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Rand Paul: People Are Calling For A “Libertarian Moment”
http://libertycrier.com/rand-paul-people-calling-libertarian-moment/
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) explains that the good people of the U.S. are calling out for a "libertarian moment."
His comments came during an address to the Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas at the Texas GOP convention here. Liberty, he said, “infuses traditional conservatism with the excitement, the energy, the outreach that we need.” Libertarian views and traditional conservative values complement each other, Paul added.
“The interesting thing about it is, as I go around the country, no matter who I talk to, whether it’s the establishment — the wealthy who support our party sometimes — or the poor, people say it’s time, time for this libertarian moment, this liberty moment,” he said. “It’s no longer something that scares people, it’s what [makes] people say, we can’t run the same-old same-old, we’re not going to win with the same-old, same-old.”
He was speaking to a Republican Liberty Caucus group in Texas, where he talked about his outreach plans for non-traditional Republican types.
He called for reforming the criminal justice system so it doesn’t disproportionately hit minorities and poor people; school choice; and promoting policies that help economic development in poorer areas.
“You have to show up, you have to show you care, people have to believe that you care and then we’ll win, be the dominant party,” he said. “In Texas you are, but we’re not nationally.”
Whole thing.
He's right that a GOP that becomes libertarian—more socially tolerant and inclusive and actually dedicated to limiting the size, scope, and spending of government—could become the dominant party nationally. It would also be a radically different Republican Party (and a better one).
We've written a thing or two about the Libertarian Moment here at Reason over the years. Though all signs are pointing to a Libertarian Era, amirite?
Another way of talking about this is to say, Libertarianism 3.0, you're ready for your closeup!
Indian, Chinese Central Banks on track to absorb 90% of Gold mine output -
Jun 10, 2014 06:35 GMT Source:Scrap Register
INDIA June 10 2014 10:35 AM
MUMBAI (Scrap Register):
Indian and Chinese central banks on track
to absorb the equivalent of 90% of all mined gold production this
year, said ETF Securities in its Precious Metal Weekly.
China, India and central banks absorbed just over 80% of global
mine supply in 2 013 according to recent data.
Recent data indicates that these three entities alone are likely to
absorb the equivalent of nearly 90% of mine production in
2014 said ETF Securities.
Demand from India is likely to increase with
the curtailing of the 2013 import restrictions.
Central banks purchased 122 tons of gold in Q1 which is essentially
unchanged year-on-year and China’s imports of gold from Hong Kong
are up 18% year-on-year as of April .
On a similar note, sales of US mint silver coins are on pace in
2014 to surpass the record 35 million ounces sold in 2013.
The US mint must purchase its silver from US sources and the amount
of silver mined in the US in 2013 was only 35 million ounces.
Most of the demand for silver is for industrial purposes and
inventories are the lowest in decades - the majority in ETFs.
E.g.,
Russia of the the world biggest oil producer -
will buy more GOLD 2014 than before is note even incl. in the
above demand - not the rest of the world eder -
GO CALVF -
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God Bless
Rothschild and banking families, how they have subverted European
nations through finance, and moved on to subvert The American nation -
Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee Michael Badnarik joins Gary
Franchi to discuss the Bundy Ranch Federal Standoff and analyze the
Nevada Constitution's wording that may surprise you.Harry Reid Is
Calling Bundy Supporters 'Domestic Terrorists' -
Bundy Ranch The Nevada Constitution and Neo Slavery -
Class-action suit against gold-fix banks -
AIS files class-action suit against gold-fix banks
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By Francesca Freeman
A U.S. investment-management firm has filed a lawsuit against the five banks that set the London benchmark gold price, alleging that the banks conspired to manipulate the price of gold for their own gain.
Documents seen by The Wall Street Journal show that AIS Capital Management, based in Connecticut, filed a class-action complaint late Monday against Barclays PLC, Deutsche Bank, HSBC Holdings PLC, Bank of Nova Scotia and Société Générale SA in the U.S. district court for the Southern District of New York.
The suit is on behalf of AIS and other investors who held or traded gold and gold derivatives that were settled based on the gold fix, or who held or traded COMEX gold futures or options, from 2004 to present.
The London gold fix is a global benchmark for the spot price of gold that is used, for example, by jewelers and central bankers to price deals and help determine the value of securities tied to gold, such as exchange-traded funds. That process, which plays a crucial role in the $20 trillion-a-year gold market, is under review by regulators in the U.K. and Germany.
AIS wasn't available for comment.
Barclays, HSBC and Société Générale declined to comment. A spokesman for Deutsche Bank said: "We believe this suit is without merit and will vigorously defend against it." Bank of Nova Scotia didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
Write to Francesca Freeman at francesca.freeman@wsj.com
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Bank of England to Parlament: We shredded all our documents
Oops.
