Ron Paul on Quran Burning: “The Real Provocateurs”

LAKE JACKSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Congressman Ron Paul today issued the following statement about a Florida pastor's plan to ban copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

“A professed Christian pastor in Gainesville, Florida, Terry Jones, plans to burn copies of the Quran on 9/11. He indicts all Islam for 9/11 and argues that it is a hate-driven religion. He’s convinced he’s on God’s side even though he is getting little support from other Christians, who believe that Jesus is the Prince of Peace.

“General David Petraeus, our military commander in Afghanistan, strongly condemned Mr. Jones’ plan, arguing it would be provocative, make his fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan more difficult and further jeopardize the lives of American soldiers.

“I agree! This blame of all Muslims for the atrocities of 9/11 only makes things worse — especially since it wasn’t the Taliban of Afghanistan that committed the atrocities on 9/11. Under Jones’ warped logic, we should have attacked Saudi Arabia since 15 of the 19 suicide bombers came from that country.

“But while I am pleased to see General Petraeus recognize the danger of one type of incitement, he unfortunately fails to see the whole picture and understand that our policies of torture, targeted assassination, invasion of Muslim countries and unintended infliction of civilian casualties in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan are also provocative. Pictures of victims of torture as well as innocent people killed by drones and stray bombs are every bit as bad as burning the Quran.

“In some ways, what Jones is doing may be minor compared to the resentment toward us as a consequence of what our government has done to thousands of innocent victims.

“As I have said time and time again, Osama bin Laden wins by 'proving' that America is an enemy of Islam and has an occupation agenda in the Middle East. And, we continue to walk into his trap and hand him up his best recruitment tool in his efforts to provoke hatred and terrorism against the United States.

“If we don’t want to incite radical Islamists, we need to stop these un-needed wars. It is high time we came to our senses, brought our troops home to defend our country and pursued a Constitutional, Pro-American foreign policy.”

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100907007261/en

Eric King: Jim Rickards continues to illustrate that he is one of the truly brilliant and original thinkers in today’s financial world. Rickards uncovers Treasury Bills for what they really are, and has laid out his case in convincing fashion. The following is Jim’s piece exclusively for the King World News blog that discusses the fact that Treasury debt has become the "new opium" and it is a must read:

Treasury Bills: The New Opium
By James G. Rickards

September 7 (King World News) - One of the turning points in the history of world trade was the failed mission in 1793 of Lord George Macartney, representing King George III of England, to the Imperial Court of Qianlong, Fifth Emperor of the Manchu Dynasty of China. Beginning in the late 18th century, England had increased its imports of goods from China including tea, silks, spices, porcelain and other manufactured goods. England paid for these imports with silver, and later with exports of opium, which it obtained from its Imperial provinces in Central Asia. Lord Macartney attempted to persuade Emperor Qianlong to open up China to trade with England so that England’s trade deficit could be balanced with exports from England of cotton and woolen textiles, new mechanical devices such as clocks, weapons and other manufactured goods. Macartney famously offended Qianlong by refusing to perform the kowtow, an elaborate ritual of bowing and prostration, and in the end Qianlong rejected Macartney’s offer on grounds of China’s "celestial supremacy" summarized in his remark that there was nothing in the world which China lacked, therefore trade was unnecessary.

Left with only silver and opium with which to balance their trade deficit, England quickly decided that they preferred to keep their silver at home and would thereafter balance their trade with massive opium exports to China. Opium exports to China grew enormously between the 1790’s and 1830’s until addiction reached crisis proportions and the Manchu Dynasty took steps to seize imported opium and to shut down the opium trade. England responded with military force to open the ports and suppress the Manchu officials responsible in a series of Opium Wars which stretched from 1839 to 1856 and which ended in the humiliation of the Manchu and the subordination of the Chinese economy to the mercantile interests of England, France, Russia, Germany, Japan and the U.S. Conveniently, England was able to continue to settle its trade deficits with China using opium, which it grew cheaply and in vast quantities.

Plus ça change... Today the U.S. faces massive, continual trade deficits with China and has for decades. We take DVD players, flat screen TV’s and iPods instead of tea and silks but the fundamental dynamic of world trade has not changed in 300 years; the U.S. still needs to find a way to pay for its deficit. From 1944 to 1971 under the Bretton Woods international financial system, the U.S. would settle its deficits in gold, much as England had paid in silver in the 1790’s. But in the Bretton Woods period, the U.S. saw its gold reserves dwindle from about 20,000 metric tonnes in 1950 to about 9,000 metric tonnes in 1970. As a result, President Nixon suspended redemption of dollar reserves held by trading partners for gold. Thereafter, trading partners with surpluses and dollar reserves could only invest in dollar denominated assets, principally U.S. Treasury obligations, or dump their dollars for some other currency...

