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And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Friday, April 5, 2013

Bitcoins: the new alternative currency, or a fad that will collapse just like every other one?

Read up for yourself on the "moneyness" of bitcoins over at Zero Hedge.

Meanwhile, in news of other fiat currency, the Japanese Central Bank attempts to destroy Japan.

Deutsche Bank on central bank intervention: "We are flying blind."
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