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Creeping Capital Controls At JPMorgan Chase?

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“For whatever reason, JPM has decided that after November 17, 2013, it will halt the use of international wire transfers (saying it would “cancel any international wire transfers, including recurring ones”), but more importantly, limits the cash activity in associated business accounts to only $50,000 per statement cycle. “Cash activity is the combined total of cash deposits made at branches, night drops and ATMs and cash withdrawals made at branches and ATMs.” Why? “These changes will help us more effectively manage the risks involved with these types of transactions.” So… JPM is now engaged in the risk-management of ATM withdrawals?”

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-16/creeping-capital-controls-jpmorgan-chase

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Chase Bank Limits Cash Withdrawals, Bans International Wire Transfers

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“Numerous business customers with Chase BusinessSelect Checking and Chase BusinessClassic accounts have received letters over the past week informing them that cash activity (both deposits and withdrawals) will be limited to a $50,000 total per statement cycle from November 17 onwards.  The move to limit deposits and withdrawals while banning international wire transfers altogether is a bizarre policy and will cripple many small and medium-sized businesses with Chase accounts. Buying stock from abroad in any kind of quantity will now become impossible for many companies, while paying employees will also be a headache.”

http://www.infowars.com/chase-bank-limits-cash-withdrawals-bans-international-wire-transfers/

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Privacy in the Face of NSA Abuse

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“Today, the antithesis of privacy, better known as the NSA, the CIA, and the FBI, are in bed with America’s leading Internet and mobile service providers to circumvent civil liberties on a grand scale. This partnership of government and corporations, colloquially known as ‘corporatism,’ offers many advantages to both partners but none for individuals. For the government, unfettered backdoor access is granted to trillions of Internet data logs, including search engines, emails, and VoIP applications like Skype. In exchange for their perceived high patriotism and civic duty, corporations are awarded multi-billion dollar government contracts and are promised absolute immunity from all criminal and civil litigation.”

https://www.internationalman.com/78-global-perspectives/1012-privacy-in-the-face-of-nsa-abuse

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The Ultimate Layer of Financial Protection

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“If you have a standard IRA from a large US financial institution, it would only take a phone call from the US government and poof, your dividend-paying stocks and corporate bonds could instantly be transformed into government paper.  It’s happened in Argentina and numerous other countries, and it is certainly an option on the table in the US. Heck, there are already whispers about the US government assuming some risk for US retirement accounts. That’s code for forced conversion of assets into government bonds.  Obviously, this is much harder for the government to do if your retirement assets are sufficiently internationalized.”

https://www.internationalman.com/78-global-perspectives/1006-the-ultimate-layer-of-financial-protection

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Governmental Travel Controls

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“Coupled with actual cancellation at the airport will be the denial of travel documentation in general. This has already begun, with the US tying travel documents to taxation. Now, any citizen whose tax compliance is ‘in question’ may be denied the right to travel. As the term, ‘in question’ is loosely defined, it may suffice to restrict any citizen. In the future, passports may be suspended or confiscated for questions of inadequate tax compliance, or indeed, for questioned ‘terrorist sympathy’ as described above. Further, passport applications and renewals are likely to be denied more frequently due to these vague and undefined suspicions.”

https://www.internationalman.com/78-global-perspectives/1013-governmental-travel-controls

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Born Libertarian: Doug Casey on Ron Paul and the Price of Freedom

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“I’m afraid that the US might be approaching a phase similar to the one the Romans experienced before Diocletian made himself emperor. He completely changed the character of Rome; he believed that in order to save Rome, he had to destroy it. As we go deeper into this crisis—of which we’re just currently in the early stages—there’s every chance that the American people are going to look for a savior, a strong man, probably a military person because Americans love and trust their military for some reason. I see the military as not much more than a heavily armed version of the post office, but I suspect that we’ll find someone who is the equivalent of Diocletian.”

http://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/born-libertarian-doug-casey-on-ron-paul-and-the-price-of-freedom

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DoJ: If we can track one American, we can track all Americans

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“The government’s response (PDF), filed on September 30th, is a heavily redacted opposition arguing that when law enforcement can monitor one person’s information without a warrant, it can monitor everyone’s information, ‘regardless of the collection’s expanse.’ Notably, the government is also arguing that no one other than the company that provided the information—including the defendant in this case—has the right to challenge this disclosure in court.  The United States government designated al-Shabaab—which means ‘The Youth’—a terrorist group in 2008, but the FBI’s extensive wiretapping of Moalin started about two months before that.”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/doj-if-we-can-track-one-american-we-can-track-all-americans/

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FBI’s Dread Pirate Roberts Evidence is All Circumstantial

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“Instead of the old-fashioned police work trumpeted by some media outlets, the discovery of Ulbricht may have unfolded much differently. The NSA (or FBI) may have first used one of its Tor exploits to discover the location of the Silk Road server. While the foreign legal process of gaining access to the server was underway, agents might have identified the DPR’s IP address and traced it to Ulbricht’s apartment. This could have led investigators to intercept Ulbricht’s order of fake IDs as they crossed the Canadian border. To conceal that they acted on a tip from NSA, Canadian authorities claimed to discover the package as part of a routine border inspection.”

http://www.policymic.com/articles/66537/dread-pirate-roberts-was-caught-by-the-fbi-but-its-evidence-is-all-circumstantial

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America’s Schools Transform Into Authoritarian Instruments of Compliance

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“We are witnessing a paradigm shift in American society, in which no personal activity is safe from the prying eyes of government agents and their corporate allies. Every decision and action, no matter how innocent, is scrutinized, analyzed, filed, stored, and eventually held against you when those in power feel like it. Pulling back the veil of zero tolerance, the real culprit is the corporate-state, which has been meticulously applying the zero tolerance mindset to not just public schools in America, but our workplaces, our political forums, our social interactions and even our own homes. The end result is a society which is completely pacified and willing to march in lockstep with the corporate-state.”

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/transforming_americas_schools_into_authoritarian_instruments_of_compli

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Former Internet Provider Recounts How He Was Gagged By FBI For 6 Years

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“In early 2004, Nicholas Merrill, who was running an internet service provider in New York called Calyx, was issued a national security letter that ordered him to hand over detailed private records about some of his customers. Under the law, recipients of the letters are barred from telling anyone about their encounter with the FBI. While Merrill was not the first American to be gagged after receiving a national security letter, he was the first to challenge the FBI’s secret tactics. Merrill went to the American Civil Liberties Union, which then filed the first lawsuit challenging the national security letter statute. In the lawsuit, Merrill was simply identified as John Doe.”

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