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		<description><![CDATA[This is a response to a bulletin post titled &#8220;An Open Letter to Libertarian Activists (Paul; Kucinich)&#8221;. This post is encouraging Ron Paul supporters to take another look at Kucinich because Kucinich seems to advocate more policy to protect the labor market. I am glad for this post because it is good to see intelligent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threeshoesposse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1117068&amp;post=10&amp;subd=threeshoesposse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a response to a bulletin post titled <a href="http://bulletin.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&amp;friendID=90669&amp;blogID=273159887&amp;Mytoken=8B8AEC2C-A431-4DE1-A17064ED5D18329391555875" target="_blank">&#8220;An Open Letter to Libertarian Activists (Paul; Kucinich)&#8221;</a>. This post is encouraging Ron Paul supporters to take another look at Kucinich because Kucinich seems to advocate more policy to protect the labor market. I am glad for this post because it is good to see intelligent reasonings on both sides of the issues. I&#8217;d like folks to listen to the free archive of my talk show last friday night, &#8220;The Rule of Law&#8221; on <a href="http://www.WTPRN.com" target="_blank">www.WTPRN.com</a> where I interviewed Dr. Bill Veith. He very clearly explains the true nature of fiat currency systems and the truth of the economic situation we are in today. I think that once people get a really good grasp on the true nature of our fiat economic system and how it completely screws the labor market, there will be no question in anyone&#8217;s mind as to who they should support. We can never protect the workforce unless we return to a commodity-based currency. For those just starting out on this issue, here is a good short article on this topic: <a href="http://www.wiseradvisor.com/university-article%7EartId%7E924%7Etitle%7Efederal-reserve-exposed.asp" target="_blank">&#8220;Monetary Policy -The Federal Reserve Exposed&#8221;</a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">&#8220;If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system there would be a revolution before morning.&#8221; &#8211; President Andrew Jackson. </span></p>
<p>I am mostly a libertarian myself, though not the hardest of the hard core. I&#8217;m more like a populist Constitutionalist than anything I suppose. I believe in free market, but I also believe we must have strong anti-trust laws. I don&#8217;t agree with the ultimate libertarians who oppose anti-trust laws. If we don&#8217;t have anti-trust laws, then monopolies will take over and then we&#8217;d have no free market. I argue often with other libertarians that if they love their precious free market so much then they should advocate anti-trust laws or else they&#8217;ll lose their free market. That usually shuts them up.</p>
<p>I actually see strong labor unions as part of the free market phenomenon. It is a natural formation in the labor market, hence it is actually part of the free market system. The phenomenon of workers bonding together to make themselves into a strong unified force that must be reckoned with by employers places the employers in the position of being forced to negotiate and make concessions or else they won&#8217;t have a workforce. I see this as pretty much falling under the basic principles of supply and demand. Supply = labor, demand = employer needs workers. If the employer wants his need of a labor force to be met, then he will have to deal with the market of the workforce which will place certain requirements on the employer if he wants to get his need of a workforce to be met.</p>
<p>I think that the workers themselves through strong labor unions can be greatly more effective at protecting themselves through this kind of heavy leverage by making specific demands that they deem necessary for their industry, rather than some kind of blanket government protective legislation that may or may not be able to be enforced. An employer may break a labor protection law, but it could take a long time to get anything done about it, if ever. But if the employer is facing losing all his employees if he doesn&#8217;t make his workplace safe for them however, that is where the enforcement and incentive comes in. The employer has to comply with the requirements the workforce is placing on him, and he has to comply IMMEDIATELY or else his business will go bankrupt in a big hurry due to strikes. This is why labor unions actually are part of the free market system because there is incentive for the employer to comply with the unions or else suffer a loss.</p>
<p>I believe that until we can get rid of the fraud of fiat currency there probably should be some safety-net type legislation to protect workers because not all businesses or industries are big enough to naturally develop labor unions in their markets, and with the currency having no intrinsic value, there is little leverage or bargaining power for those who hold that currency. But the real protections are going to come from the workers themselves banding together into a strong force that must be reckoned with by the employers. The main thing the government needs to do at this point would just simply be to prohibit employers from intimidating workers, discriminating against them, or firing them or threatening to fire them for being in the labor union, and to very strongly enforce labor union protections with heavy jail time and fines. The government also should protect unions by legislating to never interfere with strikes or any other actions by unions even if the unions consist of workers who work for the government, like transportation workers. Remember the subway workers in New York? The government ordered them to end their strike. This is wrong. Those workers got screwed.</p>
<p>I see employers undermining labor unions by threatening or firing workers as actually being akin to violating an anti-trust law. The employer would be making maneuvers to control or &#8220;monopolize&#8221; the labor market for his own purposes. Strong labor union protection laws would mean that if an employer does this kind of thing then he would not only be committing a felony but also could get his pants sued off. This way the power is in the hands of the PEOPLE where it belongs, rather than handing over the power to law-makers and depending on them to pass oodles and oodles of legislation to protect us when those laws may or may not be enforced.</p>
