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Region VIII
District 9……
Pay attention
https://www.fema.gov/regional-operations
District 9 specializes in producing grain.
Jingle_Fraud and Liberace. What a pair.
what to do in denver as reported by real journalists at the new york times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/travel/what-to-do-in-denver.html
but the most important thing to do in denver is that you do NOT move here
spend all of your tourist dollars in colorado and then GO HOME
Agreed. Don’t move here. There’s snow on the ground year round and everyone’s stoned. It’s smoggy year round and the altitude will get to you. And the Broncos suck.
Why would anyone want to go to Denver?
“Why would anyone want to go to Denver?”
Legal weed and overpriced used Impalas.
Legal weed and overpriced used Impalas.
How about overpriced legal weed and overpriced used Impalas?
If the more conservative, sparsely-settled counties in the east and north of Colorado can unite in a renewed succession bid - getting out from under the lib-tards and their entitlement voters in Denver, and the Boulder Bolsheviks, the new state would be a much improved place.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2013/1111/New-Colorado-Rural-voters-approve-secession-idea
Warmist Warming Thursday (this is a Drudge Report link)
Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe criticized President Barack Obama’s doubling down on fighting global warming Tuesday night, arguing that the president’s planned climate regulations were simply “a wealth redistribution scheme.”
“Why the pain for no gain?” Inhofe asked in a rebuttal to Obama’s State of the Union speech. ”As The Wall Street Journal put it when reporting on just one of the president’s many climate regulations, this is a wealth redistribution scheme being imposed by the president through the EPA.”
“This is the real climate agenda the president chose not to address tonight. It is no wonder because it would impose the largest tax increase in the history of America,” Inhofe added.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/21/inhofe-calls-obamas-climate-agenda-a-wealth-redistribution-scheme/
Climate change is happening and humans are the cause. It has nothing to do with the largest tax increase in the history of America. Inhofe is obviously a climate change denier who is anti-science.
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Psychiatrists Now Say Non-Conformity is a Mental Illness: Only the Sheeple are ‘Sane’
By Jonathan Benson
Natural News
January 7, 2015
(NaturalNews) Modern psychiatry has become a hotbed of corruption, particularly the kind that seeks to demonize and declare mentally ill anyone who deviates from what is regarded as the norm. This is abundantly evident in the latest installment of the industry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, which dubs people who do not conform to what those in charge declare to be normal as mentally insane.
The so-called “condition” for why a person might choose to resist conformity has been labeled by the psychiatric profession as “oppositional defiant disorder,” or ODD. The new DSM defines this made-up disease as an “ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior,” and also lumps it in alongside attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, another made-up condition whose creator, Dr. Leon Eisenberg, admitted it to be phony on his death bed.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/01/no_author/are-you-odd/ - 89k -
Inhofe is sane. It’s just the petrodollars in his pocket talking.
As reported by real journalists at the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/us/why-republicans-keep-telling-everyone-theyre-not-scientists.html
And now back to your regularly scheduled Drudge Report links
Our scientists have determined that congressmen are cheaper than lab rats.
Certain mental diseases, such as schizophrenia, are real. But the majority of those “conditions” in the DSM are simply normal personality traits which occur in a small percentage of the population. Psychiatry is a field which does not have a lot of credibility. In fact, we still know very little about the brain itself. I find the latest addition laughable, and it is so absurd that it discredits the entire manual.
That is Hilarious as most hipsters are supposedly “non conformists”.
That would make beards, winter beanies, urban lofts and overpriced reclaimed wood furniture a sign of mental illness?
Actually, there not non-conformists. All those beards indicate that they conform to the hipster standards.
Yeah, that’s kinda why I put it in quotes.
mitt romney says climate change is real, lolz
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/230398-romney-im-one-of-those-republicans-who-believes-in-climate-change
“…you always try to be everything to everyone…”
- Everclear
“Watch the world die”
This Everclear lyric is better suited for the topic of warmist warming
more warmist warming
http://www.businessinsider.com/arctic-perennial-sea-ice-is-melting-2015-1
it’s only melting because george soros paid it to melt
More Warmist Warming
MIT Climate Scientist: Global Warming Believers a ‘Cult’
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/21/mit-climate-scientist-global-warming-believers-a-cult/
“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon” — President Barack Obama
Justice Department lawyers will recommend that no civil rights charges be brought against the police officer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Mo., after an F.B.I. investigation found no evidence to support charges, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and his civil rights chief, Vanita Gupta, will have the final say on whether the Justice Department will close the case against the officer, Darren Wilson. But it would be unusual for them to overrule the prosecutors on the case, who are still working on a legal memo explaining their recommendation.Justice Department lawyers will recommend that no civil rights charges be brought against the police officer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Mo., after an F.B.I. investigation found no evidence to support charges, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and his civil rights chief, Vanita Gupta, will have the final say on whether the Justice Department will close the case against the officer, Darren Wilson. But it would be unusual for them to overrule the prosecutors on the case, who are still working on a legal memo explaining their recommendation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/us/justice-department-ferguson-civil-rights-darren-wilson.html?_r=0
Forward
Open season on white cops?
It gets really confusing sometimes when your scripted narratives contradict themselves
1) Michael Brown probably got what he deserved
2) Eric Garner was murdered by NYPD
3) Regardless of 1 & 2, Al and Jesse need to get PAID
From Iafrica, you have to fight for your right to rob without getting shot:
One person has been shot dead and a number of foreign-owned shops looted and torched in overnight violence in Soweto.
Disgruntled residents have been on the rampage since a 14-year-old boy was killed on Monday, allegedly at the hands of a foreign businessman who claims his shop was robbed in Doornkop.
The teenager was shot dead.
The business owner has since been arrested and is expected in court soon.
Meanwhile, community leaders in Soweto have been roped in to help quell tensions and 68 people have already been arrested.
Several more shops were looted and some set alight on Wednesday night, in what has been described as ‘revenge attacks’ after the teenager’s killing.
Soweto residents have been urged to give police officers the space they need to secure the area.
Angry community members also looted foreign-owned shops in Emdeni, Zola and Protea Glen.
