Off Topic ZeroHedge Posts

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Fred Stiening

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  2. CC1s121LrBGT says:
    April 14, 2014 at 10:42 am

    Off topic and not Zerohedge. Putting in a plug for the weekly Bill Wattenburg Sunday evening show. I listened to it the first time and it is a good listen.

    http://streamingradioguide.com/radio-show.php?showid=9173

    • Art Stone says:
      April 14, 2014 at 2:46 pm

      He’s a very interesting guy and not at all a typical radio host. He had a show on KGO in San Francisco for a long time and started the syndicated Sunday night show when Drudge stopped a few years ago. Cumulus Radio has since dumped the lineup at KGO

  3. CC1s121LrBGT says:
    April 15, 2014 at 11:38 am

    Off topic: “the Internet of Things”

    “Zebra joins companies from Intel Corp. to Nvidia Corp. in investing in technology for the market known as the Internet of Things, where objects with sensors are connected online and can be moved or altered based on their location and conditions. ”

    from http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-15/zebra-to-buy-motorola-solutions-unit-for-3-45-billion.html

  4. CC1s121LrBGT says:
    April 15, 2014 at 1:46 pm

    I just had a listen to Curtis and Kuby on WABC. They are recently reunited after having their show cancelled several years ago and both going to separate stations. I had listened to each separately but found each show terrible and very predicable.

    Having them together is a great example of 1+1 = 3. They are both creative and go off on tangents easily, so when they are together, it is a wild ride.

    While they are ultra conservative and ultra liberal, it is so pleasant to hear them never interrupt each other, let each other finish their thoughts, and laugh and joke rather than be any kind of angerfest.

    If you need a break from Rush, I recommend tuning in- they are both smart and wacky opposites that actually like each other and get along – something you don’t see very often in 2014.

  5. CC1s121LrBGT says:
    April 20, 2014 at 11:51 pm

    Interesting Lincoln civil war Cliven Bundy background that I think Art and others may find interesting…

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-20/martin-armstrong-asks-do-feds-really-own-land-nevada

    • Art Stone says:
      April 21, 2014 at 12:40 am

      His writing is a little thin on sources, so I thought I would double check. The basic premise that Nevada was rushed to statehood to give Republicans another state appears to be factual. They took the unprecedented step of sending the text of the Constitution of Nevada via telegraph to Washington DC to get it there in time.

      The bit about 60,000 people is less certain. The 60,000 person requirement for statehood was contained in the Northwest ordinance, which predated the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. However the Constitution states that the US Constitution will not override the provisions of the Northwest ordinance. However the Northwest ordinance only applies to the areas to the northwest of the Ohio River – and Louisiana purchase had not even happened yet in 1789 – so it is probably a stretch to suggest that 60,000 was a firm requirement.

      The Constitution does state that land that is part of territories is under its jurisdiction and the federal government has the right to dispose of it as it sees fit.

      Oklahoma has some similarity to Nevada. In Oklahoma, ranchers pay grazing rights – they don’t outright own the land. The grazing rights provide a significant portion of the revenue used to fund the state schools. Probably more significant is – who owns the mineral rights to the land? The US government controls offshore oil rights, and Indian nations which are not technically part of the United States – control their own mineral rights

      • Art Stone says:
        April 21, 2014 at 12:51 am

        The Broadway play and movie “Oklahoma” captures some of the dynamic of this. Prior to statehood in 1907, cattle ranchers had cattle drives – driving large numbers of cattle from the range land to places where they all could be slaughtered – remembering refrigeration didn’t exist yet in any meaningful way. Live cattle had to be taken as close as possible to the point of consumption.

        Farmers need boundaries and “water rights”. The invention of Barbed wire cause farmers to want fences, which then blocked the path used by the cattle drives and blocked grazing cattle from access to rare water sources. Hence the song “the farmers and cowmen can be friends”

      • TheChairman says:
        April 21, 2014 at 2:35 am

        Ahh, now you’re getting into a whole new twist in the BLM ball game! Out West, we have (had) mining claims; un-patented and patented. Unpatented claims are staked as placer (surface) or lode (sub-surface) claims. Water, grazing, oil & gas, and even public access are treated separate from a claimant’s land rights.

        We have a parcel in AZ which is both a placer & lode claim, thus we pay BLM twice. Moreover, those coincident claims are in Forest Service jurisdiction. BLM only manages sub-surface, while FS controls the surface. But wait, it gets even better: we have an old hand-dug well (water rights) on that same parcel which has to be recorded with the state… and the state discerns between sub-surface and surface flow, not including aquifers.

