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Currency Transaction Reports, Suspicious Activity Reports, Structuring, and Civil Asset Forfeiture are ways the government turns your usage of cash into a crime. The government hates cash. Cash is anonymous, untraceable, and uncontrollable. Those are three attributes of a free society most detested by totalitarian governments. Do we have a totalitarian government? Let us contemplate.
The Department of Government Efficiency sounds like the title of a sketch from Monty Python’s Flying Circus. One can imagine John Cleese trying to navigate such an absurdly named bureaucracy that is anything but. The problem with government is not efficiency, but the lack of consequences for inefficiency.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson has been accused of saying "Every woman has a duty to birth at least one able-bodied worker." Mike did not say this precisely, but did he say it in effect? How does what he really said reveal what the over-class thinks of the little people?
You performed your civic duty by dragging your tired carcass to the polling place only to discover that your vote does not matter. Let's fix that.
Jeff Bezos thinks people don't trust the news because news outlets endorse presidential candidates. Isn't that cute? You can lead a billionaire to water, but he's still an out-of-touch yellow journalism plutocrat. Maybe people do not trust the news because the news is constantly pitting one group of people against the other? Marc Jacobin breaks it down.
This is episode is a response to the article written by Jeff explaining his reason for not endorsing a candidate.
Civil Asset Forfeiture is the biggest unconstitutional crime committed by enforcement agencies at all levels of government that most people have not heard of nor understand.
His accomplishments as president were overshadowed by his criminal acts. No, not that guy – Richard Nixon. Learn how a lifetime of foreign policy culminated in actions that are still felt today - and the two-hundred years that precipitated his abandonment of the gold standard in 1971.
The Warren Report was not well-received by the American public when it was released in 1964. What were some of the problems within and without the Report that caused people to lose faith in their government?
The Warren Report was not well-received by the American public when it was released in 1964. What were some of the problems within and without the Report that caused people to lose faith in their government?
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