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/03/bank-of-england-drops-a-bombshell-on-parliament-it-shredded-its-crisis-era-records/
George Soros: Banks are parasites
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10684896/George-Soros-blasts-parasite-banks.html
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Thanks, that's a very good point -
That's what I don't understand, I tell people Wategate was not Nixon's biggest crime and they go crazy. Nixon's Biggest Crime Was Removing US From The Gold Standard!
http://politicalvelcraft.org/2013/11/13/the-why-of-the-current-paper-gold-silver-smash-any-politician-who-supported-cuts-because-we-were-made-to-give-printed-money-to-the-international-banking-cartel-is-a-traitor-to-the-u-s-citizen/
http://politicalvelcraft.org/american-revolution/
Ron Paul on IRA Confiscation -
Joe Trippi: There Will Be A Libertarian President. And Sooner Than You Think. (VIDEO)
http://libertycrier.com/joe-trippi-will-libertarian-president-sooner-think/?utm_source=The+Liberty+Crier&utm_campaign=52c1eb3a47-The_Liberty_Crier_Daily_News_2_20_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_600843dec4-52c1eb3a47-284729081
Shermann
Karen Hudes: Either We Take Back Our Gold,
Our Legality, Or We’ll Have WWIII (Video)
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 4:38
http://beforeitsnews.com/economy/2014/02/karen-hudes-either-we-take-back-our-gold-our-legality-or-well-have-wwiii-video-2594498.html
43 Trillion dollar lawsuit awaits Obama White House and banks -
Saturday, February 8, 2014 10:46
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/02/43-trillion-dollar-lawsuit-awaits-obama-white-house-and-banks-2894030.html
http://nesaranews.blogspot.ca/2014/02/43-trillion-dollar-lawsuit-awaits-obama.html
http://www.infowars.com/43-trillion-dollar-lawsuit-awaits-obama-white-house-and-banks/
http://nesaranews.blogspot.ca/2014/02/theme-music-for-dark-cabal.html
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God Bless
Rand Paul's Response to President's State of the Union Address (VIDEO)
http://ronpaulnews.net/2014/01/rand-pauls-response-to-presidents-state.html
Shermann
Essay describes Paul activism
http://www.newsreview.com/reno/essay-describes-paul-activism/content?oid=12519516
Salon last week published a short essay by a Reno man, Edwin Lyngar, on his experiences in the 2008 Washoe Republican convention as a supporter of libertarian Ron Paul. Titled “Why I fled libertarianism—and became a liberal,” the essay wrote of his discomfort with libertarianism in practical action.
“I came by my own libertarian sensibilities honestly,” he wrote. “I grew up in a mining town that produced gold, silver and copper; but above all, Battle Mountain, Nev., made libertarians. Raised on 40-acre square of brown sagebrush and dead earth, we burned our own garbage and fired guns in the back yard.”
“Many members of the [Paul] group were obsessed with the gold standard, the Kennedy assassination and the Fed. Although Libertarians believe government is incompetent, many of them subscribe to the most fringe conspiracy theories imaginable. Airplanes are poisoning America with chemicals (chemtrails) or the moon landings were faked. Nothing was too far out. A great many of them really think that 9-11 was an inside job. Even while basking in the electoral mainstream, the movement was overflowing with obvious hokum. During the meeting, a Ron Paul staffer, a smart and charismatic young woman, gave a tip to the group for the upcoming convention. ‘Dress normal,' she said. ‘Wear suits, and don't bring signs or flags. Don't talk about conspiracy theories. Just fit in.' Her advice was the kind you might hear given to an insane uncle at Thanksgiving. …
“Yet I don't want to gloss over the good things about libertarians. They are generally supportive of the gay community, completely behind marijuana legalization and are often against ill-considered foreign wars, but a few good ideas don't make up for some spectacularly bad ones. … The Ron Paul delegates were able to take over the Nevada convention in 2008, howling, screeching and grinding it to a painful halt. I was part of the mob, and once we took over, we were unable to get anything done.”
He said he found that most libertarians involved were the working poor working against their own interests. “They were contortionists, justifying the excesses of the capitalist elite, despite being victims if libertarian politics succeed. If you think that selfishness and cruelty are fantastic personal traits, you might be a libertarian. In the movement no one will ever call you an asshole, but rather, say you believe in radical individualism.”
Within hours after his posting, Libertarian commentators around the nation began trashing Lyngar. Basically, they seemed to feel that his experience with real life application of libertarianism to politics should not discredit libertarianism in its pure, doctrinal form.
One wrote, “If Lyngar truly were a libertarian … he would have probably found that individual liberty could help the poor as opposed to well-intentioned, but doomed-to-failure government programs.” Another wrote, “Lyngar's error is in assuming that because libertarians are tolerant of people with different beliefs, that those beliefs are characteristic of libertarianism. Not so. Just because some libertarians are conspiracy theorists does not imply most are. The same is true for religion, or atheism. Some libertarians are evangelical Christians, and some are rabid atheists.”
Libertarian Party Of Ohio Wins Fight To Stay On 2014 Ballot
http://libertycrier.com/libertarian-party-ohio-wins-fight-stay-2014-ballot/?utm_source=The+Liberty+Crier&utm_campaign=c59f8644b2-The_Liberty_Crier_Daily_News_1_9_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_600843dec4-c59f8644b2-284729081
COLUMBUS—An Ohio law known as the “John Kasich Re-election Protection Act” will not be able to ban the Libertarian Party and other so-called “minor” parties from the 2014 ballot, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
The preliminary injunction in Libertarian Party of Ohio v. Husted blocks the state of Ohio “from retroactively applying SB 193 to Ohio’s 2014 primary and general elections.”
