PEOPLE For Mathematically Perfected Economy™ [PFMPE™]

Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they set naught at books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most, when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free, and never was free again.

[Only a people understanding and standing resolutely for representation, dissolve the risk to those who would deliver it.]

The problem with the world is that everyone thinks they can get something for nothing. That's what usury is all about. But once usury is permitted, everyone must become a usurer to keep up with everyone else. It's a problem with the system, not any one person or group of people. The only way to stop it is make a law against it.

It's actually nice to realize that all the evil in the world is caused primarily by the system, not any particular people (although there certainly are evil people). This way, one doesn't have to hate and blame anyone else for all the problems in the world. We just have to try to educate people.

Another thing is that usury is morally wrong in that if I lend you three gold coins, you should only have to pay me back three gold coins, not four gold coins. Bankers will argue that there is a time value to money, which is why they charge interest, but this is false.

The creditor could easily use the debtor's "IOU three gold coins" as money worth three gold coins in a business transaction, so there is no loss to the creditor. The creditor charging four gold coins for lending three gold coins is really the same as the creditor taking one gold coin from the debtor.

In the wake of a party platform which explicitly declared that if they were returned to power by the 1912 election the Democrats would not create a central bank, within the very first year of the Wilson presidency the people were betrayed by 1913's creation of the very thing they had voted down.

The dark history surrounding that event is well enough known; and yet it is not even necessary to know of it to understand the potentials, vulnerabilities and consequences of the issues at play. But because interest is even the only intrinsic process introduced by the imposed system, we know then that the very purpose of the private entities which were so carefully cloaked in the guise of federal offices was to multiply debt upon us for unlimited profit, come whatever may.

The purpose of the so called Federal Reserve System then was only that a currency subject to interest would require us to perpetually maintain a vital circulation by re-borrowing interest and principal as ever escalating debt. Thus even by reducing availability of the perpetual stream of credit which is necessary to perpetually replenish the circulation, the pretended monetary system was inadvertently given the further power to impose immediate collapse by deflation.

The so called Federal Reserve could withhold credit or make credit unaffordably expensive to deflate the circulation. So by this ready, facile power of deflation, the parasitic entity could take direct possession of vast indebted assets, as debtors deprived of a vital circulation could only fail to service their debts.

As the day unfolded, because there are no other reasons or purposes, this would be how and why they would perpetrate the first so called Great Depression.

The private so called Federal Reserve Banks therefore took this place at the core of the nation with the very purpose of unearned profit by these means — the very license to which then is to lift all ethical restraints from their fundamental opposition to any and every society which tolerates usurers to issue their currency.

The very deceptive name of this enmical, parasitic entity then is a practically necessary part of an incredible, purposed deception; and the only possible real purpose of all this is as much as to cast the nation to the fate not only of illimitable unearned taking from it, but terminal taking by a currency which can only multiply said consequences to no effect whatever but eventual collapse.

The stock/"securities" market bubble of the 1920s of course was the same kind of thing we see today. It was only a false manipulation of ostensible value, accomplished by aggressive short term lending to debtors, drawing them in to the allure of buying and selling "securities" again and again at ever higher prices than the original purchase. If these private "banks" did not already own the subject property, an obvious and very evident purpose of course would be that this false manipulation of value could soon be terminated by withholding the vital further credit necessary to service the debts of the false bubble itself. The related circulation would thus deflate, and the "banks" would immediately become the real owners of the contested property.

Thus amidst the false bubble of an ostensible stock market boom comprised merely of liberally free, unjustifiable masses of credit, Republican presidential candidate Herbert Hoover promised permanent prosperity:

"We have not yet reached the goal, but given a chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon, with the help of God, be within sight of the day when poverty will be banished from the nation."

So said Herbert Hoover in his speech accepting the Republican nomination for President on August 12, 1928, a mere year before the private so called Federal Reserve Banks would cease the credit to sustain servicing their false bubble's debts, thus orchestrating their intended multiplication of debt into a mass take — a coup de grace at the imposed end of the first 15-year lifespan of their system of usury.

As we routinely refer to the whole related phenomena as the [First] Great Depression, we strip a man made, man caused, man sought, wholly artificial event of terminology which would even allude to its iniquitous nature.

And so, to mere unwarranted hopes of equally or even more hapless and inept supporters, Herbert Hoover registered one of the most preposterous, indelible lies of history. Furthermore, as is the case for any political quest which ignores or does not solve the real causes of whatever issues face us, the rest of the country and world, however impertinent, would suffer with them, only to one day many years off, merely re-commence the march to inevitable failure in the end of a second inherently limited lifespan of the very same iniquitous system — a system now proven, and in fact even then proven, to have one consequence only.

