Feb 21

Lawyers imbed drastic new criminal penalties into “Trans-Pacific Partnership”–after it was supposedly finalized!

Evil-Queen-evil-queen-14612103-800-600

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 “legally scrubbed.”

The legal scrubbing process, which was ongoing from November until the re-release of the text last month, was meant to be a process in which lawyers, trade ministry staff, and translators, go over the deal word-by-word, to ensure that it is legally consistent and free of unintended errors or loopholes.

The “legal scrubbing” resulted in new criminal penalties being added, for such things as copyright infringements. See here.

Feb 20

US military “fights climate change” by moving to “renewable” fuels, costing taxpayers tens of billions!

worship2_dees

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.

The Navy must spend $27 per gallon for biofuels from algae, waste grease and animal fat, and $424 a gallon for 20,000 gallons of “sustainable” diesel fuel.

All that when conventional gasoline, diesel and jet fuel (thanks to fracking) sell for $2.00-$3.50 per gallon!

See here.

Feb 20

Gas in Venezuela Rises to 15 Cents a Gallon

sociallism

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 planning. The public rioted so severely during past government-imposed price increases that the Venezuelan government has kept gasoline at the same price since 1994! Now the government has finally decided to raise the price of gasoline from less than a penny a gallon to 15 cents.

Meanwhile, inflation is estimated to be 190 percent per year.

The Venezuelan economy actually shrank 5.7 percent per year.

Feb 20

U.S. Postal Service Lost Money Every Year Since 2007

liber

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.

McNicoll added that the U.S.P.S. does not expect to make its $5.8 billion payment for 2016 either. See here.

Feb 19

Government University Students Traumatized by Speaker who Criticized Government Ideology

protest_dees

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 around campus the next day.”

See here.

Feb 14

Dodd-Frank Act has led to fewer banks offering free checking

DSC09194_14140411_std

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 was passed with the intention of “protecting consumers.”)

Before [Dodd-Frank], a $1 billion institution might have had one person working half-time to make sure government regulations were obeyed; now it’s four to five people.

Feb 13

Arctic ice pack at a 10-year high with another month of winter to go

ice8

Sea ice in the southern hemisphere is at THE HIGHEST LEVEL EVER MEASURED.

In the Northern Hemisphere, sea ice is currently at a 10-year high. According to Danish measurements, the Arctic sea ice pack has been increasing for five years and is now greater than it has been since 2005.

See here.

Feb 13

Venezuelan socialism = rationing of electricity

obey_dees

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. But those hoping to buy what they could find got a new unpleasant surprise this week.

Now the Venezuelan government is rationing electricity. See here.

Feb 12

NASA’s budget increasingly reflects obsession with global warming

ice6

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 details.

Feb 12

If you save anything today, you are an utter fool

illuminati-pyramid2

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.

Now, increasingly, government banks are setting “negative” interest rates: you pay the bank to keep your money, rather than the other way around. See here.