Ron Paul Keeps His Foot on the Throat on The Federal Reserve

Once again our spineless and criminal House of "Representatives" has voted to float billions of dollars to a bunch of robber barons - at the expense of an American public that increasingly cannot afford to eat, pay rent, buy medicines, and have some level of base entertainment all in the same month.

By a vote of 237-170, the House voted last night to approve $14 billion to rescue the archaic U.S. auto industry in what promises to be the Wall Street bailout on a smaller scale - enough money to artificially inflate the markets, keep the public from devolving into chaos, and pay the corporate executives millions in year-end bonuses.

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_11190475?source=rss

As always, Congressman Ron Paul was front and center during the House bailout debate to buck the puppet line and refresh everyone as to the true root of our current economic Armageddon.

“If you look at the grand problem we have it’s much much bigger,” said Paul. "We spend more money, we run up more debt, we print more money, and we think that’s going to solve the problem that was created by spending too much money, running up debt, printing too much money and here we are today.

“[The Federal Reserve] create[s] this money and when the Fed chairman comes before our committee we ask, 'where did you dispose of this $2 trillion dollars that you’ve created recently,' he says 'well it’s not your business;' he doesn’t even have to tell us.”

http://www.prisonplanet.com/ron-paul-printing-money-only-prolongs-the-pain.html

Dr. Paul also added that the creation of over $8 trillion dollars in government obligations by the Federal Reserve evaded the audit of Congress - which, incidentally, is completely unconstitutional.

Back in September, Congressman Paul stated that Bernanke and former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan - among others - should be brought up on criminal charges for their part in the destruction of the U.S. economy.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/36354

The issue and vote is now with the Senate - where you can be assured that the even more corrupt half of the Legislature will send the money through without a hitch.

The bottom line is this: until the public wakes up to how our monetary system really works, and until we have more Ron Pauls in Congress, more and more Fortune 1000 crooks are going to be cashing in on the dimes of the average struggling American.

Patriots, Truthers, and Real Americans Swarm the Federal Reserve

The "End the Fed" campaign may not soon alter the banking corruption we're currently enslaved by, but it certainly made itself loud and clear last Saturday with massive protests outside all 38 locations of the criminal, non-federal monetary cartel.

The protests happened to mark the 98th anniversary of the famed Jeckyll Island meeting that launched the Federal Reserve concept, and the 45th anniversary of the tragic assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Alex Jones was down near the infamous Grassy Knoll in Dallas to bullhorn the Federal Reserve branch there. Various video coverage can be found on YouTube. Here is one link, which in turn will connect to the rest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fekzR-uDibM&feature=related

Congressman Ron Paul, the anti-Big Bank champion on Capitol Hill was in Houston on Saturday and gave yet another speech for the ages.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3qsJjTaekA8

Dr. Paul has proposed a bill demanding the end of the Federal Reserve and its Board of Governors (HR-2755). It was introduced nearly a year-and-a-half ago, and calls for abolishing the boards of governors of the Federal Reserve System and each individual Federal Reserve bank, and well as the repeal of the Federal Reserve Act.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-2755&tab=summary

Here's a great Q&A with Dr. Paul regarding the Federal Reserve:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/end-the-fed-qa-with-ron-paul.html

For more detailed info, visit the aforementioned links, or simply type "federal reserve protests" into google. There are hundreds of links to blogs, newsgroups, and the main pages of major media publications from Jacksonville to San Antonio to Salt Lake City.

The mainstream minions covered next to nothing of the massive protest(s), but more and more that signals success rather than failure. The bigger the crowd, the louder the voice, the more dire the threat to the New World Order - the more pronounced the media blackout.

As still is the case within the 9/11 Truth movement, not all factions of the End the Fed campaign necessarily agree on a central thesis or a solution. The fulcrum and importance, however, is that what we have is wrong and criminal, and in the immediate short term, we need massive change.

Ron Paul Isn't Buying Into the Illusion

Leave it to Dr. Paul to provide us with some sanity when things have quickly devolved so far out of control that Fox News is worshiping at the Obama altar.

Speaking with Alex Jones yesterday, the Congressman explained just how disturbed the idea of an Obama administration makes him. When Alex asked him if he feels any sense of dread, Dr. Paul said, “I do feel it but I don’t think it’s brand new. I didn’t wake up with it, I’ve had it for a while. I don’t think the election was a surprise, but the rhetoric is getting pretty strong and they are getting very bold.”

http://www.prisonplanet.com/ron-paul-warns-of-great-shift-toward-global-government-under-obama.html

Congressman Paul also basically agreed that the whole election was a dog and pony show, completely pre-determined with John McCain out there to take a fall in favor of the Wall Street prince, Barack Obama.

"I think McCain was obviously backup candidate in case something happened where Obama didn't win," Dr. Paul said. "They've been positioning Obama for a long long time. He's probably spent more money than everyone else combined over the past two years."

The Congressman also eluded to the media's sickening adoration of and bias toward Obama.

"Anybody who would have gotten that much favorable coverage for so long, you know that the plans have been laid for him to be the individual that is going to be taking care of the corporate elite," he said.

If only we could have had Congressman Paul debating Obama over the past few months.

Although, the intellectually devoid Obamakins would probably not have been able to comprehend a single sentence of sound logic, true patriotism, and real solutions.

Some Congressional Races of Note

While the entire globe is mesmerized and diverted from reality by the dog and pony show of Obama/Biden vs. McCain/Palin, there are hundreds of congressional races taking place tomorrow as well; battles that are unquestionably more important than the puppet play at the forefront of the 24/7 cable "news" propaganda sessions.