<p>The current situation appears to me that we don&#8217;t really have a free market. What we have right now is corporate welfare. The government is not protecting a free market. They won&#8217;t enforce anti-trust laws, they won&#8217;t protect labor unions, there are no-bid government contracts with private corporations on a daily basis. These no-bid private-public partnerships violate free market because there is no competition, monopolies are formed, and it undermines our Republic because taxpayers have no say in how our money is spent. I hear some people bashing free market a lot because workers get ripped off and taken advantage of, but those people don&#8217;t have an understanding of what free market really means. If we had free market the labor unions would keep employers in their place and the government would protect the free market by protecting labor unions.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m for Ron Paul because he&#8217;s not really a true hard core libertarian. He&#8217;s more of a populist constitutionalist and paleo-conservative. He&#8217;s the only one who is really advocating following the Constitution. I have looked at others&#8217; philosophies like Kucinich, and the reason I still advocate Ron Paul is because I believe that he has by far the best and most thorough understanding of the fiscal and economic situation we are facing as a nation. He&#8217;s the only one I&#8217;ve seen that truly understands the fractional reserve system and the eminent pending financial catastrophe that is coming upon us because of the fiat currency system we use that is forced upon us at gunpoint by the government  yet controlled by a monopoly of private bankers known as the Federal Reserve. He is the only one who has a solid strategy for backing out of this extremely dangerous system we are in with this privately-controlled, government-enforced fiat currency, and what he advocates would not crash the economy, but rather we would make a gentle and controlled transition back to commodity-based currency which would stabilize our economy and eliminate inflation.</p>
<p>Almost all problems in the labor market are ultimately caused by fiat currency. This may seem like a pat answer or a generalization, but it is true. I have studied economics, labor markets, and fiat currencies for a long long time. The workforce in general is screwed because we trade our hard asset &#8211; labor &#8211; for literally NOTHING. Fiat currency is worthless. Government forces us to trade with it, and bankers control it&#8217;s purchasing power, but the currency itself is worthless. That is how they are controlling and screwing us. We are blind to this because we are under the illusion that we are actually getting paid for our labor and we think we have real money, but we don&#8217;t. The bankers know it too, and they set it up this way to completely control and manipulate us through government enforcement of their worthless currency. Neither bankers nor the government can control the value of a commodity like gold or silver, but they can control fiat. If our currency was commodity-based rather than worthless pieces of paper or even just numbers in the computer, the people would have all the power rather than the monopoly of private bankers via government enforcement. <span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></p>
<p><strong>I can&#8217;t understand why the leftists and liberals are not jumping up and down screaming bloody murder right now because our currency is controlled by private bankers rather than Congress, or the PEOPLE!!! </strong><span style="font-weight:bold;">We need to educate the left about this so they can come in with their leftist philosophies and help us conservatives do something about this serious situation. </span></p>
<p>We are almost powerless because we have no true wealth. All the money in the bank is worthless if its in the form of federal reserve notes. We must return to a silver/gold standard of currency or our labor markets will always be suppressed and enslaved. No one else is advocating returning to commodity based currency  but Ron Paul. And other politicians and the media want to label him as &#8220;crazy&#8221; or &#8220;radical&#8221; and &#8220;idealistic&#8221; for wanting a commodity-backed currency, but that is because he knows the truth about this fiat system and those other politicians and the media either do not have the fiscal understanding to realize the gravity of this extremely serious situation, or those other politicians are being paid off by the private bankers who control the fiat system to discredit Ron Paul because he is a huge threat to them. He is their ultimate nemesis. He would utterly destroy the stranglehold the private bankers have on the workforce. That&#8217;s why he is our hero.</p>
<p>Those who truly understand economics can see that Ron Paul is the only one who can truly help the workforce. He sees that we are being crushed by the inflation of a worthless currency and that eventually it could destroy us. He wants to put the power back into our hands by giving us an economic system based on sound money &#8211; commodity backed currency. He is offering to solve the root cause of the problems in the labor market and the economy as a whole for that matter. This is a far more precious gift to us than trying to put a legislative labor-protections band-aid on the severe problems in the labor market which are really caused by this disastrous and oppressive fiat economic system controlled by private bankers.</p>
<p>This is actually the reason that Ron Paul got into politics to begin with. He began studying economics in the &#8217;60&#8242;s. When the Federal Reserve defaulted on the Bretton Woods agreement in &#8217;71 and went off the gold standard causing the world-wide economic crisis that was predicted many years in advance by economists whom Ron Paul had studied years before, he went into politics to try to solve the problem and educate people about economics so that we could try to dig ourselves out of the economic hole that the private bankers have pushed us into. Dr. Veith talks about the Bretton Woods disaster in my interview last friday.</p>
<p>Getting rid of the Federal Reserve is not just some cool, radical, eccentric, &#8220;far-out&#8221; idea. Every fiat currency in the history of the world has crashed and the society has suffered miserably for a long time before and after as a result. If we don&#8217;t seize control of our economy away from these private bankers known as the Federal Reserve and restore a commodity-based currency for ourselves, this fiat currency will eventually crash and we are going to be in deep doo-doo. Pretty much no other issue is going to matter if we can&#8217;t buy food or pay our mortgages. The bankers are planning for this crash, they know it&#8217;s coming, they set it up to crash from the beginning, and they are planning on imposing an even more oppressive fiat system on us to replace the old one to &#8220;save us&#8221; if we don&#8217;t stop them. This is what they have done all over the world for the last century. It is a deliberate plan. The bankers impose fiat systems, those systems crash eventually, then the bankers collapse multiple failed fiat systems into a more centralized fiat system that is even more oppressive on the people. This is just historical fact.</p>
