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Ron Paul’s Farewell Address to Congress

Here is a transcript of Ron Paul’s farewell address to Congress, originally sourced from the Campaign for Liberty. Farewell to Congress This may well be the last time I speak on the House Floor.  At the end of the year I’ll leave Congress after 23 years in office over a 36 year period.  My goals [...]

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Should You Worry About Gold Confiscation?

Are you worried about the government coming in and outlawing private gold possession again? After all, it wouldn’t be the first time they had done so — the same was done by the FDR government, back in the Great Depression. As the global economy gets worse, and as private capital flows to alternative currencies such [...]

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Orwellian Online Surveillance Bill To Cost Canadians Millions

BILL C-30: THE “PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INTERNET PREDATORS ACT”, OR A WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING It seems that governments everywhere can’t wait to get their hands on people’s private data and snoop in on their affairs, and Canada is no exception. With the introduction of bill C-30, otherwise known as “Protecting Children from Internet Predators [...]

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How to Spy on Your Neighbours with Ease

It’s now possible to buy flying miniature helicopters that you can load up with video surveillance equipment, and for an affordable price, too. Check this badboy out: Now, is that scary or what? This is going to open a whole new field of surveillance for law enforcement, the military, nature lovers, and, well… peeping toms, [...]

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Carrier IQ and the Erosion of Our Privacy

A lot has been written about Carrier IQ in recent days. The blogosphere and the wider world around has been throwing up a shitstorm ever since programmer Trevor Eckhart discovered that there was spy software embedded on millions of Android devices, and this software was potentially recording every keystroke and every message to pass through these devices. This [...]

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