At face, I believe that at least 95 percent of incumbent members of Congress should be voted out. They comprise a pack of cowardly criminals that on the Right have fell lock step with the Neo-Cons, and on the Left, have completely betrayed their base after the 2006 Congressional election shakeup - failing to stand up to the Neo-Cons and playing - to a tee - the flip side of an evil coin.

The complete support and promotion of two illegal wars. The support (albeit under the duress of Martial Law - yes, and don't roll your eyes) for the immoral Wall Street bailout. The perpetuation of illegal spying on the American people. And on and on and on.

http://www.infowars.net/articles/october2008/031008Sherman.htm

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Representatives-Were-Threa-by-Patrick-Henningsen-081004-301.html

Still, there are a few incumbents who not only should keep their job but who truly are champions of the constitution and the American people. There are also a few challengers who we should all hope steal the day.

Naturally, everyone - regardless of their party, location, platform, et. al - have their own slate of races they consider important. I'm not downplaying any congressional races here, only pointing out those which I feel most strongly about. Others should certainly do the same. The races I note -for the most part - are not competitive one way or the other. All the same, they mean something great to me personally.

1) Texas, 14th District - Dr. Ron Paul is running for his 11th term as a United States Representative after a historic presidential run - raising nearly $5 million while being completely blacked out by the MSM. There is no Democratic challenger (they weren't dumb enough to waste even $1 to trot one out against the Ron Paul Revolution). There are three Independent candidates, and while I support Independent candidates' campaigns - in theory - in 99% of scenarios, don't even try to mess with the Good Doctor. He's proven himself not only a people's champion outside of Texas, outside of the so-called Right Wing, and outside of the mainstream Republican Party, but outside of the entire criminal government currently enslaving us.

2) Ohio, 10th District - Dennis Kucinich appears safe to retain his seat against GOP challenger Jim Trakas, despite a myriad of money and lies leveled at the House's leading maverick. Kucinich has had an outstanding 2008. Not only did he throw his hat into a fruitless presidential fight against establishment shills Clinton and Obama, but he has tirelessly fought on the House floor for the impeachment of both George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Like Ron Paul, he also voted twice against the "bailout."

3) New Jersey, 5th District - Incumbent Neo-Con piece of filth Scott Garrett needs to go. There is no more plain and truthful way to put it. During the past year I moved from NJ-5 to NJ-9, but have not changed my registration info. Thus, I will return to NJ-5 to vote against Garrett. In short, if you need the skinny on him, visit http://retiregarrett.blogspot.com/.

4) Minnesota, U.S. Senate - Talk about a carnival. Here you have incumbent Neo-Con trash Norm Coleman pitted against semi-amusing comedian Al Franken. A parade of fools if we've ever seen one. Well, enter Dean Barkley - an independent who has actually served two months in the U.S. Senate. He was appointed by then-Governor Jesse Ventura to serve out the stint of Paul Wellstone after the bizarre and convenient plane crash of 2002. As of late last week, Barkley was polling between 17 and 20 percent, and had received around $40,000 in donations from listeners of the Alex Jones Show after a dual appearance by Barkley and Ventura on the show. Barkley has a real shot tomorrow.

5) New Jersey, 9th District - Incumbent Dem Steve Rothman is a pretty good guy. I covered him for two years (1999-2001) during my stint in North Jersey journalism, and he really did get a whole lot of positive stuff done for his constituency. He voted against the bailout on the first go-around and for it on the second, but as I mentioned above, there was the threat of Martial Law. In fairness, I think you can only judge the House members on their first vote for that reason alone. He is my current Rep, but he's pretty much a lock to win. I'd rather go back "home" and vote against Garrett.

Must-Do's for Tuesday's Election

As voters prepare to flood polling stations for Tuesday's general election, here is a checklist of what any patriotic, liberty and constitution-loving American needs to keep in mind.

1) Vote for Anyone other than McCain or Obama - unlike in previous elections there are a number of viable third-party choices out there. You have Chuck Baldwin (Constitution Party), Ralph Nader (Independent), Cynthia McKinney (Green Party), and to a much lesser extent, Bob Barr (Libertarian Party - though not really). This is probably the worst major-party duo we've had to choose from in recent memory. All major polls show that the public is fed up with both the GOP and the Dems. Well, it's time to show them. Vote third party. Even if you're like me and the candidate you've supported for the past two years (Ron Paul) isn't on the ballot, make the so-called third party choice. And by the way, Dr. Paul IS on the ballot in Montana and Louisiana.

2) Aside from Ron Paul and Dennis Kuncinich (and possibly a handful of others), vote out EVERY incumbent - Republican, Democrat, it doesn't matter. Anyone who's held a congressional seat in recent years - aside from a very few exceptions - is a complete criminal who has helped destroy the United States. From rubber stamping the illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to voting for the immoral and illegal bailout of the Wall Street crooks, these puppets of the New World Order ALL need to go.

3) Vote for any progressive ballot initiatives that buck the mainstream trend - i.e. - Proposition 5 in California, known as the Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act (or NORA) Proposition 5 Requires California to expand and increase funding and oversight for individualized treatment and rehabilitation programs for nonviolent drug offenders and parolees; reduces criminal consequences of nonviolent drug offenses by mandating three-tiered probation with treatment and by providing for case dismissal and/or sealing of records after probation; limits court’s authority to incarcerate offenders who violate probation or parole; shortens parole for most drug offenses, including sales, and for nonviolent property crimes; creates numerous divisions, boards, commissions, and reporting requirements regarding drug treatment and rehabilitation; changes certain marijuana misdemeanors to infractions.

4) Tell the truth in exit polls - Exit polls are a great way to expose voter/election fraud. They helped immensely in 2000 and 2004 to show that who folks say they voted for did not reconcile with "official" results.

