The Criminalization Of Financial Independence

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
Independent enterprises are a source of political and financial independence... and any independent class is dangerous to the ruling elites.
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
Independent enterprises are a source of political and financial independence... and any independent class is dangerous to the ruling elites.
The disenfranchised, hurt-feeling liberals of California, who are herding towards 'CalExit' in ever-increasing numbers since the election of Donald Trump, are about to face up to an ugly reality in their perception of their virtue-signaling. As NYT reports, the president of the 'Yes California' movement lives in Russia.
Submitted by Federico Pieraccini via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
Submitted by Llewellyn Rockwell via The Mises Institute,
Some of our assumptions are so deeply embedded that we cannot perceive them ourselves.
Case in point: everyone takes for granted that it’s normal for a country of 320 million to be dictated to by a single central authority. The only debate we’re permitted to have is who should be selected to carry out this grotesque and inhumane function.