What black Americans are saying about Ron Paul

January 27, 2012

Do Black Americans Believe Ron Paul is a Racist?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej5_rZof7MA&feature=youtu.be

 

As long as we are still able to tell the truth without incarceration, Ron Paul’s message resonates as true and makes a big contrast between him and all the Elites’ Establishment candidates.

Nobody is laughing anymore.

They all admit that Ron Paul predicted all the economic whiplash of all the decades he has made any statements at all.

They all admit that he knows what he’s talking about when he talks about economics.

They cannot deny that his point about the blowback principle in foreign policy.

Obama claims credit for killing Osama bin Laden and Hollywood is making a movie about it. But the CIA chief that headed up the search for Osama bin Laden, Michael Sheuer, says that President Ron Paul would make for a safer United States of America. And the troops, with their numbers and with their money, are telling us that they would trust Ron Paul as their Commander-in-Chief more than any other presidential candidate including Obama.

The more people hear what Ron Paul really believes, as opposed to name-calling, the more his numbers go up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jbTxbY6-Oo&feature=related

Aaron Task writes disinformation spin for the Fed

January 26, 2012

Here’s where his article appears at yahoo:

No, the Fed Does NOT ‘Print Money’: Just Explain It:

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/no-fed-does-not-print-money-just-explain-150433185.html

This is from the “Give Me A Break” Department.

In the third paragraph, the guy couldn’t help but let slip why they are publishing this article now, probably setting the stage for a bit of another illusionist’s deceit it their bag of tricks to save the rigging somebody apparently set up for the election.

All you guys who are in your first class of Economics and Finance They Never Taught You in School, who are asking “what somebody?”, either keep your dial tuned to this station, or, just simply Follow The Money!

Hey! When Ron Paul talks about “printing money“, everybody that supports him ALREADY KNOWS he’s talking about MONEY SUPPLY, not printing presses!

Here’s LOOKING AT YOU, AARON TASK! —AND YOU KNOW THIS!

In fact, Ron Paul took note during a congressional hearing once that the Fed has stopped publishing their estimates of what they call “M3 money supply” which Aaron Task knows is more what Ron Paul is talking about when he says “printing money”, saying they could not estimate the figure anymore with sufficient accuracy. Ron Paul rightly observed that it’s a good guess that their real reason is that Americans would be shocked at the figures.

All the manipulations that Mr. Task listed that the Fed does to control the real money supply, that is what they do.

BUT HERE IS WHAT AARON TASK DELIBERATELY LEFT OUT, because I think he knows a little more than he is explaining, so I will “just explain it”.

The Fed DOES put out dollars in circulation now with electronic entries authorities by the selected persons at the Fed, and Quantitative Easing is exactly what is meant by “printing money”, meaning putting dollars into the money supply (now mostly electronic transfers anyway), which has the same effect as printing press dollar production, only worse and faster.

If buyers around the world were not eating up all this cash by using it to buy Treasury Bonds and other means, the dollar would have crashed a long time ago.

The big money players around the world have lost confidence in the stability of the dollar, and the “full faith and credit of the United States” has lost its polish, and even the guys in charge of the American economy (the administration) and the guys in charge of manipulating our money (the Fed) and the central banks around the world, have said they need to study a transition to another worldwide currency.

But they are already married to the dollar, they have gobs and gobs of dollars, and they want to get their money’s worth, so they are riding out the dollar, this “green paper pig”, a  balloon they know is about to go bust, while they work out how to do it. And whatever deal they cut, we all know that what they have in mind is making Americans pay, the American economy. They may market it here in the USA as a “tax on the rich”, but they know it will be our blood, sweat and tears they will  require.

The only presidential candidate telling the truth to the American people about all this is of course RON PAUL. The detractors are committing big sins of omission, in what they are NOT saying, what they are hiding from you. (Here’s looking at YOU, Aaron Task).

And the truth is, that every increase in the money supply is grand theft larceny from the pockets of the poor and the middle class. That’s inflation, a word that does not do justice to the value it robs from the dollars the poor use to buy food and gasoline and pay rent. This is the kind of deceitful theft that the Bible calls a “false balance”. The “false balance” was what merchants of old used to cheat their customers, like pretending they were selling you a pound of wheat when the stone they used in the balance was actually lighter than a pound and the buyer was getting less that he was told.

Proverbs 11:1 “A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.” (Proverbs 11:1).

