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The Ultimate Privacy Protection: Foreign Real Estate

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“If you own a foreign property in your own name … registered to you as a legal person in your own right … you are under no obligation whatsoever to report its existence to the U.S. government. Even if you earn income from the property, such as rental, you don’t have to identity the property when you file your U.S. tax returns.  If you own property in a foreign country, it doesn’t form part of any U.S. property registry or tax database. There’s no way anyone can find out that you own it … with two exceptions.”

http://thesovereigninvestor.com/asset-protection/privacy-protection-techniques/

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Real ID Exposed: It Is Worse Than You Think

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“The Constitutional Alliance strongly opposes the Real ID Act 2005; our reasons go beyond the reasoning of other organizations.  Our primary reasons for opposing the Real ID Act are four-fold.  It is my hope and prayer that you will share a link to our web-site with everyone you are in contact with.  I do not ask a lot but I am asking now. You will learn while reading this essay why there is not as big a difference as you have been led to believe between states that are in material compliance with the Real ID Act 2005 and those that are.”

http://www.constitutionalalliance.org/articles/real-id-exposed-it-worse-you-think

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The $4 Trillion Money Printing Press

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“One pandemic, two great depressions, 11 major wars, and 44 recessions. Four U.S. presidents were assassinated while in office. Hundreds of thousands of businesses went bankrupt; tens of millions of Americans lost their jobs.  Did the U.S. government respond to many of these events with countermeasures? Of course.  But never once had the U.S. government resorted to such extreme abuses of its money-printing power as it did in 2008-10. Now, all that tradition of leadership and discipline was abandoned — all for the sake of perpetuating America’s addiction to spending, borrowing, and speculative bubbles.”

https://www.moneyandmarkets.com/72020-72020

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John Hussman: Judging the Future at a Speculative Peak

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“A rather classic feature of speculative peaks is the eagerness of speculative companies to issue equities to the public while the getting is good. On that front, fully 78% of the initial public offerings over the past 6 months are companies that have negative earnings; a percentage that eclipses both the previous record of 76% at the height of the tech bubble in 2000, as well as the second-highest extreme of 65%, which was set, not surprisingly, in April 2007 during the distribution phase that preceded the 2007-2009 market collapse. Likewise, private equity firms have been dumping their ownership stakes at a record pace.”

http://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc150706.htm

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Secession: Armed vs. Peaceful

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“The young men of the revolution had to settle for political offices in the states. The war was over. Wartime centralization ended. The national government of the United States of America had little influence after 1783. It had to have unanimous support of the states to pass any law, and it could only rarely get this. There were tight chains on national political power. The result was another secession movement organized by the young men of the revolution: secession from the Articles of Confederation.  In the summer of 1787, a closed conclave was held in Philadelphia. No outsider was allowed to attend. It was held on the second floor, so that no citizen could hear the debates.”

http://www.garynorth.com/public/13994.cfm

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Declare Your Independence

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“The true declaration of independence is not a political document at all. It’s the inward realization that the flag lapel-pinned strangers who claim the right to govern you have no legitimate claim to your person or property. What do we do once we notice that whatever they take from some and give to others is the product of extortion and meant to grow their power?”

https://bananas.liberty.me/declare-your-independence/

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John Hussman: Durable Returns, Transient Returns

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“Once extreme valuations have been established, further market gains have always been transient. Once market internals deteriorate, it’s a signal that investors have shifted from risk-seeking to risk-aversion. At that point, there is no specific event that must be known in advance. One need only have an appreciation for the inevitable swing of the pendulum from extreme euphoria to extreme fear that has characterized the financial markets for centuries. The ‘catalyst’ is rarely appreciated as a catalyst until after severe market losses have already occurred, and in many cases, that catalyst is simply an event that concentrated selling plans that were already being contemplated. It’s always something.”

http://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc150629.htm

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John Hussman: All Their Eggs in Janet’s Basket

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“Investors whose strategy is to follow the Fed – in the belief that stocks will advance as long as the Fed does not raise interest rates – are free to place all their eggs in Janet’s basket. On the other hand, for investors whose strategy is historically informed by factors that have reliably distinguished market advances from collapses over a century of history, our suggestion is to consider a stronger defense. Our greatest successes have been when our investment outlook was aligned with valuations and market internals, and our greatest disappointments have been when it was not. Both factors are unfavorable at present, and our outlook is aligned accordingly.”

http://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc150622.htm

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Trans Pacific Partnership Is about Control, Not Free Trade

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“The TPP would only marginally improve free trade, but would export to other countries stronger copyright and patent standards, which would increase the costs these monopoly privilege systems impose on economies, reduce Internet and artistic freedom, increase the prices of pharmaceuticals, and reduce innovation.  Another perverse aspect of the IP treaties is that any significant improvement to US copyright law, which is widely seen as being out of control and in need of reform, would arguably be in violation of US obligations under the Berne Convention. So Congress ties its own hands by means of international agreements and then uses this as an excuse later for why IP reform is not possible.”

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/trans-pacific-partnership-is-about-control-not-free-trade

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When a government spies on its citizens: lessons from Chile

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“What are the deep, long-term effects of clandestine surveillance on a country? The current debates in Congress regarding the renewal — or modification — of the Patriot Act offer an occasion to hold an open discussion that is long overdue.  My own experience may be relevant to that discussion.  It was on Sept. 12, 1973, the day after a military coup overthrew the democratically elected government of Chile, that I started to understand that language was also a victim when massive state spying permeates a hitherto free nation.”

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0531-dorfman-surveillance-censorship-20150531-story.html

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