Brits4RonPaul

Eustace Mullins on the Federal Reserve

2010-02-07T09:46:00.000-08:00

Rest in peace patriot. This video is a great expose of the Federal Reserve.

Even THINKING about guns is a crime in the UK.

2010-01-31T08:02:00.000-08:00

Most British sheeple today will probably shrug their shoulders at this story because it doesn't affect them personally.

I would like to take this opportunity to publicise the works of P.A. Luty as a way of saying "up yours" to the authorities.

The Keynes vs Hayek Rap Battle

2010-01-30T05:16:00.000-08:00

This video is not just hilarious, its educational too.

End The Fed

2009-09-27T03:28:00.000-07:00

Ron Paul's new book is storming on to the best seller lists in the USA. Grab your copy!

Vote LPUK in Norwich North

2009-07-02T09:16:00.001-07:00

A little video presentation I whipped up.

No "bloody nose" for the Tories or Lib Dems?

2009-06-17T17:06:00.000-07:00

When the MPs expenses scandal erupted, I fully expected all three "major parties" in British politics (Labour, Conservative and Liberal-Democrat) to get punished at the polling booths. No such luck. The recent Local & Euro elections delivered a "bloody nose" to the governing Labour Party, but left the noses of the equally corrupt opposition intact. I have one question for the British voting public: WTF?

Some thoughts on MPs expenses.

2009-05-17T13:36:00.000-07:00

The current corruption scandal to hit parliament is absolutely unprecedented.

While allegations of sleaze, investigations into sleaze and the occasional MP getting fired or even imprisoned are nothing new, the spotlight is usually confined to the party in power.

Now we have a snapshot of parliament as a whole and we find that once journalists start to do a little digging they find that politicians can be as corrupt in opposition as they are in power.

If the expenses system itself is scrapped, if untested political parties - those that have no serving MPs, MEPs or peers - are given serious consideration at election time, then at least some good will emerge from this revolting mess.

British politics will never be the same again.

Smedley Butler Video

2009-04-12T09:46:00.000-07:00

In this video, an actor portrays the former US Marine Corps General and speaks from his famous pamphlet "War Is A Racket".

What is Fascism?

2009-04-08T11:59:00.000-07:00

Here is an article from mises.org that deals with Mussolini's brand of Fascism. It has great relevance for Europeans and Americans today.

Here are the concluding words of the author:

We cannot count on all good people in America rejecting fascist ideas. To many the pursuit of the hated Red justified the elements of violence in the episode. To others the imperious need of meeting the challenge of labor justified the cudgels. Mussolini was all right as long as he played along with the democratic powers. "I do not deny," said Mr. Churchill as late as December 1940, in a speech in the House, "that he is a very great man. But he became a criminal when he attacked England." Mussolini's crime lay not in all the oppressions he had committed upon his own people, not in his trampling down of liberty in Italy, in attacking Ethiopia or Spain, but in "attacking England." It is precisely in this tolerance of ordinarily decent people for the performances of such a man that the terrible menace of fascism lies for all peoples.

Annnnnd...its GONE.

2009-03-28T06:26:00.000-07:00

In this clip from South Park, Stan discovers that something isn't right about the banking system:

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/222624/?tab=related

Of course, in real life its the government and not individual savers who keeps hearing the words "Annnnd...its GONE."

Fiat money cannot last forever.

2009-03-25T12:35:00.001-07:00

There is way too much defeatism in the ranks of the Liberty Movement. That defeatism stems from a failure to realise that the achievement of some objectives is absolutely assured. The global fiat money system that has existed since 1971 will eventually fail. Its demise may be hastened by astute political activity, but even if everyone on Earth were content to let the status quo continue, it could not. The following article sums it up nicely:

http://goldprice.org/silver-and-gold-prices/2009/03/we-will-see-silver-and-gold-restored-as.html

Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

2009-03-14T02:58:00.000-07:00

In the year that Richard Nixon removed the last vestiges of the gold standard, Marvin Gaye sang an anti-government diatribe entitled "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDckI2P_DPA

The first verse points out that both the space program and the welfare state require taxpayers to foot the bill:

Rockets, moon shots
Spend it on the have nots
Money, we make it
'fore we see it, you'll take it

The second verse links the inflation tax with the military industrial complex:

Inflation, no chance
To increase finance
Bills pile up, sky high
Send that boy off to die

The third verse complains that life is hard enough without government adding to our troubles:

Hang ups, let downs
Bad breaks, set backs
The natural fact is
Honey, that I can't pay my taxes

The fourth verse warns us how security concerns are used to put us on a totalitarian path:

Crime is increasing
Trigger happy policing
Panic is spreading
God knows where, where we're heading

An Inconvenient Debt.

2009-03-08T08:17:00.000-07:00

While I doubt that Glenn Beck is entirely sincere about his conversion to Libertarianism, I like the way that meaningful issues are actually getting air time on the mainstream media.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw1hkEor6sM&feature=related

The fact that real issues are being discussed on Fox suggests that Americans have more pressing concerns than celebrity gossip.

BBC article compares Britain to Zimbabwae.

2009-03-05T16:12:00.000-08:00

If the video that accompanies this article is anything to go by, I think that "most economists" must be sniffing petrol fumes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7924506.stm

Printing money can be defined as the central bank financing of government debts. This is what happened in both Weimar and Zimbabwe and what the British government will insist it is not doing, although the short-term effect is similar.

According to the Maastricht Treaty, EU member states are not allowed to finance their public deficits by printing money. That is one reason why the Bank of England will buy government bonds from financial institutions, not directly from the government.

The Bank believes this form of QE is different because they are "printing money" as part of monetary policy - to prevent deflation. They are not printing money to help the government finance its deficit. Also, unlike Zimbabwe, this is a temporary policy: the Bank expects to sell the government bonds back into the market when the economy recovers.

You can't re-inflate the bubble.

2009-02-25T14:31:00.000-08:00

They'll try. No doubt about that, but this time, it won't work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsQ7BByIBxM

This is not "just another downturn". This is the collapse of the post-bretton woods system.

Let's not forget that "War Is A Racket".

2009-02-14T08:02:00.001-08:00

As awful as the bailout and stimulus packages are, let's not forget about the other monstrosity inflicted on us by big government and special interests:

www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.pdf

Let's use USMC Major General Smedley Butler's pamphlet to keep up the political pressure on all fronts.

Let's focus on the real issues.

2009-02-11T18:02:00.001-08:00

Let me ask you a couple of really dumb questions:

1. Did Obama have dual nationality at Birth?
2. Was Obama born in Kenya?

I am amazed that many alleged Ron Paul supporters have become distracted from the fight against the Federal Reserve, fiat money, deficit spending and the military-industrial complex to focus on stupid Ad Hominem attacks.

