Police State

Police officer takes three hostages.

On NSA's corrupt parallel reconstruction scheme.

"NSA documents released by Edward Snowden show that the feds seriously deceived Congress and the courts in an effort to spy upon all of us and to use the gathered materials in criminal prosecutions, even though they told federal judges they would not. Among the more nefarious procedures the feds have engaged in is something called “parallel reconstruction.” This procedure seeks to hide the true and original source of information about a criminal defendant when it was obtained unlawfully.
For example, if the NSA, while unconstitutionally listening to the conversations of Americans hoping to hear about plots to harm other Americans (it has revealed no such plots from among the trillions of private conversations it has monitored since 2005), comes across evidence of a bank robbery, the NSA will pass that evidence on to the Department of Justice. The NSA routinely does this notwithstanding representations to the FISA court that authorizes its spying that it is not in the business of gathering evidence in criminal cases."

And so far it's been successful.

It's common for cops to rob victims during stop and frisk aggression, but one finally got caught.

Why isn't the FBI prepared to arrest Americans fighting with ISIS as terrorists?

"In a recent appearance (10/6) on CBS “60 Minutes”, FBI Director James Comey was asked about the 12 American citizens fighting alongside the ISIS(L) terrorists: “With American passports, how do you keep them from coming home and attacking the Homeland?” Comey’s response:”Ultimately, an American citizen – unless their passport’s revoked – is entitled to come back…so if someone who has fought with ISISL  wants to come back…uh…we will track them very carefully.”"

Why not revoke their passports?

Misc

Secret menu items for fast food restaurants.

Baptist preacher confesses.

"A Montgomery, Alabama, Baptist congregation is reeling after their longtime pastor confessed at the pulpit a few Sundays ago that he has AIDS, knowingly slept with church members inside the building without revealing his status, and abused drugs and mishandled the congregation's money."

Preachers have power, and power corrupts.

Politics

China arresting pro-democracy activists on the mainland.

Hong Kong chief ruler busted for taking millions in payments from Australian firm. That's going to fuel protesters.

White House knew of Secret Service prostitution link but lied about it.

Philip Giraldi's analysis of Ted Cruz.

"Bible thumping and carpet bombing"

Lovely.

"he demonstrates that anyone who wants it badly enough can become president. It is, of course, something for which there is a precedent, when voters elected an inexperienced and largely unknown Barack Obama. Cruz shares Obama’s lack of preparation for the highest office while he is also something of a throwback to fellow Texan George W. Bush’s tradition of anti-intellectualism and lack of curiosity about how the rest of the world interacts with the United States."

Worst of both?

Rand Paul versus Cruz.

The role of taxes, whether a region is a net tax giver or taker, influencing  secession movements.

Local

Less than four weeks before the election, and gas prices have dropped below $3 everywhere for the first time in years, probably since exactly two years ago.

The Good Ol' boys in Huber are working hard to oust the new mayor because he isn't in their network. They're keeping everything secret.

Off road vehicles degrade socialist bike trail. The general public is not allowed. Then don't steal people's money to build it.

Man arrested for jaywalking was carrying heroin and cocaine. Obviously the jaywalking arrest was just a pretense to search this guy.

This is the third headline in three days for the Miami Valley drug task force. They must be pushing for a bigger budget.

High school student brings pot brownies to schools and shares them with friends.

Immigration

Feds suddenly releasing many more illegal aliens than it deports.

""Very early on we saw numbers, a 138 immigrants deported and 12 released into the United states and given asylum.' he added, "That is a rate of 10-to-1 being deported, this past week, there were 68 releases verses 13 deportations so all of a sudden that's a four-to-one ratio of people being released out into the United States."  "

Catching them means nothing if you release instead of deport them.

More evidence linking new respiratory virus, the article compares it to polio, to illegal immigrants.

Economy

From the point of view of purchasing power, China has overtake the US as the world's largest economy.

Politics

Democrats distance themselves from Pelosi.

Carter slams Obama on ISIS and Ebola. Generally considered by everybody to be the worst president in modern history, maybe Carter is trying to push Obama into that position.

New book brings Whitewater back.

"The first federal prosecutor to probe the financial dealings of Bill and Hillary Clinton says he was poised to bring high-profile indictments against top Arkansas political and business figures — based in part on testimony from a chief witness against the then president — when he was abruptly replaced by a panel of federal judges, throwing his investigation into turmoil."

This will probably be old news again by 2016.

Even Chris Mathews urges Obama to quit pandering to ethnic groups. That's all he does. He'd have to resign.

Personhood of chimpanzees back in court.

Misc

Dolphins imitate whale sounds and killer whales imitate dolphin sounds.

Astronomers surprised at "impossible" neutron star.

Federal Reserve

Revolt at the Richmond Fed.

"In today’s Wall Street Journal, two Fed insiders Jeffrey M. Lacker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and John A. Weinberg, director of research of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, effectively argue that central bank “actions that alter the allocation of credit … endanger the stability the Fed was designed to ensure.”  Their explicit targets for criticism are the Fed purchases of mortgage backed securities and other “actions in the recent crisis” that “bore little resemblance to the historical concept of a lender of last resort.” In my view they correctly recognize that while “these actions were intended to preserve the stability of the financial system, they may have actually promoted greater fragility.” They correctly assert “(w)hen the central bank buys private assets, it distorts markets”."

I bet these guys lose their jobs soon.

Fed says it won't raise interest rates, so stocks rise.

China pushes renminbi to join IMF's basket of currencies.

More banks targeted in hack.

Global Warming and Energy

Even NASA is forced to admit the deep ocean hasn't warmed in a decade. So much for the fraudulent claim that the missing heat is going into the deep ocean.

EPA chief's text messages missing just like the IRS emails. The NSA has them all.

Police State

FBI claims it can hack foreign computers without warrants. The FBI is trying to have it both ways, and it will probably be affirmed. It's criminal jurisdiction is world-wide, but the need for warrants is only in the US.

Silk Road chief's lawyer says FBI hack was illegal.

