It’s worth repeating because the socialist are launching another volley in the quest to enslave humanity by trying to convince people to reject money, and instead embrace new socialist dictators who will force people to carry out their socialist whims. This volley is in the form of another Michael Moore regurgitation that blames the current recession not on the governments’ restrictive anti-capitalist policies, but on capitalism itself.

With the recent historic examples of the squalor and death-tolls of the Soviet Union and China, it’s amazing that the likes of Michael Moore are not condemned for the poison they vomit. It’s hypocritical that they have not already moved to a more “moral” country where more of their wealth is stolen away by some other special interest group, union or dictator. I suppose that the fuzzy-thinking products of teachers’ union education are ripe to accept these schemes in spite of all evidence.

If people want prosperity and wealth to share and spread around, people should be telling the governments to leave us alone, not tightening the chains on our freedoms.

The media reports that socialized medicine is imminent.

Intense public-relations research has long concluded that the term “socialized medicine” should never be spoken and instead be replaced with terms such as “healthcare reform” or “national healthcare”, but reality doesn’t care what people label it: it will result in longer-lines, rationing, indifferent doctors, drowsy administrators, and more class conflict (think DMV or post office).

Today’s health care industry is a mix of free-market innovations and existing socialized medicine. Where companies can still find reward in creating new medicines and procedures, the industry is flourishing. However, the burden of the Medicaid/Medicare social schemes has resulted in increasing wait times, ballooning prices, and depleted government coffers.

Their solution? Enslave the entire industry and devour the entire medical profession.

Perhaps it’s no surprise that people blindly follow politicians to this end. Younger generations are no longer taught to think critically, but are instead filled with labor union and Al Gore propaganda. Any moocher will gladly support any social program believing (in error) that smart politicians wish to improve his life.

However, it’s never too late. Society rose from the dark ages of religious tyranny to (for a while) build the great civilization of freedom and capitalism that culminated in the United States. From the ashes of another painful attempt at self-sacrifice and “brother love,” people will eventually relearn the virtue of reason and individual rights and rebuild another greater society.

Hopefully at that time, their government Constitution will be more explicit in defending individuals against the looting hordes.

In the mean time, anything that will slow society’s decent in to social or religious slavery is worth attempting. Be vocal where appropriate, and contact your elected representatives to defend everyone’s individual rights.

The EPA has just declared carbon dioxide a “major hazard to Americans’ health” paving the way for legislators to further penalize and/or prohibit its production. I can hardly believe it’s happening in a free society—humanity is truly in trouble. We now have a government agency declaring the very air that we exhale is hazardous to our own health.

Ideology matters. Hitler believed that Jews were hazardous—in the beginning, he passed laws to censure their activities. Today, environmentalists have humanity in their cross-hairs. All that humans do to thrive, and now even living itself is deemed officially harmful.

I must remind the reader that this is all based on Gore’s “consensus of scientists” (a consensus of government workers seeking more funding) and ignorant hoards ready and willing to (a) forget that the climate has always changed, (b) accept his story on faith, and (c) vote for their own destruction.

The biggest threat to humanity is the environmentalist movement itself.

Instead of allowing AIG to enter bankruptcy (thus allowing their “frozen assets” to be used by other more competent companies), US government politicians chose to steal unprecedented billions from US citizens and hand it over to AIG and other failing companies. These politicians stated that AIG and other bail-out recipients would be expected to stay afloat and eventually repay the government-stolen money. The very fact that these companies were failing should have been enough evidence that they have been fundamentally flawed and would have no means of recovering (without further government edicts that force people to deal with them).

To add insult to injury, the government is now dictating how these companies should operate. President Obama has no experience in running or managing a successful business—he has never been an entrepreneur or a CEO, and yet he declares that AIG employees must not receive bonuses. He hasn’t a clue about whether bonuses are necessary for employee retention in a thriving financial business.

If these businesses were failing before politicians forked over other people’s money, they are sure to fail with these same politicians acting as corporate managers.

