Sep 19

Federal workers report highest rates of job satisfaction

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Statistically, a federal employee is more likely to die than to quit. They are so pampered with lavish pay and benefits that they report substantially higher levels of job satisfaction than do workers in the private sector.

A new Gallup poll finds that 82 percent of government workers are fully satisfied with their retirement plans (as compared to just 57 % of private-sector workers). See here.

In many rural counties, the largest and most luxurious homes and estates belong to government retirees. Federal workers can be commonly seen in large casinos in Las Vegas and Foxwoods, flashing wads of hundred dollar bills and spending lavishly on gambling and entertainment.

Sep 19

Another public college threatens to jail students who criticize government

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As shown previously (see here), America’s government colleges and universities have become Orwellian thought-control zones where wide-scale discrimination and repression of libertarian and anti-government thought are routinely practiced.

Now another government college, the College of DuPage in Illinois, has been caught falsely telling libertarian protesters that they have no constitutional right to hand out pro-freedom or anti-government brochures on public campus grounds without first getting government permission. A campus cop is caught on film threatening to arrest the students. See here.

Sep 19

20 government-supported “climate scientists” call for their skeptics to be jailed

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Last week, 20 “climate scientists”–each of whom is government-funded–signed a letter to President Obama and U.S. Attorney General Lynch calling for government to investigate and prosecute those who question or disagree with the government’s climate-change messaging. See the letter here.

The letter makes numerous preposterous claims (e.g., that skeptics are knowingly promoting false science, as “extensively documented in peer-reviewed academic research,”* and that the “methods of [skeptic] organizations are quite similar to those used earlier by the tobacco industry”).** The letter further alleges that skeptics’ doubts constitute criminal acts.

Any notion that the First Amendment might protect the expression of doubts regarding the government’s claims goes unmentioned in the letter.

Debate no more! the letter says. Jail those who disagree with the government! See here.

* the letter cites “(Brulle, 2013)” as support for the proposition that “peer reviewed academic research” demonstrates that skepticism funders are knowingly funding false research. The Brulle “study” has been discredited. Essentially, the Brulle study made the claim that conservative oil billionaires are spending as much as $1 billion annually to promote climate doubts, based on the fact that certain philanthropists support free-market think tanks which occasionally delve into climate questions.

** the analogy between skeptics of the government’s climate-power agenda and the tobacco industry is a false one. Tobacco companies were marketing a product. Skeptics are merely voicing questions or expressing their opinions.

Sep 19

Satellite Temp Readings show NO WARMING FOR 18 YEARS, 8 MONTHS

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Governments and their worshippers are promoting claims that 2015 is on track to become “the hottest year in world history.” (Just as these same sources claimed 2014 was the hottest year in history.)

But these claims are entirely based upon government-manipulated land and ocean-surface temperatures. Almost half of these temps are fake, or have been government-adjusted. See here. A common way for governments and government-funded scientists to manipulate temperature claims is to “adjust” the past to make it appear colder than it was actually measured.

Satellite measurements–which are arguably far more reliable–have measured NO WARMING WHATSOEVER in 18 years, 8 months. See here.

Sep 19

In the wake of 9/11, the U.S. government falsely arrested thousands of innocent Americans

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Under common law, any cop (or anyone else, for that matter) who arrested another person without probable cause to believe a crime was committed was AT LEAST liable for false arrest. (Actually, under 19th-century common law, actual guilt and not mere probable cause was the standard.)

But after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, the U.S. government “called in” 80,000 foreign nationals for “special registration,” sought out some 8,000 for involuntary “interviews,” and detained 5,000 men without charge. NOT ONE OF THESE INDIVIDUALS STANDS CONVICTED OF ANY CRIME related to terrorism or national security.

If America’s civil rights laws worked properly, the agents of government who committed these acts should have been punished with judgments, penalties and fines totaling millions of dollars.

Yet the government was never punished.

Source: David Cole & Jules Lobel, “Less Safe, Less Free” 10 (2007).

Sep 16

As western societies choke innovation with high taxes and government controls, Asia’s millionaires become world’s richest group

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Europe and its colonies–especially British colonies–led the way in global prosperity and innovation between the 1600s and the 1900s. Small governments, constitutional law, and the industrial revolution led the people of the West to lead the world.

