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 colleges increasingly produce mental health patients
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
Pro-government “journalists” fired for repeated lies
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.
Jun 27
“Terror in Cyberspace!”: Lysander Spooner University Launches New Research Project
Lysander Spooner University is announcing a new research project: “Terror in Cyberspace.”
For two decades, government trusters and the “national security” state have been trumpeting the alleged danger that “terrorists” will take over the internet (or parts of the internet) and then will do such things as destroy or disrupt America’s power grid or other “critical infrastructure.”
Of course, the “power grid” is not unified, and is not accessible from the internet anywhere by any means. Any power plant or utility administrator who allowed his facilities to be connected to the internet would be utterly incompetent and negligent beyond words.
Here is a report by crusading journalist Glenn Greenwald about the Washington Post’s recent fake news story about Russians “hacking” a Vermont electric utility. According to Greenwald, “[l]iterally every facet of that story turned out to be false.”
The “terror in cyberspace” hoax–like the apocalyptic global warming hoax, like the Mexican bird flu hoax, like the ISIS hoax, like the 9/11 hoax and so many others–is another government vehicle for demanding ever more power and control over our lives.
Jun 26
Serial killers and rapists often rely on people’s blind trust in authority
Government schools, many civic groups, and some churches promote cop worship as a civic duty.
This culture-wide cop- and soldier-worship allows for many abuses.
Many serial killers and serial rapists rely on people’s trust of cops to victimize the public. Some wear cop clothing and pull over single women in rural areas to prey upon them.
Here is yet another example of a wanna-be cop who used his car to ‘pull over’ a single woman on a roadway–only to find out the would-be victim was an actual cop.
Jun 23
September 16 and 17 announced for Our Annual Glacier-Chasing Festival at Glacier National Park!
In 2015, Lysander Spooner University launched its ambitious glacier-chasing research project, aimed at keeping and maintaining accurate images of some of the glaciers and permanent snowfields in Montana and surrounding states.
Government websites frequently post images of certain glaciers in Glacier National Park from yesteryear . . . next to more recent images of the same glaciers in a much diminished state.
Those who trust government are led to believe that the glaciers in Glacier National Park are rapidly melting away.
Only the wholesale abandonment of capitalism and a worldwide embrace of government can save the earth from global warming–government agencies tell us.
But anyone who lives in mountain states knows that glaciers GROW EVERY WINTER and then decrease over the 3 months of summer. Without specific calendar dates, a comparison of any random image from one year with an image from another year provides very little information. It appears that several of GNP’s glaciers have actually been expanding over the past several years.
Each year around September 13–the average date of first freeze at East Glacier, Montana–Lysander Spooner University meets and endeavors to hike to and photograph glaciers at GNP from the same vantage points.
Join us this year on the weekend of September 16 and 17 for our 3rd annual Glacier-Chasing Festival. We will meet on Saturday the 16th in the lobby of the East Glacier Lodge for two days of fun and research!
Jun 23
New York Times continues to shed employees
The New York Times continues to lose customers, readers, advertisers, and money.
Even with the secret payments of government agencies such as the FBI and CIA, the Times is having trouble staying afloat. People simply will not pay money to read the Times‘ tired, old, pro-government extremist content.
Here is a recent report indicating that the Times may soon be firing or laying off additional “reporters.”
Jun 22
The manufacture of each Tesla electric car battery produces as much CO2 as 8 years of driving an average automobile
The “Tesla” auto company and its CEO Elan Musk have received more than $500 million dollars of government subsidies to produce electric cars that are supposedly better for the environment than conventional gasoline cars.
Believers in the government’s apocalyptic-global-warming-by-man-made-carbon-dioxide theory generally support Tesla cars because they supposedly have a smaller “carbon footprint.”
But a new study finds that the battery-making process upon which Tesla engineering is based generates a great deal of carbon dioxide.
Producing a single lithium battery to install in a Tesla produces as much CO2 as a typical car releases in 8 years of driving. See here.
Jun 20
24 % of Americans Do Not Have a Single Dollar Saved for Emergencies
Study upon study shows that the American people are increasingly saving little or nothing in response to government policies.
If you save anything in modern America, you are an utter fool. Near-zero interest rates, Social Security and Medicare incentivize Americans to save nothing.
“About 1 in 4 literally have no emergency savings. A survey released Tuesday by Bankrate.com found that 24% don’t have even a single dollar saved for an emergency.”
“A survey released in January by Bankrate found that nearly 60% of Americans wouldn’t have enough savings to pay for a $500 expense if it came up unexpectedly.”
While government officials increasingly live like kings, with extravagant pensions and savings plans, “more than half of Americans will be broke when we retire, according to a survey from GoBankingRates.com.”
Jun 18
Scores of protesters expose Ben & Jerry’s ice cream lies
The Associated Press is reporting that “Scores of dairy farm workers and activists marched Saturday on a Ben & Jerry’s [ice cream] factory to push for better pay and living conditions on farms that provide milk for the ice cream maker that takes pride in its social activism….. See here.
Although we at Lysander Spooner University loudly cheer for the private sector, this is one case of a truly evil business empire that needs to be protested and boycotted.
For years, the makers of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream have loudly proclaimed that they are seekers of “social justice.”
Both “Ben” and “Jerry” donate massively to Democratic, big-government political candidates and organizations.
And since 2010, Ben & Jerry’s has spent hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars to promote the repeal of the First Amendment–claiming they want to “get the dough out of politics.” See here, here, and here.
Ben & Jerry’s claims it wants to keep corporations from spending money on politics. Yet it is part of a Fortune 500 corporation (Unilever) and spends massively to promote government empowerment.
As Dr. Roots has pointed out, every single claim used to promote “campaign finance reform” is untrue. See here.
(Very few other Fortune 500 corporations (perhaps none) spend so much corporate money to promote any other political agenda.)
