Jan 20
More climate-change lies.
A group of California cities and municipalities including Oakland and San Mateo recently filed suit against Exxon and other fossil fuel companies alleging the companies are causing certain damage to the cities’ infrastructure due to catastrophic global warming.
But at the same time the same cities tell their bankers and bonding agencies that the cities rest on rock solid ground and that their infrastructures are in great shape for the future. See here.
Jan 19
California is a beautiful piece of earth made miserable through human central planning.
For years, California legislators and governors have hiked taxes, increased licensing requirements and imposed increasing wealth-redistribution programs on Californians.
Now the California government relies so heavily on the income taxes it collects from high earners that the state’s wealthiest 1 percent pay 48 percent of state income taxes.
Many in high tax brackets are government employees or stuck in their communities due to business locations.
Nonetheless, many are now considering fleeing to states such as no-income-tax Nevada or Texas. See here.
California, with one of the most expansive and intrusive governments in the world, now leads the nation in poverty and pollution.
Jan 17
The brilliant data analyst Tony Heller has been catching government agencies lying about climate change for years.
Now he has produced a video laying out the evidence of the government’s fraud. See here.
Heller shows that the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) knowingly displays a deceptive graph at its headquarters in Boulder, Colorado.
The graph indicates that temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide are correllated.
But the graph does not show the relality that increased CO2 is CAUSED BY higher temperatures (because the oceans release more CO2 when they become warmer).
Global warming alarmists such as Laurie David (who produced Al Gore’s film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’) knowingly alter graphs to make it appear that CO2 CAUSES temperature changes.
Jan 16
Years of high taxes, overregulation, and cops everywhere have taken their toll on California.
The state now leads the U.S. in rates and numbers of people living in poverty. See here. (This is true even though the State has the most social workers, biggest welfare programs and biggest wealth-redistribution operations.)
The State also has the largest homeless population despite spending the most on low-income housing programs, and the worst pollution despite spending more on environmental programs than any other State.
Jan 13
Every inspection of every U.S. Post Office facility has always found duly-stamped mail in trash bins.
Postal workers have been caught throughout the U.S. burning, burying, hiding, and disposing of stamped mail rather than delivering it.
Here is yet another story of a U.S. Postman who was caught burning entire tubs of mail.
The U.S. Post Office has an unconstitutional monopoly on the delivery of 1st-class mail. The agency has EVERY POSSIBLE advantage in the marketplace: it pays no corporate, income or property taxes, it owns some of the most strategic and prestigious real estate in the country, it enjoys the power of eminent domain, etc.
Yet the Post Office cannot turn a profit and loses $5 billion annually.
Jan 12
The push for a government takeover of the internet, sometimes called “net neutrality,” has been led by socialist government trusters and monster corporations such as Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Amazon.
These corporations all claimed that unless the government took over the internet and required all internet providers to obtain licenses, such internet providers might impose slower speeds or less access to disfavored groups, or censor political perspectives, or charge the poor more than the rich. Or something.
But it has recently surfaced that “liberal” (often code for pro-government) content is favored on Facebook, Google and Twitter and that “conservative” (often code for anti-government) content is actively and constantly suppressed, slowed, and censored.
Project Veritas recently went undercover and captured video of software engineers at the firms who candidly admitted that such corporations impede access for “conservative” or anti-socialist content. One engineer even admitted that the U.S. government pressured them to do so (regarding Wikileaks content).
Now it has been revealed that Facebook took the money from publishers to promote the book “The Scandalous Presidency of Barack Obama,” but then blocked the book from being discussed.
(Facebook executives met secretly with Obama in the White House on numerous occasions. It has been revealed that Facebook and Microsoft have received millions of dollars from government agencies–often secretly.
Jan 06
Connecticut politicians have been raising taxes and increasing regulations for a generation.
Now people with high incomes are fleeing the State. They have taken some $6 billion with them. See here.
Many Connecticut expatriots are fleeing to nearby New York or to Florida. But those who left for state-income-tax-free Florida had an average annual income of $253,187.
The exodus of Connecticut’s rich population has left the high-taxing State with LOWER tax revenues than a year ago.
Jan 04
The heroic Ajit Pai, appointed by Trump as Chairman of the FEC, has been the target of dozens of violent threats. His family has also been threatened.
Pai recently led an effort in the FCC to overturn the government’s takeover of the internet which government-trusters called “net neutrality.”
At the very meeting of the FCC in which Pai and the other two Republican FCC commissioners outvoted the 2 Democratic FCC commissioners to overturn the “neutrality” rule, death threats and bomb threats briefly stopped the vote.
Now Chairman Pai has cancelled next week’s speech before the international CES electronics-industry conference in Las Vegas. There are reports that death threats by fanatical government trusters are behind the decision.
Jan 04
The historic struggle for freedom of speech and press is filled with stories of anonymous pamphleteers who overcame state repression to claim victory over darkness.
Governments have historically sought to ban speech which is critical of government. Sometimes government officials claim such speech spreads “sedition,” or promotes violence, or allows “millionaires and billionaires” to control elections, or is “fake news,” or is “hate speech.”
French president Emmanuel Macron is now moving to ban “fake news” (as defined by the government, of course).
While in Germany, government officials who have banned “hate speech” are discovering that their ban actually empowers government critics.
The biggest selling German newspaper, is now openly declaring that the German government’s new censorship law “failed on its very first day” and should be abolished immediately. The law, said Bild‘s editor, is turning anti-immigrant politicians into “opinion martyrs.”
Intended to prevent radical groups from gaining influence, the new law appears to be having precisely the opposite effect. See here.
Jan 04
John Beale was absent for years at a time, did no work, and traveled first-class.
Will Rogers once said It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.
Here is news of the EPA’s highest paid “climate change expert,” John C. Beale, who was just sentenced to 32 months in prison for fraud.
Beale drew a salary and bonuses of $206,000 a year at the EPA.
Beale failed to show up at the EPA for months at a time, including one 18-month stretch starting in June 2011 when he did “absolutely no work.”
Beale took 33 airplane trips between 2003 and 2011, costing taxpayers $266,190. On 70 percent of those, he traveled first class and stayed at high end hotels, charging more than twice the government’s allowed per diem limit. But his expense vouchers were routinely approved by the EPA.
Beale “retired” in 2011 and his retirement party aboard a yacht was attended by the HIGHEST EPA OFFICIALS, including the EPA director. Yet Beale continued drawing salary for another year and a half.
Beale got away with absences for so long because he was a crusader for “the mission” of promoting the government’s climate-change hysteria. It was Beale who headed up EPA delegations to United Nations conferences on climate change in 2000 and 2001, and helped to negotiate agreements to reduce carbon emissions with China, India and other nations.
There are doubtlessly thousands more just like him in the federal government (and many state governments). Beale was prosecuted largely because of his track record of lying about his specific whereabouts and claiming he was on CIA missions.
