Health Care

Stomach acid suppressors not only inhibit digestion, they can cause vitamin B12 deficiency.

Sugar, especially fructose, promotes heart disease and cancer.

Death by Food Pyramid.

It's funny how Obama keeps equating people buying insurance with people signing up for Medicaid. People buying insurance are paying for their own insurance is positive for the health care system. People signing up for Medicaid are stealing money from others which is negative for the health care system and our economy in general. The problem is the latter far outnumber the former, and Obama is trying to hide that. The numbers are way too low.

HHS Secretary Sebelius calls for a review of her Obamacare website. I've never had a project manager who called for a review of his own project. She's fighting to save her job and she's looking for a scapegoat for her own incompetence as a manager.

Republican Colin Powell endorses full-blown socialized medicine.

The FDA helped create CAFOs that inject antibiotics into farm animals to keep disease from spreading like wildfire, and now that antibiotics have bred resistant microbes, they can't stop it.

Local

Some group called the Montgomery County Agricultural Society, a secret organization meaning it has no web page, voted to sell the Montgomery County Fairgrounds.

This might be the MCAS.

"The organization is not a private foundation because it is:An organization that normally receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or from the general public described in section 170(b)(1)(A)(vi)"

Sounds typical. Rulers try to hide this info so taxpayers can't find out how much of their money funds it. I bet this is a crony organization.

Huber Heights central planners approve fieldhouse-hotel.

Ohio Third Frontier dolling out money stolen from taxpayers.

War on Drugs

Uruguay to legalize but still heavily regulate marijuana.

Misc

Two full booklets published by Roosevelt critic Flynn in 1944 and 1945 describe how Roosevelt maneuvered the Japanese into attacking Pearl Harbor and that the attack was not a surprise.

Global Warming and Energy

Other people are realizing that solar panels heat the planet by capturing radiation that normally reflects back into space.

Modeling climate change is probably impossible.

Politics

If you avoid the hagiographies, the truth is coming out about communist Nelson Mandela.

"Here is photo of Winnie Mandela, Nelson Mandela, and long-time leader of the South African Communist Party Joe Slovo at an African National Congress rally, 1990. All three are shown engaged in the raised clenched fist salute which for a century has been the salute of Communists. In the background is the hammer and sickle symbol appearing on a red star. This has been the symbol of the international Communist movement since 1917, and was featured on the flags of the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, and Communist parties throughout the world."
"Watch this brief YouTube video, Nelson Mandela kill Whites, where Mandela is shown with fellow MK members singing an anthem about killing whites while raising their fists in the Communist salute. After his death, the Communist Party and the ANC confirmed that Mandela was a covert member of the Central Executive Committee of the South African Communist Party at the time he was arrested as a terrorist in 1962."

Mandela wasn't a political prisoner. He was an admitted saboteur.

"Mandela and the accused admitted sabotage but denied that they had ever agreed to initiate guerilla war against the government."

I don't understand why people support trading in one form of slavery for another.

The evil of trade sanctions, in this case against South Africa.

Federal Reserve

JPMorgan Chase tries to patent bitcoin or at least compete with it. Why not compete? It looks like there's money to be made.

Tax and Spend

The Onion lampoons NASA's claims of discovering lake that could support life.

Foreign Policy

Canadian intelligence fronts for NSA.

Freedom of Speech

British police using copyright to censor the internet.

I don't understand how revenge porn is a crime. If you own photos, you can do what you want with them. You can show them to anybody and everybody you want. If you were stupid enough to make a porno, you risk having it posted to the internet.

Economy

Privately funded mission to Mars contracts Lockheed Martin.

Police State

Home page for Silent Circle and Lavabit's Dark Mail Alliance.

28 Santa Monica police made over $200,000.

"Four captains, five lieutenants, 12 sergeants, five officers, the deputy police chief, and Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks make up the list.

The top paid member, a sergeant, made $314,360. Next in line, another sergeant, made $268,817."

It's good to be the king.

Health Care

Whooping cough vaccine is ineffective and does more harm than good.

Sports

Showing how much it hates fans, Napoleon Goodell's NFL bans tailgating at Super Bowl.

Apparently there's a rise in the child sex trade in anticipation of the World Cup in Brazil. Apparently the same thing happens in the US around the Super Bowl, but nobody talks about it. I have no idea if this real, exaggerated, or completely false.

Global Warming and Energy

Antarctica records coldest temperature ever.

Education

The school-to-prison pipeline feeds the police state.

Socialism

Mandela opposed socialist apartheid. This is an excellent article.

Mandela and the failure of his socialism.

US presidents didn't always admire Mandela.

Mandela accused of being communist.

Feds sell final shares of GM, taking $10.5 billion loss while claiming 768 percent return on investment. You can't make this stuff up.

