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America’s $2.3 Trillion Dollar Foreign Aid is Mostly a Defense Contractor Subsidy
24 months ago
Source: http://judymorrisreport.blogspot.com
By Judy Morris
Here’s a ‘Connecting the Dots Moment’ for Americans to ponder: It’s a well documented fact that Congress wiped out the Social Security Trust Fund over the decades to the tune of at least $2.5 trillion and left a worthless pile of IOU’s, here. It’s also well documented that foreign aid, according to 2007 figures, totaled an astounding $2.3 trillion. How would Americans feel if they knew that the government they elected and trusted plundered their Social Security and that their retirement funds landed in the laps of defense contractors and corrupt foreign officials?
Flushing $2.3 trillion in American tax dollars down the foreign aid toilet, here, is not only an act of grand theft but also a gargantuan welfare program for defense contractors. The $2.3 trillion figure quoted in the link is based on 2007 data and hundreds of billions have been added to the foreign aid tab since 2007. Still, it has been estimated that 2/3 of foreign aid lands right in defense contractor laps.
Two Thirds of US Foreign Aid Is Really Military Aid
Foreign aid is one of the biggest scams ever because gobs of American taxdollars end up lost, missing, stolen unaccountable and untraceable. Nobody really knows what happens to unaccountable foreign aid dollars. Our government that disburses the money doesn’t even know or, more likely, refuses to disclose who got the money.
Revealed: How $6.6billion of taxpayers’ money sent to Iraq by Bush may have been STOLEN
It is thought to have been the biggest international cash airlift of all time, when $12billion in aid was flown by the Bush administration to postwar Iraq.
And now, for the first time, investigators auditing the cash have admitted that more than half of that huge amount may have been stolen when it got there in ‘the largest theft of funds in national history’.
Iraq isn’t the only recipient of massive foreign aid that is riddled with scandal. Although $90 billion in aid has poured into Afghanistan since 2001, here, nobody really knows where that money went and Afghan and US officials are determined to keep it that way.
Karzai blocking probe of missing U.S. $billions in Afghanistan
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is blocking efforts by U.S. officials to locate billions of dollars given to aid Afghanistan’s economy, stymieing efforts to combat money laundering of drug money, corruption and funding terrorists.
Karzai is prohibiting U.S. Treasury agents from accessing the Afghan government’s central bank by allowing and even contributing to “hostile working conditions” for advisers there, according to a new report by the U.S. Inspector General’s Office for Afghanistan Re construction.
Afghanistan is just one of many corrupt nations that are the recipients of tons of US foreign aid and even the NYT chirped in on the corruption in Afghanistan, here. Furthermore it is estimated that Afghanistan will need an additional $6-7 billion in aid over the next 10 years, even if aid dollars are slowing down a bit. Reuters reported that a staggering 90% of Afghanistan’s budget comes from aid, here.
More than 90 percent of Afghanistan’s $17.1 billion national budget comes from foreign donation…
How did Afghanistan survive before the era of BIG aid? Just fine! Heck, it’s heroine trade could comfortably bankroll any nation which, of course, raises the issue of precisely why America is so interested in Afghanistan. It’s widely believed and documented that the CIA, frequently dubbed Cocaine Import Agency, is the biggest drug dealer on the planet, here.
As fiscal and economic woes pile up in America, most Americans remain absolutely clueless as to what is really going on and what their government actually does.
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Liberty Defined By Dr. Ron Paul (Audio Book)
25 months ago
Published on Feb 10, 2012 by FightForLibertyZX
An amazing book featuring 50 topics and what Liberty is all about. Please Support Ron Paul for President of the United States. I’m going to put bookmarks and stuff eventually. This Audio Book is almost 9 hours long.
