Welcome, dear TDVers, to yet another edition of Feedback Friday, where we endeavor to help you survive The End Of The Monetary System As We Know It (TEOTMSAWKI) caused by the statists and central planners and your questions and concerns about your liberty are posed and answered by the crack staff here at TDV. It is a busy time in the TDV universe, which makes it a good time to ask us how to survive and prosper during and after TEOTMSAWKI and to best find freedom in a world quickly becoming devoid of it.
On to the feedback…
US ACCESS TO FOREIGN ACCOUNTS
Dear TDV,
The US government not only has access to all bank accounts of citizens and non-citizens alike inside the United States, but also to most US citizen and resident accounts outside the US.
You can include non-citizens outside the US here in Europe, too. Unless something changed recently, the EU-Politburo (the one with that new "Damp Rag" führer) allowed US government agencies access to transactions of all accounts held at banks in the EU. Actually I was surprised the French put up with that, although government there isn't any better.
Jeff’s Response:
Why woudn't the French grant the US access to French bank accounts? The entire Western World is sliding into a model in which there will be no place for financial privacy. I've already stated that privacy is dead – although we are actually working behind the scenes developing a tremendous new privacy product… but as for bank accounts, you can forget about it (all the more reason to switch to Bitcoin!)
I have just returned from a 4-country trip through the Dominican Republic, Panama, Chile and Peru and was shocked to see how quickly the rest of the world is quickly being changed by the initiatives of the biggest threat to human freedom in history, the US Government. The Dominican Republic, under pressure from the US Government, recently changed its citizenship process from 3 years to 4 years and it is now 8 years as the USG tries to make it harder for their tax cows to flee the barn (we already have found some loopholes though and can fast track that tremendously – contact TDV Passports for more). Then, in Peru my wife and I were walking through airport security and noted that they were just randomly pulling people aside and bringing them into a backroom. I had to take a look… they were going through everyone's property, fingerprinting them and irradiating (scanning) them with x-rays. When I asked what was going on, one of Peru's version of the TSA stated that it was a new machine that had just come in from the US.
So get used to the never-ending creep of big brother/one world government. It's spreading everywhere. I didn't see any signs of it in Chile yet though and so that gave me confidence that we've chosen one of the freer countries on Earth to start our new expat community, Galt's Gulch! We'll be announcing much more on that in the coming weeks. But, in the meantime, as I told TDV subscribers in our most recent November issue which just went out a few days ago, this is why you must run, not walk, to internationalize your affairs and even leave your home country before it is too late… because the doors are closing very rapidly now.
THE MILITARIZATION OF US CIVIC LIFE
Dear TDV,
Even though I don't agree with your implication that the 911 attack was done by other than nineteen Muslim men and that the buildings could not have been dropped by the planes, I agree with everything else you say. As an Armenian I know more about Islam and Muslims then you will ever know, but also know that the reaction to 911 was excessive with infringement of our privacy and freedom that the feds are pushing. I think you know about the NSA data center in Utah that will copy and store ALL electronic communications in the US which should scare all Americans. The Left and Right in the US don't care one bit.
The NSA is building a totalist seamlessly monitoring state from Clinton through Bush to Obama. American civic life is being militarized. I know about the Islamic jihad against the West, my people have suffered for centuries at the hands of bloodthirsty Muslims waving their (un)holy book, but my father didn't survive the genocide in 1915 to come to America for his children to live in a totalitarian state.
Even though we can disagree here and there I think you have healthy instincts, and wish you success.
Gary’s Response:
Thanks for the well wishes. Some of the 19 supposed hijackers who are still alive would contest some of your comments, however! And you'll have to forgive us if we remains skeptical of ANY official story put forward by the state, especially when that official story conveniently gives them cover to increase the amount of killing they do or the amount of control they have over the actions of their subjects. The same instinct that drives us to call b.s. on the government's version of 9/11 also makes us doubt all the various governments' take on the cause and severity of changes to the climate. Every story the government tells gives it a reason to a) kidnap and shoot at people, b) steal more money from people and c) make you fearful and clamor for their involvement.
Speaking strictly for myself, I have to say I don't have a religious bone in my body. I regard all religions as forms of anti-thought. While I would never, ever even dream of using violence or the threat thereof to prevent anyone from believing what they want, I just take it for granted that the same triumph of reason that gives the state the lie will also lead one to eschew religion. I say all this not to parade my atheism, but to make it clear that I'm no more a fan of Islam than I am of Christianity. I would also point that out the current crop of ostensibly Christian leadership in the US is just as violent as any jihadist; they just have more expensive suits. For some reason beyond sanity the Christian thugs in nice suits are still able to borrow trillions of dollars to fund the purchase of lots of uniforms for their terrorists and some large metal toys for their terrorists to ride in. Like mobsters in limousines, the Christian thugs in expensive suits can afford to look a bit more respectable than lower level purse-snatchers and stick up men.
In short, I don't doubt you have reasons to believe your local fundamentalists are a bunch of detestable dickwads, but the religious warriors in Israel, UK, Europe and the US suck just as much.
(P.S. If talk of "what REALLY happened with 9/11" make you uncomfortable and want to scream at us for being "conspiracy nuts"…just remember: it's never a bad idea to disbelief the state. Never.)
PARAGUAY
Dear TDV,
Since TDV is facilitating passports in Paraguay, I would love to get some information about Paraguay and spending time there from the "boots on the ground" staff from TDV.
Jeff’s Response:
Unfortunately I've only been to Asuncion so my views will be Asuncion-centric. I have been there numerous times, however. That said, I could easily live in the city, especially the very comfortable, luxurious suburbs where a lot of the more upscale have been gravitating. As with most small, out of the way places, it is teeming with opportunity. Within days of arriving we were driving around with a smart, young lawyer who took us to the best country clubs and had us taking meetings with some of the most important people in the country. They recognize very well what they need there… and that is capital and enough of a free market devoid of regulations and rules to attract that capital.
Here's what I think a lot of people from the West are missing. We hear a lot of people talk about how scary it is to go to a foreign country where they don't speak the language. But, first, if you speak English (and if you are reading this, that's a pretty safe bet), have some sort of capital (even $10 or $20 thousand is lots to start up business enterprises in a place like Paraguay), then you already have a bit headstart over most people there. Unlike, say, someone who only speaks Chinese, no matter where you go on earth you can find people who speak English; it's a definite advantage.
Secondly, if you have that natural knowledge of capitalism that most people except your children who are mostly sent to socialist/statist colleges to learn very little about entreprenurialism and to be programmed against capitalism, then you have almost every advantage you need. In a place like Paraguay you will naturally be approached by numerous people who assume that you have that knowledge of capitalism and have that most important part of it, capital.
I was really surprised how many TDVers had already taken our advice and gone down to take a look. I couldn't walk down the street without running into one of them… and all of them agreed with our prognosis.
Paraguay is another country, however, that has been attacked by the US Government who led the last coup that threw out the President a few months ago in order to get them to stop having a 0% income tax rate. That rate is now 10% and is only on above incomes of $45,000, however. So, it will still be years or decades to condition the people to accept more government in their lives so it should be a thriving place for some time.
I highly recommend giving it a visit. Also, while you are there, take the 2-hour flight to Santiago, Chile, and see the fastest growing economy in South America. Both countries are full of opportunities, a word that has nearly stopped being applicable in the Western world thanks to their hard left turn over the last few decades.
We have people on the ground in Paraguay who can help you with any residency, citizenship or business opportunities you are looking for. Just message us here at TDV Passports to learn more.
