Subject: Finally!! A solution to all the bitching!

I just received this email, and was asked to forward it to 20 of my contacts so as to reach the maximum of the population of our country as fast as possible.

Click like to forward it to all your FB contacts, and email it to those who are not on FB.

“Subject: Finally!! A solution to all the bitching!

Interesting solution……..
Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the
best quotes about the debt ceiling:

“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC. “You just
pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more
than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible
for re-election/

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds)
took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple!
The people demanded it. That was in 1971 – before computers, e-mail,
cell phones, etc.

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took one (1) year
or less to become the law of the land – all because of public pressure.

Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to
a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask
each of those to do likewise.

In three days, most people in The United States of America will
have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed
around.

_*Congressional Reform Act of 2011*_

1. No Tenure / No Pension.

A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no
pay when they’re out of office.

2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social
Security.

All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the
Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into
the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the
American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all
Americans do.

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5. Congress loses their current health care system and
participates in the same health care system as the American people.

6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the
American people.

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void
effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this
contract with Congressmen/women.

Congressmen/women made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in
Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their
term(s), then go home and back to work.

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will
only take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive
the message. Don’t you think it’s time?

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!”

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Please keep it going, and thanks.

Human Rights Issues – Knowing Our Rights

Human Rights are some of the most powerful human cognitions.

Throughout the ages, even when law representatives didn’t recognize Human Rights, they were our only cry for fairness!

Justice has never been fair in Man’s hands! However, true Justice can be found in understanding. Understanding is our best resource in life, and may even be the very substance life is made of.

The following 3 videos – part of a series of 30 produced by the organization Youth For Human Rights – will provide anyone with a full understanding of 3 Human Rights – the 3 mentioned in the following article. Human Rights must be understood for Justice to prevail.

We are very grateful to Youth for Human Rights for the production of these videos.

• Right to a fair trial (Article 6 of the Convention)

Watch Video And Learn About The Human Right Article #10, Right To Fair Trial, Public Hearing By An Impartial Tribunal In Determinations Of Rights For Crimes Or Charges Against Him. Watch Human Rights Videos And Learn About The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Set Forth By United Nations.

Youth For Human Rights – The Right to Trial

• Right to privacy (Article 8 of the Convention)
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Youth For Human Rights – The Right to Privacy

• Right to an effective remedy (Article 13 of the Convention)

ARTICLE 13

Everyone whose rights and freedoms as set forth in this Convention are violated shall have an effective remedy before a national authority notwithstanding that the violation has been committed by persons acting in an official capacity.
YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS ARE PROTECTED BY LAW
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Youth For Human Rights – Your Human Rights Are Protected by Law

See all 30 Human Rights on video at this address: http://www.youthforhumanrights.org

Here is the article:

Ramifications Of The Human Rights Act

By Ian McIntosh

The Human Rights Act 1998 has important ramifications for all aspects of police work. Police Investigation, the conduct of prosecution and the presentation of evidence in court, have all conflicted with Human Rights.

In the context of criminal cases the main areas of Human Rights include: • Right to a fair trial (Article 6 of the Convention) • Right to privacy (Article 8 of the Convention) • Right to an effective remedy (Article 13 of the Convention)

The courts are required to ‘read and give effect’ to primary legislation in a way which is compatible with the Convention Rights ‘so far is possible to do so’.

Examination of the effects of the Convention on the Criminal Justice System reveals the problems, of which some will be touched upon in this discussion. Police surveillance has already fallen foul of Article 8 in a number of cases. In the cases of Kahn v United Kingdom 2000, and the similar case of P.G. and J.H. v United Kingdom 2001 (The Times, 19th October 2001), it was held that there had been a breach of Article 8 and Article 13, but not a violation of Article 6. It was held that the applicant’s right to respect for private and family life, as guaranteed by Article 8 of the Convention, had been violated. This is simply because the domestic law did not regulate the use of covert listening devices at the time of the applicants conviction. The European Court did however find that there had been no violation of Article 6, that the applicant did have a fair trial. I cannot help but think that these two judgements contradict each other. If the evidence violated Article 8 and the case was entirely based upon the weight of this evidence, then how could it have been a fair trial?

In the case of Kahn v U.K. Lord Nolan stated to the House of Lords: ‘The sole cause of this case coming to your Lordships House is the lack of a statutory system regulating the use of surveillance devices by the police. The absence of such systems is astonishing, the more so in view of the statutory framework which has governed the use of such devices by the Security Service since 1989, and the interception of communications by the police as well as by other agencies since 1985.’

It would appear that over the years, the police have had an ad hoc system regarding surveillance techniques and therefore the European Court has highlighted fundamental flaws by way of the Convention, in relation to the procedures that have been undertaken by the police regarding the use of surveillance.

The work of the security services has been carried out legally under the umbrella of legislation, therefore allowing surveillance of suspects. The police do not appear to have carried out their work legally, therefore the European Court is setting examples in cases like the above, the main principle being that a body cannot carry out illegal acts in order to obtain a legal solution (e.g. a conviction). However, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 provides the police with guidelines on the subject of surveillance, so there should not be a problem now. The cases that the European Court is hearing are convictions before this Act was processed.

In the case of Condron and Another v United Kingdom 2000 it was held that there had been a violation of Article 6 of the Convention. This was because the judge in the case had not properly directed the jury on the issue of the defendant’s silence during a police interview; he had said that silence was negative. He had said this with reference to section 34 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.

