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  • The Greatest Video Montage: Ripple, XRP, The Internet of Value

    10/06/2022 4:07:25 AM PDT · by RobaWho · 7 replies
    Rob Cunningham ^ | October 6, 2022 | Rob Cunningham
    This is perhaps the most powerful video montage of five compelling perspectives on the future of our world’s new banking system. Much of our world is bankrupt, the 50+ year old legacy monetary system built atop the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency is on life support, and major banks, currencies and governments are on the verge of collapsing. Individually, our only options are to 1) deny reality and make no changes, 2) seek answers from the very same people and institutions involved in and responsible for the collapse of our current financial system, or 3) seek wisdom from...
  • Decentralization is Inevitable

    06/17/2022 8:17:05 PM PDT · by RobaWho · 10 replies
    CD Media ^ | Rob Cunningham
    Thank God for truth, divine law and our inherited common sense. A nation built upon lies, fraud and ulterior motives has never lasted. People who betray their sworn oaths to honestly serve their fellow man do great harm to their fellow man. And unfortunately, citizens who are innocent, naive, self-indulgent, distracted and disengaged from the process of self-governance will suffer greatly as wayward governments run by narcissistic politicians collapse under decades of compounded corruption. We become enslaved by our lack of knowledge, until such time we find the courage to escape our captors. The controlling minority of politicians in our...
  • Halfway to Secession: Unity on Foreign Policy, Disunity on Domestic Policy

    01/28/2021 8:26:32 PM PST · by USGreenWalls · 8 replies
    Mises Institute ^ | 01/23/2021 | Ryan McMaken
    This, after all, was the original structure of the United States: it was to be a group of autonomous states united for purposes of foreign policy—and to a much lesser extent, trade. Under a regime of autonomous US states, the American state—as viewed by other global powers looking in—would not look fundamentally different. The nukes would still be where they always were. The navy won't disappear.
  • Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web

    09/29/2018 7:01:04 PM PDT · by Paladin2 · 33 replies
    /www.fastcompany.com ^ | 09.29.18 12:01 am | Katrina Brooker
    This week, Berners-Lee will launch Inrupt, a startup that he has been building, in stealth mode, for the past nine months. Backed by Glasswing Ventures, its mission is to turbocharge a broader movement afoot, among developers around the world, to decentralize the web and take back power from the forces that have profited from centralizing it. In other words, it’s game on for Facebook, Google, Amazon. For years now, Berners-Lee and other internet activists have been dreaming of a digital utopia where individuals control their own data and the internet remains free and open. But for Berners-Lee, the time for...
  • Scalia Defends The Constitution, Questions The 17th Amendment

    05/14/2015 7:39:12 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 44 replies
    Western Journalism ^ | May 13, 2015 | Randy DeSoto
    Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia reaffirmed his commitment to defending the Constitution while speaking to the Federalist Society in his home state of New Jersey on Friday. Scalia, the preeminent conservative firebrand of the court, told the audience it is the structure of the government under the Constitution and not the liberties guaranteed under the Bill of Rights that makes us free. As reported by The Daily Signal: “Every tin horn dictator in the world today, every president for life, has a Bill of Rights,” said Scalia, author of the 2012 book Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts. “That’s...
  • Steve Hilton: I didn't get the true genius of America's founders until I moved here.

    07/01/2018 8:40:38 AM PDT · by gattaca · 21 replies
    Fox News ^ | June 30, 2018 | Steven Hilton
    Full Title: Steve Hilton: I didn't get the true genius of America's founders until I moved here. Here's what worries me now. July Fourth is a moment for all of us to reflect on America and what it means – and that’s particularly true this year, as the holiday comes right after a week in politics that revealed the great challenges America’s system of government is facing. The retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy – and the left’s reaction to it – should give us all pause this Independence Day. I studied America’s system of government years ago when...
  • Is America Really Coming Apart, As Charles Murray Suggests?