Hoover spoke for most middle-class people. They only thought the American dream of unlimited plenty was close to fulfillment. The huge industrial machine which had begun building up during the Civil War had reached fantastic heights of mass production. Assembly lines poured out products by the millions, while advertising stimulated the consumer to buy them. From privy, ice-box, and buggy the country moved almost overnight into the New Era of bathrooms, electric refrigerators and automobiles. Washing machines, vacuum cleaners and telephones promised to make life easier and more convenient. Homemade amusements gave way to radio and the movies. American business and American salesmanship had in fact put the nation aboard an express train rushing toward permanent prosperity, but the permanence of the prosperity which indeed we would have achieved otherwise itself hinged on the sustainability and propriety of the monetary system to which it was subject.

Failing to understand the facade of a monetary system which had been imposed upon them, they never dreamed the inertia of their train could be stopped by withholding credit. They never dreamed that their interdependence in fulfilling the multiplying obligations imposed upon them itself meant that over night, the withholding of credit even in one critical sector would bring the rest down like a house of cards.

Nonetheless, a little careful study would have made all that so clear that a national union would have existed which not only understood and foresaw these probable calamities, but recognized how serious it indeed remains that we unite upon nothing less than absolute solution.

Real leadership means to correctly define the actual problem — and then — to correctly prescribe the actual solution.

The attention of the soldier should not be deviated by HAVING to consider the right or wrong of his actions. The soldier should not be distracted by self doubt and/or guilt or hopelessness in his actions. If he is called upon to kill or die on behalf of his country, he needs to see his actions as necessary and valuable, and ultimately justified in the eyes of God. This cannot be a mere fiction. It must be the actual reality, or in time, the soldier will lose his will and his courage, feeling himself to be unauthorized to take life as he is asked.

Congressman Wright Patman, Congressional Record, September 29, 1941, pgs 7582, 7583

Now, take the Panama Canal bonds. They amounted to a little less than $50,000,000 - $49,500,000. By the time they are paid the government will have paid $75,000,000 in interest in bonds of less than $50,000,000. So the government is paying out $125,000,000 to obtain the use of $49,500,000. That is the way it has worked all along...

Now, I believe the system should be changed. The Constitution of the United States does not give the banks the power to create money. The Constitution says that Congress shall have the power to create money, but now under our system we will sell bonds to commercial banks and obtain credit from those banks. We do not receive money for the bonds...

I believe the time will come when people will demand that this be changed. I believe the time will come in this country when they will actually blame you and me and everyone else connected with this Congress to sit idly by and permit such an idiotic system to continue. I have talked to the Secretary of the Treasury and members of the Federal Reserve Board and other people who are supposed to know about the money system of our country. They know this can be done easily and conveniently, and it will save money; but their one reply is, "It will have a bad psychological effect." Well, I do not think it would have a bad psychological effect to save the people 50 per cent of their national debt. I do not think it would have a bad psychological effect to save the people over a billion dollars a year in interest. I do not think it would. It certainly would have a bad effect on the people who are collecting interest on the Government's money.

The US Congress has been subverted by intimidation and ignorance, maybe bribery. Regulators and law enforcement bodies are mere accomplices. The entire US banking system has undergone an unprecedented grand nationalize initiative, including the financial system, when considering the mortgage and insurance giants. The total bailouts are huge when put into perspective. This is a hidden coup, complete with deep fraud, corruption, and ruin for both prosecutors and whistle blowers. The US Dollar is caught in the middle of a black hole scrambled with fraud. Paulson is the new Chancellor of US Inc, Bernanke the new Currency Lithography Manager, and Sheila Bair the Investment Banker (a la Goldman Suchs). Paulson assumes all powers over the financial state from the president, via the banking industry control.

The lies, deceit, backroom pressure, and fleecing of the American public is deep. Take the Emergency Economic Stability Act. Most of the initial $250 billion outlay was NOT devoted to American bankers, but rather to foreign bankers, primarily in Europe and England, and to purchase preferred US bank stocks.

The citizen is sovereign only when he can retain and enjoy the fruits of his labor. If the government has first claim on his property he must learn to genuflect before it. When the right of property is abrogated, all the other rights of the individual are undermined, and to speak of the sovereign citizen who has no absolute right to property is to talk nonsense. It is like saying that the slave is free because he is allowed to do anything he wants to do (even vote, if you wish) except to own what he produces.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

The need for a "leader", a "president, king, emperor, or prophet, messenger, or representative of a GOD" is very strong in human history — and a failed doctrine as history will attest.

In 1840 the newly formed "Republic of Texas" called all of the Plains Tribes "Chiefs" in Texas (mostly Comanche) together for a "peace conference." When they were gathered in the "Council House" the Texans changed the rules of negotiations and when the Comanches protested and desired to withdraw, the Texans opened up on them with newly acquired Colt Revolvers, killing more than thirty Comanche Chiefs who had arrived as agreed, unarmed. This began what history would later record as the most bloody period in the history of both the Texans and the Comanches. It also altered the Comanche leadership approach. From that day forward, no man was called a Chief by the Comanche. From that day forward ALL Comanches were chiefs.