Some residents say this is not about xenophobia but is retaliation for the teenager’s death.
One man says, “It’s not xenophobia, it’s just revenge.”
Johannesburg Health and Social Development MMC Nonceba Molwele has urged residents to let the law take its course.
“The justice system of our country and our city is going to deal with this case accordingly. It should not be like all foreign nationals are like the person who has committed this crime.”
Eventually - whites are going to fight back.
The same thing happens in a black led country as in Ferguson, so is it really white racial prejudice that is caused the problem? Is it a white police force? Not in South Africa. Ironic, but foreign shops in Soweto tend to be run by Indians and other Asians. So a robbery of an Asian shop owner was an element in both situations.
Your Soweto story doesn’t mention anyone killed by police, so it’s not the same as Ferguson.
FYI - will these be “real journalists?”
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Kill Me Now: NBC News Just Launched NBCBLK
downtrend.com | 1/20/2015 | V. Saxena
Last week, NBC News decided to single-handedly set race relations back a few decades by launching NBCBLK, a news website that features black people news to the exclusion of everybody else on Earth.
How exactly will such a website set back race relations?
Fight back…or move to another Country.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/9811/22/paton.widow/index.html
“Why I’m fleeing South Africa” (1998).
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/cry.htm
“The problem is lawlessness, she said. Nine acquaintances were murdered, and she has had enough”.
No, Mrs. Paton, lawlessness is only the symptom. Unfortunately one can no longer openly identify the real reason that you were forced to flee your beloved Country.
Cry, the Beloved Country, indeed.
“Apartheid Foe” Husband:
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/12/obituaries/alan-paton-author-and-apartheid-foe-dies-of-cancer-at-85.html
Eventually - whites are going to fight back.
The targeted foreign merchants in South Africa were probably Asian.
I think the issue in Ferguson was that both the police chief and the prosecutor didn’t even pretend to conduct a real investigation. If they hadn’t acted like they were trying to cover up a murder by a cop, the protests wouldn’t have happened. It will be a dangerous country for everybody if cops think they can kill without question.
BS. The thugs just wanted to riot, they did not want justice they wanted a lynching. They would not accept that the police officer acted in self defense despite the clear evidence.
It can’t be self defense if you are the one initiating the violence in the confrontation. I don’t pay taxes to have cops shoot unarmed people “in self defense”. I pay them to NOT shoot people while safely arresting them. If they can’t play nicely with the guns we give them for true emergencies, it will come down to taking the guns away form them like they did with the police in london.
It can’t be self defense if you are the one initiating the violence in the confrontation.
Enforcing the law is not initiating violence.
“It can’t be self defense if you are the one initiating the violence in the confrontation.”
Do you mean like how Michael Brown reached inside the cop car to punch the cop and try to grab his gun?
The issue for me was the over-militarization of both the police and their tactics. Still is.
Even a Barney Fife policeman is going to shoot you if you try to take his gun.
How can you take his gun from 30 feet away?
But Barney Fife didn’t show up in a mine-resistant military vehicle.
“How can you take his gun from 30 feet away?”
Apparently that is not possible.
Evidence: Brown’s DNA Was on Interior Door Handle of Police Vehicle
November 26, 2014 - 9:55 AM
By Brittany M. Hughes
This photo shows the interior of the police vehicle in which Michael Brown’s DNA was found. (St. Louis County Prosecutor)
(CNSNews.com)- DNA Analysis Report released Monday night following the grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown shows Brown’s DNA was on the interior driver’s-side door handle of Wilson’s police vehicle.
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Arizona State University offers Class on “the Problem of Whiteness”
Pundit Press | 1/22/15 | Aurelius
Arizona State University is now offering a class that details the problems that “whiteness” has caused in the United States.
The course’s entire title reads “ENG 401 - Studies in Amer Lit/Culture: U.S. Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness,” and is being offered for the Spring semester of 2015.
“US Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness” is described as covering “major critical schools of recent decades–postcolonialist, psychoanalytic, deconstructionist, feminist, new historicist.”
“US Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness” is a lecture course that offers three credits upon completion.
The problem of whiteness is that blacks are “sun people” and whites are “ice people”
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Jeffries
there is very little racism in america, instead there is a lot of discrimination against those who are functionally illiterate.
you have to be functionally illiterate to run from the police or resist arrest.
Another Drudge link
Clinton plans to astound, intimidate with fundraising ‘like nothing you’ve seen’
Major donors are ready to announce huge financial commitments to Hillary Clinton as soon as she announces a second run for the White House, according to Clinton allies and Democratic fundraisers.
The Clinton team wants to build excitement about her campaign launch, which is expected in March or April. The money blitz would be a show of Clinton’s strength meant to scare away potential primary rivals.
“The floodgates are going to open immediately, and there’s going to be a rush to get on the team,” said Don Peebles, the real estate mogul who served on President Obama’s national finance committee. “There’s nobody in the Democratic Party who can match her. Not even close.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/230306-clinton-plans-to-astound-intimidate-with-fundraising-like-nothing-youve
Get on the team? Because if you don’t you may find yourself dead
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/clintonbodycount.htm
I would never, in a million years, vote for this woman. I would vote for Romney before her, and if you knew how bad I dislike Romney, it is saying a lot.
would never, in a million years, vote for this woman. ”
A visit by the IRS might help you change your mind
“A visit by the IRS?”
Not sure what you’re trying to imply, but there’s nothing I owe the IRS, and nothing they could ever manufacture.
So you are Whac?
No, dipstick, I’m not Whac.
“Dipstick”
Fitting moniker for a-Dan.
Yes because I measure everything correctly. Including the fact there is no physical glut of oil only a paper glut. If you want to know how much oil is in the car you use a dip stick, if you want to know how much oil is in the system the IEA is a good place to go, as I told some idiot a few days ago. See the article below to see I nailed what was truly going on in the oil market weeks ago:
http://peakoil.com/publicpolicy/oil-price-drop-is-economic-warfare-against-us-enemies
Who cares so long as demand continues to crater and prices fall.
