Jon Stewart is good for the soul

Pre Ames Coverage:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-11-2011/indecision-2012---c...

The GOP's Iowa Straw Poll in Ames, Iowa on Saturday August 13th was well worth attending, if only because Ron Paul and his legion of supporters in Iowa were all in the same place at one time.

"The last nail is being driven into the coffin of the American republic."

Ron Paul is referring to the National Defense Authorization Act in his arresting speech from the House floor on Wednesday, May 25, 2011. He recounts the dictatorial powers being granted to the presidency, and how the new NDAA will expand them even further - "... a sharp and huge blow to the concept of our Republic."

Dr. Paul covers nearly every important facet of the American fascist empire in a very short period of time.

Here's the roll call vote, sorted by Nay / Aye, taken May 26, 2011. For the Iowa/Illinois Quad Cities -- Iowa congressman Bruce Braley voted No (the only Iowa congressman to vote No) and Illinois congressman Bobby Schilling voted Yes.

Video and transcript of Ron Paul's speech is below.
This should be required watching/reading.

CSPAN Video Source

YouTube Video

Transcript

I wish high school and college classrooms would show this 11 min clip in their economy courses. You cannot get enough of this truth serum.

"The Federal Reserve behind the scenes has the power to create money out of thin air. It's very bizarre," Paul said. "They can bail out their friends and let the people they don't like fail, and create a trillion dollars or more out of thin air in order to prop up some companies at the expense of others ... It's absolutely bizarre and, yes, the American people right now I think are waking up to it."

Ron Paul's message is as clear as ever here. And despite the desk anchor at CNBC's efforts to "gotcha" Ron Paul a couple of times, the viewer walks away even more educated for it.

You may do a double take on the source of this surprisingly balanced, cogent analysis of the onward march of big government and its inability to solve problems.

Excerpt from The Great Consolidation: "If consolidation creates a crisis, the answer is further consolidation. If economic centralization has unintended consequences, then you need political centralization to clean up the mess. If a government conspicuously fails to prevent a terrorist attack or a real estate bubble, then obviously it needs to be given more powers to prevent the next one, or the one after that."

Full article at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/opinion/17douthat.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxB6fwgRVkQ&NR=1

Does not get any more crystal clear than these explanations from Ron Paul...

Only 82,000 views?

Common Sense Revisited!

USCOA Manhattan rules Fed must turn over bailout documents under Bloomberg FOIA request. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a2rzjENZQV5k
Has the Judiciary had enough of Wall Street?

Bob Schulz has oral arguments on March 11th at the USCOA.

Doing a search for Mr. Schulz's case # Case No. 08-4810 finds this link at the top of the results: http://www.federalreserve.gov/bankinforeg/legaldevelopmentscases.htm

Health Care Reform - How will it be enforced?
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/87697-republicans-a...

Tax Protesting - What has teeth and what will be effective?
http://www.onlinetaxrevolt.com/
vs
http://www.taxfree15.com

Ron Paul's Agenda for a Freedom President
http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/my-plan-for-a-freedom-president/

Ron Paul's Audit the Fed gets a thorough discussion here on CNBC, with time for questions and not just sound byte answers. Looks like Ron Paul is going to have to vote against his own bill HR-1207 (which never even gets mentioned by name) due to a watering down by Barney Frank. I love Ron Paul's comment that he does not vote for bad ideas to hope for a better outcome.

Received in my email today from the We The People Congress/Foundation, who are planning the Continental Congress 2009.

Start:

God bless Ron Paul, Glenn Beck, Edwin Vieira and Bob Schulz.

GOOD NEWS: Each is speaking out about our national suffering and distress, which all agree would never have happened had our elected officials obeyed our Constitution.

Consider just the following ten violations of the Constitution, each of which has undermined our economy, our families and our nation:

Ron Paul's pretty certain that behind the scenes at the G20 central bankers from all over the world, including Ben Bernanke were discussing an international currency. But as Dr. Paul points out, our Federal Reserve is not required by our own law to report to congress on the discussions. Too bad it takes a Russia Today reporter to ask the cogent, relevant questions the American people need to hear answers to.... answers from more than Ron Paul.