They learned from the "Council House Massacre." They were successful, and in 1868 after forty eight additional years of bloody war, the US capitulated at the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek — they surrendered to the Comanche, in every way.

The Comanche were later defeated by the fact that they had allowed themselves to be confined on relatively small tracts of land (which later became even smaller, and then disappeared altogether), disarmed and dismounted.

They made the same mistake TWICE (a deadly formula when dealing with Americans / Christians / Civilized People), but they succeeded where no other tribes had, by realizing that there is no real need for leaders — only those who carry out the decisions of the majority, FOR the majority — something modern humanity if it ever learned, has abandoned for the present aberration in "leadership" which has led to destruction and disaster except for a few.

The USA never has been an "example for all to follow," but it could be — simply by learning from the mistakes of the past, and changing the mistaken behavior. It could be a refreshing change from history’s long accounting, if the present US administration were to become the negative example for all time — it’s up to us all. There may not be enough time left for any more mistakes like these.

From its beginning, the USA has always been under the control of "special interests." In the eighteenth century, it was slavery/agriculture, and the beginning of the industrial revolution; in the nineteenth century it was the railroad "tycoons" and industrial "robber barons." In the twentieth century, it was big oil and big business.

The American people in the twenty first century can either make the choice to be the "negative" or the "positive" example for history — by making very important and essential changes in the leadership technique — which would be an example of true power.

Or they can piss it all away and wait for Jesus to rescue them — from themselves.

I am one of the descendants of one of those Comanches present for the 1868 Medicine Lodge Creek Treaty. I still do not have a "Chief." Nor do I need one.

The solution is in numbers of people aware of possibilities. Once PFMPE™ has a critical number of advocates, then the impossible becomes possible. PFMPE™ creates nanowaves that do not go away.

Seventh. The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that – however bloody – can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave.

On general principles of law and reason, the treaties, so called, which purport to be entered into with other nations, by persons calling themselves ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators of the United States, in the name, and in behalf, of "the people of the United States," are of no validity. These so-called ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators, who claim to be the agents of "the people of the United States," for making these treaties, can show no open, written, or other authentic evidence that either the whole "people of the United States," or any other open avowed, responsible body of men, calling themselves by that name ever authorized these pretended ambassadors and others to make treaties in the name of, or binding upon any one of, "the people of the United States," or any other open, avowed, responsible body of men, calling themselves by that name, ever authorized these pretended ambassadors, secretaries, and others, in their name and behalf, to recognize certain other persons, calling themselves emperors, kings, queens, and the like, as the rightful rulers, sovereigns, masters, or representatives of the different peoples whom they assume to govern, to represent, and to bind.

The "nations," as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much myths as our own. On general principles of law and reason, there are no such "nations." That is to say. neither the whole people of England, for example, nor any open, avowed, responsible body of men, calling themselves by that name, ever, by any open, written, or other authentic contract with each other, formed themselves into any bona fide, legitimate association or organization, or authorized any king, queen, or other representative to make treaties in their name, or to bind them, either individually, or as an association, by such treaties.

Our pretended treaties, then, being made with no legitimate or bona fide nations, or representatives of nations, and being made, on our part, by persons who have no legitimate authority to act for us, have intrinsically no more validity than a pretended treaty made by the Man in the Moon with the king of the Pleiades.

"When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket, and then that society vanishes in a spread of ruins and slaughter. Do you wish to know whether that day is coming?

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce, you need permission from men who produce nothing — when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors — when you see men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you — when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice — you may know that our society is doomed.

Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot. Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence."

"Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment, and nothing can help you escape it — that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life — that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence."

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default — by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

"If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the default of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell."

"If, in order to escape the responsibility of moral judgment, a man closes his eyes and mind, if he evades the facts of the issue and struggles not to know, he cannot be regarded as 'gray'; morally, he is as 'black' as they come."

"Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel."

"Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries."--

"The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of its followers but the confusion of its enemies. To fight it, we must understand it."

These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world... and then we fucked up the end game.

He said Mr. McCain was out of touch with the problems of everyday Americans. "It’s not because John McCain doesn't care," he said. "It's because John McCain doesn’t get it."

[True enough. But the question is, has either potential next president of the United States accounted for irreversible multiplication of debt, so that any program they might grant temporary favor will succeed where every aspect of industry will ultimately and soon fail under terminal indebtedness?]

I don't think it's good policy for a President or President-Elect to second-guess Fed policy, which is an independent body.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Whoa, have no fear for atomic energy,
Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it's just a part of it,
We've got to fulfill the book.
Won't you help me sing,
These songs of freedom?
Cause all I ever had...
Redemption songs.
All I ever had.
Redemption songs.
All I ever had.
Redemption songs.
These songs of freedom.
Songs of freedom.

RE: Another bank failure — it must be Friday — have a great weekend! (Georgia regulators close Integrity Bank, 10th bank to fail, Friday, August 29, 2008 8:31 PM)

Having been on the RTC's (FDIC resolution subsidiary) takeover crews in the '80s and having baby sat banks awaiting takeover in the '90s, I know a couple things.