If Obama was declared a non-citizen, what then? Would invalidating his presidency move America forward?

Isn't Obama's actual program bad enough?

We've lent £185 bn to banks

2009-02-04T13:07:00.000-08:00

God help us.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2009/02/weve_lent_185bn_to_banks.html

If you cut through all the waffle, it seems that the government is paying large sums of money for worthless assets. Surely they can't be doing this for my benefit, or yours? No, I rather think that this intervention is on behalf of our real rulers, the banks.

The Writing Is On The Wall.

2009-01-31T02:46:00.000-08:00

Even Rupert Murdoch's Fox Network can read it now.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nHPSmslIOfc

You are not dreaming. The Main Stream Media talking heads just discussed the possibility of going back on the Gold Standard.

The biggest bubble in the history of the world.

2009-01-28T13:24:00.000-08:00

The title of this post might sound like hyperbole, but it isn't. In 1971 America ceased to exchange Federal Reserve Notes for gold to foreign governments at the rate of $35 per troy ounce. The world of total fiat money was born. In the following podcast, Ron Paul explains why this era is drawing to a close.

www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/?p=episode&name=2009-01-27_093_the_biggest_bubble_in_the_history_of_the_world.mp3

Why more inflation won't work.

2009-01-24T00:41:00.000-08:00

In the following speech, Ron Paul explains why the Fed's strategy of expanding the money supply will not solve the bust.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss-k2H9ddtI

The west has become addicted to debt financed spending. Like all Junkies, our governments need to come off the drug and hit "rock bottom".

Calling all British Ron Paul supporters

2009-01-20T05:33:00.000-08:00

Hi, it's Matt again!

I am pleased that soundmoneyman has taken this blog out of mothballs and got it going again.

However, I know for a blog to be successful, it needs regular updated comment and news, thus I am making this blog a platform for all lovers of freedom, or supporters of Ron Paul.

If you would like to post here from time to time, let me know and I will add you to the authors list.

Cheers

Matt

£200bn to save banks from bad debt.

2009-01-17T05:16:00.000-08:00

If the UK government is bailing out the banks...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/4274083/200bn-to-save-banks-from-bad-debt.html

...who is going to bail out the UK government?

Hands off the Isle of Man!

2009-01-17T03:11:00.000-08:00

Seems that Brown and Obama are angry with the Isle of Man for its legal tax haven status.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=axJDLSVx5h34&refer=home

For as long as punitive taxes exist, people will seek to avoid them.

The bond bubble is an accident waiting to happen.

2009-01-15T17:08:00.000-08:00

About as candid an article as one is likely to get from the Mainstream Media.

http://gata.org/node/7085

Trading in gold soars by 60%

2009-01-14T14:13:00.002-08:00

Hardly surprising if you are Ron Paul supporter...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/4227086/Trading-in-gold-soars-by-60pc.html

...but potentially shocking for anyone who isn't.

Shipping Rates Hit Zero

2009-01-14T13:48:00.000-08:00

The Telegraph has picked up on the fact that, before long, British supermarket shelves won't be full of consumer goods from China.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/4229198/Shipping-rates-hit-zero-as-trade-sinks.html

It had to happen sooner or later. Looks like sooner.

Alot has happened to me since Matt's last post.

2009-01-12T13:48:00.000-08:00

I discovered Ron Paul, became a libertarian, joined the LPUK and heard the words "credit crunch" enter the language to such an extent that advertisers now use the phrase to suggest that a particular product is suitable for the thrifty or the cash strapped.

Now I'm guest blogging for Matt Davies. While Ron Paul did not secure the 2008 Republican nomination for President of the United States, there is more demand than ever for his message, both in the United States and the world at large. No country has escaped this crisis. It is often claimed that the sky is falling in because individuals and institutions can no longer borrow as much as they did previously.

Since when did borrowing become the source of prosperity? Government has grown to monstrous proportions and the British public were not aware of it. Now that the bills are coming due, our awareness is developing.

Alistair Darling = Arsehole

2008-03-26T10:14:00.000-07:00

British Pravda

Campaigners want the poster put up in all pubs
An Edinburgh bar is being credited with inspiring an internet campaign aimed at barring Chancellor Alistair Darling from every pub in Britain.
Organisers were angered when the MP for Edinburgh South West increased duty on alcohol in his Budget.

And they have every right to be upset. The pub landlord is the most persecuted profession in Britain. If it isn't banning smoking, it's lobbing a shed load of taxation on drink. What right has government to steal so much, by overtaxing things people like to do.

Hitler had the same sort of approach. What with the mass slaughter of Iraqis that Labour have ordered, is there really that much difference to the Nazis? Well going on this reply, no not at all.

A spokesman for Mr Darling said: "The chancellor made it clear at the time of the budget that his priorities were alleviating child poverty and helping pensioners.

"It's a small price to pay for doing that."

These tossers have no shame. They will use any excuse to steal from the hardworking Brit. They don't even spend the money on poverty, they create it, hoping this will be more Labour voters. What they really spend it on is themselves, the EU and war.

He should be barred from every pub in the land!

Wondering what I am up to?

2008-03-24T14:41:00.000-07:00

Check out my new blog

Woking Libertarians

I'm planting seeds of freedom in my home town.

Good Luck America

2008-02-22T01:09:00.000-08:00

Ron Paul has certainly sparked something across the world. I think what we all acheived in a short space of time, was sometimes amazing, but for me I am a little disapointed at the way the MSM and establishment, still have the power to lock out candidates that don't fit their agenda.

I have enjoyed supporting Ron Paul and have met and spoken with a number of great people. However, just as Ron Paul has scaled back his presidential camapaign, to focus on the areas he needs to, I am doing the same.

I am now an official member of the Libertarian Party in the UK. This will now be my primary politcal focus.

I will however still keep an eye on the Ron Paul movement that has been created. I will still keep the meetup group going and still attend the mass rally, when the definitive date is decided.

This blog will be a little quiter from now though, as I am getting back to fighting to make Britain free again.

Thanks to all the people who have given me hope that we can turn things around. We can all be free again, if we all really want it!

Cheers

Matt

Britain gets its own Libertarian party at last!

2008-02-09T09:47:00.000-08:00

http://www.lpuk.org

About time too!

Needless to say, I have joined and look forward to the new force for freedom breaking onto the scene.

It's time some of us started making some noise, in trying to recapture the freedoms that other generations died for.

There are forums too (well managed so that you can see who are real members etc).

http://www.lpuk.org/forum

The answer is... Forty-Two!

