Obama exploits shooting victims in Oregon while ignoring bombing victims in Afghanistan.
After enjoying Boehner as his best ally, Obama demands Paul Ryan as his best new ally speaker. As you would expect from an Obama acolyte, Ryan demands unquestioning loyalty.
We're supposed to believe Republicans have no power to even repeal Obamacare, but they have the power to "ram through" crime legislation.
Monday, October 12, 2015
Sunday, October 11, 2015
War
Army using big data to predict which soldiers will commit violent crimes.
US refuses to say why it attacked hospital in Afghanistan.
Syrian rebels use US anti-tank missiles against Russian tanks. It's a proxy war for sure.
US refuses to say why it attacked hospital in Afghanistan.
Syrian rebels use US anti-tank missiles against Russian tanks. It's a proxy war for sure.
"More missiles are on the way, he said. New supplies arrived after the Russian deployments began, he said, and the rebels’ allies have promised further deliveries soon, bringing echoes of the role played by U.S.-supplied Stinger antiaircraft missiles in forcing the Soviet Union to withdraw from Afghanistan in the 1980s."The insanity will continue.
Economy
American women out of work surpasses most OECD nations.
Banks to accumulate reserves to protect against a downturn. That should reduce the money supply and create the downturn.
Banks to accumulate reserves to protect against a downturn. That should reduce the money supply and create the downturn.
Politics
California makes voter fraud easier.
Obama defends Clinton's private email server. He'll regret that.
Obama defends Clinton's private email server. He'll regret that.
Tax and Spend
Nations reach deal to steal more taxes from corporations saving profits in tax havens.
Environment
Rising CO2 levels indicate a thriving environment. Falling CO2 levels indicate a coming ice age and mass extinction. I know which I prefer.
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Tax and Spend
Old Cubans move to Florida to retire with US benefits.
EPA spends millions on military weapons.
EPA spends millions on military weapons.
"The Environmental Protection Agency has spent millions of dollars over the last decade on military-style weapons to arm its 200 “special agents” to fight environmental crime.We're the stupidest people in the world.
Among the weapons purchased are guns, body armor, camouflage equipment, unmanned aircraft, amphibious assault ships, radar and night-vision gear and other military-style weaponry and surveillance activities, according to a new report by the watchdog group Open the Books."
Economy
Stockman crushes Bernanke for claiming to have saved the economy.
Monsanto stock falls because people aren't buying GM seeds, thank goodness.
Monsanto stock falls because people aren't buying GM seeds, thank goodness.
Politics
Even Clinton's media supporters don't believe her.
158 families have donated half the money so far in the presidential race. We're supposed to be outraged because they're older, white and male. I guess that's because most donate to Republicans.
158 families have donated half the money so far in the presidential race. We're supposed to be outraged because they're older, white and male. I guess that's because most donate to Republicans.
Environment
The USGS refutes claim of 1,000 year floods in South Carolina.
Climate fraud caught in biggest science scandal in US history.
Volkswagen stock is already rebounding.
Climate fraud caught in biggest science scandal in US history.
Volkswagen stock is already rebounding.
War
When doctors without borders treat Taliban fighters, the US bombs their hospital, but when Israeli doctors treat al Qaeda fighters and send them back to Syria, the US doesn't intervene.
ISIS kills Iranian general in Syria.
Turkey is reaping the whirlwind as bombs kill 86 in Ankara.
Another way the state promotes war is encouraging civil war.
North Korea claims it has long range nuclear weapons.
Pentagon tries to buy off victims of hospital attack with condolence payments paid for with other people's money.
ISIS kills Iranian general in Syria.
Turkey is reaping the whirlwind as bombs kill 86 in Ankara.
Another way the state promotes war is encouraging civil war.
"One of the great virtues of liberalism is that, it alone among the political worldviews, discovered a way for people from different ethnic, racial and religious groups to live together in relative peace. In all systems of powerful government, including progressivism, these groups struggle with each other for control of the state. As I demonstrated in a paper presented at the Mises Institute in 2002, the major cause of war in the last fifty years was conflict between or among competing ethnic, racial and religious groups inside states: civil war.[1] The state system has not only failed to solve the problem of peace among disparate groups but in fact is itself the major cause of conflict and violence among these groups. The cause of the violence is the fear of or the actual exploitation and domination of ethnic, racial or religious groups by a state controlled by hostile groups."Then the US take sides and invades.