It’s past time for the US government to stop feeding our wealth in to the cesspools of rotting companies (and other socialist schemes) and get out the way so that free-market capitalism can let these companies die while rewarding other companies that are run efficiently and profitably.

A “man on the street” recently told me that the government has to “do something” about the economy.

This “do something” rally cry has turned in to an excuse for everyone to abandon what little sense they have and essentially run around in circles while flailing their arms and screaming. This has lead to a seemingly endless stream of new destructive government policies that will only create future debt, bubbles and recessions while putting more of our freedoms under the control of government politicians whose only qualification to make critical decisions is their ability to say what people want to hear.

Here are a few points that the shrieking public should remember:

Please remember that there are always real consequences to government intervention in to free markets, and “doing something” is no excuse to create more economic devastation.

You can read more about it here: http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/newyork09.html

The only difference today is that environmentalists want you to believe that any changes in climate are due to nefarious human activity. The term “climate change” is quickly becoming synonymous with “we need green socialist dictators to put humans in their place.”

Please use your reason. The free world depends on it.

This is blatantly false.

The world’s wealth is not a fixed value that happens to be unfairly distributed to some and not others. In a free market, wealth is CREATED. Some people create more wealth than others.

Some people choose to spend years cramming information in to their minds to make their actions and choices more effective. Others spend their evenings watching TV and drinking beer. Some people stay up at night reading more books and learning new skills while others stay up at night partying and birthing more children.

There is nothing unjust about the wealth creators keeping the wealth that they create – they typically develop unique skills for creating wealth, and their ability and opportunity to manage more wealth is a win-win for everyone. After all, the wealth wouldn’t exist at all if they didn’t put forth their effort.

In spite of this, today’s politicians are trying to further loot families who create more than $250,000 worth of wealth each year on the false premise that this $250,000 has largely been stolen from those who chose to live their lives irresponsibly or at a slower pace.

When the wealth creators finally give-up and to cap their capacity to create wealth at $250,000/year (or whatever number the politicians arbitrarily decide is rich), then humanity is in BIG trouble. (The socialists don’t seem to have a problem with this; a topic for a future post.)

To add insult to injury, this satellite has crashed in to the ocean, so the value produced by this program is now exactly $0. However, there will likely be a second attempt in which even more of your (forced) tax money is used to further Al Gore’s conspiracy theories.

Ideas matter. Your government is robbing you, and then spending billions of dollars, and imposing laws to severely restrict the productive potential of humanity based on criminally flawed reasons. Please spend at least 10 minutes today reading about the ongoing debate between Al Gore and his “consensus” and the other consensus of climate scientists who do not support his fantastic claims.

You don’t need to be a scientist to employ reason. Most people simply believe Al Gore’s hysteria, and that’s good enough for them.

Ironic because one could easily replace the character of Michael Corleone with most any modern union kingpin and the story would be the same: how people deal with one another by force, instead of voluntary free trade. Today’s unions have deeply permeated the government and routinely use the government’s monopoly on the use of force (courts, law enforcement, guns) to force individuals to give union members unearned wealth, and more government power.

Mobsters offer people “protection” for fees and allegiance (or else). Unions offer people unearned wealth for fees and allegiance. They obtain that wealth from anyone and everyone who doesn’t join the union (e.g., in the form of artificially expensive automobiles, films, and steel). Like mobsters, unions don’t engage in running businesses, they simply engage in malignantly looting businesses until they collapse (as with the American auto industry).

Since the unions are so embedded in to governments, they no longer need new businesses to loot, they simply convince government officials to tax and/or print more money, thus robbing society at large—particularly the most productive people.

Unions are also deeply embedded in the education and film industries. Because of this, you will almost never hear a disparaging word about unions, their means, or their purposes. Imagine a film-maker trying to produce a film critical about unions. Can you imagine Dom Corleone or any union official “allowing” such a film to get made?

There has been some effort recently to get Ayn Rand’s classic novel Atlas Shrugged adapted to a feature film. Given the novel’s defense of individual rights and voluntary free trade (as opposed to force), I bet that for the unions to allow it to get produced, the screenwriter will have to severely deform its message.

