Did our government admit last week that aliens are real and they are visiting us?

I am referring to this story last Sunday by the New York Times. A casual reading of this story admits no such thing. A summary of the article is that there was an uptick in UFO sightings in 2014 and 2015 and the Navy earlier this year sent out new classified guidance for how to report these sightings. Here is a video released earlier. Language warning.



Several news outlets including FOX News and CNN ran stories on this, but they mostly missed the point on what it meant.

Now the Times doesn't imply these are extraterrestrial in origin and mentions possible software glitches or foreign terrestrial origins as a potential explanation. As interesting as the video and the Navy's interest in the reports is, that isn't the important part of the story.

First some backstory. The Navy got upgraded radar on their planes in 2014. The previous radar was a dish under a cover and basically 1980's technology. The new retrofitted radar, also on the F-35, is more omnidirectional and much more sensitive. That's why the sightings escalated in 2014 and 2015. The story doesn't reveal if this continues until now.

Two pilots spoke on the record and three without being named. This didn't happen without government approval. It is what they said that is the most revealing information. Some of the objects are the spinning tops ,which may be passenger jet liner in size, and others appear to be a sphere inside a translucent cube and more drone sized. They described objects that they could see visually, record on cameras and that also showed up on both radar and thermal imaging equipment. These objects could travel at a hyper-sonic 5000 mph, stop and accelerate at what would normally be incredible G forces; plus they could do 90 degree turns. Sometimes there were whole flocks of these thing and the sightings lasted all day.They had no exhaust plumes. In one case, there was a near mid-air collision with one.

So what are they? Since they show up on radar and infrared, they must be physical objects. We are not talking about the planet Venus or ball lightening. Since they could see them and almost collided with one, they are not software glitches. Could they be a secret project of ours or the Russians or Chinese? The technology described isn't just years ahead of us. It's likely centuries. If anyone on Earth has this technology, the question of how they got it leads back to the conclusion in my headline. If the Chinese or Russians have it, it's game-over for us. They would be demanding our unconditional surrender. Let's face it. It's not terrestrial.We are talking anti-gravity or some type of reactionless drive. We don't even fully understand how gravity works, much less being able to engineer a flyable anti-gravity craft. We do have some theories about reactionless drives, but they are far in out future if practical at all. There are other technological obstacles that would keep us from building these craft. The power demands would be severe and have to fit in a small space. The same for whatever feuled the power source. Also, flying a cube at hypersonic speeds isn't something we would even consider doing now. You could theorize they were from the future or a parallel universe, but the physics of that is even more farfetched than an extraterrestrial visitor.

So why is the government revealing this now? That is unknown, but President Trump is anti-deepstate and this would be one of the deepstate's deepest secrets. I cannot downplay the significance of the conclusions I reached in the above post. This is the biggest story since 9/11, maybe the biggest story ever. I will leave you with this strange video of a UFO over a Netherlands's beach that was published last year.

Government Hack Update: Obama administration outsourced IT management to China?

Oh my!

"Reinventing government" via outsourcing was always a scam. But letting IT people in China have root access to OPM... http://t.co/d06zJgyan7

— John Schindler (@20committee) June 17, 2015

Government spending up over 8%

It's only money...

Via My Way News:

Last year's deficit benefited from a $24 billion special payment Freddie Mac made for the support it received during the financial crisis. The Congressional Budget Office forecasts a deficit of $468 billion for the full 2015 budget year, 3.1 percent lower than in 2014.
For the current budget year, government revenues total $1.05 trillion, an increase of 8.7 percent from the same period a year ago. Government spending totals $1.24 trillion, up 8.3 percent over last year.
The deficit in 2014 narrowed to $483.3 billion from $680.2 billion in 2013. Before that, the deficits soared to record heights as the government grappled with revenue losses from the Great Recession and increased spending in such areas as unemployment benefits and food stamps.
President Barack Obama unveiled last week his new budget proposal, which projects the 2015 deficit to rise to $583 billion, sharply higher than the CBO's latest estimate. Obama's new budget is asking Congress for authorization to spend $4 trillion next year and projects a 2016 deficit of $474 billion.

Finally, a CBO proposal you can support...

Don't look for the mainstream media to report this CBO deficit report that suggests downsizing the Federal Government...

