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Jon Stewart's Extended Interview With Ron Paul
About a month ago, after everyone in the wholly conflicted media (just ask one question: who pays all that advertising money - nuf said), on both the left and the right, was ignoring the most promising presidential candidate this country has had in decades, Jon Stewart decided to take Ron Paul under his wing, and made it clear that while those who don't matter can pretend to ignore Ron, the one man who does, and who reaches more than most of the legacy "serious media" combined, has certainly noticed Paul. Naturally Stewart could have left it there, especially given his own personal political view. To his great credit, he did not. Instead last night in an extended exclusive interview, he presented Ron Paul in a way that he should have been presented from the beginning: no tricks, no gotchas, no gimmicks, no commercial breaks every 45 seconds. Hopefully this is the beginning of the transition of the Paul campaign to one where he has enough critical mass to be taken seriously by everyone - something "everyone" should be doing regardless.
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I don't think it matters who is in that chair. Paul would just get blamed for it all and the other congress critters would drag their feet on any of the initiatives. Frozen stalemate across the political grid. You need to replace the congress as well. And even then, the finances are so fucked that we can't "solve" the problems with anything short of "default" or a "National Debt Jubilee." There is no austerity or set of logistic solutions that let the current system stand. End of it.
"You need to replace congress as well."
Au contraire, madame, at least as far as NC Governator Perdue thinks, e.g.:
http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/perdue_suggests_suspendi...
How strange is that?
- Ned
{OT, but wrt your smackdown a bit ago, have you seen Ann Coulter's most recent book? Right up my anti-mob alley, you might enjoy it. Can't help but enjoy the rather dry commentary ;-) }
That the same skeleton that said the Japanese shouldn't fear Fukushima because radiation is good for you, look how it cures cancer?
UP F: I don't know about the ad hominem attack (nor do I know the latin for attack against the WOman) but you obviously have a thing for the zaftig (not that there's anything wrong with that).
Not my point. The book is a) serious and b) piss-your-pants funny (but only in the case that you have a sense of humor or a perspective of historical nature).
Otherwise, have a wonderful night.
- Ned
My bad, nothing against you, I just have a problem with talking heads that can't tell the difference between things that kill you slowly and things that make you deader quicker.
I'd like to thank you for expanding my Yiddish vocabulary. I can now say "Oy, zaftig!"
You too have a wonderful night, didn't mean to twist your curly tail too much, and the Latin is "ad mulierem." NSA translate is your freund....
lmao,
u might like the book as well, with the provisio that she's nay (just) a talking head. Actually, the national interviews are usually rather stiff. Local interviews, with more banter and give-and-take are much better. The book otoh, is a scalpel, a razor, and a shiv.
- Ned
{I'm surprised she survived Cornell, but that's another story.}
Picasso...hopefully the soon to be bank crash wil give him the Senate majority he will need.
The BO was f*cked from day one by the powers that be.
for all history, senate and congress always looked after their self first.
I don't see that in any conditions our senate would work for people.
If something is not done in first 2 years of Senator , the second 2 years are jsut the re-election points.
BO was groomed by the CIA since the day he was born. Mommy and Daddy were agents. He is playing his role masterfully.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/bombshell-barack-obama-conclusively-outed-as...
The tenticles of fascism run deep
And if one wonders why we were "stopping the domino effect" in Vietnam whilst simultaneously throwing the Rhodesians under the bus with UN sanctions...
Barack Obama, Sr., who met Dunham in 1959 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii, had been part of what was described as an airlift of 280 East African students to the United States to attend various colleges — merely “aided” by a grant from the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation, according to a September 12, 1960, Reuters report from London. The airlift was a CIA operation to train and indoctrinate future agents of influence in Africa, which was becoming a battleground between the United States and the Soviet Union and China for influence among newly-independent and soon-to-be independent countries on the continent.
Is BO circumcised? he would be if he was born in the US at that time he claims.
You gonna give a lil corndog action to check?
Have any1 tried to leave a comment today on CNBC? i think those bastards block all the comments.
ANd no need to scream than none of this blog readers goes to CNBC
We all have to do our part to wake up the masses. I wrote a brief synopsis of RP and his opposition to the Fed in the op ed section of the local paper today trying to wake up the locals. If their ears perk up, maybe they'll do some research and rely less on the idiot box.
Too late. The bridge is out, so are the brakes. The usa locomotive is hurtling down the steep incline at incredible speed toward an inevitable fiery fate. Even if RP could somehow be airlifted into the cab at the last minute there is nothing to be done except jump and save yourself.
Buzz
The point isn't 'Saving' anything any more, it's only about reaching people, REAL people. That's what ZH does (and why we read it everyday).
Ron ain't going to be president. That's not even the point anymore (I wrote him in in 2008), the point is all the people he has woken up.
Like B. Dylan, THE effect Dylan had was to change and inspire the CHANGERs. The people who came and wrote after him. The multitude of song writers that were affected by Dylan.
So to, Ron Paul. There may be some young people who get into politics BECAUSE of him, Will want to pick up the torch and take it the next league.
He is waking up people THAT's ALL THAT IT'S ABOUT now.
