Education

Academics tend to focus on the big events in history rather than the underlying reasons behind them. As for empires, they usually end because of internal tyranny, taxes, inflation, with losing a war coming afterward. Here's the pattern:

"Again, the events above are not taught to schoolchildren as being of key importance in the decline of empires, even though they are remarkably consistent with the decline of other empires and what we are seeing today. The very same events occur, falling like dominoes, more or less in order, in any empire, in any age:

1. The reach of government leaders habitually exceeds their grasp.

2. Dramatic expansion (generally through warfare) is undertaken without a clear plan as to how that expansion is to be financed.

3. The population is overtaxed as the bills for expansion become due, without consideration as to whether the population can afford increased taxation.

4. Heavy taxation causes investment by the private sector to diminish, and the economy begins to decline.

5. Costs of goods rise, without wages keeping pace.

6. Tax revenue declines as the economy declines (due to excessive taxation). Taxes are increased again, in order to top up government revenues.

7. In spite of all the above, government leaders personally hoard as much as they can, further limiting the circulation of wealth in the business community.

8. Governments issue bonds and otherwise borrow to continue expansion, with no plan as to repayment.

9. Dramatic authoritarian control is instituted to assure that the public continues to comply with demands, even if those demands cannot be met by the public.

10. Economic and social collapse occurs, often marked by unrest and riots, the collapse of the economy, and the exit of those who are productive.

11. In this final period, the empire turns on itself, treating its people as the enemy.

The above review suggests that if our schoolbooks stressed the underlying causes of empire collapse, rather than the names of famous generals and the dates of famous battles, we might be better educated and be less likely to repeat the same mistakes."

By pretending empires collapse because of wars, it brainwashes children into supporting more military spending.

San Francisco schools are more concerned about the political statement of meatless Monday than educating children.

Immigration

Latinos come to the US illegally because Americans invite them.

Tax and Spend

Welfare lowers the value of individuals to the family.

IRS targets Breitbart. 

Federal Reserve

The US has ended banking secrecy in Switzerland.

New regulations target Indians to stop them from making money.

Ten reasons inflation is bad.

Local

Huber Heights council unanimously approves $1.25 million VIP upgrades.

After a 16 day reprieve while workers social workers struck, Butler County families are once again under threat.

Police State

Prosecutor under fire for not prosecuting Ray Rice. Good.

Freeh's SUV almost hit a three vehicles head on before crashing.

Now the police want to blind victims. It's temporary. Trust them.

Foreign Policy

I wonder what's going on that China thinks it can claim the South China Sea.

War

Dutch expert report on the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine makes it sound more like the plane was shot down by machine gun fire, but this propaganda wants us to believe it was a missile.

"Dutch experts say Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 broke up in mid-air after being hit by "objects" that "pierced the plane at high velocity" in July."

The report goes out of its way not to say shrapnel, but it doesn't say bullets either, yet...

"Correspondents say this matches claims that MH17 was hit by missile shrapnel."

I don't think so. Had the plane been hit by a missile, that would have been obvious and the report would have said so.

Western cover-up of the downing of flight MH17 points to a false flag. 

"Last Monday morning was not a pleasant one for the US State Department. Russian officials surprised Washington and its NATO partners when it released all available satellite imagery and air traffic control data which was recorded in and around the final minutes of Flight MH17 – and presented it to the world media on live television."

Western governments have never been so transparent.

"As MH17 moved into Ukrainian air space, it was moved by ATC Kiev approximately 200 miles north – putting it on a new course, heading directly into a war zone, a well-known dangerous area by now – one that’s hosted a number of downed military craft over the previous 3 weeks. "

That doesn't sound good.

"The BBC reported on July 17th: “Ukraine’s SBU security service has confiscated recordings of conversations between Ukrainian air traffic control officers and the crew of the doomed airliner, a source in Kiev has told Interfax news agency.”

Independent investigators are worried that ATC audio records of the MH17 flight appear to have been confiscated by the Kiev government. No reason has been given for this loss of transparency, but not a word from Washington regarding this cover-up of crucial evidence."

That either.

"Soon after the incident, British news outlets began floating the story - without evidence, that MH17 was diverted to “avoid thunderstorms in southern Ukraine”."

But no thunderstorms.

"According to clear satellite images provided, on July 16th, the Ukrainian Army positioned 3-4 anti-aircraft BUK M1 SAM missile batteries close to Donetsk. These systems included full launching, loading and radio location units, located in the immediate vicinity of the MH17 crash site. One system was placed approximately 8km northwest of Lugansk. In addition, a radio location system for these Ukrainian Army missile batteries is situated 5km north of Donetsk. On July 17th, the day of the incident, these batteries were moved to a position 8km south of Shahktyorsk. In addition to this, two other radio location units are also identified in the immediate vicinity. These SAM systems had a range of 35km distance, and 25km altitude.

From July 18th, after the downing of MH17, Kiev’s BUK launchers were then moved away from the firing zone. "

That sounds like they were setting up to shoot a plane down.

"In addition, the Ukrainian Army’s radio location traffic near Donetsk peaked on the 16th and 17th, including a total of 9 separate radio location systems active. On the 18th and 19th of July, radio location traffic from these stations dropped sharply, down to 4 stations. If, as Washington/Kiev claims, rebels fired a BUK missile at MH17, then the rebel radar location signals would be clearly noted and verifiable on the day; only, they are not."

US surveillance would have had to have a record.

"Another Smoking Gun: Kiev government officials insisted on July 17th that, “No military aircraft were available in the region”. Based on available data detailed above, this appears to be a lie, indicating that a cover-up was taking place."

Yep.

"Almost certainly, the US government already has a comprehensive communications, satellite and radar data set which could either corroborate, or disprove what Russia has released. The fact that Washington only has this Google graphic to offer to the public indicates that what it has… may not be what it wants."

Exactly.

"‘Carlos’ was reporting from the Kiev airport in real time on Twitter, of the downing of MH17 as the tragedy was taking place — during that very time and in the very next hour – only to disappear immediately, along with his Twitter account. "

I wonder if he survived.

