A Peculiar Blog

If you read this Reuters story with the headline proclaiming “U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar”, you can see that the world does seem to be moving in that direction.

The UN, Russia and other countries are all making noises about wanting to ditch the Dollar as the currency of choice. Some are talking about re-centering on the Euro. Others are talking about a new currency entirely.

Welcome back!Perhaps it might be a bit extreme to think that Australia’s government is quite as bad as all that but then again, I can’t begin to say how many stories I’ve seen over the last couple of years that show a definite trend in that direction. Privacy and freedom of speech is taking [...]

My brother sent me this little gem a few months ago and I just recently ran across it while cleaning out my inbox. It’s a sort of a commentary about just how fast we’ve gone down hill in the last 40 years. Those of us who were actually IN school in 1968 will know how true these things are.

 Powered by Max Banner Ads We’re moving farther and farther into the last days. One evidence of this is the growing trend of governments and law enforcement agencies to find more excuses to snoop on people. The latest in this trend is proposals by the German government that would allow video surveillance of private [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads Remember the big flap that’s been made about the National ID card that the government has been trying to foist off on us, requiring states to become “Real ID compliant”? This is the same “Real ID” that several states have refused to be part of. Well, if H.R. 5405 [...]