Foreign Policy

Turmoil among North Korea's rulers.

"The rumor-mill is working overtime to make sense of these events, and all sorts of speculation is being put out there. Word is out that Kim’s younger sister, Kim Yo-yong, is now effectively in charge of day-to-day affairs of state. A group of high level North Korean defectors say there has been a coup in progress for many months, with senior military and party leaders no longer taking orders from Kim and in effect establishing a military junta with Kim as their front man."

Months is a long time.

"There are many confirmed reports indicating that Sino-Korean relations are less than comradely: in the recent greeting issued by the Workers Party of North Korea on the occasion of the 65^th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China the flowery rhetoric of past messages was omitted. More ominously, the Telegraph reports that a crack division of the North Korean army was pulled away from the Demilitarized Zone and put on the border with China in mid-August:"

Americans shouldn't be involved.

Google chairman warns internet spying by governments will break the internet by balkanizing it.

"American tech companies have long cautioned the U.S. government that their global competitiveness is being crippled because of eroding mistrust among their users, who fear that data may not be safe from intelligence agencies.
"This is going to cost Americans jobs," said Wyden, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. "Good-paying, American jobs, when wage growth is one of the premier issues of our time.""

Rulers don't care.

War

Fearmongering about ISIS and other terrorists has worked.

Canada gets in on ISIS fearmongering.

The Afghan war turns 13.

Tax and Spend

The official budget deficit for 2014 fell to $486 billion.

Health Care

Average American lifespan increases barely to new record.

DHS orders border agents to monitor travelers for signs of Ebola. I feel more secure.

The US has patented Ebola genes.

Texas Ebola patient died. Deputy who entered his apartment hospitalized with illness.

Thermal scanners are ineffective.

Local

Centrally planned formula for distributing salt during winter is doomed to fail. Prices work.

Protesters move inside Beavercreek police station to protest killing at Beavercreek Walmart.

Twelve year old hung herself in Xenia school bathroom.

Tax and Spend

Government funding has created a surplus of postdoc researchers over supply.

Education

Student loans top record $1.2 trillion.

Immigration

Mexican consulate aiding Hispanics to register to vote in Wisconsin.

Global Warming and Energy

Record 3,270 days without a hurricane hitting Florida.

War

Pat Buchanan wonders which terrorists we want to win in Syria.

Air strikes aren't stopping ISIS.

Obama's trumped up al Qaeda in Syria threat.

"U.S. government officials recently began hyping the threat from a very small and little-known terrorist group called Khorasan and then striking it in Syria. Several of President Obama’s aides told the media that airstrikes were launched to foil an "imminent" terrorist attack, possibly using hidden explosives to blow up aircraft. Yet other government officials seemed to pour cold water on that assessment. According to the New York Times, one anonymous senior official described the Khorasan plot as only "aspirational" and said that the group had not seemed to have established a concrete plan. Other officials, at least one of whom was a senior counterterrorism official, said that the plot was far from mature and that no sign existed that the group had decided on the method of attack or the time and target of it."

Why would they want to attack the US if they were attacking Syria?

Sports

Accusation that NFL refs called penalties against Seattle on Monday Night Football to keep the game close, apparently having learned that from the NBA. There's no doubt TV ratings are hurting from all the blowouts this season.

Politics

Panetta slams Obama again, says he's given up. Panetta seems to be the primary Clinton proxy right now.

It makes perfect sense to me that Obama's underlings would want to run as far away from him and the damage he's done as possible. Many of these people also want to kiss up to the Clintons.

Slamming Panetta's fantasy about more war making things better.

Seattle replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous People's Day.

Harry Reid has a 21 percent favorable rating.

Economy

After complaining to Comcast, Comcast calls his employer and has him fired.

"When you complain to your cable company, you certainly don't expect that the cable company will then contact your employer and discuss your complaint. But that's exactly what happened to one former Comcast customer who says he was fired after the cable company called a partner at his accounting firm. Be careful next time when you exercise your first amendment rights. From the article: At some point shortly after that call, someone from Comcast contacted a partner at the firm to discuss Conal. This led to an ethics investigation and Conal’s subsequent dismissal from his job; a job where he says he’d only received positive feedback and reviews for his work. Comcast maintained that Conal used the name of his employer in an attempt to get leverage. Conal insists that he never mentioned his employer by name, but believes that someone in the Comcast Controller’s office looked him up online and figured out where he worked. When he was fired, Conal’s employer explained that the reason for the dismissal was an e-mail from Comcast that summarized conversations between Conal and Comcast employees. But Conal has never seen this e-mail in order to say whether it’s accurate and Comcast has thus far refused to release any tapes of the phone calls related to this matter."

That's crazy.

The super-rich will love this flying car.

Unemployment is much worse than BLS pretends.

S&P hits eight week low.

Police State

The drug warriors who threw a bomb into the crib of a baby won't be charged. Typical.

Blacks afraid of the police. Everybody should be afraid of the police. If you aren't, you're suffering from a false sense of security.

Government says it knows all about us from our electronic communication, but here's why we shouldn't believe it.

"Personal data harvesting for contextual ads and content should be a beautiful thing. They do it privately and securely, and it's all automated so that no human being actually learns anything about you. And then the online world becomes customized, just for you. The real problem with this scenario is that is we're paying for contextual ads and content with our personal data, but we're not getting what we pay for. Facebook advertising is off target and almost completely irrelevant. The question is: Why? Facebook has a database of our explicitly stated interests, which many users fill out voluntarily. Facebook sees what we post about. It knows who we interact with. It counts our likes, monitors our comments and even follows us around the Web. Yet, while the degree of personal data collection is extreme, the advertising seems totally random."

If companies can't figure us out, the government certainly can't. There's an economic lesson about wants and central planning in here.

Head of Britain's main national police force says Britons must give up more internet freedom for security. That's a false trade-off.

Twitter sues FBI and DOJ to release NSA requests about its users.Twitter must think it's reached bigtime crony status, but I doubt it has. This guy doubts too.

