Police State

Former director of NSA recruited NSA CTO to moonlight for his company. No conflict of interest there.

Florida Supreme Court requires police to obtain warrant before capturing cell phone tower data.

Health Care

40 year old cancer treatment cover up.

A thousand people in the US are being watched for Ebola.

Bureaucrats suggest they might withhold treatment of Ebola patients.

As with everything else, government's failure to deal with Ebola is being used to increase the size and power of government.

Forced vaccinations for Ebola may be coming.

Great expose of the futility of the CDC.

Don't trust the government. Trust Firestone. More on Firestone's success. I love NPR's headline:

"Firestone Did What Governments Have Not: Stopped Ebola In Its Tracks"

Firestone could make rational economic decisions. Government can't. Firestone is comprised of people who cooperate with others for a living, which attracts and brings out compassion. Government is comprised of people who steal from others for a living and who dictate them, which attracts psychopaths and sociopaths and brings out enmity.

Suspicion CDC is covering up link between enterovirus D-68 (EV-D68) and illegal immigrant children.

Foreign Policy

Moody's joins S&P in downgrading Russian government debt.

Media

Google earns more add revenue than all newspapers combined times two.

Federal Reserve

While Fed Chief Janet Yellen makes a cool $200 grand, 113 people at the Fed make more.

War on Drugs

Despite failing a drug test for cocaine, Joe Biden's son doesn't face prosecution in our two-tiered justice system.

Economy

I'm not surprised that plutocrat Telsa hooked up with plutocrat Apple for its highly subsidized car.

After falling all week, Dow suddenly soars. Nothing fishy here.

Local

Huber Heights's mayor withdraws idea to resign and run again. The comedy continues.

Health Care

Obama appoints an Ebola czar. I thought he said Ebola wasn't a problem. Czar has no medical or health background.

Obama frustrated socialism doesn't work.

War

Former Iraqi pilots training ISIS to fly captured Syrian fighter jets. This sounds like propaganda to provide an excuse for the US to implement a no-fly zone over Syria, something Turkey has been asking for for a while.

After two years in space, the Pentagon's secret space plane, modeled on the space shuttle but much smaller, returns to Earth.

CIA admits its history of funding rebels doesn't work.

Seven bad endings to Obama's latest war in the Middle East include a bad ending for the US.

Police State

Declining prison populations is leaving prisons unused or underused. Finally some good news.

Misc

NASA acknowledges the coma of comet Siding Spring may interact with the Martian atmosphere. I bet scientists will be surprised.

Education

Students takes picture of terrible school lunch. Good for her.

Government schools can only fail.

"The problems of American public education are the problems associated with any system of government-enforced, tax-supported coercive wealth redistribution: the system of financing conflicts with the expressly stated goals of the planning agencies. This conflict between the method of financing and the stated goals of education has been with us since the days of the Puritans of New England who set up compulsory education which was to be financed, in part, by money collected by the local property tax assessor."

Nothing good comes from stealing.

"Yet it overlooks the fundamental problem of voucher-financed education. The question must still be asked: Where is the locus of authority? And the answer must still be the same: the civil government. The voucher program violates the most important principle of education: parents are responsible for the financing of their children's education. He who is responsible is also legally sovereign, and vice versa. Operationally, the source of the funding determines the locus of authority. The goal of all those who would defend market arrangements must be to determine the moral locus of authority in any particular circumstance, and then see to it that the sovereign agent be made legally and economically responsible for the exercise of his power. By failing to demand that parents be the source of funding for their own children's education, the promoters of the voucher scheme have abdicated their responsibility in extending the principle of voluntarism and its concomitant, personal responsibility. " 

Exactly.

Politics

Google outspends Goldman-Sachs.

"Google’s political action committee, NetPAC, has spent more money on political campaigns this year than Goldman, at $1.43m, just edging out the $1.4m by the bank that is famous for its political connections. That is a marked change from the last midterm election in 2010, when Google spent only a third as much as Goldman."

There's a lot to be gained.

Democrats are the party of the rich, representing the wealthiest districts.

Thomas Sowell on the real history of slavery.

"But our “educators” today, along with the media, present a highly edited segment of the history of slavery. Those who have been through our schools and colleges, or who have seen our movies or television miniseries, may well come away thinking that slavery means white people enslaving black people. But slavery was a worldwide curse for thousands of years, as far back as recorded history goes.
Over all that expanse of time and space, it is very unlikely that most slaves, or most slave owners, were either black or white. Slavery was common among the vast populations in Asia. Slavery was also common among the Polynesians, and the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere enslaved other indigenous peoples before anyone on this side of the Atlantic had ever seen a European.
More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States."

There's no money to be made publicizing that.

Economy

Greece's economic problems have never been fixed.

"A fresh crisis in Greece is coming at a bad time for the eurozone, already worried about deflation and a slowing economy.
The Greek stock index has lost 12 per cent over the past two days and was down another 2.5 per cent today.
Investors been spooked by the prospect of new elections that could result in more power for the left-wing Syriza party, which wants to renege on Greece’s massive debt.
After five years of austerity, Greece has a jobless rate of 27 per cent and a moribund economy beset by inflation.
Just as the government was making plans to exit its bailout program, underwritten by the rest of Europe, its bond market has taken a hit.
The rate on the benchmark 10-years bonds jumped to 8.71 per cent from just 5.6 per cent just last month -- a sign investors are more worried the country might default.
Bond yields on the eurozone’s other troubled members  -- Spain, Portugal and Italy – also rose."