Forcing agencies to make only one new hire for every three workers leaving and trimming the federal workforce by 10 percent is just one of the new cost- cutting suggestions from the Congressional Budget Office.
In its latest report, CBO has outlined a series of deficit reducing changes for federal employees that could save $100 billion over the next decade.
Retirement benefits for federal employees are also on the table. The CBO report suggests an alternative pension benefit calculation for both civilian and military retirees.
Under the current system, a civilian retiree's annuity is based on the average of the three highest consecutive years of earnings, while the military considers a retiree's annuity based on the average of his or her 36 months of highest earnings.
If CBO's proposal was implemented, civilian retirement would be based on a five- year average instead, and military retirees would have their annuities based on a 60-month highest earning average. The change, if carried out, would have a 10- year savings of $3.1 billion, according to the report.

Shock Video: Hillary Clinton Says, "Don't Let Anybody Tell You That Its Corporations And Businesses That Create Jobs"

So, Hillary Clinton thinks the government is responsible for creating jobs? I think most Americans would strongly disagree.

Government employees cash advance government credit cards at casinos and racetracks...

When I pay for work related items (several hundred $ a month,) I use my credit card and file a request for a check, or expense report, that is signed by my boss. Why do government employees have taxpayer funded credit cards?

Via Washington Free Beacon:

Department of Transportation (DOT) employees use government credit cards for cash advances at casinos and racetracks, according to a report by the Office of Inspector General (OIG).
Employees misused their government-issued travel cards in 2012, racking up $2.1 million in charges for personal items, and more than $180,000 in unauthorized cash advances while they were not on business trips.
The audit, released last week, examined the travel card program, which employees are authorized to use on hotels, transportation, and meals during government travel. The OIG found that the DOT does not have effective policies in place to prevent the government credit cards from being misused. In fact, the agency has no policy prohibiting employees from taking cash advances out at casinos.
Keep on reading…

Interesting: Apple's new encryption will prevent them from turning over user device data even if police have a warrant...

Our governments abuse of our privacy rights is backfiring on them. 

Via WaPo:

Apple said Wednesday night that it is making it impossible for the company to turn over data from most iPhones or iPads to police — even when they have a search warrant — taking a hard new line as tech companies attempt to blunt allegations that they have too readily participated in government efforts to collect user information.
The move, announced with the publication of a new privacy policy tied to the release of Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 8, amounts to an engineering solution to a legal quandary: Rather than comply with binding court orders, Apple has reworked its latest encryption in a way that prevents the company — or anyone but the device’s owner — from gaining access to the vast troves of user data typically stored on smartphones or tablet computers.
The key is the encryption that Apple mobile devices automatically put in place when a user selects a passcode, making it difficult for anyone who lacks that passcode to access the information within, including photos, e-mails and recordings. Apple once maintained the ability to unlock some content on devices for legally binding police requests but will no longer do so for iOS 8, it said in the new privacy policy.

Stupid: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau scraps employee ratings, decides to pay everyone the highest rate...

Since there were statistical differences based on race and other factors, everyone will now be rated a 5 on a scale of 1 to 5.  Any chances of this happening in your job in private industry? I thought not. So, if schools find statistical differences, they should give everyone an A?

WASHINGTON — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released an internal report on Monday that showed "statistically significant disparities" in employee evaluations based not just on race, but also age, location, tenure, and whether staffers were part of the agency's union.
As a result, the CFPB said it was scrapping its current system and would pay most agency employees as if they received the highest rating available at the time of their evaluation. Ultimately, the remediation to its staff is expected to cost between $5 million to $5.5 million, a spokesman said.
In an e-mail to all employees, CFPB Director Richard Cordray acknowledged the disparities, saying there "was no single factor that caused this result."

What do the Dept. Ag., Railroad Ret. Board, TVA, Office of Personnel Management, CPSC, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have in common?

They have their own SWAT teams...

Via NRO: 

Regardless of how people feel about Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s standoff with the federal Bureau of Land Management over his cattle’s grazing rights, a lot of Americans were surprised to see TV images of an armed-to-the-teeth paramilitary wing of the BLM deployed around Bundy’s ranch.
They shouldn’t have been. Dozens of federal agencies now have Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams to further an expanding definition of their missions. It’s not controversial that the Secret Service and the Bureau of Prisons have them. But what about the Department of Agriculture, the Railroad Retirement Board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Office of Personnel Management, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service? All of these have their own SWAT units and are part of a worrying trend towards the militarization of federal agencies — not to mention local police forces.
“Law-enforcement agencies across the U.S., at every level of government, have been blurring the line between police officer and soldier,” journalist Radley Balko writes in his 2013 bookRise of the Warrior Cop. “The war on drugs and, more recently, post-9/11 antiterrorism efforts have created a new figure on the U.S. scene: the warrior cop — armed to the teeth, ready to deal harshly with targeted wrongdoers, and a growing threat to familiar American liberties.”