And the moronic tool links to a “peak oil” website then strokes his back and ego. I could almost throw up it’s such a nauseating post.
dipstick
I won’t vote for Hillary, Romney or Jed. They’re all equally bad.
1. Plutcrats
2. Neo-con stooges
3. Wall Street fluffers
4. More of the status quo.
Of course, I’m not a sheep, and 95% of the electorate are and will vote accordingly.
Is an EU QE an inevitability?
QE-EUR, 60 B euros a month in purchases. How will it help the Canadian shills?
$CAD is down to .81 against the USD. Was $1.05 a couple of years ago. Taking a nosedive after their central bank cut interest rates yesterday. Last the exchange rate was this low was 10 years ago IIRC.
Time to go heli-skiing in the Canadian Rockies.
30% drop in the loonie plus a 50% crater in their housing…
Might make it reasonable to buy some real estate up north!
2banana that assumes that the Chinese will not take advantage of the lower loonie to buy more Chinese property. The Yuan has almost kept up with the dollar so it is much cheaper for them to buy there.
China is also about to pop.
Perfect storm coming for Canada!
A 50% crater in Canadian housing would only be a warm up. Some places should experience an 80-90% drop. We are talking about shit shacks in an ice box.
Last the exchange rate was this low (.81) was 10 years ago IIRC.
10 -15 years ago the loonie got you about 62-65 U.S. cents. I don’t think we’ve seen the loonie’s bottom yet, especially considering the Candians are about to take their interest rate policy to 0.1% as their recession picks up steam and their Real Estate lending ponzi unravels. Hasn’t been a Candian bank failure in almost 20 years, but when the dominos start falling it may take down the entire Canadian banking system and lead to a Canadian government TARP.
“If you sign up for a 15 or 30 year mortgage you’ll regret it for the rest of your life.”
You can say that again.
Debt slavery is a be-yotch. Debt is DUMB!
Only the Sheeple Are Sane
“If You Question Authority, You Are Mentally Ill”, Report Finds
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/21/2015
This post is about an issue that is by now a bit dated (though the topic as such certainly isn’t), but we have only just become aware of it and it seemed to us worth rescuing it from the memory hole. In late 2013, the then newest issue of the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM for short) defined a new mental illness, the so-called “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD.
As TheMindUnleashed.org informs us, the definition of this new mental illness essentially amounts to declaring any non-conformity and questioning of authority as a form of insanity. According to the manual, ODD is defined as:
[…] an “ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior,” symptoms include questioning authority, negativity, defiance, argumentativeness, and being easily annoyed.
In short, as Natural News put it: According to US psychiatrists, only the sheeple are sane.
Every time a new issue of the DSM appears, the number of mental disorders grows – and this growth is exponential. A century ago there were essentially 7 disorders, 80 years ago there were 59, 50 years ago there were 130, and by 2010 there were 374 (77 of which were “found” in just seven years). A prominent critic of this over-diagnosing (and the associated over-medication trend) is psychologist Dr. Paula Caplan.
http://www.zerohedge.com/…/if-you-question-authority-you-are-mentally-ill-report-finds - 175k -
Like the band Asia said “they recommended euthanasia, to nonconformists everywhere…”
“Wildest Dreams”
They decorated all the generals
Who fought the wars behind the lines
They had forgotten all the soldiers
The brandy put them way behind the times
Insanity has found its way to TV screens
Vision seems impossible to me
They fight (they fight) for king (for king) and country
I never would have thought this in my
[Chorus:]
Wildest dreams
Wildest dreams
Wildest dreams
Wildest dreams
The evening comes, we sit and watch the VJs
Clips and rushes come from who knows where
From Washington across to California
With fighting breaking out in Leicester Square
We see the soldiers moving on to victory
And children trampled under marching feet
They fight (they fight) for king (for king) and country
How many millions will they put to sleep?
[Chorus]
Fly away…
No, not in this world
No, not in the next
No, not in my wildest dreams
They recommended euthanasia
For non-conformists anywhere
Some men’s dreams for others turn to nightmares
This never would have happened in my
[Chorus]
Fly away…
No, not in this world
No, not in the next
No, not in my wildest dreams…
“Oliver’s Army” by Elvis Costello.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow1S4DJtLOk&spfreload=10
So a prominent commentator on a medical diagnosis book is a non-MD?? What do the actual big boys and girls have to say about things.. The ones with 4 years of med school and 4 years of residency?
Sheldon Silver the Speaker of the New York State Assembly was just arrested for corruption, LOLZ
No surprise coming from these East Coast Democrat Party liberals
New York you better try harder if you wanna be more corrupt than Illinois
Hmmmm…
U.S. Attorney Warns Cuomo on Moreland Commission Case
SUSANNE CRAIG, THOMAS KAPLAN and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM - JULY 31, 2014 - NY Times
In an escalation of the confrontation between the United States attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo over the governor’s cancellation of his own anticorruption commission, Mr. Bharara has threatened to investigate the Cuomo administration for possible obstruction of justice or witness tampering.
Region V - Yep! NY got a long way to go to match the flea bitten cess pool of ILLANNOY!!!
Drudge link article for Downlow Joe
http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spent-432000-studying-gay-hookup-apps/
And speaking of gay hookups, see also Reggie Love’s new book about Obama
Forward
Too bad that Reggie is nudged aside so that Jarret and Moochelle have a 3 way with Bath house Barry!!!
Your property tax didn’t pay for that.
Mr. Obama said in the speech. “I want to spread that idea all across America, so that two years of college becomes as free and universal in America as high school is today.”
Rather than seeking ways to efficiently and cheaply deliver education through technology, like the trillions of YouTube videos out there, we’ll just subsidize the currently over expensive poorly performing system. You could set up one nationally accredited online youtube community college with exams that if you passed you got the college credit for probably 1/100000 of what this will cost.
have you heard about all these ways student loan debt can be forgived now?
I guess it you work at a non profit for 10 years the debt is erased.
Some gal who has 190k in student debt is forced to answer phones at a non profit so her student loand debt is erased some day.
also if you work at a title 1 school for 5 years you can get 50- 100% of student loan debt wiped out.