The local radio stations are playing advertisements from the California Teachers Association union (CTA) pleading for funding for “our children” to continue. Like modern terrorists who use human shields for cover, the CTA defends its government power and its salaries by purchasing ads featuring children as victims of selfish taxpayers.

The CTA has even spent huge amounts of taxpayer money defending itself against school vouchers to ensure that ALL education tax money goes directly in to the pockets of CTA goons, establishing a monopoly on education.

Unbelievable.

I was wondering what the California state expenses have actually been in recent years. After a difficult search of California state web sites (they are probably pretty ashamed of the figures), I finally found the numbers.

I was astonished that, like a cancer, the California state expenses have DOUBLED in just the last 10 years. I’m sure that there is more than the CTA to blame, but it’s obvious that the state expenses have more than plenty of room to shrink in spite of democratic/union/socialist rhetoric.

It’s not difficult to see how this “ideal” works in practice: mass human suffering and death. Since humans are increasingly not allowed to convert natural elements in to useful products, living as a human is becoming more difficult. (These natural elements are NOT scarce by any measurement.)

Although the media conspicuously avoids this point, years of environmentalist-inspired restrictions have reduced the supply of wealth-creating fuel. In 1995, Klinton vetoed attempts to open any of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil production. For decades, environmental laws have also kept the California coast off limits to any new oil drilling.

Creating vital goods and services costs more because the fuel that runs the wealth-creating machines is being choked off by environmentalist propaganda. Getting to and from the workplace is eating up more wealth. The rising cost of obtaining food has caused a “food crisis.” As the machines of wealth production increasingly slow down, will Al Gore, Greenpeace and their ilk apologize to the starving humans? Will they force more wealth away from the free world while at the same time making that wealth increasingly difficult to create?

You are now officially being affected by bad environmentalist ideas. It’s time to stop supporting them and start speaking up for reason and human prosperity.

These ads attempt to scare the current population with imaginary visions of a future apocalyptic world in which Al Gore’s climate conspiracy theories exist and future humans are indignant at present-day humans for not choosing some form of green dictatorship or socialism.

This scare tactic has been effectively employed through the ages: Hitler warned that the Jews needed to be erased. Preachers of religion warn that your soul will burn in endless fire if you don’t believe in some varying version of an undetectable god.

While some warnings do have merit, the global warming (a.k.a. climate change) political warnings do not. In spite of the overwhelming media attention to every shred of evidence of a warming climate, the real science behind the claims is still wrought with endless conflicting evidence.

Most politicians and all other totalitarians (who are not scientists) preach global warming with great certainty. To the extent that they succeed, real-world humans will suffer the real effects of increasing restrictions on productivity. These restrictions (like all environmentalism) work toward their ideal of erasing humans from existence (i.e., to attempt to eliminate the human footprint or any impact that humans have on anything else).

Capitalism Magazine has a good online article summarizing the current list of blatant contradictions in the anthropogenic climate change myth. It’s a must read for anyone temped to support the climate change hysteria.

In Sunday’s Los Angeles Times (3/30/2008), the front page of the Business section (!) was a featured essay about how guilty we should all feel about our hopeless addiction to oil (in every way that improves the quality of human life). Particularly ominous was the large image of a woman with her hand covering her bowed head in shame.

This is the human condition that the environmentalists are seeking to achieve:

The self-hating human.

The Associated Press published a story about how these people have blocked access to YouTube and MySpace for all Indonesians because the film “could disturb relations between the faiths.” Such kid-gloves are only necessary for present-day Islam because of it’s leaders’ constant incitement of holy-wars against the west and promises of murder for those who speak poorly of their faith-based god.

Instead of significant groups of “peaceful” Muslims denouncing such acts of violence in the name of Islam, they continue to voice anger over such movies, and thus effectively continue to defend those who use the Koran to murder others. With equal if not greater culpability, non Muslims and western leaders continue to preach forgiveness and surrender to irrational Islamic demands to force others to obey Allah (as interpreted by Imam thugs).

