Last week the government published over 2,000 pages of new rules, many of which border on absurdity.
To give you an idea, USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service proposed a rule about minimum and maximum diameters of potatoes that are sold in the State of Colorado.
Yes I’m serious.
This is the sort of madness that government bureaucrats churn out on a daily basis: more rules, more licenses.
They are called “pirate libraries,” but one would be better-served envisioning Robin Hood than Blackbeard. Atlas Obscura takes a look at these floaters of scientific-journal copyrights in, “The Rise of Pirate Libraries.” These are not physical libraries, but virtual ones, where researchers and other curious folks can study articles otherwise accessible only through expensive scientific journal paywalls. Reporter Sarah Laskow writes:
“The creators of these repositories are a small group who try to keep a low profile, since distributing copyrighted material in this way is illegal. Many of them are academics. The largest pirate libraries have come from Russia’s cultural orbit, but the documents they collect are used by people around the world, in countries both wealthy and poor. Pirate libraries have become so popular that in 2015, Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers in America, went to court to try to shut down two of the most popular, Sci-Hub and Library Genesis.
Message of the 2016 Election: Goodbye Checks and Balances for Controlling Defense Spending
Phi Beta Iota: Neither Trump nor Clinton have a clue — they are all mouth and no brain — or ethics — on the subject of national defense. Chuck, and the National Interest article he points to, are the real deal.
The battle between a bankrupt liberal class and the left will color the remainder of the presidential race. What is predictable, and sad, is that so many self-identified progressives and their organizations will once again serve as the pawns of neoliberalism. They will practice censorship. Progressive sites in the primaries refused to reprint columns by critics such as Paul Street, who did not see Sanders as the new political messiah. And as we move closer and closer to the election, these sites will become ever more hostile to the left and ever more craven in their defense of Clinton.
Kevin Barrett sent me the below link, and this package will become UPDATE 11 on his master post. As a former CIA clandestine case officer and one of the first assigned the terrorist target full-time in the 1980's I want to defend CIA — I don't think they are behind this — and provide some emphasis and some speculative thoughts.
The eyewitness said that the shooter made mention that he was the “fourth shooter” and that there were “three others,” “snipers,” along with a ‘female suicide bomber’ that was playing dead.
I believe Orlando to be a false flag operation with one patsy whose death was pre-ordained, and at least two other active shooters plus 2 others blocking the doors and/or providing the getaway vehicle needed to also conceal the additional weapons used in the attack. It is still possible this was a theatrical production using Crisis Actors, there are many anomalies including no bodies, no blood, no ambulances, but if the witness with the wounds is real, that shifts the weight toward real dead done by a deep state team.