Oct 21

Driverless Cars–Brought to us by the Private Sector–Are Upon Us

Julian Simon (1932 - 1998), Professor of Business Administration at the University of Maryland. Scan of a BW print. Unknown shoot date. Scanned 7/30/2009. Please credit photo to the University of Maryland.

Julian Simon (1932 – 1998), Professor of Business Administration at the University of Maryland. Scan of a BW print. Unknown shoot date. Scanned 7/30/2009. Please credit photo to the University of Maryland.

(Pictured above: visionary and futurist Julian Simon)

After a century of needless regulation, and hundreds of thousands if not millions of violent arrests of drivers for traffic violations, the era of driverless cars is upon us.

Dozens of private firms, including Tesla, Apple, Google, GM, Honda and many others, are already producing driverless-car prototypes which are already traveling on American roadways.

There are occasional stories of crashes and near-misses (see here, for example), but driverless cars will soon be safer than human-driven cars.

When this happens, the American police state will be perplexed about how to proceed against the people.

Oct 21

Killington Ski Resort Opens at its Earliest Opening Date in a Decade

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Snow season is coming early in 2015. Killington Ski area–one of the largest in the eastern U.S.–is opening early due to early snow. See here.

Oct 20

Details Emerge Regarding Chicago Police Department’s Torture Warehouse

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More details are emerging regarding the torture and interrogation warehouse used for years by the Chicago Police Department. See here.

At least 6,000 “suspects” were arrested and taken to the warehouse over the years. The Chicago PD maintained NO BOOKING RECORDS at the site, and thus hid arrestees from lawyers and their families while the arrestees were illegally interrogated, pressured to snitch on others, and/or tortured.

Inmates were not allowed to use a telephone.

More than 80 percent of detainees were Black.

Arrestees were booked–again, without any records–and detained in the interrogation facility for days at a time, often before being taken to actual, official, jail facilities.

The revelations reveal a general collapse of law and constitutional due process, and an apathy by members of the legal profession regarding basic civil liberties.

Oct 20

The U.S. Already Has one of the World’s Most Anti-Rich Tax Structures

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Political observer Michael Barone watched the recent Democratic debate very closely. His conclusions are here.

The Democrats vying for President talked a great deal about “income inequality,” but offered few solutions to this alleged problem. A constant theme among current Democrats (and government trusters generally) is that “the rich” must be taxed more; and their wealth must be redistributed to “the poor,” to make things more “equal.”

But Barone points out that the current IRS burden already falls mostly on the rich. In fact, the U.S. tax burden is already the most “progressive” (meaning anti-rich) in the modern world:

current rates are the most progressive in the advanced OECD countries. The Scandinavian countries praised by Sanders have value-added (meaning sales) taxes around 25 percent.

Oct 16

France’s Top Meteorologist FIRED from Government TV for Questioning Government’s “Climate Change” Claims!

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France’s government has been pushing the manmade-climate-change-by-CO2 agenda extremely hard. France is organizing the upcoming Paris climate conference in which the world’s western governments will once again push for more socialism and control.

In June 2014, Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister, summoned the country’s main weather presenters and told them to mention “climate chaos” in their forecasts.

Now France’s government-owned TV network, “France 2,” has fired the best-known weather expert in France, Philippe Verdier, for criticizing the claims of manmade-global-warming alarmists. The London Telegraph story is here.

Verdier has recently authored a book accusing global-warming-alarm promoters of “taken the world hostage” with misleading data.

Mr Verdier said: “Every night I address five million French people to talk to you about the wind, the clouds and the sun. And yet there is something important, very important that I haven’t been able to tell you, because it’s neither the time nor the place to do so.”

He added: “We are hostage to a planetary scandal over climate change – a war machine whose aim is to keep us in fear.”

Afterwards, according to Verdier, “I received a letter telling me not to come. I’m in shock,” he told RTL radio. “This is a direct extension of what I say in my book, namely that any contrary views must be eliminated.”

Oct 15

Gallup Poll: the Most Knowledgeable Americans Hold Government in Greatest Contempt

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An interesting new poll by Gallup: those voters who have the most knowledge of current events and government policies have the greatest contempt for government.

As the Libertarian Party writes:

“The fundamental finding is that Americans who know the most about how Congress operates are not only the most negative about Congress in general, but also about the Republicans and Democrats in Congress specifically. This reinforces the general conclusion that criticisms of Congress — and the partisan leaders in Congress — are based on a realistic assessment of what these entities are doing rather than a lack of awareness of or interest in what they are doing.”

See here.

Oct 15

What do Americans Fear Above all other Things? Government Corruption

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Our masters in government routinely propagandize us to surrender ever-more freedom and deliver ever-more power to government officials.

But a new Chapman University poll shows Americans list “government corruption” as THEIR GREATEST FEAR.

Fear of government corruption is ranked above “terrorism,” crime, financial insecurity, climate disaster and every other potential threat. See TIME Magazine story here.

Fear of government is quite logical, given that the average person in the world is far more likely to be killed by his own government than by any other source. See here.

Oct 15

Vast Billions Appear to be Missing From “Affordable Care Act” Treasuries

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It is not unusual for government programs with immense budgets to “lose” large amounts of money. Government agents are known to siphon off money for use on fine dining, fancy hotels, payoffs and kickbacks and the occasional new deck or swimming pool in the back yard.

But according to Mytheos Holt (see here), several BILLION DOLLARS are missing from various “Obamacare”-network treasuries, or have been spent without explanation.

Holt suspects that vast millions may have been spent on propaganda efforts, on campaigns promoting Obamacare, and on payoffs to state officials in exchange for “supporting” the program.

Oct 15

Government’s “War on Terror” Now Focusing on Americans as Targets

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

Yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department announced a major new program and office dedicated to surveilling Americans and targeting so-called “home-grown” terror threats. See here.

As many observers predicted, the vast “War on Terror” has come home. Those who criticize expansive, intrusive government are known be high on the list of those targeted.

Previously-leaked secret government documents have already characterized libertarians, third-party voters and constitutionalists as “domestic extremists.” See here.

Oct 13

Social Security has Redistributed Hundreds of Billions of Dollars from Blacks to Whites

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A 1996 Rand study authored by Constantijn Panis and Lee Lillard found that the average Black male loses approximately $10,000 to Social Security over his lifetime. Because Blacks have lower average life expectancy than whites, most of this money is transferred to white people.

Social Security ranks second only to the institution of slavery as history’s most evil mechanism for forcibly robbing blacks of their resources and delivering those resources to whites.

Here is a link to the study.