Like Tolken’s mythical city of Mordor, the District of Columbia is rapidly drawing the wealth of the nation to itself. Nine of the 20 richest counties in the U.S. are D.C. suburbs where America’s millionaire government workers reside in gilded mansions. Even as taxation and regulation drive more Americans into homelessness, the median household income …
2019 archive
Dec 16
92 percent of Americans say their rights are under siege
A new Harris Poll released on Bill of Rights Day shows that 92 percent of Americans believe their rights are being threatened by government. “Americans are most concerned that their freedom of speech (48%), right to bear arms (47%) and right to equal justice (41%) are at risk.” See here. The “mainstream” media (government supporting …
Dec 16
Singapore government orders critics to correct news story
Singapore, by many accounts, is one of the freest places on earth. The people of Singapore slowly crawled out from the misery of socialism during the 1960s and built a thriving market capitalist society. Today, life expectancy in Singapore is ranked 3rd in the world (behind Spain and Japan). (By comparison, life expectancy in the …
Dec 10
Zerohedge: Wikipedia has been taken over by government and “establishment” trolls
Just like Facebook, Google, Youtube and Twitter, Wikipedia increasingly censors anti-government content The online open-source encyclopedia called Wikipedia frequently provides the first source of information following a google search. This is major-league influence, so it is to be expected that powerful entities such as Big Pharma, major corporations and government agencies seek to closely control …
Dec 09
New poll reveals government employees are threat to free speech
A new Heartland/Rasmussen poll shows startling results: FORTY-TWO PERCENT of government employees support a ban on “speech by individuals that a majority of Americans believes to be offensive.” (Only 27 % of Americans generally support this.) Moreover, Of those government workers who said “offensive” speech should be banned, 62% said “those who violate such bans …
Dec 09
Peter Thiel: Government growth has decreased human invention
Roger Roots. Antigovernment News Bureau. THE ENTIRE WORLD IS DROWNING IN TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT We often think we are in an age of technological advancement. But the growth of cops, taxes and government regulations have strangled true scientific advancement. Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal and other enterprises, was in a friendly debate with the …
Nov 28
Singapore is new ground zero for freedom of press
Singapore, one of the freest places on earth by some accounts, is struggling to throw off press repressions. The Singapore government recently imposed new laws purportedly aimed at stamping out fake news. “A blogger said on Thursday he would not comply with a Singapore government order to correct a Facebook post in the first test …
Nov 28
It begins: NOAA now blocking access to original temp data
NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration–a branch of NASA–has been continuously altering temperature history for years. In general, NOAA’s adjustments have made the past seem colder than it was actually measured by thermometers. This, of course, allows the government to claim that temperatures have risen dramatically. But until recently, NOAA’s online pages also gave …
Nov 28
Snow cover has INCREASED since CO2 hit 350 ppm in 1988
Snow extent has been increasing since CO2 hit 350 PPM in 1988, and has been continuously above average for the past few years. This defies all proclamations by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), every report of the U.S. Climate Assessments, and every regional climate assessment. This discovery was made by Tony Heller, …
Nov 19
McLatchy–one of the largest “mainstream” news chains–nears bankruptcy
Bloomberg reports that “The McClatchy Co., the storied news publisher weighed down by pension obligations and debt, could file for bankruptcy within the next year.” McClatchy operates a news service and owns the Miami Herald, the Kansas City Star, the Charlotte Observer and other pro-government (“mainstream”) papers. Its reporters and content have been repeatedly linked …