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Ron Paul: Correction Hasn’t Corrected Anything (VIDEO)
http://libertycrier.com/ron-paul-correction-hasnt-corrected-anything/?utm_source=The+Liberty+Crier&utm_campaign=5a25938296-The_Liberty_Crier_Daily_News_1_8_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_600843dec4-5a25938296-284729081
Shermann
A Global Contract: The Case for World Citizenship -
http://www.globalresearch.ca/a-global-contract-the-case-for-world-citizenship/5363382
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God Bless
CIA CONNECTION TO DEA AGENT’S MURDER “TOO HOT FOR FOX NEWS”?
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/12/16/cia-connection-to-dea-agents-murder-too-hot-for-fox-news/
Hitler Survivor, My Warning To America, Please Hear Me (Video)
Monday, December 16, 2013 20:05
Iceland Jails Former Bank Bosses
Posted on December 13, 2013 by Soren Dreier
tiechain
Four former bosses from the Icelandic bank Kaupthing have been
sentenced to between three and five years in prison.
http://sorendreier.com/iceland-jails-former-bank-bosses/
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God Bless
Why Are Veterans Being Stripped of Their Second Amendment Rights?
Read more at
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/12/why-are-vets-being-stripped-of-their-second-amendment-rights/#YHEECo5OePVxjyC8.99
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=94615539
http://freedomoutpost.com
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=92874107
God Bless
Ron Paul – “We’re More Likely To Have More QE Then Tapering With Yellen”(VIDEO)
http://investmentwatchblog.com/ron-paul-were-more-likely-to-have-more-qe-then-tapering-with-yellen/
Shermann
Ron Paul - 'The Rise of Libertarians' (VIDEO)
http://xrepublic.tv/node/6207
Shermann
Ron Paul's Speech at the Ken Cuccinelli Rally (Video)
A Great Stump Speech!!!
http://ronpaulnews.net/2013/11/ron-pauls-speech-at-ken-cuccinelli-rally.html
Shermann
Ron Paul on Nullification and the Fed (VIDEO)
There is a lot of Info in this Video!!!
http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2013/10/ron-paul-on-nullification-and-the-fed/#.UmmiJb7D9dg
Shermann
RON PAUL vs BEN BERNANKE 3 B
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17mQLqMmEA8
What Ron Paul Told Me in Tucson
http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/ron-paul-101220131
SPENT last weekend in Tucson for the Casey Research 2013 Summit, writes Nick Giambruno at Casey Research.
It was indeed a memorable and information-packed experience, and truly a pleasure to meet with everyone who joined us.
Notably, it was extremely encouraging to meet so many intelligent people who had taken concrete steps to internationalize their savings and obtain a second passport – and thus reducing their exposure to whatever happens in their home countries.
Doug Casey kicked things off with a look at the striking parallels between the rise and fall of Rome and the rise and fall of the US.
In a way, Doug reminded me of this video, which I stumbled across recently and which I highly recommend that you view. It shows, in a little over three minutes, how the borders of Europe have changed over the past 1,000 years.
It is an amazing and concise illustration of how, contrary to popular opinion, the borders of political entities are anything but permanent. In a historical perspective, nations and national boundaries tend to have as much permanence as a double cheeseburger placed in front of Chris Christie.
It is for this reason (and many others) that I believe you should internationalize various aspects of your life and not totally bind your future to any particular nation-state.
At the Summit I also had the chance to do something that I had wanted to do for a long time – sit down with Ron Paul for an informal (but in-depth) discussion on what I believe to be his most important speech.
It is a speech that many, even most libertarians, have never heard. This is because it occurred in 2006, before Ron had really broken through on the national level, and during an otherwise dull session of Congress.
The speech is titled "The End of Dollar Hegemony" and discussed the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system – which most people know about – and the de facto system that replaced it – which most people do not know about. This speech is an absolute must-view you can watch it or read a transcript of it.
The most important part of the speech is when Paul discusses the petro-Dollar system, a primary factor in maintaining the Dollar's role as the world's premier currency after the breakdown of Bretton Woods.
"It all ended on August 15, 1971, when Nixon closed the gold window and refused to pay out any of our remaining 280 million ounces of gold. In essence, we declared our insolvency and everyone recognized some other monetary system had to be devised in order to bring stability to the markets.
"Amazingly, a new system was devised which allowed the US to operate the printing presses for the world reserve currency with no restraints placed on it – not even a pretense of gold convertibility, none whatsoever! Though the new policy was even more deeply flawed, it nevertheless opened the door for Dollar hegemony to spread.
"Realizing the world was embarking on something new and mind-boggling, elite money managers, with especially strong support from US authorities, struck an agreement with Opec to price oil in US Dollars exclusively for all worldwide transactions. This gave the Dollar a special place among world currencies and in essence 'backed' the Dollar with oil.
"In return, the US promised to protect the various oil-rich kingdoms in the Persian Gulf against threat of invasion or domestic coup. This arrangement helped ignite the radical Islamic movement (Al Qaeda) among those who resented our influence in the region. The arrangement gave the Dollar artificial strength, with tremendous financial benefits for the United States. It allowed us to export our monetary inflation by buying oil and other goods at a great discount as Dollar influence flourished.
