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.

Dec 13

The number of journalists imprisoned for their work is now at an all-time high

Startling new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists.

As of December 1, 2017, 262 journalists were behind bars around the world in relation to their work, a new record after a historical high of 259 last year.

Many of these jailed journalists are in China, Turkey, and Egypt. But the western world is partially to blame because the western world previously acted as something of a free-press watchdog and its leaders would formerly pressure eastern, or developing-world authorities to release journalists. That protection appears to be waning.

Dec 11

Florida health insurance premiums increase an average of 45 percent

Government slave-plantation healthcare programs–which generally increase demand without increasing supply, causing prices to rise–continue to make health care LESS affordable.

If the free market were unleashed on health care, Americans would be the healthiest people on earth, and medical products and services would quickly fall in price while improving in quality.

Instead, life expectancy in America is DECLINING due to government “health care” regulations.

The Miami Herald reports that health insurance premiums for many Floridians will increase by 45 percent in 2018.

Dec 10

The Struggle for Freedom: Lectures in Downtown Las Vegas Dec. 16

Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017
4:00 p.m. at the Asian Culture Center, 333 S. 6th St., Las Vegas, NV

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

John Lamb, investigative journalist and professor, “What We’ve Learned from the Bundy Trials”

Michael Elliott, freedom thinker and activist, “Crypto Currencies and what they Mean for Freedom” (special lecture in honor of Daniel Shaver)”

Lou Baker, entrepreneur and radio personality, “Nevada’s Ongoing Struggle for State Sovereignty”

Special Mystery Guest Lecturer will appear via Skype from a foreign country while in exile!

Games! Prizes! Music!

Call Roger Roots at 406-224-3105 for more info.