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Congressman reveals that Congressional committee memberships are openly for sale EVERY election cycle, U.S. Congressman Thomas Massie (pictured) said he is “extorted” by the Republican Party to pay $300,000 for his committee assignments. “I call it extortion, they call it assessments,” he said.…

THE US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT does not keep statistics on taxes paid by race. But, they keep statistics on income brackets by race, and an organization called “The Citizens for Tax Justice” calculates the proportion of ALL taxes (federal, state and local) paid by each income bracket. And so using this…

US TAXPAYERS are set to “give” at least $16 million every day in “aid” to Israel in terms of a new agreement discussed this week in Jerusalem between Vice President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — up substantially from the current $11 million per day. (ILLUSTRATION: Joe Biden…

This kind of experiment, similar in some ways to C.H. Douglas’s Social Credit, can only work in a homogeneous society of high quality. In a multiracial society, it would be a total disaster. PACK A HEAVY COAT, folks, we’re going to Finland. The Finnish Social Insurance Institution, also known…

Does this kind of thing ever happen to corrupt billionaire oligarchs in the West, no matter what they do? AN IRANIAN COURT has sentenced a billionaire businessman to death for corruption linked to oil sales during the rule of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a judiciary spokesman said Sunday.…

by David Sims A LOT OF people have come to realize that the Federal Reserve is a fraud by usury. The Federal Reserve “System” is a way for a small group of bankers to steal the money that should have rewarded the labors of working Americans. Money is supposed to originate with the government…

by David Sims THERE IS a correlation between poverty and crime. There is a rationale by which some crimes can be understood as having poverty as their cause. However, those on the political Left often go overboard, extenuating the poverty-causes-crime argument beyond the reason of evidence.…

THEY SAY CRIME doesn’t pay, but that might not be entirely true in the District of Columbia as lawmakers look for ways to discourage people from becoming repeat offenders. The D.C. Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a bill that includes a proposal to pay residents a stipend not to commit crimes.…

The only real solution is to create and distribute money at the base of the pyramid rather than to those in the top of the pyramid. by Charles Hugh Smith EDITOR’S NOTE: Mr. Smith’s conclusion, which is essentially the same as that of C.H. Douglas in his Social Credit, is correct, with one exception:…

Three easy-to-understand ways that capitalism literally sucks — sucks unearned money away from the rest of us, that is. by David Sims AMERICANS HAVE gotten used to third-rate grocery goods. They buy supermarket coffee and drink the beverage that they make from it, even though it tastes like…