China wages cyberwar on Hong Kong protesters.

This story has it all: lying, stealing, pornography and oppression, all by the government.

"A DEA agent commandeered a woman’s identity, created a phony Facebook account in her name, and posted racy photos he found on her seized cell phone. The government said he had the right to do that."

It also endangered her. The government has no limits on its power.

"On Monday, the Justice Department’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., referred all questions to the DEA, which then declined to answer questions and, in turn, referred inquiries to the local U.S. attorney’s office in Albany, New York. That office did not respond to multiple requests for an interview."

Pass the buck much?

"Leading privacy experts told BuzzFeed News they found the case disturbing. “It reeks of misrepresentation, fraud, and invasion of privacy,” said Anita L. Allen, a professor at University of Pennsylvania Law School."

So does almost everything else government does.

Somebody else has noticed the internet of things will make people more vulnerable to crime.

Prison inmate denied parole on false information represents himself at Ohio Supreme Court and wins.

Local

Start of construction on Dayton's whitewater boondoggle delayed until 2015.

"Plans by Five Rivers MetroParks had been to start work this fall on the RiverScape River Run during the low-water season."

But not any more. What could go wrong? Keep an eye on the price tag. I bet taxpayer money ends up paying for this yet.

Sixth grader dead at Xenia school, possibly from hanging. School locked down.

Now lack of regulation of pellet guns is supposedly dangerous. This is another apology for the Beavercreek Walmart shooting.

Dayton considering changes to water protection regulations.

"The new plan calls for shrinking the protected area above the Great Miami Buried Valley Aquifer by about 40 percent. The change would benefit 244 businesses by placing them outside the plan area, removing some development and chemical storage restrictions. For the 197 businesses remaining in the protected area, rules would become stricter and fines for violators could reach $500 a day. The proposal also prohibits more land uses, including vehicle fueling stations, outdoor salt piles, junkyards, and chemical manufacturing plants."

No gas stations?

Health Care

A lot of insiders are blowing the whistle on vaccines.

Mammograms are counterproductive.

Paleo sweeps the NBA.

Thanks to Obamacare, Walmart joins companies which cut health care benefits to part-time employees.

"Wal-Mart Stores (WMT), the biggest private employer in the U.S., is cutting health benefits for part-time workers. Target (TGT), Home Depot (HD), Trader Joe’s, and others have already done the same. But Wal-Mart is the retailer most often criticized for paying wages too low to live on. Among the complaints of union-backed protesters is that employees who want to work full-time can’t always get the hours. So the company’s decision to cut benefits for those most financially vulnerable is likely to get extra scrutiny."

Walmart will get blamed, not Obamacare.

Some Ebola experts believe the virus spreads much easier than we are being led to believe.

Several dozen US troops running labs will have direct exposure to Ebola samples in Africa.

Doctors and nurses fleeing Ebola hospitals.

Nurse who died of Ebola in Spain wore protective suits when exposed to no avail.

Obama uses Ebola checks at airports to further oppress airline passengers.You have to check passengers before they get on planes, not after they get off.

The radio said today the VA only proposed firing four executives. It didn't actually do it.

Life can continue after death.

The CDC claims 110 million Americans have STDs.

Foreign Policy

Netanyahu argues with Obama over American values even though neither have a clue about American values.

Politics

Star Wars characters make mockery of Ukraine elections.

Even Democrats are realizing Obama is intentionally harming the country.

"“If every Democrat Socialist Islamist is fired, and the Republicans take the Senate, we can lobby the Republican Party through town hall meetings,” he said. “We can shake them up and make them do what needs to be done.”"

He may be right about Obama, but he's way wrong about Republicans.

Clinton is trying to save Democrats from Obama.

War

Navy develops robot boat swarm to protect large warships.

Obama extends the war in Afghanistan until 2024.

Obama has managed to paint himself as a dove despite his impressive record of war.

Panetta says war against ISIS will take 30 years to win. What does victory look like, Leon?

"Panetta says Obama erred:
• By not pushing the Iraqi government harder to allow a residual U.S. force to remain when troops withdrew in 2011, a deal he says could have been negotiated with more effort. That "created a vacuum in terms of the ability of that country to better protect itself, and it's out of that vacuum that ISIS began to breed." Islamic State also is known as ISIS and ISIL.
• By rejecting the advice of top aides — including Panetta and then-secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton — to begin arming Syrian rebels in 2012. If the U.S. had done so, "I do think we would be in a better position to kind of know whether or not there is some moderate element in the rebel forces that are confronting (Syrian President Bashar) Assad."
• By warning Assad not to use chemical weapons against his own people, then failing to act when that "red line" was crossed in 2013. Before ordering airstrikes, Obama said he wanted to seek congressional authorization, which predictably didn't happen." 

What a pack of lies. Panetta is clearly in the Clinton camp, already trying to destroy Obama's legacy.

Like everybody else, Turkey's priority is ousting Assad, not ISIS.

ISIS militants infiltrating Europe disguised as refuges.

Threat from Syrian al Qaeda affiliate continues.

"The Khorasan Group, a small but battle-hardened band of al-Qaida veterans from Afghanistan and Pakistan, was the target of U.S. strikes near Aleppo, Syria."

I guess the strikes weren't very effective.

"In an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes," Comey said the militants were "working and, you know, may still be working on an effort to attack the United States or our allies, and looking to do it very, very soon.""

Sounds vague, but it keeps war fever high.

Tax and Spend

NASA orders Boeing and SpaceX to stop working on launch vehicles because of the court challenge filed by Sierra Nevada.

Small Business Administration loans reduce economic growth.

"The results are largely robust and, perhaps more importantly, we never find any evidence of positive growth effects associated with SBA lending. Even when the estimated effects are statistically insignificant, the point estimates are always negative. Our findings suggest that SBA lending to small businesses comes at the cost of loans that would have otherwise been made to more profitable and/or innovative firms."

That's from NBER, not some libertarian think-tank.

