Dec 20

Remember all those emails to the FCC just prior to the FCC’s anti-‘net neutrality’ vote? They were mostly fraudulent.

Remember last week in the run-up to the FCC’s vote to overturn the prior FCC’s “net neutrality” takeover of the internet (from 2 years ago)?

“Mainstream” (meaning government-approved–and approving) media news reported that the public supported the 2015 government takeover of the internet and opposed the current FCC’s vote to overturn the prior FCC’s vote.

(In the 2 years since the prior FCC’s “net neutrality” takeover, internet innovation investments had already declined by more than 5%.)

Now we find out that the supposedly massive “public” disapproval of the current FCC’s ‘overturn’ vote was A FRAUD. See here.

Hundreds of thousands of comments were submitted to the FCC in spikes during the public comment period about its proposal to eliminate the 2015 “net neutrality” order; and, upon further investigation, were found to have been written not by humans, but by artificial intelligence programs using “natural language generators.” Wired.com reports that “over a third of the nearly 22 million comments that poured into the [FCC] . . . included one of seven identical messages,” and “more than half were associated with duplicate or temporary emails.” Additionally, the New York Attorney General is also investigating reports that as many as two-million fraudulent submissions used the names and addresses of real people, both living and dead, from multiple states in a scheme to sway the FCC’s vote.

The fraudulent emails appear to have been on BOTH sides of the issue!

Dec 19

Venezuelan children dying of starvation on a massive scale; government prohibits humanitarian aid from ‘capitalist’ countries

Just 25 years ago, Venezuelans were the healthiest and wealthiest people in Latin America.

Today, after numerous victorious elections by socialist politicians, the people eat out of trash cans, die in knife fights in food lines, and resort to prostitution to survive.

They rape the environment, killing birds, dogs, cats and anything that breathes or moves.

Even doctors teachers, and small children engage in prostitution for food. And thousands of children are dying of starvation and malnutrition. See here.

Meanwhile, the government has ordered a near-total blackout regarding health statistics. The country’s government health care system is reported to function at a “19th century” level.

And when people from ‘capitalist’ countries try to send humanitarian aid, the Venezuelan government intercepts it and turns it away. Accepting it would ‘send the wrong message.’ See here.

Dec 18

Under “campaign finance” laws, Wisconsin became a political surveillance state

Forget the Alien & Sedition Acts, the Palmer Raids, the Red Scare or the McCarthy Hearings.

The greatest threat to freedom of speech and press in American history is the scam known as “campaign finance reform.”

Government tyrants and despots have a thousand ways to influence elections to promote more powerful government. They secretly (and sometimes openly, through “public service announcements”) fund the news. They get to stage free press releases and conferences while their opponents must pay for ads to compete with them.

But government officials and their worshippers seek to limit (private sector) money in politics–especially money which pays for political ads which promote freedom, free-enterprise, smaller government or deregulation.

In Wisconsin, the entrenched pro-government forces became so concerned in 2012 that Republican governor Scott Walker’s recall election efforts may have been supported by the evil Koch Brothers that they staged midnight raids and seized millions of pages of emails and other documents. They steadily leaked stories about investigations of government-critical politicians to the press but prohibited the same politicians from publicly defending themselves.

[In 2013 there were] paramilitary-style, pre-dawn raids on the homes of unsuspecting private citizens. With floodlights trained on the targets’ homes, armed officers threatened to beat doors down with battering rams; rifled through rooms; and seized phones, computers, and bank records without allowing the subjects to contact their attorneys. Groggy families awakened to the sound of police boots running through their homes were told that they could not tell anyone what had happened.

Their crime? Supporting conservative causes in Wisconsin.

Years of personal, intimate emails and messages of Wisconsinites who oppose all-powerful government have apparently been gathered and kept by Wisconsin’s “campaign finance” authorities.

See here.

Dec 17

Secret police, surveillance, and detentions: Chinese government “disappears” thousands of Muslims

According to the Associated Press, Chinese Muslims are being secretly arrested, imprisoned, or killed on a massive scale. The Chinese government views its Uighur minority as a national security threat.

