from Press TV
An estimated 10,000 armed men equipped with highly-sophisticated
weapons, including anti-tank missiles, have reportedly entered Syria to
help fuel the unrest in the country, Press TV has learned. Informed sources in the Qusayr village in Homs say the terrorists crossed into Syria from the Lebanese border and that they have taken positions in the suburbs of the restive city.Meanwhile, Syrian forces are still tracking armed groups fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad across the country.
Syrian authorities say while the Joret al-Shayyah neighborhood in Homs has been cleared of armed groups and calm has been restored in the area, clashes are still ongoing in al-Hamidiye, al- Khalidiya and Homs’ old neighborhood.
Syrian forces have also discovered the decomposing remains of nine people in the Karam Zaytoon district of Homs, who were killed by armed men.
Read More @ PressTV.com
from europarl:
from ShamiAmourae:
Barclays is branded a ‘rotten, thieving bank’ by MP John Mann
by Louise Armitstead, The Telegraph:
As the deposed bank boss sat stoney-faced, Mann continued: “Honesty.
Integrity. Plain dealing. That’s the ethos of the bank you’ve just spent
two hours telling us is doing so well – in fact so well that I wonder
why you’ve not received an extra bonus rather than the sack.” He was just warming up. “You’re the man in charge. But you’re accepting all the good things and the bonuses [and] the people working for you are fiddling the system, potentially going to prison… give me a suggestion of how you’re going to show contrition to those staff and customers who are wondering whether to take their money out of this rotten, thieving bank?”
Had Barclays, the venerable British bank that traces its roots back to 1690, really sunk so low?
Diamond himself has spent the previous 2hrs 23mins trying to persuade MPs that he had built a great and proud institution that had sullied by a minority. Yet large sections of the hearing focused on the degeneration of Barclays’ culture.
Read More @ Telegraph.co.uk
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from Off Grid Survival:
Government Warns Survivalists, Conspiracy Theorists & Those who Believe in Personal Liberty are a Terrorist ThreatFrom the Federal Government giving themselves the power to detain American Citizens without a trial to the White House launching a plan to find Home Grown Terrorists by having schools & churches spy on families, it seems that anyone who believes in personal responsibility or liberty is now considered a threat to the nation.
In a Department of Homeland Security sponsored study titled, “Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States”, the Federal Government laid out definitions of who they consider to be the largest terrorist threats to the country.
Read More @ OffGridSurvival.com
from cmseibert:
Understand 9 Key Concepts on Understanding the Declaration. How the Declaration of Independence and Constitution are designed to work together.
Understand 9 Key Concepts on Understanding the Declaration. How the Declaration of Independence and Constitution are designed to work together.
by Mike Adams, Natural News:
Happy Independence Day, friends and readers! This holiday, of course,
is really called “Independence Day,” not the “Fourth of July” as many
people mistakenly believe. It brings up the obvious question:
Independence from what?As the historical record shows, Independence Day is a celebration of independence from:
• Tyranny under a government that respects no right to due process.
• Taxation without representation.
• Living as a “subject” under a government that believes it owns you.
• Being subjected to secret arrests and imprisonment, held without being charged.
• Oppression of the right to exercise free speech and public protest.
• Illegal searches and seizures, without warrants.
• Having your livelihood confiscated from you by an increasingly bloated government and its overzealous tax collectors.
Given that Independence Day is a celebration of freedom from the tyranny and oppression described above, you might wonder why America even bothers to celebrate the holiday these days. After all, virtually everything America once fought for in the Revolutionary War has now come back to haunt us all through the arrogant, bloated bureaucracy of our own government. The TSA, for example, routinely violates Americans in much the same way British soldiers did in 1782. Except the British soldiers actually had something resembling a code of honor, whereas the TSA deliberately hires sociopaths, pedophiles and criminals to molest air travelers (http://www.naturalnews.com/036346_TSA_pedophiles_whistleblower.html).
Read More @ NaturalNews.com
To Hollande, With Love
The plan to fleece the entire country in order to sustain the survival of an obsolete social welfare system is doomed, yet it may be implemented for a few months. But endeavouring to also fleece our German friends is a dangerous and reckless ambition. Why should they accept to contribute to the financing of a 60 year retirement age in France when they have just raised it domestically to 67? Certainly, Germany would have a lot to lose with the implosion of the euro. But it is politically untenable to demand support for social benefits that the Germans have denied for themselves and unrealistic to imagine they can single-handedly carry the burden of a spendthrift Europe.
