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Ron Paul: "Reality Is Now Setting In For America... It Was All Based On Lies & Ignorance"

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Submitted by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity,

If Americans were honest with themselves they would acknowledge that the Republic is no more. We now live in a police state. If we do not recognize and resist this development, freedom and prosperity for all Americans will continue to deteriorate. All liberties in America today are under siege.

It didn’t happen overnight. It took many years of neglect for our liberties to be given away so casually for a promise of security from the politicians. The tragic part is that the more security was promised — physical and economic — the less liberty was protected.

With cradle-to-grave welfare protecting all citizens from any mistakes and a perpetual global war on terrorism, which a majority of Americans were convinced was absolutely necessary for our survival, our security and prosperity has been sacrificed.

It was all based on lies and ignorance. Many came to believe that their best interests were served by giving up a little freedom now and then to gain a better life.

The trap was set. At the beginning of a cycle that systematically undermines liberty with delusions of easy prosperity, the change may actually seem to be beneficial to a few. But to me that’s like excusing embezzlement as a road to leisure and wealth — eventually payment and punishment always come due. One cannot escape the fact that a society’s wealth cannot be sustained or increased without work and productive effort. Yes, some criminal elements can benefit for a while, but reality always sets in.

Reality is now setting in for America and for that matter for most of the world. The piper will get his due even if “the children” have to suffer. The deception of promising “success” has lasted for quite a while. It was accomplished by ever-increasing taxes, deficits, borrowing, and printing press money. In the meantime the policing powers of the federal government were systematically and significantly expanded. No one cared much, as there seemed to be enough “gravy” for the rich, the poor, the politicians, and the bureaucrats.

Warfare/Welfare State Requires Police Control

As the size of government grew and cracks in the system became readily apparent, a federal police force was needed to regulate our lives and the economy, as well as to protect us from ourselves and make sure the redistribution of a shrinking economic pie was “fair” to all. Central economic planning requires an economic police force to monitor every transaction of all Americans. Special interests were quick to get governments to regulate everything we put in our bodies: food, medications, and even politically correct ideas. IRS employees soon needed to carry guns to maximize revenue collections.

The global commitment to perpetual war, though present for decades, exploded in size and scope after 9/11. If there weren’t enough economic reasons to monitor everything we did, fanatics used the excuse of national security to condition the American people to accept total surveillance of all by the NSA, the TSA, FISA courts, the CIA, and the FBI. The people even became sympathetic to our government’s policy of torture.

To keep the people obedient to statism that originated at the federal level of government, control of education was required. It is now recognized that central control of education has actually ruined education, while costs have skyrocketed. National control of medical care has brought a similar result. This has meant more money for bureaucrats, as well as drug, insurance, and health management companies, and less money for medical care. Constantly more police are required to run our lives at greater costs while providing less benefit. “Nationalizing” both medical care and education has provided a great incentive to increase the policing powers of the federal government.

 The predictable poverty that results from such a terrible system is now upon us and is a strong motivation for the militarization of local police as part of the expansion of the national police state. Temporary and perceived benefits of government overreach and expanded policing powers end up becoming the real problem. By the time it is understood that these “benefits” are artificial, government power and special interests have gained control of a system designed to serve them and not the people the programs were purported to help. The victims are left hanging and taught that too much freedom is the source of the problem, prompting even more support for the policing power of the state.

Today the failure of central economic planning and of the US as world policeman is everywhere to be found. This is especially noticeable in the police war on the lawbreakers — real and unreal — in America. The failures of social and economic policy of the past 50 years have led to a mounting friction between the local police and the rights of the people. Local police have been militarized and have become an integral part of the national police state. A police culture that accepts the principle of initiating unjustified violence against citizens has become a serious problem.

The news is constant. If it’s not Ferguson, it’s New York City. If not New York City, it’s Chicago or Detroit or Cleveland. And I believe the violence in our cities is only in its early stages. We had a taste of the conflict in the 1960s, but the fundamental values of equal justice and economic opportunity have receded further from reality. Failing to understand why the past 50 years of government expansion to eradicate poverty has only worsened the conditions of our cities will guarantee that the violent conflicts we see erupting today will only get worse.

Fight for Equal Protection Distorted by 'War on Poverty'

Fifty years ago, as a result of Martin Luther King Jr.’s leadership in a plea for equal justice, LBJ declared war on poverty. Poverty was seen at that time as the major contributing factor in the plight of those living in the inner city. King’s dream was to make sure all people will be judged by the “content of their character” and not by “the color of their skin.” Good advice, but it was never followed. Residual racism remains, but the excuse for every shortcoming in the failed cities is said to be due to the color of one’s skin.

The very expensive war on poverty has after 50 years only made matters worse, compounding the problems of poverty and inflation while hurting most of the people the “war” was supposed to help. Currently our government spends over $1 trillion per year on anti-poverty programs. Over the past 50 years, over $16 trillion was spent, i.e., wasted. And yet poverty and dire economic conditions remain the major factor in the violence that persists, which incites or gives the police the excuse to overreact to maintain order. The plans and expectations for the war on poverty must have been seriously flawed.

Although the degree of poverty is different for the various races in the United States, all categories — Asian, white, Hispanic, and black — have had a steady increase in real median income from 1964 until the year 2000, when the first of many bubbles started bursting. In all four race categories incomes are lower since then. With the economy moving into the next stage of liquidation of bad investment and debt, we should expect this trend to continue. Economic setbacks and a decrease in real income are not limited to blacks in the inner city. The setback for the young has been dramatically worse than for the older generations, aggravating the problem of violent crime in our cities.

The “progress” of the early years of the war on poverty is understandable because the payment that always must be paid was delayed. The deficits and the borrowing and printing of money were unsustainable. It should not be difficult to understand that the welfare benefits, the bloated government, the excessive salaries, and the promised pensions for thousands of nonproductive bureaucrats in Detroit would lead to bankruptcy. The benefits had to be reduced. If policies don’t change and the politicians continue to be elected by wild promises, the disaster will continue. How can the provocateurs blame racism for the plight of the middle class in Detroit?

We must get people to reject flawed economic policy if we want a real war on poverty. LBJ’s war on poverty was no more successful than his Vietnam War — or any war since, for that matter. A national government that can print money as needed to finance extraordinary extravagance can function longer than a city, state, or private entity, but it too must eventually “file for bankruptcy” albeit in a different fashion. As we are now seeing, the bankruptcy of a nation also involves poverty for many. This situation will continue to worsen. Since poverty is a major contributing factor to the violence of excessive police militarization, some fundamentals must be understood. The economic theories of Paul Samuelson, Paul Krugman, John Maynard Keynes, and all those who claim to know how to “regulate” the economy to benefit the poor, must be challenged and abandoned.

So far reality has not yet set in. The poor grow in numbers as the middle class shrinks and the privileged class that benefits from government spending and government control of the monetary system thrives. The political demagogues and the authoritarians feed the flames of resentment that develop between the rich and the poor as class warfare and racial strife take over. They care little and understand less what liberty is all about — the more chaos there is, the more laws they seek to pass.

The Victimized Inner Cities

This social disruption has motivated the enthusiastic growth and militarization of our local police departments. The law and order crowd thrives on excessive laws and regulations that no US citizen can escape. The out-of-control war on drugs is the worst part, and it generates the greatest danger in poverty-ridden areas via out-of-control police. It is estimated that these conditions have generated up to 80,000 SWAT raids per year in the United States. Most are in poor neighborhoods and involve black homes and businesses being hit disproportionately. This involves a high percentage of no-knock attacks. As can be expected many totally innocent people are killed in the process. Property damage is routine and compensation is rare. The routine use of civil forfeiture of property has become an abomination, totally out of control, which significantly contributes to the chaos. It should not be a surprise to see resentment building up against the police under these conditions. The violent reaction against local merchants in retaliation for police actions further aggravates the situation —hardly a recipe for a safe neighborhood.

Though poverty and excessive laws associated with the war on drugs are significant factors in the conflicts that are routine in the inner-city, the overreaction by both sides continues to make the situation much worse. As a result, policing in general is out of control, and anything suggesting racial confrontation leads to rioting, looting, and property destruction. Civil liberties are ignored by the police, and the private property of innocent bystanders is disregarded by those resenting police violence. When police overreact and unfairly enforce the law, it elicits a violent reaction from those on the receiving end. This only escalates the problem. It’s an invitation for outside provocateurs to rush in and aggravate the racial tensions — all the while never trying to understand the real reasons behind police militarization and the cause of poverty.

The military-industrial complex now systematically lobbies to provide to local police departments the newest and most sophisticated weaponry — just as they sell weapons to the United States government to fight undeclared wars overseas. Drug laws are pushed by many corporate interests as well. Pharmaceutical companies, alcohol companies, and private prison systems all support of the insane war on drugs. The victims are the poor who suffer with a messed up economy and have no easy access to jobs. A natural temptation is to become a drug dealer. Violent activities arising from the drug war making drug transactions a criminal undertaking create demand in communities for strict law enforcement.

Why do the race baiters have so much success in making this type of conflict a racial problem alone? Unfortunately many of them make a living off stirring up trouble. If the situation were understood in terms of police brutality and poverty, the evening news would be dramatically different. Turning it into strictly a racial conflict narrows the discussion, and the idea of responsibility for one’s action no longer needs to be discussed.

The race factor seems to stir up the emotions. Mob-like responses can be achieved, which further inflames the situation. Out of control police and an entire segment of our population taught that responsibility for one’s actions is a negative are a volatile mix.

Justice under the law requires that people cannot be punished or rewarded because of the color of their skin, but unfortunately King’s claim that only a person’s character counts is forgotten.

The entitlement mentality is a source of much anger and misunderstanding. It leads people who see themselves as victims to one conclusion: they are entitled to be taken care of. They believe that more government transfer payments are the solution. They claim that they deserve to be taken care of and that, if they are not, there’s trouble to be had — which only opens the door to more police overreactions.

There is agreement with my contention that poverty is a big problem and the source of much trouble. Therefore, it is said, someone must take care of it. If one trillion dollars per year doesn’t do the job, then make it $2 trillion. If the war on poverty’s $16 trillion hasn’t worked, make it $32 trillion. This sentiment reflects the entitlement mentality that has taught many that some people have a “right” to government handouts and that the rich must pay. This is an idea that is deeply flawed, and it stirs up class warfare on top of racial animosities and police brutality.

