The United Nations has refused to accredit three journalists associated with Canadian climate skeptic Ezra Lavant. The UN appears to be blacklisting skeptics from covering the upcoming global warming conference in Marrakech, Morocco. See here. The UN accuses Lavant’s “Rebel” journalists of being “advocacy journalists.” Yet opinion journalists comprise a large proportion of the thousands …
Category: The Cult of the Omnipotent State
Oct 20
Another U.S. Postal worker caught disposing of mail rather than delivering it
Many people believe the U.S. Postal Service monopoly is found in the Constitution. In fact, the Constitution merely says Congress has the power to establish a postal service. Not only is there no power to grant a postal monopoly in the Constitution, the OTHER provisions of the Constitution make it clear that Congress MAY NOT …
Oct 12
Americans’ greatest fear: government
Our masters in government continuously tell us to trust the state and accept more government power and authority. The message is not getting out, however. Another poll shows that when Americans are asked about their greatest fears, THEY PUT GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION AT THE TOP. See here.
Oct 07
81-year-old woman growing pot plant raided by National Guard with helicopter
Never before in American history has government been so powerful in relation to its subjects. Government ‘law enforcement’ at all levels is now so massively overfunded that it deploys tanks, helicopters and tactical teams to enforce the most trivial laws. Now a retired Massachusetts woman growing a single pot plant for medicine has been raided …
Oct 04
U.S. Secretary of State discussed using a ‘drone strike’ to murder reporter Julian Assange
Every tyrant, king, president, czar or prime minister has always dreamed of having omnipotent power to snuff out criticism or critical journalism. Now there is a report that Hillary Clinton, as U.S. Secretary of State, thought seriously about killing Julian Assange (founder of the website Wikilieaks, which has exposed massive government corruption) by a drone …
Aug 31
North Korean official executed for failing to sit upright while president speaks
Those who trust government most are often the first to be killed when their goals of government supremacy are reached. Now we read that North Korean Vice Premier Kim Yong Jin was executed for not keeping his posture upright at a public event. See here.
Aug 28
Venezuelan government searches and punishes those who sign anti-government petitions
Starving Venezuelans are circulating petitions to recall their president and other officials who impose the horrors of socialism upon them. The Venezuela Constitution provides for such recall petitions. “Nearly two million Venezuelans have signed the recall petition.” President “Maduro’s underlings are unjustly harassing and even arresting citizens circulating the recall petition — just as previous …
Jul 22
Private citizens rescue baby bison from the cold and are criminally prosecuted; government agents who do the same thing are not even publicly named
Remember those tourists to Yellowstone Park who were prosecuted and punished for picking up a freezing abandoned bison calf and trying to save it in their vehicle? The story made national news, with government officials shaming and lecturing YNP visitors to NEVER, EVER, try to save wildlife in national parks. Apparently, a whistleblower came forward …
Jul 16
Attempt to overthrow Turkey’s government reportedly fails
“National security” is something of an oxymoron. The fabric of history shows that liberal societies in which common people have more freedom to innovate, invent, and create without oversight of the state tend to be the most secure societies. Paradoxically, societies that are ruled by a cult of government omnipotence tend to reel from crisis …
Jul 03
GAO discovers that some federal employees take YEAR-LONG vacations at taxpayer expense
Federal workers are practically gods walking among us. They are so overpaid and overrewarded with benefits that they represent modern feudal overlords overseeing peasants. A new study by the GAO has found that it is not unheard of for federal employees in the Department of Homeland Security to take entire months off of work–and in …