Uh-oh.

"Loans from the EU to Greece will stop at the end of this year and it must renegotiate. Greece needed 240 billion euros ($307 billion) in bailout loans in 2010 and 2012 from other countries that use the euro and from the International Monetary Fund.
In Athens, Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis insisted Greece was not sliding back into financial turmoil and remained committed to meeting bailout targets.
"The market atmosphere seen in the last couple of days does not reflect the state of the Greek economy ... Our path to growth is now a reality," he told parliament."

He sounds like an accomplished liar.

48 million Americans live in poverty.

War

In response to sanctions, Putin threatens to cut off gas supplies to Europe this winter.

Socialist nation-building in Iraq.

"Van Buren led two Department of State teams assigned with the abstract mission of the "reconstruction" of Iraq, which was destroyed in the US-led wars and sanctions. He describes the reconstruction of Iraq as such:
"In practice, that meant paying for schools that would never be completed, setting up pastry shops on streets without water or electricity, and conducting endless propaganda events on Washington-generated themes of the week (‘small business,’ ‘women’s empowerment,’ ‘democracy building.’)"
As for the comical scene: "We even organized awkward soccer matches, where American taxpayer money was used to coerce reluctant Sunni teams into facing off against hesitant Shiite ones in hopes that, somehow, the chaos created by the American invasion could be ameliorated on the playing field.""

It's been a great success.

Turkey allows US to fly drones from bases.

Global Warming and Energy

The were wrong when they predicted an average winter last year, and they're wrong for predicting an average winter again this year. NOAA says no polar vortex this year. Being a socialist means never having to learn. More.

Metorologists predict another polar vortex for the US this winter.

Farmer's Almanac predicts another bitterly cold winter.

Early snow on the big island of Hawaii.

Category 4 hurricane Gonzalo targets Bermuda. First major hurricane to target Bermuda in 11 years.

Great Lakes ice-breaking fleet may be inadequate.

Blizzard in Nepal kills 27. 70 missing.

Climate models are themselves a fraud.

"It parallels the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) objective of trying to predict the climate by measuring one variable, CO2. Conversely, people trying to determine what is wrong with the IPCC climate models consider a multitude of factors, when the failure is completely explained by one thing, insufficient data to construct a model.
IPCC computer climate models are the vehicles of deception for the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) claim that human CO2 is causing global warming. They create the results they are designed to produce."

Exactly.

Police State

FBI demands access to cell phone data, calls on Congress to block default, strong encryption proposed by Apple and Google.

After TSA chief retires, I bet he gets a job selling ridiculously expensive but useless equipment to TSA.

Court holds parents libel for child's Facebook post.

Whisper app, which is supposed to hide people, actually tracks them and sends info to Pentagon.

Health Care

Evidence of airborne transmission of Ebola.

"The well-known and respected Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota recently notified the CDC and the World Health Organization that “there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles.” For the first time, they include exhaled breath in their report."

Another lie exposed.

Nigeria stopped Ebola, but our government is much bigger, therefore much more incompetent and corrupt.

Obama calls up military reserves to fight Ebola in Africa.

Famine in Ebola countries in Africa.

Border closings in Africa limit spread of Ebola.

The travesty of checking travelers at a few airports.

First Dallas nurse with Ebola transfered to NIH hospital in Maryland.

Second Dallas nurse with Ebola showed symptoms before she flew to Cleveland and back. She was flown to Atlanta.

Obama blames CDC director for Ebola screw-ups, not himself, naturally. They're making this guy the scapegoat though he didn't want to bring Ebola into the US in the first place.

Obama wants the CDC to create an Ebola SWAT team to kill people with Ebola. Now that he's created this problem by inviting Ebola into the country, he's pretending to want to solve it.

Blaming Obama's political correctness for Ebola coming to US.

"Two days after Duncan’s death, Vinson was allowed to fly to Cleveland to visit relatives. She then prepared to fly back to Dallas.
Before boarding, she called the Centerd for Disease Control and said she was running a fever of 99.5. Yet she was given clearance to fly commercial back to Dallas, where she was admitted to the hospital with symptoms of the disease. She is the second nurse at that hospital to come down with Ebola.
According to CBS Medical Correspondent Dr. John LaPook, “Nurse Vinson did in fact call the CDC several times before taking that flight and said she had a temperature, a fever of 99.5, and the person at the CDC looked at a chart, and because her temperature wasn’t 100.4 or higher she didn’t officially fall into the category of high risk.”"

The bureaucrat mind. Another.

Cleveland quarantined eight, close three schools and scrubbed the airport after discovering Ebola nurse from Dallas was there.

Litany of CDC failures.

Media

Because Obama was forcing changes to pool reports, reporters are bypassing the White House. Why were they every submitting pool reports through the White House?

HBO and CBS offer internet TV packages unbundled from cable.

Alexa skewing results to make left-wing sites appear more popular.

Socialism

Socialist Bill Gates, who made all his money off government interventions in the market, supports Piketty's attack on capitalism. Ironic.

Foreign Policy

FBI warns of Chinese government hackers.

FBI informant led hack on NewsCorp interests.

Israeli's fleeing to Berlin to escape high cost of living.

Local

Wright-Patt air crew delivering Ebola-fighting supplies to Africa.

Semi knocks over power pole, causing outage.

Misc

Surprises from Rosetta mission to comet.

Comet Siding Spring approaches Mars Sunday. If its coma reaches Mars's atmosphere, there might be fireworks.