First, a bank doesn't go on any list that's so big as might panic the public (hence not Citi or Wachovia). The big ones will qualify for very confidential resolution (as in the huge Texas S&L taken by BoA in the late '80s).

Second, the vast majority won't be able to find an acquirer without at least technical takeover (FDIC puts up cash and wipes out equity) and they certainly won't be able to sell stock.

And third, after they're into the discount window, the only thing that prevents their getting the rude visitation on Friday at 5pm from about 40 FDIC takeover employees is there aren't enough of those takeover crews to get the job done in one weekend; er, and a Congressional appropriation to cover the losses that the FDIC can't absorb. I bet they need about 50 crews right now based on the reported extent of discount window borrowing — and have only a couple.

WASHINGTON — For years, a Congressional hearing with Alan Greenspan was a marquee event. Lawmakers doted on him as an economic sage. Markets jumped up or down depending on what he said. Politicians in both parties wanted the maestro on their side.

But on Thursday, almost three years after stepping down as chairman of the Federal Reserve, a humbled Mr. Greenspan admitted that he had put too much faith in the self-correcting power of free markets and had failed to anticipate the self-destructive power of wanton mortgage lending.

"Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity [versus sustainability], myself included, are in a state of shocked disbelief," he told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

PFMPE™

Of course, "markets" are hardly free if they are subject to a currency which can only multiply indebtedness into terminal sums of debt. In fact all along the way to terminal failure, true producers are deprived to ever greater degrees of just compensation for their production, until of course they are dispossessed even of the opportunity and their right to produce.

But the purported humility therefore is a lie. Greenspan isn't about to support rectifying the system of its inherent faults. On the contrary, while he feigns apology, he means to ensure the perpetuation of that unjust system. Every president since and including Gerald Ford was offered the opportunity and way to resolve these issues via mathematically perfected economy™. None answered, and particularly Mr. Greenspan, not only because they all knew then that they were wrong, but because despite being wrong, they intended instead to perpetuate the irreversible multiplication of that unearned taking.

We, the government of the United States of America, have decided to return the sovereignty of your minds and bodies to you, the citizens of this great republic. We know that there are many who will disagree with this decision, preferring that the government retain rights of ownership regarding the minds and persons of adult individuals. We are prepared to face the reality that those who disagree with the granting of various previously circumscribed personal freedoms will perhaps muster sufficient votes to defeat us at the ballot box. This does not concern us as much as does the usurpation of the most basic of personal rights by those elected to serve rather than to rule. We are convinced that the herd mentality enforced by the assumption unto ourselves of the preventative administration of those rights is not the plan of those who framed our constitution and, as sworn servants of that Constitution, we resolve to cease the levying of criminal sanctions on the exercise of personal preferences in regards to victimless activities of all description. It is our devout hope and firm belief that there is no alternative to the non-obstruction of full mature adult choice in matters of personal discretion if the citizenry is to come to the full maturity appropriate to dealing with the very real problems that face us as a people. Thank you and God Bless America.

You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is The Hour.

Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know our garden.

It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.

This could be a good time!
There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold on to the shore.
They will feel like they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.

Know the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off toward the middle of the river,
Keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.

See who is there with you and celebrate.
At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves!
For the moment we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.

The time of the lonely wolf is over.
Gather yourselves!
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

An elder Cherokee was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, "A fight is going on inside me... It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, pride and superiority. The other wolf stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. This same fight is going on inside of you, and every other person too."

I am only one. I can not do everything, but I can do something. And because I can not do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."

The majority is rapidly becoming disenfranchised by a stampede of mortgage foreclosures and resultant crash of real estate equity; by fuel prices that compel independent truckers to abandon their rigs on the highway; by a shut tight job market and so forth. Businesses are closing. Construction has come to a halt. And all the disenfranchised are hamstrung by increasingly lunatic legislation and irrational and intrusive ordinances. If anyone in government were inclined to address these and a multitude of similarly bleak issues, they would have the support of the majority. Government of the status quo, by the status quo and for the status quo would yield to government of, by and for the people.

REGARDING "ECONOMIC" PROGRAMS OF THE ENTIRE FIELD OF 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES (Ron Paul included)

REGARDING ALL THE "ECONOMISTS" SUDDENLY RENOUNCING SYMPTOMS, SYMPTOMS, SYMPTOMS... REFUSING TO PRONOUNCE PFMPE™'S THESIS OF INHERENT MULTIPLICATION OF DEBT AND INHERENT SOLUTION

They can't be that dumb. They are just selling the market short, as well as their countrymen.

In swing-state Colorado, the Republican Secretary of State conducted the biggest purge of voters in history, dumping a fifth of all registrations. Guess their color.

In swing-state Florida, the state is refusing to accept about 85,000 new registrations from voter drives — overwhelming Black voters.