Political analysts from Ohio and across the nation have speculated that SB 193 was designed to protect Kasich’s 2014 re-election chances against a challenge from Libertarian Charlie Earl, a former state legislator who is very popular with liberty-oriented and Tea Party groups in Ohio angered by Kasich’s support for Obamacare, his crony capitalism, and lack of fiscal responsibility.
The ruling from Judge Michael H. Watson of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio means that challenger parties in Ohio will be allowed to continue to participate in the 2014 election cycle without being forced to comply with the several onerous “party formation” requirements mandated by SB 193.
“Once again, the courts stand with us and with the First Amendment rights of all Ohioans to political freedom and suffrage in Ohio,” said Kevin Knedler, chair of the LPO executive committee. “The foundation of a democratic society is the right to vote and to have real choices on the ballot. A lot of voters—especially young voters—refuse to be put in either the Republican or Democrat boxes, and the Libertarian Party offers a true alternative for voters who want individual freedom in every area of life.”
Tuesday’s victory is the fourth in federal court for the LPO since 2006, when LPO v. Blackwell struck down a ballot law concerning “minor” political parties. The LPO won two more federal court fights over ballot access before SB 193 was passed, while consistently, but unsuccessfully, lobbying the state legislature for a fair election law.
State attorneys may appeal Tuesday’s ruling, Knedler said, but “they would have almost no chance of winning” less than a month before the February 5 deadline by which petitions are due for candidates running in the May 5 primary.
Kasich signed SB 193 in November after it was rushed through both houses of the Ohio legislature with all but a handful of GOP legislators voting for it. In the several hearings on the bill in both houses, no one testified in favor of SB 193, save the bill’s sponsor, Republican Senator Bill Seitz.
“Kasich and the Republican party thought they were silencing the growing liberty movement in Ohio, but now they have one hell of a fight on their hands,” said Aaron Keith Harris, LPO central committee chairman and candidate for secretary of state. “Voters no longer trust them when they pretend to oppose Democrats on issues like health care freedom and the runaway growth of government power over their everyday lives.”
One Libertarian statewide candidate—attorney general hopeful Steven Linnabary—has already submitted his petition, as have several Libertarian state legislature and state central committee candidates.
Libertarian governor candidate Charlie Earl, along with a full slate of statewide candidates and up to 50 other Libertarian candidates across the state will file by February 5, Knedler said.
In case anyone forgot why Ron Paul should have been the president, watch this...(VIDEO)
http://www.dailypaul.com/309024/in-case-anyone-forgot-why-ron-paul-should-have-been-the-president-watch-this
"He sure makes you think, that Congressman Paul"
Ron Paul on CNBC 4/23/12 - For the entire show.
You'll need about 45 minutes to see the whole interview, but you could let it play in the background while you're doing something else.
It's well worth it, right to the very end!
I love the respect Dr. Paul had for his hard-working delegates, which, as he explained here, is one reason he stayed in it until the convention so that their voices could be heard, and also so they could have an influence on the platform.
Video here...
The Libertarian Challenge within the GOP
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/2013/12/27-libertarian-power-gop-tilchin
Would a stronger appeal to libertarian values help the Republican Party win elections? This was one of the central questions raised during a discussion of the Public Religion Research Institute’s (PRRI’s) American Values Survey, “In Search of Libertarians in America,” launched at the Brookings Institution on October 29th, 2013.
Libertarianism has become a major part of the political conversation in the United States, thanks in large part to the high profile presidential candidacy of Ron Paul, the visibility of his son Rand in the United States Senate, and Vice-Presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s well-known admiration of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged.” And the tenets of libertarianism square with the attitudes of an American public dissatisfied with government performance, apprehensive about government’s intrusiveness into private life, and disillusioned with U.S. involvement overseas. Libertarianism is also distinct from the social conservatism that has handicapped the Republican Party in many recent elections among women and young people.
Within this context, libertarians seem likely to exercise greater sway on the Republican Party than at any other point in the recent past. But a closer look at public attitudes points to many factors that will limit the ability of libertarians to command greater influence within the GOP caucus.
First, according to the PRRI poll, libertarians represent only 12% of the Republican Party. This number is consistent with the findings of other studies by the Pew Research Center and the American National Election Study. This libertarian constituency is dwarfed by other key Republican groups, including white evangelicals (37%) and those who identify with the Tea Party (20%).[1]
While these groups are similarly conservative on economic matters (indeed, libertarians are further to the right than white evangelicals or Tea Partiers on some economic issues, such as raising the minimum wage), they are extremely divided by their views on religion. Only 53% of libertarians describe religion as the most important thing or one among many important things in their lives. By comparison, 77% of Tea Party members say that religion is either the most important thing or one among many important things in their lives, and – not surprisingly – 94% of white evangelicals say that religion is either the most important thing or one among many important things in their lives. A full 44% of libertarians say that religion is not important in their lives or that religion is not as important as other things in their lives. Only 11% of Tea Party members and 1% of white evangelicals say that religion is not important in their lives.
Additionally, libertarians are among the most likely to agree that religion causes more problems in society than it solves (37% total: 17% completely agreeing, 20% mostly agreeing); the least likely to agree that it is important for children to be brought up in a religion so they can learn good values (35% total: 13% completely disagree, 22% disagree); and the least likely to think it is necessary to believe in God in order to be moral and have good values (63% total: 30% completely disagree, 33% mostly disagree).