"It is also a myth that the best way to smooth over multicultural differences is through the ballot box. This is false. The ballot box is simply a means to determine how state violence is to be used against the losers of the election and how those losers will then be exploited economically and in other ways by the majority. Thus, the incentive for minority groups to attempt to secede or seize control of the state to avoid such domination and exploitation exists in democracies and dictatorships. In 23 of the 25 recent intrastate wars, the prevailing regime was democratic throughout the dispute or at least at certain times during the dispute.[2] In certain cases, a democratic government was overthrown because of the feeling of an ethnic or religious subgroup that its interests were not being protected or advanced by the democratic state."Another leftist lie.This is a great, small essay.
North Korea claims it has long range nuclear weapons.
Pentagon tries to buy off victims of hospital attack with condolence payments paid for with other people's money.
Friday, October 09, 2015
Right to Keep and Bear Arms
There's no correlation between gun ownership, murder and mass shooting rates, but that doesn't stop opportunists from pushing gun control laws.
Tax and Spend
My goodness. Now Pluto may have an ocean under its surface which hold life. It's like a broken record.
Health Care
After Amish family spent to years in hiding to protect their daughter from chemotherapy that was making her sick, the girl is declared cancer free.
Regulation
Wikileaks releases harsh new IP rules in TPP. More.
"One chapter appears to give the signatory countries (referred to as “parties”) greater power to stop embarrassing information going public. The treaty would give signatories the ability to curtail legal proceedings if the theft of information is “detrimental to a party’s economic interests, international relations, or national defense or national security” – in other words, presumably, if a trial would cause the information to spread. "That doesn't sound good. More.
Environment
More cars don't meet emissions requirements.
Fukushima disaster blamed for spike in child thyroid cancer.
Fukushima disaster blamed for spike in child thyroid cancer.
Thursday, October 08, 2015
Economy
IMF warns of $3 trillion debt wipeout globally. Let's hope it's only that small.
Wall Street has noticed we're on the path to recession.
Wall Street has noticed we're on the path to recession.
Education
Adults blame three-year-old for multiple school lockdowns they ordered.
SWAT team locks down school over Halloween costume.
SWAT team locks down school over Halloween costume.
Socialism
Seattle's central planners to try learn from San Fransisco's mistakes, but they will still fail because they're central planners.
Police State
In a rate bit of good news, California passes law that basically replicates the fourth amendment.
Politics
I'm skeptical scientists can claim people are gay based on DNA.
DHS computer user accuses House majority leader of affair through Wikipedia. Hilarious, except for the victims. Who would you expect to investigate such an accusation? DHS.
Seattle yoga class excludes whites with no repercussions. Try doing the opposite.
DHS computer user accuses House majority leader of affair through Wikipedia. Hilarious, except for the victims. Who would you expect to investigate such an accusation? DHS.
Seattle yoga class excludes whites with no repercussions. Try doing the opposite.
Tax and Spend
More water propaganda from Mars as NASA claims crater used to be lake.
Including benefits, Cato claims federal workers make, on average, $50 grand more a year than private sector workers. I'm sure they make more, but I'm skeptical it's that much more.
All federal funding should be stopped to sanctuary cities.
Including benefits, Cato claims federal workers make, on average, $50 grand more a year than private sector workers. I'm sure they make more, but I'm skeptical it's that much more.
All federal funding should be stopped to sanctuary cities.
War
AC-130 may have been used to kill doctors without borders, patients and their hospital.
Before being bombed, doctors without borders condemned TPP.
The Navy's answer to out-of-control sexual abuse of women is a diagram attacking male privilege. In other words, women are at fault for being abused because they haven't overcome male privilege. How nice of the Navy to help them.
How the war on terror morphed into a war on Syria, Iran and Russia. They were always the real targets.
Before being bombed, doctors without borders condemned TPP.
The Navy's answer to out-of-control sexual abuse of women is a diagram attacking male privilege. In other words, women are at fault for being abused because they haven't overcome male privilege. How nice of the Navy to help them.
How the war on terror morphed into a war on Syria, Iran and Russia. They were always the real targets.
Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Study shows gun control laws failed to keep guns out of hands of recent mass murderers.
Media
Some people think The Martian is based on a true story.
In 1980 it was claimed home taping was killing record company profits. That was baloney. Downloading really is because it connects artists directly to customers.
In 1980 it was claimed home taping was killing record company profits. That was baloney. Downloading really is because it connects artists directly to customers.
Environment
Something is always the worse ever. In this case, bleaching of coral reefs because of el Nino. This is another prediction we can test soon.
The pause extends to 18 years, eight months.
The pause extends to 18 years, eight months.
Health Care
People taking Paxil are 10 times more likely to commit suicide.
Many, I bet most, vegetarians aren't nearly as vegetarian as they claim.
Many, I bet most, vegetarians aren't nearly as vegetarian as they claim.
Wednesday, October 07, 2015
Tax and Spend
China dumping US debt at record pace. Expect the US to threaten something. Maybe that's why the US is planning to send the navy to China's man-made islands.
"Central banks around the world are selling U.S. government bonds at the fastest pace on record, the most dramatic shift in the $12.8 trillion Treasury market since the financial crisis."So not just China
War
Doctors without Borders is leaving Kunduz after being attacked by US and NATO planes which killed 22.
The US keeps changing the story about attacking the hospital, now trying to justify it.
ISIS executes deserters, evidence it is burning itself out.
Russian launches cruise missiles over Iran and Iraq to attack Syrian rebels.
Turkish F-16s intercept Russian warplane near Syrian border.
""The hospital was repeatedly and precisely hit during each aerial raid, while the rest of the compound was left mostly untouched.""Doesn't sound like an accident.
"So the US government is now planning to conduct its own investigation, which means constructing the plausible deniability narrative necessary to undercut whatever comes out of an impartial scrutinizing of the massacre."Cover up. More.
The US keeps changing the story about attacking the hospital, now trying to justify it.
"To begin with, the organization had repeatedly advised the U.S. military of the exact GPS coordinates of the hospital. They did so most recently on September 29, just five days before the strike. Beyond that, MSF personnel at the facility “frantically” called U.S. military officials during the strike to advise them that the hospital was being hit and to plead with them to stop, but the strikes continued in a “sustained” manner for 30 more minutes. "That's hardly an accident.
"Even cynical critics of the U.S. have a hard time believing that the U.S. military would deliberately target a hospital with an airstrike (despite how many times the U.S. has destroyed hospitals with airstrikes). But in this case, there is long-standing tension between the Afghan military and this specific MSF hospital, grounded in the fact that the MSF – true to its name – treats all wounded human beings without first determining on which side they fight. That they provide medical treatment to wounded civilians and Taliban fighters alike has made them a target before.Let's hope somebody pays.
In July – just 3 months ago – Reuters reported that Afghan special forces “raided” this exact MSF hospital in Kunduz, claiming an Al Qaeda member was a patient."
ISIS executes deserters, evidence it is burning itself out.
Russian launches cruise missiles over Iran and Iraq to attack Syrian rebels.
Turkish F-16s intercept Russian warplane near Syrian border.
Politics
Trump is the only candidate against war in Syria.
If scientists really can control maternal instincts and aggression, it's the end of men as we know them. War on men reaches logical conclusion.
If scientists really can control maternal instincts and aggression, it's the end of men as we know them. War on men reaches logical conclusion.
Environment
Claim that windpower is cheapest energy in UK and Germany without subsidies. I'm skeptical.
Ocean acidification doesn't affect at least some coral.
New IPCC head used to work for Exxon.
Amazing Fukushima photos.
Ocean acidification doesn't affect at least some coral.
New IPCC head used to work for Exxon.
Amazing Fukushima photos.
Local
Bomb threats at four area schools today. The Cincinnati Fusion Center coordinated the response.
Threat at Hamilton High too.
State stealing exotic animals.
Threat at Hamilton High too.
"Multiple tweets were sent on Twitter regarding ongoing threats to the school, which resulted in the Hamilton school district placing all schools in the district on lockdown, according to Superintendent Tony Orr.Nuts. More.
Orr said schools were placed on lockdown for part of the day on Wednesday and nearly 900 students were absent from the high school, which represented about 50 percent of the student population.