The first point that I would like to make is the fact that the defendants were withdrawing from heroin which was the reason that their solicitor had advised them to remain silent. Most crimes are drug related, this could open floodgates in the fact that they remained silent because they were ‘drugged up’; every criminal could abuse this right. This could be the main reason for the judge to have directed the jury in this way, to prevent the floodgates. This would also put pressure on the legal advisor, simply because if the silent interview is conducted on the advise of the solicitor, then it can be brought up and used against the defence. However, if I were a juror I would not think that keeping silent was positive, and I would agree in this case that the judge should not have imposed his view on the jury.

In the case of Atlan v United Kingdom it was held by the European Court, that there had been a violation of Article 6 of the Convention because the prosecution had failed to let the trial judge rule on the question of the disclosure of evidence. The prosecution simply should have followed procedures; the judge decides whether or not the evidence attracts public interest immunity, as in the case of Conway v Rimmer. If the procedure were not followed correctly then we would be having similar convictions and unfair trials as in the seventies and eighties, for example, the Gilford Four, and the early nineties as in the case of Edwards v United Kingdom (1992).

In the case of entrapment, there is no defence for this in England and Wales. However, the Convention has applied Article 6 to prevent this, as in the case of Texiera de Castro v Portugal (1998). ‘Even the obvious public interest in fighting drug-trafficking could not justify using evidence obtained as a result of police entrapment.’ I think that this is right but only depending on the circumstances. I feel that if a drug-trafficker is a well known ‘heroin dealer’ and the last resort for the police to stop him is by ‘agent provocateur’, then I think that this should be justified.

By joining the European Union, the government took on board the laws, provision, directives etc of the Community. I think that the courts will go as far as they have to in order to abide and interpret these laws into ours. My view is that to have another body of law keeping an eye so to speak, on ours is good. There is less chance of unfair trials, policing and government legislation, and more chance of fair and properly followed procedures within the law and order of this country.

About the Author: http://www.remembered-forever.org

Source: www.isnare.com

Permanent Link: http://www.isnare.com/?aid=115993&ca=Legal

What do you think of the viewpoint of the author of the article?

What do you think of the above examples? Could a better understanding of the Human Rights have helped resolve these cases?

Constitution Day Money Bomb Success

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The Democrat vs Republican Fight Is A Distraction!

Democrat vs Republican is a fight invented by the Vested Interests to divide and conquer America!

Democrat vs Republican is a typical example of Divide and Conquer

Ron Paul Fans are United with a common purpose: Ron Paul For President in 2012

As a Ron Paul Fan, I believe we have understood that Democrat vs Republican is the wrong fight!

We thank Mario Apuzzo and his blog “Natural Born Citizen” for letting us use this picture to illustrate the Democrat vs Republican fight

I personally believe that both sides are populated by kids raised by the same parents, growing up in the same neighborhoods, going to the same schools, being tought the same information, meeting in the same pubs, going to the same parties, sharing the same girl friends, having the same mentors, and to summarize – unfortunately for the people of America – being paid by the same “lobbies”.

I do believe they are on a payroll, and that they arrived to where they are on the social ladder by consciously and carefully taking the “right” decisions and saying the “right” words. That they do so on their own self-determinism, to get into the “good papers” of those hold the strings, or that they do it so as not to see their name soiled for eternity, is not the subject of this article! They “behave”, and they move forward. They don’t, and we never hear of them anylonger. So, who will be elected President in 2012? The one who does what he is told to do the most effectively. But also, the one who will be sponsored the most effectively! And this IS our chance!

Democrat vs Republican. Is it our only choice?

Having to chose between Democrat vs Republican, is arguably what most of us have had for only choice far too long. I believe that too many of us believed it was our choice in 2008 for the last US Presidential election, and that we – all of us – after having actively or passively let Ron Paul be eliminated before the real game even started – have been disappointed if not outright cheated by the one we chose.

Have any of the “changes” promised been carried through? Have any of the soothing words made any difference? And would we be any better today if we had chosen the other guy? I don’t think so! And please don’t respond that you did! You got the President “you” deserved – based on the effectiveness of your actions – and thus elected. You are much more powerful than anyone ever let you believe! You could have gotten the one you wanted to have as your President elected if you had taken things in your own hands and had demonstrated competence!

It Is Not Too Late!

No. I do believe that we have a chance again in the name of Ron Paul! Isn’t he the only one who resisted the temptation to accept bribes and showed integrity in performing his mandat? However, if the dice were not rigged, and if he had a fair chance to be elected, he would have a chance to make it by himself! As it is, he WON’T! He won’t if we are simple spectators and HOPE he will!

As of today, end of 2011, Ron Paul doesn’t only need a miracle and a bullet proof vest. He needs the ACTIVE PARTICIPATION of his supporters!
He needs us! We ARE his needed Miracle! We are in it for good! Without us he won’t make it, and without him, we won’t make it either!

It is not too late, and we do have a choice!

Ron Paul will win these 2012 US Presidential Elections

Ron Paul will win these 2012 US Presidential Elections because his People, us, not only want it, but take MASSIVE actions to support him through, ALL THE WAY to a done, ELECTED US President.