Any other examples that you guys know of?
Why pay your bills?
Some gal who has 190k in student debt is forced to answer phones at a non profit so her student loand debt is erased some day.
Are you trying to make us feel sorry for that gal?
Some gal who has 190k in student debt is forced to answer phones at a non profit so her student loand debt is erased some day.
Are all student loans forgiven, or just the direct FedGov loans?
“Rather than seeking ways to efficiently and cheaply deliver education through technology, like the trillions of YouTube videos out there, we’ll just subsidize the currently over expensive poorly performing system.”
Well said. Bravo!
+100
You could set up one nationally accredited online youtube community college with exams that if you passed you got the college credit for probably 1/100000 of what this will cost.
+infinity.
This would be a smart investment. If you can pass the tests to demonstrate your mastery, why shouldn’t you be able to get credit?
The problem would be that thousands of community colleges would probably close. So the program would initially be a job cutter rather than a job creator. That would generate a lot of local sob stories on the news, with bad photo-ops, irate but well-spoken professors protesting indignantly, and the like. A little too revolutionary, maybe. Especially for this status quo president.
The problem would be that thousands of community colleges would probably close. So the program would initially be a job cutter rather than a job creator.
So what I’m hearing is that only # of jobs matters, not a healthy economy, or jobs that actually provide value.
The net result is that we can never change/undo a bad decision/approach. We must always move forward, never correct a mistake or improve…
I’m not defending the current system, just pointing out why it’s so difficult to change, at least in one fell swoop.
Good thing we didn’t listen to the buggy whip manufacturers either..
Did we have a government program that put the buggy whip makers out of business, or did they just peter out naturally?
“The net result is that we can never change/undo a bad decision/approach. We must always move forward, never correct a mistake or improve…”
This seems to be the general problem with government. It’s infuriating.
Heck, if you consider all the material out there from Khan Academy, you’re probably most of the way there already.
(Might want to change the name, though, lest the yokels think it’s some sort of terrorist indoctrination cell.)
If you think that you get a good education from YouTube, why don’t you just go ahead? Why do you want a federal program for that?
Because they are proposing a federal program already and if they are going to do it they should do it right.
It wouldn’t even really need to be much of a program, just national exams, that must be recognized by any institution getting federal funds directly or through students with fed loans.
becomes as free and universal in America as high school is today.”
free to who ?
There’s no such thing as “free,” Obama. Someone has to pay for that latest entitlements-for-votes offering.
To all who voted for Obama, f*** you.
Community colleges are already much cheaper than private colleges. Taxpayers already pay to make that possible.
“Taxpayers already pay to make that possible.”
Ask the Bam, taxpayers don’t pay to make that possible government does.
Well, that is one way to live very nicely, always have something to do, free transportation, great food, not worry about property taxes, housing bubbles, section 8 neighbors, shoveling the driveway, fixing the roof, etc.
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Lee Wachtstetter Lives On Crystal Serenity
January 22, 2015 - BillLawrence.com
Lee Wachtstetter, 86, has spent the last seven years living on the Crystal Cruise Line’s Crystal Serenity.
She began the lifestyle after the death of her husband of 50 years, Mason, a banker and real estate appraiser.
She described her life as a “stress-free, fairy-tale.”
The crew knows her well and calls her “Mama Lee”.
It cost her about $164,000 per year.
She says she rarely gets off the ship now but whenever it docks in Miami — about five times a year — she visits her sons and their families.
She says is in daily contact with them via a laptop.
Crystal Cruise Lines say three other women have made their homes on their vessels.
Wait til we get self-driving campers. You could live in Manhattan by slowly circling the streets.
LOLZ!
“stress-free, fairy-tale.”
It also says she’s gained 25 pounds.
Obama reminds me of a gangbanger with his foreign policy that cannot shoot straight. He is trying to shoot Putin but because he is holding the gun sideways he is hitting the shale oil producers and U.S. exporters. Hard to say what is doing more damage to the economy; the high dollar or the layoffs in the oil patch but since they flow from the same policy no need to quantify the individual impacts. The combined impact is less jobs, the four week unemployment claims are the highest since July. Keep spiking the dollar Obama you are trying a spike through the heart of the U.S. economy.
High and low dollar is a two way street.
Same with oil.
A strong, diverse and free economy can easily handle these bumps…
I’m confused. Assuming for a moment I subscribe to your far-fetched conspiracy theories, it is asserted on one hand Obama is incompetent while on the other he’s a master manipulator of currency and commodity markets. Which is it?
BOTH!!! Think outside the box.
From China Daily, we are going to regret driving China and Russia ever closer:
China plans to build the first high-speed rail link between Beijing and Moscow, the People’s Government of Beijing City said on Wednesday.
The Government’s press office posted on its Sina Weibo account, a Twitter-like microblogging platform, that the proposed cross-border high-speed rail would run for more than 7,000 km and span three countries, China, Kazakhstan and Russia.
About 1.5 trillion yuan ($242 billion) was expected to be invested into the new line that would cut train travel time from Beijing to Moscow to two days. Currently, the travel time is six days, according a The Beijing Times’ report from October, 2014.
The Beijing-Moscow high-speed rail project was proposed during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s official visit to Russia in October, 2014.
At the 19th China-Russia Prime Ministers’ Regular Meeting, Li said that China was ready to advance the establishment of a Eurasian high-speed transport corridor linking Beijing and Moscow.
China Daily reported earlier that the China-Russia high-speed corridor would be a key project in the Silk Road economic belt China plans to construct.
The Belt concept was introduced in 2013. The Belt covers China and Central Asian Countries, aiming to deepen the connection between China and those countries.
Why in the world would we regret the Chinese having a train?
That rail line will probably never be built.
It hardly takes a master manipulator to make the dollar go up. You just need to buy dollars with another currency or ask another country to do it. Japan wants its currency to depreciate against the dollar. It would like falling off a log to get them to buy dollars for us. A master manipulator would know how to move oil just to the point where it begins to shut down U.S. production. That would inflict the maximum pain on Russia without inflicting pain on the U.S. No the manipulation is being done like everything else Obama does in a clumsy way which will backfire. The oil companies yesterday confirmed what I have been saying, these prices will lead to shortages and $200 a barrel oil within four year if they continue.
