http://www.youtube.com/wa...

Make an appointment with his office to get your eyes checked. It worked for this supporter...

So, how about we take a break today from 1207 and try something new going into the 4th of July weekend. Since a lot of us get the day off work tomorrow, we will be out spending time with family and friends, so there won't be one tomorrow.

Today's Victims: Senator Lindsey Graham R-SC and Senator Jim Bunning R-KY. Both have expressed interest in this bill, and have said they would support it. Well, how about we hold them to their word about supporting it and demand they cosponsor!

Info:
Lindsey Graham R-SC
Washington Office
290 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

I'd love to see Dodd try this.... ;-P

Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/wa...
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/wa...

Celente on cap and trade.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...

By Ron Paul | July 1, 2009 | From the Washington Times:

There is no area in which Republicans have further strayed from our traditions than in foreign affairs.

Generations of conservatives followed the great advice of our Founding Fathers and pursued a restrained foreign policy that rebuffed entangling alliances and advised America, in the words of John Quincy Adams, not to "go abroad looking for dragons to slay."

Sen. Robert Taft, the stalwart of the Old Right, urged America to stay out of NATO. Dwight Eisenhower was elected on a platform promising to get us out of the conflict in Korea. Richard Nixon promised to end the war in Vietnam.

Republicans were highly critical of Bill Clinton for his adventurism in Somalia and Kosovo. As recently as 2000, George W. Bush campaigned on a "humbler" foreign policy and decried nation-building.

But our foreign policy today looks starkly different.

Neoconservatives who have come to power in both the Democratic and Republican parties argue that the U.S. must ether confront every evil in every corner of the globe or risk danger at home. We need to "fight them over there" they say, so we don't have to "fight them over here." This argument presents a false choice. We do not have to pick between interventionism and vulnerability. The complexity of our world is exactly why the lessons of our past should ring true and demand a return to a traditional, pro-American foreign policy: one of nonintervention.

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By DANE SCHILLER | Houston Chronicle

In front of a run-down shack in north Houston, federal agents step from a government sedan into 102-degree heat and face a critical question: How can the woman living here buy four high-end handguns in one day?

The house is worth $35,000. A screen dangles by a wall-unit air conditioner. Porch swing slats are smashed, the smattering of grass is flattened by cars and burned yellow by sun.

“I’ll do the talking on this one,” agent Tim Sloan, of South Carolina, told partner Brian Tumiel, of New York.

Success on the front lines of a government blitz on gunrunners supplying Mexican drug cartels with Houston weaponry hinges on logging heavy miles and knocking on countless doors. Dozens of agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — sent here from around the country — are needed to follow what ATF acting director Kenneth Melson described as a “massive number of investigative leads.”

All told, Mexican officials in 2008 asked federal agents to trace the origins of more than 7,500 firearms recovered at crime scenes in Mexico. Most of them were traced back to Texas, California and Arizona.

Among other things, the agents are combing neighborhoods and asking people about suspicious purchases as well as seeking explanations as to how their guns ended up used in murders, kidnappings and other crimes in Mexico.

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Here it is. Let's see the numbers increase for July.

Today's victims: Congressman Gary Ackerman D-NY and Congressman Gregory Meeks D-NY. Both are members of the FC, so it's important to get them on board.

Info:
Gary Ackerman D-NY5
Washington, DC
2243 Rayburn House Office Building
House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-2601
Fax: (202) 225-1589
Bayside Office
218-14 Northern Boulevard
Bayside, NY 11361
Phone: (718) 423-2154
Fax: (718) 423-5053
https://writerep.house.go...

Gregory Meeks D-NY6
Washington DC Office

***UPDATE***
Thank you so much, everyone, for your wonderful comments. I am very glad you liked this paper, and I must say, I would not have been able to write this paper if it hadn't been for all the wonderful folks here on the Daily Paul giving me inspiration! I was expecting to have to bump the thread this morning, but to my surprise, it was already going strong! This makes me feel all happy and warm and fuzzy inside. It really is a r3VOLution!

**UPDATE2**
Oh WOW! Front page?! That is just epic. Thank you so very much, whoever put it there!

The reason why men enter into society, is the preservation of their property; and the end why they chuse and authorize a legislative, is, that there may be laws made, and rules set, as guards and fences to the properties of all the members of the society, to limit the power, and moderate the dominion, of every part and member of the society: for since it can never be supposed to be the will of the society, that the legislative should have a power to destroy that which every one designs to secure, by entering into society, and for which the people submitted themselves to legislators of their own making; whenever the legislators endeavour to take away, and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience, and are left to the common refuge, which God hath provided for all men, against force and violence.

- John Locke[1]

Life, liberty, and property were the central, inalienable rights that formed the foundation of the great experiment in self government called the United States of America. The founders of our country never broke apart this sacred triumvirate, because each one of these rights is inextricably bound to the other. No one of these three can exist without the other. Moreover, when all three are secured, it is almost impossible for injustice to exist. Wherever one does find injustice, one invariably finds a violation of one of these three basic rights at its root.

