IMF Wants to Monitor Your Internet Searches (See Why)
The IMF is considering a system similar to that in China: a social credit system based on internet usage and searches. But is this just a huge data grab? In an episode of the popular Netflix original Black Mirror, titled “Nosedive,” people can rate each other from one to five stars for every interaction they […]
Biden’s Executive Action Blitz
The Biden administration’s first 10 days yielded some executive actions that suggest more green agenda and war, but less civil liberties. February 1, 2021 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP In each administration, the issue of executive orders invariably comes up from the opposition. People during the Obama administration were upset by his orders, and […]
Scared New York Lawmaker Wants COVID-19 “Camps”
The COVID-19 pandemic has New York using it as cover to roll out policies involving “removing and detaining” those who might be a danger to public health. What you’re about to read will likely leave you thinking that the U.S., and more specifically New York, has lost the script entirely. I was so shocked, that […]
When Trust in Government & the Press is Lost
A general loss of trust in government and media weighs heavy on the world, particularly in the US; yet no sincere effort to restore trust is in sight. January 25, 2021 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP There are two things that get people to cooperate quickly and with little resistance: fear and faith. People […]
Civil Liberties Could Be Making a Comeback
While 2020 has been a tough year for civil liberties, the silver lining is growing as an end to civil forfeiture and the Patriot Act are on the horizon. December 21, 2020 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP Three of the most expensive failures of government has been prohibition, theft, and surveillance. If they got […]
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Taxes
With all the economic destruction politicians have wreaked, they created a desperate revenue situation that will lead to new taxes. December 14, 2020 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP A few bills are hitting the news, and I have a cynical hunch as to why. The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act or “MORE Act” […]
Trading Privacy for the Illusion of Safety
Privacy is the ransom for the illusion of safety as well as permission to exercise other freedoms that have been taken away. October 26, 2020 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP The surveillance state has managed to expand in large part because people subscribe to the existence of boogeymen from which they need protection. Remember terrorists? […]
The IRS Versus Tax Loopholes
The IRS will stop at nothing to capture a few more bucks in revenue. They seek the cooperation of foreign banks, and even crossed the Constitutional line. Taxation is theft. The U.S. was founded in part as a resistance to taxation. And for about 100 years, that resistance was pretty effective. Then, in 1862 an […]
COVID-19 Tracing Apps Destroy Privacy (As You’d Expect)
Contact tracing is the latest in surveillance monitoring and like everything else is being done in the name of “public safety”. But is the risk more than it’s worth? As part of the U.S. governors’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic, quite a few have decided to implement a contact tracing program. That means if you […]
COVID-19 Opens the Door for a U.S. Police State
US governors are getting too comfortable with their COVID-19 emergency powers, that they might start to emulate Australia’s police state. Unless you’ve been living in a cabin out in the woods, you’ve been saturated with media coverage of COVID-19. Lots of the typical “fear porn,” which includes the carefully-reported statistics manipulated in such a way […]