John 8:32  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

 

Spirit Airlines leads protest against government requirement to hide taxes in your air fares

January 25, 2012

My question:Where are the other airlines? Why are they missing in action? AWOL, because we expect them to speak up for themselves AND FOR THE LITTLE GUY.

http://consumerist.com/2012/01/spirit-airlines-says-that-posting-full-airfares-is-governments-way-of-hiding-taxes.html

That’s why the VAT tax is so bad, too. The buyer doesn’t know how much of that price retail is taxes that the consumer himself is paying. Note: meaning it’s a way for some “liberal” countries to tax the poor by stealth.

It’s the same kind of idea as the new requirements on airlines, a tax on each step of the manufacturing process, where the final retail price includes all the taxes but unlike the sales tax, there’s no way the retailer usually knows how much is tax.

 For a brief few weeks at least here in Miami, one could see a sticker at the gasoline pump that said so-and-so percent of your price goes to federal, state and local taxes. It didn’t last, they probably made that illegal too. But it’s a LOT of taxes that get paid out of your fill up.

 Another stealth tax, more insidious maybe than just requiring airlines to hide the tax, is inflation. Until recently most people haven’t thought about it.

When the central bank in Honduras  –or the Federal Reserve in the USA– adds money to the money supply in circulation, it means more money chasing after the same production of goods and services. They increase it by lowering interest rates, or sometimes by just rolling out the “printing presses”, like the Fed did with QE1 and QE2. Of course it’s electronic entries nowadays. And as part of TARP, the Fed created more supply for Europe, as exposed when Congress finally forced the Fed to tell who they gave money to.

But the “member banks” get the first dibs on “new money“, presumably it works that way in Honduras too. Their biggest and best clients get it next, and so on. It’s “trickle down inflation” where the prices are driven up but the CONNECTED rich get it first, the ones with their buddies in power and in the central banks. Prices go up before the poor see any of the extra new money, so when they go to the store their money buys less.

It’s a devaluation of the money right out of the pockets of the poor and middle class, it’s grand theft larceny, and it’s also a hidden tax. Government gets to look good with programs for the poor that they finance by robbing them by devaluation of their money.

That’s why the famous old saying “Give me control over a nation’s currency and I care not who sits on the throne”.

Get Politicians’ Grubby Hands Off Our Children!

January 25, 2012
education online

Image by Sean MacEntee via Flickr

The reason I want the federal government out of education is because it is making kids dumber and it is a wasteful burden on the body politic, besides pushing dumb-down programs like W Bush’s cookie-cutter push with No Child Left Behind. Which, by the way, Rick Santorum voted for.

I want all government out of education because it should be the parents educating the kids or deciding where to put them. Vouchers is the issue that expose the control freaks that want to indoctrinate our kids at the mercy of teachers’ unions, but tax deductions and prosperity are the things that will set families free from the stealing of kids’ minds.

Education, real, true, free education (free of indoctrination by political mandates from oligarchies) is in the hands of parents. Having government teach our kids and telling us we have no choice in the matter is an attack on education, and that’s exactly why they are failing our future generations.

This nolanchart.com author Jake Morphonius exposes Big-Government Lobbyist-Culture Santorum

January 25, 2012

The Real Dirt on Slick Rick Santorum
http://www.nolanchart.com/article9242-the-real-dirt-on-slick-rick-santorum.html

Remember the real Christian, the real believer, is not the Pharisee that wears Bible verses on his sleeve (yep, Pharisees used to do that), it’s the one that walks the walk.

For instance:

If Santorum is going to claim to be a champion of values, we need to look not only at what he says, but what he has done. And fortunately, Rick Santorum has left us with a voluminous record of big-government hypocrisy and outright corruption to sift through. Before making your decision about Rick Santorum, take a minute to learn the facts. There’s more to being a “values” candidate than simply bashing gays all the time. Personal ethics matter. And in that department, Santorum comes up short.

Second instance:

Santorum became involved in a scandal later known as the “K Street Project”. Lobbying firms were pressured to hire high ranking Republican lawmakers and to grant GOP lobbyists with access to influential decision makers. Led by Congressman Tom Delay, now a convicted felon, the Project had associations with lobbyists including Jack Abramoff. Santorum played the role of Senate liaison to the K Street Project. He soaked up the Washington lobbyist culture. The connections made by Santorum landed him high-paying lobbying opportunities after he lost his seat in the senate.

Santorum was reelected for a second term in 2000.

Senator Santorum cosponsored the Workplace Religious Freedom Act with Democrat Senator John Kerry. The legislation would impose on business owners the requirement that they accommodate the religious practices of their employees. It is Santorum’s belief that if companies don’t cater to their employees sundry faith observances then they should be compelled by law to change their business practices. Government is Santorum’s solution to social and business problems.