<p>Folks who have a good understanding of economics are seeing the fiscal signs. It is happening here too. Haven&#8217;t most people heard of the &#8220;Amero&#8221; yet? How they are planning to consolidate Canadian, U.S., and Mexican currency into one? And how this could destroy our sovereignty by bringing our nation under the control of a regional government? This is not a matter of &#8220;left&#8221; vs &#8220;right&#8221;. This is a matter of SURVIVAL. We must restore commodity-based currency or we will never have liberty, privacy, property, labor protections, national sovereignty, or anything else for that matter.</p>
<p>Please listen to the archives of my interview with Dr. Bill Veith. He is a fiscal expert and he lays it all out in terms that a layman can understand in a relatively short amount of time. He more fully explains the things I have said here in this article.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a special note for libertarians &#8211; I have already been getting comments on my other blog from purists chastising me for advocating anti-trust laws and labor union protections. Please consider this: The reason we have these issues and debates about government regulation of business in the first place is because of FIAT CURRENCY. My main point of this blog is that we need to return to commodity-based currency. There is no way to have any semblance of free market with a fiat system, even if there were no regulations on business at all because workers and retailers are trading their labor and goods under government coercion for literally NOTHING in a fiat system. Fiat currency by definition is the ULTIMATE in government regulation &#8211; fiat means that the government manipulates, controls, and enforces the purchasing power of the currency on the business world and the general public at the end of the barrel of a GUN. Not only that, every business in the market is forced (for all practical purposes) to deal with the fiat currency as well if they want to participate in the general market place. The market itself has no power whatsoever to decide the purchasing power/value of the common substance used to exchange goods and services. The concept of fiat currency is COMPLETELY AGAINST ALL LIBERTARIAN philosophy and to be honest it is against all Leftist philosophy as well because the private bankers ultimately control the currency. If everyone was in the same market, no dual systems, and the people actually traded labor (and goods &amp; services) for commodities which have intrinsic worth, then the people would have the power over the currency, they wouldn&#8217;t get screwed, and they wouldn&#8217;t be asking for the government to regulate employers with labor laws.</p>
<p>Privately controlled fiat systems that are forced on the public by the government is a recipe for DISASTER and that setup is neither liberal nor conservative. It is neither socialist nor libertarian. The private bankers control the currency and are free to have a separate system of trade of commodities amongst themselves that is beyond any government control whatsoever, and yet these bankers use the government to enforce a worthless fiat system on the public and the general marketplace at GUNPOINT. This is a dual market system enforced by the government for the purpose of benefit of the bankers where the elite enjoy a purist libertarian free market of commodities exchange which is beyond all government control yet the public and the general market must submit to worthless currency as means of trade of goods and services at gunpoint by the government. The bankers create inflation and loss of purchasing power of the currency by endlessly &#8220;creating&#8221; money out of thin air and the government enforces it.</p>
<p>&#8220;Why do they keep printing it&#8221; everyone asks. The reason is because they HAVE TO. It is complicated, but the short answer is this: The government borrows $20 from the Federal Reserve. Now the government (for all practical purposes, the people) owes the Feds $25 because the Feds charge interest on the $20. Well, where in the %#@! do you think the government is going to get the $5 bucks from to pay the $5 back to the Feds? The Feds have to print another $5 out of thin air and lend it to us so we can pay them back their 5 bucks! Now we have to pay back the 5 AND we owe interest on the 5. They have to keep printing and lending. It&#8217;s an endless cycle. And what about the original $20? We can&#8217;t pay that back because we need it for circulation. If we paid the Feds back the principle of the loan then we&#8217;d have NO MONEY. So we&#8217;ll accrue interest on that $20 FOREVER and the interest will keep increasing because we&#8217;ll have to keep borrowing money to pay the interest on top of the other interest.</p>
<p>Besides all that, now we need more than $20 for circulation anyway. The $5 (plus interest) on top of the original $20 is caught up in paying back interest to the bankers, so we need to LABOR more to earn more to pay back the bankers. Where are we going to get the &#8220;more money&#8221; from even if we have the capacity to labor more? We need more money in circulation. We need to borrow another $20 just to pay back interest and keep up with the loss of purchasing power due to the increase of currency in circulation from the $5 plus it&#8217;s interest . So now that there is more currency in circulation, the currency is devalued and the purchasing power is lost. We need more and more currency continually just to keep up with the pace of the interest we owe them. Because the purchasing power always decreases at a faster pace than we can labor to pay back the interest, the system is DESIGNED TO FAIL. THIS IS WHAT INFLATION IS. The more currency that is created, the more interest we owe the bankers, the more the currency is devalued, it&#8217;s an endless cycle, eventually the currency becomes worth absolutely nothing and we can&#8217;t pay back the interest. The interest payments to the private bankers on the borrowed worthless government-enforced currency become larger than what we can physically labor to support, and that&#8217;s when we become bankrupt and the currency CRASHES. It has happened thousands of times in history. The bankers want it to happen. They set it up this way to control us.</p>
