Monday, November 18, 2013
War on Drugs
Now Ohio has a heroin epidemic, and yet we'll continue the policy that has failed for 100 years. AG DeWine to create heroin task force.
Remembering when government poisoned people during Prohibition.
Remembering when government poisoned people during Prohibition.
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Global Warming and Energy
Analysis of advance of human civilization versus climate change.
Active volcano buried under Antarctic ice.
Active volcano buried under Antarctic ice.
Police State
Police in virtually crime-free Boise, Idaho obtain a tank with a grant.
TSA installing glass prisons for passengers exiting planes.
TSA installing glass prisons for passengers exiting planes.
Local
Police electrocute fleeing teen after break in.
Huber Heights aquatic center lost even more money in its second year.
Wright State had abandoned building for six years, but the state gave it $900,000 of taxpayer's money to clean it up. Wright State is rolling in dough too.
Storms knock out power to thousands.
Huber Heights aquatic center lost even more money in its second year.
Wright State had abandoned building for six years, but the state gave it $900,000 of taxpayer's money to clean it up. Wright State is rolling in dough too.
Storms knock out power to thousands.
Health Care
New cholesterol guidelines are an improvement, but still lacking.
There is no fix for Obamacare. It was fatally flawed from the beginning by design.
You know Obamacare is in jeopardy when Nancy Pelosi says Democrats proudly support it.
There is no fix for Obamacare. It was fatally flawed from the beginning by design.
You know Obamacare is in jeopardy when Nancy Pelosi says Democrats proudly support it.
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Regulation
Los Angeles county's condom requirement for porn actors pushed the porn industry out of LA, hurting the city's economy.
Foreign Policy
German news report slams US for illegal operations in Germany.
"The breach in U.S.-German relations seemed likely to widen Friday after a joint German newspaper and television investigation titled “Secret War” reported that American intelligence and military use this nation for “tapping, code cracking, recruiting informants, observing suspects, kidnapping and abducting foreign enemies.”People don't like aggression.
What’s more, the reports added: “The Germans have known all that for years.”"
War
Pentagon claims to have destroyed all its chemical weapons.
Fantastic claims about Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Fantastic claims about Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
"Forbes reports that one million US soldiers have been injured in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.http://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccaruiz/2013/11/04/report-a-million-veterans-injured-in-iraq-afghanistan-wars/Wow.
RT reports that the cost of keeping each US soldier in Afghanistan has risen from $1.3 million per soldier to $2.1 million per soldier. http://rt.com/usa/us-afghanistan-pentagon-troops-budget-721/
Matthew J. Nasuti reports in the Kabul Press that it cost US taxpayers $50 million to kill one Taliban soldier. That means it cost $1 billion to kill 20 Taliban fighters. http://kabulpress.org/my/spip.php?article32304 This is a war that can be won only at the cost of the total bankruptcy of the United States.
Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes have estimated that the current out-of-pocket and already incurred future costs of the Afghan and Iraq wars is at least $6 trillion."
Police State
Propaganda piece claims big corporations don't want to help NSA spy. This is baloney. They just don't want their customers to know about it. They didn't resist NSA when those programs were still secret.
How Google laid the groundwork for NSA intercepts.
Article blames Snowden, not the NSA, for drop in Cisco sales.
Seattle police can access city's DHS surveillance cameras in real time in their vehicles.
University of Cincinnati developing mind reading robots. Lovely.
How Google laid the groundwork for NSA intercepts.
Article blames Snowden, not the NSA, for drop in Cisco sales.
Seattle police can access city's DHS surveillance cameras in real time in their vehicles.
"While advanced security is to be expected at Seattle’s port, the mesh network nodes’ data gathering of residents in the downtown area has little to do with maritime security. Given Seattle’s “accidental” port surveillance camera placement earlier this year, which saw several of the city’s 30 port security cameras incorrectly faced in towards the city, few residents trust the government’s alleged claims about personal privacy, especially in light of their refusal to comply with a city ordinance requiring them to have divulged information on the network months ago.Accidental. That's funny.
Chief McDonagh also said the cameras do not have facial recognition capabilities, although Seattle’s secret participation in the TrapWire program, which used sophisticated facial recognition software ran through city CCTV cameras, leaves the question as to whether the mesh system’s camera access will be run through similar software programs at the whim of unknown federal agencies."
University of Cincinnati developing mind reading robots. Lovely.
Global Warming and Energy
Arizona residents have to pay for the privilege of producing solar energy and putting it on the power grid.
EPA considering reducing the amount of ethanol required in gasoline. That's great. And surprising. Ethanol production harms the environment, just like people predicted.
EPA considering reducing the amount of ethanol required in gasoline. That's great. And surprising. Ethanol production harms the environment, just like people predicted.
Misc
Anonymous hacks US agencies.
"Included in the list of compromised agencies are the U.S. Army, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, and potentially many more agencies."The government claims to want to secure the internet. Give me a break.
Local
Police charged the two men for bringing an airsoft gun to a school.
Cops work drunk.
"Allen Sanders and Donald Hanke are both charged with illegal conveyance of a weapon into a school zone and inducing panic, which are first-degree misdemeanors."They didn't induce a panic. Whoever put the school in lockdown induced the panic. And I don't think you can call an airsoft gun a weapon. This is ridiculous.
Cops work drunk.
Health Care
Dangerous vaccines.
Doctors warn that doctors are creating superbugs. Since most of these bugs are bred in ancient hospitals that would have been made obsolete in a free market, this is another consequence of government control of health care.
Medicare Advantage cuts force insurance company to drop thousands of doctors. This was planned by Obama too.
Lead contractor on healthcare.gov website has a history of botching government projects. Their execs undoubtedly donate bunches of money to politicians.
The deep, economic problems with Obamacare.
Doctors warn that doctors are creating superbugs. Since most of these bugs are bred in ancient hospitals that would have been made obsolete in a free market, this is another consequence of government control of health care.
Medicare Advantage cuts force insurance company to drop thousands of doctors. This was planned by Obama too.
Lead contractor on healthcare.gov website has a history of botching government projects. Their execs undoubtedly donate bunches of money to politicians.
The deep, economic problems with Obamacare.
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