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Covid 19 Vaccines: Paving The Way For The Surveillance State

​Like so many other "crises" that preceded it, the Covid-19 "pandemic" has provided fertile territory for the authoritarians who seize any opportunity to destroy freedom and liberty under the false claim of "keeping us safe." The PATRIOT Act passed after 9/11 was supposed to do the same thing: keep us safe by targeting the terrorists who wanted to kill us. But as we learned from Ed Snowden shortly afterward, it was a lie. The PATRIOT Act was designed to view us as the enemy, to be spied on, trac...

Fear & Profits: Government Lockdowns Fuel The Desire For Crony Vaccines

The marriage between government & crony big business was on full display this year. The generation of big fear by the former was met with big profits for the latter. The widespread belief that government needs to "regulate" our social and economic lives provides the foundation for this poisonous marriage to thrive. Individual Liberty and free markets (without government interference) can perform the annulment, but they need to be desired first.

The Fed's Financial Crisis Looms: Is Bitcoin The Answer?

As the Fed counterfeits and counterfeits some more, the price of Bitcoin has hit record highs. A financial crisis looms as there is a great disconnect between economic reality and the financial fantasyland that The Fed has once again created. Today we discuss the terrible traps known as legal tender laws, crypto, and the dire necessity of separating government from money creation.

Trump Pardons Flynn…It’s a Good Start!

By Ron Paul

​Last week President Trump granted a “full pardon” to Gen. Michael Flynn, his first National Security Advisor. In a White House statement announcing the pardon, the Administration pointed out that the relentless pursuit of Flynn was a partisan effort to overturn the results of the 2016 election.

The pursuit of Flynn was spearheaded by people who refused to accept the results of the 2016 election and worked to undermine the peaceful transfer of power, said the White House. These same pe...

The Covid Hypocrites: 'Lockdowns For Thee, But Not For Me!'

Governors, mayors, and other officials across the country and across the world are laying out restriction upon restriction for their subjects in the name of fighting a virus. But when it comes to obeying the edicts they demand others to follow, more often than not they are exposed as hypocrites...or worse. Also today, insanity in Washington state, violence in France, kids and quarantine, and a heroic gym owner. Don't miss today's Liberty Report...

Another Bad Policy That Backfires: Eviction Prohibition From Covid Unemployment

By Walter E. Block

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, operating under the US Department of Health and Human Services, has effectively ended all evictions from residential rental units until the end of 2020.

It is interesting to note how very different the law treats food and clothing, on the one hand, from shelter, on the other. If someone breaks into a Walmart, grabs a cake and some shoes, and tries to leave without paying, the repercussions are clear: that person is a shoplifter, an...

Daniel McAdams: How Russiagate Ruined Everything

The Russiagate hoax...the Covid overreaction...the election... Ron Paul Institute Executive Director Daniel McAdams ties them all together in this speech given on Nov. 7, 2020 at Mises Lake Jackson in Texas.

Ron Paul: Do Elections Matter?

Happy Thanksgiving!

Please enjoy this Ron Paul speech presented at the Mises Institute "Symposium with Ron Paul" on Nov. 7, 2020, in Angleton, Texas.

Biden: “America Is Back” To What? More Corporatism? More Globalism? More Yellen?

The rhetoric from those looking forward to a Biden administration is that everyone is now expected to travel back in time to pre-2016 America. Well, that's not how it works. Not only President Trump, but especially the four-year vitriolic reaction to Trump, has roused a sense of Americanism that has changed the mentality of many formerly apathetic Americans. The way forward will not be as easy as 'just forget the last four years.'

An Opportunity For The Ideas of Liberty...Will You Seize It?

By Chris Rossini

​As wonderful as it is to be an American, and to live in a nation born in the spirit of individual liberty, to be an American in modern times is to be amongst the most lied to people on the planet. 

Every empire is built on lies. It can be no other way. So the bigger the empire, the bigger the lies that need to be told. Today, the U.S. is the biggest empire to ever exist, so do the math to figure out the level of lies that Americans are routinely fed from every 'official' d...