Russell Means Endorses Ron Paul

(ViaLewRockwell)

Ron Paul and Black America

I am pissed, really pissed. There is another outrageous hit piece on Ron Paul. This one comes from the Washington Post and continues the attack on Dr. Paul for comments that appeared in newsletters published under his name some 20 plus years ago. The implication being that Ron Paul is a racist. Here's what needs to be understood fully, everyone, that is, everyone, agrees that Dr. Paul did not write one word in those articles.

Here's what you need to know about this attack. It has been aggressively pushed by the Koch brothers-funded Reason magazine, a supposedly libertarian organization.  Got that? An attack on Ron Paul by libertarians. The mainstream media has simply broadcast further what was handed to them on a silver platter.

Also curious is the fact that the original reporting on the newsletters was from James Kirchick, who writes that he found many of the newsletters at the University of Kansas. Hmm, University of Kansas? Just a few miles from Wichita, headquarters of Koch Industries.

Interesting that a Yale boy, who travels in elitist circles, ends up in a library just miles from the billionaires' bunker to find the Ron Paul newsletters.

Check this guy out, does he look like the type that generally hangs in Witchita. From wikipedia:

James Kirchick (pronounced /ˈkɜrtʃɨk/; born 1983) is a reporter, foreign correspondent and columnist. Kirchick attended Yale University and wrote for its student newspaper, the Yale Daily News.[1] He is a fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington;[2] prior to this he was writer-at-large for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.[3] 

For over three years, Kirchick worked at The New Republic, covering domestic politics, intelligence, and American foreign policy.[4][5]While he remains a contributing editor for TNR, Kirchick’s reportage has appeared in The Weekly Standard,[4] The American Interest, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Columbia Journalism Review, Prospect, Commentary and World Affairs Journal. He writes frequently for newspapers including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal,[6] The Los Angeles Times,[7] and Ha’aretz.

Kirchick has worked as a reporter for The New York Sun, the New York Daily News, and The Hill, and has been a columnist for the New York Daily News and the Washington Examiner.

Kirchick is a regular book critic and reviews frequently for Azure,[8] Commentary, the Claremont Review of Books, Policy Review, and World Affairs, among others. A leading voice on gay politics, he is a contributing writer to the Advocate, the United States' largest gay publication,[9] and a recipient of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Excellence in Student Journalism Award and the Journalist of the Year Award.[10][11]

But, just to nail in the fact that this is coming from Koch circles, co-founder and president of of Koch-funded Cato Institute, Ed Crane, now volunteers to WaPo that Ron Paul told him his best subscriber response had come when he used the mailing list of Spotlight, which Crane characterized as racist and anti-Semitic. Puhleez.

I am somewhat familiar with mail list rentals of that period and Spotlight was a hot list to rent for almost any investment type newsletter, including those that took no social or political positions at all. In fact, I doubt most newsletter writers who rented the list through rental agents even knew what Spotlight was, other than that it was a "hot" list. I knew it was a hot list, but I had no idea, back then, what it was. Ed Crane is the one who just recently, in his comments, made it clear to me. Crane was clearly reading the letter to know, not me. But, I am wondering if the Cato Institute or Reason magazine would be willing to release the names of all the lists they have rented so that we could put the same magnifying test on them. As a matter of fact, let's see what mailing lists WaPo uses.

But aside from this attack on Congressman Paul from so-called libertarians, lets look at what a Ron Paul presidency would mean for Black America.

First and foremost, Ron Paul would end the insane war on drugs. Dr. Paul has pointed out that more blacks are in jail on drug charges than any other group. He would release them.

Second, he would close down the Department of Education which has resulted in some of the worst education for black youth possible. Education needs to be in the private sector.

It is the growth of government involvement in individuals lives that has created the miserable state that many blacks find themselves in. I have known enough sistas to see what it is like for most brothers in the hood. If they aren't way on the right side of the bell curve in terms of being persistent and self-starters, there isn't much for them to do, especially with minimum wage laws preventing them from entry level positions. It shouldn't be surprising that many of them become gangstas.