In swing state New Mexico, HALF of the Democrats of Mora, a dirt poor and overwhelmingly Hispanic county, found their registrations disappeared this year, courtesy of a Republican voting contractor.

In swing states Ohio and Nevada, new federal law is knocking out tens of thousands of voters who lost their homes to foreclosure.

My investigations partner spoke directly to Barack Obama about it. (When your partner is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., candidates take your phone call.) The cool, cool Senator Obama told Kennedy he was "concerned" about the integrity of the vote in the Southwest in particular.

It's time SOMEBODY raised the alarm about these missing voters; not to save Obama's candidacy — journalists should stay the heck away from partisan endorsements — but raise the alarm to save our sick democracy.

Bush is so far away from his refugee loser roots that he just doesn't get what it is to be American. So he steals the one thing that every American is handed off the boat: a chance. When they take away your Social Security and overtime and tell you sleeper cells are sleeping under your staircase, you don't take a chance, you lose your chance, and the land of opportunity becomes a landscape of fear and suspicion, an armed madhouse.

You want to say that George Bush is an evil sonovabitch? I'd go further: he's UN-AMERICAN.

Went to see the captain, strangest I could find,
Laid my proposition down, laid it on the line.
I wont slave for beggars pay, likewise gold and jewels,
But I would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools.

Ship of fools on a cruel sea, ship of fools sail away from me.
It was later than I thought when I first believed you,
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools.

Saw your first ship sink and drown, from rockin of the boat,
And all that could not sink or swim was just left there to float.
I wont leave you drifting down, but whoa it makes me wild,
With thirty years upon my head to have you call me child.

Ship of fools on a cruel sea, ship of fools sail away from me.
It was later than I thought when I first believed you,
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools.

The bottles stand as empty, as they were filled before.
Time there was and plenty, but from that cup no more.
Though I could not caution all, I still might warn a few:
Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools.

Ship of fools on a cruel sea, ship of fools sail away from me.
It was later than I thought, when I first believed you,
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools.

It was later than I thought when I first believed you,
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools.

You might think I'm getting senile, that I've gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore.

The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we're fiddling in Iraq , the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving 'pom-poms' instead of asking hard questions. That's not the promise of the 'America' my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I've had enough. How about you?

I'll go a step further. You can't call yourself a patriot if you're not outraged. This is a fight I'm ready and willing to have.

Leaders are made, not born. Leadership is forged in times of crisis. It's easy to sit there with your feet up on the desk and talk theory. Or send someone else's kids off to war when you've never seen a battlefield yourself. It's another thing to lead when your world comes tumbling down.

On September 11, 2001, we needed a strong leader more than any other time in our history. We needed a steady hand to guide us out of the ashes. A Hell of a Mess, so here's where we stand. We're immersed in a bloody war with no plan for winning and no plan for leaving. We're running the biggest deficit in the history of the country. We're losing the manufacturing edge to Asia, while our once-great companies are getting slaughtered by health care costs. Gas prices are skyrocketing, and nobody in power has a coherent energy policy. Our schools are in trouble. Our borders are like sieves. The middle class is being squeezed every which way. These are times that cry out for leadership.

But when you look around, you've got to ask: 'Where have all the leaders gone?' Where are the curious, creative communicators? Where are the people of character, courage, conviction, omnipotence and common sense?

Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo?

We've spent billions of dollars building a huge new bureaucracy, and all we know how to do is react to things that have already happened.

Name me one leader who emerged from the crisis of Hurricane Katrina. Congress has yet to spend a single day evaluating the response to the hurricane, or demanding accountability for the decisions that were made in the crucial hours after the storm.

Everyone's hunkering down, fingers crossed, hoping it doesn't happen again. Now, that's just crazy. Storms happen. Deal with it. Make a plan. Figure out what you're going to do the next time.

Name me an industry leader who is thinking creatively about how we can restore our competitive edge in manufacturing. Who would have believed that there could ever be a time when 'The Big Three' referred to Japanese car companies? How did this happen, and more important, what are we going to do about it?

Name me a government leader who can articulate a plan for paying down the debit [sic, "debt"], or solving the energy crisis or managing the health care problem. The silence is deafening [or Google mathematically perfected economy™]. But these are the crises that are eating away at our country and milking the middle class dry.

I have news for the gang in Congress. We didn't elect you to sit on your asses and do nothing and remain silent while our democracy is being hijacked and our greatness is being replaced with mediocrity. What is everybody so afraid of? That some bonehead on Fox News will call them a name? Give me a break. Why don't you guys show some spine for a change?

Are Americans unusually stupid or is it something our President put in the water? As millions surrender their homes and sacrifice other standards of our nation's economic and political reputation to the caprice of the Bush-Cheney imperium, a majority of voters tell pollsters that they might vote for a candidate who promises more of the same.

Because the #1 requirement to be a Republican nominee is to be a dimwit and for a Democratic nominee to be a smart feel-good BSer. Born-and-bred American dopes have to fight it out between a dimwit and a BSer. And these dopes want to export their political system to the world!