2008-02-08T16:51:00.000-08:00

If you know the story of The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and if you've seen how many Ron Paul delegates there are at present, you'll know exactly what I'm on about. "Forty-Two?!?! Is that all you've got to show for..."

No, that's all Ron Paul's supporters have to show for their efforts so far in terms of numbers of delegates to the RNC. I think we can safely assume that it represents forty-two more delegates than Dr. Paul once thought he'd get.

Can Dr. Paul spread the ideas of liberty further in this campaign? Yes, and he will keep doing so as long as American voters and corporations keep financing his campaign, and supply the precinct leaders to drum up grass-roots support.

We can also safely assume that Mitt Romney's supporters will not willingly transfer their allegiance to John "100 years" McCain anytime soon - or to his would-be VP Mike Huckabee.

Romney's supporters have two choices - give up and go home, leaving the Republican Party in the hands of the free-spending neo-conservatives (and, in all probability, the White House in the hands of Billary) - or support Dr. Paul. Given that a good number of delegates are also officially uncommitted, I'd say that leaves plenty of scope for Dr. Paul to rain heavily on any attempted McCain coronation at the National Convention.

Furthermore, even Dr. Paul would agree that he and his supporters are in for a long haul. Fortunately, intellectual and emotional battles are like violent ones in this respect: the R3volutionaries need only keep turning up for the fight, and let their opponents discredit themselves by their increasingly desperate, heavy-handed responses. The more intolerably dictatorial the counter-r3volutionaries become, the more credible Ron Paul's message will seem - because it will become by default the only remaining alternative to tyranny.

But what can we do to enhance the prospects for liberty here in the UK? I suggest we do exactly what we're doing now. Adopt a wide variety of apparently uncoordinated approaches to promote the related causes of life, liberty and private property. To the untutored eye, this looks like a suicidal waste of resources, but consider the following.

Some - perhaps most - of these efforts will falter due to lack of financial and/or popular support. But by simultaneously exploring as many alternative routes to success as possible, we will avoid the greatest weakness of our centralizing opponents - we will not turn our cause into a one-trick pony. And the diffuse nature of our efforts will also make us harder to beat.

This is one of the biggest reasons why, in economic terms, capitalist solutions are ultimately more varied and more affordable than socialist ones. It's also one of the most important lessons the free market has to offer its political champions. The quicker we learn this lesson, the cheaper we'll learn it, and the sooner we'll all be free - or at least more free than we are now.

- Houseman

I call bullshit on the MSM!

2008-02-05T07:00:00.000-08:00

Ron Paul Is Popular at the Super Bowl - FanHouse - AOL Sports Blog

Quote:
If the presidency were decided by the people posting signs in and around Phoenix during Super Bowl week, Ron Paul would win in a landslide.

Although John McCain will win the Arizona Republican primary, I've seen more signs supporting Paul than I have for McCain, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton combined. Many of them are like the one above, combining Paul's face with the New England Patriots' logo.

So what does all this mean? Does the Super Bowl attract more libertarians than people of other political persuasions? Does the Paul campaign have a strategy of appealing to football fans? I don't know. But the signs are everywhere.

Are we supposed to believe that the same small band of Ron Paul supporters are flying around America, creating an illusion of huge support?

Are we supposed to believe that all the other canidates are flying in stealth mode?

This isn't like UKIP getting ignored. UKIP does get ignored, but then there is no real sign of secret mass support. Ron Paul has huge support in nearly every state. Support that goes out there and raises more money and has more presence in the real world (not the MSM T.V. fantasy world). than any other.

Are we all really expected to believe that this is insignificant and not even worth commenting on in the MSM?

********. It's a complete stitch up.

America in Denial - Financial Collpase and Ron Paul

2008-02-02T08:37:00.000-08:00

America is in denial.

The US economy has been technically insolvent for over 30 years. Ever since the Bretton Woods agreement broke down in 1971, America has spent itself into a bottomless chasm. The USA has a massive $9 trillion USD deficit and Medicare and pension obligations for the retiring Boomer generation that will send this already massive deficit to stratospheric heights. The writing is on the wall and has been for decades. No amount of tax cuts for the rich or booming of the Dow Jones index is going to compensate for America's looming bankruptcy. The temporary solution being followed by the Federal Reserve is to drastically cut interest rates and decimate their own currency. The Dollar is literally DYING!

The dire state of the US economy has basically been ignored by all the presidential candidates except from that 'kook' and 'nutcase' Ron Paul. All I can hear are the democrats promising social programs and the promise of a universal healthcare system that the country can't possibly afford. The American people are totally ignorant of the dire state of the US economy. They have no idea their governments have spent their children’s' inheritance and the country has been sucked dry by decades of military spending, maintaining a global empire and allowing their centralized monetary system, the Federal Reserve to print into existence whatever funds are required to keep this huge charade going indefinitely. It simply cannot continue.

The housing boom in the USA is just a symptom of this very same problem (mirrored in the UK) where easy credit has pumped up the price of property to ridiculous levels. Now those investors who bought into the sub-prime debacle are finding their investments are worthless and the entire global banking industry is caught in a tsunami of foreclosures and falling house prices. You can't create money for nothing forever.........

Before we get too smug, we should remind ourselves that the UK is in an even worse situation. The latest statistics from Credit Action state that the UK now owes £1.4 trillion GBP. Per capita, we are in an even worse situation than the USA. We do not possess the manufacturing base or the dynamicism in our economy to even begin shrinking our national debt. It is a positively horrendous inheritance for our children. Once again, this huge problem is totally ignored by our politicians and media. There can be only one outcome. In future we will pay EVEN MORE tax just to service the interest on our national debt AND we will undoubtedly ALL be POORER than we are today. The future ain't bright and it ain't orange!

The beneficiaries of this rotten and broken system on both sides of the Atlantic are the banks and financial institutions. The interest repayments on our respective national debts will guarantee truly eye watering profits for generations to come. It will be the biggest transfer of wealth away from the poor and the middle class to the wealthiest in human history. The evilness is allowed to continue purely because of our own ignorance and stupidity

This should be a wakeup call to the British and American people why Ron Paul's tirades against government sanctioned deficit spending are so justified and correct. The crime of allowing private banks to hold to ransom a nation’s monetary system is by no means new. Here is a quote from Thomas Jefferson, America's 3rd President

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802)3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

Never has a quotation been so appropriate.

I would urge all people to get on the internet and actually try to learn how our monetary system works. You will quickly understand that our political system is a charade. We listen to programs like Question Time on the BBC, read our Murdoch owned newspapers and foolishly assume there is serious political debate in the UK. There isn't! The bills are about to become due for Gordon Brown Keynesian economic miracle of the last decade. It is going to be very very unpleasant for a lot of people.

Time for another big money bomb!

