Daniel Taylor – “A Tyranny That Goes Straight to the Soul”

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A Tyranny That Goes Straight to the Soul
“…despotism corrupts the person who submits to it far more than the person who imposes it.”

Daniel Taylor | September 15, 2008

Alexis de Tocqueville observed the American way of life, government and politics when the country was still young in 1835. His observations show that while there are new problems and social issues today, many of them have haunted this country since its early days.

Tocqueville’s observations, in his own words, will be biting and offensive to some Americans, but this is only because the truth in what he says cannot be avoided. He saw a new kind of tyranny rising that was more effective than brute force, a tyranny that went straight to the soul.

Michael E. Young – “Bullet analysis casts doubt on lone gunman in JFK assassination”

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/091408dnmetjfkbullets.da2836.html

Bullet analysis casts doubt on lone gunman in JFK assassination

Michael E. Young | September 13, 2008

Use the latest scientific techniques to poke a hole or two in official findings on the Kennedy assassination and suddenly you have lots of new friends – and lots of enemies.

Dr. Cliff Spiegelman of Texas A&M University is the leader of a team of scientists who investigated bullets from the same manufaturing lot as those used by Lee Harvey Oswald during the assassination of JFK in 1963.

Forty-five years after President John F. Kennedy was killed in a Dallas motorcade, the details surrounding his death remain topics of endless debate for those who see conspiracies and those who disagree.

Cliff Spiegelman will testify to that.

Adrian Ash – “Central Banks Drowning in US Dollar Seek to Expand Gold Reserves”

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article6136.html

Central Banks Drowning in US Dollar Seek to Expand Gold Reserves

Adrian Ash | September 5, 2008

ONCE UPON A TIME money meant gold (and ever less silver), freely exchanged between private individuals looking to buy and sell, invest and spend.

But then came the 20th century.

There had been experiments with “fiat money” before. Most famously in 13th century China , 18th century France and Civil War America , paper was issued as currency without gold (or silver) to back it. There was no gold content or value, just the promise – dictated by emperors, kings and army commanders – that other people would accept it in payment.

The foot-soldiers would make sure of that. So you’d better accept it, or else.

Paul Hein – “By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/hein/hein194.html

By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them

Paul Hein | August 18, 2008

For those of us who question the necessity, or desirability, of government, the incessant media blather about the November election is depressing. How can the people who listen raptly to this campaign news possibly take it seriously? In the lifetime of anyone alive today, has any election made a significant difference? If the President were to take his oath of office seriously, would it matter who he was? Or, if, as is the case, he ignores his oath of office, does it make any difference who he is? In my long lifetime I have seen American government grow increasingly totalitarian, regardless of election results. Whether the elected are liberal, conservative, Democrats or Republicans, the trend is increasingly leftward.

The idea of government is so ingrained that most people have simply never given a fleeting thought to the possibility of life without it. Like disease, it’s been around forever. In school we might have learned something of ancient Greece or Roman history, but what we learned was not the life of a typical Greek or Roman, but the activities of Greek and Roman governments, and their battles for control. In short, the study of ancient – and not so ancient – civilizations is the study of war, without which history books would be little more than pamphlets.

Jeffrey A. Tucker – “Truth in the Coin Shop”

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Truth in the Coin Shop

Jeffrey A. Tucker | August 12, 2008

You are uptown in a shopping district of a small community, and you pass by the meat shop, the wine shop, the coffee shop, two churches side by side, a coin shop, an antique store … and hold it right there.

A coin shop? This is irresistible, because, as implausible as this may sound, all political truth can be found in a coin shop. And not just political truth: you find in here the story of the whole of modern life on exhibit, and learn more from looking than you find in a multivolume history.

There they are on display: coins from all lands. Why are they worth more than the coins in your pocket? Because they are old? That’s part of it but not the essence of it. There are some new coins here that are also just as valuable as the old ones.

