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In A CNN Interview, Ron Paul Discusses The Media's Blackout Of His Presidential Candidacy, And Many Other Things
Yesterday ago presented the mass media' self disclosure that it was ignoring Ron Paul for this reason or that. Today, Paul, whose support base has suddenly become the target of some aggressive lateral grab tactics by fellow GOP presidential candidates, was interviewed by CNN's Piers Morgan, in an Q&A seeking, among others, to find why it is that Paul, who to everyone's great dismay (not ours) may actually be the GOP's top candidate for the presidential position, is being slighted in his own view. Paul's take: "they're afraid of me, they don't want my views out there, they're too dangerous, we want freedom and we're challenging the status quo, we want to end the war, we want a gold standard, and their view is that people just can't handle all this freedom, they want dependency, they want socialism and welfarism, so I think they don't like to hear our views, but I think we'll make the best of it and we'll do very well." Paul proceeds to cover his relationship with Bachmann (disagrees with her views, as she is "not as far from the status quo as he would like her to be"), why Paul's anti-war program is a challenge not just to GOPers but to Obama as well, with his numerous war fronts, how Paul at 75 is finally resonating with the majority of the US population, but most important is Piers Morgan's question on how Paul plans on becoming one of the fold and "making himself more electable", confirming precisely the bias that the idiot media holds against what can easily be the most honorable candidate in not just the GOP's but all party ranks. Paul's response: "why should someone soften their viewpoint on defending the rule of law and defending the constitution: that would be foolish. Extremists have been in charge for the last 4 years since they've been allowed to print money at will, so that's why we have overextended ouselves overseas, that's why we have inflation, depressions, inflations."...etc. When the mainstream media, and when Rick Perry, understands what Paul is talking about, that i when America will be worthy of a good president. Until then, it will have to make do with whoever win the popularity context in any given day, regardless of the amount of lies uttered in process. After all, as Morgan makes it all too clear, it is all just about "being electable" ... the same reason America is currently on the verge of the end.
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Take your choice of Infowars:
http://www.infowars.com/raw-food-raid-armed-agents-bust-raw-milk-cheese-...
or Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/08/03/swat-team-raids-raw-milk...
Where will the Amish run and hide to this time??
Are you sure that infowars (an ALex Jones website) didn't copy the story from Forbes?
What orginal reporting does infowars do anyway?
Besides the links others listed below, the deep down deal is that the government is trying to control food to an extreme degree these days. They're breaking up kids lemonaide stands even. By regulating the food so tightly, it keeps us having to buy corporate food, and having to work for corporations. They don't want you escaping your slave duties of working for corporations and consuming corporate goods.
I don't know how much there is to it, but the idea is that the heat used in pasteurization breaks down the nutrients and ruins the flavor. I've tried it a few times, and can report that it was quite good, though this may have just been the high fat content. Anyway, the point is that there is no need to use government force here - give people the choice.
Polio was frequently contracted from drinking non-pasteurized milk products (ex: FDR).
Note that in the US we don't vaccine for polio anymore.....
For the record, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states:
IPV, which is given as a shot, is now used in the United States. OPV has not been used in the United States since 2000 but is still used in many parts of the world.
And in the UK: Polio vaccination is currently recommended as part of the NHS vaccination schedule and is available for free to all patients under the NHS, regardless of whether or not they are travelling. The primary course is usually given during the first year of life, but booster doses are required every 10 years.
Paul is completely off base. The reason the media hates him is he either cannot or choses not to speak in platitudes.
Chomsky has some insight into how the media is structured to only award time to people who can speak in quick soundbites. It is structured in such a way as to prevent real discussions on the real issues. The real issues require more time than the two sentence quip imbetween commercials or the other idiot screaming over you. This of course is all planned- see Lippman's Public Opinion for more details.
Yeah, two Jews will teach us how the media is structured. I'll tell you how the media is structured, you have a Jew running virtually every media conglomerate in the United States.
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
Noam Chomsky
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
Noam Chomsky
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Noam Chomsky
It's a shame, and somewhat incredible, that Chomsky is such a believer in government despite his understanding of its corruption. He'd have made a good libertarian if it weren't for his socialist leanings.
I personally think that the media ignores him because they are instructed to ignore him.