NASA's answer to every moon question is a subsurface ocean.

Media

In 1878, The New York Times editorial called for lynching Thomas Edison for inventing too much.

List of evil supported by The New York Times.

Economy

Consumer spending fell in September.

In contrast to US pensions, Dutch pensions work because employees pay the bulk of payments for themselves, not their employers, and when they get into trouble, they cut benefits and increase contributions to fix it. Still, the best solution for retirement is for the individual to save his own money.

Entrepreneurs turn scientific discoveries into valuable economic advancements.

I remember the IMF saying China's purchasing power had surpassed the US, not its GDP.

Dow drops 460 points.

Global Warming and Energy

Propagandists spin falling oil prices as bad news requiring central banks to inflate to stop.

"Ever since the oil shock of the early 1970s, central bankers have fretted that rising energy prices spelled recession.
Now they’re discovering cheaper energy can be a headache too, especially when warding off deflation is the economic challenge du jour."

Too ridiculous. Lower energy prices increase the standard of living for everybody. The key to this is falling oil prices means fewer petro-dollars, and that's not good for dollar supremacy.

Frauds claim concrete's life is shortened by climate change.

Scientists ridiculously miss that carbonate rocks, note the name, absorb carbon.

NASA accidentally shows 1934 was the worst drought of the last thousand years.

War

Reports shows US troops found lots of chemical weapons in Iraq, and many were injured by them, contrary to what the leftist media told us for years, but Bush was wrong too. There were no stockpiles. There were no chemical weapons programs at the time of the invasion. Both sides lied. Incidents were covered up.

US air war in Syria and Iraq named Operation Inherent Resolve.

US paying for 54,000 ghost policemen in Afghanistan.

"And by the way, those Afghan ghosts have a history nearly as long as America’s second Afghan War. In 2007, for instance, the U.S. Government Accountability Office was already reporting that the “actual number of present-for-duty soldiers” in Afghan military units was “about one-half to two-thirds of the total” at any given time. While some of those were soldiers on leave, significant numbers were clearly ghost troops." 

Amazing.

Panetta exposes that US policy in Korea is to use nukes in response to an invasion. As for not scaring the North Koreans, they haven't invaded.

More on the phony threat from the Khorasan group Obama invented used as justification to attack Syria.

Tax and Spend

Budget deficit reaches lowest level since the bubble in 2007. We know how that ended.

Police State

Governments and businesses building database of voice-prints.

Misc

In story about Martian atmosphere, NASA propagates myth that CFCs destroy ozone on Earth, but solar currents do it on Mars.

Comet approaches Mars Sunday. I hope spaceships get good pictures of it.

Local

Crash on I-75 at US35. It's been a long time since the DDN reported a crash in the construction zone.

In another government-created conflict, protesters conflict with businesses over water rules. This couldn't happen with a free market for water.

Huber Heights's mayor won't attack the vice-mayor. What a joke.

Health Care

Losing sense of smell correlated with death.

Second nurse in Texas tests positive for Ebola.

"A second nurse who cared for Duncan has been diagnosed with the disease on Wednesday  
Nurses are furious by angered by CDC Director Tom Frieden's attempts to 'pass the blame' to infected nurse Nina Pham  
Nurses say their necks and wrists were exposed when treating Duncan   
Hazardous waste from Duncan 'left to pile up to the ceiling in one room' "

Thanks, Obama.

"Nurses at the Dallas hospital where the first patient died of Ebola in the US insisted there were no protocols in place for dealing with the virus - and claimed that no hospital in the country was prepared to deal with the deadly virus.

The director of the National Nurses Union RoseAnn DeMoro directly contradicted the CDC's initial claim that a breach in protocol lead to the infection of Nina Pham as she treated Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

She said: 'Our nurses are not protected, they're not prepared to handle Ebola or any other pandemics.'

'The protocols that should have been in place in Dallas were not in place and are not in place anywhere in the United States, as far as we can tell.'"

Blaming failed protocol was transparent.

"The union, which does not represent any of the nurses at Texas Presbyterian, said the healthcare workers came to them because they believed they had no other way to report the dangerous security lapses."

Good for the union for standing up for workers. That doesn't happen often. So many lies exposed in one article. So much for the experts in the US who can handle Ebola. I knew this. Obama knew this.

"Ultimately, according to DeMoro and Burger, the nurses feel 'unsupported, unprepared, lied to and deserted', especially in light of CDC Director Thomas Frieden's assertion that a 'breach in protocol' led 26-year-old nurse Nina Pham to become infected.

'This nurse was being blamed for not following protocols that did not exist. ... The nurses in that hospital were very angry, and they decided to contact us,' DeMoro said."

They did us all a service.

Second nurse just flew from Cleveland to Dallas before showing symptoms. She called CDC before boarding flight with fever.

Obama claims he shook hands, hugged and kissed nurses at Atlanta hospital that treated Ebola patient. If this is true, he's not only evil, he's an idiot.

CDC lies out both sides of its mouth.

"Dr. Tom Frieden, director for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said during a telephone press briefing Wednesday that you cannot get Ebola by sitting next to someone on a bus, but that infected or exposed persons should not ride public transportation because they could transmit the disease to someone else."

It can be passed with a wand from somebody else, but you can't pass it with a wand. What a bunch of frauds.

War

US and EU sanctions on Russia over Ukraine push it closer to China.