“We have been dealing with the growing problem of students making threats toward the school either verbally or online,” Orr said in a statement sent out to parents. “Please know that we take these threats seriously. Unfortunately, we dealt with another situation today at Hamilton High School after a student posted a threat on Facebook.”"
State stealing exotic animals.
"“We tried to comply with the law,” Ashley said. “My husband submitted the proper paperwork that they asked for, but they never let us know that it wasn’t completed correctly … By the time they did, it was after the deadline.”The old catch-22. Owner forced to fight to get his animals back. He'll probably lose.
Ashley said her husband issued new paperwork, but state officials wouldn’t accept it, saying it was too late to apply."
Regulation
How about real free trade?
US regulations forbid great, cheap, economical foreign cars.
Businesses fleeing California's equal pay law.
"If we accept free trade, treatises of commerce have no reason to exist as a goal. There is no need to have them since what they are meant to fix does not exist anymore, each nation letting come and go freely any commodity at its borders."Great point. TPP cannot be free trade.
US regulations forbid great, cheap, economical foreign cars.
Businesses fleeing California's equal pay law.
Health Care
How Monsanto's money and revolving door with government produced bad science and policy.
The same with Coke regarding sugar.
Doctors giving psychotropic drugs not only children, but also to babies.
The same with Coke regarding sugar.
Doctors giving psychotropic drugs not only children, but also to babies.
Tuesday, October 06, 2015
War
While the US and allies besiege Syria, Israel is colonizing Syria's Golan Heights.
ISIS kills 22 in Yemen.
Nuclear smugglers shopped nuclear material to ISIS.
Russia frustrates US in Syria.
ISIS kills 22 in Yemen.
Nuclear smugglers shopped nuclear material to ISIS.
Russia frustrates US in Syria.
Regulation
Supposed fantasy football scandal being used to push regulations.
The TPP remains secret.
The TPP remains secret.
"Unless you are a Member of Congress or on the super special list of 500 chosen corporate elites, you cannot see it. Even when passed, you can’t see it, a court recently ruled. Yet the deal is “finalized” this week and awaiting a vote."Upside-down world. More.
"After 19 rounds of negotiations spanning 5 years, hosted along the Pacific Rim from Bali and Lima to Hanoi and Hawaii, the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) was signed yesterday in Atlanta by all 12 member governments and remains only to be ratified by each country. Although the text has not been made available to the public, and will not be for the next four years to avoid opposition, the TPP is publicized as a tremendous boost in free trade for the signing countries, and thus for almost 40% of world trade. It is supposed to ‘promote’, ‘enhance’, and ‘support’ many things, from innovation to investment and development, and job creation.Great. More.
The language used, characteristic now of all such governmental agreements, is a clear indicator that the TPP is nothing more than additional thousand(s) of pages of new trade regulations, with a sprinkling of tariff reductions that will benefit some industries and companies, and hurt others."
Nice."A real free trade agreement, on the other hand, can be a very simple matter. Congress would pass and the President then sign a short piece of legislation stating something to the affect:“The United States government herewith eliminates all existing barriers, restrictions, and prohibitions on the free and unrestricted importing and exporting, buying and selling of all goods and services between the United States and any and all nations in the world. The U.S. government declares that all forms of peaceful and non-fraudulent trade, commerce and exchange is the private matter of the individual citizens of the United States and any and all others situated in another country. This law takes affect immediately upon passage.”"
Monday, October 05, 2015
Environment
Complex event, i.e. storm, responsible for record flooding in South Carolina, not hurricane.
The news has disappeared Obama's order for BP to pay $20 billion for the 2010 oil spill. The closest I can find is this story about $14 billion. It didn't work out that way. Obama demanded and BP paid $20 billion. Now we learn some entity charged BP with $20 million for the spill. I have no idea how to measure these lies.
The news has disappeared Obama's order for BP to pay $20 billion for the 2010 oil spill. The closest I can find is this story about $14 billion. It didn't work out that way. Obama demanded and BP paid $20 billion. Now we learn some entity charged BP with $20 million for the spill. I have no idea how to measure these lies.
Right to Keep and Bear Arms
I dispute this claim that leftists blame driver for DUI accident and guns for mass shootings. They want to ban alcohol and guns, never bad people.
Maybe parents, and government abuse of families, is largely to blame.
