Apr 21

Government regulations DO NOT improve quality; they simply make products more expensive

Economist Mark Perry has studied the effect of government regulation on industries for many years. His research shows that wherever goods and services are freest, prices go down while quality and innovation constantly improve. Examples are televisions, electronics, and cell phones.

But products and services which are subject to the most regulation (such as education, health care and housing) become more expensive over time, in relation to other goods. See here.
This lesson seems to be lost on most government trusters, who often argue that government supports and regulations of health care, education and housing are needed to help the poor and needy.

Apr 21

U.S. Government refuses to allow anonymous at-home COVID-19 test kits


The history of government slave plantation healthcare is the history of government efforts to sicken, weaken, harm, expose and kill the American people.

Every government so-called health care program has had the same financial effect: such programs artificially increase demand without increasing supply, causing prices to rise.

For centuries—millennia, actually—the law has recognized medical privacy. Doctors and nurses swear to keep medical information secret from the whole world—including the government.

This ancient duty goes back to the original Hippocratic Oath—which every physician takes. The original writings of Hippocrates (from 400 B.C.!) state: “What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself, holding such things shameful to be spoken about.”

But governments have fought a continuous war to invade medical privacy. Obamacare was a major step for the government to build a pathway to monitor and track people’s medical histories. Obamacare required, for the first time, that the medical industry move toward computerized medical records. Well-regarded doctors have recently been stripped of their medical licenses for refusing to participate in the government’s electronic records agenda.

NOW THE CORONAVIRUS SCARE IS ESCALATING THE GOVERNMENT’S PUSH TO EXPOSE EVERYONE’S MEDICAL STATUS TO THE GOVERNMENT.

Much commentary regarding the Coronavirus scare has focused on testing. But the FDA has repeatedly stopped private companies from manufacturing home testing kits. See here: https://www.fox43.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/home-testing-kits-for-covid19-blocked-by-the-fda/521-a2c73b1c-d26b-49a6-bec5-b1cd5988a64e.

Why does the government fight so hard to make everyone get tested only at government-licensed clinics? Good question. It certainly isn’t about health.

The FDA first allowed private over-the-counter at-home test kits for HIV in the year 2012 (!). The stigma attached to HIV and AIDS kept millions of Americans from getting tested, and the government’s demand for control over testing caused tens if not hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths over four decades.

The Coronavirus scare has engendered a push for the government to track and grant or deny access of people to work, travel, gather or recreate according to government knowledge of everyone’s testing status.

Government testing areas all require photo ID documents to access testing. And test results must go through government-controlled electronic databases. One site we saw in St. George, Utah indicates that COVID-19 test results will be emailed (by the government) to subjects.

Apr 02

News media sources in India are ordered to carry the official government version of COVID-19 developments

India’s highest court has ordered news media and social media sites to carry the government’s “official version” of developments regarding the alleged Coronavirus crisis, to curb independent reporting.

Apr 02

Matt Ridley: Britain will thrive as the world’s next Hong Kong in the wake of Brexit

Best selling science writer and futurist Matt Ridley was recently interviewed by Reason’s Nick Gillespie. Ridley discussed his latest book on innovation.

Ridley is also a member of the UK House of Commons where he is something of a libertarian. Ridley supported the 2017 Brexit movement.

Ridley suggests that Britain will soon become a global seat of commerce and capitalism, along the lines of Hong Kong in southeast Asia.

Apr 02

World’s elite government supporting universities announce “Alliance” to promote climate alarmism

Government supporting universities around the globe have announced the formation of an “International Universities Climate Alliance” to “ACCELERATE ACTION” (use of all-caps in original) “to meet the unprecedented global challenge of climate change.” Some forty schools, including Arizona State University, California Institute of Technology, Cornell University, King’s College London, McGill University, University of Melbourne and the University of the South Pacific have all joined the Alliance.

See here.

Lysander Spooner University remains the world’s only university dedicated to true skeptical scientific inquiry in the area of global climate science.

Mar 31

Scottish parliament prepares to suspend the right to trial by jury

The Coronavirus panic is threatening long-established constitutional rights around the globe. Ancient cornerstone protections of English common law–including rights to speedy and public jury trials–are being suspended in Scotland. Over a virus which appears to bring a death rate less than 1 percent.

