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ECONOMY:

Mises scholar movie on the great recession.

TAX AND SPEND:

When Republicans caved to Democrats and made the Bush tax cuts temporary, it became inevitable that those tax would expire. Why is anybody surprised this is the Democrat plan? They should have never caved on making them temporary.

The socialist president of France promises to raise taxes, to rich people are leaving France. As if Britain is any better.

HEALTH CARE:

Thirty genetically modified babies have been born as human experiments for the US government's medical establishment. Government-manufactured super-soldiers will be next.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Another paper refutes Mann's hockey stick by showing the Medieval Warm Period was approximately 1 C hotter than today.

New study finds that nearly have of the recorded warming of the last century is due to data collection errors at weather stations.

POLICE STATE:

Police will be able to detect everything about you with new laser scanner.

"Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 164 feet (50 meters) away. From traces of drugs or gun powder on your clothes to what you had for breakfast to the adrenaline level in your body—agents will be able to get any information they want without even touching you. And without you knowing it."

That's terrifying. They'll put these on every street corner.

WAR:

As I expected, the latest claim of a massacre by Syrian government forces is falling apart under scrutiny.

POLITICS:

One hundred ways Obama is like Bush and One hundred ways Romney is like Obama.

Obama is right that as more and more people flee the leftist destruction of California for prosperous Texas, Texas is becoming more liberal. Stupid people destroy their own state then move to a fiscally responsible state and vote for the same policies that destroyed the state they fled.

Corruption at the Treasury Department. What a shocker.

MEDIA:

Wall Street Journal calls Washington's ramp up attack forces and aggressive policies directed at Iran as "defense". Orwell would be proud.

Obama's communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis.

Thomas Sowell wonders why the media refuses to cover the many black flash mob race riots in recent years. I don't know that these things are being ignored because of race. I think it's more likely they're being ignored because of government failure. The government has no way to stop them other than racially profiling or infiltrating black gangs, and those actions politically incorrect and difficult, respectively.

MISC:

Libertarianism is not social darwinism.

"The free market is not, as the social Darwinists imagine, a struggle between rich and poor, strong and weak. It is the principal means by which human beings cooperate in order to live. If each of us had to produce all his food and shelter by himself, almost no one could survive. The existence of large-scale society depends absolutely on social cooperation through the division of labor."

In a system of voluntary exchange.

In the midst of far and away the least active solar cycle in centuries, the government is trying to scare us about solar activity. The one thing I would say about this is the government has made our electric grid incredibly fragile and vulnerable to solar activity, so in a way this could be another false flag: blaming the sun for the damage done by our government.

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TAX AND SPEND:

Obama expands welfare by presidential fiat.

Obama continues his Cloward and Piven strategy. What's so bad about this is Romney will continue it too because he won't cut a thing.

""The reason," he explained, "is taking a trillion dollars out of a $15 trillion economy would cause our economy to shrink [and] would put a lot of people out of work.""

Just like Obama, Romney believes in the fallacy that government spending is good for the economy. We're screwed.

Americans had to work until July 15, over six months, to pay off this year's burden of government.

HEALTH CARE:

British pharmaceutical giant to pay $3 billion fine.

Obama refers to Obamacare mandate as a tax.

USA Today wants us to believe that we will pay very little more for Obamacare, but they're wrong.

"Though the law is projected to raise at least $675 billion in revenue over the coming decade, nearly half comes from about 3.5 million taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes above $200,000. Employers, insurers and health care providers are slated to fork over much of the rest."

Isn't that generous of employers, insurers and health care providers to pay that extra money out of their own pockets. But they won't. They will raise prices on us, so we'll pay for it. We'll also pay for it with a weaker economy.

This is an excellent point about personal choices regarding health care by market actors is not rationing.

"The market does not ration or allocate. The market does not do anything. It has no purposes or objectives. It is simply a legal framework in which people do things with their justly acquired property and their time in order to pursue their own purposes."

"When a person buys five apples in a grocery store rather than 10 because he wishes to use the rest of his money for other purposes, it seems entirely wrong to say the market (or even the grocer) has rationed the apples. The customer makes his choice on the basis of his preferences and the money available (which is the result of previous transactions)."

This is an important point to remember.

Internal documents admit why government licenses people:

"This week Forbes is reporting that the main driver of the state crackdown on Cooksey is the national Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly the American Dietetic Association). Forbes reports this group, based on internal documents the magazine says it obtained, pushes states to establish powerful dietetics and nutrition boards—like the board in North Carolina that has targeted Cooksey—“for the express purpose of limiting market competition for its Registered Dietitian members.” (Emphasis in original.)"

That's it.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

IPCC revamps, tacitly admitting its previous activities were politically biased and inaccurate.

"If the IPCC’s reports were flawed, as a many global warming “skeptics” have long claimed, then the scientific footing of the man-made global warming movement — the environmental movement’s “mother of all environmental scares” — is undermined.  The Obama administration’s war on coal may be unnecessary.  Billions of dollars in subsidies to solar and wind may have been wasted.  Trillions of dollars of personal income may have been squandered worldwide in campaigns to “fix” a problem that didn’t really exist."

May be?

POLITICS:

The coming civil war between America's producers and looters. This is the civil war Obama has been trying to start, and it's coming regardless of who wins the election.

Obama holding fundraisers in Switzerland, Sweden, France and China. Huh? It's illegal for foreigners to contribute to politicians. I'm sure these could be held for Americans overseas, but this is undoubtedly a scheme to get foreign money.

LOCAL:

Red light cameras capture city vehicles routinely running red lights.

"Dayton’s photo enforcement cameras routinely catch city vehicles, RTA buses, school buses, police cruisers, fire trucks and ambulances blowing through red lights, a Dayton Daily News investigation found.

Some of them get a pass, including police and fire vehicles regardless of whether there’s any indication they are responding to an emergency, the newspaper found."

This is a good reminder that laws are for us serfs, not our rulers.

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SOCIALISM:

Who owns water? We used to think of water a universal good. Not any more. Now we know that water is a scarce good like any other. But it's socialized, therefore it's expensive, wasteful and being squandered.

ECONOMY:

It turns out that 20 years of statistical growth was a fraud thanks to inflation. Your paycheck is probably bigger, but you're still poorer.

