Jan 09

More Californians flee: U-Haul reports it can’t keep its rental trucks and trailers in the state

U-Haul annually surveys which states its rental trucks and trailers are traveling to and from. California has been among the leading net-losers in recent years; and this year California was far-and-away the national leader in U-Haul rentals leaving but not returning.

In 2020 the State lost more equipment than Illinois, which had the final spot in 2019. San Francisco departures accounted for 58% of all one-way U-Haul traffic from March through June, causing limited equipment supplies in the area.

“For a good part of this year we’ve had far more customers than we’ve actually had equipment to serve these customers,” said Victor Vanegas, area district vice president for U-Haul, in a video statement. “We rely actually on inbound equipment to serve a lot of these customers so when the net is out, not in, it’s a little more difficult to serve these customers.”

Arrivals into the Bay Area were down 31% from March to December 2020, compared with the same time period in 2019.

Jan 09

More government lies about the environment exposed: there is no mass die-off of species.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA. The California Academy of Sciences has conceded that in 2021, at least 70 new plant and animal species were discovered. “The new species include 14 beetles, 12 sea slugs, nine ants, seven fish, six scorpions, five sea stars, five flowering plants, four sharks, three spiders, two sea pens, one moss, one pygmy pipehorse, and one caecilian.” In 2020 a new species of whale was discovered off the Pacific coast of Mexico.

Now there is news that the giant sea bass–a fish widely reported to be on the verge of extinction by government-supported scientists–is actually thriving in the Pacific Ocean just off the coast of Mexico. The fish is commonly caught by Mexican fisherman and sold by the pound every day at Mexican fish markets.

To our surprise, we found giant sea bass everywhere in the fish markets and fishing grounds from our very first assessments. The fishmongers were never out of the fish; instead, they would ask us, “How many kilos do you need?” It was clear that for fishers in Mexico, the species is still common in the sea, and therefore, in their nets. It is still possible to find big fish up to 450 pounds 200 kilograms, and the average catch was around 26 pounds (12 kilograms).

British scientist Matt Ridley (pictured) has exposed popular claims that the world’s species are experiencing mass extinctions as gross exaggerations.

Jan 07

Chinese government raids dozens of homes at midnight, busses hundreds to “quarantine camps”

The Sun is reporting that “CHINESE authorities reportedly raided dozens of homes in the middle of the night and forced people onto buses to quarantine camps under the world’s strictest lockdown.” The Chinese government claims it is controlling one of its worst outbreaks in a single city since the beginning.

“The 13 million people living in the northern city of Xian have been banned from leaving their homes – even for essential reasons like buying food.”

“It is not known exactly how many people were ordered to leave during the midnight eviction, but one person reported seeing 30 buses, while another claimed up to a thousand people were moved, BBC News reports.”
“[S]tarving residents have been begging for food on social media.”

“State-owned newspaper Global Times reported there was a shortage of deliverymen as many were under quarantine themselves.”

Jan 07

Australian government locks down unvaccinated citizens, barring them from work or exercise

Australia has quickly become one of the greatest tyrannies in human history–supposedly in response to a disease “pandemic” that has (at most) a 3/10ths of 1% death rate for those infected.

PJ Media reports that citizens who fail to submit to government-sponsored COVID-19 injections are prohibited in one province from even going to work or exercising. They are locked in their homes 24/7. Those who defy the lockdowns will be arrested and taken to concentration camps.

Jan 07

India arrests citizens who cheered Pakistan’s victory over India in cricket match–for sedition

Uttar Pradesh, India. October. The Guardian reports that “Indian police have arrested seven Muslim youths for allegedly celebrating Pakistan’s victory over India in a cricket match.” The prospective charges: sedition, cyberterrorism and “promoting enmity among groups.”

“[F]ederal cabinet minister Sidharth Nath Singh, told NDTV news channel that Uttar Pradesh police would take the strictest possible action against anyone for exulting in India’s defeat in Sunday’s T20 World Cup cricket game in Dubai.”

Jan 02

Emails reveal government pushing reporters to smear scientists who criticize government COVID actions

“In public, Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins urge Americans to “follow the science.” In private, the two sainted public-health officials schemed to quash dissenting views from top scientists. That’s the troubling but fair conclusion from emails obtained recently via the Freedom of Information Act by the American Institute for Economic Research.”

The emails show that in October 2020, Dr. Collins and Dr. Fauci sought to compel media outlets to suppress, censor and ignore “the Great Barrington Declaration,” a statement by Harvard’s Martin Kulldorff, Oxford’s Sunetra Gupta and Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya against blanket pandemic lockdowns. Kulldorff, Gupta and Bhattacharya favored a policy of protecting high-risk populations such as the elderly but not otherwise restricting most individuals.

According to the Wall Street Journal, “That didn’t please the lockdown consensus enforced by public-health officials. . . .” Collins and Fauci “used their authority to stigmatize dissenters and crush debate.” Collins and Fauci went into action smearing the Declaration and its signatories as fringe elements. Dr. Bhattacharya—one of the targets of the smears—said in a recent interview that Collins “basically said that we wanted the virus to spread – rip through the population. And Dr. Fauci said the same thing . . .”