Global Warming and Energy

Measurements of ocean warming may have missed massive warming. "May". Or may not. Like all the warming in the ocean just happens to be between detectors in the southern ocean. Great propaganda headline. Worthless article.

Heat has not gone into the deep ocean. And that's from JPL, not some skeptic study.

Police State

Dubai police use Google Glass for facial recognition.

Courts are erasing the right to remain silent.

War on Drugs

Ohio legislature wants to charge drug dealers with murder for overdose deaths, as if the person who overdosed didn't do it to himself. If passed, this will increase violence in the drug black market.

Local

Students protest Beavercreek police in wake of Walmart shooting.

"They are making three demands:
1. The officer who fired the fatal shots, Sean Williams, be fired
2. The 911 caller Ronald Ritchie be arrested
3. The department make changes on its protocols for using deadly force"

Those are perfectly reasonable demands, but the Beavercreek police have a conflict of interest so I doubt anything will change.

Most homes in Montgomery County lost value.

"Fully three-fourths of the homes in the county lost value since 2011, for a total loss of more than $1 billion in the last three years."

That makes housing more affordable. That's what everybody claims to want.

Miamisburg to spend $70 million on water and sewer upgrades.

Bomb threat forces evacuation of school in Harrison Twp.

Survey ranks Dayton in top ten of happiest cities to work in.

Misc

Scientists are surprised at the high number of high-energy positrons detected on the ISS.

Health Care

Simple environmental causes behind autism. It should mention over-diagnosis, but it doesn't.

Five simple lifestyle changes could prevent 80 percent of heart attacks.

Obama plans to increase testing for Ebola.

"President Obama announced Monday, after meeting with top health and security officials about the Ebola outbreak in Africa, that the U.S. government is preparing additional measures to screen passengers in the U.S. and overseas as part of the expanding effort to contain the virus."

I like how they pretend the only reason Obama wasn't already doing this was experts hadn't said he should yet. What a joke.

Nurse contracts Ebola in Spain.

The Enterovirus D68 virus may be more dangerous than Ebola.

VA fires four executives over wait scandal.

Health Care

Here's another reason for men to be attracted to virgins.

"The researchers found that, for fruit flies, the size of the offspring matched the size of the first male the mother mated with – not its biological father. It is thought that molecules of the semen produced by the first partner might be absorbed by the mother’s immature eggs."

Like any man needed another reason.

War

Failure in Afghanistan.

"More than 2,000 US fighters have been killed in the 13 year Afghan war. More than 20,000 Afghan civilians were also killed. According to a study last year by a Harvard University researcher, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost in total between four and six trillion dollars. There is no way of looking at the US invasion of Afghanistan and seeing a success."

But if it saved one child...

Local

Small open carry rally protesting shooting at Beavercreek Walmart.

Politics

The complex situation in Hong Kong

US NGOs behind Hong Kong protests.

Hong Kong police accused of using Triads against protesters.

Police State

Government will not allow ubiquitous encryption.

"I read that Apple and Google have begun encrypting the data of customers so that nobody, including Apple and Google, have plaintext access to it. This of course means “so that the government will not have access to it.” The FBI is terribly upset about this, the first serious resistance against onrushing Orwellianism. God bless Apple and Google. But will they be able to stand up to the feds?
Here is a curious situation indeed. The government has become our enemy, out of  control, and we have to depend on computer companies for any safety we may have."

Google and Apple know good and well that the government won't allow their encryption to stand. They're doing this to fix their reputations for being partners with the surveillance state.

"The feds—whatever the intention of individuals—are setting up the machinery of a totalitarianism beyond anything yet known on the earth. It falls rapidly into place. You can argue, if you are optimistic enough to make Pollyanna look like a Schopenhaurian gloom-monger, that they would never use such powers. They already do. The only question is how far they will push. What cannot be argued is that they have the powers"

The took them for a reason.

"The crucial question: Do we have more to fear from largely imaginary terrorists, or from the FBI? Your chances of being killed by terrorists are essentially zero, even if you live in Washington or New York, and far less if you live in Memphis or Raleigh-Durham. (To express this we need the concept of negative zero, which I hearwith offer to the mathmatical community.) Your chances of living in an electronically locked-down police state are very high. This is far more dangerous to what the United States was than even a successful bombing of a mall."

That's a false choice. The police state makes us more likely to be killed by terrorists, not less.

"Those at the policy level are another thing.  Many are intelligent, some extremely so. They understand not just the laws, but law. Many have educations of the first quality. Harvard was not always a prep school for I-banking. They are familiar with history, understand the philosophy of constitutional government, and understand the consequences of our current direction. They know what they are doing. And keep doing it."

That's right. They're evil, not stupid.

The FBI has Boston Marathon suspect #2's attorneys under surveillance and is intimidating its witnesses.

"Domestic defense mitigation investigation has been conducted amid a growing atmosphere of anxiety and agitation generated by highly-publicized arrests, indictments, prosecutions, deportations (and, in one instance, the FBI killing) of members of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s peer groups."

Just what you'd expect from a police state.

"Most news reports brush over that last part. As if shooting to death an unarmed man involved in this case—as an FBI agent did to Tamerlan’s friend Ibragim Todashev—is not relevant to the difficulties the defense team has had in getting witnesses to talk to them. But even less extreme events are enough to silence potential witnesses, such as the mysterious closing of their bank accounts."

Probably not mysterious.

"“These difficult circumstances are compounded by a continuing pattern of aggressive FBI re-interviewing of potential witnesses — on occasion within hours of an attempted contact by defense investigator [emphasis added].”"

Just watching is intimidating.

Health Care

Obama set Americans up to be infected with Ebola.

The US has patented Ebola and has had biological weapons experts in Africa studying it for years.

After long saying Ebola can't be transmitted through the air, the CDC has updated its website:

"Unlike respiratory illnesses like measles or chickenpox, which can be transmitted by virus particles that remain suspended in the air after an infected person coughs or sneezes, Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with body fluids of a person who has symptoms of Ebola disease. Although coughing and sneezing are not common symptoms of Ebola, if a symptomatic patient with Ebola coughs or sneezes on someone, and saliva or mucus come into contact with that person’s eyes, nose or mouth, these fluids may transmit the disease."