As I stated earlier in other threads, he's got my vote; even if it's a write in. I don't consider that a waste when he is clearly the only candidate given the alternative choices available. He not only talks the talk but walks the walk. That's something that NONE of the others can come even remotely close to laying claim to.
I really like Ron Paul! But, who ever becomes President is totally irrelevant at this point.
The Federal Reserve System has distroyed the nation, as Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson knew that it would.
It's big-boy rules ahead. Dodge City, 1880s style. Let's kick this piece of shit over the cliff, now. We don't need the looters in Washington anymore. We dont need no main streamofpiss media, either.
Fifty soveriegn states are a much better solution than one big, fat, arrogant, and stupid Federal Government.
It's not irrelevant at all, the President can have profound influence on what comes after.
If RP is president, he'll likely support state's rights and the constitution and argue for power to devolve back to the states, and the post-collapse US would closely resemble the early days of the US.
Anyone else will be doing their damndest to create a top-down fascist dictatorship to replace the current government, i.e. make one giant single state with no rights for all.
I would vastly prefer RP be in power when the ship goes down, at least we'll have a fighting chance at getting onto the lifeboats. The other teams would rather we drown.
Bullseye
Fucking bullseye. Dr Paul is the only politician who will ever get my vote, even if I have to write him in every damn time.
I absolutely agree. Ron Paul can't stop what's coming, it's far too late for that, but being steward over the reset will be the most important presidential task since the country started. The difference between doing it well and poorly will mean so much for so many people.
well said...
You make a very important point. With Ron Paul in the White House, you wouldn't have to worry about the Government conficscating your gold...Rufus
exactly
RP will revamp legal tender rules and allow competition. He can also begin to circulate real gold-backed US Dollars. He can also make the Fed creditor of last resort - perhaps even repudiate the debt loaned to overseas banks.
He would create havoc to the establishment
"He would create havoc to the establishment"
I'll pay $100 to see that....
btw, would a permanent RP campaign donation banner kill the Durdens?
It's big-boy rules ahead.
...and only big boy rules.
The sheeple in this nation do not deserve Ron Paul as their president. They deserve President Zero for a second term...and the ruination that will continue under his dictatorship.
They deserve Barny Frank, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid...and all these permanent loser status quo politicians. Does anyone remember the purpose of citizen representation? No...they remember how the candidate's hair looked...and his cool sign.
Anyone paying attention to these pseudo debates would have seen Ron Paul mopping the floor with all of them. Imagine if they actually had real debates? Paul would have to be arrested afterwards for assault.
No...just let Rome burn...let it burn...
Excellent Rant, Cdad! You need some 7.62, you let me know. -Shine
No shine...no guns would be required to have a revolution in this nation. If the sheeple just quit buying iPads and "health" burritos, if they quit buying $30 t shirts and assless chaps, if they just quit watching television, the entire economy would collapse and we could start over. The necessary revolution is finacial in nature...and it would be easy...were it not for the herds of instant gratification, materialistic, dumb ass sheep everywhere.
A cheap, easy-money monetary policy and overseas manufacturers who pay slave wages help the sheeple get what they are told they want Cdad
Where can I get assless chaps for only $30? That is a better value than the present discount on gold and silver.
Excuse me for nitpicking, because CDad's comment was quite good, but assless chaps? If they had an ass they'd be pants. It's like buying frozen ice, or a hot water heater.
I'm afraid you're right Cdad. This nation will become a shithole, and it's not because of our financial situation. If it were only the debt, we could survive the collapse, learn our lesson, reset, and learn a new life. I believe we could even carry on in spite of peak oil. But our grave situation is more than an overgrown parasite, sucking our vitality dry. American culture; narcissistic, perverse, depraved, shallow and delusional. Moral decay is our worst curse, and it will utterly destroy us. Its all over but the gnashing. Yeah...have a nice day.
Yes, I agree...but moral collapse can be cured with financial collapse. People, when forced to become creative to survive, can begin to heal morally, as well. This is why the financial collapse is so important.
And I'm not rooting for collapse for the sake of it...I am talking about the repeal of the false economy and mindless materialism...which is a huge part of the problem [which leads to economic war with China which is much needed].
you're aboslutely right, obama is a prince of fools, we don't deserve Ron Paul but as long as I know there is someone like Ron Paul I have to do what I can.
