War

Obama's wars can't be blamed on domestic politics. They're a product of a power madness. This article blames Victoria Nuland, but Obama hired her.

France plans to bomb ISIS, invite terrorist attacks in response.

Senate approves training and arming Syrian rebels.

Report concludes Ukrainian warplane shot down Malaysian flight. I've thought this was the best theory for a while now. I think the recorded evidence will eventually come out and prove it.

I'm sure this is misrepresented, but I'm sure Putin was ridiculing NATO.

"'If I wanted, Russian troops could not only be in Kiev in two days, but in Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Warsaw or Bucharest, too,' Putin was quoted as threatening, according to Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko."

As if that guy is credible.

Education

More states dump Michelle Obama's lunch restrictions.

Health Care

This sudden outbreak of respiratory illness may secretly come from illegal aliens.

Tax and Spend

IRS corruption.

"Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioner John Koskinen testified Wednesday that the IRS did not save any of the information on Lois Lerner’s destroyed Blackberry and that there is no outside system to store agency emails.
“Hard drive crashes continue as we speak,” Koskinen admitted at a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing when asked if any computers had recently crashed under his watch."

Why isn't Congress holding these people in contempt?

Another way the super-rich don't have to pay taxes.

"Private banking hub Luxembourg sought to lure more wealthy investors on Wednesday by opening a high-security centre designed to look like a jewel box, where collectors can store and trade valuables without paying customs or sales tax."

How about free ports for the rest of us?

Foreign Policy

Defense contractors were hacked at least 50 times since 2012, 20 times by the Chinese. But we're supposed to trust the government to protect the internet.

War on Drugs

More people are calling to legalize heroin, really opium.

"Writing in the Boston Globe, Jack Cole, a police officer for 26 years who is now board chair of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a nonprofit organization “of criminal justice professionals who bear personal witness to the wasteful futility and harms of our current drug policies.” The mission of LEAP “is to reduce the multitude of harmful consequences resulting from fighting the war on drugs and to lessen the incidence of death, disease, crime, and addiction by ending drug prohibition.”"

LEAP might be the only law enforcement organization nobody has ever heard of.

Sports

The corrupt NCAA.

"behind this facade the National Collegiate Athletic Association and university athletic programs are simultaneously running two seemingly diametrically opposed rackets; one taking advantage of the players and the other ostensibly giving them unfair benefits. The NCAA is a tax-exempt, non-profit association that oversees the athletics of just under 1,300 universities. While the NCAA is not technically a government organization, it might as well be. It’s a burdensome bureaucracy that regulates the athletics of public universities, which are substantially funded and strictly regulated by the government. And like any government, the NCAA regulates in an attempt to restrict competition. As Lawrence Kahn noted, “Most economists who have studied the NCAA view it as a cartel that attempts to produce rents by restricting output and limiting payments for inputs such as player compensation.”"

The bureaucrats get rich while the athletes get next to nothing.

"And don’t let the term “non-profit” fool you. Some non-profits can be quite profitable. Indeed, the NCAA recently agreed to a $10.8 billion, fourteen-year contract with CBS and Turner Broadcasting to televise games. NCAA chairman Mark Emmert was rewarded for his efforts with a cool $1.7 million last year."

Travesty.

Economy

IOS 8 burns older iPhone users.

"Downsides to iOS 8 include increased storage and processing requirements, which are bad news for older iPhones, and a host of new bugs associated with the new features."

Slowing them down to pressure them for upgrades.

Price of ground beef hits record high over $4 a pound.

Dow sets another record.

IMF warns of excessive risk.

Police State

The advantage of private security over coercive police.

"“How would things be different,” muses Dale Brown of the Detroit-based Threat Management Center, “if police officers were given financial rewards and commendations for resolving dangerous situations peacefully, rather than for using force in situations where it’s neither justified nor effective?”"

Much better.

Egyptian police use dating sites to hunt down gays.

Politics

Over $1 billion raised for congressional elections, down from recent years.

On the ridiculous claim that some point of politics or law is settled forever.

Ron Paul on the upcoming Swiss referendum on gold, central bank policy and banking policy.

"Just like the US and the EU, Switzerland at the federal level is ruled by a group of elites who are more concerned with their own status, well-being, and international reputation than with the good of the country. The gold referendum, if it is successful, will be a slap in the face to those elites. The Swiss people appreciate the work their forefathers put into building up large gold reserves, a respected currency, and a strong, independent banking system. They do not want to see centuries of struggle squandered by a central bank. The results of the November referendum may be a bellwether, indicating just how strong popular movements can be in establishing central bank accountability and returning gold to a monetary role."

It's too bad that's being squandered.

Global Warming and Energy

Sierra Club accused of tax code violation.

Wave power sinks.

Increased CO2 makes trees grow faster.

More on unpreparedness for global cooling.

Nobody filed briefs supporting Michael Mann against Mark Steyn.

At a meeting touting EPA's carbon tax, power goes out. This Gore effect shows there is a God and he loves us.

War

On the lunacy of arming any Syrian rebels.

"If politics is all about timing, then the sponsors of this bill are clueless – it’s coming up for a vote in Congress just as these alleged Syrian "moderates" have signed a non-aggression pact with ISIS. Furthermore, the "moderate" Generalissimo of the Free Syrian Army has said he won’t lift a finger to fight ISIS."

But worse...

