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Fwd: [Politics_CurrentEvents_Group] Obama behind the scenes

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Pics and toons 9/29/11 (5)

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PIcs and toons 9/29/11 (4)

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Cain Is Worse Than I Thought

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September30th
Cain Is Worse Than I Thought
Tom Woods

In April 2008 he was still saying he could see nothing wrong with the economy! Read for yourself. (Thanks to Tom Eddlem for this.)

Forgive me for beating a dead horse on this. I've made a five-minute video and a resource page on Cain, and I've written this post and this post. I just cannot get over the fact that we are faced with unprecedented economic dangers, we see default coming in Greece and catastrophes all over the continent, and people think what we need is a guy so clueless that he couldn't perceive a bubble economy staring him in the face? Not that the other candidates are any better. They're all repeating talking points from 1983. This global disaster is not going to be put right by a few tax reforms and some regulatory tinkering.

Only Ron Paul predicted what's happening to a T: he warned of the NASDAQ bubble, and then warned that Greenspan was replacing that bubble with a housing bubble. Who has a better track record and a better grasp on our situation than Ron Paul? The country would survive for four years without any additional wars, I promise; the warmaking is obviously part of the economic problem.

But we'd rather continue down the road to catastrophe than support the one guy with a clue? If it's foreign policy you're stuck on, check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLUoWhWsOWk&feature=player_embedded

http://www.tomwoods.com/blog/cain-is-worse-than-i-thought/

You can't serve 2 masters! Ayn Rand or Jesus?

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8/13/2011
Is Christo-Libertarianism a contradiction?

First: The definition. Christo hyphenated with Libertarianism.
Religious belief combined with the economics of Laissez Faire
Capitalism. Emanates from Calvinist Prosperity Gospel.
Now you know the definition of this bizarre political hybrid of the
Christian right. Let's examine the many contradictions. As you know,
libertarians are advocates of prostitution, gambling, abortion, Gay
Marriage and the legalization of drugs. Fundamentalist Christians? Not
so much! One contradiction that Christo-Libertarians advocate is the
notion that the government has no right to regulated corporations.
However, when it comes to sex, the government has the right to control
the way you express your sexuality if it's against the precepts of the
Bible. In other words, the government has a right to be in your
bedroom.
The truth is: Libertarianism is closer to the Church of Satan than
the Church of Jesus Christ. Satanists believe in irrationality of
selfishness. If someone gets in your way, you have every right to kill
that someone. Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism believed in
rationale selfishness, which meant if someone gets in your way, walk
around him or her then sue him or her. An Individual is the center of
the universe. Nowhere in the King James Bible expresses that
sentiment. Matter of fact: Ayn Rand was a fervent atheist.
She was adamant believer in Godless Capitalism. She detested American
conservatives because of their stand supporting Christian morality.
She didn't like the Libertarian Party that much. She denounced them in
1973. If she were alive today, she would also denounce the Tea Party
movement.
Since her death in the 80's, the conservative movement has been very
selective of Ayn Rand's philosophy. They loved her economic believe
system, however they gloss over her ideas of the right of hedonism.
The religious right has renounced the self-esteem movement for
individual happiness. It emanated from her philosophy, if it feels
good? Then do it!
The American right has extracted Ayn Rand free market concept and
made it their concept. They are cafeteria propagandists, they take
only what suits them. Not only Ayn Rand was opposed the welfare state,
She didn't believe in government subsidies for corporations neither,
in other words, welfare for the rich.
It is safe to assume that Tea Baggers and Christo-Libertarians are
politically stupid. They are just puppets of racist plutocrats. Now
let's get something straight, they are not Anarchists! Tea Baggers are
not opposed to Government. They are opposed to left wing government.
They support government, their type of government. Which is a mouth
full…they support a theocratic racist plutocratic republic. Which
means, poor people die in the streets with their Christian religion to
keep them warm at night. If they want, they could join the military to
protect the Koch Brothers foreign oil wells. The welfare state was
never to be a permanent program. It's a temporary situation. If there
weren't capitalist negligence, there wouldn't be a need for a welfare
state.
One more thing, so-called Liberals and progressive do not want to
take away your right to own a business and make money. They are
opposed to exploitation, thievery, and low wages. The only people who
want to take away your right to make money is the authoritarian left
and the religion right no matter what the denomination is.

