Posted by soule on 01/30/09

It is time to draft a contract (Similar to the one Ron Paul signed with the third party candidates) between WE THE PEOPLE and those running for office.
They must sign it in order to get the support of the people.
If this contract go viral, if every American is aware and convinced about it's benefits, every politician will have no choice but to sign it in order to get elected!

This contract would be between the people and their representatives running for office (For now the GOP), this will be a legal contract, if they sign it, get our support, money and get elected, we will have the right to sue each one of them in case they breach it.
We will have the legal power to held them accountable personally.

Such a contract would require the candidates to hold on principles such as:

- Strict adherence to the constitution
- Protect individual freedom and civil liberty
- No foreign nor domestic interventionism policy
- Downsize the government and balance the budget
- Get rid of wasteful programs, the income tax and the central banking
- Not to take lobbyists and special interests money, gifts, ... etc
- ... etc

What do you think? Don't you think it is the best time for us to get something like this done?
The GOP is shredded, they are more of a regional party than a national one right now, they have no more credibility nor power, they are desperate and scared, this is the best time to get the party back from the hands of the neo cons I think!?
Please leave your opinion :)

Posted 01/30/09 Muleskinner Rainier, OR

A fine idea friend,I will tell others of this.I'm of the opinion that the penalty for breaking such a contract should be hung by the neck till dead,maybe then our leaders will stop fucking us over.

Posted by soule on 12/30/08
Last updated 01/09/09

The recent attacks by Israel on the Gaza population are obviously so disproportionate that one might think it is perpetrated with the goal of triggering a violent response by Hezbollah!
If Hezbollah enters the war by launching missiles on Israel wouldn't that trigger an attack on Iran by Israel/The US since Iran is supposedly arming Hezbollah?
Wouldn't this be the ultimate excuse to:

- Attack and destroy the  Iranian nuclear facilities?
- To halt Iran from selling it's oil in other currencies than the dollar?


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Posted by soule on 12/23/08

The Wall Street Transcript recently interviewed Peter Schiff, President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital, Inc., on his outlook for the gold market. Key excerpts follow:

TWST: These are somewhat trying times. What has this meant so far for the gold market and where do we go from here?

Mr. Schiff: Gold has actually held up very well compared to other asset classes. If you look at the price of gold relative to its peak, it's only off about 25%, whereas if you look at stock markets around the world, most are off 50% or more, certainly if you price them in US dollars. If you look at how gold has held up relative to industrial metals, relative to energy, relative to agriculture, gold has done extremely well. I think the fact that it has gone down in dollars has caused a lot of people to assume that gold is not performing in this correction whereas, in fact, it has. Also if you look at gold in terms of other currencies, recently you've seen all-time record highs in the price of gold in South African rand, in Australian dollars, in Canadian dollars. So gold has actually had a very strong, stealth move when viewed from the prism of something other than the US dollar.

TWST: Why does everybody key in on the US dollar side of the equation?

Mr. Schiff: Because gold was priced in dollars, it's traded in dollars and so we all look at it as the dollar price, and the fact that gold has not made a new high in dollars during this economic crisis has led some to believe that maybe it's lost its luster, it's not a safe haven. But this rise of the dollar is very suspicious to me, I don't think it's justified. But it's been the unlikely beneficiary of all the problems. You've got the problem centered in the US economy; the epicenter of the financial crisis is in America. The reason that the world is in trouble is mainly because of bad loans made to Americans and it's our economy that I think is a complete facade, a house of cards that has now collapsed, so this dollar rally actually makes no sense.

And especially in light of the monetary policies that we pursued over the course of the last six months, the bailouts, the stimulus, all of the things that are likely to happen with Barack Obama saying that the sky is the limit on budget deficits, we're going to print money until we run out of trees. Everything that we are doing is so negative for the dollar, yet the dollar has managed to rally. So I think temporarily the fundamentals are on hold, but I think once the dollar really resumes its decline, you're going to see gold really shine again not only in terms of the dollar. It will continue to do well against other currencies, but it will do particularly well against the dollar.

TWST: Isn't gold normally the "safe haven" that investors seek?

... Continue reading: http://seekingalpha.com/article/111857-peter-schiff-outlook-for-the-gold-market

Posted by soule on 12/23/08

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's radical policies have prompted alarm that they might worsen our economic recession/depression.

For a man who once worked at South of the Border, the kitschy South Carolina tourist trap on I-95, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has come a very long way. From his hometown in Dillon, South Carolina, where young Bernanke turned heads with his academic achievements (he was a spelling champion who competed in the National Spelling Bee, and achieved a near-perfect score on his college entrance exams), the man who was to become the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve received a Ph.D. in economics from MIT and eventually became the head of the economics department at Princeton University. Along the way, Bernanke, an admirer of the late economist and Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman, developed a profound interest in the Great Depression and its causes. In 2002, not long after he was appointed to the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, Bernanke, speaking on the occasion of Friedman's 90th birthday, made a startling admission regarding the Federal Reserve's role in creating the worst economic crisis of the last century:

Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve System. I would like to say to Milton and Anna [Schwarz]: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we [i.e., the Fed] did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again.

Bernanke, like Friedman and other economists of the so-called "monetarist" persuasion, recognizes that the Great Depression was largely created by the policies of the Federal Reserve and other major central banks. But like Friedman and his epigones, Bernanke believes that modern central banking has been "fixed" since then, and that judicious use of the Fed's powers to expand and contract the money supply is not only possible but far superior to the old-fashioned gold and silver-based money system.

It is thus grimly ironic that Ben Bernanke should have been appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve just in time to reap the economic and financial whirlwind resulting from the policies of his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, in cahoots with a federal government that had shown reckless willingness to finance its welfare/warfare empire via unprecedented levels of debt and deficit spending.

No sooner had Ben Bernanke succeeded Alan Greenspan in early 2006 than the already-shaky U.S. economy, .....

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http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/commentary-mainmenu-43/620-bernankes-money
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