At the end of the day, we're going to have either Obama or McCain - probably Obama - and that is going to be a nightmare. However, the success of the Ron Paul revolution over the past year-and-a-half has shown how close we are to breaking the "two-party" system. Producing a record amount of votes for third-party candidates on Tuesday will continue to derail the establishment's agenda.

Leading Japanese Politician Questions 9/11 for the Third Time; Envokes Paul, Kucinich

Last Wedensday, Japanese Diet member Yukihisa Fujita once again questioned the official 9/11 fairy tale on the floor of the Japanese equivolent of Congress.

Alex Jones interviewed Fujita back in March of this year, at which time one of the leading members of the Japanese opposition party suggested that the United Nations lead a new investigation into the alleged terrorist attacks.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/033108_un_investigation.htm

"This is something Parliamentarians of various countries could ask - I was in Europe meeting with European MP's and they are also thinking about asking the UN to investigate, so these kind of efforts need to be done internationally," said Fujita, adding that he had visited eleven different European countries in an attempt to garner support for the move.

Last week's speech to the Japanese parliament included a call to to stop all Japanese support for U.S.-led military operations, citing heavy civilian and military losses in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.infowars.com/?p=5624

Wow. How refreshing. Imagine one of the leaders of either criminal party in this country suggesting such a thing.

Fujita reportedly went on to describe the Kucinich impeachment debate in Congress and its support by members of the House. He went on to list to the Japanese parliament Congressman Kucinich's 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush, and also mentioned Dr. Ron Paul in regards to the impeachment of our puppet president.

Reports say that although there was no public broadcast of Fujita's speech, that this is - in fact - the third time he's called out the 9/11 fable on the Japanese parliament floor.

Fujita is a member of the Democratic Party of Japan. He also pointed out that there has never been an official police investigation into the deaths of the 24 Japanese citizens who were killed on 9/11.

Ron Paul: Suddenly a Media Darling?

It's great to see Dr. Ron Paul on the cable news shows so much lately, but at the same time, it's so infuriating. During the run of Republican primaries and primary debates, Dr. Paul was nowhere to be found in polls, news shows, and debate face time. The corporate shills at CNN/FOX/MSNBC, et al. deliberately blacked him out. Now, he's a regular and just about every other day you turn around and there's Ron Paul again talking about the economy.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/24/ron.paul.economy/index.html

It makes perfect sense of course. Ron Paul is a economic mastermind and fiery critic of the banks, the criminal private Federal Reserve, and our monetary system. He knows exactly what he speaks of, and unlike most, he tells the truth when it comes to where we are financially, how we got here, and where we're headed.

If only the talking heads paid him so much attention over the past year and a half. We might just have finished watching three debates of Dr. Paul making Lord Obama look ridiculous.

This morning was the Congressman's most recent appearance on CNN, when he once again denounced our current monetary system, calling it "fraudulent."

"We created this problem," Dr. Paul said. "The Federal Reserve created this. The Community Reinvestment Act created it. The FDIC created it. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac created it."

Congressman Paul probably gets more airtime in a jam-packed morning show nowadays than every minute of time allotted him in every primary debate strung together. Remember when that piece of trash Anderson Cooper cut Dr. Paul off after roughly half of a 30-second answer?

And as always, CNN host John Roberts ended this morning's interview by saying, "Congressman Paul, it's always good to see you."

Yeah, but it wasn't so great to see the Good Doctor when valuable CNN exposure may have made a difference in voters' minds now, was it, John?

Ron Paul Lays Out How Simplistically Horrible the Bailout Is

Congressman Ron Paul was back on CNN this morning talking again about the criminal bailout. The talking heads were trying to get Dr. Paul to shift on his positions given that the crooks on Capitol Hill "tweaked it [the bailout plan] and decided to buy stakes in some U.S. banks."

I guess Dr. Paul did move a little from statements he made the last time he was on CNN - he emphatically said the bill is worse now than in its previous incarnation.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/17/ron.paul.qa/

Ron Paul is no doubt a brilliant economic mind. However, it doesn't take anywhere near brilliance to see the catastrophic pitfalls in what is going on here. Dr. Paul was able to sum up the whole mess with extremely succinct points. For example, he pointed out that the bailout is asking [though I would say enforcing via economic martial law] the poor to get the rich off of the hook. He explained that all of their "tweaks" have turned a $700-billion donation to the robber barrons into what will ultimatly cost Americans $5 trillion. The $5 trillion figure has been out there for a while now, of course nowhere to be found on the cable news shows or in the New York Times.

http://www.infowars.com/?p=4813

Perhaps the most obvious problem with this crookery is that paying for it will result in $6 loaves of bread and $10 gallons of milk. The money has to come from somewhere. Well, Dr. Paul laid that out, too.

He also repeated one of his favorite and truest lines, "If creating more money was the solution, nobody would ever have to work."

"This is going to cause a great deal of harm. It's like a drug addict taking a strong fix, and he feels better for a day or two, but believe me, we're going to kill the patient, Paul said. "And the patient here is the dollar system and our entire world economy. I would say let's get off this addiction."

Paul's Common Sense Against Bush's Talking Points - Yet Again

I really have nothing new to say about the U.S. Markets, the bailout of the Robber Barrons, and the complete criminality going on except that it's so pathetic we still have shills on the TV telling us we're not going to be able to avoid a "recession."

We're already in a recession, perhaps a depression, you jackasses! How much longer can the meadia shills - and the networks they work for - continue to inject their positions, without justificaton from the Markets or the truly knowlegable economists?

Instead, just listen to Ron Paul talk about it all - in plain truth yet again. Unlike the typhoon of lies and propaganda put forth by the Congress, the MSM and the White House, he lays out the real deal of what's going on - despite how scarey and unpopular that may be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfvMTsKn_Bc&eurl=http://911trutheddie.blogspot.com/

The mainstream shills are going to continue to lie, but we've reached a point where they are so easily exposed. This bailout has incinerated many of them - fortunately. Perhaps we'll now start to get some REAL media coverage - but I doubt we're quite there yet.