When did it become politically incorrect to advise people to attack killers instead of lying down to be executed?
Maybe parents, and government abuse of families, is largely to blame.
When did it become politically incorrect to advise people to attack killers instead of lying down to be executed?
War
Not to be knee-jerk, but it seems deaths have moved from Iraq to Syria. Maybe it will be different tomorrow, but it seems that way for the last few days.
Putin has a more honest definition of terrorist in Syria than the US.
Russia to send ground troops in to Syria. Russians aren't slaves to political correctness.
Phony offensive agaist ISIS in Syria announced a year later.
Timeline of CIA interventions in Syria producing the chaos we know today.
Putin has a more honest definition of terrorist in Syria than the US.
Russia to send ground troops in to Syria. Russians aren't slaves to political correctness.
Phony offensive agaist ISIS in Syria announced a year later.
Timeline of CIA interventions in Syria producing the chaos we know today.
Foreign Policy
In the opposite of free trade, rulers agree to TPP to detriment of us all.
In upside-down world, the US has taken over the role of the Soviet Union. It's nice to see somebody besides me make this observation.
In upside-down world, the US has taken over the role of the Soviet Union. It's nice to see somebody besides me make this observation.
Sports
Supposedly, four kids have died playing football this year. Probably the same as every year, but football is in the tyrants' crosshairs.
Economy
Discussion of the failing Brazilian economy includes explanation of crisis hitting all countries.
"The 1990s saw a series of reforms that put the country back on the track. In 2003, when the newly elected president, Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva from the Workers Party took over the government, the economy was already on a growth path. Then came the commodity boom with a seemingly insatiable appetite for Brazilian natural and agricultural products. Yet, instead of using the good times that filled the coffers of the Brazilian treasury to carry out highly necessary reforms, the Labor government pursued a populist policy of generous social spending, particularly for the poor parts of the population.Riots to follow.
Now, these achievements of reducing poverty and inequality have come under threat because of the lack of financial funds. This means that Brazil must face not only an economic and a political crisis, but also a social crisis. The confluence of such a triple crisis increases the risks that any one of them gets worse because each individual crisis affects negatively the other crises. The consequential chain from the economic to the political and from there to the social crisis then goes into reverse and the social crisis worsens the outlook to get out of the political and the economic crisis."
"The BRICS never managed to operate as a coherent group. Now, that not only Brazil is in crisis, but also Russia, and that China is in troubled waters, the outlook for the BRICS as a group of playing a major role in global affairs has diminished even more."So global recession benefits the dollar.
Sunday, October 04, 2015
Media
CNN doctors photo to make half-black, half-white Oregon shooter all white. This is kind of the way every media outlet has turned our half-black, half-white president all black.
Politics
Boehner has millions in political funds banked, and he was a powerful fundraiser for the RNC.
Environment
Now the government plans to engineer our diets, as if they haven't done enough damage doing that already, to make us eat less meat.
Saturday, October 03, 2015
Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Even USA Today admits mass murderers often use weapons other than firearms. I'm surprise the mainstream media would point that out.
Federal Reserve
Establishment starting to recommend holding cash, which benefits bankers.
Evidence of widespread price-fixing in the gold market.
1975 memo from Fed Chairman Burns to President Ford explains the motive for central banks depressing the value of gold.
Wall Street suicides blamed on grueling pace, not guilt or corruption.
Janet Yellen's forecasts about the poor recovery have been more accurate than most, but she's terrible about forecasting anything else.
Evidence of widespread price-fixing in the gold market.
"Switzerland’s WEKO said its investigation, the result of a preliminary probe, was looking at whether UBS, Julius Baer, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Barclays, Morgan Stanley and Mitsui conspired to set bid/ask spreads."How? The government creates cartels then punishes members when they act like cartels.
1975 memo from Fed Chairman Burns to President Ford explains the motive for central banks depressing the value of gold.
"And the threat, according to Burns: "liquidity creation of such extraordinary magnitude would seriously endanger, perhaps even frustrate, out efforts and those of other prudent nations to get inflation under reasonable control." Aside from the gratuitous observation that even 34 years ago it was painfully obvious how "massive" liquidity could and would result in runaway inflation and the Fed actually cared about this potential danger, what highlights the hypocrisy of the Fed is that when it comes to drowning the world in excess pieces of paper, only the United States should have the right to do so."The same is true today.