Freedom of Speech

UK man arrested for joke about Mandela whom the BBC compares to Christ.

War

If the French army was battling militias in the US, the French would be evil, but when they battle militias in Africa, they're the good guys. Many will blame racism for the double standard, but this is about politics, not race.

US flying troops, some of whom must be Americans, into CAR. Obama dragged us into another war.

Evidence calls into question government's claims about soldiers' suicides.

"Her autopsy report and photographic evidence revealed that Johnson had a black eye, broken nose, loose teeth and burned genιtals. Also, the gunshot wound she received was inconsistent with the military’s story of how the young woman died. Despite evidence to the contrary, the Department of Defense stood by its original conclusion that Johnson had died via suicide."

The government won't budge.

North Koreans understand the war in Korea is not over because the US refuses to allow it to end.

Congress defeats sexual assault investigation reform in defense bill.

Pakistanis dispute the numbers of killed on wounded by US drone strikes as well they should.

Obama lied about Syrian gas attack the same way he lies about everything.

Japan fears war with China, which means the US would have to defend Japan, next year.

Freedom of Religion

Satanists propose monument on government property next to Ten Commandments. This is a powerful indictment of the idea of the state. The idea that property belongs to all is absurd and leads to these absurd situations. And unfortunately, because the state is an evil institution that funds itself through institutionalized theft and protects itself through institutionalized coercion, a satanic monument is more fitting than the Ten Commandments.

Local

Unsatisfied, as apex criminal always are, with the level of indoctrination done by government schools, Tipp City's rulers plan to kidnap children for an entire day of kindergarten.

Huber Heights seems like it's bordering on similar corruption as Washington Twp. They built that swim facility with money stolen from taxpayer, and it lost money. Now they're building a music venue with money stolen from taxpayers that is guaranteed to lose money. They shut down an ailing bar because they couldn't provide law and order. Now they their city manager resigns after a year the same day the central planners are to vote on a project next to the music venue.

Regulation

Part of the fallout from Black Thanksgiving Thursday is a proposed regulation to increase overtime pay.

Tax and Spend

I'm sick of these NASA propaganda news releases.

"In a suite of findings announced Monday, the scientists are painting a vivid picture of Gale Crater: filled with a modest lake of water, rich in the chemical ingredients for life, theoretically able to support a whole Martian biosphere based on Earth-like microbes called chemolithoautotrophs."

Or not. This is all conjecture designed to obtain more funding for future missions to Mars.

Bottom 40 percent of household pay -9.1 percent income tax because they received on average $18,950 in welfare.

Misc

Discovery of giant exo-planet far from star doesn't fit theories.

People are biased against creative thinking. That doesn't surprise me one bit.

Scientists discover huge freshwater reserves under ocean. Will it be easier to get to them than to desalinate ocean water?

New York City cockroaches evolve to survive cold. Apparently they didn't evolve; they came from Asia. When all else fails, blame Asia. Coming soon to your city.

Pat Buchanan recommends Hoover's history of how Roosevelt maneuvered the US into WWII.

More evidence:
"Another journalist, Robert B. Stinnett, recently found the “smoking gun” — an 8-page 1940 memo by a lieutenant commander in the navy on how to get Japan to attack us, a memo that Roosevelt adopted, point by point. His book is titled, Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor(Free Press, 1999)."


Deadly radiation at Fukushima reportedly reaches highest levels yet. I'm skeptical.

"Radiation found in an area near a steel pipe that connects reactor buildings could kill an exposed person in 20 minutes, local media reported."

Don't do that then. Don't climb inside an operating reactor either. Don't jump off the Empire State Building either.

Police State

NSA collects gamers' chat and employs undercover agents in online games and Xbox Live. I'm sure lots of terrorists plot attacks in World of Warcraft. They're just paying people tax money to play games. Snowden strikes again.

NSA's corporate partners have joined an alliance against NSA.

"Eight firms, Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, AOL, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Yahoo, have formed an alliance called Reform Government Surveillance group."

They have to carry out this marketing ploy because NSA is killing their businesses, and I'm sure they would love not to have to spy on behalf of NSA, but the government is the boss, so these companies do what they're told. To show how phony this is, they published it in the New York Times.

Tech giants spar over drones with Google CEO proclaiming the government should ban Amazon's drones. What a farce.

Germany's DHL testing drones for delivery of urgent packages to remote locations. So much for my claims of farce. This isn't the wave of the future. It's the present.

More on NSA and FBI hacking of computers to control cameras and microphones.

Every aspect of American life is a police matter.

Government wants to hold people responsible for the actions of others.

DARPA plans to launch spy satellite that will dwarf all other satellites.

Group of authors claim surveillance is theft.

Health Care

Just what we need, a bunch of Silicon Valley weirdos changing the food we eat like getting rid of eggs and chicken.