Fourth Amendment violation caught on tape
from Infowars:
San Jose police who violated the Fourth Amendment in attempting to interfere in a garage sale held on private property were kicked to the curb by informed citizens who stood up for their rights.
The incident occurred this past weekend at a garage sale where the family involved were selling replica BB guns.
The clip shows a police officer walk onto private property and begin handling the Airsoft guns while claiming he had received a report that the family were selling real guns. Two other police officers are also on the scene as the officer – Tom Tiphayachan shouts, “stand back, somebody called and said you were selling real guns.”
from Infowars:
San Jose police who violated the Fourth Amendment in attempting to interfere in a garage sale held on private property were kicked to the curb by informed citizens who stood up for their rights.
The incident occurred this past weekend at a garage sale where the family involved were selling replica BB guns.
The clip shows a police officer walk onto private property and begin handling the Airsoft guns while claiming he had received a report that the family were selling real guns. Two other police officers are also on the scene as the officer – Tom Tiphayachan shouts, “stand back, somebody called and said you were selling real guns.”
Pointing at one of the family members and saying, “I
know who you are,” the cop claims he has the right to handle private
property without a warrant.
When the family points out that the officer is violating the Fourth Amendment and is being videotaped, he soon backs away.
The police officers are then seen standing on the curb
as the family tells them they intend to file a complaint for a Fourth
Amendment violation without probable cause. “I’ve dealt with you
before,” states Tiphayachan, to which ‘Shannon’ responds, “No, I’ve
dealt with you, I’m with Copwatch.”
David Rosenberg Explains The Housing "Recovery"
Confused by all the amusing arguments of a housing "recovery" (because if you believe in it, it just may come true.... maybe) in the sad context of a reality in which the economy is once again turning from bad to worse missing expectations left and right (for every report surprising to the upside, two do the opposite), corporate earnings and margins have rolled over, US states and cities and European countries are filing for default or demanding bailouts at an ever faster pace, and only headlines such as "stocks rise on hopes of more central bank easing" appear in the good news columns of mainstream media? Don't be: David Rosenberg explains it all.
from, Silver Doctors:
Plans to exhume body after lab tests find ‘unexplained, elevated’ traces of radioactive substance on leader’s clothes
by Chris Parsons, dailymail.co.uk:
The body of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may be exhumed over claims he was assassinated with a lethal dose of the radioactive substance polonium.
The Palestinian Authority has agreed to the exhumation of his body from a mausoleum in Ramallah on the West Bank so the claim can be investigated.
Arafat died in 2004 from a mystery illness, amid theories that he was killed at the hands of Israeli spy agency Mossad.
But a new investigation has concluded that a urine stain on Arafat’s underwear had traces of Polonium-210, the highly radioactive substance which killed Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko six years ago.
The 75-year-old’s widow, Suha Arafat, has called for her late husband’s body to be exhumed after the Al Jazeera investigation found the traces on clothes he wore in his final days.
Read More @ dailymail.co.uk
by Chris Parsons, dailymail.co.uk:
The body of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may be exhumed over claims he was assassinated with a lethal dose of the radioactive substance polonium.
The Palestinian Authority has agreed to the exhumation of his body from a mausoleum in Ramallah on the West Bank so the claim can be investigated.
Arafat died in 2004 from a mystery illness, amid theories that he was killed at the hands of Israeli spy agency Mossad.
But a new investigation has concluded that a urine stain on Arafat’s underwear had traces of Polonium-210, the highly radioactive substance which killed Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko six years ago.
The 75-year-old’s widow, Suha Arafat, has called for her late husband’s body to be exhumed after the Al Jazeera investigation found the traces on clothes he wore in his final days.
Read More @ dailymail.co.uk
by Susanne Posel, Occupy Corporatism:
Igor Curcio heads a team of researchers at the Nokia Research Center
has developed complicated algorithms that can take clips of thousands
of films, and create a movie that is seamless and perfectly matched with
an audio track.
Right now Google and YouTube assist corporations in mining for information on internet users by tracking what videos they watch. From there, a profile is derived from preferences.
The move toward utilizing computers to collect and decipher information is being seen across the intelligence community. On the US-Mexican border, developments are moving toward using computers to track border-crossers, film them with video cameras, and use software programs to analyze the data.
