Monday, February 09, 2015

Regulation

322 page plan to regulate internet shows net neutrality isn't neutral. More.
"In a statement released Friday, Pai lamented the fact that the 332-page plan, which he tweeted a picture of himself holding next to a picture of Obama, won’t be released to the public until after the commission votes on its implementation later this month."
No surprise.
"“The plan saddles small, independent businesses and entrepreneurs with heavy-handed regulations that will push them out of the market,” Pai said. “As a result, Americans will have fewer broadband choices. This is no accident. Title II was designed to regulate a monopoly. If we impose that model on a vibrant broadband marketplace, a highly regulated monopoly is what we’ll get.”"
Just like all regulations. The only thing that's secret on the internet is this plan.

Health Care

Measles hysteria.
"This article is not about vaccines in general, but I will digress a little in that direction at this point. As stated, starting in the late 70’s, a child would get 2 shots and an oral vaccine, sometime around the age of 5. This was 7 vaccines total in 2 pokes and one drink. That was it.

Children of the 70’s and 80’s are today’s parents. We are being told by the healthcare policymakers that our children need to get…actually I’m not really sure. I have my own children and I have to look this up every time. There’s a chart you can try to interpret here [pdf]. It looks like 25 or so shots before the age of 2, with one of those shots being recommended on the day of birth. (I do know that they don’t get to drink any vaccines anymore…I would have noticed that!) That covers a total of 14 different diseases, many of which I had to look up when I became a parent because I had never heard of them before, or knew very little about them."
It's another way to steal billions.

Whooping cough surging even in those vaccinated against it.

Global Warming and Energy

The same frauds to said global warming would put an end to snow blame increased snow on man-made climate change. You can't make this stuff up.

The pause was shortened by a month to 18 years, 2 months.

Pesticides blamed for killing nearly a billion monarch butterflies.

Education

Common Core will mean states taking control of more schools from local school districts as if greater socialism is the answer.

If you thought universities were havens of free speech, the University of Michigan's warning to students to check their speech should disabuse you of that myth.

Police State

I always thought Google Glass was intended for cops, and now Norwegian airport security is trying it.
"One of Europe’s busiest airports, Amsterdam’s Schiphol hub in the Netherlands, is trialling Google Glass for use by airport authority officers as a hands-free way to look up gate and airplane information."
I love the honesty of calling them authority officers and not security officers.

The rapid progress of the investigation in Paris and the killing of the supposed killers is reminiscent of the handling of the Kennedy and King assassinations and 9/11, suggesting a false flag.

Local

RTA ridership down slightly in 2014.

Non-profit closes suddenly.
"“If we had five more days we may be having a different conversation,” Black said. “It just came down to having more months than money.”"
This sounds fishy because there's always people willing to throw money at non-profits around here.

Another consequence of the declining economy is more unclaimed bodies at the morgue.

War on Drugs

DEA charges $1.4 million fee for FOIA request.

Federal Reserve

Bitcoin exchange may have absconded with over $300 billion.

Bitcoin is not anonymous as claimed.
"Silk Road was based on an expectation of anonymity: Servers operated within an anonymous Tor network. Transactions between buyers and sellers were conducted in bitcoin. Everything was supposedly untraceable. Yet prosecutors presented a wealth of digital evidence to convince the jury that Ross Ulbricht was Dread Pirate Roberts, the handle used by the chief operator of the site. From Bitcoin to server logins and, yes, Facebook, here's a look at 5 technologies that tripped Ulbricht up."
Fools.

Politics

Jeb Bush is appropriating Bush the Younger's "compassionate", meaning big government, slogan. There's no such thing as being compassionate with money stolen from others.

Alabama county rulers defy Supreme Court, denying marriage licenses for gays.

No matter which party wins in 2016, Wall Street wins. This is true every election.

Even Greenspan says the US is heading for a political crisis. That's a result of the economic crisis he helped create.

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Man stops robbery by brandishing taser then is promptly arrested for doing so.

War

Former Guantanamo detainee killed in Afghanistan by either drone or Afghan troops.

Western rulers want a ceasefire in Ukraine because Ukrainian forces are losing.

Now we have to send weapons to the Kurds.

Economy

Cars can be hacked. Imagine that. Putting internet in them is a dumb idea.

More on potential Google-Uber competition. Or maybe these are merely bargaining positions. If real, Google will crush Uber then Facebook, Apple and Microsoft will enter the market.

Malware targets Linux too.

Sunday, February 08, 2015

Police State

Voice recognition being used to spy on us.

Tax and Spend

New Greek PM demands Nazi reparations from Germany to pay off much of Greece's debt. This is a great negotiating ploy. This guy is no fool.

Colorado Democrats block ending welfare for weed.
"Despite mounting evidence that “welfare for weed” is more than an urban myth, Democratic legislators are balking at a bill that would add marijuana dispensaries and strip clubs to the list of places, along with casinos and liquor stores, where debit-style benefits cards cannot be used to withdraw cash from automatic teller machines, or ATMs."
Crazy.

Economy

Gallup CEO fears Obama's police state may disappear him for telling the truth about unemployment and corruption of statistics by BLS.