To the citizen who expect and demand the government – the powers that be – to help them, the government WILL! It has done so again and again in the last decades – being Democrat or Replublican – and we are where we are, and we do have the society and the economy the “government” created for us – or more accurately, what we let the government create for us!

This “government” will not give us Ron Paul!

This “government” will not give us Ron Paul! Did you ever noticed this government is called the “federal” government? There is a reason for this! We were not tought at school that “Federal” is a trade name. However, I beg you to look closer, anything having a name that spells with the word “federal” in it, is owned by the same rulers. These are the people who make sure our “federal” government does the job it is paid for! Make sure “we” start endless wars, outsource our jobs, eat food that, bite after bite, bring us closer to the shape people are in, in the Disney movie “Wall-e”, and make sure we take a pill whenever the above make us feel uncomfortable!

Am I connecting dots? Yes! Do you see those dots? Are they real to you? Great! My intention here today is to provide food for thought! We didn’t fail to get Ron Paul elected US President in 2008 because of the Vested Interest! We didn’t fail to get Ron Paul elected because of a conspiracy! We didn’t fail to get Ron Paul elected because the other guys were stronger! NO!

WE DIDN’T GET RON PAUL ELECTED! PERIOD! WE FAILED!

And failing is not bad! Failing is learning! What counts is not how badly or often we fall when hit! What counts is how fast we get back up, and persist!

Blaming others for our failure didn’t give us Ron Paul for President! Did it? So that doesn’t work, does it? When we say “we failed because of them” we give THEM the power. We elect them stronger! But we cannot afford losing this precious power! We cannot afford them being stronger anylonger! So, let’s keep and reinforce our power! Let’s get back up and learn and let’s not repeat our mistakes!

I am sorry if my language is strong and shakes a few stable data! I am afraid though that what happend in 2008 will happen again in 2012. And it will, if WE DON’T CHANGE OUR OPERATING BASIS! FAST!

We have to take “responsibility” for getting Ron Paul elected US President in 2012. And that doesn’t mean blame, shame and regret! It means we are the one who make sure every victory happens, and when it doesn’t, we are to change what WE, Ron Paul Supporters, did, and then not repeat our mistakes and make sure we DO win the next battle!

For example, in 2008, I was a naive spectator, I didn’t do anything effective to help Ron Paul become our next President, and then I hoped that the better one would win and that he would do his JOB as MY President!

Four years later, I know better! I started supporting Ron Paul with some money to help him End the Fed and all the other goodies he says he will do! Then I realized that this was not gonna do. So I started this Fanclub. It is a work in progress, and plenty of links are still to be connected! You can look at it and say “this is not going anywhere!”, but then you’re on your own! And I don’t believe we can afford to be on our own. Which is why I created this Ron Paul Fanclub site and fan page.

Please help me connecting all the fans Ron Paul has ever had, and let’s coordinate and take massive actions.

I have outlined our organizing board (click on the big blue “F” button on the right handside, and then put your cursor on the “train” tag and click on “Organizng Board”. Read it and take action!

I have plans on how we can create the finances needed by Ron Paul for his 2012 Presidential election campaign. More about this coming very soon. And this will not only provide the millions of dollars needed by and for Ron Paul, but it will provide all active Ron Paul Fans with the means to take massive actions and not have to worry about finances. In other words, we are going to provide “paying jobs” to anyone who wants to support Ron Paul and “work”, and as a side effect, show America what kind of effect Ron Paul can create on his people!

We are going to contribute to the nomination and election of an army of delegates in the Republican party – possibly other party too – so as to ensure our candidate Ron Paul is elected!

I have tools and plans to create an army of fans active in this Fanclub so as to achieve our goal!

We are going to bring sanity to our Congress and will help the group TheRouteOut accomplish their purpose.

We are going to man up our Organizing Board so as to accomplish our Mission: Ron Paul elected US President in 2012!

There are actions you can take on an immediate basis to help and start creating the kind of effect we want to create! You can read about some here.

Let’s forget about the old Democrat vs Republican thing. Let’s help Ron Paul become our next US President!

Ron Paul: Restoring The US Constitution

Illegal currencies – per the US Constitution – namely the Federal Reserve Notes – are eventually becoming endengered species.

Ron Paul’s proposed law “Free Competition in Currency Act of 2011,” will soon bring order to the mess created when Congress passed the unconstitutional legal tender laws Congress passed in 1965.

Thank you Sir! You can count on us to help you win the 2012 Presidential elections, End the Fed, recover our country, and restore the US Constitution.

Together we can! Together we will!

See the following article for the details:

“Ron Paul Wants Competing Currencies

WRITTEN BY BOB ADELMANN

TUESDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2011 18:00

On March 15, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) introduced H.R. 1098, better known as the “Free Competition in Currency Act of 2011,” which would repeal the legal tender laws in the United States Code (Section 5103 of Title 31). In its elegant simplicity (the bill is only three pages), it would be the first step to restoring a sound currency by allowing American citizens to choose which currency among competing currencies works best for them.

In his “Texas Straight Talk” for July 11, Paul presented the case for competing currencies and promised that his committee, the House Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee, would shortly hold hearings on his bill. On September 13, the first of those hearing was held with testimonies from Dr. Lawrence Parks, the executive director for the Advancement of Monetary Education, and Dr. Laurence White, professor of economics at George Mason University. In short, Paul told his constituents exactly what he was going to do, and then he did it. It isn’t necessary to iterate how rare such an occurrence is in Washington’s hallowed halls.

