Regulation

Because government severely curtails competition and even bans it with patents and copyright, tech companies now harass customers by design.

Global Warming and Energy

Funny how the global warming frauds don't criticize the government, especially the military, for wasting fuel.

Snow forecast in Montana and Wyoming. We seem to be experiencing Indian summer, which usually hits in September, a month early.

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Serfs who can carry guns in Pennsylvania get arrested for carrying them to New Jersey, but Pennsylvania cops don't. That's because laws are for serfs, not rulers or their enforcers.

Education

Air Force Academy cadets behave like every other college student. I'm sure the same is true for all military academies.

War

The reason why the US is supporting Kurdish autonomy in Iraq.

"Iraq’s Kurds, who have defied the central government by selling oil independently, are working to quadruple the capacity of their export pipeline within months, according to an official with knowledge of the situation.
The Kurdistan Regional Government, or KRG, more than doubled daily capacity to 300,000 barrels on its pipeline to Turkey as of yesterday with installation of a new booster station at Fishkabur, the official said, asking not to be named because of policy. The region is considering a fourth booster to allow delivery of as much as 500,000 barrels a day to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan within as little as three months, he said. The KRG didn’t answer phone calls to its press office outside working hours today."

It's the petrodollar.

The role of the Saudis and Pakistanis in creating ISIS.

James Foley may have been a spook with a journalist cover.

Response to ISIS fearmongering.

"Dear Friend: I know that you have lots of “evidence” about how ISIS is going to begin beheading people is downtown Phoenix any day now. Good for you. But let me save you a little time. Please just skip to the part that really matters to you: telling me which few remaining freedoms I should immediately surrender and how we need to give the government more money and more power to battle this latest “existential threat.”"

Better yet, just stop.

Cynic wonders if ISIS fearmongering is an attempt to change the subject since the militarization of the police became a mainstream story. Sounds likely.

They may fearmonger, but they reject working with Syria to defeat ISIS.

Not so fast. Obama considers bombing ISIS in Syria. This would be an admission of policy failure.

Critics told Obama so.

"The irony of the moment is tragic. But to some, it doesn't come as much of a surprise. Many cautioned against the earlier insistence of the Obama administration (as well as other governments) that Assad must go, fearing what would take hold in the vacuum.
One of those critics happened to be Russian President Vladimir Putin, who warned against U.S. intervention in Syria in a New York Times op-ed last September. He wrote:

A strike would increase violence and unleash a new wave of terrorism. It could undermine multilateral efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear problem and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and further destabilize the Middle East and North Africa. It could throw the entire system of international law and order out of balance.

Some of the crises Putin catalogs have worsened anyway, no matter American action or inaction. But Putin's insistence was couched in a reading of the conflict in Syria that's more cold-blooded than the view initially held by some in Washington. "Syria is not witnessing a battle for democracy, but an armed conflict between government and opposition in a multireligious country," Putin wrote, suggesting that the nominally secular Assad regime, despite its misdeeds, was a stabilizing force preferable to what could possibly replace it."

Lots of people said the same. Only US were that stupid.

Ukraine close to default because wars are expensive.

NATO claims Russia is shelling Ukraine.

WWI sparked an epidemic of sex, cocaine and binge drinking by civilians. Fear of imminent death can do that.

Local

Some government organization releases some audio and video associated with the police killing of the man in Walmart with the pellet gun, but they don't release the relevant video. This is about biasing the jury pool. If the relevant video supported the police, they would release it too.

New regulations for tattoos and piercings because people can't possibly take care of themselves.

Socialism

It's easy to hack traffic lights.

"The 5.8GHz network has no password and uses no encryption; with a proper radio in hand, joining is trivial."

Ridiculous.

Civics class teaches government works for us, but that's not true. They steal our money at the point of a gun, so we literally work for them.

Immigration

Tech lobby admits it wants to replace American workers with foreign workers.

"Following up on news that the White House met with big biz on immigration earlier this month, Bloomberg sat down with Joe Green, the head of Mark Zuckerberg's Fwd.US PAC, to discuss possible executive actions President Obama might take on high tech immigration (video) in September. "Hey, Joe," asked interviewer Alix Steel. "All we keep hearing about this earnings season though from big tech is how they're actually cutting jobs. If you look at Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, why do the tech companies then need more tech visas?" Green explained why tech may not want to settle for laid-off U.S. talent when the world is its oyster. "The difference between someone who's truly great and just sort of okay is really huge," Green said. "Culture in tech is a very meritocratic culture," he added. "The vast, vast majority of tech engineers that I talked to who are from the United States are very supportive of bringing in people from other countries because they want to work with the very best.""

This is going to backfire.

Police State

UK man gets 33 months in prison for recording and uploading movie.

While NSA wants to exploit Tor bugs as a matter of policy, some agents leak bugs to developers so they can fix them. They're not all pure evil.

UK police say sharing the video of the beheading of James Foley makes you a terrorist.

Thanks to the demonization of parents who leave children or pets in cars, a crowd felt justified to beat a man who left his three kids in a car.

Mother of unarmed Ferguson man killed by police told CNN AG Holder supports them regardless of the facts because he and they are black, but he promised a fair investigation, the same way he performed a fair investigation of the Black Panthers intimidating voters in Philadelphia.

The facts are still in dispute in Ferguson.

"In this case, Brown was jaywalking, so the police officer, who apparently had nothing better to do (because Ferguson is presumably free of real crime), took time to stop and confront Brown about it. The unproven allegation that Brown stole cigars previously is irrelevant since the police officer knew nothing about that and no one at the shop called 911.  Brown may or may not have responded violently. The media, dutifully printing police talking points, says there’s evidence Brown responded violently."