Continue at King World News

All this week on the Fox News Channel at 5PM EDT. Beck is vacationing in Alaska with Sarah Palin...

Beck gets about 2million viewers, could the Liberty Movement add a million or more to that number? It wouldn't be about "Beck Ratings" it would be about our ratings.

I've looked for Freedom Watch's ratings, but Fox Business doesn't show up on any of the tv rating services I've found.

WASHINGTON – If you thought passing the health care overhaul was messy, wait until Republicans try to repeal it if they regain power this fall.

It could come down to who blinks first, with some Republicans raising the prospect of a government shutdown.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_repeal

O.K., the guy is not exactly Ron Paul and he has socialist tendencies regarding domestic spending like voting in favor of Health Care Reform, but his big issues are in line with Dr. Paul. Foreign Policy, Monetary Policy, Bank Bailouts, Audit the Fed, are all 100% in lockstep with Dr. Paul’s positions on these issues.

According to a Politico article Grayson must be defeated in order for the Republicans to take over the house. His seat is under the “must become Republican” category …

“Bomb-throwing liberal Rep. Alan Grayson’s approach doesn’t reflect the competitive nature of this Orlando-area seat. The freshman is one of the most cash-flush House incumbents but faces a top GOP opponent.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/41686.html#ixzz0yt...

I got to tell you, I would vote for Grayson before I voted for the Republican running in my district.

His opponent is Ric Keller (R), and I can’t even find his website.

For those of you in the Florida 8th district, who are you going to vote for and why?

Thanks in advance for your responses

The heart wrenching true story of a Canadian farmer and wife that were forced to go up against the corporate Goliath, Monsanto. Since this story directly effects everyone on this planet, everyone needs to hear this story, learn from it, and give thanks to these people for what they've had to endure for all of us.

This story will prove to be a tear jerker for many. The story has a happy ending though. Be sure to forward to everyone on your list. 1 hr.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E42ndfjnP1g

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This is pretty powerful stuff ...

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Here a few select quotes from Jim Rickards to whet your whistle for the full interview with King World News. Part II here

Stock Market and Manipulation:

I always like to say if a private sector person does it, it's manipulation, but if the government does it it's policy. So they call it policy and they would say they had reasons for it, but in fact it was massively distorting.

Well I don't even take the stock market seriously Eric and I mean that in all seriousness. Who's in the stock market, right? You have indexers and robots. Is anybody else trading the stock market?

The Golden Bullet:

Gold actually brings me to my second point Eric about Fed policy, we said are they out of bullets. They don't think they are, they think they've got quantitative easing they can do in much larger size. I don't think quantitative easing is a bullet that's going to work. I think that chamber is empty. But the Fed does have a bullet that they may not even realize which I call 'The Golden Bullet.' Which would be basically conducting open market operations in gold in such a way as to devalue the dollar.

If you're worried about deflation and you want to cause inflation and you're printing money as fast as you can and the inflation is not happening, at some point you have to stop and ask yourself, well what else can I do? The answer is that you can severely devalue the dollar against gold...So the Fed wakes up one day and as fiscal agent for the Treasury, we're a buyer at...

If that happens to be $2,000 an ounce, what have you done? You've depreciated the dollar by not quite 50%. Well that's pretty powerful stuff if you are trying to get people to spend money and dump dollars. So they are not out of bullets, they have what I call the golden bullet...They have that kind of ace in the hole if they really want to trash the dollar.

Listen to the full interview:

Jim Rickards on King World News - Sep 4.

Jim Rickards on King World News - Part II

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

southernavenger | September 06, 2010

Thanks to: righthavenvictims.blogspot.com for passing on this info:

Rare public event for Steve Gibson/Righthaven.

On September 8, 2010, Bryan Cave's BC Edge (our quarterly IP roundtable) will ask "Can large-scale copyright enforcement save the newspaper business?"

Special guests: Professor Eric Goldman of Santa Clara University, Steve Gibson, Righthaven, and Barbara Wall, Gannett.

This event is planned to start at 12:00 pm PT [Note: Pacific Time] on Sep 8, 2010. Call-in number: 800-300-1596; Passcode 949-223-7173.