<p>As long as there is fiat currency which is controlled by private bankers and enforced on the people at gunpoint by the government we can&#8217;t even BEGIN to make any purist libertarian arguments against government regulation because fiat currency means the game is already OVER BEFORE IT STARTS. Whether or not the government regulates or how much they regulate does not even matter much after that point. Even with NO government regulation at all, the currency will crash. Goods and services are NOT being traded for commodities with intrinsic value. We owe interest on top of interest to bankers on a worthless currency they control via government enforcement, and the interest we pay, we pay it to them in HARD ASSETS. It is the biggest scam I&#8217;ve ever heard of in my life!!! Who thought up this crap? Everyone argues about regulation but few people want to solve the root cause of the problem. I don&#8217;t think that this issue of government regulation over business would even come up AT ALL if we had commodity currency because the power would be in the hands of the people. The only way to have a true free market is to annihilate fiat currency once and for all. If there is going to be free market we must have free market for everyone.</p>
<p>Ron Paul for President.</p>
<p>Deborah Stevens<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[Three Shoes Posse is proud to release their newest single, &#8220;Ron Paul Is Here.&#8221; This original song features speech excerpts from Ron Paul at the debates. This sweet dancehall romp is available for free download at www.ThreeShoesPosse.com. Also check the music video: Here&#8217;s the YouTube link if you&#8217;d like to leave a comment on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threeshoesposse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1117068&amp;post=9&amp;subd=threeshoesposse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Three Shoes Posse is proud to release their newest single, &#8220;Ron Paul Is Here.&#8221; This original song features speech excerpts from Ron Paul at the debates. This sweet dancehall romp is available for free download at <a href="http://www.threeshoesposse.com" target="_blank">www.ThreeShoesPosse.com</a>. Also check the music video:<br />
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		<title>Ron Paul: Time to Take the Gloves Off With the Mainstream Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 13:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Current mood: angry Category: News and Politics Look folks, I have had it. Yesterday&#8217;s Reuters article on Ron Paul just pushed it over the edge for me. (http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2434274320070524?pageNumber=2) I am seeing red when I read things like &#8220;longshot&#8221;, and &#8220;barely registers in opinion polls.&#8221; I can&#8217;t take it anymore. Enough is enough. No more emails, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threeshoesposse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1117068&amp;post=6&amp;subd=threeshoesposse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Current mood:  angry<br />
Category: News and Politics</p>
<p>Look folks, I have had it. Yesterday&#8217;s Reuters article on Ron Paul just pushed it over the edge for me. (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2434274320070524?pageNumber=2" target="_blank">http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2434274320070524?pageNumber=2</a>)</p>
<p>I am seeing red when I read things like &#8220;longshot&#8221;, and &#8220;barely registers in opinion polls.&#8221; I can&#8217;t take it anymore. Enough is enough. No more emails, blogs, or even cool songs. No more mister nice guy.</p>
<p>I just called up the Reuters switchboard at 1 646 223 4000</p>
<p>and asked to speak to someone concerning bias in their reporting. Once I was connected to a real person, I let the guy have it. I quoted the MSNBC polls, the FOX poll, Alexa&#8217;s website rankings of all the candidates, you name it. I was as nice as I could be, and I told the guy I know it&#8217;s not his fault personally but this media bias has got to stop. I said it is preposterous for them to report that guiliani is the front-runner when the man hasn&#8217;t even read the 9-11 commission report and Ron Paul is stomping him everywhere. I told him that Ron Paul was going to win the primaries whether the media supported him or not and that we are sick of the lies. I demanded to know why the media is trying so hard to keep the man down &#8211; but there was no answer. I continued to give the man 3 shoes, but you get the idea.</p>
<p>Folks, we need to get on the phone and literally chew peoples&#8217; ears off if we really want to get Ron Paul elected, and not just the mainstream media but their advertisers too.</p>
<p>Please pick your favorite pet peave mainstream article and make whatever phone calls necessary to actually talk to a live person and let them know how you feel, as well as their advertisers. I posted the reuters phone number above, more numbers to come.</p>
<p>Peace &amp; Blessings,<br />
Deb<br />
Three Shoes Posse</p>
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		<title>&#8220;The Ron Paul Report&#8221; by Deborah Stevens on The Jeff Davis Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 23:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>&#8220;The Ron Paul Report&#8221; by Deborah Stevens on The Jeff Davis Show, May 20, 2007</p>
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		<title>Ron Paul Brings the House Down at Texas History Museum with Explosive Showing of Support</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 05:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ron Paul brought the house down last night at the Texas History Museum in Austin, Texas. The huge museum thundered with applause from a thousand people, which lasted for nearly five minutes as he walked through the crowd toward the stage to deliver his speech. Never in my life have I have seen anything like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threeshoesposse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1117068&amp;post=4&amp;subd=threeshoesposse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ron Paul brought the house down last night at the Texas History Museum in Austin, Texas.  The huge museum thundered with applause from a thousand people, which lasted for nearly five minutes as he walked through the crowd toward the stage to deliver his speech.</p>
<p>Never in my life have I have seen anything like what I witnessed last night. He had a professional photography session for everyone to have individual photos taken with him. His speech was riveting. He committed himself to protecting individual liberties and rights first and foremost and ensuring transparent and limited government. He outlined his fiscal policy very clearly concerning how he would protect the elderly and health care programs while bringing our troops back to protect our borders and even begin to bring the deficit under control all at the same time by simply changing foreign policy. Everything he said made total sense and is the message that America needs.</p>