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is a US governmental research agency that:
• Shares information with other US Intelligence Communities (IC)
• Fills in the gap between other agencies
• Provides innovations in line with business models
• Provides intelligence concepts that surprise enemies
Read More @ OccupyCorporatism.com
Igor Curcio heads a team of researchers at the Nokia Research Center
has developed complicated algorithms that can take clips of thousands
of films, and create a movie that is seamless and perfectly matched with
an audio track.Right now Google and YouTube assist corporations in mining for information on internet users by tracking what videos they watch. From there, a profile is derived from preferences.
The move toward utilizing computers to collect and decipher information is being seen across the intelligence community. On the US-Mexican border, developments are moving toward using computers to track border-crossers, film them with video cameras, and use software programs to analyze the data.
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is a US governmental research agency that:
• Shares information with other US Intelligence Communities (IC)
• Fills in the gap between other agencies
• Provides innovations in line with business models
• Provides intelligence concepts that surprise enemies
Read More @ OccupyCorporatism.com
by Henry Shivley, fromthetrenchesworldreport:
Today is the 4th
of July. Today we celebrate our freedoms and liberties that were won
through the great sacrifices made by our founding fathers after
declaring independence from the British Empire. We have been
celebrating the 4th of July for 236 years and in the beginning we indeed did have a lot to celebrate. The 2nd American Revolution was fought in 1812 when we supposedly finally put the British out of our lives.
Now here today we find ourselves in a situation where in our Declaration of Independence could and should be re-issued to the international insurgents posing as our government. Every abuse outlined in our Declaration of Independence is at present being put upon us in a hyper-mode as provided by modern technology.
I guess what I am trying to say is that we should not be celebrating no more than our founding fathers were on July 4, 1776, as they could not celebrate because they had a war to fight, just like we have a war to fight right now. Any celebration of freedom and liberty on July 4, 2012 is erroneous.
Read More @ fromthetrenchesworldreport.com
Today is the 4th
of July. Today we celebrate our freedoms and liberties that were won
through the great sacrifices made by our founding fathers after
declaring independence from the British Empire. We have been
celebrating the 4th of July for 236 years and in the beginning we indeed did have a lot to celebrate. The 2nd American Revolution was fought in 1812 when we supposedly finally put the British out of our lives.Now here today we find ourselves in a situation where in our Declaration of Independence could and should be re-issued to the international insurgents posing as our government. Every abuse outlined in our Declaration of Independence is at present being put upon us in a hyper-mode as provided by modern technology.
I guess what I am trying to say is that we should not be celebrating no more than our founding fathers were on July 4, 1776, as they could not celebrate because they had a war to fight, just like we have a war to fight right now. Any celebration of freedom and liberty on July 4, 2012 is erroneous.
Read More @ fromthetrenchesworldreport.com
from Fabian4Liberty:
Today we celebrate the founding of the longest lasting free Republic in the world today. Built on natural law, God given rights, and individual Liberty today our nation hangs on a thread. We are so far removed from the America our founders created, and although like all nations we have made serious and at time evil mistakes, are we making the greatest of them now, as we continue to allow our so called leaders to steal our rights, and the banking cartels to destroy our economy. America today has become a new slave state, no longer about personal responsibility it is about what government owes me, what government should do for me. If we give up our liberty to government, we all become slaves.
Today we celebrate the founding of the longest lasting free Republic in the world today. Built on natural law, God given rights, and individual Liberty today our nation hangs on a thread. We are so far removed from the America our founders created, and although like all nations we have made serious and at time evil mistakes, are we making the greatest of them now, as we continue to allow our so called leaders to steal our rights, and the banking cartels to destroy our economy. America today has become a new slave state, no longer about personal responsibility it is about what government owes me, what government should do for me. If we give up our liberty to government, we all become slaves.
from Testosterone Pit.com:
Rather than solving the Eurozone debt crisis once and for all, the EU
summit last week gummed up the bailout process with controversy in the
very country that everyone is counting on to save the Eurozone,
Germany—but also elsewhere—and nothing has been resolved.
There is Greece, inexorably tottering towards its exit from the Eurozone. Once again, the despised Troika inspectors have arrived in Athens. Based on their findings, they’ll decide if Greece should get the next tranche of the bailout billions—default and/or conversion to the drachma being the alternatives.
Horst Reichenbach, the German head of the Troika inspectors, took one look at the numbers, and while he didn’t end up in the hospital nauseated and with knots in his gut—the fate that had befallen Finance Minister Vassilis Rapanos a couple of days after being appointed—he did see that Greeks have stopped paying their bills.
