That makes Americans a target. Sure, right now they're fighting US troops and puppet regimes overseas, but they know the US is the ultimate power they're fighting.

Tax and Spend

Africa governments to steal money from unbelievably poor Africans for space program.

Police State

NSA piggybacks on cookies, especially Google's.

Sci-fi author cancels third book in trilogy because NSA has already implemented everything in his book.

"The last straw was apparently the news that the NSA planted spies in networked games like WoW."

So it's contemporary instead of sci-fi. So what? Finish it.

The vast NSA surveillance conspiracy.

Police are fitting police dogs with titanium false teeth.

Jury acquits former New Orleans policeman for shooting an unarmed man after hurricane Katrina. He had previously been convicted of manslaughter. Then why was he on trial again? If a serf killed a man in similar circumstances, he would be convicted and forgotten about, but the double-standard for rulers saved this cop.

Freedom of Speech

Pirate Bay founder held in solitary confinement.

Economy

Nokia phone project article shows Microsoft only has one strategy:

"Over the past few years, the company's legal team has cornered the majority of Android manufacturers worldwide into a stark deal: agree to pay a set fee for every Android device produced, or face a costly patent-infringement lawsuit. As a result of that arm-twisting, Microsoft already makes quite a bit of money off Android (more, perhaps, than it earns selling Windows Phone), which could acclimate it to the idea of taking the leap and actually selling Android devices."

Microsoft has never made a good product. It's the biggest obstacle to computer innovation in the world. Like its progenitor IBM, Microsoft understood the power of patents better than its competitors. It's owes its position to using patents as weapons against truly innovative companies.

Media

Since the Pope outed himself as a Marxist, Time made him person of the year. Analysis refutes the Pope.