Global Warming and Energy

The mainstream media is waking up to the corruption of historical temperature data to make it appear the climate is warming. It might well be the biggest science scandal ever. I love this. Force the frauds to defend it.

Somebody besides me has noticed this corruption of data is criminal fraud.
"In the business and trading world, people go to jail for such manipulations of data"
Exactly.

Health Care

Convincing people they're depressed is another way Big Pharma makes money.

High fat diet recommendation in the mainstream media.

Scientists discover that feeding babies exclusively breast milk is best.

Vaccine controversy shows why markets are better than mandates.

War

Opium addiction hits record high in Afghanistan.
"$7 billion in U.S. aid fails to stem Afghanistan's growth as world's heroin supplier"
Imagine that.

Arming neo-nazis in Ukraine.
"The neo-Nazi element in Kiev’s government and in Kiev’s armed forces is both strong and indisputable. Kiev’s government is not Nazi, but the neo-Nazi contingent has organization, weapons, bodies and street control. It threatens Poroshenko with a right-wing coup unless he accommodates them. Much as the U.S. armed terrorists in Syria, we now have the spectacle of major figures in the U.S. government like Biden and Graham who want to arm neo-Nazis in Ukraine. These elements are the same ones that are responsible for attacking civilian populations and the Odessa massacre. "
The US seems drawn to the worst people. It's too bad the media is so controlled by the government nobody will as questions like this.

Europe splitting from US and moving toward Russia regarding Ukraine.

Ukrainians flee to avoid draft.
"When Ukrainian army officers came to the Ukrainian village of Velikaya Znamenka to tell the men to prepare to be drafted, they weren’t prepared for what happened next. As the commanding officer was speaking, a woman seized the microphone and proceeded to tell him off: "We’re sick of this war! Our husbands and sons aren’t going anywhere!" She then launched into a passionate speech, denouncing the war, and the coup leaders in Kiev, to the cheers of the crowd."
Brave woman.
"What she did is now a crime in Ukraine: the only reason she wasn’t arrested on the spot is that the villagers wouldn’t have permitted it. But in Ukrainian Transcarpathia, well-known journalist for Ukrainian Channel 112 Ruslan Kotsaba has been arrested and charged with "treason" and "espionage" for making a video in which he declared: "I would rather sit in jail for three to five years than go to the east to kill my Ukrainian brothers. This fear-mongering must be stopped." Kotsaba may sit in jail for twenty-three years, the prescribed term for the charges filed against him. "
I thought the west supported freedom of speech.
"Draft resistance is at an all-time high: a mere 6 percent of those called up have reported voluntarily. This has forced the Kiev authorities to go knocking on doors – where they are met either with a mass of angry villagers, who refuse to let them take anyone, or else ghost towns where virtually everyone has fled."
Yet the war goes on.
"In the Transcarpathia region of western Ukraine, entire villages have been emptied, the inhabitants fleeing to Russia to wait out the war – or the fall of the Kiev regime, whichever comes first. "It may seem a paradox," says Transcarpathia’s chief recruitment officer, "but from the western Ukrainian region of Ternopyl people have fled to Russia in order to escape army conscription." The frantic Ukrainian regime is now contemplating conscripting women over 20."
Yet the war goes on.

Ukrainians angry at the US puppet regime and their war.

More on Saudi Arabian complicity in 9/11

There's a lot of uproar because ISIS burned a captured Jordanian pilot alive,  but Hellfire missiles incinerate their victims too, and nobody is concerned about that.

Economy

Google Earth Pro is free. Really free.

Gallup CEO fears Obama's police state may disappear him for telling the truth about unemployment and corruption of statistics by BLS.
"The CNBC interview came one day after Clifton had penned a gutsy opinion piece on Gallup’s web site, defiantly calling the government’s 5.6 percent unemployment figure “The Big Lie” in the article’s headline. His appearance on CNBC was apparently to walk back the “lie” part of the title and reframe the jobs data as just hopelessly deceptive.
Clifton stated the following on CNBC:
“I think that the number that comes out of BLS [Bureau of Labor Statistics] and the Department of Labor is very, very accurate. I need to make that very, very clear so that I don’t suddenly disappear. I need to make it home tonight.”
After getting that out of the way, Clifton went on to eviscerate the legitimacy of the cheerful spin given to the unemployment data, telling CNBC viewers that the percent of full time jobs in this country as a percent of the adult population “is the worst it’s been in 30 years.”"
He should be scared.

Politics

Greek PM promises free electricity, and this post accidentally explains why this is a bad idea.
"A second part of the speech will touch on his government's social and fiscal policy over the longer term and is likely to repeat pledges for such things as a rise in the minimum wage and free electricity for poorer Greeks. Which gets me to thinking: with free electricity, wouldn't that be a great business opportunity, to build a cloud of servers in poorer Greeks' basements? Maybe that is the real plan behind the free electricity idea."
Get ready for energy shortages.

Misc

In new papers, establishment scientists can't explain comet 67P. Great quote at 4:50.

Federal Reserve

Greeks quietly hoarding cash.

Greenspan predicts Greece will abandon the euro. I wouldn't be surprised if the Fed secretly supports Greece to keep this from happening.