The blanket demand that all wealthy individuals owe support to the poor through government welfare programs is not an example of equal justice under the law. It is an example of egalitarianism gone awry. Welfare, which is the use of force to transfer wealth from one group to another, is based on a moral principle of equality that in fact is not moral and does not work. The wealthy special interests, such as banks, the military-industrial complex, the medical industry, the drug industry, and many other corporatists, quickly gain control of the system. Crumbs may be thrown to the poor, but the principle of wealth transfer is hijacked and used for corporate and foreign welfare instead of wealth transfers to the poor.

Many people do indeed gain wealth unfairly with today’s system, which adds to the envy shared by many and especially the poor. But this is a problem that is not solved by indiscriminately placing blame on successful businesses. The result would be the country and the whole world becoming poorer while resentment rises. Honest profits of successful entrepreneurs are quite different than profits of the corporate elite who gain control of the government and, as a consequence, accumulate obscene wealth by “robbing” the middle class. To blame and destroy those who make an honest living by satisfying consumers without the use of special benefits from the government is destructive to liberty and wealth.

Reforms that are driven by envy of successful people making an honest living will not address the problem of poverty. Poverty is actually made worse by an aggressive sense of victimization.

Many factors are involved in the crisis of our cities, including the following:
 

Police brutality, militarization of the police, excessive laws, courts and law enforcement efforts ignoring the principles of equal justice,
 
Racism that exists to some degree on both sides of the conflict,
 
Rampant crime reflecting structural poverty,
 
Absence of an understanding of the difference between earned and stolen wealth,
 
Race baiting,
 
The entitlement mentality, self-reliance not being a goal for many, and the breakdown of the family unit,
 
The war on drugs, and
 
The lack of economic understanding regarding the Federal Reserve, taxes, welfare, economic consequences of constant war, deficits, and excessive government spending.

True satisfaction comes from productive effort and self-reliance and not from a government transferring wealth in an effort to bring about an egalitarian society. The absence of an understanding of the nonaggression principle makes it difficult for positive reforms to develop. Unfortunately hypocrisy has come to equal “common sense.” Placing confidence in people who thrive on wielding government power and who spend a lifetime using it to benefit special interests is not a wise policy.

The people have too little confidence that most problems can be solved in a voluntary manner in a society that cherishes civil liberties. There’s never an admission that government problem-solving doesn’t work. Government-created problems are a road to poverty and resentment. Too many people believe that “free stuff” from the government can solve our problems. They mistakenly believe that deficits don’t matter and that wealth can come from a printing press.

The recent high profile episodes of racial conflict involving police killings and the violence in some neighborhoods have been a fertile environment for the demagogues and those who thrive on racial conflict.

Some have suggested that sensitivity training for all police personnel should be required, to teach proper ways to deal with the public. Though there’s a lot of extenuating circumstances that provoke overreaction by the police, I’m not optimistic that the problem will be helped much by sensitivity training. Retraining the police won’t touch the complex problems that pit the police against the victims of complex social conditions generated by hate, violence and bad economic policies. The high profile episodes of police violence and overreaction are a consequence of conditions that in many ways were generated by government policy.

If social engineering intended to produce economic equality fails, more of the same cannot possibly be the solution. Seeking and promoting equal justice has nothing to do with welfare redistribution. On the contrary: equal justice requires the end of welfare redistribution. Redistribution is a process that is always destined to help a small minority, whether in an economy like ours that endorses central economic planning or in one run by radical fascists or communists. While advocates claim that it’s the duty of government to pursue economic equality, all efforts fail to achieve that goal, while gutting the principle of equal justice.

The Rich Are Getting Richer, But Why?

Under an authoritarian regime, those in power take care of themselves. This always leads to poverty and discrepancy in wealth distribution. Eventually the social strife that is predictable leads to an overthrow of the government. The Soviet communist leaders never suffered from want, but even they were routed when the people in the Soviet system decided that they had had enough.

We must realize that we are not exempt from a breakdown of our system. The strife that we are witnessing is a reflection of a growing number of people who are recognizing the discrepancy between rich and poor, the weak and the powerful, Wall Street and Main Street. The courts are obviously failing at meting out justice fairly and impartially. Money and race have a lot to do with how arrests, convictions, and incarcerations are carried out. That provides motivation for some people to become angry and violently strike out against anyone who appears to have more than they do.

While the courts fail to follow the rules of equal justice, those who react violently believe that attacking almost anyone is justifiable in seeking what they claim is justice. Talk of the 99 percent and one percent is not just sloganeering. It reveals a problem generated by government and a situation in which some people believe that they have a “right” to be taken care of rather than just a right to live in a free and just society where all persons are treated equally under the law.

Indeed the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer. The extreme current inequality is not a consequence of free markets and true liberty. Rather it results from the welfare state that, as always, morphs into a system that provides excesses for the powerful few. Better management of the welfare system does not help. That only changes the types of authoritarians in charge. Both political parties are financed by Wall Street, the big banks, and the military-industrial complex. Getting rich by being part of the government class is the problem. Wealth achieved by hard work is quite a bit different. Opening the door to this opportunity is achievable by following the principle of life, liberty, and property.

The economic interventionist system under which we live today rewards those who benefit from government economic planning by the Federal Reserve, access to government contracts, and targeted special regulations to help one group over the other. The insiders benefit during the bubble phase of the business cycle and are the first ones in line for the bailouts. The poor, for whom welfare is supposedly designed to help and for whom the politicians justify the spending, end up with the crumbs while the Wall Street/banking elites thrive in good times and bad. There are two problems. First is conceding the principle that government has the moral authority to redistribute wealth. Second is believing the redistribution will be managed wisely and without corruption.

All government management ends up being unwise, corrupt, and wasteful. The money interests inevitably prevail. Belief that “good” bureaucrats and politicians can be found to manage the economy and achieve equity in distribution is a dream that always ends up a nightmare. To make even a modest attempt at this goal requires government to use aggression against one group for the benefit of another. This authority must be denied to government. We must limit the government’s role to protecting equal justice in defense of life, liberty, and property.

Currently the political system in America and in most of the rest of the world is not motivated to seek this limited goal for government. Thus the move toward unfair concentration of wealth in the few and a dramatic increase in the number of people living in poverty as the middle class shrinks. Since there is little understanding of the economic system that is a major contributing factor to the economic problems, it can be expected to exacerbate social and class conflict. The killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson plus many similar incidents are signs of a serious economic and political crisis that is not limited to police brutality and runaway violence.

Police brutality and militarization may well induce a violent event far beyond what we have seen in Ferguson. It also can serve as an excuse. But it is not the root cause of turmoil. The real cause is poverty, the entitlement mentality, and the breakdown of the rule of law. Moral decay and the national police state are the real culprits.

More police with improved training will not do much to deal with this growing conflict. Bowing to entitlement demands from the “victims” will not be helpful in a bankrupt system. We have too many police, too many laws, and too much exemption of government officials from the crimes they commit. Both adding police and increasing entitlements involve expanding the role of government in an effort to solve problems that too much government has already caused. Government can only be expanded by diminishing the people’s liberty. This problem can only be ended by maximizing liberty and getting people to realize that self-reliance, hard work, and the absence of coercive force by individuals and government is the only way to reverse the downward trend from which we are suffering.

The battle will no longer be to get the government to pick sides in a conflict between rich and poor, black and white, young and old, or the lawless police versus the lawless demands of entitlement recipients demanding their “fair share.” There has to be an understanding that productive effort and self-reliance on the part of everyone is required for a free society to thrive.

Our Liberties Under Attack

The economic and moral decay of American society is reflected in the loss of liberties. This problem affects all Americans and not just the poor in the inner city. Gradual erosion of personal and economic liberty has proceeded for a century. The loss of our liberty has sharply accelerated since the 9/11 attacks. We have done to ourselves what no foreign enemy could have possibly accomplished.

Government surveillance provides the state with information that enables it to know our every move. The protection of the Fourth Amendment is gone. Many Americans are comfortable with the sacrifice of liberty for safety and accept the notion that government’s key responsibility is to keep us safe. It’s a nice dream but the truth is it can’t do it. One thing for sure: if it tries, it will do so at the expense of liberty.

Welfare, for the rich or poor, cannot exist without the sacrifice of the principal of property ownership. Though it always starts small and justified for the “needy,” the principle of wealth transfer incentivizes the special interests and the rich to obtain benefit at the expense of the poor. This occurs in all societies and inevitably grows to a point where the production of wealth is diminished and the system collapses. This is what we are witnessing today.

The growth of the state necessitates government surveillance of all our financial transactions to enhance the collection of tax revenues. Because there is never enough money for the “do-gooders,” the tactics of the tax collectors have become more vicious. Violation of our liberties is excused by the majority in order to ensure that all people “pay their fair share.” When conditions deteriorate, capital controls are imposed to prevent moving assets out of the country. Our monstrous tax code reflects the hundred-years development of our income tax system and is one of the greatest invitations for our “caring” government to pursue the impossible goal of the fair distribution of all wealth.

The vicious drug war, which dates from the early 1970s, provides another excuse for knowing everything about everybody at all times. Its selling point is to keep people safe from themselves. Pursuing this principle guarantees that liberty will be decimated in the process. It invites the government’s interference in our spiritual and intellectual well-being. What one reads and believes becomes of interest to the manipulators who want to care for us for our own good. And they never rest from seeking this goal.

This concession to the state invites controls on everything we put into our bodies: what we eat, drink, or inhale. It takes a lot of bureaucrats, politicians, and money to manage the process. The people, we have been told, are “too stupid” to make their own decisions about their own lives. We are to believe that politicians who invite themselves to rule over us are all-wise and that we should be thankful to sacrifice our liberty for this “service.” Authoritarians actually believe that we should be grateful to them for all the good things that they do for us. We must remember that if the people don’t rebel against a police state it only grows in size and becomes more ruthless.

In addition to all these trends — which includes the federal government monopolizing and administering medical care and education — government surveillance becomes the darling of the gurus who love the technology that allows the government to know our every move, every day, without limits.

With the disaster of 9/11, an existing acceptance of government monitoring, along with technological advances, helped allow a new age to be ushered in that makes the horrors of George Orwell’s 1984 look less threatening by comparison.

The Federal Government’s War on Us

Tolerance is a favorable trait when it means acting without aggression toward others, but tolerance of the monster that has evolved in our government is not good. Instead of adding more government agencies to spy on the American people, we should be talking about eliminating the ones we have, at a cost the American taxpayers of over $80 billion per year.

We have lived with the global war on terrorism for over 13 years now, and the threat of terrorist attacks against Americans and American allies is worse than ever. Though a global threat exists, the greatest dangers for American citizens here at home have been caused by our own government. Our government’s attacks on our liberties have been overwhelming and worse than anything any foreign power has ever done.