Oops.

The Dallas Ebola patient had not traveled to Africa. He was from Africa. This was his first trip to America.

CDC plays politics by claiming a travel ban would make things worse.

Education

Curiosity is key to learning, and it's exactly what government smashes out of students because it leads to independent thought.

16 year old male student brags after having sex with two teachers. How can this be called exploitation?

Economy

Tech project failures lead to suicides. Shades of 1929.

Regulation

Samsung paid Microsoft $1 billion in patent royalties for Android.

Media

Media caves to threats and removes search results for celeb nude photos. The lesson is clear: you can't trust Google results. Google censors. Google is not an unbiased window into the web. It's political.

Federal Reserve

Russians blamed for JPMorgan Chase hack.

"Questions over who the hackers are and the approach of their attack concern government and industry officials. Also troubling is that about nine other financial institutions — a number that has not been previously reported — were also infiltrated by the same group of overseas hackers, according to people briefed on the matter. The hackers are thought to be operating from Russia and appear to have at least loose connections with officials of the Russian government, the people briefed on the matter said."

Maybe our government should stop making enemies of them.

Dollar is on a record 12 week climb. It's kind of hard to tell Fed officers printing is bad when that happens.

Politics

While Obama and company attack the NFL for crimes against women, sex abuse quietly runs rampant in the military.

Michelle Obama refuses to campaign for Senate Democrats out of spite.

Global Warming and Energy

In 2011, embarrassed by global warming pause, frauds claimed that it had to last at least 17 years until it refuted the CAGW theory. It's now been 18 years, one month.

Claim that CAGW caused California drought refuted.

The global warming frauds who already have abandoned the scientific method to fast-track, a nice political term, more fraudulent pseudo-science.

War

Ten myths about the latest US war in Iraq and Syria.

Turkey finally authorizes attacks on ISIS in Syria. Syria realizes this is a ruse.

ISIS releases fourth supposed beheading video. The war hasn't stopped those.

Fake terror threat to justify bombing Syria.

Police State

Court documents show FBI lied about Silk Road investigation. Speculation about NSA spying supplying the real evidence with the FBI performing a parallel construction of evidence then hiding the real investigation from judges and defense attorneys seem verified. Interestingly, the first website went down as I loaded it, but all the text had loaded so I could read it.

NSA corruption from 40 years ago.

California man convicted of second degree murder because his dogs killed a woman.

Local

Power outage in Clayton.

Fuyao to hire 1,000 workers by end of 2015. I'm skeptical.

The DDN documents the oppression of drunk driving checkpoints.

Education

Maybe Common Core is helping teachers, but it won't help students.

Economy

Former head of Fed Bernanke turned down on refinancing his mortgage.

Hiring surge loweres unemployment to 5.9 percent.

"The participation rate, which measures the number of Americans employed or looking for a job as a share of the working-age population, decreased to 62.7 percent, the lowest since February 1978, from 62.8 percent a month before. "

The workforce participation rate continues to decline.

Labor participation rate drops to 36 year low.

Talk about a war on women: record number of women not working.

Housing bubble on the Thames.

Health Care

Let's put medical devices on the internet so hackers can take them over too.

US hospitals report 100+ cases of Ebola-like symptoms.

The same people who can't make buses run on time released vaccinated mosquitoes in Brazil. What could go wrong?

GlaxoSmithKlein released 45 liters of live polio virus into Belgium river. Since polio had supposedly been eradicated, why did anybody keep the virus?

Number of troops sent into Ebola zone now 4,000.

Regulation

FCC helps net neutrality advocates comment, but not those opposed.

Economy

The flying car may finally be here.

Immigration

Obama rallies immigration activists in hopes of improving November turnout, but I still doubt he grants massive executive amnesty. He's using these people.

Education

After criticism LA school police return grenade launchers to Pentagon, but keep other weapons.

"As reported by the Associated Press, the agency will be returning three grenade launchers of unspecified type but will keep a surplus Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) armored vehicle as well as 61 M16 rifles. The rifles, agency officials point out, have been modified to fire semi-auto only, and the MRAP can be used as a rescue vehicle"

Just say no to government schools.

Misc

Map and documents claim Marco Polo discovered America.

Socialism

More on Secret Service incompetence and other failures by his female appointees.

"In any event, the latest security breach at the White House – there have been many under departing Secret Service Director Julia Pierson – saw 42-year-old Omar J. Gonzalez rush across the lawn and into the first family’s residence, where the trespasser was “confronted by a female Secret Service agent, whom he [naturally] overpowered.” No wonder Pierson and the press have circled the wagons. The same lady officer, or another with a similar skill set, had also failed to lock the front door. Disarmed, too, was an alarm meant to alert officers to intruders. "

No wonder.

"All in all, officers on-duty stood down, and an off-duty officer manned up. (The canine unit, sick of eating Michelle Obama’s carrots, was busy digging for bones.) Gonzales could have bounded up the stairs to the first family’s living quarters had the off-duty officer not tackled him. He must be male. Were he a woman, or something in-between, he’d be up for a medal of honor."

Too true.

More.

"Gonzalez’s relatives say he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from his tours of duty in Iraq. That fits nicely with the “lone nut” category of White House crashers that’s often brought up by the authorities to explain such incidents. The Secret Service has already launched an investigation into itself as the result of breach, a process that’s produced the Secret Service’s self-described squeaky-clean image.
Here’s a fascinating tidbit from the Gonzalez arraignment: he was stopped outside the White House in August while carrying a hatchet in his waistband. He was just let go. That’s despite the fact he was arrested in July in Virginia after leading police on a chase. Guess what was found in his car then? Among other things, a sawed-off shotgun and a map of Washington with the White House circled."

Are they threatening Obama into war?

Some Californians have been without running water for months.

War

Former Secretary of Defense Panetta was charged by Obama with negotiating an extension of the Iraq war, and he failed, so Panetta blames Obama in new book.