HSBC busted for providing valuable services to customers which helped reduce their tax burdens.

Politics

Apparently Hillary is going to be squashed by the size of her political team.

Economy

Secret, foreign shell companies buying New York real estate. That's foreign dollar holding coming back to roost.

Global Warming and Energy

I find it hard to believe Al Gore is responsible for this satellite.

Media

Brian Williams takes temporary, soon to be permanent, leave of absence. Let's hope this freak crawls under a rock and never climbs out.

Brian Williams's lies are the least bad lies the media tells. They should all be fired, but Williams was spectacularly caught, so at least he should be fired.

War on Drugs

Argentine investigators reject Mexico's claims about 43 missing students.

Colorado border states which ban marijuana sue Colorado because they ban marijuana. If they want to stop smuggling, all they have to do is legalize it.

Apparently smoking pot, or at least claiming to, is a new, required rite of passage for politicians.

War

A handful of general and admiral posts cut include a couple at Wright-Patt.

Obama is making the world more dangerous. Killing people will do that.

Putting the military at the heart of the deep state.

Mark Twain explains how the people are stampeded into war. The same technique is being used to escalate the war against ISIS.

Saturday, February 07, 2015

Local

Dayton government schools are so bad, they're trying to block students from leaving via vouchers.

Beavercreek to spend 50 percent more on roads, and they'll still stink.

Friday, February 06, 2015

Economy

Both Republicans and Democrats praised another crappy jobs report.
"Employers added a higher-than-expected 257,000 jobs in January, while the unemployment rate ticked up to 5.7% as more Americans reentered the labor force."
It might be higher than expected, but it's still pathetic. We're still down ten million jobs since 2007, and the few that have been created are poor jobs and they've been taken mostly by immigrants.

Ubuntu phone's innovative plans.
"The phone — the Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition, made with Spanish manufacturers BQ — won't feature apps. Instead, it will have a new user experience paradigm called Scopes. These are "essentially contextual home-screen dashboards that will be much simpler and less time-consuming to develop than full-on native apps." For instance, the music Scope will pull songs from Grooveshark alongside music stored locally on your device, without strong differentiation between the two. The user experience, writes Jay Cassano at Fast Company, seems a lot more intuitive than the "app grids" that dominate most devices."
Nice.

Foreign Policy

Obama claims less aggressive foreign policy, but I don't believe him. This is baloney. He's been as aggressive as it gets.

Regulation

New Jersey legislator wants to make it legal for teens to solicit snow shoveling jobs. That's where we are now. Everything is illegal until the legislature makes them legal.

FCC commissioner criticizes some of FCC chief's plan to take over internet. They all want to take it over. The only differences are in the details.

Verizon sells wireless business because of uncertainty over FCC regulations.

Tax and Spend

Billions wasted on New York City's 911 system upgrade.
"A scathing report by the city’s Department of Investigation found the Bloomberg administration mismanaged for years the city’s massive overhaul of its 911 communications system.
The upgrade is 10 years behind schedule, nearly $1 billion over budget and needlessly slowed down by a persistent battle of the badges between the FDNY and the NYPD, the report shows."
No surprise.

Instead of real science, this is what governments spend money on.
"Physicists call these embedded universes “branes” and say that it should be possible for stuff from our brane to leak into other branes nearby and vice versa."
Silly.

Illegal immigrants get earned income tax credits.

Media

Brian Williams accused of lying about Hurricane Katrina. Fire him.

Williams's war story lie is the least damning of his lies. His regular reporting is far worse.

Police State

UK's top spy court rules GCHQ and NSA spying illegal. Nothing will change.

Rulers push fear of lone-wolf terrorists, otherwise known as criminals, to advance the police state.

Economy

After making others aware of the funding problem, GnuPG project received plenty of funding.

Local

Crash causes power outage.

Huber Heights resident challenge incumbents for wrong reason.

War

The US invasion of Iraq created ISIS, not the withdrawal.

Jordanian air strike against ISIS kills American hostage. US can't confirm.

Motive for ISIS immolation of Jordanian pilot.
"Fourth, this may have been a provocation to cause the king to put his monarchy on the line and plunge Jordan into all out war against the Islamic State.
For history teaches that wars often prove fatal to monarchies. In the Great War of 1914-1918, the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns, the Romanovs and Ottomans, all went down.
The terrorists of ISIS may believe that stampeding Abdullah into fighting on the side of the “Crusaders” may prove destabilizing to his country and imperil the Hashemite throne.
For, though Jordanians may be united today, will they support sending their sons into battle as allies of the Americans and de facto allies of Bashar Assad, Hezbollah, and Iran?"
I think they want to divide Jordan.
"To many Sunni nations, Assad and the Shia Crescent of Tehran, Baghdad, Damascus and Beirut are the greater threat. Indeed, until recently, as Joe Biden pointed out last October, the Turks, Saudis and United Arab Emirates were providing clandestine aid to ISIS. "
I doubt they have stopped.

Obama to ask Congress for war powers against ISIS. What a novel idea. They'll grant them.

Yemeni rebels announce they've taken over the country.

US wars of aggression don't benefit Americans.

