". . . a republic, if you can keep it."
Please do not let the pundits, the masters of American public opinion be surprised when the dollar becomes worthless.
“The US Federal Reserve says it will buy almost $1.2 trillion (£843bn) worth of debt to help boost lending and promote economic recovery.” (Read more from news.bbc.co.uk)
See also: National debt hits record $11 trillion
Tyranny requires a secret, unaccountable police force. Perhaps that’s why John F. Kennedy said “[I will] smash the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter them to the wind.”
Seymour Hersh is a hero to me. He’s been fearless in exposing government lies about war, foreign policy and liberty.
“Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that the military was running an ‘executive assassination ring’ throughout the Bush years which reported directly to former Vice President Dick Cheney.
The remark came out seemingly inadvertently when Hersh was asked by the moderator of a public discussion of ‘America’s Constitutional Crisis’ whether abuses of executive power, like those which occurred under Richard Nixon, continue to this day.
Hersh replied, ‘After 9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for it. They haven’t been called on it yet.’
Hersh then went on to describe a second area of extra-legal operations: the Joint Special Operations Command. ‘It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently,’ he explained. ‘They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. … Congress has no oversight of it.’
‘It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on,’ Hersh stated. ‘Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us.'” (Read more from rawstory.com)
Once again, Ron Paul is right. If the money must be spent, better to earmark it and spend it publicly, than shroud it in secrecy. Without earmarks, the money still gets spent.
Listen to how Cavuto goes after Ron Paul, trying to spin him as a porker – the very thing Ron Paul has made a career of fighting. Ron Paul crushes him with logic and reasoning, as he does most propagandists.
“Sorry, zombie banks. The laws of the market dictate that we should own your ass,” write some socialist at motherjones.com.
Laws of the market??? The laws of the market would cause the value of the banks to plunge until it’s worthwhile for some businessmen who’d been saving responsibly to take over. Here’s a hint: if it’s not worth it for private money, it’s not worth it for public money. And if such a value doesn’t exist, then the world doesn’t want any more banks, and they’ll simply vanish.
The market NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER recommends a public take over. The government can’t even run the post office well. Now they’re going to take over the banks?
If private investors (spending their own money) can’t make something work privately, then it’s a guarantee a bunch of political bureaucrats (spending my money) can’t do it either.
This is an affront to liberty. The best thing would have been to let them go bankrupt. In a free society, incompetent companies go bankrupt. Instead, we’ve taken money from the competent, given it to the incompetent, and courageous-sounding article like this one pretend that we’ve stuck it to the man. (They still got the money.)