Blah blah blah.
“The oil companies yesterday confirmed what I have been saying, these prices will lead to shortages and $200 a barrel oil within four year if they continue.”
This is, BY FAR, one of your dumbest comments to date. The level of stupidity is absolutely astounding. There is no money to even support $140 oil, let alone $200 oil. Where do idiots like you come from?
Indeed, once prices start climbing, so will production.
It is not like switching a light on, once the companies have gone bankrupt and the workers have moved on, it will take a considerable time for the industry to start up again. Meanwhile there will be shortages of oil with the corresponding price spikes.
What manipulation looks like:
http://quotes.ino.com/charting/?s=NYBOT_DX
were gonna bankrupt some folks.
Yes but here is the irony. the large drillers are still going up today, Wall Street knows these prices are not sustainable so despite lower drilling in the short term, drilling will have to increase so the smart money is buying now:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=bhi&ql=1
…. and down through the ground goes a craterin’ crude.
Oil Sinks $1.35 To $46.49
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/future/crude%20oil%20-%20electronic
And remember…. Falling prices of all items is positively bullish and good for the economy.
increase so the smart money is buying now:
Actually, the smart money play here is a “twist” operation: short the most leveraged/weakest, long the least leveraged/strongest.
May be some truth to that. I have just started to write calls on some of my position in HL. It has soared over the last month. It is trading about $3.50 a share but I wrote January 2016 4s for 46 cents a share. If the stock does not even move from here I will make 13% on the stock and receive a small dividend, this year. The metals seem to be moving inverse to oil lately. Very weird, but when a market like oil is being manipulated very weird movements can be expected.
Seeing something interesting in the oil figures released by the EIA. The MSM is trying to drive down oil prices by focusing on the build in crude oil. However, jet fuel and home heating oil in storage plunged. Thus, while crude oil increased about ten million barrels, the total build in petroleum stocks was only 2.4 million which is about a .1 percent build on all the oil in storage. Looks like many oil producers would rather store oil than sell it to refiners at these prices. This is another example why government manipulation never works in the long run.
January 2016 4s for 46 cents a share
Wrote more for 60 cents a share later in the day. O’ well no one has ever gone broke locking in profits. Still have 60% of the shares with no calls written on them so keep going up.
“oil producers would rather store oil than sell it…”
Yet another spectacularly stupid comment.
No, if you think that the price of a commodity will be much higher in the near future, you produce and store. It is common sense.
Is the bulk of the oil stored on the producer’s own lease?
If the answer is no, then you are completely wrong.
Do the well drillers have deep pockets to build out steel tanks for this spectacularly wrong headed speculation, or are they in debt up to their eyeballs? And have they had time to build these tank farms on their leases?
Thirdly, do you have a history of spending great sums on women who then promptly disappear from your life?
BP boss Bob Dudley: Oil prices ‘low for up to 3 years’
BBC News
G L U T .
As I said from the beginning this is nothing but a paper barrel glut:
http://peakoil.com/publicpolicy/oil-price-drop-is-economic-warfare-against-us-enemies
Another excerpt should post soon but:
The current oil price decline can be explained by heavy selling in US future markets which is part of an all-out economic war between the US and countries like Russia, Iran and Venezuela, says financial journalist, Willem Middelkoop
If it’s only a paper glut, then why incur the expense of storing millions of barrels of oil at sea?
Traders book oil tankers to store 40 million barrels at sea: sources
By Jonathan Saul and David Sheppard
LONDON Wed Jan 21, 2015 11:11am EST
(Reuters) - Oil traders have booked up to 20 tankers to store an estimated 40 million barrels of crude at sea, rising from 25 million barrels last week, as they soak up a stocks glut in anticipation of future profits, shipping and oil market sources said.
The more than 50 percent fall in spot prices since June enables traders to make money by storing the crude for delivery months down the line, when prices are expected to recover.
The sources said the volume of oil earmarked for floating storage had risen in recent days. Some of the tankers could nonetheless still be used for conventional oil transportation.
“Floating storage remains a major focus in the tanker market as charterers have been fairly active in securing VLCCs (very large crude carriers) on time charters, with options to use the vessels as floating storage,” said Omar Nokta of Clarkson Capital Markets.
In the past two weeks, trading firms including Trafigura, Vitol , Gunvor, Koch and energy company Shell have started booking oil tankers for floating storage for up to 12 months, according to industry sources and freight bookings seen by Reuters.
This trading strategy was last used in 2009 when prices slumped and led to more than 100 million barrels of oil being parked on tankers at sea before stocks were sold off.
Industry sources say rates to hire vessels for longer periods — known as time charters — have risen by a few thousand dollars a day in the past week to over $40,000 a day, and are quoted at more than double the level at the same time last year.
“On average the latest one-year charters have been done around the $38,000/day to $40,000/day level though our Clarksons team now assesses one-year charters at a rather hefty $52,500/day. This adds roughly $0.20 per barrel to the monthly break-even requirement, which could impact interest for more floating storage,” Nokta said.
Taking into account vessel hire and other expenses including bunker fuel and insurance, overall monthly floating storage costs are estimated anywhere in the region of $1.5 million to $1.8 million per tanker.
Oil traders still stand to make a profit, however, as spot prices for crude are trading below future contracts, in a market structure known as contango. The December 2015 Brent contract was trading around $57.40 on Wednesday, $8 a barrel above the spot price.
“Floating storage is the cherry on the cake for the tanker market right now, which was already strengthening before this trend started,” said Georgi Slavov, a resource analyst at Marex Spectron in London.
“But the amount of oil now being stored at sea is adding some froth to tanker rates.”
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Excerpt from link which will post soon:
Willem Middelkoop: We as investors just started to buy oil, given the price decline by 50 percent in just three to four months. I agree oil price should be bottoming out because the market fundamentals do not support current prices. I looked at the latest predictions by the IEA [International Energy Agency] – they claim that total world demand will be around 92 million barrels per day and total world production will be a share of 93 million barrels per day. So there is a very small surplus in the oil market.