Ron Paul cuts through the crap about the Hobby Lobby challenge to Obamacare.

At least 500 Ohioans tried to jump on Medicaid thanks to Obamcare. This is supposedly a good thing.

Exercise reduces risk of modern plague: dementia.

Bloomberg to mandate flu vaccines. Hasn't he been replaced? Apparently the mayor-elect hasn't taken office yet.

War

New evidence the sarin gas attack in Syria was a false flag carried out by US-backed rebels. More.

Sergeant investigating sexual abuse in the military recruits female soldiers into prostitution ring.

Politics

Government is a product of natural selection, but reason and wealth can overcome it.

The article on passing pension reform in Illinois accidentally exposes one of the best kept secrets of politics:

"Many [Republicans] said the plan didn't cut enough costs for the state. They also faced pressure from campaign donors, and concerns about giving Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn a re-election boost.
Democratic lawmakers stepped forward with more yes votes to compensate, even though the plan was bitter medicine for their party's traditional union allies."

The two parties get together and decide who will vote for what bills to best benefit both parties. They trade votes with each other to benefit both. They work together, not against each other.

Tax and Spend

The cause and consequences of Detroit's problems.

Foreign Policy

Pravda supports the Ukranian president's rejection of ties to the EU. Imagine that. You can't help but be sympathetic to the anti-Russian sentiment in Ukraine, but EU is probably worse right now.

Ron Paul remembers when our rulers claimed it was impossible to negotiate with Iran.

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Gun rights supporters force resignation of another gun-grabber in Colorado.

Federal Reserve

Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme, nor is it money.

Global Warming and Energy

Obama allows wind farm owners to kill eagles without repercussion for the next 30 years. Talk about a clash of interests.

Now the global warming frauds are trying to claim they predicted global cooling and winter storms.

Police State

Toledo lawsuit tests jurisdiction of red light camera administrative tickets.

Cops taser boy into coma after he breaks up a fight at school. This is another way government encourages bullying and violence.

The reason engaging with a cop is so dangerous is cops are trained to treat us mere serfs as the enemy. That's because government preys on us, and we have the power to stop it.

"But you do know – having read about it last week – that another armed stranger subjected another motorist who’d apparently done nothing more than commit a minor moving violation to repeated forced anal probing, forced enemas and a forced colonoscopy. You know, moreover, that this was not an isolated, one-time incident (see here) but rather, has become a fairly common practice (affirmed by the Supreme Court, which has ruled that citizens are subject to strip searches – at the discretion of the cop – after having been detained for almost any “violation,” including minor traffic offenses)."

Police brutality is the norm anymore, not the exception.

The coming civil unrest and martial law.

Local police copy NSA and spy on cell phones.

Morale is down at the NSA. Maybe they should stop spying on Grandma and everybody else.

Local

Crash snaps power pole.

Police carry out high speed chase through downtown I-75 construction. We're lucky they didn't kill anybody.

Health Care

Overweight people are not healthy, even if they're "metabolically healthy".

The Medicaid time bomb is exactly what Obama wanted.

"The good news, if you want to call it that, is that roughly 1.6 million Americans have enrolled in ObamaCare so far.
The not-so-good news is that 1.46 million of them actually signed up for Medicaid. If that trend continues, it could bankrupt both federal and state governments."

It may hasten the collapse, which is exactly what Obama wanted.

Local

Warren county racino opens this week. There's no way to know if the gambling market is crowded because it's controlled by the government.

Police State

Encroaching government brain reading technology will force us all to literally wear tin foil hats.

Federal prison population grows 27 percent in ten years.

Apparently people still haven't figured out that hackers like the FBI can activate webcams without turning on the indicator light.

Politics

Walter Williams believes that Obama's election as president proves that the civil rights struggle for blacks in the US is over with blacks winning.

"For almost all of my life, a black’s becoming the president of the United States was at best a pipe dream. Obama’s electoral success further confirms what I’ve often held: The civil rights struggle in America is over, and it’s won. At one time, black Americans did not have the constitutional guarantees enjoyed by white Americans; now we do. The fact that the civil rights struggle is over and won does not mean that there are not major problems confronting many members of the black community, but they are not civil rights problems and have little or nothing to do with racial discrimination."

I wonder how much grief he catches for that.

Tax and Spend

Thomas Sowell presents powerful evidence that welfare makes people stupid.

Health Care

Corrupt Democrat operative wrote Obamacare.