Good point samsara. They can't take that away. RP doesn't have to "win."
Ron Paul < > Bob Dylan
Did not see that comin'.
"A wise man once said: An error does not become a mistake, until you refuse to correct it."
You need to have in mind, that there are others ... "emerging", willing to help. But you cannot help somone, who is not willing to help himself first!
The US and the world should pray for this man to become the next president of the US! Maybe he can do something about the Fed and the Banking Cartel that has infected the US.
So junk me guys. Please excuse my ignorance. But, to me RP is one of their tools that can be successfully used to give a false sense of hope to those people that still don't get it. Using RP as one of their candidates can give those people the political illusion that they do have a choice. Here is my question. Supposed RP gets elected and he doesn't do anything as he has promised just as any other politicians. Because all politicians are whores and the tools of the ruling elite. What are you going to do about it?
You get a thumbs up from me.
RP is in the itamimulli clip, if he still isn't, they will make sure he is. There can't be a rebirth of an independent Republic of the United States, not tomorrow, not ever - there's too much at stake.
well, if that happens, we really are fuct.
We will complain on twitter and Facebook. That'll show him, right guys?
#VivaLaRevolucion!
@reader2010. You are one who doesn't understand. They want you to think votes not matter, because that way you stay home, or you take gun to be arrested. We have power of the vote to change things, so have to use it. Suppose RP gets elected, yes of course, he will work with Congress and senate, but his election tells the ones in power a message from us. America is changing, the people are changing, you change or get left behind. We elect the right ones for the House of Representatives, and the right ones for Senate and then Ron Paul can really change things.
Who here want to run for Senate or the House, someone in Boehner district would be a good defeat.
How old are you?
JFK telling us the 911 truth - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxnpujfanUM
JFK elected, he told us.
Now time for us to defeat subversive. We have more power with social media to reach other and spread news. So what little Edward, are you going to cry little tears all day, hide under baby blanket, or work for change?
I'm not from the U.S., we've had our 'change' through World War I & II. This is the kind of change Obama and the masters have in mind for the United States.
Personally, I like that kinda "change" in the EU. And by the way, your social media didn't stop the demolition of two 110 stories skyscrappers in the centre of New York, with subsequent wars.
The real question is "does your vote really count." People can't seem to read punched cards and with the Diebold electronic voting machines in play, the "outcome" seems to be questionable. Voting should always be done by human hands and counted by human hands no matter how advanced society becomes.
It's all a crooked game and I'm afraid a "little more" needs to be carried in Washington than just signs at the next "gathering."
Where I vote, there are no paper ballots. I trust the computer. And then later I hear there have been glitches for entire neighborhoods. I am supposed to trust they just worked it out. And sometimes a candidate wins by less than a 100 votes? I dispise it. MY VOTE DOESN'T MEAN SHIT. It is theater, worse than usless.
MsCreant - voting w/o an auditable paper trail is a TPTB wet-dream. Diebold makes ATM machines w/o obvious security flaws or they would be out of business. Why would they leave the door wide open on their voting machines?? Bush won w/ Diebold in 2004.
YouTube - Princeton University Exposes Diebold Flaws
Best wishes with the rebuild.
Dude sounds like Rorschach from The Watchmen.
I thought they used that card on Obama?! Change is now and Yes we can bla bla bla...Ron Paul has been trying to get his story across to the American people long before Obama was elected as president. Back then he didn`t get much support, nonetheless he was fighting for what he believed was right(and still is no doubt).
This guy is speaking right from his gut, without holding anything back. He has grilled Fed chairman Bernanke in Congress hearings and has been completely open with the american people. Most people are now aware of the situation the entire world is in, and as the unemplyment rates continue to rise it will be clear to many more that a complete overhaul is needed of the banking systems. Hopefully, this is the man that can at least start this process as he is the only one actually having the balls to confront the "Big Guns"
Yes, Obama used change slogan because he felt pulse of people so used word for election, but Obama did not do it, he status quo, too scared for change.
Ron Paul is not coward, but it will be hard for him to be elected, it's why we have to work hard.
If I could vote in the US I would def. put up a vote for RP! I know alot of Europeans would`ve done the same thing. It is freaking hilarious watching those debates, when they talk about financial solutions. Most of the solutions they come up with serve the banks. RP says its like Lincoln and Andrews did: Out with the FED! ;-) and let the Government print its own money!
Part 2 is here for those like me who can't watch the US or Canadian channels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbQvo684hIE
The thing about Ron Paul is you can not question his integrity. His decades long voting record is there for all to see. He has never wavered from his core beliefs of less federal government, less taxes, less war mongering. You may not like certain positions he has, but when you put him along side the other candidates and their verifiable corruptability, can you really choose anyone but Ron Paul? I'm surprised the powers that be dont help him get elected so that when TSHTF (which it appears is coming VERY SOON), they can blame Paul's "less government" as the problem, and take over the country after Paul's policies have cleared out all the bad debt that must be removed from the system, and institute Orwellian institutions.
Key Q:
What's his trackrecord on "justice for all", aka fairness?
Old boy...Plenty tough.
Of course, he'll be found dead before ever garnering the Republican nomination.