Read More @ TestosteronePit.com
Rather than solving the Eurozone debt crisis once and for all, the EU
summit last week gummed up the bailout process with controversy in the
very country that everyone is counting on to save the Eurozone,
Germany—but also elsewhere—and nothing has been resolved.There is Greece, inexorably tottering towards its exit from the Eurozone. Once again, the despised Troika inspectors have arrived in Athens. Based on their findings, they’ll decide if Greece should get the next tranche of the bailout billions—default and/or conversion to the drachma being the alternatives.
Horst Reichenbach, the German head of the Troika inspectors, took one look at the numbers, and while he didn’t end up in the hospital nauseated and with knots in his gut—the fate that had befallen Finance Minister Vassilis Rapanos a couple of days after being appointed—he did see that Greeks have stopped paying their bills.
Read More @ TestosteronePit.com
from InfoWars
Homeland Security is basically saying that July 4th is a terrorist celebration! Go to Infowars.com to see full report. This is just more proof that our county has been taken over by an outside organized crime syndicate.
Read More @ InfoWars
Homeland Security is basically saying that July 4th is a terrorist celebration! Go to Infowars.com to see full report. This is just more proof that our county has been taken over by an outside organized crime syndicate.
Read More @ InfoWars
from Reuters:
More than 1 million homes and businesses in a swath from Indiana to
Virginia remained without power on Wednesday, five days after deadly
storms tore through the region.
The outage meant no July 4 Independence Day holiday for thousands of utility workers who scrambled to restore lingering power outages.
Much of the damage to the power grid was blamed on last weekend’s rare “derecho,” a big, powerful and long-lasting wind storm that blew from the Midwest to the Atlantic Ocean.
Violent weekend storms and days of record heat have killed at least 23 people in the United States since Friday. Some died when trees fell on their homes and cars, and heat stroke killed others.
Energy provider Dominion Virginia Power said emergency crews were working around the clock to deal with 60,000 outages for its customers throughout Virginia as of noon Wednesday.
Read More @ Reuters.com
More than 1 million homes and businesses in a swath from Indiana to
Virginia remained without power on Wednesday, five days after deadly
storms tore through the region.The outage meant no July 4 Independence Day holiday for thousands of utility workers who scrambled to restore lingering power outages.
Much of the damage to the power grid was blamed on last weekend’s rare “derecho,” a big, powerful and long-lasting wind storm that blew from the Midwest to the Atlantic Ocean.
Violent weekend storms and days of record heat have killed at least 23 people in the United States since Friday. Some died when trees fell on their homes and cars, and heat stroke killed others.
Energy provider Dominion Virginia Power said emergency crews were working around the clock to deal with 60,000 outages for its customers throughout Virginia as of noon Wednesday.
Read More @ Reuters.com
by Bruce Krasting, Zero Hedge:
In June of each year the Social Security Trust Fund (SSTF) reinvests a
significant portion of its investment portfolio in newly issued Special
Issue Treasury Securities. The interest rates on these bonds is set by a
formula that was established in 1960. The formula was designed to
insulate the SSTF from transitory changes in interest rates by averaging
market based bond yields over a three-year period.
Bernanke’s Fed has set interest rates at zero the past four years. In 2012 the 1960′s formula has finally caught up with the SSTF. It got murdered on this year’s rollover.
The following is from the SSA (link). It shows what has matured this year and what new investments have been made. I will be breaking down sections of this report, so don’t get eye strain looking at this:
Read More @ Zero Hedge.com
In June of each year the Social Security Trust Fund (SSTF) reinvests a
significant portion of its investment portfolio in newly issued Special
Issue Treasury Securities. The interest rates on these bonds is set by a
formula that was established in 1960. The formula was designed to
insulate the SSTF from transitory changes in interest rates by averaging
market based bond yields over a three-year period.Bernanke’s Fed has set interest rates at zero the past four years. In 2012 the 1960′s formula has finally caught up with the SSTF. It got murdered on this year’s rollover.
The following is from the SSA (link). It shows what has matured this year and what new investments have been made. I will be breaking down sections of this report, so don’t get eye strain looking at this:
Read More @ Zero Hedge.com
from RTAmerica:
In this modern world it seems more and more people are putting the lives online for everyone to see, but of course people do this because they feel they have online privacy on their side. But what if being online meant you no longer have the freedom of expression, access, openness, innovation or privacy? A group of online activists are pressing lawmakers to assure that the Internet stays this way and they are proposing Congress to sign an Internet Bill of Rights.