"During a three day visit to Moscow that ended Tuesday, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang signed 38 new deals with Russia, including a big expansion in Russian gas sales to China. Russian President Vladimir Putin sealed a huge $400 billion gas contract with China in May, but the fresh deal would reportedly double that. Moscow also reportedly agreed to sell some of its most advanced weaponry to Beijing.

Recommended: Sochi, Soviets, and tsars: How much do you know about Russia?

China-Russia trade has grown from around $40 billion to $90 billion in the past six years, but Mr. Putin said Tuesday that it's set to jump to $100 billion next year and $200 billion by 2020. By comparison, Russia's trade with the European Union in 2012 totaled around $340 billion. "

That hurts western economies too.

"In the most politically charged deal, the two countries have agreed to a $24 billion yuan-ruble currency swap between their central banks, which will be used to finance bilateral trade using local currencies rather than US dollars."

They're hastening the dollar decline.

Turkish warplanes attack Kurds fighting ISIS.

Media

Article about conflict between Guardian and New York Times over Snowden NSA stories offers tidbit I missed the first time.

"The cooperative arrangement initially resulted in several eye-popping stories for both newspapers, including the Times’s Snowden-based exposé of how American and British intelligence operatives were data-mining the popular Angry Birds smartphone app to reveal all sorts of personal information about users."

How did I miss that?

Socialism

LA mayor orders city to cut water use 20 percent by 2017. Why not today? Why not just raise prices?

Education

While charging students a $225,000 speaking fee, Hillary complains about the student debt she helped Obama foist on students. You can't make this stuff up.

Politics

After spending $2 million to defeat Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, Democrats pull ads.

Because key states in Senate race are facing double-digit rate hikes for Obamacare, Obama won't release the figures until after the election.

Obama won't name AG replacement until after the election.

Misc

Questioning if open source software is really more secure than proprietary.

US marriage rate hits all-time low.

Health Care

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg foolishly donates $25 million to CDC to fight Ebola.

Ebola death rate reaches 70 percent.

UN says there's only 60 days to stop Ebola before it overruns the world. I'm skeptical.

The CDC wants us to believe that the nurse in Dallas contracted Ebola because the CDC didn't send a team of experts when the first case appeared. What an impressive way to twist this failure into pro-government propaganda.

I hope this blood transfusion from an Ebola survivor works.

Global Warming and Energy

Falling energy prices make pipeline projects less profitable.

Water temperature in the Great Lakes is six degrees colder than usual. That's going to be a problem.

Michael Mann claimed to be a Nobel Prize winner again and was slapped down again.

Another study finds climate has low sensitivity to CO2, just as you would expect. If it didn't, we wouldn't exist.

Climate models underestimate CO2 absorption by plants.

Economy

Australians most wealthy per capita by far.

The unprecedented economic bubble for plutocrats has boosted the paper value of wealth 20 percent higher than right before the previous bust.

Plutocrat Zuckerberg buys 700 acres of Hawaii for $100 million.

"Zuckerberg, 30, who is worth around $33 billion, is the second Silicon Valley billionaire to buy up part of Hawaii.
Last year Oracle chairman Larry Ellison purchased the whole of Lanai, Hawaii's sixth largest island, for up to $600 million."

You got to be kidding me.

Regulation

In a perfect example of how the market for internet bandwidth works too, Netflix speeds double on networks where Netflix pays. Everybody wins.

Federal Reserve

Finnish rulers want to ban high denomination bank notes to make life easier for enforcers.

Local

Greene County elections board can't afford to pay for high pay raises.

A little rain knocks out power all over the place.

Bomb squad called to Miami Valley Hospital.

Carillon still isn't selling beer. If this was a private company, it would already be bankrupt.

Huber Heights's mayor makes some goofy proposal to resign at the end of 2015 so he can run again earlier in the year. Huber Heights is a clown show.

Government has been waging war on ash borers for years. Needless to say, it has failed.

Beavercreek Walmart shooting officers recorded statements released.

"In recordings released by BCI, officers say they shot John Crawford III because he ignored their commands"

That's not self defense. That contradicts what the killer said in his written report.

"Once they arrive at a scene, officers have an obligation to reassess what they’ve been told by a dispatcher, a security consultant said"

They didn't do that. They literally went in guns blazing.

"When Beavercreek police confronted John Crawford III in Walmart on the night of Aug. 5, he ignored their commands to drop his weapon and get on the ground, the officers told investigators who interviewed them after the shooting.
“I raised my sights up — he still had the rifle — and I fired two shots center-mass at him,” Officer Sean Williams told investigators less than three hours after he shot the 22-year-old Fairfield man as the victim what turned out to be a BB gun."

He obviously didn't know what was going on. He had no reason to expect police were going to kill him. He did nothing wrong.

"Crawford was declared dead that night at Miami Valley Hospital. A specially convened Greene County grand jury last month chose not to indict Williams or anyone else involved in the shooting."

I still want an explanation of why they drove him all the way to Miami Valley instead of someplace closer.

"Darkow said he did not fire his weapon. But he added that he “probably would have” had Crawford moved into the aisle or in Darkow’s line of sight. Darkow took pains to support Williams."

Of course he did. That's what the thin blue line is all about. He'd been in trouble if he hadn't.

"Darkow recounted what a 911 caller had told dispatchers: That a man had “what we believed could be a deadly firearm” and was loading it."

Had that been true, it would have been perfectly legal as well and shooting him would still have been unjustified. But it wasn't true.

