Nov 20

Another CIA Head Calls for Snowden’s Execution

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Were the recent terrorist attacks in Paris committed or secretly caused by western intelligence operatives in order to drum up support for the military-industrial complex?

There is certainly extensive evidence that the CIA and other western intelligence agencies have FUNDED “ISIS” and other supposedly “Islamist” terror groups.

In any case, the Paris attacks have empowered the CIA to demand ever-more surveillance powers–and the punishment of whistleblower Edward Snowden, who exposed the CIA’s and NSA’s unconstitutional and unlawful spying on the American people.

Now, another former CIA official of the highest level is calling for Snowden’s murder. See here.

Nov 20

Largest Health Insurer Has Lost Millions under Obamacare

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According the USA TODAY (see here):

The nation’s largest health insurer warned Thursday that it may pull out of the Obamacare exchanges after 2016 – forcing more than a half million people to find other coverage – after low enrollment and high usage cost the company millions of dollars.

The possible move by UnitedHealth Group raises new questions about the viability of President Obama’s signature health law and follows the departure of more than half of the non-profit insurance cooperatives this year. If UnitedHealth drops out, consumers would lose one of the lowest-cost plans available in much of the country, and some wonder how smaller insurers could fill the void.

UnitedHealth warned investors that it would reap $425 million less in revenue during the fourth quarter than it had previously expected.

Nov 20

More Temp Data Tampering Behind claim that October 2015 was the “hottest October on Record”

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In the past 3 days, virtually every major, government-approved newspaper has run a short story claiming that the recent October (2015) was the “hottest on record.”

The official government claim is that the “normal” worldwide temperature for October is 1.04 degrees Celsius and that the recent month showed the largest “anomoly,” or was the farthest away from this supposed average of any other October on record.

Steven Goddard has now analyzed a sampling of the data behind this bizarre claim and found more data tampering.

Goddard reports that “[t]his kind of mind-blowing malfeasance would get [the government scientists at NASA] fired and probably escorted out of the building by security at many engineering companies.”

The “hottest on record” claims stem–as most suspected–from “adjusted” surface data, which barely measures the major land regions of the globe.

But as Goddard notes, “Satellites cover almost the entire planet several times a day, and they showed that October had only the 25th highest monthly anomaly [even as satellites have only been in the sky for 25 to 30 years],”

See here.

Nov 19

Jury: Cops FRAMED Innocent Man for Murder

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We’re all aware of the MORE THAN 200 CASES in which DNA evidence has proven that the justice system wrongly convicted innocent people.

Most of these wrongful convictions are blamed on incompetence, bad police work, or general negligence.

Now in a lawsuit over his wrongful 1981 murder conviction, Donald Gates (who spent 27 years in prison) has proven to a federal jury that D.C. police violated his civil rights BY FRAMING HIM. See here.

Nov 19

USA TODAY Reports that Government spends hundreds of millions on propaganda

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Trusters of expansive government routinely seek to gut the First Amendment and allow the government to have more control over political messaging.

The recurring claim is that political messaging funded by the private sector “buys” elections and produces undue influence.

But total spending by government on political messaging almost certainly DWARFS total spending on political campaigns by private-sector interests.

The USA TODAY reports today that a SINGLE government “propaganda contractor” (their words) named Leonie Industries has been paid “more than” $423 million for propaganda IN AFGHANISTAN ALONE since 2008. Tom Vanden Brook, “Propaganda contractor dumped by U.S. Army,” USA TODAY, Nov. 19, 2015 at 6A.

The article adds that there is little evidence that these hundreds of millions of dollars accomplished anything!

Nov 18

More than half of American households cannot scrape together $400

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Frightening statistic in a new book: “HOW THE OTHER HALF BANKS,” by Mehrsa Baradaran. Government studies show that more than half of U.S. households cannot come up with $400 to cover a medical emergency without borrowing.

Almost TWO-THIRDS OF AMERICAN HOUSEHOLDS lack enough savings to get by for three months.

