In an interesting twist of irony, one of the Congressman most instrumental in the destruction of civil liberties in these United States due to his authorship of the Patriot Act, Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.), is now leading the charge to rein in NSA abuses. His disgust with the NSA became clear back in early June when he … Read more
After reading the article below, it’s almost impossible to think that the never-ending “war on terror” has anything to do with foreign radicals that “hate us for our freedoms.” As I and many others have noted for years, the surveillance state being put in place is intended to deal with domestic unrest. Unrest the oligarchs … Read more
So it seems the surveillance state just had its coming out party on CNN. In this interview with Erin Burnett, former FBI counterterrorism agent Tim Clemente admits that the feds have access to pretty much everyone’s telephone conversations. Also pay attention to the smirk on his face as he admits this disturbing reality. Glenn Greenwald … Read more
I believe that election day 2012 will go down in U.S. history as an extremely important event. No, not because in its national apathy the citizens re-elected a crony capitalist puppet as President. Rather, because it was the day when two states overwhelmingly rejected the Federal Prohibition on marijuana. Of course, I am referring to … Read more
While much of the Northeastern United States remains in a state of virtual paralysis, the Supreme Court has stayed open, and two very important cases went before it yesterday. Americans should be well aware of both of them. The first revolves around warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens. The second has to do with whether or not … Read more
As most of you reading this are probably well aware, the insidious tax that is inflation can come in many shapes and sizes. The two main ways that it is manifested in our everyday lives is via price increases and shrinking portion sizes/lower quality. I have noticed a lot of both in recent months but … Read more
The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices — paid by others. – Thomas Sowell The struggle for freedom … is not the struggle of the … Read more
We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest. – James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950 For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon … Read more
The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a … Read more
Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back. – Sir Josiah Stamp, former President, Bank of England Dr. Bernanke unfortunately does not understand economics, he does not understand … Read more