"Since the incident on July 17th, the Kiev regime and US State Department have built their case against Rebels in eastern Ukraine and Moscow, and even Vladimir Putin himself, on the following items, which have all been thoroughly discredited by now:
1. The audio  “tapes” issued by Kiev
2. A video and photos of BUK missile batteries issued by Kiev (of their own BUK missile batteries)
3. Claims by Kiev and supported by the West, that Ukraine had “no military aircraft in the air” at the time of the crash of the MH17 plane. "

Lies.

The CFR blames the US for the confrontation with Russia in the Ukraine, contradicting all the propaganda that Russia is to blame, as if Obama has gone rogue. Of course the elite don't want nuclear war, but I bet they realize US aggression is hastening the decline of the dollar, not delaying it.

NATO has always been a welfare program, but power-hungry Obama is making it more stupid.

Obama is using contractors to wage his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Obama claimed he could attack Syria without congressional approval before, so he's being consistent when he says he can attack ISIS in Syria without it, but he can't do so legally.

Economy

Thanks to fracking and despite Obama, Bernanke and Yellen, manufacturing is returning to the rust belt.

Record number of Americans in extreme poverty.

The market strikes back against surveillance devices.

"The Cyborg Unplug actively scans for drones or Google Glass on a local wireless network and blocks their traffic. They're billing it as an "anti-surveillance system" and marketing it toward businesses, restaurants, and schools."

This was inevitable. At least the privacy side is now engaged in this tech arms race.

McDonald's sales drop. I'm surprised. I would expect the cheapest products to be doing OK.

Reddit declares itself a government, but a private sector version. Nobody is required to submit. This is a pretty good model.

NFL TV ratings down. I told you Goodell was dragging the NFL into decline.

Global Warming and Energy

Record high increase in CO2 in 2013, but there's still no warming.

Frauds call for civil disobedience to fight non-existent global warming.

Laws against interrupting trade don't apply to global warming frauds.

All Great Lakes above average water levels for the first time in 14 years.

Early burst of cold weather.

Politics

Eight of the ten richest representatives are Democrats. Only 20 of the richest 50 are Democrats.

The reason there's so much money in politics is politicians have so much of other people's loot to sell.

Quote from Atlas Shrugged.

"Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion–when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing–when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors–when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot."

Nice.

Health Care

Another Ebola patient coming to Atlanta.

Economy

Home Depot confirms it was hacked.

Atlanta's NBA owner was talking about demographics and how to expand his business, yet he outed himself as racist for doing so. Includes the email.

Tech bubble pushes Facebook past $200 billion.

At the same time, the price of milk hits an all time high.

Local

Huber Heights's rulers unanimously approve music venue boondoggle upgrade spending.

The corruption surrounding the Beavercreek Walmart shooting continues as investigators show surveillance footage they're keeping secret to witness. Yes, the video should be released.

Tax and Spend

When you subsidize something, you get more of it. When you tax something you get less of it. Government taxes marriage and subsidizes single mothers in its war on families.

Senator Bernie Sanders calls for wealth tax at AFL-CIO meeting.

Texas State Senators travel in expensive style on taxpayers dime. All politicians do this.

Global Warming and Energy

First animal frauds claimed was made extinct by global warming is found alive and well.

Now Obama's EPA is pushing political "environmental justice".

Wildfires way down in 2014.

Federal Reserve

Uruguay bans cash transactions greater than $5,000. Coming here soon.

Richmond Fed president acknowledges moral hazard created by the Fed.

Politics

Fearing the Queen wouldn't be enough, our rulers employ Goldman-Sachs to scare Scots into staying in the UK.

Politicians are panicking over the Scottish vote, as if we needed more evidence secession is a great idea.

The establishment is panicking.

Police State

Equipment given to police departments by Pentagon includes bayonets, grenade launchers and combat knives.

Ferguson proposes phony reform for police and courts.

Police use 9/11 to seize hundreds of millions from motorists without charges.

"The effort succeeded, but it had an impact that has been largely hidden from public view: the spread of an aggressive brand of policing that has spurred the seizure of hundreds of millions of dollars in cash from motorists and others not charged with crimes, a Washington Post investigation found. Thousands of people have been forced to fight legal battles that can last more than a year to get their money back.
Behind the rise in seizures is a little-known cottage industry of private police-training firms that teach the techniques of “highway interdiction” to departments across the country.
One of those firms created a private intelligence network known as Black Asphalt Electronic Networking & Notification System that enabled police nationwide to share detailed reports about American motorists — criminals and the innocent alike — including their Social Security numbers, addresses and identifying tattoos, as well as hunches about which drivers to stop."

Sleazebags.

War

More corruption from empire.

"In light of recent history, perhaps it’s time to update that classic U.S. Army recruitment campaign slogan from "be all that you can be" to "build all that you can build." Consider it an irony that, in an era when Congress struggles to raise enough money to give America’s potholed, overcrowded highways a helping hand, building new roads in Afghanistan proved no problem at all (even when they led nowhere). In fact, the U.S. military spent billions of taxpayer dollars in both Afghanistan and Iraq on nation-building infrastructural efforts of all sorts, and the Pentagon’s Inspector General (IG) repeatedly reported on the failures, disasters, and boondoggles that resulted. In 2012, for instance, the IG found that of the $10.6 billion in Afghan funding it examined, $7 billion was "potentially wasted." And this has never ended."

It's all corruption.

"As of this year, more U.S. and NATO money had been "squandered" on the "reconstruction" of Afghanistan than was spent on the full post-World War-II Marshall Plan to put a devastated Europe back on its feet. And how has all that spending turned out? One thing is certain: those torrents of money helped create a devastating economy of corruption. As for reconstruction, the Inspector General found mainly "poor planning, shoddy construction, mechanical failures, and inadequate oversight." "

Just what one would expect.

Motive in US aggression in Ukraine.

"According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Ukraine has Europe’s third-largest shale gas reserves at 42 trillion cubic feet, an inviting target especially since other European nations, such as Britain, Poland, France and Bulgaria, have resisted fracking technology because of environmental concerns. An economically supine Ukraine would presumably be less able to say no. [See Consortiumnews.com’s “Beneath the Ukraine Crisis: Shale Gas.”]
Further supporting the “natural gas motive” is the fact that it was Vice President Joe Biden who demanded that President Yanukovych pull back his police on Feb. 21, a move that opened the way for the neo-Nazi militias and the U.S.-backed coup. Then, just three months later, Ukraine’s largest private gas firm, Burisma Holdings, appointed Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, to its board of directors."

