The U.S. has the highest tax rates in the developed world

America rose to greatness and prosperity because of its low taxes, property rights and culture of nonregulation.

Over the past century, however, trusters of government have fundamentally altered America’s governmental structure.

Today, American economic growth is stagnant, and prosperity is increasingly elusive. See here.

Climate “scientists” call for boycott of New York Times after the Time hires climate skeptic writer

Government-funded climate “science” is more about politics and religious faith than about subjecting scientific hypotheses to rigorous testing or analysis.

Now one of the America’s most obnoxious and government-funded “climate scientists”–Michael E. Mann of Penn State–is cheerleading for a boycott by government-trusters against the New York Times.

The New York Times, according to Mann, has hired one (1) columnist who questions the government’s apocalyptic global-warming theory. See here.

New CIA director declares war on free speech rather than on actual adversaries of the United States

The Washington Post has published an essay by the courageous Julian Assange about Mike Pompeo, the new director of the CIA.

In “his first speech as director of the CIA,” according to Assange, Pompeo “chose to declare war on free speech rather than on the United States’ actual adversaries.” See here.

Pompeo described WikiLeaks as a “non-state hostile intelligence service.”

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.

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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.