"Family Net Worth Drops to Level of Early ’90s, Fed Says"

As bad as this sounds, this is only the first stage. After the next crash, we'll realize that we were poorer than people in the 1950s. You think I'm lying? Come tell me about it after the next crash. The pinnacle of American standard of living was the 1950s. Isn't it nice of the Fed to document how much damage it''s doing to us?

TAX AND SPEND:

As bad as you think the US government debt problem is, it's way worse. Here's the salient fact that portends the inevitable, fantastic crash of the US government and western civilization with it:

"If the average interest rate on U.S. government debt rises to just 7 percent, the U.S. government will find itself spending more than a trillion dollars per year just on interest on the national debt."

It's going to happen. It's impossible to avoid this.

"You might be tempted think that this is just a temporary setback…that when things return to normal the typical household will recover two decades of financial progress too.
Don’t count on it. Household wealth in the US rests on housing and wages. Housing prices might stop dropping; they are unlikely to enter a new bull market. Instead, they will probably track GDP growth, just like they always did. Nor can you expect to see wages rise substantially. Why? Because there are 15 million people who don’t have jobs. It will be a long time — practically forever at the current rate — before they are absorbed into the labor force again. Until this huge inventory of willing and able labor is put to use, don’t expect wages to go up.
In other words, when things return to normal they will be what they are now… The bubble was an illusion. The current, dismal situation is real."

The bubble wasn't just a housing bubble. We're suffering a sovereign debt bubble that is corrupting every sector of our economy. Housing, education, movies, cupcakes, god only knows what else. I believe this bubble is affecting every economic sector. No investment will escape the coming crash. The best we can hope for is to identify which sectors will be hurt less than others. And it seems precious metals are the safest haven.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

The cartelized banking system exercises significant control over our health care system too.

How Goldman-Sachs ruined the inventors of Dragon voice recognition.

Somebody wrote that without money we'd all be rich. As funny as it is, it has a lot of truth behind it.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Another fraudulent study, this time about heat waves in Texas, exposed.

POLICE STATE:

Chicago is leading the way in police state abuses.

Or maybe North Carolina is.

"Terrell McCullum did not commit a federal crime by carrying a shotgun and a rifle out of his ex-girlfriend's house.
But he is serving a federal prison sentence for it. And the fact that everyone — including the U.S.Justice Department— agrees that he is legally innocent might not be enough to set him free."

And you thought the collapse of the Soviet Union signaled the end of the police state.

"A USA TODAY investigation, based on court records and interviews with government officials and attorneys, found more than 60 men who went to prison for violating federal gun possession laws, even though courts have since determined that it was not a federal crime for them to have a gun.

Many of them don't even know they're innocent."

This makes me want to puke.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Egyptians, who have long been abused by Mubarak's US puppet government, is skeptical of US involvement in their government now. You don't say. Egyptians throw tomatoes and shoes at Clinton almost as if they realize the US has been oppressing them for decades. Man, I envy them. Can you imagine what would happen to you if you threw tomatoes or shoes at Clinton? Guantanamo doesn't even begin to describe the pain our rulers would put you through.

 MEDIA:

The mainstream media reports that Ford is recalling 10,000 Escapes because of carpet problems.  Here's a story that passed by quietly last year: Chevy recalled Chevy Volts because batteries tended to catch on fire. Granted, the battery problem was publicized. Slightly. Compare that to the coverage of the carpet issue in the Fords. Do you think maybe the media is biased towards GM since it's owned by the government and Ford refused taxpayer dollars?

MISC:

Meme says that the history channel is doing to history what MTV did to music. History was screwed long before the History Channel got in on the act.

More on the corruption of Louis Freeh, Clinton henchman and lately the shameless butcher of Joe Paterno who is dead and cannot defend himself.

"No, I am writing in order to let readers know that this "heroic" Louis Freeh has some serious baggage of his own, baggage that includes covering up murders, whitewashing the most hideous domestic massacre since Wounded Knee, publicly making wrongful accusations, and further turning the Federal Bureau of Investigation into an entity that James Bovard accurately has called, "A Stasi for America." Louis Freeh does not deserve our praise; indeed, he does not even deserve our scorn. Instead, he deserves to be sitting in a cell at the federal Supermax Prison in Colorado, as the crimes he committed during his years at the FBI pale in comparison to anything done by Paterno, whose legacy Freeh has destroyed, or even Sandusky ever did."

As much of a monster as I knew this guy was, his attack on Paterno really struck home what a corrupt, political tool he was.

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GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Analysis of historic weather records show the 1930s had far away the most extreme weather events of any decade on record.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Analyst claims the Chinese government has backdoors into 80 percent of the world's communications because of Chinese companies manufacturing infrastructure.

POLITICS:

More on Obama's CIA ties.

MISC:

Missing secrets of Nikola Tesla.

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SOCIALISM:

AFL-CIO promotes socialist booklet from Occupiers.

TAX AND SPEND:

Pat Buchanan on bankrupt governments and the stupidity it took to get this way.

Post Office to default on health benefits payment. Everything is collapsing around our ears, yet Americans still seem unable to grasp it. As this becomes big news, House Republicans may bail them out.

REGULATION:

The parties are the same on minimum wage laws.

"This is only one of a large number of cases where a seemingly purblind persistence in economic fallacy only serves as a mask for special privilege at the expense of those who are supposedly to be "helped." "

Keeping people from working is supposedly helping them.

How government forces cars to become obsolete so people have to buy new ones.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Here's another point showing that our rulers are evil, not stupid.

"Years ago I coined a phrase that described the US's predicament. The phrase was "inflate or die." As far as I'm concerned, inflate or die is even more to the point today. Here's why. The US possesses 8,133 tons of gold, or more than three times the amount of gold held by any other nation (Germany is second with 3,396 tons of gold).
Have you ever wondered why the US hangs on to its gold like grim death? And at the same time the US talks down gold? Have you wondered why the US appears (like China) to be encouraging its citizens to buy, hold, and accumulate gold? Why is the US government distributing gold coins to Americans? Why did the US government come out with a new Buffalo solid gold coin and advertise that coin widely?
Why did Nixon slam shut the gold window when France wanted the debts that the US owed France to be paid in gold rather than dollars? Why did Nixon and company refuse to give up any more US gold?
The reason is that the top US leaders knew that gold was our only true tangible money. A few of our most knowledgeable leaders distrusted the Federal Reserve notes that we, the US, were printing and buying goods from the rest of the world with. They knew that with the growing US debts, we'd never be able to pay them off. And they knew that eventually, through spending and compounding, the growing debts and deficits would wreck the US economy and maybe even destroy our democracy."

