Pro-government “news” sources continue to plummet in readership and impact

Facebook and other government-supported media forums are plummeting in readership.

Here is a report indicating that some online publishers are losing impact from Facebook promotions. After Facebook launched its “fake news” elimination efforts two months ago (to aid the government in obscuring nongovernmental-approved content) readers have sought info from other sources.

Matt Drudge’s influential “Drudgereport.com” is touting a new report indicating that the once-alternative news headline site now tops foxnews.com, yahoo.com, google news and CNN as society’s go-to source for news. (Only msn news and espn news leads Drudge Report.)

Increasingly, the “mainstream news” is barely mainstream at all. Only hardline government supremacists still rely on such sources as CNN or CBS for their news information.

Venezuelans–formerly the wealthiest people in South America–are now too starving and poor to protest their socialist government

In just 20 years, socialism and government central planning raped and robbed the people of Venezuela of their rights, their wealth and their dignity.

During the early 1990s, Venezuelans were the wealthiest people in South America. Their market economy thrived and exported oil and other goods throughout the world.

Then the people voted for socialism and Hugo Chavez. Today the people line up in government lines to beg for crumbs. Grown men die in knife fights over pennies and dive through dumpsters to survive. Venezuelan prisoners have killed and eaten other inmates for survival. women and girls prostitute themselves for pennies, or boxes of diapers or tubes of toothpaste.

Now the Wall Street Journal reports that most Venezuelans are simply too hungry to protest their government. See here.

Socialist California leads the nation in pollution

Socialism pollutes and degrades the environment; while capitalism tends to clean the environment.

Look at East Germany versus West Germany. Or North Korea versus South Korea.

Or look at California, with its massive regulations, taxation, central planning and “environmental” laws.

6 of America’s 10 most polluted cities are in California. See here.

Antiwar.com wins small victory over unlawfull FBI surveillance

Antiwar.com is a courageous small news website dedicated to noninterventionism. Since 1995 it has published a wide variety of antiwar news items, columns and interviews. Antiwar.com is generally libertarian rather than socialist, as so many antiwar movements have been in the past.

Around 2012, Antiwar.com was the victim of a hack attack. The producers reported the attack to the FBI, which then FALSIFIED the report as a ‘threat by Antiwar.com to hack the FBI’! See here. (You can’t make this stuff up.)

The FBI then used its deceptive trick as an excuse to surveil and monitor the content of Antiwar.com.

With the help of the ACLU, Antiwar.com has successfully sued the FBI for its surveillance records.

Phillippines police squads have killed hundreds; staged false-flag crime scenes

In the Philippines, two police whistle blowers have come forward to report that police unites have received cash payments for executing drug suspects, planted evidence at crime scenes and carried out most of the killings they have long blamed on vigilantes.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4421430/Police-kill-rewards-staged-crime-scenes-Dutertes-drug-war.html#ixzz4ebqe2tHl
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See here.

San Diego spikes minimum wage; 4,000 restaurant jobs lost almost immediately

When the price of any commodity rises, demand falls. This iron law of economics applies even to labor.

Advocates of minimum wage laws (which allow government rather than the market to set wages) believe in a fantasy: that when politicians order wages to increase they are helping poor people.

The reality is precisely the opposite. Minimum wage laws harm the poorest workers above all.

In January 2016, the City of San Diego ordered that the minimum wage be raised from $10 per hour to $11.50 per hour. (The rest of the state raised the minimum wage from $10 per hour to $10.25 per hour.)

“In the year and three months since then, the number of food service jobs in San Diego has dropped sharply, with perhaps as many as 4,000 jobs lost, or never created in the first place.” See here.

Update: New speakers at Upcoming Las Vegas conference! Saturday, April 15, 2017

We have very alarming news to report regarding Ken Medenbach, our scheduled keynote speaker for April 15. Medenbach traveled to Nevada to watch the federal Bundy trial and to speak at Lysander Spooner University’s upcoming symposium. Ken is the world’s foremost authority on the history of judicial oaths and judicial review. Unfortunately, Ken was arrested while entering the federal courthouse in Las Vegas, based upon a claim that he wasn’t supposed to leave Oregon without his probation officer’s permission. (Ken is on probation for a MISDEMEANOR–illegal camping in a national forest.)

We will post updates regarding Medenbach as we receive more info. Ken deserves everyone’s support!

Additionally, Kelli Stewart, one of Portland’s finest motivational speakers and constitutional activists, has had a family emergency and cannot speak in Las Vegas on the 15th.

We have replaced Ken and Kelli with two exceptional lecturers: Neil Wampler and Julie Montiero.

Neil Wampler is a friend of Ken Medenbach and a fellow codefendant in the 2016 “conspiracy” case involving an occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon. Wampler will speak on the modern police state.

Julie Monteiro, RN, B.S.N. is an activist with Cannabis Nurses, a drug-legalization organization headquartered in Las Vegas. Julie will speak on “The War on Drugs as a War on Humanity.”

West Las Vegas Public Library, 951 W. Lake Mead Blvd, from 1 pm to 4 pm.

Government versus Freedom: Scholars Confront Tyranny, April 15 at the West Las Vegas Public Library

FREEDOM VERSUS GOVERNMENT
SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2017
Scholars Confront Tyranny
Join us for a star-studded symposium at the West Las Vegas Public Library, 951 W Lake Mead Blvd, 1:00-4:00 pm.

Auctions, book-signings, trivia, and more!
Call Roger at 406-224-3105 for more info!

The market always wins: Americans intuitively exercise ‘school choice’ without realizing it

The market always wins. Every economic regulation creates a black market, and prices and distribution balance out in unpredictable ways.

The brilliant economist John Goodman explains in a new column that Americans actually have ‘school choice’ but don’t realize it.

For example, many parents deliberately locate or relocate into school districts with better schools. They are willing to pay more for life in better school districts. There is one street in Dallas which separates one (good) school district from another (much worse) school district. Houses on either side of the street appear indistinguishable in value from those on the other side.

But homes on one side go for an average of $72,000 more than houses on the other side. See here.

Government is the biggest burglar of all: “asset forfeiture” actions in 2014 took more money than all (nongovernment) burglaries combined

While Americans slept, government has been drastically increasing its numbers of “asset forfeitures” against innocent Americans (who are not charged with any offense). U.S. attorneys seized an estimated $12.6 billion between 1989 and 2010. And the numbers grew rapidly over that period. The growth rate during that time averaged +19.4% annually.

Analysis by Armstrong Economics reveals that in 2014 the Justice Department seized $4.5 billion from Americans. (This is greater than the annual budget of the State of Montana.)

According to the FBI, the total amount of goods stolen in (nongovernment) burglaries in 2014 was $3.9 billion. This means that the police are now taking more assets than the criminals.

See here.