William L. Anderson – “The American Police State”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson222.html

The American Police State

William L. Anderson | August 11, 2008

In the past six years, I have written a number of articles, papers, and columns about how any pretense of the rule of law in the United States is dead. This was not always the position I took, but after reading the hardback version of The Tyranny of Good Intentions in 2001, I realized that not only were the people who were officially entrusted with keeping the law in this country not interested in fulfilling their duties, but that the very nature of law itself in the USA has fundamentally changed. That change, unfortunately, has been for the worse. I wish I had more comforting words.

Paul Craig Roberts, an economist and a former assistant secretary of the Treasury during the Reagan administration, and Lawrence M. Stratton, an attorney and currently a Ph.D. candidate in Christian Ethics at Princeton Seminary, have exposed the modern U.S. legal system for the wretched lie that it has become. From the fraud of the “War on Terror” to the destruction of ancient legal doctrines, Roberts and Stratton document the death of law in the United States.

Michael J. Sniffen – “Ford told FBI about panel’s doubts on JFK murder”

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iErCx7wVHvfDTY7TxptshYbOtYRwD92ESEF00

Ford told FBI about panel’s doubts on JFK murder

Michael J. Sniffen | August 12, 2008

Former President Ford secretly advised the FBI that two of his fellow members on the Warren Commission doubted the FBI’s conclusion that John F. Kennedy was shot from the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository in Dallas, according to newly released records from Ford’s FBI files.

Ford, still a congressman at the time, also told a senior FBI official about internal panel disputes over hiring staff, Chief Justice Earl Warren’s timetable for completing the final report on the assassination and what panel members said about the FBI.

Ralph Raico – “Hiroshima and Nagasaki”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/raico/raico22.html

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Ralph Raico | August 6, 2008

This excerpt from Ralph Raico’s “Harry S. Truman: Advancing the Revolution” in John V. Denson, ed., Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom (Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2001), is reprinted with permission. (The notes are numbered as they are because this is an excerpt. Read the whole article.)

The most spectacular episode of Truman’s presidency will never be forgotten, but will be forever linked to his name: the atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and of Nagasaki three days later. Probably around two hundred thousand persons were killed in the attacks and through radiation poisoning; the vast majority were civilians, including several thousand Korean workers. Twelve U.S. Navy fliers incarcerated in a Hiroshima jail were also among the dead.87

Thomas J. DiLorenzo – “How the West (Except for the U.S.) Ended Slavery”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo146.html

How the West (Except for the U.S.) Ended Slavery

Thomas J. DiLorenzo | August 6, 2008

When Jim Powell wrote an article for the Web site “History News Network” (HNN) regarding his new book, Greatest Emancipations: How the West Ended Slavery, he was immediately denounced by some of the commentators on the site. One Lewis Bernstein said he was sick and tired of “those like Jim Powell” distorting history and taking it “out of context.” John Edward Phillips accused Powell, a senior fellow of the CATO Institute, of being a liar: “You think you can lie . . . and get away with it,” he snarled. “Maybe you can at the Cato Institute . . . but not here on HNN.” “Does the Cato Institute endorse it [the book]?, he asked in disbelief.

Reverend Ted Pike – “Israel’s Founding – ‘Miracle’ Or Land Grab?”

http://www.rense.com/general82/found.htm

Israel’s Founding – ‘Miracle’ Or Land Grab?

Reverend Ted Pike | August 4, 2008

Recent articles in Israel’s daily Ha’aretz sharply criticize Israel’s failure to effectively punish violence of Israeli settlers against Palestinians.

Ha’aretz says of Jewish settlers that “the coexistence approach often seems to make way for violent struggle that aims to deprive the Palestinians of their land.” Jewish settlers “openly discuss their intention of making the lives of Arab residents a misery and pushing them out” Israeli media has reported a number of violent attacks by settlers on Palestinians this spring. Yet Ha’aretz complains, “Even those that are heard by a court usually end in acquittal or a light sentence.”