Thursday, February 05, 2015

Tax and Spend

David Stockman advises Greece to default and dump the euro.
"For its part, Greece stands at a fork in the road. Syriza can move aggressively to recover Greece’s democratic sovereignty or it can desperately cling to the faltering currency and financial machinery of the Euro zone. But it can’t do both.
So by the time the current onerous bailout agreement expires at month end, Greece must have repudiated its “bailout debt” and be on the off-ramp from the euro. Otherwise, it will have no hope of economic recovery or restoration of self-governance, and Syriza will have betrayed its mandate."
I bet Syriza betrays its mandate. They're politicians.

Regulation

Cops shut down teens shoveling snow, demanding a piece of the action. I mean a license.

War on Drugs

Drug cartels using drones to spy on police and DEA. What's good for the goose...

Politics

George P. Bush, son of Jeb, rising star in Texas.

Former Argentine spy chief linked to prosecutor's murder missing.

Amid the Brian Williams story, it's nice to see Drudge reminding readers Hillary lied about being shot at in Kosovo.

Police State

64 percent of reporters say the feds are spying on them. That's ridiculous. The feds are spying on 100 percent of them. They're spying on all of us.

Media

Fire Brian Williams. He still lying in his so-called apology. I'm not surprised top media people are lying psychopaths like politicians, but once they're exposed, they should be fired.

Foreign Policy

Conviction is payback from the CIA to agent who blew the whistle on Operation Merlin.

Economy

Radioshack declares bankruptcy.

If people want internet privacy, they have to pay for it.

Ratio of full-time jobs to population lowest ever.
"The number of full-time jobs, and that’s what everybody wants, as a percent of the total population, is the lowest it’s ever been… The other thing that is very misleading about that number is the more people that drop out, the better the number gets. In the recession we lost 13 million jobs. Only 3 million have come back. You don’t see that in that number."
Government lies.

Companies threaten lockout of workers at west coast ports.

American oil still pumping despite low prices, layoffs and shuttered rigs.

Global Warming and Energy

Undersea volcanoes linked to climate change.

Australian bureaucrats answer email to trees.

Health Care

Circumcised boys 50 more like to develop autism.

Criticism of study claiming mercury levels of Hawaiian tuna are rising.

Bubonic plague discovered on New York City subway.
"In 18 months of scouring the entire system, he has found germs that can cause bubonic plague uptown, meningitis in midtown, stomach trouble in the financial district and antibiotic-resistant infections throughout the boroughs."
And yet we survive.

We already know the cure for cancer. I bet it's cut out the sugar.
"In the 1930s it was Otto Warburg who won two Nobel Prizes for his discovery that cancer cells convert from using oxygen to sugar for energy.[4]  There is always some “sugar burning” going on, but cancer cells generate up to 60% of their energy from sugar rather than ~5% in healthy cells."
"All of the accumulated knowledge to date involving cancer cell metabolism strongly suggests limitation of refined sugars to control tumor cell growth.[8]
The particular type of sugar consumed may influence cancer risk.  A recent study is instructive.  Six of ten mice fed a diet rich in high fructose corn syrup developed liver tumors over a 12-month period of time versus zero tumors in mice fed a normal diet.[9]
But for inexplicable reasons, limitation of dietary sugar is not in the average oncologist’s armamentarium."
It's not inexplicable. Doctors, pharmaceutical companies, politicians and bureaucrats can't make any money recommending cutting sugar out of a patient's diet.
"From an experiment conducted in 1909 that demonstrated the growth of implanted tumors was inhibited by underfeeding mice, to reduction in the recurrence of tumors from 82% in fully-fed mice to only 28% in underfed mice in an experiment conducted in 1926, it has been widely known that diet can control cancer.
Another experiment showed that a limited calorie diet combined with high-fat intake reduced tumor incidence from 73% to just 7%.
We’ve known for over 100 years that diets can control cancer yet there is no recommended diet for cancer patients.[10]"
Because there's no money to be made from it and no competition.
"So let’s go to our doctor and demand we get an Rx for metformin.  But wait.  We know modern medicine has dragged its feet for over a century on the connection between diet and cancer and for over 80 years since the discovery by Otto Warburg in Germany that cancer cells thrive on sugar; and since 1971 when it was first realized metformin reduces cancer growth and mortality. Why are we going back and asking our doctors for metformin when they have lost all level of trust?"
Yep.
"Infusion of chemotherapy agents in the oncologist’s office, which by one report only contribute to ~2% of the cancer cures[33], generates 80% of an oncologist’s income.[34]  Any therapy that would interrupt that income stream would likely be ignored or rejected outright."
Like I said, it's not inexplicable.
"It was John Ely PhD who had shown in the animal lab that only 1 in 20 mice (5%) fed a low-sugar died expired from implanted breast tumors whereas 16 of 24 mice (66%) fed a high-sugar and carbohydrate diet failed to survive[36], ventured to place two end-stage terminal breast cancer patients on a low-sugar/ low carbohydrate diet combined with oral vitamin C.  Each subject shed 50 pounds and lived 11 and 13 years respectively.[37]"
I bet the FDA destroyed Ely if he wasn't killed.

