“We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government,” Supreme Court Justice William Douglass lamented over sixty years ago. Unfortunately, he was right, as former Sun Microsystems chief said in 1999: “You’ve got zero privacy . . . so get over it.” Well, nearly fifteen years later, I can’t get over it. There are many reasons we’re losing individual privacy in the United States. Many of the reasons have rational explanations. For example, the Supreme Court’s legal standard for
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Imagine a national crisis has occurred: FEMA has actively suspended the Constitution, rounding up all dissenters. The Bill of Rights is suspended, as anyone caught in protest or in possession of a firearm are immediately scooped up and taken to a FEMA internment camp for “reeducation.”  Their reasoning is that it will maintain order, and the suspension of liberties is only “temporary” …but martial law seems indefinite.  The formation of a one-world government is making headlines as a realization, and it is no longer just a conspiracy theory. What’s a patriot to do in such
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The so-called fiscal crisis in Washington is nothing but politics. Even though Congress and President Obama claim that the country is out of money, politicians on both sides of the aisle seem to be able to come up with money for pet projects. An investigation by Senate Republicans found that the Labor Department had enough funds to spare to promote unions and collective bargaining overseas. Republicans learned that the Department had given $2.2 million to the Solidarity Center (an AFL-CIO organization set up during the Cold War to help workers in Communist countries) to promote
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The key to your family’s financial survival is your assets, namely your money and your property. Therefore, protecting your assets must be one of your family’s top survival priorities. Unfortunately, many preppers put far more thought and effort into physical survival (storing food, etc.) than into protecting assets, even though protecting them is often just as important. There are two major threats to your family’s assets in today’s world: confiscation and inflation. Confiscation means that government will try to seize all or part of your funds through taxes or simply by taking it. Confiscation isn’t
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The confusion surrounding Christ’s view of self-defense is almost unavoidable.  Christ certainly does tell his followers to “turn the other cheek,” but at the same time, the same man told his disciples to buy swords (Luke 22:36).  Is this a scriptural contradiction, coming from the same source?  At first glance, it would appear to be; however, there are some biblical concepts that don’t always make it through the confusion caused by changing culture, languages, regimes, and histories over the course of the last 2,000 years.  Needless to say, it does take some explaining to get
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The market has proven that gold is not the ideal investment that some people thought it was. The precious metal lost around $230 in value in the April 12 and 15 trading sessions. It rallied slightly on April 16, but its price of $1,386.50 a troy ounce was still a far cry from the $1,787 an ounce the metal was trading at in September. So what’s going on here? Is it a complete collapse of the gold bubble or simply the market correcting to a more realistic price? That question will be difficult to answer
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It’s 2 a.m., and your mind can’t seem to stop drifting to dark places.  After watching the news for an hour, it’s becoming rather apparent that the world is either tearing itself apart, or it already has and we just don’t know it yet. Clearly, we no longer enjoy the freedoms of the generations before us, and our lives are being tracked and traced wherever we go and whatever we do.  Between forking over our livelihoods in taxes, fearing being accused of hate speech, and being told that the FDA doesn’t approve of our tomato
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Dronenet is a word like Internet—one that you’ll be hearing about in the years ahead. The dronenet is a powerful new technology that, like the Internet, could be a huge threat to your freedom or a tremendous tool for increasing your independence. One thing’s for sure: If the claims about dronenet are true, it will
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Advocates of “civil liberties” are concerned because Reuters reported that the Obama administration is planning to give U.S. spy agencies full access to financial data about U.S. bank accounts. The problem with these concerns is that the spy agencies already have access to that data. All the administration is trying to do is make it official. As it so often happens, civil liberties advocates are ignoring massive holes in the Constitutional protections on privacy in the United States. No Privacy for Foreign Transactions The first is that the protections of the U.S. Constitution do not
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Being ready for an emergency situation that could make living in the wilderness a necessity for you and your family involves a lot of time and planning. It also involves a lot of preparation so that you’re family is able to make an assortment of homemade items that are used every day but that might
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