Nov 27

January 13-16, 2017: Join us for ‘mountain climbing inside the Grand Canyon’

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“Lose 15 pounds in 3 days hiking and climbing in the Grand Canyon!”

January 13-16, 2017 is a three-day weekend celebrating Martin Luther King.

For anyone planning on being in the greater Nevada/Utah/Arizona region in January, Lysander Spooner University will embark on a one-of-a-kind field trip in honor of Dr. King.

Few people are aware that there are ‘mountains’ inside the Grand Canyon. The mountains are rarely explored or climbed.

We will meet Friday evening, January 13 in the lobby and dining area of the El Tovar Hotel on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.

Over the next days we will journey into the abyss of the Grand Canyon and try to bag as many internal peaks as we can.

Everyone is welcome. The event is free!* Instruction on climbing and survival will be offered along the way.

Prepare for a winter outing as the Rim is above 8,000 feet.

Call Roger Roots at 406 * 224 * 3105 for details.

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* There are costs, such as entry fees, food, gear, etc. (Bring your own!) We are planning on day-hikes and returning to the Rim each evening. Lodging is on you!

Nov 27

The reality of socialism: Fidel Castro lived in constant luxury as his subjects starved

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Socialist politicians promise equality and free stuff but deliver impoverishment and tyranny.

Here is a New York Post article about the luxurious life of Cuban President Fidel Castro.

Castro lived a life of absolute luxury. He had dozens of mistresses and kept a dozen private palaces for himself. He even had pet dolphins.

Virtually anyone who offended or threatened Castro was executed. Castro’s victims number in the thousands.

Dissidents were jailed for as little as handing out books on democracy. “Even his closest aides faced execution if it suited [Castro’s] agenda.”

Even Castro’s daughter fled Cuba for her safety.

While his suffering subjects starved on the streets and lived like savages, Castro had access to the finest food and wine.

Nov 26

Washington Post’s “fake news” smear exposed as McCarthyite propaganda

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Days ago the Washington Post published (and energetically advertised) a “news story” alleging that the 2016 Trump election was produced by “hundreds” of “fake news” stories created by Russian propagandists. (Of course, the Washington Post itself has been identified as a government CIA propaganda mouthpiece by numerous whistleblowers.) (Senate hearing in the ’70s and ’80s showed that Post “reporters” have secretly received millions of dollars from U.S. government sources in exchange for pro-government news reporting.)

The November 2016 Washington Post story was widely circulated. Hundreds of other newspapers repeated the claims.

At the heart of the Post’s “reporting” was an appeal to authority: a group of “foreign policy experts” calling themselves “PropOrNot” who remain anonymous (but who clearly favored Hillary in the election).

Now the intrepid Glenn Greenwald has rebutted the Post story in a path-breaking article:

According to Greenwald, the Post claimed that “Basically, everyone who isn’t comfortably within the centrist Hillary-Clinton/Jeb-Bush spectrum is guilty” of spreading Russian propaganda.

The group eschews alternative media outlets like these and instead recommends that readers rely solely on establishment-friendly publications like NPR, the BBC, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Buzzfeed and VICE. That is because a big part of the group’s definition for “Russian propaganda outlet” is criticizing U.S. foreign policy.

“What happened here is the essence of fake news,” according to Greenwald. imagesU01CBR45

Nov 26

Prosecutors increasingly stack indictments with multiple counts in order to ensure convictions

American prosecutors have learned that conviction rates generally go up when additional charges and defendants are added to criminal cases.

Consequently, state and federal prosecutors routinely stack indictments with multiple (repetitive) counts so that juries will be more likely to convict defendants.

A study of thousands of criminal cases found that when a defendant is charged with one count, he has a 66 percent chance of being convicted; but when he is charged with three or more counts, the conviction rate goes up to 78 percent.

And when a defendant faces three or more counts, he has an 88 percent chance of being convicted of Count 1 (which is generally the most serious count).

See this detailed law review article by Andrew D. Leipold, “How the Pretrial Process Contributes to Wrongful Convictions.”

See also my own discussion on the explosion of multi-count indictments.

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Nov 25

U.S. government temperature data tamperers have erased 1940s warmth in Iceland

The intrepid data analyst Tony Heller has been monitoring the government’s official temperature records for years.

The U.S. government’s temp database (maintained by NASA and NOAA and directed by Gavin Schmidt of NASA’s Goddard Space Institute) has been “adjusted” thousands of times to make the past seem colder than it was recorded.

The government agencies appear to be making the “adjustments” to the temperature history in order to promote the government’s manmade-global-warming theory.

Now, once again, Heller has caught NASA tampering with the temp history for Iceland. The agency has virtually wiped out the heat waves that occurred in Iceland during the 1940s. See here.

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Nov 25

Starving Venezuelans flee socialism on life rafts

Socialism is a curse that should be wished only on one’s most hated enemies.

Here is a New York Times story about hungry Venezuelans fleeing their socialist country by the droves.

Just a couple decades ago, Venezuela had the highest standard of living IN ALL OF LATIN AMERICA.

But just 17 years after the people voted in a socialist ruler (Hugo Chavez), Venezuelans survive by eating cats and dogs and diving in trash dumpsters. Government soldiers distribute all food and medicine.

In the aftermath, 150,000 people have fled the socialist hellhole.

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Nov 22

Three judges of British High Court Invalidate Brexit Vote!

A shocking act of judicial arrogance by three judges of the United Kingdom High Court.

The Court ruled that Britain can’t leave the EU without having a parliamentary vote to do so. See here.

Yet that parliamentary vote already happened with the European Referendum Act of 2015. (Parliament voted to let the people speak on the issue, and to abide by the people’s wishes.)

Stay tuned!

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Nov 21

Government college professors call for pro-Trump student protestors to be expelled

There is almost no free speech on today’s government college campuses. Faculty at the University of New Hampshire–a government institution supposedly subject to the Bill of Rights–are calling for two pro-Trump students in costume to be expelled.

The two students showed up to protest an anti-Trump rally on the campus. See here.

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Nov 21

Growth in Jail Population Has Been Mostly Driven by Increased Incarceration of Innocent Inmates

While the jail population in the U.S. has grown substantially since the 1980s, the number of convicted people in jails has been flat for the last 15 years. Detention of the legally innocent has been consistently driving jail growth! See here!convicted_unconvicted_jail_1983-2014_320w

Nov 19

Pro-government news sources decry the influence of “fake news”

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Once again, there is a major push among government trusters to censor anti-government or alternative news. Pro-government forces who decry the election of Donald Trump two weeks ago are blaming the increasing influence of alternative news sources.

They couldn’t force voters to view their tired, old, dying pro-government “news” sources.

Now pro-government sources are launching formal efforts to ban real, anti-government news-calling it “fake news.” See here:

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Friday laid out the latest steps by his company to weed out fake news, amid growing criticism over the possible impact misinformation on the social network had on swaying the U.S. presidential election outcome.

The company has found itself thrust at the center of the debate on fake news, with even U.S. President Barack Obama lamenting the spread of misinformation on the social media platform. A report released earlier this week showed that more Facebook users engaged with misleading stories than real, mainstream reporting.