Listen to George Bush's standard line of bull at : http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/10/10/bush.global.markets.cnn

Now That They're Completely Busted, Bernanke Tells the Truth - Partially

Yesterday's mega-collapse in the global markets seems to have possibly shaken up the criminal banking elite a bit. Even with all of their hubris, they seem to know the bailout has been exposed as fradulent, unconstitutional, and of no value to the common citizen - despite what they publicly contend. The crooks have gone way too far, and it's time for a little damage control.

Enter Ben Bernanke - the wretched little lackey of the bankers and robber barrons - who if there were any justice would be headed off to prison for a very long time, very soon. The Fed chairman today said the current economic crisis is likely to restrain the economy well into next year. Wow, Ben, how prophetic.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/07/news/economy/bernanke_speech/index.htm?cnn=yes

Of course, he's still spewing all sorts of lies, doublespeak, and rhetoric, but at least he sort of admitted the truth. This doesn't, however, change the fact he's been a bald-faced lying piece of trash the whole rest of the time, and as Ron Paul said recently, he and Alan Greenspan should be brought up on criminal charges.

Since Bernanke took over the Fed in 2006, no legitimate economic forecaster or member of Congress contended that the economy was strong, or our economic policies sound. From Ron Paul to former Deputy Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts, all those with economic knowledge and a caring for our dollar and our country were warning of huge dangers ahead. All the while, Bernake was saying things like:

"We at the Federal Reserve will do all that we can to prevent fraud and abusive lending and to ensure that lenders employ sound underwriting practices and make effective disclosures to consumers." - 5/27/07

"It is not the responsibility of the Federal Reserve - nor would it be appropriate - to protect lenders and investors from the consequences of their financial decisions." - 8/31/07

"The Federal Reserve takes responsible lending and consumer protection very seriously." - 9/20/07

"I think we need to keep in mind also that the economy does have inherent strengths and that those will certainly surface over a period of time." - 1/17/08

http://www.america.gov/st/econ-english/2008/January/20080118125026dmslahrellek0.1241724.html

http://www.chinadaily.net/world/2007-09/01/content_6073173.htm

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977456459

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20886111/

Lies and deceit. One sound bite after the next. These aren't 1/1000th of it.

Well, it's too late now, Ben. You can't all of a sudden say something true, and expect to be seen as someone who cares and is for the people. In the same way that an apology doesn't make a murder acceptable.

Ron Paul: Bailout Bill "Unconstitutional"

Speaking immediately after today's catastrophic passing of the bailout bill in the House, Ron Paul said that - among other things - the bill was unconstitutional.

"This time the bill was much worse," Paul said. "It's amazing. You take a very very bad bill, you take it back out, and you make it much worse. It tells you a little bit about what's going on here in Washington.

"The one very bad part of this bill was the fact that the tax portion of this bill was written by the Senate, and under the Constitution, only the House can originate tax bills. So that in itself was unconstitutional.

"But it's been done before and it will be done again. But that's just sort of the way things happen around here."

Congressman Paul added that the bill doesn't deal with the problem, and that it was simply symbolic of our overspending and over extension - "the absolute bankruptcy of this country."

Watch Dr. Paul's comments on the left hand side of this blog under Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty Feed, or at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL-9CV-qbMw&eurl=http://911trutheddie.blogspot.com/.

In contrast, this morning's debate on the House floor saw Nancy Pelosi spewing lies, lauding over the House leaders on both sides for selling out their constituents, and celebrating that 57 members of Congress have no spine and switched their vote. Later in the afternoon, George Bush came out of his hole to tell us how much of a victory the vote was. Yeah, George, about as effective as a "Mission Accomplished."

And let's not forget that the "yay" side of this treason - in both the House and Senate - include the likes of Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden, Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Jay Rockefeller (yes, David's nephew), John Boehner, Harry Reid, John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, Ted Stevens, and on and on and on with the most disgusting members of Congress.

Note: Dennis Kucinich kept his word - as always - and voted no.

Beneath the Surface of the Bailout Charade

Has there EVER been a more blatant example of the Dems and GOP being both sides of the same coin than this week's bailout issue? Probably not.

Now, yes, a greater percentage of Republicans were against yesterday's bailout vote. However, if you look at the top tiers in each party and the public rhetoric they've been spewing, you'll see little difference. On the proponent side, you'll find Dems like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barney Frank, and Barack Obama. The GOP supporters boast John Boehner, Tom Tancredo, John McCain, and yes, our fearless leader, George W. Bush. Take a look at this cross-section; it comprises both parts of the Legislative as well as the Executive branch. As I and thousands of other "alternative" bloggers and alternative media folks continue to contend - there's NO difference.

When Congress resumes on Thursday, I'm sure they'll pass this bailout. If not, they'll have it by some time this weekend. There is simply going to be too much pressure from the crooks on Wall Street to sway the less than twenty votes they need. But why? Because the media shills continue to lie and promote the globalist agenda? YES - for one thing.

Over the past couple of days, we've been subjected to such inane comments from the cable news folks as, 'the GOP has abandoned John McCain.'

Sure.

How about the fact that a good percentage of the GOP is backing off McCain, knows the perception is he's aligned with Bush, and knows that's suicide. Also, there's the contingent of Ron Paul Republicans (1.2 million strong in the GOP primaries) who under no circumstances will vote for McCain. Don't think for a second that the Republicans up for re-election don't know that.

