Jan 02

Greenland ice levels are growing at record speed

A couple years back there was a documentary called “Chasing Ice” featuring claims that manmade-global-warming was causing Greenland’s ice sheets to melt away. The film featured heroic guys in expensive North Face parkas bravely wandering around Greenland’s melting glaciers while sad piano music played in the back ground.

We haven’t heard much from those guys in the past year or so. Their website charges money to view any of their imagery and does not provide much real data.

Right now, Greenland’s ice is at its highest level in years–as measured by satellite. See here.

And Greenland’s glaciers are growing faster than ever.

This while the mainstream (meaning pro-government) press has released several stories of far-higher-than-average temps at the North Pole. (Although there were some above-average temps at the North Pole around Christmas (due to a windstream pattern), those temps did not reach a melting temperature, and were not unusual in a historical context.)

Jan 02

Washington, D.C.: Homeless numbers double amid highly-paid government households

Throughout the past 20 years, the salaries and benefits of government workers have increased substantially, even as the American people struggle to survive in trailer parks.

Lawmakers at the federal, state and most local levels have been transforming government employees into kings and queens walking among peasants.

In many locations, the largest mansions are owned by government bureaucrats. Government workers often get many weeks of paid vacation annually, totally-free medical and dental treatment, and extravagant retirement benefits. Many brag that they work only a few hours a day. THOUSANDS of applicants now apply for even the lowest level federal job opening. Bookstores are filled with books on how to apply for a federal job.

Now the New York Times reports that the numbers of homeless have doubled in communities around Washington, D.C., where large numbers of government workers live like kings among starving peasants. These communities have some of the highest household incomes IN THE WORLD.

Socialism is a curse that should be wished only on a hated enemy.

Jan 01

Government regulations are creating a less mobile society

American history has been defined by innovation and mobility.

But increasingly, government regulations, licenses and “benefits” are forcing Americans to stay put. See here.

“The percentage of Americans moving every year is less than half that of a half-century ago and down significantly since the early 1990s.”

Jan 01

Retired government “workers” in one California town rake in two hundred thousand dollars annually amid peasants with average HOUSEHOLD incomes of $32,000

California is a place with bountiful treasures but a socialistic-style government. Voters trust government so much that they now have some of the highest taxes in the world.

In one town, El Monte, the average HOUSEHOLD scrapes by on $32,000 annually while retired city government “workers” draw pensions as high as $200,000 annually. Such government employees often get as much as 8 weeks of paid vacation annually and pay nothing into their retirement funds. See here.

Government retirees live in mansions among starving people living in shacks. Many retired government employees are so lavishly pampered that they avoid any conversation with local friends regarding their extravagant compensation packages.

Jan 01

Another fake government “cyber attack”

Fora decade, government supremacists have demanded that people surrender freedom of speech and press and allow the government to take control of the internet.

They frequently claim “cyber terrorists” will use the internet to shut down the “power grid” or otherwise disrupt American life.

Of course the nation’s power plants are not online and are safe from such threats. (They would be even safer without government ‘public utility commissions’ controlling them.)

Yesterday the (secretly government-funded) Washington Post proclaimed that a Vermont electric utility had fallen victim to “Russian hackers” (perhaps the same Russian hackers who convinced 90 percent of U.S. counties to vote against Hillary by spreading “fake news”).

The Post story quickly collapsed upon scrutiny and the Post has quietly retracted it. See here.

Dec 26

As Venezuelan Socialism Collapsed, America’s Government Trusters Never Saw it Coming

By Roger Roots,
founder, Lysander Spooner University

I remember many conversations with fellow graduate students while I obtained my Ph.D. in Sociology at UNLV around 2002-2004. Socialist politics had recently taken power in Venezuela and my fellow grad students all spoke warmly of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez.

Some of my friends told me that Venezuela was plowing new ground for “the people” by throwing off the oppression of Capitalism. Venezuela would soon be an example of the wonders of central planning, I was told.

Today after 15 years of socialism, the people struggle to survive by dumpster diving, and eating dogs, cats and pigeons. Starving Venezuelan prisoners recently killed, cooked and ate a fellow inmate for food. Other Venezuelans have broken into zoos to kill and cook rare horses and other zoo animals for food. Hookers turn tricks for as little as a tube of toothpaste or a box of diapers.

Writer Jeff Jacoby has a new column recounting the deceptions and excuses offered by prominent government trusters regarding Venezuela over the years.

In a Salon piece titled “Hugo Chavez’s economic miracle,” David Sirota declared that the Venezuelan ruler, with his “full-throated advocacy of socialism,” had “racked up an economic record that . . . American president[s] could only dream of achieving.” The Guardian offered “Three cheers for Chavez.” Moviemaker Oliver Stone filmed a documentary gushing over “the positive changes that have happened economically in all of South America” because of Venezuela’s socialist government. And when Chavez died in 2013, Jimmy Carter extolled the strongman for “improving the lives of millions of his fellow countrymen.”

See here.

Dec 26

Pro-government “news” sources say the North Pole is much warmer than normal; but conceal record cold in nearby Greenland and Siberia

Days ago, the government-worshipping New York Times published a headline saying “Spiking Temperatures in the Arctic Startle Scientists.”

But the Times fails to mention that the unusual warm temps at the North Pole are a fluke caused by a weather pattern.

The same weather pattern has pushed record cold temps into nearby Siberia and Greenland.

The Greenland ice sheet is at AN ALL TIME HIGH. Greenland ice levels are growing faster than ever recorded. See here.

Dec 25

Government now stealing newborn babies from parents who refuse to get Social Security numbers for the babies

Here is a news story for anyone who thinks America is a free society.

Two proud parents in Alabama went to pick up their newborn baby from a hospital only to find that the government had stolen their baby.

The reason: the parents were unfit because they refused to “apply for” (apparently meaning accept) a Social Security Number for the child!

The Social Security program was always supposed to be completely voluntary. Many thousands if not millions of Americans have no Social Security numbers and many others have 2 or more.

Dec 22

Chinese government arrests civil liberties activist for exposing “state secrets”

Every government ultimately comes for all property, all freedom, and to kill all who resist.

For decades, Chinese governments chased, hunted, imprisoned and killed libertarian advocates or critics of the state.

This repression eased slightly with market freedoms, and as Chinese society slowly became more prosperous.

Now, however, The founder of one of China’s few websites dedicated to reporting human rights abuses has been formally arrested for “leaking state secrets”, Amnesty International said Thursday — the latest blow in a broad crackdown on activists. See here.

Dec 16

New York Times is Dying: Pro-Government Newspaper Vacating 8 Floors in its Iconic Building

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The New York Times, like all pro-government “news” sources, is dying. Readers won’t pay for its government-subsidized, fake content in the internet age.

Now the Times has announced that it will vacate 8 floors in its iconic New York Times building on Times Square to rent them out. See here.