Month: May 2015

SHTF Plan.com – by Mac Slavo

The motel and hotel industry is not only spying you, it is partnering with police.

This isn’t just routine cooperation when police request information for criminal investigations. Instead, it is apparently everyday data sharing on every guest.

It is a troubling private-public overlap where motel and hotel clerks are systematically sharing “do not rent” lists and helping police to run checks on guests daily for outstanding warrants. Staying at Motel 6, and other chains pursuing similar policies, now includes a hidden guilty-until-proven innocent background check that puts ordinary travelers one step away from a call to police. From the Providence Journal:    Continue reading “Motels Sharing “Daily Guest List with Police” and Aiding Warrant Checks on Every Guest”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In “Bursting Bund Bubble: 2 Charts And Some Lessons From History,” we recapped the sell-off in German government bonds, touching on the severity of the yield spike (with emphasis on Thursday’s intraday move above 77bps), the breakdown in the historical relationship between Bunds and Treasurys/Gilts, and parallels between the rout and the 2003 sell-off in JGBs. On the latter issue, we presented the following chart from Barclays which shows the degree to which this most recent incarnation of government bond carnage mirrors the 2003 manifestation.    Continue reading “Two Years Later, The VaR Shock Is Back”

WND – by Paul Bremmer

Obamacare already has been blamed for the cancellation of millions of health policies that didn’t meet the government’s requirements and for raising the cost of medical care.

Now it appears to be sending more people to hospital emergency rooms. A poll shows three of four ER physicians is seeing an increase in traffic, some by significant numbers.

Supporters had claimed that more people would be covered with insurance, so they would be seeing their own doctors and not showing up as often at the ER.   Continue reading “Obamacare goof could bring medical system down”

Mad World News

President Obama’s lawyers admitted Thursday that DHS approved thousands of work permits under amnesty, despite a court order halting the program. The admission came just before the midnight deadline ordered by the Texas judge. This is just the latest in a series of “missteps” this administration that has them facing possible sanctions for violating the court order.

President Obama’s Justice Department stated just before the deadline that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) let their immigration department approve around 2200 work permits since they got in trouble for it in February. Judge Hanen’s injunction went into effect on February 16, halting the entire program. DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, and other Obama officials, had repeatedly told Congress that they had fully halted the program and were complying with the federal court orders.   Continue reading “DHS Admits Approved Amnesty Applications Despite Court Order”

Freedom Fighter Reports

This is urgent news regarding a leaked document obtained by the NRA which states in a memo that the DOJ is calling for an all out gun confiscation and outlawing of firearms. This comes just months before Jade Helm 15, the drill that is sweeping the nation, also which happens to be the “drill” where there will be agenturs among civilians. In the coming days with Jade Helm 15 Freedom Fighter Reports received a tip from our military source about the true meaning of the Jade Helm Drill:    Continue reading “Leaked DOJ Memo Outlaw and Confiscate All Guns Tied To JADE HELM”

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Govt.Slaves – by Bill Bonner

Yesterday’s good news was that there will beno 25-year recession. “We should be so lucky,” is the way a New Yorker might react. Because the bad news is much worse. The logic of the “long depression” is simple. Aging populations, debt, zombification – all of which slow growth.

How many old people and zombies do you need before an economy comes to a halt? Nobody knows. But the drag from debt is observable and calculable. Over the last three decades, approximately $33 trillion in excess debt has been contracted – above and beyond the traditional ratio to income – in America alone. And growth rates have fallen in half.   Continue reading “The Next 94 Days Could Be Bad for Your Wallet”

Anti War.com – by Jason Ditz

US State Department officials issued a statement of rebuke to Israel’s newly minted government today, criticizing their planned expansion of settlements in occupied East Jerusalem.

“This is a disappointing development,” noted spokesman Jeff Rathke, saying the US wants to “see a commitment for the two-state solution,” and that the latest construction plans are incompatible with that.

The Ramat Shlomo plan dates back to 2010, when Israel unveiled it during a visit by Vice President Joe Biden. This caused a serious diplomatic row at the time, and the plan is now receiving final approval.   Continue reading “US ‘Disappointed’ by Israel’s New East Jerusalem Settlement Plans”

The Register – by John Leyden

A former NSA staffer turned security researcher is warning that bypassing typical OS X security tools is trivial.

Patrick Wardle, a former NSA staffer and NASA intern who now heads up research at crowd-sourced security intelligence firm Synack, found that Apple’s defensive Gatekeeper technology can be bypassed allowing unsigned code to run. Apple’s Gatekeeper utility is pre-installed in Mac OS X PCs and used to verify code. The tool is designed so that by default it will only allow signed code to run or, depending on settings, only packages from the Mac App Store.   Continue reading “Ex-NSA security bod fanboi: Apple Macs are wide open to malware”

The Independent Political Report

A new write-in candidate has entered the race for Flint mayor: Giggles the pig. Gary Ridley reports at MLive.com:

In a bizarre turn of events that has already set the stage for the possibility of a blank mayoral ballot in Flint, local defense attorney Michael Ewing is trying to enter his pet pig, Giggles, into a race that could already consist of all write-in candidates.   Continue reading “Giggles the Pig Enters Flint, Michigan Mayoral Race”

Govt.Slaves – by Steve Straehley

When state governments closed many mental hospitals in the 1970s, it didn’t solve the problem of what to do with the mentally ill, it merely moved it—to jails and prisons.

“There are now more psychologists working in state prisons than (in) state hospitals in this country,” Dr. Jeffrey Metzner, a psychiatrist with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, said according to The Crime Report.   Continue reading “Are Prisons the New Mental Health Hospitals?”

Think Progress – by Natasha Geiling

As California’s historic drought continues into its fourth year, the state’s forests are being hit hard by years of below-average precipitation. According to a new study conducted by the U.S. Forest Service, at least 12.5 million trees in California’s national forests have died during the current drought — adding more brittle, dry vegetation to areas already threatened by potentially explosive wildfires.

“The situation is incendiary,” William Patzert, a climatologist for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told the Los Angeles Times. “The national forest is stressed out.”   Continue reading “At Least 12 Million Trees Are Dead Because Of California’s Drought”