http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhtTfK6Vuz8&feature=player_embedded
Worst Case: The Day The Dollar Falls Part 1/6
A 2005 Dutch film about TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It) caused by a financial panic. All caused by big US deficits.
Interesting?
Maybe the fellow just had the year and President wrong.
Now we have Trillion Dollar Deficits for forever.
Scary!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gaddy/gaddy54.html
Who Is Arming the Mexican Drug Cartels?
by Michael Gaddy
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Wednesday, on MSNBC, in an interview by Andrea Mitchell, New York Congressional Representative, Nita Lowey stated 97% of the guns in the hands of the Mexican drug cartels originated in the US. Representative Lowey, in her support for a new Assault Weapons Ban, alleges these firearms are coming from the American gun owner. She is correct in her assertion many of the firearms being used by the cartels are coming from Americans. They are, but, from the American taxpayer, not the American gun owner!
The fact is: the Mexican authorities have refused to release the serial numbers of weapons confiscated from drug cartel members. Releasing the serial numbers would implicate the corrupt governments of the US and Mexico and their involvement in arming the drug cartels.
Considering the above, it is my belief the Mexican drug cartels are procuring a large percentage of weapons from the world’s largest supplier of these weapons: the United States government!
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Certainly sounds like it.
We could eliminate this non-sense by ending the “drug war” in the US.
Imagine a country where what you put in your body was your personal business.
End welfare and then there’s no illegal immigrants.
End the drug war and let WalMart become the nation’s “drug dealer”.
Bet they do a far better job of cleaning up the problem.
Bud and Miller route salesmen don’t shoot it out.
No more drug overdose deaths from drugs cut with rat poison or not cut at all.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93696
WND Exclusive PHOTONETDAILY
Obama bows to Saudi king
Greeting called ‘most unbecoming for president of the United States’
Posted: April 02, 2009 4:12 pm Eastern
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But the traditional Miss Manners book of etiquette advises: “One does not bow or curtsy to a foreign monarch because the gesture symbolizes recognition of her power over her subjects.”
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Maybe he’s just acknowledging that the Saudi’s and OPEC have “owned” the USA for a long time.
If I was Prez, we’d have atomic reactors on the express track to eliminating our dependence on foreign oil.
But, that’s not going to happen any time soon.
My Prez agenda:
Pretty busy first day. Have to think about what I’d do on Day#2!
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Posted by reinkefj
In the spirit of Sergeant Schultz as played by John Banner “I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!” “I know nothing, nothing! Nuthing at all.” I really have nothing to add!
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Small Government News
small government is possible™
Thursday April 2, 2009
Publisher: Carla Howell
Editor: Michael Cloud
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“Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
-Tom Paine
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Big Government must close its doors forever — and leave nothing but small government, limited to defending our lives, liberties, and property. And the prosperity produced by a thriving, booming private enterprise system, in a swiftly-growing private sector.
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As a country, we have a lot of “clutter” in the gooferment. Time to clean it out. Legitimate government has only one legitimate function to protect our rights from foreign and domestic aggression.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan108.html
Should We Kill the Fed?
by Patrick J. Buchanan
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Should not this creature from Jekyll Island, for all its manifold crimes and sins against the republic, also be summarily put to death?
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The Federal Reserve Bank!
It’s neither ‘federal” since not even the US Congress can get its books audited.
It “reserves” nothing; it merely manipulates and prints.
And, it’s not a “bank”.
So what is it?
What is the creature from Jekyll Island?
(The name comes from the location of a secret collusion between bankers where the arrangement was hammered out.)
It’s a price fixing cartel a la OPEC for “american” banks.
As PJB alludes, Andrew Jackson must be rolling over in his grave, he killed one of it’s predecessors the “United States Bank”.
Of course, I agree that if we had commodity money, we would NOT have the artificial booms and busts that come with manipulating interest rates. Interest rates are the key indicator to business as to what projects are worth doing and what are not. AND, without a fiat currency, (where the Fed prints all the Congress can spend), the Congress would be restrained in its spending. AND, our poor and those on fixed income wouldn’t have to pay the brunt of the “inflation tax”.
Before leaving the Gold Standard in 1913 and before the FED embarked on manipulating us for the benefit of the rich and their banks, America was in decades of stable slightly declining prices. Money was a stable store of value.
(“Money is a matter of functions four, a medium, a measure, a standard, a store.” p116 in my novel “CHURCH 10●19●62”)
How does one plan in post WW1 Germany, Argentina in the 80’s, Zimbabwe today, or the USA in the next decade? Runaway inflation of the money supply and high interest rates are going to hurt everyone.