Spread the word.

Netflix has finally added the film to their site as a "Saved" title. If you have a Netflix account, add the film to your Queue. You can give it a star rating and write a review too!

http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/For-Liberty-How-the-Ron-Paul-Revolution-Watered-the-Withered-Tree-of-Liberty/70148642

If the film gets enough Queues, Netflix will officially acquire it from us and make it widely available to their millions of subscribers. This is huge opportunity to spread this message to many many new minds.

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

Via LibertyPulse.com

Thomas E. Woods speaks on the topic of Nullification at the Nullify Now conference in Fort Worth, TX. The event was sponsored by the Tenth Amendment Center and WeRefuse

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

Thanks to LibertyPulse.com

That is what we are buying. 56 cents per square yard. We will be closing next month. Our vision is to set up an aquaponics and permaculture "seed farm" where anyone who wants to become self sufficient will be invited to do a "learn-turn-ship."

You come learn, then it is your turn, and when enough of us learn we can turn this ship...

There are a couple of things I want to post about, the first is a chip in address. (Mods: If this is a no-no, mea culpa and please just delete it...)

http://seedmoneyforfarm.chipin.com/seed-money-for-farm

I do not expect anyone to contribute anything, but if someone is so moved, I am trying to learn to accept help from those who wish to offer it. I am one of those who somehow learned that gifts and charity are things I am supposed to do, I have never been good at having them done to me... that proves I am too weak to stand on my own, right? Anyway... We are literally trying to save the world, it seemed a project worthy of a chip in so I set one up.

The next is a very serious offer... I want you to imagine me putting on my little sweater, changing into my tennis shoes, and singing... "Won't you please, won't you please, PLEASE won't you be my neighbor?" The lot next to the one we are buying is also for sale. 11 acres of "dry pasture land" that is prime for permaculture techniques. If you are interested, please contact me and I will get you the details.

Well, it was kind of a rough week for me, with the lawsuit and all. I've been doing a lot of reading & research, and I want to thank everyone here from the bottom of my heart for all of your help and support.

I talked to a lot of people this last week, including some of the other defendants. I've read every one of Steve Green's articles at the Las Vegas Sun on the topic. He's got something new practically every day. The latest is an informative article on the arguments Internet Brands is making to get their suit dismissed: Copyright misuse, Unclean hands, Barratry, and Champerty. (Any of those ring a bell to you?) IB is very well funded, so this case is worth watching: Defendant accuses Righthaven of misusing legal system.

Other helpful sites, for those following the drama from home are righthavenvictims.blogspot.com, and Righthavenlawsuits.com, and documents on Scribd

Last week was the information collection phase. Next week I'll be interviewing several lawyers. I've still yet to be served (that should be fun when/if it happens).

I don't want news of the lawsuit to overwhelm the site, but I have set up a separate forum for information on the topic, because this is an existential threat both to the Daily Paul, and the Internet as we know it, and has interesting First Amendment implications as well.

In the meantime, I would like to wish everyone a fabulous Labor Day holiday. Hope you are lucky enough to get the day off and enjoy it. After an exceedingly hot July and August - Soylent Green Hot! - suddenly this morning the nip of autumn was in the air, a subtle reminder that all things, eventually, must pass.

Thank you all again, and I'll keep you posted!

BAGHDAD – Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq's ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad on Sunday. The fighting killed 12 people and wounded dozens.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iraq

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Rand Paul "wins 37% of the African-American vote, a surprisingly high number for a Republican candidate."

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/09/05/paul-up-15-in-new-surv...

The race card backfired.

As many have noticed there are a lot of videos showing some not very flattering rough police tazerings.

In an effort to promote a constructive dialogue between the police and citizens I wanted to get your perspective as to how these encounters could be handled for a more positive experience for everyone.

Ron Paul supports the military and the police he has even had bills trying to get them bullet proof vests. I also support the GOOD police but there has to be something done about the ones who are BAD. I also know that it is VERY hard to get the bad ones out.

I believe the powers that be WANT this conflict so that the police stop looking at citizens as humans but rather a enemy or cattle. We HERE can change that by taking the first steps at looking into this with an open mind.

If YOU were a police man how would you handle these situations. If you are a policeman how would you like to be treated in these high profile cases.

I am NOT pointing fingers because when the end comes local police will be in the same boat as the lowly peasants. Let's work together and look for common ground. Things won't change until we do.

In Peace & Liberty