"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right." ~ H.L. Mencken
Okay. I’m officially a Stossel fan, and I’m absolutely delighted to have found another voice for freedom.
Pay attention to the protesters mentioned toward the end of this video. We’ve just emerged from a century in which communist governments killed over 100 million people (excluding wars), and we’re still taught to direct our fear and hatred toward the modern equivalent of 19th century robber barons.
Charles Lynch ran a medical marijuana clinic in California after it his state and community legalized it. The sheriff tried and failed to bust him for non-prescription sales, so he went the Feds. The Feds didn’t care about state or local laws. Charles Lynch now face 100 years in prison. He will be sentenced on March 23rd. See Friends of Charles Lynch.
Sen. Kerry, Sen. Edwards, and President Obama all admitted to using pot. The feds are bunch of opportunistic cowards who pick on people unable to fight back.
“We need to enroll more children and we need to start at an even earlier age.” ~ Emperor Obama
67% of Americans agree, which is what I’m trying to change here on LostRepublic.us . Please watch:
Government: We screwed up Headstart and we screwed up K-12, but give us your money and give us control of your four-year-olds, because this time we’ll get it right. We promise.
Please do not let the pundits, the masters of American public opinion be surprised when the dollar becomes worthless.
“The US Federal Reserve says it will buy almost $1.2 trillion (£843bn) worth of debt to help boost lending and promote economic recovery.” (Read more from news.bbc.co.uk)
Tyranny requires a secret, unaccountable police force. Perhaps that’s why John F. Kennedy said “[I will] smash the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter them to the wind.”
Seymour Hersh is a hero to me. He’s been fearless in exposing government lies about war, foreign policy and liberty.
“Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that the military was running an ‘executive assassination ring’ throughout the Bush years which reported directly to former Vice President Dick Cheney.
The remark came out seemingly inadvertently when Hersh was asked by the moderator of a public discussion of ‘America’s Constitutional Crisis’ whether abuses of executive power, like those which occurred under Richard Nixon, continue to this day.
Hersh replied, ‘After 9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for it. They haven’t been called on it yet.’
Hersh then went on to describe a second area of extra-legal operations: the Joint Special Operations Command. ‘It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently,’ he explained. ‘They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. … Congress has no oversight of it.’
‘It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on,’ Hersh stated. ‘Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us.’” (Read more from rawstory.com)
Once again, Ron Paul is right. If the money must be spent, better to earmark it and spend it publicly, than shroud it in secrecy. Without earmarks, the money still gets spent.
Listen to how Cavuto goes after Ron Paul, trying to spin him as a porker – the very thing Ron Paul has made a career of fighting. Ron Paul crushes him with logic and reasoning, as he does most propagandists.
“Sorry, zombie banks. The laws of the market dictate that we should own your ass,” write some socialist at motherjones.com.
Laws of the market??? The laws of the market would cause the value of the banks to plunge until it’s worthwhile for some businessmen who’d been saving responsibly to take over. Here’s a hint: if it’s not worth it for private money, it’s not worth it for public money. And if such a value doesn’t exist, then the world doesn’t want any more banks, and they’ll simply vanish.
The market NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER recommends a public take over. The government can’t even run the post office well. Now they’re going to take over the banks?
If private investors (spending their own money) can’t make something work privately, then it’s a guarantee a bunch of political bureaucrats (spending my money) can’t do it either.
This is an affront to liberty. The best thing would have been to let them go bankrupt. In a free society, incompetent companies go bankrupt. Instead, we’ve taken money from the competent, given it to the incompetent, and courageous-sounding article like this one pretend that we’ve stuck it to the man. (They still got the money.)
“What this will do is force anyone who produces food of any kind, and then transports it to a different location for sale, to register with a new federal agency called the ‘Food Safety Administration.’ Even growers who sell just fruit and/or vegetables at farmers markets would not only have to register, but they would be subject inspections by federal agents of their property and all records related to food production. The frequency of these inspections will be determined by the whim of the Food Safety Administration. Mandatory ‘safety’ records would have to be kept. Anyone who fails to register and comply with all of this nonsense could be facing a fine of up to $1,000,000 per violation.”