Socialist or not, it is unsafe for people to walk in the road.

Health Care

The two American Ebola victims released from Atlanta hospital.

Politics

Pat Buchanan just realize AG Holder has an obsession with race. That's why Obama chose him.

Media

Media pullout of Ferguson as evidence supports shooting victim as aggressor.

Education

Decades of locking children in prison schools and attacking them for excelling have produced lower IQ scores. Government's control of the food supply and exercise recommendations play a part too. As I keep saying, the progressives have won. Not only are they making everybody except our rulers equally poor, they're making everybody equally dumb.

War

Some great fearmongering about ISIS from Secretary of Defense Hagel. ISIS does control oil wells thanks to US support in Syria.

Obama broke law by keeping Congress in the dark about Bergdahl swap. Add it to the list.

Police State

If Holder convinced people to stop rioting and looting in Ferguson, that's a good thing.

It's hard for paramilitary police with armored vehicles to cover up their activities.

"Since the August 9 shooting death of the unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson, Missouri Police Officer Darren Wilson, the country – and the world – has been captivated by the ensuing local outrage. Also during the past 11 days media, activists, and bystanders have suffered the brunt of an unprofessional, yet exceedingly-armed local police force, then a similar highway patrol, then the dang National Guard. For several days there was even a curfew, a condescending and authoritarian method of dealing with civil unrest if ever there was one. All this, armed cops yelling "I’ll fucking kill you" at protesters and filmers, news helicopters banned, repeated use of teargas (and lying about it) and rubber bullets, and some people are still baffled as to why these folks don’t just "go home." "

The media is already on the side of the protesters. The domestic military cops aren't doing themselves any favors.

Cop explains the rapists' mentality they exhibit.

"“If you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m a racist pig, don’t threaten that you’ll sue me and take away my badge. Don’t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don’t even think of aggressively walking towards me. Most field stops are complete in minutes. How difficult is it to cooperate for that long?” – Sunil Dutta, an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department for 17 years"

To them, we are the enemy because we have the power to stop funding them.

"Life in the American police state is an endless series of don’ts delivered at the end of a loaded gun: don’t talk back to police officers, don’t even think about defending yourself against a SWAT team raid (of which there are 80,000 every year), don’t run when a cop is nearby lest you be mistaken for a fleeing criminal, don’t carry a cane lest it be mistaken for a gun, don’t expect privacy in public, don’t let your kids walk to the playground alone, don’t engage in nonviolent protest near where a government official might pass, don’t try to grow vegetables in your front yard, don’t play music for tips in a metro station, don’t feed whales, and on and on.
For those who resist, who dare to act independently, think for themselves, march to the beat of a different drummer, the consequences are invariably a one-way trip to the local jail or death."

That's right.

"We live in a state of undeclared martial law. We have become the enemy."

Not to mention the same surveillance techniques used against us as used in war zones.

"In a war zone, you have no rights. When you are staring down the end of a police rifle, there can be no free speech. When you’re being held at bay by a militarized, weaponized mine-resistant tank, there can be no freedom of assembly. When you’re being surveilled with thermal imaging devices, facial recognition software and full-body scanners and the like, there can be no privacy. When you’re charged with disorderly conduct simply for daring to question or photograph or document the injustices you see, with the blessing of the courts no less, there can be no freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

There's the surveillance.

"You see, what Americans have failed to comprehend, living as they do in a TV-induced, drug-like haze of fabricated realities, narcissistic denial, and partisan politics, is that we’ve not only brought the military equipment used in Iraq and Afghanistan home to be used against the American people. We’ve also brought the very spirit of the war home.
This is what it feels like to be a conquered people. This is what it feels like to be an occupied nation. This is what it feels like to live in fear of armed men crashing through your door in the middle of the night, or to be accused of doing something you never even knew was a crime, or to be watched all the time, your movements tracked, your motives questioned."

Another great essay about bringing empire home.

People unhappy about LAPD's new drone.

Local

After shooting a man with a toy gun at Walmart, the two cops involved were given paid vacations. One is back at work, threatening to shoot everybody else in Beavercreek.

More people supposedly use the food bank.

"According to a new study by the Foodbank Inc. and Feeding America, an estimated 70,300 people in Montgomery, Greene and Preble counties turn to food pantries to feed their families and themselves.
The report, produced every four years, said some 8,100 people are served weekly by pantries and ministries supported by the Foodbank, a food distribution center on Armor Place that serves 88 hunger programs in the Dayton area."

Is it 70,000 or 8,000 who repeat? That's a big difference.

Clark County deputies wear body cameras. All cops should, and they should never be able to turn them off or take them off.

Huber Heights looking for name sponsor for their music boondoggle.

Misc

Observation seems to go beyond the standard subatomic particle model.

Economy

Manufacturing costs are rising with wages abroad, but staying flat in the US and growing only slowly in Mexico, making the US and Mexico attractive for manufacturing again.

S&P hits record high.

Regulation

Somebody finally noticed that government's kill switch for mobile phones is a totalitarian tool, not an anti-theft device.

Misc

Scientists can't know with this kind of accuracy how long Neanderthals overlapped with modern humans in Europe.

"Neanderthals coexisted with early modern humans in Europe for up to 5,400 years, according to researchers from Oxford university who used new techniques to pinpoint when the early cousins of Homo sapiens became extinct."

This is the pretense of knowledge on parade.