In an interview yesterday just after the bailout bill's failure, Congressman Paul said that an overwhemling amount of emails from constituants opposing the debate had a lot to do with the outcome. Whether or not he's right, one would certainly hope so. It would mean more and more of the public is waking up to the crimes and games of the global central banks and the New World Order.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0xOwHa2zls

"It was different than anything i've experienced before," Paul said. "When they announced the vote, it was dead silence. It really shook up a lot of people. This is serious stuff."

Personally, I can't seem to get past how people can be so dumb as to not pick up on the activity of the fraudulent stock market. It doesn't own a dime, and the money is all with the corrupt corporations. It's a charade. However, despite the fact that NOTHING has changed in terms of policy or economic standing from one day to the next, the DJIA went from a 777-point drop to a 486-point gain in one day to the next?

After the bailout's defeat, Ron Paul was also quoted as saying, "the markets are down... but it's not really that drastic. We've seen days like that frequently. So it wasn't like the markets depended on this appropriation. My argument has been that if we voted for the money, the money and the market would get much worse."

This will be approved one way or the other. Frankly, I'm split. Not on the bailout, but on the initial effects and reactions.

One the one hand, I would love to see the Bernanke-loving yuppies lose everything they have. In the end, though, people like myself who have to come up with creative ways to pay the rent each month will be in the same boat as these smug morons.

Personally speaking, I work in a building in Midtown Manhattan with a number of these idiots - male and female. I see first-hand that because they and their spouses both make $90,000 a year that they think they're part of the establishement. And every time I have a two-minute elevator ride with one of them I force myself to keep my mouth shut.

At the end of the day, I can console myself because of one thing; I haven't - nor ever have had - a pot to piss in. They, on the other hand, have decided to dump money in various "retirement" accounts they will never see. They have carpet-bagged into this Metro-NY area and think they are in some way part of the globalist decision-making process. HA!

It will hurt us all the same in the end, but I'm glad that at least I know what's up.

Ron Paul on the House Floor

Here are video clips from yesterday's Bailout chaos. One is of Dr. Paul on the House floor emphatically restating how terrible an idea the bailout is. The second is an interview with the Congressman after the legislation was defeated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQhHxKz1hEQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0xOwHa2zls

Vote Results for the Bailout

I think it extremely important to see who voted aye and who voted no on today's criminal bailout bill. Our economy and country is going to hell in a hand basket either way, so this bailout is about the worst idea since the rogue government decided to hijack four planes on 9/11.

And by the way, take particular notice of the votes of Congressmen Paul and Kucinich.

AYES - 205

Ackerman, Allen, Andrews, Arcuri, Bachus, Baird, Baldwin, Bean, Berman, Berry, Bishop (GA), Bishop (NY), Blunt, Boehner, Bonner, Bono, Mack, Boozman, Boren, Boswell, Boucher, Boyd (FL), Brady (PA), Brady (TX), Brown (SC), Brown, Corrine, Calvert, Camp (MI), Campbell (CA), Cannon, Cantor, Capps, Capuano, Cardoza, Carnahan, Castle, Clarke, Clyburn, Cohen, Cole (OK), Cooper, Costa, Cramer, Crenshaw, Crowley, Cubin, Davis (AL), Davis (CA), Davis (IL), Davis, Tom DeGette, DeLauro, Dicks, Dingell, Donnelly, Doyle, Dreier, Edwards (TX), Ehlers, Ellison, Ellsworth, Emanuel, Emerson, Engel, Eshoo, Etheridge, Everett, Farr, Fattah, Ferguson, Fossella, Foster, Frank (MA), Gilchrest, Gonzalez, Gordon, Granger, Gutierrez, Hall (NY), Hare, Harman, Hastings (FL), Herger, Higgins, Hinojosa, Hobson, Holt, Honda, Hooley, Hoyer, Inglis (SC), Israel, Johnson, E., B.Kanjorski, Kennedy, Kildee, Kind, King (NY), KirkKlein, (FL)Kline (MN), LaHood, Langevin, Larsen (WA), Larson (CT), Levin, Lewis (CA), Lewis (KY), Loebsack, Lofgren, Zoe Lowey, Lungren, Daniel E.Mahoney (FL), Maloney (NY), Markey, Marshall, Matsui, McCarthy (NY), McCollum (MN), McCrery, McDermott, McGovern, McHugh, McKeon, McNerney, McNulty, Meek (FL), Meeks (NY), Melancon, Miller (NC), Miller, Gary Miller, George Mollohan, Moore (KS), Moore (WI), Moran (VA), Murphy (CT), Murphy, Patrick Murtha, Nadler, Neal (MA), Oberstar, Obey, Olver, Pallone, Pelosi, Perlmutter, Peterson (PA), Pickering, Pomeroy, Porter, Price (NC), Pryce (OH), Putnam, Radanovich, Rahall, Rangel, Regula, Reyes, Reynolds, Richardson, Rogers (AL), Rogers (KY), Ross, Ruppers, Ryan (OH), Ryan (WI), Sarbanes, Saxton, Schakowsky, Schwartz, Sessions, Sestak, Shays, Simpson, Sires, Skelton, Slaughter, Smith (TX), Smith (WA), Snyder, Souder, Space, Speier, Spratt, Tancredo, Tanner, Tauscher, Towns, Tsongas, Upton, Van Hollen, Velázquez, Walden (OR), Walsh (NY), Wasserman, Schultz, Waters, Watt, Waxman, Weiner, Weldon (FL), Wexler, Wilson (NM), Wilson (OH), Wilson (SC), Wolf