"This post-Bretton Woods system was much more fragile than the system that existed between 1945 and 1971. Though the Dollar/oil arrangement was helpful, it was not nearly as stable as the pseudo-gold standard under Bretton Woods. It certainly was less stable than the gold standard of the late 19th century.
"The agreement with OPEC in the 1970s to price oil in Dollars has provided tremendous artificial strength to the Dollar as the preeminent reserve currency. This has created a universal demand for the Dollar, and soaks up the huge number of new Dollars generated each year.
"Using force to compel people to accept money without real value can only work in the short run. It ultimately leads to economic dislocation, both domestic and international, and always ends with a price to be paid.
"The economic law that honest exchange demands only things of real value as currency cannot be repealed. The chaos that one day will ensue from our 35-year experiment with worldwide fiat money will require a return to money of real value. We will know that day is approaching when oil-producing countries demand gold, or its equivalent, for their oil rather than Dollars or Euros. The sooner the better."
Ron Paul told me that although this speech is relatively unknown in the US, it was widely received around the world. As we discussed the implications of these issues, Paul said that the premise of this speech still applies today.
I believe that once the Dollar loses its status as the world's premier reserve, the US will start to implement the destructive measures we frequently discuss: capital controls, people controls, price controls, currency devaluations, confiscations, nationalizing pensions, etc. Such things have happened recently in Poland, Cyprus, Iceland, Argentina, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and a number of other countries. Take a glance at history and you will quickly notice these measures are the norm when a government gets into serious fiscal trouble. Many nations have made the mistake of thinking they were somehow "exceptional" and that these kinds of things couldn't happen to them.
There is no question the US is and will continue to be in serious fiscal trouble unless it implements drastic (and politically impossible) changes. The only saving grace for the US has been its ability to print the world's reserve currency. But once that special privilege is lost, it will revert to the measures all other governments throughout history have taken.
You absolutely want to be internationalized before the US Dollar loses its status as the world's premier reserve currency. I truly believe the window opportunity to take protective action will slam shut at that time.
Internationalization is just one of several timely topics touched on by the experts who gathered at the 2013 Casey Summit, 3 Days with Casey. Unusually, most speakers stayed after their presentations to mingle with attendees and listen to others' talks – which speaks volumes as to the quality of the conference. If you missed out – or even if you were fortunate enough to be in attendance for Ron Paul's keynote address, plus presentations by Lacy Hunt, Catherine Austin Fitts, Chris Martenson, and many others, not to mention the Casey Brain Trust led by Doug Casey himself – you can still hear it all. Every presentation. Every breakout session. Every Q&A. All of it – including speakers' visual aids, if used – will be available on the 2013 Summit Audio Collection.
Ron Paul Smacked the Crap Out of Tres. Sec. Jack Lew's Testimony on CNBC! Epic! (VIDEO)
Great Watch!!!
http://12160.info/page/watch-ron-paul-smacked-the-crap-out-of-tres-sec-jack-lew-s-testim
Shermann
Famous People Murdered By the Rothschilds 666 Illuminati & A Detailed List of Everything You Support That’s NWO Osama!
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 19:24
http://beforeitsnews.com/prophecy/2013/10/famous-people-killed-by-the-illuminati-jesuits-detailed-list-of-everything-you-support-thats-nwo-2454408.html
Rothschilds NWO BS Osama Tells Vets No Memorial, Opens Muslim Museum
Friday, October 4, 2013 3:50
http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2013/10/obama-tells-vets-no-memorial-opens-muslim-museum-2727110.html
Rothschilds 666 nwo BS Osama: Time For Americans To Embrace My Dictatorship And Their Own Slavery, Or Else
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 8:33
Alert: FEMA Camp Round Up Has Begun!!!
Saturday, October 5, 2013 17:32
http://beforeitsnews.com/blogging-citizen-journalism/2013/10/fema-camp-round-up-has-begun-2449078.html
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Benjamin Fulford calls for arrests of the Cabal -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltOFLpo_j1Q
Grotesque Plan for Detroit: Fleece Working People to Save the Banksters 666 solution again, again, again 666 -
Municipal workers could be robbed of pension funds to pay big
banksters for payments due on interest rate swaps.
http://www.alternet.org/economy/detroit-and-pensions
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/looting-the-pension-funds-20130926#ixzz2gFA98mF2
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I'm one of the grand daddies of home schooling. My kids were homeschooled as well now are my grandkids. Second generation.
Looting Public Pensions: A New Think-Tank Study
By MATT TAIBBI
POSTED: September 26, 1:45 PM ET
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/looting-public-pensions-a-new-think-tank-study-20130926#ixzz2gIJ17xv0
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Matt Taibbi on How Wall Street Hedge Funds Are Looting the Pension Funds of Public Workers -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FhJ2lir1Yo
HOW THE GOVERNMENT STEALS BILLIONS PER MONTH (VIDEO)
Real Kewl Video!!!
http://investmentwatchblog.com/how-the-government-steals-billions-per-month/
Shermann
It is both a threat and also not for everyone...The Ron Paul home schooling effort is designed to give people a choice...Right now, the choice is between state indoctrination, or religious indoctrination...
The movement is growing, and has been for years...To return to the life our founding fathers envisioned for us...
