Jul 07
The British government imposes “single payer” slave-plantation “health care” (as many Americans claim to want).
Brits are not allowed to purchase health care supplies on the open market.
For years, British “health” officials knowingly supplied HIV-tainted blood products to victims . . .er, “patients,” of the National Health Service. See here.
New documents revealed officials used tainted blood for at least five years after they were aware of the contamination.
Thousands died.
Jul 06
Foremost among the “stars” of the government’s manmade-global-warming movement is Michael Mann, a professor at Penn State.
Mann and his research agenda have received millions of dollars in federal government research grant money.
Mann’s (always secret from the public) global-warming data and calculations have provided the backbone for the UN’s claims that increasing CO2 levels are causing catastrophic global warming.
But although Mann’s “data” is generated by massive U.S. government funding, Mann has never been forced to disclose the data to the public.
A U.S. court took Mann’s word for it that his data is his own private property.
But a court in Canada ordered Mann to produce his data and formulas in February.
And now Mann is refusing to produce the secret formula. According to this report, Mann is now in serious risk of being found in contempt of court and having his defamation lawsuit against Professor Tim Ball thrown out.
Mann has been suing Professor Ball because Ball once said that Mann belongs “in the State Pen rather than Penn State.”
Jul 05
Three years ago, the city of Seattle voted to raise its minimum wage to $15 per hour.
As usual, government-trusters promised that the minimum-wage increase would lift the poor out of poverty.
But a new study by the University of Washington’s School of Public Policy and Governance finds the opposite.
The study concludes that there are now 5,000 fewer low-wage jobs in Seattle, and that total hours of low-wage workers have been cut by around 9 percent. Thus, low-wage workers in the city are now poorer than they were before the imposition of the $15 minimum wage law.
The minimum wage ordinance lowered low-wage employees’ earnings by an average of $125 per month in 2016.
SEATTLE’S CORRUPT GOVERNMENT TRIED TO BURY THE STUDY
The Seattle Weekly’s Daniel Person reported that “The City Knew the Bad Minimum Wage Report Was Coming Out, So It Called Up Berkeley,” with quotes from Seattle Mayor Ed Murray’s spokesperson indicating that the Mayor’s office was aware that University of Washington’s report would not have favorable results for minimum wage increase advocates.
Astoundingly the mayor and City Council tried to preempt the release of the study by commissioning a “study” by more-government-friendly ‘economists’ at UC-Berkeley that showed the minimum wage increase improved the economy.
Meanwhile the NY Post reports that “The Empire State lost 1,000 restaurants last year” after New York enacted a $12 an hour minimum wage. See here.
Last year, San Diego’s recent experiment with requiring a $15 minimum wage also caused massive job losses, business failures, and increased poverty. See here.
D.C.’s recent minimum-wage hike caused an immediate loss of 3 percent of restaurant jobs. See here.
Jul 04
This is what government supremacists mean by “access to public lands.”
Pictured above: the obese governor of New Jersey enjoys a State Beach with his own family while his government thugs bar the public from the beach.
New Jersey’s high-taxing legislature has been wrestling over yet another immense State budget.
While the New Jersey legislature was at an impasse, all State “public facilities” such as beaches were closed.
Yet somehow the armored State Police were still working.
It has now been reported that 6 nearby homeowners were ordered to leave their own homes (upon threat of arrest if they stayed) while his Majesty luxuriated on the “public” beach. See here.
Jul 04
It is the dream of every government truster: a system of government-run (“single payer”) medical providers and clinics, built on the model of an 1852 Virginia slave plantation.
In this fantasy world, loyal subjects needing health care or treatment would simply line up at the master’s porch. “Care” would be provided for “free.”
Montana’s legislature and governor launched an experiment with such “single payer” clinics (for state employees, only, of course) in 2012.
The experiment is already failing. See here. Far more expensive than advertised and with no discernible improvements in health outcomes.
Similar ideas have also failed in Vermont, Oregon and other states. See here.
Jul 02
Just 20 years ago most people would have laughed if you told them that the United States would soon hold people in prison for decades without warrant, without charge, and without trial.
Now there have been “terrorist” suspects in Guantanamo Bay–with the U.S. flag flying above them–for 15 years without charge (and mostly without evidence).
Several have committed suicide.
The only reason they have been allowed to speak with lawyers at all is because of habeas corpus petitions, filed by civil liberties lawyers.
Now it is reported that the meetings between Guantanamo inmates and their lawyers have all been either recorded or monitored by prison and/or military authorities.
“Inadvertently,” of course. See here.
Jul 01
Professor Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama–Huntsville (UAH) is true pioneer of satellite temp data collection. He and Dr. John Christy have spent years launching and monitoring satellite temperature data (using government science grants).
The problem for government-trusting global-warming believers is that the UAH satellite data show very little global warming over the past 20 years. The satellite data correlate with weather balloon data but disagree with surface thermometer data (which are controlled by more pro-government “scientists” such as NASA’s Gavin Schmidt and are heavily “adjusted.”
Last year, Dr. Spencer predicted that “scientists” who support the government’s apocalyptic-global-warming-by-man-made-CO2 theory would start “adjusting” even the satellite data to make it comply with the global warming theory.
Sure enough, the warmist scientists have now published a “peer-reviewed” paper showing satellite data “adjusted” to make it appear that temps are warming. See here.
Jun 29
Americans continuously vote for lower taxes and less government.
But the politicians they elect almost never succeed in cutting taxes or government.
A new Gallup poll shows that 61 % of voters want lower taxes. See here.
Jun 28
America’s government-funded and supported colleges produce a steady stream of government-worshipping content and culture.
The expression of alternative and free-market views is generally shunned, and the colleges practice wide-scale discrimination in favor of the trusters of expansive government.
But it seems America’s colleges are increasingly producing mental health patients. The Center for Collegiate Mental Health at Penn State University, which gathers data from 139 institutions, has found that the number of students seeking help jumped 50 percent between 2015 and 2016.
Of those students who sought help, 26 percent said they had intentionally hurt themselves; 33.2 percent had considered suicide, numbers higher than the previous year. See here.
Jun 27
For years, government-trusters and pro-government journalists have ran with stories that (private sector) money in politics corrupts election outcomes.
But every aspect of the “campaign finance reform” movement proves to be untrue. In fact, Donald Trump managed to defeat Hillary in the recent U.S. presidential election despite BEING OUTSPENT BY MORE THAN 2-TO-1.
So the “mainstream” (meaning pro-government) press has been pushing a narrative suggesting that Russian interference with the election accounts for Trump’s victory.
This meme is based on nothing but anonymous sources and innuendo.
Now crusading journalist Glenn Greenwald reports on recent resignations of pro-government “journalists” at CNN. These “journalists” were caught fabricating news links between the election victory of Donald Trump and Russian interference.
Over and over, U.S. major media outlets have published claims about The Russia Threat that turned out to be completely false – always in the direction of exaggerating the threat and/or inventing incriminating links between Moscow and the Trump circle. In virtually all cases, those stories involved evidence-free assertions from anonymous sources which these media outlets uncritically treated as fact, only for it to be revealed that they were entirely false.