Paul said in July, “This bill eliminates three of the major obstacles to the circulation of sound money: federal legal tender laws that force acceptance of Federal Reserve notes; ‘counterfeiting’ laws that serve no purpose other than to ban the creation of private commodity currencies; and tax laws that penalize the use of gold and silver coins as money.” He continued:
Allowing market participants to choose a sound currency will ensure that individuals’ needs are met, rather than the needs of the government. Restoring sound money will restrict the ability of the government to reduce the citizenry’s purchasing power and burden future generations with debt. Unlike the current system which benefits the Fed and its banking cartel, all Americans [will be] better off with a sound currency.

In a speech on the floor of the House in February of 2008, Paul explained why getting rid of legal tender laws was the vital first step towards competing currencies. It would reinforce the Constitutional mandate in Article 1 Section 10 that forbids states from making anything “but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts,” and it would eliminate the unconstitutional legal tender laws Congress passed in 1965.

Explained Paul, “We, the Congress, have the power to enact legal tender laws. We, the Congress, have the power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, but not to declare a legal tender. (emphasis added). Yet, there is a section of [the] US code that purports to establish US coins and currency, including Federal Reserve notes, as legal tender.” Paul added: If people are free to reject debased currency [i.e., Federal Reserve notes] and instead demand sound money, [then] sound money will gradually return to use in society. Merchants would [be] free to reject the king’s coin and accept only coins containing full [precious] metal weight….

In conclusion, Madam Speaker, allowing for competing currencies will allow market participants to choose a currency that suits their needs, rather than the needs of the government. The prospect of American citizens turning away from the dollar towards alternate currencies will provide the necessary impetus to the US government to regain control of the dollar and halt its downward spiral. Restoring soundness to the dollar will remove the government’s ability and incentive to inflate the currency, and keep us from launching unconstitutional wars that burden our economy to excess. With a sound currency, everyone is better off, not just those who control the monetary system.”

There is always a Legal way to get the law to prevail.

Our US Constitution is soon fully restored!

It’s champion is making sure.

How can we help Ron paul? The US Constitution is our most valuable document!

What Are The Effects And Causes Of Inflation?

What are the effects and causes of inflation?

First, Let’s find out what inflation means!
The causes of inflation have always been a terrible confusion to me until I saw the video below! First the word itself seems to mean that something is inflated (filled in with air), but one never seems to find any article clarifying that. Let’s take the following article for example, from John Kevin, “Types of inflation”. In this article, we get the list of the different types of inflation, all very mechanical and theoretical, only adding to the frustration .

Well, let’s clarify this concept once and for all. To Inflate means “Fill (a balloon, tire, or other expandable structure) with air or gas so that it becomes distended.” So, in term of Economy, what is inflated? It is “the amount of currency in circulation”. When a country experience inflation, the amount of their “money supply” – the “paper (fiat) money” which has been printed by that country is what IS INFLATED! MORE is printed. MORE paper is flooded onto the society, so more people and companies can buy “stuff”. The result has always been a rise of the prices of good available in that society. In other words inflation describes a fall in the purchasing power of money. So in ordinary speech, inflation is often taken to mean high prices. How come, I let you see this video. Then you can read the following article and see that now it makes sense!

The title of this video is: The Money That Is Sold Abroad Is You!

Here is the article mentioned early:

“Types of Inflation

Author: John Kevin

Too much money chases too few goods. Inflation refers to the increase in the general price level of goods and services over a period of time in an economy. During inflation, not only the purchasing power of an economy decreases but also supply of money goes down. If inflation is within control then it’s beneficial for an economy however when it goes beyond the pre determined level, it can obliterate the whole economy. One of the major hindrances in the development of third world countries is Inflation.

There can be many Types of Inflation in an economy. Not every economy faces the same type of inflation. One of the major inflation types are discussed below

Types of Inflation

Demand-Pull inflation Demand pull inflation is one of the most important Types of Inflation. This type of inflation refers that the demand for goods and services in the economy is more than now it’s prevailing. It is obvious that when the demand surpasses supply prices of commodity will rise. The prices in this type of inflation will keep on rising until equilibrium is put in place between demand and supply.

Cost-Push Inflation Cost push inflation occurs when the cost of production of goods and services increases. Cost of production increases when the wages of employees increases. In the oil markets, this type of inflation can be promptly observed. When OPEC reduces oil supply, prices are artificially driven up and result in higher prices at the pump. This type of inflation is also known as supply shock Inflation.

Sectoral Inflation Sectoral inflation is also one of the important Types of Inflation. This type of inflation occurs when in a particular sector prices of good and services increases. It is obvious that when any particular sector is affected by inflation not only its employees but also its related [products and services] will also get affected.

Import Cost Push Inflation Import cost push inflation is another type of inflation. When a country is highly dependent upon imports and suddenly the import prices rise, import cost push inflation will occur. This type of inflation mainly occurs in the third world countries. This type of inflation was perceived highly by third world countries in 2008 when the oil prices increased. Import cost push created disturbance in the third world economies.

Hyper Inflation This is also one of the Types of Inflation however it is only perceived after war and it is transitory. Hyper inflation can even tumbles a country’s monetary system. This type of inflation obliterated Hungary’s economy in 1946 when the highest monthly inflation rate was 1.30 x 1016% which is 195% Equivalent daily inflation rate.