Fiona Govan – “Knights Templar heirs in legal battle with the Pope”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/2495343/Knights-Templar-heirs-in-legal-battle-with-the-Pope.html

Knights Templar heirs in legal battle with the Pope
The heirs of the Knights Templar have launched a legal battle in Spain to force the Pope to restore the reputation of the disgraced order which was accused of heresy and dissolved seven centuries ago.

Fiona Govan | August 4, 2008

The Association of the Sovereign Order of the Temple of Christ, whose members claim to be descended from the legendary crusaders, have filed a lawsuit against Benedict XVI calling for him to recognise the seizure of assets worth 100 billion euros (£79 billion).

They claim that when the order was dissolved by his predecessor Pope Clement V in 1307, more than 9,000 properties as well as countless pastures, mills and other commercial ventures belonging to the knights were appropriated by the church.

But their motive is not to reclaim damages only to restore the “good name” of the Knights Templar.

Lewis Page – “Old ships’ logs show temporary global warming in 1730s”

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/04/ships_log_climate_change/

Old ships’ logs show temporary global warming in 1730s
Records interrupted only by looting of treasure galleons

Lewis Page | August 4, 2008

A climate prof noted for data mining of archived ships’ logs has produced further insights into global warming. Dr Dennis Wheeler of Sunderland Uni says his latest analysis shows sudden warming of the North Atlantic and Europe – much like that seen in recent times – during the 1730s.

This, Wheeler believes, shows that widespread rises in temperature of the kind recorded lately can be caused naturally. He thinks that human-caused carbon emissions are contributing to climate change now, but says it is unwise to link human emissions to specific events unless evidence is very strong.

“Global warming is a reality, but what our data shows is that climate science is complex and that it is wrong to take particular events and link them to CO2 emissions,” Wheeler told the Times at the weekend.

John P. Curran – “JFK Vs The Federal Reserve”

http://www.rense.com/general76/jfkvs.htm

JFK Vs The Federal Reserve

John P. Curran | April 19, 2007

On June 4, 1963, a virtually unknown Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110, was signed with the authority to basically strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest. With the stroke of a pen, President Kennedy declared that the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business. The Christian Law Fellowship has exhaustively researched this matter through the Federal Register and Library of Congress. We can now safely conclude that this Executive Order has never been repealed, amended, or superceded by any subsequent Executive Order. In simple terms, it is still valid.

Karl Schwarz – “The World’s Foremost Terrorist – The US Government”

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The World’s Foremost Terrorist – The US Government

Karl Schwarz | July 30, 2008

This article will explain to you why the Totally Screwed-Up US Strategic Plan for the Caspian Basin has backfired and created a “megatrend” against America that may well be the doom of our nation.

Any country willing to spend 30 years lying, conniving and scheming – and blow over $3 trillion (reported) on nothing – is pretty damned stupid or desperate. In the case of American policy, I submit, both apply…and we can, with no effort, add in DELUSIONAL.

There is nothing that George W Bush, McCain or Obama can do to change the tide now…for it has turned into a tsunami against America. The Grand Chessboard game is over, finished, and the US has lost in a rout. Our nation has blown through trillions of dollars (of new debt) with little to nothing accomplished to pursue a bogus, contrived war that was designed to take over in excess of $15 trillion in Caspian Basin oil and natural gas. The sheer cost of the failed ‘war’ and scheme to take over the Caspian Basin has ruined the value of the dollar, buried the US in debt and a myriad of ancillary problems, skyrocketed the cost of oil, utilities, food, and shredded the reputation of the United States around the world. By any measure, it is a catastrophe.

William Hughes – “Why Was JFK Murdered?”

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Why Was JFK Murdered?

William Hughes | July 19, 2008

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, TX, as the result of a conspiracy. Why did the Shadow Government decide to eliminate him? We now know he wanted to get U.S. troops out of South Vietnam. JFK had also been taking on Wall St. and The Fed. He threatened to disband the CIA and close tax loopholes beneficial to “Big Oil” and the multinationals. JFK made a lot of powerful enemies–one too many!