[The following post is by TDV Contributor Pete Gorman]

I love New Zealand, the breathtaking natural beauty, the mostly open and friendly people and my own history here create a real bond with the place, but all my adult life I have felt oppressed by an ever increasing multitude of laws, regulation and bureaucracy, and it is increasing all the time. I have witnessed the slow erosion of freedom, of the old New Zealand of my Grandfathers day. I have seen the nanny state welfare and 'education' systems turn a large portion of our young adults into helpless unskilled and unmotivated state dependants.

[The following post is by TDV Editor-In-Chief, Jeff Berwick]

The trajectory is clear.  Painfully clear.

The US government is so beyond bankrupt it isn't even worth belaboring the point.  We've spent the last five years here doing so.

What is more important, if you are an American who still has most of your assets inside the US, is that the walls are closing down around you at an unprecedented rate.  Nearly daily the proof continues to mount.

Jeff interviews independent journalist Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change, topics include: independent journalism making the mainstream media irrelevant, the death of the mainstream media, speaking truth to power, the future is live streaming, Change Media University at Anarchapulco, full power journalism training, simple affordable tools, Change Media is also a support network, quality production lends credibility, ditching your job and living your dream. The time to act is now!