That's a good start.

"There’s also the issue of Russia’s interest in exploring with China and other emerging economies the possibility of escaping the financial hegemony of the U.S. dollar, a move that could seriously threaten American economic dominance. According to this line of thinking, the U.S. and its close allies need to bring Moscow to its geopolitical knees – where it was under the late Boris Yeltsin – to stop any experimentation with other currencies for global trade.
Again, the advocates for this theory have a point. Protecting the Mighty Dollar is of utmost importance to Wall Street. The financial cataclysm of a potential ouster of the U.S. dollar as the world’s benchmark currency might understandably prompt some powerful people to play a dangerous game of chicken with nuclear-armed Russia."

That too.

"So, while it’s reasonable to see multiple motives behind the brinksmanship with Russia over Ukraine, the sheer recklessness of the confrontation has, to me, the feel of an ideology or an “ism,” where people are ready to risk it all for some larger vision that is central to their being.
That is why I have long considered the Ukraine crisis to be an outgrowth of the neoconservative obsession with Israel’s interests in the Middle East."

This is a link to Syria, where Putin embarrassed the warmongers, and Iran, which they've wanted to bomb for decades. It's also a little power madness.

Foreign Policy

Think tanks secretly take money from foreign governments to promote the interests of those governments. Corruption is the price of empire.

"Dual Israeli-American citizen Saban makes no bones about the goal of his giving: he has said that his number one priority in giving money to thinktanks like Brookings is to "strengthen the US-Israeli relationship." As a New Yorker profile of Saban put it, he counts "three ways to be influential in American politics": "make donations to political parties, establish think tanks, and control media outlets." Saban owns Univision and has repeatedly tried to buy the Los Angeles Times. He is also one of the top donors to the Democratic party, and will no doubt be a major contributor to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign."

That's a good breakdown. The whole system is corrupt.

Dutch intellectuals apologize for the imperialism of the US-led west in open letter to Putin. While Putin appears a great statesman compared to western rulers, it's only by comparison. He's evil too.

Federal Reserve

US banks close accounts of a dozen Muslims without explanation. They probably aren't allowed to provide an explanation.

"Banking experts say that as banks have faced increasing scrutiny from regulators in a post-recession world, they are eliminating as much risk as possible. Lacking clarity on what might trigger government fines, banks are being overly cautious, some experts say.
"It's not inconceivable to think an Islamic American or Arab American would be closed due to their perceived higher risk because of their connections to high-risk jurisdictions," said Brian Kindle of the Assn. of Certified Financial Crime Specialists. "There's something going on here, and I think it ties back to the de-risking trend.""

That's another consequence of empire and the police state.

Economy

Japan's tax, spend and print policies have produced a 7.1 percent contraction. It's going to get worse.

Slowest movie weekend since 9/11, 2001.

Ohio's beer economy ranks sixth in the nation. You're welcome.

Media

In a good reminder that the mainstream media are propagandists for our rulers, reporter cleared stories with CIA before publishing. I bet this is normal.

War on Drugs

TSA is stopping travelers in Colorado carrying marijuana even it's legal there.

Health Care

Despite the CDC, another virus is nearly killing children by shutting down their lungs.

"The respiratory illness with symptoms that mimic a common cold hasn't been officially identified, but doctors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suspect it's a rare virus called human enterovirus 68."

They haven't controlled or prevented it.

Olive Garden offers seven weeks of all-you-can-eat pasta for $100.

""Never Ending Pasta Pass" -- which, for $100, gives the holder the right to consume all of the pasta, salad, bread and Coca-Cola branded soft drinks that they can stuff down for seven weeks."

This is ridiculous. People will die. This is the end of Olive Garden.

"But you may need to act fast. Only 1,000 of these pasta passes will be sold -- beginning Monday at 3 p.m. ET -- online via the Olive Garden web site. Nothing like being one of 1,000 VIP's who can gorge on pasta for 49 days in a row. The PR stunt piggybacks with the chain's annual "Never Ending Pasta Bowl" promo, Sept. 22 through Nov. 9., which lets folks eat all the pasta they want for $9.99."

It won't be good PR when people die.

Obama sends US military to fight, and probably get infected by, Ebola.

Sports

Atlanta Hawks owner will sell team after sending a racist email. What is up with these owners? At least the Clippers owner was secretly recorded.

War

Pharaoh Obama will send his private army against ISIS.

"Obama said he has the “authority he needs” to increase attacks on Islamic State targets without congressional approval. But he did not answer repeated questions about whether he will order air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria."

Did he answer repeated questions about where he gets that authority. ISIS was kicked out of al Qaeda, therefore it's not covered by the post-9/11 war authorization.

For many reasons, we shouldn't bomb ISIS.

"Speaking as an old Mideast hand and veteran war correspondent, I say no plan is a good plan. Washington has made such an awful mess of its foreign policy that inaction is an increasingly attractive option.  More little wars will mean the US falling into the trap set by Osama bin Laden."

Every intervention makes things worse, but each new opportunity our rulers claim they'll get it right.

"Obama’s decision to send tiny US military forces to Ukraine and Iraq violates the basic laws of war: strike swiftly with maximum concentrated force. More worrying, expanded US naval patrols in the Black Sea are a dangerous provocation. Imagine if Russian naval units sailed into Lake Ontario?"

Stay out of Ukraine too.

Air strikes are not very accurate.

"Syria launched a series of airstrikes targeting a stronghold of the Islamic State extremist group on Saturday, killing at least 25 people, most of whom died when one of the missiles slammed into a crowded bakery, activists said.

The eight airstrikes smashed parts of buildings, set cars alight and crushed people under rubble in the northeastern city of Raqqa, which is ruled by the extremist group, according to a video of the aftermath uploaded to social media networks.

At least 16 civilians were killed, alongside nine Islamic State fighters, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights."

A crowded bakery.

Intelligence people unhappy with NATO expansion.

This is what the US foreign policy of war and aggression has produced.