"“I knew one thing, and that was there was no way we could allow him to get out,” Darkow said."

That's an admission of premeditation.

"Brad Spicer, a New Jersey-based security consultant with law enforcement and military experience, said officers have an obligation to reassess what they’ve been told, by a dispatcher or a citizen, once they’re on the scene of what they have been told is a crime.
In this situation, Spicer said, it might have been good for officers to realize, “I didn’t hear a gunshot. I didn’t see anyone screaming.”"

Ya think?

"But he asked observers to understand the stress police experience. They go into a rapidly developing unknown situation bearing responsibility for the lives of those around them, Spicer said."

Here comes the apology.

"Darkow said that at the first verbal command, Crawford “startled — I mean he noticeably startled back. He looked up, saw us and startled. We shocked him; it was very evident that our presence had shocked him."

No kidding.

"“He did not drop the gun, he did not get on the ground, despite both of us giving him verbal commands to do so,” he added. “In fact, he began making motions as though he was either going to duck behind the endcap (of the aisle) or dart, it would have been east, through the store, as best as I can describe it.”
Said Williams, “If he got around us, or escaped to the left, to where he was headed, he was going to be an immediate threat to everyone inside the store.”"

Or maybe they'd just scared the crap of him and he was trying to save his life.

Police State

More no the phony fears rulers have about encryption.

Global Warming and Energy

Pentagon unveils plan for responding to climate change. Just what we need.

Police State

US removes seven people from no-fly list.

Foreign Policy

OPEC rift blamed for falling oil prices. I don't believe it. I bet they go back up in November. The Saudis are deeply committed to Obama's war in Syria, so they're lowering prices to help Democrats in the election.

Kim Jong Un appears in public.

Federal Reserve

Sweden close to cashless society. Swedes will regret that.

Economy

US falls to twelfth in economic freedom according to Cato.

The Hiltons sold the Waldorf Astoria for $2 billion to Chinese buyers.

US stocks continue falling.

""There is a huge question mark about what does growth look like. The U.S. was the best house in a bad neighborhood, but we didn't realize the neighborhood might have been deteriorating faster than we realized. Europe is a big question mark, and China seems happy with its lower growth rate," said Kim Forrest, senior equity analyst at Fort Pitt Capital."

If the US is the best house in the neighborhood, the western world is in big trouble.

Health Care

China's factory pork farms will produce unhealthy meat just like America's CAFOs.

US wants to set up Ebola hospital in every state. This is a great excuse to steal more money.

War

Turkey allows US and allies to launch attacks from Turkish bases.

Turkey denies base deal. Oops.

While Sunnis rampage across the Middle East, Sunni Saudis blame Shiite Iran.

Netanyahu accuses UN of returning confiscated rockets to Hamas during recent war.

Cheney says times are more dangerous now than before 9/11. That sounds like an admission of failure of Cheney's policy of perpetual war.

Politics

The DNC Washington insiders dump $1.4 million into Kentucky Senate race to paint Mitch McConnell as a Washington insider. I doubt they recognize the irony.

Elizabeth Warren slams Obama.

"Sen. Elizabeth Warren, one of the talked-about candidates for the Democratic Party’s 2016 ticket to the White House, chided President Obama for what she called his catering to Wall Street — and dismissal of Main Street — in 2008, when markets were tumbling."

She's right. Obama's the billionaires' best friend.

Local

After a year and half, the NTSB has finally determined the cause of the Dayton Air Show crash that killed wingwalker was what everybody already knew.

"Federal safety investigators have determined the probable cause of a biplane crash that killed two performers at the Dayton Air Show was "pilot controlled flight into terrain," according to the National Transportation Safety Board."

I wonder how much that cost taxpayers.

DP&L blames snake for widespread power outage. Maybe their system shouldn't be so fragile.

Complaint against Huber Heights's mayor comes to nothing.

Governments still short on salt.

Mechanicsburg schools locked down.

Ohio to steal another million from taxpayers and give it to billionaire owner of Fuyao.

More on $1 million for Fuyao.

Misc

Scientists are starting to link lightning to plasma in space.

Media

More in the CIA bribing and threatening journalists.

Foreign Policy

In another blow to the dollar, UK becomes first country besides China to issue bonds in yuan.

Politcs

China has loaded Hong Kong pro-democracy websites with malware.

Dick Morris confirms that Panetta slammed Obama on behalf of Hillary. That wasn't hard to figure out.

Why is there a riddle behind why blacks have fared so badly since Obama took power? It's his policies.

Police State

Netherlands arrests Uber drivers.

Snowden recommends avoiding Google, Facebook and Dropbox.

War on Drugs

Drug warriors with attack dogs raid man's backyard okra plants.

Misc

Australian Aborigines oral traditions remember meteor ancient strikes.

Oldest known cave art, 40,000 years, found in Indonesia.

Monkey midwifes birth.

Global Warming and Energy

West Antarctic glacier likely melting from geothermal energy.

It's often hard to differentiate mistakes from fraud by global warming scientists.

I keep reading the US is about to surpass Saudi Arabia in oil production, but it never seems to quite happen. This article claims it will happen this week.

Tax and Spend

Government has trapped physics in group-think too.

"One of the themes of Smolin’s book, is the unfortunate way that String Theory has choked off other and potentially more profitable lines of inquiry – efforts to go back to the foundations of Quantum Physics, and try to incorporate Relativity into the fundamental assumptions. Because String Theory utterly dominates the Quantum Physics effort, because so many senior professors built their reputations on their contribution to String Theory, anyone who questions String Theory, or challenges it, is looked on as a crank, an outsider. It is much easier to secure tenure and funding by enthusiastically embracing String Theory, than by challenging it, or by pointing out that for the last few decades, Theoretical Physics has stalled."