War

Imprisoned 9/11 conspirator claims Saudi princes discussed shooting down Air Force One with terrorists.

Both parties want to grow the war budget.
"As the Post puts it:
"There’s broad consensus in both parties that the military needs more money to modernize its forces and meet its responsibilities in a world that seems to have grown more chaotic and dangerous in the past 12 months. It’s unclear, however, how Congress and the White House can come to an agreement on where to find the additional funds."
No one in Washington is willing to admit that the rising chaos is a direct result of the US "meeting its responsibilities" to conquer Iraq, occupy Afghanistan, and undertake regime change operations in Libya, Syria, and Ukraine. That’s because they all had a hand in it."
That post quote is funny, as if all chaos and danger magically appeared and wasn't the result of intervention.

Five out of 26 women complete Army ranger course, all officers.
"The army considers its two-week Army National Guard Ranger Training and Assessment Course to be a reliable litmus test for which soldiers are likely to have a chance at passing Ranger School. The army hopes that 40 women will pass the preparatory course between now and April."
They're not rangers yet.

Misc

Health insurer hacked. Personal information of 80 million people stolen. China blamed.

Local

Lots of multi-use sports complexes being planned that will cost some tax money. This is another bubble.

Local schools gain and lose under Kasich's proposed budget.
"Dayton, Trotwood, Huber Heights, Piqua big gainers under Gov. Kasich's proposed education budget. Beavercreek, Bellbrook, Oakwood biggest losers. "
Central planning. Picking winners and losers.

Foreign Policy

After the Saudi king died, people are pointing out ties between the Saudi royal family and 9/11.

Education

Teacher attacked first-grader for having too much lunch.

Health Care

Scientists aren't stopping the common cold. They're lying. For 50 years, supposed scientists have been tau
tauting breakthroughs in headlines, but they never come true.

After the self-serving foreign aid peddlers left Africa, Ebola was brought under control. Now, cases are increasing. That leads me to believe foreigners are coming back and trying to take over.

Wednesday, February 04, 2015

Socialism

They can't predict a snow storm or any other weather.

Federal Reserve

In tried and failed western central bank fashion, China cuts reserve ratio.

Politics

Republicans voting to repeal Obamacare is hilarious. They're hoping to put people on record, but the dividing lines are settled. Maybe not in the Senate. Maybe Republicans can use this against a few Senators. But its' not like Obama will sign a bill repealing the law that bears his name.

Obama bundler caught in Hollywood charity scam. Just like Clinton, but not Chinese.

Like every other politician, Hillary loves her some private jets. Don't we all? If you want to do this story, compare all rulers to all serfs. Comparing a ruler to serfs is ridiculous.

Rand Paul flips and supports vaccinations. He'll say he always supported them, but he didn't.

Immigrants

Obama thinks about the consequences to illegal immigrants, but he doesn't care about the consequences to Americans.

Media

The insufferable Brian Williams forced to recant lie about being aboard a helicopter forced down in Iraq in 2003.
"“Because I have no desire to fictionalize my experience … and no need to dramatize events as they actually happened, I think the constant viewing of the video showing us inspecting the impact area – and the fog of memory over the years – made me conflate the two,” Williams wrote."
I hope there's a special place in hell for these psychopaths.
"“I would not have chosen to make this mistake,” Williams said. “I don’t know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another.”"
He believes people will buy his lies, that he confused not getting shot down with getting shot down, and he might be right. Lying about getting shot at by a sniper in Serbia worked for Hillary Clinton. He feels terrible about getting caught.

War

911 conspirator claims Saudi royal family funded al Qaeda.

After ISIS immolates Jordanian pilot, UAE stops air attacks saying US fighters can take care of it. As outrageous as this seems, this is perfectly rational given the US policy of aggression and war against everybody. Why should anybody else bother to fight and die when the US is better at it than anybody?

Given Jordan's past support for Syrian radicals, it's surprising ISIS immolated a pilot of theirs unless it was for show to prompt as US ground invasion.

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Soviet Cosmonauts carried firearms into space from 1982 to 2006. All arguments against gun control are now invalid.

Police State

Silk Road founder found guilty on seven of seven counts.

Cops hate Waze because you can't be secret police when everybody is posting your whereabouts.
"We’re told that radar traps and so on exist not to extract dollars from our wallets but for “safety.” If so, why do the cops squeal so loudly about Waze? After all, people slow down for the trap up ahead. Isn’t that the desired object?
Obviously, not."
I just said that. This has nothing to do with safety. It's all about revenue.
"One of the most delightful features of Waze is that – using real time updates collated via social media such as Twitter – it can hip you to a “safety” or “drunk driving” checkpoint up ahead in ample time to avoid it. Previously, one had no real choice but to submit to the rights-rape of a random/probable cause-free police investigation (interrogation and search). Roll up on one of these rights-rape zones and you had to go through it. Because making a U turn would result in even worse. You’ve just given the rights-rapers their “probable cause” to come screeching after you. Your disinclination to have your rights raped becoming the pretext for having your rights raped."
Rights rape. That's golden. What a fantastic term to express what's going on.

If you want to file a complaint against the TSA, they will kidnap you for 20 hours or so.

