Apr 08

Private company achieves something no government ever achieved: bringing an extinct species back to life

TEXAS. April 7, 2025. A for-profit Texas company named Colossal Biosciences announced in a press release on Monday the “rebirth of the once extinct dire wolf,” which it claims is the “world’s first successfully de-extincted animal.”

The press release explains:

The dire wolf, largely assumed to be a legendary creature made famous from the HBO hit series Game of Thrones, was an American canid that had previously been extinct for over 12,500 years.

The successful birth of three dire wolves is a revolutionary milestone of scientific progress that illustrates another leap forward in Colossal’s de-extinction technologies and is a critical step on the pathway to the de-extinction of other target species.

See here.

This appears to be a zoological first. No government, government-funded professor or university, or charity group ever brought a species out of extinction previously.

This achievement highlights the great strides in conservation made by private enthusiasts compared to the constant–and expensive failures of governments to preserve animal species. Penn & Teller’s “Bullshit” series explored the failure of the U.S. government’s Endangered Species Act of 1973.

Endangered Species Act has been a failure.

One of worst laws ever passed, according to RJ Smith of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Endangered Species Act gave government the power of total national land use control–but has done little or nothing to save endangered species.

According to Penn & Teller, some 1827 species have been listed under the Act as endangered or threatened. Only 40 have ever been delisted. Nine have gone extinct. Sixteen were listed by mistake. This leaves 15 supposed success stories. Of those, three are kangaroos (in Australia). Three are birds in Palou that were undercounted. Three species recovered due to stoppage of use of DDT and the substitute of other pesticides. One recovered species is the American alligator (which was likely undercounted in previous generations). One is the Robbins Cinquefoil, a plant in New Hampshire that may have recovered by moving some hiking trails. One is the Columbian white tail deer, and another is a subspecies of the Canadian goose. Both of those were saved by simply by hunting restrictions.

The Tinian Monarch is a species of bird found only in the Mariana Islands. The birds now number some 38,000 and the role played by the Endangered Species Act in the bird’s salvation is debatable. The grey whale was already recovering BEFORE the Endangered Species Act, due to private agreements to stop harvesting whales. Then there is “Hoovers woolly star,” a plant found in over a thousand locations in southern California. According to Brian Seasholes of the Reason Foundation, “Hoover’s woolly-star is clearly a case of data error under the Endangered Species Act. It was delisted after biologists admitted it was originally miscounted; but ironically the plant is still listed as “recovering” under the Endangered Species Act.

New species are being discovered every year, and the earth now has greater biodiversity than ever before in its history.


Private pet breeders and hobbyists—often acting illegally—have saved more endangered species than all governments combined.  Examples include:

  • Budweiser beer corporation saved the clydsdales.
  • Private breeders saved the Irish wolfhound from the brink of extinction–without any assistance from government. 
  • Another species, the Scimitar Oryx, a gazelle-like mammal in Chad, has been rescued from the brink of extinction by private ranchers, herders and zoos.
  • •Efforts of private hobbyists also led to successful reintroduction of the endangered Spanish toothcarp and three endangered Aphanius species (A. apodus, A. danfordii and A. sirhani), as well as the wild-extinct Potosi pupfish.
  • (Cyprinodon alvarezi) by the Spanish Killifish Association (SEK) [12].
  • Many species (mainly livebearer, cichlids, and killifish species) are available only from aquarium hobbyists (approximately a quarter of aquarium species are exclusively owned by hobbyists),

Indeed, over 30 species of fish are now alive which have gone extinct in the wild—thanks to private fish hobbyists.

Apr 06

Science Fiction Horror Story: U.S. government demands Mexican government share “biometric data” of individual Mexicans with U.S. government.

MEXICO CITY, April 6, 2025. As if from the pages of science fiction horror novel, the U.S. government is now demanding that Mexico collect, register and share “biometric data”–meaning DNA, fingerprints, facial recognition data, etc.–with the U.S. government.

U.S. Secretary of “Homeland Security” Kristi Noem met with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo for hours on April 1. Noem presented the Mexican president with a list of demands.

According to Gateway Hispanic,

“The meeting, which lasted nearly two hours instead of the scheduled 30 minutes, included key figures from the Mexican cabinet, such as Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente, Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez, and Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch.”