Now a new report indicates that Asian societies–especially those in southeast-Asian nations that have mostly rejected socialism and high taxation–are producing most of the world’s millionaires. See here.

“The combined wealth of Asia Pacific’s super rich will surpass its 2014 total of $15.8 trillion and overtake that of their North American counterparts — currently the world’s richest group with a shared wealth of $16.2 trillion last year, the study said.”

Sep 15

University of California To Ban “Expressions” of “Intolerance” (Don’t Laugh at the Doublespeak)

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We’ve seen this coming for a long time. Governmental Correctness codes at public colleges have been repeatedly struck down as unconstitutional by courts; yet the socialist-totalitarians who command and control America’s government universities continue to seek to enact speech censorship codes to suppress suspicion or distrust of expansive government or its sacred theology. Marxism and central planning good; libertarianism, social Darwinism or structural functionalism bad.

Today’s censors seek to turn campuses into zones where individualist, pro-free-market, or antigovernment ideology is banned–under the guise of fighting “intolerance.”

Now the University of California–a public institution subject to the Bill of Rights–is seeking to ban “expressions” of “intolerance” (don’t laugh at the doublespeak). See here. This proposal would govern not only UC-Berkeley, but all of the Satellite UC campuses–thus covering hundreds of thousands of students.

The proposed official language is carefully crafted to extoll the virtues of “academic freedom.” But there is the problematic insertion of the word “expressions”:

Everyone in the University community has the right to study, teach, conduct research, and work free from acts and expressions of intolerance

The moment one walks upon a government or government-supported college campus today, one enters a world of diminished freedoms and higher costs. Today’s college students walk on eggshells and pay higher costs for everything from parking to sandwiches (ironically, due to government subsidies). See here.

The government-university quest to eliminate “intolerance” is mostly a mask for the banning of libertarian thought. Students must chant messages disavowing any notion that societies function best without government interference.

Sep 15

NASA Now Admits that Antarctic Sea Ice is at an ALL-TIME HIGH

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It couldn’t be worse timing for the upcoming UN conference on manmade global warming. NASA’s website now admits that the amount of ice surrounding Antarctica is at THE HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE RECORDS HAVE BEEN KEPT.

The NASA website is here. Read how the NASA public relations staff seek to explain away this problem while continuing to cling to the government’s manmade-global-warming-by-CO2 claims. It makes for fascinating entertainment.

Sep 15

Illinois: a failed state

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Writer and economist Stephen Moore, a native Illinoisan, writes that:

* Nearly one of three state tax dollars in Illinois now goes to paying pensions for retired municipal and state employees.

* The Illinois government recently announced that its treasury had insufficient funds to pay off the State’s lottery winners.

* Illinois was the home of such iconic mega-employers as Caterpillar, Sears Roebuck and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. But today, “the rich” are fleeing for Florida, Arizona and Texas.

* The City of Chicago is now at “junk bond” status with regard to further credit.

See Moore’s column here.

Sep 14

New York Times: Climate-Change “Deniers” Will Bring World Genocide

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An astounding op-ed “review” appeared in yesterday’s (Sunday, Sept. 12, 2015) edition of the New York Times. Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale University, wrote what is apparently a summary of his new book: “Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning.”

The review is here. The Amazon link to the book is here.

In a snapshot of outrageously inaccurate interpretation of world history and events, Snyder claims that “deniers” (he means the inquisitive or skeptics) of the government’s manmade-global-warming-by-CO2 theory are leading the world toward global genocide in the same manner as the Nazis in Germany and the Hutus in Rwanda led their societies toward genocide.

Snyder gets so many facts wrong in such a short essay that one can only marvel at the selection process at work in the Yale University History Department. Yale, like most other government-supported universities, practices widescale discrimination and repression of individualist, antigovernment thought. See here.

Snyder claims the Nazis’ antagonism toward Jews was somehow related to Nazi desires for more land and the Nazi government’s suspicion that Jews were somehow in the way of such land expansion.

Snyder claims the Rwandan genocide of the 1990s was mostly attributable to squabbles over farmland.

The New York Times piece illustrates the sad state of scholarship and reporting in America’s once-proud institutions of letters and journalism.

The manmade-global-warming scare is mostly a product of socialist ideology, modeling by government-supported climate scientists, and government “adjustments” of past temperature records to make the past seem colder than thermometers actually recorded. See here.