"All of this U.S. and Nato Super BS they are throwing at Russia have forced Russia and China and all their allies and all nations who love freedom from global, imperial slavery to rapidly build up their military forces from Super Ops to intercontinental nuclear missiles. That 2,000,000,000 anti-American enraged  now join the 1,500,000, 000 Muslims enraged at the U.S. and 500,000,000 enraged Latin Americans from Mexico to Argentina and more land more Europeans secretly loathing the U.S. insanity that is pushing them into WWIV."

I guess by definition the global war on terror is WWIII.

The US has sponsored terrorism in the Middle East since at least 1948.

Politics

Rulers have rolled out the Queen to try and keep Scotland from seceding from the UK.

Hamas and Fatah not allied.

Because power corrupts, rulers become drunk with power.

Global Warming and Energy

Claim there's twice as much mercury in the environment as previously thought.

Global collapse has already started, but it has nothing to do with running out of resources.

Hillary Clinton, just as idiotic as John Kerry, exaggerates climate change.

The socialist Australian Broadcast Company wants to ditch democracy to fight climate change. But socialists claim to love democracy.

Tax and Spend

NASA panel unhappy NASA isn't doing more science with Curiosity. Apparently they don't understand NASA wants to do as little science as possible because innuendo produces better press releases and headlines and funds future projects.

Washington people upset Microsoft obeys the tax law.

Local

In a good reminder people don't actually own their own property, Riverside threatens property owners who rent if they don't register.

Huber Heights expected to OK another $1.25 million of other people's money in music boondoggle spending. Of course they are. This was agreed to in the back room a year ago or more.

Five local pastors want the Feds to take over investigation of Beavercreek Walmart shooting. Oddly enough, the article doesn't mention that all five are black. In fact, you wouldn't know from this article that race was considered a factor at all.

Health Care

Government's war on children and families lead to massive increases in abortion.

War on Drugs

Drug cartels have long controlled our border with Mexico.

Politics

Poll shows Scottish voters favor independence for the first time.

Global Warming and Energy

Wind is ridiculously more expensive than natural gas, and solar is even more expensive.

Snow comes early to seven states.

Socialism

The destructive effects of socialism on children and families in Sweden.

"The rise of the welfare state can be written as the steady transfer of the "dependency" function from the family to the state; from persons tied together by blood, marriage or adoption to persons tied to public employees. The process began in Sweden in the mid-19th century, through bureaucratic projects that began dismantling the bonds between parents and their children. In classic pattern, the first assertion of state control over children came in the 1840s, with the passage of a mandatory school attendance law."

The nose of the camel.

"The natural economy of the household, and the value that children had brought their parents—be it as workers in the family enterprise or as an 'insurance policy' for old age—was stripped away. Parents were still left with the costs of raising the children, but the economic gain they would eventually represent had been seized by "society," meaning the bureaucratic state.
The predictable result of this change, as an economist of the "Gary Becker School" would tell you, would be a diminished demand for children, and this is exactly what occurred in Sweden. Starting in the late 1800s, Swedish fertility went into free-fall and by 1935, Sweden had the lowest birthrate in the world, below the zero-growth level where a generation just managed to replace itself."

Now the same is happening all over the western world.

"The standard theory of demographic transition has long been that this fall in the birthrate was the necessary, inevitable consequence of modern industrialization: that the incentives of a capitalist economy disrupt traditional family relations. While it is true that the traditional family structure faces a new kind of stress in industrial society, more recent work suggests that the greater challenge—in fact—derives from the growth of the state."

No doubt.

"Looking at the experience of many nations, Princeton University demographer Norman Ryder traces the central common cause of fertility decline to the introduction of mass public education. "Education of the junior generation is a subversive influence," he says. "Political organizations, like economic organizations, demand loyalty and attempt to neutralize family particularism. There is a struggle between the family and the state for the minds of the young," where the mandatory state school serves as "the chief instrument for teaching citizenship, in a direct appeal to the children over the heads of their parents.""

Exactly.

"Confirming the universal validity of the Swedish example, Ryder adds that while mandatory education raises the cost to parents of children, bans on child labor further reduce their economic value. Moreover, a state system of social security cuts the natural bonds between generations of a family in still another way, leaving the state as the new locus of first loyalty."

It's about time I found an essay that explained this other than mine.

"Appeals to liberty and family autonomy evoked equally biting responses. The Myrdals charged that the "false individualistic desire" by parents for the "freedom" to raise their own children had an unhealthy origin: "...much of the tiresome pathos which defends 'individual freedom' and 'responsibility for one's own family,' is based on a sadistic disposition to extend this 'freedom' to an unbound and uncontrolled right to dominate others.""

I think he had it backwards.

Immigration

Obama's lawless amnesty goals.

"He said that without congressional action to overhaul the immigration system, he would take steps to increase border security, to upgrade the processing of border crossers, to encourage legal immigration and to give immigrants who have been illegally in the United States for some time a path to become legal residents, pay taxes, pay a fine and learn English."

As if he has this authority. I'm still skeptical he'll do this. I still think he's trying to make it easier for Republicans to pass something.

Politics

Clinton insider slams Obama.

Education

Even Illinois's second largest school district dumps Michelle Obama's lunch restrictions.

Tax and Spend

Senate Democrats find no bias in IRS investigation. That's because they're Democrats. The IRS didn't wipe all those hard drives to cover up nothing.

IRS "loses" emails from five more people involved in scandal.

Socialism

A simple explanation of economic fascism.

"The economic heart of fascism in the 1930's was the "government-private industry alliance."
It still is.
In this alliance, the state provides limited funds and promotion of favored businesses. The businesses provide profits that are taxed. The state's bureaucrats increase their influence over the economy by way of favored business enterprises."

Now the government does the same with churches. Remember George Bush's faith-based initiatives?

"The state is now heralding faith-based welfare. State money is used to favor some ministries, which conform to state requirements. In this way, the churches get "matching funds" from the state, and the state gets another avenue into the lives of the public. There will be more welfare clients, and there will be restraints on what the ministries can say and do with the money. The state extends its influence by means of confiscated money from the voters."

That's why libertarians were against them from the start.

Foreign Policy

It sounds like Russians may have renditioned Eastonian security agent. The US doesn't like anybody using its tactics.

