Aug 11
SAN JUAN, P.R. If the private sector had been free to help Puerto Ricans after the devastating hurricanes of 2017, the island would have quickly recovered. Power and running water would have been restored within a week. But government officials “took charge” of donations and recovery efforts. Some Puerto Ricans have been without power and …
Aug 08
An update on Lysander Spooner University’s favorite professor of journalism, John Lamb. In April John was involved in a horrible and tragic traffic wreck on I-90 near Three Forks, Montana. John smashed into a semi tractor and it took more than 45 minutes to pry his body from the wreckage. John Lamb broke dozens of …
Aug 08
“Welfare” in the popular sense originated in the 1960s with President Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty.” By the 1980s, profound research by academics documented that households which accepted welfare payments were WORSE OFF 5 years later compared to similarly-situated households which did not receive welfare “benefits.” (Much of this research was PAID FOR BY THE …
Aug 05
Governments everywhere seek constantly to take over and control the world’s computer systems–frequently claiming people’s computer are vulnerable to failure, sabotage, hacking or “cyberterror.” When these messages fail to gain traction, governments claim they must control everyone’s computer use to stop corporations from charging differently for different speeds, or from charging the poor more than …
Aug 05
The socialist government of South Africa has sanctioned killings of hundreds of property owners in recent years. Now, once again, the government is making clear its intention to remove white farmers from the land and take the land without compensation. See here.
Aug 05
July 27. Epoch Times. China’s censorship regime once again kicked into full swing to conceal information that a major Chinese vaccine producer has produced and sold many hundreds of thousands of doses of vaccines which were either “substandard,” contained little or no vaccine, or contaminated. The Chinese internet has scrubbed all information about the coverrup. …
Jul 30
The GDP of the U.S.–the total economic output of the country annually–is about $16 trillion annually. (And this is deceptively large because it includes government spending in addition to private spending–and government funds are actually taken (and therefore reduced) from the private sector). A new study predicts that Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All” plan would …
Jul 29
Anyone who thinks that people in the west are free because they can vote should be watching the ‘Brexit’ events in England. Two years ago, Brits defied their own government and EVERY MAJOR NEWS OUTLET AND MAJOR SOCIAL INSTITUTION (many of which–like those in the U.S.–are secretly government funded and controlled) and voted to leave …
Jul 28
Many thousands of U.S. military veterans have died waiting for government slave plantation health care at the Veterans Administration. The VA inspector general recently reported that it is possible that over 300,000 veterans have died while waiting for their appointments. Last June, it was reported that nearly 100 veterans died while waiting for health care …
Jul 22
New research demonstrates what most people already know: Government social spending has grown substantially over the past 50 years, even as wages have stagnated. The new book by Cornell political scientist Suzanne Mettler, “The Government-Citizen Disconnect” examines 21 federal programs including Social Security, Medicaid, SNAP, and the home mortgage interest deduction. Mettler finds that 96 …