"as long as I breathe, I attack" Eddy Merckx
awesome quote but not from eddy was from Bernard Hinault
whoops, you're correct, thanks. I have Eddy Merckx on the brain tonight.
awesome quote but not from eddy was from Bernard Hinault
TIL Hinault was the Lance Armstrong of 30 years ago.
Does it really matter? Do presidents actually lead, or are they just attractive diversions? I lean towards the latter. Obama's policies have little relation to his pre-election positions. Another Douglas Adams quote: " ...the job of the galactic president was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it." If true, we don't really have a democracy at all; it's just a facade. So, no need to keep beating ourselves up philosophically.
Vaughn Meader: "The American people will carefully weigh all the issues, and then go to the polls and vote for the best-looking candidate."
Winston Churchill: "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried."
Me: "Democracy only works when it doesn't matter which decision you make."
"Extremists have been in charge for the last 4 years since"
He actually said forty years (1971 of course).
Yes TD it was 40 years not 4 years that Ron Paul said.
40
Thank you for the claification as it completely changes the perspective.
Too sad amerikans want a nanny state.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/nanny-state-madness-californias-proposed-fitted-sheet-law/
Come on San Andreas!
Awww...sheesh!! I live in this shithole! [facepalm]
LOL at the banner below Paul... Paul: Abortion is "bizarre" -fucking cnn
He said killing an 8 pound fetus a month before delivery is "bizarre".
"democracy is too important to be left up to the votes of the people"
Henry Kissinger
What our goevernment once did to other nations, it is now doing to us. Reap what you sow.
If we're getting us some nation building I hope we gets some of that regime change as well.
Kissinger is a Jew. Like other Jews, such as Strauss, they left the end of World War II thinking they would have to take control of every country lest they be persecuted again. Since they were/are never a majority, they would have to do this through manipulation. In America, there is a deep philosophy, mostly out of the Chicago School, that Americans need to be controlled through subtle means, and Jews were the main proponents of this philosophy. They are seeing their fruit come to bear, and we are all losing as a result.
Extremists have been in charge for the last 4 years
I think he said 40. edit: he does say 40 years, not a big deal, but 40 years to me is blanket statement about DC and politics and not partisan.
"I'm a doctor, not a Federal Reserve chairman!'
even though the interviewer appeared to me to just be trying to sabatage Paul, his answers were well put. I think it did well in helping him and may hurt his chances for future interviews.
Ron Paul has many, many flaws. But every other candidate in the field is only a flaw.
He still supports an anti-american monetary system, but he can find many flaws rightly so of the keynesian version of monetarism.
We need someone much better than Ron Paul.
Sadly all we have is Ron Paul. So we'll have to elect him, only to tear him down, and move on to something much better.
It won't make sense to many people, but it's the truth. Austrian and Keynesian monetarism is complete bullshit. We're just dying of Keynesianism. But we can just as easily die of Austrian monetary policies.
As I've said before. We need someone who will tear down the bad, and increase the good.
The only thing you'll get from Ron is the tearing down of both good and bad.
That's reality. Because at his core, his economics is based off monetarism, an anti-american school of thought. All version of monetarism are invalid. We are to be a credit system....THAT'S american economics.
So again, it appears, if we are lucky, we need to put an austrian in to end keynesian....then we need to ditch the austrian...for someone that espouses the American Credit System of economics.
Or Ron Paul could figure it out. Doubtful though. He ain't the savior. But perhaps....perhaps...he can be a step in the process that gets America saved.
People need to realize this, or one day people will be lementing Paul, like dems lement Nerobama.
Of course Paul has a snowball's chance in hell of being elected. But if he was, we'd solve some problems, and create a whole new set of them. Will that tradeoff be positive or negative? Depends. I think it would be short term positive, if he stuck to a few of his key points and doesn't go beyond it. But he can just as easily go beyond it, and create a bunch of new, unneeded problems because he listens to anti-american dogma.
You don't need to be an Austrian to figure out Keynesians suck.
But you can't be an Austrian to actually save America fully. It's just impossible based on their viewpoints. Monetarism of ANY stripe is incompatible with the constitution.
That's the sad thing, the people with the real ideas, aren't running. Then there is a big gap. Then there is Ron Paul. Then there is a big gap. Then there is everyone else democrat or republican/tea.
We need someone far better then Ron Paul, but he's probably the best of the worst. Sorry, that's reality.
American Credit System...not Austrian Monetary System
Our founders forbade monetarism, and subscribed to a credit system. Paul can't run from that, but he shares that fatal flaw with every other candidate out there.