Sounds familiar.

War

Who wouldn't go back to the good old days of Saddam Hussein.

"ISIS will soon shut down Baghdad airport with anti-aircraft missiles provided by US and Saudis."

Blowback.

Corruption at the Pentagon.

"The mysterious workings of a Pentagon office that oversees clandestine operations are unraveling in federal court, where a criminal investigation has exposed a secret weapons program entwined with allegations of a sweetheart contract, fake badges and trails of destroyed evidence."
"The exact purpose of the silencers remains hazy, but court filings and pretrial testimony suggest they were part of a top-secret operation that would help arm guerrillas or commandos overseas."

Aren't guerrillas what we used to call terrorists?

Local

Fascist aerospace partnership to bring lots of federal stolen money to area. This is supposed to be a good thing.

Lebanon police foolishly handed out bogus computer cop software.

Unprepared, Union socialists seeks loan to replace water main that they knew was going to be replaced.

Miami Country rulers want to steal more money to extend a bike path.

Health Care

Health care worker who treated Ebola patient wearing full protective gear got Ebola. More.

"There was a yellow hazardous material drum on the lawn of the red brick apartment where the health worker lived and information pamphlets about the Ebola virus were stuffed in the doors in the surrounding blocks of the apartment. "

Government's ignorant health care "experts" can't protect themselves, but they presume to tell serfs what to do. Before anybody knows anything about how it was transmitted, "expert" blames a breach in protocol.

"“There had to have been an innocent breach of protocol in taking care of a patient within protective equipment,” Fauci said. “That … rarely happens. We’ve been taking care of Ebola since 1976. It is unfortunate for this courageous health care worker.”"

Or not.

"Jenkins said he wanted to stress Ebola cannot be contracted unless one comes into contact with the bodily fluids of an Ebola victim.
"You cannot contract it by walking by people on the streets," he said. "There is nothing about this case that changes that basic premise of science.""

This mantra is starting to sound more like a religious belief than fact or science. More.

"A Texas health care worker who provided care for the Ebola patient who died there last week tested positive for the deadly virus, and sent health officials scrambling Sunday to determine the "breach in protocol" that resulted in her infection."

This is not science. It's a search driven by bias. They think they already know the answer before they've investigated anything. CDC confirms Ebola infection and restates the mantra.

Possible Ebola patient in Boston.

CDC is better at propaganda than combating Ebola.

Article claims the US lacks a single standard for dealing with Ebola. If true, that's a good thing. Centralization is a bad thing.

Government can't contain Ebola, but Firestone can.

"Firestone Tire and Rubber Company has successfully contained the spread of Ebola among 80,000 people living in Harbel, the Liberian town housing employees of Firestone's Liberian plant and their families. In March, after the wife of a Firestone employee developed Ebola symptoms, Firestone constructed its own treatment center and implemented a program of quarantine and treatment. Firestone has successfully kept the Ebola virus from spreading among its employees. As of this writing, there are only three Ebola patients at Firestone's treatment facility.

Firestone's success in containing Ebola shows that, far from justifying new state action, the Ebola crises demonstrates that individuals acting in the free market can do a better job of containing Ebola than can governments. The Ebola crisis is also another example of how US foreign aid harms the very people we are claiming to help."

Good.

West African Ebola threatens chocolate supply. Now the problem will be solved.

Government won't save us from Ebola. It hasn't saved us from any health scare.

Alzheimer's patients showed remarkable improvement after going paleo.

Herbicide and insecticide use skyrocketing on GMOs, making them a failure, but new ones are coming anyway.

Israeli and Palestinian rulers work together to protect against Ebola. All the fighting between them is just for profit.

Misc

Scientists using powerful electric currents to fuse elements, just like the sun.

Education

Overall Ohio schools rated D.

Economy

Ferrari sets price record at $2.5 million.

Tech shares drag Dow into the red for the year. The tech bubble may be popping.

US and UK regulators plan to prop up next big bank which fails.

"Six years after the financial crisis, politicians and regulators around the globe are keen to prove they have created rules that will allow them to let a large bank go under without spending billions in taxpayer dollars."

I'm skeptical.

Europe is going down too.

"A key gauge of deflation risk in Europe is flashing red, dropping to record lows on fears of fresh recession and lack of decisive action by the European Central Bank.

The sudden lurch downwards came as Bank of America warned that France’s debt ratio could rocket to 120pc of GDP within five years, unless the EU authorities take radical steps to reflate the region’s economy. Italy’s debt could threaten 150pc even earlier.

The 5-year/5-year forward swap rate monitored closely by traders plummeted beneath 1.77pc on Friday morning as a global growth scare drove European stock markets to a 12-month low."

I wonder if this is the big one.

Immigration

Mexican government paying to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation from US.

Tax and Spend

Over 2 million Frenchmen have fled France to cut their tax bill.

Politics

Progressivism, the ideology behind both parties, is destroying America.

War

Comparing Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge to ISIS.

"As a witness to the human consequences of aerial savagery – including the beheading of victims, their parts festooning trees and fields – I am not surprised by the disregard of memory and history, yet again.A telling example is the rise to power of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge, who had much in common with today’s Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). They, too, were ruthless medievalists who began as a small sect. They, too, were the product of an American-made apocalypse, this time in Asia."