At the top of the list was a demand that the Mexican government “share biometric data” of all Mexicans with the U.S. government! This would improve the ability of the U.S. government to track and monitor Mexican immigrants–just as the U.S. government increasingly tracks and monitors U.S. citizens through means such as the “Real ID” program.

The ironic hero of the story is Mexican president Sheinbaum, Mexico’s first Jewish president, widely regarded as a far-left socialist. (Even Mexico’s Jewish community has distanced itself from Sheinbaum due to Sheinbaum’s neo-Marxist politics.)

In her April 1 morning press conference, Sheinbaum was blunt: she did not sign any agreement to share biometric data with the United States. The reason? Mexico does not have a national registry of this type. “We don’t have those biometric data to begin with.” Sheinbaum explained.

“Real ID” and other government programs to create digital ID documents, cards and passports are part of the agenda of the globalist World Economic Forum.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has been pressuring governments to create ID passports containing biometric data. See here. The WEF’s Reimagining Digital ID (2023) report “provides tools, frameworks and recommendations for government officials, regulators and executives.” “Public
sector participants can contribute by exploring the development of enabling regulation, setting
requirements for interoperability and portability, and fostering collaboration among key stakeholders.”

Indeed, the U.S. government’s demand is literally taken from a chapter in WEF’s document: “Addressing the ID gap will require extensive effort and collaboration on the part of governments, international organizations and other stakeholders to provide access to official ID.”

Feb 23

British government now sending police to knock on doors of those who criticize Labour Party

Manchester, England. Feb. 23, 2025. Blogger Peter Sweden has posted the story of Grandmother Helen Jones, who had police pound on her door for posting that Labour Party officials should resign.

British “authorities” have been increasingly monitoring social media posts and jailing citizens who post things the government dislikes.

Feb 22

British Government Seeks “Backdoor” Surveillance Features Installed in all Apple I-Phones.

 

Berlin. Feb. 18, 2025.     

Apple announced last week that it is no longer offering its end-to-end-encryption feature in any product for sale in Great Britain.  This cancelation is in response to British government demands that Apple I-Phones must manufacture a “back door” in every I-Phone so that the British government can access user data.

              The “leftist Government of Keir Starmer continues to establish a dystopia in the United Kingdom,” according to The Gateway Pundit.

“The company [Apple] said Friday that Advanced Data Protection, an optional feature that adds end-to-end encryption to a wide assortment of user data, is no longer available in the UK for new users. The technology had provided an extra layer of security to iCloud data storage, device backups, web bookmarks, voice memos, notes, photos, reminders and text message backups.”

Feb 22

Germany Sinks Deeper into Tyranny

              In just the past decade, Germany has fallen under increasing government control. The German government’s censorship regime was recently highlighted in the U.S. “60 Minutes” news program.  60 Minutes produced a favorable expose’ about German censorship which included video of a German arrest raid aimed at silencing social media posts.

One German recently saw his home raided because he reposted a comment that called Minister Robert Habeck a “dimwit.” The new German “hate” law has little to do about creating a nicer place to live.  Rather the law’s purpose is to make it easy to raid homes of dissidents, spread fear and to silence opposing voices.

Increasingly Germans must be careful expressing themselves. See here.

Feb 21

A study in totalitarian evil: Brazilian “Judge” Alexandre de Moraes

A global movement by governments and elites to impose mass censorship on social media platforms has arisen over the past decade. This movement has become intertwined with the “left” worldwide. Even in the United States, where “the left” was formerly identified with free speech advocacy, this change is palpable.

In Brazil the forces of censorship are led by the dark judge Alexandre de Moraes, who issued a series of tyrannical censorship orders and decrees. This “judge” often acts in secret, without indicating what process is used to make his censorship decisions.

  • Moraes has issued a series of rulings aimed at eliminating former Brazillian President Jair Bolsonaro from Brazilian politics. Moraes has claimed Bolsonaro led a plot to overthrow Brazil’s government and undermine the country’s democracy after his 2022 “election loss.” (The data and most observers indicate Bolsonaro actually won the election.)
  • Moraes has waged war against Elon Must and Twitter/X–issuing decrees that X must comply with Moraes censorship regiment.
  • When Musk and X resisted Moraes’ control, Moraes seized the Brazilian accounts of Musk’s OTHER company Starlink–a company with no connection (other than a common owner, Musk) with X.
  • Moraes has also ordered the video platform Rumble to comply with censorship. When Rumble refused, Moraes has sought to enforce the censorship demands even within the United States.
  • Now, Donald Trump Media companies and Rumble have filed suit in US District Court in Tampa, alleged that the evil judge’s previous orders “censor legitimate political discourse in the United States.”