<p>There were large showings of people representing Libertarians, Republicans, and Democrats as well. His message rings true with the entire political spectrum. He spoke of how touched he was that he had so much support from so many people across the nation. Until the campaign began, he had not realized just how many people have been on his side for so long. He said he hadn’t realized just how powerful a tool of free speech that the internet was, but he sure knows now. The crowd roared with laughter and applause.</p>
<p>But it was what happened after his speech that gave me one of the most beautiful memories that I will never forget in my life. Ron Paul took the time to talk to anyone and everyone that wanted to spend time with him. The crowd was literally thronging him, yet it was the most peaceful scene. As he made his way slowly from the stage to the front door, a process which took well over an hour, he shook hands with people, listened to their words of encouragement and gratitude, took business cards, gave autographs, answered questions, recorded announcements for radio networks, took more pictures with people, it just went on and on. It was so touching it moved me to tears. Anything that anyone wanted from him, he gave it to them. His wife was doing the same thing. I got to speak to them both for awhile. They are the most down to earth, genuine, caring people you will ever meet. Anyone could tell that this was a sincere display of care for the people and not some politician giving out phony handshakes and a plastic smile with lip service just to get votes.</p>
<p>When I say the man and his family are for real, they ARE. He proved to me last night that he truly is committed to protecting individual liberty and freedom because he treated everyone in that crowd last night as individuals. He did not just address us as a group. He cared for each person as an individual and spent time with each person after his speech.</p>
<p>Ron Paul showed me how a president is supposed to relate to the people. He showed me that he’s just one of us, like your next door neighbor or a good friend. He doesn’t put himself above anyone at all. Ron Paul treats people as equals and engages in conversation with them. His wife Carol is the same way. We were talking, laughing, joking, she was giving me and my friends hugs, it felt like I’d known her for years, like she was part of my family.</p>
<p>I feel certain that Ron Paul will do as he says he will and I believe he will even open the White House again to the public. And why shouldn’t he? It’s the peoples’ White House anyway. It’s a historical museum and part of the history of our country. I toured the White House with my parents when I was a child. We need to give that experience to our future generations.</p>
<p>We need to do everything we can to spread the word and get this man into office. There is no one else like him. No one even comes close. He is a true patriot and someone who really cares for the people of this country. Everyone who takes the time to listen to him cannot help but love the man. Thank you Ron Paul, for everything you’re giving to us. We are going to push you all the way into the White House.</p>
<p>Deborah Stevens<br />
Austin, Texas</p>
<p>Producer of the activist band Three Shoes Posse<br />
<a href="http://www.threeshoesposse.com" target="_blank">www.ThreeShoesPosse.com<br />
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Radio Talk show host of the judicial activist show,<br />
&#8220;The Rule of Law&#8221;, Thurs &amp; Fri. evenings, 9-11 pm CST<br />
Streaming and Podcasting live from &#8220;We The People Radio Network&#8221;<br />
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<p>Deborah is also now privileged to be a co-host of one of the longest running and most popular Public Access Cable TV shows in Austin &#8211; <a href="http://members.aol.com/TFIJDshow" target="_blank">&#8220;The Jeff Davis Show&#8221;</a>, featuring Jeff Davis and Terry &#8220;Liberty&#8221; Parker. Libertarian views meet outrageous comedy! On the air every Sunday night from 10-11pm CST since 1990 &#8211; over 8000 shows! Broadcast worldwide on the internet.</p>
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		<title>A Good Reason to Support Ron Paul &#8211; Council on Foreign Relations Writes Concerning U.S. Dollar: “An Absurdity… Supported Only by Faith”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 18:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Here is an article/op-ed piece I wrote in response to this blog at cryptogon.com about the CFR admitting in their own publication, &#8220;Foreign Affairs&#8221;, the disastrous economic situation they created concerning the U.S. Dollar is “An Absurdity…Supported Only by Faith” : I think I understand what this machiavellian CFR article is saying. The writer, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threeshoesposse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1117068&amp;post=3&amp;subd=threeshoesposse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p class="snap_preview">Here is an article/op-ed piece I wrote in response to this blog at <a href="http://cryptogon.com/?p=706" target="_blank">cryptogon.com</a> about the CFR admitting in their own publication, <em>&#8220;Foreign Affairs&#8221;</em>, the disastrous economic situation they created concerning the U.S. Dollar is “An Absurdity…Supported Only by Faith” :</p>
<p>I think I understand what this machiavellian CFR article is saying. The writer, Ben Steil who represents the ‘elite’, advocates the use of fiat currency, and even a single one-world global fiat currency, as ‘their’ concept of “the best means of exchange in an ideal social order” &#8211; what ‘they’ see as the best means of exchange for the ‘commoners’ that is, because that system would ultimately benefit the ‘elite’ vampires and solidify their power hierarchy. In other words, the ‘common’ people would have no real wealth or property ownership whatsoever, but would only be allowed to trade with worthless so-called ‘currency’ and thus would remain enslaved, with all the real wealth and property ownership permanently consolidated into the hands of the ‘elite’ parasites.</p>
<p>No doubt the CFR et al precisely engineered a system to intentionally fail by design &#8211; and to ensure it would fail, via destructive federal government fiscal policy, they aggressively sabotaged their own flawed creation that they now *surprisingly* discredit as the “absurd” catastrophe of the “failing dollar”, as well as discrediting other declining fiat currencies they designed to fail. Why? For the sole purpose of stampeding the world into a one-world fiat worthless currency &#8211; for the use of the ‘commoners’, that is. Indeed, they criticize the fact that the fulfillment of their evil plan is still incomplete: “it is worth asking whether the world even approximates the ‘ideal social order’ that could sustain a fiat dollar as the foundation of the global financial system.”</p>
