Bill Maher Supports Ron Paul, His Guests Don’t
I was flipping channels the other day, and came across Bill Maher’s HBO show. Hadn’t seen it in a while, so gave it a try. GOP politics was the topic de jour, and oh … was it horrifying. The panel was a who’s-who of despicable warmonger pundit/pols: Rob Reiner, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and David Frum. They were discussing politics and foreign policy… painful, to say the least.
Naturally, everyone was pretending Ron Paul doesn’t exist. Then Bill Maher did this, and redeemed his show:
Rob Reiner, after his near-stroke in reaction to Maher’s endorsement, says “You only like [Paul] because he’d let you smoke pot!”
Think about his wording there. Let you. Those sound like the words of a thoroughly-indoctrinated statist. Reiner and his preferred politicians know what’s best for you; all of us, it seems.
And I’ve heard similar sentiment all-too-often. Young voters only like Paul because of his drug policy. Well, they don’t hate the idea of ending 1 million marijuana arrests per year in the US. But the idea that it’s the driving issue is wishful thinking.
Mr. Reiner: it’s not his views on any single issue. What’s driving interest in Ron Paul’s campaign is the theme of personal liberty and freedom. People of all political backgrounds who are fed up with endless war are probably the most notable group.
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Top Justice officials linked to mortgage banks
Pressure rises on Justice to open wide-ranging probe of mortgage servicers
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, were partners for years at a Washington law firm that represented a Who’s Who of big banks and other companies at the center of alleged foreclosure fraud, a Reuters inquiry shows.
The firm, Covington & Burling, is one of Washington’s biggest white shoe law firms. Law professors and other federal ethics experts said that federal conflict of interest rules required Holder and Breuer to recuse themselves from any Justice Department decisions relating to law firm clients they personally had done work for.
While Holder and Breuer were partners at Covington, the firm’s clients included the four largest U.S. banks – Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo & Co – as well as at least one other bank that is among the 10 largest mortgage servicers.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46070458/ns/business-us_business/#.TxrRfYF33Tp
Pretty convincing, eh?
Lanny Breur
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7390536n
The Global Elite Are Hiding 18 Trillion Dollars In Offshore Banks
In recent days, the fact that Mitt Romney has millions of dollars parked down in the Cayman Islands has made headlines all over the world. But when it comes to offshore banking, what Mitt Romney is doing is small potatoes. The truth is that the global elite are hiding an almost unbelievable amount of money in offshore banks. According to shocking research done by the IMF, the global elite are holding a total of 18 trillion dollars in offshore banks. And that figure does not even count any money being held in Switzerland. That is a staggering amount of money. Keep in mind that U.S. GDP in 2010 was only 14.58 trillion dollars. So why do the global elite go to such trouble to hide their money in offshore banks? Well, there are two main reasons. One is privacy and the other is low taxation. Privacy is a big issue for those that are involved in illegal enterprises such as drug running, but the biggest reason why people move money into offshore banks is in order to avoid taxes. Some set up bank accounts in foreign nations because they want to legally minimize their taxes and others set up bank accounts in foreign nations because they want to illegally avoid taxes. You would be absolutely amazed at what some large corporations and wealthy individuals do to get out of paying taxes. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the rest of us don’t have the resources or the knowledge to play these games, so we get taxed into oblivion.
So why do they call it “offshore banking”?
These days, taking advantage of offshore tax havens is not that complicated to do. The following is from a recent Politico article….
A plausible scenario plays out like this: I hire an accountant. Doing her job, my accountant tells me that if I sign a few legal documents and route my money through a small Caribbean island, I could keep more of my paycheck and pay a lower tax rate. I may have earned my money in the United States, but legally I can claim that it was, in fact, earned in a tax haven.
If it is legal, perhaps more of us should look into this.
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-global-elite-are-hiding-18-trillion-dollars-in-offshore-banks
Is Ron Paul an Isolationist as Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum Claim?
If that’s what it means to be an isolationist, count me as one too.
It’s easy to understand why this inappropriate label is stuck on Paul. Establishment conservatives and progressives are terrified by him and desperately want him to go away. They’re terrified because he has done the worst thing imaginable: he has held up a mirror and reminded them of what they are.
He has shown establishment conservatives and even so-called Republican moderates (such as Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman) that they are, and long have been, apologists for empire and therefore betrayers of the republican (small-r) ideals they say they embrace. When Paul condemns past, present, and future aggressive wars (such as the one being planned for Iran); when he calls for closing America’s 900 military installations in over 40 countries and removing America’s troops from 130 countries; when he advocates an end to all economic and military aid to foreign governments (including Israel’s); and when he opposes wholesale violation of the Bill of Rights (see the PATRIOT Act and the National Defense Authorization Act), he is saying to his Republican rivals, You have helped destroy individual liberty by shamefully supporting the U.S. global empire, which brutalizes foreign populations, fosters an exploitative military-industrial complex, violates civil liberties, and burdens the American people with obscene debt, taxation, and Federal Reserve monetary manipulation.
