Entries from December 2008 ↓

I know I push hard sometimes and always try to get people to get out and do whatever they can to and sometimes that comes across negative. As many of you know, YOU brought me to the Ron Paul movement because YOU were asking the right questions. I have been working to change the New World system for almost 21 years. I have run non-profit organizations, held office, worked for all levels of politicians and in a couple major corporations.

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Grab your drink and toast our friend, fan!

We've missed you lady.

Cheers!

What is free market capitalism? It is certainly nothing like what we witness today which resembles more of an official corporatism than actual capitalism. The first principle of capitalism is the Right of Private Property; it is the foundation, in fact of all other Rights, for without it the individual is at the mercy of superior power.

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While American media regularly cover up Israeli actions, those of us who have visited the region first-hand witness a level of US-funded Israeli cruelty that makes us weep for our victims and fear for our country. While most Americans are uninformed on how Israel uses our money, people throughout the world are deeply aware that it is Americans who are funding Israeli crimes. Perhaps It's time to kick AIPAC out of the US and tell Israel they are on their own.

i have seen some people refer the good doctor as a politician and i would like to share this from the a small book, pamphlet actually, that ron wrote a while back.

it has been my belief from the get go that the good doctor is NOT a politician. he IS a statesman.

this excerpt is taken from mises outstanding work: human action.

Mises and Austrian Economics: A Personal View
by Congressman Ron Paul

Introduction
[U]nder the predominance of interventionist ideas, a political
career is open only to men who identify themselves with the

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Just wanted to post and tell everyone that I will be off to Ecuador tomorrow for two weeks! We are buying property and doing a lot of sight seeing and bird watching. We would like to live there at least part time. I will let you know how it goes. Anything you guys particularly interested in?

Wish me luck! I have never been out of the country before.

by Ellen Brown, December 29th, 2008
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Cartoon in the New Yorker:
A gun-toting man with large dark glasses, large hat pulled down, stands in front of a bank teller, who is reading a demand note. It says, “Give me all the money in my account.”

Bernie Madoff showed us how it was done: you induce many investors to invest their money, promising steady above-market returns; and you deliver – at least on paper. When your clients check their accounts, they see that their investments have indeed increased by the promised amount. Anyone who opts to pull out of the game is paid promptly and in full. You can afford to pay because most players stay in, and new players are constantly coming in to replace those who drop out. The players who drop out are simply paid with the money coming in from new recruits. The scheme works until the market turns and many players want their money back at once. Then it’s game over: you have to admit that you don’t have the funds, and you are probably looking at jail time.

A Ponzi scheme is a form of pyramid scheme in which earlier investors are paid with the money of later investors rather than from real profits. The perpetuation of the scheme requires an ever-increasing flow of money from investors in order to keep it going. Charles Ponzi was an engaging Boston ex-convict who defrauded investors out of $6 million in the 1920s by promising them a 400 percent return on redeemed postal reply coupons. When he finally could not pay, the scam earned him ten years in jail; and Bernie Madoff is likely to wind up there as well.

Most people are not involved in illegal Ponzi schemes, but we do keep our money in accounts that are tallied on computer screens rather than in stacks of coins or paper bills. How do we know that when we demand our money from our bank or broker that the funds will be there? The fact that banks are subject to “runs” (recall Northern Rock, Indymac and Washington Mutual) suggests that all may not be as it seems on our online screens. Banks themselves are involved in a sort of Ponzi scheme, one that has been perpetuated for hundreds of years. What distinguishes the legal scheme known as “fractional reserve” lending from the illegal schemes of Bernie Madoff and his ilk is that the bankers’ scheme is protected by government charter and backstopped with government funds. At last count, the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury had committed $8.5 trillion to bailing out the banks from their follies.1 By comparison, M2, the largest measure of the money supply now reported by the Federal Reserve, was just under $8 trillion in December 2008.2 The sheer size of the bailout efforts indicates that the banking scheme has reached its mathematical limits and needs to be superseded by something more sustainable.

Penetrating the Bankers’ Ponzi Scheme

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"Just let me die"

Due to a lack of electricity, surgeries are being conducted by the light of cellular phones, and hospitals no longer have room to take in those deceased, A doctor in Gaza said that a patient he had to work on without anesthesia cried out these words.

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We are more dangerous than previously thought. Like the new age liquid armor. When there is calm we are like a fluid. Moving freely among all things. Moving without stopping. If attempted to grasp we would just fall through the hands of the statistical and collective mindsets.

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Besides a feeling of indebtedness, what else is "owing" anyone anything? I know there's force of law and threat of retaliation, but put that aside and debt is a feeling.

I'm starting to feel like I don't owe banks squat.

PLEASE KEEP IN MIND. I AM NOT SAYING STOP PAYING YOUR DEBTS. I AM SPEAKING PHILOSOPHICALLY HERE.