<p>Excuse me, ideal for whom? Ideal for <em>them</em> obviously, but no fiat system could ever sustain an &#8220;ideal&#8221; social condition for the general population.  It&#8217;s just historical fact &#8211; every civilization that used a commodity-based monetary system prospered. Every civilization that used a fiat currency system  eventually declined into utter degradation save the 1-3% of the ruling elite. This is well documented all throughout human history going all the way back to Rome and even Mesopotamia. Why should we be so arrogant as to believe that the fiat U.S. dollar would be any different?</p>
<p>Their obvious goal of this planned, self-sabotaged destructive fiat system they have imposed on the rest of us is to finalize and solidify their parasitic-fear-driven-property-ownership-based power structure over the rest of mankind and to forever prohibit the ‘common man’ from ever being able to break out of the fiat enslavement system because the common man would at that point have no options for trade other than the one world worthless fiat currency &#8211; and with no real assets or property ownership, the ‘common man’ would have no bargaining or leverage power to break out of the enslavement system of trading his/her labor to the ‘elites’ for mere sustenance of survival &#8211; controlled by fear and surveillance, whilst continually existing in a state of perpetual debt to the ‘elite’. This is serfdom, eternal peonage, the ultimate goal of the parasites for complete control over all of mankind.</p>
<p>Then Steil discredits a “gold” standard when it comes to government currency, ie currency for use by the ‘common man’, using the excuse that “governments spend half the national income,” so therefore “they [governments] would never subordinate spending to the stringent requirements of sustaining a commodity-based monetary system.” This seems to be a logical deduction &#8211; I mean, how could we EVER do without the Federal Reserve with their precious fractional reserve currency depreciation system, why then we&#8217;d actually have to keep government spending within the boundaries of the income of the national treasury and, could it even be possible, live within our means? How dare we even suggest that the federal government abide by the dreaded “dual entry accounting system” that must be adhered to by every other business! Entering a debit on one side of the books means you must equally credit the other side? And if there’s not enough credits then we must limit our debits to keep the numbers from going into the negative? Unspeakable! Why even consider such a thing when we have “Helicopter Bernanke” and the rest of the Federal Reserve bandits to print and fractionalize all the money the CFR-controlled-government could ever want to spend? Inflation? Currency devaluation? Bah! Humbug!</p>
<p>Sure, they love to play their speculative fiat game with their derivative markets and hedge funds like we would gamble on a card game, but ultimately they have their real safety net in enormous stockpiles of hard assets and commodities so what do they care if the value of the fiat dollar plummets to nill, or any other fiat currency for that matter &#8211; in fact, all the better for them if it does, because that just puts them on top even more and widens the chasm between the super elite rich and everyone else.  Most of all the destruction of the fiat currency that they set up to intentionally fail accomplishes their REAL goal of  destroying who they perceive as their one and only true adversary &#8211; the middle class, which is the only group that has the power, time, and resources to stand up to their tyranny.</p>
<p>But don&#8217;t expect your stockbroker or financial adviser to guide you into investing in hard assets because when it comes to tangible valuable commodities they want to gobble it all up for themselves!  Oh sure, it&#8217;s becoming trendy to invest in &#8220;gold futures&#8221;, and brokers are even beginning to give advice in this direction, but hey man, &#8220;where&#8217;s the beef&#8221;? Forgive the grammar, but I don&#8217;t want NO piece of paper that says you&#8217;re gonna give me a real piece of gold for a certain price 2, 4, 6 months, or ANY amount of time whatsoever from now! The reason our economy is so screwed up in the first place is because of worthless paper money! By the time inflation kicks in or who knows what has happened to my gold, I could be left in the same situation as before &#8211; holding a worthless piece of paper promise. No sir, no ma&#8217;am, no thank you. I&#8217;ll take my piece of gold, silver, whatever it is, in my hand RIGHT NOW, thank you very much.  You try to tell people not to accumulate real assets because they &#8220;might get stolen&#8221; &#8211; what a crock- you just want to steal the hard assets from me before I ever even get my hands on it in the first place. I see you scammers&#8217; game. I ain&#8217;t fallin&#8217; for it.  I&#8217;m not too worried that a certain real piece of precious metal like gold or silver might get &#8220;stolen&#8221; from me, cause I got one particular very special precious metal to protect all the other metals. It&#8217;s called LEAD.</p>
<p>We must realize the CFR et al orchestrates and drives the destructive, disastrous, irrational, insane, as well as overtly collectivist federal government fiscal policy of outrageous and extravagant spending funded by the phony fractional reserve system for the obvious purpose of being able to justify that a commodity-based currency for the use of the general public would be ‘impractical’ and a fiat currency is thus the only viable solution.  This isn&#8217;t guess-work, conjecture, conspiracy, or paranoia either people, Steil admitted straight up that this is their policy in his article! And this isn&#8217;t the first time either.  In fact this is standard operating procedure for these people. They don&#8217;t try to hide it &#8211; they like it! They brag about it! These out of control &#8216;elites&#8217; are so arrogant they actually tell us what their evil plans are and what exactly they have in store for the rest of us. They write books about it. They tour the world giving lectures on it. It&#8217;s no secret, people. We just have to pay attention and accept reality and do something to stop it.  I say, &#8220;Thanks for the warning.&#8221;</p>
<p>Their  morally deceptive collectivist philosophy also furthers their evil purpose by brainwashing everyone into submission unto tyranny with the heinous and unconstitutional indoctrination that the role of government is to “take care of us and police the world”.  Through the lie of the collectivist philosophy they ‘morally justify’ their downright robbery of every person’s inherent right of property ownership and individual sovereignty, and ultimate enslavement of all free individuals.</p>