    06/27/2017 7:10:08 PM PDT · by Mafe · 31 replies
    Mises Institute ^ | June 27, 2017 | Jeff Deist
    A new Rasmussen poll reports that a majority of voters think so, and it certainly feels that way. Since Donald Trump’s election in November, the pace and intensity of deeply divisive rhetoric has accelerated. Antifa and the Alt-Right are literally fighting in the streets. Combative talking heads on cable news, vicious social media exchanges, riots at universities, a bitter special election in Georgia, and even the shooting of a congressman have both sides rethinking the entire political process and talking about abandoning the “rule of law.” It is an uneasy time, a time for hard questions. Can politics really provide...
  • Ending the Federal Monopoly on Regulation

    06/08/2017 7:34:40 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 4 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 8, 2017 | Scott Rasmussen
    Not too long ago, Democrats complained about Republican governors and state legislators using their authority to fight Obamacare. Now, those same Democrats are encouraging state and local officials to fight President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris treaty on climate change. Such hypocrisy is, of course, bipartisan. Republicans who lauded state resistance to Obamacare are deeply troubled by state and local resistance to the Trump Administration on immigration and other issues. The blatant hypocrisy is one of many factors contributing to a toxic political dialogue. The only way to reduce both the hypocrisy and the political tension is to do something...
  • New York secessionists look to constitutional convention as best chance to split state

    05/31/2017 6:32:27 AM PDT · by Mafe · 19 replies
    Washington Times ^ | May 30, 2017 | Valerie Richardson
    State secessionist movements are long shots at best, but New Yorkers pushing for a breakup between the Big Apple and upstate are counting on the very real possibility of a constitutional convention to boost their odds. Voters will decide in November whether to hold a statewide constitutional convention in 2019, thanks to the New York State Constitution, which allows for such an event every 20 years. It’s a rare opportunity that the Divide NYS Caucus hopes to seize. “It’s time to cease fantasizing that NYS legislators have the best interests of the people in mind,” the caucus said in a...
  • President Trump wants to enlist local police in immigration crackdown

    01/29/2017 8:36:35 AM PST · by markomalley · 25 replies
    To build his highly touted deportation force, President Donald Trump is reviving a long-standing program that deputizes local officers to enforce federal immigration law. The program received scant attention during a week in which Trump announced plans to build a border wall, hire thousands more federal agents and impose restrictions on refugees from Middle Eastern countries. But the program could end up having a significant impact on immigration enforcement around the country, despite falling out of favor in recent years amid complaints that it promotes racial profiling. More than 60 police and sheriff's agencies had the special authority as of...
  • Dismantle: Church Restructure through Synodality - the "Decentralization" Francis Seems Poised...

    10/19/2015 7:49:15 AM PDT · by BlatherNaut · 8 replies
    Catholic Family News ^ | 10/18/15 | John Vennari
    "Dismantle: Church Restructure through Synodality - the "Decentralization" Francis Seems Poised to Impose" During the 2015 Ordinary Synod, we've heard discussion of the possiblity of "regionalism," that is, allowing national bishops conferences to decide diverse "pastoral policies" regarding the Eucharist for the divorced and civiliy remarried, cohabitation and even homosexuality. In an October 15 interview, Raymond Cardinal Burke rightly said that the proposed "regional diversity" is " simply contrary to Catholic Faith and life. " Yet Pope Francis himself in an October 17 speech brandished his resolve to "decentralize" the Church, even if he has to impose this decentralization from...
  • The Essential Rules Of Tyranny

    07/30/2011 7:22:38 PM PDT · by shoptalk · 25 replies
    Alt-Market ^ | Friday, July 29, 2011 | Brandon Smith
    As we look back on the horrors of the dictatorships and autocracies of the past, one particular question consistently arises; how was it possible for the common men of these eras to NOT notice what was happening around them? How could they have stood as statues unaware or uncaring as their cultures were overrun by fascism, communism, collectivism, and elitism? Of course, we have the advantage of hindsight, and are able to research and examine the misdeeds of the past at our leisure. Unfortunately, such hindsight does not necessarily shield us from the long cast shadow of tyranny in our...
  • Could Bringing Politicians Home Increase Accountability?

    03/29/2010 4:55:28 AM PDT · by Walter Scott Hudson · 17 replies · 366+ views
    New Patriot Journal ^ | March 29, 2010 | Walter Scott Hudson
    Days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the New America Foundation presented a plan to Congress to relocate its members to their home districts and conduct business via teleconference. The impetus for the plan at that time was national security. To this day, there remains speculation regarding the intended target of United Airlines Flight 93. Had it crashed into Capitol Hill, the legislative branch may have been critically affected. Decentralizing Congress, it was argued, would ensure the continuity of government against a localized attack.Obviously, the plan went no where. Congress continues to conduct business in a localized setting....
  • Utopia (The Case for Federalism)

    12/26/2008 8:34:53 AM PST · by St. Louis Conservative · 11 replies · 601+ views
    The American Spectator ^ | December 26, 2008 | Peter Ferrara
    When I was younger, I thought he had just showed why free-market capitalism is the fairest, freest and most productive, why would he allow any scope for anything else? Now I realize why. What nearly 40 years of intellectual debate on these issues has taught me is that the Left's adherents are not interested in reason or truth. They fight instead with a religious fervor that reflects blind faith in socialism, and what they are after is nothing other than total power to implement their catechism. They are not the slightest bit interested in facts or logic or any counterarguments....
  • Don't Just Keep the Electoral College; Repeal the 17th Amendment