That's why they're working so hard to loot the last bits of wealth they can squeeze out of us before the collapse.


Suddenly this British bankster Libor issue is news, but the reality is Barclays pointed out the problem in 2007. Don't buy the hype. Our economy, thanks the central banks, the banking cartel and the grotesque overspending by government is going to collapse. Barclay might pretend it's a White Knight, but there are no white knights. They all looted us into destitution. Now they're jostling for a little good pub.

Eric Johnson All Along the Watchtower. This is the song that kicked Stevie Ray Vaughn off the stage and arguably kicked him off coke.  I was there. I've never seen a better concert. Was this song written about the collapse of central banking? Listen and tell me otherwise. Eric Johnson's greatest song. I've never seen a better guitarist.

EDUCATION:

Barkley's estimates that student loan debt is underestimated by $225 billion. In other words, you fools who sucked down student loans will be happy if older people allow you to tend their gardens. But they won't.

HEALTH CARE:

After being forced to wait ten years for Canadian socialized medicine home care, socialists tell 105 year old woman to wait two more years. Coming soon to the US.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

While knaves and fools try to take our money because of the local warm spell, temperatures in Anchorage Alaska are at record lows. But none of the frauds live in Anchorage. Even if they did, they would lie about temperatures to promote their personal interests.

WAR:

Here we go in Syria again. Western agitators blame the Syrian government for a massacre. The Syrian government blames the CIA-backed terrorists. The Syrian government has far more credibility to me.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Head of MI6 says Iran is two years from obtaining a nuclear bomb. I guess if Israel can't get the CIA to say this, they'll pressure MI6 to say it.

POLITICS:

This idea that Republicans are fascist and Democrats are socialist is baloney. Both parties are opportunistic in seizing power. Remember when Bush nationalized TSA? Fascist airport security failed on 9/11, so he socialized it. He also nationalized Fannie and Freddie. And Obama has expanded fascist control over businesses at an incredible rate.

MEDIA:

Companies using computers to write news articles.

LOCAL:

By the way, remember how the local press is trying to convince us that Dayton is back? Tell the bedbugs. They're thriving.

MISC:

Photo of red sprite taken from ISS. Article also has cool video of storms.

How self-publishing in general and Amazon specifically has empowered authors.

I'm not in the least bit surprised that Microsoft has screwed up mail in Windows 8. Microsoft hasn't done a good job a windows OS ever. Ever. For all those people who've been paid by Microsoft to say different, your mistake.

Bedbug city rank.

Dayton Construction

Here's the last Dayton construction update. Here's the same street they've been working on forever.

As you can see, very little has changed. They buried some pipes along the side of the road a few months ago. They added the sidewalks right after. They put out those trees in those bags at least six weeks ago, but they haven't put them in the ground. They added the light poles a few weeks back, but they don't work. In the distance you can see two heavy trucks sitting idle.

The added this road as an exit from the main road several months back.

They put that road in in a little over a month, but then they stopped working on it. The curbs aren't finished and they still have it blocked at the intersection in the distance of the picture. You can drive on it one way in the direction of the picture.

They did some work in the park too.

About two months ago they added back in pretty much the same playground equipment they had removed, but new. There's an additional, smaller play-scape, probably for smaller children. But after they put it in, they didn't finish it. The ground is still dug out about a foot below where they intend it to be. Of course people brought their kids to play on the equipment anyway, so they wrapped the yellow tape around it to stop that.

In addition, they dug a bunch a furrows around the same time, and in the same day they ran wire through the furrows and filled them back in. They started early in the morning and worked until dark that day which proves they can do work in reasonable time frame when they have an incentive, in this case liability for somebody falling in one of those furrows. A week or so ago they added the light poles, but they don't yet work.

Here's a picture of the furrow digging machine.

This expensive piece of capital equipment has been sitting idle since the day it dug the furrows two months ago. In this picture, one piece of equipment is in use while the rest sit idle around it.

You can't see the equipment very well in this picture, but usually there's a bunch of idle equipment sitting out there. Today is unusual because there's a few workers around and one of the pieces of equipment is being used. But all this idle equipment and unusable resources are squandered wealth. This shows equipment and materials that have been taken out of the productive private economy and squandered in the parasitic political economy for over a year now. The Dayton Construction series has documented the squandering of wealth by just one, small government project of dubious value - value that can never be measured because it involves no prices - that started last June and should have been done last summer. But this kind of squandering of wealth is going on all over the city, the state and the country on a massive scale.

This could never happen in the private sector. Either the person in charge would be immediately fired or the company would go bankrupt. But politicians and bureaucrats have a different set of incentives than people in private sector. In the private sector, people are risking their own money on projects, so they finish them rapidly and with high quality so they can maximize their return on investment. But in the parasitic political economy, politicians and bureaucrats use these construction projects to show "your tax dollars at work". Obama even wasted our tax dollars on signs advertising just that for projects funded by his stimulus boondoggle. They're also used as socialist jobs programs that politicians never want to end, so they intentionally drag them out. They end up being the modern equivalent of digging ditches and filling them back in.

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SOCIALISM:

Labor unions hid $3.3 billion they spent on elections with the Labor Department instead of filing them with the FEC.

"Union spending has reached $4.4 billion over six years, not the $1.1 billion previously reported. Even the proletariat favorite the Service Employees International Union, which proudly waves the flag of entry-level employment, proves that you can get very, very rich off of poor people."

Union fat cats are just as prolific at looting and buying elections as corporate fat cats.

ECONOMY:

Nine of the top 10 states for business dominated by Republicans.

"It is indisputable, however, that most of the top states that occupy the top of the list feature lower tax burdens, little union power, and bureaucratic regimes that are less inclined to get in the way of economic growth."

This is another example of the real, if slight, difference between Republicans and Democrats at the state level.

Unemployment is way worse than the government tells us.

