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Apparently living off the grid, off the land and without government assistance is now a crime that can land you in jail and cause you to lose your home.
Government officials across the country are forming so called “nuisance abatement teams” to intimidate people into giving up their land or conforming to the governments demands and hooking back into the grid. Counties across the country are actually jailing people for living the way they want to live.

"Idaho State Representative Phil Hart authored the Idaho State Silver Gem Act earlier this year which allows for the Idaho State Treasurer to issue silver medallions and make them available to the public; people may use them for any purpose they want and will have the option of paying their State taxes with the silver."

Can Social Networking Change Our Political Consciousness?

Twitter, Facebook and the many other social networks that have emerged are reminding us exactly how small the planet is, and how seemingly mundane or personal issues (where you live, what you feel) have all kinds of ramifications.

SACRAMENTO — The days of most tax-free Internet shopping in California are over.

After years of controversy, the world's largest online retailer, Amazon.com Inc., was set to begin collecting state and local sales taxes on California purchases at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. Depending on where you live, sales taxes in the state range from 7.25% to 9.75%.

The Wyoming House advanced a bill to discuss what they would do in the case of a complete economic or political collapse in the US. Some call it crazy, I call it being prepared...

The live feed from the BP Gulf of Mexico oil leak.... watch the results of government regulation LIVE via the Internet!

I found this to be very interesting reading and decided to post it here for the Free Talk Live crowd. Roepke was the principal champion of a humane economy: that is, an economic system suited to human nature and to a humane scale in society, as opposed to systems bent upon mass production regardless of counterproductive personal and social consequences.

We visit a Savannah College of Art and Design art house which was busted by police for a noise violation. Were the neighbors in the right to form a neighborhood watch group and call the cops on the house party or are they being busy body neighbors who used the violence of the state on their neighbors? We interview Dominic Graves and explore if this is a property rights issue.

Strange bureaucratic reasoning for why a family must live with a dump truck lodged into the side of their house.