Aug 30
Be afraid. Be very afraid. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has announced that it will take jurisdiction over the U.S. election system.
Elections, declared the Department, are “critical infrastructure.”
Upon the ruse, er. , . . justification of protecting elections from foreign hackers, the Department has announced it intends to oversee U.S. elections. See here.
Aug 30
U.S. President Obama has officially extended the national emergency that was declared after 9/11/2001:
“Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001, and the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2016.”
Few Americans are aware of how many ongoing “national emergencies” have been declared. See here.
Since the Great Depression, the U.S. government has operated under a state of ‘permanent emergency.’ President after president has used these ‘national emergencies’ to justify a wide range of extra-constitutional operations against the American people.
Aug 30
Overregulation and criminalization of medicine is driving more and more Americans to steal prescribed medications from their pets. See here.
Aug 28
Starving Venezuelans are circulating petitions to recall their president and other officials who impose the horrors of socialism upon them.
The Venezuela Constitution provides for such recall petitions.
“Nearly two million Venezuelans have signed the recall petition.”
President “Maduro’s underlings are unjustly harassing and even arresting citizens circulating the recall petition — just as previous electoral opponents of the regime have been arrested on trumped-up charges and often sentenced to long prison terms.”
“Now, Pres. Maduro has ordered five high cabinet minsters to review the recall petitions for the names of government workers in their employ and to fire any workers found to have actually used their rights.”
Aug 27
Data expert Tony Heller began scrutinizing government temperature data sets a few years ago. Heller has exposed many scandals involving the tendency of government agencies to ‘adjust’ the temperature record to bolster the claims of socialists that manmade-global-warming-by-CO2 will doom the earth unless governments take over all world industries.
Now Heller has found that government agencies have adjusted temp records to show this past July was TEN TIMES warmer in relation to the past than it actually was.
“The actual raw temperature data [NOAA uses] to generate their graph, shows one tenth as much warming from 1895 to 2016, with 1901, 1936 and 1934 as the hottest years.
Aug 27
During Hurricane Katrina, government troops erected roadblocks to keep out (private sector) rescuers. Government agencies wanted credit for any rescues.
Entire trucks filled with needed supplies, such as Wal-Mart semis carrying bottled water to the Hurricane victims, were turned away. Government agents wanted to deliver water to the victims (albeit a few days later and at massive taxpayer expense).
Now there is word that government agencies are stopping the so-called Cajun Navy, “the all-volunteer flotilla of Louisiana private boat owners credited with rescuing and helping countless thousands of marooned homeowners, livestock and pets” from helping any more Louisiana flood victims.
Aug 27
Trusters of government rarely think beyond what Thomas Sowell calls “Stage One.”
The District of Columbia–like many regions of the United States–has recently enacted an increased minimum wage for all D.C. workers. Employers must pay them $11.50 per hour. You know, . . . to help the poor.
It seems the minimum wage increase has caused a 3 % drop in D.C. restaurant employment. 1,400 jobs have been lost.
Nearby Maryland and Virginia, with lower minimum wages ($8.75 and $7.25 respectively), have seen increases in fast food employment during the same period.
Higher unemployment rates are linked to numerous social ills, including lifetime and household poverty, illness, admissions to psychiatric facilities, domestic violence and homicide.
Aug 21
Sweden was a very prosperous country in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries because it was a limited government, low-tax society that spawned many great inventors and entrepreneurs (Alfred Nobel, Volvo, and Saab).
“But that prosperity was stopped in its tracks when Sweden adopted “democratic socialism” in mid-century. As a result, Sweden ate up (with taxes) the wealth created by previous generations, so much so that not a single net new job was created there from 1950 to 2005 according to the Swedish Economic Association.”
And when the Swedish central bank tried to bail out the floundering Swedish welfare state, it created 500% interest rates. (The same bank that pretentiously awards the Nobel Prize in Economic Science!).
Aug 20
Trusters of government view the military as an indispensable protection from invasion. Some even claim the U.S. military protects Americans’ freedom.
By any measure, however, Americans’ freedoms have been in decline even as military budgets have increased.
For as long as human records exist, military forces have been a source of despotism, tyranny, and enslavement.
Now the Pentagon is admitting it can’t account for $6.5 TRILLION. Millions of records have “disappeared.” See here.
Note that the entire annual output of the country is about $16 or $17 trillion.
Aug 19
Boycott “Roots Nature School.”
Impeach and slash the budgets of Gallatin County Sheriff Brian Gootkin.
The Bozeman-area daycare called government “Child Protective Services” (CPS) after finding a mark on a child’s chest. They claim they suspected the child’s parents of abusing the child.
However, the mark on the child’s chest was a birthmark. The parents have been needlessly subjected to an embarrassing, coercive law enforcement investigation. See here.
