Oct 13

Government “snow and ice data center” AGAIN caught faking its “multi-year ice extinction” charts

Agency deletes and publishes ‘correction forthcoming’ statement after being caught (yet again) by data analyst Tony Heller.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is a massively funded government institution in Boulder, Colorado. It receives funding from the University of Colorado, NOAA and NASA.

For years the “data center” has put out a series of official charts and stories indicating that “multi-year ice” in the Arctic is melting away due to manmade global warming. (A few years ago, the “data center” even suggested that multi-year ice (meaning ice at least 5 years old) was “effectively gone.”)

Data analyst Tony Heller, a scientist and computer programmer who publishes the blog “realclimatescience.com,” has repeatedly caught the government agency changing its charts as “4-year-old” ice approaches its “5th birthday.” See here. Heller happens to live in Boulder, Colorado himself.

This year–once again–the NSIDC was caught failing to show that its “4-year-old” ice depicted on its online charts became “5-year-old” ice. The agency’s failure to acknowledge that “multi-year ice” is growing in the Arctic helps promote the international, cross-governmental thesis that catastrophic-manmade-global-warming-by-CO2 is occurring and only worldwide socialism and taxation can save the earth.

After Heller and others alerted the public that the “data center” was again fudging its numbers, the agency quickly deleted the relevant web pages and posted a “correction forthcoming” statement. See here.

STAY TUNED!!!

Oct 10

U.S. Postal Service again seeks a massive increase in postage rates

The U.S. Postal Service is an unconstitutional monopoly which charges more than twice what a private firm would charge, yet which loses billions of dollars annually.

The government postal “service” has every possible market advantage, yet can’t seem to operate profitably. The U.S.P.S. pays no corporate, income, or property taxes and owns some of the world’s most prestigious real estate.

Now the “Service” is seeking to increase its stamp prices for letters from 50 cents to 55 cents–a ten percent increase. See here.

Oct 10

Confidence in U.S. higher education plummets below 50 percent

Each year Gallup polls Americans on their level of confidence in various institutions. Just 11 percent of respondents expressed confidence in Congress, which has ranked at the bottom for several years.

Also ranking near the bottom are TV “news” organizations (with just 20 % of Americans expressing confidence), the criminal justice system (earning the trust of just 22 percent of Americans), and newspapers (which are trusted by only 23 percent of Americans).

Gallup has included “higher education” in its survey just twice: 2015 and 2018.

Shockingly, this year just 48 percent of Americans indicated they have confidence in American higher education. This is a steep decline from 2015 when 57 percent indicated they had confidence in higher education.

Oct 02

Montana Outfitters License application costs $1,950

The requirement that people must obtain a government license before working in a given profession is often promoted as a public safety device.

But the strongest proponents of licensing rules are often the entrenched good ol’ boys who already occupy the industry. In many licensing schemes, one must apply to ONE’S OWN COMPETITORS who sit on a “board of” licensees.

Such is the case with regard to Montana hunting guides and outfitters. Poor people are mostly locked out of the industry.

In Montana, the most successful guides and outfitters are wealthy operators who happen to own a ranch adjacent to or near important forest trail heads. The licenses are handed down from father to son like royal charters. Over the years many members of the Outfitter board have been Republican legislators, who can be seen at the State Capitol in Helena sporting big cowboy hats and talking about “limited government.”

Under the regulations, in order to guide hunters on public lands, one must obtain an expensive “Outfitters” license and demonstrate that one has sufficient equipment and experience. The application fee alone is $1,800. But one must first have a “guide” license, which costs $150 and must be renewed annually.

And after one is licensed as an outfitter, one must disclose to the government every single hunt, and the names of all participants.

Amazingly, some of Montana’s neighbors (like North Dakota and South Dakota) don’t even require license at all. An outfitter in North Dakota can simply hang up a shingle and pass out business cards.

Oct 02

Turkish dictator asks shoppers to report unfair store prices to the government; promises to raid stores

The crazed, powermad dictator of Turkey, Erdogan, has asked the public to report any unfair price hikes in Turkish stores.

Government marauders will then raid the stores, taking the inventory, said Erdogan. See here.

Predicted headline next month: “Hundreds of Turkish retailers close.”

Sep 29

Sears is now a penny stock

Virtually every claim of socialist economists is false.

One major claim of socialists is that the largest corporations have near total control over human affairs, and are able to control their destiny by manipulation of politics and markets.

Yet studies show that only a small handful of the corporations in the Fortune 50 were there just 25 years ago.

The false claim of total market control by major corporations was a central theme of pro-government professor John Kenneth Galbraith in his bestseller The Affluent Society (1958), Galbraith and other Ivy League pro-government economists called for government control and intervention to stop large corporations from becoming too controlling.