Reports of cell phone towers near Cliven Bundy ranch being shutdown...

Bundy family reports cell towers near ranch have been shut down,preventing communication & video uploads. #BundyRanch pic.twitter.com/FveMU8U73j
— Marie (@Tmariestweets) April 11, 2014

Amusing: Gibson Guitar takes returned government seized wood and makes Government Series II Les Paul...

Defiance...

Via American Thinker: 

In 2011, the Department of Justice conducted raids on the Tennessee facilities of the famed Gibson Guitar company and confiscated large quantities of tonewood that had been imported from India and Madagascar.  The action included armed SWAT teams, with automatic weapons, who apparently feared being garroted with a guitar string by an enraged Gibson employee. [...]

What raised many eyebrows about this governmental action was that the countries involved, India and Madagascar, indicated that they were not interested in pursuing the matter when contacted by the Department of Justice.  Also, even if Gibson had been guilty, this would have been a civil, not a criminal matter.  Finally, this same kind of tonewood is used by other guitar makers such as CF Martin and Company and Fender.  Those other companies were not raided.  The principle difference seems to be that those companies contributed to Democratic candidates, while Henry Juszkiewicz, the CEO of Gibson, gives openly to Republicans, and Gibson has plants in a right-to-work state.

After spending nearly two and half million dollars in legal fees and paying a $300,000 fine, the government has settled with Gibson and has finally returned the confiscated tonewood.  Normally that would be the end of the story, with a victory scored for partisan government bullying of political opponents, however, that is not the end.

Gibson took that wood and made it into the Government Series II Les Paul. [...] Read more here...

Video: The 12 Days Of Gov’t Spending

While you were sleeping the government shutdown and few will notice...

BREAKING: Director of Office of Management and Budget orders federal agencies to implement shutdown plans
— Bloomberg News (@BloombergNews) October 1, 2013

Airlines will still fly, the mail will be delivered, Social Security checks, unemployment checks and food stamps will still go out, Medicare bills  will still be paid, meat will be inspected and Congress passed a law to make sure our troops get paid. Unless you are on the government dole payroll in a position deemed non-essential or planning a trip to a national park or monument, you likely won't notice the government is officially shutdown. Personally, I don't expect any impact.

Obama picks congressional liar James Clapper to lead “independent group” reviewing government spy programs...

So, Clapper will tell us he fixed every concern the public has and we will be left wondering if he is lying?

Via WaPo:

On Friday, President Barack Obama promised to appoint an “independent group” of “outside experts” to review the government’s surveillance programs.
Today, the president formally ordered the formation of this group, giving us a sense forjust how independent the group would be. The announcement doesn’t inspire confidence that the president is interested in truly independent scrutiny of the nation’s surveillance programs.
The panel will be chosen by, and report to, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Clapper famously answered “no sir” when Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked whether the NSA collects information about millions of Americans. Clapper has since conceded that this answer was “clearly erroneous.”
And there are other signs that the group won’t turn out quite the way the president described it on Friday. Friday’s speech talked about the need for input from outside experts with independent points of view. The president made no mention of the need for outsiders or independent viewpoints in his memo to Clapper.
Keep on reading…

Government agency solution to malware; destroy computers, cameras, keyboards and even mice...

Can you imagine a private business doing something this dumb? 