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A little common sense

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Bunnies And Small Children
Posted by Tim Nerenz on September 25, 2011 at 7:16pm
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The math is deceptively simple: minus one plus one equals zero.
Government cannot add a single dollar to the economy that it has not
first taken out of it.

The economics are even simpler: people spend their own money more
carefully than they spend other people's money.

The spectacular failure of "Green Economy" poster kid Solyndra will
cost the taxpayers over $500 million. More important than why we gave
them those loan guarantees is why they were needed in the first place.
They were only necessary because no one would use their own money to
back the venture.

States and local governments do it too. In Wisconsin, tens of millions
of taxpayer dollars were wasted on incentives to lure Talgo, a Spanish
train car company, to locate a factory here that never built a train.
In the city of Oconomowoc, the government is planning to spend $10
million, roughly its annual budget, to build a community center that
will offer wedding receptions in competition with private firms.

Now, if there was a critical shortage of reception venues in
Oconomowoc, don't you think entrepreneurs like Rick and Rudy Eckert at
Olympia Resort would expand their space to meet the demand? By the
way, if you do not know of the Eckerts, you should; liberty has no
greater friends in the Badger state. And if you live in Oconomowoc,
you should find out what on earth is going downtown and what it will
do to your property taxes.

Or if it made economic sense to build railcars in Wisconsin, don't you
think someone a little closer than Spain would have done so with their
own money? Should I name them, our industrial entrepreneurs who put
their family names on the line? Do you think they have lost the
instincts that made them wealthy beyond even their own imaginations?
No, it was those experienced instincts that told them not to put their
own money - real money- into any of these losing propositions.

And I would be curious to know just how much Al Gore lost when
Solyndra went bankrupt - I would bet he didn't put single penny of his
own money where that big mouth demands the government puts ours.

"But we need the jobs", the public works lobby will plead. Indeed we
do need jobs; precisely why government needs to get out of the way of
those who create real ones.

The statists' promise of jobs created by emptying public coffers on
this or that high-minded project ignores the far greater numbers of
jobs that were killed by filling up those coffers in the first place.
That $500 million that the government tossed down the Solyndra rat
hole took more like $600 million out of the economy (it takes a lot of
overhead to piss away someone else's money).

What would taxpayers have done for themselves with that $600 million?
Add a deck on the house, buy a car, invest in a business, take a
vacation, buy a Gibson guitar, perhaps? I did, just to say screw you
to our President and all the union job-killers who have thrown in with
him. Are going to come and take my rosewood fretboards, too, boys?
Bring your lunch.

Taxpayers would have spent or saved their own money on something more
economically viable than Solyndra. More jobs are created, more
businesses prosper, and more incomes rise when economic exchanges are
voluntary and people who earned the money decide what to do with it.

Voluntary exchange only occurs when both parties gain more than they
trade away. No one needs an extra incentive to make a smart deal; it's
only the stupid ones that need a government subsidy.

The amount of capital is finite, even if the amount of government
currency used to measure it is not. Government does not create
capital; it only diverts it to purposes other than which its rightful
owners would have put it. The rich did not get that way by making bad
financial decisions, and government did not go broke by making good
ones.

The crowd squeals with delight when the magician pulls a rabbit out
the hat; we forget that behind the curtain some child is crying her
eyes out wondering where her little cuddly bunny went.

Clearly, President Obama hates bunnies and small children; he wants to
take away $470 billion of their parents' money to fund more stupid
politician tricks like Solyndra, Talgo, and the Oconomowoc public
wedding chapel. If we love him, he tells us, we should pass his bill.

I never thought about it before he brought it up, but I guess I love
bunnies and small children more than I love some slick magician from
Illinois. The only trick that worked so far for the Great O is the one
where he talks into a teleprompter and makes the jobs disappear.

So here's a better idea: let's love ourselves and our neighbors and
not pass the bill. The President will be fine in the love department;
he has a wife and two daughters and the whole crew over at MSNBC to
rub his feet.