Tax and Spend

DOT warns of government road failure as if it wasn't the problem. This reminds me, where are the flying cars?

World debt higher than in 2008. Even China is drowning in debt. What could go wrong?

Local

Oxford police won't explain their role in the recent murder-suicide, so you know they did something bad.

Government failure produces more crashes.

Economy

Alibaba using drones to deliver in China.

Record number of Obama billionaire cronies.

Obama's billionaire cronies own $3 trillion in homes.

Regulation

FCC chairman lays out regulation plan to take over the internet.

Record companies hoard all the money from streaming services.
"New record company figures out of France suggest that artists are being paid just 68 cents from every €9.99 monthly music streaming subscription – as major labels keep hold of 73% of payouts from the likes of Spotify. They’re followed by writers/publishers with a 16% share, and then artists – mostly paid by their labels – who get 11%."
They can thank copyright for those outrageous profits not paid to the artists.

Foreign Policy

Success in punishing whistleblower of silly CIA plan to plant fake nuclear secrets on Iranian scientists.

Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Education

Kasich to price fix tuition prices at colleges.

Socialism

Californians use 22 percent less water.

Misc

3,600 year old mummy appears to have had brain surgery.

Immigration

Cruz wants to block Lynch until Obama obeys immigration law. I like that idea.

Obama admin fast-tracks visas for rich, suspected criminals.

Politics

Murdered prosecutor had arrest warrant for president when he was murdered.

Police State

The FBI considers hackers as terrorists.
"“The FBI has long used terms like cyberterrorism that create more ambiguity than they do clarity,” German said. "They’re really just trying to make those types of investigations go up the level of priority—which may or may not be justified—but whether it actually serves as an effective security measure is another question.”"
Government promotes confusion. They consider everybody as terrorists.

Obama announces superficial and meaningless changes to NSA data collection to pretend he cares about privacy.

CanaryWatch.org tracks warrant canaries.

Local

Gas prices jumped over 35 cents today. If that's as high as they go, that won't be so bad.

This Dayton logistics crap is just a fancy term for warehousing, trucking and maybe resale. This just showed up. I bet it's a bubble too.

How is a guy hiding "inducing panic"?

Power outage. Another.

Water Street developers get $30 million loan, thanks to the Fed. I wonder what role the city plays in this.
"Original plans for Water Street called for about 150 apartments, in addition to the four-story office building and public parking garage. Overall investments were expected to be about $33.5 million.
Today, the project will cost about $45 million, with the residential component alone running about $30 million, said Jason Woodard, principal of Woodard Real Estate Resources."
Now it's 215 units.
"Dirt work will begin on the parking garage in the next couple of weeks, and the structure should be complete by the end of August, Woodard said."
Another parking garage?

Health Care

UK OKs making babies from DNA of three people. Here come the designer babies.

Mayo Clinic to test breast cancer vaccine.

Mammograms wrongly credited for decline in breast cancer deaths.

Now that the government has fooled many into putting their health records online, experts are considering how safe that is. They should have done that first.

The role of vaccines in reducing deaths from diseases is exaggerated.
"The Powers-That-Be claim that vaccines markedly lowered the death rate of common childhood illnesses such as measles and whooping cough. However, you can see from the graph above that the mortality rate of these illnesses were rapidly falling before the mass vaccination campaign began." 

I've never heard that before.
"I am not saying that all vaccines don’t work. I know some of them do. The chicken pox vaccine has clearly lowered the incidence of chicken pox. However, is that a good thing? I am not sure as shingles cases have skyrocketed since the mass vaccination of chicken pox was started. And, perhaps a child’s immune system needs to be stimulated with these childhood infections to become strong."
Yikes.

Berkeley Heatlh Department threatens 21 day measles quarantine for unvaccinated children.

War

US official lies about Ukrainian plans.
"In an interview with CNN, White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said that sanctions were the best way of applying pressure on Russia. "We don't think the answer to the crisis in Ukraine is simply to inject more weapons and engage in tit-for-tat," he said.
US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki also emphasized that the US was not immediately looking for a military solution: "I don't think anybody wants to get into a proxy war with Russia," she said, adding that the objective was "to change the behavior of Russia. That's the reason we have put the sanctions in place.""
But that's exactly what they're doing.

A proxy war with Russia in Ukraine is stupid.

ISIS filmed distributing UN food supplies.

If ISIS is looking for a real backlash, burning a captured Jordanian pilot alive on video will give it to them. They must be unhappy with the US response so far. They want boots on the ground to topple Assad.

More on the joint CIA-Mossad assassination of a Hezbollah leader in Syria in 2008.

Global Warming and Energy

Record snow in Boston.

Motive for corrupting temperature datasets.
"Due to new records being set for GISS, HadCRUT4.3 and HadSST3, the pause for these data sets has basically disappeared. At least that is the case for now. Should lower temperatures come in 2015, then the pause may resume in each case. However, all satellite records still show a pause of several years."
Corruption to change the terms of the debate.

Tax and Spend

Kasich budget increases sales tax while decreasing income tax. Another bait and switch. How about some real cuts?

The IRS uses system put in place when Kennedy was president.