It’s the federal government that leads the charge in all our domestic wars, which, in addition to the global war on terrorism, include the war on drugs, taxpayers, and poverty, all of which contribute to the constant war on our privacy. Today every American is a suspect. Our president has established a policy that an American citizen can be assassinated without even being charged with a crime. The national police are made up of over 100,000 bureaucrats and police officials who carry guns to enforce federal law on the American citizens. The Founders and our Constitution intended that policing powers would be the responsibility of the individual states. That was forgotten a long time ago.

Not only do employees of agencies like the CIA, FBI, and BATF carry guns, employees of OSHA, EPA, Fish and Wildlife, and many other agencies enforcing regulations do so as well. The notion of total homeland security being provided by a heavily armed Department of Homeland Security was foreign to America up until just recently. Today, whether it’s riots in our cities or chaos after a national disaster like a hurricane, the Feds are there taking charge over all local officials and property owners, . It shouldn’t surprise us that our local police departments have become an arm of a runaway federal police mentality that mimics an army.

The Founders did not even want a standing army. They wanted only a militia. Today we endure, at the expense of our liberties, a national police force armed like an invading military force. We are destined to see a continued escalation of violence in our cities as the internal conflicts grow. Instead of the police quelling the violence, they unfortunately have become part of it.

It’s evident we have a national police force harassing the people and failing to protect liberty and property. It fails to quell riots while. Too often it incites them. We are also stuck with a huge “standing” army, marching around the world and engaged to some degree in over 150 countries, “making the world safe for democracy” and serving as a private police force for American corporations overseas.

The US Empire: Who Does it Serve?

When Obama announced a shift in geopolitical interest to the Far East —– to keep an eye on China —– one TV anchor pointed out that the move seems quite logical since we have a lot of “business interests” in the region. It is, in fact, far from logical if one looks at the tragic mess US government interventionism has caused in the Middle East and the conflict the US government is stirring up with Russia over Ukraine.

Old-fashioned colonialism was deemed necessary by various European powers to secure natural resources along with control over sea lanes and markets for selling manufactured goods. European-style colonialism — supporting a mercantilistic economy — came to be seen as politically unrealistic and unnecessary. When free-trade principles were utilized, colonialism did not die; it only changed form. Mercantilism in various forms and degrees drove trade policies of nations with strong economies and militaries. Though the United States is the world’s military powerhouse, controls the oceans and airspace, and has a presence in the four corners of the earth, few people refer to America as a colonial power. But in many ways it is, which has prompted our interests in oil and mineral rich countries. We are frequently involved in choosing the “elected” leaders, as well as hand-picking dictators, in many countries as well. This is not exactly what the Founders had advised.

International militarization of our policies is just as dangerous to our liberties and economy as is the domestic policy that drives our authoritarian governments to regulate our every move. We are now subject to an out-of-control domestic police force while the US military maintains our Empire overseas.

The “one percenters,” generally speaking, are internationalists who are not champions of individual liberty and free trade. They are supporters of managed trade and international institutions like the WTO where the interests of the one percent can influence the rulings that frequently have little to do with advancing advertised goals of low tariffs and free trade.

The international monetary system is a powerful tool for the select few. Easy credit, government guarantees, and generous contracts are a great benefit to those in charge. Non-compliant nations, or any country that is deemed unfriendly, can be punished with severe sanctions without moral or economic justification. US corporations benefit from our military presence worldwide. The military-industrial complex profits not only by selling weapons to the US government, but also by being the world’s chief arms provider.

It is a fact that many weapons we send into areas such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria frequently end up in the hands of our enemies. ISIS obtaining US weapons led to the US military then taking action to destroy the weapons. The military-industrial complex is immediately available to replace the weapons while earning generous profits. This is great if you happen to be an insider manufacturing or selling these weapons. It is quite a lucrative business, all at the expense of the American taxpayer.

The United States military presence around the world provides a “private” police force to protect US and other international companies against any local resistance or leaders that turn unfriendly. Our military presence overseas has nothing to do with protecting our freedoms and defending our Constitution. Those are lies and are used for the purpose of gaining the support of the American people for wars that should never have been fought. After long periods of tragic losses and expense, the American people generally wake up and realize what has happened. But what we need to do is wake the American people up earlier and get them to realize that the resistance has to be heard from the people when the government is preparing for war, not after the war has begun or even ended.

Military personnel are idolized, and, if any one raises a question on whether or not all soldiers are universally “heroes,” that person is accused of being unpatriotic, un-American, and unsupportive of the troops. In fact, the real heroes are the ones who expose the truth and refuse to fight foreign wars for the international corporations. Disengaging our troops from around the world and refusing to defend American neocolonialism is pursuing a course compatible with the qualities that Americans claim to stand for.

Liberty at home is never enhanced by war abroad. Preemptive wars are especially antagonistic to the goals of peace, commerce, and honest friendship. War “is the health of the state,” it has been said, and the state is the enemy of liberty. Wars overseas justify the wars at home against the American people. It is expected that liberties will be sacrificed when a country is at war. Pro-war neoconservatives are blatantly honest by arguing that for freedom to exist the sacrifice of liberty is required. This admission is truly discouraging. It hardly makes sense that voluntarily sacrificing liberty is worthwhile, if the goal is to preserve liberty. Time is short to reverse this trend.

Not only are our policies destructive to liberty, the economic costs are prohibitive. So far the bills have not been paid, but they are rapidly coming due. Both the deeply flawed policy of military interventionism abroad and the failed errors of central economic planning at home are now threatening our liberties and our general welfare. The recent breakout of violence in our cities between police on one side and people who have been thrust into the stagnation of poverty as a consequence of bad government social and economic policy on the other side should not be a mystery if one could see the forest for the trees. Economic problems are “blowback” and unintended consequences of well-meaning welfare programs that have been usurped by the powerful special interests demanding benefits off the top.

Yes, it’s tempting to believe the falsehoods of economists who claim that transferring wealth for fairness sake is beneficial, but history shows that it never works. The same humanitarians argue that all spending is crucial and beneficial, deficits don’t matter, borrowing is good, and taxing is the equalizer. If government still comes up short they say just turn on the printing presses. That is the philosophy we have been living with for 85 years, and the evidence is now in. It is clear to most Americans that these policies have not worked. Yet they are not ready to concede that it is less government and more freedom that is the solution.

The obsession with continuing all the same policies has increased our poverty, increased violence between the classes, and lowered the standard of living for all except the elite one percent. And worst of all, the sacrifice of liberty was for naught. Losing both liberty and the right to truly own property undermines the ability to create wealth. When this process gets out-of-control the economy goes into a death spiral, in the beginning of which we currently find ourselves. Without a correction to the basic understanding of the proper role of government, the downward spiral will continue.

Blowback All Around: We Are Less Safe

Economic blowback and unintended consequences is one thing, but blowback from our needless and aggressive policies around the world is another, and every bit as dangerous. As we find ourselves increasingly engaged economically and militarily around the world, we can expect many more attacks on American interests. With so many military personnel abroad, they will be the easiest targets to be hit. But attacks similar in nature to the 9/11 attacks will remain a threat to our homeland. We will not be attacked because we are free and rich. The attacks will come from angry people who have had friends and relatives killed by America’s careless and often vicious use of our military force in their countries.

It is not that difficult to feel resentment against a country that comes thousands of miles from home and bombs, invades, and punishes with sanctions, other countries that have never initiated force against it. As long as our foreign policy remains the same we can expect serious blowback attacks — and for them to increase in number as our prowess is diminished. Economic factors will determine this, and the loss of dollar hegemony will aggravate the situation.

The US government’s foolishness in foreign affairs has plagued us for 100 years. The escalation of our presence around the world since 9/11 continues. It is a policy “bubble” of gigantic proportions. This “bubble” of intervention is about to burst. Any serious look at our last 13 years of intervention around the world should convince all skeptics of how foolish, dangerous, and expensive it has been. The US operates with an attitude that it has the power and therefore the responsibility to be involved in deciding almost every foreign leader, whether elected or appointed as a dictator.

We have been engaged in picking and financing political factions in revolts in countries including Egypt, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, Ukraine, Somalia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Liberia, Georgia, Haiti, and Lebanon.

These involvements impose a huge tax and inflation burden on the American people. Trillions of dollars have been spent, and the debt continues to mount. The abject failure of our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan elicits a loud call from the neoconservatives for more money, troops, weapons, and bombs, with zero hope of a successful mission. ISIS, now considered our greatest threat, is not even a country, but our occupation and destruction in the region motivates even a ragtag bunch to expel foreign forces from their homeland. ISIS has rallied enormous support and resources to undermine our allies in the region. That assessment is difficult, of course, since it’s hard for anyone to identify exactly who our allies are and distinguish them from our avowed enemies.

US foreign policy has helped create the disastrous situation in Syria. We declared that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad had to go. We supported rebel factions. We armed them. They turned on us and used their American weapons against us with an amazing resistance headed by the ruthless ISIS, an outgrowth of al-Qaeda. It’s quite an irony that ISIS is well entrenched in northern Iraq, since before we decided to invade Iraq and kill Saddam Hussein no al-Qaeda were present in Iraq. Now the neocons are getting their way and American forces are returning with reinforcements and weapons to save Baghdad from the jihadists.

No one can make this stuff up. It’s too bizarre for fiction. Unfortunately, with the help of the media and our government, the American people have remained oblivious to the stupidity of our policies of the past 13 years. A day will come though when the full cost of this policy is dumped on the American people. Then they will get the message. Then it will be too late to gracefully exit and restore sanity without cataclysmic changes being forced on us. The major challenge will be the survival of our liberties.

What to expect in 2015?

Foreign Affairs

More American troops will be sent overseas to places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Ukraine. There will be no military victories to brag about. More American military personnel will be killed in 2015 than in 2014. Military contractors will be used in growing numbers and their casualties will not be counted as military casualties.

The Ukraine civil war will not end, and the United States will be further bogged down in this conflict. Relations with Russia will continue to deteriorate. The neocons in Congress will gain even more influence over our foreign policy. Punishing sanctions will continue to be made more severe and push Russia further into China’s sphere of influence. Gold will gain credibility as we isolate the Russians from the financial markets.

Sanctions on Russia will alienate Europe against the United States. The British oil industry will suffer from the “conspiracy” of the US and Saudi Arabia to drive oil prices down to punish Russia.

The military-industrial complex will continue to thrive and make even more money with the greater influence of the neocons in the new Congress. Supplemental budgets for the military should be expected, along with covert assistance and additional foreign aid to finance the management of our Empire.