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/finance-articles/types-of-inflation-4824294.html
About the Author
Hello I am john an undergraduate student. I like to write articles on different topics. If you want to read my latest articles or Submit free Articles, visit my web.”

Inflation occurs when the central bank expands the money supply

This picture has been found on http://pakplace.blogspot.com/2010/09/inflation-or-rising-prices.html in an article posted by Muhammad Rashid.

We need Ron Paul as President

Luckily, Ron Paul has a good understanding of our economy and what inflation is. We need him to be elected, audit the Fed, as needed bring them to Justice, bring to Justice each and every other “politicians” who have been corrupted and got bribes for taking actions treasonous to America. We need a man of integrity who is going to bring pride back to our country and fix its issues. We need Ron Paul as President! He understands the causes of inflation, he will put our currency, the US dollar, back on a gold or silver standard and he will smooth the pain inflicted by the effects of inflation on our nation.

Let’s Support The Campaign For Liberty! Let’s Finnish The Fight And Audit The Fed Now!

Dear Ron Paul Fans,

I am forwarding here an email I received from Matt Hawes, Vice President of Campaign for Liberty (C4L)

Let’s show our support to the only man with enough integrity and guts to represent his people. Instead of taking bribes from vested interests, he faces the true causes behind the state of our economy. Let’s send a clear and loud message to Congress and provide Ron Paul with the means to nail the most suppressive elements in our society!

Email text:
“With Congress back from its August recess, you and I must send a loud and clear message that it’s time to pass Audit the Fed!

Senator Rand Paul and I have recorded a special message describing how Campaign for Liberty plans to take our fight to the next level, so I hope you’ll listen to it here and help C4L at this critical time.

Just two years ago, Campaign for Liberty’s efforts to require transparency and accountability from one of Washington’s most secretive institutions were dismissed as hopeless.

But with your support, C4L launched a full-on offensive on the Federal Reserve – with historic results.

Now, thanks to a one-time disclosure that would have never happened without C4L members taking action, the American people have learned that the Fed tossed around over $16 trillion – more than the national debt – to benefit Wall Street, well-connected bankers, and the Fed’s international elite buddies at the height of the financial crisis.

You and I know that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what the Fed has been doing with our money in almost complete secrecy.

So it’s more important than ever that we tell Congress to pass the full and thorough audit that over 70% of the American people have joined C4L in demanding.

I hope you can spare just a minute to listen to the special message from Senator Rand Paul and me here – and then take action to help C4L pass H.R. 459 and S. 202 to Audit the Fed.

Thanks to your help, C4L has already accomplished what many thought to be impossible.

Now, let’s finish this fight and expose the Fed’s disastrous policies once and for all.

In Liberty,

Matt Hawes
Vice President

P.S. Campaign for Liberty has taken the battle directly to the main cause of our economic crisis: the out-of-control Federal Reserve.

With Congress back from its August recess, you and I must overwhelm our legislators with a grassroots tidal wave in support of Audit the Fed.

Please, take a moment to listen to a special message from Senator Rand Paul and me here – and then take action to help C4L finish this fight and Audit the Federal Reserve.

Go to this page now:

http://chooseliberty.org/auditrpahf.aspx?pid=0909c

Then come back and leave a comment.

Ron Paul will have to face much evil to salvage the United States economy!

While I don’t share the views of the author of the following article, he presents facts that are frighteningly relevant to the shape of the United States economy. And Ron Paul is probably the only one who will have the integrity to confront the magnitude of the situation.

Let’s take for example the problem of our national budget. We are told that social programs such as Social Security and Medicare, such as the the payment of our teachers and troops salaries are at risk, while we are not shown the figures of what is actually being spent.

Let’s imagine for a minute you have a kid who comes home and tells you you have to give him a higher allowance, or he won’t be able to eat at lunch! What would be your first reaction? Would you fight with your spouse about letting your kid use a credit card, so the poor little one can eat? Or would you look your kid in the eyes and ask him on what he spent the money he was given?

It is time to salvage the United States economy and review what money, in what amount, is going to what pocket. And what we get in exchange for it!

It is time to do some serious audits! Yes, the Fed, but possibly more urgently, the US Treasury! If anyone can show us what the American people got in return to all the trillions they received for their “services” which were results desired by the American tax payers, we will be very grateful! That’s why they have to be audited! But by auditing the US treasury and our national budget, not only will it show us what goes to the Fed – but it will show us what is being paid for what! Yes it is time to show itemized purchase orders. And then, I’d bet we could get the same products and services for a fraction of the requested prices!

Further, I believe that if we had the American people vote yea or nea for each items proposed on the purchase orders, very few would be approved! And the fact that some corrupt politician had promised it should not be a reason to uphold that promiss. Actually, if “justice” was looking into it, and if individuals who had received too much for the value and/or quality of service delivered had to return the extra cash or made to produce consequently, we would probably have large sums of cash available for our more humane needs! And if justice was to look into the eyes of politicians who received bribes for having approved or demanded such extravagant spendings and “demand” they returned the bribes, we possibly would have “NO” national debt!

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“Author: Dwijadas Ghosal

Crisis in World Economy and the proposed New Model for sustainable development.

