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10 Myths About the District of Columbia 1. D.C. citizens enjoy the same constitutional rights as citizens who live in states. The Constitution, until amended or until D.C. becomes a state or part of a state, gives Congress exclusive legislative authority over D.C. in Article I, Section 8, Clause 17. Over D.C.’s 200-year history, Congress has passed laws to modify the local governance structure numerous times. In 1973, Congress granted D.C. limited Home Rule authority. Congress oversees D.C. through four Congressional subcommittees, four committees, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the President. Congress not only reviews and can modify...

I've been contacted a few times about writing a personal story of our family, because we have been called "The American Dream" family by people who knew us well. In doing this, it would have to start with the man RON PAUL, who saw the American Dream and decided that it could be his -- and now he wants it to be yours if you so choose. I chose to excerpt because I'm too lazy to format it. Please click the link to see the rest, it's pretty good.

Two deploying soldiers and a concerned mother reported Friday afternoon that the U.S. Army appears to be singling out soldiers who have purchased Pinnacle's Dragon Skin Body Armor for special treatment. The soldiers, who are currently staging for combat operations from a secret location, reported that their commander told them if they were wearing Pinnacle Dragon Skin and were killed their beneficiaries might not receive the death benefits from their $400,000 SGLI life insurance policies. The soldiers were ordered to leave their privately purchased body armor at home or face the possibility of both losing their life insurance benefit and...

MANCHESTER, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2005--The U.S. Government has the authority to prohibit the private possession of gold and silver coin and bullion by U.S. citizens during wartime, and, during wartime and declared emergencies, to freeze their ownership of shares of mining companies, the Treasury Department has told the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee. But gold and silver owners aren't alone in such jeopardy. For the U.S. Government claims the authority in declared emergencies to seize or freeze just about everything else that might be considered a financial instrument. The Treasury Department's assertions came in a letter to GATA dated August 12...

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Gold-Dealers conscripted to spy on you? Alex Wallenwein Email: awallenwein@houston.rr.com December 9, 2003 Just forget about buying and owning gold and other precious metals in privacy, as you have been able to do until now. A new intelligence spending bill (HB 2417) has reportedly just passed Congress and is awaiting the President's signature by this coming Saturday, December 13, 2003. Tucked inside that bill is a provision that allows the FBI to serve so-called "national security letters" on a broader range of "financial institutions." National security letters require these institutions to reveal their customers' private financial as well as general...

< snip > They learned that the West Virginia Highway Department would take all of the land from the road to the river and all the land of "equal scenic value" from the road to the toe of the mountain. The highway department would then give the land to the National Park Service (NPS). This was being done to compensate NPS for any of its lands that would be affected by the Parkway. Now the folks along the New River understood why there was an armed guard at the door. As the devastating impact of the plan began to dawn...

Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan At the Opening of an American Numismatic Society Exhibition, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York January 16, 2002 The history of money The other day I told a spendthrift friend that I had to deliver a short address on the history of money. He responded, "I understand the history of money. When I get some, it's soon history." Fortunately, not all market participants are as spendthrift as my friend. Savers have been in sufficient abundance since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to enable investment to further material well-being. Money, as a store ...

UN tells Timorese: use US dollars or face big fines An executive order signed by the head of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), Mr Sergio Vieira de Mello, will change all that, imposing stiff fines for illegal money changers, scores of whom can be seen daily outside the UN headquarters waving wads of dollar bills and rupiah. Under the new prohibition order, signed on April 26, unlicensed traders and their customers, most of them UN employees, will face fines of up to $US5,000 ($9,540) if caught.

WASHINGTON -- The Secret Service has raided a New York state business that exchanged dollars for grams of the digital currency called e-gold. A bevy of agents from the Secret Service, Postal Service and local police recently detained the owners of Gold-Age, based in Syracuse, and seized computers, files and documents from the fledgling firm. snip is a 5-year-old firm based on the Caribbean island of Nevis that provides an electronic currency backed by physical metal stored in vaults in London and Dubai. The company says it has 181,000 user accounts and stores about 1.4 metric tons of gold on ...

Learn what the world's most powerful financial institution is doing to control an unprecedented global demand for U.S. dollars. Investigate the Fed's control over digital-age counterfeiting and how the U.S. economy is preparing for a paperless future.

The following executive order to confiscate gold bullion was issued by President Roosevelt on April 5, 1933. UNDER EXECUTIVE ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT Issued April 5, 1933 all persons are required to deliver ON OR BEFORE MAY 1, 1933 all GOLD COIN, GOLD BULLION, AND GOLD CERTIFICATES now owned by them to a Federal Reserve Bank, branch or agency, or to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System. Executive Order FORBIDDING THE HOARDING OF GOLD COIN, GOLD BULLION AND GOLD CERTIFICATES. By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 8(b) of the Act of October 6, 1917, ...

...snip... "The President's power, if any, to issue the order must stem either from an act of Congress or from the Constitution itself."-- "In the framework of our Constitution, the President's power to see that the laws are faithfully executed refutes the idea that he is to be a lawmaker."--- " The Founders of this Nation entrusted the lawmaking power to the Congress alone in both good and bad times." ...snip... Section 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Section 1. ...