<p>Collectivism? Does anyone actually think they care about us? Haven&#8217;t we seen their true colors enough by now? They are using that pathetic sympathy-guilt-fear-based manipulative psychology to try play upon our emotions and pull on our heart strings, to literally emotionally blackmail us, rob us blind, and drive us into the dirt so that we would be completely dependent on them for our very existence. People, I know it&#8217;s no fun to to have to admit when we&#8217;ve been played for a chump, but we have to stop being so naive for the sake of our own survival. We have to stop judging other people through the lens of our own moral compass. We can&#8217;t say &#8211; &#8220;I could never do something like that, so how could anyone else be so ruthless, that&#8217;s not human nature&#8230;&#8221; These people care nothing for us. They are absolutely heartless. They actually consider themselves as a different form of living being than the rest of us and they preserve their bloodlines to  maintain their power structure and to justify to themselves that they are practically a different &#8220;species&#8221; than the rest of us. They are elitists. They view us as commodities, not people. It&#8217;s no secret. Every corporation has a &#8220;human resources&#8221; department. If they had their way, we ourselves would be their very property.</p>
<p>Then Steil goes on to advocate and promote private gold banks, saying they “already exist, allowing account holders to make international payments in the form of shares in actual gold bars.” In other words, here’s the tip-off to the ‘elite’ &#8211; <em>Stock up on real gold and we have the private banking system in place already for trade amongst the elite circles.</em>  Then they arrogantly declare themselves above all law and government as Steil states “Modern technology makes a revival of gold money, through private gold banks, possible even without government support.” Oh. So it&#8217;s ok for <em>you</em> <em>guys</em> to have this nifty little system of private gold trading completely out of government control, but then you turn around and through insidious control over <em>our</em> government which is supposed to represent <em>us</em>, you have policy implemented to prohibit <em>us</em> from trading gold privately without government restriction, and furthermore you use our government to force your worthless fiat currency on us.</p>
<p>Hmm. Doesn&#8217;t sound very much like a free market system to me.  Doesn&#8217;t sound very much like a Constitutional Republic either. I think it&#8217;s time to cut the puppet strings once and for all here, folks. We need to take back our Constitutional Republic and put a permanent stop to these maniacal think-tankers from formulating and directing our government policy. There are so many of these elitist heinous think tanks that control so many different aspects of legislative and executive branch policy it would make your head spin. They write the legislation and our Congress just adopts it hook line and sinker without even reading it most of the time. These malicious think tanks are NOT part of our government, people.</p>
<p>But the mainstream media reports on them with a tone as if they are. These entities don&#8217;t overtly purport to be part of the government, naturally, but they put on the appearance so the average person might think they are unless they actually look into the situation. They take on neat little governmental-sounding names to give the appearance of &#8220;officialness&#8221;, and to portray themselves to look perhaps like some sort of alphabet agency at first glance, but they are NOT government bureaucracies, and they are DEFINITELY not benign. They are insidious policy-making machines funded by the global elite to represent the interests of the international elite. They care nothing for this country, the American people, or especially free market whatsoever.</p>
<p>Free market is their ultimate enemy. They establish  systems of back door no-bid private-public partnerships to eliminate market competition and silence the voice of the taxpayers who would object to these deals if they knew about them or tried to have any say in the matter. They&#8217;re hell-bent on complete global domination and consolidation of all wealth into their own hands while enslaving everyone else,  and the elite via their malicious think-tank entities literally tell our government what to do. Most people have never heard of most of these think tanks. Electing different public officials each year will not help us if these insidious think tanks are still controlling the show behind the scenes. We have got to educate ourselves as to the true nature of this situation and who these think tanks are and what they do so we can publicly expose them and take back control of our Constitutional Republic and restore a true Free Market.</p>
<p>Now for the clincher Cryptogon points out concerning this CFR article:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;It gets weirder. This article was published within days of the <a href="http://cryptogon.com/?p=670" target="_blank">U.S. Government’s shut down of eGold</a>, the oldest private electronic gold bank. On the same day that the indictments came out against eGold, <a href="http://cryptogon.com/?p=662" target="_blank">Brinks, a U.S. firm that provides bullion vaulting services, dropped BullionVault as a client</a>.  BullionVault allows individuals to easily and efficiently move their fiat currencies into physical gold, but it does not allow payments to other parties. [I am a satisfied client of BullionVault, by the way.]<br />
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<p><em>Are factions of the Elite in open conflict? Do some of them want access to these gold services, while others, mainly U.S. dollar interested parties inside the U.S., view those same services as a threat? Is Steil warning governments to shut down these services, lest individuals abandon their “absurd” fiat currencies?</em>&#8220;</p>
<p>As far as the eGold, Brinks, and BullionVault situation goes, I do not believe this indicates any conflict or infighting amongst the elite. It is all part of a very carefully laid plan.  These people know exactly what they are doing, they have been planning this for decades, even generations. This is the beginning of the elite’s shutting down of the transfer of worthless fiat currency to real gold and other hard assets for the obvious purpose of permanently locking the ‘common man’ out of ownership of any real commodities whatsoever, especially gold. No doubt the elite that still have holdings in fiat currencies have their mutual private systems in place for transferring their fiat derivatives and hedge funds into hard assets before it’s “too late”. But for the ‘common man’, the lock-out has begun. They are attempting to permanently close and lock the door for us to be able to exchange their lie of a worthless fiat currency for hard assets and true property ownership. If they succeed in robbing us of all property ownership including and especially our right to defend ourselves, we are going to be in a lot of trouble to say the least.</p>