The ongoing turmoil in world economy raised the doubt that present model of capitalism cannot be sustained for environmental and social reasons. Respected thinkers and scientists have pointed to this reality. Now we should look ahead to a new system that is sustainable and humane. Otherwise whatever wealth is created would be wiped out by environmental disasters and social upheavals. The whole system is complicated by lack of transparency. It is not clear where all the money gets invested. Hedge funds are cloaked in secrecy- even bailout money has disappeared with no effect to the economy. Even now nobody knows which are the real bad toxic assets, so stock market is also not recovering.

In this treatise some key issues in this crisis are discussed and a new model is proposed that will engineer a balanced global society, globally conscious, active and sustainable.

Regarding overpaid CEOs

Let us ponder over some news that captured people’s attention across the globe.
- Washington Mutual Chief Executive Alan Fishman could walk away with more than 18 million dollar in salary, bonuses and severance after less than three weeks on the job as golden parachute from flight WaMu in danger, according to the terms of his employment agreement.
- Lehman Brothers was handing out 23 million dollar to three executives just days before it collapsed. It paid 2.5 BILLION dollar bonus fund after failing.
- CEO of American Express saw his pay go up much more than double although shares price nose-dived.
- Hewlett Packard CEO destroyed half the wealth of her investors and yet still earned almost 100 million dollars in total payments.
- Exactly same is the case with Informix Software CEO.

And the list goes on and on. What does this means? This isn’t a diatribe against CEO pay. Point is failure has become a recipe for financial success of CEOs especially in America by virtue of their intelligent manipulation and abuse of power. Martin Whitman, economist and the great advocate of capitalism opined that apart from corruption, another reason as to why a free market situation is probably doomed to failure is very exorbitant levels of executive compensation.

Regarding free-market economy

I do not think free market is really free. Those who say they favor a free market are speaking in a relative term. In an absolutely free-market economy, all capital, goods, services, and money flow are unregulated by the government. There is simply no free market yet, given the degree of state intervention in even the most capitalist of countries.

For example, US government took an 80% stake in AIG in return for an 85 billion dollar investment to save the company. Recent news of Citi bank is being given a bail out package of 326 billion dollars and Jaguar’s requirement of 1 billion pound for sustaining economic meltdown are significant. Under pure capitalist theory, none of these actions should’ve been taken; the government should have stood by idly while the economy tanked. So how can a free market be free if it’s regulated? The fall out of free market economy such as black Market, underground economy, Drug trade essentially justifies government’s intervention to remedy the situation and establishes the argument against free market as an impractical ideal that engenders vested wealthy interests.

Experiments in absolute adherence to free market principles evince signal failures in Military, Road, Health Care, Civic Amenities, Education, R & D etc. Free- market economy is a fantasy – outside of the bounds of reality in a complex system with opposing interests and different distributions of wealth. Time and again the world is realizing this fact is a harder way. Hence I align with those critics who are in favour of a planned economy as advocated by socialism and who associate markets with greed as the basis of capitalism. I believe it is inherently immoral. More over one practical objection is that free market economy does not take into account the externalities i.e. effects of transactions that affect third parties, such as the negative effects of Global Warming that brought world to Apocalypse in foreseeable future. I guess that in well-run industrial economies like Japan, Singapore and China, there is marriage between government and the private sector, each benefiting from the other. Any temporary prosperity on an extremely austere free market concept can crumble like a pack of cards, like it happened in USA.

Regarding Nationalisation and regulation.

What does the US federal government taking control of financially crumbling mortgage holders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with a bail out package of staggering 800 billion? Why on the earth Fed and other regulators are coming into the picture particularly for some of those that got overextended with the subprime and other kind of mortgage debt? Nationalization occurs when full or partial control is taken of private financial institutions, usually to avert a crisis. Scandinavian nations successfully averted an economic meltdown through nationalization in the early 1990s, and in recent times. US government is taking similar actions. It looked at the global fallouts and how politically they will be viewed by the world powers. So they bailed out finance industries, but not agreeing so easily to the auto industry. These issues are interlinked with power, military, oil.

Regarding mortgage financing

It was the proponents of Capitalism who supported advantage of loan facilities and low interest rates for houses to be owned by people at low income group. There was enormous marketing effort to dupe people into it. Logic was simple. If someone buys a house, he will also buy complimentary household goods like furniture, Fans, AC, Cars etc., creating a demand pull in the economy. Banks also extended the moratorium on interest and principle up to 5 years to convince the borrowers. When crisis occurs, should we brand common people as “lazy bummers”? Similarly it is unfair to blame the common investors for lost speculative fortune when Stock Market is institutionalized by system as a socially and ethically valid means of income.

Regarding targeting CEOs

In our capitalist system, you’re free to earn what you can, and what the market will bear- this logic does not hold water since big companies are increasingly depending on public money for a bail out. Hence I support newest trend of shareholders in raising questions and putting pressure on boards and compensation committees to make sure compensation is fair but not excessive. The interesting News was that US Law Makers asked blunt questions to CEOs like Wagoner, Nardelli, Mulally of GM, Chrysler and Ford who came to the Capital Hill with a begging bowl for 25 Billion of Tax Payers money, when each one of them preferred to fly in their individual Private Jets, when as many as 24 non stop flights fly daily from Detroit to Washington. Lifestyle and salary should definitely be a valid question when companies are using public money. That is why companies are facing “say on pay” resolutions from shareholders. The board of directors should have taken this role, but instead they normally abdicate it. Most CEOs considers keeping board members happy as their primary duties. For example taking the board members on an all-expenses paid trip to a five-star international resort, allowing his compensation to spiral out of control, which is nothing but intelligent corruption and abuse of power.

