A new Homeland Security provision goes into effect on Monday January 7th, 2013. ANY packages mailed OUT of the USA (not in) will require full disclosure of the contents to be reported to the Homeland Security. A form has to be filled out and full details of sender and recipient must be reported to Homeland Security. The […]

They say the definition of pure insanity is continually doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. Under that definition, all politicians should be committed PERMANENTLY. Entrepreneurs who can move out of France are doing so ASAP. Reports are coming in from Spain, Switzerland, and Ireland where French concerns are starting […]

Copyright Martin Armstrong all right reserved January 5th, 2013 The Age of Materialism/Consumerism Why Starbucks is a Global Success & How Consumerism Created the Industrial Revolution By Martin Armstrong Traveling around the globe for 3 months, there was always a feeling of security when a Starbucks was nearby – except in Italy where coffee is […]

  Thomas Paine was hated in England for what he wrote. Pictured below is a political token blaming Paine for effectively the American and French Revolutions against monarchy. We face another critical period where indeed “these are the times that try men’s souls” until government recognizes that it MUST reform the monetary system for its […]

Common Sense INTRODUCTION Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time […]

As taxes rise and services decline, underground economies are booming. Barter is returning and governments are clamping down following the model of the commonly known Stasi, which was the Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit).The official state security service of East Germany GDR was one of the most effective and repressive secret police agencies in the […]

  Some people are claiming that Greece is doing away with the Euro because people are bartering. This is simply not the case. There is a collapse in public services. The social safety net is gone. This is the collapse of Marxism. As a result, at the local level alternative forms of money are emerging. […]

If anyone ever thought governments are Christian as opposed to the old atheist USSR, you have another thing coming. Governments do not trust the Vatican and have cut it off from the international banking system unless it reports on every person involved behind any transfer of money. I guess the 19 Terrorists and the camel […]

Behind closed doors, the universal image of the United States around the world speaking with other people in government was clear – it is regarded as the schoolyard bully. It uses its military power to plow down international law so that no one will stand up to the USA and say hey – you are […]

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 02—9410 MICHAEL D. CRAWFORD, PETITIONER v. WASHINGTON ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF WASHINGTON [March 8, 2004] Justice Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner Michael Crawford stabbed a man who allegedly tried to rape his wife, Sylvia. At his trial, the State played for […]