Thumbs up Ron & Jon.
Long live Jon Stewart!!
He needs to take several talking points eg. 1) States rights, local not national (international, One-worlder) 2) Failure of National Government in Finance that bails out only Friends of Treaserve by printing, stealing from the taxpayer, 3) successes and effectiveness of Glass-Steagal and 4) CONgress must live under the same laws as those they govern (Social Security and not a special retirement account for government workers; no trading on information they are privy to that gives them a front run on profits, and no raises unless approved by referendum..at least.
Until he at least seeks to overturn the exemption from the laws they pass or propose, he is being disingenuous and his speaking ability is too helter skelter to follow, he can't finish one thought without jumping to another, like a kid with ADD.
Given enough time to speak, he can woo anyone with his sincerity and common sense. Give me a break. Even the sheeple can hear THAT. He could easily get the minority votes over Obama because people have realized how FAKE Mr. Teleprompter is and how he has forsaken all of us on Main Street for his real pals on Wall Street. You think Romney or Perry can pull that off? Hmmmm?
What's wrong with the Front (home) page? Nothing except Ron Paul & RanSquawk
the only way that they will allow RP to win , is when they know total collapse cannot be avoided and they can then blame it on his watch
Ron Paul 2012
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High Plains, I don't get you. You definitely don't want the Zionist Fed in charge, but the one person who could actually be an irritant to them, you give no credence. Even if he doesn't fix shit, which a ton of people bring up, isn't him being a pain in the ass to the fed worth the price of admission? Compared to Romney/Obama, who plan on pissing off exactly nobody, i'll take irritant. Hell if he just walked into Fort Knox looking for the gold his first week before he was assassinated, I would say mission accomplished, much better than any other choices. And if assassinated before election, so be it, let's have another truth commission, just to see how dumb people are still. I see tons of entertainment factor, no downsides, other than for people with lots of invested idealism. If any of his idealism materializes it would just be a bonus from my point of view.
lol, I see we Americans have learned nothing from Obama. Another candidate promises the world and everyone runs over to him. Obama will come out of the Presidency magically a billionaire and Ron Paul wants in on the money train. If any candidate promises dramatic change you should laugh him out of the race, that's not how this country runs
Difference is that one has a very long history of bucking the system and voting the Constitution unfailingly. On the other hand you have a zero with no history to speak of, no experience, and who wipes his ass with the Constitution. Go back to Huffpo loser...
Obama did not have much of a voting history and he was often marked absent for many votes. JS made a good point, the guy is consistent. Obama, not even trackable.
The Big O'hole also stated he was not ready to run for president shortly before reneging(oops, am I a racist now?) and running. His answer to whether he was qualified is one of my favorites clips that I use to piss off Liberals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwkOOrp0HyE Notice he's so cocky that he calls Wasilla, "Wasilly", never mentions her being Governor, and I'm pretty sure everyone knows that candidates don't run their campaigns anymore, especially someone as devoid of talent as this guy. Ron Paul is not promising the moon, he's promising to undo the policies implemented with EO's, bring home troops from the wars, and put a knee on the neck of the Fed to shit or get off the pot. He can do all that and never need to use Congress. With the help of Congress he can get a lot more done in changing the direction of the country but will he undo decades of damage in 4 years, no. Will he set a precedent and possibly get another term, yes. The alternatives are not looking good otherwise.
Nice to see this after watching Jon Stewart suck Obama's dick for the past few years & giving him a complete pass on his hypocrisy.
His message is good, a real statesman is Mr Paul. However, America as a whole is not united enough , nor realistic enough to want his policies enacted in real time. The whole Banking , political machinery of America is designed for socialism. Most Americans see themselves as capitalist, but capitalism isn't how America really works. He won't win.
Jon Stewart's a clever guy with the heart at the right place. His "911 first responders" stunt was awesome too!
I like Ron Paul but even he knows he cannot really challenge the TBTF Banks. I have watched him back down on that a few times.
I think he wins by just getting his message out to the public by his running for President. That way he gets the public to think about his ideas without actually confronting the FED.
I think Ron Paul knows how strong the FED and the Private banks are and although not really afraid of them, he walks a fine line of confrontation and not true action to dismantle them.
I remember his comments about whether he would get rid of the FED and he said NO, I would allow an alternate currency like Gold.
I know so many have their hopes and dreams on him but I am not so sure. Much like Donald Trump. Everyone loved what he said but he even backed off eventually from running for President.
The destiny of the Country is in the hands of the Bankers and the FED and no one person will change that.
Alternative currencies would force the Fed to be more responsible in its management of Federal Reserve Notes, or bankrupt it as demand for its worthless paper evaporates. Its implementation would involve little more than taking legal tender laws off the books.
Paul is way ahead of you on this--ending the Fed by decree will require a new fiat substitute to be conjured overnight; one that will eventually be destroyed, again, by central planning retardery (even "hard" money is not exempt from central planning fuck-ups; see how we got here).
The fact that MSM Republicans and the Liberals don't like RP demonstrates just how dangerous he appears to them.