"And now for the shocking truth about who actually wrote Obamacare. After all the secrecy surrounding Obamacare is lifting, we can finally put a name to this cruel lie. The man’s name who wrote a great deal of the scourge that we call Obamacare, is convicted felon, Robert Creamer.
Creamer is now credited for writing 628 pages of Obamacare while he was in prison. Creamer is a senior Democratic operative who defrauded banks in order to keep his Marxist/Communist community organization afloat by engaging in 16 counts of bank and tax fraud. Creamer’s book is entitled, Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win.
Many left-wingers say that Creamer’s book has inspired them in their progressive fight to turn America into socialist Europe. Creamer’s work has received support and garnered an endorsement from a surprising source. Or, maybe it is not so surprising after all. Former White House Senior Adviser, David Axelrod, described Creamer’s book as a “blueprint” for future progressive victories. Creamer has stated that in order to impose socialist healthcare on an unwilling nation, it is necessary to deceive the people."

That's no surprise.

Foreign Policy

China's extravagant claims over land and sea.

"With Maoism and Marxism a dead faith, the Communist Party is no longer able to invoke world revolution to justify its monopoly on power. Xi Jinping’s party needs to ground its claim to absolute and permanent power on some other animating force.
China is rooting its new claims in the old standbys — history, tribe, and nation — the natural recourse of rising powers."

Lovely.

Iran follows nuclear agreement, but warmongers want us to be scared anyway.

"Although the development does not appear to contravene the interim agreement struck between world powers and Iran last month, it may concern the West nonetheless, as the material can also provide the fissile core of a nuclear bomb if enriched to a high degree."

If. That would break the agreement and be detected by inspectors. This incessant warmongering, like a child forever touching another to provoke a response, over this non-issue has gone from stupid to absurd. I hope people are tired of it.

In response to China's aggression, US pressures Japan into passing sweeping secrecy laws.

War

US claims a US teacher was killed in terrorist haven Benghazi. Libyan claim he was a CIA agent. I know who I believe. The article links the killer to the murder of Ambassador Stevens.

The US plans to continue the war in Afghanistan following the model of the British occupation of Iraq in the 1920s.

Protests of drone attacks have forced the US to stop running convoys of supplies through Pakistan to Afghanistan.

Secret US drone bigger and stealthier.

Education

Government school students falling compared to other nations.

"The scores are in from the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment, which, every three years, tests 15-year-olds from the world’s most advanced countries.
For the United States, the report card is dismal. The U.S. ranking has fallen to 17th in reading, 21st in science, and 26th in math.
Florida, one of America’s diverse mega-states, competed separately in the PISA exam, and scored below the U.S. average.
In the academic Olympics, the American superpower is a mediocrity.
Ranked one through seven in test scores in reading, science and math were Shanghai-China, Singapore, Hong Kong-China, Taiwan, South Korea, Macau-China, Japan. Also well ahead of the United States is Vietnam.
By and large, Western Europe has moved out in front of us and our close competitors are the Slovak Republic and Russian Federation."

What a disaster. Let's keep doing the same thing and hoping for a different result.

Global Warming and Energy

The death of the green movement is being greatly exaggerated. There's too much money at stake for it to die. It's greedy leaders, hopefully not Al Gore any more, will figure out how to bring it back.

Health Care

Corrupt science fuels governments war on essential fats.

WebMD is controlled by the government and its Big Pharma agents for the benefit of our rulers.

"According to the Washington Times,¹ WebMD, the second most visited health site on the World Wide Web, has received a $4.8 million government contract to educate doctors about the ins and outs of the Affordable Care Act, colloquially dubbed “Obamacare.”"
"That mental health screen debacle sounds awfully similar to the quizzes WebMD has now been contracted to produce under this government contract, “to convey key sponsor messages.” What might these sponsored messages be? In all likelihood, they will be related to the promotion of key drugs, such as cholesterol-lowering statins, now that the statin treatment guidelines have been updated to apply to twice the number of patients as previous guidelines."

No wonder WebMD makes people believe they're sick.

Media

The story of Snowden and Greenwald's NSA leaks.

""I crave the hatred of those people," Greenwald says about the small, somewhat incestuous community of Beltway pundits, government officials, think-tank experts and other opinion-makers he targets routinely. "If you're not provoking that reaction in people, you're not provoking or challenging anyone, which means you're pointless.""

You got to love that.

"Like Bradley Manning, whose case he would later study, Snowden had an idealized view of the United States and its role in the world. He also had a gamer's sense of his own ability to beat the odds – he'd later tell Greenwald that his moral outlook had been shaped by the video games he played as a kid, in which an everyman-type battles tremendous and seemingly invulnerable forces of injustice, and prevails."

The never-mentioned, positive aspect of video games. Much like comic books.

"Snowden came to be bothered by much of what he saw in the CIA. He would later cite an operation to recruit a Swiss banker as an asset that involved getting the man arrested on drunk-driving charges. He also recalled, in an interview with The New York Times' Risen, the retaliation from a senior manager whose authority he'd once questioned. The incident arose over a flaw Snowden found in some CIA software, which he pointed out to his superiors. Rather than praising his initiative, however, one manager, who didn't appreciate such enterprising behavior, placed a critical note in his personnel file, effectively killing Snowden's chance for promotion."

