Words are too important for words to describe. In the right diabolically clever hands, they can become the most powerful weapons -- and it is indeed through word manipulation that free peoples are being willingly put in change wholesale the world over. The System doesn't have to send police door-to-door to get the masses to toe the communist party line in ameriKa -- their word tricks have enabled Insiders to write the public mind like a computer program!
Weapons of mass destruction -- once a cause for killing astronomical numbers of innocent people, Bush lied, people died.
Pay your fair share -- submission to a purely communist form and level of income taxation becomes your patriotic duty, and resistance is universally held to be not only futile but evil!
Democracy -- simply because of endless repetition of the word by politicians and schoolteachers, ameriKans vainly imagine they actually do have representative government. For centuries!
Republican Party -- sounds like it favors republican forms of government, but actually works to crush them all day every day, here and abroad.
Democrat Party -- despite the name, it's one of the bitterest and most destructive enemies the best democratic priniciples ever had.
Natural flavoring -- food manufacturers now have legal clearance to apply this term to MSG and other EXCITOTOXINS in packaging your food!
War against terror -- in the first place, you can't have a war against an emotion. In the second, this is the biggest terror operation in history.
Welfare -- a "program" created for the express purpose of paying certain people to bred as many dependent, soulless, drug-addicted criminals as humanly possible.
Social Security -- the tool with which politicians buy older voters and pauperize younger ones.
Mind you, if you're reading this and collecting government relief, it's likely because you know of the fraud and have decided that if government is going to keep throwing billions of dollars in the trash, you might as well pull some out along with the leeches -- especially since government has vampirized you all your working life long.
Words matter. Word studies matter. We're going to continue doing lots of them. This morning one Kevin Carson is cleaving light from darkness on some of the same ground I've recently been covering in Charlotte PN meetings:
http://libertarianalliance.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/american-exceptionalism-or-its-not-state-capitalism-when-america-does-it/
“American Exceptionalism;” or, It’s Not State Capitalism When America Does It
by Kevin Carson
http://c4ss.org/?p=9633
Auburn University philosophy professor Roderick Long coined the term “conflationism” for the tendency to confuse the free market — whether in accusatory or apologetic polemics — with actually existing capitalism. Left-conflationism is the practice of attacking the evils of actually existing corporate capitalism as if they were the result of “laissez-faire” or the “free market.” Right-conflationism is the mirror-image defense of the status quo, as if “the imagined virtues of the imaginary freed market constitute a justification for the reality of existing corporatist capitalism” — that is, cloaking the defense of corporatism in “free market rhetoric.”
The January 21 issue of The Economist, which is dedicated to the theme of “State Capitalism,” is a stellar example of right-conflationism. The writers equate “State Capitalism” to some degree of state ownership and/or control of business firms competing in the marketplace, or to what used to be called “industrial policy” (i.e. government directing investment funds to those it regards as economic “winners”).
State Capitalism includes the Chinese model, in which the state organizes the Chinese equivalent of vertically integrated zaibatsu and reserves a major share of seats in senior management for government officials; Russian-style kleptocratic or oligarchical capitalism; and the petrostate State Capitalism in which the state directs petrodollars into state-favored development projects.
Such forms of “state-directed capitalism,” of course, are contrasted with the wholesome Anglo-American model of “liberal capitalism.” You know — what Mitt Romney calls “Our Free Enterprise System.” The ’80s and ’90s, it seems, were an era of “free market triumphalism” under the Great Helmsmen Thatcher and Reagan.
Well, not quite. So-called “liberal capitalism” has its own “reserved chairs,” it seems......
I POSTED THIS IN THE WRONG FORUM YESTERDAY.....
http://www.thestatecolumn.com/arizona/ron-paul-wins-arizona-republican-party-straw-poll/
Ron Paul wins Arizona Republican Party straw poll
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul won the Arizona Republican Party straw poll Saturday, according to the official straw poll website of the Arizona Republican Party. Although the Arizona Republican presidential primary is not scheduled to take place until February 28th.
Here it is -- Ron got more than ten times as many votes as Newt in second place?
http://www.thestatecolumn.com/arizona/ron-paul-wins-arizona-republican-party-straw-poll/
Ron Paul WINS Tennessee Republican Assembly Straw Poll
The Results:
Ron Paul 200 votes
Rick Santorum 62 votes
Newt Gingrich 38 votes
Mitt Romney 15 votes
Jon Huntsman 1 vote
for more info and pics
http://www.tennesseeforronpaul.com/2012/01/ron-paul-wins-ten...
Tennessee has seemed to slanting toward Santorum lately. I think mainly because Santorum tries to come across as "Mr. Morals" in the debates ...remember, we're in the 'Bible Belt' here.
