This is an excellent column written by Paul Craig Roberts, formally of the Reagan cabinet.  He touches on many areas that will be hard to fathom, but then again - I suspect that most Americans would be shocked if they knew many of the going-ons of our government.  Reminds me of the quote by one of the founding fathers, “those that would sacrifice their freedoms for a bit of security deserve neither.”  Hope you enjoy.

In last weekend’s edition of CounterPunch, Alexander Cockburn updates the ongoing persecution of Sami Al-Arian by federal prosecutors.  Al-Arian was a Florida university professor of computer science who was ensnared by the Bush Regime’s need to produce “terrorists” in order to keep Americans fearful and, thereby, amenable to the Bush Regime’s assault on US civil liberties.   The charges against Al-Arian were rejected by a jury, but the Bush Regime could not accept the obvious defeat.  If Al-Arian was not a terrorist, then other of the Bush Regime’s fabricated cases might fall apart, too.  

In open view, the US Department of Justice (sic) proceeded to trash every known ethical rule of prosecution.  I don’t need to repeat the facts, as they are covered by Cockburn’s articles and in The Tyranny of Good Intentions.

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This message by congressman Ron Paul was simply to important to pass up. I personally believe that Ron is one of the few politicians that actually ‘get it’. I would also echo his words that we are close to economic and other events unprecedented in our lifetimes. What those events are, I don’t pretend to know for sure - but just like the weather, when we mess with natural economics forces and attempt to constrain them, oftentimes what is unleashed is much worse than we can imagine. Hope you enjoy this piece by Congressman Paul.

I have, for the past 35 years, expressed my grave concern for the future of America. The course we have taken over the past century has threatened our liberties, security and prosperity. In spite of these long-held concerns, I have days – growing more frequent all the time – when I’m convinced the time is now upon us that some Big Events are about to occur. These fast-approaching events will not go unnoticed. They will affect all of us. They will not be limited to just some areas of our country. The world economy and political system will share in the chaos about to be unleashed.

Though the world has long suffered from the senselessness of wars that should have been avoided, my greatest fear is that the course on which we find ourselves will bring even greater conflict and economic suffering to the innocent people of the world – unless we quickly change our ways.

America, with her traditions of free markets and property rights, led the way toward great wealth and progress throughout the world as well as at home. Since we have lost our confidence in the principles of liberty, self-reliance, hard work and frugality, and instead took on empire building, financed through inflation and debt, all this has changed. This is indeed frightening and an historic event.

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This great piece by Vin Suprynowicz, while certainly from the mouth of a Republican and comes with certain leanings in that regard, does offer an interesting view of the mindset of anti free markets that appears to heading our way. I would make the argument we haven’t had free markets for decades, so how would we know if it works? Between farm subsidies, free credit or money, import laws making it impossible for American workers to compete against slave labor along with a host of other government anti-free market regulations; can you smell a set-up? Don’t let the free-spending Republicans and Democrats convince you that government is the answer, it never has been and never will be - just look at any program that has government involved, it is a colossal failure and waste of money; why would anyone in their right mind want more of the same?

Here is the column:

There appears to be a conscious attempt underway to shift the grounds of the current American political debate in preparation for this fall’s presidential campaign.

Interestingly, this attempt to shift the goal lines (advancing the motionless Party of Big Government from their own 20 yard line to the other guy’s 20 by the simple expedient of moving the yard markers) comes from the political left, despite the fact that — if we’re to believe the bellowing leftist press of New York, Washington and Los Angeles — the socialists have nothing to worry about in November, since the nation is about to elevate the Most Liberal Senator in Washington to the presidency by acclamation — “The ‘Ayes’ have it! Now everybody go home!�

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When someone tells you that we have a limited plan in Iraq or that we plan on pulling out when things settle down, guess again. Feel free to visit this website and view the largest embassy project ever under-taken by our government; long story short, this is no short-term construction project and there are no plans to have a smaller presence in our latest military complex/business profiteering playground. Just another small piece of th e puzzle to help us question what is going on.

Have a great day.

http://www.wtv-zone.com/Mary/NEWUSEMBASSYINIRAQ.HTML

This is an excellent piece that appeared in the London Daily Mail not long ago. You be the judge of the possible next President of our country. The only thing I disagree with in the story is the war hero stuff, that has already been shown to be ‘legend in HIS own mind” type of fodder. Enjoy!

By Sharon Churcher
Last updated at 1:45 AM on 08th June 2008

Now that Hillary Clinton has at last formally withdrawn from the race for the White House, the eyes of America and the world will focus on Barack Obama and his Republican rival Senator John McCain.

While Obama will surely press his credentials as the embodiment of the American dream – a handsome, charismatic young black man who was raised on food stamps by a single mother and who represents his country’s future – McCain will present himself as a selfless, principled war hero whose campaign represents not so much a battle for the presidency of the United States, but a crusade to rescue the nation’s tarnished reputation.

McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.

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Seems the American public’s confidence in their elected leaders is falling faster than the U.S. Dollar. I guess that should equate to an entirely new congress and white house come fall elections! Don’t get your hopes up, despite the fact Americans know their elected officials are inept, they will re-elect 90% or more of them to continue the fleecing and pilfering of the American public. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me! Enjoy the following Rasmussen Survey findings!
The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Most voters (52%) say Congress is doing a poor job, which ties the record high in that dubious category.