So while WaPo, Reason and Ed Crane yank out a few quotes not written by Ron Paul and obsess over them every chance they get, the bastards don't for a minute write about what Black America would be like under a Ron Paul presidency.

It would mean for blacks a new freedom for those who have been suffocated and (literally) caged by big government.

Any black person, who has a brother, sister, father, mother or cousin, caged in Federal prison because of drug charges , Ron Paul is your only hope to get your loved one home now. You should vote for Ron Paul.

Any black person, trying to make ends meet, who has small children, Ron Paul is your only hope, among the candidates, that  private sector education might develop that would provide hope for  a cheap and good quality education. You should vote for Ron Paul.

Any gangsta, who would like to get a decent job, Ron Paul is your only hope that minimum wage laws might be eliminated so that some businessman will give you a break and hire you at a low wage in an entry level position. Rather than your slinging dope and risking getting shot or jail time. You should vote for Ron Paul.

There would be big changes for blacks under Ron Paul and the changes would mean more freedom, more opportunity and less of big brother keeping the thumb on the black community.

What must be asked is "Why aren't Reason magazine, Cato, Ed Crane and WaPo highlighting the changes that would come about for Black America during a  Ron Paul presidency?"

It's a damn injustice to all blacks when Reason, Cato, Ed Crane and WaPo fail to present the truth about a Ron Paul presidency and what it would mean for the black community. Ron Paul is the best thing that could happen to Black America, and these evil bastards know it.

Update:

Gary Chartier writes:

Per your piece of this morning: it also strikes me that, since the military recruits disproportionate numbers of poor Americans, and since black Americans are particularly likely to be in that group, a Paul presidency, which would lead to a dramatic reduction in the involvement of US military personnel in violent conflict, would thus also lead to a reduction in war-related deaths for black Americans.

Germany Wants Greece to Give Up Budget Control

The bankster power grab is getting aggressive and obvious.

Reuters reports:

Germany is pushing for Greece to relinquish control over its budget policy to European institutions as part of discussions over a second rescue package...The Financial Times said it had obtained a copy of the proposal showing Germany wants a new euro zone "budget commissioner" to have the power to veto budget decisions taken by the Greek government if they are not in line with targets set by international lenders.

Did Marc Rich Have Henry Kissinger on His Payroll, While Rich was a Fugitive?

There's something of a confirmation of this.

It has just been brought to my attention that billionaire, commodities trader Marc Rich quotes me on his web site, when I wrote in a 2009 about his then-soon to be published book. This is the quote:

Marc Rich is one of the most remarkable men of finance. I know a number of traders that worked for Rich. All the stories they tell me about Rich point to one thing, Rich has one of the most creative, aggressive and shrewd minds in finance, with a governments be damned attitude. He's one of a kind. People tell me that he kept Henry Kissinger on his payroll, even while he was living in Switzerland as a fugitive. I can't really believe he is going to tell all, but if he tells 10% about his operations, it is going to be one fascinating book.

(Thanks2Nick)

More London Police Raids on the Ruupert Murdoch Empire

The British police have just raided a Murdoch office in East London. Keep in mind, Murdoch's troubles were first instigated by NYT and UK's The Guardian.

CNN is reporting that  four arrests have been made in connection with allegations of inappropriate payments to police, London's Metropolitan Police Service said Saturday, with a police officer among those detained.

"The home addresses of those arrested are currently being searched and officers are also carrying out a number of searches at the offices of News International in Wapping, East London," the police statement said.

HOT: Pentagon to Send Floating Base to Mideast for Use by Commandos

The U.S. government is definitely looking for trouble.

WaPo reports that the Pentagon is rushing to send a large floating base for commando teams to the Middle East.

