"Are we to believe that the same institution that so recklessly hawks military weaponry to hostile actors is so sincerely concerned with protecting America’s national-defense capabilities that we can trust it to restrict, for reasons of national security, our freedom to trade?"
"Social media accounts and blogs with more than 5,000 followers on sites such as Twitter and Facebook will be treated as media outlets, which makes them subject to prosecution for publishing false news or incitement to break the law."
"The development marks the first time since the former British colony’s return to Chinese rule in 1997 that it has sought to outlaw a political organisation."
"Protests against cuts to the social security system that began three months ago have since became a broader call for Ortega to leave office. Ortega's government has dismissed opponents as delinquents attempting a coup d'etat."
"City officials claimed the display constituted an unapproved 'sign' because it attracted people to look at the house. The couple were fined $100 per day."
"The single biggest characteristic of today’s nobility is impunity, and — just as with the privileges associated with titles of nobility in the England our Framers rejected — this privilege extends not only to the titled, but to their retainers, in this case police and other government bureaucrats."
"The three asserted that they had no choice but to use taxpayer money to stabilize the financial institutions. Paulson said, 'I was totally ineffective at having the American people understand that what we were doing was for them and not for Wall Street.'"
"That the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, BIS, JPMorganChase, and IMF refuse to answer the questions spelled out here shows that they fear that exposure can beat them."
"If any other government department spent as much and accomplished as little, the populace would be in arms."
"One out of every 14 children in the U.S. has had a parent imprisoned. Today there are over two million children are growing up in U.S. households in which one or more parents are incarcerated."