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Seizing on the media- and government-manufactured “Panama Papers” brouhaha, governments and globalist organizations announced a wave of new edicts and agreements last week in a plot to kill what remains of financial privacy rights and impose a radical global tax regime on humanity. The Obama administration, the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, Socialist International, the European Union, and more are fully behind the effort. Of course, as this magazine has documented, those establishment forces, socialist groups, international organizations, tax-funded shills, and bloated governments have been pushing the same dangerous agenda for years without much success. Now...

President Obama urged students to open up their digital life to the federal government, if they wanted to be protected by the government, calling the current privacy expectations from Americans unrealistic. “People have a whole new set of privacy expectations that are understandable. They also expect though that since their lives are all digitized, that the digital world is safe, which creates a contradictory demand on government,” he said. Obama discussed the issue during a conversation about the Supreme Court at the University of Chicago, where he used to teach Constitutional law. He pointed out that citizens expected the government...

Obama vs. Your Privacy6/7/2013Obama: Surveillance programs involve 'modest encroachments' on privacy, help fight terrorNat'l Intel Director May Have Lied to Congress About NSA Data Collection Anonymous Just Leaked a Trove of NSA Documents: The NSA's 'Strategic Vision' for the internetGreenwald: Obama 'bullying and threatening' anyone who covers PRISMObama Silent on Surveillance ControversyDirector of National Intelligence: 'Cannot Be Used to Intentionally Target Any U.S. Citizen'US intelligence chief denounces release of informationUS Declassifies Phone Program Details After UproarGovernment Storing Vast Phone, Email Data at NSA Data Center in UtahPRISM: 'They Quite Literally Can Watch Your Ideas Form As You Type'6/6/2013Eric Holder Refuses...