These stark differences in attitudes toward religion help explain the large difference in view between libertarians and other conservatives on social issues such as abortion, physician-assisted suicide, and marijuana legalization. Given their positions on these contentious social matters, it is very difficult to envision Libertarians gaining the support of socially conservative voters in the Republican Party.
Libertarians’ influence on the Republican Party is also limited by geography. Libertarians are broadly dispersed across the country – and even where they are most regionally concentrated, they are outnumbered by Tea Partiers and White Evangelicals. According to the PRRI survey, of the 7% of the American public that is libertarian:
•22% live in the Northeast
•22% live in the Midwest
•18% live in the West
•38% live in the South.
By contrast, of the 10% of Americans who consider themselves members of the Tea Party:
•18% live in the Northeast
•17% live in the Midwest
•22% live in the West
•44% live in the South.
Of the 18% of Americans who identify with the religious right:
•12% live in the Northeast
•22% live in the Midwest
•17% live in the West
•49% live in the South.
These numbers strongly reinforce the notion that the South is the center of gravity for the Republican Party, with nearly every major constituency within the party (perhaps with the exception of the business community) seeing its highest levels of support in the region.
According to a study on the ideological compositions of individual states, published by Jason Sorens, a political scientist at Dartmouth College and founder of the Free State Project, the ten states with the largest libertarian constituencies are (in descending order) Montana, Alaska, New Hampshire, Idaho, Nevada, Indiana, Georgia, Wyoming, Washington, and Oregon. By this analysis, the states with the highest levels of libertarian support are predominantly rural, sparsely populated, and share a frontier past, with the partial exceptions of Indiana, Georgia, and New Hampshire.
Of the 10 states that Sorens identifies as having the most libertarians, only New Hampshire, Nevada, and Georgia had spreads of 8 points or less in the 2012 presidential election. The other seven were either solidly red (Montana, Alaska, Idaho, Indiana, Wyoming, and Utah) or solidly blue (Washington and Oregon).
As such, there seems little impetus for any ideological change of course in these states—not to mention the South writ large, the region with the greatest level of libertarian support—since they are already so stoutly Republican. Perhaps in individual districts with a particular libertarian bent, libertarian candidates could have some electoral success. But any candidate running as a libertarian would, by the nature of libertarianism, have to emphasize their laissez-faire values on social issues. If running for higher office, this would surely alienate more socially conservative voters, so strongly represented in the Republican Party in these areas.
The business establishment of the Republican Party would seem a natural libertarian ally, given its moderate views on social issues, opposition to government regulation, and natural sympathy for classical economics. But this view is contested by Henry Olsen of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. At the recent Brookings discussion, Olsen argued that the business community consists of “people who are generally but not intensely opposed to government expansion, people who are generally but not intensely supportive of personal social liberties, people who are generally but not intensely suspicious of intervention abroad. That is the center of the Republican Party, not the libertarian alliance.” The very intensity of the libertarian movement is, as Olsen observed, “a bit off-putting to the person in the middle.”
There is also a kind of limiting syllogism: Though the states with the most libertarians are primarily rural, libertarians are also wealthier than average, better educated than average, and young (indeed, 62% of libertarians are under the age of 50)—three demographic sets that tend to live in densely populated areas. Heavily populated areas are overwhelmingly Democratic. It is not clear how many of voters in these areas would support a more libertarian Republican. Regardless, it is even less likely that libertarianism would tilt the balance in urban counties towards the GOP’s way. Writing in the New York Times, Thomas B. Edsall pointed to a study showing that “98% of the 50 most dense counties voted for Obama. 98% of the 50 least dense counties voted for Romney.”
For a variety of reasons, the burden falls on libertarians to demonstrate how they will change these dynamics. While there may be real appeal for some for Republicans to embrace a more libertarian approach, the undercurrents of the party do not paint an encouraging picture for this as a successful electoral strategy.
The cornerstone of libertarianism—a fervent belief in the preeminence of personal liberty—leads libertarians to hold views on social issues that fall far outside of the mainstream of large portions of the Republican Party. In addition, libertarians’ greatest concentrations in numbers tend to fall either in small, sparsely populated states with less national political power, or among younger individuals who live predominantly in densely populated, Democratic areas. This culminates in an environment where political and demographic forces across the United States and within the Republican Party itself severely limit the power and growth of libertarians as a force within the GOP.
Since 2004, the CIA has been largely privatized, under control
of extremist political groups in the US and working against
national interests.
It has made the United States feared, not as a competent enemy
but rather as a nation under the control of criminal elements
willing to use any and all capabilities, military, diplomatic
or scientific, on behalf of bizarre apocalyptic theories or
corporate greed.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/12/18/more-proof-america-has-gone-rogue/
Hitler Survivor, My Warning To America, Please Hear Me (Video)
Monday, December 16, 2013 20:05
One Third of the World's Water Is Now Poisoned!!!
Glenn Beck on Mark Levin's idea of a Constitutional Convention
and his book "The Liberty Amendments" -
Let The Fed Drop Money Into Your
Bank Account Instead Of Raining It Down On The Rich
The Fed could be an institution that
serves all the people, not just the 1%.
By Ellen Brown
12-8-13
http://www.rense.com/general96/idea.html
Disgrace of USA - Ozama supporters will go hysterical
over any list but here is;
462 examples of his lying, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, etc.
few ex. vs. a full list would not even fill a big book? -
http://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/obama-252/
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God Bless
Ron Paul - 2013 Population Reduction Is REAL!!!