I will vote for Ron Paul and against every incumbent on the ballot. And ... I am going to tell at least 10 people a day to do so as well, between now and the election.
The status quo, and its supporters, are the enemy.
Bancor in 2013?
http://saposjoint.net/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2626&start=560#p34252
http://www.tfmetalsreport.com/comment/61397#comment-61397
While I will continue to vote for Ron Paul any chance I get, I doubt he will ever get elected. (If he did, they'd probably just JFK his ass)
As if the votes are even actually counted anyway. Thanks for posting this in any case.
Ron Paul is to global Socialists what kryptonite is to Superman.
Stewart must have lost alot of money in the market or some ponzi and got tired of talk and no results from Obama.....or maybe he was fraudclosed on
Yeah, votes don't count anymore. If an election is close, the courts decide. See Marbury v. Madison and Bush v. Gore.
But HELL YEAH for Ron Paul! Gotta love the guy.
As for ZH's question ("who pays all that advertising money"????), please see Chompsky's Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
The US needs a financial shake-up. I haven't followed the Repub primary stuff too much, but I am getting the feeling that Ron Paul is the real deal just because the mainstream right media completely ignores him. I can't believe that there can be entire discussions of Repub debates by Hannity, Rush, O'Reilly, Greta, etc. and they completely do not recognize his existence. Very weird. That has to tell me that he is anti-establishment and that they fear him.
To the left, he wants to screw up their financial ivory towers.
To the right, he wants to screw up their global military hedonism.
To paraphrase the Joker in Batman I: "I like him already"!
We vote alone in a private box. We have been told we waste a vote for an independent candidate because it may affect the election. I have been hearing that for a lot of years and was programmed as a kid with that kind of mindset in the media. As soon as you think about it you realize that you are supposed to affect the election any way you want with your one vote, that this is what it is about. Is your only pleasure being able to say I got this wonk elected? The programming was to get you to vote for one of two. Options were unamerican.
If we could only sell the media on the idea of multiple parties and how many more people they could employ covering them. Think they want to have to keep fixing the camera to get orange boner just right? or Harry Reid with enough makeup so he looks like he has blood circulation? Everyone should have their say, instead of no one.
Ron Paul 2012
End the bankster FED
While people bitch about the evil tea-party, the tea-party brought the budget/debt/spending feral government under the spotlight. Ron Paul has consistently brought the FED front and center, where it should be.
I think the personal responsibility ship sailed a long, long time ago. Probably when the intellectual elites decided that the masses were simply too simple to understand the increasingly sophisticated world. That's when the elites stopped informing the public on important matters and shifted the public debate to the more trivial issues of the times. Anyways, you can compare the state of personal responsibility to that of giving a stock tip or whatever- to the person who receives it, if it worked out, he is a genius and if it lost, 'you' give terrible advice.
Darn right. Why care for myself when I can let someone else do that for me? I've got more important things to focus on ... like who's getting voted off the island, or who's on American Idol ... OMGWTFBBQ!!
Maybe this is just obvious common sense, but I will throw in my two cents here. I have been a follower of Ron Paul for a while now, especially after reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged back in 2007. While I agree with the principle of limited government, especially with respect to avoiding moral hazard, market distortions, and inefficiencies, I believe that the government does serve an important function which cannot be ignored. The government's function should be to ensure that the "free" market functions properly. The equilibrating behavior of free markets requires certain assumptions about their agents, such as complete information, interchangeable goods and services, zero transaction costs, and lack of market power. More importantly, in order for the "free" market to function, property rights must be enforced. These basic assumptions/parameters do not exist in nature, absent a government or enforcement mechanism.
Without the intervention of courts/government (rule of law) to enforce property rights and facilitate the parameters of the free market, the brute forces described in Ayn Rand's novel would cause the "market" to self-destruct into a state of chaos and robbery. Imagine how inefficient it would be to conduct business with someone if you cannot trust anybody from ripping you off or defrauding you. Or imagine having the confidence to invest in a region plagued by gangs and violence, where buildings are destroyed because the government does not pay for police officers or firefighters and every man for himself is the governing rule. Yes, some can argue that individuals with resources can provide their own security (buying their own guns and mobilizing militias) but that is not a world I want to live in. Ayn Rand (more so than Ron Paul) has a very simplistic, black-and-white view of how the world operates, and a distinct view about human nature and what society is capable of. Both of them have a very negative view of regulation.
The role of government should be limited to enforcing the rule of law, where such law is designed to facilitate the functioning of the market. This role includes regulation in addition to protecting property rights. I think that Ron Paul takes an extreme position in order to make a point, but he should also acknowledge that the government is not the enemy as long as we keep its main purpose in mind and tailor the laws accordingly. He is an advocate of states rights (federalism), but I have not yet made up my mind whether that is good for the "free" market, especially in light of regulatory arbitrage if states choose a race-to-the-bottom approach.
Ron Paul says that in a true libertarian society, you have to be responsible - that the regulations in the "free market" are much more stringent. But that makes no sense, especially given Jon's point about the industrial revolution and pollution. Instead of condemning government involvement altogether, Ron Paul should distinguish between necesary government regulation, versus undesirable government intervention (i.e. bailouts and Corporatism ruining our political system through special interests etc.).
