Guest Post by Simon Black
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, your finances, and your prosperity.
Professor Blames Private Property for California Wildfires
A public takeover of utility companies is not enough, according to Kian Goh, Professor of Urban Development at UCLA.
In order to combat California wildfires, we need to abandon “aspirations of home ownership, and belief in the importance of private property.”
Fueled by cheap energy– and of course the ever-present racism of the white middle-class– people expanded beyond cities, building little tinder-box neighborhoods into the forests.
Goh says that, “Expansionist, individualist, and exclusionary patterns of housing became synonymous with freedom and self-sufficiency.”
Ah yes, it’s not so hard to link the desire for freedom and self-sufficiency with every known evil on earth. You’re even responsible for burning down California.
But Urban Planners like Kian Goh would be happy to step in, and tell us how our lives should be designed.
For the greater good, we must collectivize and live on communal (i.e. government controlled) land.
Just a reminder– parents across the country pay top dollar each year so people like Professor Goh can teach their children.
Click here to read the original article.
Update: New York Man finally has his hemp back
In Early November, Oren Levy had his shipment of legal hemp confiscated by the New York Police. They even bragged about the “drug bust” on social media.
Too bad it was perfectly legal. Levy even had the documentation to prove it, included in every box of the shipment.
But police still lured Levy’s brother to the department under the guise that he could pick up the shipment, and arrested him.
After almost two months, and nearly destroying Levy’s perfectly legal CBD oil business, charges were dropped. The shipment was returned– though in a dry and deteriorated condition.
Levy is now suing the NYPD, the City of New York, and possibly FedEx for alerting the authorities in the first place.
Levy broke the good news in a Tweet and Instagram post.
Congress has a New Year’s Resolution: Destroy Facebook’s Libra Token
Two bills that the US Congress will consider this year seem aimed specifically at preventing Facebook from rolling out it’s digital token Libra.
One is called the “Keep Big Tech Out Of Finance Act.” It would ban “large platform utilities” from being, or being affiliated with, a financial institution.
It would also not allow large platforms to create or “operate a digital asset that is intended to be widely used as medium of exchange, unit of account, store of value, or any other similar function.”
Violators would be fined $1 million per day.
The other bill is called the “Managed Stable Coins are Securities Act.”
Libra is intended to be a “stable coin” which is a digital currency tied to the value of existing currencies.
This bill would make it law that Libra would be considered a security, like a stock or bond, as opposed to a currency, like the dollar or Swiss franc.
Sounds like the US government doesn’t want any competition with their Federal Reserve Notes.
Click here and here to see the bills.
Gig workers’ big win in California? Being fired.
In September 2019, the media company Vox ran the headline, Gig workers’ win in California is a victory for workers everywhere.
They were referring to a new law in California which classified gig workers and contractors as employees.
The story was that by classifying workers as contractors instead of employees, companies like Uber and Lyft got away with not providing employee benefits required under California law.
Then, just before Christmas, Vox showed us what the law really meant when it fired 200 California-based freelance writers.
Vox helped sell the public the lie that laws like these force companies to absorb freelancers as employees. But in reality, it means they get fired.
Click here to read the full story.
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Professor of Urban Development = professional bullshit artist.
NY police are responsible for false arrest. The taxpayers foot the bill for their ineptitude. Sooner or later the voters will realize that the police are completely ineffective at fighting crime and are actually a liability.
All crypto is just another fiat currency instead of money. TPTsB don’t like the competition, as their bullshit currency is superior to other bullshit currency in TPTsB’s opinion. This should tell the public that bullshit of any kind is still bullshit.
Uber and Lyft should cease operations right now to avoid the inevitable later. This would tie the failure directly to the fatwa. It might even trash the stock market; one can only hope.
Good to see you pointing out the difference between currency and money. I hope everyone here on TBP understands the difference and is planning for the future accordingly.
Years ago, Chris Martinson had an excellent series on money/currency. More recently Mike Maloney did a superb job explaining in simple terms how the Fed operates and the difference between money and fiat currency.
Anyone that needs to brush up on the topic should search for their productions. Absolutely everyone should read ‘The Creature From Jeklyll Island’ to understand how the country was sold off to the banksters in 1913. That was the actual end of the Republic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di8MvCpTZ5M
Better.
And yet he’s here.
This was a big part of what I alluded to in Stuck In NJ. If you change the people, you change the culture.
I don’t even know what a Kian Goh is- Indian? Malay? African? Who knows, but he’s here, he’s promoted by the institutional powers, paid handsomely, probably has benefits and retirement to go along with it, and his contribution to the land my family has bled and died for for almost 400 years is to strip from me all that remains; my freedom, independence and property. And I’m a bad guy for not submitting to it?
All of these things trouble him so much that he must expound upon it…wait for it…wait…in America!
Why did he not remain in the land of his forebears? Why travel halfway around the world to a place that has everything you don’t want? Is he some kind of missionary on a quest? Or is he a colonist preparing the new land for those who will follow and strip it away from the natives?
What he is – is not printable even on TBP
I say all freedom loving Americans chip in and let’s buy Botswana. Start over and leave the haters here to hate themselves.
Colonist is accurate, especially in a historical sense, but inaccurate in that the term does not adequately encompass the level of native support in 21st century America.
Something new is in order that describes what is happening, without going full throttle to genocide, as genocide has elements of accuracy but is too extreme and generally occurs faster.
Replicide, perhaps.
A judgment against a woman who was raped, then shot the rapist has had her fine for shooting him reduced from 2000 a month to only 1000 a month. BECAUSE HE just got sent to PRISON FOR HER RAPE.
It was on one of those criminal case file stories my husband watches then comes railing at me about as if my reading about the world CAUSES it.
Yes. Black man, white woman. I’ll look for the link but I’m sickened by it and know it is true.
Did she shoot his thingy instead of putting the bullet through his head?
He is a she. Duck duck go- second entry and see her home/cave(?) and the dark faced little one in the background…another Sarah Joung(sp) type hater.
Kian Goh is an architect and PHD. She is employed by UCLA as an Urban Planning professor and at the UCLA Center For Southeast Asian Studies. She is Asian with a stunning physiognomy:
But where did she get those degrees? We have Asians et al here in UK practicing medicine and all with degrees from Bongoland or bought and paid for on the Internet- means jack shit.
Physiognomy for the win.
“Just a reminder– parents across the country pay top dollar each year so people like Professor Goh can teach their children.’ WORDS HAVE MEANING! She doesn’t TEACH; she INDOCTRINATES.