2008-01-28T05:11:00.000-08:00

ABC have said they aren't going to allow Ron Paul on their debate on Super Tuesday. This despite Paul handing Giuuliani his arse to him on a plate in almost all the contests so far, with almost no MSM coverage compared to the favored establishment lackeys.

Are you going to take this America? Are you going to allow a small band of powermongers to tell you who to choose? Who you can choose? Is the American spirit of Liberty truly dead? The sense of fair play gone?

I don't think so.

Prove it, by giving Ron Paul the tools to fight this injustice. Let's see you shock the planet, with the most unbeleivable money bomb yet! The world is banking on the American people to rip the freedom back from their hands!

Best Ron Paul compilation yet!

2008-01-24T08:34:00.001-08:00

Ron Paul gets the hot babes vote!

2008-01-24T04:32:00.001-08:00

Shock. Some Ron Paul coverage by the Guardian.

2008-01-22T14:33:00.001-08:00

While Matt's away, the liberty warriors will play! (Ron Paul)

2008-01-22T14:11:00.000-08:00

Here is some video and pictures from the meetup group in London, while I was away in Barbados.

Also I am now the London Meetup group co-ordinator/leader as Paige has stepped down (she returned to the USA some weeks ago).

Enjoy!

Ron Paul London Photo Set

A way to help Ron Paul Grass Roots internationally

2008-01-22T06:48:00.000-08:00

http://cgi.ebay.com/Ron-Paul-Button-2-Raise-Money-for-Yard-Signs-Print-Ad_W0QQitemZ170186919336QQihZ007QQcategoryZ50789QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Help Ron Paul supporters in the states, by buying this kind of thing off Ebay!

(PS sorry for the absence, I was having a well needed holiday in Barbados!)

Sidelines?! What sidelines?

2008-01-09T13:25:00.000-08:00

As a Brit for Ron Paul, I'm sometimes tempted to feel like I'm on the sidelines. So what if Ron Paul is promising to abolish the Federal income tax and the IRS for Americans, without replacing them with some other overpriced bureaucratic nightmare? So what if Dr. Paul is also promising to balance US federal government budgets by abolishing the Federal Reserve and return the US to a gold standard? Bully for the Americans? Well, yes - but bully for us, too, because we live in a global market. Let me explain.

National governments constantly compete to expand their own tax base at each other's expense, and big trading blocs like NAFTA and the EU do not essentially change this reality. What's more, governments appreciate that modern economies involve a hugely varied skills base to maintain and develop them. They all need writers, artists, economists, bricklayers, plumbers, carpenters, computer programmers - and on and on. The list varies from country to country and time to time, but essentially it's endless.

Now, what do you suppose would happen elsewhere if the US became a low-tax as well as a high-skill economy? That's right, British and European governments would feel pressured to lower their own tax rates in order to retain their most productive citizens and workers - and poach people from elsewhere. So, you and I would all become richer whether or not we were considering emigration from the UK .

But surely a less well financed government would have to do something about that? Quite so. It would have only two choices: to inflate the currency, or to do less. Unfortunately for our glorious leaders, if Ron Paul also abolishes the Federal Reserve and starts forcing the US Government to balance its books in the meantime, the value of the dollar (and/or its replacements) will rise on the international money markets, and more people will want to save money in US-based currencies. Can you see how an impending savings drain from the UK would make an inflationary policy even more painful for everyone even more quickly? The only viable choice would be for UK and European governments to do less.

Now, I agree that means we'd have to do more for ourselves, but we'd experience less government interference as we did, and we'd only have to pay for what we wanted as we went along. In a global market, national government decisions inevitably have international consequences. Peace is cheaper for taxpayers than war, and - as I've hinted above - sound money is ultimately cheaper for everyone than inflated money.

So, if you're a US expat - or simply a fellow Brit for Ron Paul - please donate generously to Dr. Paul's campaign in whatever way you can: in the global market there are no sidelines left for any of us, and if you think personal freedom is expensive, take it from me: you don't want to try slavery instead.

- Houseman

Please watch this film. It shows you why we all need Ron Paul!

2007-12-28T10:49:00.000-08:00

I like Ron Paul and I cannot lie!

2007-12-24T10:54:00.000-08:00

I love all this stuff!

UK press finally waking up to Ron Paul?

2007-12-23T04:17:00.000-08:00

About friggin time!

British Ron Paul supporter John Mappin takes the message to Iran!

2007-12-20T12:11:00.001-08:00

emediawire

Iranian TV Network invites John Mappin, Ron Paul supporter, media owner and songwriter, onto its international TV network to present the opportunity that the Ron Paul candidacy represents to the US and to play Inner Truth a newly released Song for Ron Paul from Camelot Castle

If that whole region starts to realise the true spirit of the American people, the fear whipped up by the neocons will soon end.

The Iranian people want the same things as the American people and indeed all people of the world. They want peace and freedom. They want to be left alone!

It is the warmongers and power seekers in government we have to keep in check.

As promised, Ron Paul gets coverage on "The Agenda"

2007-12-19T07:53:00.000-08:00

The Agenda

And there is a press release to go with this.

See John Mappin getting the pro Ron Paul message out there! Please write to the people at "The Agenda" to let them why you support Ron Paul.

Write to them at theagenda@presstv.com

Another Brit says why Ron Paul is important to the UK

2007-12-18T14:35:00.000-08:00

Another Brit for Ron Paul

2007-12-18T14:24:00.000-08:00

He's catching on, I'm telling ya!

You won't see this on the MSM America

2007-12-18T11:22:00.000-08:00

Yes there are people trying to fight back against tyranny in Europe.

We're as mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore!

Is the BBC a biased state propaganda mouthpiece?

2007-12-18T11:14:00.000-08:00

Is the Pope Catholic?

Where is the coverage of all the remarkable event happening in the USA? Where are they?

They will comment on all kinds of other crap and give the MSM backed candidates coverage from time to time, but Ron Paul gets nothing but ignored.

Why do we continue to fund this corrupt, statist biased rubbish? The BBC is not fit for purpose. Scrap it.

Ron Paul London Tea Party!

2007-12-18T10:58:00.000-08:00

This was outside the London eye, after a few beers in All Bar One.

Great to see more and more people in England getting the freedom message.

This is only just the start!

Ron Paul as viewed by the financial sector

2007-12-17T23:54:00.000-08:00

Currency Trading

Ron Paul (R)

Ron Paul’s monetary beliefs have been front and center in his presidential campaign. Dr. Paul has been a prolific economic writer and speaker, offering his opinion on currency, government spending, and the Federal Reserve to just about anyone who will listen. His monetary policy centers on smaller government and a return to commodity-backed currency.