The phony debate about defense spending.

Economy

Google to compete with Uber.

Microbreweries are another bubble business, and rainy weather may pop it.

Internet giants pay Adblock Plus to allow their ads.

Gallop explains that government's unemployment number is a lie.

In a sign of America's decline, chicken and pork have passed beef as America's top meat products.

OPEC predicts $200 per barrel oil.

IBM reportedly cutting 100,000 employees.
"At more than 100,000 people, it is projected to be the largest mass layoff by any U.S. corporation in at least 20 years. Alliance@IBM, the IBM employees' union, says it has so far collected reports of 5000 jobs eliminated, but those are just numbers of those getting official layoff notices. According to anecdotal reports, IBM appears to be abusing the performance appraisal system to cut additional employees without officially laying them off."
To avoid severance?
"When reached, IBM sent the following response: “We do not comment on rumors, even ridiculous or baseless ones. If anyone had checked information readily available from our public earnings statements, or had simply asked us, they would know that IBM has already announced the company has just taken a $600 million charge for workforce rebalancing. This equates to several thousand people, a mere fraction of what’s been reported. Last year, IBM hired 45,000 people, and the company currently has about 15,000 job openings around the world for new skills in growth areas such as cloud, analytics, security, and social and mobile technologies. This is evidence that IBM continues to remix its skills to match where we see the best opportunities in the marketplace.”"
We'll see in a month.

Regulation

The FAA thinks it can regulate the moon. Talk about knowing no boundaries.

Monday, February 02, 2015

Immigration

Obama illegally gave over a million work permits to illegal aliens starting in 2009, long before he announced his illegal temporary amnesty.
"Data uncovered from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency reveal that approximately 982,000 work permits were given to illegal immigrants and other foreign nationals unqualified for admission, most of whom crossed the border without inspection."
"The remarkable number of work permits granted by the federal government to law-breaking aliens better explains how all net jobs growth since 2007 has gone to immigrants. The government issued approximately 1.7 million work permits since 2009 to aliens whose status was not known, not recorded, or not disclosed by USCIS, according to the report. The report says employment is not authorized by law for approximately 1.2 million immigrants who collected work permits while having a temporary visa status. And the data show that approximately 1,200 new work permits went to unlawful entrants who were denied asylum, were suspected of using fraudulent documentation, were stowaways, or were refused at a port of entry. "
More.
"“I was astonished at the huge number of work permits that are being issued by the Obama administration outside the legal immigration system through executive discretion, especially at a time of high unemployment and stagnant wages,” Jessica Vaughan, CIS’ director of policy studies, said Monday. “Besides the effect on the American worker, it encourages and rewards more illegal immigration.”"
By design.

Republicans plan no fight.
"GOP leaders are dropping the political ball, conservative advocate Dan Horowitz told The Daily Caller. “This is a lay-up. The president is putting illegals ahead of the interests of border security — that’s easy to message.” So the GOP leaders’ passivity sends a “message to the Democrats that ‘We’re just going through the motions to get the conservatives off our back.’”"
Political theater.

ICE claims transgender illegal aliens are guaranteed a right to hormone therapy in prison.

Health Care

Tomatoes lower cholesterol and more. Unfortunately, they are also nightshades and aggravate inflammation. From the original article:
"Many types of cancer are initiated by chronic oxidative stress and inflammation. This has made the tomato a superstar in cancer research for its high antioxidant levels and its ability to suppress inflammation."
Make up your mind.

Cops want to forcibly sterilize mother of six with learning disabilities in Britain.

The mainstream is discovering the bad effects of chronic cardio.

Scott Adams says science's biggest failure is everything about diet and exercise.
"According to Adams, the direct problem of science is that it has been collectively steering an entire generation toward obesity, diabetes, and coronary problems. But the indirect problem might be worse: It is hard to trust science because people have become accustomed to learning that they've been steered wrong. "I think science has earned its lack of credibility with the public. If you kick me in the balls for 20-years, how do you expect me to close my eyes and trust you?""
Like most science, government corrupted health research for political gain.

Politics

Scott Walker is a warmonger.

Boehner criticizes Obama budget for not being balanced as if Republicans ever proposed a balanced budget when they were in power. Ridiculous.

New York Times accuses Christie of being like every other politician.

Foreign Policy

How the socialist Yalta agreement still haunts the world today.

Sports

The New York Times talks about people hating the NFL in the same article it reports record ratings for the Super Bowl.
"If you weren’t turned off the N.F.L. for good by the league’s mismanagement of domestic violence cases, by its years of mishandling head injuries and by its seemingly insatiable appetite for your money, you might have lasted all the way to this Super Bowl."
Are you kidding? Do you even read what you write? Record ratings.

Tax and Spend

Obama's budget is $3.99 trillion, like some deal on TV. He's too much of a coward to say its $4 trillion.

Obama calls the current,outrageous spending by the feds "mindless austerity". You can't make this stuff up. He's unhappy he hasn't succeeded at collapsing the economy yet.

Because every dollar the government spends must be taken from the productive economy, government spending is the problem, not the deficit.