Last month, 11% of voters gave the legislature good or excellent ratings. Congress has not received higher than a 15% approval rating since the beginning of 2008.

The percentage of Democrats who give Congress positive ratings fell from 17% last month to 13% this month. The number of Democrats who give Congress a poor rating remained unchanged. Among Republicans, 8% give Congress good or excellent ratings, up just a point from last month. Sixty-five percent (65%) of GOP voters say Congress is doing a poor job, down a single point from last month.

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Great piece by Wolfgang Munchau. While I believe many already are beginnng to suspect what they were taught in the hallowed halls of advanced education may have been somewhat slanted, this piece may help them a bit. When it comes to economics, most Americans are really quite clueless. Many still think inflation is a result of our habits when in fact, it is a controlled pilfering of ones pocketbook by governments and those pulling their strings. Can you spell insidious tax schemes = inflation. Hope you enjoy this piece.

In this Financial Times commentary, Wolfgang Münchau comes ever so close to asking what must be one of the most difficult of all questions for any practicing economist to ask, “What if what they taught you is wrong?”

[Note: This is similar to what some U.S.-based financial advisers might be asking themselves today, eight years into a secular bear market in stocks where “stocks for the long run” may not make a whole lot of sense for someone whose “long run” is only 15 years or so and happened to begin around 2000.]

In a story appearing elsewhere at the Financial Times under the much more direct title of “The villains are not the bankers, but the economists“, Mr. Munchau questions the very foundation of accepted economic theory and modern central banking.

As the Bank of International Settlements said in its latest annual report, subprime might have been the trigger for this crisis, but not the cause. We do not have a full understanding yet of what happened but the BIS suggested that fast expansion of money and credit must have played a role. I would go further and say this is not primarily a crisis of financial speculation, but one of economic policy. Its principal villains are therefore not bankers, but economists – not in their role as teachers and researchers, but as policy advisers and policymakers.

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I guess McCain is gearing up to court the religious conservative base. Fact of the matter is, the religious conservative base is no more conservative than I am Abe Lincoln. This man is a joke to all conservatives, but I suspect most conservative Republicans will gird up their loins and fresh courage take as they blindly pull the lever at the voting booth. Hope you enjoy learning more about the man that will officially destroy what is left of the Republican party - truth be told, he is to late for that, the Republican party that I remember has essentially been dead for years. Enjoy this piece from Freedoms Phoenix’s website!

In his eternal quest for the Republican presidential nomination, the supposed maverick John McCain has repeatedly reversed long-held positions and compromised purportedly core principles. From the Bush tax cuts, the religious right and immigration reform to overturning Roe v. Wade, proclaiming Samuel Alito a model Supreme Court Justice and bashing France (just to name a few), McCain changed sides as changing political conditions dictated.

But over the past two weeks, McCain’s rapid fire, acrobatic flip-flops have produced whiplash, at least for voters. 10 times since the beginning of June, McCain has retreated from, upended or just forgotten positions he once claimed as his own. On Social Security, balancing the budget, defense spending, domestic surveillance and a host of other issues so far this month, McCain’s “Straight Talk Express� did a U-turn on the road to the White House.

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I’ve written about this for three years with little support or belief, it appears that the plan is unfolding like clockwork and still most are oblivious to what is going on around them. The demise of the dollar is the chief culprit of our gas, food and other price increases; over the past two years we have seen the dollar devalued by 30% along with inflation growing nearly 10% or more; that is nearly one-half the cost of your fuel and food increases. Here is a great piece by Danny Schechter that everyone ought to read. Enjoy!

Who do you think was one of the Bush Administration’s key players on the economy?

If you say Paulson or Bernanke, you might be half right. But there’s another no-name lurking around in the background who tends to be doing the wrong thing at every key moment in the covert history of the Bush (or should we day “Bush League”) Republic.

His name is Jim Wilkinson. He helped organize the GOP “protest”/obstruction of the Miami election recount in 2000. He was the White House’s key media spinner at the Doha Coalition Media Center in 2003. A reporter from Texas said he used techniques first perfected by Stalin. He was an architect of the Republican convention in New York in 2004. He was later dispatched to keep an eye on, and act as “dissembler-in-chief” for Condi Rice.

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While most religious sects are quite beholding to our government through the IRS chains used to keep them in line and not question the governments actions, I’ve often wonder if and when our government will begin to pressure Christians into submission?  Don’t exactly what this means, but it is a very interesting read by the Rev. Ted Pike.  Enjoy!

American Free Press
Friday, May 9, 2008

The State Department “Office of Global Anti-Semitism� says the New Testament claim that the Jews had Christ crucified is “classical anti-Semitism�—a historic form of hate. It included as an “anti-Semitic incident� the case of a Polish priest who said Jews killed Christ.

Are you one of tens of millions of Christians who agree with Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ that Jewish leaders incited a Jewish mob and persuaded Pilate to have Christ crucified? The government now considers you “anti-Semitic.� You are part of a worldwide scourge the U.S., Canada, Australia, and 55 European nations are uniting to suppress.

In the many countries now ruled by hate laws, it is already a federal offense to repeat the claim of New Testament “hate literatureâ€� that the Jews had Christ crucified. The State Department’s equation of biblical Christianity with “hateâ€� is an ominous indication. The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith—architect of hate laws worldwide (and primary ideological and statistics-gathering force behind the Office of Global Anti-Semitism)—is moving rapidly to create bias against Christians as haters, pa Read the rest of this entry »