The coming crash will take one of two forms:

"Regular readers of my work know that I have been outlining (and warning people about) two potential economic scenarios; as the West’s terminally-ill economies lurch towards their final collapse. These hollowed-out, debt-saturated economies would (will) either crash under the weight of their own insolvency; or our governments will create a hyperinflation death-spiral – in a last desperate attempt to avoid that bankruptcy event."
"While both paths represent utter, economic suicide; the road to ruin is much different in these two scenarios. This has severely limited the investment options and strategies for any prudent investor. Forced not only to “play defense” with our investing but to prepare for two more-or-less opposite events has made precious metals the one asset class which can protect investors from either of these fates."

This echoes what David Stockman also said:

"What most other economic commentators still totally fail to grasp is that the terminal, economic death-spiral in which virtually all Western economies are now trapped bears absolutely no resemblance to any other deflationary collapse in the limited experience of these pseudo-experts. In a “normal” deflationary episode, by definition the value of the currency in circulation rises. This makes that currency an effective “safe haven”.
Similarly, in previous deflationary episodes when our economies were still solvent, bonds also represented a safe haven: loaning money to the most reliable debtors, sovereign governments. Neither of these parameters exists today."

This is why predictions are so hard.

"Understand that what looms ahead of us is an economic cataclysm more severe than anything we have even read about in our history books, let alone experienced in our own lives."

It's going to hurt.

This total disconnect from reality is freaky.

"In Europe, a lot of people have finally started waking up to this reality; they at least understand that they’re dealing with serious problems that aren’t going away.
In the United States, I’m not so sure.
I just spent about a month on the ground in the US, and I came away with a feeling of tremendous discomfort. Never before have I seen such a massive disconnect between sentiment and reality.
Everywhere I went– Dallas, Los Angeles, Reno/Lake Tahoe, Denver, New York, and San Francisco, everything appeared to be fine. Shops and restaurants were full, the mood was light, and people seemed fairly optimistic that things were OK.
There was definitely no air of doom and gloom like there is here in Europe.
And yet, the real story in the US is disastrous:"

Certainly the media and the schools go a long way toward explaining this phenomenon, but not all the way. The problems are visible and the information is available to people with open minds.

"The massive disconnect between what the data tell us and people’s optimism are deeply concerning; it suggests that the majority of people are completely oblivious to what’s happening."

Yep.

TAX AND SPEND:

Six charts illustrate the welfare state run amok.

People flee Maryland's high taxes.

"“Virginia is now home to 11,455 former Marylanders, taking $390 million from the tax rolls during this three-year period,” the group said in a statement.
The Old Line State raised taxes and fees 24 times since 2007, taking $2.4 billion out of the economy, according to Change Maryland. One seminal tax was the “millionaires tax,” which imposed an added 6.5 percent tax on individuals making more than $1 million."

People don't like having their money stolen.

What are the consequences of Amazon paying state sales tax? Amazon is moving in and driving local businesses out of business. Why wouldn't it? If the government forces them pay sales tax as if they were a brick and mortar company, they might as well become a brick and mortar company. A huge, distributed, brick and mortar company that can undercut the prices of local stores. The plutocrats win again.

Understanding Obama's language and position on the Bush tax cuts.

"To begin with, Obama -- and nearly all media coverage of the decade-old tax cuts -- continues to discuss the "cost" of tax cuts as if Washington had first dibs on your money. Is the president arguing that the base line of spending includes all wealth and that anything the Internal Revenue Service doesn't take is something we have to "pay" for?"

Yes. Obama is a Marxist. He believes all wealth belongs to the state, and the state generously allows people to keep a little bit of what they earn. He believes the state allows rich people to keep too much, so he wants to raise their taxes. The same with the media.

REGULATION:

Obama shuts down Shamu show.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Laws in the US don't apply to oligarchs.

"Are you surprised to learn that [MF Global] customers still have not received their cash which regulators had assured them was sitting in segregated accounts? They are now hoping for a partial recovery in bankruptcy court. Does it surprise you that Corzine has not been charged with any crime and faces no liability for the money lost by innocent and unsuspecting customers? He has actually rented new office space on Wall Street and continues to exist as a pillar of finance in the US. As for the $1,600,000,000 lost, he is deeply sympathetic."

It's good to be the king. This might be the most important point in this essay:

"Between the CFTC, SEC, FINRA, and NASD there are bureaucratic mules of mediocre intelligence by the thousands tasked with regulating the industry. Instead of protecting you, they spend all of their time preventing people from entering the business in order to protect the oligarchs. "

That's their job, and they're very good at it.

Banks scamming customers on allocation and storing of gold.

"We (just) had an example of a client moving a substantial amount (of gold) from a Swiss bank to our vaults, and we found out the bank didn't have the gold. This was supposed to be allocated gold, but the bank didn't have it. We didn't understand why there was a delay (in our vaults receiving the gold), but eventually we found out why there was a delay (the bank didn't have the gold)."

Just avoid banks altogether.

EDUCATION:

What did we get for the government stealing twice as much money from us ostensibly for education?

"For example, the average 17-year-old’s NAEP score in reading back in 1971 was 285. In 2008 it was 286.
That’s what we got for doubling our education spending.
When you compare the U.S. to countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the results are even worse. Education reform activist Bill Costello points out that our annual “per-pupil spending in 2006 was 41 percent higher than the OECD average of $7,283, and yet American students still placed in the bottom quarter in math and in the bottom third in science among OECD countries.”
Or as they say down at offices of the teachers union, “money well spent!”"

No doubt.

HEALTH CARE:

Sorry, Judge, but the US became a dictatorship long ago. Richard Nixon created the EPA and began regulating Americans on his own authority. How is that not a dictator? I'm sure there are earlier examples. Heck, Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Purchase without a constitutional amendment even though he knew he needed one.

WAR ON DRUGS:

While Americans are calling for a border fence, Mexican drug dealers are digging tunnels. And you know they're smuggling people through those tunnels too. I keep saying that the illegal immigrants piggy-back on the much more lucrative drug smuggling business. If you want to stop illegal immigration, legalize drugs.

WAR:

Nice summary of what neocons have wrought:

"In the shock of 9/11, George W. Bush was converted to global democratic revolution "to end tyranny in our world." And off we marched.
And after decade-long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, we reaped the harvest: 6,500 dead, 40,000 wounded, trillions in debt, a nation divided and pandemic hatred of America across the Islamic world."

Thanks, government.

Syrian opposition leaders exposed as CIA operatives. So the CIA is waging outright war in Syria.

POLICE STATE:

Stealing cars seems to be the government's newest racket.

The all-seeing eye I used to write stories about is here.