"The Estonian statement implied the alleged abduction is an intentional slap in the face to the Americans. “The incident comes two days after a visit to Estonia by U.S. President Barack Obama and in the middle of NATO’s summit in Wales,” it said. Apparently there have been “airspace violations” reported as well, including over Finland, which is not a member of the Alliance."

Russia doesn't like NATO knocking on its door. I don't like any of it.

Fifty-five instances where the US tried to topple a foreign government since WWII.

Misc

Space station mysteriously launches satellites without human action or knowledge. Neuromancer is here.

Scientists surprised comet doesn't look like ice and doesn't exhibit water. They've said the same thing about every comet.

"The observations are no surprise to Electric Universe advocates. In fact, it is surprising that astrophysicists are still in the dark when it comes to comet morphology. After visiting five comet nuclei in the past few years, finding them to be hot, dry, and rocky, it is strange to find them continuing to promote the “dirty snowball” theory of comets."

You might think they'd change their theory to match observations so they'd stop being surprised.

Global Warming and Energy

I think Kerry's mentally ill. All our rulers are severely warped.

"Here is some history leading up to this epic inanity. In February, Kerry said climate change is as ‘big a threat to the world as terrorism, poverty, and weapons of mass destruction’. Last month Kerry said climate change is the “biggest challenge of all we face right now.” And on Tuesday September 3rd, at a ceremony to appoint Texas lawyer Shaarik Zafar as special representative to Muslim communities, Kerry told the crowd that it is America’s Biblical “responsibility” to “confront climate change.”"

Their mental illness is evil, the lack of empathy that allows them to devastate others for personal gain.

More lies called climate porn.

The pause reaches 17 years, 11 months.

Arctic and Antarctic sea ice in satellite imagery from the 1960 surprises researchers. The pretense of knowledge.

Frauds double-down on climate certainty lies.

"The Hockey Schtick writes: A new paper published in a journal called “Climate Risk Management” claims a ridiculous degree of “certainty” of  99.999% that global warming over the past 25 years is man-made. The claim is made based upon climate models already falsified at confidence levels of 98%+."

It never ends.

How government money corrupts climate science.

"It is increasing clear that climate models simply predict too much warming from human greenhouse gas emissions.
But the scientific community, or at least that part of it which makes its living off climate alarm, is slow to accept this.
Who can blame these folks?  More money flows from the government into universities (or government labs) to study the effects of climate change if we all agree that human greenhouse gas emissions are leading to climate change of a dangerous magnitude."

Yep.

Federal Reserve

Fed report admits its zero rate interest policy (ZIRP) keeps people from investing. They must mean real investing versus playing the stock market.

Police State

Retired cops in Jacksonville are made millionaires with pensions greater than their salaries while they worked.

NSA and other government agencies contract companies to wiretap small ISPs without the capability to meet demands.

Modern car admits it spies on you and the data doesn't belong to you.

Media

Apple blames the victims while security experts blame Apple for the celebrity nude photo breach. I blame the police equipment.

Economy

Another "surprisingly" disappointing jobs number. People so often surprised cannot be experts.

Past job reports were also revised down as they usually are.

"This is just the ammunition that Janet Yellen and the Fed need to possibly extend Quantitative Easing and their Zero Interest Rate Policy. "

I don't know. Jobs were created.

The cold didn't trash the winter economy. Government did.

"Recently, however, the Commerce Department reported that the US economy actually contracted 2.9 percent in the first quarter of 2014. This was the Department’s third attempt at revising its figures, with previous reports estimating first 0.1 percent growth and then a 1.0 percent contraction."

But the lies has moved on.

"While this little statistical “revision” was inconvenient, it was quickly followed (in true Orwellian fashion) by a slew of reports confirming that the economy has already rebounded and the second quarter will be even better than previously anticipated. (According to an advanced estimate released last week by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, GDP increased 4.0 percent in the second quarter and the first quarter’s numbers were revised yet again.) "

After the latest revisions, we know that was a lie too.

"In addition, every winter there is always an uptick in travel as people escape the bitter cold, which raises revenues for the airline and tourism industries. Meanwhile, some travel destinations actually embrace winter’s cold. In fact, this past season, most ski resorts in the United States opened earlier and had their best season in years. (Predictably, this summer’s unseasonably cool temperatures are being blamed for dismal attendance at pools and resorts across the country.) "

Like in Huber Heights.

Record number of Americans not working.

"A record 92,269,000 Americans 16 and older did not participate in the labor force in August, as the labor force participation rate matched a 36-year low of 62.8 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics."

Ouch.

The Fed reports the growth of inequality pretty corresponds to the Obama presidency, but Obama claims to want to reverse it.

War

Ceasefire in Ukraine brokered by Putin.

Both sides declared victory in Gaza.

"But then, Gaza happened, a war that could possibly become Netanyahu’s biggest miscalculation, and perhaps the reason for his downfall. Aside from the collapse in his approval ratings, down from 82% on 23 July, to less than 38% shortly after the ceasefire announcement, the man’s own language in his post-ceasefire press conference is telling enough."

That doesn't sound like victory to me. That sounds like a big mistake.

US military charter messes up and lands in Iran. The Iranian generously allow it to leave unmolested. Imagine if the tables were turned. The US would do no such thing.

Western rulers are using ISIS as an excuse to arm the Kurds for their own nefarious purposes.

US hasn't investigated documents taken in bin Laden raid. This claim that the Pakistan military was oblivious to the US raid on bin Laden for over 40 minutes is not credible.

"More disturbing, many of the analysts and military experts with access to the documents were struck by a glaring contradiction: As President Obama and his team campaigned on the coming demise of al Qaeda in the runup to the 2012 election, the documents told a very different story. "

Obama's claim about routing al Qaeda wasn't credible either.

Tax and Spend

Government funding of science inhibits creativity and risk-taking, further supporting the status quo.

Like a fisherman lures a fish, Nevada lures Tesla plant with $1.3 billion tax break. Lower taxes leads to more business.

Local

Kettering middle school evacuated for bomb threat. Update.

Oakwood elementary evacuated for second day in a row for bomb threat.

Kroger to hire 20,000.

Even though we've had the coolest summer in decades and last week was comfortable, Montgomery County Fair organizers blame the weather for low attendance.