NOES - 228

Abercrombie, Aderholt, Akin, Alexander, Altmire, Baca, Bachmann, Barrett (SC), Barrow, Bartlett (MD) ,Barton (TX), Becerra, Berkley, Biggert, Bilbray, Bilirakis, Bishop (UT), Blackburn, Blumenauer, Boustany, Boyda (KS), Braley (IA), Broun (GA), Brown-Waite, Ginny Buchanan, Burgess, Burton (IN), Butterfield, Buyer, Capito, Carney, Carson, Carter, Castor, Cazayoux, Chabot, Chandler, Childers, Clay, Cleaver, Coble, Conaway, Conyers, Costello, Courtney, Cuellar, Culberson, Cummings, Davis (KY), Davis, David, Davis, Lincoln Deal (GA), DeFazio, Delahunt, Dent, Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M.Doggett, Doolittle, Drake, Duncan, Edwards (MD) ,English (PA), Fallin, Feeney, Filner, Flake, Forbes, Fortenberry, Foxx, Franks (AZ), Frelinghuysen, Gallegly, Garrett (NJ), Gerlach, Giffords, llibrand Gingrey, Gohmert, Goode, Goodlatte, Graves, Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva, Hall (TX), Hastings (WA), Hayes, Heller, Hensarling, Herseth, Sandlin Hill, Hinchey, Hirono, Hodes, Hoekstra, Holden, Hulshof, Hunter, Inslee, Issa, Jackson (IL), Jackson-Lee (TX), Jefferson, Johnson (GA), Johnson (IL), Johnson, Sam Jones (NC), Jordan, Kagen, Kaptur, Keller, Kilpatrick, King (IA), Kingston, Knollenberg, Kucinich, Kuhl (NY), Lamborn, Lampson, Latham, LaTourette, Latta, Lee, Lewis (GA), Linder, Lipinski, LoBiondo, Lucas, Lynch, Mack, Manzullo, Marchant, Matheson, McCarthy (CA), McCaul (TX), McCotter, McHenry, McIntyre, McMorris, Rodgers, Mica, Michaud, Miller (FL), Miller (MI), Mitchell, Moran (KS), Murphy, Tim Musgrave, Myrick, Napolitano, Neugebauer, Nunes, Ortiz, Pascrell, Pastor, Paul, Payne, Pearce, Pence, Peterson (MN), Petri, Pitts, Platts, Poe, Price (GA), Ramstad, Rehberg, Reichert, Renzi, Rodriguez, Rogers (MI), Rohrabacher, Ros-Lehtinen, Roskam, Rothman, Roybal-Allard, Royce, Rush, Salazar, Sali, Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Scalise, Schiff, Schmidt, Scott (GA), Scott (VA), Sensenbrenner, Serrano, Shadegg, Shea-Porter, Sherman, Shimkus, Shuler, Shuster, Smith (NE), Smith (NJ), Solis, Stark, Stearns, Stupak, Sullivan, Sutton, Taylor, Terry, Thompson (CA), Thompson (MS), Thornberry, Tiahrt, Tiberi, Tierney, Turner, Udall (CO), Udall (NM), Visclosky, Walberg, Walz (MN), Wamp, Watson, Welch (VT), Westmoreland, Whitfield (KY), Wittman (VA), Woolsey, Wu, Yarmuth, Young (AK), Young (FL)

Ron Paul Ends his "Neutrality," Endorses Chuck Baldwin

I've been remiss this week in addressing Ron Paul's endorsement of Consitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin for president. With the robber barrons running around pillaging from the American people, and letting myself be partially diverted by Sarah Palin's mental retardation, I've sort of left this on the back burner.

By now most have likely read Dr. Paul's statement from his Campaign for Liberty website, so I thought I'd just post a few of what I consider to be the most poignant parts of his announcement.

The entire statement can be found at http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog/?p=582.

From Dr. Paul:

"The press conference at the National Press Club had a precise purpose. It was to expose, to as many people as possible, the gross deception of our presidential election process. It is controlled by the powerful elite to make sure that neither candidate of the two major parties will challenge the status quo..."

"This unique press conference, despite the surprising, late complication from the Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate, hopefully will prove to be historically significant...

"This does not mean that I expect to get Ralph Nader or Cynthia McKinney to become libertarians, nor do they expect me to change my mind on the issues on which we disagree. In the meantime, why can’t we be friends, respectful of each other, and fight the corrupt process from which we suffer, and at the same time champion the four issues that we all agree upon which the two major candidates won’t address?..."

"The Libertarian Party Candidate admonished me for “remaining neutral” in the presidential race and not stating whom I will vote for in November. It’s true; I have done exactly that due to my respect and friendship and support from both the Constitution and Libertarian Party members. I remain a lifetime member of the Libertarian Party and I’m a ten-term Republican Congressman. It is not against the law to participate in more then one political party. Chuck Baldwin has been a friend and was an active supporter in the presidential campaign..."

"I’ve thought about the unsolicited advice from the Libertarian Party candidate, and he has convinced me to reject my neutral stance in the November election. I’m supporting Chuck Baldwin, the Constitution Party candidate."

Ron Paul Calls for Criminal Charges Against Bernanke and Greenspan

Speaking on the Alex Jones show yesterday, Congressman Ron Paul said of the bailout, “They want dictatorship, they want to pass all the penalties and suffering on to the average person on Main Street. We will have a depression or recession, it’s locked in place due to previous Federal Reserve actions.”

Dr. Paul also said that the current and former chairs of the private loansharking Federal Reserve should face criminal charges.

http://www.infowars.com/?p=4868

The Congressman continually proves the loudest and most knowledgeable congressional critic of the Fed, but this is the most hardcore words we've heard from him yet. They're also an invigorating breath of fresh air in contrast to the Greenspan and Bernanke worshiping from the crooks on Wall Street and the know-nothing talking heads on the news shows.

You can hear Alex's entire interview with Dr. Paul by looking to the left hand side of this blog, and clicking on the September 25 edition of the Alex Jones Show archive.

