A New Year’s Resolution Worth Keeping

Guest Post by Ron Paul

In the closing days of 2023, the Biden Administration once again announced a large military aid package for Ukraine, this time a “mere” quarter of a billion dollars. Without a new authorization of funds from Congress, it is said to be the last bit of money left over from the more than $100 billion already authorized by Congress for the proxy war with Russia through Ukraine.

President Biden’s request for an additional $100 billion to spread around Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan was rejected by a Congress eager for its winter break, and with each passing day it looks like it’s going to be harder to push it through. Poll after poll show that Americans are increasingly opposed to more of their money being spent on the neocon’s lost-cause war to overthrow Putin in Russia.

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SYSTEM UPDATE WITH RON PAUL

Guest Post by CCRider

Back in the days of ink smelling mimeographed documents I got to read essays by Murry Rothbard on Leonard Read’s Foundation for Economic Education.  Murray had magic in his essays, always tinged with optimism and humor.  In one such article he mentioned a man who would go on to change my life.  He directed my attention to a man running for congress in the state of Texas.  His name was Ron Paul.

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Ron Paul Asks Santa Claus To End The Fed For The 47th Straight Year

Via The Babylon Bee

LAKE JACKSON, TX — Former Congressman Ron Paul was spotted muttering nervously to himself today while standing in line to see Santa Claus at a nearby shopping mall, as he hoped this would finally be the year he would get what he wanted by asking for the 47th consecutive year for Santa to end the Fed.

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Ron Paul: Monetary Debasement Leads to Moral Bankruptcy

By Ron Paul, for Birch Gold Group

Increasingly, the people I speak to understand the role our own Federal Reserve plays in destroying the value of the dollar.

One of the things that’s less well-understood, though, is the link between monetary debasement and
moral bankruptcy. Now, this is an old, old story (we could go back to ancient Rome for an example). But it’s more relevant today than ever before.

Here’s a recent example that caught my eye…

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Biden, Media Gaslight People about Inflation

Guest Post by Ron Paul

President Biden recently repeated the claim that high prices are caused by greedy businesses. Biden is not alone in trying to gaslight the people into thinking price inflation is rooted in the actions of private individuals and not the fiat money system Americans have lived under since 1971. In the media we see excessive consumer spending on luxury items, for example, being blamed for continued price inflation. The fact is that increased consumer demand can only cause prices to rise in those sectors of the economy subject to the increased demand. Prices increasing across the economy are always the result of the Federal Reserve’s conduct of monetary policy.

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The Real Problem With Our Foreign Policy…

Guest Post by Ron Paul

Over the weekend Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin explained to the American people what’s really wrong with US foreign policy. Some might find his conclusions surprising.

The US standing in the world is damaged not because we spent 20 years fighting an Afghan government that had nothing to do with the attacks on 9/11. The problem has nothing to do with neocon lies about Iraq’s WMDs that led untold civilian deaths in another failed “democratization” mission. It’s not because over the past nearly two years Washington has taken more than $150 billion from the American people to fight a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine.

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Ron Paul Explains Malinvestment, Inflation and Economic Crashes

By Ron Paul, for Birch Gold Group

During my recent webinar for Birch Gold Group, I briefly mentioned the topic of malinvestment. Today I want to take a moment and explain what malinvestment is, and how it can disrupt and even destroy the economy.

Malinvestment explained

Let’s start with a simple definition: combine the prefix “mal-” (from the Latin malus, “bad”) and “investment” and it’s pretty straightforward! A bad investment. We’ve all made them.

However, malinvestment has a specific economic definition. In the Austrian school of economics, a malinvestment is a badly allocated business investment. But it’s not just a bad decision! Malinvestment results from artificially low interest rates for credit, which causes an unsustainable increase in money supply.