The book details the plight of America’s “unbanked.” Those millions without bank accounts or investments.

According to Ben McLannahan, who reviewed the book for the FINANCIAL TIMES, the unbanked actually spend much more of their total income on interest payments than do those with bank accounts. “The average unbanked family earning $25,000 a year spends more on finance [via payday loans and pawnshops, mostly] than it does on food.”

Years of government policies which punish saving, business-launching and investment have created a nation of dependents.

Nov 18

U.S. is Now Fighting to Keep its Overtaxed Corporations from Fleeing High Taxes

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Two years ago, Burger King merged with Canada’s Tim Hortons chain and declared its merged corporation a Canadian company. The move saved Burger King and its long-suffering shareholders many millions annually in corporate taxes.

The U.S.–once the flagship of world commerce and capitalism–now has the highest corporate tax rate on the surface of the earth. (At least among first-world countries.)

American Corporations are fleeing, seeking to merge with foreign corporations and declare themselves subject to foreign (meaning LOWER) taxation, and in many cases, NEVER LAUNCHING AT ALL.

The corporate form is widely attacked. But it is the business model for the little guy; it allows the poor to invest in business and compete with the rich.

Now we read that the U.S. government may try to stop U.S.-based Pfizer from purchasing Ireland-based Allergan–just because the purchase might help Pfizer pay Irish-level (meaning lower) corporate taxes.

The Financial Times reported the story yesterday. See here.

Nov 17

In Wake of Paris Attacks, U.S. Government Renews Attempts to Ban Encryption

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Just a month ago, the WASHINGTON POST printed an expose’ on the U.S. government’s consistent attempts to ban ‘encryption’–meaning any tech device with password encoding prohibiting the government from gaining access to digital content. The government’s highest officials seemed to concede that they did not have the constitutional authority–or enough popular support–for a ban on encryption.

But now, according to WIRED, government control freaks are again calling for legislation or policies which lay all digital information at their feet. WIRED.com is reporting that current and former CIA directors are blaming Edward Snowden for the recent Paris attacks, and calling for all technology to be open to the all-seeing eye of the state. See here.

According to WIRED, both former CIA deputy director Michael Morell and current CIA Director John Brennan have already tried to blame Edward Snowden for the Paris attacks and suggested that the U.S. government should be given the ‘keys’ to unlock every digital door on earth.

For years, the cult of the omnipotent state has sought to require that government have a ‘backdoor’ into all computers, cell phones and tech devices. The overarching goal of the government is to ban the sale or possession of any computer device that the government’s investigators cannot search through.

It is noteworthy that the Washington Post story seemed to predict a major terrorist attack. Robert S. Litt, general counsel in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, sent an email just 3 months ago saying that although “the legislative environment [for passing a law that forces decryption and backdoors] is very hostile today, it could turn in the event of a terrorist attack or criminal event where strong encryption can be shown to have hindered law enforcement.”

Nov 16

While ANTARCTIC ice is at an all-time high, ARCTIC ice is at only a 10-year high

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Satellites have only been in the sky for about 25 years or so. And their measurements of the world’s ice coverage show that ice in ANTARCTICA is at the highest level ever measured.

While NASA admits this, its postings have suggested that ice totals in the northern hemisphere are declining. See here.But Danish data reveal that ice has been growing above the Arctic Circle as well. In fact, after 2015’s hot summer in the northern hemisphere, north polar ice is AT ITS HIGHEST LEVEL (FOR THE DATE) SINCE 2004. See here.

Nov 15

Frequency of 90-degree days has plummeted

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Steven Goddard’s ever-informative “Real Science” Blog has recently tracked a startling phenomenon: the sharp reduction in frequency of 90-degree summer days across the U.S. See here.

In the mountainous counties of Montana, for example, we have had two consecutive summers in which temps did not approach 100 degrees even once.

There were only a handful of 90-degree days this summer in Park and Gallatin Counties, and I recall only one or two 90-degree days during the summer of 2014.