Jan 09

Universal Basic Income Fails Again

Massive New Study finds UBI makes Households POORER

California. December 2024. A massive government-funded study of Californians who received “universal basic income” (UBI) finds that the program did little to help poor households. The study was conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

While being given ~$500 per month in free money, participants only ended up $100 richer and smoked more cigarettes.

The study gave about $500 per month to 695 households over two years in Compton, California. Another 1,402 were designated as a control group. The findings: (2/10)

“Receiving guaranteed income had no impact on the labor supply of full-time workers, but part-time workers had a lower labor market participation by 13 percentage points.” (3/10)“

Income (excluding the transfer) was reduced by $333 per month on average relative to control households, and expenditures were reduced by $302 per month.” (4/10)

“At the same time, average non-housing debt balances declined by $2,190 over 18 months relative to the control group, although the drop is not statistically significant.” (5/10)

“We find a significant improvement in housing security, but no overall effects on indices of psychological and financial well-being.” (6/10)

[…]

“The list experiments show strong evidence of relative reductions in IPV, weak evidence of reduced alcohol consumption, and moderately strong evidence of relative increases in tobacco consumption.” (9/10)

Jan 08

Systematic failure of peer review in climate science

The failures of so-called peer review in climate science journals has been given insufficient attention. But an article in the recent edition of the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, “Climate Denialism,” by Tinus Pulles, highlights this problem. Scientists whose findings differ from the government-approved narrative have always had great difficulty getting their findings into peer reviewed journals. This is because of the flood of government research money in academic “science.”

Recently a petroleum scientist named Andy May penned an article in an academic journal laying out the basis for skepticism of the government’s catastrophic-global-warming-by-manmade-CO2 narrative. May’s article was quickly attacked by a government-funded professor, Tinus Pulles. But although May identified “20 clearly false statements and three additional problematic statements in Tinus Pulles’ article, the editors of the journal failed to address the misstatements or even publish May’s list.

May writes:

What is puzzling is I was asked to peer review this paper months ago and I sent in the review in October. Nearly all the errors you will see in the list below were pointed out then, yet they remain in the paper. To nearly everyone familiar with climate science literature and our paper, these errors are obvious. I find it more than a bit alarming that even the grammatical errors I pointed out in the paper last October are still in it. Why such a flawed paper was published is a mystery. Peer review is not working as intended.

Pulles appears to believe that dangerous human-caused climate change is an undisputed fact. He also repeatedly conflates “climate change” with “dangerous man-made climate change.” Human-caused global climate change has never been observed, either directly or statistically, only modeled. The paper is critical of our paper from earlier in the year (May & Crok, 2024), but that paper makes it clear that human-caused climate change is not an existential threat and the incidence and magnitude of recent extreme weather events have not exceeded expected natural variability as shown in the recent IPCC AR6 WGI report on page 1856 and elsewhere.

See here.

Dec 31

Just one Postal worker stole $750,000 from the mail.

According to The Gateway Pundit, a North Carolina postal worker was sentenced to four years in prison for stealing over $750,000 in U.S. Treasury checks, including tax refunds, Veterans Affairs benefits, and Social Security disability payments.

Zerion Marcos Franklin, a government postal worker, was pulled over while driving his private car by a cop in June 2024. The cop “noticed drug paraphernalia in plain view. A subsequent search revealed not only 47 U.S. Treasury checks but also marijuana packaged for sale, a loaded 9mm handgun, and over $22,000 in cash.”

Franklin quickly pled guilty. 

Dec 31

US Postal Service has lost $100 Billion since 2007

Since 2007, the USPS has reported staggering losses exceeding $100 billion. In the last fiscal year alone, the agency hemorrhaged $9.5 billion—a sharp increase from the $6.5 billion loss reported in 2023, as noted by Reuters. See here.

The agency enjoys every conceivable advantage in the marketplace. It has a monopoly. It owns and controls some of the nation’s most valuable and prestigious real estate–including strategic locations at the heart of America’s urban areas. It pays no employment, income, corporate, or property taxes.

Yet USPS loses billions annually. It pays its “workers” so much that THOUSANDS of people apply for every opening.

Now there is increasing discussion even among political officials regarding privatizing the “Service.”