Nov

28

Austrian School Economics: Peter Schiff vs. The TV Experts

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Assorted clips from 2006-2007. Peter Schiff shames them all.

Peter’s Books:

The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets: How to Keep Your Portfolio Up When the Market is Down (Little Books. Big Profits) and Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse (Lynn Sonberg Books)


Nov

28

Robert Ringer on Fighting the Ugly Beltway Brew

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Warnings From Insiders
Hyperinflation Fear

By Robert Ringer

I had a long talk yesterday with an old friend, an ex-Congressman who served eighteen years before retiring in disgust. Back in the late eighties, he invited me to give a talk to a group of likeminded conservative colleagues in his office. (A couple of young Congressmen who were at that meeting are now very high-profile politicos, but, to protect their privacy, I will refrain from giving their names.)

Afterward, my friend told me how impressed they had been with what I had to say. But I didn’t buy it, because one of the things I remember most vividly about that meeting was their blank stares. Clearly, those supposedly conservative Congressmen were not prepared to hear my analyses of government, the economy, or the future.

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Nov

27

Have we become a communist country yet? Part II

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Below is Chapter 3 of the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS.
The Constitution of the United States in comparison grants none of these delegated powers to the federal government. Strangely enough our federal government has over the years adopted practically all of these responsibilities and powers that the Soviet government gave to itself to mold social development and culture. Even though most Americans despised communism and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and would consider these powers to be tyrannical and un-American, how many people have noticed that the federal government through its many laws and the alphabet soup agencies they created over the decades have adopted parts of the Soviet Constitution? Not many I would guess. I don’t think most Americans have a clue about what powers are delegated to their federal government in the constitution and why, but I would guess confidently though that many Americans would defend the federal government having these Soviet-like responsibilities and powers anyway—they would even consider it American as apple pie if only because they don’t know any better! Is there any wonder why this country is headed down the crapper like the late Soviet Union? Our forefathers must be turning in their graves.

Chapter 3: SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURE

Article 19. The social basis of the USSR is the unbreakable alliance of the workers, peasants, and intelligentsia.
The state helps enhance the social homogeneity of society, namely the elimination of class differences and of the essential distinctions between town and country and between mental and physical labour, and the all-round development and drawing together of all the nations and nationalities of the USSR.

Article 20. In accordance with the communist ideal–”The free development of each is the condition of the free development of all”–the state pursues the aim of giving citizens more and more real opportunities to apply their creative energies, abilities, and talents, and to develop their personalities in every way.

Article 21. The state concerns itself with improving working conditions, safety and labour protection and the scientific organisation of work, and with reducing and ultimately eliminating all arduous physical labour through comprehensive mechanisation and automation of production processes in all branches of the economy.

Article 22. A programme is being consistently implemented in the USSR to convert agricultural work into a variety of industrial work, to extend the network of educational, cultural, and medical institutions, and of trade, public catering, service and public utility facilities in rural localities, and transform hamlets and villages into well-planned and well-appointed settlements.

Article 23. The state pursues a steady policy of raising people’s pay levels and real incomes through increase in productivity.
In order to satisfy the needs of Soviet people more fully social consumption funds are created. The state, with the broad participation of public organisations and work collectives, ensures the growth and just distribution of these funds.

Article 24. In the USSR, state systems of health protection, social security, trade and public catering, communal services and amenities, and public utilities, operate and are being extended.
The state encourages co-operatives and other public organisations to provide all types of services for the population. It encourages the development of mass physical culture and sport.

Article 25. In the USSR there is a uniform system of public education, which is being constantly improved, that provides general education and vocational training for citizens, serves the communist education and intellectual and physical development of the youth, and trains them for work and social activity.

Article 26. In accordance with society’s needs, the state provides for planned development of science and the training of scientific personnel and organises introduction of the results of research in the economy and other spheres of life.

Article 27. The state concerns itself with protecting, augmenting and making extensive use of society’s cultural wealth for the moral and aesthetic education of the Soviet people, for raising their cultural level.

In the USSR development of the professional, amateur and folk arts is encouraged in every way.

Nov

16

Have we become a communist country yet?

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Not quite says Robert Higgs. Although many of our horrid government institutions and laws have the Commie Seal of Approval, this country has for a long time and even more so currently been exhibiting the tell-tale signs of another closely related collectivist system.

Are We There Yet, Are We There Yet?
Let’s Check Marx and Engels’s List
November 10, 2008
Robert Higgs

Reading the news has been exciting lately. Hardly a day passes without the announcement of some new government initiative to save the world. Bail out the mortgage lenders; bail out the big insurance company; bail out the banks; bail out the money-market funds; bail out the commercial-paper sellers; bail out the depositors in belly-up banks; bail out the automobile companies; bail out the deadbeats who didn’t make their mortgage payments when they came due. When the Treasury bumps up against its borrowing limits, and interest rates begin to rise on its bonds, bail it out, too, by having the Fed flood the world’s credit markets with new reserves created by nothing more than a snap of its electronic finger. Who knows what industry, special-interest group, or noisy whiners bloc will be bailed out next? With the Fed standing ready to inflate without limit, the festivities need never end.

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Nov

16

Al Gore’s chief scientific ally caught fudging again

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Glaring incompetence or deliberate disinformation? NASA’s Dr James Hansen who in June of this year said he would “call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.” has been caught fudging climate change numbers again.
Shouldn’t Dr. Hansen turn himself in for trial and punishment as a repeat offender of the crime of misinformation, a crime of his own invention?

The world has never seen such freezing heat
By Christopher Booker
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 16/11/2008

A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.

This was startling. Across the world there were reports of unseasonal snow and plummeting temperatures last month, from the American Great Plains to China, and from the Alps to New Zealand. China’s official news agency reported that Tibet had suffered its “worst snowstorm ever”. In the US, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years.

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Nov

13

Break the Bailout

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breakthebailout.com

Nov

5

Peter Schiff on the Economic Impact Of Obama Victory

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Peter Schiff a brilliant man, the other two characters are confused and pretty slow.
Believe it or not, the media actually employs people like that. I guess they must feel sorry for them.
Actually their comments are so stupid I almost feel sorry for them.

Nov

3

Napolitano on Unconstitutional Big Government

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Unconstitutional. For a government who’s creation and legitimacy was based on a strict delegation of powers that word brings to mind other words such as unlawful, criminal, despotic, even treasonous.
How can a constitutional republic exist with a constitution that is largely ignored and mocked by those that took an oath to protect and defend it?
Former Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is one of those great Americans that continues to educate and remind us of what we have lost and will continue to lose if remain a A Nation of Sheep
This Tuesday the sheep will be voting for their new Tyrant in Chief, Obama or McCain. Be a wolf, don’t be one of them.
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Most Presidents Ignore the Constitution
The government we have today is something the Founders could never have imagined.

By ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO

In a radio interview in 2001, then-Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama noted — somewhat ruefully — that the same Supreme Court that ordered political and educational equality in the 1960s and 1970s did not bring about economic equality as well. Although Mr. Obama said he could come up with arguments for the constitutionality of such action, the plain meaning of the Constitution quite obviously prohibits it.
Mr. Obama is hardly alone in his expansive view of legitimate government. During the past month, Sen. John McCain (who, like Sen. Obama, voted in favor of the $700 billion bank bailout) has been advocating that $300 billion be spent to pay the monthly mortgage payments of those in danger of foreclosure. The federal government is legally powerless to do that, as well.

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