That's exactly what I would expect from the kind of people attracted to and successful at government work.

""You have to learn the game," he says. "I put on a suit. I speak in sound bites. I know what I'm talking about – and I don't drone on and on. One of the main criticisms I have of Noam Chomsky is that he allowed himself to get marginalized by not ever strategizing how to prevent it. If you're an advocate and believe in political values, your obligation is to figure out how to maximize your impact."

This is why Ron Paul failed to win the 2012 nomination. Being honest, of great character and correct isn't enough. He could have adapted to the playing field of the campaign and won on those terms, but he didn't.

"Snowden, who left the CIA in 2009, was a natural fit for the NSA, which embraced the kind of problem-solving initiative his CIA bosses seemed to resent. "The NSA was very blue-collar, much more utilitarian than the CIA," says Drake. "If you could prove your chops with computers, it didn't matter what your background was, or what your grades were. We had a lot of people like Snowden at the NSA, who I hired. And there was no limit on the contracting side.""

That's because the NSA wanted to out-compete the CIA, competition is a wonderful motivator, but that philosophy is dead after Snowden.

"The more Snowden saw of the NSA's actual business – and, particularly, the more he read "true information," including a 2009 Inspector General's report detailing the Bush era's warrantless-surveillance program – the more he realized that there were actually two governments: the one that was elected, and the other, secret regime, governing in the dark. "If the highest officials in government can break the law without fearing punishment or even any repercussions at all, secret powers become tremendously dangerous.""

Good for him.

"As a result, Alexander was able to fully realize a concept, promoted by Hayden, of the NSA's "owning the Net" – gaining access to virtually everything. By February 2012, the agency had laid out its strategic vision in a five-page mission statement declaring its intention to acquire data from "anyone." One program in support of this goal, known as "Treasure Map," was so overarching it claimed to map out information from "any device, anywhere, all the time." The agency referred to the present as the "golden age of SIGINT.""

Some golden age.

"Snowden has been vague about when he decided to leak, but he has been very clear on what compelled him to act. "It was seeing a continuing litany of lies from senior officials to Congress – and therefore the American people – and the realization that Congress . . . wholly supported the lies," he said. "Seeing someone in the position of James Clapper – director of National Intelligence – baldly lying to the public without repercussion is the evidence of a subverted democracy.""

Good for him again.

"Greenwald's methods, and his unabashed denunciation of those who criticize them, have raised questions about his own agenda. "This is a carefully constructed narrative," says James Lewis of CSIS. "They've got documents pertaining to foreign spying against the U.S., but not a single one of those has been released. Instead, this is scripted to lead you to a certain outcome, that it's just the U.S. doing this. The fact that they haven't released these documents makes me very suspicious. They're spinning as much as the U.S. government is.""

All government's do it, but the US is the richest by far, and I'm sure it has the greatest capability by far. And we have seen reports about Canada spying. Greenwald is unlikely to release anything about Russia while Snowden lives there.

Tax and Spend

The US government is in worse fiscal shape than Detroit, by far.

Pension cuts coming in Detroit.

Education

Parents defeat vein scanners for students in Washington school district.

Gee takes leave of absence from Ohio State to become president at West Virginia.

"Gee abruptly retired from Ohio State on July 1 with a $5.8 million retirement package. His departure came after news leaked that he made offensive comments about Catholics, the University of Notre Dame and the Southeastern Conference. The remarks came a year ago at the OSU Athletics Council meeting. His tendency to stick his foot in his mouth wore thin with university trustees, who put Gee on a remediation plan in March 2013.
Our Columbus Bureau also detailed Gee’s exorbitant spending and how he expanded his executive staff and began paying them performance bonuses. Between October 2007 and mid-2012, Gee spent more than $7.7 million on travel, housing, parties and entertainment.
Upon his retirement, Gee received a five-year contract with OSU that included an office, an appointment to the law school, a $1.5 million lump sum and a $410,000 annual salary and the title ‘president emeritus.’ Gee will maintain his titles and positions at OSU but not take a salary while at WVU, Ohio State officials said."

This guy must know where bodies are buried, and this freakishly bizarre setup can only occur because of the high education bubble.

Economy

The Chinese know what's going on.

"After a couple of generations of US-dollar dominance, Americans have become lazy with our wealth. While we exploit our economic power by going into debt for fancy cars, big-screen TVs, and expensive smart phones, our creditors are steadily stockpiling gold."

"Unfortunately, many Westerners were selling into the Eastern demand. In fact, the stagnant spot price concealed a historic transfer of real wealth."

They're smarter than we are.

Gold manipulation impacts international trade.