Here's another good reminder that laws are for us serfs, not our rulers.

"Waste no sympathy or admiration on Carol Price, the passenger who complained about her gate-rape to one of the TSA’s supervising sickos. Carol had called for said sicko so she could report her search as "inappropriate" (sic for "a criminal assault"); apparently, while explaining, she also demonstrated the molestation she’d just suffered for Supervising Sicko’s benefit – on Supervising Sicko. This "violence" – yes, the TSA’s precise term for doing unto its lackeys what they do unto us – got her arrested. Leviathan has scheduled her trial for July 3."

TSA can molest you, but you cannot respond in kind.

POLITICS:

Joe Biden stole my line about Obama being Bush on steroids, but he applied it to Romney. Apparently lots of people have used that line, but my first in print was Jan. 17, 2009, before Obama was inaugurated.

Thanks to the Bilderbergers, Obama is the first sitting president to be out-raised while running for re-election.

LOCAL:

OMG, the city is going to tear up more streets. They won't be happy until all the roads in town are impassible.

MISC:

More criticism of the War of 1812.

I have zero confidence in a report from corrupt ex-FBI director Freeh. This report stinks of corruption and propaganda. That Penn State officials allowed such a corrupt political hack do this investigation tells me the government really had them over a barrel and is screwing them for all they are worth. The regents probably made a deal to scapegoat Paterno and trash his reputation forever to save themselves from being prosecuted. I don't know if the government is carrying out a vendetta against Penn State and Paterno for something that happened in the past or if the government big-wigs just think that trashing Penn State and Paterno as thoroughly as possible is the best way to advance their personal interests.

For whatever reason, Google didn't allow me to find the term 'Freeh' when I searched this blog. Eventually I found it by brute force. This just backs up my opinion that government agents and their corporate subjects are killing Joe Paterno and Penn State for personal gain. Here's the article tried to link from the beginning:
"Why is Louis Freeh Suddenly a Hero?" As I wrote above, he's not.

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SOCIALISM:

GM has a strong surge in sales... to the government. This is another power of the incumbent.

ECONOMY:

Obama's war on our economy is working, stealing tremendous wealth from the American people, and I'm not surprised the rich are taking the biggest hit.

"A CBO study found that middle class earners lost about 5 percent of their pre-tax income between 2007 and 2009, compared to 2 percent losses for low-income workers and 36 percent declines among the top 1 percent. The study counted government aid, such as welfare, unemployment insurance, and Social Security as income."

While this undoubtedly makes Obama happy, he problem for him is that means he loses lots of tax revenue.

TAX AND SPEND:

Hurray for Spain's spending cuts. Boo for tax hikes. If he had stopped at cutting spending, the Spanish economy might have improved.

Third California city declares bankruptcy in a month. This is a good thing. It's part of the necessary healing process.

Peter Schiff on the impending calamity of government debt. US treasuries sell at record low rates. For now. As Schiff says, when those record low rates return to normal, the damage being done will create a tremendous crash.

REGULATION:

I welcome this video showing that regulations put small businesses out of business, creating fewer, bigger businesses that are beholden to the government.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Guess why Gordon Brown sold a bunch of gold at below market price.

"This is what had happened on an enormous scale by early 1999. One globally significant US bank in particular is understood to have been heavily short on two tonnes of gold, enough to call into question its solvency if redemption occurred at the prevailing price.

Goldman Sachs, which is not understood to have been significantly short on gold itself, is rumoured to have approached the Treasury to explain the situation through its then head of commodities Gavyn Davies, later chairman of the BBC and married to Sue Nye who ran Brown’s private office.

Faced with the prospect of a global collapse in the banking system, the Chancellor took the decision to bail out the banks by dumping Britain’s gold, forcing the price down and allowing the banks to buy back gold at a profit, thus meeting their borrowing obligations."

How's that for cronyism?

Central banks in emerging markets buying gold to insulate themselves from the dollar.

Big banks manipulating interest rates? I'm shocked. This is why the banking cartel exists. This isn't a scandal. It's institutionalized corruption.

EDUCATION:

One often forgotten aspect of the education bubble is students party like rock stars on the taxpayer's dime.

HEALTH CARE:

Monsanto pushes GM crops into Europe.

Enzymes and other natural killers of cancer.

House votes to repeal Obamacare. I yawn.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

You know the worm is really turning on the global warming frauds when Nature publishes a paper admitting the climate was significantly warmer 2,000 years ago.

Environmental protection by the government is a farce.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Pat Buchanan explains why Iran is not a threat to the US.

WAR ON DRUGS:

Study finds alcohol is the biggest gateway drug as you would expect, not marijuana.

POLICE STATE:

The sad reality regarding sex crime accusations:

"Nowhere are "imaginary crimes" more prevalent in this country than in so-called sex crimes, be they rape, sexual assault, or child molestation, and no other set of "crimes" requires less proof for conviction. For all of the wistful talk of "revolution," Americans need to understand that a legal revolution already has occurred, as Congress, the courts, and the executive branch have teamed up to wipe out what once was called "due process of law."

While "due process" exists in form, it no longer means anything in substance, and the Mondale Act and the Violence Against Women Act have further eviscerated what have been called "the rights of the accused." Being that the main purpose of the VAWA was to get more convictions of assault, sexual assault, and rape against men, the law has been very successful, but only by spreading the net very wide (on the assumption that all men are rapists and women always tell the truth they when accuse men of rape) and eliminating requirements that the prosecution bring corroborating evidence."

The government is a willing accomplice for evil women and children who lie about sex crimes and use the law as a weapon against men.

TSA defies court order.

Cops have a license to kill, and they use it.

Defense attorneys have long known that the FBI crime lab is one of the most corrupt in the US, so it's nice see the Innocence Project pressured the US government into reviewing convictions based on flawed forensic evidence.

POLITICS:

In a rich bought of hypocrisy, the NAACP requires attendees to show photo ID in order to see AG Holder rail against requiring photo ID to vote.