Shermann
Nice. Home schooling is obviously a threat to the globalist propaganda machine.
Ron Paul on John Stossel: Dispelling Common Home-Schooling Myths - Sept. 26, 2013 (VIDEO)
http://www.dailypaul.com/300596/ron-paul-on-john-stossel-dispelling-common-home-schooling-myths-sept-26-2013
Shermann
Another good board. Too many to choose from here.
LPAC 2013: Ron Paul Speech Highlights (VIDEOS)
Some Great Highlights Here!!!
http://investmentwatchblog.com/lpac-2013-ron-paul-speech-highlights/
Shermann
How & Why Ron Paul Was Cheated Out Of the US Presidency — The Mockingbird Media is a Controlled Arm of the CRIMINAL Establishment
http://investmentwatchblog.com/how-why-ron-paul-was-cheated-out-of-the-us-presidency-the-mockingbird-media-is-a-controlled-arm-of-the-criminal-establishment/#y2pxRlP5OaKAevD8.99
Shermann
Dr. Ron Paul on MSNBC Today, 9-19-13 (VIDEO) - Morning Joe
http://www.dailypaul.com/299750/dr-ron-paul-on-msnbc-today-9-19-13
Shermann
Ron Paul’s policy ideas a step in the right direction
http://www.thedepauw.com/opinion/ron-paul-s-policy-ideas-a-step-in-the-right-direction-1.3062521#.UjjfQr7D9dg
Never in my life have I left a room feeling so inspired.
Dr. Ron Paul is truly one of America’s most inspirational people, especially to young students like us here at DePauw. I truly believe that this country is realizing that the way to true freedom is not through government “protection,” but through individual decisions. I am a strong believer that Paul’s “noninterventionist” policy is the best way to make this country more economically prosperous, globally stable, and socially free.
One of my favorite parts of Paul’s speech was his response to the liberal’s argument for the redistribution of wealth. It is not acceptable to go steal one of your neighbor’s cars because they have three and you have none, but it seems to be okay when the government does it.
To quote Paul, “the government can not do anything that we can not do.”
We cannot steal from our neighbors, so we should expect the government to do the same. Government’s only role in our financial situations and the economy should be to protect our property, not to take it away.
Government intervention does not increase the number in our middle class, but shrinks it. As Paul said, “I believe the only way to strengthen our economy is to remove government intervention and remove the ridiculous amount of entitlement and welfare spending.”
Another great point that Paul makes is that our involvement in foreign countries is not only not our business, but worse, expensive. The way Paul described this view was through the golden rule, “treat others as you would like them to treat you.” We obviously do not want to be invaded by another country, and neither do the other nations.
More importantly, these unconstitutional, undeclared wars are costing the hardworking taxpayers big time. In order to free the people from the government’s violation of American’s financial liberty, known as taxes, the government must stop the excessive military spending and foreign intervention.
A huge part of what makes me a big fan of Paul is his defense of our Fourth Amendment rights and our rights as individuals. Both Paul and I share the belief that the government does not give us our rights but serves only to protect our rights.
The government does not have the right to choose the moral code of or spy on its’ citizens.
As long as an individual does not harm to someone else, then they have the right to make their own individual decisions. Whether decisions like doing illegal drugs or having a same sex marriage are moral or not is irrelevant.
Paul shared the idea that we do not have to endorse these activities of others, only to be tolerant of other people’s individual decisions. We as Americans hold the right to privacy in our decisions and personal lives.
Although I obviously considered myself libertarian- minded and a Paul fan before hearing him speak live, I did leave feeling even more inspired to be active in the cause of liberty.
Like Paul said, the young people of America are seeing the faults of our current system and are ready to do something about it. They finally understand, to quote Paul, “the American people can handle the truth.” We are through with being lied to by our government.
We are ready for change, big change. I feel very fortunate to be a part of this great movement to move back to Constitutionally sound laws and individual freedoms.
— Wilson is a freshman from Zionsville, Ind. majoring in history.
Ron Paul editorial claims unwarranted and unfounded
http://www.thedepauw.com/opinion/letters/ron-paul-editorial-claims-unwarranted-and-unfounded-1.3060958#.UjLlEL7D9dg
As a recent graduate and former staff member of The DePauw, it’s with deep disappointment that I feel compelled to submit this letter in response to Tuesday’s editorial, “Ron Paul and DePauw: Guilty by association.”
While The DePauw’s mention of the various controversies surrounding Ron Paul certainly warrant our attention and scrutiny, the implication that Paul is not a “legitimate and appropriate” speaker based on “toxic anti-humanitarian associations” is carelessly sensationalized and incredibly reductive of Paul’s 23 years of service to our country as a United States congressman.
In a political climate where our elected officials tend to legislate at the behest of special interests and partisan groupthink, Paul remained the most ideologically consistent member of Congress for decades, defending the Constitution and the principles of individual liberty, personal responsibility and free markets. As Americans grow increasingly disenchanted with our country’s methods of mass surveillance, endless war and unsound monetary policy, these principles – which The DePauw has mistakenly labeled as “countercultural,” “neoconservative” and, perhaps mostly offensively, “extremist” – are not radical new concepts. Nor are they unpopular, fringe philosophies. To dismiss them as such is damaging to the open dialogue and broad consideration of ideas for which The DePauw should advocate.
