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Inflation: Ron Paul Explains How We Got Into This Mess
Post Date: 2008-07-11 23:11:49 by A K A Stone
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"There were several stages. From the inception of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 to 1933, the Central Bank established itself as the official dollar manager. By 1933, Americans could no longer own gold, thus removing restraint on the Federal Reserve to inflate for war and welfare. "By 1945, further restraints were removed by creating the Bretton-Woods Monetary System making the dollar the reserve currency of the world. This system lasted up until 1971. During the period between 1945 and 1971, some restraints on the Fed remained in place. Foreigners, but not Americans, could convert dollars to gold at $35 an ounce. Due to the excessive dollars being created, that system came ...
What about Bob? GOP mum on Barr
Post Date: 2008-07-10 22:01:59 by A K A Stone
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If Republicans are worried about the third-party presidential candidacy of former GOP Rep. Bob Barr and the possibility that he could win enough votes to affect the outcome in several states, they aren’t showing it. At present there are no plans to follow the time-honored method of dealing with pesky third-party candidates by seeking to knock Barr off various state ballots. Indeed, when asked for comment about the Barr campaign, John McCain’s campaign flat out declined to offer one. Underscoring that indifferent approach, the Republican National Committee offered this response when asked about the former conservative congressman from Georgia. “We’re confident that ...
Forced servitude in America? The U.S. already has high rates of volunteerism, but that's apparently not good enough for our presidential candidates.
Post Date: 2008-07-09 22:03:54 by A K A Stone
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There's a weird irony at work when Sen. Barack Obama, the black presidential candidate who will allegedly scrub the stain of racism from the nation, vows to run afoul of the constitutional amendment that abolished slavery. For those who don't remember, the 13th Amendment says: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime ... shall exist within the United States." Click here to find out more! I guess in Obama's mind it must be a crime to be born or to go to college. In his speech on national service Wednesday at the University of Colorado, Obama promised that as president he would "set a goal for all American middle and high ...
If you really want to understand what this race is about, look at the two candidates' fathers
Post Date: 2008-06-06 13:45:24 by A K A Stone
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The Hillary-dam has finally burst, so now oceans of newsprint are being spilled over the long-delayed Republican vs. Democrat showdown. But as we simplistically blather about the candidates' race and age – it's hip vs hip operation, folks – we seem to be ignoring the best guide we have to John McCain and Barack Obama's hearts. Both men have written strange, searching books about their fathers. It is in their pages that we can find the clearest clues to their potential presidencies. At first glance, these slabs of non-fiction – Dreams From My Father by Obama, and Faith of My Fathers by McCain – are strikingly similar. They both tell the autobiographical story ...
War of wills? An absolutist China vs. an egocentric U.S
Post Date: 2008-05-12 20:52:37 by A K A Stone
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Lev Navrozov emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1972 He settled in New York City where he quickly learned that there was no market for his eloquent and powerful English language attacks on the Soviet Union. To this day, he writes without fear or favor or the conventions of polite society. He chaired the "Alternative to the New York Times Committee" in 1980, challenged the editors of the New York Times to a debate (which they declined) and became a columnist for the New York City Tribune. His columns are today read in both English and Russian. Chris Ruddy, President and CEO, NewsMax Media, Inc., has kindly drawn my attention to the essay “Stealing Weather” by William ...
Divide and Conquer the Gov't
Post Date: 2008-05-11 13:40:23 by barkentine
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Received this in a forwarded email: "I think we should all vote for the worst possible president in order to motivate secession, then vote in all other elections for the people who most hate that president and hope they come to blows. Divide and conquer the government." I think it's a good strategy at this point in time, since there are literally no good viable candidates (except Ron Paul).
Is Obama one of us?
Post Date: 2008-04-25 07:32:45 by A K A Stone
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As one looks at the polls, the issues and the candidates, the election of 2008 resembles what poker players call a "lay-down hand." Two-thirds of the nation believes the Iraq war a blunder. Sixty-nine percent disapproves of President Bush. Eighty-one percent thinks America is on the wrong course. Inflation is at 4 percent and rising. Unemployment is 5 percent and rising. Gasoline, heating oil and food prices are soaring. The dollar has lost half its values against the euro. Homes are being foreclosed upon at Depression rates. The stock market is in a swoon. And 3.5 million manufacturing jobs have vanished under Bush. Hillary and Obama have both raised far more than John McCain. ...
Bob Bar To Run Third Party?