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. (probably not, but beware the flaws that will arrise if he somehow makes it...because they WILL appear...because he bases much of his policy on monetary dogma.)
Don't 'setlle' for Ron Paul....demand better. But that doesn't mean, choose someone else from the list of greater idiots dem, repub, or tea.
Glass-Steagall
American Credit System
please explain ............american credit system...........thanks....
From the way your post reads, I would say you want to elect a printing press.
They are running...................................24 hours a day
Greenbacks? No, thanks.
You mean that you think the Treasury, ie the Congress, will have the purse strings and print their own currency and extend credit against it? Yea that makes sense because politicians are so good with money.
"He still supports an anti-american monetary system,"
Moron.
Jimmy Rogers endorsed Ron Paul for President in an interview yesterday.
http://dailybail.com/home/jim-rogers-endorses-ron-paul-for-president-hes...
Oh, this was funny
http://www.dailypaul.com/174507/video-jon-stewart-daily-show-scolds-media-for-ignoring-ron-paul?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailypaul%2FFClq+%28The+Daily+Paul+-+Ron+Paul+for+President+2012%29
Ron is the leader of real change. He has so many things right. There is no other leader out there, and certainly none that was "adopted" through a grass roots Internet mandate to be the leader. As President, he would leave much of the law making up to the Congress while providing Constituional guidance. How bad could it be? Answer is, better than ANYTHING else as he at least educates for the future as to be careful who you elect and why.
Ron is the leader of real change. He has so many things right. There is no other leader out there, and certainly none that was "adopted" through a grass roots Internet mandate to be the leader. As President, he would leave much of the law making up to the Congress while providing Constituional guidance. How bad could it be? Answer is, better than ANYTHING else as he at least educates for the future as to be careful who you elect and why.
They had to allow Paul some airtime, just to look like they are covering him, but it's clearly a hit job.
listening to the mainstream media ignore Ron Paul is like Mad Moneys Jim Cramer telling people to buy Lehman Brothers right before..........oooops
Dr. Paul (MD not Ph.D) will not ever be allowed to win the nomination. Herman Cain was inserted incase he caught fire.
You silly fools. This is not your world, it is the adversarie's world. You think this is an accident that our system is failing? It served its purpose and now must yield to progress.
Ordo ab chao. Create the problem, provide the solution.
One currency, one leader, one religion.
Thank you, Tyler. America is rapidly waking up and posts like this will go a long way to calling the heard to action...now.
Gotta love the trolls coming out. Nothing is possible so eat ur poison because you have no say. Kill the conversation and you have people peddling for squabbles. Americans are armed, careful where you tread. If a voice is silenced violence is the only option. Give Ron Paul his due.
Piers Morgan is also under investigation for phone hakcing - nuff said
most women would not vote for him
and why is this?
All in all, an entertaining read. Paultards and their cult of personality. Just waiting for the proper leash collar size to fit their neck.
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Whether you like him or not, I call bullshit on the MSM excuse for not covering him. Politico's Jim Vandahei admitted on MSNBC that the media isn't giving him coverage because of him being unelectable in the media's eyes, but they are falling all over themselves covering Michelle Bachman. Do these people realize that for a republican to get elected, a candidate will have to have some independent and even some democrat support? No way in hell Michelle Bachman will get anything except republican support, yet Ron Paul has multiple issues that will receive support from the center and left(e.g. bringing the troops home, disapproval of the Iraq war, ending the drug war, his stance on gay marriage etc.). He is liked by many mainstreams liberals like Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, and Howard Stern. The hardest part for him is getting the republican nominations. In a general election, Ron Paul would get huge bipartisan support. Once again, the MSM has made their coverage based on a completely false premise. F the MSM!
Hard to get.
The US is a kingdom of gangs. US citizens empower their respective gang representatives.
Overlapping in goals or wants, course of actions, plan is irrelevant as gang members do not oppose principles, they oppose others doing what they want to do.
Gangs do not oppose robbery, they oppose others doing the robbery.
It does not matter if Paul's plan overlaps with the other gangs' plan because US citizens want their gang to be one executing the plan.
Maybe I'm just pollyannish, but I think US citizens couldn't care less what gang institutes real change. They just want real change, not the corporate fascism we've had in place for decades.
Really?
