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FISA Exchanges Real Liberty for Phantom Security Ron Paul April 15, 2024 House Speaker Mike Johnson betrayed liberty and the Constitution by making a full-court press to get a “clean” reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Act through the House. Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance of foreign citizens. When the FISA Act was passed, surveillance state boosters promised that 702 warrantless surveillances would never be used against American citizens. However, intelligence agencies have used a loophole in 702, allowing them to subject to warrantless surveillance any American who communicated with a non-US citizen who was a 702 target. Intelligence agencies could then also conduct warrantless surveillance on any Americans who communicated with the new American target. This Section 702 loophole has been used so often to subject Americans to warrantless wiretapping that it has been referred to as the surveillance state’s crown jewel.

v4j4572 FDA Forced to Take Down Ivermectin Propaganda March 26, 2024 A lawsuit settled last week is forcing the FDA to remove one of its most blatant propaganda campaigns, that against ivermectin’s usefulness in treating Covid-19. The “You are not a horse, y’all” posts will have to come down. The plaintiffs who filed the lawsuit that made this happen were Drs. Mary Talley Bowden, Paul Marik, and Robert Apter. But this doesn’t make up for the number of lives lost against effective, cheap off-label use.

Blame the Fed for ‘Shrinkflation’ Ron Paul March 18, 2024 President Biden may have recently made history as the first president to discuss snack chips in the State of the Union message. He used snack chips to illustrate the phenomenon of shrinkflation. Shrinkflation occurs when businesses reduce the amount of goods sold in order to avoid raising prices. President Biden pointed out that businesses hope that, since both the price and the size of the package remain the same, most consumers will not notice they are getting fewer chips, cookies, or whatever other product has been affected by shrinkflation. President Biden called on Congress to pass legislation, sponsored by so-called moderate Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, to crack down on companies that reduce the amount of a good in a package. Biden and his congressional allies and media apologists think that this will stop shrinkflation. They think this because they believe shrinkflation is caused by corporate greed. In fact, shrinkflation is a rational response to increased prices caused by the Federal Reserve’s dollar depreciation.