Post Date: 2008-03-21 16:51:23 by A K A Stone
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There is talk on the TV today about Bob Bar possibly running for President. A lot of people have been bummed out since Ron Paul isn't going to win the Republican nomination. This is good news. We should take that energy that was involved in the Ron Paul Revolution and turn it towards Bob Bar. Since Ron Paul has insisted that he isn't going to run third party it would be a worthy place to place our energy. Bob Bar even gave Ron Paul a heroes introduction at this years CPAC meeting. So how about it all you Ron Paul supporters can we get behind a Bob Bar candidacy? Maybe Bob Bar could even pick Ron Paul for his vice president.
Geraldo Rivera is an asshole.
Post Date: 2008-03-16 21:38:23 by A K A Stone
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Hey Geraldo fuck you.
Fear for the Second
Post Date: 2008-03-16 21:23:47 by A K A Stone
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Later this week the Supreme Court will rule on the Second Amendment. “The nine justices of the highest court in the land will meet Tuesday to hear arguments on who the Founders Fathers intended when they called for the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms: a well regulated militia or all individuals,” reports Fox News. It all hinges on that word: militia. “The awkward construction of the amendment — linking ‘a well regulated Militia’ to ‘the right … to keep and bear Arms’ — has spawned decades of debate about whether the framers of the Constitution meant to grant an individual right to own guns,” writes Chris Casteel for the ...
Do Americans Care About Big Brother?
Post Date: 2008-03-16 20:59:45 by A K A Stone
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Pity America's poor civil libertarians. In recent weeks, the papers have been full of stories about the warehousing of information on Americans by the National Security Agency, the interception of financial information by the CIA, the stripping of authority from a civilian intelligence oversight board by the White House, and the compilation of suspicious activity reports from banks by the Treasury Department. On Thursday, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine released a report documenting continuing misuse of Patriot Act powers by the FBI. And to judge from the reaction in the country, nobody cares. A quick tally of the record of civil liberties erosion in the United States ...
Stagflation/Hyperinflation Or Just The End Of Your Way Of Life?
Post Date: 2008-03-16 19:36:27 by A K A Stone
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I haven't written anything for public consumption in a while, because I've been busy living in what I like to call, "the real world" and making my living by trading my own money. That's what I do these days. I'm a fly on the wall with electronic access to the dens of thieves. If I come out on top then I transfer those digits for things I need. Yes I'm still long gold from $290, and crude from $60 but whatever, I've been doing ok. I've been doing ok that is, if the money I have was worth what it used to be, but it isn't. So rather than just slap a label on what it is when words have already arguably lost their meaning, let's discuss it. I am ...
The Dumbing Of America
Post Date: 2008-03-16 19:33:28 by A K A Stone
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"The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." Ralph Waldo Emerson offered that observation in 1837, but his words echo with painful prescience in today's very different United States. Americans are in serious intellectual trouble -- in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations. This is the last subject that any candidate would dare raise on the long and winding road to the White House. It is almost impossible to talk about the manner in which public ignorance contributes to grave national problems without being labeled an "elitist," one of the most ...
ANALYSIS-U.S. economists see long-term ills from Iraq war
Post Date: 2008-03-14 21:28:03 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - What's over $100 billion a year in Iraq war costs to a $14 trillion U.S. economy? Not much now, but the tab is growing on a "buy-now-pay-later" plan that threatens long-term problems. Money was not much of an issue five years ago when President George W. Bush led the country into war in Iraq. Instead, all eyes were on allegations, later proven unfounded, that then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and could use them against the United States. But $500 billion later, experts worry about the impact on the world's biggest economy, already facing a crippling housing crisis. "The short-term economic ...
The Fed Ropes Nothing - You All Hung Yourselves
Post Date: 2008-03-14 10:17:49 by A K A Stone
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The Fed Ropes Nothing - You All Hung Yourselves The top controls all the markets of the world...The top sells and all the speculators (Bottom) get taken to the cleaners...The top, you know people with wealth? Well you all (Speculators) bid up their wealth...It's a bet speculators are making...when is the top going to sell? They sell when they sell...and they buy when they buy...speculators are along for the ride... Bottoms are formed where the top buys and tops are formed where they sell...The stories about individual speculators and or free markets are lies and always have been...The SEC? Set up by the top...Look everyone we nailed Martha...She was only doing what everyone does on ...
Why The United States Has Really Gone Broke
Post Date: 2008-03-12 16:27:12 by A K A Stone
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Global confidence in the US economy has reached zero, as was proved by last month’s stock market meltdown. But there is an enormous anomaly in the US economy above and beyond the subprime mortgage crisis, the housing bubble and the prospect of recession: 60 years of misallocation of resources, and borrowings, to the establishment and maintenance of a military-industrial complex as the basis of the nation’s economic life The military adventurers in the Bush administration have much in common with the corporate leaders of the defunct energy company Enron. Both groups thought that they were the “smartest guys in the room” — the title of Alex Gibney’s ...