    10/25/2007 3:50:46 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 17 replies · 659+ views
    Future of Freedom Foundation ^ | December 2000 | Sheldon Richman
    In the heat of the electoral controversy — the worst possible time to make constitutional decisions — many people, such as Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton, are calling for an end to the Electoral College. Big mistake. Someone once said, Don’t knock down a wall merely because you cannot immediately see what it’s good for. The same can be said for the Electoral College. We should keep in mind that the Founding Fathers were of somewhat better caliber than the politician you are likely to see on television, including those with presidential ambitions. The Electoral College was not an idea floating...
  • Repeal Seventeenth Amendment

    10/20/2007 3:45:27 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 59 replies · 274+ views
    States' Liberty Party ^ | September 22, 2002 | John MacMullin
    With respect to states' rights, it should be readily apparent to all that state governments cannot exert any meaningful influence or control over the federal government, judiciary, or any other federal institution. Let us state the problem precisely. At the present time, there are no checks and balances available to the states over federal power or over Congress itself in any area. However, in the history of our country, it was not always this way. In the original design by the Framers of the U.S. Constitution, there was an effective check on Congress through the state legislatures' power to appoint...
  • China's Coming People Power(coming fall of Chinese communist regime)

    10/15/2005 7:37:03 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 45 replies · 1,217+ views
    Washington Post ^ | 10/11/05 | Arthur Waldron
    China's Coming People Power By Arthur Waldron Tuesday, October 11, 2005; A17 As the Communist Party's congress begins in Beijing, the media are full of speculation -- not about potential reforms but about power. The question: Who will succeed Hu Jintao as nominal leader of China if he steps down on turning 70 in 2010? A scholar-official from the Ming or Qing dynasties would understand the situation exactly. Classical historiography calls succession the guoben , or root of the state: the designation of the prince who will succeed as emperor upon his father's death. The scholar-officials knew that the passing...
  • Benedict XVI: Break Up the Patriarchy of the West?

    05/14/2005 9:29:13 AM PDT · by Mrs. Don-o · 41 replies · 879+ views
    OrthodoxyToday ^ | May 5, 2005 | Jacobse
    May 5, 2005 Ratzinger advocated breaking up the Latin Patriarchate ...Joseph Ratzinger, for example, pointed out the need to disentangle the confusion between the patriarchal and primatial roles of the bishop of Rome and to break up the Latin patriarchate, replacing it with a number of “patriarchal areas,” that is, regions with an autonomy similar to that of the ancient patriarchates, but under the direction of the episcopal conferences. In an essay entitled “Primacy and Episcopacy,” Ratzinger developed the theme at greater length: The image of a centralized state which the Catholic church presented right up to the council does...
  • When Principals Can Be Entrepreneurs, Schools Improve

    12/06/2003 10:45:35 AM PST · by bdeaner · 1 replies · 241+ views
    Heartland Institute ^ | 12/1/03 | Lisa Snell
    When Principals Can Be Entrepreneurs, Schools ImproveDecentralization offers politically feasible reform model Written By: Lisa Snell Published In: School Reform News Publication Date: December 1, 2003 Publisher: The Heartland Institute If principals were put in charge of their individual schools and allowed to run them as small businesses, is it likely the schools would be more successful than if the schools and their resources were directed by a central office?After studying a variety of public and Catholic school systems in North America, UCLA Professor of Management William G. Ouchi concludes in a new book that decentralized school systems run more...
  • Illinois Tool Works: The Essence of Innovative Business

    05/16/2003 10:38:42 AM PDT · by G. Stolyarov II · 1 replies · 353+ views
    The Rational Argumentator ^ | May 16, 2003 | G. Stolyarov II
    Recently I have had the privilege of embarking upon a guided tour of one of Illinois Tool Works’ 600 mini-companies, a strap manufacturing plant near the company’s headquarters in Glenview, Illinois. Signode Strap, a product invented within a firm owned by ITW, is the most prevalent of its sort in the market. It is furnished of entirely recyclable materials (pop bottle remnants) into gargantuan plastic sheets that are conveyed through rollers at phenomenal temperatures of over 300 degrees Fahrenheit. I was able to observe the plastic rolled into colossal coils, then unwound again to be sliced into uniform strips, while...