Dear America, It’s You — Not Me.
April 25, 2013 By: Stephen Hilgart, Dir. Of Marketing & Conference Operations Any real life goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot – I’m certainly feeling that way, because, next week I am… Leaving the U.S. My journey starts in China for fun, friends, and food (pig face, anyone?). After that, […]
America’s Stages of Grief
April 24, 2013 By: Kevin Kerr, Contributor Desperate Acts: Final Days of the Empire In recent days and weeks we have seen more and more evidence of the endgame of power taking foot in America. The Empire is certainly scrambling to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. Meanwhile, in so doing, the Empire is eroding […]
Online Retailers & Consumers Hit with a Fairness Tax
April 23, 2013 By: Kelly Diamond, Editor Online retailers are the latest target for tax revenues because up to now, people were engaging in duty-free e-commerce! While the larger online retailers like Amazon welcome the cost prohibitive nature of enforcing state and local taxes, it only demonstrates the UNfairness of legislation like the “Marketplace Fairness […]
SEC’s Revolving Door: Who Will Regulate the Regulators?
April 22, 2013 By: Kelly Diamond, Editor Before we cry for more government oversight in the financial industry, we should be asking: “Who will regulate the regulators over at the SEC?” And before we look to more money, or more staff, or more rules, we should be asking: “Would any of those things address the […]
CISPA: Government & Corporate Information is More Important Than Yours
April 19, 2013 By: Kelly Diamond, Editor While proponents go so far as to argue that CISPA is a constitutional duty reflective of their oath of office, upon further examination, our right to privacy plays fifth fiddle to legislators’ desire to protect corporate and government information over that of private citizens. CISPA is an example […]
Will Tyranny Be Completed Before Humanity Wakes Up Again?
April 18, 2013 By: Paul Rosenberg, FreemansPerspective.com All of our lives have occurred in an era of peak somnambulism (a.k.a. sleepwalking), and those of us who enjoy being awake have suffered mightily because of it. Using your mind has come with a price in our time, which is pretty sick, really. Humanity, however, does not […]
FBI & IRS Rifling Through Your Virtual Communications?
April 12, 2013 By: Kelly Diamond, Editor What is “reasonable” for government agents, usually is quite UNreasonable to the private citizen, especially when it comes to privacy of our virtual communications! I keep hearing the word “reasonable” from government agencies! In the words of the great Inigo Montoya (h/t “The Princess Bride”), “You keep saying […]
Bank & Government Betray Trust, Begets Disincentive to Save
April 10, 2013 By: Kelly Diamond, Editor Private account holders should seek safe havens that will actually keep their information and assets PRIVATE and SAFE! Members of the EU are discussing information disclosures, Israel recently betrayed the trust of its offshore American account holders and Obama is looking to cap what individuals can save. Off-shore […]
DHS Goes for Your Safe Deposit Box?
April 8, 2013 By: Kelly Diamond, Editor The Cypriot Deal turned a lot of heads and woke quite a few folks up to governments’ propensity to just TAKE private assets under some alarmist guise, and hopefully now, Americans will take more seriously the intentions of our own DHS and their moves toward confiscating our assets. […]
Cyprus is the Template for How to Fail
April 5, 2013 By: Kelly Diamond, Editor In the wake of the Cypriot Bank “bail-in”, Troika officials allude to the fact that Cyprus is a template or model for future Eurozone countries. Despite the hasty assurances from politicians, not only is Cyprus more exemplary than exceptional, plenty of other western countries already have similar directives […]