"The Lebanon Daily Star reports Free Syrian Army units near the Lebanese border are actively cooperating with the Nusra Front and ISIS: this is more than a mere nonaggression pact. It’s a full-blown military alliance: and if you’re wondering how ISIS is getting all those American-made weapons and trained fighters, the Star reports:
"The clashes in Arsal last month were sparked after the arrest of Imad Jomaa, an Islamist based in Arsal who had been aligned with the FSA before pledging allegiance to ISIS in July. His 150-strong Fajr al-Islam brigade followed him.
"Jomaa and his men, however, are not alone. Young, battle-hardened men around Arsal are joining the militarily successful, deep-pocketed Islamist militias in increasing numbers."
The Syrian rebels have made a political calculation that, from their point of view, seems unassailable. They’ve determined that Bashar al-Assad and his secular Ba’athist regime is "the principal enemy," as the truce agreement puts it. Whatever ideological and organizational disagreements the "moderate" Islamist fanatics have with the immoderate Islamist zealots can be dealt with after they get rid of the "heretical" Alawites and wipe out the remnants of Syria’s ancient Christian community, said to be the oldest in the world."

This is Obama's real plan.

"The McKeon amendment is a Lend-Lease bill for terrorists: if it passes, we’ll wind up handing sophisticated military equipment to ISIS – which will then be used against our "non-combat" troops in Iraq. And then they’ll tell us we can’t withdraw because otherwise those soldiers will have died in vain. "

They always say that.

House overwhelmingly votes to further arm Syrian rebels which means further arming ISIS.

I wonder how a bad measles vaccine ended up in Syrian rebel territory. I wonder why monsters that ISIS supposedly are give kids measles vaccines.

Shiite militias reject new Iraqi cabinet.

Local

Club Sahara looks like the next bar being targeted by rulers.

Former sheriff's deputy arrested in 33 year old cold case murder of another deputy.

The area's daily school bomb threat cycled back to Kettering's Van Buren Middle School.

State hands out $5.5 million of other people's money to two local cronies.

Huber Heights losing property tax revenue because rulers have taxed the city into decline.

Education

School bans virginity rocks t-shirt.

"Robiano, a student at Ramay Junior High, purchased a t-shirt at a Christian festival that reads “Virginity Rocks” on the front, and “I’m loving my husband and I haven’t even met him” on the reverse, which sums up her beliefs on sex and marriage."

Dumb.

LA department of education gets armored vehicle and grenade launcher from Pentagon.

Global Warming and Energy

Major world leaders refuse Obama's New York global warming summit, embarrassing him.

The global warming frauds continually reach new heights of propaganda.

"Is there any limit to the extremes some climate propagandists will go?The Climategate team removed the warm 1940’s “blip”, erased the Medieval Warm Period, Hid the Decline, and tortured temperature & sea level data until it confessed, but a paper published Monday in Earth’s Future could take the cake by suggesting removal of “the Holocene Epoch from the geologic timescale” and replacing it with the fictitious, scary-sounding “geologic” timescale “The Anthropocene.”"

Shameless.

Emails reveal revolving door and collusion between EPA and green activists.

NASA GISS caught increasing recent historical temperatures again to make it appear hotter than it really is.

"Not too surprisingly, much of the increase in trend was caused by adjustments to data from 2000 to 2013."

Frauds.

New Antarctic sea ice extent record blamed on winds and non-existent atmospheric warming.

War

Osama bin Laden, despite being dead, is winning.

On the sexual assault of men in the military.

There are lots of parallels between the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine because both are proxy wars against against Russia, but there are parallels in Afghanistan too.

ISIS shoots down Syrian fighter jet.

Russian ruble hits record low on sanctions and lower oil price. The Saudis must have cranked up oil production to hurt Russia which explains the lowest gas prices of the year.

Police State

DOJ demands immunity for non-governmental group targeting Iran.

"The U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal judge on Friday to throw out a lawsuit against the American Coalition Against Nuclear Iran, Inc., more popularly known as United Against a Nuclear Iran (UANI). Greek shipping magnate Victor Restis sued UANI last year claiming the group’s false public allegations he aided Iran’s nuclear program had cost him billions in lost revenue. Mystery surrounds precisely how the U.S. Department of Justice decided to become involved in the civil suit. Clues may be found in its most court recent filing (PDF) demanding the lawsuit be shut down. On February 14, 2014 “the Government informed the Court that the United States wished to have an opportunity to determine whether the Government had an interest in this action.” According to the court docket (PDF) through that time UANI was losing a series of key battles to dismiss the Restis lawsuit and evade standard discovery motions that would have revealed its secret sources of funding and clandestine operations to obtain sensitive information. It is likely UANI called in the government to help get the case dismissed.
UANI clearly has a lot to hide. Its board of advisors includes the former head of a country’s foreign intelligence services in the top tier targeting the United States for economic and military secrets – Israeli Mossad’s former General Director Meir Dagan."

This sounds impressively corrupt.

NSA spying supposedly hasn't cost US foreign or domestic friends.

Regulation

Since car dealers in Massachusetts don't sell Tesla's. they can't sue Tesla for selling directly to customers.

Tax and Spend

World rulers propose world-wide tax policy to keep corporations from reducing their tax bills.

NASA to spend billions to ferry astronauts to the ISS.

"After NASA has certified that each company has successfully built its spacecraft, SpaceX and Boeing will each fly two to six missions. The certification process will be step-by-step, similar to the methods used in the cargo contracts, and will involve five milestones. The contracts will be paid incrementally as they meet these milestones. One milestone will be a manned flight to the ISS, with one NASA astronaut on board. Boeing will receive $4.2 billion, while SpaceX will get $2.6 billion."

That's astronomical.

NASA spends tax dollars to create propaganda video about what Mars may have, but did not, look like four billion years ago. It's absolutely absurd.

Economy

Apple edits protruding camera from iPhone 6 photos in example of clearly fraudulent advertising.

New data center protects against EMP from nuclear blast or solar storm. The market provides.