Nov 27
Anthony Watts from wattsupwiththat.com is an articulate debunker of government claims regarding global warming. Here, Professor Watts gives a brilliant summary of how government agencies are doctoring temp data to give a false impression of global warming. Watch the video here.
Nov 27
Chicago, and the State of Illinois, are ‘failed states.’ Parasitic city and state governments have sucked their taxpayers dry, almost to death. See here.
The region–which once harbored brilliant entrepreneurs and spawned major manufacturers and businesses–is now a socialist hellhole, which imposes ever-higher taxes on its impoverished citizens.
Chicago’s police department has openly operated a torture and interrogation facility where suspects and arrestees are taken “off the books” to be interrogated without access to lawyers or telephones. A blood-stained record of brutality has been documented at the facility. See here.
Now we read that that long-suffering City taxpayers have been forced to pay out a half billion dollars to pay for police brutality settlements. See here.
Nov 24
Trusters of the state frequently complain about “income inequality.” Yet Thomas Sowell points out that “the rich” and “the poor” are frequently the same people at different stages of their lives.
In fact, 56 percent of all households will be in the top 10 percent of income at some stage in their lives. See here. (Beginning around 3:00.)
Moreover, says Sowell (at around 3:30) a great majority of households in the top 1 percent are only there for a single year (frequently the year that members of the household sell a home or a business or inherit some wealth).
Only 13 percent of the top-earning one percent are there for two consecutive years.
Nov 24
Terrorist attacks in Paris last week have already taken their toll on French freedom. France is now a land of warrantless raids and arrests, paramilitary squads roaming the streets and Government limitations on freedom of speech and assembly. See here.
Nov 23
Pew Research Center. Dec. 2015. Statistically, the average person in the world is more likely to be killed by his own government than by any foreign government, any terrorist, or any criminal.
One’s own government is the greatest source of potential danger for the average person in the world.
Now, one-quarter of all Americans appear to be acknowledging the growing threat posed by advancing government.
Pew Research Center found that 27 percent of registered voters say they think of government as an enemy, up 8 points since 1996. See here. See here.
Those who feel “basically content” with government are an extremist minority, constituting only 18 percent.
Nov 22
Every government program that subsidizes heath care makes health care more expensive. Government supports subsidize demand without increasing supply, causing prices to rise.
New research by the Mercatus Center (see here) shows that Obamacare’s enrollment figures fell far short of projections. By MILLIONS.
Also, enrollment of “all but the near-poor is far below projections.” The uninsured middle class are “largely shunning” the new programs.
Additionally, “the pool of enrollees is sicker and more costly than projected.”
Insurers are losing billions annually (despite being subsidized by the government on a massive scale), increasing premiums, raising deductibles, and narrowing provider networks.
See here. Stay tuned!
Nov 21
Pater Tenebrarum provides a brilliant essay on Lewrockwell.com today. Tennebrarum writes that the “War on Terror” is the greatest scam of all time.
Tenebrarum provides the above graph showing that the “War on Terror” actually appears to have created MORE rather than less terror. Just as the “War on Poverty” stopped the rapid decline in poverty. Just as the “Affordable Care Act” has made “care” much LESS affordable.
Still, it is hard to compete with Social Security, which has impoverished vast millions of Americans by disincentivizing them from saving and investing and has transferred vast fortunes from poor people to richer people. See here.
Nov 21
Investors Business Daily reports on the recent discovery that a 1977 book called for (1) higher taxes, (2) greater government control and regulation over the oil, coal and gas industries, (3) more socialism and central planning by elites in government offices, and (4) a government program of subsidizing and supporting “alternative” energy sources.
See here. But these “cures” were proposed to stop . . . global cooling. Our masters in government, and their “science” allies, were heavily promoting the threat of global cooling in the 1970s.
Identical cures for “global warming” and “global cooling”: more government!
Nov 21
America’s government-approved and supported colleges have become dens of extremist pro-government, socialist, and elitist ideology. Those who speak up for individual liberty or free markets often live in fear of intimidation or retaliation by faculty and pro-government students.
Now, a group of Amherst protesters want students who posted a flyer around campus celebrating free speech to be punished. See here.
Nov 20
By now the evidence that climate-change socialists within government “science” agencies are falsifying temperature data to bolster their manmade-global-warming-by-CO2 claims has become insurmountable.
Another researcher bothered to do some homework and scrutinize some of the NASA temperature adjustments. See here.
Professor Dr. Friedrich Karl Ewert, a German scientist, found that some time between 2010 and 2012, someone within NASA altered the data set to show a warming trend.
And although the government scientists claim that “adjustments” are necessary to “fix” problems with missing data or malfunctioning thermometers, Dr. Ewert found that the methods used by NASA
(1) Reduced the annual mean of earlier years,
(2) reduced the high values in the first warming phase,
(3) increased values during the second warming phase,
and
(4) suppressed the cooling phase which began in 1995.
These alterations can be readily viewed and analyzed by the public.
