Lysander

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Date registered: January 24, 2015

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  1. September 16 and 17 announced for Our Annual Glacier-Chasing Festival at Glacier National Park! — June 23, 2017
  2. New York Times continues to shed employees — June 23, 2017
  3. The manufacture of each Tesla electric car battery produces as much CO2 as 8 years of driving an average automobile — June 22, 2017
  4. 24 % of Americans Do Not Have a Single Dollar Saved for Emergencies — June 20, 2017
  5. Scores of protesters expose Ben & Jerry’s ice cream lies — June 18, 2017

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Jun 06

Hartford, Connecticut government approaches bankruptcy despite extracting some to the nation’s highest property, income and sales tax rates

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burdensome taxes, Government incompetence, Government-supported "higher education", The market always wins

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Hartford, Connecticut is typical of eastern cities in that its voters have placed great trust in government management. Connecticut is a wealthy state with thousands of high-earners who work in the insurance industry, and in the greater New York City area. But the State’s tax rates are among the nation’s highest. Hartford, the capitol city, …

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Jun 03

After years of overtaxing the rich, Connecticut tax receipts decrease and Connecticut’s richest citizens flee to other states

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"income inequality", burdensome taxes

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Connecticut income-tax collections declined last year for the first time since the recession due to lower earnings of wealthy residents. Many of Connecticut’s millionaires have fled for lower-tax states. In the past five years 27,400 Connecticut residents have moved to no-income-tax Florida. According to the Wall Street Journal, one of Connecticut’s largest companies, Aetna Insurance, …

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Jun 02

Socialist Venezuela is a paradise for government: officials live like kings among the starving

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"income inequality", Socialist Lies

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Wherever socialism takes hold, society spirals downward into poverty, dependence, sickness and weakness while elitists in government prosper. In modern Venezuela, the people dive through trash for food, eat pigeons, cats and dogs for food, and die in knife fights on the streets over dollar bills. Meanwhile the elitists and government officials in the socialist …

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Jun 02

Police now pulling over vehicles for “firewood checks”

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surveillance, The police state

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The police state expands. Police in a number of jurisdictions are reportedly pulling over vehicles for “firewood checks.” The stated reason is to prevent cars from transporting firewood containing improper weeds, seeds, insects or invasive species. See here.

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Jun 02

Almost half of Americans die broke in response to government policies

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Government's War on the Poor, Social Security Impoverishes

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Years of government policies which punish saving, investing and working have taken their toll. USA Today reports that 69% of adults have less than $1,000 in the bank, and 34% said they actually don’t have any savings at all. And a study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that almost half of Americans …

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May 30

Portland mayor calls for cancellation of free-speech rally

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Free speech under siege, Orwellian America

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Too dangerous and controversial, the mayor says. See here.

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May 28

Government school monopoly slowly losing out to charter schools and home schoolers

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anti-government polling data, benefits of privatization, government "schools", The market always wins

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Steven Greenhut of Reason Magazine is out with an interesting article about the gradual increase of homeschooling and other market responses to government school monopolies. See here. Greenhut writes that “Supporters of charter schools, homeschooling and other forms of school choice are so used to fighting in the trenches against the state’s muscular teachers unions …

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May 21

Obamacare’s devastation continues

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Government incompetence, Government lies, Slave Plantation Healthcare

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Obamacare has: (1) Increased, rather than decreased death rates. (2) Caused numerous health insurers to got out of business or abandon markets. Aetna has pulled out of the Exchanges. Blue Cross in Maryland, Virginia and D.C. has already requested a 52%, 35% and 29% increase for 2018 respectively. Aetna has already lost $500 million since …

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May 12

Fresno State Professor tells students there is no freedom of speech on a college campus

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1984 on American campuses, Free speech under siege, Government-supported "higher education"

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America’s government colleges and universities promote a steady stream of government worship and control. The very second that a person walks onto a government college campus, he becomes less free. Here is a video of a professor at Fresno State university telling student protesters that there is no freedom of speech on a college campus. …

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May 12

Almost everything said by ‘mainstream’ news about melting in the Arctic is fake

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"science" which exalts the state, Government-supported media, Socialist Lies

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For a decade, government trusters have promoted a theme of apocalyptic hysteria about manmade global warming. This hysteria is aimed at convincing people to give governments even more power and control over them. But almost everything reported about warming or melting in the Arctic is fake. Here is an informative video from realclimatescience.com.

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