Paul is not the first controversial politician to be invited to take part in the Ubben Lecture – this campus has seen the likes of Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Tony Blair and Ralph Nader. Like Paul, they all have something to answer for, and it is indeed our obligation to challenge and dissect their past associations and ideas. But the suggestion that the DePauw community and the incredibly generous Ubben family are openly aligning themselves with “anti-humanitarians” – accusations leveled against Paul that The DePauw reports are primarily rooted in blogosphere hearsay – is unwarranted and frankly distasteful.
The DePauw has the responsibility to depict campus issues in all of their nuance and complexity. It’s my hope that the editorial board will strive to be more reputably informed before they condemn our University, its donors and its esteemed visitors as “guilty” without doing their due diligence.
Wargames Were Cover For the Operational Execution of 9/11
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/wargames_cover_for_911_attacks.htm
9/11: Smoking Guns -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/911_smoking_guns.htm
200 People Jumped To Their Death On 911 -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/200_people_jumped.htm
Official 911 Story is False -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/official_story.htm
Bush Sued for 911!
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/bush_sued_for_911.htm
What Really Happened On 911?
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/911.htm
911 Facts!
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/911%20Facts.htm
ReThink911 Campaign by AE911Truth Sept 2013
http://www.reinvestigate911.org/
911 James Corbett: Starting a Real Criminal Investigation on the Events of 9/11 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-SK_nN8Ko
WORLD WAR 3 - Is NWO 666 Rothschild Leading his pawn BS Osama
the US into War with Russia, using SYRIA as STEPPING STONE?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0U11atNL2A
Ron Paul: Syria Intervention Would be "Reckless and Immoral"
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/09/philip-hodges/you-can-count-on-ron-paul/
It’s striking how much the media control people’s political opinions without people realizing it. Just a few years ago, only an “isolationist” would be opposed to U.S. military intervention in a foreign country for the sole purpose of “humanitarianism.”
Way back in 2007, this is one of the very few interviews Sean Hannity did with Ron Paul. This particular exchange took place after one of the presidential debates:
Hannity: Are you saying then that the world has no moral obligation, like in the first Gulf War, when an innocent country’s being pillaged, and people are being raped and murdered and slaughtered, or in the case of Saddam, he’s gassing his own people, are you suggesting we have no moral obligation there? Do you stand by and let that immorality happen?
Paul: We have, on numerous occasions.
Hannity: You support that?
Paul: We have, on numerous occasions. If we feel strongly about it, why don’t we declare war –
Hannity: If a woman’s being raped do you stand by and do nothing there either?
Alan Colmes: We’re almost out of time, but the fact is the Reagan administration stood by while the Kurds were being gassed, it happened in 1988, we didn’t do anything –
Hannity: We didn’t do anything about it, for how many years?
Paul: And what did we do with Pol Pot, what did we do with Moscow, what did we do at the time? We stood by while they did it to their people.
Hannity: We got it, Ron, you would stand by and do that, I would not.
Paul: No, you –
Hannity: I think that’s immoral.
Hannity’s of course singing a much different tune nowadays, since being opposed to unconstitutional military interventions is kind of “cool” now. But Ron Paul was opposed to such interventions long before it was cool, and he’s remained steadfast for decades in his opposition.
A couple days ago, on his Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity website, he wrote that intervening in Syria would be a reckless and immoral use of the military:
“President Obama announced this weekend that he has decided to use military force against Syria and would seek authorization from Congress when it returned from its August break. Every Member ought to vote against this reckless and immoral use of the US military. But even if every single Member and Senator votes for another war, it will not make this terrible idea any better because some sort of nod is given to the Constitution along the way. Besides, the president made it clear that Congressional authorization is superfluous, asserting falsely that he has the authority to act on his own with or without Congress. That Congress allows itself to be treated as window dressing by the imperial president is just astonishing. The President on Saturday claimed that the alleged chemical attack in Syria on August 21 presented ‘a serious danger to our national security.’ I disagree with the idea that every conflict, every dictator, and every insurgency everywhere in the world is somehow critical to our national security. That is the thinking of an empire, not a republic. It is the kind of thinking that this president shares with his predecessor, and it is bankrupting us and destroying our liberties here at home.”
He hasn’t changed one bit. But people’s foreign policy views change depending on what their media channel of choice is feeding them. And the media narratives are written depending on which party holds the White House.
If Bush had decided to attack Syria because the leader was gassing his own people, then conservatives, fed by Fox News, would be all for it; and the liberals, fed by all the other networks, would be denouncing it.
I’m glad that conservatives are coming out in opposition to a war with Syria. What concerns me is that people don’t have any discernment, and that they’ll believe whatever their favorite media network tells them.
What if a Republican becomes president next, and he’s no better than Obama when it comes to foreign policy or the preservation of the 2nd and 4th Amendments (and all the rest) here at home? Will conservatives see through the propaganda that will most certainly be used by the media to sell tyranny to us? They’ll use the same excuses of “security and safety.” And I fear that most people who identify themselves as conservatives will swallow it, hook, line and sinker.
