2017-Nov-27
Sorry FIOS but you need to up your game.
More than once this “season”, an NFL game over ran it’s TV Guide time slot.
Now I don’t care about 60 MINUTES which has long ago jumped the shark, but I do care about WISDOM OF CROWDS endings being lost.
Argh!
As a fat old white guy retired injineer who’s a poor old senior citizen on a fixed income, this seems like an easy fix.
Hire me and I’ll fix it for you.
Argh!
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https://www.boredpanda.com/domestic-violence-gun-safety-story-katherine-fugate/
Woman Reveals How Everyone Turned A Blind Eye To What Her Stepfather Was Doing
6 hours ago by James Gould-Bourn
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In the wake of the horrific mass shooting that left 26 people dead in Sutherland Springs, Texas recently, writer Katherine Fugate decided to share her own story.“It starts somewhere. It starts in the home. I know what a mass shooter can look like.
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A stunning indictment of deliberate ignorance.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw
Slaughterbots
Future of Life Institute
Published on Nov 13, 2017
If this isn’t what you want, please take action at: http://autonomousweapons.org
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Pretty scary stuff. On the horizon.
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/11/david-gordon/the-new-progressives/
The New Progressives By David Gordon Mises.org November 18, 2017
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Brink Lindsey self-identifies as a libertarian; and Steven Teles is a modern liberal. They have together devised a new “liberaltarian” outlook. (The word combines elements of “libertarian” and “egalitarian”) It is a new name for an old way of thinking, and students of the Progressives will find little to surprise them.
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Certainly seems so.
The key principle of little L libertarians is the “non aggression principle”.
I first heard the easiest explanation of it by Jason Stapleton when he quoted a book title “Don’t hurt people and don’t take their stuff”.
I’m not the arbiter of who’s a “libertarian” and who’s not, but it’s hard to see “Brink Lindsey” as a “libertarian”, regardless of how he self-identifies.
Small limited government is the very least degree of liberatianism as I know it.
The welfare / warfare state as we currently have is not by any stretch of the imagination “libertarian”.
And “progressivism” is merely code for socialism, imho
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https://goldswitzerland.com/the-biggest-wealth-transfer-in-history/
THE BIGGEST WEALTH TRANSFER IN HISTORY
Posted on November 17, 2017 by Egon von Greyerz
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US DEBT UP 1800X IN 100 YEARS
Total US debt in 1913 was $39 billion. Today it is $70 trillion, up 1,800X. But that only tells part of the story. There were virtually no unfunded liabilities in 1913. Today they are $130 trillion. So adding the $70 trillion debt to the unfunded liabilities gives a total liability of $200 trillion.
In 1913 US debt to GDP was 150%. Today, including unfunded liabilities, the figure becomes almost 1,000%. This is the burden that ordinary Americans are responsible for a burden that will break the US people and the US economy as well as the dollar.
Whilst ordinary people have been landed with liabilities that they can never repay, the bankers and the 1% elite has profitably (ab)used the leverage that the debt expansion has created and thus amassed massive fortunes.
That is why we are seeing this enormous inequality in wealth. Ordinary people have not yet realised that they are liable for this debt. They will of course never repay it, nor will anyone else. Governments will try to solve the problem by printing even more money, thus exacerbating the problem. Eventually this will lead to high inflation turning to hyperinflation with interest rates going to at least 15-20% but probably higher. At that point central banks have lost total control of their interest rate manipulation.
The world will then discover that this time the money printing will have no effect as manufactured money can never create wealth.
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When you look at the absolute dollars of debt and liabilities, it’s absolutely terrifying.
I’m glad I’m old and won’t see the crash. It’s going to make the Great Depression look like just a very bad day.
Clearly the debt will be repudiated by inflation, defaults, and unilateral abrogation of contracts. Clearly mere “understandings” (i.e., social security; Gooferment pensions; State Gooferment “constitutional” provisions, “promises”) will be “cannon fodder”.
I feel sorry for future generations.