Admiral James Lyons explores the basis for Obama's impeachment -
- arms for al Qaeda and another explanation of why
Benghazi happened and what went wrong -
Ron Paul - 'The Rise of Libertarians' (VIDEO)
http://xrepublic.tv/node/6207
Shermann
Lew Rockwell and Tom Woods discuss Rothbard and the Koch Brothers (VIDEO)
http://ronpaulnews.net/2013/11/lew-rockwell-and-tom-woods-discuss.html
Shermann
11/11/2013 — Oklahoma Fracking Earthquake Swarm — ANOTHER 3.4M event inside injection operation
Posted on November 11, 2013 by sincedutch
http://sincedutch.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/11112013-oklahoma-fracking-earthquake-swarm-another-3-4m-event-inside-injection-operation/
Tesla's Longitudinal EM Wave Weapons!
... Click on image to goto Stanford University on HAARP ELF-VLF Weather Modification paper.
Microwave Pulse Gives Birth to Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) Hitting the Philippines!
Weather Warfare in Action!
http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/microwave-pulse-gives-birth-to-typhoon-haiyan-yolanda-hitting-the-philippines-weather-warfare-in-action/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzxTXk1JCFw
Ron Paul: Welcome to My New Website (VIDEO)
http://ronpaulnews.net/2013/11/ron-paul-welcome-to-my-new-website.html
When I was thinking of the URL for my new personal homepage, I considered many possibilities. Thanks also to all those who sent other suggestions. But I settled on RonPaulMD.com as reflecting a very important area of my life. To be a physician, and deliver 4,000 babies, was extremely fulfilling. Many times, I see people wearing a “I Was a Ron Paul Baby” t-shirt. Once, when I gave a speech in Iowa, I was told the head of the convention center wanted to talk to me. She had her birth certificate, and this time, she said, she wanted a legible signature! I was delighted to sign it again.
RonPaulMD.com highlights the non-political aspect of my life, the part not involved with that great engine of violence in DC, except to oppose it. Though when I first ran for office, advisors told me to emphasize the MD, since it showed I was not a lawyer!
Most important, I became a doctor to avoid being a soldier. I knew I would be drafted, and such things as seeking asylum in another country, or becoming a conscientious objector, were out of my range of thought at that time. But if I became a doctor, I knew I would not be given a rifle and told to shoot other young men at government orders.
Though the horrible UN oath is used in medical schools these days, I still adhere to the Hippocratic Oath, and its injunction to “First, do no harm.” It's a great, ancient libertarian principle.
Thanks for visiting my home page. I hope you come back often.
Ben Swann: Are Libertarians Creating “Chaos” In Elections? (VIDEO)
http://libertycrier.com/ben-swann-libertarians-creating-chaos-elections/?utm_source=The+Liberty+Crier&utm_campaign=00f68d2b42-The_Liberty_Crier_Daily_News_11_10_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_600843dec4-00f68d2b42-284729081
Shermann
RON PAUL: “Dictators Recognize the Danger that Free Thought Poses to Their Rule” – Elijah Johnson (VIDEO)
http://investmentwatchblog.com/ron-paul-dictators-recognize-the-danger-that-free-thought-poses-to-their-rule-elijah-johnson/
Shermann
"NSA Destroyed Our Credibility" - Rand Paul 'This Week' Interview: NSA Spying, Obamacare and Plagiarism Charges (VIDEO)
Many Different Topics ...
http://xrepublic.tv/node/6014
Shermann
World Bank Whisleblower~Speaks Out On Corruption -
Karen Hudes ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNhngCfj6zA
Tom Woods - Ron Paul Interview (VIDEO)
http://www.tomwoods.com/blog/is-ron-paul-an-anarchist-and-other-unusual-questions-for-dr-paul/
Shermann
Ron Paul On ‘Stossel’: End The Fed, Bitcoin Alternative? (VIDEOS)
http://clibertyc.com/?p=97503
Shermann
American Majority Supports Third Party (VIDEO)
http://investmentwatchblog.com/american-majority-supports-third-party/
Shermann
Born Libertarian: Doug Casey on Ron Paul and the Price of Freedom
http://countingpips.com/forex-news/2013/10/born-libertarian-doug-casey-ron-paul-price-freedom/
The country may be going in the wrong direction, but born Libertarians Dr. Ron Paul and Casey Research founder Doug Casey are enjoying the power of sowing dissention by spreading ideas. In this interview at the Casey Research 2013 Summit in the wake of Ron Paul’s keynote address, Casey tells The Gold Report why he believes the U.S. is looking more like ancient Rome in its final days and how he is planning for the coming crisis—in another country watching on his big-screen television.
The Gold Report: Doug, we are at your conference in Tucson, Arizona, the day after former Congressman and presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul gave the keynote speech to a sold-out crowd. How did you two first meet?
Doug Casey: It was about 30 years ago. Ron used to attend my Eris Society (named after the Greek goddess of discord) meetings in Aspen, Colorado. Everyone from Sonny Barger of the Hells Angels motorcycle club to Burt Rutan, inventor of SpaceShipOne, would meet to discuss ideas.
TGR: In those 30 years have Ron Paul’s ideas changed much?
