May 02

Another ‘firefighter’ charged with setting fires he helped extinguish

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Over the years, countless government firefighters have been found to have started the fires they ‘heroically’ help extinguish.

Hundreds if not thousands of deadly arsons have been secretly set by government firefighters. This is true of home arsons as well as forest fires.

It may even be that a sizeable percentage of all arsons are committed by people in government employment as firefighters, or at least employed as voluntary firefighters working under government auspices.

Here is another recent case.

The problem is so pervasive that fire prevention associations have studied it. See here.

May 02

Socialist Bernie Sanders Donates Almost Nothing to Charity: He challenges ‘the Fundamental Concepts on Which Charities are Based”!

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This Washington Post story exposed the fact that Bernie Sanders–unlike Hillary Clinton and most other major-party candidates for President over several decades–has refused to disclose his most recent income tax returns (or much tax info at all).

This isn’t much of a story. Sanders is under no obligation to publicize his income tax information.

But buried in the story is the fact that Sanders–an avowed socialist who claims to sympathize with the poor–donates almost nothing to charity. (Sanders makes hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.)

The publication’s scathing article notes that Sanders had dismissed the idea of charities in his early days as mayor — and that view was confirmed in his 1995 tax return, which showed Sanders donated just 1 percent of his income ($1,369) to charity. During a United Way event in 1981, Sanders told the crowd: “I don’t believe in charities,” and questioned “the fundamental concepts on which charities are based.”

Sanders doesn’t believe in charity because he believes the government should decide and distribute all charity. Sanders doesn’t believe in returning or keeping any money in the private sector. Instead of helping people with their own resources, socialists seek to violently compel others to ‘help the needy.’

May 01

Obamacare impoverishing millions

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The government’s 2016 projections for Obamacare enrollees were off by 24 million people.

The public has balked at sky-high premiums and deductables, while insurers have lost BILLIONS.

Now the insurance companies are saying they will need to spike premiums in 2017.

For example, in Virginia, a state that reports early, nine insurers returning to the HealthCare.gov marketplace are seeking average premium increases that range from 9.4 percent to 37.1 percent. Those initial estimates filed with the state may change.

See here

Apr 29

New Course!!: Energy Storage Innovation

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Lysander Spooner University will put on an exciting 1-hour course on Friday, May 20, 2016 at 6:30 p.m.: Energy Storage Innovation!!

The course will be taught by a local Montana mystery man: “Right On John.” See his Facebook page here.

Right on John purports to be from Canada. He has invented and designed a wide variety of alternative energy devices.

On Friday, May 20, Right On John will put on a demonstration and exam on the topic of energy storage innovations.

The event will take place at the DOT vacant lot/gravel lot parking area adjacent to the I-90 frontage road just west of exit 324. 6:30 pm.

Apr 26

Turkey’s President Pursues Thousands for Insulting Government

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Every government in history ultimately came to jail or kill all resistors and critics as ‘traitors’ and promoters of ‘sedition.’

English history is filled with persecution and even hangings of people who criticized government. (And Britain has historically been ‘liberal’ compared to other countries.)

Now Turkey’s President Erdogan is pursuing some 2,000 CASES against journalists, celebrities and even comedians and teenagers who criticized him. See here.

Apr 26

Secretary of State Kerry–Part of an Administration that Lectures Americans Not to Squirrel Money away in Off-shore Accounts–Has hidden MILLIONS in Off-shore Accounts

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President Obama frequently lashes out at U.S. companies that seek to escape America’s high tax burden by headquartering overseas. Last week, after the release of the “Panama Papers” which show that world leaders who impose high taxes on their own subjects are hiding their own riches in off-shore low- (or no-) tax accounts, Obama lashed out at people who seek to get around high tax rates by doing the same.

Now it seems that one of Washington’s wealthiest government officials–Secretary of State John Kerry (who is married to an heiress to the Heinze Ketchup empire)–has hidden MILLIONS in off-shore, low- or no-tax, secret, investment accounts. See here!

(BTW Kerry was previously caught docking and registering his multi-million-dollar yacht at a wharf in lower-tax Rhode Island instead of his nearby home state of (high-tax) Massachusetts in order to avoid hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes.)

Apr 25

Was the Civil Rights Movement a Struggle for More Government?

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Trusters of expansive, intrusive government have spread the notion that the Civil Rights struggles of the 1960s were struggles for more government.

