Jul 02
“Secret government documents leaked to The Intercept by a whistleblower show that, according to official figures, 90 percent of people killed in U.S. drone strikes in a five-month period in provinces on Afghanistan’s eastern border with Pakistan were not the intended targets.”
See here (Salon).
And here (The Intercept).
Jun 26
Former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas once noted that authorities who violate freedom of speech and press always claim they are doing something else.
“Protecting public order,” “preventing violence,” and “stopping terrorism or treason” are common excuses offered by tyrants who defy the First Amendment.
Now, the DEAN of Yale Law School is openly claiming that skepticism of the government’s man-made-carbon-dioxide-global-warming theory falls into a “fraud” exception to the First Amendment. See here. Thus, according to this high-level law professor, government can forcibly suppress such speech.
Jun 26
Hundreds of newspaper articles and posts on “mainstream” (meaning government-supporting and supported) websites have proclaimed a recent “acceleration” in melting of ice in Greenland.
In fact, satellite footage and data show that the ice pack in Greenland (as mid-summer approaches) is actually above normal.
“Greenland’s surface has gained 530 billion tons of ice since last summer, and is tracking well above normal.” See here.
Jun 24
It finally happened. The legislature and governor of a state (Hawaii) have approved a gun registry for all residents who possess firearms.
Hawaii signed a bill Thursday to become the first state to enter gun owners into an FBI database that will automatically notify police if an island resident is arrested anywhere else in the country.
Jun 23
Abstract vector color map of Great Britain country coloured by national flag
Lift a glass for self determination! It appears the courageous Brits have chosen to exit the European Union.
There is hope!
Jun 23
The U.S. government has been bolstering the powers, privileges and immunities of federal employees for years.
Career federal employees now get 8 weeks of PAID vacation annually. They are paid around twice what a private sector worker in the same field would make (and this does not include the paid vacation!).
Federal workers are increasingly immune from lawsuit, and are protected in a thousand ways from their angry constituents.
There are now more non-military government employees who carry guns than there are U.S. Marines. See here.
Jun 23
Overregulation by government, near-zero interest rates, student loan debt, and near all-time-low savings rates have devastated home ownership rates.
Home ownership is at its lowest in nearly 50 years, falling to 63.7 percent in 2015. It’s a “decade-long slide” that “is unprecedented in American history,” according to an annual report released Wednesday by Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. See here.
The growth of student loan debt has also contributed. Today’s college grads already–in essence–have a mortgage to pay for, thanks to the Student Loan Program, which subsidizes demand and causes tuition costs to rise.
Jun 21
Financial Times recently reviewed the economic problems facing America’s lower-class males. Males of prime working age have abandoned work, as regulation and the criminal justice system have taken their tolls. See here.
“Between 6 and 7 per cent of the prime-age male population was in prison at some point during their lives in 2008.”
Jun 20
Infowars.com has broken a story wherein a U.S. intelligence or military contractor has posted a Craigslist ad seeking “actors” for an upcoming military “exercise.”
Infowars notes that the “exercise” appears to be timed to coincide with the Democratic National Convention and speculates that the military-industrial complex may seek to stage a false flag ‘terror’ attack of some kind to make Bernie Sanders supporters look bad.
Who knows?
Jun 20
It is an age-old claim: that dissenters and critics of government are traitors guilty of sedition.
For months, the government of Turkey has been prosecuting children, reporters and even comedians who criticized the government.
Now Turkish prosecutors have arrested three prominent free speech advocates. See here.
