AMEXPAT (EN)Information for Americans exploring expatriation. No fees or personal sign-up required.Hi-Tech Sheep Herding- December 20, 2003 The following contents are verbatim from the U. S. Animal Identification Plan website, an official government program showing how sheep and other critters are to be tagged by "RFID" (Radio Frequency ID) chips, allowing every aspect of their lives to be closely regulated, from birth to slaughterhouse. The benefit of this system is that it will be possible to quickly identify the origins and entire life-cycle of animals discovered to have diseases (e.g. Mad Cow disease) fatal to humans and...http://www.amexpat.com/display_0006_en_rss.html The American Disease- December 18, 2003 Once upon a time, I faced a long-distance move and decided to cut down to only those things I truly used and needed. Of the "stuff" I sorted through, little had been used (or even noticed) for years. I owned way more stuff than any human could ever put to good use. In the end, most of what I would otherwise have paid to move was left behind. I'm not a profligate spender, or compulsive shopper, or avid collector. To the contrary. Shopping bores me. Yet, like many Americans, I found my space..http://www.amexpat.com/display_0007_en_rss.html Taking Flight- December 7, 2003 "Americans are leaving America in record numbers and most of those who are leaving are not telling anyone they are leaving. The unfortunate truth is that many Americans now believe that they can find greater freedoms and opportunities abroad than in the USA. Statistics taken by Money Magazine show that one in five Americans has considered leaving America, and that three million Americans would do so right this moment if they only knew how." ( The Offshore Library ) Why "fly away" The main...http://www.amexpat.com/display_0010_en_rss.html Your Guilty Property- December 7, 2003 Few Americans understand the strange legal concept of "guilty property". Fewer still grasp grave implications of its danger as a figleaf to conceal pernicious government theft . Or worse. "That the state of our forfeiture law today is a disgrace is hardly in question. A body of 'law' that enables law enforcement personnel to stop motorists and seize their cash on the spot, to seize and sometimes destroy boats, cars, homes, airplanes, and businesses in often fruitless drug...http://www.amexpat.com/display_0008_en_rss.html |