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Feb 21
Lawyers imbed drastic new criminal penalties into “Trans-Pacific Partnership”–after it was supposedly finalized!
The TPP (“Trans-Pacific Partnership”) was enacted as a trade treaty by political insiders, despite being imposed by vast democratic majorities within the countries that supposedly agreed to it. The Electronic Freedom Foundation recently discovered that after the TPP was supposedly finalized (and after the original text was released in November 2015) the original text was …
Feb 20
US military “fights climate change” by moving to “renewable” fuels, costing taxpayers tens of billions!
The US military is the most expensive on earth. Its skirmishes in Afghanistan cost taxpayers approximately 2 MILLION DOLLARS PER SOLDIER PER YEAR. Now the U.S. president has issued an executive order mandating that the Air Force must spend $59 a gallon for “renewable” jet fuel and $67 per gallon for camelina-based F-22 Raptor fuel. …
Feb 20
Gas in Venezuela Rises to 15 Cents a Gallon
Socialist Venezuela has the cheapest gasoline on earth. See here. But the socialist government has controlled and manipulated prices so extensively that the “real” price of gasoline is unknowable, and may be almost nothing. The hilarious LA Times article describes how the socialist, mob-ruled country is plummeting in economic health due to the government’s central …
Feb 20
U.S. Postal Service Lost Money Every Year Since 2007
Brian McNicoll, a columnist who follows the economic plight of the U.S. Postal Service, says the Service has lost money every year since 2007. The U.S.P.S. has lost more than $51 billion since the [2008] downturn began. The Service has not made a payment since 2011, and is more than $50 billion in arrears now. …
Feb 19
Government University Students Traumatized by Speaker who Criticized Government Ideology
Rutgers University recently allowed a speaker on campus who disagreed with a handful of the big-government principles trumpeted by America’s government colleges. Immediately, afterward, students were so traumatized that they openly cried and attended a group therapy session. Students described “feeling scared, hurt, and discriminated against.” One student reported that he felt “scared to walk …
Feb 14
Dodd-Frank Act has led to fewer banks offering free checking
Gail Marksjarvis of the Chicago Tribune reports that only 46 percent of banks are still offering free checking accounts to customers. “That’s a major change from 2009, when more than 78 percent of banks offered the freebie.” The reason: banks are facing higher costs due to the Dodd-Frank Act, passed in 2009. (Ironically, the Act …
Feb 13
Venezuelan socialism = rationing of electricity
Socialism is a curse that should be wished only on one’s worst enemies. Any society that embraces it will eventually become sick and weak. Venezuela was developing and prospering rapidly during the 1980s and ’90s. Then the country went hard-line socialist. Venezuelans are accustomed to severe shortages of cooking oil, diapers and other staple products. …
Feb 12
NASA’s budget increasingly reflects obsession with global warming
Libertarians have long identified NASA as among the most unnecessary of federal government programs and agencies. It is axiomatic that the private sector could achieve NASA’s space-exploration goals far more cheaply and effectively than the agency does. Now, NASA is wasting increasing segments of its budget on proving the government’s manmade-global-warming-by-CO2 theory. See here for …
Feb 12
If you save anything today, you are an utter fool
Governments everywhere benefit from central (government) banking. Central banking allows governments to extend their alleged “benefits” without directly and immediately taxing their oppressed subjects. Essentially, governments are able to game a society’s cost/benefit analysis and appear more attractive. But it is all a lie. Government deficit spending means that government currencies are constantly being debased. …