Random News and Comments

Took my medicine and cant sleep so I thought I might post some news and such. I had the privilege of communicating with a very nice woman over the last couple of days and she may end up reading my blog. My readership goes from 3 to a 1,000 depending on the post, at least as far as I can tell from my stats. Like Johnny Rotten said, I am lazy and do not promote the site. I think the vast majority of people who found their way her found it because they were interested in some little discussed subject and found me on some search engine. As for those who choose to be "followers" or read me regularly because they have me on their "favorites", I can only assume they continue reading because they do not have the time to dredge through as much news sites as I.

The blog has no set rules on what I will discuss and is written as I think it, I don't edit and probably should; but, again, I am too lazy and prefer to speak my mind. The problem with the news anymore is that they are so busy trying to spin stories and sell hamburgers that they forgot about analyzing the news. They are not reporters they are prostitutes in the worst sense of the word, they don't sell their body, they sell us all out and are nothing but repeaters. Lets play a game, I will link to a story and then ask some questions that the reporters should have asked.

Yahoo - Reuters - JPMorgan to quit physical commodity trade amid scrutiny. JP Morgan Chase & Co is going to stop commodities trading. Commodities are things like gold, silver and other physical assets. This change surprised people because it has been a very lucrative business for JPMorgan. I guess they don't think it will continue to be lucrative. We all know, or should, that countries and individuals are asking for their physical gold to be handed over to them from companies and organizations that hold it "for them".

Here is a great line from the article, "The bank's announcement follows a week of unprecedented scrutiny of Wall Street's commodity operations, after the U.S. Federal Reserve said last Friday it was reviewing a landmark 2003 decision that allowed commercial banks to trade in physical markets to "complement" their financial activity." Here is another line from the article, "Although the division's $2.4 billion in reported revenue last year exceeded those of the commodities divisions of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley combined, some have questioned its profitability given the costs involved in running a large logistical operation." Wait a second, they made billions in these trades. I think I would ask them if maybe those markets were rigged just like the other markets they were involved in.

Mail Online - Revealed: The shadowy lobbyists waging a propaganda war to keep Britain in Europe. Americans really need to pay more attention to what is going on in the rest of the world. If you go back and read political science books from the 80s on the coming of regionalism, you will discover nothing surprising. They always said that England would not join Europe and would side with Canada and America, we all speak English don't we? The lobbyist will lose and are being exposed. Here is the question that was not asked, would America rather side with England or Europe, Germany has more money and manufacturing than England; but, we would always side with England. Nobody ever asks that question when talking about the EU because they all know the answer.

Huffington Post - WATCH: How a Colorblind Cyborg 'Hears' Color. I will admit upfront that I believe transhumanism is dangerous and disturbing. This man promotes us "sensing" the world through integrating with technology. What is not asked is how much the technology could be hacked and tweeked to give us false perceptions. If a blind person is given artificial eyes or a deaf person is given artificial ears, how will they know if what they hear or see is the truth? What if you had artificial hearing and chose to block out cuss words or had artificial eyes and chose to block out child pornography? What if you never had to see, hear or experience pain or things you found distasteful? How much would you grow and how would we catch people doing bad things? I think those are valuable questions.

Huffington Post - How a Theoretical Claim About the NSA Magically Transformed Into Factual Reality. This article is just for morons. The author plays a game, he equates how much of our phone calls are recorded with how much is analyzed and claims that less is recorded because we can only analyze so much. This is mathematical garbage and misdirection. Everything is recorded and stored, very little is actually reviewed. I have said this many times, nobody in the NSA cares if you are cheating on your wife. Now lets look at how ridiculous his claims are. Lets say that the government can only "record" a thousandth of what is on phones, how would they pick what to record? Another good question. It is all recorded, the question is what gets analyzed after the rest has been filtered out. Why didn't he talk about that? It is because they want to calm fears that they do in fact record everything.

Vice - Mississippi Police Want to Arrest the Satanists Who Turn Dead People Gay. I already wrote a post about this, these people are not Satanist who believe in a real Satan, they are Atheists and the media didn't even bother saying that because it doesn't sell as much hate. We are being trained to detest anyone who believe in a real God and a real Satan.

Wired - Why Are Some People So Smart? The Answer Could Spawn a Generation of Superbabies. The "hero" of this story is a very bright Chinese man. He wants to unlock the code that will make sure that only genius children are born and that autistic people are screened out. These people want to filter out outliers, people who see the world differently and ask different questions and come up with different answers. They want a world where everyone is strong, physically fit and psychologically the same. That is death to a species, it is inbreeding. 5% of the population is immune to Ebola, what happens when nobody is because we have eliminated all the outliers? They didn't ask that question in the article.

Wired - Withings Pulse - You’re Going to Need a Better Memory. In the future your healthcare will based on whether or not you are willing to have it constantly monitored. It will start with smokers, fat people, diabetics, Alzheimer patients and people with high blood pressure. I have high blood pressure. Why is it that none of the media is talking about how this monitoring will effect your healthcare costs and options?

Well, I hope you all have a great weekend. We shall see what tomorrow's news might bring.