Dubya, Meet the Good Dr.

Below is yet another outstanding statement from Congressman Ron Paul. How is this guy not the GOP candidate for President?

This time he takes aim at the Moron-in-Chief and his asinine economic address from last night.

My Answer to the President

The financial meltdown the economists of the Austrian School predicted has arrived.

We are in this crisis because of an excess of artificially created credit at the hands of the Federal Reserve System. The solution being proposed? More artificial credit by the Federal Reserve. No liquidation of bad debt and malinvestment is to be allowed. By doing more of the same, we will only continue and intensify the distortions in our economy - all the capital misallocation, all the malinvestment - and prevent the market's attempt to re-establish rational pricing of houses and other assets. Last night the president addressed the nation about the financial crisis. There is no point in going through his remarks line by line, since I'd only be repeating what I've been saying over and over - not just for the past several days, but for years and even decades. Still, at least a few observations are necessary.

The president assures us that his administration "is working with Congress to address the root cause behind much of the instability in our markets." Care to take a guess at whether the Federal Reserve and its money creation spree were even mentioned?

We are told that "low interest rates" led to excessive borrowing, but we are not told how these low interest rates came about. They were a deliberate policy of the Federal Reserve. As always, artificially low interest rates distort the market. Entrepreneurs engage in malinvestments - investments that do not make sense in light of current resource availability, that occur in more temporally remote stages of the capital structure than the pattern of consumer demand can support, and that would not have been made at all if the interest rate had been permitted to tell the truth instead of being toyed with by the Fed. Not a word about any of that, of course, because Americans might then discover how the great wise men in Washington caused this great debacle. Better to keep scapegoating the mortgage industry or "wildcat capitalism" (as if we actually have a pure free market!).

Speaking about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the president said: "Because these companies were chartered by Congress, many believed they were guaranteed by the federal government. This allowed them to borrow enormous sums of money, fuel the market for questionable investments, and put our financial system at risk."

Doesn't that prove the foolishness of chartering Fannie and Freddie in the first place? Doesn't that suggest that maybe, just maybe, government may have contributed to this mess? And of course, by bailing out Fannie and Freddie, hasn't the federal government shown that the "many" who "believed they were guaranteed by the federal government" were in fact correct?

Then come the scare tactics. If we don't give dictatorial powers to the Treasury Secretary "the stock market would drop even more, which would reduce the value of your retirement account. The value of your home could plummet." Left unsaid, naturally, is that with the bailout and all the money and credit that must be produced out of thin air to fund it, the value of your retirement account will drop anyway, because the value of the dollar will suffer a precipitous decline. As for home prices, they are obviously much too high, and supply and demand cannot equilibrate if government insists on propping them up. It's the same destructive strategy that government tried during the Great Depression: prop up prices at all costs. The Depression went on for over a decade. On the other hand, when liquidation was allowed to occur in the equally devastating downturn of 1921, the economy recovered within less than a year.

The president also tells us that Senators McCain and Obama will join him at the White House today in order to figure out how to get the bipartisan bailout passed. The two senators would do their country much more good if they stayed on the campaign trail debating who the bigger celebrity is, or whatever it is that occupies their attention these days.

F.A. Hayek won the Nobel Prize for showing how central banks' manipulation of interest rates creates the boom-bust cycle with which we are sadly familiar. In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, he described the foolish policies being pursued in his day - and which are being proposed, just as destructively, in our own.

Instead of furthering the inevitable liquidation of the maladjustments brought about by the boom during the last three years, all conceivable means have been used to prevent that readjustment from taking place; and one of these means, which has been repeatedly tried though without success, from the earliest to the most recent stages of depression, has been this deliberate policy of credit expansion.

To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection - a procedure that can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end... It is probably to this experiment, together with the attempts to prevent liquidation once the crisis had come, that we owe the exceptional severity and duration of the depression. The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learn from history.

The very people who have spent the past several years assuring us that the economy is fundamentally sound, and who themselves foolishly cheered the extension of all these novel kinds of mortgages, are the ones who now claim to be the experts who will restore prosperity! Just how spectacularly wrong, how utterly without a clue, does someone have to be before his expert status is called into question? Oh, and did you notice that the bailout is now being called a "rescue plan"? I guess "bailout" wasn't sitting too well with the American people.

The very people who with somber faces tell us of their deep concern for the spread of democracy around the world are the ones most insistent on forcing a bill through Congress that the American people overwhelmingly oppose. The very fact that some of you seem to think you're supposed to have a voice in all this actually seems to annoy them.

I continue to urge you to contact your representatives and give them a piece of your mind. I myself am doing everything I can to promote the correct point of view on the crisis. Be sure also to educate yourselves on these subjects - the Campaign for Liberty blog is an excellent place to start. Read the posts, ask questions in the comment section, and learn. H.G. Wells once said that civilization was in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

In liberty,

Ron Paul

Hey, American Public: All of a Sudden John McCain Cares About You

Apparently, after years of disservice to the American people, and blanket support for the Neo-Con agenda of dismantling our dollar, our liberty and our Constitution, John McCain has developed an empathy for the citizens of the United States. He wants to suspend his dog-and-pony show campaign to focus on our economic crisis.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092402250.html

What a great guy! You go, John. Show us how much you really care!

Now, I know it's hard for most of you to decipher the difference, but I'm not supporting Barack Obama when I say this... The Obama campaign hit it right on the money when they said, McCain is "playing politics" with the current financial crisis.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/johnmccain/3076553/John-McCain-playing-politics-with-Wall-St-crisis-Democrats-say.html

Well of course he is. He has no other options at this point. He's woefully behind (slightly in the bogus mainstream media polls, but significantly if you account for actual truth on top of that), and has a literal retard for a VP candidate. There's no other way than to try and fool the American voters into thinking he cares about them.