DC: Ron believes he was born a libertarian. He’s right. I believe in Pareto’s Law, the 80–20 rule. I prefer to think that 80% of humans are basically decent, which is to say that they were born libertarian oriented. But it takes a while to crystallize what that means. Ron and I, and many others, have moved beyond gut libertarianism to a structured, intellectual libertarianism.
Some people see the same things we see through a totally different lens, however. Those people tend to be the other 20%, or perhaps 20% of that 20%, or even 20% of that 20% of that 20%. They range from being wishy-washy on ethical subjects to being sociopaths or even outright criminals. These people are at the opposite end of the spectrum from us in every way.
TGR: One of the things Ron Paul mentioned last night is that a true libertarian advocates for the freedom of everyone to do what he or she wants as long as it’s not hurting someone else. This includes people who don’t agree with your views.
DC: Exactly. As opposed to busybodies who want to tell everybody else what to do. They think they know best and are perfectly willing to put a gun to your head to make sure that you do what they think is right.
TGR: We are meeting in the midst of a government shutdown. Ron Paul called it a paid holiday for federal workers. Are we doomed to an endless cycle of these man-made crises?
DC: I would like nothing better than to see the shutdown go on forever, but unfortunately the government is only shutting down things that inconvenience people, like monuments and national parks, things that should not be owned by the government to start with. I wish they would shut down all their praetorian agencies, like the FBI, the CIA and the NSA. Shut down the IRS. I am much more concerned about Silk Road being shutdown than I am the U.S. government being shut down.
TGR: Do you think regular people care whether government is shut down or not?
DC: Over half of Americans are living off the state, receiving more from the state than they’re putting into it, which makes them receivers of stolen property. They see the government as a cornucopia and therefore a good thing so they want it to be open and sending them checks.
The situation is fairly hopeless at this point and it’s likely to get a lot worse before it gets better. Trends in motion, in whatever direction, tend to stay in motion until they hit a crisis at which point they transform into something else. This trend is not only in motion, but it’s accelerating in the wrong direction.
TGR: Ron Paul said that the charade on the American people is that the two parties are different, that actually it’s not that we need a third party, but we need a second party. Your presentation compared the end of the Roman Empire to the state of the U.S. today. Is the current political system doing a better or worse job of protecting freedom and liberty in the U.S. compared to ancient Rome?
DC: The founders consciously modeled the U.S. after Rome, everything from the way government buildings looked to having an assembly and a senate. We are similar right down to the Latin mottos. When you model yourself after something, you eventually tend to resemble it. That partly explains why we are on the slippery slope of constant wars, less freedom, more power for the executive, destruction of the currency and barbarians at the gate. Another part is the natural tendency of all empires to reach their level of incompetence and then decline. It’s to be expected. Entropy dictates all things wind down and degrade.
As I pointed out in my speech, America has gone through periods of what paleontologists call punctuated disequilibrium. Things evolve gently in one direction and then experience massive change very quickly. I’m afraid that the U.S. might be approaching a phase similar to the one the Romans experienced before Diocletian made himself emperor. He completely changed the character of Rome; he believed that in order to save Rome, he had to destroy it.
As we go deeper into this crisis, of which we’re just currently in the early stages, there’s every chance that the American people are going to look for a savior, a strong man, probably a military person because Americans love and trust their military for some reason. I see the military as not much more than a heavily armed version of the post office, but I suspect that we’ll find someone who is the equivalent of Diocletian, who will change the whole nature of society radically in the wrong direction.
TGR: Do you believe in changing from within the system or just getting out from under the system? Would you ever run for public office?
DC: I think the situation is beyond retrieval at this point. People generally get the government they deserve. At this point, Americans are much more interested in freebies than they are in personal freedom. They are like scared little rabbits. They’re much more interested in safety than they are in personal liberty. I think they’re going to get what they deserve good and hard over the years to come. I would much rather watch what goes on in the U.S. on my widescreen TV in the lap of luxury in another country than be in the epicenter of things here. The system is beyond the point where it can be reformed.
And, no, I have zero desire to run for office. Plus, anyone who runs for office disqualifies himself for being in a position of power by the very fact that he wants to be in that position. My friend Harry Browne always used to say that when he ran for president on the Libertarian ticket the first thing he’d do if he were elected would be to quit—at least after rescinding all outstanding Executive Orders and recalling all the troops. Anyway, even if Ron Paul had been elected president and if he tried to make the necessary changes, the public would have rioted, Congress would have impeached him, and the heads of the CIA, FBI and the military would have sat him down and subtly intimated that they have the power and he shouldn’t do anything they don’t want done—or undone.
I don’t think a change can be made at this point. I’m just interested in seeing what happens when we really get involved in a really big crisis, which I think is going to happen in the next couple of years as we go back into the trailing edge of the economic hurricane that started in 2007.
TGR: One of the things that has come up as part of the shutdown debate is healthcare. Do you have health insurance? And, how would you control healthcare costs?
DC: First of all, I don’t call it health insurance because it doesn’t insure your health. That’s something that you’re personally responsible for, not some third party. I call it medical insurance. Just as I call the FDA the Federal Death Authority because it probably kills more people every year than the Department of Defense does in a typical decade by slowing down the approval and hugely raising the cost of new drugs and technologies.