Wall Street suicides blamed on grueling pace, not guilt or corruption.
Janet Yellen's forecasts about the poor recovery have been more accurate than most, but she's terrible about forecasting anything else.
Health Care
Psychologist pours drain cleaner into woman's eyes to help her go blind. Talk about malpractice. It's criminal.
Foreign Policy
The US is making it easy for Putin to play the statesman.
In article about nationalism, Pat Buchanan explains Putin.
In article about nationalism, Pat Buchanan explains Putin.
Environment
VW cheat took multiple heroes.
James Hansen accidentally proved increasing CO2 doesn't warm the planet. Oops.
Rain from off-coast hurricane and another storm on east coast called once in 200 year event. I doubt it.
James Hansen accidentally proved increasing CO2 doesn't warm the planet. Oops.
Rain from off-coast hurricane and another storm on east coast called once in 200 year event. I doubt it.
Police State
DHS illegally coerces mayor of Stockton, CA into surrendering passwords.
The Oregon college shooter who was born in Britain, though he lives most of his life in the US, killed himself.
Gang crime up in Los Angeles.
The Oregon college shooter who was born in Britain, though he lives most of his life in the US, killed himself.
Gang crime up in Los Angeles.
"Residents fear gangs more than they trust the police."That doesn't surprise me.
War
US bomb hits doctors without borders hospital in Afghanistan, killing nine. Death toll reaches 19. Victims called NATO and Washington to stop attacks to no avail. I thought Obama ended the war on Afghanistan.
Partial timeline of CIA interventions in Syria show the US fomented the so-called civil war.
Russian planes strike ISIS capital and command center.
Unlike US, Russia pounds ISIS.
The two women who passed Ranger School received special treatment. Soldiers are forced to wear pregnancy suits and high heels, ostensibly to empathize with women. More.
New weapons will attack DNA and cause mutations.
"UN's human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein called the airstrikes "utterly tragic and inexcusable".Collateral damage. I used to think that meant buildings.
The US military later admitted it carried out airstrikes "in the vicinity" of the hospital, and was targeting Taliban fighters firing at American soldiers.
It said they "may have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby medical facility" but details were still not clear."
Partial timeline of CIA interventions in Syria show the US fomented the so-called civil war.
"2006-2011 Prior to the onset of the Syrian war, the U.S. stirs up opposition to Syrian government (Assad). An April 18, 2011 article reads “Newly released WikiLeaks cables reveal that the US State Department has been secretly financing Syrian opposition groups and other opposition projects for at least five years, The Washington Post reports.”"Success.
Russian planes strike ISIS capital and command center.
Unlike US, Russia pounds ISIS.
"The Russian Air Force has conducted more than 60 flights and bombed over 50 Islamic State targets in three days, according to Russia’s top armed forces official. He added the strikes have significantly reduced the terrorists’ combat capabilities."US rulers stink.
The two women who passed Ranger School received special treatment. Soldiers are forced to wear pregnancy suits and high heels, ostensibly to empathize with women. More.
New weapons will attack DNA and cause mutations.
Friday, October 02, 2015
Police State
The deep state.
"“It is a hybrid of national security and law enforcement agencies: the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Justice Department. I also include the Department of the Treasury because of its jurisdiction over financial flows, its enforcement of international sanctions and its organic symbiosis with Wall Street,” he explained.NSA is part of the DoD.
Even parts of the judiciary, namely the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, belong to the deep state."
"A complex web of revolving doors between the military-industrial-complex, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley consolidates the interests of defense contracts, banksters, military actions, and both foreign and domestic surveillance intelligence.They can control anybody they choose.
According to Mike Lofgren and many other insiders, this is not a conspiracy theory. The deep state hides in plain sight and goes far beyond the military-industrial complex President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned about in his farewell speech over fifty years ago."
"It is also unsurprising that the growth of the corporatocracy aids the deep state. The revolving door between government and Wall Street money allows top firms to offer premium jobs to senior government officials and military yes-men. This, says Philip Giraldi, a former counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer for the CIA, explains how the Clintons left the White House nearly broke but soon amassed $100 million. It also explains how former general and CIA Director David Petraeus, who has no experience in finance, became a partner at the KKR private equity firm, and how former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell became Senior Counselor at Beacon Global Strategies."Powered by self-interest. Funded by bankers.
