Jan 09

Watch out! Employees of government transport companies double as dope snitches!

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There was a time, long ago, when “mass transit” was mostly provided by private companies. Passenger train, bus and jitney transportation was highly profitable. Fares were low.

Trusters of government decried the outrageous profits of the “railroad barons” and demanded more regulations. The regulations made the industry less profitable, and train and bus fares increased.

Companies went broke, and government took over. Today, the government’s “Amtrak” line is THE ONLY MAJOR PASSENGER railroad line in America. It LOSES MILLIONS ANNUALLY, and needs to be supported by taxpayers. Fares are high.

And a recent report by the Office of Inspector General reveals that Amtrak employees may be fingering passengers for arrest and are paid by the D.E.A.!

Government “workers” are already paid twice what private-sector workers are paid. Now it is revealed that they may be making money on the side as government snitches.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration inappropriately paid one Amtrak employee more than $850,000 over 20 years to identify passengers who may be smuggling drugs.

See here!

Jan 09

Chicago officials paid $5 million in hush money to keep police murder tape from leaking to the public; Payment was timed to save reelection campaigns

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More darkness, evil and corruption out of the failed socialist city-state of Chicago.

Information has surfaced that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel and City lawyers conspired to pay $5 million in hush money to the family of murdered pedestrian Laquan McDonald. See here.

You couldn’t make this stuff up if you were writing a horror script for a Hollywood film.

The police dashcam video shows McDonald innocently walking AWAY from officers, who fired 16 rounds into him from some 40 FEET AWAY and murdered him. (McDonald was apparently holding a knife, which is perfectly legal.)

The details are shocking. The Mayor was facing a tough runoff battle for reelection. Knowing that public release of the incriminating police murder video might harm him in the runoff election, the City government made a series of backroom secret deals to cover up the murder by offering to pay $5 million in hush money (taken by force from the unknowing long-suffering citizens of Chicago) to the murder victim’s family.

“[T]he City Council voted unanimously to approve the $5 million settlement in just 36 seconds,” preventing public discussion of the matter at the time.

* The City of Chicago is a failed socialist state, buried in debts and taxes and grasping for money and power as it collapses into bankruptcy. It is dragging the State of Illinois down with it.

* Despite its precarious financial position, the City has paid out $500 million for police killings, rapes, beatings, torture and cover-ups. See here.

* Government trusters make a big deal of the supposed influence of private-sector ad spending on elections. Yet the private sector DOES NOT COVER UP MURDER, AND CANNOT DISPERSE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TAKEN FROM TAXPAYERS IN ORDER TO CONCEAL CORRUPTION AND MISCONDUCT to win elections.

Jan 08

Will Glacier National Park’s glaciers be gone in four years?

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by Dr. Roger I. Roots

Last Fall I proposed a $5,000 bet that there will still be glaciers in Glacier National Park in 2030. This is contrary to DOZENS of signs inside Glacier National Park, as well as many government flyers and pamphlets that are handed out to GNP visitors.

As of yet, no one has taken me up on my $5,000 offer.

This got me thinking: What is the government going to do as 2030 approaches and it becomes clear that their preposterous claims are untrue?

I have no doubt that the government will begin modifying these claims by 2025, if not sooner.

Knowing that government officials and their government-supporting scientists might try to avoid embarrassment, I have started recording screenshots of government websites (and the websites of various pro-government “environmentalist” groups) which make the claim that manmade-global-warming will melt the GNP glaciers by 2030.

I came across a shocking National Geographic website making an even more extreme prediction: that the GNP glaciers will all be gone by 2020–FOUR YEARS FROM NOW!

Screenshot image is above. The website is here.

Jan 07

Unintended Consequences: Government passes Rule to punish airlines that keep passengers too long on tarmacs; produces a sharp increase in flight cancelations

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In the summer of 2007, there were news reports that commercial jets were occasionally stuck for hours waiting to depart.

Government responded heroically. The Obama Administration decreed that if passengers on a plane are stuck on the tarmac for more than three hours, the carrier is liable for a fine of $27,500 per passenger.

Now, however, a study finds a sharp increase in flight cancellations.

“[P]assengers who might have waited four hours to take off may find themselves waiting even longer to catch another flight. They may be stuck at airports far from home, sitting or sleeping on the floor. They may miss connecting flights.”

They may also incur expenses for food, lodging and other needs. Some of them won’t ever get where they planned to go, because the delay renders the trip pointless.

See here.

Jan 07

New Study: only 5.8 % of people in highest 1 % are there two years in a row

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A shocking new study shatters sacred myths of government trusters.

