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You were considered a hoarder and a slacker if you still resisted turning over your gold to the government. ... most of those who voted for FDR never expected him to confiscate private holdings of gold coins, bullion, and certificates. Roosevelt called the measure a temporary one (it wasn’t), and he followed it up by invalidating gold clauses in private contracts that obligated payment in gold dollars, which had the effect of devaluing the assets of bond and contract holders. ... By January 1934, Roosevelt increased the dollar price of gold from $20.67 to $35, thus devaluing the dollar by...

A new study using a reconstruction of North American drought history over the last 1,000 years found that the drought of 1934 was the driest and most widespread of the last millennium. Using a tree-ring-based drought record from the years 1000 to 2005 and modern records, scientists from NASA and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory found the 1934 drought was 30 percent more severe than the runner-up drought (in 1580) and extended across 71.6 percent of western North America. For comparison, the average extent of the 2012 drought was 59.7 percent. “It was the worst by a large margin, falling pretty far...

 "A Bill to Promote Burglary" was drawn the same year that the Roosevelt administration passed the first federal gun ban, the National Firearms Act of 1934. Dean Weingarten  Link to Gun Watch

... The machine produces 10 to 15 see-saw motions a minute to induce an exact imitation of natural breathing. It works automatically once the patient is balanced on the light metal frame.

Daniel Hannan cuts through the disinformation routinely spewed by the pundit class to reveal the true historical nature of fascism, albeit as it pertains to British politics. The lessons, however, are applicable here as well. 'I am a Socialist,' Hitler told Otto Strasser in 1930, 'and a very different kind of Socialist from your rich friend, Count Reventlow'. No one at the time would have regarded it as a controversial statement. The Nazis could hardly have been more open in their socialism, describing themselves with the same terminology as our own SWP: National Socialist German Workers' Party. Almost everyone in...

6 August, 2011: In a surprise ruling issued on 25 July, 2011, acting director Kenneth Melson changed nearly 20 years of BATFE policy to bring the agency rules into compliance with a 1992 Supreme Court decision on the legal conversion of pistols to rifles and back again. To understand the ruling, it is necessary to go back to the legislative history of the National Firearms Act of 1934, which was the first federal gun control law to be ruled as constitutional in the infamous Miller decision. In the original version of the 1934 law promoted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration,...

“Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it” It speaks for itself!Libertas

Seventy five years ago is going to seem like yesterday here in just a second. Take a look at this cartoon published in the Chicago Tribune on April 21, 1934 titled, “PLANNED ECONOMY OR PLANNED DESTRUCTION?” It’s true for most that their sense of history usually extends into the past only about as far as the day they decided to start paying attention to what was going on around them. An old saying goes something like this: “History, it is said, repeats itself. Few but are reminded almost every day of something that has gone before.” Every “crisis” seems brand...

Was 1998 the hottest year in United States history, as most reporting on climate change has presumed? Or was that record set back in 1934 before "global warming" became a scary household phrase? A corrective tweak to National Aeronautics and Space Administration's formulation shows that the hottest year on record in the United States indeed was back during the Dust Bowl days. But does this mean that all the concern about global warming being a relatively recent phenomenon tied to carbon-belching power plants and hulking SUVs is a bunch of Al Gore hooey? Climate change skeptics and their cheering section...

I believe that most here are now aware of the NASA GISS temperature data that was corrected by a Canadian researcher, Steven McIntyre, now shows the hottest year in the USA is not 1998, but rather the year 1934. This post is just to point out two things: 1) the order of the hottest years and 2) the media coverage of this hugely important data correction to US yearly temperatures. From the corrected data posted by NASA, it now shows the correct hottest years as follows, beginning with hottest:http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt 1934 1998 1921 2006 1931 1999 1953 1990 1938 1939 1954...

Former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr defended the constitutional right to bear arms against what he called an “anti-freedom philosophy” in a speech about the importance of the Second Amendment at the Emory School of Law on Monday. Barr, a Republican, told the audience of about 30 people that Americans must do everything in their power to ward off intrusion from the U.S. government and “preserve what privacy and other civil liberties are left to us.” He warned that many people in America and the United Nations “engage in actions to diminish one’s God-given, constitutionally- guaranteed rights.” As evidence of mounting...

Did you know that in many areas of the country, it's perfectly legal (after paying an unconstitutional federal tax) to own an automatic weapon? The National Firearms Act of 1934 states in part: Rate. -- There shall be levied, collected, and paid on firearms transferred a tax at the rate of $200 for each firearm transferred, except, the transfer tax on any firearm classified as any other weapon under section 5845(e) shall be at the rate of $5 for each such firearm transferred. By whom paid. -- The tax imposed by subsection (a) of this section shall be paid by...