Lew Rockwell got mad at me when I told him Ron Paul was destined to lose, and that he was being disingenuous by claiming he was going to win, but he publishes article about how great Paul did in losing. I told him this six months ago, and he got mad at me for it. I've been saying for a long time that the only way to limit government was for libertarians to take over the Republican party. I love that Ron Paul finally did what I had long advocated. It's like we were on the same page. But Paul didn't do it well. I appreciate Paul's efforts - I bought one of his bobble-heads - but as much as he energized a small percentage of Republican voters, I feel he missed an opportunity to energize far more and really compete for the nomination. He never spoke well. He never spoke simply. He never spoke with clarity. He never explained that all taxes are theft, so he was forced to equivocate on taxes. He never explained that every dollar the government spends makes us poorer, so he was forced to equivocate over government spending. And as much as he talked about printing money, he never explained that the Fed is a counterfeiting organization that steals from us all. I never went to a Paul rally, so maybe he said all those things at his rallies. But he never said them simply and clearly on the national stage, and I saw him every time I could when he was on the national stage, so he came off as an anachronistic old man instead of a man of principle. Ronald Reagan wasn't half the man Ron Paul is, but Reagan presented a powerful advocation of libertarianism during the 1980 campaign, and that's he won. That's why I voted for him. Ron Paul failed to do so, and that's why he lost even though I voted for him. There's a little too much deifying going on in the libertarian camp right now and not enough critical analysis.

MEDIA:

The Washington Post calls out Obama for distorting Romney's tax info. Two weeks ago the Post called out Obama for distorting Romney's record on outsourcing jobs at Bain. It looks like the Bilderbergers have turned the Post against Obama too.

LOCAL:

Guess what UD is doing with all our tax dollars. Opening an institute in China. It makes sense for UD to take advantage of the tremendous opportunity in this free market zone which makes it a powerful economic and innovation engine, but I don't want to pay for it.

It's too rare we get a story of a cop doing a selfless act. Thanks to this cop for saving these people from a fire. I'm sure this happens all the time because the rank and file are good people trying not to succumb to a bad system.

MISC:

About the War of 1812:

"The War of 1812 was America’s first neocon war. With an audacity that would become familiar, the war hawks appealed to a combination of personal pride — the British navy was forcibly conscripting Americans — and the prospect of material gain — the absorption of British Canada — wrapped up in love of country. No one said the conquest of Canada would be a “cakewalk,” but the hawks were confident the Americans would be greeted as liberators."

But the British were impressing US sailors.

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ECONOMY:

States which elected Republican governors are doing much better than those which didn't. The twisted part of this these Republican governors are the reason Obama can claim responsibility for this weak recovery.

TAX AND SPEND:

Obama planning huge tax hike on dividends.

"Unless Congress takes action, the top tax rate for the highest earners on most dividends, currently 15%, is set to jump to a whopping 43.4% next year. That is a maximum income-tax rate of 39.6% -- since dividends will once again be taxed as regular income -- plus a 3.8% tax on investment income as part of the health-care overhaul passed in 2009."

Ouch!

The repercussions of Obama's stimulus boondoggle are still reverberating.

"This continues to be the longest streak — 41 months — of unemployment of 8% or higher since the Great Depression. And recall that back in 2009, Team Obama predicted that if Congress passed its $800 billion stimulus plan, the unemployment rate would be around 5.6% today."

Unemployment is higher than Obama claimed it would ever get if his boondoggle passed.

REGULATION:

The US wields intellectual property non-rights against other countries like China to try and keep a technological edge them. But like a fence, as China catches up, those laws will keep innovation out instead of in. For example, a Chinese company has sued Apple over Siri.

HEALTH CARE:

The ruling class uses serial flu hoaxes to loot us.

Hypocrisy over insurance.

More on Roberts's Supreme farce:

"The other morning it was the intriguing tidbit that Chief Justice John Roberts had written both the majority opinion in the Obamacare decision and the dissent. He is literally his own worst enemy. He’s apparently the Mike Myers of the Supreme Court, able to play both Austin Powers and Dr. Evil, although it has to be said that he seems rather more at home as the bumbling swinger. If I understand correctly, the chief justice wrote the dissent back when it was the 5–4 majority opinion, and then, after switching sides, wrote the new majority opinion, and the four guys left holding the old majority opinion decided to leave it as is, presumably as a way of not so subtly underlining their total contempt for their squishy chief."

The ruling class wins again. Mark Steyn is slaughtering many sacred cows with this piece.

"But suburban Maryland is inside the Green Zone, and still the power goes out. America’s dysfunctional utility companies have a zillion explanations for this, but years ago I rode through the outskirts of D.C. with a Dutch tourist who marveled at the men digging up the sidewalk in densely populated neighborhoods to bury the new cable-TV wires while the sagging electric lines overhead continued to string their way from pole to pole dodging tree branches across town. It’s a very American sight: “Telegraph cables sing down the highway, and travel each bend in the road . . . ” (“Moonlight in Vermont”). “I hear you singin’ in the wire, I can hear you through the whine . . . ” (“Wichita Lineman”). In the rural hinterlands, power lines are a sign of civilization. A stone’s throw from the imperial metropolis, they’re an emblem of civilizational decay."

No kidding.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

The eastern US heatwave is well within the norms for the last century. This graph highlights the warmest period of the last hundred years: the 1930s.

This article credits global warming for increases in lobster harvests, but while it might be caused by warm weather, it's not global warming. On the other hand, we know that increased CO2 in the atmosphere causes the biosphere to grow and diversify, and that could effect lobster production. I didn't notice lower lobster prices at a local restaurant a couple of weeks ago.

More thorough, long-term tree ring analysis shows a long-term global cooling trend.

POLITICS:

Obama's chief political goon David Axelrod has ties to the Communist Party.

Obama raises $35 million less than Romney in June thanks to the Bilderbergers.

Obama lies. And lies.

The fake morality of Republicans. This is an awesome introductory paragraph concerning the birth of the party.

"For the past century and a half the Republican Party has gratuitously labeled itself as "The Party of Great Moral Ideas." The Party of Great Moral Frauds is more like it. The party began as the party of mercantilism, corporate welfare, protectionist tariffs, constitutional subterfuge, central banking, and imperialism. Its 1860 presidential platform promised not to disturb Southern slavery; its first president supported the Fugitive Slave Act and the proposed "Corwin Amendment" to the Constitution that would have prohibited the federal government from ever interfering with Southern slavery; the party committed treason by "levying war upon the states" (the precise definition of treason in the Constitution) and murdering hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens in order to destroy the voluntary union of the states that was established by the founding fathers. It refused to do what Britain, Spain, France, the Dutch, Denmark, Sweden, and the Northern states in the U.S. had done about slavery and end it peacefully. Instead, it used the slaves as pawns in a war that was about consolidating all political power in Washington, D.C. in general, and in the hands of the Republican Party in particular."