"More recently all members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a common security and trading bloc led by Russia and China and incorporating the bulk of Asia’s land mass, have been accumulating gold. Between current SCO and future members (India, Iran, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Belarus and Sri Lanka), with their citizens numbering over 3 billion people, they have together cornered the global market for physical supply, without even taking account of demand from the rest of South East Asia’s gold-hungry population."

Western central banks have little left to sell.

China undermines dollar's reserve status.  China quietly accumulating gold.

Car brands are dropping like flies.

Unemployment unexpectedly fell to 7 percent in November, and 455,000 people entered the workforce, but 41 percent of those jobs were in government.

"Federal, state and local governments hired a net additional 338,000 workers in November, equaling 41 percent of the total of 818,000 net additional jobs created in the United States during the month.
At the same time, the unemployment rate for government workers fell from 4.4 percent in October to 3.2 percent in November. (The overall national unemployment rate fell from 7.3 percent to 7.0  percent.)"

This is terrible news.

The spin that this one report means the economy is finally recovering is already out. It was like they already had the article written.

Streaming music sites dying because of copyright.

Health Care

Praise for natural, healthy butter.

Obamacare designed to screw over young people and make them pay unhealthy people's health care bills. While this is true, the authors knew young people wouldn't and could afford to sign up, so the system would collapse.

Measles cases triple in US.

Misc

Scientists have long been frustrated they couldn't find nearly enough convection in the sun to support their theories, but now they claim they have found it. I'm skeptical.

Tepco to dump all radioactive Fukushima water into ocean.

Beginner reading list on history.

Diver rescue man trapped in a sunken tugboat for three days.

Forget brain-reading technology. Microsoft is making a smart bra to read women's emotional state.

Global Warming and Energy

Global warming isn't going to kill off a million species, if any.

Global warming fraud who made up stories about polar bears drowning forced to retire from cushy government job, but paid $100,000 to do so. Being a global warming fraud pays. That's the motive behind the entire great global warming scam.

This is a funny video.

Because people in developing countries die from air pollution from coal power plants, environmentalists should support fracking.

War on Drugs

Today is the 80th anniversary of the repeal of alcohol Prohibition. Too bad we aren't smart enough to repeal all Prohibition.

Six people hospitalized with radiation exposure from Mexican cobalt-60 theft. All six have been released into police custody. So much for the radiation killing them.

Politics

The economics of apartheid.

I really liked this Pope until he started preaching Marxism.

Leftists urge Obama to be even more lawless.

I'm never overly impressed with psychological studies, but it makes sense to me that people who are skeptical of the flood of lies from the establishment are more sane, or at least more rational, than the people who accept them.

Sports

Mariners pay Cano third richest contract in history. Fed money is flowing into baseball salaries.

War

Pentagon loosens restrictions on killing civilians with drones.

Great website shows that the war on terror is irrational.

"By invoking terrorism, the government has justified wholesale invasions of other countries, a massive stripping away of our basic liberties, and shifting money to military contractors and away from things that threaten human life on a huge scale."

A fantastic amount of money. This is our rulers' war, not ours.

"We Americans do not benefit from expensive invasions of other countries. Indeed, if anything, they incite retaliations against Americans. We do not benefit from losing liberties and living in a police state. We do not benefit from wasting money on the military when we could be spending it on goods that really matter to us."
"The acts of government officials are their own. They are privately motivated, even if publicly financed. The war on terror has been privately motivated. It is a private war in that sense, like a war fought by some king of old in order to extend his dominion."

Well said.

Police State

US spies adopt world-dominating octopus as their symbol and "nothing is beyond our reach" as their slogan. Nice.

Unarmed man is charged with wounding bystanders shot by police.

TSA forcing airports to install more plane exit detention pods.

"A new Transportation Security Administration directive that mandates airports provide security for terminal exits is likely to lead to the installation of more ‘detention pods’ which have the capability of subjecting travelers to biometric scans."

This an admission that the TSA allows terrorists onto planes.

DHS sets up warrantless search checkpoint at Galveston ferry.

"The clip shows drivers being forced to exit their vehicle to allow the DHS officials to inspect both their trunk and hood before being permitted to pass the checkpoint."

The tyranny never ends.

Local

The DP&L power outage map shows only 2 outages in the region, both in Montgomery county. Update has 3 in Montgomery, 9 in Greene and 106 in Miami counties.

Montgomery County OK stealing millions from citizens and transferring it to rich cronies.

Foreign Policy

How US policy hinders peace in the Middle East.

Misc

Private company plans to mine the moon.

"“It’s very small. You and I could put our arms around it,” Richards said. The small size lets the company plan missions for a fraction of what it would cost a superpower such as the U.S. or China."

That could be said for every government program.

Remembering how Roosevelt provoked Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor, which the US knew about in advance, but did nothing.