"Construction on South Main Street may have also played a role in the drop of attendance, Friedline said.
Koval said the Aug. 28 opening of the new Hollywood Gaming at Dayton Raceway may have also played a role in the attendance decrease. However, Friedline disagreed."

There was some unusual rain for Labor Day, but this sounds a little more reasonable. Maybe the giant fight that got so many people kicked out had something to do with it too. I bet this fair organization is a government-backed non-profit.

Misc

Newly discovered dinosaur largest discovered.

Economy

Record summer hotel bookings. Sounds like a bubble.

Billionaires preparing for crash.

"Icahn, Soros, Druckenmiller, And Now Zell: The Billionaires Are All Quietly Preparing For The Plunge"

So am I.

Health Care

Government lies keep obesity on the rise.

Am I supposed to be surprised or outraged or something because healthcare.gov was hacked? It will be hacked over and over.

Another American doctor with Ebola is coming to the US, this time Nebraska.

Politics

Female researcher says men and women's brains are the same except for the stereotypes they're forced to develop under. Ridiculous. Men's brains are more like male animal brains than women's brains, and vice-versa. I guarantee this research was funded by the government and the outcome was determined by politicians before it was funded.

Fast food protesters are protesting themselves out of jobs. They'll be replaced by burger robots.

"The company's robot can "slice toppings like tomatoes and pickles immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible." The robot is "more consistent, more sanitary, and can produce ~360 hamburgers per hour." That's one burger every 10 seconds."

That's awesome.

The NFL apparently begged teams to hire Michael Sam. I doubt they did the same for every other seventh round pick who got cut. When this guy came out, I said he did it because he was afraid he wasn't good enough to play in the NFL. He did it to pressure the NFL to hire him. It worked.

Education

School bans unsupervised cartwheels on playground.

Immigration

DOJ sued a company for discriminating in favor of US citizens. Apparently that's illegal.

Map shows Obama sent illegal immigrant children to the wind, hiding them in all 50 states.

War

War between Israel and Hamas boosts Hamas popularity. I'm sure the same is true for the Israeli government. That's why they fight.

Claim that ISIS is using Snowden's leaks to avoid US intelligence, as if terrorists weren't doing that before.

Tax and Spend

The US is selling lighthouses.

Foreign Policy

South Africa denies visa to Dalai Lama.

CIA security team on the night of the Benghazi attack was ordered to stand down.

"But the team was held back. According to the security operators, they were delayed from responding to the attack by the top CIA officer in Benghazi, whom they refer to only as “Bob.”
“It had probably been 15 minutes I think, and … I just said, ‘Hey, you know, we gotta-- we need to get over there, we're losing the initiative,’” said Tiegen. “And Bob just looks straight at me and said, ‘Stand down, you need to wait.’”
“We're starting to get calls from the State Department guys saying, ‘Hey, we're taking fire, we need you guys here, we need help,’” said Paronto.
After a delay of nearly 30 minutes, the security team headed to the besieged consulate without orders. They asked their CIA superiors to call for armed air support, which never came.
Now, looking back, the security team said they believed that if they had not been delayed for nearly half an hour, or if the air support had come, things might have turned out differently.
“Ambassador Stevens and Sean [Smith], yeah, they would still be alive, my gut is yes,” Paronto said. Tiegen concurred.
“I strongly believe if we'd left immediately, they'd still be alive today,” he added."

This is powerful support for my belief that Hillary Clinton had Stevens assassinated.

"In a statement to Fox News, a senior intelligence official insisted that,  “There were no orders to anybody to stand down in providing support.”
Baier put that assertion directly to the operators.
“You use the words ‘stand down,’” Baier noted. “A number of people now, including the House Intelligence Committee  insist no one was hindered from responding to the situation at the compound…so what do you say to that?”
“No, it happened,” said Tiegen.
“It happened on the ground-- all I can talk about is what happened on that ground that night,” added Paronto. “To us. To myself, twice, and to-- to Tig, once. It happened that night. We were told to wait, stand-- and stand down.  We were delayed three times.”"

This stinks of corruption and assassination.

"In a statement to Fox News, a senior intelligence official did allow that the security team was delayed from responding while the CIA’s top officer in Benghazi tried to rally local support."

That's ridiculous. They're scrambling.

Global Warming and Energy

Judge finds BP reckless in Gulf oil spill four years ago. Talk about justice delayed.

DP&L want to charge $41 a month to people who refuse smart meters.

Elon Musk predicts the US will get 50 percent of its energy from solar in 20 years. I predict it won't.

The language of the scientific press is even wrong. You can't track garbage with models. You can only track it with observations.

Police State

Apple denies iCloud was hacked. It appears the celebrity files may have been hacked from iCloud using police technology.

""For Apple, the use of government forensic tools by criminal hackers raises questions about how cooperative it may be with Elcomsoft. The Russian company’s tool, as Zdziarski describes it, doesn't depend on any 'backdoor' agreement with Apple and instead required Elcomsoft to fully reverse engineer Apple’s protocol for communicating between iCloud and its iOS devices. But Zdziarski argues that Apple could still have done more to make that reverse engineering more difficult or impossible.""

What a surprise. More.

My first thought was the NSA hacked the nude photos.

NYPD claims it's a protected minority under hate crime laws.

Google tries to redact transcript to hide its transcription of emails. This redacting transcripts stuff must have become a new normal. I don't understand why Google did this. Everybody knows they read emails.

Local

Water main break and boil advisory in Springboro.

Water main break near me.

Local business owner tapped to pay for sponsorship of Huber Heights's music boondoggle's VIP section.

Health Care

What could go wrong when a company puts health records online? They could get hacked. Anything you put online will get hacked.

War

Who knew the French built warships for the Russian navy? Why would Russia buy from a NATO country?

US sends missile destroyer into Black Sea. This sounds eerily like the Maine being sent to Cuba over a century ago.

Of course China and Russia are developing technology to counter the US military's technological edge. And since Asian economies are on the rise while the US economy is declining, they're closing the gap.

Health Care

Stand up to stay young.

Economy

I've long claimed Apple is a bubble stock, and with another big drop after the iCloud hack, I'm being proven right.