Sports

Referees union criticizes NFL for inconsistency.

"The union representing NFL on-the-field officials criticized the league Thursday for inconsistencies in grading calls, including two high-profile penalties from recent games.
In a release, the NFL Referees' Association says the NFL has "caused confusion for NFL officials as to what the league does and doesn't want called.""

This is another way Napoleon Goodell has made the game less interesting.

Federal Reserve

Venezuela's currency and therefore economy are cracking up.

JPMorgan Chase hack one of the biggest.

"A cyberattack this summer on JPMorgan Chase compromised more than 76 million household accounts and seven million small-business accounts, making it among the largest corporate hacks ever discovered.

The latest revelations, which were disclosed in a regulatory filing on Thursday, vastly dwarf earlier estimates that hackers had gained access to roughly one million customer accounts."

Let's give these same hackers access to our door locks.

More on leak that exposed regulatory capture of the Fed by banks. Since the Fed is owned by banks, this shouldn't be surprising.

Media

Celebs who posted nude pictures of themselves online, which were then predictably hacked, want to sue Google for linking to them. This is ridiculous.

Regulation

The tremendous costs of federal regulation.

"The 2013 Federal Register contains 79,311 pages, the fourth highest ever. The top two all-time totals are 81,405 pages in 2010 and 81,247 in 2011, both under Obama."

Is that per year or total?

Global Warming and Energy

Climate trolls are among the worst on the internet.

Thousands of previously unknown, underwater volcanoes, even if most are extinct, probably effect climate.

Politics

DOJ will not prosecute George Zimmerman for civil rights violations.

More fraud uncovered in Scottish secession vote.

I wonder if the critics of China's dictates in Hong Kong recognize their hypocrisy.

"The protests in Hong Kong were triggered by the Chinese authorities’ unwillingness to make democratic concessions to the city. Beijing decreed that only its favored candidates could run in the city’s elections in 2017. This decision destroyed hopes of real democracy in the city. Even though Hong Kong residents will have universal suffrage, any candidate who runs will need to be pre-approved by a select committee of Beijing loyalists."

I wonder what other countries require candidates to be pre-approved, say in a primary election by party loyalists.

Health Care

Death from prescription narcotics increased 4x in ten years.

CDC increases number of potential contacts with Dallas Ebola patient from 18 to 80. That's a big jump showing these people have no idea what they're talking about. Now the number is "about 100".

Feds recently ordered 160,000 HazMat suits specifically designed for Ebola.

"With the U.S. State Department alone putting out a bid for 160,000 suits, we encourage all protective apparel companies to increase their manufacturing capacity for sealed seam garments so that our industry can do its part in addressing this threat to global health."

Maybe they plan to ship most to Africa.

Not only did the US do nothing to prevent Ebola from coming here, Obama brought Ebola here several times on purpose.

Foreign aid is promoting the Ebola epidemic.

Another promising cancer drug still hasn't reached human trials after ten years.

"My prediction is that oncology centers will refuse to join in human clinical trials knowing it will put them out of business if 3-BP is as effective in humans as it is in lab animals.  Even if 3-BP does gain FDA approval, it is more likely that non-oncologists, those who have nothing to lose financially such as general practitioners, will prescribe and administer it."

Bureaucrats don't want to cure cancer because they will lose their jobs.

Genetic analysis traces HIV history.

"A genetic analysis of thousands of individual viruses has confirmed beyond reasonable doubt that HIV first emerged in Kinshasa, the capital of the Belgian Congo, in about 1920 from where it spread via the colonial railway network to other parts of central Africa."

I doubt that helps.

Freedom of Speech

Egyptian government seizes all copies of newspaper to censure article.

"The Egyptian authorities on Wednesday confiscated all the copies of one of the country’s largest private newspapers in order to censor an article, just days after President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi vowed in an American television interview that there was “no limitation on freedom of expression in Egypt.”"

Almost funny.

Federal Reserve

More on the Goldman-Sachs tapes illustrating regulatory capture.

"So now comes the Goldman tapes—-46 hours of recordings by an embedded New York Fed regulator at Goldman Sachs who got fired for attempting to, well, regulate. Would that the Carmen Segarra affair generates a Nixonian result—-that is, exposure that “regulatory capture” is an endemic, potent and inextricable evil that can’t be remediated in situ.
Never mind that what Ms. Segarra was attempting to regulate–whether Goldman had a conflict of interest policy with respect to its M&A clients—-was actually none of the state’s business in the first place. If in the instant case GS was giving squinty eyed advise to its client, El Paso Corporation, because it owned a $4 billion position in the other party to the transaction, Kinder Morgan, so be it. Either the conflict was harmless or eventually Goldman’s M&A business would have been punished by the marketplace—–even stupid executives and boards wouldn’t pay huge fees to be taken to the cleaners for long."

But the regulations make things worse because people are fooled into thinking they're preventing such conflict of interest.

War on Drugs

Mexico's arrest of major drug lord will have no impact on drug production.

One in twelve Americans used illegal drugs in just one month.

Local

Walmart employees were looking for Crawford when police shot him.

"Multiple employees at the Walmart store were aware for about 10 minutes that a shopper was walking around with what appeared to be a rifle.
But employees didn’t find him before police did. Officers confronted and shot John Crawford III, a 22-year-old Fairfield man."

Too bad they didn't find him first. They would have saved his life.

"Beavercreek police say Crawford disregarded commands to drop what turned out to be a bb gun before they shot him twice. Crawford’s family and their attorney say the man was not given enough time to comply and probably didn’t understand what was happening before he was shot."

He probably didn't grasp what was happening.

Student faces expulsion for bringing unloaded BB gun to school.

Global Warming and Energy

Global warming frauds want to change the goalposts again.

"Average global temperature is not a good indicator of planetary health. Track a range of vital signs instead, urge David G. Victor and Charles F. Kennel."

Since the globe isn't warming, and their models are wrong, they want to pick other parameters to push their propaganda.