<p>We need to wake up folks. Buy gold, silver, and other hard assets while you still can. Don’t let them enslave us in a fiat system while they consolidate all wealth and power.</p>
<p>Support Ron Paul. He advocates a conservative and Constitutional fiscal policy. He advocates a Constitutional foreign policy of non-intervention. He doesn’t lick the boots of the CFR or any other heinous elitist think tank. He wants Congress to buy back the Federal Reserve away from the private bankers and bring our currency system under control of Congress and the people where it belongs. Ron Paul will NEVER submit to a one-world fiat currency. He advocates sound money, individual liberty and property ownership, and limited federal government. Please folks. This is our chance to stand up to the slave-masters and claim our God-given sovereignty and freedom.</p>
<p>We have to realize the psychological profile of the people we are up against. These machiavellians are not only “annoyed” at our resistance to their oppression, they fundamentally do not even understand why we resist. They believe they are inherently superior to everyone else, some believe they are not even the same species as the rest of us, they see us as fodder, and they even get their cowardly egos bruised and their “feelings hurt” when the rest of mankind doesn’t subordinate to their self-appointed ’superiority.’ They honestly can&#8217;t understand why we don&#8217;t just &#8216;take our place&#8217; and bow to them as superior beings since in their minds, they so obviously are.  Silly &#8216;commoners&#8217;, sigh, &#8220;we must teach them a lesson&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Folks, this is a matter of survival, and I mean life or death here. They are dead serious. They worship the dark occult, they&#8217;ve been caught numerous times on videotape. They even openly admit that they perform mock human sacrifice ceremonies as part of their policy-making process. Even if you don&#8217;t believe in &#8220;the dark side&#8221;, the point is, THEY DO. And they are SERIOUS about it.  They will take every means they deem necessary to keep us in mental and physical slavery because they perceive any free individual to be a threat to them. They are power-control-freak-cowards and anyone and anything not under their control they perceive as a threat.</p>
<p>They are so narcissistic they don’t realize that we are not threatening them – we’re not into these imbecilic power games, we just want to govern ourselves and live a free life, exercise our creativity and freedom of expression and not be harassed or manipulated by others. We don’t want to control other people. But we won’t tolerate these psychotic power freaks trying to control us either. When confronted eye-to-eye by sovereign, free individuals like us these ‘elitist’ cowards crumble and shrink into the corner whimpering. I’ve witnessed it first hand at numerous public hearings held by various governmental ruling bodies, and there were no threats or weapons involved – only sovereign individuals standing up, looking these cowards straight in the eye and saying “no” to the tyranny.</p>
<p>We have something precious they never will have. We claim and own our individual liberty, sovereignty, creativity, and freedom of expression. They are insanely jealous of us because they don’t have that and never will. In ancient days of European feudalism the tyrants would not allow the serfs to read, dance, play music, or play sports games even on their ‘own’ time for this very reason. The tyrants could not free their own minds enough to allow themselves their own freedom of expression so there was no way they could allow the serfs freedom of expression because that would ultimately threaten the tyrants’ grip of power over them.</p>
<p>Freedom of expression leads to cultivation of creative thought, the development of critical thinking skills, the realization that inherent individual sovereignty and liberty must be validated and preserved, and ultimately the challenge against tyranny. They rule with fear yet are imprisoned by fear themselves. They are enslaved by their own desperate insecurity of losing their power hierarchy because they are so empty inside, their perception of their control over others is all they have. They cannot even control themselves or claim their own individual sovereignty so they are madly driven to control others in order to appease their egos to maintain a psychological equilibrium or else suffer a complete psychotic breakdown.</p>
<p>Most normal people who are zealous financial achievers get “fat and happy” after achieving a certain level of wealth and power, they feel  satisfied and just kick back and go on vacation a lot. But these so-called ‘elitists’ are beyond psychotic. Enough is never enough for them. They view millionaires and even billionaires at the same level as Joe Mechanic. I&#8217;m talking about the extremely dangerous small group of inbred families that control 90% of the wealth and hard assets in the world. Driven by a bottomless pit of insecurity, their quest for more power and domination escalates the cycle and causes more desperation and more insecurity and spirals them into an endless vortex of demonic psychosis which eventually leads to genocidal actions.</p>
<p>Owning all the hard assets, commodities, and wealth on the planet is not enough for them. Controlling the ‘outward’ behavior and actions of every other human being on the planet is not enough for them. They cannot be satisfied until they believe they can actually control our very thoughts.  Mind control is the ultimate power for them. But eventually they come to the realization that no matter what they do, no matter how much wealth and power they attain, eventually they are confronted with the reality that they cannot control the thought patterns of another person so they conclude that the only way to truly control other people is to destroy them, and that’s why they become genocidal murderers.</p>
<p>They are so unfathomably insecure that it causes them to become insatiably desperate for power because they cannot even stand to look at themselves in the mirror because when they do all they see is a black hole. Folks, they mean us great harm and we must recognize what is going on and stand up to them or else they will destroy us. We have no cause to fear them at all. Like the Wizard of Oz, once you see the little man behind the curtain you realize that he is nothing, you realize that you had all the power all along. The ruby slippers are placed upon our feet from the very beginning. All we need to do is acknowledge our inherent power and sovereignty, click our heels together and we are home.</p>
<p>Deborah Stevens<br />
Austin, Texas</p>
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