Paul has heavily criticized excessive government spending while in Congress. He wants to make our federal government much smaller, reducing or even completely getting rid of entitlements, the IRS, and other expenditures. This includes defense spending as well. Rather, he’d require that every expense be completely paid for in the budget.

Another major criticism from Ron Paul is that of our paper money system. He argues that it supports spending much more than saving, as the Fed can print money out of thin air any time our government needs more funds. Instead of the current system, Paul favors a commodity-backed system that would hold real value behind our currency.

Like many other candidates, Ron Paul has quite a bit to say about health care as well. As a former practicing OB-GYN, Dr. Paul believes we should have a health care system that cuts out the middle man, which he calls “free market medicine.” With his system, health care would largely be paid for on an as-needed basis, cutting both costs and bureaucracy.

Ron Paul, the only top tier candidate!

Merry Christmas Ron Paul Supporters Around The World!

2007-12-15T07:29:00.001-08:00

2008 will be the year the world is put back on track! Merry Christmas to all people who believe in peace and freedom!

More support for Ron Paul in England!

2007-12-08T04:11:00.000-08:00

Here is a message from the people at this media group. I urge all Ron Paul supporters in Britain and beyond to visit them and help in their attempts to get Ron Paul major worldwide coverage.

Dear Friends of Camelot,

While chatting on the phone late tonight, to one of the most influential opinion leaders in US politics and media. I rasied the subject of Dr. Ron Paul's campaign. She said "He may well be Americas "only hope"" (Emphasis her's)

We are trying to organise a televised and internet global telecast interview of Ron Paul from the Round Table at Camelot Castle?

The Round Table saw the earliest conceptual beginings of democracy come into being and we at Camelot Castle in England salute this extraordinary American and wish him God speed.
Google "Ron Paul" and find out for yourself about this man. What he has to say and what he has achieved so far is so refreshing and so important. This is not just about the US election but is about how we will all see our world in the comming years.
And please do write me and let me know what you think. And, if YOU think this this should be fowarded, do forward it on broadly.
Check out his interview in this weeks Rolling Stone.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17323345/ron_paul_a_republican_takes_the_lead_against_the_war
and what he is creating here:
http://www.teaparty07.com/
and here.
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/
In Ron Pauls campaign we are witnessing something that is going well beyond politics.
All our love,

John, Irina and Ted
www.camelotcastle.com

This almost swayed me to the dark side.

2007-11-30T11:45:00.000-08:00

It took us a while, but now Ron Paul is top in Britain!

2007-11-27T10:32:00.000-08:00

http://www.whowouldtheworldelect.com/

Scroll down to the UK and you can now see Ron Paul has overtaken CFR puppet Obama.

The Ron Paul Blimp

2007-11-27T03:25:00.001-08:00

I have to be honest. When I first heard of this, I was sceptical. The huge cost (in my mind) if 350k, I thought was going to be tough. I also questioned whether it would be worth it!

But that was before I found out where they could be flying it!

The Superbowl, Times Square on New Years eve and the December 16th Boston Tea party!

As well as flying it around over America. Now I think it would cost you a lot more to get that kind of advertsing at these events and I am sure the media will not be able to ignore this either.

So the good news is the fund raising seems to be going VERY well. Click below if you want to support this cause.

Take a chance on Ron Paul America!

2007-11-27T02:26:00.000-08:00

I loved this. I liked Abba anyway, but this made it even better!

Take a chance on Ron Paul and the world will be more willing to take a chance on the USA!

Another great Ron Paul Europe Video

2007-11-17T14:52:00.000-08:00

Amazing advert going in the USA Today paper.

2007-11-16T12:57:00.000-08:00

Even more amazing is this was created and funded by ordinary citizens on the Ron Paul forum.

No other candidate has this kind of support and there is a reason for that. No other candidate stands for the people!

Listen up you Neocon Beyatches : Ron Paul best rap yet

2007-11-14T03:04:00.000-08:00

Official unofficial Tea Party Chipin

2007-11-14T02:31:00.000-08:00

Well, it looks like there is a trust worthy chipin all us worldwide freedom fighters can use on the day of the Tea Party, Dec 16th. Even better, it's on the Tea Party offical site, so you know it is trustworthy.

Come on world, show the American people we are right behind them!

Matthew,

I am a British supporter of Ron Paul. I was very keen to donate to the campaign but US election rules meant that only US citizens can donate to the official Ron Paul campaign at ronpaul2008.com. However, there are no restrictions to donate to unofficial Ron Paul campaigns. I spoke to Trevor Lyman (lyman.trevor@gmail.com) who organized the Ron Paul money bomb on the 5th November (www.thisnovember5th.com) and he has set up a page where foreigners or US citizens who have already donated the maximum $2300 can donate. The link can be found here (http://teaparty07.com/chipin.htm). This is also the same official site for the Tea Party event on 16th December 2007. Please pass this information on to all your group members and any other Ron Paul groups, particularly from outside of the US.

Kind regards,
Avtar Taggar.

Worldwide Ron Paul Tea Party???

2007-11-13T14:28:00.001-08:00

How about this for an idea?

Who else was like me and felt left out of the fun on November the 5th? The excitment of seeing the donations flood it was just what a campaign should feel like!

Well how about one of the trusted American meetup groups set up an official Worldwide Tea Party Chipin?

Then everyone around the world can donate to this chipin, just as our American friends make their official donations.

That chipin can then be used for something specific, or just spread amongst key Meetup groups in the states?

Good idea? If so, how about some promotion of it too!

Ron Paul :- Trendtacular

2007-11-13T06:18:00.001-08:00

I'm telling you, this guy is catching on!

No matter how hard they try, they can't stop us now!

Tea party for freedom!

2007-11-12T10:52:00.000-08:00

Great video. This is what it is all about.

November the 5th is going to look like a disaster comapred to what's coming!

Great work for Ron Paul in London

2007-11-12T09:26:00.001-08:00

Glad to see there are people in this country helping to awaken others!

Good job fella.

Mass letter writing campaign!

2007-11-11T04:10:00.000-08:00

Here's something all Brits can do.

Lew Rockwell

Make sure you explain why you as foreigner feel the way you do. We all want what is best of everyone at the end of the day.

Great use of Chip In money

2007-11-09T12:20:00.000-08:00

See. This is what it's all about. Grassroots getting the message out! Remember kids, Chipins can be donated to by anyone!

Oh Carolina

2007-11-08T06:00:00.000-08:00

Another great meetup group that needs help. Go donate if you can!

