Things I have been writing about for almost a decade that are happening now.

Lets call this post, things I have been writing about for almost a decade.

Digital Trends - You can now hail a ride in a fully autonomous vehicle, courtesy of WAYMO. This is going on now, in the United States.

Yahoo - Associated Press - Some fear California drought cuts could erase water rights. The government wants to control all water rights.

Spiegel Online - Are Driving Bans Coming for German Cities. They want you out of your car.

MSN - Taste of Home - Why you should expect a Taco Bell delivery in the near future.  They want you out of your car and staying in place.

Zero Hedge - LA has criminalized poverty by making it illegal to sleep in cars and RVs.  This is a sham, a trick of the eyes. The law will be found illegal and the city will not have to tow RVs that people are living in, instead the city will provide places to park them. Bet me.

MSN - The New York Times - Facebook and Google struggle to squelch Crisis Actor posts. If they can limit the topics of discussion, you have no free exchange of ideas.

The Hill - White House praises Oregon program of mileage tax for infrastructure funds.  You will be taxed by the mile in the autonomous taxi you use in the future too.

NPR - Wrist watch: Amazon patents system to track guide employees hands.  I am glad I don't work there.

Variety - CNNs Jeff Zucker calls on regulators to probe Google and Facebook.  The old media attacking the new media.

CNBC - More Americans now support a universal basic income.  It is coming and it is coming because you will not have a job. There will be strings attached.

News Dump and BS

Yahoo - Endgadget -Mercedes and Bosch will test self-driving taxis in a few months.  Just keep telling yourself, not in my lifetime. LOL.
Daily Mail - Scientists create first human-sheep hybrids - paving the way for organs to be grown in animals for transplant even providing a cure for diabete. 

Blogger wishes to make life my difficult. Recently, it upgraded, it called it that, the controls. As a consequence, cutting and pasting from articles is really hard. If you copy something, the font and size are attached. Fortunately, I know HTML and can fix these strange looks. Just not going to do it yet. Blogger has an HTML editor. I posted my first site using HTML before blogger, twitter, facebook, google or most of what you see now existed.

Honest Gun Regulation Debate - Never Gonna Happen Except Here

There is an insincerity in the gun control debate from both sides. Those who say they want "reasonable" gun control are seen as wanting to outlaw all guns. Partly because that is true. Their fallback position is to incrementally go after all guns by calling out each type of weapon.

To those who seek to control gun ownership, lets start with a really simple question. We have a second amendment that codifies the right to gun ownership in America. Which guns should be protected by it? Which guns should people be allowed to own? Why is that never discussed by the left or the media?

13 Russians Indicted for Facebook Ads

CNBC - Special counsel Mueller: Russians conducted "information warfare" against US during election to help Trump win.  Lets start with this, the title of the CNBC article is intentionally misleading. The avowed intent of the group was, "spread[ing] distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general". 

Here is a copy of the actual indictment. Indictment.

Count One of the indictment is that these foreign citizens did not disclose that they were going to publish anything political.
Count Two - Some of the people used false names for bank accounts.
Counts Three through Eight - Some of the people involved Some of the people involved used false identities.

Those are the charges filed against the 13 defendants. It is NOT alleged that any Americans helped them or knew what they were doing. It is NOT alleged that anything they did effected the outcome of the election. It is NOT alleged that they were involved in the hack of the DNC. It is NOT alleged that they worked with the Trump campaign.

The corporate media is reporting this as foreign nationals attempting to effect the outcome of our election and attempting to hide their identity so people would assume they were Americans. Hmmm. Lets apply this logic to others. Let us consider the fact that most illegal aliens use false identities and social security numbers to get work here, they would be guilty of the same crimes. Let us also assume that many illegal aliens send money back to their families in Mexico using false identifications. Let us further assume that many illegal aliens protested against Trump and tried to effect the outcome of the elections. I can prove each of those assumptions. Shouldn't they therefore be indicted too?

Let us consider this, late night talk show hosts John Oliver, James Cordon and Trevor Noah are all foreign nationals who attempted to effect the outcome of the election and were paid to do so.

Let us also remember that BBC America and Univision did anti-Trump pieces and played them in America. Hmmm, notice anything inconsistent with what you are being told and how "justice" is being applied? It gets better, Richard Steele was a British spy and compiled and distributed the Trump dossier to effect the outcome of the election and he paid Russian government agents for his information. Shouldn't he be indicted?

It is likely that Mueller is wrapping up his investigation and this is the best he could come up with. In the end this is not about Russia and Trump, it is an attack on free speech in America. Should you be allowed to know what people in other nations think about our candidates? If we have a free and open internet you can.

The Guardian - Only the EU can break Facebook and Google's dominance. According to George Soros, in order to keep an open society we need to regulate what is said on the internet. Now that is some twisted logic.

MSN - CNN - Twitter failed to remove hundreds of Russian propaganda videos aimed at Americans.