More on the financial situation between Greece, EU and Russia after the Greek election.
"Europe in its infinite wisdom decided to deal with this bankruptcy by loading the largest loan in human history on the weakest of shoulders, the Greek taxpayer. What we’ve been having ever since is a kind of fiscal waterboarding that has turned this nation into a debt colony."
Yet the new government doesn't want to default. Of course it doesn't. It wants gifts of money, not loans.

Obama proposes steal increase of death tax.

Economy

Showing the power of reputation, Uber drivers rate customers just like customers rate drivers.

Consumer spending fell in December, most in five years.

Shake Shack another bubble IPO.

Hedge fund manager who predicted 2008 crash recommends shorting the market now. 

US oil output drops, prompting a rise in oil prices.
"The talks arise as data from the United States showed a record drop in drilling rigs, prompting oil prices to jump above $50 a barrel on Friday as traders said they saw it as a sign that OPEC's strategy was taking a toll on the U.S. shale boom. "
A balance will be reached, but all that unused investment will be lost in the bust.

Education

School suspends 9-year-old for threatening another student with this magic ring.

Local

Dayton's economy is so bad, it's cheap to live here. How can Round Rock be more affordable than Dayton?

Grammy-nominated rock band nobody has ever heard of to open Huber Heights's music boondoggle.
"Pollstar.com, a music industry website, has reported two other concerts at the music center: Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis on July 12; and Canned Heat, with Charlie Musselwhite and Pat Travers, on Aug. 21."
Three shows? I don't know how bad that is at this point in the season, but it seems bad.

How did city government get free circus tickets to give away to Whaley's constituents?

Boil advisory in Anna.

Misc

NASA claims infrared sunlight reflected from Titan saturated one of Cassini's cameras in a blinding flash. I'm skeptical. Sounds more like lightning.

Icelanders build temple to Norse gods.
"“We see the stories as poetic metaphors and a manifestation of the forces of nature and human psychology.”"
Probably right.

War

Ron Paul on the failure in Yemen.

Despite US training, equipment, aid and military advisors since 2003, Iraqi troops are not good enough to fight ISIS.

More US-trained and armed Syrian rebels join ISIS and al Qaeda.

Sherman's total war philosophy as the model for US warfare since.

The reason the US keeps losing wars is central planning.
"Journalistic old-hands in the regions, men who have spent decades following the wars and the complex and shifting alliances, say quietly that the cause is American ignorance of both the lands and the people. Virtually no one in the United States has any notion of the region, they say, though all seem to have strong opinions. Policy thus rests on self-assurance buttressed by factual vacuum."
The pretense of knowledge.
"It is well known that Paul Bremer, the virtual viceroy of Bagdad after the city’s fall in Gulf II, disbanded the Iraqi army. Less known is that he replaced Mohammed al Aksa, the chief of intelligence, with Abdul dhar es Salaam, a known Sufi extremist with ties to Iranian intelligence. In fact he seemed to be on its payroll: The man had palatial residences, widely suspected of having been paid for by Tehran, in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein’s home town, in Bangui in the Kurdish north, as well as in the ritzy Sulawesi suburbs of Fallujah (the latter dwelling destroyed by American shell-fire in the siege).
Bremer apparently didn’t know any of this, though it was a commonplace in journalistic hangouts. Dhar es Salaam was instrumental in stirring up resistance to Coalition forces trying to pacify the country—while on the American payroll."
We keep funding both sides in wars.

Sunday, February 01, 2015

Regulation

The FCC targets the internet.

Politics

Obama says he's proud of saving the American economy. What a joke. This is going to come back to haunt him.

First hit-job on Rand Paul come from Washington Post. It may backfire.

Failure of liberalism.

Police State

Algorithms for analyzing text data are frequently wrong and not repeatable. So much for NSA's analysis tools.

Foreign Policy

US objects to increased nuclear power plant safety treaty.

War

UN grossly under-reports deaths in Iraq in January.

Attacking US contract fighters seems like a logical step for terrorists.
"Vinnell Arabia is partly owned by Falls Church, Virginia-based Northrop Grumman Corp. It has been active in the kingdom for decades and is involved in training and providing additional support to the Saudi Arabian National Guard, which is a separate force from the country's military."
I doubt terrorists care if they're official or unofficial US military.

The Big Propaganda about Russian aggression.

Abe promises revenge for ISIS killing Japanese reporters. Great. Another country drawn into war.

Thanks to Hillary, Libya is imploding and ISIS is moving in.

Seven reasons why war never ends for the US.

Sports

The NFL lies to people about what is legal under its copyright protection.

Napoleon Goodell asks Columbia physicists to help investigate deflate-gate.

Worst Super Bowl commercials ever.

Tax and Spend

Obama wants to tax money American businesses earn overseas and keep overseas to avoid US taxes, for infrastructure.

New Greek PM backs off his aggressive stance against so-called austerity. The bankers probably threatened to kill him. 

Michigan wastes millions each year renting rail cars it can't use.

Health Care

The true cause of addiction, as I've long maintained, is isolation from society.

Stanford researchers develop procedure of lengthening telomeres, effectively making cells younger.

Police State

TSA claims to have confiscated record numbers of firearms in 2014.