Watching the American political football safely from high up in the bleachers (a precaution when dopes fight it out in a brawl),

Americans ARE screwed because they do have the worst government that money CAN buy.

The best evidence of a bad econo-political system is that it breeds bad behavior by constantly encouraging it and rewarding it, sometimes merely by not punishing it. Long enough encouragement of bad behavior starts to breed bad people from top to bottom. It develops into a bad culture.

The bad system in America keeps getting “badder” and badder every day. If you are optimistic about America’s future you need to visit a shrink. If you harbor fantasy of Obama changing the system for the better you are delusional. Obama’s election is a confirmation of the bad system. The same also applies if McCain had won. Only bad person can be elected to be the President and only a really bad man can be appointed as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Business Crooks, led by Bankrupters and Fraudsters of New York City (BFNYC), who hold the real power in America, demand that only a corrupt and corruptible person hold these positions of power!

"The most amazing part of the discussion was the opinion that no wage inflation mitigated the asset inflation. I think this is the very cause of the current problem.

FED policy that exacerbates inflation while benefiting wall street will make the problem significantly worse.

In south west Florida in Naples, Sarasota and Tampa — the stores are having half price sales and the stores are still empty!

Sears is going to offer a 30% discount on Kenmore appliances and that still won't clear inventory.

How is it that economists of this stature don't seem to recognize that the bottom 60% (perhaps higher...I am guessing about this) of wage earners contribute significant amounts to GDP through their purchases and they are out of money?

My brother in law is selling a trailer/camper and has put an add in the paper. His phone is ringing off the hook from people who want it to have a place to live!"

Quote: "Costco and other grocery stores in California reported a run on rice, which has forced them to set limits on how many sacks of rice each customer can buy. Filipinos in Canada are scooping up all the rice they can find and shipping it to relatives in the Philippines, which is suffering a severe shortage that is leaving many people hungry.

While farmers here and abroad generally are benefiting from the high prices, even they have been burned by a tidal wave of investors and speculators pouring into the futures markets for corn, wheat, rice and other commodities and who are driving up prices in a way that makes it difficult for farmers to run their businesses.

'Something is wrong,' said National Farmers Union President Tom Buis, adding that the CFTC's refusal to rein in speculators will force farmers and consumers to take their case to Congress.

'It may warrant congressional intervention,' he said. 'The public is all too aware of the recent credit crisis on Wall Street. We don't want a lack of oversight and regulation to lead to a similar crisis in rural America.'" End Quote.

Note to Tom Buis: You cannot stop crack-up boom behavior with price controls any more than you can stop a tsunami with a sand bar.

When you peel back the curtain on Oz, you discover that all the magic has been created through the illusion of inflation from utilizing the dollar as the world's reserve currency coupled with massive deficit spending on non-consumption, non-investment.

And like Oz, once the curtain has been pulled back and the reality exposed, the magic disappears.

Posted by: Winston Munn | Apr 27, 2008 12:24:03 PM, to "The Big Picture" article, "Nobel Laurelates on the Economy," April 27, 2008

Dollar to fall to metals in upcoming rallies, rate hikes soon wont be able to fix economic problems, real inflation understated for years, USDX contracts plummet, why aren't people fleeing from the stock market... Exchange Traded Funds are a disaster, losses from global write downs, Fed still invited to intervene in spite of failures...

The dollar has once again collapsed. Get ready for the next dollar debacle and the coming rally in gold and silver which have just broken out. The elitists have lost all credibility. The would-be lords of the universe have told so many pathological lies that no one "in the know" believes anything emanating from the forked tongues of Buck-Busting, Bear-Bashing, Big-Ben Bernanke and Hanky Panky Paulson. If our Fed Head and Treasury Secretary had been characters in the Walt Disney movie entitled "Pinocchio," their noses would have quickly grown to lengths that could have been wrapped around the earth's equator several times. God would have had to reverse the earth's rotation to extricate them.

When you believe in things that you don’t understand, and you suffer — superstition is the way.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways. The first is to ruin them; the second, for the conqueror to go and reside there in person; and the third is to allow them to continue to live under their own laws, subject to a regular tribute, and to create in them a government of a few, who will keep the country friendly to the conqueror.

How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.

Our enemies never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people; and neither do we.

I have enough sympathy for anybody in that position that I wouldn’t say he’s mentally deranged: I feel sorry for him. I think he must know that he’s going to go down in history as the most incompetent president since Buchanan. He came to the White House knowing nothing about national and international policy and consequently relied on Washington veterans — who proved to be incompetent ideologues who got him, and the country, into very deep trouble. Now he’s in a hole, and I’m sure he doesn’t know what to do and has that hopeless, helpless feeling.