Paul did say it would be illegal to pollute your neighbor. He did not present his free market as anarchy.
Yes, but my argument is that he does not adequately distinguish between the government's role as a regulator to facilitate the free market, versus a force that distorts the free market. He just assumes a "libertarian society" but it leaves ambiguities as to whether the free market can regulate itself, or whether the government must step in and set rules. I would be surprised if he would promote pro-environment laws and energy efficiency, if those would be "governmental restraints" (regulations) that make our country less competitive vis a vis China, Vietnam, Indonesia, etc. The real question is WHICH regulations are rational and help facilitate the free market, rather than the ideology of deregulation and states rights (which could lead to forum shopping/regulatory arbitrage, increased transaction costs etc.)
I really can't stand how RP is treated by the GOP. I doubt THEY even want him to win and we all know why. He ought to just run as an independent because he has a huge following from both Republicans and Democrats that have realized how much common sense he speaks. If he ran as an independent he can crush all hopes for any republican douchbag to defeat Obama because he would haul a TON of votes away from them. Then as we all know, but the media never admits, Ron Paul would ABSOLUTELY crush Obama.
lad: in the following, there is nothing against RP, per se. Only some visceral practicalities. Domestically, RP looks OK to me, foriegn policy not so much, but those are not a part of below:
'cuz he can't win.
'cuz that third party thingie guarantees Our Dear President's re-election.
Of course he does, has been, what difference has that made?
I concur.
We don't ALL know that. Au contraire.
So, as the reddie-thingie-mob-feeding-frenzy-fest starts, consider the outcomes of the following. There were all kinds of people who KNEW that H would win in '92, that Nader would win in '00, that Wallace would win in '68, etc.
Third party R challenge guarantees current policies continue in high gear.
Don't cha' know.
- Ned
{now, can we re-start up "Operation Chaos?" Third party D thing would be sweet.}
I think he can win, You think he can't. I could give a rat's ass who the fuck is the cakehole MEDIA's choice. They are bought and paid for by "you know who". I think America is fed up with how the media manipulates our lives. Crappy news. Shitty programing. Idiot journalists. No real truths being expounded. Witholding very important news because it does not fit "you know who"'s agenda. Give me a break, son.
comme l'enfant: blame "the others", provide no facts, plenty o' emotion. That's the way you do it.
no breaks, child.
try harder, you might grow up a skosh'
- Ned
{moi? I have significant doubts about your growing up, but, well, one tries one soul at a time.}
tsk tsk
+2 years here and still no manners.
go home to mum, little piggy. you common troll.
OHHH so boring. YAWN! good night little one.
You suck at persuasion. If you are trying to help Ron Paul, he needs to fire you. For that reason, I doubt your sincerity (the hostility is unneeded). I am fully aware shills on all sides drift in and out. The ones I agree with, I don't call out (LOL). You are not helping Ron, therefore I think you are a fake dis-information type troll, make anyone for Ron look bad.
If I am wrong, hear the message and shape up (and I am sorry). If I am correct, GO TO HELL.
You are quite correct love. I do suck at persuasion. Why?. I am not open to it myself. I do not budge, Just like Ron Paul! So....it goes like this: I do not take advice nor do I give it. If it is your hobby to persuade others to your side, then good for you.
And if I did have a propensity to engage in frivolous persuasion, why the hell would it be with someone who is obviously attacking me?
Oh and just in case you did not see my FIRST comment on page one of this article....
RON PAUL OR NONE AT ALL!
Growing up I turned to sitcoms (MASH, Cheers, etc.) to learn english, but mostly to get my daily dose of laughter (for mental health purposes). These days I turn to ZH for my daily dose of integrity (again, mental health). Funny thing about integrity, like an exclusive club, members recognize each other... I guess that's why people here like Ron Paul.
If I was an American, I would volunteer for his security detail and even be prepared to take a bullet for this hero. Unfortunatly, now thet the Fed is tracking us online, I still may
Any person who supports Ron Paul feels the way you do. We have no fear. Ron Paul 2012!
He comes off as naive.
He is asking people to reduce federal government, let the people join together sing "kumbaya" and control state governments because they are more "accessible" by the average Joe.
Sounds fine in principle. Problem is the average person no longer trusts the other average person. They may not admit it, but people are begging for the heavy hand of government and authority as long as it appears fair.
People have forgotten what it is like to be self-sufficient.
Of course people are begging for the heavy hand of government. That's the sheeples problem. Ron Paul can change that.
Fewer than 1 in 500 Americans own even a single ounce of gold bullion. Mine is very deep in the ground and covered with several feet of concrete. Seriously. When the sheeple realize what has happened to them they are going to come to take your gold and silver. Make sure it is not sccessible.
is it just me or are we missing like 99% of ZeroHedge?
did Tyler shut down the old stuff becuse of the FED Key Word Searches?
Looks like we are in for some serious problems?
God Love Tyler!
Fuck the FED!
JW - check the addresses that flash by when waiting for a page load. Normally things like doubleclick serving ads. Now, recently, I see the CIA front - Facebook flashing by. In other words, now your favorite ZH page doesn't load until Facebook, probably paying for the oppurtunity, gets updated. You don't need a Facebook page or to have ever accessed FB. They want to know about you.