In this modern world it seems more and more people are putting the lives online for everyone to see, but of course people do this because they feel they have online privacy on their side. But what if being online meant you no longer have the freedom of expression, access, openness, innovation or privacy? A group of online activists are pressing lawmakers to assure that the Internet stays this way and they are proposing Congress to sign an Internet Bill of Rights.
It’s
Independence Day in America—that day where we fly our flags, picnic
with our loved ones, marvel at fireworks, and celebrate our freedom. But
do we really have anything to celebrate? Let’s find out.
by Milo Nickels, Activist Post
The Merriam-Webster dictionary online defines independence as: The quality or state of being independent
This definition isn’t all that helpful without defining the word independent. Once again we return to the Merriam-Webster dictionary online and find these definitions for the word independent:
a. “not subject to control by others”
b. 2) “not looking to others for one’s opinions or for guidance in conduct”
c. “not requiring or relying on others”
Therefore, a complete definition of the word independence would be:
Anyone who answers that question affirmatively is either delusional, dishonest, or reading this article from the safety of a padded room in their local mental institution. Of course you’re not independent!
Read More @ Activist Post
by Milo Nickels, Activist Post
The Merriam-Webster dictionary online defines independence as: The quality or state of being independentThis definition isn’t all that helpful without defining the word independent. Once again we return to the Merriam-Webster dictionary online and find these definitions for the word independent:
a. “not subject to control by others”
b. 2) “not looking to others for one’s opinions or for guidance in conduct”
c. “not requiring or relying on others”
Therefore, a complete definition of the word independence would be:
The quality or state of not being subject to the control of others, not looking to others for guidance in conduct, and not relying on others.Now ask yourself, according to this definition, are you independent?
Anyone who answers that question affirmatively is either delusional, dishonest, or reading this article from the safety of a padded room in their local mental institution. Of course you’re not independent!
Read More @ Activist Post
by Geoff Candy, MineWeb.com
Commentators
on the gold market are increasingly looking to QE3 as the likely
catalyst for gold’s next up leg, what happens if it doesn’t come?
When the US launched its first quantitative easing programme at the end of 2008, it is fair to say the world was in a fairly parlous state and in the four months following that significant liquidity injection gold rose around 36%.
When QE2 was announced gold rose again but, by not nearly as much. As ETF Securities points out in a new note, by the end of the second round of QE the gold price rose by 11% to US$1,500oz.
While these were impressive moves, the real price action happened in September of 2011 when gold hit its record high, not on a third bout of liquidity in the US but, rather, on the expectation that the Fed would have to step in again to help out the ailing economy.
Read More @ MineWeb.com
Commentators
on the gold market are increasingly looking to QE3 as the likely
catalyst for gold’s next up leg, what happens if it doesn’t come?When the US launched its first quantitative easing programme at the end of 2008, it is fair to say the world was in a fairly parlous state and in the four months following that significant liquidity injection gold rose around 36%.
When QE2 was announced gold rose again but, by not nearly as much. As ETF Securities points out in a new note, by the end of the second round of QE the gold price rose by 11% to US$1,500oz.
While these were impressive moves, the real price action happened in September of 2011 when gold hit its record high, not on a third bout of liquidity in the US but, rather, on the expectation that the Fed would have to step in again to help out the ailing economy.
Read More @ MineWeb.com
[Ed. Note:
Knight of Malta? Agent of Rome? Traitor to America? All of the above? I
dunno - but one thing's for sure, this photo is legit and you just
can't make this stuff up. ]
from Business Insider:
Amid growing fallout over his surprise healthcare vote, Chief Supreme Court Justice John Roberts has fled the country amid growing fallout over his surprise vote in last week’s landmark healthcare ruling.
Associated Press photographer Lino Arrigo Azzopardi found the embattled justice in the Mediterranean island nation Malta, where he will be teaching a class (and hiding out from his new conservative adversaries) for the next two weeks.
Read More @ Business Insider.com
from visionvictory
from bstill3:
from Business Insider:
Amid growing fallout over his surprise healthcare vote, Chief Supreme Court Justice John Roberts has fled the country amid growing fallout over his surprise vote in last week’s landmark healthcare ruling.Associated Press photographer Lino Arrigo Azzopardi found the embattled justice in the Mediterranean island nation Malta, where he will be teaching a class (and hiding out from his new conservative adversaries) for the next two weeks.