Bhattacharya points out that “Dr. Collins sits on top of over $40 billion worth of money that go to other scientists to fund research. When he says he wants a devastating takedown, well, he has the resources to go find people to do that. And you can see from the strategy that they use, they essentially went to friendly press, spread their propaganda and lies about the Great Barrington Declaration in order to not engage with the ideas in it.” “[M]illions of people are starving as a consequence of lockdown. They didn’t want to address those harms. And so instead they engaged a propaganda campaign.”

Jan 02

Government-supporting media sources are struggling to maintain their “mass formation psychosis” in the wake of Dr. Malone interview

The phrase “mass formation psychosis” was widely searched for after the eminent Dr. Robert Malone was interviewed on the widely watched Joe Rogan podcast. Malone said that Twitter and other social media sites permanently deleted him due to “horizontal” collusion between all mainstream media and government information sources. Malone, the inventor of Mrna technology and a critic of COVID-19 mrna injection mandates, has been scrubbed from the internet establishment for disputing the government-imposed narrative.

Critical observers uniformly acknowledge that all major establishment media sources are on the same page regarding the push to promote Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 “vaccines” and deny the efficacy of natural immunity or non-vaxx treatments. But many do not recognize that government is secretly driving the narrative—even among seemingly private tech platforms.

It has recently been leaked that the US Dept. of Homeland Security is “working with” mass media platforms to get the platforms to push government-approved messaging regarding the alleged pandemic. Messaging which strays from the government narrative is described as “misinformation” and deleted. The US Congress is also pushing to openly pay for pro-government “journalism” even as “journalism” in other once-free nations is already paid for by government.

Jan 02

Overregulation is killing private medical practice

Devorah Goldman, writing in the Wall Street Journal, reports that her father’s rheumatology practice in Brooklyn has been swamped with patients from far-flung states because many other private practices have closed permanently.

Overregulation by medical authorities is destroying private medical practice.
In 1983, more than 75% of physicians owned their own practices. By 2018 that figure had dropped to 46%. Now, according to a 2020 survey by the Physicians Foundation, 12% of all U.S. doctors either closed their offices during the pandemic or were planning to do so within the year. Some 59% agreed that the pandemic would “lead to a reduction in the number of independent physician practices in their communities,” and half agreed that “hospitals will exert stronger influence over the organization and delivery of healthcare as a result” of the pandemic.
“[T]here are simply fewer places to seek care, and many of those that are available are bureaucratic mega-facilities.” Theodore Dalrymple lamented that government influence over medicine has been growing constantly. The UK government “now dictates conditions of work and employment, the number of hours worked, the drugs and other treatments that may be prescribed.” Doctors “are less and less members of a profession; instead, they are production workers under strict bureaucratic control.”

Jan 01

Hong Kong—once a beacon of freedom—is now a land of newsroom raids and arrests of journalists

Pro-government journalism may be the easiest professions in the world. Anti-government journalism is one of the most dangerous professions in the world. Last week in Hong Kong, police raided the headquarters of vocal website Stand News and arrested at least six, including current and former editors and board members.

Charges include conspiracy to publish a seditious publication. Over 200 officers participated. “Hours into the day the news website was no longer being updated, nor its active social media pages. Stand News’ HK$61 million in assets have been frozen and all employees dismissed.”

“It appears to be part of a new crackdown wave against opposition Honk Kong media, following the June 2021 shuttering of the Apple Daily newspaper in a similar massive police raid which saw its publisher Jimmy Lai and top editors arrested, as HK authorities continue forcing the public firmly in line with “pro-China” policies.”

Ronson Chan, chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, was also taken away for questioning. After his release, Chan said that all his credentials and press pass, including all electronic devises and even bank cards were seized.

Police described Stand News as having “stirred up hatred or contempt for the government and judiciary.”

Jan 01

US government now makes it IMPOSSIBLE to renounce citizenship!

“The US state department says giving up citizenship requires a face-to-face interview with a government official, and that it is too risky given coronavirus.”

The Guardian is out with a detailed story on the plight of thousands who seek to renounce their US citizenship. “By some calculations, there may be as many as 30,000 people among the 9 million US citizens living abroad who would like to begin the renunciation process but can’t.” Many have spouses, families, careers in foreign lands and haven’t been to the United States in years.

Astoundingly, the US IRS seeks constantly to take taxes from anyone in the world who the IRS claims is an American. “In 2010 the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) was passed, requiring foreign banks and other financial institutions to report on any clients they suspect of being American to the IRS.”

The US is also one of only two countries (the other is Eritrea) that tax people on their citizenship rather than where they live. That forces Americans abroad to declare their global income to the IRS, with possible tax implications.

THE IRS EVEN TAXED BRITAIN’S PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON BECAUSE HE WAS BORN IN THE US
Even UK prime minister Boris Johnson, who was born in New York but has not lived in the US since he was five, was a long-term a tax slave to the IRS. Johnson renounced his citizenship in 2017, having said he was outraged a few years earlier by having to pay the US tax authorities for gains on the sale of his London home.