RT: If the market fundamentals don’t support those oil prices, some are suggesting that this is a result of energy warfare, targeting Russia, Venezuela, and Iran. Is that how you see it and how many participants at Davos see it as well?
WM: The current price can only partially be explained by technical factors like growing US oil production which increased by a million barrels per day in the last year. But I think it’s quite reasonable to expect that the price declines, which we’ve seen over the last few months, were also caused by heavy selling in the American future markets, and you could call that a form of economic warfare – it is an [all]-out economic war between the US and Russia now. If we see who has more problems [caused] by current oil – they are Russia, Iran, Venezuela – these countries can be seen as enemies of the US.
RT: The country which doesn’t have particular problems with the US and oil prices is Saudi Arabia. It says it could ride out low oil prices for nearly a decade. What impact could that have?
WM: The oil produced by Saudi Arabia and other OPEC countries have a very low cost base of around $10-20 per barrel. Of course Saudi Arabia can stand current prices but there have been signs and heavy comments from oil experts that the Saudis only support the US in bringing the oil prices down for the current time. Maybe there is a timeframe of another three to nine months that US can bring the oil prices down or keep oil prices down at this level. But there are many experts – T. Boone Pickens, an American oil billionaire, who said [that] the oil price will return to around $100 per barrel within 12-18 months – I think that he could be right.
Good thing they did not watch the Patriot’s game:
http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/isis-executes-13-iraqis-watching-football-game-iraq-jordan-mosul/
Home ownership years away for a lot of millennials: Pro | Watch the …
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The 23 year old intern and his wife made an offer in the $350,000 range last weekend
As long as they have a $70,000 down-payment and make $120,000/year in income - what is the problem?
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2015-01-22 08:27:37
Home ownership years away for a lot of millennials: Pro
finance.yahoo.com/video/home-ownership-years-away-lot-191400857.html
Unsustainable.
There is a reason public unions are the largest all time political money donors. They get a great return of that investment.
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Study: Many public-sector retirees making more than they did on job
http://www.reviewjournal.com | 01/22/2015 | SEAN WHALEY
CARSON CITY — Most people who make the decision to retire have to figure out how to live on fewer dollars, but that is not always the case with Nevada state and local government employees, a new analysis has found.
The analysis by the conservative think tank Nevada Policy Research Institute, using newly available public data provided by the Public Employees Retirement System, shows that many public sector retirees actually receive a raise upon retirement.
The analysis, which looked at 10 of Nevada’s largest government agencies, including the state of Nevada, Las Vegas, Clark County and the Clark County School District, found that in many cases, retiring meant a pay increase for the average local government employee.
On average, those employees retiring with 30 or more years of service took in 100.59 percent of their base pay in retirement payouts, the analysis shows.
“There is a reason public unions are the largest all time political money donors. They get a great return of that investment.”
So do the Koch Brothers.
Good ol’ Walmart - First their support of Otraumacare and now this - Will the folks be this stupid (Grubered) to fall for such a scheme? (rhetorical question).
http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/27908497/walmart-providing-cash-tax-refunds
Meh. The chain tax prep places have been doing this for a while. Wally Mart just wants you to take your refund and go buy a big azz TV or something at the their store.
Job cuts today - hmmm…
and yesteday - AmEx - 4000 folks - hmmmm…..
http://www.dailyjobcuts.com/
20,000 layoffs right behind it, Obama is harming Liberia now, Putin is laughing at the gang member that cannot shoot straight:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/22/news/economy/oil-boomtown-layoffs/index.html?section=money_latest
AWWWWWW
http://www.bostonherald.com/business/business_markets/2015/01/kickass_cupcakes_stales_files_bankruptcy
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-falling-prices-actually-really-230311090.html
“On the surface, everything getting cheaper sounds like a dream come true. It’s not. The prospect is so terrifying that it’s prompted central bankers around the industrialized world to pour trillions of dollars into their economies to prevent a sustained drop in prices. The European Central Bank is projected to follow suit with an announcement as soon as Thursday.”
terrifying that HA would put all his cash in his mattress and not pay taxes
Ah good, we’ve been saved: ECB unveils massive 1 tn euro stimulus programme
“we”? Are you a bank?
Didn’t you read it? It’s going to jump-start the economy! And even better: “ECB chief Mario Draghi explained the aim was to drive eurozone inflation”. Nothing helps me more than inflation! I love higher prices…
Nothing helps me more than inflation! I love higher prices…
Especially when wages are stagnant.
Head of IT Companies Monitoring Pentagon, FBI, NSA and Army Presumed Dead After Suspicious Fire
The Daily Sheeple
January 21st, 2015
In the vein of all the suicided bankers, here’s another mysterious death connected to some pretty high places.
The 16,000 square-foot Annapolis mansion of millionaire IT executive Don Pyle, 55, went up in flames so fast on Monday, investigators believe a chemical agent must have been used. The house, dubbed “the castle” by neighbors, was fully engulfed by the time the fire department got there. It took 85 firefighters to finally put the blaze out. Pyle, his wife and four grandchildren are currently presumed dead.
Some 20 agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have been called in to investigate and foul play is suspected. Lots of people are questioning not only since when does the ATF get involved in private house fires and missing persons cases, but so many ATF agents on one case. A bit much?
Maybe not considering who Pyle was. Not only was he the COO of ScienceLogic, a company which regularly conducts business with the military and intelligences communities and which monitored the online networks for both the Department of Defense and the FBI (among others), but he was also CEO at Netcordia, another IT company which has contracted with both the National Security Agency and U.S. Army to manage their online networks. He had just taken the position at ScienceLogic in October.
In short, the guy definitely sat in some very high places.