Our enemies’ strength will grow and prompt even more abuse of American citizens’ privacy and free expression. We should not be surprised if there is a reigniting of the conflict in the Balkans. The first of the color revolutions in 2000 in Serbia can hardly be claimed a permanent victory. Generally, bombs from outsiders don’t solve internal problems. Those problems must eventually be solved from within a country rather than from outside interference.

The US and NATO announced that the 13 year war in Afghanistan has ended. There has been neither the pretense of "Mission Accomplished" nor an admission of outright failure, along with an exodus. In reality the war has not ended and instead will continue for a long time. No victory for US policy is possible. The conflict will actually spread and increase in intensity since our goals are undefinable and therefore the war is un-winnable.

Sanity will not return to US leaders until our financial system collapses — an event for which they are feverishly working
 

Domestic issues

An honest assessment of the economy will not reveal any significant improvement in 2015. Inflation will continue to plague us, possibly even with the government-rigged CPI figures showing an increase. But the true inflation of the Fed’s credit creation, as well as the subsequent mal- investment and the various bubbles bursting will accelerate. Debt in all categories will continue to increase at unsustainable rates. The Fed will not permit interest rates to rise — at least on purpose. Eventually the market will demand that rates do rise, however.

Tax revenues will continue to rise, aiding the policy of the government spending the people’s money rather than those who earned it. Regulations, even with (or maybe especially with) a Republican Congress will continue to increase and make the Federal Register more incomprehensible. Friction between the middle class and the one percent, many of whom are living off government privileges, will escalate further and be reflected in confrontations especially in the large cities. Financial currency controls will continue to expand especially with cross-border transactions.

Blowback and unintended consequences from our sanctions and foreign policy in general will continue to threaten our domestic security and our economy, as well as our liberties.

Relations with Cuba will be improved with the president’s effort to resume diplomatic relations, but the radicals and isolationists who oppose free trade will place roadblocks in the way and slow the process.

A major geopolitical or economic event, greater than the crisis of 2008, is fast approaching. The precipitating event will be a surprise to the majority of politicians and economists. There are many “next shoe to drop” possibilities, and one could happen any time or any place.

Wall Street will be protected, and the trillions of dollars of big banks derivatives will be absorbed by the Fed, the FDIC, and ultimately by the American taxpayers in the next financial crisis. There’s no doubt the poor will get poorer and the rich richer until the spirit of revolution in the people calls a halt to the systematic destruction of freedom in America.

Conclusion: Toward a Peaceful Revolution

Authoritarianism has overtaken our economic system as the welfare mentality takes over at every level of government. Once the initiation of force by government is accepted by the people, even minimally, it escalates and involves every aspect of society. The only question that remains is just who gets to wield the power to distribute the largess to their friends and chosen beneficiaries. It’s a recipe for steady growth of the government at the expense of liberties, even if official documents and laws written to limit government power are in place. Planting even small seeds of monopoly power in the hands of a few people in government, whether democratically elected or not, will always metastasize like a cancer. This was Jefferson’s concern when he advised that “[t]he tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time.” He believed the people must warn the rulers that taking up arms against the government is legitimate if the government fails to protect the people’s liberty.

This should be a consideration. But if the spirit of liberty is not alive and well in the hearts and minds of the people, violence alone against the government will not be a solution. History has shown that, more often than not, people who rebel against abusive governments, whether run by kings or modern day dictators, do not gain much — overthrowing one dictator and replacing him with another just as bad.

A clear understanding of the nature and source of liberty is required for revolutions to be beneficial. Restraining the few who thrive on the use of force to rule over us is the challenge. Fortunately they are outnumbered by those who would choose liberty yet lack the will to challenge the humanitarian monsters who gain support from naive and apathetic citizens. All positive revolutions must be philosophic in nature to make a difference. Violence alone achieves nothing.

Before we can actually restore our liberties, we most likely will have to become a lot less free and much poorer. This is sad since correct and workable answers are available to us if only the people understood them and demanded liberty and honesty, rather than being dependent on excessive government power and believing the false promises of politicians.

Even with the problems we face today and the bleak outlook for the coming year there’s much to encourage us. During this next year there will be the continuation of many more people recognizing the failure of government to create peace and prosperity. More widespread understanding of this truth is required in order to bring about a successful revolution.

The freedom movement, especially with many young people involved, will grow in numbers and influence.

Current monetary policy and the Federal Reserve will continue to lose credibility, especially with the next bailout. Although “too big to fail” will stay in place, it will further alienate Main Street America causing it to rebel against the system.

The real problem of course is that too many “stupid people” are IN our government and have high visibility on the major TV networks. There will be plenty of people, not officially associated with government, who will rebel against various governments around the world. The sentiments supporting secession, jury nullification, nullification of federal laws by state legislatures, and a drive for more independence from larger governments will continue.

We should not be discouraged. Enlightenment is not nearly as difficult to achieve as it was before the breakthrough with Internet communications occurred.  Besides we must remember that “an idea whose time has come” cannot be stopped by armies, demagogues, politicians, or even Fox News or MSNBC. The time has come for the ideas of liberty to prevail. I smell progress. Let’s make 2015 a fun year for LIBERTY.

 

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Sat, 01/10/2015 - 15:03 | 5646043 22winmag
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Truer words were never spoken.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 19:17 | 5646759 Bob
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The Archdruid suspects it was Satanists within the fundamentalist Christian "conservative" community who embraced Ayn Rand's Bible:

http://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-conversation-with-archd...

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 23:15 | 5650182 amadeus39
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Boo hoo. Republics only work for small, homogeneous societies, or have'nt you noticed.

 

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 14:51 | 5646019 Eyeroller
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It's no coincidence that there are more people on food stamps than ever before.  As long as people aren't suffering at the levels seen during the Depression or as the Russian people always have, then the masses will be placated.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 14:52 | 5646024 Baa baa
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No offense but this article merely parrots what others have already brought forth. I presume the learned readership at Zero Hedge is well aware of all the points made.

What always escapes these pundits is a viable solution. People are always dissatisfied with something and they bitch but the problems of magnitude such as those discussed, continue to grow unchecked and no one offers a way to deal with them.

And yes, I  have a solution but not enough room.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 16:05 | 5646224 Mi Naem
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"What always escapes these pundits is a viable solution."

Second that. 

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 20:29 | 5646974 g speed
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the solution is non-conformity--ignore gov'ts and they become obsolete-- stonewall or overload them with compliance red tape-- 

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 15:01 | 5646039 22winmag
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Isn't the oil-soaked, spy-riddled Tea Party going to ride to the resuce?

 

No?

 

The next thing you are going to tell me is voting will change things... when in fact it's what got us where we are.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 15:07 | 5646059 RabbitOne
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“…Sanity will not return to US leaders until our financial system collapses — an event for which they are feverishly working…A major geopolitical or economic event, greater than the crisis of 2008, is fast approaching. The precipitating event will be a surprise to the majority of politicians and economists. There are many “next shoe to drop” possibilities, and one could happen any time or any place…”There’s no doubt the poor will get poorer and the rich richer until the spirit of revolution in the people calls a halt to the systematic destruction of freedom in America…..”

 “Yep son, we have met the enemy and he is us” Pogo

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 15:14 | 5646064 damicol
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What he has written has been the core of my thinking and actions for the last 8 years.

 

I have evolved from the start to figure out how to do it. No point arguing and trying to fight it.

I made myself a one man sovereign state, i pay no taxes, i ask nothing of the govt, i  never fill any bureaucratic forms in, no property is in my name no vehicle or  or business but i control  all of those. Foreign corporations, can be set up for a few dollars and dissolved in a year   with no records ever being made

Bank accounts in corporate names  neatly  circumvent FATCA as I am never a director,  take a salary or dividends.

Contracts, carefully worded and under foreign jurisdiction, usually  I do it under UK law,  makes life easy and simple . contracts between partners  other business and even my local restaurant.

I don't exist to all intents and purposes, I have become a tourist in the US , a permanent tourist, free to go where i please  drawing expenses from foreign accounts that do not have my name on them ans all courtesy of the efficiency of  banking ATM's

It is a slow process, but I think i have perfected it now where I can run the whole thing from  software I carry encrypted in my phone.

No one bothers tourists, staying in that house   on a long  holiday let, or in hotels, driving a rented car, even if the house and car are rented from companies I control overseas.

Just keep your head down, your wits about you, dont get involved in the crap around you and stay aware.

But make sure your assets are off shore and we ll out of sight and never ever get greedy.

Its survival on your terms  or rather its survival on My terms that drives my life.

Just remember  little boys ask permission and make excuses. Men don't waste their breath on imbecilic bureaucrats, they make decisions  and   take action.

Th basics are simple, I took a decision, right or wrong, good or bad, I will not work  and hand my labor over to the scum of the earth, whether  a monkey in the Whitehouse or the crony corrupot cartels.

I don't care  what anyone does or  what happens, they can eat like pigs  watching kardashian ass all day, they can fight in the street, they can whine and moan  but do nothing for themselves or they  suck the gravy from the sheeps tit.

Im here for me and mine and like it or not that is not going to change whilst I draw breath.

 

 

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 20:57 | 5646856 Barnaby
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sleeper

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 22:12 | 5647245 conscious being
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Sat, 01/10/2015 - 22:11 | 5647242 conscious being
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Great post. Make your own freedom.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 16:09 | 5646078 nakki
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Way off the subject but I was watching discovery channel the other day. It was an episode about black holes. To my amazement (since spelling is not my strong point) they had put up a graphic naming the the two closest galaxies to our milky way. The first being Andromeda and the second being Tiangulum. Had to do a double take, yep there it was TIANGULUM not TRiangulum. Someone not only misspelled it forgetting the R but some editor also missed it. I know its sort of nit-picky, and most people probably wouldn't care, but the fact that the episode aired 4 months ago and they still haven't corrected it says something.

 

 

 

 

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 18:07 | 5646556 dizzyfingers
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 Generations born after WW2, stupid, stupier, more stupid... It's the government school system, radio/tv/video games/internet/cellphones that are frying their brains. Majority literally don't have one fact among them in their heads.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 23:22 | 5650186 amadeus39
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Most stupid?

 

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 18:00 | 5646578 TeethVillage88s
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Closed Captioning is outsourced I'm pretty sure...