Global Warming and Energy

Ohio Senate cancels vote on power industry reform.

There are more trees in America today than 100 years ago.

Tax and Spend

Illinois tries to fix it's $100 billion pension shortfall, but it won't work.

Politics

Obama once claimed he had never met his Kenyan uncle. Now he says he lived with him. Was he lying then or is he lying now, or maybe both. This guy is a piece of work.

A majority of youth would vote to recall Obama. A little late now. They should have done their homework before they voted.

Hispanics abandon Obama.

Praise for the Anti-Federalists who warned 226 years ago that the Constitution would be the end of freedom in America and exactly how the Constitution would make that happen.

Fool professor claims the Constitution was designed to limit the power of government. If that was true, we'd still be ruled by the Articles of Confederation.

War on Drugs

Crooks who stole Cobalt-60 in Mexico exposed themselves to radiation that will most like kill them quickly.

"The cobalt-60 was found, removed from its casing, in a rural area near the town of Hueypoxtla about 25 miles from where the truck was stolen. Jimenez suspects that curiosity got the better of the thieves and they opened the box. So far the carjackers have not been arrested, but authorities expect they will not live long. "The people who handled it will have severe problems with radiation. They will, without a doubt, die.""

Talk about karma. I wonder if the people who found it got irradiated too.

War

UN escalates war in Central African Republic.

The CIA hired private mercenaries as covert agents. I have no problem with private intelligence, but covert agents aren't gathering intelligence. They're killing people.

Economy

The Department of Labor modifies Q3 growth numbers from 2.8 percent to 3.6 percent. I'm sure no corruption was involved there. Of course, with real inflation running about 8 percent, that means our economy is shrinking at at least 4.4 percent annually.

"Almost the entire third-quarter revision was due to a big jump in stockpiles. Consumer spending, the lifeblood of the economy, was the weakest in nearly four years.
When excluding inventories, the economy grew at a 1.9 percent rate in the third quarter, down from 2.1 percent in the spring. That's in line with the same subpar rate that the economy has seen since the Great Recession ended four years ago."

As usual, the real story is much worse than the headline.

A $15 minimum wage could put 20 percent of fast food workers out of work, costing 460,000 jobs.

Article claims one in ten jobs in America is in a non-profit. That's crazy. These jobs don't create wealth. It also claims non-profits are rife with corruption, and since they're funded mostly by government, I believe that.

Local

School bus driver arrested for rape of eleven year old school girl.

Regional JobsOhio only makes 60 percent of its scandalously low job creation goal. Of course, it killed far more jobs than it created, but that isn't mentioned.

FBI terrorism task force arrests people for minor immigration issues supposed to be taken care of by ICE, not terrorism.

Food stamps give the government another excuse to lock people in prison. This wouldn't happen if they didn't exist.

Power outages have become so common, companies provide web sites to track them. Fat lot of good that does people without power.

Beavercreek school levy passes recount by 31 votes.

Health Care

Malnutrition and money factors into ADHD diagnoses.

Diplomats defraud Medicaid. The New York Times wants us to be surprised by this.

Nine times as many sign up for Medicaid in Washington as for private plans. This is exactly what the law was designed to do. It's going to destroy private insurance because that's what it was designed to do.

Now the establishment is waging war on vitamin D because supplementing with it keeps people off Big Pharma's drugs.

Federal Reserve

EU fines six banks including JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup a total of $2.3 billion in Libor scandal.

Politics

Obama calls income inequality the defining issue of our time. The consequences of government interference in the market is the defining issue of our time.

Media

Journalists are self-censoring to avoid government surveillance.

Police State

Government puts witness on no-fly list so she can't testify at a trial about the no-fly list, then lies about it.

NSA tracks 5 billion cell phones daily, including those of Americans overseas.

Regulation

FCC allows ISPs to discriminate bandwidth. That's mighty generous of them. I hate that allow word.

War on Drugs

As the war on drugs continues to devolve Mexico into civil war, a truck containing radioactive medical material was stolen outside Mexico city. Truck and material recovered.

Misc

Ohio declared sweariest state.

Over 2 million passwords have been stolen by a keylogger virus.

Local

Drones already flying overhead.

Cops with drug dogs now routinely search government schools. This is ridiculous.

Global Warming and Energy

The myth of increasing extreme weather events.

Health Care

Whooping cough vaccine found counterproductive.

Government spends billions of taxpayer's money to promote Obamacare online.

Foreign Policy

Ron Paul welcomes negotiations with Iran.

Tax and Spend

Judge rubber stamps Detroit bankruptcy, making it official.

Government is using taxpayer dollars to study zombie epidemics.

There's an old saying that an army travels on its stomach. The Pentagon doesn't care about that. It cares about funding pie in the sky weapons systems that pay the generals with big kickbacks. That's why it wants to cut commissaries.

