The U.S. government has been bolstering the powers, privileges and immunities of federal employees for years. Career federal employees now get 8 weeks of PAID vacation annually. They are paid around twice what a private sector worker in the same field would make (and this does not include the paid vacation!). Federal workers are increasingly …
2016 archive
Jun 23
American home ownership at lowest in nearly 50 years
Overregulation by government, near-zero interest rates, student loan debt, and near all-time-low savings rates have devastated home ownership rates. Home ownership is at its lowest in nearly 50 years, falling to 63.7 percent in 2015. It’s a “decade-long slide” that “is unprecedented in American history,” according to an annual report released Wednesday by Harvard University’s …
Jun 21
6 per cent of America’s prime-age male population are ex-convicts
Financial Times recently reviewed the economic problems facing America’s lower-class males. Males of prime working age have abandoned work, as regulation and the criminal justice system have taken their tolls. See here. “Between 6 and 7 per cent of the prime-age male population was in prison at some point during their lives in 2008.”
Jun 20
U.S. Military Contractors Post Craigslist Ad Seeking ‘Crisis Actors’ for Upcoming “Drill”
Infowars.com has broken a story wherein a U.S. intelligence or military contractor has posted a Craigslist ad seeking “actors” for an upcoming military “exercise.” Infowars notes that the “exercise” appears to be timed to coincide with the Democratic National Convention and speculates that the military-industrial complex may seek to stage a false flag ‘terror’ attack …
Jun 20
Turkish Government Arrests Free Speech Activists for ‘Supporting Terrorism’
It is an age-old claim: that dissenters and critics of government are traitors guilty of sedition. For months, the government of Turkey has been prosecuting children, reporters and even comedians who criticized the government. Now Turkish prosecutors have arrested three prominent free speech advocates. See here.
Jun 20
More media lies about southwest heat wave
Headlines have blared nationwide about this past weekend’s extremely high temps in the Americans southwest. A dominant theme has been government predictions that temps in Phoenix, Yuma, Palm Springs and Death Valley will approach or set all-time records. (This, of course, would mean that the all-time high temp records for the United States were predicted …
Jun 15
Government temperature ‘adjustments’ “exactly match the increase in CO2”
Government agencies in charge of keeping historic temperature records claim they occasionally “adjust” the temperature records to fix problems with bad thermometers, etc. For example, NOAA officials will point to places where a thermometer system was malfunctioning. They will then claim that the official records of past years have been “adjusted” to fix the problem. …
Jun 15
Health Care Costs to Increase an AVERAGE of 11 Percent Next Year
Health care and higher education have much in common in modern America. Both are promoted as “rights” by government trusters. And government has promoted programs to “help” the poor obtain their products and services by subsidizing such goods with taxpayer inputs. Both industries have seen annual price increases higher than the rate of inflation for …
Jun 15
More die in Venezuelan food riots
Every society that has ever adopted socialism ultimately became sick and weak. There are no exceptions. (Some socialist writers tend to point to countries like Denmark, Norway and Sweden as exceptions; yet those societies rose to power and wealth in past centuries when they were overtly capitalistic and commercial–and have each lost world standing as …
Jun 14
More facts emerge regarding Orlando shooter: He was gay, controlling, cop wannabe
Not only was the Orlando shooter an apparent intelligence operative. He was a police academy graduate who was part of a gay community at the academy. He is known to have asked one other cadet out romantically. See here.