Times reports on Ron Paul cash haul

2007-11-07T05:22:00.000-08:00

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2821161.ece

Unlike Mr Dean, who came close to winning the 2004 Democratic nomination, Mr Paul stands no chance of becoming the Republicans’ 2008 nominee. In national opinion polls he barely registers, and even in New Hamp-shire – the “live free or die” state – he gets an average of only 3.6 per cent support, according to RealClearPolitics.com, which tracks such surveys.

Amazing how the media still thinks it can tell the people who can and can't win.

ANYONE can win, if that's what the people want.

Even if they do stack the decks. People aren't going to stand for this manipulation anymore! The MSM is becoming obsolete by the day, as more and more people wake up to how controlled and agenda driven it is.

Ron Paul Revolution Comes To Europe

2007-11-05T14:55:00.001-08:00

Man it's gonna be tough for me to make this, but I feel Britain needs to be represented!

I'm going to try and pull some strings. Are any other Brits up for it?

IT'S NOVEMBER 5TH AMERICA. RON PAUL TIME!

2007-11-05T01:46:00.000-08:00

Come on America! Show the world that your people are going to take what is your back again! Your FREEDOM!

1) Go to the main site and donate $100 (or more if can afford it, less if you can't).
2) Promote the site to others. This site has a good tool for that if you have a facebook account.http://therobert.org/rp/fb
3) Blog and digg all day like your life depends on it, to get the news out.
4) Enjoy the site of a mass of people like you doing the same, by checking out the main site and this great graphs site. www.ronpaulgraphs.com

Happy days, the revolution is now going into overdrive. No matter how hard they try, they can't stop us now!

Uplifting Ron Paul Video

2007-11-03T04:05:00.000-07:00

Got to love the talent out there supporting Ron Paul.

People have had enough. Time to make a change!

BBC Pay Attention To USA elections : Go comment for Ron Paul!

2007-10-30T11:53:00.000-07:00

BBC

Go Ron Paul supporters. Educate Britain and the world about Ron Paul. Comment and support other pro Ron Paul comments. Let the BBC know he means business!

This is your media America : Ron Paul Censorship

2007-10-30T00:59:00.000-07:00

Well it just confirms what we already knew, but it isn't nice to be proven right.

Freedom is fake in America AND Britain right now.

Great Ron Paul video, that show the youth of America WILL do it!

2007-10-28T05:15:00.000-07:00

I love this video for so many reasons. It blows away the lies of the MSM and the establishment bloggers. It shows the smart youth are waking up big time. It shows the huge support Ron Paul already has and he still has a way to go yet!

Come on people, this is game on! We can do it! For the world!

Rock on Ron Paul, Rock on!

2007-10-27T07:53:00.001-07:00

More Ron Paul truth slips out into the MSM

2007-10-27T07:12:00.001-07:00

Establishment now opening up the big guns on Ron Paul

2007-10-23T05:34:00.000-07:00

Well, it would seem we are really leaving the ignore phase and heading deep into ridicule and attack phases now. The mainstream are now busy trying to paint Ron Paul as a "can't win" candidate, while they have now also caught up on the Internet front and are running a "Paul is nuts" campaign. Of course there are probably a number of people who really do hate Ron Paul too, such as Communists, Warmongers and the odd useful idiot who worships Fox news.

I am heartened to see that none of this is stopping the revolution though. Indeed, just as has happened in the past, these attacks are just helping fuel the fire. More and more people are asking "Who is Ron Paul?". Then, when they look him up on the Internet, or ask one of the thousands of Ron Paul activists out in the streets, they come to the same realisation as us that have already woken up and taken in a deep whiff of coffee.

The donations are increasing by the day. Meetup groups continue to form and grow and Paul supporters are now toughening up and getting that thick skin required for the battle ahead.

Make no mistake though, this is going to get much worse. Colour me unsurprised that candidates are now suddenly appearing, that attack Ron Paul's key demographics. People like Colbert suddenly decide to run, to show contempt for the whole system. Yep that would have been fine if there was no Ron Paul, but then he will have known this. Does anyone think he would have had his own show, without kissing the right arse?

It makes no odds though. While Colbert may well initially take the disenfranchised who haven't found Ron Paul yet, he won't convert anyone who already has. When the people who do back his contempt campaign, find out he is lying and that there is a choice, then they will make the right choice in the end. recognise this spoiler tactic for what it is and just focus on getting the Ron Paul message out. I have seen it happen in the U.K. too many times. Threats are attacked with numerous methods and I am certain a lot of them are not just misguided useful idiots for the establishment.

The hysterical efforts by the MSM to switch the people off Paul are almost funny at the moment. Some well placed boo boys in the crowed, or a carefully selected panel member who makes almost evil attacks on a good man. This is how desperate this scumbags are to prevent the people from daring to have freedom.

It's time to stand up and be counted people.

MSM polls shown for what they are

2007-10-23T01:40:00.000-07:00

Spot on from P & T. This muppet is the guy who is on Fox for their "debates".

Your future if Ron Paul doesn't win.

2007-10-22T12:18:00.000-07:00

Yes you will have lying communist scum like this telling you how to live and charging you most of your money for the pleasure.

It's do or die America, Rudy McRomney or Ron Paul.

Who thinks George Bush is funny?

2007-10-22T04:04:00.000-07:00

It would be funny if this fool wasn't in charge of the most powerful nation on the planet.

Put a fool in charge of power and no one ends up laughing in the end!

Please America, undo the damage. Vote Ron Paul and regain your pride and self respect again.

Ron Paul Coverage Picking Up In Britain

2007-10-21T11:09:00.001-07:00

telegraph

Ron Paul's appeal grows
Posted by Daniel Hannan on 18 Oct 2007 at 10:37
Tags: Internet, Republican, polls, supporters, anti-war, Ron Paul, presidential candidate
Perhaps he’s not such a joke candidate after all. I blogged a while ago about my growing fondness for Ron Paul, the ultra-libertarian anti-war Republican presidential candidate. Yes, he’s still down on around 2 per cent in the polls. And, yes, he says some colourful things. But, according to the Washington Post, he’s starting to attract supporters, some of them almost fanatical in their loyalty, in New Hampshire in advance of that state’s critical primary.

Ron Paul is a man who always speaks his mind

And here’s the thing: of the $5 million so far raised by the Texas congressman, 70 per cent has come from small online donations. Ron Paul is, if you like, the Republicans’ Howard Dean: an unknown, a maverick, a man written off by the bigwigs, who somehow manages to appeal over their heads to the rest of the party. The internet truly is a wonderful device: it breaks the party monopolies and empowers the citizen as never before.

What’s the basis of the Paul’s appeal? Simply that he seems always to speak his mind. He’s like a West Wing character brought to life: Arnie Vinick, only more so. And, in an age when voters in every country are sick of mainstream politicians, his tactlessness wins him admirers. The national polls may barely register his existence, but he often emerges at or near the top among those who have watched him in the televised debates.

