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Are published government economic statistics meaningless? Reality-facing economist reveals the invalidity of using GDP (Gross Domestic Product) as a legitimate measure of the US economy’s health. Misleading unemployment numbers are also attacked. Is there an agenda behind using these faulty indicators or is it just ignorant tradition?
More on John Williams:
ShadowStats.com Shadow Government Statistics Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting
1. He’s dead serious about real freedoms. Other politicians just talk “freedom” with no action or further explanation.
2. He actually sticks to his principles. He’s not a flip-flopper, not lying all the time to be popular for the moment like most politicians. Step back and take a good look at the other GOP candidates. Do they have a lifelong history of being genuinely pro-freedom and pro-constitution? Do you really think that just because they talk more freedom and constitution now (because it’s more popular) that they would stand by these principles in office? I want to vote for the one who stood by his principles when it wasn’t popular at all and was hated and called crazy by most. Ron Paul says and stands for what he believes, regardless of the negative fallout. What do you want, truth, or more BS?
4. He believes in questioning US foreign policy. If you don’t believe in at least questioning US foreign policy, you don’t care much about the lives and limbs of our soldiers, let alone innocent victims in the conquered territories.
I don’t know if I would agree with everything Ron Paul would do as quickly as he would have it done, but it’s worth a very serious, even aggressive debate, don’t you think? If congress and the congress with the President are getting along well, they’re not getting much done!
5. The media is ignoring him, despite his increasing success in debates and polls. If the mainstream media and political establishments hate him, he must be doing something right!
Time is short, but our course of action should be clear. Resistance to illegal and unconstitutional usurpation of our rights is required. Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said we did nothing.
Donald Trump lashed out in a video against Jon Stewart after Stewart made comments about Herman Cain that Donald Trump felt was racist. Jon Stewart said everything about Herman Cain’s past “sounds dirty”.
Whether or not Jon Stewart’s rant was racist, liberals and liberal comedians are known for having double standards. The liberal elite imply that blacks can only think and vote a certain way, that they can’t think for themselves and imply that all blacks are “ghetto” and give up on achieving anything in life. Why do liberals give each other a free pass, but if a conservative so much as mentions or implies “black” or “jew” in a sentence, then that conservative is certainly racist, especially if they are white!
I certainly share the view of Condoleezza Rice. She said, in an interview with Sean Hannity, “I would say to people who think that blacks have to think a particular way, you’re the one who is actually prejudiced”.
A pregnant woman and her husband in Honolulu, Hawaii were handcuffed and arrested after being detained by a Safeway supermarket for unintentionally not paying for a couple sandwiches totaling $5. Their daughter was taken away and was in state custody overnight.
I’m not a lawyer, and don’t have the answers theses questions, but I would like to know:
What right does a private security person have to detain you?
Why were they still detained after it was obvious that it was a mistake?
Why were they still arrested after it was obvious that it was a mistake?
Why were they still detained after they tried to pay for the damn sandwich in full?
Why were they still arrested after they tried to pay for the damn sandwich in full?
This is a failure not only of law and law enforcement, but of this stupid supermarket chain. Why on earth would your policy be to arrest people for honest mistakes and then refuse to let them make it right by refusing payment? I really hope that Safeway suffers loss of business and protests for this.
Unfortunately, this sort of thing is not unheard of. You would think that businesses of any size would, all things being equal, desire good relations with the public. Imagine you or someone you know being arrested unfairly after being detained/turned in by a business. They would tell many of their friends. They may even get on Facebook and tell a hundred or a thousand. You would think that Safeway would not want that sort of bad publicity. It can’t be good for sales!
Why is it that we have to worry about not only government tyranny, but also corporate tyranny? In part, because government tyranny enables corporate tyranny! Why was the store security person not instead charged with false imprisonment and arrested? Must we submit to not only government law enforcement officers, but private “security” personnel working for any business? Are we such sheep in America now that we’ll let anyone in professional attire be gods over us?
Judge Andrew Napolitano appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to discuss his new book, “It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong”. Of course he can only get so far with Jon Stewart’s cult of sheep, but it might wake up someone out there to the idea of freedom!
I love this. This radio host was giving Mitt Romney a chance – but Romney was laughing off the issues that matter to real Americans. The host gets increasingly angry as Romney basically mocks him, Ron Paul and the need to aggressive, real change to regain some real freedoms and lower taxes. Romney seems to be making excuses to leave the interview. After he does so, the host goes on a very justified rant, calling Mitt Romney an “asshole”, saying he gave Romney a chance, but now wants to support Ron Paul instead.
Romney laughs off serious progress toward real freedom, as he plans to continue the neo-con soft-socialist agenda and young-American-slaughtering war machine.
This is the must-see interview video of Hermain Cain by MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnel. O’Donnel’s juvenile, desperate attacks reveal him to be the ass that he is, making Cain look all the better. This liberal is so desperate to bring down a black conservative, he takes any cheap shot he can.
Among other things, O’Donnel criticizes Cain for not participating in the civil rights protests of the 60′s and not going to Vietnam, though he supported the war effort through a Navy civil servant job. He was even told by the Navy that he was more valuable to the nation in that position than a grunt in Vietnam.
I looked up the Wikipedia article on Lawrence O’Donnel. Though, not a complete bio, to be sure, I see no mention of military service nor participation in civil rights protests by O’Donnel, himself.
Herman Cain vs. Lawrence O’Donnel Interview, Part 1
Herman Cain vs. Lawrence O’Donnel Interview, Part 2
1. He’s dead serious about real freedoms. Other politicians just talk “freedom” with no action or further explanation.
Time is short, but our course of action should be clear. Resistance to illegal and unconstitutional usurpation of our rights is required. Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said we did nothing.