The student’s friends think he joined the thousands — possibly tens of thousands — of people, rights groups and academics estimate, who have been spirited without trial into secretive detention camps for alleged political crimes that range from having extremist thoughts to merely traveling or studying abroad. The mass disappearances, beginning the past year, are part of a sweeping effort by Chinese authorities to use detentions and data-driven surveillance to impose a digital police state in the region of Xinjiang and over its Uighurs, a 10-million strong, Turkic-speaking Muslim minority

The disappearances are aimed at “ostensibly rooting out terror — but [are] instead instilling fear.”

Chinese police now monitor the way Uighurs dress and look for signs of muslim extremism.

There are “police depots with flashing lights and foot patrols . . . every 500 meters (yards)— a total of 1,130. . . . The AP saw cavalcades of more than 40 armored vehicles including full personnel carriers rumble down city boulevards. Police checkpoints on every other block stop cars to check identification and smartphones for religious content.”

The government uses facial recognition technology on a massive scale, and requires every car to install GPS trackers for real-time monitoring. “And since late last year, Xinjiang authorities have required health checks to collect the population’s DNA samples. In May, a regional police official told the AP that Xinjiang had purchased $8.7 million in DNA scanners — enough to analyze several million samples a year.”

The government has also enlisted a massive army of undercover informants embedded in the community , so no Uighur can ever trust his neighbor. See here.

Dec 16

Trump Administration removes “climate change” as a “national security threat”

The greatest threat to national security has always been–and will always be–the government itself.

Consider the “Operation Northwoods” documents, unclassified in the 1990s. The declassified documents showed that the 12 generals and admirals in the Joint Chiefs of Staff–who held the keys to the highest-level “national security” filing cabinets in Washington, D.C.–were planning to kill the American people to get America into a war with Cuba.

The very people “in charge” of “national security” were the very greatest threats to it. They plotted to kill Americans in planes, buildings and cruise ships.

The same is surely true today. Somewhere in Washington, in the most secure offices of the U.S. government, there are government officials plotting to kill, maim, sicken and torture the American people to achieve their evil ends.

Now there is word that the Trump Administration has removed “climate change” as a recognized “national security threat.” See here.

Dec 16

The internet is free again: FCC votes to eliminate “net neutrality” scam

Two years ago, the FCC voted (without Congressional authorization) for a government takeover of the internet. Government trusters called it “net neutrality.”

Every claim made by the fanatical government trusters behind “net neutrality was false. Advocates offered hypothetical harms and hysterical prophecies; they claimed that evil corporations might soon start discriminating, or censoring, or charging the rich more than the poor.

Of course, internet providers would probably loose millions if they did such things.

And there are already thousands of pages of laws and regulations regarding unfair trade practices.

Over the past 2 years, after “net neutrality” was imposed, investments in internet innovation declined 5.6%. Companies were less likely to innovate, and at least one wireless company stopped working on free-data options. Watch this interview with courageous FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.

Yesterday, the new FCC voted by split decision to end “net neutrality.” The government trusters behind “net neutrality” resorted to violent threats, racial intimidation, and even a bomb threat against the FCC during the vote.

Interestingly, the LARGEST players on the internet–those which dominate the market, including Google, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon–were on the side of the government takeover of the internet.

Amazon is the world’s largest company and its CEO is now the world’s richest person. Google, Facebook and Twitter together get 85% of internet ad revenue. Each of these megacorporations ENGAGES IN THE PRECISE CONDUCT that they claimed “net neutrality” would prevent their competitors from engaging in. (For example, Twitter, Facebook and Google have been caught repeatedly censoring government-critical sources and promoting pro-government sources).

These huge corporations supported “net neutrality” because it would keep down their competition. (Government regulation is always supported by the largest businesses, as it helps such businesses suppress their competitors.)