I think Bush didn’t have a view of America's role in the world until after 9/11, and then it was provided to him by those around him in power. They had two big ideas: One was to depose Saddam and use Iraq as a base to pacify, in an imperial way, the Middle East, and to control its oil. The second big idea, carried over by the vice-president and the secretary of Defense, was that of the unitary presidency. It also fits in with a kind of messianic belief on the part of the president that he did have a great purpose in life even though he had up until that time not discovered that, and his great purpose was to destroy international terrorism and overthrow dictators and spread democracy.

I think he's not totally delusional. The escalation is the last gasp. He had to give it, in his own mind, one more try. The most interesting thing he said was about a year and a half ago: "This war will not be solved in my presidency." And that was his exit strategy, I think. He had concluded that he did not expect to achieve success.

He clings to a thought that in 20 or 25 years, history will maybe prove him right, and people will say he really knew what he was doing. But throughout all of this, he has seemed so blithe and casual about death and destruction. It would have kept me awake at night. I don't know how he does it. He must just turn it off.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we are being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I am liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which they live is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it.

To take action in the face of a corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one's self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker, but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

The next time you hear the cost of the Iraqi invasion, remember that Jesus Christ NEVER asked us to kill anyone. There has never been a Christian war. Only wars by organized churches who still blind the sheep.

At the University of Chicago Divinity School each year they have what is called "Baptist Day." On this day each one is to bring a lunch to be eaten outdoors in a grassy picnic area. Every Baptist Day the school would invite one of the greatest minds to lecture in the theological education center.

One year they invited Dr. Paul Tillich. Dr. Tillich spoke for two and one-half hours proving that the resurrection of Jesus was false. He quoted scholar after scholar and book after book. He concluded that since there was no such thing as the historical resurrection, the religious tradition of the church was groundless, emotional mumbo-jumbo, because it was based on a relationship with a risen Jesus who in fact never rose from the dead in any literal sense. He then asked if there were any questions.

After about 30 seconds, an old, dark skinned preacher with a head of short-cropped, woolly white hair stood up in the back of the auditorium. "Docta Tillich, I got one question," he said as all eyes turned toward him. He reached into his sack lunch and pulled out an apple and began eating it.

"Docta Tillich..." crunch, munch... "My question is a simple question..." crunch, munch... "Now, I ain't never read them books you read..." crunch, munch... "and I can't recite the Scriptures in the original Greek..." crunch, munch... "I don't know nothin' about Niebuhr and Heidegger..." crunch, munch. He finished the apple. "All I wanna know is..."

Patiently hearing the doctor's response, the white-haired preacher dropped the core of his apple into his crumpled paper bag, looked up at Dr. Tillich and said calmly, "Neither have you tasted my Jesus."

The 1,000 plus in attendance could not contain themselves. The auditorium erupted with applause and cheers. Dr. Tillich thanked his audience and promptly left the platform.

The responsibility for wars falls solely upon the shoulders of these same masses of people, for they have all the necessary means to avert war in their own hands. In part by their apathy, in part by their passivity, and in part actively, these same masses of people make possible the catastrophes under which they themselves suffer more than anyone else. To stress this guilt on the part of the masses of people, to hold them solely responsible, means to take them seriously. On the other hand, to commiserate masses of people as victims, means to treat them as small, helpless children. The former is the attitude held by genuine freedom fighters; the latter that attitude held by power-thirsty politicians.

The process of deception has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary.

"Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage — torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."

"We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Washington, DC — The government's General Account Office reports that $1.6 Billion of the taxpayer bailout money given to banks, has been spent on executive bonuses, stock options and country club memberships!

This grotesque and reprehensible mis-use of our hard-earned tax money has caused me to blow a gasket in anger. Who the hell do these rich banker fucks think they are to use our tax money in such a way after they literally BEGGED us for help, claiming their banks would go broke without it?

The government reports that 600 banking executives got the money. If I had my way, I would ask 600 of my fellow taxpayers to walk up to each of those 600 bankers and punch the living shit out of them wherever they could be found.

"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists."

No matter what we attempt to do, no matter to what fields we turn our efforts, we are dependent on power. We have to evolve means of obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever. If we use fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations.

A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague.

I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security — out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

No man survives when freedom fails, the best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Gradually by selective breeding the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost a different species. A revolt of plebs will become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy.... It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.

Beware of the leader who bangs of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double edged sword. It emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.

When the drums of war have reached a fervor pitch, and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader, and do it gladly so.

The real isolationists are those who impose sanctions and embargoes on countries and peoples across the globe... and who choose to use force overseas [purportedly] to promote democracy... a counterproductive approach that actually leads the U.S. to be more resented and more isolated in the world.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

All our lauded technological progress — our very civilization — is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm, but because of those who abide by the harm without doing anything.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Perversion means many things in many dictionaries, but in reality it points at people that confuse and fail to separate the matters of nature, society and spirit. Since most either do not acknowledge or understand the third (spiritual) they miss all of the spiritual reality and mix it in with nature and social values (civilization), and that is perversion.