The government can not pull rabbits from hats and it cannot create
jobs; it can only create an environment in which job-creators
flourish, or convince them to invest elsewhere. If the President would
quit unwisely picking the latter, he would not need to beg us to love
him.

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who was the REAL target in Arizona?

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Last year, in Arizona, where Rep. Giffords was shot in the head, a Federal Judge was assassinated. Yet there was little or almost no mention of HIM. During my discussions with others, i have been informed that His Honor, Judge Roll, was indeed an honorable man and probably the mark. Here is the information i received, and the SAD part is that it is from a RUSSIAN report.

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A Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the top US Federal Judge for the State of Arizona was assassinated barely 72-hours after he made a critical ruling against the Obama administrations plan to begin the confiscation of their citizen's private retirement and bankingaccounts in order to stave off their nations imminent economic collapse, and after having the US Marshals protecting himremoved.

According to this SVR report, Federal Judge John McCarthy Rollwas the Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Arizona who this past Friday issued what is called a "preliminary ruling" in a case titled "United States of America v. $333,520.00 in United States Currency et al" [Case Number: 4:2010cv00703 Filed: November 30, 2010] wherein he stated he was preparing to rule against Obama's power to seize American citizens money without clear and convincing evidence of a crime being committed.

The case being ruled on by Judge Roll, this report continues, was about bulk cash smuggling into or out of the United States that the Obama administration claimed was their right to seize under what are called Presidential Executive Orders, instead of using existing laws. The Obama administration used as support for their claim before Judge Roll, the SVR says, the seizing of all American citizens' gold, in 1933, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 6102, which was ruled at the time to be constitutional.

Should the Obama administration win their argument to seize their citizen's money by Executive Order without having to abide by the law was made more chilling this past week when reports emerged from the US stating that President Obama and his regime allies were, indeed, preparing to rule America by decree since their loss this past November of their control over the US House of Representatives, and in the words of the Washington Posts columnist Charles Krauthammer: "For an Obama bureaucrat … the will of the Congress is a mere speed bump".

Since taking office in early 2009, Obama has completely overturned the once free United States through his use of Executive Orders that asserts his power to put anyone he wants in prison without charges or trial forever and his right to assassinate any American citizen he deems a threat.

The most chilling of these powers Obama has asserted for himself, however, are contained in Executive Order 13528 he signed nearly a year ago (January 10, 2010) creating a Council of Governors he has hand-picked to rule over the United States in place of its elected representatives when their next "disaster" strikes and orders them to begin "synchronization and integration of State and Federal military activities in the United States; and other matters of mutual interest pertaining to National Guard, homeland defense, and civil support activities"'

sign me
daniel karl seigler, born in Fort Benning, Cussetta County, Georgia, son of
Clarance Roland O'Neil Seigler, born in Ozark, Dale County, Alabama, son of
Thomas Malcolm Seigler, born somewhere in Alabama

Its good to be the POTUS' Uncle

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Lest y'all be unaware, POTUS' illegal uncle was busted for drunk
driving here. Deported long before nephy Barack was a blip on a
screen (along with sister Zenuti (sp), who is on state assistance)),
he just gave us the finger and stayed.

Interestingly, after his court appearance, he went to work at the
liquor store he works at.

Massachusetts has law on the books that says any employer that
knowingly employs an illegal alien, is fined rather handsomely, and
if
continued, shut down.

There is NO doubt Uncle is here illegally (he was deported, and
ignored the order), and this guy waltzed into work in front of
cameras.

Just a couple days ago an illegal was arrested for exactly the same
charge (right down to the breathalyzer reading). He was instantly
detained by ICE.

ICE just wants Uncle Ony to check in now and then.

Its good to be related to the king, too.

TRANSPARENCY.

Indeed!

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DOL, IRS, Seven States Team Up To End Employee Misclassification

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Podcast interview re the Israel Lobby w/ Alison Weir

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Posted this morning at Electric Politics, a podcast interview with
Alison Weir, President of the Council for the National Interest
(founded by former congressman Paul Findley). Alison presents a very
humane and nuanced explanation of the reasons why Americans have a
responsibility to oppose the Lobby's activities. Bravo, Alison!