Read More @ Business Insider.com
from visionvictory
from bstill3:
by Alex Newman, The New American:
As Americans celebrate Independence Day this Fourth of July with
barbeques and fireworks, more than a few patriots and lovers of liberty
are instead mourning the steady loss of freedom; the erosion of
unalienable rights that seem to be trampled upon more and more after
each election. But despite the current climate — perfectly illustrated
by the never-ending series of “Homeland Security” reports characterizing
the beliefs of America’s Founding Fathers as potentially terroristic —
optimism about the future of freedom and American independence is
growing as well.
On July 4, 1776, the Founding Fathers officially adopted the Declaration of Independence, written mostly by a passionate lover of liberty named Thomas Jefferson. In the document, those original American patriots outlined a series of bold and timeless statements that still reverberate around the world to this day: the idea that the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” entitle all people to take charge of their own futures — including, if necessary, by invoking the right and duty to “alter or abolish” any form of government that becomes a threat to individual rights.
Read More @ TheNewAmerican.com
The
Declaration of Independence, signed by members of the Continental
Congress on July 4, 1776, is the founding document of the American
experiment in free government. What is too often forgotten is that what the Founding Fathers argued against in the Declaration was the heavy and intrusive hand of big government.
Most Americans easily recall those eloquent words with which the Founding Fathers expressed the basis of their claim for independence from Great Britain in 1776:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness – That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed – That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Read More @ TheDailyBell.com
As Americans celebrate Independence Day this Fourth of July with
barbeques and fireworks, more than a few patriots and lovers of liberty
are instead mourning the steady loss of freedom; the erosion of
unalienable rights that seem to be trampled upon more and more after
each election. But despite the current climate — perfectly illustrated
by the never-ending series of “Homeland Security” reports characterizing
the beliefs of America’s Founding Fathers as potentially terroristic —
optimism about the future of freedom and American independence is
growing as well. On July 4, 1776, the Founding Fathers officially adopted the Declaration of Independence, written mostly by a passionate lover of liberty named Thomas Jefferson. In the document, those original American patriots outlined a series of bold and timeless statements that still reverberate around the world to this day: the idea that the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” entitle all people to take charge of their own futures — including, if necessary, by invoking the right and duty to “alter or abolish” any form of government that becomes a threat to individual rights.
Read More @ TheNewAmerican.com
by Dr. Richard EbelingThe Daily Bell:
The
Declaration of Independence, signed by members of the Continental
Congress on July 4, 1776, is the founding document of the American
experiment in free government. What is too often forgotten is that what the Founding Fathers argued against in the Declaration was the heavy and intrusive hand of big government.Most Americans easily recall those eloquent words with which the Founding Fathers expressed the basis of their claim for independence from Great Britain in 1776:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness – That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed – That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Read More @ TheDailyBell.com
by Eric Fry, DailyReckoning.com:
In November, millions of Americans will trudge to their local polling
places to cast votes in the hope of improving their lives here in the
USA. Between now and then, a few hundred Americans will vote with their
feet in the hope of improving their lives outside the USA.
Last year, nearly 1,800 Americans surrendered their citizenship. In a nation of 300 million folks, 1,800 émigrés is hardly a rush for the exits. But the recent trend is, nevertheless, intriguing.
As recently as four years ago, only 200 people checked out of America for good. Back then, surrendering US citizenship would have seemed as unthinkable to most Americans as declining a free vacation to Hawaii to pay for a vacation in Newark. It would have seemed as crazy as:
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In November, millions of Americans will trudge to their local polling
places to cast votes in the hope of improving their lives here in the
USA. Between now and then, a few hundred Americans will vote with their
feet in the hope of improving their lives outside the USA.Last year, nearly 1,800 Americans surrendered their citizenship. In a nation of 300 million folks, 1,800 émigrés is hardly a rush for the exits. But the recent trend is, nevertheless, intriguing.
As recently as four years ago, only 200 people checked out of America for good. Back then, surrendering US citizenship would have seemed as unthinkable to most Americans as declining a free vacation to Hawaii to pay for a vacation in Newark. It would have seemed as crazy as:
Read More @ DailyReckoning.com
…giving away a brand new Aston Martin Zagato to buy a used Buick Le Sabre. …surrendering your membership at Augusta National in order to start playing Augusta Municipal. …trading away an original Van Gogh painting for an original Peter Max poster …refusing a date with Mila Kunis in order to watch re-runs of her animated counterpart, Meg Griffin, in Family Guy. …abandoning a beachfront mansion to live in your car.
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