ONE BENEFIT OF TRUMP DEFEATING HILLARY

The FCC is a 5-person board which presumes to regulate “communications.” It is heavily partisan, with 3 members of the party in charge of the executive branch and 2 members from the minority party. Thus, the 3-member Republican majority recently replaced the 3-member Democratic majority when Trump became president. Yesterday’s vote was a split decision with Trump’s 3 members outvoting the 2 Democratic members, overturning the prior 3-2 vote from 2 years ago.

Now that the internet is free again, inventors are free to innovate and offer high quality goods at ever-lower prices. Poor upstarts may once again challenge the dominant players.

Cheers!

Dec 15

HUGE EVENT TOMORROW: “The Struggle for Freedom,” Las Vegas Symposium

Saturday, December 16 at 4:00 pm, at the Asian Culture Center. Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. 333 South 6th Street. FREE TO THE PUBLIC (but with lots of opportunities to donate to worthy causes, including Lysander Spooner University, Bundy defense teams, and homeless orphans).

Rick Koerber, “The Free Capitalist,” will lecture on the Judiciary, criminal justice in the broad sense, and constitutional theory. Koerber is a leading member of the Ammon Bundy defense team in the current Bundy criminal case, and a gifted legal researched. (Although he may not be able to say much about the pending case.)

A SPECIAL MYSTERY GUEST will appear by the wonders of modern technology from exile in a foreign land. This guest is one of the leading freedom fighters and free thinkers of the Western World, committed to the highest ideals of individualism and libertarianism. He or she will give a stirring lecture on his current struggle to live free in an unfree world.

John Lamb, constitutional journalist and Lysander Spooner University professor. Lamb will lecture on the struggle for free speech and press and other topics.

Michael Elliot, rebel, anarchist and lifelong troublemaker, will lecture the crowd on the topic of crypto currencies. His lecture will be in honor of Daniel Shaver, who was recently gunned down by government in a Mesa, AZ motel hallway while begging for his life.

Neal Wampler, philosopher and historian, will lecture the audience on constitutional history and other topics.

Dec 14

North Korean death squads take out country’s second-highest leader

The greatest trusters of government are always the first to be executed when total government is imposed.

During the Soviet period, those who most admired government, police, soldiers and central planning quickly rose through the ranks of the Communist Party.

But Stalin made sure to remove and kill all loyalists who got too close to replacing him.

Now North Korea is the world’s most government-controlled society. Its people live under hourly monitoring and government regulation. All transistor radios must have their dials soldered to the official government radio station.

The country’s “leader,” Kim Jong un, has ordered death squads to protect him from rivals. Recently, the death squads removed yet another influential North Korean official, Hwang Pyong-so. Hwang was the country’s highest general and widely thought to be second-in-command to Kim Jong Un. Hwang had been accused of having an “impure attitude” towards the ruling party. See here.

Dec 13

Special Mystery Guest added to Roster of Upcoming Las Vegas Symposium

The U.S. is probably still freer than many societies. But U.S. taxation rates are now greater than the world average. The size, scope and power of government in the U.S. is greater than that of any previous government in world history, and continues to grow. U.S. regulations increasingly prohibit poor people from working, investing, saving, launching businesses or employing others.

This coming Saturday, December 16, at Lysander Spooner University’s “Struggle for Freedom” conference, a SPECIAL GUEST LECTURER will address the audience from exile in a foreign country.

This individual recently fled the tyranny of constant government interference, regulation, harassment and persecution for the greater relative freedom of a foreign land.

This mystery guest is a rising star among the free thinkers of the Western World. Join us this Saturday at 4:00 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Asian Culture Center at 333. S. 6th Street, as this Mystery Guest will speak via skype about his or her commitment to finding freedom in an unfree world.

Dec 13

New Lecturers Announced for Upcoming Las Vegas Event

Neal Wampler, philosopher, historian, and liberty activist, has been added to the roster of lecturers who will speak at the upcoming Lysander Spooner University symposium in Las Vegas.

“The Struggle for Freedom” Symposium will take place Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017 at 4:00 p.m. at the Asian Culture Center, 333 S. 6th St., Las Vegas, NV.

Also added is “The Free Capitalist” Rick Koerber, who will address the audience on the topic of the Judiciary and its place in the Constitutional Order.