Mar 12

U.S. government creates fake universities (and even makes one of them ‘fully accredited’), then arrests foreign students who are tricked into enrolling

Throughout the past two years, the U.S. government’s ICE agency set up its own fake university,

According to Reason Magazine:

The latest chapter in the story began in 2015, when ICE decided to crack down on visa mills. The agency created the University of Northern New Jersey, a fake college that held no classes and offered no instruction. If students paid recruiters between $3,000 and $12,000, they could “enroll” and show that they were taking the course load needed to satisfy the requirements of their F-1 student visas and, more importantly, to obtain Curricular Practical Training (CPT) status.

“The 2015 New Jersey sting resulted in over 1,000 students losing their visas and being thrown out of the country.”

Then ICE created ANOTHER fake university, the University of Farmington, in 2016. Its website claimed the University was approved under the Students and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP). ICE even enlisted an accreditation agency to list the school on its website as fully accredited.

On the evening of January 29, 2019, ICE launched massive armed raids, making hundreds of arrests.

“ICE collected millions of dollars in fees from these students, Warikoo reported, and won’t say whether it has any intention of reimbursing them.”

Mar 04

“Climate Change” is “the defining issue of our time” for only a tiny sliver of elites

The issue ranks second to last among Americans’ concerns.

The crusade to empower governments to protect the planet from alleged imminent catastrophic manmade global warming is a movement only of wealthy elites, new polling confirms.

This is despite hundreds of millions—no, billions—of dollars of spending aimed at convincing Americans to trust elites on this issue. There are even several universities which have created college courses and entire institutes on the topic of “climate change communication.” (Not the science of climate change; the science of how to persuade others to believe in the alleged science of climate change.)

A consortium of newspapers and reporters have signed on to global journalism initiative committed to promoting climate information in hysterical terms. Numerous reporters have turned whistleblower and exposed how mainstream journalism deliberately presents false facts in an orchestrated effort to scare readers into taking political action regarding the elusive threat of climate change.

But new polling by the Pew Research foundation has found that climate change ranks second to last among America’s concerns. “Between 2008 and 2013, it ranked last.” The issue rose to second to last each year from 2014 to 2019 except 2018 (when the issue rose to third to last).

Feb 02

Twitter, under government pressure, permanently bans Zero Hedge for asking if Chinese government created the coronavirus

Zero Hedge is one of the most popular independent financial and economic sites on Twitter. It has almost 700,000 Twitter followers.

But days ago, Zero Hedge published a news story entitled, “Is This The Man Behind The Global Coronavirus Pandemic?” The story was about Chinese government laboratories which are known to be developing biological weapons. The Zero Hedge report asked whether the Coronavirus–which has killed some 300 Chinese–may have been created in government labs.

The Chinese government has been demanding that all social media platforms remove any content which offers such suggestions. Facebook gave in to the Chinese government demands two days ago.

Now Twitter has PERMANENTLY BANNED Zero Hedge from publishing ANY content on Twitter.

“Last week, Twitter had said “those who engage in coordinated attempts to spread disinformation at scale about coronavirus issue will be removed from service.””

Feb 02

Government academics censor climate facts and block those who state them

Modern academics live in government bubbles where reality has become a dark alternate universe.

In 2008, a group of pro-government extremist professors founded “The Conversation,” a “scholarly” blog aimed at closing the supposed gap between government academia and popular journalism.

The notion was that the findings and writings of such brilliant pro-government researchers don’t get enough airplay in popular culture.

Now “The Conversation” is not only BANNING all discussions which question the government’s apocalyptic-manmade-global-warming-by-CO2 theory. The blog now blocks and permanently locks out those who cast doubt on doomsday climate claims.

Pro-government extremist professors at The Conversation Australia are “implementing a zero-tolerance approach to moderating climate change deniers, and sceptics. Not only will we be removing their comments, we’ll be locking their accounts.” Discourse on the topic “simply stalls action.”

“The Conversation” urges readers to “please don’t engage [climate discussions], simply report it.”