Myth regarding the CEOs’ ‘sheer value-add’ in the corporate world.

For a company to become successful entails billions of variables, which are oftentimes beyond the ambit of human ability of one individual. Even with our full regard on Narayanmurthy’s ability, we must accept Infosis’s success was primarily on account of flattening effect of world by Internet revolution in 92. Jerry Yang, co founder of Yahoo, considered to be a great CEO, had to step down amid mounting pressure from investors after he botched takeover talks with Microsoft Corp. and failed to broker an online advertising agreement with Google Inc. Many CEOs were rated highly for certain techno bubble, which turned out to be utterly divorced from any business purpose whatsoever. Of course there is positive effect too- it attracts lot of investment and accelerates the pace of innovation. The trophy cases of HP CEO with so many industry awards and accolades were crucified for her destructive reign of terror with “Silicon Valley greed.” Hence it is fundamentally wrong to empower one individual so much for the success and failure of an organization. In Japanese and Chinese model, system is ascribed more powerful than an individual. Once CEOs become all-powerful, their executive staff is reluctant to challenge them. Instead, the natural tendency is for these dominant leaders to become cocooned from reality. They are told only what they want to hear and hear only what they want to be told. Sequestered from the rest of the company, they lose the pulse of the business eventually.

Regarding Capitalism vs. Socialism

By virtue of the extremely clever indoctrination, a spin-off of media advertising especially of US kind, our thought process is getting clouded driving us towards more personal interest, freedom and power than social responsibility. Do we really need large waves of money sloshing daily around the planet for benefit of only a few, waves often generated by speculation capable of dislocating economies? Do we need larger and larger corporations which concentrate economic power into fewer and fewer hands? When seen in this light, capitalism has a shadow side. Economy in its root sense means acquiring the basic material things we need to lead a human life: food, shelter, energy, etc. But this is something quite different than a quest for a so-called higher standard of living. This really is the unending quest for a higher level of consumption. Our material needs are finite. After a certain point we are simply embellishing them. Then we begin to distort them making them the carriers of our own disordered desires. Recent news of bra and panty for men in Japan is the right example for such disorder. We need shelter but we don’t need 50,000 square feet trophy homes when billions of people can’t even afford a shanty. Now we are living in a time when we don’t even feel shame. We have become so much closeted within ourselves that even with the back up of enormous fortune, we feel unsafe with the slightest possibility of economic meltdown. Capitalism propels us to become shameless consumers and run our lives according to the design of the contemporary social machine, which foreshadows world destruction, whereas our true nature favours a life closer to nature. If American Capitalism is a kind of religion with its own dogma, then its God is Money and its driving force is Greed. The fall out of this ruthless system is obscenities of unemployment, homelessness and economic insecurity and hence is not sustainable in its present form. The whole system is designed to make fewer and fewer people richer and richer at the cost of resources of the multitude. It definitely operates below the level of consciousness and no longer works for us. I understand one very simple thing – goods and services generated in an economy must be shared equitably in a population. Otherwise those who will be deprived will take resort to unethical or socially unacceptable means- theft, dacoity, terrorism, drug, killing, cheating, narrow politics and what not. Recent examples of everyday terrorism, Piracy, Mao attacks, dark killing are the pointers to this fact.

Even in USA people are facing dark side of capitalism when blue collar Americans have been losing jobs because of outsourcing and off shoring in the mask of progress for real intention of more profit. What is the social damage? Skills for manufacturing a certain product developed over the years are getting lost in the society. Capitalist countries use capitalist ideals as a matter of convenience. When Government owns hospitals, libraries, transportation systems, utilities, army, Navy, Air Force, forests and national perks- yet, who would call these institutions examples of socialism? Socialism means a government in which the people collectively own and democratically operate the industries and social services through an economic democracy by ending the waste, duplication and inefficiency of capitalist industries. Under capitalism the industries operate for one purpose – profit maximization. As per Capitalism profit is also a cost, cost of staying in the business. Under Socialism goods are produced for use and to satisfy the needs of all the people. Under this system everyone could live comfortably with no giant gaps between rich and poor. Is it not really humane? Just because a system is not strictly as per lower merits of human nature say greed, it should not be rejected. Socialism talks about higher sense of our human values and existence. After Industrial resolution act 1956 in India, socialistic pattern of economy in India has produced wonderful developments in sectors till seventies. Hence we can infer that Socialistic system can produce wonderful results under certain conditions and social environment. However I do agree classical form of Socialism may not take into account of the Individual brilliance and creative pursuit, which is probably its one of its weaknesses.

The New Model

Having said this, we should find out whether there can be a balance between the two systems and what kind of mechanism society should develop so that one can approximate the ideals of good life in his individual life and in the life of community of which he is a member. I feel it is possible to have our modern global economy while being socially, culturally & environmentally responsible at the same time. Society has go through a difficult paradigm shift in personal values, which will instill a degree of awareness in our mind as opposed to the blind, materialistic way we are living.