The sooner people get away from this phony “republican vs. democrat” dichotomy, the better off we’ll all be. We should be electing people who want to do the right thing, not the “Republican” thing. Think Rand Paul, Ted Cruz or Justin Amash. Sure, they’re Republicans. But to them, party affiliation is secondary to the Constitution.
Must Watch: Ron Paul Squares Off Against MSNBC’s Alex Wagner in Explosive Interview (VIDEO)
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/must-watch-ron-paul-squares-off-against-msnbcs-alex-wagner-in-explosive-interview/
Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) joined MSNBC’s Alex Wagner on Thursday for a wide-ranging and contentious interview focused on President Barack Obama’s push for American intervention in the Syrian civil war. What followed was a tense and heated exchange between the two ideologically unaligned figures about the need for intervention in Syria, American foreign policy in general, and Paul’s speaking before “anti-Semitic” groups.
Wagner opened by asking about a recent interview Paul conducted with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on his web-based interview program, but the conversation quickly turned to the push for intervention in Syria.
Paul questioned the “so-called gas deaths” in Syria supposedly ordered by President Bashar al-Assad and suggested that pro-intervention advocates have absolved the rebel factions fighting against Assad of any malfeasance.
“Do you really think President Obama is looking for a reason to go to war in Syria,” Wagner asked She noted that the president has been reluctant to go to war.
“I think the pressure comes from the people around him,” Paul said. “It might be contradicting some of his self-instincts.”
Paul said that the leadership of both the Democratic and Republican Parties in Congress are behind Syrian intervention in opposition to rank-and-file opinion.
“I think there’s a historic event going on here and if this vote is won, that is defeat the request to have a more military approach to Syria, I think it’ll be historic,” Paul said. He noted that such a defeat would be an unusual alignment of the “libertarian Republicans” and the “progressive Democrats.”
Wagner appeared to agree with Paul but countered his assertion by saying that it was the president’s push for an unpopular war in Congress which united Democrats and Republicans against him. “Do you not applaud the president for making that decision?” Wagner asked.
Paul did not. He said that the president came under pressure and did not seek Congressional authority out of deference to the Constitution.
“In terms of surveillance, how confident are you that we are seeing the end of what has been termed the American empire in terms of a broad overreach and surveillance of Americans citizens” Wagner asked.
“We haven’t’ seen the end of it,” Paul replied. “Tyrants and empires cling desperately, and their best weapon is lying.”
Paul said the “people are waking up” and he was encouraged by a close vote in the House in which the Amash/Conyers Amendment to scale back the powers of the National Security Agency was narrowly defeated.
Paul added that this problem would also be solved if the “conspiracy” of the American government to “run all these wars” was ended and American troops came home.
“We haven’t proven any lies yet from this administration,” Paul said. “But believe me, there’s going to be found many, many deceptions.”
Wagner took issue with this statement. “Don’t you think this is sort of irresponsible?” she asked.
Paul went on to say that there is little proof to suggest that Assad is behind the use of chemical weapons in Syria. “Quite frankly, if they were honest with us – some are, some of the neo-cons are more honest, Tehran is – this is all to do with getting Iran and taking that country over, and we’ve been doing that since 1953,” Paul asserted.
Wagner asked Paul about his speech coming up at the Fatima Center, which she said has been accused of being an anti-Semitic organization. Asked if he would reconsider this speech, Paul said “no.”
Wagner cited some of the items in that group’s charter that led some to believe the organization is anti-Semitic. “I have nothing to do with that,” Paul said. “Sounds to me like you have me on here to bash Catholics.”
“There have been a lot of folks that have been involved with your campaign, supporters, newsletters that have been accredited to you that have strong anti-Semitic, racist undertones,” Wagner said.
Paul said that he has been dealing with accusations like these his whole political career. “When people disagree with your ideas they have to destroy your character,” Paul insisted.”
Ron Paul: Will Congress Endorse Obama's War Plans? Does it Matter?
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2013/september/01/will-congress-endorse-obamas-war-plans-does-it-matter.aspx
President Obama announced this weekend that he has decided to use military force against Syria and would seek authorization from Congress when it returned from its August break. Every Member ought to vote against this reckless and immoral use of the US military. But even if every single Member and Senator votes for another war, it will not make this terrible idea any better because some sort of nod is given to the Constitution along the way.
Besides, the president made it clear that Congressional authorization is superfluous, asserting falsely that he has the authority to act on his own with or without Congress. That Congress allows itself to be treated as window dressing by the imperial president is just astonishing.
The President on Saturday claimed that the alleged chemical attack in Syria on August 21 presented "a serious danger to our national security." I disagree with the idea that every conflict, every dictator, and every insurgency everywhere in the world is somehow critical to our national security. That is the thinking of an empire, not a republic. It is the kind of thinking that this president shares with his predecessor and it is bankrupting us and destroying our liberties here at home.
According to recent media reports, the military does not have enough money to attack Syria and would have to go to Congress for a supplemental appropriation to carry out the strikes. It seems our empire is at the end of its financial rope. The limited strikes that the president has called for in Syria would cost the US in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey wrote to Congress last month that just the training of Syrian rebels and "limited" missile and air strikes would cost "in the billions" of dollars. We should clearly understand what another war will do to the US economy, not to mention the effects of additional unknown costs such as a spike in fuel costs as oil skyrockets.