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 22:14 | 5647249 conscious being
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Burn your TV.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 15:26 | 5646104 Wahooo
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For most of the population the notion of consequences no longer exists.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 22:16 | 5647254 conscious being
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Who needs critical thinking when there are no consequences?. ... until there are.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 15:33 | 5646124 windywoo
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Ron Paul is a fake.  He's still shilling the 9/11 story even.  I say Gordon Duff for President.  He's been telling it like it is for years.  He's not blackmailable or intimidatable.  Here he lays out what he will do if he is President.  I don't think he will be afraid to actually do it given his military and intelligence bona fidas.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUBQb3xFDw  He is a chief editor and writer at Veterans Today.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 16:55 | 5646360 Duc888
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While Duff is spot on in the area of 911, he shoots himself in the temple with the "Ya Gotta Vote Dumocrat" bullshit.  He still thinks there's a dimes worth of difference between the Red team and the Blue team.  It's nauseating to hear him slag FEDGOV as a 100% criminal enterprise on his radio shows and then campaign for Democrats on his written blog.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 17:09 | 5646416 Pickleton
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Lol, if there was ever a charlatan, its someone that yammers about libertarianism or freedom and then takes a timeout to tell you to vote democrat.  Sorta reminds me of that guy LetThemEatRand who I haven't seen at all after he came out of the closet as an Obama voter.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 21:48 | 5647173 The9thDoctor
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Lol, if there was ever a charlatan, its someone that yammers about libertarianism or freedom and then takes a timeout to tell you to vote Republican. Sorta reminds me of that guy [insert pretty much an ZHer username here] who I haven't seen at all after he came out of the closet as a McCain voter.

 

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 11:41 | 5648224 Charming Anarchist
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Lol, if there was ever a charlatan, it is someone who tells you to vote.  FULL STOP 

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 16:38 | 5649013 Cathartes Aura
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WHOA dude.

the Paul family needs your votes. . .it's their family tradition!

 

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 17:57 | 5646569 dizzyfingers
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Presidents have little real power, they're figureheads.  The murder of the last one that actualy had thoughts never has been solved. 

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 15:36 | 5646128 YHC-FTSE
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I think he is the greatest president America never had. It breaks my heart every time I read him because it reminds me of what could have been if he had been elected.

Even though it wasn't much, for a long time I lamented the hundreds of hours I wasted on encouraging people to support Dr.Paul on ZH and elsewhere. Even today the bitterness and anger I felt at his treatment by his own party and the msm still lingers. They destroyed him with lies, they obscured his popularity, and then brushed him out of existence in the mainstream when all else failed. It worked and instead we have the droner in chief lying through his trout lips every day.

I had a feeling, as most of us did at ZH during the nominating conventions, that they would have asassinated him long before the process was over. So perhaps I shouldn't regret that he never got the chance to lead his country in 2012, but instead find joy in the fact that he is still with us to share his wisdom and optimism in these dark and troubled times.

PS: Other than having American cousins, I really have no personal interest in US politics as I live in the UK, and Americans have every right to tell me that I should mind my own business, but such was my horror at the global reserve currency and foreign policies, I devoted rather more time than I should have done to encourage people to support Dr.Paul in 2012.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 18:12 | 5646601 cherry picker
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As long as the USA is meddling with the rest of the world, including the UK, you have every right to state your opinion.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 19:52 | 5646863 holdbuysell
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Yup, the extreme smear and censor campaigns only amplify how scared sh*tless TPTB were that he had some momentum in 2012.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 20:39 | 5647003 g speed
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Thank You.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 22:00 | 5647210 The9thDoctor
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Ron Paul's campaign wasn't a waste at all because he brought new issues to the table.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 22:25 | 5647263 conscious being
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The Lois Lehrner method of control, at the IRS was exposed for all to see. The extent of the corruption was demonstrated when all her emails were "lost".

RP's last run was the first and last time I ever made a political campaign contribution.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 02:07 | 5647665 Pareto
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True Doc.  That he did.  But like YHC, it was absolutely demoralizing to watch the disintegration of his candidacy unfold largely a result of the media.  If anything it reafirmed to me that democracy is a sham.  That to fight for someting that is good and right - some fucking sanity  - strong currency, minimal government interference, noninterventionist foreign policy and so on - that didn't even make it to the convention - crushed by his own party because they knew if he made it to the convention he would win.......

i remember the rallies that started in 2011.  shit.  werne't just students.  guys still with hard hats on getting off work early - mothers with kids in tow - business folks - farmers - all walks of life coming out to hear this guy speak.  light bulbs were turning on - people were waking up - everywhere.  By july 2012 he was attracting 8, 9, 10,000 to his rallies, while others couldn't even attract a church pew.

by any statistical measure - how could he not have won!?

When the RNC tossed Paul was the day I realized ABSOLUTELY NOTHING will ever change through "democracy".  Change will occur only when the economic system folds under the weight of corruption, theft, and waste.

Depressed just recalling all of this.  shit.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 15:42 | 5646147 don in maine
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Hear Hear !! I feel like I ought to "mimeo" that and staple it to every telephone pole.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 15:47 | 5646158 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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If you want to completely destroy authoritarians, and the largesse

that facilitates their continued existence, just focus on their funding.

Like Billy Rae Valentine in Trading Places,  you have to admit that

being poor is not fun, and we all know that the authoritarians won't

like it when it happens to them. March 10th 2008 @ 11:00am Bear Stearns time New York was the end of the American rigged economy

and the very largesse that allows them to fund authoritarianism and war. By March 10th 2015 the entire American superstructure of government will be wiped out entirely and we need not worry about

phoney American Liberty or 'libertarianism' because it has bitten the dust just like phoney Beatlemania did, Dr. Paul.

 

p.s. this dude is one long polemic, man.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 15:48 | 5646167 Loophole
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What we need is to move toward a completely free society, as Ayn Rand described. Libertarians like Paul have no idea what that even is, which is why Rand despised them.

Surrendering the world to the Jihadis, hating businessmen, and tinkering with the welfare state is a waste. Auditing the Fed is a joke. We should abolish it along with the govt's fiat money.

The govt's job is to protect individual rights-period. Paul is just a slightly radical religious conservative damaging the cause of freedom by pretending to be its defender.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 18:30 | 5646645 optimator
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Loophole, certainly you are aware that an audit of the FED would mean the immediate end of the FED.  They wouldn't ever wait around for the auditors to arrive.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 22:27 | 5647278 conscious being
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The crypto-zinologist whining about Fed enabled jihadis. Oh the irony.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 16:09 | 5646227 thegr8whorebabylon
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"Peaceful revolution" seemed to work for Ghandhi vs the empire of lies.

Google 'peaceful resistance'.  At first they slaughtered a lot of them, then the tide turned.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 17:05 | 5646398 serotonindumptruck
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You prefer the expression: "Peaceful Resistance".

I prefer the expression: "Insurrection of the Living Damned".

I think a speed metal band made a song by the same title back in the 80's.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 16:21 | 5646256 assistedliving
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with the greatest defense ever (the A&P oceans) it really does seem difficult to justify the most military spending...ever

my son is a Stuy grad, computer whiz, full scholarship kid and keeps telling me about 'exponential growth' type solutions to everything from robots to medicine to aging/death.

i wanna believe him but try to explain him the ptb always manage to get in between the 'solution'.  if they cant make a $, it gets throttled until they can.

i guess the hope is a curmudgeon like RP speaking truth can ignite our youth to take action cuz everyone in between is benefitting, paralzyed or just too damn traumatized by what has transpired these past years.

please forgive my rambling...

 

 

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 18:49 | 5646687 Imagery
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Maybe you should also put a chart of World Population Growth, esplain Peak Oil and other "finite" resources working against the Bankster exponential debt fiat, and then ask him how, should he succeed in his medicine extending mean life spans premise, will the "balance sheet square" with all this happy happy yes we can?

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 22:20 | 5650009 samsara
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Or tell him to review the first 3 laws of Thermodyanmics.  Maybe with extraction graphs of the histories of the top 10 used raw materials & ores and their grade percentages.

Then ask to see his Exponential graphs with the current populations, and the graphs above in mind.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 20:48 | 5647035 g speed
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believe him--politics and economics have remained unchanged for ever, while tech has grown and (continues to) exponentially.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 16:23 | 5646262 dexter_morgan
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That this man is not our president and a mystery man like Obameo is says much about the role the media plays in getting people elected. His quote below is funny since TPTB are working hard to 'fix' the internet for s........

We should not be discouraged. Enlightenment is not nearly as difficult to achieve as it was before the breakthrough with Internet communications occurred.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 16:55 | 5646353 assistedliving
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i caught that one too dex.  kinda ironic considering O'bama was supposedly the first to harness the Silicon Valley types to work for him...well, except for Scott McNealy!

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 17:36 | 5646523 smacker
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A principle difference between Obola and Ron Paul is that Obola offered "hope" and "wishful thinking" (albeit fake and phony) whereas Ron offered "reality".

For many people, facing reality is too painful, so they chose Obola.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 19:49 | 5646853 MalteseFalcon
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"A principle difference between Obola and Ron Paul is that Obola" got to be a presidential candidate and Ron was never going to get to the convention.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 22:06 | 5647225 The9thDoctor
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It's totally misleading to compare Ron Paul to Barack Obama because they never went head to head.

In 2008, For many GOP primary voters, facing reality was too painful, so they chose warmongering John McCain.

In 2012, For many GOP primary voters, facing reality was too painful, so they chose anti-gun pro-Obamacare Mitt Romney.

Ron Paul could have easily beat Obama, but the righty tightys would rather have warmongers or silver spoon types, and they wonder why Democrats keep on winning.

 

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 16:29 | 5646280 Ewtman
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Rand Paul promises to take up his father's "Audit the Fed" legislation in 2015---

 

http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/rand-paul-takes-up-his-fathers-cause-...

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 17:14 | 5646429 serotonindumptruck
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If sonny-boy pushes that legislation too hard, an "unfortunate accident" will no doubt result.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 16:30 | 5646286 honestann
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The only solution is... do not pay, do not obey, do not comply.  But, of course, don't tell "them" this is your decision or behavior.  Or for those willing to take alternate actions, do not remain for them to enslave and control.  Find someplace not paying, not obeying, not complying is easier and safer.

The only solution is... zero tolerance for predators of all species.  Good, ethical humans must learn to accept the unfortunate but crucially important fact: if you do not defend yourself from predators, you are their prey, you lose, and they win.

The only solution is... zero "government".  While some "government" may be less harmful or less viscous or less capable of enforcement or abuse, they are all fundamentally and totally just predatory abuse and nothing else [but irrelevant window dressing to fool fools].

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 18:02 | 5646581 dizzyfingers
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I am so on the same page HN.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 19:54 | 5646865 Berspankme
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Me too and I am living it

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 23:47 | 5647289 conscious being
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Me too and this sounds like something Carlos Casteneda quoted shaman Don Juan saying

# "Good, ethical humans must learn to accept the unfortunate but crucially important fact: if you do not defend yourself from predators, you are their prey, you lose, and they win."