“Update: The Husband of the Bill’s Sponsor Does Work for Monsanto
Rosa DeLauro (D- CT) is married to Stanley B. Greenberg.
Here’s a bio on Greenberg:
Stanley B. Greenberg is Chairman and CEO of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research.
He has served as polling advisor to President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Presidents Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, Prime Minister Ehud Barak, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada of Bolivia and their national campaigns.
Greenberg provides strategic advice and research for companies, organizations and campaigns trying to advance their issues amid shifting social currents. . . .
His private sector clients include BP, Boeing, Monsanto, Comverse, Sun Microsystems, United HealthCare, the Business Roundtable, and the organizing committee for the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
The US has extended a set of sanctions against Iran for another year over claims that Tehran is still a threat to US national security.
‘The actions and policies of the Government of Iran are contrary to the interests of the United States in the region and pose a continuing unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and the US economy, President Barack Obama said in a Thursday message to Congress.” (Read more from atheonews.blogspot.com)
Corruption is an inevitable and predictable consequence of the marriage between government and the private sector. The hands-off approach would have simple, and simply effective. Irresponsible companies would go bankrupt. Responsible ones would survive.
“Rather than using federal bailout money to reinvigorate lending to consumers, some banks that received funds from TARP have spent it on questionable items that have done little to improve the health of the country’s financial sector but have certainly helped out foreign economies such as Dubai and China.
For instance, Citigroup Inc, which received $50 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program funds, made an $8 billion December loan, not to an American entity, but to a Dubai public sector company, according to a newly released Monday memo by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), chairman of the House Domestic Policy Subcommittee.
The Goldman Sachs Group, which received $10 billion in TARP funds at the end of October, saw fit to spend $2 billion earlier in the year on the repurchase of company stock, which resulted in an increase in company share price.” (Read more from rawstory.com)
“America’s recession ‘probably’ will end this year if the government succeeds in bolstering the banking system, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said” (from msnbc.com)
I’d say we should fire this son of a bitch, but the Federal Reserve doesn’t work for the U.S.A. The U.S.A. works for the Federal Reserve. Tarring and feathering might be a better option.
H.R. 1207, the bill introduced by Ron Paul to investigate the super-secretive private organization which controls our money, now has 28 co-sponsors. Write your representatives today!
Rep Abercrombie, Neil [D, HI-1]
Rep Alexander, Rodney [R, LA-5]
Rep Bachmann, Michele [R, MN-6]
Rep Bartlett, Roscoe G. [R, MD-6]
Rep Broun, Paul C. [R, GA-10]
Rep Burton, Dan [R, IN-5]
Rep Chaffetz, Jason [R, UT-3]
Rep DeFazio, Peter A. [D, OR-4]
Rep Duncan, John J., Jr. [R, TN-2]
Rep Foxx, Virginia [R, NC-5]
Rep Garrett, Scott [R, NJ-5]
Rep Grayson, Alan [D, FL-8]
Rep Heller, Dean [R, NV-2]
Rep Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R, NC-3]
Rep Kagen, Steve [D, WI-8]
Rep Kingston, Jack [R, GA-1]
Rep Marchant, Kenny [R, TX-24]
Rep McClintock, Tom [R, CA-4]
Rep Petri, Thomas E. [R, WI-6]
Rep Poe, Ted [R, TX-2]
Rep Posey, Bill [R, FL-15]
Rep Price, Tom [R, GA-6]
Rep Rehberg, Denny [R, MT]
Rep Rohrabacher, Dana [R, CA-46]
Rep Stearns, Cliff [R, FL-6]
Rep Taylor, Gene [D, MS-4]
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [D, CA-6]
Rep Young, Don [R, AK]
(Read more from DailyPaul.com)
Watch Sen. Bernie Sanders (I – VT) fail to get answers from Fed chairman Ben Bernanke. The law, in fact, protects the Fed’s secrecy, which is why a bill is needed before we can know anything about this secretive organization.