Some 11% of Americans will join the Top 1% for at least one year during their prime working lives, according to research done by Thomas Hirschl, a sociology professor at Cornell University.

But only 5.8% of the 1% will be in the 1% for two years or more.

As for holding onto this status for at least 10 years? Only a miniscule 1.1% of Americans who enter the 1% category are this fortunate.

The IRS looked at how frequently the same Top 400 taxpayers appeared on the list over a 22-year period ending in 2013. Some 72% ranked that high for just one year. Only 3% were listed for a decade or more.

While just over half of Americans reach the Top 10% at least once in their careers, only 14% stay in it for a decade or more, Hirschl found.

On the flip side, it’s not uncommon for Americans to spend some time at the bottom of the heap. Some 54% of Americans will be in or near poverty for at least one year by their 60th birthday, Hirschl said.

These findings DESTROY claims by such pro-government extremists as Bernie Sanders that government must forcibly redistribute resources from “the one percent” to the poor. In fact, as Thomas Sowell has pointed out, (see here), the rich and the poor are largely the same people at different stages of their lives.

See here.

Jan 06

63 percent of Americans are one paycheck away from homelessness

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If you save anything in modern America, you are an utter fool. Government policies, such as near-zero Fed interest rates, massive and growing levels of taxation and regulation, and increasing government barriers to entering most careers have hollowed out the financial strength of the American working class.

New figures show that 63 percent of Americans cannot scrape together $500 for an emergency. See here.

And, of course, Social Security and Medicare have incentivized most Americans to work less, save less, invest less, and retire earlier. See here.

Economic research indicates that Social Security alone has made America at least 2 to 4 percent poorer. See here.

Jan 06

Americans say government is their biggest problem again

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Gallup has been asking people about the biggest threat to their lives and livelihoods every month for some time.

For the past two years, a vast majority have said they view government as their greatest problem. See here.

When Gallup asked Americans what troubles them most and is the chief threat to our way of life, one issue is head and shoulders above all the others: the government.

When asked to choose between big government, big labor and big business, 69 % of those who were surveyed overwhelmingly named big government as the “biggest threat to America’s future.”

Nearly nine out of 10 Republicans say big government is the biggest threat, but 67 percent of independents and 53 percent of Democrats say so, too. (And remember, Democrats are largely government employees and aid recipients themselves!)

Jan 05

In Effort to Strip Private Citizens of Guns, “Liberal” President Moves to Strip Mental Health System of Confidentiality

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Every government ultimately comes for all freedom, all property, and to kill all who resist.

For centuries, the law has recognized physician-patient confidentiality. Doctors who snitch on their clients or who disseminate private, confidential information regarding their patients have faced professional penalties.

Now, in the never-ending quest of government to strip the private sector of guns, President Obama has announced a rule that mental health practitioners may snitch on patients with “mental health issues,” thus enabling the government to bar them for life from purchasing firearms. See here.

Soon, no doubt, the practitioners may even be REQUIRED to add mental patients to the government background-check lists.

Obviously, this will have far-reaching implications to the mental health profession, and will incentivize people needing treatment to NOT SEEK such treatment.

Stay tuned!

Jan 03

It Appears that China may be Kidnapping or Killing Hong Kong Booksellers

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Shocking story from Hong Kong, one of the freest countries on earth.

For a century, Hong Kong was a British colony. It has a British style court system (complete with jury trials), protections for property rights, and relatively free markets.

Hong Kong attracted millions of ethnic Chinese who fled the mainland. Over time, the average resident of Hong Kong (who are the same race as those in China) became a hundred times wealthier than the average resident of China.

But China retook the Island a decade ago.

Now it appears that China may be cracking down on free speech and press in Hong Kong. Booksellers who sell books critical of Chinese officials–books that are banned in mainland China and popular with Chinese tourists–are apparently going missing.

See here.

Jan 01

Federal Trade Commission Issues Guidelines Purporting to Regulate Ads that Appear too much like News

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Every government ultimately comes for all freedom, all property, all money, and to kill all who resist.

The Federal Trade Commission, whose jurisdiction is supposedly limited to . . . well, ‘trade,’ has just published new “native advertising” guidelines for print and digital publishers. See here.

The guidelines purport to try to regulate the publication of ads that seem too much like news.

According to the New York Post, the FTC seems to be pushing to require “some variation of the word “advertisement” to appear near native ads that it deems could create confusion if consumers cannot discern quickly and simply that what they are viewing is a paid ad.

But the First Amendment poses something of a problem to the FTC.

Stay tuned!