Ending tax on gold, silver coin sales would aid financial liberty in Tennessee

On the pretense that gold and silver are not money, Tennessee state government taxes transactions of gold and silver. (Photo 10th Amendment Center) By Mike Maharrey A Tennessee bill would exempt gold and silver bullion from sales tax, taking a small step toward nullifying the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on money. Introduced by Sen. Frank Niceley, […]

‘Fiddle man’ vows appeal after jury rejects constitutional protections

The claim and exercise of a constitutional right cannot be converted into a crime. — Miller v. U.S. 230 F 486, 489. Q What is sin? A Any thought, word or deed that breaks God’s law by omission or commission. — Questions from First Catechism, Biblical Truth for God’s Children It’s our goal to enhance […]

U.S. freely spews fly ash in climate war, but tightens controls in TVA waste stream

A policy sky is built today (Dec. 12, 2015) by redundant leavings from jet aircraft as part of a federal war against sunlight. (Photo Blacky Darr) Mysterious trails crisscross over my house today in Soddy-Daisy, Tenn. Scientist Alan Robock warns that mass sky striping would “significantly affect the radiation available for solar power systems — […]

We need a social economy, not a hyper-financialized plantation economy

A perspective on building local economies in a digital world. By Charles Hugh Smith November 12, 2015 — The key to broadly distributing capital and reversing inequality is to nurture the source of social capital: the community economy. We all know what a hyper-financialized economy looks like — we live in one: central banks create […]

Marceaux, ‘illegals,’ libertarians slip past mysterious gap in driver license law

The senior Basil Marceaux is a perennial Tennessee candidate who argues for a constitutional and anti-state framework that beats back traffic stops and other claws of the administrative state. Basil John Marceaux By David Tulis The arrest last week of Basil John Marceaux sets up a case against the police enforcement of driver license laws […]

‘Toxic nightmare’ as war on global warming drags white coal fly ash across sky

“I mean it is quite obvious from the extent of the spraying,“ says geophysicist J. Marvin Herndon, “millions of tons per year are presently being sprayed — in fact, maybe many millions of tons per year.” (Photo Paula Mandala) An energy utility waste product known as coal flyash is recycled into the air over Brainerd […]

Simulator teaches ‘necessity’ of police violence as Fletcher argues against gulag

Nancy Mason, surrounded by seven sheriff’s deputies, was tased during booking at Hamilton County, Tenn., jail. (Photo wrcbtv.com) TV9’s Latricia Thomas prepares for police simulator training to make clear how dangerous is the trade of cop. (Photo Newschannel9.com) To this day if I see a policeman, do you know what it does to me? I […]

Jets dim sun over U.S. by spraying plumes of coal ash, scientist says, sickening people

Tennessee is the target of an intense program of artificial cloudmaking for which has been made “no public admission, no understanding, no academic investigations, no informed consent, and no disclosure as to the nature of the toxic substances being dispersed into the air,” a critic asserts. (Photo Tennessee Skywatch Facebook) The skies over Chattanooga are […]

Purpose of Common Core: Centralize, standardize, digitize, harvest the young

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. (The more that changes, the more it’s the same thing.) — French proverb In part a review of The Educator & the Oligarch: A Teacher Challenges the Gates Foundation by Anthony Cody. (New York, Garn Press, 2014. 199 pages, no index. $15.30 from abebooks.com) By Franklin Sanders […]

‘Noogacentric’ hot news talk radio platform brings prosperity into view

A car dealer uses balloons to bring shoppers to his lot. (Photo Bankrate.com) Lococentrism is something richer and better than the standard Civic Forum and chamber of commerce variety. It is full of our specific place on the map. But also more. It is about ideas, about free markets and free minds, of people submitted […]