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/11/bionic-mosquito/the-clintons-day-of-reckoning/
The Clintons’ Day of Reckoning By Bionic Mosquito November 18, 2017
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When the Harvey Weinstein story broke about a month ago, I offered that the reason for such a story to break now – after decades of such behavior – might have something to do with the democrats getting tired of telling Hillary to go away.
Well, the train is leaving the station:
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Thursday went to a place that few Democrats have dared or cared to go when it comes to allegations of sexual assault: Calling out Bill Clinton.
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Is this the first brick to fall in the Clinton “firewall”?
Seems like all the current sexual predators with the label “D” are all connected to Bill Clinton.
Perhaps one way the D’s rid themselves of the perpetual HRC candidacy is to condemn WJC?
When HRC is no longer the icon of the D’s, then does the USA get a deep dive into all the HRC accusations?
One can only hope.
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http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2017/11/18/the-pernicious-doctrine-of-accusation-equals-guilt/
The Pernicious Doctrine of “Accusation Equals Guilt”
by Ted Galen Carpenter, CATO Institute
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Equating mere allegations of misconduct with definitive evidence is a growing habit in the United States. That tendency is most prevalent regarding national security matters, and the trend has been building since the onset of the so-called war on terror following the 9-11 attacks.
Conservatives are especially prone to assert that “terrorists” are not entitled to constitutional rights, even if they are American citizens. The obvious problem with that argument is that until a fair and impartial trial is held, the individuals in question are merely accused terrorists. The whole point of due process is to determine whether a defendant is guilty or not.
Alarmingly, George W. Bush’s administration asserted the authority to jail suspected terrorists without trial or even a hearing before an independent tribunal. In the case of Jose Padilla, an American citizen apprehended at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, the government designated him an “enemy combatant” and held him (as well as inflicted torture) for nearly four years at a military prison in South Carolina before bringing charges to a grand jury. Even then, the administration’s belated application of due process occurred only in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s prodding.
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Us little L libertarians should be constantly nagging about “our process”, “innocent until proven guilty”, and ‘limited government”.
We can go through a list of liberty impairing actions:
and on and on ad nauseam!
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http://www.impactlab.net/2017/11/16/breakthrough-scientists-reverse-aging-in-human-cells/
November 16th, 2017 at 1:30 am
Breakthrough: Scientists reverse aging in human cells
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Seniors may soon be able to live disease-free for their entire lives.
New research published in the journal BMC Cell Biology shows that old human cells can be rejuvenated using chemicals similar to resveratrol, which is a substance found in red wine and dark chocolate.
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Resveratrol is a compound found in peanuts, grapes, red wine, dark chocolate, and some berries.
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Easy enough to add these to one’s diet.
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NOT JUST THE AIR FORCE: US ARMY FAIL TO REPORT UP TO 20% OF CRIMES TO FBI
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
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After an Air Force veteran with a criminal history was able to buy guns and kill 29 people in a Texas church, a Pentagon-wide investigation found that the Army is failing to alert the FBI about soldiers’ criminal histories in a “significant amount” of cases.
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No new “gun laws” until the Gooferment gets its act together. What use are the “laws” if the Gooferment fails to keep the rolls up to date.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
I don’t think that anyone is fairly or correctly assessing the lowering of the corporate tax rate.
It’s generally acknowledged that “corporations don’t pay taxes; only real people do”. By taxing corporations, “We, The Sheeple” don’t “see” exactly how much tax they are paying on a can of beans.
When you consider the effect of corporate taxes on capital goods (i.e., the truck to deliver the can of beans) or intermediates (i.e., the gas to power the truck to deliver the can of beans), it’s impossible to calculate the true cost of taxes “buried” in the can of beans.
By lowering the corporate tax rate, perhaps that insight will be brought from “behind the curtain”.
Like moving tax day to the day before election day lowering the corporate tax rates is important, I’d like to see more people “see” just how much they are taxed.
Just my humble opinion from a fat old white guy retired injineer who’s now a poor old senior citizen on a fixed income and no expert on “ekky-nomics”.
But I know I’m getting screwed.
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