In response to requests from the U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, the Navy is converting an aging warship it had planned to decommission into a makeshift staging base for the commandos. Unofficially dubbed a "mothership," the floating base could accommodate smaller high-speed boats and helicopters commonly used by Navy SEALs, procurement documents show. WaPo said.

Details of the project became public this week when the Military Sealift Command posted a bid request to retrofit the USS Ponce, an amphibious transport docking ship, on a rush-order basis.

USS Ponce

WaPo says Navy officials acknowledged that they were moving with unusual haste to complete the conversion and send the mothership to the region by early summer.

"Capitalism is Making Humanity Obsolete"

I continue to be absolutely amazed at how far the World Economic Forum discussion about "capitalism" advances.

The BBC has aired an interview with Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, who in the tradition of the other discussants, fails to make a clear distinction between capitalism and government intervention on behalf of insider operators. Adbusters features the interview with the subtitle, "Capitalism is making humanity obsolete". And indeed, in this interview, Hobsbawm comes pretty close to declaring that, since he states that "capitalism" is creating a situation where there will be no jobs.

If there are no jobs, its because minimum wage laws are extremely high, or otherwise we are all in some never, never land with all our wants fulfilled. But Hobsbawm's world seems to somehow be one where machines somehow takeover all tasks and so the "capitalist" have no use for most of humanity. Allowing just for a moment Hobsbawm's absurdity, he does not address the question that perhaps maybe, if the fat capitalists are completely satisfied, that there would be plenty of opportunity for up and coming entrepreneurs to feed, clothe and house the starving masses, and thus also employ them.

Why Iran Won't Back Down and When Might War Between the U.S. and Iran Occur?

by Michael S. Rozeff


Which state, the U.S. or Iran, more likely wants a war with the other? It's the side that thinks it benefits from such a war. That side is the U.S. If this war begins, it will be entirely because the U.S. wants it and has decided that the time is right to instigate it or elicit actions from Iran that provide excuses for instigating it. Any U.S.-Iran war will be entirely the doing of the U.S.

Here's how we know this. Iran has nothing to gain because it will lose such a war, its power being so much less than the U.S. This is why Iran has tolerated, so far and to a remarkable degree, the intrusions of U.S. subversions and covert activities in Iran, the assassinations of scientists, the computer disruptions, the embargos, the sanctions, the U.S. warships, the U.S. threats, and the U.S. troops being placed nearby. By contrast, the U.S., in the view of the neoconservatives who are running foreign policy, stands to gain quite a lot, namely, undisputed hegemony over the Middle East, control of a country perched on central Asia, control of oil, support for Israel, and a rise in global dominance more generally. Therefore, when and if such a war starts, no matter by what incidents it is triggered, we can be 100% certain that the U.S. has caused and precipitated this war because it, not Iran, is the state that foresees the benefits of such a war.


There are costs, however, and these are restraining the U.S. from instigating this war at this time. These include war costs of several kinds, since Iran is not a pushover. Iran, if pushed into a war by the U.S., can respond in nearby regions, such as Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Saudia Arabia, and the Persian Gulf. It can conceivably draw Russia into the war, or perhaps Pakistan. The U.S. will win a war with Iran, but it does not expect an easy win. If it did, it would already have started the war. The war on Libya was a recent warm-up exercise that shows what air power can do in this day and age, but Iran's forces are more formidable.

We can expect that military advisors to the U.S. will tend to be against war with Iran because of these costs, but that under enough pressure they will yield. Another cost is that oil will rise in price steeply, and this will derail economic activity in Europe, the U.S., and elsewhere. Economic advisors to the U.S. will tend to be against war with Iran for this reason, but they too will yield under enough pressure because, like the military leaders, their positions are secure and others will bear the responsibility of starting such a war.

The U.S. will attempt to restrain Israel from causing a war on its own until the U.S. leadership thinks that these costs have become bearable and/or that the U.S. is in a position to beat Iran rather quickly and not have to endure a long war.