Getting to back to your question, no, I don’t have medical insurance. If anything goes wrong with my body, I’ll treat it as I would if something goes wrong with my car. I’ll find the best doctor elsewhere in the world where medical costs can be 20% of what they are in this country. I’ll pay for it in cash. I don’t want to have to fight with an insurance company, or the government, about what’s covered or not.
The whole idea of everybody having medical insurance is a corruption that arose during World War II when companies used insurance to attract workers. Then we had Medicare and then Medicaid. These are the reasons costs have escalated. In a free market society, medical costs should have collapsed and gone down in the same way as the cost of computers have collapsed and gone down even as they’ve gotten vastly better. People think they need the government in medicine, but it’s been totally counterproductive. It’s done the opposite of what was intended.
TGR: One of the things Ron Paul mentioned is that his speeches on college campuses, including UC Berkeley, have been some of the most well received. Do you have hope for the next generation?
DC: Yes, there is reason for hope over the longer term. Generally, older people in this country have voted all these “benefits” for themselves, and they don’t want to have their rice bowls broken. The younger people are being turned into indentured servants to pay for these benefits. Young people are figuring this out.
Another worrisome thing is that a lot of young people have indentured themselves by taking on huge amounts of college debt; $1.2 trillion is the current number. They can’t even discharge it through bankruptcy, although many are unable to pay it. More and more are deciding that doing four years in a college, to experience indoctrination from wrongheaded professors, is a complete misallocation of both their time and their money.
If I had to do it again, I definitely would not go to college. I recommend others skip college, unless they need to learn a specific technical set of skills, such as doctoring or lawyering or engineering or a science where you need lab work. Most kids today, however, are going off to college for things like gender studies, political science and English. These are things you should learn on your own, on your own time, at no cost. Meanwhile, avoid the indoctrination of the creatures who hang out in university faculty rooms who teach because they are incapable of doing anything else.
TGR: Ron Paul intimated that we’re in a middle of a revolution. You said that the solution to our problems would be less command and control and more entrepreneurs. Are the small business owners the real revolutionaries?
DC: They could and should be, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to start a business because of the regulatory and tax environment in the U.S. Smart people are leaving in droves. There just aren’t enough left to change things. I’m afraid we’re just going to have to let things take their course.
The main function that Ron Paul has served was educating people, which is necessary and laudable. But, the odds of him succeeding in changing things are close to zero.
TGR: You talked about the role of education and Ron Paul mentioned the power of the Internet to circulate new ideas based on the theory that ideas have consequences. Your ideas are having an impact thanks to the power of the Internet. Does that bode well for the future?
DC: It does. The Internet is the best thing that’s happened since Gutenberg invented movable type and the printing press; it’s a marvelous thing. That’s exactly why the government wants to regulate the Internet. It sees it as a huge danger.
TGR: Does suppressing ideas ever work? Is it working in China?
DC: Actually, in many ways China is freer than the U.S., but that’s not one of them.
If you are a businessman and you keep your nose out of politics, it actually is freer. You’ll have less taxes, less regulation in China than you would in the U.S. But instead of emulating the free part of China, the U.S. government is trying to copy the Internet restrictions because it sees the Internet as a danger to the existing order. And they’re right.
TGR: But didn’t the governments of Middle Eastern countries find out that ideas have a life of their own and they find a way to spread despite attempts to shut them down?
DC: They do, so let’s hope for the best.
TGR: Finally, Ron Paul said that things are worse than the government will admit and the idea of economic growth this year is a dream. He said we need to be serious, but not despondent. Make financial plans, but have fun doing it. Do you agree and are you having fun yet?
DC: I am having fun. I’m doing this not because I need the money, but because it’s amusing and it’s good karma to sow dissention in the ranks of the enemy.
TGR: Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
DC: Thank you.
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Thank God for Ron Paul (VIDEO)
http://www.dailypaul.com/302270/thank-god-for-ron-paul
Shermann
Quantitative Easing Explained ~ LOL ~ Sad but true
Beck: Obama A Dictator Intentionally Inflicting Pain With Government Shutdown
Monday, October 7, 2013 16:01
http://beforeitsnews.com/obama/2013/10/beck-obama-a-dictator-intentionally-inflicting-pain-with-government-shutdown-2456416.html
BS Osama Uses Own Money To Open Muslim Museum Amid Government
Shutdown -
See more at:
http://nationalreport.net/obama-uses-money-open-muslim-museum-amid-government-shutdown/#sthash.WAgxpq23.VhSHUm15.dpuf
ex.
BS osama supply of weapons to his brotherhood -
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/09/26/al-shabaab-brutally-tortured-hostages-during-kenyan-mall-siege-men-castrated-gouged-eyes-out-fingers-and-noses-removed-with-pliers/
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Seymour Hersh: Story About Killing Osama Bin Laden is One Big Lie
Plus, 90% of lamestream editors should be fired.
http://www.alternet.org/media/seymour-hersh-story-about-killing-osama-bin-laden-one-big-lie
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God Bless
Ron Paul: A Grand Bargain for Liberty? (VIDEO)
http://ftmdaily.com/energy-crisis/ron-paul-a-grand-bargain-for-liberty/
Shermann
Sure thing buddy.
Thanks. I may pop in from time to time.
Welcome. Feel free to contribute if you'd like.
Looks like you have found most of the boards I follow - Welcome to the board.