These indictments are an attack on what the American public can read and hear. Should it be illegal to read "Mein Kampf" or "The Communist Manifesto", what about reading Rousseau or Locke or Hobbs or even Plato, they were all about politics and published by foreigners? The hope of the establishment is that they can keep political speech that disagrees with the corporate media from being viewed by you, that is what this is all about.

Been Busy, Back Now

Well, obviously the biggest story is the school shooting in Florida. I have nothing to say about it. People who hate guns are going to say that we need to get rid of guns and people that like guns are going to say it is about mental health. The same things will be said after the next mass shooting. You know one thing these mass shooters have in common, they feel rejected by the community they live in.

I want to talk about a movie that came out tonight. It is called "The Black Panther". It is a "superhero" movie that focuses on a black lead. According to reports it has already pre-sold $170 million in tickets. That is a lot. The movie cost $200 million to make.

I watched a trailer for it. Looked boring. Now, to be fair, I don't like superhero movies. I just don't care about them; but, I know people do. I don't think the movie is going to do as well as is hoped. Firstly, the CGI looked weak. More importantly, I don't think it will interest crowds in China and they are the second biggest market. I expect it to do okay in the US. I expect sales to drop off quickly and dramatically. To be honest, it's not relatable to most people outside of major cities.

The reviews are almost glowing and maybe I will be surprised. I don't feel a connection with the story. It is the story of an alternate universe where Africa was not colonized and advanced more scientifically than the rest of the world with special technologies. I detest fantasy stories as a rule. Being almost 60, I am sure that I am not the target audience. I do not anticipate the movie doing well in Africa, it is not for them, it is for western blacks, urban dwellers.

The last good movie I saw was Dunkirk. I don't think people who liked superhero movies went to see it. Maybe I am wrong and this film will be bigger than Star Wars. I am not betting on it and truthfully, I don't care. I should also point out, I don't watch Star Wars movies anymore unless they are on television.

The Released Memo and What it Really Means

The FISA memo came out today. Here is a link to it.

Fox - House Intelligence Committee FISA Memo

I considered writing about how this all went down and what it means; but, you know what, it doesn't really matter. You will know soon enough and the discussion will go on for months. Let me tell you what is coming.

The memo shows how political opposition research was used to get a secret court to approve phone taps and surveillance by the Obama administration against the Trump campaign. The memo is short because it is not meant to answer all questions, it is meant to raise questions and answer some. It is the beginning, not the end. It will cause a year long investigation to begin, one that looks at everything Clinton, the DNC and Obama did to rig the system and prevent Trump from winning the election.

Let me tell you, if Hillary had won, the Russian dossier would never have come out. They didn't want it to come out, what they had used it for was to tap, unmask and see all communications between people on the Trump campaign. They never meant for it to be released, that was done by Steele while working for the FBI, when it did come out, they fired him. That will come out too.

In November of 2017, Hillary said everyone had known for over a year that the DNC had paid for the dossier; but, Podesta and Debbie Wasserman Shultz and Donna Brazile all said they did not know who funded it. Obama is going to say the same. Comey has a problem, he cannot claim he did not know as he hired Steele.

There will be a public investigation by congress into what transpired and it will drag on and on all the way through this years elections. Democrats will claim they did not knw what had happened and while many may have suspected, they did not know, they chose not to know, same as they chose not to read the FISA memo.

Mueller will not be fired by Trump, his position is much worse. He now has to justify his investigation by showing that he has found something. You see, the investigation was based on the Steele dossier and the FBI hired Steele to authenticate it, which he could not. Mueller has to either show that he has found something or quit and say he has found nothing. All the Democrats are right now nagging Mueller to prove that he has found something; but, he has not. It is put up or shut up time for Mueller and he has nothing. Illegal phone monitoring has provided nothing, a couple of years of investigation has providing nothing and he has nothing now.

Mueller may in fact claim that he did not know the DNC paid for the dossier. How will that make him look, wouldn't that be something he would have asked. LOL. He may claim it didn't effect his investigation, the question will then be if he used information gathered by the FISA investigation. The answer to that is yes and it gets worse because Carter Page is not the only one who was tapped. We know this because Flynn was tapped. Nope, what Mueller will do is say that he has nothing and he cannot proceed because he is offended by the tainted information he was given by the FBI when he began his investigation. I anticipate Mueller resigning, the media speculating he was forced to and it coming out that it was his own choice.

Here is a question. Did Mueller know that the Trump dossier was funded by the DNC and used to put surveillance and justify unmasking of people in the Trump campaign. Did Comey tell him that when he became special prosecutor. My guess is no. I do not believe Mueller would have taken the job if he knew what was behind it. If Mueller did know then he has a bigger problem.

The Republican will want this next investigation to drag out and the Democrats will want it all to end. Obama, Mueller and Hillary have all been quiet today. How strange and yet expected. "Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for you." I expect them to all remain relatively silent. Mueller will be first to speak about the memo and will say that he needs to reconsider what he has discovered in light of these new revelations. Bet me.