Market bulls haven't been this dominant since 1987, right before a big crash.

Education

New York schools dump Michelle Obama's lunch restrictions.

Police State

Holder opens civil rights investigation into Ferguson police to energize voters.

You know how America's rulers always claim to love democracy? They don't love it when voters push for a referendum on red light cameras.

The Congressional Black Caucus voted for police militarization in June, but now they're against it.

Global Warming and Energy

People aren't buying electric cars.

Record low temperatures double record highs in US.

Immigration

Obama refuses to tell Congress where the tens of thousands of illegal immigrant children were sent.

Nearly one in ten workers in California are illegal aliens.

Judge sets immigration hearing for four years in the future.

Local

In another travesty in the cover-up of the shooting of a man in the Beavercreek Walmart by police, so-called investigators re-enact the shooting. Suppose a serf had shoot the man carrying the toy rifle. How many re-enactments would you expect?

Tax and Spend

Foreign holding of US debt surpass $6 trillion for first time.

Media

Celebs turn on each other as one proclaims nude selfies illustrate vanity. I would say emotional crippleness, but vanity will do.

Apple denies its iCloud service was hacked to obtain the pictures and videos. This suggests it was an inside job.

FBI pursuing hacking with vigor in stark contrast to how they would ignore a hacker stealing photos of serfs.

Economy

Four charts show the stock market is divorced from economic reality and driven only by the Fed printing money. I don't think US subterfuge can oust Putin like those other leaders.

Here's the consequences of our fascist economy:

"Ohio’s workers are more productive and better educated than in past decades, but that isn’t necessarily reflected in their paychecks, according to a new report.
Ohio productivity grew by nearly 67 percent between 1979 and 2013, while median hourly wages fell by 1.1 percent when adjusted for inflation, according to a recent analysis of jobs data from Policy Matters Ohio, a Cleveland-based progressive economic think tank."

Thank the government.

The Fed accuses Americans of hoarding money. What money? Where did they get money to hoard? The end is nigh, and our rulers are panicking, hoping to fool Americans into not holding them accountable.

Foreign Policy

US imposes new sanctions on Iran despite agreement it would not.

War

ISIS beheads another American reporter.

ISIS scares the Saudis.

Obama sends 350 more troops to Iraq as if they will defeat ISIS. This guys is an idiot.

How the US, not America, made ISIS.

The US has spy satellites that can and do read the text on your T-shirt, but they don't know what happened to an unknown number of jets when US terrorist allies took over the Tripoli airport. The insanity, it burns.

Evidence the US is attempting regime change in Russia. They've been building to this for a while.

Fear the US will turn the new Cold War with Russia into a hot war. I predicted all along that wouldn't happen, and I stand by that prediction.

Politics

Ousted House Republican leader Cantor received big payoff with job from Wall Street firm working in Washington.

Fruitcake Obama out of touch. Maybe delusional is a better word. He's been this way since before he ran for president in 2008, but most American voters voted for him anyway. He's probably win again if he ran in 2016.

Misc

Claim Neanderthals created cave art.

Education

A Maryland teacher has been suspended and being investigated by sheriffs and health care socialists for writing a science fiction book about a school shooting.

"A 23-year-old teacher at a Cambridge, Maryland, middle school has been placed on leave and—in the words of a local news report—"taken in for an emergency medical evaluation" for publishing, under a pseudonym, a novel about a school shooting. The novelist, Patrick McLaw, an eighth-grade language-arts teacher at the Mace's Lane Middle School, was placed on leave by the Dorchester County Board of Education, and is being investigated by the Dorchester County Sheriff's Office, according to news reports from Maryland's Eastern Shore. The novel, by the way, is set 900 years in the future."

Soviet-style is a good description.

"Phillips said McLaw was taken in for an emergency medical evaluation. The sheriff would not disclose where McLaw is now, but he did say that he is not on the Eastern Shore. The same day that McLaw was taken in for an evaluation, police swept Mace's Lane Middle School for bombs and guns, coming up empty."

Empty. What a surprise. His house too. The thought police are out of control. I think this guy should win a huge lawsuit.

"He is currently at a location known to law enforcement and does not currently have the ability to travel anywhere."

Sounds like the secret police. I bet he learned a thing or two about the nature of government and government schools.

Police State

Busted for transporting hundreds of prescription pills for which he had no prescription, plutocrat Colts owner Irsay takes a plea deal for only OWI, a misdemeanor. Imagine if a serf been caught doing the same. This is our wonderful two-tiered injustice system in action.

NFL bans Irsay for six games, another slap on the hand.

Killer cops fist-bump over the man they killed.

Police in town of 700 have their free Humvee given to them by the Pentagon stolen, so the Pentagon gives them another.

"The police department now uses the massive wreck for parts for its other Humvee, which it also obtained from the Department of Defense Excess Property Program (DOD 1033) to help fight crime in the small town."

They must have quite the crime wave.

It's become well known that police are using fake cell phone tools called Stingrays to illegally spy on people. Now it appears others are doing the same, especially around US military bases.

Health Care

Corruption regarding vaccines at CDC and HHS. More on the link to autism.

Long-term study shows low-carb diets are more healthy than low-fat diets.

How is a second, unrelated outbreak of Ebola good news? 

Why is it OK for health insurance companies to discriminate on prices regarding smokers and obese people, but not homosexuals? The whole point of health insurance is to discriminate on prices in favor of more healthy behavior.

Tax and Spend

Illinois heading for bankruptcy.

Economy

Box office crash.

"It's official: North American summer revenue barely cracks $4 billion, an eight-year low and down 15 percent from 2013"

That's because people are getting poorer.

Misc

Many revisionist articles. American myths refuted.

Politics

Labor Day was created for unions.

Looks like another coup is imminent in Pakistan.

The number of nuns has dropped 72 percent since 1965.

This push for fast food workers to receive $15 and hour is really about unionizing workers, not improving their lives.

Holder says when people talk about taking back our country from the socialists, it's racist. Biden's talking about taking it back, and he is one of the socialists.

Foreign Policy

Americans imprisoned in North Korea plea for US help. If there's one thing the US should be doing, it's helping people imprisoned by foreign governments. Government can't even get that right.

