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Jan 04
While France moves to ban “fake news,” German policymakers realize that speech restrictions empower critics
The historic struggle for freedom of speech and press is filled with stories of anonymous pamphleteers who overcame state repression to claim victory over darkness. Governments have historically sought to ban speech which is critical of government. Sometimes government officials claim such speech spreads “sedition,” or promotes violence, or allows “millionaires and billionaires” to control …
Jan 04
EPA’s top “climate change expert” was just sentenced to prison for fraud
John Beale was absent for years at a time, did no work, and traveled first-class. Will Rogers once said It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for. Here is news of the EPA’s highest paid “climate change expert,” John C. Beale, who was just sentenced to 32 months in prison …
Jan 02
More freedom, less crime: New York City sees crime drop after halting aggressive policing
Throughout the early years of the 21st century, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of innocent people–mostly males of the lowest classes–were violently thrown against walls or sidewalks while New York City cops frisked and searched them without warrant. Cop worshippers claimed the “stop and frisks” were necessary to fight crime. When activists, lawyers and judges worked to …
Jan 01
Bozeman, Montana government hires “affordable housing director”–thereby ensuring that housing will be increasingly unaffordable
Municipal planning is for the rich. It circumvents natural markets in which poor people pool resources, innovate and commute. “Planning” almost always means that housing becomes LESS affordable for poor people. Where “planning” has been most heavy-handed, poor people live in cars or travel hundreds of miles to mow the lawns or shovel the sidewalks …
Jan 01
NPR claims that Baltimore’s high crime rates stem from too few police; but Baltimore has the second-most cops per-capita in the U.S.!
The government NPR radio network and website is promoting a story suggesting that Baltimore’s high crime rates are owed to a lack of police officers in the city. There is just one problem with this notion: Baltimore has the SECOND-HIGHEST rate of cops per-capita in the U.S.! (1st is Washington, D.C..) Wherever city governments have …
Jan 01
Iranian government shuts down internet to disrupt protests
Fortune and other news sources are reporting that the government of Iran is shutting down the internet in cities where there are anti-government protests. (In Iran, internet providers must obtain government permission–similar to the “net neutrality” system proposed by many government-trusters in America.)
Jan 01
There is increasing evidence that Google, Facebook and Twitter are censoring climate skepticism and colluding with each other in doing so
During the final years of the Obama Administration, executives at Google, Facebook and Twitter were regularly meeting with Obama in the White House. Not long after, all 3 internet giants (which together rake in more than 85% of all online ad revenue) began promoting the “net neutrality” concept for a government takeover of the internet, …
Dec 28
Hundreds of thousands flee socialist California
North Koreans flee to China. East Germans fled to West Germany. Cubans flee to Florida. We recently reported that 33,000 people fled socialist Illinois in the past year, and some 247,410 people left Illinois over the past decade, taking some $13.7 billion with them. Illinoians are some of the most heavily-taxed people on earth. Now …
Dec 27
Russian satellites capture U.S. training “ISIS”
U.S. intelligence agencies have been caught repeatedly funding, supplying, and training the very “terrorists” that U.S. taxpayers are then duped into “fighting.” (Of course, almost every other world government has also engaged in such false flag operations.) U.S. neocons and warhawks in government office use the excuse of ‘terrorists’ to justify constant erosions of the …
Dec 26
United ‘first class’ seats are now mostly reserved for government employees–and higher-level government officials apparently bump lower level government workers to ‘economy’ seating as needed
As private-sector Americans struggle for existence, government officials and workers continue to gain wealth and privilege. Here is a story published in the London Daily Mail (U.S. ‘mainstream’ news outlets have ignored it) about a school teacher who purchased a first-class seat on a United flight. The school teacher was told before the flight that …