—– Chapters ———
Intro – 00:38
1 Abortion – 13:54
2 Assassination – 28:57
3 Austrian Economics – 38:04
4 Bipartisanship – 44:26
5 Business Cycle – 49:39
6 Campaign Fiance – 56:07
7 Capital Punishment – 1:01:19
8 Central Intellegence Agency – 01:09:20
9 Civil Disobedience – 01:20:35
10 Conscription – 01:30:41
11 Demagogues – 01:39:17
12 Democracy – 01:50:25
13 Descrimination – 02:07:24
14 Education – 02:16:03
15 Empire – 02:24:26
16 Envy – 02:56:31
17 Evolution vs. Creationism – 03:00:45
18 Executive Power – 03:07:18
19 Foreign Aid – 03:25:04
20 Four Freedoms – 03:33:25
21 Global Warming – 03:51:29
22 Gun Control – 04:11:09
23 Hate Crimes – 04:15:12
24 Immigration – 04:20:06
25 Insurance – 04:36:57
26 Keynesianism – 04:46:39
27 Lobbying – 05:06:00
28 Marriage – 05:13:37
29 Medical Care – 05:19:38
30 Monetary Policy – 05:39:21
31 Moral Hazard – 05:46:44
32 Morality in Government – 05:55:02
33 Noble Lie – 05:58:58
34 Patriotism – 06:07:53
35 Political Correctness – 06:14:51
36 Prohibition – 06:19:22
37 Public Land – 06:28:35
38 Racism – 06:36:56
39 Religion and Liberty – 06:45:19
40 Security – 07:03:38
41 Slavery – 07:14:47
42 States’ Rights – 07:23:14
43 Statistics – 07:34:03
44 Surveilance – 07:39:48
45 Taxes – 07:43:37
46 Terrorism – 07:51:36
47 Torture – 07:58:22
48 Trade Policies – 08:06:55
49 Unions – 08:14:46
50 Zionism – 08:35:23
Afterward – 08:49:25
Appendix – 08:53:22
Social Security Ponzi Scheme : Ripping Off The Next Generations
09 months ago
Source: http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com
Social Security is debt slavery for the young. Plain and simple , just one of the many failings of government, who simply is incapable of doing business and can only steal and borrow money in order to spend it.The reward for working hard is to have half your income taken through force and a significant portion of this money is given to those that will not work! If that ain’t killing entrepreneurial spirit then what it is . The funny thing is, you can invest your money in the same place as social security and get more back privately. In fact if you could opt out and invest it in the same place not only could you receive the money for the rest of your life, but your inheritors would actually get the remainder when you die (not just have it go back to the general fund). The stupidest group on the planet are the ones who think that government was meant to provide for everything, and is the answer to everything.In a Ponzi scheme pays off the first few investors. social security does not even do that.A Ponzi scheme is voluntary but Social Security is violent
Sen. Paul Issues Letter to President Obama on Ending Foreign Aid to Pakistan
011 months ago
Source: http://www.randpaulreview.com
Sen. Rand Paul issued the following letter to President Barack Obama urging a delay in the release of foreign military financing to the government of Pakistan, and to hold all aid until Dr. Shakil Afridi, informant that assisted intelligence services in identifying the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, is released.
Earlier this week, Sen. Paul announced his plans to introduce new legislation addressing Pakistan’s imprisonment of Dr. Afridi and his intention to secure votes as soon as possible, when the Senate resumes next week.
Below is text of Sen. Paul and Rep. Rohrabacher’s letter:
June 1, 2012
The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20502
Dear President Obama,
We write to raise a matter of great importance to U.S. taxpayers and to American interests abroad. As you know, over the last several months, authorities in Pakistan have sought to bring criminal charges against Dr. Shakil Afridi, a former surgeon general in Khyber. Through the use of a door-to-door vaccination drive, Dr. Afridi bravely assisted our intelligence services in identifying the residents of the Abbottabad complex which was later confirmed to be the home of Osama bin Laden.
For his work in supporting the successful search for Osama bin Laden, Dr. Afridi deserves our appreciation. Unfortunately, the government of Pakistan has made it a point to punish Dr. Afridi for helping to expose Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan hideout in the most severe manner possible. Last year, a Pakistani government commission recommended Dr. Afridi be put on trial for “high treason” and “conspiracy against the state of Pakistan,” and his home was taken by government authorities. After months of investigating Dr. Afridi and after refusing to deny countless reports he was being charged with treason, Pakistan’s tribal courts-which provide absolutely no transparency to their proceedings-sentenced him to 33 years in prison. These prisons are filled with radicals sympathetic to al Qaida, and they would not hesitate to harm Dr. Afridi.