A thread started about the fire on Above Top Secret by user mister.old.school claims sources who work in cyber security are “freaked out”:
Some of my fellow esteemed ATS members may recall that I maintain contacts within various levels throughout government, as well as the private industries that liaise with government agencies. One such contact, who is involved with “cyber security” consulting for sensitive agencies reached out to me, briefly, yesterday. My source intimated that several senior people involved in similar security consulting positions are, “freaked out” (their words), over what some are calling the murder of Don Pyle.
As of this evening, the remains of two yet unidentified people have been found among the mansion ruins and conspiracy theories are flying.
- See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/head-of-it-companies-monitoring-pentagon-fbi-nsa-and-army-presumed-dead-after-suspicious-fire_012015#sthash.rbygJiwQ.dpuf
Don’t blame it on Rio, blame it on Obama:
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Brazilian oil and natural gas company Oleo e Gas Participacoes SA said on Wednesday it will cut its workforce by 40 percent, or more than 40 workers, to bring costs in line with revenues. The company also said two of its executives, Production Director Reinaldo Belotti Vargas and Exploration Director Gilberto Carvalho Lima, will be leaving but gave no reason for the departure. The company’s representatives were not immediately available. Brazil’s steadfast labor market had been until recently the only silver lining to the troubled economy that is struggling with slowing growth, worryingly high inflation and rising interest rates. But after a considerable lag and continued weakness in the economy, the pace and depth of companies’ layoffs are intensifying. The board of the company, which is currently in court supervised debt restructuring, approved the departure of the executives. At the time of declaring bankruptcy, the company held debts of $5.1 billion. Oleo e Gas, previously known as OGX, was founded by Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista, who was under investigation regarding alleged insider trading in the company’s stock. - See more at: http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/136878/Brazils_Oleo_e_Gas_to_Cut_40_of_Workforce#sthash.jqebicnM.dpuf
It’s the global real estate mania dan. It’s falling apart at the seams. You are as responsible as anyone.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Crude oil futures tumbled on Thursday after the Energy Information Administration announced the largest build in U.S. crude stocks in at least 14 years.
Crude stocks rose by 10.1 million barrels to a total of 397.9 million, the highest level for this time of year in at least 80 years, the EIA said.[EIA/S]
The increase was much greater than the 2.6 million barrel build traders predicted in a Reuters poll.”
and if you are a contrainian
” The US Exploration and Production oil segment is a minefield of problems lately, and there are very few bright spots in the industry at this point in time. But if you are inclined to look to invest in the segment, Zacks would suggest; Midstates Petroleum (MPO), Sabine Oil & Gas (SOGC), and Vanguard Natural Resources (VNR), all currently carrying a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
EBay Inc. (EBAY) is cutting 2,400 positions, buying back shares and entering into a standstill agreement with activist investor Carl Icahn as the company prepares to split its marketplace and payments businesses.
EBay, which also reported weak holiday sales and forecast sluggish revenue growth, also said it’s exploring options for its enterprise unit, including a sale or initial public offering. The company is adding three new board members, including a representative for Icahn, who had pushed the company to split up.”
The 0.1% say more profits !!
Ebay destroyed themselves by destroying the people who sell things on Ebay. Without the sellers - you got nuthin.
Many sellers went to better auction sites that do not have the insane seller’s fees and give the sellers some protection from corrupt buyers.
Agree they did all this. Always, always allow returns if you sell on Ebay .
And if you call Ebay for help they are really lame.
It no different in business……you go out of your way for a company stay late because they are shorthanded, do other peoples jobs then when you need a break or you come in really sick,because they have no one else to cover your shift , and then make a few minor mistakes they are willing to fire you on the spot.
eBay thought they could just raise fees indefinitely, taking a larger and larger cut of people’s sales. It’s over for eBay.
Ebay got Amazon-ed. The problem is, there are things that an individual seller can’t sell on Amazon, like a lot of the vintage and antique stuff. Amazon is all about the bar code, pretty much. They do have a fine art platform, but in order to sell there, you have to be licensed as a dealer or have other qualifications. You can’t just find a really cool painting or sculpture at a garage sale and throw it up on Amazon, for the most part.
Unfortunately ebay has sucked up most of the oxygen online for antique, vintage and collectible items. It’s about the only place where that sort of stuff sells at all. They’ve captured that market and are holding it hostage. Yes, there are other venues for that sort of thing, but even as much as ebay stinks, it’s still the most successful venue for that market than any other and my guess is, part of the reason for that is search engine domination. It wouldn’t surprise me to find out that it has a back door agreement with google to suppress smaller websites’ SEO. After all, it is coming to light now that silicon valley companies have had agreements among themselves not to raid each other’s employees, thus suppressing wages for tech workers.
Publicly ebay looks down its nose at the secondhand market, calling the sellers the “flea market” crowd. But if it is so bad, why won’t they just sell it off and let it go? Sure, it doesn’t have the numbers Amazon has, but so what? For a company that wants to do it right, it’s a decent piece of change. Because, like it or not, it is their base. And as to holiday sales, they screwed the pooch with their cockamamie Cassini search engine, which they’ve since decided to cancel and go back to the old tried and true key words system. Gee, it works, what a surprise!!
Ebay fell into the clutches of Wall Street and the Bain Capital Management system of screwing over productive enterprise. Their managers are exactly that, just managers, even the CEO. Bezos, on the other hand, like him or hate him, built Amazon himself and even though Amazon is a public company, Bezos is in charge and they don’t dare force him out, so he does what is right for the company. Bezos is all about the customer, whether you’re a buyer or seller there. Ebay is all about the managers and what Wall Street demands.
I used to sell things on eBay. I gave it up because of the fees. They lost 100% of my fee money. Tell me how that’s smart.
Samson Capital Advisors LLC said the Swiss move, which sent the franc surging as much as 41 percent against the euro last week, was “a good reminder” of the risks of following the herd, just as speculators pushed bets on a dollar rally to a new high. A shock from the Federal Reserve, such as raising interest rates less quickly than investors expect, may derail the greenback after it advanced to the highest in a decade, State Street Global Advisors Inc. warned.
“People have to be re-assessing what their positions are,” Jonathan Lewis, chief investment officer at New York-based Samson, which has $7.4 billion in assets, said by phone on Jan. 16. In the case of Switzerland, “people were betting billions of dollars on the kindness of strangers, people they’d never met, whose names they couldn’t pronounce.”