At the time Galbraith wrote his famed book, Sears, A & P, and JC Penney were America’s largest retailers.

Today Sears is a penny stock. And JC Penney has been in and out of bankruptcy discussions for years.

The A & P grocery chain (“The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company”), which from 1915 through 1975 was the largest grocery retailer in the United States (and until 1965, the largest U.S. retailer of any kind), ceased supermarket operations in 2015.

Sears–which was at one time America’s largest retailer and largest employer– has lost $11.7 billion since 2010, its last profitable year, and sales have plunged 60% in that time. It has fewer than 900 stores, down from a combined 3,500 US stores when Sears and Kmart merged in 2005.

The price of a share in the Sears corporation fell below one dollar this week.

Sep 27

Government scientist gives talk on the dangers of climate change to global agriculture; has difficulty naming any global crops that are actually being harmed by climate change

by Dr. Roger I. Roots, founder, Lysander Spooner University

On Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, I happened to read an advertisement in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle about a visiting expert professor who would be giving a lecture that very evening. The title of the lecture was: “Visiting lecturer to discuss challenges and opportunities for feeding a growing population on a warming planet.”

I ended up attending the lecture, which was well attended. The visiting professor, Paul West, co-director and lead scientist of the Global Landscapes Initiative at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment, gave a nice talk on global trends in agriculture, the release of greenhouse gasses from different crops, and prospects for the future.

I’m sure his research is well-funded by government research grants–and his approach is to call for more central planning of the world’s agricultural development (of course).

At the end of the lecture I asked him the question: what major world crop is declining due to climate change? (I knew that almost all global crops are seeing INCREASING, NOT DECREASING yields despite recurring claims that global warming is about to cause global crop failures.)

Dr. West had difficulty with the question. He asked back: “Do you mean ‘already.’?” I said yes. “Already.”

He fidgeted a bit; and the audience could sense the question was a sensitive one.

Then Dr. West responded that there was a pending (apparently unpublished, or about-to-be-published) paper somewhere that suggests that “maize and soy” yields are declining due to “climate change.”

Well at least I got an answer.

Immediately afterward, I googled around a bit for crop-yield data on maize and soy. It turns out that both soy and “maize” (corn) yileds are predicted to be AT RECORD LEVELS this year (at least in the U.S. which is the major soy and corn producer). See here.

Maybe the now-secret, unpublished paper will shed more light on the subject.

STAY TUNED!

Sep 27

BBC goes full Orwell: The official government TV network of Britain will no longer show climate skepticism

The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) will no longer show any content which might cast doubt on the government theory of catastrophic-manmade-global-warming-by-CO2. See here.
The government network has pronounced that the issue is settled and no debate will be allowed.

This despite the fact that ice in the arctic has been growing steadily over the past few years, glaciers in Glacier National Park are growing, raw temperatures across the U.S. have been going steadily down, and rates of extremely hot days in North America have been declining.

The BBC now joins other organizations and institutions which ban the open discussion of climate change. The LA Times, for example, has had a policy in place for a decade which prohibits letters to the editor which question the government theory. The Portland, OR school district bans any and all educational materials which mention any skepticism regarding the theory. Youtube now posts asterisks on videos which question or challenge the government theory.

Sep 22

Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the internet will “split in two” within a decade

Alex Jones predicted this years ago. The internet is constantly changing, and tech firms are increasingly bowing to political powers. Googe’s Eric Schmidt recently told an audience that his company is currently building a ‘second internet’ by designing a censored, pro-government search engine, primarily for the Chinese government.

The new government-friendly internet will initially be much larger than the ‘free’ internet because China and its satellite community has more captive viewers and computer users than the western world.

Of course, the rapid rise in alternative media sources illustrates that top-down, elitist control of the internet will quickly be surpassed by the free internet.

Sep 22

Federal Drug Cops Secretly Raid Thousands of Doctors and Revoke their Prescription Licenses

Heavily-armed DEA S.W.A.T. teams are in the practice of raiding medical and dental offices, threatening doctors and dentists, and getting them to sign away their right to prescribe medications. See this August 2016 report by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

“Thousands of medical professionals have quietly signed away their rights to prescribe narcotics — and, in many cases, their careers” after federal law enforcement agencies raided their clinics and offices.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette obtained the startling information through Freedom of Information Act requests.

“From 2011 to 2015, the Drug Enforcement Administration accepted the surrender of 3,679 prescribing licenses nationwide, and revoked another 99.”

In Kentucky some two percent of all doctors have surrendered their prescribing rights die to these secret operations.