I have thought of one model that will engineer a balanced global society that is globally conscious, active and sustainable. Way out is to lead humanity by the collective wisdom of most talented people in a society or country- a kind of meritocracy. Mechanism to harness collective wisdom will be – say for any policy and contentious issue, opinions of most eminent people of the country will be collected by a network of computers and looking into the wisdom of eminent people who are most knowledgeable on the subject under consideration, decision can be made in real time. Their services can be hired at a cost; they can be selected based on the track record etc. Decisions can be taken in National forum if discussion and debate are warranted. Experiments, research and its implications can be interpreted by eminent people only and that is why collective wisdom as instrumentality for decision support system may be a model worth trying for. One may argue country does not need only dry knowledge culled from books. There must be leaders to make certain things happen. Yes leaders are required. But a leader can be chosen by collective wisdom, which should be supremely empowered. A leader will resort to collective wisdom for at least for major decision. The collective wisdom is likely to veer country to right direction. Humanity has to go though different experiments and whatever evolved as better model will be accepted and perfected in course of time. We should never be blind to state that capitalism or the socialism is the right system with dogmatic finality.

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About the Author

The author is a senior executive in Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and lives in Kolkata with his wife and daughter. He is a Mechanical Engineer with Masters degree in Business management and has 22 years’ of experience in cutting edge technolgies in different companies in India and abroad.

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Help Ron Paul Fix The United States Economy

The United States Economy is in trouble. And if one man can fix it, it is Ron Paul.

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We can get Ron Paul elected, we can do something about it, and when we are acting together and take massive actions, we will as a nation fix the United States economy.

Remember, the difference between victims and heroes, is only a difference in viewpoint, and in what actions we take.

If you stress over the economy, read the following article by Barbara Merola. It contains many good tips. They will make you feel better. As a Ron Paul fan though, I would put your attention on points 1, 3 and 4.

- Altruism is not a luxury any one can have any longer! It must be obvious to all by now, that none of us will make it alone! If others don’t care for you, you’ll very soon loose your job, loose your health, loose your loved ones, loose your life. Life is a two way path: you help others, and they in turn will help you.

- a clear goal, with doable targets that will move you closer to your ideal scene. As Ron Paul fans, our goal is Ron Paul elected President in 2012. Doable and finite! Join us and take actions! we have very easy and doable targets you can execute which will create the effect we want!

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Here is what Barbara offers:

“8 Ways to Stop Stressing Over the Economy – This Economy is the Result of Our Greed. Don’t Let History Repeat Itself”

By Barbara Merola

No matter what your situation: unemployment, no credit for your first car or home, paying for college while holding down two part-time jobs and a full course load, rapidly depleting savings, or a mounting workload, you’re not alone. Everywhere you turn people are feeling the same pinch, some more so then others. If you challenge yourself to follow these eight steps and remember that nothing lasts forever, not even this dismal economy, you’ll be back on your feet in no time. I promise.

1. Volunteer at a shelter or soup kitchen. Since you cannot spend what you used to for entertainment and sitting at home catching up on shows is depressing, use the free time to spend an hour a week with the less fortunate. Next time you get down on yourself because your savings in gone and you might lose your job, remember the people you met that don’t even have a hot meal or a warm bed. Altruism is your new mantra.

2. Remember it is only a recession. When I was a kid, my great-Uncle Eddie, who lived with us, always cleaned his plate at dinner – beets, anchovies and all. I would throw a fit about eating so much as peas. When I asked Uncle Eddie how he could eat everything his response was simply, “we didn’t always have food.” Call up an elderly relative and ask for a story from The Great Depression – that should put things in perspective.

3. Reassess your goals. Think about a major goal you would like to accomplish in the next 6-9 months: graduating, loosing 15 pounds, securing your first job, etc. Cut out a picture from a magazine or find a picture of what you want and take an actual picture with your camera. Frame it. Put this framed picture somewhere you will see it everyday and each time you pass it make a point to do something that will bring you a step closer to reaching that goal. Goals are only achieved when their champions commit to reaching them everyday.

4. Seize opportunities. Every opportunity is a chance to bring you closer to reaching your goal. When I’m on the job hunt I tell everyone: people chatting me up in a bar to random people at the gym. I once got a job interview after talking with a friend’s ex-girlfriend at a dinner party.

5. Take rejection in stride. Every successful person has heard “no” countless times and is no stranger to rejection. These people hear opportunity knocking in the midst of rejection, not an imminent setback. The old adage, “when one door closes, one more opens,” applies only to those that open the door for themselves. If you understand you need to create opportunities for yourself, rejection will always be an opportunity, not a setback.

6. Foster healthy relationships. No matter what kind of stress you’re under you will need family and friends to make you laugh, support you when go out on a limb, and help you through the tough times. Don’t take these people for granted and make sure they know how much you appreciate them.

7. Give thanks. Count your blessings everyday – not just when you’re at church or at Thanksgiving dinner. Remind yourself everyday just how lucky you are.

8. Have Faith. I can still hear my Mom saying to me when I was sad or stressed, “this too shall pass.” It will. Have faith that you will look back in a few years and smile to yourself – you made it through and you’re stronger, smarter, and more successful for it.

About the Author: Barbara Merola is an expert on how to respond to challenges by taking control of choices. She provides young adults tools to achieve desired results and successfully reach goals no matter how great the challenge through training sessions and speaking engagements. Visit www.barbaramerola.com