Paul looks so out of place sometimes when he speaks the truth and stands up for individual freedom and security against big government...How far we have de(evolved) in order to not depend on ourselves and blame others for shortcomings in our life
Its not about RP or any canidate its about you.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilence and eternal partisipation.
Anything less is tyranny and slavery.
The people get from government what time they put into it.
Thats the reality.
If you dont speak your voice everyday you dont have a voice.
Politicians are children without parental supervision.
Expecting grown ass man and women to not act like children is asking to much, it seems.
I'm outing MDB as one of the Feds 'social media influencers'. I never see that kind of MSM claptrap around here until recently.
So, MDB, what does being a shill for cronies pay?
I think he gets paid by the down arrows...you really can't be that stupid and be able to, oh wait: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMK9zxb5HyE
That ain't bad. I don't think anyone voted for Jo. OTOH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczlgVXjg
Still never gets old...
edit: have to get my acronyms right
I can't believe how many ZHers gave itemized responses. It looked like a survey to me, numbered and all.
I don't think MDB is influencing anyone, but I do see the questions and the huge number of responses as a wonderful monitoring tool. Like the great eye, lidless, that never sleeps.
Make no mistake, there is great evil here.
Can any of you good economists please explain this $14.3 TRILLION UCC Financing statement for water through the Bank of America?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV006HzXT-g&NR=1
ron paul needs to come out and say these points
1) "" I'm not saying free markets are always perfect, but it's time to give them a chance ""
2) " the markets have been rigged for so long , by MAJOR subsidies for farming, big oil, and all the other big industries , that you cannot say we've had free markets for the last 40 years".
3) "corporations are not persons under a plain reading of the u.s. constitution and its amendments".
4) "everyone is scared of a major economic collapse, a lot of people insist it is coming. I for one don't believe this, but if it comes to pass, i believe the federal government should help the states to feed their citizens and make sure they don't starve, because a a libertarian government can take steps to help the state governments serve their citizens when there are simple, universal state welfare concerns at stake, like starvation of large quantities of people in your state. "
5) "people insist there is a lot of poverty in america and there is. but when i, as a doctor , when i see an obese person walking on the street who then talks about being imoverished, i think to myself that the u.s. has done a real headjob on itself in redefining poverty, just because people do not want to walk to get groceries and then cook those groceries for themselves and would rather eat junk food transported by a car , does not mean we are really in poverty. (and i hate fatties!) "
ron paul, seer and politician. perhaps he will
be crucified by the many then worshiped in name
and ignored in time and practice?
That is our choice to make. If Ron Paul is crucified I will continue on my own journey with a heavy heart but greatful to have witnessed such a strong, loving and uncorruptible human being. God speed to Ron Paul.
America is too stupid to elect Ron Paul. Sad truth.
Not too stupid, too ignorant. Someone at work the other day said they didn't like Ron Paul because he wants to legalize Prostitution and Drugs. I corrected them by saying he only wants the federal nut-grabber off our nuts, and it seemed like a revelation to them. The average US Citizen idolizes their government far too much. We're getting dangerously close to the point of no return if we're nto there already.
Sorry you information plugs, the damage is done. I listened to RP and others. I read. I polluted my mind. The feelings of derision were saturated with the natural law of liberty.
"When I was a slave I spoke as a slave I understood as a slave I thought as a slave; but when I became a man I put away slavish things."
I can no longer look at the corporation UNITED STATES of AMERICA and feel anything but a kind of blues.
Because you're in love with being slaves from your head to your shoes.
Let's all be honest....I Like Ron Paul, he of all the candidates on both sides of the political spectrum has a firm grasp on the real problems and threats to America....but if it looked like he was going to win the fed and their reptilian pets in power would eliminate mr. Paul ala Dallas 1963
By the way they will never legalize drugs because it is the drug trade that finances the CIA
By the way they will never legalize drugs because it is the drug trade that finances the CIA
By the way they will never legalize drugs because it is the drug trade that finances the CIA
The U.S gov is one of the worlds largest traffickers of illegal drugs. FACT!
Funny you should mention that...I was just thinking of the socalled "opiumwars" that the US and NATO forces fight against in Afghanistan. During the Taliban-regime, the opium production was almost eradicated. When Taliban got overthrown by the US, the opium again started to blossom. And today, what, 90-95% of all heroin supply has its origins from Afghanistan...what war are these guys fighting? More like "making sure" the production is at its peak.
This is absolutely correct. If you grew heroin under the Taliban you and your whole family were killed.
The reason the Afghanis started growing opium poppies in the first place was because Nixon convinced the then King of Afghanistan to make cannabis illegal.
This was after the king had been providing commercial fertilizer to the farmers to make better product.
Afghanistan's creation myth is all about cannabis. They believe that there was a guy named Baba Ku (think I'm remembering that name right) who brought the mighty weed to Afghanistan and taught the people to farm it for food (contains all amino acids humans need as well as omega 3,6,9), fiber and its psychoactive properties. The King making it illegal was a serious WTF moment for them culturally. Talk about cognitive dissonance.
