A little good news to brighten your day… I saw this on the cover of the WSJ this morning and just had to share it.
The Bitcoin people need to read this and think hard about how they plan to push their new-fangled fiat coins when even the most powerful government in the world - probably the most powerful in world history - cannot even foist a new fiat coin on the public if the public doesn’t want it.
Clayton -
Here we go again…
Same nonsense we heard about the straw vote all those months ago… Read this excellent piece by Justin T. P. Quinn. (I mean it…it’s excellent. Read it.)
Bob Barr endorses Newt Gingrich
I say this only in response to the title of the article: Good! Now all we need is for RP to get elected president to discredit the presidency and, thereby, the American state.
I can see the headlines when Dr. Paul wins the presidency:
Ron Paul wins presidency, discredits US democracy
In a way, it would be true
The Exchange Stabilization Fund - the most important financial agency you’ve never heard of:
This guy really has his shit together. I have long believed there is a “power behind the Fed”… and I suspect there are powers behind the ESF (BIS? “old” money?). What is amazing is how he’s weaved together this view of what is really the world’s premier global organized crime racket and the legal/financial games they play to provide cover for their operations. These people are the ruling elite. If you want to understand who rules the world today, look no further.
Keep a skeptical eye even on the End the Fed movement. TPTB will infiltrate any movement, no matter how grassroots, as soon as it begins to garner national attention or even before that if they perceive it has the potential to blossom into a threat.
I found this image particularly informative:
The New World Order, Illuminati, etc. etc. are fronts for what’s really going on. I have long suspected that the purpose of the NWO/CFR etc. is to give nosy-nanny idealists some busy work to do to that will satisfy their idealism while giving them an “enlightened” and “titillated” feeling that they are really “pushing the envelope” - maybe even getting their hands a tiny bit dirty - in order to make the world a better place. By making them feel “involved”, the idealists are pacified and will not ask uncomfortable questions or, if they do, those questions can be answered with a variety of excuses… “national security” “it’s on a need-to-know basis” “all will be made clear to you in time” “oops, we overdid a bit but ‘the Plan’ is proceeding on schedule” “well, it is ugly but you understand that we’re not going to change the world by pussy-footing around”, and so on. Meanwhile, the truly criminal operations whose sole purpose is raw power and control of resources and wealth can proceed unhindered.
Clayton -
To be fair, the Iowa caucus doesn’t exactly have a whole lot of credit to begin with. Have a look at some myths. And some history. And remember the lineups in the last few elections…
2008
2000
| George W. Bush | 40.99% |
|---|---|
| Steve Forbes | 30.50% |
| Alan Keyes | 14.24% |
| Gary Bauer | 8.53% |
| John McCain | 4.67% |
| Orrin Hatch | 1.02% |
1996
| Bob Dole | 26.3% |
|---|---|
| Pat Buchanan | 23.3% |
| Lamar Alexander | 17.6% |
| Steve Forbes | 10.2% |
| Phil Gramm | 9.3% |
| Alan Keyes | 7.4% |
| Richard Lugar | 3.7% |
| Morry Taylor | 1.4% |
| No preference | 0.4% |
| Robert Dornan | 0.1% |
| Other | 0.04% |
1988
Nice comment I found on Reddit today:
The thread was titled “Does anyone else find it ironic that the average redditor has tacitly supported the regulation of things like table salt, bike riding, trans fats, carbon dioxide, and every minute of the work day, now believes that they should stop with the internet?”
and someone replied
"Yeah…Reddit clamored for government involvement to “ensure an open and free internet” through Net neutrality regulations and are now dumbstruck with the thought that the government, once granted this regulatory beachhead, now wants complete control…Proof positive of the old adage “Be careful what you wish for…” - TerminalHypocrisy
QFT. What was that about imaginary slippery slopes again? 
Slippery slopes are a modern myth. Everyone knows they only appear in children’s storybooks and movies with dragons.
You can just see the circles she’s making in her thought process:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_naet1B36nU
If you don’t want to support Ron Paul for any other reason, do it because Hitler doesn’t:
This is an old one, but Ron Paul kills it on the Colbert Report (he’s so lovable!):
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/88505/june-13-2007/ron-paul
@Clayton: The Shah is a beast!
[View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FidkfaAbwHk&feature=related:640:480]
Listen to him call out the Western nations on the unsustainability of their prosperity @ 3:20ish
Crap that sucks. I didn’t even know he was sick. The world was a much more interesting place with this guy in it.
how do you embed videos?