18 years without global warming.

Government-funded art depicts killing global warming deniers.

The claim that half of animals have died in the last 40 years is baseless.

35,000 walruses blamed on loss of sea ice, but sea ice is well above minimum levels.

"In the unenlightened old days, the appearance of 35,000 walrus would have been a cause for optimism, evidence that the species was doing well. But in this age of post normal science, such an event has to be interpreted as a portent of global warming – and so, by definition, it must be spooky and bad."

Apparently half of walruses haven't died off in the last 40 years because they've been doing this the whole time..

Australian meteorologists caught falsifying data to make it appear the world is warming.

3,264 days without major hurricane in US.

California issuing climate credits.

Socialism

Secret Service director resigns.

Comcast security chief named interim director.

When did the Secret Service's mission become sacred?

Economy

EU countries to include illegal prostitution and drugs in GDP figures.

Intel claims internet of things saved it $9 million in a factory. Wait until that gets hacked.

The Washington Post froze pensions.

I've long argued that rulers have an escape plan. This article says they've begun escaping.

Stocks took a dive.

Tax and Spend

US borrowing is 14 times worse than reported.

"The actual amount of borrowing that the federal government did in 2013 was over $8 trillion! Because so much of Uncle Sam´s debt is of a short-term nature, it is necessary for the federal government to continue seeking the kindness of strangers to keep its debt rolled over.
Since total federal tax receipts amount to just shy of $2 trillion last year, the government needed to borrow four times more than its annual “income” just to stay afloat."

Oops.

Argentine ruler attacks creditors because they want paid back.

Why would pensions be sacrosanct during municipal bankruptcy?

"A federal bankruptcy judge on Wednesday upended the widely held belief that public workers’ pensions have a special status in California that makes them impossible to cut, further chipping away at the idea that pensions are sacrosanct in a municipal bankruptcy."

Pensions are usually the biggest liability.

Immigration

Taxpayers to pay legal bills for illegal immigrant children.

Politics

Kasich up over 20 points, threatening all Ohio Democrats.

Trojans attack Apple and Android phones of Hong Kong protesters. This sounds like the Chinese government is waging cyberwar on its Hong Kong people.

Pentagon refuses to reveal results of security test on internet voting systems.

Police State

Police agencies distributing spyware under guise of protecting children on the internet.

Obama and Holder want to be able to spy on every cell phone to protect the children.

Health Care

Ebola patient was moving about for a week before entering hospital, potentially infecting many.

This is one reason government never solves any problem.

"Reports of the Ebola-infected Liberian man in Texas remind us of the symbiotic relationship between the state and “threats” with which to bamboozle Boobus into parting with more of their money and liberty. The Defense Department needs a constant flow of enemies; the DEA needs state-defined “illegal drugs;” the Environmental Protection Agency needs pollution; and the Center for Disease Control needs epidemics to pursue. "

The motivation is to make problems worse, not better.

FDA attacks bitter almonds and apricot seeds because they contain B-17, which supposedly kills cancer. Whenever the FDA goes after some food, it's because that food is beneficial.

Walter Williams doubts the CDC's honesty about Ebola.

"Sticking with medical issues, Dr. Tom Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said, “Ebola poses little risk to the U.S. general population.” If one cannot contract Ebola, as the CDC claims, except through exchange of bodily fluids, then why were millions of dollars spent transporting Ebola patients Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol from Liberia to a U.S. hospital under extreme isolation procedures? The CDC’s Ebola claim strikes me as fishy. To use a line spoken by Marcellus in William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” “something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”"

Some think Ebola can transfer through the air.

Foreign Policy

China may be fragile, but it's not a paper tiger. Paper tigers can't kill people.

Claim protests in Hong Kong are facilitated by US, ultimately to promote regime change in China.

Maybe that's why China searched 10,000 pigeons.

FBI informant hacked 30 countries.

Japan as a client state maneuvered to counter China.

The supposed ban on CIA spying Europe is fake.

War

US signs Obama's extension of war in Afghanistan with puppet.

Perpetual war is causing weapon company stocks to rise. War profiteering.

What a fabulous description of the absurdity of our intelligence state.

"It’s quite an achievement, especially when you consider its one downside: it has a terrible record of getting anything right in a timely way. Never have so many had access to so much information about our world and yet been so unprepared for whatever happens in it.
When it comes to getting ahead of the latest developments on the planet, the ones that might really mean something to the government it theoretically serves, the IC is – as best we can tell from the record it largely prefers to hide – almost always behind the 8-ball. It seems to have been caught off guard regularly enough to defy any imaginable odds."

No kidding.

"Let’s focus for a moment, however, on a case where more is known. I’m thinking of the development that only recently riveted the Obama administration and sent it tumbling into America’s third Iraq war, causing literal hysteria in Washington. Since June, the most successful terror group in history has emerged full blown in Syria and Iraq, amid a surge in jihadi recruitment across the Greater Middle East and Africa. The Islamic State (IS), an offshoot of al-Qaeda in Iraq, which sprang to life during the U.S. occupation of that country, has set up a mini-state, a “caliphate,” in the heart of the Middle East. Part of the territory it captured was, of course, in the very country the U.S. garrisoned and occupied for eight years, in which it had assumedly developed countless sources of information and recruited agents of all sorts. And yet, by all accounts, when IS’s militants suddenly swept across northern Iraq, the CIA in particular found itself high and dry."

I don't buy this.

"In fact, in part because IS assiduously uses couriers for its messaging instead of cell phones and emails, until a chance arrest of a key militant in June, the CIA and the rest of the IC evidently knew next to nothing about the group or its leadership, had no serious assessment of its strength and goals, nor any expectation that it would sweep through and take most of Sunni Iraq. And that should be passing strange. After all, it now turns out that much of the future leadership of IS had spent time together in the U.S. military’s Camp Bucca prison just years earlier."

This defies credibility.

A year ago, Putin wrote an op-ed, pointing out the US knew about ISIS.