Local
Dayton's rulers reject bids to replace Webster Street bridge because they were too high. That might be a first.
Environment
More trouble for RICO 20 mastermind.
VW's emissions cheats blamed on EPA budget cuts.
Heroes at VW.
The government wants to use emissions cheating to mandate real-time emissions monitoring.
"At issue is at least 63.5 million dollars from the National Science Foundation, and where it went, whether it was used for the purpose intended, and who benefited from that money. The problem at hand seems to be that there may have been more than a little “double dipping” going on with that grant money as Steve McIntyre pointed out in Shukla’s Gold"Uh-oh.
VW's emissions cheats blamed on EPA budget cuts.
Heroes at VW.
The government wants to use emissions cheating to mandate real-time emissions monitoring.
Politics
Obama exploits mass shooting to advance gun control, lying about the deadly consequences of gun control laws.
The consequences of democracy.
The consequences of democracy.
"Democracy is collectivist in nature. Democracy allows the majority to force their ideas upon others who do not share these views. Voting enables people to live at the expense of others, or even to expropriate them. This inevitably creates social tensions and results in the loss of production. After a certain time every democracy therefore suffers from the same problems as socialism, albeit in milder form: excessive bureaucracy, economic stagnation, loss of freedom, centralization, corruption and social conflicts."Sounds right.
War
How US propagandists downplay the costs of war and make it seem noble.
The US backs al Qaeda in Syria while Russians fight them.
Russians set up no-fly zone around their Syrian base.
FARC leader orders rebels to stop military training as part of peace deal.
The US backs al Qaeda in Syria while Russians fight them.
"There is much whining, this [Thursday] morning, that a supposedly US-“vetted” group known as Tajammu al-Aaza has felt Putin’s wrath – but when we get down into the weeds, we discover that this outfit is fighting alongside al-Qaeda:"No real difference.
"By the way, according to the Pentagon’s own testimony before a congressional committee, only sixty “vetted” fighters were sent into Syria to take on both Assad and ISIS. And while they denied, at first, that their pet “moderates” betrayed Washington and handed over most of their weapons and other equipment to al-Qaeda in return for “safe passage,” the Pentagon later admitted it. Furthermore, we were told that these were the only “vetted” fighters actually in the field, but now we are confronted with “Tajammu al-Aaza,” which – it’s being reported – is deploying US-supplied missile guidance systems against Syrian government forces.By design.
So a handful of “vetted” fighters suddenly turns into an entire armed force – one which, you’ll note, has effectively merged with al-Qaeda."
Russians set up no-fly zone around their Syrian base.
FARC leader orders rebels to stop military training as part of peace deal.
Foreign Policy
Putin compares US to Soviet Union, and rejects both.
US Navy to patrol China's man-made islands. What could go wrong?
"Putin concept of "state sovereignty" is this: "We are all different, and we should respect that. No one has to conform to a single development model that someone has once and for all recognized as the right one."He's right.
The Soviet Union tried that way, said Putin, and failed. Now the Americans are trying the same thing, and they will reach the same end."
US Navy to patrol China's man-made islands. What could go wrong?
Regulation
The FAA's failure to regulate drones illustrates chaos created by government.
FTC targets sharing apps including Uber and AirBnB.
FTC targets sharing apps including Uber and AirBnB.
Economy
Finally, and honest assessment of the Chinese economy.
Hiring slowed again in September, and August and July were revised down. It's getting worse.
Job creation is falling, the labor participation rate is falling and wages are stagnant. Lovely.
Nonparticipants in labor market set record as rate falls to 1977 levels.
Record number of women not working.
All net jobs went to immigrants. Native-born Americans lost jobs.
The recession is almost here, officially.
Here's the rosy prediction from yesterday.
"Nearly seventy million luxury apartments remain empty. These projects created an epidemic of “ghost cities” in which cities built for millions are inhabited by a few thousand. At the turn of the century, the Chinese economy had outstanding debt of $1 trillion. Only fifteen years and several ghost cities later that debt has ballooned to an unbelievable $25 trillion. What we’re experiencing in the Chinese markets are the death throes of an economy that capital markets have realized is simply not productive enough to service that kind of debt."Not just spending, but work. I made that point to a Mises scholar several years ago.