Isn't it funny how this story conforms with history, unlike the one the establishment promotes?

MISC:

Does grammar matter any more? It does to many. People who don't know grammar will find their opportunities limited.

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EDUCATION:

How government destroyed education in America, just like it's destroying health care.

HEALTH CARE:

Half of Americans are ignorant about the Obamacare ruling.

Obamacare is already dramatically expanding the size and scope of government.

"The Health and Human Services Department "was given a billion dollars implementation money," Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg of Montana said. "That money is gone already on additional bureaucrats and IT programs, computerization for the implementation.""

"The IRS, Health and Human Services and many other agencies will now write thousands of pages of regulations -- an effort well under way:

"There's already 13,000 pages of regulations, and they're not even done yet," Rehberg said."

If you ever wanted to live in a free country, now is the time to move.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Global temperature map shows that while the eastern US is undergoing a heat wave, the rest of the globe is experiencing a normal range of temperatures. This is just a local heat wave, not global warming.

Examples of how the global warming frauds refuse to make their data public.

China's CO2 emissions look like a hockey stick.

POLICE STATE:

The state of Ohio loves to prey on drivers, and a result, over 1 million Ohio drivers have no license. This is an asinine policy.

POLITICS:

While Obama was dodging attacks from his own party on security leaks and his bogus attacks on Romney's Bain Capital record, Romney was raising $100 million in June.

"The Romney campaign outraised Obama in May — taking in $77 million, compared with $60 million for the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

The Romney campaign says much of the June haul came from new donors, with states from coast to coast out-performing their targets.

New York was a gold mine for Romney, and Colorado, Michigan, New Jersey and Ohio all dramatically exceeded expectations."

The Bilderbergers are winning.

More evidence we have only one party in the US:

"In closing, we should remember that Mr. Victoria Nuland (the aforementioned Kagan) is a senior foreign policy adviser to Mitt "Strangelove" Romney and is simultaneously a senior foreign policy adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton."

If you vote for a Republican or a Democrat, you're voting for the one true ruling party.

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GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Finally an article mentions above ground power lines are one of the problems leading to power outages.

Obama's EPA shutting down coal plants. Five are already being shut down. From 32 to 68 will be forced to shut down. The articles say these plants are dirty, but this has nothing to do with pollution. It has to do with CO2. Plant food.

POLICE STATE:

Man exonerated by DNA evidence after 30 years in prison. But most people falsely convicted don't have DNA evidence to exonerate them, so tremendous numbers of innocent people rot in prison.

New Hampshire allows defense attorneys to inform juries about jury nullification.

LOCAL:

Billions wasted on beautification projects.

"In the past two decades, more than $13.4 billion in federal transportation funding has been spent on 27,000 enhancement projects, devoted to scenic beautification, bike trails and historic buildings. In the Miami Valley, federal and local funds have paid for transportation enhancements off Interstate 70 in Huber Heights, Ohio 48 in Englewood and Interstate 675 at Far Hills Avenue."

This is the modern version of paying people to dig ditches then fill them back in. It's destroying wealth, making politics and their cronies richer and making everybody else poorer.

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ECONOMY:

Unemployment officially remains at 8.2 percent.

TAX AND SPEND:

Our bankrupts federal government and bankrupt California government agree to fund a high speed rail line with money neither has. You can't make this stuff up. It's too freaking bizarre. Let's hope this project dies before it squanders a tremendous amount of resources that will never be used except to grow weeds.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Wall Street expects QE3. Because QE1 and QE2 worked so well.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Navistar forced to spend money and resources to meet government regulations, making their engines more expensive.

WAR:

I'm happy that I'm not the only person who recognizes that nuclear weapons are the greatest deterrent to war ever created.

POLITICS:

Our voting process is broken.

MEDIA:

Now Romney's house is a compound, like they say of bad guys.

MISC:

More on the LHC and Higgs boson.

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

Apparently the price Paul supporters will demand to behave is internet freedom. That's like ants demanding freedom to eat sugar. Needless to say the sugar owners won't agree. Frankly, they have no power. If they try to disrupt the Republican coronation of Romney, they will lose supporters, not gain them.

SOCIALISM:

Government's bailout of GM gets more expensive every day.

ECONOMY:

Why gold? Because everything else is going to fall in value.

TAX AND SPEND:

Ohio Governor Kasich produces a budget surplus. Once again we see the difference between Republicans and Democrats at the state level.

"While some interest groups will pressure to spend the surplus, Kasich said “We are not going back to yesterday. We are not going to spend this money ... The idea that ‘Oh, now we’re in good shape so let’s just go out and spend,’ that’s how we got in this trouble. We’ve had a long period of tax and spend and we’re not going to do it.”"

Good for him.

Are Republicans serious about spending cuts? Pfft. Will voters care? Pfft. Will voters hold them accountable in two years? Pfft. Four years? Pfft. Are we screwed to the max? Oh hell yeah.

I've been reading about a new crash in the next year or half-year for years. These people don't know. The experts, and in this case I agree they are experts, keep staving off economic Armageddon. But it's coming. I don't if it's coming later this year, next year of the next couple of years. But it's coming. I understand that the person who publicly calls it in the right time frame will profit tremendously. But I'm impressed with government's ability to print money to fool people into supporting the declining status quo. When this collapse hits, it's going to be unbelievable because nobody in America has ever experienced anything like it in centuries.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

The European, British and Chinese central banks all lower interest rates.

"China, Europe and Britain loosened monetary policy in the space of less than an hour on Thursday, signaling a growing level of alarm about the world economy, although suggestions of coordinated action were played down."

""It is a surprise that they are moving so quickly. It shows that policymakers' concerns about the global economy have only grown," Mark Williams, an economist at Capital Economics in London, said of the People's Bank of China's action."

Another round of looting by the ruling class, and the rest of us just keep getting poorer.

In periods of economic collapse, central banks can keep gold prices flat for a while, much like the Fed has done for a while, but eventually, the people see through the charade, and gold skyrockets.

EDUCATION:

Government schools don't just corrupt and miseducate Americans. They do the same in German schools.

HEALTH CARE:

Finally we know why bees are disappearing.