        DOI/BLM collects multiple fees on the same piece of dirt; two years ago they instituted a huge fee increase (more revenue).

        No gold for us… but certainly a golden goose for all the annual fees they collect. It’s an end-run by the collectivists.

        Also, there has been a moratorium on new mining patents for 20+ years, thanks to Bruce Babbit (Sec of Interior for Clinton).

        • Art Stone says:
          April 21, 2014 at 2:52 am

          The Armed American show talked about this for much of the show. Based on what I’ve heard so far, this isn’t the hill I intend to die on

          – “my family has raised cattle on his land for 100 years” doesn’t give him any rights to the land beyond what his contract with the BLM says. People with grazing rights know that. Generally speaking, there is a lot of inertia to just renew the contract
          – “Nevada should get the fees” – he has no standing in that issue. If Nevada wants to fight that battle, it is their battle to fight. If he actually believes that, show me the money sitting in an escrow account to at least prove he isn’t just a deadbeat

          The bit about relocating the tortoise is its own issue, but the reality is the government has given itself sweeping powers. The great majority of lawyers and judges are going to support government expansion. I see no scenario where elections will reverse that.

        • CC1s121LrBGT says:
          April 29, 2014 at 10:28 pm

          Should the BLM have shown up with guns drawn rather than just administratively put a lien on the old man’s property? Why all the weapons? The issue was addressed back in 1997. Enjoy:

          http://www.economicnoise.com/2014/04/29/ron-pauls-warning-1997/

  6. CC1s121LrBGT says:
    April 22, 2014 at 1:17 am

    Whenever I think of SLC, I think of the “shortcut” the Donner party found around it. This PBS documentary is worth an hour of your time and is the best documentary I have ever seen…. and I have seen many hundred documentaries. Enjoy… it is chilling to watch and that pun was not intended….

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/donner/

  7. CC1s121LrBGT says:
    April 22, 2014 at 9:01 pm

    suggested poll question:

    Most of us are aware that Snowden asked Putin a “recorded” question during Putin’s recent 4 hour press conference and the question was about Putin spying on the Russian people with an implied comparison to the way Snowden revealed that the US government spies on us. As a result, most of the US politicians and US media are pointing to that and saying “See, I told you Snowden was a traitot!”

    Here’s the question: Do you think Snowden sought out Putin once he heard of the upcoming press conference, and asked to submit that question? …. or do you thing that Snowden had a visit and was made an offer he could not refuse… an offer to ask a question that Putin crafted and made clear that he really needed Snowden to ask it so that Putin would not be displeased?

  9. CC1s121LrBGT says:
    June 7, 2014 at 3:15 am

    This is offtopic offtopic because it was not a zerohedge post. Hastings was “bird dogging” Bergdahl (I always wanted to say that phrase). The fbi lied and said they were not investigating hastings (shocked, shocked, shocked that people on our payroll would lie!) but newly released documents show at Obama’s FBI was:

    https://news.vice.com/article/why-was-the-fbi-investigating-michael-hastings-reporting-on-bowe-bergdahl

    • Art Stone says:
      June 7, 2014 at 6:17 am

      Anyone who is not afraid of this administration is not paying attention. Reason has a story from Florida about the Stingray devices. They are portable devices that pretend to be a cell phone tower. They can be used to locate a specific phone. Since people in the know say a powered down cell phone can be remotely turned on, it seems reasonable to assume the Stingray can do that.

      The ACLU filed a Florida freedom of information act request against the police department to confirm that the department had such a device and determine its capabilities (can it allow police to listen to encrypted cell phone conversations without a warrant?)

      The police had agreed to the FOIA request, gathered the requested documents and arranged a meeting. US Marshalls showed up, “deputized” the local police officer, declared that made the records “federal” and therefore not subject to state FOIA requests. The basis for this Federal intervention was that the police would breach their non disclosure agreements with the unnamed manufacturer (assumed to be Harris) if they turned over the documents.

      • Art Stone says:
        June 7, 2014 at 6:27 am

        http://www.wired.com/2014/03/harris-stingray-nda/

        The coverage at Reason mentioned an example of how another department caught a rapist (apparently) using the technology, which included a non-voluntary search of the apartment without a search warrant. The commenters at Reason were swayed generally by the argument that “well, they found the guilty guy using it, so if you don’t like the technology and it’s use by police, you must support raping women!”

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