CNN: Ron Paul is what America Needs
11 year ago
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The Grinch Who Stole Conservatism
01 year ago
Source: http://chuckbaldwinlive.com
By Chuck Baldwin
Aug 6, 2010
The GOP is frantically searching for the person who will lead them to the Promised Land (translate: White House) in 2012. Barack Obama is leaving a death stench so heavy that even most of the political allies in his own party are asking him to stay away from their reelection campaigns. You gotta give it to Obama: he has done in one term what most Presidents cannot accomplish until their second (lame duck) term. The problem is, the GOP just can’t seem to find their Moses (or even their Ronald Reagan). That means, as far fetched as it sounds now, Obama has a good chance of being reelected. And, once again, when any Democrat candidate for President wins, the GOP will have no one to blame but themselves. 2012 could be another example.
You see, the GOP (including their lackeys at Fox News) either really don’t know what a constitutional conservative looks like, or they do know what he or she looks like and don’t want them leading the party. I believe the answer is the latter, but in either case, the GOP continually does nothing to groom constitutionalist conservatives for leadership. Just the opposite: such people are routinely ignored, shunned, besmirched, or impugned. (Can anyone say, “Ron Paul”?) Is it any wonder that by the time the general election comes around, the GOP candidate for President is usually nothing more than a Democrat-lite, or a “Democrat in Drag” to borrow from Steve Farrell.
That brings me to one of the people that the talking heads at Fox News and other GOP propaganda centers are routinely discussing as their 2012 Presidential hopeful: former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.
According to Reuters News, “Republican former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Sunday [July 25th] he will decide after November’s congressional elections whether he will make a run for the White House in 2012.”
Here’s what Gingrich is looking at: he wants to see if the GOP makes significant gains in both houses of Congress in the November elections. If the GOP wins one house (especially if enough real conservatives win), I predict Gingrich will enter the race. So he can ride a conservative wave into the White House in 2012? No! So he can derail any potential conservative momentum that the Tea Parties might be able to create in this year’s November elections. You see, Newt Gingrich is the Grinch Who Stole Conservatism from the GOP.
Some of us are old enough to remember Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America” that produced huge Republican victories in both houses of Congress back in 1994. However, what did that “Conservative Revolution” (as it was called then) actually produce? The answer: NOTHING! Newt’s promise of smaller government was immediately forgotten. Instead, Gingrich, along with Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, facilitated and helped orchestrate further expansion of the federal government. The “less government” theme that swept house freshmen such as Joe Scarborough, Steve Largent, Sonny Bono, Bob Barr, Helen Chenoweth, John Shadegg, and J.C. Watts into Congress quickly evaporated and this new neocon Republican Party was born.
Mark it down, if Newt Gingrich is the Republican Party’s Presidential nominee in 2012, he will do to whatever grassroots conservative momentum is brought about by this year’s congressional victories what he did to the “Conservative Revolution” in 1994: DESTROY IT!
Newt’s track record is there for anyone to see. So, why does Fox News continue to promote him as a leader of smaller government or constitutionalism? Does Fox News even have a clue as to what limited government really means? Apparently not.
Remember, Newt Gingrich is a long-standing member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), which is a notorious proponent of globalism and archenemy of national independence, State sovereignty, and limited government. Does anyone at Fox News recall what Admiral Chester Ward said about the CFR? (Plus, how many of the Big Shots at Fox News are themselves members of the CFR?)
Rear Admiral Chester Ward, who was the Judge Advocate General of the Navy from 1956 to 1960 and a former member of the CFR who pulled out after realizing what they were all about, warned the American people about the dangers of this and similar organizations (such as the Trilateral Commission). He said, “The most powerful clique in these elitist groups have one objective in common–they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the national independence of the United States. A second clique of international members in the CFR . . . comprises the Wall Street international bankers and their key agents. Primarily, they want the world banking monopoly from whatever power ends up in the control of global government.”
Ron Paul Highlights from Last Night’s Debate
01 year ago
Ron Paul Highlights from 2/22/2012 Debate (Higher-resolution version)
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Watch Ron Paul’s Speech After South Carolina Primary
01 year ago
Texas Congressman Ron Paul addressed a crowd of supporters in South Carolina after being projected to finish fourth in the Palmetto State’s Saturday primary.
Paul pointed out that after Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, only 37 delegates have been allocated so far — “something like 1.5 percent,” he said. “This is the beginning of a long, hard slog.”
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I Like Fake Romney :)
01 year ago
Bottom line,
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Jay Leno interview with Ron Paul on 12.16.2011
01 year ago
in Anti-War, Constitution, Environment, EPA, Foreign Policy, Freedom, IRS, Liberty, Politics, regulation, Ron Paul, ronpaul2012, Taxes
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Great interview with Jay Leno!
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