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 13:30 | 5648525 SLIDINGINTOIT
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WATCH ARRON RUSSO INTERVIEW

NORMAN DODDS

KURT HASKELLS

CHARLOTTE ISERBYTS

GET REAL CLEAR ON THE NON FEDERAL NO RESERVE

THE BILL OF RIGHTS

THE ROTHCHILDS

THE GEORGIA GUIDESTONES

BOHEMIAN GROVE

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 12:20 | 5648322 lesterbegood
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The best comment posted today by far!

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 17:04 | 5646378 freedom123
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I hope that one day freedom will rise and both people of Russia and people of USA will regain their sovereignty from oligarch regime.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 17:30 | 5646500 smacker
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Well done. Stick to this line of comment and you'll get along just fine on ZeroHedge :-

Please, leave all that anti-Putin propaganda at the door. Thanks.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 19:03 | 5646726 freedom123
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Putin oligarch regime is just as criminal as US oligarch regime.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds3cLd0ByHY
Sat, 01/10/2015 - 17:02 | 5646386 Barnaby
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Ron Paul is for one a doctor I wouldn't trust to treat my Spanish-hooker-borne chlamydia, moreover he's a crusty goober effectively euthanized by Sarah Palin, the Tea Party and the last two erections. His successor is a polished-perm-wearing son named after an Ashkenazi Jew's assumed last name. (Roark Paul would've been better.)

New leadership now, or shit starts grinding to a halt.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 17:10 | 5646413 Counterpunch
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You should be over at Drudge - talking about how all Muslims worship Satan or something.

 

You're a fucking idiot.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 18:01 | 5646579 Barnaby
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Oh. Perhaps I misspoke.

The Pauls are the worst distractions and vote magnets since Ross Perot. Is that moderate enough for you?

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 20:54 | 5647051 g speed
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ah stealing votes from---MaCain??   or the other one -this last election (I cant remember his name) ----LMFAO

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 21:15 | 5647103 Barnaby
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No, McCain dropped like an old elk with a broken rack.

He hired a liability so he could lose, as gracefully as a spavined thing can.

Senator John McCain will always have a special place in US history: the greatest stinky-shoed quitter of all time.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 01:20 | 5647598 Greenskeeper_Carl
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Hahahaha I had to plus one you. That was pretty funny. And also pretty true

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 17:05 | 5646396 RaceToTheBottom
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Whole lot of words.  What do they mean?

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 17:11 | 5646417 Counterpunch
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Sigh. 

 

Dude there's football on.

 

Perhaps you should go watch it.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 17:18 | 5646438 RaceToTheBottom
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Thanks, fooball, fooball

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 22:36 | 5647296 conscious being
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Counterpunch - I see you have been effective enough to attract your own little troll squad of three at last count. Obviously you are doing something right.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 16:56 | 5649077 Tall Tom
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He has been doing a lot right.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 17:11 | 5646401 Counterpunch
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Brilliant but incomplete - the US Empire serves Israel, and it serves Israel primarily because of wildly disproportionate Jewish financial, media, and political power, and secondarily because of the successful Zionization of tens of millions of "Christian" Zionists, who form a dedicated block of people blind to Israeli crimes, who fetishize the "Jewish people" into sacred myth, and are eager to squander trillions on the war machine because they think Revelation is ineluctable prophecy.

 

Hate speech bills are coming, internet restrictions are coming, and it won't be the banks, or the Christian Zionists behind them.

 

 

"Hate speech" won't, of course, simply mean blanket statements of group hate devoid of fact or reason {which, short of advocating immediate violence, should still be protected, but suich statements are not valuable speech} - but true statements regarding Israeli warcrimes, colonialism, and aggression -  and Jewish power.  Apparently effective control of the media, such that Americans never get a real understanding of the history of the Occupation, or the daily attacks on Palestinians, and allows Israel to frame the conflict as one of defense rather than brutally colonizing occupation - is not enough.

 

http://www.imemc.org/article/70172

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/us-media-erase-israeli-...

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=751226

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/09/09/244452/-What-motivated-the-9-11...

http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2014-02-11/aussie-tv-dares-to-show-the...

http://theyellowbrickroadfreeblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/rita-katz-bet...

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/israels-extermination-w...

http://electronicintifada.net/content/netanyahu-government-knew-teens-we...

 

http://www.eaec.org/newsletters/2008/vol_8/showdown-in-jerusalem-digest....

http://lesvisible.net/DOCS/MastersOfDeception.pdf

http://www.bollyn.com/public/Solving_9-11_-_The_Deception_That_Changed_T...

 

 

 

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 18:26 | 5646627 optimator
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He doesn't have to say the U.S. Empire serves Israel, he and we allready know that.  Dr. Paul has never visited the Wailing Wall and would never allow himself to even do that and try and be vetted there.  That said, he never had a ghost of a chance at the presidency.  

I've voted for him every time he ran, and when he wasn't on the ballot I enjoyed writing in his name, made me feel good.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 18:32 | 5646651 Barnaby
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"And feelin' good's good enough." Elias, Platoon - 1988

(A film about Viet Nam and 20-year-old impotence.)

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 22:11 | 5649996 samsara
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"He doesn't have to say..."

You got it Optimator.  

Saying those things for him would be counter productive.  CNNNBCFAUX would finally have a target. 

If you read what he has written, (Far more than any other politician in the last 20 years)  You have already(or soon) questioned those events and things yourself without him having to guide yoiu. 

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 17:14 | 5646427 dizzyfingers
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I might be really off the track, but in the first 5 paragraphs the message seems to be "we" (and I'm pretty sure he doesn't mean Congress so he must mean US citizens), have screwed up.

But please let me remind everyone that in our two-party system, control, such as it is, changes regularly from one party to the other. Whenever one party effs up that one is voted out and the other is voted in. We have no other choices. It's either vote for the ones who effed up most recently, or the one that effed up the last time the it was voted out. If anyone thinks that's choice, I don't.

Choice is when you vote for the best person for the job. We're not allowed to do that, and that's never going to change, Mr. Paul's pleas to the contrary.

Don't waste your lives jumping in front of freight trains, folks. "They" (and you know who I mean) are waiting for you. Hunker down, be invisible.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 18:38 | 5646662 Barnaby
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No. Become important. Write novels. Write articles. Or at worst, build a business and write paychecks.

Make yourself untouchable because of your value. This is how Americans turn it around -- we still have (diminishing) freedoms to exploit.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 22:39 | 5647299 conscious being
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That's just the set-up for Lois at the IRS and her friends to steal your goods.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 17:29 | 5646495 VWAndy
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Its time to take our dogma out back and shoot it in the head. Just like when you were a child and let go of those childish things.

 

 Take a good look at.   Young lady with a shinner.  Its an old N.Rockwell.

I would link it but its prolly copywritted. IDK.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 18:23 | 5646628 Barnaby
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The childish things you refer to is a passage from the Bible that actually relates to becoming closer to the god of the Bible.

Shiner is a rebuke of the slavery of any public school.

These themes appear to be in direct contrast.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 19:37 | 5646820 VWAndy
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Nope thats not what I was refering to.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 18:52 | 5646697 HenryHall
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>>> The Soviet communist leaders never suffered from want, but even they were routed when the people in the Soviet system decided that they had had enough.

Not so. The Soviet Union dissolution took place because greedy men, like Yeltsen and many of his friends (especially friends in other Soviet republics) were unhappy that **they** were not the rich and powerful people. And Gorbachev gave them the opportunity to mount a coup by personal abdication of his power and duties as the General Secretary of the KPCC.

Absolutely nothing to do with poverty; absolutely everything to do with avarice.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 19:25 | 5646781 Sorry_about_Dresden
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I read your link and find it almost as confusing as RPs manefesto.

I think I see your point and agree.

Let's send the Isrealites back to the delta of the Volga river and give them their real homeland: Khazaria

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 23:50 | 5647312 conscious being
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I gave you the green, but some Jews are Arabs. Sephardic Jews resent what the Askanazi have done to their former good relations with their Christian Arab and Muslim Arab neighbors.

Re. Relocation - I think a little further south on the shores of the Caspian in present day Azerbijan might be more appropriate for a number of reasons.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 17:01 | 5649101 Tall Tom
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I have an even better idea.

 

Let them worry about their own relocation and their own problems...Unless they really want to make it our problem then we really need not be sticking our nose in and "relocating" anyone.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 19:33 | 5646807 mog
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There is very little that the Americans can be proud of.

But you can be proud of Ron Paul.

Respected and admired the world over.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 19:35 | 5646818 sb36695
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America will not survive the ignorance of voters.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 20:26 | 5646965 Uranus Hertz
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I will not accept Rand Paul for any job other than clerk. 

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 22:47 | 5647317 conscious being
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Who asked you?

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 01:39 | 5647624 Uranus Hertz
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The DoD. And vendors. While we're here, I will never vote for Mitt Romney, not even if the dem skullfuckers field a viable candidate.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 11:59 | 5648266 conscious being
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Sorry! You wrote Rand Paul. I saw Ron Paul. There, I just down voted myself. Moving on ...

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 20:47 | 5647032 sailortony
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What Ron Paul came close to say is:

" America is a desperate Empire out to no good".

All the conditions are in place for The RESET;

the rest of the world will see to that now that Presidents Putin and XI have decided to press the button.

 

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 20:48 | 5647040 DerdyBulls
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Oh how I hope that indeed reality is setting in across the world as Dr. Paul believes. It is a little hard for me to believe. And if so, what actions based on what value system will this reality cause to rise? What fills the vacuum? 

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 22:47 | 5647320 conscious being
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Sound money? An end to fractional reserve banking?

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 23:07 | 5647361 DerdyBulls
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Yes. Sound governance?

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 20:55 | 5647057 AgeOfJefferson
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Ron Paul - the ONLY decent federal politician America has seen in the last 40 years. God bless him. 2015 is time for people to WAKE UP. The internet can be a very powerful tool against tyranny. 0's and 1's can be as mighty as swords or pens. Just look at the hacktivist group Anonymous. They can take down government and corporate servers in seconds. We need to form more groups like this to fight the corrupt system. Who's in?

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 22:51 | 5647324 conscious being
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Who's in? We are all in, well not including the ptb trolls of course.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 21:33 | 5647142 medium giraffe
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Is that really Ron Paul in that photo or has Gandalf turned to the dark side?

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 16:50 | 5649058 Cathartes Aura
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hahah.

it's my fave Paul pic for ZH stories told - he looks like I'd imagine many here to look, angry old white dudes, tap-tap-tapping away for hours, daily.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 22:04 | 5647219 anticultist
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What I want to point out is federali slaves really need to wrap their heads around two things

to explode the whole commercial contract slave conspiracy, everything is opposites.