I agree that any chemical attack, particularly one that kills civilians, is horrible and horrendous. All deaths in war and violence are terrible and should be condemned. But why are a few hundred killed by chemical attack any worse or more deserving of US bombs than the 100,000 already killed in the conflict? Why do these few hundred allegedly killed by Assad count any more than the estimated 1,000 Christians in Syria killed by US allies on the other side? Why is it any worse to be killed by poison gas than to have your head chopped off by the US allied radical Islamists, as has happened to a number of Christian priests and bishops in Syria?
For that matter, why are the few hundred civilians killed in Syria by a chemical weapon any worse than the 2000-3000 who have been killed by Obama's drone strikes in Pakistan? Does it really make a difference whether a civilian is killed by poison gas or by drone missile or dull knife?
In "The Sociology of Imperialism," Joseph Schumpeter wrote of the Roman Empire's suicidal interventionism:
"There was no corner of the known world where some interest was not alleged to be in danger or under actual attack. If the interests were not Roman, they were those of Rome's allies; and if Rome had no allies, then allies would be invented. When it was utterly impossible to contrive an interest - why, then it was the national honour that had been insulted."
Sadly, this sounds like a summary of Obama's speech over the weekend. We are rapidly headed for the same collapse as the Roman Empire if we continue down the president's war path. What we desperately need is an overwhelming Congressional rejection of the president's war authorization. Even a favorable vote, however, cannot change the fact that this is a self-destructive and immoral policy.
We’re All Edward Snowden Now
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In the last several days, I’ve had three phone conversations with friends — completely normal people who have their wits about them — during which they have declined to say something for fear of government surveillance. They will be talking normally and suddenly catch themselves and divert the conversation.
The topics we were discussing were mostly innocuous, and I can’t imagine that government interlopers would care, but the impulse to self-censor was triggered anyway.
Free becomes unfree. Fear replaces liberality. Open communication becomes censorship. The curtain is falling fast on free speech. It’s happening all around us, and it is getting worse every day.
The first time I had this happen was about one year ago, when I was talking to a soldier stationed at a military base. He spoke to me almost in code, fully certain that his conversations were being monitored simply because he was speaking from a government facility. The phone was his, but he had the sense, which he probably couldn’t prove, that the lines of communication were not safe.
That genuinely alarmed me. But at the time, I thought it was just because he was at a military base. A bit of paranoia is understandable, and maybe this is just what one would expect. But it turns out that this was just the beginning. The whole country has turned into a military base, and everyone in the know is acting like that soldier did only one year ago.
It’s been true on email too. Increasingly, people are writing in frozen and stiff ways, presuming that someone else is reading. The same has happened in Facebook public postings and online chats. I’ve noticed, just in the last weeks, a reduction in the heat of postings, a fall in the level of zip, a new caution in the mode expression. Across the board, public digital spaces have become chilled.
What a difference one month makes. A leaker from the National Security Agency came forward with a version of events that hardly anyone could believe at first. It seemed outlandish to imagine that the government had a direct pipeline into all our communication portals, mining as much data as possible and building ever larger facilities to gather and hoard it, keeping it around for when it is necessary.
Surely, this man Edward Snowden is just a nut. But in the weeks after his revelations, we all began parsing the statements of denial from the likes of Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and Verizon. Then it became really apparent that these people were not even allowed by law to tell the truth. They were writing while concealing. They were trying to be forthcoming, but were not free to speak even if they wanted to. They had been ordered not to speak.
But what were they going to do about it? Shut down their businesses? Well, some smaller businesses have shut down rather than comply with the demands that they allow nonstop streaming of data to government headquarters. And get this: Ladar Levison of Lavabit was actually threatened with criminal charges for having shut down his services rather than comply.
Levison had previously complied with specific court orders for information from individuals, but the day he saw a demand for a full-blown “backdoor” to his system, he shut it down. The government then accused him of “violating the court order” for declining to do business. This amounts to a kind of nationalization of his small business — a mandate that he serve the state through his own property or else face prison time.
It’s impossible for me to look at all of these events and not see the most profound irony. I’m a child of the Cold War, a time when the civic morality play pitted the free speech and free thought of the United States against the controlling, censoring, authoritarian wickedness of the communist system operating in the Soviet Union and its satellites. It was a story of good and evil. We were good and they were evil, and the daily fear experienced by the unfortunate citizens of those countries served as the ultimate proof.
I guess I learned the lesson well, because I can’t shake that sense of good and evil from my mind. The United States won the Cold War, but its government gradually came to adopt the very practices that we demonized at that time. Who conquered whom here? Freedom was supposed to have been the victor, but today, Edward Snowden had to be given sanctuary in Russia, of all places, just for having revealed uncomfortable truths about what the U.S. government is doing to its own citizens.
They say it’s all about stopping terrorism. Well, oddly, security is precisely how censorship was justified in the old Soviet days too. The government had to be given access to all communication in order to protect the people from miscreants and enemies within the body politic or else everyone would suffer some terrible fate. To be on the side of free speech was considered an act of treason. So it is today in the great home of freedom.