I should explain something else. Everybody expected the memo to answer all questions. I did not expect that, I have written what I expected. Now, people expect this immediately cause results, I do not expect that. Hell is not a pinprick, it is not a broken arm, it is not even a heart attack, hell is the slow continual and increasing pain of hopelessness and misery.

The establishment Democrats are beginning a process of grief. The first is denial. That is what we are witnessing. The second is anger, that is just beginning. The third is bargaining, that is beginning behind the scenes and will be public soon enough. Depression is the next step, that is when the realization that the Democrats have been screwed by the Clintons once again and that they are going to lose even more seats in congress. Finally, you will see acceptance and that is where hope resides because if they accept what happened, they can begin cleaning house and fighting for the issues of the middle class and working class. They will see the need to work for the base of their party.

Later Today all hell breaks lose.

We are being told that the House Intelligence committee memo showing the use of the FISA courts by the Obama administration to spy on Trump during the campaign will be released tomorrow. After it is released I will post a link to it here and discuss it in detail. According to the New York Times over half of all Republican Senators and Representatives in congress were on a train to attend a strategy meeting in West Virginia when it hit a trash truck. One person died. The meeting is to be held Thursday with President Trump coming down also. This meeting is being held the same day that the FISA memo is to be released to the public. You might need to read all of that twice to get the set up.

What do you think will be the topic of discussion at this Republican retreat? This meeting is to discuss what the Republicans should do as the FISA memo is public. I can assure you that Democrats will be discussing the exact same thing. Both parties are preparing their talking points. The Republicans will be discussing how to use this for the 2018 elections of congressmen. The Democrats will be deciding on whether or not to distance themselves from Obama and Hillary. Most will claim ignorance. How do I know this, simple, the Democrats in the House chose not to read the memo even though they could have. There will be a few who attempt to attack the memo; but, that won't last long because the Republicans will call for hearings. How do I know this

Senate Judiciary Website - Request for information from Podesta by Feb 8th.

This blog is almost a decade old. Nobody who regularly reads me can accuse me of being left or right. I am against open borders, I also supported Sanders and the Occupy Movement. I do not attempt to misdirect readers, I do not take advertising and never have and never will on this blog, I give my opinions and provide source documents when discussing facts. I don't use unnamed sources and don't say many thing I have heard and cannot back up. Over the years I have talked about pedophiles; but, when "Pizzagate" was a thing, I told my readers to not publish rumors. Isn't it obvious that I advised politicians and appointees? I was in the game and was good at it. I am telling you right now that the reason all those Republicans were on the same train was because they wanted to talk amongst themselves prior to arriving at the retreat.

Politics is the art of the misdirect and behind the scenes negotiations. The Republicans are planning their next three moves and so are the Democrats. You know who wasn't on that train. If you knew who didn't go, it would tell you which group of Republicans were working together. LOL. That was a trainload of corporate Republicans. One person who did not take that train was Rand Paul. He is a Libertarian. Instead he went on Stephen Colbert's show. We can assume that his attendance was unplanned. You ask how, well, he admitted on the show that he was supposed to be at the retreat and that he had only stayed behind to see a play in New York and that the other Republicans would be mad at him when they discovered that.

What would have happened if those Republicans had all died on that train. The train did hit a truck; but, what would have happened if they had all died? Well, to start with there would not be any hearings on the memo until the Governors had appointed replacements and that could take a while. Look, I used to tell my superiors that "Paranoia is Your Friend", I guarantee you that these Republicans are nervous.

Look, you had half of all Republicans in congress on the same train. Don't you think the Secret Service took precautions? Don't you think they checked all crossings? Heck the speaker of the fricking House was on that train that hit the trash truck. In my opinion them all being on the same train was just too stupid. The fact none of them died is providence. Here is what you need to takeaway, those Republicans are going to be paranoid. They will ask themselves if it was an accident as they decide what they are going to do after the memo is public showing misdeeds by the FBI. Bet you they don't all return on the same train. ROFL. What happens if it turns out the driver of the truck was a Muslim? What happens if it turns out the driver of that truck was a Clinton supporter? What happens when for the next few days we start hearing about the driver of that truck?

Thursday, things are going to get intense. For me, the most interesting thing of Trump's presidency is how he acts as a catalyst for people to expose their own hypocrisy. Consider this, if Trump had personally paid Russians to hack the DNC and had given those e-mails to WikiLeaks, they still showed the hypocrisy of the Democrats and how they rigged the primaries against Sanders, those e-mails still showed how the Democrats conspired with the corporate media and how they even gave debate questions in advance to Hillary.

There is a great unmasking going on. Oh sure, the Obama administration illegally "unmasked" Americans in FISA abuses, that is not what I am limiting this too. I believe all that is hidden is being unmasked. We, as a nation, have to confront who we are and what is and is not acceptable. Do not condemn others too strongly, remind yourself of your shortcomings and what you have done.