Via ArsTechnica:

The Economic Development Administration (EDA) is an agency in the Department of Commerce that promotes economic development in regions of the US suffering slow growth, low employment, and other economic problems. In December 2011, the Department of Homeland Security notified both the EDA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that there was a possible malware infection within the two agencies’ systems.
The NOAA isolated and cleaned up the problem within a few weeks.
The EDA, however, responded by cutting its systems off from the rest of the world—disabling its enterprise e-mail system and leaving its regional offices no way of accessing centrally held databases.
It then recruited an outside security contractor to look for malware and provide assurances that not only were EDA’s systems clean, but also that they were impregnable against malware. The contractor, after some initial false positives, declared the systems largely clean but was unable to provide this guarantee. Malware was found on six systems, but it was easily repaired by reimaging the affected machines.
EDA’s CIO, fearing that the agency was under attack from a nation-state, insisted instead on a policy of physical destruction. The EDA destroyed not only (uninfected) desktop computers but also printers, cameras, keyboards, and even mice. The destruction only stopped—sparing $3 million of equipment—because the agency had run out of money to pay for destroying the hardware.
The total cost to the taxpayer of this incident was $2.7 million: $823,000 went to the security contractor for its investigation and advice, $1,061,000 for the acquisition of temporary infrastructure (requisitioned from the Census Bureau), $4,300 to destroy $170,500 in IT equipment, and $688,000 paid to contractors to assist in development of a long-term response. Full recovery took close to a year.

The agency employees probably got the malware surfing porn sites...

Scary: 101 million Americans dependent on government for food assistance...

101 million Americans now feeding at the government trough...

(CNSNews.com) – The number of Americans receiving subsidized food assistance from the federal government has risen to 101 million, representing roughly a third of the U.S. population.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that a total of 101,000,000 people currently participate in at least one of the 15 food programs offered by the agency, at a cost of $114 billion in fiscal year 2012.
That means the number of Americans receiving food assistance has surpassed the number of private sector workers in the U.S.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there were 97,180,000 full-time private sector workers in 2012.
The population of the U.S. is 316.2 million people, meaning nearly a third of Americans receive food aid from the government.
Of the 101 million receiving food benefits, a record 47 million Americans participated in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps. The USDA describes SNAP as the “largest program in the domestic hunger safety net.”

Rasmussen: Only 24% think the federal government is doing the right thing most of the time...

Via Rasmussen:

Talk about a trust deficit.Just one-in-four Likely U.S. Voters (24%) now has confidence that when the federal government acts it’s doing the right thing most or nearly all the time, but that includes just four percent (4%) who say it almost always does the right thing.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 75% of voters disagree, with 47% who trust the federal government to do the right thing only some of the time and 28% who think it rarely or never does the right thing. (To see survey question wording, click here.) 

New Poll: 63% do not trust government, 64% think government is too big...

How did Obama get re-elected when he is the candidate of big government? Are voters that stupid or was it voter fraud?

Via FOX News: (Likely voters)

A shocking example of how Team Obama and supporters used the power of government to punish conservative political activists...

If reading this doesn't make you angry, you aren't a freedom-loving American...

Via WSJ:

In July 2010 she sent applications to the IRS for tax-exempt status. What followed was not the harassment, intrusiveness and delay we're now used to hearing of. The U.S. government came down on her with full force.

In December 2010 the FBI came to ask about a person who'd attended a King Street Patriots function. In January 2011 the FBI had more questions. The same month the IRS audited her business tax returns. In May 2011 the FBI called again for a general inquiry about King Street Patriots. In June 2011 Engelbrecht's personal tax returns were audited and the FBI called again. In October 2011 a round of questions on True the Vote. In November 2011 another call from the FBI. The next month, more questions from the FBI. In February 2012 a third round of IRS questions on True the Vote. In February 2012 a first round of questions on King Street Patriots. The same month the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms did an unscheduled audit of her business. (It had a license to make firearms but didn't make them.) In July 2012 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration did an unscheduled audit. In November 2012 more IRS questions on True the Vote. In March 2013, more questions. In April 2013 a second ATF audit.

All this because she requested tax-exempt status for a local conservative group and for one that registers voters and tries to get dead people off the rolls. Her attorney, Cleta Mitchell, who provided the timeline above, told me: "These people, they are just regular Americans. They try to get dead people off the voter rolls, you would think that they are serial killers."

This week Ms. Engelbrecht, who still hasn't received her exemptions, sued the IRS.

Please read it all...

Many liberals like to claim conservatives suffer from paranoid fantasies, but if the government is really out to get you, you aren't paranoid. 

Shocking: (Former) Demo Rep. Cynthia McKinney accuses government of being behind Boston Marathon bombing...

Spoken like a true "9/11 truther"....

The pattern is becoming too, too familiar.So, Boston cops were having a "bomb squad drill" on the same day as... fb.me/1JHrFKCc9
— Cynthia McKinney (@cynthiamckinney) April 15, 2013