War

In response to Ukraine war, NATO expands its power by creating rapid response force. Can you imagine if NATO had rushed troops into Crimea? We'd be fighting a hot with Russia right now if we all hadn't already been killed in a nuclear war. Again, this is a silly idea. NATO knew its constituent powers were implementing a coup in Ukraine for months. It could have been prepared if it really wanted to be. We need to abolish NATO, not make it more powerful. No mention of ISIS in this story. Claim this force is specifically for eastern Europe.

Claim Ukrainian secessionists are winning.

Merkel wants Germany to kill more people in wars.

US warplanes team with Iranian-backed militias in Iraq. Notice this report comes from India. Here it is from Dallas.

In a retread of propaganda, the US claims a laptop captured from ISIS contains plans for biological weapons.

"Speaking of America’s Good Jihadists, a.k.a. the Syrian Free Army, I was struck by this nugget from an account of the killing of Douglas McAuthur McCain, an American fighting for ISIS in Syria, in the New York Times:
"The rebels who killed him were fighting for the Free Syrian Army, a rival group backed by the United States, and they went on to behead six ISIS fighters – but not Mr. McCain – and then posted the photographs on Facebook."
Yes, these are the "moderate" Syrian rebels, backed by your tax dollars and the prestige of the United States government. Oh, but don’t worry, kids: they’re our barbarians – so beheading is okay, even praiseworthy, since they’re doing it on behalf of spreading "freedom" and "democracy.""

Nice.

"The War Party has sunk to a new low: they’re stealing from Hollywood! If this isn’t outright plagiarism of the plot of "Wag the Dog," then it’s damned close. If I were the producers of that movie, I’d sue – but that’s just me."

That would be awesome.

Militias control Tripoli. Libyan rebels swim in US embassy pool.

Kazakhstan dismantled the nuclear arsenal it inherited from the Soviets.

"One of the first decrees of President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, upon the country gaining independence in 1991, was the historic decision to close, on Aug. 29 the same year, the Semipalatinsk Nuclear test site, the second largest in the world.
Kazakhstan also voluntarily gave up the world’s fourth largest nuclear arsenal, with more than 110 ballistic missiles and 1,200 nuclear warheads with the capacity to reach any point on this earth."

That's amazing.

Obama and Cameron urge freeloading NATO countries to increase military spending. We should end this welfare program, not expand it.

The movement to declassify the 28 pages of the 9/11 investigation report grows.

Obama attacks Somalia without a declaration of war.

"Al Shabaab is an Islamist group affiliated with al Qaeda that wants to impose its own strict version of Islam in Somalia. It ruled most of the southern region of Somalia from 2006 until 2011, when African peacekeeping troops marched into the capital, Mogadishu."

Affiitated with al Qaeda supposedly makes it legal. That authorization for force needs to end.

Pentagon opens drone base in Niger. We've set the whole Middle East on fire, so why not Africa too?

How Churchill used the Lusitania to bait America into WWI.

"Churchill visited the ship in dry dock and referred to Lusitania as “just another 45,000 tons of live bait.”"
"Churchill, seeing an opportunity to bring America into Britain’s war, wrote the Board of Trade: “It is most important to attract neutral shipping to our shores, in the hope especially of embroiling the United States with Germany. … We want the traffic – the more the better – and if some of it gets into trouble, the better still.”"
"Future Secretary of State Robert Lansing knew that British passenger ships carried war materiel. German diplomats in New York warned American passengers they were in danger on the Lusitania. And instead of sailing north of Ireland to Liverpool, the Lusitania sailed to the south, into waters known to be the hunting ground of German submarines.
Lusitania blew up and sank in 18 minutes. Munitions may have caused the secondary explosion when the torpedo hit. Some 1,200 people perished, including 128 Americans. America was on fire, ready for war when the next incidents occurred, as they would in 1917 with the sinking of U.S. merchant ships in similar waters."

Evil.

Media

It looks like all the naked celebrity pictures were hacked from Apple's iCloud. While the service may need better security, taking nude pictures of yourself and putting them anywhere a hacker can get to is stupid unless you want them leaked. It's like having sex then being surprised when it makes a baby. If you have to take naked pictures of yourself, and you want to keep them private, don't put them on the internet or any device connected to the internet. And why is it about Hollywood culture that all the hot female celebrities are doing this? We know celebrities tend to be attention whores and emotionally cripple, but this is crazy.

Emma's got it right.

Police State

Deputy carelessly killed biker, but faces no charges. Guess what would happen if a serf did the same. Our lives are meaningless to rulers.

Company donates five body cameras to Ferguson police department. Good PR move, but five won't change anything. The police will conveniently lose or erase them when they do something wrong, just like with dashboard cameras.

Hackers build secure alternative to Skype called Tox.

I'm confused by these polls on Scottish independence.

"Support for Scottish independence has risen eight points in a month, according to a new poll.

The No camp are now six points ahead of the Yes campaign, down from 14 points in mid-August and 22 points early last month, excluding undecided voters.

The latest YouGov poll found that, excluding ''don't knows'', 53% of those questioned planned to vote No, while 47% would back Yes."

This seems a cut-and-dry issue. I don't understand the movement.

Global Warming and Energy

The frauds won't get off Antarctica. This claim that melting ice is raising sea level around Antarctica cannot be reconciled with the fact that overall Antarctic ice is growing, not shrinking.

Melting ice not responsible for Antarctic sea level rise. That didn't take long.

Fruitcake plans to drive an SUV onto an iceberg and live there for a year. What could go wrong?

Another failed global warming prediction claimed world would heat faster in the last five years than previously. I don't believe any global warming prediction has come true.

The World Bank tries to exploit the global warming fraud.

"Eric Worrall writes: Rachel Kyte, the World Bank’s special envoy for climate change, claims that rich nations have a moral duty to help island nations survive climate change."

In other words, rich nations are supposed to steal more money and funnel into the world bank, ostensibly so the World Bank can give it poor countries but really so the bankers can siphon even more money for themselves.

According to this study, the pause reaches 19 years.

It snowed in Wyoming the last day of August.

Now environmentalists are unhappy about accelerated plant growth due to increases in CO2. They want it both ways because their real goal is to end capitalism.

Local

Police shoot another dog.