It’s helpful to consider the bigger picture here. All governments in all times and places have aspired to control the communication of their citizens. In the United States, the government did in fact maintain its control for the greater part of American history. The radio waves were nationalized and controlled. Mail was a government service. The government enforced a strict monopoly over television for decades. Even the telephone system was a government monopoly — handsets and telephone cords were issued and owned by an agent of the state.
In the course of only a few decades, everything unraveled. The telephone monopoly was busted. Cable television was born. Censorship over the radio began to loosen. Then technology took over and there were cellphones, email, private delivery services, chat, hundreds of millions of websites anyone could start, Voice over Internet Protocol, and more forms of communication than government could possibly keep up with. The monopoly over communication that the government once maintained had been completely smashed.
This situation has persisted for about 15 years — a near-anarchist paradise of human sharing and interaction through technological innovation. What’s going on today is really the reaction and response by the elites. They want their power and control back. They are trying to get it through the oldest form of government control surveillance and the blackmail that comes with it. It’s the tactic guards used to control prisoners. It’s the tactic government is using to fight its way back toward having control over our lives.
So as you consider the alarming trends, the first thing to remember is that this approach is nothing new. To surveil the citizens is something governments from the ancient world to the present have aspired to do. It outrages us, and rightly so, but it shouldn’t surprise us.
The chilling effect is intensifying, and serious damage has already befallen the digital spaces we’ve come to love. Over the long run, however, this approach is not going to work. Try as it might, the government will not stop communication innovation. Private entrepreneurs are busy innovating ways to keep the history of our times on the side of human liberty.
The desire to communicate even when government doesn’t want us to is part of the American genetic code. “One if by land, and two if by sea,” says Longfellow’s poem about Paul Revere’s ride to inform citizens about British troop movements. It was encryption in the style of the 18th century. That generation didn’t give up on the freedom to communicate, and neither will we.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Tucker
Conversations With Great Minds: Ron Paul Interview (VIDEO) - RT
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Private Property Is the Essence of Liberty
Published on Sunday, 25 August 2013 15:54
Written by Ron Paul
http://www.rightsidenews.com/2013082533103/us/politics/private-property-is-the-essence-of-liberty.html
Ron Paul, Distinguished Counselor to the Mises Institute, and a founding member, celebrated his 78th birthday this week. In this selection 6512from a speech in the House of Representatives in 1999, Ron Paul outlines why private property and privacy are essential to the preservation of civil liberties. It is perhaps noteworthy that this speech was delivered before the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and before the Patriot Act, FATCA, “Know Your Customer,” warrantless wiretapping, and similar regulatory and legislative developments since 2001.
This selection is taken from chapter 10 of A Foreign Policy of Freedom by Ron Paul, available in both print and ebook editions at the Mises Store.
Privacy is the essence of liberty. Without it, individual rights cannot exist. Privacy and property are interlocked. If both were protected, little would need to be said about other civil liberties. If one’s home, church or business is one’s castle, and the privacy of one’s person, papers and effects are rigidly protected, all rights desired in a free society will be guaranteed. Diligently protecting the right to privacy and property guarantees religious, journalistic and political experience, as well as a free market economy and sound money. Once a careless attitude emerges with respect to privacy, all other rights are jeopardized.
Today we find a systematic and pervasive attack on the privacy of American citizens, which undermines the principle of private property ownership. Understanding why the attack on privacy is rapidly expanding and recognizing a need to reverse this trend are necessary if our Republic is to survive.
Lack of respect for the privacy and property of the American colonists by the British throne was a powerful motivation for the American Revolution and resulted in the strongly-worded and crystal-clear Fourth Amendment. Emphatically, searches and seizures are prohibited except when warrants are issued upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation, with details given as to place, person and things to be seized. This is a far cry from the routine seizure by the federal government and forfeiture of property which occurs today. Our papers are no longer considered personal and their confidentiality has been eliminated. Private property is searched by federal agents without announcement. Huge fines are levied when federal regulations appear to have been violated, and proof of innocence is demanded if one chooses to fight the abuse in court and avoid the heavy fines.
Eighty thousand armed federal bureaucrats and law enforcement officers now patrol our land and business establishments. Suspicious religious groups are monitored and sometimes destroyed without due process of law, with little or no evidence of wrong doing. Local and state jurisdiction is rarely recognized once the feds move in. Today, it is routine for government to illegally seize property, requiring the victims to prove their innocence in order to retrieve their property. Many times they fail due to the expense and legal roadblocks placed in the victim’s way.
Although the voters in the 1990s have cried out for a change in direction and demanded a smaller, less-intrusive government, the attack on privacy by the Congress, the administration, and the courts has, nevertheless, accelerated. Plans have now been laid or implemented for a national I.D. card, a national medical data bank, a data bank on individual MDs, deadbeat dads, intrusive programs monitoring our every financial transaction.
The Social Security number has been established as the universal identifier. The Social Security number is now commonly used for just about everything: getting a birth certificate, buying a car, seeing an MD, getting a job, opening up a bank account, getting a driver’s license, making many routine purchases, and, of course, a death certificate. Cradle-to-the-grave government surveillance is here and daily getting more pervasive. The attack on privacy is not a coincidence or an event that arises for no explainable reason. It results from a philosophy that justifies it and requires it. A government not dedicated to preserving liberty must, by its very nature, allow this precious right to erode. A political system designed as ours was to protect life, liberty, and property would vigorously protect all citizens’ rights to privacy; this cannot occur unless the property and the fruits of one’s labor, of every citizen, is protected from confiscation by thugs in the street as well as those in our legislative bodies.
