There is now a Californian lawyer who refuses to settle a heritage claiming that the heir has no rights to it. Obviously the lawyer thinks that he has got a means to steal the heritage.

So, if you were interested in politics "because it requires no math", your time has passed.

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So probably no cookies are needed to track you on the internet. And Tor won't help you either to cover up your identity.

China holds only 9% of US sovereign debt contrary to misperceptions.

The interesting thing is that the US government doesn't correct bullshit floating in the news about the USA.

Apparent facts become the received wisdom through repetition despite not being true and commentators repeat them because it's easier than verifying them.

The Japanese are big savers, which they are not. The data will show they were in 1990 but that is history. Germans are often referred to as saver outliers in Europe but why did Italy survive the financial crisis relatively unscathed, despite its high public debt?

"There is a determined, focused establishment effort ... to find a candidate we can coalesce around who can beat Sarah Palin," someone described as a "prominent and longtime Washington Republican" told Politico. "We believe she could get the nomination, but Barack Obama would crush her."

Republicans really trust on Barack Obama.

Read the story to comprehend the title.

I encountered a busted false flag operation:

Political or religious ideologies will sometimes use false flag tactics. This can be done to discredit or implicate rival groups, create the appearance of enemies when none exist, or create the illusion of organized and directed opposition when in truth, the ideology is simply unpopular with society

There are two administrative law judges at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission: myself and the Honorable Bruce Levine. On Judge Levine's first week on the job, nearly twenty years ago, he came into my office and stated that he had promised Wendy Gramm, then Chairwoman of the Commission, that we would never rule in a complaint's favor. A review of his rulings will confirm that he has fulfilled his vow. Judge Levine, in the cynical guise of enforcing the rules, forces pro se complainants to run a hostile procedural gauntlet until they lose hope, and either withdraw their complaint or settle for a pittance, regardless of the merits of the case. See Michael Schroeder, If You've Got a Beef With a Futures Broker, This Jugde Isn't for You - In Eights Years at the CFTC, Levine Has Never Ruled in Favor of an Investor, Wall St. J., Dec. 13,2000, at A1 (copy attached)

Keynesian economics claims that sluggish economic performance is caused by the rich who don't consume enough.

That's easy to believe empirically, but the published economic statistics claimed that before The Great Recession the saving rate was negative ...

About the longterm view on Western economics: The GDP growth rate has decreased 0.5% every decennial since 1970's. Zero growth rate will be reached in 2030's. To support employment, the economic growth has been too low since 1990's.

There was earlier an discussion on the importance of studying statistics.

Well, here is an introduction on how to predict pizzeria ratings or probability of voting Republicans by state:
http://www.jaredlander.com/wordpress/wordpress-2.9.2/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/NYC-PA-Meetup-Multilevel-Models.ppt

In some states income is a factor predicting party affiliation and in other states it is not.

So here we are, forming an orderly queue at the slaughterhouse gate. The punishment of the poor for the errors of the rich, the abandonment of universalism, the dismantling of the shelter the state provides: apart from a few small protests, none of this has yet brought us out fighting.

The acceptance of policies which counteract our interests is the pervasive mystery of the 21st Century. In the United States, blue-collar workers angrily demand that they be left without healthcare, and insist that millionaires should pay less tax. In the UK we appear ready to abandon the social progress for which our ancestors risked their lives with barely a mutter of protest. What has happened to us?

Wood-to-Oil Process by S. Friedman, A.S. Mehta and P.L. Thigpen from Considine, Douglas M. (Ed-in-Ch): Energy Technology Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 1977)

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a Dutch infomercial about the topic. Take a note that The Netherlands doesn't have forests.

More Thai slaves were found from another company. Funny that these kind of things do not happen in the USA, according to the media. That's statistically very improbable.

The police told that they gave up the search for our local terrorist, because they lost the track. In plain English: They caught him and told the press stop making stupid questions.

The terrorist moved pretty swiftly in a terrain unknown to him. This implies that he had military training.

