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New Executive Order: "Obama Has Just Given Himself the Authority to Seize Your Assets"

I know at first glance this potential ‘seizure’ may seem ’farfetched’, but you need to be aware of this possibility, as well as this growing trend of unchallenged executive orders being issued.

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By Max Slavo

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On Monday the U.S. government took steps to seize the US-based assets of Russian lawmakers & anyone else that the US government deemed complicit in supporting the Crimean secession movement.

What makes this particular instance so unprecedented & terrifying is that President Obama went so far as to issue a new Executive Order to give himself the authorization to do so, because the laws of the United States are such that our government is not allowed to simply take someone’s bank assets, home or business without due process.

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