"“There are few champions of democracy in Syria. But there are more than enough Qaeda fighters and extremists of all stripes battling the government. The United States State Department has designated Al Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, fighting with the opposition, as terrorist organizations. This internal conflict, fueled by foreign weapons supplied to the opposition, is one of the bloodiest in the world."

The US knew about ISIS.

More evidence the US was well aware of the ISIS threat.

"By late last year, classified American intelligence reports painted an increasingly ominous picture of a growing threat from Sunni extremists in Syria, according to senior intelligence and military officials. Just as worrisome, they said, were reports of deteriorating readiness and morale among troops next door in Iraq. But the reports, they said, generated little attention in a White House consumed with multiple brush fires and reluctant to be drawn back into Iraq. “Some of us were pushing the reporting, but the White House just didn’t pay attention to it,” said a senior American intelligence official."

Obama is lying about it.

More on failures of intelligence.

"President Obama has dispatched 60,000 NSA spies to monitor the cellphone and landline calls, as well as the emails, texts, bank statements and utility bills, of nearly all Americans, in utter disregard for the constitutional standard required for doing so: probable cause of criminal acts by the persons spied upon. Yet his spies somehow missed the Boston marathon bombing, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and theft of Crimea, the downing of the Malaysian civilian airliner and the growth of ISIS in the Middle East."

They can't track terrorists because they're too busy reading our emails and listening to our phone calls.

Here's the root problem with our intelligence services.

"Yet Clapper and his spies are more intent on spying on the American people than on those foreigners who have publicly boasted – however unrealistic their boasts may be – that they will cause us harm. This is, after all, the same Clapper who committed crimes in order to insulate his domestic spies from lawful congressional inquiry when he denied under oath that the U.S. government was acquiring massive amounts of private data about hundreds of millions of Americans."

Exactly.

Irony.

"Combating a group known for its violent sectarianism, the five Arab allies ordered by the United States to participate in the bombing campaign against ISIS are themselves the region’s worst sectarian agitators. Jordan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are now at the vanguard of efforts to dismantle an organization that is essentially of their own creation."

They're only superficially fighting ISIS. The real target is Syria, which is being reduced to the stone age.

Using a fake threat to justify war in Syria.

Kissinger wanted to attack Cuba.

Socialism

Secret Service put Obama on an elevator with an armed, three time convict.

Regulation

FCC removes blackout rules to apparently match the NFL.

Global Warming and Energy

While Antarctic sea has been growing, frauds claim it's shrinking so much it's changing the earth's gravity. The bizarre claims of the frauds are out of control.

Police State

A series of edits to an executive order enabled the surveillance state we suffer under today.

Local

Downtown's killer damns keep rowers from the mainstream.

Dayton's failure to acquire salt means people will die.

Huber Heights's rulers continue to ignore complaints about noise at it's socialist boondoggles. It's funny how this is presented as positive.

In a dire sign for the higher education bubble, but in great news for students, Wilmington College plans to cut tuition by 16 percent in 2015.

Kasich supports murder of John Crawford in Beavercreek Walmart.

More detail from the 911 caller, or should I say his wife.Remember, this thing was a cover-up from the first second the cops shot the victim.

"Ritchie’s call to 911 led to Beavercreek police officers responding to the Pentagon Boulevard store. There, according to police, officers twice ordered Crawford to drop the rifle he was carrying. Ritchie’s wife, April, told investigators: “He pulled what looked to be a charging pin, and it looked as if he loaded the gun.”"

Only gun aficionados know that a charging pin is, and Crawford's toy didn't have one. When and why she came up with this phony terminology is unknown, but it's consistent with DeWine's office showing the surveillance video to her husband and leading him and his wife in the cover-up.

"Ritchie watched the surveillance video with investigators and said he saw two Walmart associates walk past the man with the gun. Ritchie also told investigators there was approximately two seconds between when officers told Crawford — who was on his cell phone — to drop the weapon and when shots were fired."

He didn't say this during the 911 call, so I wonder if he was coached to say it by DeWine's goons.

"Crawford was shot by Beavercreek police officer Sean Williams and died that night at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton."

Beavercreek Walmart is a long way from Miami Valley in Dayton. From another article:

"Crawford was taken to a hospital for evaluation. But he was pronounced dead at 9:23 p.m., likely from internal bleeding or blood loss, the reports said. One bullet penetrated his liver, diaphragm and kidney before exiting his body into the right forearm."

Liver and kidney wounds bleed out in minutes if not seconds. From another article:

"He said Crawford then collapsed, and he rolled him over and forced his hands together to handcuff them behind his back. Williams said police used tourniquets on Crawford for his bleeding until medics arrived. Darkow wrote that "a large amount of blood" was pooling on the floor."

Then why go to Dayton instead of the nearest hospital? Angela Williams was taken to Soin Medical Center, right near Walmart, where she died. From the original article:

"Crawford was shot by Beavercreek police officer Sean Williams and died that night at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton.
“Later the officers came in armed and yelled, ‘Put it down, put it down,’” Ritchie wrote in his handwritten statement. “The guy turned and pointed the rifle at the officer. Then the officer took two shots, and the guy fell.”"

The video shows this is a lie.

"Ritchie told investigators he served as a U.S. Marine and was familiar with firearms because he owned three AR-15 rifles, according to documents. Ritchie said he was classified as an E3 (Lance Cpl.) in the Marines and received a medical discharge. Marine officials said Ritchie was removed from boot camp seven weeks into a 13-week training program in 2008."

If this guy was really familiar with AR-15s, then he was lying. The Crossman Mk-177 doesn't look like an AR-15 to anybody with any knowledge of an AR-15.

"Ritchie told investigators he believed it was a real gun, but whether or not it was real was not the issue. “If you’re dumb enough to point any kind of weapon at a police officer, you get what’s coming to you,” an investigator quoted Ritchie as saying."

Crawford never did that.

"“Even special prosecutor Mark E. Piepmeier said ‘John Crawford did nothing wrong,’” Wright added. “But yet he is dead and no one is being held accountable; this is not just.”"

No, it's not.