The promoters of government intrusion into our privacy characteristically use worn out clichés to defend what they do. The most common argument is that if you have nothing to hide, why worry about it? This is ludicrous. We have nothing to hide in our homes or our bedrooms, but that is no reason why Big Brother should be permitted to monitor us with a surveillance camera.
The same can be argued about our churches, our businesses, or any peaceful action we may pursue. Our personal activities are no one else’s business. We may have nothing to hide, but, if we are not careful, we have plenty to lose — our right to be left alone. Others argue that to operate government programs efficiently and without fraud, close monitoring is best achieved with a universal identifier, the Social Security number. Efficiency and protection from fraud may well be enhanced with the use of a universal identifier, but this contradicts the whole notion of the proper role for government in a free society. Most of the federal programs are unconstitutional to begin with, so eliminating waste and fraud and promoting efficiency for a program that requires a violation of someone else’s rights should not be a high priority of the Congress. But the temptation is too great, even for those who question the wisdom of the government programs, and compromise of the Fourth Amendment becomes acceptable.
I have never heard of a proposal to promote the national I.D. card, or anything short of this for any reasons other than a good purpose. Essentially all those who vote to allow the continual erosion of our privacy and other Constitutional rights never do it because they consciously support a tyrannical government; it is always done with good intention.
Russia claims evidence of chemical weapons use by Syrian rebels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ed6T3gNkls
LOL! Makes me laugh these fuckweeds are so off based.
Can you IMAGINE the audacity?
And to think Americans ALLOWED this to happen in the first place?
Sorry,... I call that gullible, stupid and too damn trusting...
New US/UK Study Shocks World! “Conspiracy Theorists” Are ‘Sane’; Government Dupes Crazy & Hostile!
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/07/12/313399/conspiracy-theorists-vs-govt-dupes/
few really understand what that means jm
Assange: Rand Paul Libertarians “Only Hope” For Future of America (VIDEO)
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Ron Paul to Malzberg: US 'Stirring the Pot' in Egypt for Years
Great Points Made!!!
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Ron-Paul-Malzberg-Egypt/2013/08/15/id/520707
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Ron Paul Channel First (FULL) Episode Interviews Glenn Greenwald - August 12, 2013
The First Official Ron Paul Channel Episode!!!
http://www.dailypaul.com/295748/ron-paul-channel-first-episode-interviews-glenn-greenwald-august-12-2013
Shermann
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: WHY the US Govt started touting GDP instead of GNP since GWB Regime! (VIDEO)
Great Info!!!
http://xrepublic.tv/node/4823
Shermann
"We Need to Wake Up and Realize that Obama is the Enemy" (VIDEO)
Ron Paul’s Speech At YAL Convention: An Attack On The ‘Statist Quo’ (VIDEO)
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On Friday evening, former congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul delivered the keynote address to the 5th Annual Young Americans For Liberty National Conference.
Paul founded YAL in 2008 during his first presidential campaign, as an organized effort to attract young people on college campuses to the libertarian movement. The four-day national conference focuses primarily on education seminars, leadership training and developing youth activism and, lead by prominent sponsors such as the Leadership Institute and CATO. Five years since its start, YAL “is the largest, most active, and fastest-growing pro-liberty organization on America’s college campuses, with more than 380 chapters and 125,000 student activists nationwide.”
Paul attended a press conference before he delivered his address to over 300 students, who were eagerly anticipating his arrival. In Paul’s opening statement to the press, he explained that his passion to work with students derived from their “intense interest in the philosophy of liberty.” He declared that young, liberty-minded people were the solution to government corruption and growth, as they will be the most likely to stand up say, “we believe in liberty, (and) we believe in minding our own business.”
Where in the Constitution does it say that:
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The Government has the power to take all the wealth of the people without permission and by force at any time for any reason.
All wealth belongs to the Government. All wealth bartered by personal labor is the property of the state. All property is owned by the state. i.e. real estate tax = rent
The Government will give back or allow the people to keep (same difference!) a portion of wealth to sustain them and/or encourage them to be more productive as it benefits the state.
The Government will make further adjustments to what wealth the people may have by imposing taxes and fees for any reason.
The Government will redistribute the wealth of the people from one person to another without their permission and by force if necessary.
The Government will have immunity at all times.
The Government can not be forced to divulge any information.
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etc. etc.. I don't think this is what the founding fathers had in mind.
GlassSteagall: Wall Street’s Permanent Bank Holiday (New LPAC VIDEO)
This is a very well done and somewhat scary video - A Must See
http://investmentwatchblog.com/glasssteagall-wall-streets-permanent-bank-holiday-new-lpac-video/
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Ron Paul: A House Divided Over NSA Spying on Americans (VIDEO)
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Revealed; The Men Who Own and Run the U S Government (VIDEO)
This one will send chills up your spine...
http://12160.info/video/revealed-the-men-who-own-and-run-the-u-s-government
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