If you bomb people back to the stone age, don't be surprised when brutal rulers reminiscent of the stone age rise to power.

"The Americans dropped the equivalent of five Hiroshimas on rural Cambodia during 1969-73. They levelled village after village, returning to bomb the rubble and corpses. The craters left monstrous necklaces of carnage, still visible from the air. The terror was unimaginable. A former Khmer Rouge official described how the survivors “froze up and they would wander around mute for three or four days. Terrified and half-crazy, the people were ready to believe what they were told … That was what made it so easy for the Khmer Rouge to win the people over.”"

Like I said.

"ISIS has a similar past and present. By most scholarly measure, Bush and Blair’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 led to the deaths of some 700,000 people — in a country that had no history of jihadism. The Kurds had done territorial and political deals; Sunni and Shia had class and sectarian differences, but they were at peace; intermarriage was common. Three years before the invasion, I drove the length of Iraq without fear. On the way I met people proud, above all, to be Iraqis, the heirs of a civilization that seemed, for them, a presence.
Bush and Blair blew all this to bits. Iraq is now a nest of jihadism. Al-Qaeda – like Pol Pot’s “jihadists” – seized the opportunity provided by the onslaught of Shock and Awe and the civil war that followed. “Rebel” Syria offered even greater rewards, with CIA and Gulf state ratlines of weapons, logistics and money running through Turkey."

But it makes for good domestic politics and profiteering.

Supposedly moderate rebels in Syria turn against US airstrikes.

"The U.S.-led air war in Syria has gotten off to a rocky start, with even the Syrian rebel groups closest to the United States turning against it, U.S. ally Turkey refusing to contribute and the plight of a beleaguered Kurdish town exposing the limitations of the strategy."

But it kills people and enriches war profiteers, so what's not to love?

Airstrikes on ISIS backfire.

Police State

Second intelligence leaker exposes US has 1.2 million people on watch list.

I'm sure police will use body cameras to their advantage, never to the advantage of one of their victims.

Documentary about Snowden indicts Obama. Makes sense to me.

NSA say's former director's investments were no conflict of interest, and they wouldn't lie.

Despite all the spying, intelligence agents can't find top al Qaeda recruiter operating in Britain.

American jihadist suicide bomber came and went from US with no problem. It's a problem for everybody else.

Global Warming and Energy

Global warming policies will hurt the poor most of all.

Opposition party in Australian joins ruling party in rejecting carbon tax. Good for them.

Australian climate and meteorology scientists told to raise private funds. That's a step in the right direction.

Health Care

Obamacare shifts expensive drug costs onto patients.

Foreign Policy

Secret NSA agents physically compromise computers in foreign countries including China, Germany and South Korea.

Misc

Scientists fail to recognize the irony of a machine that uses electronic pulses to fuse elements.

War on Drugs

Rulers keep telling us it's hard to catch drug lords.

I'm skeptical.

War

Perpetual war admitted by US rulers.

"Glenn Greenwald has a fascinating piece in The Intercept making the case that the "war on terrorism" is going to be "endless," as he puts it. From a decade to twenty years to Leon Panetta’s recent pronouncement that "I think we’re looking at kind of a thirty years war," Greenwald painstakingly documents statements by Obama administration officials essentially showing that they see the war as having no geographic or temporal limit. And that’s not the worst of it: he goes on to show that not only Panetta but also the person "likely to be the next American president" is projecting our current Middle East intervention into the indefinite future.
Whether Hillary Clinton is "likely" to occupy the White House is debatable, but it’s hard to argue with Greenwald’s conclusion. "At this point," he writes,
"It is literally inconceivable to imagine the U.S. not at war. It would be shocking if that happened in our lifetime. US officials are now all but openly saying this. ‘Endless War’ is not dramatic rhetorical license but a precise description of America’s foreign policy.""

As I've written for nearly a decade.

"Indeed, all of this is indisputable, and yet it leads us to ask: Why? What are we getting out of this Sisyphean slaughter? Greenwald thinks he has the answer;
"It’s not hard to see why. A state of endless war justifies ever-increasing state power and secrecy and a further erosion of rights. It also entails a massive transfer of public wealth to the "homeland security" and weapons industry (which the US media deceptively calls the ‘defense sector’).""

He's no genius. He's just parroting Eisenhower.

"Yet this hardly explains enough: after all, there are limits to what the United States – or any single nation – can do to determine the course of world events. Our resources are finite. So why are they being stretched to the breaking point? Why are we flirting with economic disaster as more and more of our tax dollars are shipped overseas to prop up a constantly-threatened empire while our economy is suffering from the "vampire effect" – the draining of productive resources (capital) into the sinkhole of imperialism? Is it to feed the profit margins of Raytheon? Is it to make Eli Lake feel better? "

No. This is a case of the tragedy of the commons. Each war profiteer is trying to maximize his own profits before the government collapses.

Economy

This story about minorities earning less in high tech jobs reaffirms that individuals earn the paychecks they voluntarily agree to.

Chipmakers lead selloff signalling an end to the tech bubble, leading S&P to the lowest close since May.

Foreign Policy

Kim goofball tyrant misses birthday party.

Global Warming and Energy

 A pox on Lego for giving in to global warming fraud pressure.

Washington absolutely wields the biggest oil weapon, but this article gets Obama's politics wrong.