"To compare the Chinese and American economies using a crude metric like GDP is like trying to gauge the athleticism of an individual by how much sweat comes out of his pores. When one economy can produce companies like Google, Boeing, Costco, and General Electric while another builds empty homes, what meaningful information could an unsophisticated metric like GDP tell us? Much to the chagrin of Keynesians, not all spending is created equal."
"The US Federal Reserve orchestrated an artificial boom from 2001 to 2007 through artificially low interest rates and has resumed doing so once again. Entrepreneurs operating under faulty market signals created by the Federal Reserve malinvested hundreds of billions of dollars into capital intensive projects primarily in the housing sector. We paid for our boom with millions of destroyed jobs, wasted labor, and wasted resources. The Chinese Central Bank learned nothing from the Fed’s catastrophic experiment. They will reap the same rewards."So will we. Again.
Hiring slowed again in September, and August and July were revised down. It's getting worse.
"The tepid pace of hiring complicates the picture for the Federal Reserve, which is deciding whether to raise short-term interest rates later this year for the first time in nine years."It's not going to happen. In upside-down world, a terrible jobs reports sends the Dow up 200 points because it means the Fed won't raise interest rates in December.
Job creation is falling, the labor participation rate is falling and wages are stagnant. Lovely.
Nonparticipants in labor market set record as rate falls to 1977 levels.
Record number of women not working.
All net jobs went to immigrants. Native-born Americans lost jobs.
The recession is almost here, officially.
Here's the rosy prediction from yesterday.
Thursday, October 01, 2015
Politics
Oregon school shooter targeted Christians.
"At around noon, officials sent out an automated phone call to parents at Roseburg School District, which referenced the shooting and assured the school was safe.Why did they do that after the school was safe? Of course it was a gun-free campus. Police reportedly killed the shooter. Now we can only hope the media will not make him famous. Fat chance.
Sometime later, students’ cell phones were confiscated and they were escorted out of their buildings with their hands up as authorities patted them down and lined them up to be evacuated on buses, according to NRToday."
War
McCain wants to arm ISIS with shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles so they can down Russian planes.
Ron Paul blames neocons and the incessant wars for the refuge crisis in Europe.
Ron Paul blames neocons and the incessant wars for the refuge crisis in Europe.
Regulation
Google and Microsoft settle 18 patent lawsuits.
Judge throws out 168 patent cases, putting patent troll out of business.
Judge throws out 168 patent cases, putting patent troll out of business.
Environment
While most of the world is supposedly warmer than normal, Iceland and southern Greenland suffer record cold.
Surface of oceans affect climate more than thought.
Website removes RICO 20 letter and is shutting down amid charges of corruption despite operating under a current $4 million grant.
FOIA and Congress are investigating.
More evidence scientists are corrupting historical data to make it appear the climate is warming.
Surface of oceans affect climate more than thought.
Website removes RICO 20 letter and is shutting down amid charges of corruption despite operating under a current $4 million grant.
FOIA and Congress are investigating.
"IGES appears to be almost fully funded by taxpayer money while simultaneously participating in partisan political activity by requesting a RICO investigation of companies and organizations that disagree with the Obama administration on climate change. In fact, IGES has reportedly received $63 million from taxpayers since 2001, comprising over 98 percent of its total revenue during that time."Trouble.
More evidence scientists are corrupting historical data to make it appear the climate is warming.
Local
Miami University charges students more, but wastes the money on stuff besides education.
Another bar owner victimized by crime then victimized by government which shut it down.
Another bar owner victimized by crime then victimized by government which shut it down.
Health Care
How government intervention in health care creates shortages and price gouging.
Poor people eat less healthy food.
Russian scientist injected himself with ancient bacteria and claims it made him healthier.
Poor people eat less healthy food.
Russian scientist injected himself with ancient bacteria and claims it made him healthier.
That makes it less crazy."The bacteria is actually in trace amounts in the water of the region, he claims.'The permafrost is thawing, and I guess these bacteria get into the environment, into the water, so the local population, the Yakut people, in fact, for a long time are getting these cells with water, and even seem to live longer than some other nations. So there was no danger for me.'"
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