However, if he - or Obama for that matter - did care anything about the average American, they would have been screaming bloody murder about our nation's economic policy a long time ago - most notably the existence of the criminal [Non] Federal [Without Any] Reserve.

True patriot public servants like Ron Paul who do care have been banging pots and pans for decades now about the way we run our economy. They're labeled as fringe nuts while McCain and Obama are anointed as potential presidents.

The Obama campaign sold under a lucky star here. McCain's camp has put them in a no-lose position.

At this point the Obama people are refusing to postpone the upcoming Presidential debate - and rightfully so. The voters deserve to see these two clowns argue about the catastrophic events that are going on. If the tables were turned in terms of actions, the story would be the same. Obama would be required to uphold his end of the deal.

The fact is, neither of these puppets have been in Washington long enough this year to fulfill ANY of their congressional duties. By simple logic, this would equate to an absolute disinterest in the people. By contrast, 74-year-old Ron Paul made certain to return to the Capitol for virtually every vote he needed to make - and he still managed to raise some serious coin. Not to mention 1.2 million primary votes.

Still, in the end, I'm sure Fox News will make McCain's rhetoric seem like the most admirable thing since John Hancock, Sam Adams and the rest of them actually DID stand up for the common folk and dump that lousy Brit tea into Boston Harbor.

Dr. Paul Blasts the Bailout

Amid the ongoing lies, posturing, and fleecing of the public during the the latest and greatest bailout of the Wall Street criminals, Congressman Ron Paul stood firm and for the people and sent a blistering op-ed to CNN today.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/23/paul.bailout/index.html

As usual, Dr. Paul has nothing nice to say about the big banks, the private "Federal Reserve," and his inept and cowardly congressional colleagues.

It's been a long time since we've truly been in such an "info war." On one side, we have true patriots like Dr. Paul, former Deputy Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts, Bob Goodman of International Forecaster, and a few others telling the truth. We're in a horrific financial crisis, heading towards Depression, and the bailouts will help no one but those who caused the banking collapses in the first place.

http://www.infowars.com/?p=4607

http://theinternationalforecaster.com/International_Forecaster_Weekly/Half_a_Trillion_Bailout_For_The_Creators_of_the_Market_Crisis
Then of course we have the know-nothing shills on Fox, CNN and everywhere else saying this is the only way to go. We have multi-multi-multi millionaire author Suze Orman running around saying we should have bailed these crooks out even sooner. Yeah, well, if we all had sold tens of millions of books with trendy, substance-less advice on personal finance to a bunch of well-meaning fools, we wouldn't be worried about the fallout of this so-called rescue either, Suze.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/09/19/lkl.suze.orman/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail

And we can't forget our fearless Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. He's throwing around a lot of empty and rhetorical blame (at everyone but himself and his crook buddy Ben Benanke), while these two treasonous pieces of garbage call for "immediate action" on $700 billion more in golden parachutes to a bunch of robber barrons.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/23/news/economy/bailout_hearing/index.htm?postversion=2008092309

This after last week's insane pronouncement that Congress has no authority in any of this.

Can you blame Hank, though? After all this is a guy who is no doubt deeply involved in all of this. He headed Goldman Sachs for seven years before coming over to the Treasury in 2006. Hmm???

Ron Paul Blasts the Two Major Parties

Congressman Ron Paul this morning gave a fiery speech to the National Press Club in Washington, denouncing both of the Presidential candidates, the two major political parties, and John McCain's attempt to steal the Ron Paul Revolution's support.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-thirdparty11-2008sep11,0,1874271.story

The focus of the press conference was to throw support behind not one but all of the so called third party candidates. The truly genuine contenders were mostly in attendance and included Independent candidate Ralph Nader, Green Party nominee Cynthia McKinney and Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin. Former Georgia Representative Bob Barr, the nominee of the Libertarian Party, held his own press hearing later in the day. Most likely this was because he asked Dr. Paul to be his V.P., and was politely turned down. Barr is a little too far to the Neo-Con side. I've really considered it a shame from day one that he is the "Libertarian" candidate.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/10/ron-paul-endorses-the-third-party-field/

The entire transcript of Dr. Paul's speech can be viewed at http://www.campaignforlibery.com/.
The initial buzz was that the press conference might be an announcement of a Paul endorsement for Nader. In fact, I think what actually went down was far more important. Dr. Paul's speech was a blistering endorsement for the dismantling of the two-party fraud, and a shining example of how one has the absolute right to support, fund, or campaign for whomever they like. Keep in mind, there were true independents as well as a former Democrat on the stage - being championed by a 2008 Republican Presidential candidate.

Congressman Paul is truly on fire. After last week's speech for the ages in Minneapolis, he dropped the hammer on the Left and Right today. Let's face it. Despite the early media blackout against him, and the ultimate shutdown of his campaign, he's just as, if not more, popular than ever, and what he has to say - and had to say this morning - is worth a whole heck of a lot. So much so that the McCain camp has spent the last two weeks trying to garner Paul's support, and gain access to his campaign donors and supporters.

Even Neo-Con filth, former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm (former McCain advisor) called for Dr. Paul to support McCain. Obviously the Congressman and his camp met this idea with abject laughter.

"Pretending that a true difference exists between the two major candidates is a charade of great proportion," Paul said. "The truth is that our two-party system offers no real choice. The real goal of the campaign is to distract people from considering the real issues."

The Congressman said of the diversity of the third party folks, "These individuals do have strong philosophic disagreements on various issues, but they all stand for challenging the status quo.

"A huge vote for those running on principle will be a lot more valuable by sending a message that we've had enough and want real change than wasting one's vote on a supposed lesser of two evils."