“Allegan County, Michigan, becomes the most recent locale to ‘[pass] a resolution opposing federal kidnapping powers,’ a.k.a. the NDAA. Wise serfs make note of such sanctuaries so they have a list of destinations when the Feds begin ‘disappearing’ people. Oh, wait, they’ve already started…”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/119684.html
“Lubbock County, Texas Judge John Head insists that a tax increase is necessary in order to expand local government operations. In addition to a pay increase for local prosecutors, Head seeks additional funding for the sheriff’s office in order to deal with the prospect of civic unrest if Barack Obama is re-elected. Whatever Obama’s ambitions might be, the key issue for Lubbock County residents is that Judge Head is demanding more of their money to hire and equip the people who regiment their lives at the local level – which is where the retail business of tyranny is transacted.”
http://prolibertate.us/index.php/all-tyranny-is-local?blog=7
“A measure that would legalize medical marijuana in Arkansas has qualified for the November ballot, according to the Associated Press. Arkansans for Compassionate Care delivered more than a dozen boxes to the Secretary of State last month, which contained petitions with 67,885 signatures. The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act would allow up to 30 medical marijuana dispensaries to open in Arkansas and let patients to possess up to 2.5 ounces of cannabis. Cities and counties would be able to ban marijuana dispensaries under the law.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/22/arkansas-to-vote-on-legalizing-medical-marijuana-in-november/
“The Free Lakota Bank is the world’s only non-reserve, non-fractional bank that issues, accepts for deposit, and circulates REAL money: .999 fine silver. All of our demand deposits are liquid, meaning they can be withdrawn at any time in minted rounds. In 2008, the Free Lakota Bank became the first bank to offer what has now come to be known as Commodity Banking. In this new banking system, value is stored in easy to monetize commodities as opposed to government-issued, controlled, inflated and deflated fiat currencies.”
https://www.freelakotabank.com/
“The fifty states may possibly choose to remain separate; they may form a series of confederations (most likely based upon similarity of economic and political philosophies); or return to a United States. This will be, in large part, determined by whatever level of control the Federal Government continues to hold at the bottom of the depression, and how clever the Federal Government is in convincing the states that a central government is needed. The speed at which the First World recovers as a vibrant economic force will depend, in large part, upon the degree to which the central governments have retained or lost control.”
http://www.internationalman.com/global-perspectives/the-recovery
“Members of the Sioux Nation are attempting to raise $1 million dollars to buy back a section of South Dakota land known in their culture as ‘the Center and heart of everything that is.’ About 2,000 acres of land in the state’s Black Hills is scheduled to go up for auction next week, including what’s known to the Sioux as Pe’ Sla. The Rosebud Sioux Tribe has teamed up with the Native American blog Last Real Indians for an online fundraising campaign that began Monday, with an Aug. 23 deadline.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/17/sioux-tribes-take-to-the-internet-to-buy-back-sacred-land/
“France’s new Socialist leader President Francois Hollande plans to slap a tax of 75 percent on all income in excess of a million euros ($1.24 million), and territories with lower rates are hoping for a cash exodus. The focus has been on France’s neighbor Britain, whose Prime Minister David Cameron irked Hollande by boasting that London would ‘roll out the red carpet’ to French entrepreneurs seeking shelter for their income. But a new offer came Wednesday from a more unlikely quarter: Haley Barbour, former governor of Mississippi.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/09/mississippi-looks-to-lure-french-tax-dodgers/