Alright, it’s a fantasy. Ron Paul won’t win the GOP nomination. But it’s a rather delicious fantasy, isn’t it, worth indulging in for a few moments. Just think: a 2008 election contested by a pro-war Democrat and an anti-war Republican. Whom would the poor BBC back?

This guy is a British MEP, but a good one! He wants Britain out of the corrupt EU, thus Paul's message of freedom was bound to appeal!

If all Tories were like him, they would be in power now and Britain would be free once again! Sadly they are more like Dave Cameron. Career merchants that leave a trail of slime behind them.

Good Ron Paul Donations Update Tool

2007-10-20T02:25:00.000-07:00

http://www.gibwo.com/ronpaul/

Go download this tool, if you want a little donations update window on your PC/laptop.

Ron Paul Snowball Effect

2007-10-19T08:30:00.001-07:00

Brits4RonPaul makes a small apperance!

One Voice : Ron Paul

2007-10-18T09:29:00.001-07:00

New British Ron Paul Forum

2007-10-18T08:56:00.000-07:00

Brits4RonPaul Forum

I have created a Brits4RonPaul forum, so that people reading this blog can chat to each other and network online. It is good for when it is hard for people to get together all in one place.

It is almost empty at the moment, so please post stuff there to get it going. Any suggestions and I will will try to accomodate.

Want to donate to Ron Paul Meetups?

2007-10-18T07:36:00.001-07:00

I have added a couple to the bar to the right, but here are some more that might take your fancy!

Hat Tip to http://ronpaulgraphs.com

Ron Paul is going to win, why the (mainstream) polls are WRONG!

2007-10-18T07:16:00.000-07:00

More Ron Paul Truth Breaking Through The Walls

2007-10-18T06:55:00.000-07:00

People are asking questions. No longer are "journalists" able to ignore their concious.

Ron Paul is right, Rudillary McBamaromney is WRONG.

FOR GODS SAKE GET BEHIND THE MAN THAT IS RIGHT FOR A CHANGE!

It's now or never world! What are you going to do about it?

2007-10-18T06:41:00.001-07:00

Mainstream can't plug all the Ron Paul cracks in their facade!

2007-10-18T06:17:00.000-07:00

The MSM frantically try and keep Ron Paul out, but there are too many peoople waking up and smelling the coffee now. Expect a shift in approach soon, as they have to give Paul time, but seek other ways to discredit him. You can bet they are digging like mad looking for dirt, but they aren't going to find any.

That won't stop them though. They'll just make something up, just before the election.

Make Neocons history this November the 5th with Ron Paul

2007-10-18T05:58:00.000-07:00

To all the Americans that pass through this blog. Please supprot this campaign, it's time the revolution ramped up another few notches and this is the date for us to really start showing the world how it is done.

I'd love to support this too, but I am British, so can't. Though I will be looking to donate to a meetup group a few days before hand!

Only Ron Paul has opened Pandora's Box

2007-10-15T10:59:00.000-07:00

Ron Paul has brought into focus an issue invisible in the United Kingdom's political scene

MONEY .....and more specifically monetary policy.

You might consider an issue as important as our medium of exchange would figure highly in our media, on those supposedly heavyweight current affairs programmes like Money Box on Radio 4, on Newsnight .....or on that terrific comedy show Question Time!

But no! monetary policy in the UK is not on the radar screen at all. It has been consigned to some darkened corner, hidden beneath spin, media hype regarding Gordon Brown's suitability (or not) to run our country and the multitude of other distractions such as Prince William's love life or who is shagging some minor celebrity. It has come to light recently, though somewhat obtusely following desperate attemps by the worlds' central banks to contain the subprime mortgage debacle and the failure of Northern Rock....now to be underwritten by the Bank of England.....in other words...us! the taxpayer.

Every policy, every penny in tax we pay, the cost of borrowing, how we fund our public services. how we fund our military adventures in Iraq, how we will fund our retirement, EVERYTHING .....is a function of monetary policy and yet in the main, the creation of our money is an a non issue. Monetary policy doesn't see the light of day unless there is some herniation in the money markets.

Amazing!

All the more odd because the more savvy British people are not without some understanding of money. They use it to run businesses, to run the family budget, to invest....and to borrow. But strangely, very few British people understand where their money comes from, how it is created or how our banking system works. We suffer from terrible ignorance when it comes to economics, the running of our country and how our taxes are spent.

Ron Paul has dared to raise the issue of the central banking system and specifically the Federal Reserve Bank. This is absolutely unprecedented. Virtually all modern 'free market' economies are based on the central banking system, an oxymoron if ever there was one. Our so called capitalist, free market democracies operate under the Stalinist and dictatorial monetary control of the central banks which determine the cost of borrowing and hence the amount of money in our economy at any given time.

Our ignorance of our own monetary system is shocking. Ask the average punter where our money comes from or indeed, what money is!...and you will be greeted with the hollow stare of someone who has been brainwashed, obliterated by the Eastenders omnibus. Most people are blissfully ignorant regarding the origins of our money. Many people, as in America, are under the delusion that Sterling is still backed by something of real value. They might presume incorrectly that our money is backed by silver as the name suggests, or even better, gold.

But no! Sterling is backed by nothing more than CONFIDENCE. A pretty terrifying premise in an era where people will happily borrow six times their income to buy a one bedroom flat above their local crack den no? At least the dollar is backed by oil! But Sterling? What backs our money? Coal? Chickens? Liquorice Allsorts perhaps?

So what parallels are there between the Federal Reserve system and our own Bank of England? A very good question I think and speaking as someone who has tried to find out, all the more intriguing. About six months ago, I wrote a letter to the Bank of England asking them to explain who actually owns it, and in whose interests it operates. The somewhat cryptic response, not received until a good two months after my initial correspondence was, 'the Bank of England is owned by the Crown'....? Hmmmm. Not very forthcoming then. Subsequent efforts to elucidate the answer to my question through research on the internet and reading were equally inconclusive. There is one interetsing clue and that is the Bank of England website. If the Bank of England is an agency of the government or the state, you might expect the web domain to end in .gov for example, but mysteriously, the BoE has a co.uk website address. Another clue is our banknotes which have printed upon them Copyright of The Governor and 'Company' of the Bank of England. Company?????????????

So my first and most important questions regarding our own Stalinist central bank are, who owns it and in whose interest does it operate? Is it as i suspect....a private bank and if so, WHO really owns it?

