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Ron Paul: The One True Hope for Change in 2012

It’s now 2012, and the United States will elect a new president to run the (still) most powerful country in the world. It’s now been nearly four years since the eve of the ongoing global financial troubles, and I am very interested in how this election is going to play out. Americans were promised hope [...]

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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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Kim Jong-il is Dead! North Koreans Are Weeping Openly for His Loss.

This is nuts. Kim Jong-il has officially been pronounced dead by the North Korean state media, and North Koreans are actually openly weeping for him. I don’t know if this is Stockholm syndrome to the extreme or if it’s simply staged. I suspect that it’s a little bit of both. This is the same country [...]

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