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SNIP The Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation’s borders may have their electronics seized and the contents of those devices examined for any reason whatsoever — all in the name of national security. The DHS, which secures the nation’s border, in 2009 announced that it would conduct a “Civil Liberties Impact Assessment” of its suspicionless search-and-seizure policy pertaining to electronic devices “within 120 days.” More [...] April 26, 2012 by Goldguru The Daily Reckoning The paper dollar is now the single most important source of systemic risk to the financial system, the world economy, and the security of the American people. That is the lesson of the past 100 years that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke did not teach during hisfour Lectures at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Business. Instead, he celebrated the importance of the extraordinary powers he and his fellow governors have to [...]
A Time for Folly 4-2-2012 What better time to release a story about Britain’s latest move towards a surveillance state than April Fools’ day?
We were told yesterday – sadly it was no joke – that the threat of terrorism is to be used as an excuse to give the state the power to snoop on all our web traffic, to keep an eye on the websites we read, to note with whom we [...] http://codgerville.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/american-dictatorship/ TWEA of 1917 (Or, was it the Patriot Act of 1917) The idea behind the Trading With The Enemy Act of 1917 (TWEA) was very sound, restrict trade with hostile nations by foreign citizens here in the United States. Who could possibly oppose something this fundamental. If you are at war with Germany, as we were in World War I, and if you had a German owned corporation making fighter planes here in [...] Washington’s Blog I noted in 2008: The powers-that-be have used the “Shock Doctrine” to pass anti-American, fascist legislation while the public was in a state of shock. This applies to economic shocks, as well as physical attacks like 9/11. Indeed, right now, Paulson and Bernanke are using the shock doctrine to try to ram through legislation that would help out the fat cats at the expense of [...] |
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