Health Care

Do we really need an expert to tell us that Obamacare and government intervention in health care is bad and that a free market in health care is good? Yes! Emphatically yes! Americans have been misinformed and miseducated, so we need all the experts we can find to correct that problem as often and as powerfully as possible.

Regulation

Tesla first fought and lost to regulators owned by car dealers in Texas, but in won against the same in Ohio possibly because it took crooks - I mean legislators - for test drives. Regulations barring Tesla from selling cars are criminal, but this illustrates how easily freedom is sold.

Police State

The Castro man who kidnapped three young women and held them for years is a monster, but his supposed suicide was not inevitable. This stinks of cover-up to the max.

Evil governments employ radar technology to shut down cars en mass.

The Guardian says it has published only 1 percent of Snowden's leaks. Every secret police agent in the world just leaked his bladder into his pants. Oh, let's hope that the Guardian will keep publishing these revelations for years. Please. It sounds like the Guardian has a solid, short term future ahead of it.

Economy

Black Friday customers up. Spending down.

Local

Retail along Wilmington Pike around 675 takes business from Dayton.

No water in Clearcreek Twp.

Political activists try to renew the socialist food truck lease. This is another one of those problems that could only be created by government. Sell the property. Problem solved.

Misc

IMMENSE FLOWS OF CHARGED PARTICLES DISCOVERED BETWEEN THE STARS.

Foreign Policy

Australian spy agency offered to share info about ordinary Australians with spy partner countries.

"Australia's surveillance agency offered to share information collected about ordinary Australian citizens with its major intelligence partners, according to a secret 2008 document leaked by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The document shows the partners discussing whether or not to share "medical, legal or religious information", and increases concern that the agency could be operating outside its legal mandate, according to the human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC.
The Australian intelligence agency, then known as the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD), indicated it could share bulk material without some of the privacy restraints imposed by other countries, such as Canada."

They have to collect it before they can share it.

Federal Reserve

The number of US banks is the lowest since the Great Depression.

War

Air Force Academy has set up a system of snitches to get cadets to spy on their fellows. Now we have secret police inside the Air Force Academy.

Afghanistan sets record for growing opium.

Freedom of Speech

Bob Dylan charged with incitement to hatred in France.

"The charge against him centres on a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone magazine during which he compared the relationship between Croats and Serbs to that of the Nazis and the Jews."

This is what liberalism means now.

Politics

Chimps are not people. This is an attempt to dumb down the definition of a person so they can take away more of our rights.

Socialism

Power fails across Venezuela. Coming soon to the US.

Health Care

Obamacare website still has problems.

Security hacker says website was designed with no security of personal data in mind, and it will take a year to secure the site.

""It's really hard to go back and fix the security around it because security wasn't built into it," said Kennedy, chief executive of TrustedSec. "We're talking multiple months to over a year to at least address some of the critical-to-high exposures on the website itself." "

Ouch. This is why anybody would be a fool to visit that site, let alone enter data.

Hong Kong confirms first human case of bird flu, which health officials which would move so much faster.

Global Warming and Energy

Siberian permafrost releases more methane than previously thought, yet global temperatures remain flat.

Police State

Robot mall cops in our future.

Education

Student punished for standing up to a bully.

The teacher was wrong, and the student was right.

Local

Dayton's ruler want to give $3 million of Ohio taxpayers' money to a company proposing a secret $55 million development in greater downtown, whatever that means.

Shrinking labor force in Clark an Champagne counties.

Montgomery county foreclosures reach lowest level since 2000.

Local economy to remain stagnant in 2014. That's the best case scenario.

Sinclair dumbs down education further by granting community college credit for high school classes. This shows us that Sinclair is a glorified, post-high-school high-school.

Students switch to online classes to avoid government school bullies.

EPA won't move landfill. This article has shockingly little information. The authors could start by telling me what's in the landfill, how it got there and why it's a problem.

"The EPA's plan, proposed in June 2010, which spells out the agency's preferred alternative to clean up the site, involves excavation of all waste, off-site disposal and treatment of liquid and hazardous waste, and placement of non-hazardous, solid waste in an engineered waste cell on the same site."

They could explain that too.

Misc

Manipulations supposedly prove Einstein's theories of relativity, but one experiment falsies them.

The CMB radiation maps falsify the Big Bang.

This is the best animation of comet ISON I've seen yet, showing it survived better than previously realized.

Scientists have known for decades that women have more connections between the left and right sides of their brain than men. I believe I read that in college, but some knew scientists have apparently rediscovered it.

"Researchers found that many of the connections in a typical male brain run between the front and the back of the same side of the brain, whereas in women the connections are more likely to run from side to side between the left and right hemispheres of the brain."

I wonder how much tax money this cost us.

Health Care

Nuts associated with longevity.