[Editor's Note: The following post is by TDV Editor-in-Chief, Jeff Berwick]

I remember when Kanada used to be a humble, socialist backwater.  How things have changed!  Not the socialist part, unfortunately.

The top conman of Kanada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, actually stated at the G-8 summit that it is the G-7 plus one.

[Editor's Note: The following post is by TDV legal correspondent, Jim Karger]

We just reached whatever height above the earth deemed by the US government suitable to use electronic devices. I know that because our flight attendant, Stephanie, bored and tired as she is, just told me and everyone else it is "OK" as long as the wireless feature is turned off, but she warned ominously that if you give serious thought to using a cell phone during flight that you will go straight to jail, and I believe her.

Ambushed by Statist Women at a Booth in a Bar (or "Girls Night Out")

Hello from opulent Vina del Mar, Chile,

I first visited Vina in 2005, eight years ago now, and my impression then was that it was a nice but quiet beach town.  I’ve since visited a few times in the last year and the changes are truly unbelievable.

Good Friday to you, TDVers. How was your week? Did you hear Obama's troops on the other end of your phone calls? Were state drones buzzing your house? Did you get arrested for telling the truth and caring about your fellow man? Of course you did! You live in the USSA!

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On to the feedback...

[Editor's Note: The following post is by TDV Editor-in-Chief, Jeff Berwick]

It turns out that Mr. T has been showing us a way to survive The End Of The Monetary System As We Know It (TEOTMSAWKI) all along.

If you’ve been paying any attention at all, you know we are getting very close to a complete collapse. In Europe, they are confiscating funds directly from people’s bank accounts. The USSA, and Canada by the way, have become complete surveillance states. So much so that to even go public with knowledge of what is going on, as Edward Snowden has apparently done, is treasonous. That word treason has very different applications depending on whether you believe in theft and violence based collectivism or in individual liberty.

[Editor's Note: The following post is by TDV Editor, Gary Gibson]

As the USSA continues to devolve into a full blown police state empire the ironic keeps becoming the norm. So it is that a whistleblower has to take refuge from the secretive, tyrannical US government in totalitarian socialist China. Ah, but here I'm playing it fast and loose with what is considered to be China. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is actually in Hong Kong, which is technically part of China again though it remains semi-autonomous. Years of British rule left Hong Kong with a Western-stlye justic system that seems to be more in tact than the tattered one barely covering up the empire's naughty bits back in the US. 

[Editor’s Note: The following post is by TDV contributor, Wendy McElroy]

US Army Private Bradley Manning is being persecuted for exposing war crimes committed by the Bush and Obama administrations. Like any criminal, the US government wants its wrongful acts to remain secret; it wishes to make the truth illegal.

[Editor’s Note: The following post is by TDV contributor, Wendy McElroy]

“You do not know, and will never know, who the Remnant are, nor what they are doing or will do. Two things you do know, and no more: First, that they exist; second, that they will find you.”

— “Isaiah's Job” by Albert Jay Nock

The Remnant is the small minority of people who understood through the core of their being what it means to be free. They almost intuitively grasp the adversarial nature of state and society, with the bloated state feeding on the body productive until it has been sucked dry.

The Attacks Mean They're Getting Nervous

Are the sheep waking up from their stupor? I ask because there seems to be an uptick in members of the mainstream media taking on the question of libertarianism.