Quantcast
Channel: Weapon of Mass Distraction
Viewing all 2508 articles
Browse latest View live

SciFriday: You’re Being Drugged by Plastics


Fundamental lack of understanding

0
0

Democrats in California really don’t get economics:

California lawmakers are targeting the expected windfall that companies in the state would see under the federal tax overhaul with a bill that would require businesses to turn over half to the state.

There are two problems with this approach. First, taxes are a cost of doing business. Profit is the margin added to cost that allows a business to keep doing business. So if California raises costs by confiscating federal tax money businesses would have saved under the new federal tax plan, those businesses will simply calculate their prices based on the higher cost — and pass the increase on to consumers.

In other words, the citizens of California would pay the new state tax, not businesses.

Second, the California assembly assumes that business owners will just sit there and take it, which is observably not the case.

The post Fundamental lack of understanding appeared first on Weapon of Mass Distraction.

Maybe it’s the way he said it

Yahweh the warrior

Bigger than Watergate

0
0

No, not Hillary’s illegal email server. That was bad enough, but we’re talking about the use of America’s intelligence community by one political party against another.

Click here for the notes and audio for this week’s P.I.D. Radio.

The post Bigger than Watergate appeared first on Weapon of Mass Distraction.

Josh Peck – The Day the Earth Stands Still

Way worse than watergate

Apocalypse drone

0
0

The Pentagon is reportedly concerned about a weapon Russia may be developing — an underwater drone designed to create a 1,500-foot high tsunami that would contaminate a wide area with radioactive cobalt-60.

Also: Mike Pence in Israel; missing FBI texts; missing NSA data; and M7.9 quake off Alaskan coast.

The post Apocalypse drone appeared first on Weapon of Mass Distraction.


Google suspends fact-checking

Media finally notices FBI’s abuse of power

SciFriday: The Carbon Footprint of Your Sandwich

0
0

In the same week the World Economic Forum’s discussion of global warming was disrupted by heavy snow, climate scientists debate the merits of spraying sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to cool the planet (while reminding us that chemtrails are an Internet conspiracy theory) and publish research on the environmental impact of sandwiches.

The post SciFriday: The Carbon Footprint of Your Sandwich appeared first on Weapon of Mass Distraction.

Back to Egypt

0
0

THE SOJOURN in Egypt was such a defining moment in the history of Israel and Judah that you would think the last thing Judeans would want is to go back there. You would be wrong.

Click here for the notes and audio for this week’s Bible study.

The post Back to Egypt appeared first on Weapon of Mass Distraction.

Comic gods

0
0

WE FINALLY got around to watching two of the recent movies in the Superman franchise. It reminded us how obvious it is that pop culture is doing a far better job of selling theology than the church.

Click here for the notes and audio for this week’s edition of P.I.D. Radio.

The post Comic gods appeared first on Weapon of Mass Distraction.

Jack Davila-Ashcraft – The Messianic Secret

Democrat shadow government dealing direct with Palestinians


The Yoga Industrial Complex

0
0

White people who do yoga are perpetuating systemic racism, according to a religious studies professor at Michigan State. She’s missing the real point.

Also: House Intelligence Committee votes to release Nunes Memo; another head rolls at FBI; and Super Blue Blood Moon over US early Wednesday morning.

The post The Yoga Industrial Complex appeared first on Weapon of Mass Distraction.

State of the Union

Five in Ten 2/1/18: Carl Gallups – Trump and the State of the Union

The memo released

0
0

The memo is out. Here are some key takeaways, courtesy of the Washington Examiner:

  • The Steele dossier formed an essential part of the initial and all three renewal FISA applications against Carter Page.
  • Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would have been sought from the FISA Court without the Steele dossier information.
  • The political origins of the Steele dossier were known to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but excluded from the FISA applications.
  • DOJ official Bruce Ohr met with Steele beginning in the summer of 2016 and relayed to DOJ information about Steele’s bias. Steele told Ohr that he, Steele, was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected president and was passionate about him not becoming president.

The key point: The FBI did not disclose to the FISA court that the information it used in the warrant application was opposition research on Trump paid for by the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign. That was a gross abuse of the power of the FBI and DOJ, which employed a private contractor (Fusion-GPS) to dig dirt and gave it access to NSA intercept data on American citizens.

This memo doesn’t include everything the HIC knows about the matter, suggesting that this is just the tip of the iceberg. There may be more political wrangling over this in the months ahead.

But that’s not the iceberg. Consider these points from the excellent Last Refuge:

The House Intelligence Memo is simply using the example of currently known FISA abuse to open the door and show the U.S. electorate how corrupt this unaccountable institution has become.  Behind that door are very uncomfortable realities for all of those who constructed the weaponized agency; and also those who have benefited from it.

Consider:

When IRS head Lois Lerner unlawfully sent the 21 CD-ROM’s containing the “Schedule B” filings of over a million Americans to the Obama administration, the recipient was the DOJ. (LINK)  It was the DOJ who was chosen to utilize the political lists in their “Secret Research Project“.

When U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen demanded DOJ lawyers attend ethics classes due to their false representations to his court — he was highlighting a corrupt DOJ. (LINK)

When the case against the Bundy family was recently thrown out of court, it was the “gross malicious conduct” of the DOJ highlighted by the judge. (LINK)

This is the same DOJ who denied their own Office of Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, the right to conduct oversight on DOJ internal action. (LINK – pdf)  The expressed Justice Department intent in every action has been an attempt to remain unaccountable.

The U.S. Justice Department has become a rogue agency weaponized against its political opposition in almost every jurisdiction.

The Russian collusion investigation is a decoy to distract us from a scandal that is far bigger than Watergate, which brought down a sitting president.

Under Richard Nixon, five guys broke into DNC offices at the Watergate hotel to get dirt on Daniel Ellsberg of “Pentagon papers” fame.

Under Barack Obama, the surveillance powers of the NSA and legal authority of the Department of Justice were deployed against the presidential campaign of Donald Trump — to the point of actively trying to sabotage his administration after the election in November of 2016.

This is yuge.

The post The memo released appeared first on Weapon of Mass Distraction.

The memo

0
0

A quick analysis of the Nunes memo, which was released today at the direction of President Trump. As we thought, it summarizes an abuse of power by the DOJ and FBI under President Obama in an effort to keep Donald Trump out of the White House.

The post The memo appeared first on Weapon of Mass Distraction.

Viewing all 2508 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images