Brrr…. solar minimums bring cold winter? and more?

Posted on 2019-11-24 by TPOL Nathan

A recent article in Zero Hedge warns about the upcoming winter of 2019-2020. Slinging phrases like “catastrophic winter” and “snow-verload,” we are told that the solar minimum is upon us, no matter what the “manmade global warming” true believers claim. (Of course, those true believers claim this is all manmade, due to carbon dioxide, methane, and CFCs etc. released into the atmosphere by our use of “fossil fuels” and destruction of the rainforest.)

Then the story (originally posted here) goes into an apocalyptical fit. We are barely able to feed ourselves now and even a single bad harvest will cause mass starvation – even in the Fifty States. Disaster is upon us!

Are we prepared? Individually? Or will we let government “handle” it?

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The internet and our perception of national madness

Posted on 2019-11-23 by TPOL Nathan

Gossip columnists Hedda Hopper and Walter Winchell no doubt are envious (to the nth degree) of their modern versions and imitators.  With the internet websites, Twitter, Facebook, and all the rest of our all-pervasive social media, gossip is big, BIG and profitable business. “Influencers” are suddenly newly noticed, very important, listened to, and even worshiped.

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Indeed, more and more of the media seems to be nothing but gossip – the latest and best about celebrities.  About politicians.  About the strange people that we’ve always known live around the world, but now suddenly are revealed to us through clickbait headlines and 15 separate webpages, each with a half-dozen adverts and a short paragraph to entice us on.

What does that have to do with madness? Read on.

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Rats in a cage – national madness and more

Posted on 2019-11-22 by TPOL Nathan
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Some of the old science fiction writers explored the entire concept of the decay and collapse of society, as featured in the NIMH or Calhoun experiments with mice and rats back in the 1950s and 1960s. (You can read about the politically-corrected report on these experiments in the Smithsonian. We are told “humans are too adaptable to be trapped in such dystopias.” Someone should tell those trapped in too many cities around the world.)

They portrayed societies filled with madness at all levels. In which the “norm” was insane by the standards of the 1960s. Societies which were difficult, if not impossible to live in, at least sanely. Usually, the cause of this insanity was corporations – big business.

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Meth – “we’re on it!”

Posted on 2019-11-20 by TPOL Nathan

I almost HAVE to comment on this rather funny issue and controversy, here at home in South Dakota. Funny but deadly serious.

Tom Knapp posted on Freedom Net Daily today:

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New York State promotes more rebellion

Posted on 2019-11-20 by TPOL Nathan

Dragged before the supreme court of Judea, the Sanhedrin, Peter and the rest of the apostles, followers of Christ Jesus, put it very simply: “We must obey God rather than man.”  Forbidden to preach and teach their Good News, they refused to abide by the dictat of the powers that be.

Now, nearly two thousand years later, followers of that same Messiah once again face that choice.  The State of New York has just put into law a prohibition on non-profit organizations – INCLUDING RELIGIOUS GROUPS – from endorsing or opposing any candidate for public office.

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Does intimidation work?

Posted on 2019-11-19 by TPOL Nathan

No lover of liberty will deny that every person has a right to choose how to spend their money. Or that one of the ways that we can influence people to change what they do – to do what is right (at least in our eyes) – is whether or not we do business with them: whether we buy their products and services, or get them from someone else.

Refusing to do business with someone, voting with our dollars, seems to be a very good way of dealing with political and social opponents. It is a form of the religious idea of withdrawing fellowship – interactions – with those who cause dissension and offend against others.

But at what point does this action become intimidation? And is intimidation acceptable?

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Hong Kong’s situation rapidly deteriorating – but hope for the future!

Posted on 2019-11-18 by TPOL Nathan
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No doubt the Communist rulers and administrators right now fervently wish for a piece of fiction to be reality.  I refer to Heinlein’s “Hong Kong Luna” penal colony in his novel, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. It was a convenient and distant dumping ground for the political and economic troublemakers of Earth.  An increasingly regimented and governmentalized Earth that our world of 2019 seems to resemble more and more.

Beijing is fearful. Months of protests and now violence in the capitalist, free market former Crown Colony are escalating the threat. And so, Beijing sees action as ever more essential. What action is most likely? Massive “police” (read “military”) intervention in the densely-populated city state.

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The myth of the Nine Nazgul, their lesser brethren, and freedom

Posted on 2019-11-14 by TPOL Nathan

The vast majority of Americans believe that the Nazgul and the entire black-robe gang are the ultimate protectors of our liberties.

By Nazgul, I refer of course to the nine Justices of the Supreme Court and all the lesser magistrates, federal, state, and local.

The myth is that these men and women make wise decisions based on the basic principles of American liberty to protect us from the tyrannical actions of evil-doers. Whether that is the present or past occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, or the cluster of critters that infest all that space under the dome at the other end of the National Mall. Whether that is petty, nasty little state legis-gators or city councils or county commissioners lording it over us. Or jackbooted thugs and pandering, vote-hungry prosecutors.

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United States Space Force – a positive vote by L. Neil

Posted on 2019-11-11 by TPOL Nathan

I am sure that I (as well as Neil) will be taken to task by more than a few people for linking to his recent article at the Libertarian Enterprise on The United States Space Force. In part, this will be because:

(a) he speaks slightingly of Murray Rothbard.

(b) he praises The Donald, at least relative to other POTUS.

(c) he advocates for what is, essentially, an increase in power of the FedGov.

(d) he assumes that the FedGov will do the right thing with an USSF.

I don’t see it that way – even on the last point.

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Drug wars come close to home

Posted on 2019-11-10 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

The recent attack which killed nine people: three women and six children, in the middle of Sonora State in Mexico, brings the war on some drugs – and Mexico’s internal war – close to home. It is an opportunity to teach some lessons I think we all need as lovers of liberty.

The event reminds us of what Arizona and Sonora were like for several hundred years, up to the 1890s. Travelers attacked and brutally murdered by savages. And also very much like the last official Mexican Revolution, back in the 1910s.

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