Obviously in Hungary the government and the aluminum factory decided to censor the exact content description of the toxic sludge. Why? To hide the details to make you forget this faster? Or was even the official, failed plan to process the sludge insufficient? Only The Greenpeace bothered to analyze the sludge in a laboratory. The big news agencies didn't bother to do that. That's because the press knows that they are not supposed to add anything significant to the news provided by propaganda sources.

MSM consists mostly of entertainment, propaganda, ads and stories which stuck in censorship. The propaganda is a constants subtle drift.

Hot topics for mind control seem to be how things really work, shit in food, terrorism and slavery.

You can read detailed scientific articles, but you can seldom read how bureaucrats make their decision or how large enterprises work in practice.

Shit in food is a topic which sometimes pops up here in the news. Here newspapers even do investigative journalism about it and send samples to laboratories and report their findings. This doesn't seem to happen in the USA. Is there a secret censorship agreement between food factories and the press?

I wrote earlier that in some economic statistics only the rich matter. In this statistics only the poor seem to matter, but that probably doesn't make you happy either ...

What's that about?

Actually CXO Advisory is not dead but it went on subscription business model.

It was a great free site where I could redirect those souls who had mistaken to believe that they know something about the markets if they could copy-paste a couple of words from the shit-pile of the internet or the media. Usually that infamous sell-low-buy-high stuff.

CXO Advisory doesn't contain any great investment ideas but very rapidly clears the head from the false belief that the owner of the head knows anything about the markets just by following "pundits" or the financial entertainment provided by the media. That's a good starting point, but there are no guarantees that it leads anywhere.

You have heard that internet rumor telling that "transportation leads the market!" about million times. That might have been true about 50 years ago. Of course, internet is full of crap for a gullible and lazy-to-check-facts mind, like about American manufacturing :-)

I wrote earlier that because of income/wealth inequality, some economic statistics practically ignore the middle class and the poor, because their weight is insignificant in the economy. If the media looks weird to you, that's because its target audience is these "nobodies". That's one of the reasons why they don't make profits anymore: The rich pay the same as The Nobodies and the money collect from The Nobodies is not enough for a sustainable business. That's what will happen to other businesses targeting The Nobodies too.

So, the marketing guys know the modern society best. Take a look how it looks like.

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This is an interesting piece of political fiction about China. How many errors can you find?

So we had here yet another domestic terrorist strike which was fractionally successful. In the scale of Europe this was big news except that it was mostly censored. LOL

I repeat, this was not a vague planned attack by wannabe terrorists, this really happened.

An interesting aspect in this strike is how this was published in media, revealing how censored media works: one time only short news, very few details: few addresses, age, sex, place of birth, ethnicity and number of bombs exploded. That was all what was published in media.

The tactics is clear: when there are only few details and the event is handled as a non-issue without any speculation or biography of the terrorist, I and you can't remember it more than a short period. This distorts the world-view of those who follow the media.

Or aren't terrorist strikes always interesting?

I wrote earlier that there seems to be rising domestic terrorism. I noticed that there was a significant terrorist strike attempt in September too, but only two bombs exploded. One man arrested.

The case has been downplayed in the media (no details given, no speculation) because this doesn't fit the propaganda script.

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There was an innocent blog entry at The Agonist on boobs. This is not so ... something ... even if she has her clothes on.

German TV channel RTL had this Das Super Talent show. Watch and drop your eyes. This is European TV. Should she win?

The Portuguese government in 2001 decriminalized the use and possession of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, LSD and other illicit street drugs. Five years later, the number of deaths from street drug overdoses dropped from around 400 to 290 annually, and the number of new HIV cases plummeted from nearly 1,400 in 2000 to about 400 in 2006. Under the Portuguese plan, penalties for people caught dealing and trafficking drugs are unchanged.

Scientific American, Cato

Not only was it the first steam-powered airship, it was the first passenger airship, the first navigable airship, the first full-size airship, and the first successful use of mechanical power in an aircraft.

Nashua Telegraph

Business Troll has listed 15 most dangerous jobs in America. There are some surprises included. And especially the order of danger is not what I had expected.