"That was then and this is now. The Barack Obama of 2014 is essentially running a drill-baby-drill White House in a country where oil consumption is actually rising. His administration has been opening up ever more coastal areas to exploration and drilling from the East to the Arctic waters of Alaska, while encouraging the creation of a “Saudi America” in the American frack lands."

Not true. While coastlines have been opened up, that's been because of states, not Obama. He's closed areas to drilling, not opened them up. Hating fossil fuels is one of the few policies Obama's rhetoric matches his policies. Much as the US economy has, barely, grown despite Obama's policies, US energy production has grown despite Obama's policies.

Media

This example of internet troll explains why the trolls who control propaganda in the accomplice press always win.

I used to like Gweneth Paltrow. Not any more.

Health Care

Government admits it is only checking people coming from west Africa for Ebola to "make people feel safer."

Texas deputy fearing Ebola infection believed healthy.

I haven't heard that Congress declared war on Ebola. Troops should refuse to go. The military is not the president's personal henchmen.

Police State

FBI claims it won't hire anybody who lies about illegal downloading. That's pretty much everybody. In a sane world, this would mean the FBI would cease to exist, but I doubt that will happen.

Government's scientists are unhappy to discover the NSA treats them like serfs, the same as they treat everybody else.

Woman exonerate in murder case after 17 years.

Local

The Huber Heights soap opera continues with citizens criticizing the vice-mayor after she and others attacked the mayor. The mayor is coming off as a man of the people with the rest of Huber Heights's rulers coming off as cronies.

A multistate police state crackdown along I-70 targets aggressive drivers.

"This sweep along I-70 in Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania is the second multi-state effort in the past few weeks. Last month, troopers targeted Interstate 75. That crackdown netted 373 speeding tickets, 32 citations for seat belt violations and 15 for OVI."

This is the nationalization of  highway police.

Beavercreek Parks and Rec offering fitness classes.

Fairborn Parks and Rec hosting pumpkin carving contest.

Report from non-profit claims Springfield is leading the region in job creation.

Police arrest ten people for having consensual sex.

Facebook threat closes Fairborn school. This rewards students for making threats.

Sports

NCAA says Gurley, and every other player, cannot use their likenesses to make money.

Immigration

After a report of ten ISIS terrorists being caught crossing the border, a report of another four being caught.

DHS denies ISIS terrorists caught crossing border. Who you gonna believe? I believe DHS. ISIS wants to for a caliphate in the Middle East, not in the US, at least not yet.

Regulation

Hawk downs drone. I thought the FCC banned drones except for stuff like search and rescue. I wonder why a Google engineer commented. I wonder if Christopher Schmidt is related to Google chairman Eric Schmidt. The law applies to serfs, not rulers.

Economy

The Fed's statements only boosted stocks for a day. Biggest Dow fall of the year.

Amazon to open store in New York.

Elon Musk is probably more afraid flying cars will cut into his government-backed car business than they'll fall on people.

Kmart payment system hacked. This is what comes from a false sense of security created by government.

Media

German journalist explains how the CIA bribes and punishes journalists to influence the media.

Global Warming and Energy

Businesses dumping Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth for a penny.

Another record extent for Antarctic sea ice.

September snow cover sets North American record. I'm going to shoveling lots of snow.

Atlantic hurricane season among weakest in decades.

Economy

Owner and builder of private road in England well on the way to recouping his investment despite government threats and looting.

War on Drugs

De-penalizing marijuana reduces crime in all categories.

Carl Sagan anonymously supported marijuana.

Mexico arrests major drug kingpin, and nothing will change.

Colorado entrepreneurs already introducing less potent marijuana products. This always happens when prohibition ends. Before prohibition, people use less potent drugs like beer and opium. During prohibition, because the risk is so high, they switch to more potent forms of the drug like grain alcohol and heroin. After prohibition, they switch back.

Socialism

California's hypocritical, two-tiered water wasters.

Secret Service Columbian prostitute scandal resurfaces with allegation White House staffer, subsequently put in charge of global women's issues at the State Department, was involved and the White House knew about it.

Obama's Praetorian Guard in collapse.

Federal Reserve

More praise for Bitcoin, but it has no commodity backing it either.

War

Passenger on Malaysian plan downed over Ukraine was wearing oxygen mask. More evidence against a missile downing the plane.

ISIS invades Kurdish town on Turkey border, but Turkey won't intervene unless all of NATO does.

Obama admin admits airstrikes on ISIS not designed to take territory from them. They're designed to reduce Syria to rubble.

Christian crusaders in the US military.

Bipartisan war.

More on bipartisan war. If I remember correctly, every Democrat president since Woodrow Wilson has started a war except Jimmy Carter.

Health Care

Months too late, US studies Nigeria's successful program controlling Ebola.

CDC forced to admit Ebola can be transfered through the air.

"“I’m Not Going To Sit Here And Say That If A Person Who [Has Ebola] Were To Sneeze Or Cough Right In The Face Of Somebody Who Wasn’t Protected, That We Wouldn’t Have A Transmission”
Scientists have said for some time that Ebola may be spread through coughing, sneezing and other aerosol transmission.
The top American health agency – the U.S. Centers for Disease Control – has denied this for months.  But CDC has finally been forced to admit that it’s true."

Kind of like a cold or flu. That's a heck of a lot easier than they claimed.

HHS secretary forced to admit there may be more cases of Ebola already in US.

Customs and border agents unprepared, just as one would expect from socialist services.

This green drink certainly sounds healthy. It also sounds yucky.