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RICH MAN’S WAR, POOR MAN’S BLOOD

“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”General Smedley Butler

I don’t need your civil warIt feeds the rich while it buries the poorYour power hungry sellin’ soldiersIn a human grocery store

Guns N’ Roses – Civil War

Whether it is a distinguished general who came to his senses in 1935, after doing the bidding of the monied interests by initiating conflict throughout the world to fill their coffers with blood money, or a rock & roll star fifty years later writing a hit song about the exact same theme, the song remains the same. The wealthy always benefit from war, the poor always die in their wars, and politicians are bribed to continually foment conflict, hate, and railing against whoever their puppet masters choose as the enemy of the moment. This is not a recent development, it has spanned centuries, just the sums of money feeding the military industrial complex are now astronomical.

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IN THE WAR ON TRUTH, IT’S TIME TO BECOME HEROES

“Truth is treason in an empire of lies.”George Orwell

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized.

Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. …In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons… who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.” Edward Bernays – Propaganda (1928) pp. 9–10

“Axis of Evil” seems to be interchangeable, based upon who the Deep State needs to be the enemy at any given time. Bush junior first coined the phrase in his January 29, 2002 State of the Union speech when describing Iran, Iraq and North Korea. Of course, we know his Deep State handlers then falsified claims of 9/11 involvement and WMDs, to take out Sadaam and steal his oil. The barely cogent doddering old fool senator McConnell this week declared Russia, China and Iran as the new “Axis of Evil”. You notice Iran is still in the club, but they now consider two nuclear armed superpowers to be evil and enemies. Kim Jong Un must be so disappointed at being kicked out of the club.

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Ron Paul Tells Fans He Is Sorry He Couldn’t Do More As He Seals Up His Bunker

Via The Babylon Bee

LAKE JACKSON, TX – Libertarian demigod Ron Paul apologized to his supporters on Wednesday as he sealed himself up in an underground bunker to weather the collapse of the American dollar.

“I did the best I could,” said the former congressional representative. “Now please stand aside or the vault door will grind you to death in its massive gears.”

“Please, Mr. Paul! Don’t abandon us now!” implored a half-baked libertarian. “If you just help us get this petition signed – ”

“Sorry, fella,’ no can do! Petitions play into a flawed system!” he said as he kicked the man back into a throng of fans. “I’ll remember you when it’s time to rebuild!”

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RON PAUL: THEY’RE RUNNING OUT OF MONEY

“If we had sound money, they wouldn’t have money because they’d have to tax people and that wouldn’t be tolerable.”

Ron Paul: The Federal Reserve’s Success Is a Failure for You and Me

By Ron Paul, for Birch Gold Group

I’ve long been critical of the Federal Reserve – in fact, I wrote a book called End the Fed way back in 2009. My position on the Fed’s failings have been clear for a long, long time.

Even so, the Fed’s failure to properly manage price stability has rarely been more clear than it is today.

Many mainstream economists (Paul Krugman and Ben Bernanke spring to mind) would tell you the Fed is an indispensable institution, and our economy simply couldn’t function without it.

Baloney. Did the entire U.S. fail to develop an economy for over a century after our nation’s birth?

Was the U.S. economy born along with the Federal Reserve in 1913?

Obviously not.

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We as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions!

Democracy Quotes for the People, by Libertas Bella

Democracy Quotes

  • “Speak up, speak often and don’t worry about those that at this point cannot understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them.” – Ron Paul
  • “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” – Winston Churchill
  • “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” – John Adams

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Why We Must Come Together

Guest Post by Ron Paul

One of the greatest influences on both my personal philosophy and the strategy of how to promote it was Leonard Read, the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). Read founded FEE in 1946, just as WWII was ending and the US government was about to embark upon a cold war with the Soviet Union. Read must have foreseen the expansion of government that was coming – both at home and overseas – and he started FEE to spread the message of non-interventionism and freedom. You could say that FEE was the first modern libertarian organization.

Leonard Read was so effective in his role as leader of FEE because of his demeanor. He was kind and gentle in his approach, but he never compromised the freedom message. People should be able to do whatever it is they want without any interference, he believed, as long as they weren’t hurting anybody else.

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