Actually, evidences point at US citizens wanting everything but real change.
They are reactionaries and would like the status quo to be preserved. That is what they want: the status quo.
And US politicians have a hard time because they are failing at providing that: keeping the status quo.
Oh no, US citizens do not want change. They want to keep the US world order as it is. No matter the cost.
The heart is here: blame laid on politicians, on corporations, on the elite, on anything else blamed is because US citizens want to preserve status quo.
A change is coming and US citizens do not like it.
When i watched the "what if" video on youtube, it led me to think that Mr Paul is no less engaging in propaganda, designed to strike fear into the minds of the people, than anybody else. I guess whether or not he will be president depends on his bloodline. After all, Barack Obama and British PM, David Cameron and related and both are relations of HRH The Queen of England.
No one cares. At least his propaganda is pretty damned honest.
Veterans support Ron Paul: http://www.youtube.com/user/VetsforRonPaul
Speaking about rawmilk, as someone did below, here is BREAKING NEWS! the footage of the hard training the SWAT team raiding Rawesome Food had to go through before confronting the huge task!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXLNxgjArW4&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afi7_01GnxY
True story: when I was in high school I had a friend whose mother was a full-blown diagnosed schizophrenic. She'd vanish for months at a time, re-appear, get a bit normal, then repeat. In 1984 she decided she was going to run for President.
Funny, the media ignored her, too.
http://media.mtvnservices.com/player/prime/mediaplayerprime.1.9.2.swf?ur...
Wouldn't the US Military be the largets socialist institiution on the planet today, looked at objectively? Appears that way.
I know many folks around the world see the US Miliatry as there real welfare - where the hopeless poor kids go...
i think RON PAUL is a controlled agent....hes just dragging this on...making u feel that there is someone fighting for the people....
If that was the case, they would give him more attention to give more people hope.
will ya eat ya peas..?
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/73909870/
the corporations and media and banks and federal reserve ARE in control, and it is absolute. He will not be elected president, and if he is, the above-mentioned will do away with him. SO forget about it.
True, but if they do assassinate him, they will have a very bloody revolution.
Abortion 1 month before birth? Is he really a doctor? You can't do it because the father dumped you or because you have some holiday plans. Only done there is health risk for the mother.
"Even when the media does remember Ron Paul, it’s only to reassure themselves that there’s no need to remember Ron Paul."
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/08/john-stewart-why-is-media-ignoring-...
gotta give Stewart props for that segment.
Ron Paul makes a lot of sense. He brings a lot to the debates, especially now that his unwaivering beliefs have been proven right after all these years. People wished they had listened a long time ago.
The leftwing MSM propaganda machine have tried to pidgeonhole him as fringe, as they push their small, but entrenched, socialist view of reckless spending on the welfare state as the mainstream lifestyle. The socialists and MSM are the minority fringe, and they run away from the word "socialist" because they know it has a well earned nasty reputation as a destoyer of nations and people.
It's been their stated tactic since the 1930's to not use the world socialist while incrementally biting off chunks of more welfare state. Socialized medicine was to be their crowning achievement.
Despite how they preen themselves, socialism is the ultimate in anti-intellectualism. Letting a few elites do all the thinking so the masses don't have to think for themselves is just sad. Global warming theory is a prime example how millions can easily end up dead through one wrong compulsory idea. Creating program after program that doesn't work is not intellectual, it's just stupid.
A gold standard and Constitutional rule of law is Kryptonite to the socialists and bankers. Let it be so.
Global warming theory is a prime example how millions can easily end up dead through one wrong compulsory idea.
Maybe you can explain this, if you don't like the words "global warmning" than tell me what you call this!!
In Aug of 2009:
"For the fourth time in only five years, the Northeast Passage has opened, cutting 4,500 miles off the 12,500-mile trip from the European Atlantic to the Asian Pacific for shipping companies. Two German ships recently were able to make the first commercial voyage ever through the Northeast Passage without the assistance of icebreakers.
Mariners have been trying to sail the Northeast Passage since1553. Until 2005, when record-breaking ice melt opened the passage to ice-free navigation, ice breakers were always needed on any journey."
The American People have already ELECTED Ron Paul.
http://www.topix.com/issue/gop-debate-aug11
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT MEDIA FUCKERS!
I approve this message ;~P
Extremists have been in charge for the last four years. ???