While it is certainly true that today the rights to life and liberty are grossly violated in innumerable ways, they are nevertheless at least spoken of by our politicians. However hypocritically, they at least say that they value life and liberty, even as they pervert those sacred rights as justification for their wars and plunder.

http://ur1.ca/6jpf

Financial Service Committee to Have Hearing on the Role of the Federal Reserve July 9

I called into Congressman Frank’s office today to find out if a hearing will be had on HR 1207 and was instructed to contact the Financial Service Committee. Upon calling them, I asked if a hearing on HR 1207 would be coming up anytime soon. Her statement was that the committee would be having a hearing on the role of the Federal Reserve July 9, but not for the bill. How can this be?

House “Cap & Trade” Bill Final, Call Your Senator Now

Infowars | June 29, 2009

According to a post on the Daily Paul website, C-SPAN was incorrect when it stated that House members had until July 2nd to change their vote on HR 2454, also known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act. A contributor to the site called Ron Paul’s office to confirm the deadline and was told the vote was final — once the House gavels the vote, it is final.

All of a sudden, Congress is paying close attention to Ron Paul.

The feisty congressman from Texas, whose insurgent "Ron Paul Revolution" presidential campaign rankled Republican leaders last year, now has the GOP House leadership on his side -- backing a measure that generated paltry support when he first introduced it 26 years ago.

Paul, as of Tuesday, has won 245 co-sponsors to a bill that would require a full-fledged audit of the Federal Reserve by the end of 2010.

Paul attracted just 18 co-sponsors when he authored a similar bill, which died, in 1983. While the impact Fed policies have on inflation is once again a concern, fears about loose monetary policy and excessive federal spending appear even more widespread in 2009.

"In the past, I never got much support, but I think it's the financial crisis obviously that's drawing so much attention to it, and people want to know more about the Federal Reserve," Paul told FOXNews.com.

With the Federal Reserve holding interest rates at rock-bottom levels, pumping trillions into the economy and now poised to have new powers to oversee the financial system under President Obama's proposed regulatory overhaul, Paul said lawmakers want transparency.

"If they give them a lot more power and there's no more transparency, that'll be a disaster," he said.

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June 29, 2009
In his latest C4L video, Dr. Paul discusses the House vote on Cap and Trade and reminds his colleagues that opposition to big government intervention should carry through to all acts against the Constitution.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...

Video from Russia Today (RT)

http://www.youtube.com/wa...

If you missed this show, it is a very good portrayal of how Congress “shall make no law” against the First Amendment and freedom of speech, and the victims of an overreaching big government. The message I think that can be derived from this documentary is how it outlines far right talk in the news, namely Fox and Bill O.

It shows how the "no spin zone" is used to direct the news as opposed to reporting it, to lead the far right into a special version of the news that will anger and cause fear amongst its watchers. It features news commentators on and directly after 9/11 referring to the attacks as simply “acts of evil” and does nothing to find out why said people would want to attack us, and it even has a short segment of Beck post 9/11.

If anyone takes anything from this it should help outline the media bias and outright fabrication of the news to sway public opinion towards certain people they do not agree with, and how they use the media to destroy people in the name of free speech while utilizing the very same freedom. It also speaks to the Republican Convention, where the solution to protests were mass arrests. One comment that really stands out, “Do they not realize that the reason we have the freedom of speech and the right to peacefully assemble is so that we may avoid domestic terrorism,” which is a powerful and true statement in and of itself.

If you get the chance, I highly recommend watching this with your children and explaining that you must fight for your freedoms daily, else they will take them away under the guise of protection. And also not to trust the mainstream media, as it has political purpose behind all it does to sway public opinion based on one channel's owners/board beliefs versus another.

This is not news, it is manipulation and cannot be allowed to succeed in a free society.

A few links that opine from both sides of the isle.
http://www.humanevents.co...

http://www.doublex.com/bl...

http://www.variety.com/re...

http://www.nytimes.com/20...

From the First Amendment Center.
http://www.firstamendment...

WASHINGTON — Call it son of subprime. Experts warn that a new wave of mortgage foreclosures may be coming soon and could rival the default rates for subprime mortgages and slow efforts to find bottom in a prolonged national housing slump.
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The mortgages in question are $230 billion of option adjustable-rate mortgages, creative lending products that flourished at the height of the housing boom. In an option ARM, a borrower can opt to pay less than his or her monthly balance due, and the difference is tacked onto the outstanding loan balance.

California is preparing to issue IOUs to its creditors this week as it grapples with an unprecedented cash crunch and prepares to begin its new fiscal year deep in the red.

Once the US’s richest state, California now has the dubious distinction of having the worst credit rating in the country.

It is facing a budget deficit of $24bn (€17bn, £14.5bn) yet Arnold Schwarzenegger, its governor, and the state assembly cannot agree on a budget that would address the shortfall.

California’s fiscal year ends on Wednesday but as the state’s cash reserves are empty, IOUs will be issued to a range of creditors, including contractors, such as information technology companies and the food service groups that cater for prisons.

“On Wednesday we start a fiscal year with a ­massively unbalanced spending plan and a cash shortfall not seen since the Great Depression,” said John Chiang, the state ­controller. “Unfortunately, the state’s inability to balance its chequebook will now mean short-changing taxpayers, local governments and small businesses.”

The state is also likely to issue IOUs to the US government. California currently contributes funding for government-run programmes for elderly and developmentally disabled people but is considering issuing IOUs to cover its contributions because of the lack of cash.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0...