Since Iran does not want war with the U.S. and since its forces are what are deterring the U.S., Iran has a powerful incentive to build up its military forces in ways that deter the U.S. and make an easy victory unlikely. This is why Iran issues threats of its own, so that the U.S. will think twice and continue to hold off from attacking Iran, which Washington is ready to do as soon as it thinks the costs of doing so are bearable. This is why Iran continues to develop its missile capabilities. This is also why it makes sense for Iran to take the necessary preparatory steps toward developing a nuclear warhead that can be carried on a missile. No doubt it understands how to manufacture a nuclear bomb and has come a long way in understanding how to ignite explosives simultaneously so as to create the nuclear explosion within. The U.S., in a very real way, is causing Iran to pursue this nuclear development course if only to prevent a U.S. attack and to preserve its own power as a state. And certainly the sanctions imposed by the West for many years now and the concurrent threat of U.S. attack are causing Iran to bolster its military forces so as to deter the U.S.

Read the rest here.

March Madness: Bernanke versus Rothbard, Salerno and Thornton

The Federal Reserve Board has just announced that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will deliver a series of lectures aimed at college students.

Beginning on March 20, he will lead four classes on "The Federal Reserve and its Role in Today's Economy" as part of a course offered to undergraduates at the George Washington University School of Business. The class will feature a variety of speakers who will discuss central banking. Chairman Bernanke's lectures are scheduled for March 20, 22, 27 and 29 and will begin at 12:45 pm EDT.

Online viewing will be available to the public at www.ustream.tv/channel/federalreserve . After the lectures, the Board will post transcripts and video recordings at www.federalreserve.gov.

To ensure that students of the Fed receive all perspectives, I will be posting videos here on opposing views, on the same days as Bernanke lectures. Bernanke's lectures are at 12:45 PM and I will post videos here six hours later at 6:45 PM and I will moderate and open the comment section to discussion. Hopefully, we can get a great debate going.

Here's what I will be posting opposite Bernanke.

On March 20: The Founding of The Federal Reserve by Murray Rothbard

On March 22: From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the Financial Elites by Murray Rothbard (Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis)

On March 27: The Federal Reserve as a Confidence Game: What They Were Saying in 2007 by Mark Thornton

On March 29: Economists and the Myths of Central Banking by Joseph T. Salerno

And we will go into overtime on March 30 with:

The Immoral Federal Reserve by Lew Rockwell

and the final shot by Murray Rothbard: What is the proper role of the Federal Reserve?

HOT: Facebook to File IPO Papers Next Week

Developing...

They wouldn't be doing this now if Bennie wasn't printing a lot of money.

 According to WSJ, Facebook Inc. could file papers for an initial public offering as early as next week and is close to picking Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter for its IPO, said people familiar with the matter.

First Sicily, then Rome; The Revolt in Italy Intensifies

by Alexander Jousse

This past week has been a very turbulent time for Italy. And it wasn't just the grounding of the Concordia cruise ship by a playboy captain; but the grounding of the country by Euro-technocrat usurper Darth Monti, trying to impress his Keynesian buddies with his latest attempts to ‘Save Italy’!

This week saw the launch of a popular uprising in Sicily, by a group known as the ‘Movimento dei Forconi’ or ‘Pitchfork Movement’. This is not an uprising of self absorbed youth who want more government handouts; but of producers who are being pushed into poverty by government taxes and regulation. The organizers are middle aged and older; this is significant, as most power and wealth is held by this generation and they have now drawn a line in the sand.

On the 16th of January these protesters began "Operazione Vespri Siciliani", a blockade of the Island of Sicily. Within two days the transportation of all goods was stopped. Over the next week, nothing entered or exited Sicily. This was no mean feat given that Sicily is not a small Island; it has a population of over five million people and a surface area of 25,711 km2.