The are

a) NOLA chapter 7 vs 13, online means test

b) form 433a irs collections worksheet with link to national standard spending "allowances"

 

It might be a chance but early in, I will not have much skin in the game which will
cover me for the immediate 5-6 years.

The ideology of the new world order is to stay under water.
( with the exception available to slaves are exempt property which is whole life insurance
and annuity, and off matrix wealth which is metals and jewelery)

The wealthy, say my plant manager, has a little after 62% tax but has to have the "cadillac"
mortgage interest deduction and has to buy at the high end, then is just the same as us,
very little left discretionary, not worth the work and shortened life span and pain.
Maybe has some more beautiful things but not worth the price of slavery.

Median slaves have to read form 433a obamacare tax penalty confiscation.

This is immediately known by doing their NOLA online bankruptcy means test
and working through their 433a tax penalty collections worksheet.

Slaves cannot posses property in the liberal slave trade. The slave trade mitigation

may be, to be in debt.

But a slave with taxable W2 and paying their obelisk occult bank mortgage interest, is their
personal slave trade asset, they dont necessarily want to cannibalize that if they are getting
paid usury, but they are working up the food chain methodically too, Ferguson is just a leading indicator.
Illegal to work (min wage) may backfire if foodstamps dont keep them satiated, they dont want them
working because they will use too much stuff and contribute to global warming.

For example 433a links to national spending allowance, they cannot take my house if
mort plus prop tax plus utilities is $1330.

If it is $1335 they can make you sell the house at any loss and move.

Everything is law of opposites if you read occult statute, debt is asset in the slave trade.
But you have to be able to read, illegal in federali de-education, you have to be self educated.

And there is alot more involved to read their british accredidation registry rhodes scholar statutes, you may need to bone up on sentence diagraming and parse' syntax grammar.

If my total housing is under $1330, they cant collect obamacare tax penalty at $5000 a year
and doubling every year, by making me sell the house at any loss, in other words.

Until the time that it comes to that, everything available into annuity and whole life insurance
is the exemption available to survive the blood and guts running satanists at least a little while.
And there is a chance my kids will get more teat if I am a debt slave with motgage,

than say the plant managers kids get from inherited IRA. He might live long enough to use it up

by medical expenses, the markets could fail, he might have other liabilities that come

with complexity.

My kids already got more education teat by the liberal slave trade, clinton nafta

destroying manufacturing incomes. Isnt the slave trade great when you know what it is.

Why would anyone work for W2 tax in the pig occult. I may be better off than the even bigger W2 slaves.

Maybe the most capable creators will figure it out and quit working for the teat fodder altogether,

like my surgeon friend had to tell his kids never go into medicine. Thats a start to the

counter satanist revolution, quit creating, for them to judge from the couch, if they are getting enough teat.

 

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 11:45 | 5647384 conscious being
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# "not worth the work and shortened life span and pain"

Funny how almost nobody can see this or they just lack the necessary self-confidence and are too afraid to get off of the hamster wheel.

What's global warming? Take a look at the unusual solar cycle currently underway.

Satelite shots of Artic Sea ice coverage seems to be the preferred way for the PTB to get their global warming narrative across. Hence the diversion northward of the winter jet stream from California to Alaska and points north. Still ice coverage is rising slightly. Around Antartica, ice is growing more rapidy.

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 23:02 | 5647347 Son of Captain Nemo
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Hey Ron

Where were ya when AE911Truth came a knockin on your door 6 years ago?...

Did the killing of Senator Wellstone put the fear of God in every single one of you to the extent that you froze like a dear in the Mossad/CIA headlights?

Speaking for Paul Wellstone?  More a man and a patriot than any of you both past and present that attempted to do the right thing but stopped short when you were being threatened -will ever be!

We all have to die sometime. And I dare say that with your well crafted words growing louder each day you will wish you had done things differently in the very near future!

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 23:35 | 5647408 conscious being
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Son of Captain Nemo - about the good doctor, your point is not exactly wrong, but you're not conveying the full picture.

Lucky Lindberg's father was a prominent anti-Fed congressman from Minnesota. His grandson most likely wound up as the focal point of some satanic ritual that an innocent carpenter who did some work for a bankster and as a result wound up holding some of the ransom bills was executed for. If it was a war, with a front-line and all the relatives safely at home, it would be easier to make the sacrifice.

Agree with you about Senator Paul Wellstone, who it should be pointed out was Jewish.

All the best.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 00:57 | 5647555 Son of Captain Nemo
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cb

Appreciate your inputs. But the event(s) of what has taken place these last 14 years has no equal and the "stakes" are far greater than Mr. Lindberg's generation could have ever fathomed.

On many levels I have both admiration and respect for Ron Paul as a strict Constitutionalist by the book that in my opinion is unequalled by any other member during his years in service to the House. And what he did repeatedly during his terms in office were invaluable to those who listened to what he had to say. But he had or should I say still has knowledge to 9/11 that could have made the difference several years back when he knew and understood full well how it would be implemented as a "canard" for open theft and murder under the veil of waging war(s) that was a complete fabrication to be pinned on a race and culture that had absolutely nothing to do with those event(s) sacrificing it's own peoples to serve a completely different malevolent agenda then the one the majority of sheep in this Country were sold and unfortunately still choose to believe?!

Suffice it to say we will never know what he knows or doesn't know precisely.  But imagine the impact he might have had when he was running for president if he had announced on his platform that a genuine investigation of 9/11 would be paramount for staying out of future occupations and explained to his constituents how it could be achieved? And that if we didn't the lie would simply be perpetuated indefinitely to gain whatever future resources the U.S. government required while continuing to grow the national debt to Country's total ruin?

On Paul Wellstone, I couldn't agree with you more.  He may have been a Jew, but certainly was no Zionist which means the man had a soul!

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 05:16 | 5647771 DavidPierre
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As always...

9-11 Is The Litmus Test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21pPpYw_axQ

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 10:20 | 5648070 Son of Captain Nemo
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"."

Thx for posting this one.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 11:49 | 5648242 conscious being
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You make a strong argument.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 12:10 | 5648290 SLIDINGINTOIT
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A "GOVERNMENT " "INVESTIGATION", OR ONE "ORDERED" BY THE "GOVERNMENT, IS UNNECCESSARY.

 

9/11 HAS BEEN INVESTIGATED.

ANYONE WITH A COMPUTER CAN INVESTIGATE THE KNOWN FACTS.

DOCUMENTED FACTS ARE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS.

 

AND ANYONE WHO RESEARCHS THE FACTS, WILL KNOW,

THE US GOVERNMENT PULLED 9/11.

 

ITS A FACT.

 

THEY WERE ORDERED TO IMPLEMENT THE EVENTS OF THAT DAY BY THE SCUM WHO OWN THE BIS, IMF, NON FEDERAL NO RESERVE.

 

ITS THE SIMPLE , DOCUMENTED TRUTH.

..... By the way, THE ORIGINAL us govjacked governments "OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION" WAS PRODUCED IN A BOOK A THICK BOOK INCHES THICK.

AND NOT ONE MENTION OF BUILDING 7 SEVEN.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 17:07 | 5649121 Tall Tom
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Nor one mention on how 1000s of Metric Tons of Gold was moved out of those basements in less than two hours...

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 23:08 | 5650166 petkovplamen
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there is a button on your keyboard called CapsLock and it's lit. Push it, please.

led

Sat, 01/10/2015 - 23:51 | 5647449 Lin S
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Still waiting for Dr. Paul to step up to the proverbial plate and speak the painful truth re: 9/11. Unless and until that happens, I will continue to regard him as controlled opposition.

As far as Americans "waking up" to reality, ain't gonna' happen without a lot of people dead first. A LOT.

And even then it may prove to be too late. Americans are a complacent, zombified people.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 11:53 | 5648255 SLIDINGINTOIT
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YES , THE TRUTH OF THE EVENTS OF SEPT 11, 2001

ARE REQUIRED TO BE AWAKE.

SEPT 11, 2001 WAS A FALSE FLAG.

THE GOVJACKED US GOVERNMENT ATTACKED THE UNITED STATES , AND THATS A DOCUMENTED FACT.

BUILDING 7 , THE FACTS OF IT , IS YOUR FIRST CLUE.

 

CAN YOU WAKE UP aMERICA, OR ARE YOU TO FAR GONE UNDER THE MIND CONTROL?

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 20:16 | 5647460 anticultist
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Ron Paul may fail where he doesnt explain to people the meaning of the 14th ammendment.

 

13th ammendment, slavery is prohibited except in cases of crime

14th amendment, federal citizens are dual citizens to their birth state and to the commercial contract corporation

14th ammendment, voting is denied, except in cases of crime or rebellion ( see 13th slavery-crime above, the hook )

 ( the rebellion of district "citizens" by voting is then participation in the unlawful overlaid

   commercial contract slave reconstruction amendments titled,The United States, is rebellion of their state citizenship, of

  their state constituion, and of the lawful dejour constitution, titled, the United States of America)

14th ammendment, the debt shall not be questioned

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 21:36 | 5649711 anticultist
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Funny, I just revealed the entire crux of the nazi coup conspiracy of which all things originate,

 

call it original sin,

 

and got 4 down votes.

 

You all dont have a freakin clue, like I always say, pigs to the slaughter.

 

I did say something wrong and edited a line, maybe that clarifies something to the down votes.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 00:11 | 5647483 Hamm Jamm
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REALITY is that people are too guttless to do anything about it !

 

Police State for now

ROBOT STATE for the near future !

a place where you will be mechanically raped by machines that need no sleep

The Banks will have FISTER ROBOTO, ram you till your dead

 

all because you wouldn't stand up for your country and let the BANKS take over

 

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 12:32 | 5648349 disgruntled hou...
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Hamm Jamm-

What actions have you taken? You out there talking to friends, family, strangers? A cheap easy way to spread the word is to make fliers that say something like the following and make 10 to a page to keep cost down. Give them to people or put them on cars at Walmart.  

Interested in Taking Back Your Country?

 Educate yourself...

Zero Hedge website

Ron Paul website

ETC

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 01:15 | 5647586 PrayingMantis
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... the best part of waking up is opening your eyes ...

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 01:55 | 5647646 PrayingMantis
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... learn the rules of the game then false-flag it better than anyone else ... :)  

 

...  that parrot at the end gave that "dead-french-cop-taking-a-selfie scene" a great off-the-cuff remark ... lol ...

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 02:41 | 5647689 Monk
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There is no central planning in the U.S. from the government. Rather, Wall Street controls the economy and has been providing credit to the government, citizens, and the military for decades.