In fact, the Civil Rights movement was a guerilla, libertarian victory over socialism and government supremacy.

When Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white bus passenger in December 1955, she was defying the state.

The Montgomery, Alabama bus line was operated according to Alabama State laws which required commuter buses to be segregated by race.

The famed Montgomery bus boycott could not have been successful without the courage of black cab owners in the private sector. Montgomery taxis, like buses, were subject to segregation laws, meaning there were white cab companies and black cab companies. The 18 black cab companies in Montgomery stepped up to pick up and transport blacks for only a dime apiece (the same as bus fare).

Ironically it was the arrogance of the state that made the bus boycott truly successful. Immediately after Rosa’s arrest, the Montgomery police commissioner announced that 2 motorcycle cops would follow each bus the following Monday, “to protect anyone who wished to ride” from “goon squads.” Ironically, this announcement had the effect of convincing some waverers to join the bus boycott.

That Monday, virtually every black commuter in Montgomery found other transportation to and from work. Many car-pooled; others walked great distances; others took the discounted cab rides.

Government leaders were outraged at the defiance. City officials demanded that the black cab companies comply with the city code, which set a minimum cab fare of 45 cents per passenger. In response, the black churches organized a network of volunteer carpools.

The Montgomery bus boycott lasted a year, during which there were bombings and harassment on a grand scale by police. Cops followed black carpoolers and ticketed drivers for trivial offenses. Some black car owners were cited for petty nonmoving infractions such as weak brakes or maladjusted headlights. City wreckers towed the cars away at owners’ expense, to city-approved shops for repairs billed to the drivers.

On October 30, 1956, almost a year after Rosa’s arrest, the City of Montgomery went to local court seeking wide-ranging injunction “to stop the operation of the car pools or transportation systems growing out of the bus boycott,” and to collect damages of $15,000 for loss of tax revenues. A local Montgomery judge (the same judge who convicted Rosa Parks of a crime for refusing to comply with the government’s segregation program) was preparing to issue a decree declaring the boycott an illegal conspiracy.

However the court proceedings were interrupted by phone calls from Washington reporting that the U.S. Supreme Court had invalidated Rosa Park’s arrest and struck down Alabama’s bus segregation laws as unconstitutional.

Source: Jane Stevenson, “Rosa Parks Wouldn’t Budge,” 23 American Heritage 2 (Feb. 1972).

Apr 25

NASA again caught faking climate data: this time the Agency has altered sea level figures

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Again, the tireless data analyst Tony Heller (Steven Goddard) has found that NASA is altering climate figures to help the government promote its global-warming-hysteria agenda. See here.

In 1983, the pro-government climate hysteric James Hansen (considered one of the founding fathers of the manmade-global-warming-hysteria movement) published data showing the seas were rising.

But NASA must have thought the data wasn’t startling enough. The Agency has altered the data to make it seem that the seas are rising even faster!

Apr 24

The reality of socialism: Hugo Chavez’ daughter is worth $4 billion in a nation of starving slaves

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Socialists promise equality but deliver slavery, impoverishment, poverty and heartbreak. Gavin McInnes writes about attending a recent rally for socialist Bernie Sanders. The brain-dead attendants all expect the impossible.

McInnes writes about Venezuela, where the late Hugo Chavez imposed a vast socialist remake for his impoverished and long-suffering subjects.

After 20 years of socialism, Venezuelans are suffering, starving and struggling for food, energy, medicine and basic goods.

Meanwhile Hugo Chavez’s daughter is reported to be worth $4 billion. See here.

Apr 22

Government ice measurement agency caught altering measurements to make 5-year-old ice appear to be at “its smallest level” ever recorded

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Tony Heller, the dogged data analyst who blogs as Steven Goddard, has previously caught the NSIDC (National Snow and Ice Data Center) cheating, just as Arctic sea ice extent was about to cross above the 1979-2000 average.

The NSIDC changed their measurement system to hide the fact that Arctic ice was growing to above-average levels.

Now Heller has caught the NSIDC cheating again. The agency has been promoting a claim that 5-year-old-plus ice is disappearing in the Arctic.

Heller had been carefully monitoring the agency’s weekly data reports, and noticed that just before the agency’s charts for ‘4-year-old’ ice was about to turn 5 years old (and show that 5-year-old ice is growing, not declining), the agency altered their measurement system! See here.