While the broader problem has to do with the concept of faith as such, Fitna shows the nature and goals of the growing radical Islamic movement. If those government individuals in Indonesia want a future of peace and freedom, they should be watching and learning, not censoring out of fear and/or support.

The ARI article identifies the actual meaning of Earth Hour (the premises that go in to its purpose), and asks whether most people could or would support an “Earth Month” in which all electricity is extinguished for 30 days.

Food would spoil and food production would all but halt, criminals would achieve stealth, tap water would not be treated, hospitals would completely close at dusk, etc. In short, the horrific occurrence would perhaps allow people to renew their appreciation for modern technology and the existence of fuels to power it.

This idea of extending Earth Hour to Earth Month further exposes the blatant hypocrisy and contradictions of those giving lip service to Earth Hour, and the nightmarish “utopia” envisioned by the environmentalist movement at large.

Check it out here: The Real Meaning of Earth Hour.

In spite of countless historic examples of slaughtering regimes (Nazis, communism, Japanese Shintoism, etc.), the western governments and the supposed peaceful Muslims are still doing next to nothing to end this hate-group’s growing threat to the civilized world.

To further punctuate the issue, this video is constantly being removed from web sites under direct death threats from Islamic totalitarians. This video should be spread by anyone and everyone who values human freedom, individual rights, and the ability to criticize others without being murdered for one’s words. Or to put it another way, simply ask yourself: What would my life be like if these Muslims get what they want?

Tell your politicians that waiting and wishing only leads to a larger slaughter in the future.

(Note: This video may be removed due to ongoing death threats, so simply search for “Fitna movie” to find a working link.)

Endorsed/reviewed by The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for publication in their journal “Science,” social psychologist Elizabeth Dunn of the University of British Columbia has concluded that altruistic spending leads to happiness.

Based on her survey of 632 Americans, another survey of 16 bonus recipients in Boston, and handing out $5 or $20 spots to 155 University of British Columbia students (!), she concluded that those who gave their money away rather than spent it on themselves were happier at the end of the day.

Her conclusion is not supported by the experiments/surveys. Not only are the samples small, but also she confuses these correlations with cause-effect relationships. Regardless of income levels, those who spend more than they make are constantly under stress, and simply don’t have surplus wealth to give away.

Perhaps being submerged in the morass of socialism that is Canada, she goes on to use her “science” as a reason for increased socialism. From a report in ScienceNOW Daily News by Elsa Youngsteadt, “She hopes the finding might someday spur policymakers to promote widespread philanthropy that could make for a more altruistic–and happier–population.”

So-called policymakers are in the business of deciding where government force is used. I wonder if altruism still makes people happier at the point of a gun?

With the help of AAAS, this “scientific study” will be likely be put in to sound-bite format and fed to the public. Just like Hitler used science to help convince the masses that the Jews must be murdered, she’s using science to convince the masses that we must force each other in to a lifetime of altruism and slavery—for our own well being!

It’s likely that the environmentalists’ public relations departments do not recommend that their published organizational goals include the elimination of humanity, but consider today’s issues that their current manpower gives them time to pursue.

Whether it is global warming, climate change, endangered species, nature preserves, etc., it’s always some variant of attacking human activity as such. No human (or living organism) can exist without “exploiting” the earth or creating waste material, so the final solution to the environmentalist contradictions is to eliminate all the humans. An environmentalist web site spells this out quite clearly (even though the site’s creators are, of course, hypocrites for still breathing).

Short of achieving the final solution of eradicating humanity, environmentalists continue to successfully inject this poison in to the culture under the guise of helping future generations. They continue to use unscientific scare tactics: e.g., depicting an imaginary apocalyptic future world. We suffer an increasing array of laws and restrictions aimed at making human life and prosperity more and more difficult. To the extent that people continue to accept the environmentalists’ doctrine unchecked, future generations will only inherit the slavery and squalor of totalitarian socialism.

It’s important for humans to identify the poison of environmentalism and label environmentalists as the hypocritical monsters they are. We owe this to our children.