And thanks for listening!

http://www.electricpolitics.com/podcast/2011/09/fighting_the_lobby.html

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Fwd: [MYRLANDsMETHODs] Campaign for Liberty, Hoists the Flag of Hayek

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Ron Paul, Upping the Ante in His Campaign for Liberty, Hoists the Flag of Hayek

Offers a Bill To Allow Free Competition in Currencies

By SETH LIPSKY <http://www.nysun.com/authors/Seth+Lipsky>, Special to the Sun | September 29, 2011

http://www.nysun.com/opinion/ron-paul-upping-the-ante-in-his-campaign/87502/

The first time I met Friedrich Hayek was in 1980 at California, where he was staying at the home of another economist. Then a young editor for the Wall Street Journal, I'd asked to call on the Nobel laureate for a book review I was writing. His host invited me for dinner. Before the meal, Hayek and I retreated, alone, to the far end of the host's living room, for a chat.

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Friedrich Hayek

We were but a few minutes into our conversation when, suddenly, Hayek clapped a hand over his nose and mouth and started coughing convulsively, before slumping onto the couch. I raced back to the host to exclaim that Professor Hayek seemed to be in trouble, only to be told that it was okay, he was just taking his snuff. A jolt of the divine herb, it seems, and the sage was back on his feet.

Hayek died 12 years later at the age of 93. I never came to know him well. But this week I found myself imagining that were his long-ago collapse-into-a-coughing fit to occur in front of me today, I'd whip out a copy of a new bill in Congress, H.R. 1098, called the Free Competition in Currency Act of 2011, and wave that under the great economist's nose. It's hard to think of anything, even a pinch of the strongest snuff, being a greater pick-me-up for his spirits.

For Hayek was an advocate of, among other things, private money — competing currencies — and HR 1098 would end a ban on them that has obtained here in America since the Civil War. The new bill in Congress, introduced in March by Rep. Ron Paul, would repeal the legal tender laws, prohibit taxation of certain coins and bullion, and clean up other sections of our coinage laws.

It is not a measure the Congress is going to pass in a hurry. But it is being nursed by advocates of monetary reform, and it would be unwise to discount it entirely. Few, after all, gave Congressman Paul much of a chance to win passage of a measure to audit the Federal Reserve, but when it eventually passed it was with an overwhelming, bipartisan vote. It may yet be enforced by the courts.

The Free Competition in Currency Act is far more important. It comes amid a historic collapse in the value of the dollar to less than a 1,600th of an ounce of gold. The dollar has gained a bit of value in recent days, but it is still worth less than a sixth of what it was worth as recently as, say, the start of President George W. Bush's first term.

One of the things the government has done in the face of that collapse is seek to enforce a prohibition against private "uttering" — that is, putting into use — of coins of gold, silver, or other metal as current money and making or even possessing likenesses of such coins. H.R. 1098 would end the ban on private uttering of coins and, presumably, stop any current prosecution of such uttering.

The drive for the bill is animated, if only in part, by the case of Bernard von NotHaus, who was convicted in March of issuing a private medallion called the Liberty Dollar. The government prosecuted von NotHaus even though the coins he issued were made of silver and are today worth much more, in terms of Federal Reserve Notes, than when they were issued.

What the government is doing in the Von NotHaus case is seeking to suppress sound money in order to protect the unsound, fiat money the government has been issuing via the Fed. A federal judge in North Carolina has agreed to consider post-conviction motions to throw out the von NotHaus verdict, partly on the argument that the Constitution does not enumerate a power of Congress to outlaw privately-minted coins, which were widely produced in America's early decades.

H.R. 1098 would go way beyond the Von NotHaus case, by asserting the virtue of the idea of private money as a system. The idea was sprung by Hayek not long after he won his Nobel Prize, in the mid-1970s. He started with a lecture. He later wrote, in a slim volume called "Denationalization of Money," that he'd been in "despair about the hopelessness of finding a politically feasible solution to what is technically the simplest possible problem, namely to stop inflation."

"The further pursuit of the suggestion that government should be deprived of its monopoly of the issue of money opened the most fascinating theoretical vistas and showed the possibility of arrangements which have never been considered," he wrote. He came to the view that a plethora of privately issued money would enable mankind's millions to find their own mediums of exchange, and good money would end up driving out bad.