Shremann
I like this board too. Bunch of decent Liberty boards on the hub
GOP’s Rand Paul carving out his own campaign path
Does appear with father at Virginia conference
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/23/rand-paul-carving-out-his-own-campaign-path/#ixzz2fngwO4Un
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Despite trying to put distance between himself and his father, Sen. Rand Paul appears to be holding onto the supporters who powered former Rep. Ron Paul through the past two presidential campaigns.
Until last week, it had been more than a year — the end of the elder Mr. Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign — since the two made a major splash at an event together, and the son has been studiously staking out his own political stances.
The younger Mr. Paul’s eventual endorsement of Mitt Romney in last year’s election also rankled some of his father’s devoted supporters, who said it was a surrender of libertarian principles.
But to those at the 2013 Liberty Political Action Conference in Fairfax County from Thursday through Saturday, it makes sense for the senator from Kentucky to carve out his own national profile independent from his father — though he remains a viable standard-bearer for their movement.
“I see it as a tactical move,” said Sean Godfrey, a 30-year-old from Alaska. “I think that Rand is pure, I think he is for liberty, but I think he is trying to come off in way that is not going to turn off the people who would not have supported his dad.”
For instance, Mr. Godfrey said that the general public wasn’t ready for Ron Paul’s support for legalizing heroin, but he said more voters may be open to Rand Paul’s push to reduce or eliminate minimum-mandatory prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.
“Ron got a lot of us sort of ‘crazies’ to get mobilized, but Rand does a much better job of conveying the [liberty] message to the broader electorate and that is why I think he has a much better chance of actually winning the presidency in the 2016,” Mr. Godfrey said.
Mr. Paul’s political fortune is likely tied to his ability to strike a delicate balance between currying favor with the grass-roots troops who made the Ron Paul Revolution a force, while also pursuing his strategy of expanding the Republican coalition through his libertarian message.
He’ll need to expand beyond his father’s support if he wants to win the GOP nomination in 2016. The elder Mr. Paul, a congressman from Texas, didn’t win the popular vote in any of the 2012 contests, though he did maximize delegates to the nominating convention through shrewd use of party rules.
But his son is better-positioned already, with polls showing him the front-runner in Iowa and New Hampshire, the first two stops on the presidential nomination calendar.
Lois Kaneshiki, chairwoman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of Pennsylvania, said Rand Paul could build upon the success of his father, who, she said, struggled to shed the “reputation for being a little bit on the fringe.”
“Rand has a talent and a gift for being able to share issues that concern us,” Ms. Kaneshiki said. “I see him bringing in a whole new audience to the Republican Party and issues that are extremely important that are a natural fit for our party.”
Speaking at the LPAC meeting in Chantilly, the younger Mr. Paul credited the liberty movement with blocking the Obama administration from launching a military strike against Syria, slowing the growth of future government spending and trying to defund the National Security Agency’s spying programs. He said Republicans can and should attract more young and black voters by touting the right to privacy, reducing mandatory minimum sentences and pushing back against indefinite detention.
“I think there are all kinds of ways that we can expand and grow the party and I think of instead of the libertarian aspect of the Republican Party being a detriment, I actually think it has come full circle and it really is the way the Republican Party will grow,” Mr. Paul said.
LPAC marked the first time the Paul father-son duo appeared on stage together in months.
Before the conference, Rand Paul and his office bristled at questions about their most recent public appearance together.
“I think that I have been here long enough that I should be judged for who I am and not necessarily a comparison,” Mr. Paul told The Washington Times over the summer. “How many times did George W. Bush get asked about his father? I think if anything, I am asked more about it than he ever was.”
Vendors at LPAC sold Rand Paul 2016 gear amid conversations about the government’s possible involvement in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and alongside merchants peddling T-shirts casting NSA leaker Edward Snowden as a “Hero” and tank tops that read “I Don’t Dial 911” above the image of a handgun.
“Someone said that Ron Paul speaks to people who see the light and Rand Paul speaks to people who are still in the dark,” said Drew Forbes, a 31-year-old from Houston. “I think that Rand Paul has had better success with a mainstream audience whereas Ron Paul has more success with the idealist, with the pure strict libertarian.”
Mr. Forbes said that Mr. Paul’s job could get easier if voters think that Hillary Rodham Clinton is going to win the Democratic nomination for president.
“I think there are plenty of people who will say, ‘Well he is not a purist. He does not say everything I want him to say.’ But at the end of the day are you going to vote for him or vote for Hillary?” he said.
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We need to vote for either the Constitutional Party or
Libertarian.
Until the Republicans and Democrats are out of office, our
nation will continue to go downhill ...
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Believer's%20Corner/moved.htm
Ron Paul: The Word That Best Defines Libertarianism Is Non-Intervention -
Charlie Rose 9/19/2013
Submitted by eduardo89 on Fri, 09/20/2013 - 00:36
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEDs6c5UD6I
Milton Friedman & Thomas Sowell vs. A Welfare Administrator
Ron Paul: The Word That Best Defines Libertarianism Is Non-Intervention -
Charlie Rose 9/19/2013
Submitted by eduardo89 on Fri, 09/20/2013 - 00:36
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEDs6c5UD6I
Thomas Sowell on the Housing Boom and Bust
The Housing Boom and Bust with Ben Powell
Milton Friedman - The Role of Government in a Free Society
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