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Under this new digital currency, any transfer of funds to family, friends, charities, or clients would be able to be tracked by the nation's central bank that issued this virtual money. Big Brother will be in your wallet every hour or every day. You will not be able to buy a stick of gum without a Federal Reserve computer knowing where, when, and to whom you just put down a buck. We should be rightfully concerned about inflation, energy independence, aggressor nations armed with nuclear weapons, and woke public policies that denigrate the very foundation of this great country. But...

The concept of introducing identity cards has long been the subject of contentious debate. During his tenure as prime minister, Sir Tony Blair attempted to introduce an ID card scheme, which was ultimately abandoned by the coalition government. .. In a joint proposal, Sir Tony Blair and Lord Hague have urged for the implementation of digital ID cards across the United Kingdom, citing the need for a "technological revolution". The former leaders of the Labour and Conservative parties highlight in a report that government records continue to be rooted in a bygone era. The concept of introducing identity cards has...

This is the story of a piece of paper no bigger than a credit card, thrown away in a dustbin on the Heathrow Express to Paddington station. It was nestling among chewing gum wrappers and baggage tags, cast off by some weary traveller, when I first laid eyes on it just over a month ago.snipthe paper - actually a flimsy piece of card - was a discarded British Airways boarding-pass stub, the small section of the pass displaying your name and seat number. The stub you probably throw away as soon as you leave your flight.snipIf the expert was right,...

Please excuse this vanity post. I respect the cumulative expertise on this forum and would value your thoughts on the following. The need to improve security on our borders seems obvious. Less obvious is how best to deal with our existing illegal immigrant population. We don’t really even know how many people are involved, how old they are, how many are in our schools, what other services they are using, how many of them are currently employed, etc. It’s little wonder that Congress is at loggerheads. Shouldn’t Congress first accurately scope the problem and prevent it from growing still larger,...

The Legacy of Garry Davis On this Fourth of July, when 89% of Americans express pride and satisfaction with their country and its institutions, and are praising the blessings of liberty while listening to patriotic music and watching joyous fireworks, we might reflect on the case of Garry Davis, who, at the age of 26 in May 1948, flushed with youthful idealism, renounced his US citizenship and became a self-proclaimed Citizen of the World. He declared that nationalism had been "rendered obsolete by actual world conditions" and needed to be supplanted by a world government that would guarantee world peace....