I guess I'm just a very suspicious person, someone who suspects the monetary policy of the BoE and our government doesn't operate in the best interest of the people, rather like the Federal Reserve which has been strangling the American people to death since 1913. Every dollar created by the Federal Reserve has its own interest bearing debt. The current account deficit in the USA is about $9.5 trillion dollars!!! If you add in the pension and medicare entitlements of America's retiring boomer generation, this deficit is expected to swell to perhaps $60 trillion dollars. OUCH!

Back in Blighty, nowhere is evidence of foul play by the banking system more startling than the UK housing market. House prices have nearly trebled in some places in just a decade. The British people are caught up in a wave of irrational exuberence that makes our last housing boom pale by comparison. The UK housing market is the new panacea, the cure all guaranteeing economic prosperity and a secure future for all......well, for those fortunate enough to own a home that is! It is a kind of national Prozac. No longer must we work particulary hard, save money, produce goods or add real value to our economy. We can just buy houses and sell them to eachother in between watching Sarah Beeny help some hapless moron become a property entrepreneur and watching the copious television adverts for more 'cheap' loans. It is the economics of a madhouse, encouraged and cultivated by our 'prudent' Chancellor Gordon Brown and a banking system determined to lend ever more ludicrous sums of money, the repayment of which will challenge even the comparatively wealthy and well heeled middle class.

So where did all the money come from that financed this giant ponzi scheme? Yep! You guessed it! The banking system created it out of thin air. The banking system doesn't 'print' the money as such. Only a tiny percentage of our money exists as cash. No, just as in America, the vast proportion of our money comes into existence as debt and only a very small percentage of any bank loan is money actually deposited. When Northern Rock crashed and the people queued for their money, the government felt it had no option other than to bail them out. The money deposited by Northern Rock's customers was all lent out to create new loans after all. The honey pot was empty! Most bank credit is literally created by the click of a mouse button. The banking system 'loans' money into existence and earns interest on it! Wow!What a business!!!!!!! There is virtually no debt free money in our economy and this is why a credit crunch is so catastrophic in a debt based economy. As soon as banks stop creating credit, the money in our economy disappears like water running down a plug hole, economic activity grinds to a halt, jobs are lost, companies go bust and people cannot pay their mortgages anymore. All the excess liquidity in the economy is sucked away and the economy stagnates until equillibrium is restored and banks can repeat the process all over again. Thus we live in an age of rollercoaster economics. The banking system alternates beween a shrinking and then expanding money supply. House prices go up........ And then they come down again. DOH! Borrow money at the wrong time in this insane cycle and you risk consigning yourself to debt slavery for the rest of your life....or just fiscal oblivion. It's morally repugnant and frankly, insane.

Except...... this time things may pan out differently, and potentially even more catastrophically than before. The seeds of this new paradigm in debt insanity are labyrinth. They include the relaxation of banking regulations, the securitization of debt and the refusal of the central banks to control inflation. The money supply, a measure of inflation that has fallen out of favour in our ponzi economies, is growing alarmingly. Both the US and UK governments use the CPI as their main measure of inflation. While governments on both sides of the Atlantic quote an inflation rate in the region of 3%, our money supply, much of which is new bank credit, is growing at 13-14% per annum. That is a lot of extra money!. GDP growth is around 2.6% in the UK. This is a clear sign that the real rate of inflation is closer to 10%, much greater even than the figure quoted in the more conservative RPI.

This might all sound rather academic and complicated, but if you're a young person trying to buy your first home or a pensioner living on a fixed income, the reality of the situation is clear. Inflation is particularly tough for young people and those looking for a first home because inflation has manifested itself, not so much in consumer goods as is more traditional, but in astronomically high property prices. The price of property has been driven to insane levels by the avalability of bucket loads of cheap credit. Meanwhile, the spending power of our young people has been decimated. Not only are they priced out of the property market, they are forced to take on ever greater levels of debt to pay for higher education and living costs. Pensioners are hit hard too. Fuel costs, the Council Tax, even food prices are beginning to rise.

The big question now is which way things will go. Will we see the banking system reign in the creation of new debt or will the contnued growth in money supply precipitate much higher inflation? Either way, the thing that has held the UK economy together for the last decade, the housing market, will suffer. Either prices will fall substantially, or inflation will erode the paper profits people have made in the property market. If NuLabour's grand experiment in economic prosperity funded by debt should implode and I suspect it will, maybe we too will be ready for a British version of Ron Paul. I sincerely hope so because I have lost faith in all the political and financial institutions we give the responsibility of running our economy.

And then there are all the issues of liberty, freedom, civil rights espoused by Ron paul.....but I'll save that for another evening.

I am in awe of USA Ron Paul supporters

2007-10-15T02:20:00.000-07:00

Another good Ron Paul tune!

2007-10-14T05:52:00.000-07:00

How come Ron Paul supporters are the only ones with any creativity or talent.

Then again, do the others really have anything but paid support?

Tomorrows Great Oak

2007-10-14T05:24:00.000-07:00

Is today's nut that held their ground!

Of course freedom isn't nuts, but that's what the MSM will tell you, as their paymasters demand!

The only thing crazy in my mind, is to back the same old evil that is putting this world in a state of fear.

Paul wins AGAIN!

2007-10-14T04:01:00.000-07:00

The Birmingham News

Ron Paul won the Jefferson County Republican Party's presidential straw poll Saturday at the Birmingham Zoo, with supporters casting more than half of the votes collected.

Paul, a Republican congressman from Texas, took about 57 percent of the vote with 115 ballots.

Voters paid $35 to cast the ballot and eat a barbecue lunch.

Man these spammers are clever and rich. They are managing to win every single damned poll going at the moment, even if it requires a fee.

Ron Paul wins another crushing straw poll victory

2007-10-14T03:36:00.000-07:00

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-13-2007/0004681331&EDATE=

RENO, Nev., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Republican presidential
candidate Ron Paul has won the inaugural Conservative Leadership Conference
straw poll. Despite not appearing at the conference, Paul won convincingly
with 33% of the vote. Mitt Romney, who addressed the conference in a town
hall meeting and during a general session, finished second with 16%. Duncan
Hunter, who also delivered a major address during the three-day event,
finished third at 15%.
Full results are available at http://www.politicalderby.com
The poll was sponsored by PoliticalDerby.com and 411Communications. It
was executed onsite by Jason Wright and Stephen Fountain of
PoliticalDerby.com.

That's right. Paul can't be at every event, he is just one man, but he still handed Rudy McRomney's arse to him on a plate! Romney even put some effort into this one and still came off second. It doesn't matter how much of his own money he throws at it, the power of REAL support is beginning to shine through.

Of course you won't hear any of this news on the BBC or Fox, but then what do you expect from two thoroughly discredited "news" organisations.

Indeed, after our meetup group event the other day, people in England are beginning to ask :

What is the point of the BBC?