Jul 30

Former NASA official: sea levels could rise 10 feet in 50 years!

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Every government spreads fear among its subjects to increase its power: Terror! Weapons of Mass Destruction! We’re all going to die! Just give government more power!

Now, former NASA lead climate scientist James Hansen is claiming sea levels could rise 10 feet in 50 years. See this climatedepot.com report.

Astoundingly, CBS, NBCNews.com, MSNBC and Slate have all hyped Hansen’s prediction and credentials. Watch the video compilation provided in the Climatedepot.com piece.

Of course, the claims of these alarmists (and their media partners) should be considered highly suspicious. See here, here and here.

Jul 29

The State of the Climate

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During the hot 1990s, many government scientists predicted Arctic Ice would be gone during the summers, by 2013. Al Gore’s famous film “An Inconvenient Truth,” claimed that Arctic sea ice would be gone in the summer as early as 2015.

But by the time 2013 came around, Arctic sea ice had grown by 533,000 square miles! That year was the quietest tornado season in six decades, and the calmest hurricane season in three decades.

American air quality is also better than ever, according to the EPA.

Jul 28

New study shows recent minimum-wage hikes have caused the loss of 700,000 jobs

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More than a hundred peer-reviewed economic studies have established that raising (or imposing) a minimum wage is correlated with increased unemployment.

The only studies purporting to show otherwise are those that occurred in unusual economic circumstances (such as in a “boom-town” situation where wages were naturally rising rapidly anyway).

The strong correlation between minimum-wage laws and unemployment is plain common sense: if there were NO correlation, IT WOULD BE IMMORAL NOT TO IMMEDIATELY DEMAND A $1,000-PER-HOUR (OR HIGHER) MINIMUM WAGE. Just think how many poor people could be lifted out of poverty if politicians wielded such power!

Now a new study has analyzed data from the recent rash of state governments that have raised their minimum wages; and the study compares those states to states whose governments did not raise minimum wages.

Results?

In 2013 High Minimum Wages Cost 747,700 Jobs: In 2013 a $1 increase in the minimum wage was associated with a 1.48 percent increase in the unemployment rate, which amounted to 747,700 jobs. States with minimum wages above the federal standard are lagging behind their counterparts by a full percentage point.

Read the study here.

Jul 28

“Almost Half” of Government “Temperature Data” is Now Fake

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According to climatologist Steven Goddard, “Almost half of all reported US temperature data is now fake. [The government] fill[s] in missing rural data with urban data to create the appearance of non-existent US warming.” See here.As the globe continues its long-term cooling trend, the climate-change-socialist movement appears to be simply faking the data.

Goddard states that the government’s fabrication and manipulation of temp data “corrupts the US temperature trend by almost two degrees.”

Jul 26

It Appears that Crime and Traffic Fatalities Have Been Going Down Since Washington State Legalized Marijuana

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When the State of Washington legalized recreational marijuana in 2012, government-trusters claimed the move would cause a spike in crime and traffic crashes. But thus far, the evidence appears to show that Washington has experienced a continuing decline in overall crime and a decrease in traffic fatalities.

A discussion by Professor Mark Thornton is here.

Jul 21

Arctic ice recently grew by ONE-THIRD!

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2013-2014 was an extremely cold winter in the northern hemisphere. The following summer (2014) remained cooler than average.

Now the BBC reports that arctic ice expanded by ONE-THIRD just in the past 2 years! See here.

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, meanwhile, remains high, at or near a record for the past hundred years.

Jul 20

Virginia rape case: prosecutor and judge colluded to conceal evidence of innocence.

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In Charlottesville, Virginia, an innocent man named Mark Weiner was falsely convicted of rape after a Democratic prosecutor and a Republican judge agreed that evidence of pure innocence (cell phone records indicating the purported rape “victim” lied) should be kept from the jury.

In the words of Professor William L. Anderson, “Who says that Republicans and Democrats cannot work together?”

Read it here.

Jul 19

Martin Armstrong: Government Research Grants go only to “Scientists” Who Produce Results the Government Likes.

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The economist Martin Armstrong writes that a few years ago he was offered an opportunity to do a federal research project for substantial grant money.

When I was called upon for research back to form the G5 and then wrote the White House warning that manipulating the dollar down would create volatility and a crash within two years (1987), I was told I would never again be asked by government for anything. I was told outright to do studies that provide the conclusion up front and I would earn millions of dollars a year for bogus research reports.

Armstrong’s story is here.

Jul 19

Wisconsin Political Police Launched Violent Armed SWAT Raid in a Witch Hunt against Political Donors

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In a free society, every person has a right to say, publish and broadcast any truthful facts about anything. One can pay for a full-page ad in any newspaper (that is willing to take the money) saying what one wants to say.

Increasingly, this is not the case in America. After generations of suffering setbacks when they tried to censor speech that was suspicious of government, government-trusters are moving to exploit a new theory to limit freedom of speech.

They seek to censor suspicion by using “campaign finance” laws, upon claims that the SPENDING on published remarks can be outlawed.

Of course, by outlawing SPENDING on speech that the government disagrees with, the government can effectively eliminate free speech–and totally control American politics.

On a fall day back in 2012, an armed SWAT team launched a pre-dawn raid of several private homes to search for any evidence that people in those households had “coordinated” with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker when paying for pro-Walker ads. (The horror!)

(Note: nothing in this post should suggest any support whatsoever for Scott Walker.)

As political activist Paul Jacob writes: “This was simply the opening salvo in a long and intrusive “John Doe” investigation of 26 groups suspected of violating Wisconsin’s campaign finance regulations by allegedly coordinating their activities with Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign.”

But “To this day, after years and much “evidence” gathering, no one has been charged.”

Paul Jacob continues:

those being investigated [we]re ordered to remain silent. Those who suffered from the Wisconsin raids were told that they couldn’t tell anyone other than their attorneys. . . . children, forced to miss school waiting while their homes were ransacked, were told to lie to school officials as to why.

Had Eric O’Keefe, head of the Wisconsin Club for Growth, not bravely defied the gag order and spoken out about this sinister and illegal political witch hunt, it might indeed be proceeding apace and in secret — without the people of Wisconsin or America having any knowledge of what their government was doing.

O’Keefe risked talking to the Wall Street Journal, which published an editorial lambasting the Wisconsin speech police. But O’Keefe also sued Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm, Special Prosecutor Francis Schmitz and others involved in the John Doe probe in federal court for violating his First Amendment rights.

Federal District Judge Rudolph Randa not only ruled in O’Keefe’s favor, he ordered that all materials taken by DA Chisholm and his speech police be immediately returned and any copies made of documents or computer hard drives be destroyed.

Yet, The witch hunt continued. Until this week, when the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that the investigation was wholly baseless and illegal, and targeted people “who were wholly innocent of any wrongdoing.”

Paul Jacob’s writeup is here.

Jul 19

U.S. Government Continues to Expand its List of Persons “Disabled” from Possessing Firearms

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

Now we read that the U.S. government is (again) seeking to extend the outer boundaries of people whom the government seeks (without legislation) to strip of gun rights.

The government is now seeking to create a database of people “who are incapable of managing their own affairs,” and seeking (again, without legislation) to disallow such people from purchasing a firearm. “The new policy would use the same strategy employed by the VA to report certain veterans to the background check system. They take note of anyone who has assigned a fiduciary to manage their pension when they’re not competent enough to do it themselves.”

The story is here.