Totally off topic so back to the topic at hand.
Ron Paul!!!
not off topic at all actually.
not only those you mentioned, don't forget the fuel & plastic properties, etc.
free the plants, free the people.
natural allies, symbiosis.
the oxycontin war (brought to you by Big Pharma)
Exactly right Fonz. Our military is helping the Afghans grow opium to the tune of $500,000,000,000 per year. Opium productions has increased by 90% since Afghanistan was invaded in 2001.
Wells Fargo/Wachovia was caught laundering $376,000,000,000 in Latin American drug money over a two year period.
Web search both if you don't believe it or choke on your blue pills!
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Survey-Health-insurance-costs-apf-41911480...
After all the fight about Obamacare......total failure imo.
Payor mix between Medicare/caid and private insurance is changing. Medicare/caid way up, private insurance way down. Medicaire/caid payments in $$ from fed.gov going down, cost of care going up due to insurance, Obamacare and big pharma and we will soon have either many bankrupt hospitals or the feds step in to run everything.
If and I say IF, Ron Paul ever won, He had better get his ass in a bunker at a military base and stay there while he dismantels the government and procecutes the traitors.
simply ain't gonna happen. just look at the stranglehold TPTB have over the 'markets'.
far too much money and power involved to let some little guy advocate have a shot at calling any shots.
His micro expressions concern me.
Your micro thoughts concern me. Seriously you object to the way he emotes with his face? I'd be a little more concerned with the 35 bodies they dumped on the busy overpass in my home country.
35 bodies? Sounds like another victory for America's War on Drugs.
Waste of time. Nothing is going to change in this country from the plutocracy-filtered candidate pool we are allowed to vote for. Even if, someday, someone _sounding like_ Ron Paul wins, there's going to be as little "Yes we can/Change" as there has been with the "great changer" Obama.
The forces behind the status quo system that takes advantage of the multi TRILLION dollar taxpayer gravy train will make damned sure that even if our dumbed down, zero attention span, American Idol watching voters should accidentally awaken somehow and vote for a boat rocker candidate that miraculously got through the oligarchical vetting process, there will be very little actual change to the status quo once he reaches office.
At this point, the only thing that will bring about significant change in this country would be a second American Revolution and that won't happen until a full-on economic collapse gets Joe and Jane Sixpack off the sofa and into the streets, if then. Then, being as historically and politically ignorant as they are, we'll probably end up with some police state fascist in charge luring the uniformly ignorant with the dream of a return to our "former greatness" as a country. Sound familiar? 1933 Germany?
"If voting actually changed anything, they'd make it illegal." -- Emma Goldman
Maybe Anonymous should just disable all those EBT cards instead of protesting Wall Street? I bet that would get their attention. I think 45 million hungry people is just the kind of thing that is likely to create a revolution.
Wow. What an idea. You typically post kind of late in the development of a thread. Would love to see folks see this and comment. I feel for the hungry children so I don't like it but Wow! Good firedrill for the mind.
I wish RP would emphatically admit that we've NEVER had a truly free market in this country, nor any other. I think the minute that it took for the ink to dry on the Constitution was about it. Thank Hamilton for the descent after that.
Ron Paul for President
Jesse Ventura for Vice President
Don't care if they have only a snowball's chance in hell,
The campaign would be outrageous... Worth the admission.
Nice Hedge against bankster funded assassination should the snowball prevail.
a damn good insurance policy that's for sure.
Rock solid with right house speaker.
OK: so who would be the third in this trinity?
Paul Ventura-?-2012
Roseanne Barr? think about it -- whack me, get HIM. whack us both, get HER!
I'd have a nut farmer joke about that but I'm not that fucking funny.
abso-fuckin-lutely...not outrageous in the trivial Lady Gaga sense, but in the crazy aunt in the attic sense. get the deep dark secrets out in the open so they can finally be aired out once and for all. we owe it to our children and our children's children (etc etc etc) to stop the bullshittin and do it now, no matter what the outcome. (they're screwed either way, yeah?)
let's get ready to rumble, old school
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBMBoO8QTxw&feature=related
Just a little hilarious reminder from the Bush/Kerry era ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR3A9rG022M
enjoy! =D
Ron Paul 2012
You know you want to.
Just once it would be nice to have a President that you don't want to punch in the balls during one of his speeches. All my life they have deserved strong kicks to the nuts - I have always just thought it was this way. Ron Paul would be a refreshing change.
Kudos to Jon Stewart, Ron Paul and not least of all to you T. D. for presenting this wonderful interview which I otherwise would have not seen!
Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez
35 Bodies dumped on busy Mexican roadway
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/mexico-horror-gunmen-dump-35-bodies-avenue-14570209
Victory for War on Drugs once again! USA! USA! USA! USA!
When I was in High School in the early 70's it was easier to get Marijuana than Beer. My Grandson say's it is the same today. 40 years and a trillion dollars later...........WTF?
Ron Paul seems to be the only one to recognize failure when it's punching them in the face.