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/01/is-ron-paul-isolationist-as-newt.html
Ron Paul on FOX News w/ Neil Cavuto 01/21/12…
he couldn’t cut ron paul off fast enough
http://sgtreport.com/2012/01/ron-paul-on-fox-news-w-neil-cavuto-012112/
Cpl Jesse Thorsen Speaks Out For Ron Paul Despite US Army Censorship!
http://sgtreport.com/2012/01/cpl-jesse-thorsen-speaks-out-for-ron-paul-despite-us-army-censorship/
Mitt Romney
http://ianmasters.com/content/january-22-newts-march-florida-bain-capitals-dirty-seed-money-pakistans-political-soap-opera
Audio:
http://ianmasters.com/sites/default/files/images/bbriefing_2012_01_22b_justin%20elliott.mp3
Then, as Mitt Romney just announced he is releasing some of his income
taxes, we look into the source of the wealth of the company he
created, Bain Capital. Joining us is Justin Elliot, a reporter for
Salon.com who has an article at Salon “The Roots of Bain Capital in El
Salvador’s Civil War”.
The roots of Bain Capital in El Salvador’s civil war
Romney tapped El Salvador’s wealthy families, including one linked to
right-wing death squads
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/20/the_roots_of_bain_capital_in_el_salvador/
Kim Dotcom vs Corzine and Modern Day Letters of Marque
A letter of Marque is a government license authorizing a person to be a pirate (a privateer). This authority defines who is a patriot and who becomes the criminal. Today Kim Dotcom (megaupload) the owner operator of an electronic self storage locker gets to have all his property sued and then confiscated worldwide without a trial! CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY WORLDWIDE WITHOUT A TRIAL OR A GUILTY VERDICT OF ANY KIND. This way his assets can be used by the security state until such time as they are proved innocent of conspiracy of illegality of any kind. Meanwhile he has not been proved guilty in any court of law anywhere. Yet the FBI can have NZ, HK, and other international authorities confiscate millions thereby leaving the burden of innocence of proof to be proven by his lawyers. Meanwhile Jon Corzine , who has a letter of Marque, gets to keep all his property even though much of it may ethically belong to customers. Other parties with Letters of Marque include the movie industry, the copyright police, the trustee and judge involved in MF Global wind down, Louis Freeh, JPM, and other state sponsored players. Property rights are now non existent, laws are by decree, and your future freedom has been put into peril from every direction possible.
http://youtu.be/6RePKibnoho
USA Today Gives JP Morgan Free Pass
“Rules and regulations that allow business to thrive”? There sure doesn’t seem to be any rules or regulations to punish big banks for the crime and rip-offs that they have committed against the public, and you won’t hear it brought up by any of the mainstream media (MSM) either. Why didn’t Ms. Bartiromo ask about Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and the case she filed 7 weeks ago that alleges foreclosure fraud against Dimon’s bank? The lawsuit is alleging JP Morgan Chase and 4 other big banks “. . . improperly foreclosed on troubled borrowers by relying on fraudulent legal documentation . . .” (Click here for more on the Mass. AG’s case.) This is a case that has major nationwide implications. How could Bartiromo just leave this out of her questions? This is just one of several cases that have been filed against the big banks over the past few years. Leaving this completely out of the question list is why I say this is a PR job and not journalism.
http://usawatchdog.com/usa-today-gives-jp-morgan-free-pass/
The Ron Paul FIX is in: a SGT micro-doc
http://sgtreport.com/2012/01/the-ron-paul-fix-is-in-a-sgt-micro-doc/
Filmmaker Oliver Stone would vote for Ron Paul over Obama
Filmmaker Oliver Stone, known for his liberal political views, said he would vote for GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul over President Obama should Paul win the Republican nomination.
In an interview with Rock Cellar magazine, Stone was asked if an economic collapse would lead to the fall of the American “empire.”
“I think it’s a given,” Stone said. “There’s no way that we can continue this spending spree. In fact, I think in many ways the most interesting candidate — I’d even vote for him if he was running against Obama — is Ron Paul. Because he’s the only one of anybody who’s saying anything intelligent about the future of the world.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/206057-oliver-stone-would-vote-for-ron-paul-over-president-obama?
Paul is the only one that can really help us turn this around. However, he’ll never get elected in this backward country. It’s a shame but a fact.
Chris Hedges and Lawrence Lessig: Getting Money Out of Politics
One invented Creative Commons, the other occupied the commons. Together, they talk about strategies for ridding our democracy of corrosive corporate dollars.
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/chris_hedges_and_lawrence_lessig_getting_money_out_of_politics_20120125/