However, thankfully conservatives are starting to do the homework and look at voting record and military support of Ron Paul to see he is really the 'true conservative'
The following via Patriot Update. How about those tepid, half-baked, obviously phony assertions by Donald Trump that Mitt can be trusted to "stop allowing bad things to happen to ameriKa"? WHAT IS THIS, the buddy system -- I'll lie about you during the campaign so you can influence the fedgov to give me tax breaks etc. etc. once elected?
I really want to THROW UP, but it will do no good -- there's another round of the same bleep every day for the last two years of every presidential term. In other words, HALF OUR LIVES!
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Romney Backed by Goldman Sachs, Bailout Banks
The top donor to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, investment banking and securities firm Goldman Sachs, received over $10 billion in emergency lending and bailouts from the Federal Reserve after the 2008 financial meltdown, according to public sources and published reports.
Goldman backed Obama for election in 2008, and the firm, like many Wall Street institutions, is now backing Mitt Romney for president.
Romney has long had a close relationship with Goldman Sachs. In 1999 Romney purchased initial IPO shares in Goldman that netted him $1.1 million in profits when he sold them in 2010. And The New York Times recently reported that "many of the assets in Romney's blind trust" are managed by Goldman.
Today, Goldman is Romney's largest donor. And nine of Romney's top 20 campaign contributors are big Wall Street Banks like Goldman. But Goldman leads all Romney contributors, having donated $357,200 to his campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. And six of those nine top contributors received over $161 billion in taxpayer bailouts, reports ProPublica, the independent, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative organization.
Goldman doesn't contribute directly to candidates like Romney, but does so through its employees.
Romney's ties to Goldman have already become a campaign issue. During Thursday's CNN debate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stated that Romney profited from millions he invested in a Goldman Sachs fund that relied heavily on investments in the mortgage-backed securities linked to the 2008 implosion on Wall Street. Romney said he personally didn't direct the investment, which he said was made through his trust.
Still, Romney's close ties with Goldman will continue to nag his campaign.
ProPublica says that the The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., received over $782 million in emergency lending from the Federal Reserve. On Jan. 17, the investigative site reported that the total of taxpayer bailouts received by Goldman tallied a whopping $10 billion.
The relationship between Goldman and Romney goes far beyond its patronage of his campaign. The firm has reportedly managed significant assets of Romney's in his blind trust.
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Romney's relationship with Goldman dates back at least to 1999, when he purchased 7,000 shares of Goldman's initial public offering. The release of those shares was tightly held, and were largely unavailable to ordinary investors.
According to a May 1999 BusinessWeek story, "few of the public shareholders were folks who happened to be lucky enough to snare a few shares."
One potential political landmine for Romney: Personal financial disclosures from May 2011 indicating he and his family invested millions in a Goldman Sachs fund that invested heavily in mortgage-backed debt obligations.
There have been growing indications that Romney's ties to Wall Street would be subjected to intense scrutiny in a general election campaign especially the Goldman Sachs fund he invested in that benefited from the housing collapse.
Romney's disclosure forms show that he invested between $1 and $5 million in the fund, and his wife Ann invested another $1 million plus.
The report is based on Romney's May 2011 personal financial disclosures, which indicates significant investments in the "Goldman Sachs Strategic Income Fund (institutional class)." Approximately 24.5 percent of that fund is reportedly invested in mortgage-backed obligations.
Romney's profit taking through his Goldman fund investment remains a sensitive subject in Florida, one of the states hardest hit by the housing meltdown. Romney's Goldman fund invested in some of the biggest culprits in the housing meltdown, including Bear Stearns, Countrywide, IndyMac and Washington Mutual.
In October, Romney ran into trouble on the foreclosure issue, when suggested the remedy to the turmoil in the real estate market is "don't try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom.
On Tuesday, Romney stood before a foreclosed home and promised a small crowd of Floridians that he would encourage financial institutions to help homeowners. But he also partially defended banking institutions' role in the mortgage crisis.
"In this case, it's because of the banks," he said, according to a FoxNews.com report. "Well, the banks aren't bad people. They're just overwhelmed."
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By comparison, only one of the top 20 contributors to GOP rival Newt Gingrich's campaign is a bank: Wells Fargo donated $5,900 to the Gingrich campaign through Sept. 30.
Then-candidate Barack Obama received strong support from Wall Street in the 2008 cycle. But so far this cycle, the only financial institution listed among his top 20 donors is Goldman Sachs. It contributed $50,124 to his re-election campaign.
Analysts say Wall Street's lackluster financial support for the president's reelection campaign reflects the pinch they're feeling on profits due to the Dodd-Frank financial regulations reforms he has championed.
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