These are some of their demands:

• The arrest of all corrupt politicians.
• To reduce the number of parliamentarians.
• To remove the provincial bureaucracy, as most of these politicians have been there for over forty years.
• To drastically cut the salaries and privileges of parliamentarians and senators.
• To restrict politicians two only two terms in office

Not one of Darth Monti’s “austerity” measures has touched the political caste; in fact in classic Italian style, the press has dug up some very dirty scandals concerning two of his fellow tax-feeders.

The trigger for these events was the vampire state sinking it’s fangs deeper into the already hampered Italian economy; a vicious tax was added to petrol, diesel and other energy sources in December.

Though agriculture contributes only 2.5% of GDP, in the southern regions of Basilicata, Calabria, and Molise, agriculture accounts for just over 20 percent of local employment. Many goods are transported by road, and as the cost of transport went through the roof within the time frame of just a few weeks, it destroyed the farmer's tight margins. Why work when the state steals most of your profits?

To further understand the rage, despair and humiliation it is necessary to know some Sicilian history. 


Read the rest here.

When Ron Paul Talks

It's about freedom, liberty and bringing the troops home.

NYT has a graphic out on selected words used by President Obama in his State of the Union addresses, and by Republican presidential candidates in their debates, television interviews and major speeches since May.

Of note, Ron Paul talks more about budgets and deficits than the other candidates, even though he gets less speaking time!

He is clearly not an interventionist in the economy looking to bestow special privilege to specific industries as he talks the least about oil, coal and energy--and manufacturing.

He mentions war and troops the most. This is, of course, because of his belief that they should be brought home. He mentions government the most because he sees government for the threat it is to our freedoms.

He blows away everyone else when it comes to mentioning freedom and liberty. And the other wrap themselves in patriotism by using the words America and American, but not Ron Paul.

tax, taxation

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Mr. Gingrich often mentions Ronald Reagan.

Mr. Paul criticizes “war propaganda” and says

America cannot afford a war with Iran.

Mr. Romney speaks about

repealing the health care law.

Mr. Obama discusses

his health care overhaul.

Mr. Santorum proposes a zero

percent tax rate on manufacturers.

Mr. Gingrich frequently mentions the U.S. unemployment rate.

Mr. Romney defends his

record at Bain, saying

he helped create jobs.

Several interviews about

the federal debt ceiling.

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Mitt Romney's "Blind" Trust Invested in His Son's Deal

Mitt Romney's blind trust has invested over $1 million of the Romney's money in the Solamere Founders Fund. Solamere is managed by Tagg Romney, Mitt's son.

Romney's "blind" trust is run by his personal lawyer and longtime associate Bradford Malt.


When he ran against Sen. Edward Kennedy in 1994, Romney spoke critically of Kennedy's claim that he had no control over his investments. "The blind trust is an age-old ruse," Romney told the Boston Globe at the time.

NYC's Most Expensive Co-Op for Sale: $65 Million

Denise Rich, songwriter and close friend of the Clintons, who was married to Marc Rich, an international fugitive indicted for illegal oil deals with Iran before he was controversially pardoned by President Bill Clinton on his last day in office, is selling her NYC co-op. (See Taylor Conant on Marc Rich) It is the the most expensive NYC co-op to ever go up for sale

NyPo reports:

The digs are so expansive that Rich — who penned the lyrics to such hits as the Aretha Franklin-Mary J. Blige duet, “Don’t Waste Your Time,” and Mandy Moore’s “Candy” — once converted one of her three terraces into a professional-grade figure-skating rink for a blowout party.

The other two outdoor spaces are a rooftop terrace that can hold up to 200 people and a separate wraparound terrace. 

The 12,000-square-foot duplex, right on the corner of East 60th Street, was designed by Emery Roth and boasts seven bedrooms, 11 baths and three kitchens.

There’s also a grand salon, a formal dining room seating 22, a media room, a billiards room, a full gym and a library with a fireplace.

Oh, and sweeping views across Central Park.

Altogether, the apartment has 19 rooms — but Rich says it’s too much space for one woman.

Now that her two daughters live in Europe, Rich said she’s going to buy a smaller city apartment and split her time overseas

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