Remember, if a business has to accomodate an employee’s religious practices, that means anybody’s and everybody’s. This is an interference with individual liberty and besides, there’s no constitutional authority for a federal law like that.

And he doesn’t think there’s any “right to privacy”? The word privacy isn’t in the Constitution, but there are the Fourth and Fifth Amendments that say the government has no business interfering with our personal lives, and to respect the right to “be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects”:

Amendment 4 – Search and Seizure:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

There’s plenty more at the blog, go read it.

Now, we know who it is that has none of this historical baggage, or else somebody would have drug it up by now. The stuff they did try to pin on him was so totally ridiculous they don’t even try it anymore. While the other guys duke it out verbally over who has the worst and most hypocritical history, nobody can say anything about Ron Paul.

SC Debate: Ron Paul has fought for small, constitutional government against all three opponents for the nomination

January 25, 2012

SC Debate Audience Protests CNN Effort to Censor Ron Paul:
http://www.nolanchart.com/article9298-sc-debate-audience-protests-cnn-effort-to-censor-ron-paul.html

That was the contrast at the South Carolina debates moderated by John King, who was booed by the angry crowd that Ron Paul was not given a chance to answer the question about abortion, which he also used to expand to a more general point about general moral issues.

Megaupload Details Raise Significant Concerns About What DOJ Considers Evidence Of Criminal Behavior | Techdirt

January 25, 2012

A friend in a forum of one of my subscriptions posted this link and a quote from it:

Megaupload Details Raise Significant Concerns About What DOJ Considers Evidence Of Criminal Behavior | Techdirt:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120120/00373617487/megaupload-details-raise-significant-concerns-about-what-doj-considers-evidence-criminal-behavior.shtml http://tinyurl.com/7exdahn

Comment: “Mega is no Saint that is for sure but I worry that this is only the beginning.I have no trust and pretty much zero approval of this Government and this Government has shown itself to be liars,hypocrites,and money takers.If you ask me I will state that Washington is full of worse crooks than Megaupload…”

I think maybe the author doesn’t quite get a finger on the essence of what is really bothering him.

It used to be that it was just specific actions that were said to be illegal, and you did it or you didn’t. Now there are “intentions” that are illegal. Certain patterns of bank withdrawals that are around say $9,000, was used as “proof” that somebody was avoiding the reporting requirement that forces banks to report any withdrawal of amounts exceeding $10,000. The pattern itself was defined in court as proof enough, by itself, of the crime of intentionally withdrawing less than $10,000.  This should be no business of the government.

but with some of the legislation of recent decades especially, ambiguity rules and too much power is given to enforcers this way. Too many petty mini-dictatorships with too many little government fiefdoms that arbitrarily make life miserable for any given citizen, all in the name of “protecting” the citizens.

In this case, it just looks like a little of this and a little of that and a little bit of mind-reading and it adds up to criminal infringement even though each particular item in the list when taken alone is legal. Presumably that’s why it’s described as “evidence”, not a factual lawbreaking. So what is the actual illegal act that was done that does not depend on a list of legal activities?

 

See Jonathan Coulton’s blog post on the subject here:
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2012/01/21/megaupload/

Rand Paul’s ‘Police State’ Showdown Reveals Secret Alarm Practices

January 25, 2012

They use Doublespeak dictionaries at the TSA and at the White House, I guess? When is detention of an opposition senator not “detention”?

http://www.nolanchart.com/article9307-rand-pauls-police-state-showdown-reveals-secret-alarm-practices.html

“For an hour and a half, they said ‘absolutely, I would have to accept a pat down. And, because I used my cell phone, they told me I would have to do a full body pat down because you’re not allowed to use your cell phone when you’re being detained. It’s like, well, I can’t call my attorney? I can’t call my office to tell them I’m going to miss a speech to 200,000 people?”

Senator Paul asserted that not only do TSA agents choose citizens at random for unnecessary screenings, but that the screening machines are designed to sound alarms at random as well – subjecting innocent people to intrusive invasions of privacy.

“In the end, after two hours of this quarreling,” he said, “they did let me walk through the screener and it didn’t go off. So what the TSA is not telling you is the screeners are being used as random devices as well. The screeners will go off randomly, and the [agents] don’t know that it’s a random call but it has nothing to do with what you’ve done.”

Well, he was going to speak to the Pro-Life March in Washington. Maybe that’s why they detained him with this random buzzing on the screener?

