“The dollar has completely been removed from our oil trade ….Crude oil customers have agreed with us to use other currencies (in the trade),” Iran’s Oil Ministry official Hojjatollah Ghanimifard earlier today, although Iran had stopped selling oil in dollars in December 2007. America replied today by moving another aircraft carrier into the Persian Gulf, ostensibly not for further bombings of Iraqis. Asked if the carrier move went hand in hand with the rising U.S. rhetoric against Iran, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said, I don’t see it as an escalation. I think it could be seen, though, as a reminder
Preemptive warring against Iran will further secure Israel’s security and possibly America’s oil supply, both goals of which I reject as they just seem to be missing from the Constitution. The attack should secure the World versus America/Israel, possibly not a bad thing right now, as we continue attacking whichever country in the region at our pleasure. There is NO “AL-QAEDA” in Iran, they DO NOT HAVE nukes or “weapons of mass destruction.” And even if they did, or are trying, who could possibly blame them with a massive occupational army-with-their-deaths-written-all-over-it next door? And why aren’t we trying diplomacy? My expectations of my own country talking instead of threatening is very low, but how about China, Russia, Europe? Will they just let us have our way? Just like Chamberlain, Stalin, and Daladier let Hitler have his way.
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After the attack, America will be finally exposed as no better than Hitler’s attacks on Iran-Poland and Iraq-Czechslovakia. Our leaders will all be war criminals (or just committing another war crime, as you like). Our entire Congress, minus the Representative from Texas and a select few others, will need replacement. I voice doubt that there will even BE a vote of any type in Congress this time around, so powerless and spineless are the Pelosi Democrats of 2006 and the Bush die-hards.
Former US government analyst Richard Cook takes an alternative look at the Bob Barr candidacy, which may be intended to siphon support from McCain in the upcoming election and defuse the Revolution in “Has the Battle for America Begun?” Access it here
“Dr. Paul, who has been delivering the news that the Federal Reserve by which the bankers rule should be abolished, and that U.S. foreign policy based on military conquest of the world should end, has been causing, according to the Trilateralists cited by Tucker, “significant future damage.” Bob Barr will doubtless be awarded handsomely for his trouble in helping defuse Dr. Paul’s movement.
Dr. Paul is to be commended for his stance in taking on the establishment, and from the financiers’ point of view, such populist uprisings as he is leading obviously must be checked. Using a Libertarian candidate to do this costs them nothing, as it is almost comical how the “macho” but outdated laissez-faire economics of the Libertarians play into the hands of the privately-owned banking system which makes all the important economic decisions anyway.”
As a former proponent of the FairTax I researched with great interest whether Ron Paul supported it or not. During one of the first television interviews of his Presidential campaign he was asked about supporting it. His answer was that he’d vote for it, but would not sponsor it. He is against taxes on principle, he said. I was happy that he said he’d vote for it, but annoyed that he wouldn’t sign on as a co-sponsor.
Since then I’ve come to rethink and research the FairTax and I am now in alignment with Ron Paul’s position. Today the Mises Institute released a daily article on the FairTax by Laurence Vance. It is more than an article. It is a book review of the latest FairTax book by Neil Boortz, a major proponent of the tax. It is also more than just a book review, it is a meaty treatise on why the FairTax may not be so fair after all.
As a critic of the national retail sales tax plan known as the FairTax, I take Neal Boortz’s new book on the FairTax very personally. The book is titled FairTax: The Truth: Answering the Critics. It is intended to be a sequel to The FairTax Book, published in 2005, that offers “eye-opening new insights not covered in the original book.”
Boortz is right. There are some eye-opening new insights unique to this sequel. Like the disclosure that you might “owe more in taxes in the first year of a FairTax system than you do today.”[1] Or the admission that “the FairTax could be even more progressive than our current system.”[2] Or the confession that the “implementation of the FairTax doesn’t mean complete annihilation of the IRS.”[3] Or the proposal that “a procedure should be set up in the Treasury Department to collect taxes on Internet and catalog sales, remitting the state and local governments’ share to them.”[4]
Ron Paul was interviewed on KTSA 550 (San Antonio) this morning. He promoted his book and discussed all the things he normally discusses. He did reference the recent McCain comment when McCain said he wanted to run against Ron Paul “because he is like a Democrat.”
This is an excellent interview with Ron Paul on NPR Radio’s “Talk Of The Nation” show. Ron Paul even used a little humor which is somewhat unlike his normal “serious talk” on the campaign trail
George Bush recently said he gave up golf in 2003 because it wouldn’t “look right” while we are at war to have the President playing golf.
In an interview with the political newspaper Politico and Yahoo News, Bush also said he gave up golf in 2003 out of respect for U.S. soldiers killed in the war, which has now lasted more than five years.
“I didn’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,” he said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”
Continuing a perpetual war while more and more American soldiers die kind of sends the wrong signal too Mr. Bush. Take a lesson from Ron Paul and bring them home. At least then you can play golf with a clear conscience. No wonder John McCain wants Bush as far away from his campaign as possible.
Here is Ron Paul discussing the the Federal Reserve and responding to recent Ben Bernanke statements that run counter to Ron Paul’s economics. Ron Paul doesn’t mince words. I believe he mentions the word “fraud” at least 3 times.
This morning on Fox and Friends the pundits discussed Ron Paul being a thorn in John McCain’s side at the convention.
Rep. Ron Paul is still in the GOP race and even drew 16% of the vote in the recent Pennsylvania Republican primary. Now his supporters are planning to stage a “revolt” at the Republican National Convention in September, possibly with the aim of securing Paul a prime time speaking slot.
Conservative radio talk show host Mike Gallagher told the hosts of Fox and Friends on Tuesday, “There is no question that this could be a major headache for John McCain.”
Bob Barr has officially entered the presidential race vying for the Libertarian Party’s nomination. I’ve written supportive articles of Bob Barr in the past and if he is the Libertarian nominee I’d happily vote for him. He certainly doesn’t have the unblemished record of a Ron Paul, but few do. Ron Paul is in a class to himself. So he’s no Ron Paul, but he now is a viable candidate running for President on the Ron Paul message. See his video message officially announcing his run for Prez below. He sounds like a Ron Paul clone.
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