Ah, a ironia da coisa...

FBI agent says Hussein lied about having WMD to intimidate Iran

We are all keynesians now...

"The Keynesian Corner", By Robert Murphy, Townhall.com

"The truly depressing feature of all the stimulus talk is that even someone as knowledgeable as Treasury Secretary Paulson believes a rebate is only good if the recipients “spend” it, rather than using it to pay down debts. Here we see the true insidiousness of the Keynesian mindset: In a time of recession, when we need to tighten our belts, the politicians encourage us to go buy new cars and plasma screen TVs. The idea seems to be that if we all just ignore the recession, it will get bored and go away."

PS: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson - President's Working Group on Financial Markets.

Mais do "Mr Bomb, bomb Iran and more 100 years in Iraq"

McCain Warns: "There Will Be Other Wars"

PS: Um dia destes anda a alguém distraído se sai com uma sobre os 1000 anos de Reich, sorry, de liberation.

Ron Paul e a "old wisdom" dos "founding fathers"

Rise of the Ron Paul Republicans

"In 1802, then-President Thomas Jefferson wrote the following in a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin:

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

[... "standing armies" e espalhados por todo o mundo e - monetary - "inflation" é o que mais têm, Jefferson conhecia a história de Roma...]

Thomas Jefferson's words are proving prophetic indeed. Today, the economic bubbles created by the Fed have resulted in massive foreclosures across the country while China and Saudi Arabia, sitting on trillion-dollar sovereign wealth funds, snap up major interests in marquee American companies. America, once the world's greatest creditor nation, is now its greatest debtor.Jefferson also stated in his letter to Secretary Gallatin that

"the issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

Ron Paul, as well as the tens of thousands flocking to his campaign, is saying precisely the same thing: By legalizing competing currencies we can end the Federal Reserve's monopoly on our money supply and begin to restore value to the dollar."

Arab propaganda wrong about Israel

Arab propaganda wrong about Israel It is not uncommon for pro-Arab propaganda to accuse Israel of engaging in "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians. The only deliberate ethnic cleansing known to the undersigned is the eviction in 2005 of 10,000 Israeli Jews from their homes and communities in Gush Katif, Gaza. There is a looming threat of further expulsion of 240,000 Israeli Jews from Judea and Samaria (the West Bank). This is the declared goal of the Palestinian Authority under the "moderate" Mahmoud Abbas. The perverse idea here is the creation of yet another Arab state, the 23rd in number, completely cleansed of Jews, while the state of Israel continues to be the democratic host to 1.2 million Arabs. Israel was designated a Jewish state by the League of Nations and the United Nations. There are 22 Arab countries, one of which, Jordan, is 78 percent Palestinian. Therefore the question before the world's jury should be: Do the Palestinians deserve a second state in addition to Jordan? UN Resolution 194 (clause 11) proposes, among other solutions, the resettlement of Palestinian refugees outside Israel and the payment of compensation. Clearly, the natural venue for them is Jordan. Arabs' incessant anti-Israel propaganda has managed to implant tremendous confusion in people's minds. There is a difference between civil rights to privately owned property and political rights to a sovereign state. Nobody is denying West Bank Arabs ownership of their titled private lands. There is only one Jewish state. Its survival depends entirely on viable and defensible borders. Those who propose the creation of yet another Arab state in Judea and Samaria, thus rendering Israel nine miles wide, clearly have a single goal in mind: the demise of Israel. These are the real ethnic cleansers.

Yuval Zaliouk Maumee
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Yuval Zaliouk is an orchestra conductor with extensive experience in Israel, Europe and the United States.

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By Yuval Zaliouk August 12, 2006
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January 22, 2008
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Real Americans

(i think i´m in love. PS: fotografia com copyright)

Ron Paul slams stimulus package, Fed rate cuts

Via LRCBlog: Jan 27, 2008 (LBO) – Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul has slammed a US economic stimulus package based on tax-refunds and called for fiscal prudence and less Federal Reserve money printing, which caused the current turmoil in the first place.

Talking to Fox News television Paul asked where the money for the tax refunds - the cornerstone of the Bush administration stimulus package - was coming from.

"Where is the money coming from? We don't have any money over here in Washington," Paul told Fox News's Your World with Neil Cavuto.

"We have consumed everything we have gotten. So, we either have to borrow it from China or we print the money, which is inflationary. So, I'm opposed to that."

Paul says Federal Reserve moves to cut rates would further hurt the US dollar. Paul, a congressmen representing Texas, is also on the House Financial Services Committee and the Joint Economic Committee. He is a strong advocate of sound monetary policy.

The sub-prime bubble he points out was caused by rates as low as one percent maintained by the Fed under Alan Greenspan which led to reckless lending and a property bubble. Now the Fed was giving its own 'stimulus' by cutting rates.

"This is a bit of a fiction, too, because the problem comes from artificially low interest rates," he pointed out.

"And we can't solve the problems of a weak dollar by printing more dollars."

"So, I think the dollar is still going to remain under attack, because you can't solve the problem of too much credit stimulus by more credit stimulus, because it will just lead to a weaker dollar. And I think they [Fed] are between a rock and a hard place."(...)"