That was EXTREMELY painful to watch. Doddering old drooling fool. Is he really the best the libertarian movement has to offer? I shudder. Perhaps he a NWO plant to discredit the movement. Imagine him debating Kissinger? He would be motzha balls.
So, the truth does in fact hurt!?
the truth does hurt see below. ... And if you are like 95% of the impulsive animals, please keep me in mind when you lose your job, and have to sell you gold and silver coins at a discount to buy that plane ticket to get that 2-bit commision only job in another city, or you are about to get found out in that chpt. 11 forensic audit. Don't worry I will be there for you. :-)
Sieg Heil to your rant, fascism's swan song in US of A. Watch out when the wheel turns and you get run over by the sheeple. Its happened before, it'll happen again. Never underestimate an irate people's rage.
What you start cannot be controlled... is what the Oligarchs always forget, time's arrow runs downwards to entropy zero. For all corrupt systems.
the truth does hurt see below. ... And if you are like 95% of the impulsive animals, please keep me in mind when you lose your job, and have to sell you gold and silver coins at a discount to buy that plane ticket to get that 2-bit commission only job in another city, or you are about to get found out in that chpt. 11 forensic audit. Don't worry I will be there for you. :-)
It was EXTREMELY painful to read your post. Sorry Ron didn't meet your expectations.
But Kissinger, really? That bloated sack of Neocon puss couldn't lick Ron Paul's nuts. That fat fuck and all the Neocon pricks like him created the decaying Empire of the United States and as it swirls the toilet bowl of history shitheads like you do nothing but whine.
Oh come on. Ron Paul is a laughing stock. It's the only reason he's alive. A perfect show-piece for the fringe crazy sovereign citizens hoarding PMs, guns and beans. The minute they lose their job at Auto-Zone they sell all of the above at a garage sale. In the meantime, a minor national security risk. Do you really think any honest person with a brain is going to run for public office. Let's balance the budget so we can have -14% GDP, worse than the great depression? Why risk the guillotine if you aren't even going to loot the treasury. Nothing you can do. Goldman Sachs wins. :-)
-1 for your mockery of Truth and Principle.
-1 for your lack of objective thinking and lack awareness of your soroundings. Truth and Principal left the stage a LONG time ago.
Then you are part and parcel to the problem.
You have given up, and attach your own sense of Truth and Principal to those who control you.
You appear to be cowering under the stage of others' making.
I am quite aware.
Given up? Hell no. My side is doing very well. You see I support the bankers, the Free-Masons, the New World Order and the military industrial complex. May they gas all your useless eater offspring after we suck you dry with generational debt slavery. 500,000,000 bitches. That's it. The rest have to go.
there were only 2 billion people on this planet before wwii.
there are 5 billion more now. 7 billion total.
you have your work cut out for you. it's not like just because the bankers turn the money off, people automatically starve.
but plauge and famine are the true destroyers of mankind, not war. that is da truth. or at least, used to be.
perhaps the deep urbanization in the last 50 years, and great increase in the agricultural machine choke points ( the ferlizer industry, big oil for transporting food, and the capital equiment industry )----would make it far easier for population growth to unwind ---under a scenario where they became unavailable precisely at the same time, as a major nuclear bombing campaign of all major cities was commenced.
and , just to boot, the drone swarms were then unleashed to finish off the survivors.
kinda like judgement day in terminator.
new world order for the win!!!
sweeeeet!
Doctor . . . Captain . . . Congressman
RON PAUL
President 2012
Kissinger
Degenerate . . . Psychopath . . . Bilderberger
Thank BIG BUSINESS for lobbying for the opportunity to run the baseball bat up the collective asses of the "American People" every politician talks about. Politicians are wannabe businessmen - but with no talent, and no capital, and no work ethic. They are what they are. Might's well get pissed at the raccoon that raids your trash cans. He is just doing what evolution gave him a job to do. Corporate World Co is your friend - NOT ! They run the show - every one else is cannon fodder at best, or a problem to be eradicated immediately at worst. The new religion of the millennia. Be careful, or you will be branded as a witch and burned at the stake. Actually, if you read or comment on this website, you are already doomed, 'cause the fluoride in your water, drugs and pesticides in your food, and poison in the air have not yet eliminated free will, or cognitive thinking, the ANTICHRIST of corporate religion.
As for Ron Paul, one honest man will not make a dint in the cesspool of shit that is Washington, Dc
Whatever you do, don't let them sap and impurify all of your precious bodily fluids.
Good on Stewart. RP has not received the major media air time he should by and large.
I cheered this interview last night despite not being a full-on supporter. There does need to be much more of this because at the very least, it will move the debate in the electorate much closer to where it needs to be, namely away from the "hate thy neighbor" rhetoric we get from the religulous puppets he has to share a stage with most of the time.
He may never be President, but his work could open doors to much better choices for leadership round here.
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You're shilling to the wrong crowd. Unless it's Ron Paul, 99% of the people here won't vote. Perry or Romney would be no better than 0bama.
Fuck the Republican party. If RP doesn't get the nom, I hope that it goes down in flames and is replaced by a party that represents the people, not the Rich and Powerful and Politically Connected.
Same goes for the Democrats and their socialist bullshit.