How Low Can The Dollar Go? Zero Value
Post Date: 2008-03-09 19:10:03 by A K A Stone
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The corporate controlled media is finally starting to talk about the economic problems that the alternative media and assorted precious metals advocates have been talking about for years now. We are facing a potential inflationary depression. Independent estimates of the M3 money supply show that we are seeing an annual increase in the M3 money supply by around 16 to 17 percent. The Federal Reserve chose to stop producing this report right around the time when these figures began going parabolic on their chart showing a massive increase in the money supply. An increase in the money supply results in a devalued currency and that’s one of the primary reasons why we are seeing the price ...
Ohio you have sinned
Post Date: 2008-03-05 07:30:31 by A K A Stone
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I am ashamed of my fellow Ohioans today. The day after the 2008 presidential primary. My fellow citizens have given the most votes to a woman who is for killing babies. To a woman who has to lie and say that she is against NAFTA. To a woman whose ideology is the same as Karl Marx. To a woman who voted to send our soldiers to war against Iraq. To a woman who wants to steal money from some people and give it to others. Yes she promises health care for all. But that is also a promise to pick others pocket. Hillary Clinton is an evil woman who should never be allowed to represent the United States. She is all that is wrong with America. The people who voted for her are lazy and want other ...
Howard Stern endorses Ron Paul
Post Date: 2008-01-08 09:38:30 by A K A Stone
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Sirius satellite radio shock jock Howard Stern gave an enthusiastic thumbs-up to GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul on his program today, saying the maverick congressman is "fantastic." "I've got to tell you about this guy Ron Paul," Stern said on his show. "This guy – he's a Republican – and he says listen, when I become president, I'm taking us out of Iraq, I'm taking us out of everywhere in the world. … "What good has it done us being in these f---ing Middle Eastern countries?" Still paraphrasing Paul, Stern said: "I'm not an isolationist. I'm not afraid to use the military where it's needed. But to ...
Buchanan: Reagan Coalition Dead
Post Date: 2008-01-06 13:15:29 by A K A Stone
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The stunning results of last week's Iowa caucuses prove that Republicans are in deep trouble and it's nobody's fault but their own, says columnist and two-time presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. In his latest syndicated column, "Last Hurrah For Reagan Coalition?" Buchanan, a top White House aide in both the Nixon and Reagan White Houses, warned that the huge Democratic turnout in Iowa Caucuses, more than double that of the Republicans, coupled with what he called "the stampede by independents to vote in the Democratic precincts,” could mean that that Iowa, "a swing state carried by President Bush in 2004, may be lost irretrievably to the GOP in 200 ...
CLINTONS NO LONGER THE LIFE OF PARTY
Post Date: 2008-01-04 10:53:10 by A K A Stone
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January 4, 2008 -- DES MOINES, Iowa - Awaiting her coronation here last night, Hillary Rodham Clinton instead faced a seething revolt within her own party. More than 70 percent of Iowa Democrats rejected her bid to get back into the White House. And so, after 15 years of domination, the Clinton dynasty has finally lost its grip on the Democratic Party. More than anything else, Clinton's campaign was built upon the aura of inevitability. That's now shattered and left in Iowa's frozen cornfields. What's devastating to her is that she lost so badly to such a political novice. Sure, Barack Obama is an incredibly impressive and appealing figure. He has magically turned the ...
Should Ron Paul be allowed at Sunday's debate?
Post Date: 2008-01-01 12:07:54 by A K A Stone
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There seems to be a debate going on between Fox News and New Hampshire Republicans over precisely who will participate in this weekend's presidential debate. Rumor has it that online fundraising sensation and Texas congressman Ron Paul and San Diego congressman Duncan Hunter will be excluded because their N.H. poll numbers are not in double digits, although Paul's fourth quarter fundraising numbers were way into double digits, nearing $20 million, according to his website. In the first 240 minutes of the new year, nearly $11,000 more came in. Over the weekend a Fox News spokeswoman told Top of the Ticket that the New Hampshire Republican Party was making the choice of candidates ...
A View of AmeriKans From South Africa
Post Date: 2007-12-24 21:27:10 by barkentine
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AmeriKan Shopping Malls Saturday, December 22, 2007 Stay Out of Azania's Shops [Siegfried: Christmas is a great time to enjoy time with family and friends. In the New South Africa, it is also a time for extra vigilance. I wonder how many robberies will take place or how many people will return to their homes from holiday to find the place ransacked by burglars. Incidentally, I plan to avoid shopping malls and large stores like the plague, not because of crime, but because they are flooded with the most insipid and shallow human beings imaginable. Going to the shopping mall around Christmas is a nightmare. One has to deal with crowds, long lines, and stupid people. The stupid people ...
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