 

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 10:55 | 5648135 SLIDINGINTOIT
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"wall street" HOW VAGUE CAN WE NAME THE ENEMY...?

CALL them  "wall street"....

THE ENEMY IS THE SCUM WHO OWN THE BIS, IMF, NON FEDERAL NORESERVE.

THE ROTHCHILD ROCKERFELLER AND IMMEDIATE ASSOCIATES .

AND ANYONE WHO DOES NOT GET INFORMED AND OPPOSE THESE PARASITES ARE JUST AS GUILTY IF NOT MORE SO.

THE TRUTH IS RIGHT AT YOUR FINGERTIPS.

THE BRAVE AMERICANS CANT SEEM TO MUSTER ENOUGH COURAGE, TO

____ USE THE SEARCH BAR _____

SCARED OF THEIR LOVING CONTROL FREAK "GOVERNMENT.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 14:44 | 5648678 stopthejunk1
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lol. Yeah, right. I suppose the fact that huge sectors of the economy are dependent on government spending (defense, healthcare, infrastructure, etc.) is irrelevant.

Wall Street does not 'control' the economy. They simply know how to profit from it, like any other parasite. Nobody "controls" the economy. The fact that economist claim to know what they're doing is no argument against this. They clearly are clueless. Don't let their fancy mathematics fool you.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 23:51 | 5650264 conscious being
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Take the printing press away and you have an argument. There is no market when you play against the cadino that makes the rules and has its own printing press.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 02:40 | 5647690 honest injun
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Paul/Paul '16 (Father/Son)

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 04:50 | 5647757 Element
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What with the 'Ron The Merciless' photo? If eyes are windows on the soul he looks like he could do with some prune juice and an early night in, followed by an equally late night out.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 05:49 | 5647791 pparalegal
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Ron Paul channeling John Galt's radio speech (predictions?) in Atlas Shrugged, albeit with Ron's typical much softer tone.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 05:50 | 5647792 pparalegal
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Ron Paul channeling John Galt's radio speech (predictions?) in Atlas Shrugged, albeit with Ron's typical much softer tone.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 14:41 | 5648675 stopthejunk1
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...and only the fools that fall for Ayn Rand's propaganda could ever take Ron Paul seriously.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 06:26 | 5647807 petedanels
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This is perhaps the most profound, ambitious, well written, & beautiful article I have read in a very long time.  These opinions can be reinforced with facts & common sense.  I have doubt's about the time table, which to me seems a bit ambitious, but I couldn't care any less about that.  Determining when the spark ignites this fire is like determining what direction a market will move.  Nobody really ever knows this, but guessing does give you a 50% chance of being right...up or down being your only 2 options.  

GOD HELP US

 

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 07:51 | 5647862 Comte d'herblay
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If you don't know by now that the market direction is going to move up, then you have been living under a bushel. 100% chance of being right.  

J B T F D was coined 5 years ago, and it hasn't been wrong yet. Those who have given their faith over to the FED have not been disappointed, and should in fact now be safely retired from the work force, even if they were paupers in 2007.

FYI, There's no god to help, she set up this mess then debarked for St. Lucia about a zillion years ago,  and hasn't been seen since. 

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 11:54 | 5648256 conscious being
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Those who have "given their faith over to the Fed" have alien values.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 14:58 | 5648715 STP
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A bud of mine were just talking about that Friday.  We missed out and both of us have been heavy Bonds, since pre-2008.  He, like me, knows what's going on and to us, it feels like the Stock Market is like playing in a neglected kitty box, versus a sand box at the park.  Something dirty, unclean and unethical about the whole thing.

I got a good laugh out of him, when I asked him where Chipotle stock was at, and he barked a sarcastic chuckle, telling me that it just crossed $700 a share.  And this is an basically a high end taco stand, period.  Go figure , Just BTFD.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 06:29 | 5647811 basho
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" I smell progress.  "

i smell BS.

an overwhelming % of the ussa population don't have the attention span to read/listen to such a long text/speech.

an overwhelming % of the ussa population don't have the ability to understand what he is trying to say.

an overwhelming % of the ussa population don't give a s*it 

 

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 10:19 | 5648067 Ban KKiller
Sun, 01/11/2015 - 06:41 | 5647817 Batman11
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This guy has got a lot of things right but:

Central planning has been the route to success in China, South Korea and Japan (early on).

China is now over-taking the US so it can work.

Western market reforms created the Oligrachs in Russia

The US's main problem is that democracy has been hi-jacked by Wall Street and their are only two Wall Street parties to vote for, Republican and Democrat.

New parties are rising up across Europe, come on join the fun.

Democarcy despises the 1%.

 

 

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 14:40 | 5648667 stopthejunk1
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Holding elections does not make you democratic. Even north korea does that.

As long as the American people continue to actually vote, nothing will change. You cannot change the system by working within it and playing by its rules.

The U.S. has not been a democracy since at least 1860, and probably never. It's just good at putting on a show, that's all. After the French Revolution, the elite needed a good puppet show to put on for the people, to disguise the absolute power that they still have. That puppet show is called "Democracy."

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 14:51 | 5648699 Batman11
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I must admit democracy does struggle against the 1% and their PR machines.

But the 1% have messed up so badly we are reaching the stage where no amount of PR can cover the cracks.

PR needs nuggets of truth to spin up, these are getting very scarce.

 

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 07:18 | 5647824 Batman11
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If Governments don't redistribute wealth who will?

1) In the UK, the richest person is the Duke of Westminster, an old Aristocrat. On navigating his way through the birth canal his life's work was complete.

Where is the earned wealth?

2) In the UK, Sir Rannulph Fiennes can trace his family history at the top of UK society back to the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

A millenium, where inherited wealth just stays in one place. A milleenium of, on the whole, unearned wealth.

The whole history of the US is pretty short in comparison.

 

Look to the old world to see how wealth concentrates and is not earned in successive generations, we have a lot of that history stuff.

High inheritence taxes or a cap on inherited wealth are a must to stop this process.

The idle rich abound in the old world, though this may be a new concept for you.

 

(Though your press may refer to socialites - the idle rich who are already there but hidden.

This is how our press refer to them.)

 

Old world history is pretty much the struggle to take concentrated wealth and share it out for all:

absolute monarch -> aristocracy -> meritocracy

In the US wealth is concentrating, this process ends in an absolute monarch (or Kim Jong Il in North Korea).

 

 

 

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 07:47 | 5647858 Comte d'herblay
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Awful just awfullll....I have never seen TWO misspellings of the word "millennium" in one sentence in my entire life. 

 

And who the hell is "Rannulph" Fiennes???

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 08:06 | 5647871 Batman11
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Try wikipedia you lazy sod.

 

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 07:43 | 5647857 Comte d'herblay
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Not at all true Mr. Paul, WADR.

Just this past year one of the most sought after "liberties"  for nearly 90% ( welll......maybe 1/2 of 1%, but still..) of the American people was approved by Numerous states, and backed up---- so to speak---- by the Supremes.

Now men can, ahem......."marry" men, a women can "marry" other women.  The next freedom being sought is for Gay men to marry gay women, creating a 4th alliance that not only allows for their fabulous gayness, but can produce offspring that are genetically going to be fabulously gay.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 09:47 | 5647999 IndianaJohn
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Crazy true, and straight out of the lenin/Trotsky (Ulyanov/Bronshtein) handbook.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 12:13 | 5648304 disgruntled hou...
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Comte d'herblay-

The marriage issue is not something that concerns me. I believe that these types of issues- social- are used as smoke screens. Get the citizenry all worked up about divisive issues like this and you have a nice cover to get all the issues that really matter to the shadow government accomplished.

For instance, everyone remembers that Clinton was getting sexual favors from an intern but how many realized he signed legislation that removed the last vestiges of the Glass-Steagall Act. What was more harmful to the country? The fact that he engaged in sexual activity with someone other than his wife or that he signed legislation that erased the line that had kept commercial and investment banks separate?

Politicians, directed by their puppet masters, behave like magicians. They draw attention from the hand that is doing the real deed while focussing your eyes on the other. Whenever you find yourself engaged in battle with "the other side" on an issue or event that uses words like morality stop- look around- the other issues are what will really have an affect on you.

You cannot legislate morality in or away. Moral behavior- however you choose to define it- is a personnal endeavor.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 15:27 | 5648798 Monty Burns
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"The marriage issue is not something that concerns me. "

Well it should.  All the Cultural Marxist nation-wreckers focused - top target - on destroying the nuclear family which is based on the concept of marriage. Thus 'marriage rights' for every kind of degenerate, no-fault divorce, feminism, gender equality, encouragement of abortion, derision for stay-at-home mothers etc.  Exhibit 1 for their handiwork being the current black 'fambly' in the hood.

Former KGB Chief Lavrenti Beria 'destroy the family and our control inevitably follows'.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 17:02 | 5649096 Cathartes Aura
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well-reasoned argument there, disgruntled. . .

not necessarily common here, where the population is mostly feeling a "loss of hierarchical privileges" taught as reality since they were young.

while I've not got a "side" in the "marriage" story - *eye roll* who the hell cares??  bar someone who believes in some cultural privilege is being "lost" or diluted - I agree with you it's a perfect distraction from all other govt. actions being carried out below the radar.

but seriously, when in history has it been otherwise?

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 08:26 | 5647885 69BIGDOG69
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Re: "The time has come for the ideas of liberty to prevail. I smell progress. Let’s make 2015 a fun year for LIBERTY." 

As much as I admire and respect Ron Paul, which is a huge amount, I think he's deluding himself.  The barbarians have won, and those who care about liberty would do better to move elsewhere.  As Ben Franklin is credited with saying, "Where liberty is, there is my country."  Libertarians need to be more attached to the ideas and values of liberty and less attached to a particular place where liberty used to flourish, but no longer does.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 09:25 | 5647969 d edwards
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What Mr. Paul has done here is skillfully outlined the cause and effect of a European disease called Progressivism (stealth marxism) that was imported into the US about 100 years ago. The idea was to slowly undermine everything that was the framework of America: gov't, education at all levels, the church, morality, and so forth to ultimately destroy the US from within. 0baMao is putting the finishing touches on the plan.

 

What's the difference between a communist and a socialist?

A communist siezes power at the point of a gun; a socialist siezes power with the point of a pen.

Quote 0baMao "I got a PEN and I got a phone."

There you have it.

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 15:13 | 5648755 Monty Burns
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The intellectual foundation for the program was provided by the Frankfurt School.  Check it out if youdon't know about it.  But not on WIKI!!!

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 12:43 | 5648376 Polymarkos
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The fight is not over until we say it is over. I'm not done.

 

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