Enquiring minds want to know. Patriot Act, TSA, DHS, expanded Patriot Act, a DHS secretary “enemies watch list” that includes Ron Paul supporters and returning veterans, and now Obama claims power to arrest any American citizen -in United States territory– and hold him without charges indefinitely (as long as he likes)??

Time for a real change in America, if it’s not too late. Ron Paul.

Remember Bush? We got two wars, accelerated debt growth, intrusions on our individual liberties, expansion of the welfare state, growth in giveaways to more foreign countries and corporate welfare. Sure, Obama is worse in all these things, but why not have the guy you know is an honest and consistent freedom-protecting man who has proven to be a defender of constitutionality and freedom in the Congress?

I went to speak to people at early voting the other day here in Miami, and most of the people I conversed with said they were by far absolutely in favor of Ron Paul and every position he takes, but they just wanted to vote for somebody who could beat Obama in the general election.

The media has been successful at suppressing the fact that the guy who can most easily and handily beat Obama is Ron Paul and NOBODY else.

Foreign Aid and Violence in Honduras – Real Solutions

January 24, 2012

About the volunteer aid groups and violence in Honduras:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/22/v-fullstory/2600849_the-risks-and-rewards-of-helping.html#storylink=addthis

“His [Carlos Castaneda, VP of Americas for Heifer International) take: The violence is primarily between gang members and drug cartels, who’ve moved in from Mexico. That said, Heifer avoids driving at night and holds meetings in villages, not cities.”

The violence may be mostly bad guys hitting at each other, but robberies in daylight are common enough too. My stepson’s girlfriend got robbed going home from work, and on another occasion a friend of theirs was robbed near our house down there. So there are plenty enough innocent people getting hit with it.

There are a couple of extremely effective solutions, and the most effective is the most difficult today because of political and cultural mandates that have emanated from somewhere among the worldwide powers-that-be who have been savvy enough to make this decay of morals look spontaneous.

#1.A spiritual revolution in the culture. When there is a genuine such phenomenon, that takes over a population, the result is like happened once in the 19th-20th century in an area of Wales, where the prisons went out of business. Some churches are trying to work with gang members to this effect in Honduras, and I understand that even the gangs allow their members to quit when they become Christians but watch them carefully, and themselves administer capital punishment for backsliding (they figure they can’t trust them if they quit).

#2. The best and easiest thing the United States could do for Honduras (and lots of Latin America) is to stop the drug wars. Legalizing drugs would clear up the drug-related shooting wars overnight because it would dry up 95% percent of the profit they get from the markup that comes from being illegal.

#3. Stop all foreign aid to Honduras immediately. Looking at you, World Bank. Looking at you, International Monetary Fund. When the tit-for-tat quid-pro-quo dance ends with these international bankers enforcing their own agendas with these payoffs for government politicians, what will happen is that the political actors will have to look to their own country’s resources for help.

If you’re concerned about the “rich elites” of Honduras getting more power that way, what I say is better Hondurans than shadowy international interests whose actions in foreign aid have NOTHING to do with what most Americans think it does.

Ask almost any Honduran, who does that aid benefit? My wife was so humiliated foreign dignitaries took helicopter tours to survey the results of foreign aid after Hurricane Mitch.

Dambisa Moyo, female economist from Africa, wrote a book about this: “Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa“.

And Honduras.

#4. Another way is to expose the outrage of the political side of these killings. What is happening in Honduras is what a brave Venezuelan journalist exposed in January 2010, when Pepe Lobo was soon to be sworn in as president in Honduras. She said that there was a Chavez-Castro plan to initiate killings of journalists and other politically visible figures and then blame it on the new government.

That’s exactly what has happened. The so-called “Reporters Without Borders” (Who are they and where is their funding from?) said nobody should “politicize” or make political points with the brutal killings that took the lives of Karol Cabrera’s daughter and her journalist colleague, but they make plenty of political points against the Lobo government when a pro-leftist or pro-Resistance reporter is killed, never mind that most of them are not related to that, and many of these reporters getting shot were the ones reporting on Manuel Zelaya’s AUTO-COUP and his dictatorship.

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Some investigations very well may have uncovered some of the connections with money from Venezuela, Hondurans should demand better information about this. Americans think they are more accustomed to transparency, but as we see from the handling of international media of events in Honduras, they are definitely agenda-driven with the way they filter the facts coming out of Honduras. 2009 was a case in point.

 

Dead Scientists

January 24, 2012

I thought this was an interesting list to peruse, fascinating in a way in fact, and I just thought I would share it: http://stevequayle.com/dead_scientists/UpdatedDeadScientists.html


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