Hayek concluded "Denationalization of Money" by calling for what he termed "a Free Money Movement comparable to the Free Trade Movement of the 19th century." He came to the view that the gold standard was not the solution, though it was "the only tolerably safe system" if the management of money were going to be the preserve of the government.

The Free Competition in Currency Act got an early hearing in Congress this month in the House Subcommittee on Monetary Policy. The hearing wasn't widely attended, but there was testimony by the president of the Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education, Lawrence Parks, and by a professor at George Mason University, Lawrence White, who talked about how FedEx and UPS's private competition with the Post Office has brought benefits to American consumers. He extended the analogy to money.

It's too bad Hayek couldn't have been at the hearings. He viewed the denationalization of money as the "cure" for "recurrent waves of depression and unemployment that have been represented as an inherent and deadly defect of capitalism." In other words, as a cure for ills like the current crisis. How Hayek, who once called for a global debate on socialism versus capitalism, would have thrilled to the moment, pausing only for the occasional pinch of his favorite snuff.

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The Myth of American Freedom
by Andrew P. Napolitano

Here is Judge Napolitano's closing argument yesterday on his FreedomWatch.

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1191135863001/what-if-we-didnt-live-in-a-free-country/

Does the government work for us or do we work for the government? Is freedom in America a myth or a reality? Tonight, what if we didn't live in a free country?

What if the Constitution were written not to limit government, but to expand it? What if the Constitution didn't fulfill the promise of the Declaration of Independence, but betrayed it? What if the Constitution actually permitted the government to limit and constrict freedom? What if the Bill of Rights was just a paper promise, that the government could avoid whenever it claimed the need to do so? What if the same generation -- in some cases the same people -- that drafted the U.S. Constitution enacted laws that violated it? What if the merchants and bankers who financed the American Revolution bought their way into the new government and got it to enact laws that stifled their competition? What if the civil war that was fought in the name of freedom actually advanced the cause of tyranny?

What if the federal government were the product of 150 years of stealing power and liberty and property from the people and the states? What if our political elites spent the 20th century importing the socialist ideas of big government Statism from Europe? What if our political class was adopting the European political culture from which our founding fathers fought so hard to break free?

What if our political leaders no longer acknowledged that our rights come from our humanity, but insisted instead that they come from the government? What if you had to produce your papers to get out of or into our once-free country? What if you couldn't board a plane, a train, or a long-distance bus without providing documentation telling the government who you are and where you're going, without paying the government, and without risking sexual assault? What if your local police department could shoot down a plane? What if government agents could write their own search warrants, declare their own enemies, and seize whatever property they want? What if the feds could detain you indefinitely, with no visitors, no lawyer, no judge, and no jury? What if they could make you just disappear? What if the government broke its own laws in order to enforce them? What if the government broke down your front door in the middle of the night and shot your dog, and claimed it was a mistake?

What if you were required to purchase a product that you didn't need, didn't want, and couldn't afford, from a company you never heard of, just as a condition of living in the United States? What if the government told you what not to put in your body as well as what to put into it; and how much? What if the government claimed that since it will be paying your medical bills, it can tell you what to eat, when to sleep, and how to live? What if the government tried to cajole and coax and compel you into behaviors and attitudes it considered socially acceptable? What if the government spent your tax money to advertise to you how great the services are that it provides? What if the government kept promising to make you safe while it kept stripping you of your liberties and committing crimes in your name that made you a target of more violence?

What if you didn't have a right to every dollar you earned? What if the government decided how much of your earnings it will keep and how much it will permit you to have? What if the government took money from you and gave it away to its rich banking and corporate friends whose businesses were failing? What if the government thought it knew better than you did how to lead your life and had no problem telling you so? What if the government took the credit for every success your own human actions helped you achieve? What if the government told you that only it could build roads, run schools, keep you safe, and collect trash even though it's never been able to do so efficiently before? What if the government spent nearly twice as much as it took in? What if it couldn't pass a budget on a timely basis and funded itself just weeks at a time? And what if the government kept borrowing money against the wealth of future generations to pay for wasteful programs today?

What if you worked for the government and the government didn't work for you? What if freedom were a myth? What if we don't live in a free country? What do we do about it?

From New York, defending freedom; so-long America.

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