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Forbidden Fruit: Is Apple’s Tax Avoidance Immoral?
May 24, 2013 By Bobby Casey, Managing Director Lambasting Apple for legally protecting its wealth offshore is misguided. We should be condemning the tax code that chased that wealth (and all the potential jobs) away! Let's be clear: keeping and protecting your own wealth is not theft, no matter how you slice it. The IRS wants to take wealth that isn't theirs... now, that is theft. Many of you have read the headlines this week about Apple's CEO, Tim Cook. He is being criticized for utilizing offshore structures to minimize his … [Read More...]
Statism: Ideas So Good, They’re Mandatory!
May 23, 2013 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher As if it wasn’t bad enough that there’s a law to govern my every move (from how fast I drive, to what I can consume), my tax dollars are paying to advertise those mandates back to me! If the laws we have reflect the will of the people, why do they need advertising to convince them to comply? Perhaps it’s just my over sensitivity (if that’s even something that can be attributable to the likes of me), but lately, I’ve encountered more than my “fair share” of people who think voting is … [Read More...]
Slow Cooking Frogs
May 22, 2013 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher It seems like the more I read about government monitoring and surveillance, the more I see this slow, metastasizing trespass into our personal liberties. Be aware of the state’s “intent to creep”: it’s turning the heat up under a slow cooking pot of frogs. I live in a duplex and the property lots are not divided up with fencing. There is record of where the property lines are, and for the most part, people respect them. But, my landlord was telling me the other day … [Read More...]
Offshore Re-Education Camp: Lesson 2
May 21, 2013 By: Paul Seymour, Dir. Client Services [I was recently asked to start doing a periodic radio broadcast on Radio Free Latin America (RFLA), called Offshore Re-education Camp. It’s being piped in to the USSA from a secret location south of the border via short wave radio signals. The aim of RFLA is to offer a ray of hope to our poor countryman still trapped behind the curtain with, apparently, no way out. The show, hosted by Paul Seymour, Director of Client Services at Global Wealth Protection, will provide the truth about … [Read More...]
Protecting & Serving the Statist Quo
May 20, 2013 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher Whether we call it “plausible deniability”, “willful ignorance” or “depraved indifference”, at the end of the day, even John Stewart of the Daily Show is seeing a rather painful pattern of the White House not knowing the goings of its organization. The same benefit of the doubt would never be extended to the CEO of any given company if there were such egregious scandals in their ranks. After all, the same group of people who condemn irresponsible banksters and their golden parachutes, … [Read More...]
Steve’s China Adventure: What a Deal!
May 17, 2013 By: Steve Hilgart, Director of Marketing & Conference Operations I received a lot of feedback on my last article about my current travels abroad as well as people asking for the “next installment.” Since my last email, I’ve ventured into the depths of Chinese culture, found some amazing places to shop, and ate bugs and bull testicles – dericious. Every day is a new adventure in this strange land, and while I’ve managed to avoid the human feces and mystery water on the sidewalk, there are things that I have … [Read More...]
War on Dissent(ers)
May 16, 2013 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher Dissenters are the low hanging fruit for any administration, and when you have one like Obama’s, which loves to print, tax and spend, you will be hard pressed to find the dissenting population behaving inconspicuously. By now, it is rather obvious that, when it comes to dissenters, this administration doesn’t make mistakes and their actions are not done in isolation of other actions. There are particular issues upon which the Tea Party and I agree. I’m not necessarily a fan of some of the … [Read More...]
Nanny State Mission Creep: Parental Rights
May 15, 2013 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher Government wants to push parents to the sidelines – not for harming their children, but for not complying with the state-prescribed notions of child rearing. Is it possible that we are moving toward “socialized parenting”, where the state arbitrarily decides what is best for ALL children? “We have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. Once it’s everybody’s … [Read More...]
Government: Do As I Say, Not As I Do
May 13, 2013 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher Xenophobic and discriminatory immigration polices further demonstrate the depths to which government will sink to spy into the lives of Americans. The latest immigration bill is 800 pages on how to worsen the immigration situation, while using immigration as a diversionary issue to institute yet another spy tool on the average citizen. I find it rather laughable that the thing that made American great is now a bogeyman of modern day American politics. Only a few generations ago people flocked to … [Read More...]
Bitcoin Should Get Ready For an Attack
May 10, 2013 By: Paul Rosenberg, FreemansPerspective.com Paul Rosenberg gives a very insightful and cautionary perspective on the outlook for Bitcoin. It's not all gloom-and-doom, but as with anything with worth or value, he warns that care should be taken when proceeding with the likes of Bitcoin, as the government vultures are circling. Bitcoin – poorly understood and frequently talked about ignorantly – is a wonderful new financial tool... and a very timely one. But because of its virtues, it is about to be attacked. But before I … [Read More...]
50 Shades of Freedom
May 9, 2013 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher A link flew across my Facebook page the other day suggesting I could vote with my feet by researching the freedom rankings of each state in the US: or as I call it the "50 Shades of Freedom". The 50 Shades of Freedom refers more to the various hues of freedom depending on where you go, but -- spoiler alert -- there is no perfectly free state, just less oppressive ones contingent upon concession other freedoms. Every year, various institutions like to run their little stats on who’s most free. … [Read More...]
Steve’s China Adventure: First Stop, Jinan
May 8, 2013 By: Stephen Hilgart, Director of Marketing & Conference Operations Last week you may have read about the beginning of my world travels. That’s right – I packed up my apartment, donated or threw away all my stuff, and became a P.T. (perpetual traveler). I’ve been in Jinan, China for a couple days now, and it sure is… Quite A Trip! One of my first nights here, I was able to meet some foreigners who were here teaching English at private schools in the area. A Canadian, a Scot, a Brit, and a Californian – all … [Read More...]
Reckless Lending Met with Reckless Borrowing
May 7, 2013 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher The irresponsibility of government policies has metastasized not only into banking but into the lives of individuals, as the borrowing seems to be as reckless as the lending these days in both higher education and housing. Remember that "best friend" that always got into some sort of trouble? The one Mom would say, "If So-and-So jumped off a bridge, would you?" What did you tell her? "Sure would!" Or did it make you think for a second: "Perhaps I wouldn't follow them there..." I see the … [Read More...]
Government Stalkers: A Creepy Follow-up
May 6, 2013 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher When you have the IRS, DHS, FBI and NSA all vying to be letters in your personal alphabet soup, perhaps it’s time to evaluate what exactly you ordered when you decided to become or remain an American citizen! I attributed a lot of the IRS spying to their undying need to find the next hidden cent in my last post. And perhaps that remains their endgame… but that every government agency holds some stake in knowing the intimate details of our daily goings makes for a more creepy society than a … [Read More...]
IRS = Government STALKERS!
May 3, 2013 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher Technology is the new weapon of choice when it comes to surveillance, especially for the IRS! The double standard imposed on the general public has reached almost embarrassing levels: 100% transparency from private individuals, a pass for corporate cronies, and NO expectation of transparency or accountability from the likes of the IRS. Lately it seems the various federal agencies are engaged in some sick competition to see who can creep the deepest into the lives of the average American, and remain … [Read More...]