This is where paul loses me in his rhetoric. He's either gullible or one of the liars.
Confirming both liberal-bias AND neoconservative-bias is against Paul. If you are for Paul, you must take it upon yourself to express your views as we cannot rely on anyone but comedians to do that.
http://gawker.com/5831167/
Paul is getting too much coveravge. He's basically a flake and a dangerious one at that. Here are the reasons:
1) He would not have killed Bin Laden in Pakistan.
2) At the debate, he said that, if President, he would not interfere if States coereced it's citizens into buying health care. Hands off on what decide to do or not do. So he would have agreed with the pre Civil War Supreme Court Dred Scott decision that allowed escaped slaves to be returned to their masters. Same principle.
3) Also in the recent debate, he said he would not interfer with Iran getting nuclear weapons -- even when they've vowed to exterminate Isreal.
This kook lives in another world, one of convolunted morality. There is a reason he's been marginalized all these years.
Paul is getting too much coveravge. He's basically a flake and a dangerious one at that. Here are the reasons:
1) He would not have killed Bin Laden in Pakistan.
2) At the debate, he said that, if President, he would not interfere if States coereced it's citizens into buying health care. Hands off on what decide to do or not do. So he would have agreed with the pre Civil War Supreme Court Dred Scott decision that allowed escaped slaves to be returned to their masters. Same principle.
3) Also in the recent debate, he said he would not interfer with Iran getting nuclear weapons -- even when they've vowed to exterminate Isreal.
This kook lives in another world, one of convolunted morality. There is a reason he's been marginalized all these years.
1) Why, do you really think the Peace Nobel Price has? What does Santa Claus bring you this year?
2) It's all about what federal Government can do and what can't. I think that a restrictive interpretation of the compenteces of the Federal Government should suit very well a right radical like you seems to be. I'm sure that Mr. Paul, confronted with the problem of people losing their freedom because of the color of their skin would decide otherwise.
3) Maybe he is very fond of the fact that Iran in fact never vowed to exterminate anybody, while surrounded by Countries which own nuclear weapons and hardly can be labeled as democracies. In fact Iran having nukes could suit the USA very well regarding the now tense relationships between US and Pakistan.
The reason he's been marginalized all these years is that common sense is as scarce as anti-matter while gullability is a cheap commodity.
The American voter is hopelessly ignorant about the most important topics for this nation, in many cases willfully so. Nothing significant will change until their bread and circuses disappear. And the oligarchy represented by the mainstream media is extremely well funded due to the literally trillions of dollars at stake to control or steal. They have many hundreds of millions to pay the mainstream media to control the message by virtue of the hundreds of millions in ad revenues they offer. Also, because those who honestly threaten the status quo are threatening the taxpayer gravy train for corporations and the laws and regulations which favor them, our corporate media self-censors against them. They have always succeeded in this and will continue to succeed until poverty forces J6P off the sofa. And when he finally does get off his duff, because he's so very ignorant, we could end up in a Germany 1933 situation.
Of all the candidates we have to choose from, very obviously Ron Paul is head and shoulders above the rest. Unfortunately, electing him would be like putting the Navy's finest captain on a sinking ship with a broken keel, with a gang of pirates for a crew, and a massive fire in it's coal bunker.
Mind you, I still would have to say, his being elected would be the best of all possible outcomes (based on the current group of candidates), but even so, I don't believe it would make much of a difference over the long haul.
We need to completely eliminate our currenty monetary system in favor of an honest monetary system that doesn't operate entirely upon the concept of usury as ours currently does.
There are other systems that have been used succesfuly in the past. Most people don't know that in Japan in 1932 the government adopted the monetary policies of Major Clifford Hugh Douglas, and within 5 years Japan had experienced enormous growth and increases in production, wages, standard of living & per capita income. The ironic thing I found about this was the fact that Germany adopted very similar monetary systems in 1939, which led to dramatic increases in her GDP, incomes, production, exports, and all other important economic indicators. It's interesting that both of these countries found themselves at war with the West (a war pushed by bankers) & the soviet union (controlled some say by a powerful Jewish elite closely associated with the international bankers).
Some say that WW2 was fought to make the world safer for international bankers. One thing I've recently discovered is that everything I was taught in school, or learned from other popular sources about World War Two is absolute hogwash. No other event in the history of the world is shrowded in as many lies as the causes & events of World War 2.