Bloomberg’s Dollar Spot Index — which tracks the U.S. currency against the euro, yen and eight others — is headed for a seventh straight monthly advance on the assumption the Fed will raise its zero to 0.25 percent benchmark rate in coming months. At the same time, traders expect Europe and Japan to debase their currencies by flooding markets with more cash.’
Raise rates ?? Bond market doesn’t think so or I’m missing something big ??
Why - that could almost buy a one bedroom condo in Manhattan…
And yes - NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is a democrat.
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NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver accused of $6 million bribery and kickback scheme
Daily News | January 22, 2015
Silver, who has been one of the most powerful lawmakers in Albany for more than two decades, surrendered to authorities Thursday morning. A five-count federal complaint accuses him of accepting millions from firms seeking him to wield influence in Albany on their behalf.
Meanwhile over in the land of football (read the NE Pats = cheaters!)
From the web: “Bill Belichick claims ignorance of deflated footballs, throws controversy on Tom Brady”
wea·sel noun \ˈwē-zəl\
: a small animal that has a thin body and brown fur and that eats small birds and other animals
: a dishonest person who cannot be trusted
What a weasel Belichick is!!!
Right…. arguably the best QB in league history because of 2 psi air?
Puzzle me this one there HA - how is it with all the interchanging parts in the Pats scheme that they continue to bull doze what is Goodell’s goal of an equitable league? Just wondering.
Cheating is cheating. You should know this, given your penchant to call out lying Realtors.
And Joe Theismann preferred a harder ball. That’s cheating too?
If it’s over the legal amount, then yes, that’s cheating.
Here’s the real question: Why the f do football teams get to possess and tamper with, within certain parameters, the footballs their side plays with?
This goes to show that MSM don’t tell the entire picture -
ILLANNOY just announced yesterday that it will be 9 billion - yep with a B - short in its revenue for the year. What a bunch of sleazy hacks these guys are at Reuters!!
(Reuters) - Most U.S. states expect to hit their revenue targets this fiscal year, but at least six states say they could fall short, the National Conference of State Legislatures said on Wednesday.
All states except Vermont must end their fiscal years with balanced budgets, and so states that bring in less money than expected could have to cut spending, use savings or raise taxes to end the shortfalls. For nearly all states, fiscal 2015 ends on June 30.
Alaska, Arizona, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Vermont all expect to miss their revenue forecasts, according to the report. New Mexico and Indiana are lagging slightly.
Some states, such as Virginia and Maryland, have lowered their revenue forecasts, as well.
While Massachusetts is in a “stable financial situation,” both tax revenues and money from other sources are “coming in a little under benchmark,” the report found. The state said it will have to cut some spending to balance its budget.
What are you peons thinking?
Billionaire Davos Attendee Thinks Your “Lifestyle Expectations” Are Too High
“Jeff Greene is a man who accrued billions by betting against subprime mortgages.”
Who paid for that again?
“America’s lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence,” he said. “We need to reinvent our whole system of life.”
Greene, who flew his wife, children and two nannies on a private jet plane to Davos for the week, said he’s planning a conference in Palm Beach, Florida, at the Tideline Hotel called “Closing the Gap.”
“YOU FIRST”.
Since the purpose of the economic war on Russia was to get Putin to back down in the Ukraine, it is clear that Obama is failing miserably. Of course there is no surprise there:
http://news.yahoo.com/bus-shelling-ukraines-donetsk-kills-13-075026210.html
your conspiracy theory is getting more interesting.
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Man With Machete Kicks Down Door, Gets Shot
by AWR Hawkins19 Jan 2015
Video has been released showing a man armed with a machete kicking in a Pocatella, Idaho, apartment door last year, then getting shot by the apartment resident.
The attacker–54-year-old Twain Thomas–survived being shot and was sentenced to 15 years on January 15.
According to Local News 8, Thomas was “threatening neighbors…[at an] apartment complex” on February 22. He then “broke into the downstairs apartment of James Cvengros and his girlfriend Kaila Gearhart.” Thomas literally kicked his way through the door of the apartment.
Mail Online published a video of Thomas coming through the door with a machete in his hand. Upon entering the apartment Cvengros and his girlfriend screamed then Cvengros shot the suspect.
Cvengros said he was convinced he had to shoot Thomas in order to survive. Thomas’ 15 year sentence is comprised of five years hard time and “10 years intermediate.” He also received a “no contact order” that will stay in place until 2025.
http://www.breitbart.com/…/2015/01/19/video-man-with-machete-kicks-down-door-gets-shot/ - 136k -
Jacobson said the fire appears to have started on the first floor and quickly spread through the floors and walls because of the building’s lightweight wood construction.
“If it was made out of concrete and cinder block, we wouldn’t have this problem,” he said, adding the building complied with construction codes.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/01/22/hundreds-displaced-after-massive-fire-engulfs-edgewater-apartment-complex/
It’s about control.
Man Threatened with 6 Month Jail Sentence For Owning Windmill
“This is my city. I can’t believe they’re doing this to me”
by John Vibes | Free Thought Project | January 22, 2015
Over the past year, we have been following the story of a Minnesota man named Jay Nygard, who is routinely risking jail time because he refuses to remove a wind turbine from his property. Nygard has been in and out of court over the years, and despite a short-lived victory back in October, he is now risking jail time again, and facing an ultimatum from the city yet again.
Jay owns a company called Go Green Energy, which sells wind turbines in other areas of Minnesota, but he isn’t able to do so in Orono where he lives because of permit and licensing laws. These are the same laws that are preventing Nygard from building on his own property.
The local government and a few nosy neighbors had been disputing the placement of this turbine for over 4 years, since it was built in 2010.
Jay reached out to the Free Thought Project in October to let us know that a judge ruled that he was allowed to keep the wind turbines on his property because the case was getting so much media attention and he was receiving so much support from the community. However, now just a few months later, the local government is coming after him with different threats, and a different deadline.
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