In such a mess, people fail to differentiate between natural and social values, in which case they again miss both together and we all find ourselves in the state of a primate surrounded by technology that he does not understand, a primate who is governed by fear, greed, violence and sex. Such a beast needs to be controlled by the law, and we will end up in a society with hardly any personal liberties and most of all we will lose our individualities, which is of the spirit and referred to as the soul. Hence, losing one’s soul means losing one’s individuality.

All and everything known to us belongs to one of the three realities known to us: the nature, the world (various societies, civilizations, laws) and the spirit. Failing to recognize what belongs where will prevent you from seeing and understanding anything on this site and everywhere you live and walk. It’s not an issue of good and bad, or just or unjust, fair or unfair, right or wrong, but an issue of sight: to simply see what’s what and where it belongs.

"Freedom is never an achieved state. Like electricity, we must keep generating it, or the lights go out. We now witness a fire sale of American liberty at the bargain basement price of the false promise of security. The America being designed this moment will not resemble the America we have been defending. The danger is not that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans will not realize he is already inside the castle walls."

The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Silence comforts the tormenter, never the tormented.

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."

FDIC Severely Undercapitalized To Handle Coming Bank Failures — Monday, July 28, 2008, 3:10:00 PM EST

Because all of us here at JSMineset care, here is the FDIC and SIPC missive from this weekend.

FDIC Insurance quoted by all banks to calm the fear of depositors is another exercise in smoke and mirrors. This can be seen in the recent commentary from FDIC on last week's takeover of the insolvent banks, First National and First Heritage.

The FDIC notes that this bailout cost only $862 million dollars, or 0.30 percent of the $13.4 trillion dollars insured at approximately 8500 insured institutions.

We know the FDIC had net assets of $53 billion before IndyMac, which according to the FDIC will cost them between $4 billion and $8 billion. Taking the lower estimate and last week's double-header, the FDIC's available assets would have been reduced from $53 billion to $48 billion. We therefore have $48 billion in available funds guaranteeing $13.4 trillion in deposits. By rounding out the total FDIC assets, they represent 0.35% of what is insured.

This amounts to a vastly undercapitalized insurance company that makes outrageous claims, guaranteeing all US depositors up to $100,000 through 8,500 institutions.

I estimate that with the failure of one more major bank and ten reasonably sized regional banks, the FDIC will be screaming for additional capital. That is monetizing bankrupt banks. This is true because the funds will come from public money.

Think about the other smoke and mirror game called SIPC that your broker assures you will take care of any loss in client assets, which is capitalized at $1.5 billion. Any of the big 6 has more than that in customer assets. It is possible that just one account at one of the big six has that amount alone.

You might consider all the calming brokers speaking about the additional insurance they carry for their clients, written to the firm for the benefit of their clients, even though your name is not on it. Now we all trust our brokers to do right by us, don't we?

I wonder how long a bankruptcy judge would take to distribute the secondary funds to clients. I am sure it would take at least a few years.

If such an event were to occur, I imagine the dollar would be confetti by the time of distribution.

Because we fear the responsibility for our actions, we have allowed ourselves to develop the mentality of slaves. Contrary to the stirring sentiments of the Declaration of Independence, we now pledge "our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor" not to one another for our mutual protection, but to the state, whose actions continue to exploit, despoil, and destroy us.

Declaration of Arbroath — a reply to the excommunication of Robert the Bruce for recapturing Berwick, as sent to Pope John XXII on behalf of the community of the realm of Scotland, 1320 A.D.:

"It is not for glory or riches or honours that we fight, but only for liberty, which no good man will consent to lose but with his life."

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

And as far as your mayor is concerned. I should say their mayor. A man named Yorty.... a professional liar. A professional liar... who has mastered the art of using half truths... put it in the paper that they broke into our religious place of worship and got records that they can use to prove that most of us have criminal records. You can't be a Negro in America and not have a criminal record. Martin Luther King has been detained. James Farmer has been detained. Why you can't name a black man in this country who is sick and tired of the Hell that he has been catching who hasn't been to jail....

They put Moses in jail. They put Daniel in Jail. Why you haven't got a man of God in the Bible that wasn't put to jail when they started speaking out against exploitation and oppression.

They said he was against Caesar. They said he was discriminating, because he told his disciples, go not the way of the gentiles, but rather go to the lost sheep. He discriminated. Don't go near the gentiles. Go to the lost sheep. Go to the oppressed. Go to the downtrodden. Go to the exploited. Go to the people who don't know who they are. Go to the people who are lost from the knowledge of themselves, and who are strangers in the land which is not theirs. Go to those people. Go to the slaves. Go to the second class citizen. Go to the ones who are suffering the brunt of Caesar's brutality.

"There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic laws on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one in a million is able to diagnose."

"Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders ["Federal Reserve" System and related "central banks"]. The accounts of the Federal Reserve system have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States."

Speech upon the Right of Election, 1790. (Speeches. Dublin, 1808.) as quoted in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, NY, 1953, p 167 and also in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Boston, 1968, p 479:

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principles.