"An Illinois beekeeper whose bee hives were stolen and allegedly destroyed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture has stirred up a hornet's nest with his questions on why the state did this, and most importantly, what they did with his bees."

We should have known government was behind it. Why would they take a guy's bees?

"The state claims the bees were destroyed because they were infected with a disease called foulbrood.

But when the 58-year apiary keeper had his hearing—three weeks after the removal of his bees without his knowledge—the state's "evidence" had disappeared, leaving more questions than answers about the raid on the beekeeper's hives.

Some people, including the beekeeper, Terrence Ingram, suspect the raid has more to do with Ingram's 15 years of research on Monsanto's Roundup and his documented evidence that Roundup kills bees, than it does about any concerns about his hives.

Interestingly, the state's theft targeted the queen bee and hive he'd been using to conduct the research."

The state is pure evil. As for the bees, I've seen plenty around here. They probably evolved to get around GM crops that were killing them off, much like the pests the GM crops were designed to resist.

Report that Roberts wrote his own dissent after switching his vote on Obamacare, then he headed to Malta. Pat Buchanan weighs in how Roberts profited from his decision.

"Out of relief and gratitude for his having saved Obamacare, he is being compared to John Marshall and Oliver Wendell Holmes."

Give me a break. Bankers, corporations and politicians profit. Republicans profit. Roberts just took the money and ran.

Romney keeps proving he's uniquely unqualified to attack Obama on Obamacare. And again.

Obamacare grants new powers to the IRS.

I'm rarely surprised by politics, but I was surprised at how few Americans were aware of the Obamacare ruling.

As I expected, Obama gets no bounce from Obamacare decision. I'm telling you, Roberts is going to end up being a hero over this crap when Obama loses.

Staying away from doctors can help you live a long, healthy life.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Nobel Laureate calls global warming pseudo-science.

Global warming frauds will try to promote their cause using the current heat spell. But here's the truth...

"June actually ended up cooler than the normal in BOS (Boston) (-1.25F) and even NYC (Central Park -0.4F) and southeast despite the heat blast the end of the month (-2.0F in Jacksonville). Dulles despite the late month heat wave was SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL (-0.6F) while DCA nearer the White House and Congress was (+1.1F) and Atlanta despite the all time record was just +0.1F. In the west, predictably with the cold PDO eastern Pacific, it was another cool start to summer. Seattle ended up -2.6F, Portland -2.4F, Spokane -2.5F."

This is a public service announcement reminding people that weather does not equal climate.

Claim of record drought debunked. No kidding. Show me the dust bowl comparison before you make this claim. On a personal note, it's hot.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:

The traditional dream of America still transforms people - this is awesome - but the reality transforms them the other way. This sucks.

WAR:

Videos show atrocities carried out rebels armed and funded by the US and other western countries. According to the Hindu Times, the same world that is funding and arming rebel mass murderers in Syria are now meeting to end Syria killings. I have a plan. Stop funding and arming the murderers. Problem solved.

China stockpiling rare earth minerals. This is one of the real reasons US troops are nation building in Afghanistan.

I'm happy the army is suddenly acknowledging PTSD, but it's a bittersweet. I'm happy that the super-mafia offers PTSD to people it knee caps, but I'd prefer it stopped abusing these people completely, especially since it's using money it stole from me to harm them.

FOREIGN POLICY:

New lab work indicates Yasser Arafat may have been assassinated by polonium poisoning.

POLITICS:

It's disgusting that talking heads suggest Mitt Romney use his wife's disease as a tool to advance his campaign, but it's also inevitable. Romney's best weapon is Obama's policies and their terrible consequences.

You know what happens when you try to make a 13 year old a political hero? He turns.

MEDIA:

Wikileaks releasing 2.5 million Syrian emails, showing once again that Wikileaks is a far more valuable service than any news outlet.

LOCAL:

DP&L blames trees for power outages. Only a government granted monopoly would do this. In the free market, companies innovate and adapt to conditions.

Crazy old political crap rears its ugly head as bureaucrats deny liquor permit for business based on 1959 denial back when county was ostensibly dry.

MISC:

Scientist says the work on the study of the potential discover of the Higgs boson is not complete, proving this pseudo-announcement is a PR stunt. Reporter hints at reason for the timing of this PR stunt:

"This international focus on Melbourne occurs at a time when Australian particle physics is enjoying a significant increase in funding, thanks to the creation of a new Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Particle Physics, home to many physicists — including this author."

It's all about getting more of other people's money. Actual results will be published around the end of July, but...

"Positive identification of the new particle’s characteristics will take considerable time and data."

So apparently it won't be done by the end of the July. What is the significance of finding the Higg's boson? More money for scientists. Let's all celebrate the God particle even though the scientists claiming to discover it won't say they discovered it. Talk about having it both ways.

Bill Gates, like everybody else, using his philanthropic efforts to advance his personal interests. That's human nature.

How much do you want to bet that this so-called dark matter filament is a Berkeland currnent? Moreover, how much do you want to bet the scientists promoting this discovery know it? Why is this pseudo-discovery timed to coincide with the pseudo-announcement of the pseudo-discovery of the Higg's boson? I don't buy the coincidence. It seems to me that the establishment is under great pressure because of the political pressure to cut spending. Therefore they've produced press reports, not science, in order to save their funding of money government steals from others.

Katie Holmes is sexier because she's single, not anything else.

We like to lionize the few while ignoring the many, but this essay remembers the reality for most during the revolution.

"We elevate the events of the American Revolution to near-mythical status all too often and forget that the real revolutionaries were people just like you and me. Caught up in the drama of Red Coats marching, muskets exploding and flags waving in the night, we lose sight of the enduring significance of the Revolution and what makes it relevant to our world today. Those revolutionaries, by and large, were neither agitators nor hotheads. They were not looking for trouble or trying to start a fight. Like many today, they were simply trying to make it from one day to another, a task that was increasingly difficult as Britain’s rule became more and more oppressive."

Our Founding Fatherss, while generally safe, did suffer some risk. Many lost their lands. Some were killed. The British chased Thomas Jefferson out of his home. But have you ever known a modern American politician to risk his own life, property or family? Hell no. War is a racket. Like everything government does, it enriches the richest and impoverishes everybody else.

No offense to Daniel Radcliffe who did a great job as Harry Potter, but let's see how that works out for you.

Human nature won't change for you just because you played Harry Potter.