I have only heard one real objection and one minor objection to the Gold Standard.
Bob Brinker (bobbrinker dot com) had the minor objection that there would no ability for the government to supply stimulus to the economy with monetary policy. That’s is the problem, Bob; the politicians want inflation so they can spend to buy votes, reward their friends, and punish their enemies.
More substantially, Brinker objected to giving Congress the power to value money. He feared runaway inflation as the the COngress, as did the French Kings, inflate uncontrollably. That we agree on. Congress is like drunken sailors. Except their ship is always in.
Returning to the Gold Standard, where a dollar is defined as some amount of gold and / or silver, will impose discipline on the world.
How do we get there?
Let people be free to use whatever they want for money. The King, the government, the criminals in DC should just repeal the mandatory tender laws that force everyone to accept the dollar. The marketplace will quickly adjust.
And, Americans can get back to work.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123862834153780427.html
* OPINION
The President Is ‘Keeping Score’
Chicago politics has moved into the White House.
By KARL ROVE
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Alinsky’s 1971 book, “Rules for Radicals,” is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” That’s what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer. (The president’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, went so far as to lash all three from the White House press podium.) It may also explain Mr. Obama’s comments to Mr. DeFazio.
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It’s the same old tired politics as usual. The Big Government D’s took over from the Big Government R’s and are spending our posterity into servitude. And, they don’t realize it.
But we old farts should and resist.
Guess that will put me on an enemies list somewhere.
I hate all the politicians.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/shostak7.html
Would Cleansing Banks’ Balance Sheets Kick-start the US Economy?
by Frank Shostak
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Again, note that what makes the lending possible here is not money but the saved consumer goods. Money just serves here as a facilitator. Or we can say that the act of lending here is about the transfer of final consumer goods from lender to a borrower with the help of money.
The essence of credit will not be altered by the introduction of banks. Instead of lending money directly, John could now engage in lending through the intermediary. (John transfers his money to the bank. The bank lends the money to a borrower.)
Real savings determines the size of credit. What people really want is real stuff, i.e., real savings and not money as such. Hence, as long as banks facilitate credit that is fully backed by real savings, they should be seen as the agents in the transmission of wealth.
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(Disclaimer: I’m an injineer that got D’s in economics.)
This little morality play about savings misses three factors that I think are significant.
The theft of money by inflation. It in effect “steals” from every dollar holder and acts as a hidden tax.
The interest rate controlled by the central bank “taxes” savings both when the rate is too high and too low.
The baker and all who consume bread are forced to “save” by virtue of these taxes.
When money is debased, all economic calculations are done with a “broken calculator”.
IMHO!
As I said I’m just a dumb old injineer!
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http://www.takimag.com/site/article/state_of_revolution/
State of Revolution
Posted by Jack Hunter on March 23, 2009
The national movement for state sovereignty
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For now, states’ rights legislation promises to remain symbolic, unless actions by the Obama administration pushes state legislatures toward more radical methods of circumventing federal power—or high profile, mainstream conservatives finally rally the troops by promoting what could potentially be the most serious right-wing resistance against the state in recent memory. Given Conservatism Inc.‘s current track record, we’re likely to see much worse from Obama before we ever get anything useful out of them. And states’ rights-minded legislators, with no support from their national party or allegedly sympathetic “conservative” media, will be left to defend themselves and their constituents as little more than hyperbolic Confederate retreads, two steps from “shooting at the Park Service guys out at Fort Sumter” and one-step from the loony bin—for even daring to question the legitimacy of the omnipotent modern state.
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At some point, how does the “Third American Revolution” start?
Collapse of the dollar? Civil unrest? Non-violent non-cooperation? In the Jury Box? Tax revolt?
Or, does the slave merely set down their burden and refuse to pick it up.
Do the “rich” just throttle back on their earnings. Retire early. Or just “give up”?
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Posted by reinkefj
http://ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle512-20090329-02.html
No Bailout for America’s Newspapers!
by L. Neil Smith
From the page: “I have never had anything but contempt for America’s “greatest” newspapers.”
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I agree. The “liberal” media has a political agenda that is at odds with the American spirit. They have driven us to where we are: “political correctness”, an “entitlement mentality”, a psuedo “drug war”, and a huge gooferment.
From the page: “I have never had anything but contempt for America’s “greatest” newspapers.” I agree. The “liberal” media has a political agenda that is at odds with the American spirit. They have driven us to where we are: “political correctness”, an “entitlement mentality”, a psuedo “drug war”, and a huge gooferment.
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