Jul 23

Climate Change Sailors are Apparently Lying to the Public by Secretly Using an Icebreaker to Travel through Arctic Ice

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A group of fame-seeking manmade-global-warming alarmists are making headlines around the world with claims that they are sailing around the North Pole which is virtually ice-free.

The boat’s crew have bought into government statements that ice is disappearing in the Arctic.

Unfortunately for the crewmen of the sailboat, the government claims about unusual melting are lies.

Tony Heller writes that “They have zero chance of getting through without an icebreaker. It has become abundantly clear that these people are attempting to defraud the public about the state of Arctic ice.”

When Heller tried to contact the crew to ask if they are being led by an icebreaker vessel, the crew shut off all communications.

“So far,” Heller writes,

“everyone who has asked the Polar Ocean crew if they are being accompanied by an icebreaker has been blocked [on Twitter]. I was blocked by another crew member today for asking “Ben, are you being accompanied by an icebreaker through the Northeast Passage?””

See here.

Jul 22

Private citizens rescue baby bison from the cold and are criminally prosecuted; government agents who do the same thing are not even publicly named

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Remember those tourists to Yellowstone Park who were prosecuted and punished for picking up a freezing abandoned bison calf and trying to save it in their vehicle?

The story made national news, with government officials shaming and lecturing YNP visitors to NEVER, EVER, try to save wildlife in national parks.

Apparently, a whistleblower came forward to tell a similar story about a National Park Service employee who did THE EXACT SAME THING with a baby calf bison in South Dakota. The Park Service investigated the claims and found them true:

But the government agent is NOT BEING PROSECUTED (or even publicly named, let alone shamed). See here.

There is one set of rules for government workers; another for common peasants.

Jul 19

America facing two consecutive “lost decades” of economic slowness

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America, like Japan, Denmark and other former capitalist flagships, took a serious turn toward overregulation, overtaxation and socialism since the 1990s.

And American economic growth has stagnated. 8 years into a supposed “recovery,” U.S. GDP growth rates still hover around 2 percent annually or less.

According to George Will, “If 2 percent growth is, as he says, “the most likely scenario” for the foreseeable future, the nation faces a second consecutive lost decade — one without a year of 3 percent growth.”

N. Gregory Mankiw, Harvard economist and chairman of George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, writes in the New York Times that in the past decade the growth rate of the real gross domestic product per person averaged 0.44 percent, down from the historical norm of 2 percent: At 2 percent, incomes double every 35 years; at 0.44 percent, about every 160 years.

See here.

Jul 16

Climate fraud? Paul Dreissen details many dozens of demonstrable untruths by climate change hysterics

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The gifted writer Paul Dreissen is out with a tremendous column detailing dozens of demonstrably false statements made by those who trust the government’s catastrophic-global-warming-by-human-released-CO2 theory/agenda. See here.

Jul 16

Attempt to overthrow Turkey’s government reportedly fails

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“National security” is something of an oxymoron. The fabric of history shows that liberal societies in which common people have more freedom to innovate, invent, and create without oversight of the state tend to be the most secure societies.

Paradoxically, societies that are ruled by a cult of government omnipotence tend to reel from crisis to crisis.

As previous posts have detailed, the government of Turkey has spent the past 2 years cracking down on anti-government criticism, jailing comedians, reporters and even teenagers who speak against government. See here, here, here, and here.

Now there has been an attempted coup against Turkey’s “rulership.”

It appears the coup has failed. See here.

Jul 14

Venezuelan army now distributes all food

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Mass starvation, famines and food shortages only happen in socialist, centrally-controlled societies.

Today’s BBC online blared the headline “Venezuela army deployed to control food production and distribution.” See here. The story begins:

In a decree, President Nicolas Maduro has ordered the army to monitor food processing plants, and co-ordinate the production and distribution of items.
Venezuela is going through a deep economic crisis despite having the world’s largest oil reserves.

Amazingly, Venezuela was a thriving society just 20 years ago.

Venezuela followed the model of social planning recommended by most of America’s university social-science professors.

Jul 12

More death and starvation while people stand in line in Venezuela

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Just 20 years ago, Venezuela was a rising economic power with a dynamic economy and a growing business community.

Today, after 15 years of socialism, Venezuelans spend much of their time standing in long lines waiting for soap, beans or other scraps. Sometimes the long lines transform into riots, and the people become looters. Robbers murder people for cell phones in toothpaste lines in front of crowds.

Although Venezuela has one of the world’s highest murder rates, Venezuelans are now so poor and desperate that they regard shortages–not safety–as their highest concern.

Shortages now top voters’ lists of concerns, surpassing even safety. That’s stunning in a country with one of the world’s highest homicide rates.

“Desperation fuels the violence.” Line-cutters are beaten severely. No one has sympathy for anyone.

ATM limits are capped at $8 a day (for those who still have accounts).

Venezuela has the world’s highest inflation rate.

All Venezuelans, including children, are assigned two shopping days a week based on their state ID number. They line up before supermarkets open, guided by rumors and where they’ve had luck in the past. Some use fake IDs to score extra shopping days. Pregnant women and the elderly get their own priority lines, and everyone is limited to two units of whatever is on offer.

The longest lines are for what is in the shortest supply: food.

Some elderly poor are so weak from the long lines that they collapse.

The lines are driven by scarcity and poverty, but they also reflect how much people have given up on traditional employment. With the minimum wage at less than $15 a month and inflation running well into triple digits, it barely pays to go to work.

Read the AP story here.

Jul 11

Government temperature agency has “adjusted” past June temperatures downward by almost 2 degrees

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Government agencies (and government supported organizations) are now trumpeting that this past June (2016) was the hottest on record.

But they are able to do this only by altering the temperature record of the past.

NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has adjusted historical June temperatures downwards by almost two degrees! See here.

NOAA fabricated 60% of the June data. If they are missing station data for a particular month, they simply make it up based on computer models and mark it with an “E” in their database.

UPDATE: Heller has crunched a few more numbers and found that this past June was actually one of the LEAST hot Junes in the past century. See here.

Jul 11

Dallas Craigslist advertised for “crisis actors” 2 weeks before mass shooting

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Numerous online sources are pointing to an ad posted on Dallas Craigslist seeking “crisis actors.” See, for example, here.

Many deep-state experts have pointed to the use of “crisis actors” at such events as the Boston Marathon bombing and the Sandy Hook “massacre.” Crisis actors are paid to stay in character during events and make statements to news journalists in order to construct a narrative.

Frequently, the actors are told they are participating in a “drill.” Later, the actors find that their statements to reporters are broadcast as news.

The Craigslist ad sought “reliable” actors (not necessarily good ones). The ad said actors “MUST stay in character, must be ok with selling soul to some alphabet agency,” and that “Max confidentiality [is] needed.” See here.
Hmmmmmmm.

Jul 07

California is about to experience Socialism’s fruits

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For the past century, California was the national (and world) leader in innovation and entertainment.

But after a generation of socialist impositions, one in three American welfare recipients resides in California, and almost a quarter of the state population lives below or near the poverty line.

Government trusters frequently claim that high taxes, socialism and redistribution of wealth are needed to attack “income inequality.” Yet California is among the most unequal of all states. California depends on a tiny elite class for about half of its income tax revenue.

(Many of these wealthy taxpayers are fleeing the state. See here.)

In addition to high taxes, California has the nation’s highest gas and electricity prices (despite bountiful natural resources), homeless people living almost everywhere, and one of the sickest populations of any state. (About a third of hospital customers suffer from diabetes due to lack of exercise and poor diet.)

Socialism is a curse that people should wish only on a hated enemy.