Margaret Schaut
One more conservative viewpoint on the world at large.Archive for March, 2008
Ron Paul & Stone Soup
The Crown thought the Revolutionaries were a rag-tag bunch, easily persuaded to the monarchy and its interests. They were right, as the vast majority of the ‘settlers’ didn’t want war, didn’t want strife, wanted to stay home and not be bothered.
It was a minority of committed individuals that had HAD ENOUGH that did all the dirty work necessary to accomplish the impossible, and they paid a heavy price for it too.
You may remember the story about Stone Soup. Ron Paul was brought to us like that soldier, without much to offer but his brains, his experience, his wisdom- in short, his magic stone.
And like the villagers, we each brought our own little piece, or as Ron Paul says, ‘anything we wanted to.’
The ones unwilling to bring their little part also didn’t eat!
So we continue to bring our little parts- our little causes (pro-life, anti-war, anti-tax, etc) and we bring along our people. We do all we can in our own sphere of influence, we bring along EVERY SINGLE SOUL we can.
We all will eat well, but be advised that none of the powers-that-be want us to be making our own soup, we’re MUCH EASIER TO CONTROL if we’re STARVING!
If it isn’t clear by now, it ought to be. They’re not going to give us back our country or our Constitution WITHOUT A FIGHT.
The MSM is so corrupted,and so corrupting, that it can only be considered an ENEMY of the people.
Our pals in New Hampshire, chasing down the freak of nature that is Sean Hannity, had it right.
Don’t make it easy on these freaks. They won’t make it easy on us!
We NEED write-in campaigns. We need lists of politicians that are genuinely committed to the Constitution. We need business people, professionals, workers, the poor. We need the Christians, the pro-lifers, the Libertarians.
We’re going to have to do this the HARD WAY, and we know it. Too bad we’ve been so conditioned to be fat, sloppy, greedy and lazy!
Time for discipline, time for commitment!
Time to make stone soup, since stones are all the powers-that-be are going to give us!
By the way- General Patton made military use of ‘Rock Soup’ as wikipedia says here:
U.S. Army General George S. Patton, Jr. referred to the “rock soup method” of acquiring resources for attacks in the face of official disapproval by his superiors for offensive operations. In the military context, he sent units forward ostensibly on reconnaissance missions, to later reinforce them when resistance was met and eventually turned small scale probes into all out attacks; he notably did this during the Battle of Sicily in the advance on Palermo and again in the campaign in northwest Europe, notably near Metz when his 3rd US Army was officially halted during Operation Market Garden.
Sticking with what works… that’s an effective and powerful strategy!
Ron Paul is STILL Going to Win! Its the Economy, Stupid!
Over and over we’ve been lied to by the mainstream media, and you’d think we’d be used to it by now!
Ron Paul is STILL going to win for some VERY GOOD REASONS.
Conservatives DESPISE John McCain- they’ve abandoned him and the party in droves. He IS INCOMPETENT in the economic matters that are taking our country down, and he is all too willing to hand over ‘control’ of these things to the ones that are destroying us already.
The democratic ticket is an absolute nightmare of lies, hypocrisy and the kind of spending that all the economies in the world together couldn’t afford. Dumping more worthless money in vast amounts into a dying economy will only worsen matters, but they won’t own up to their own responsbilities in this.
Anti-war people will FINALLY understand that the solutions offered by any of these self-serving candidates can only get more young Americans killed, drive us into the kind of bankruptcy that there will NEVER be a recovery from, and push us into the type of foreign ownership that will turn us all into Chinese slaves.
Hypocrisy is perhaps the worst plague modern society has EVER seen, leading to everything from eugenics and abortion to total corruption in Washington DC and the governments in state after state, municipality after municipality.
When will our ‘representatives’ hear the people SCREAM ‘ENOUGH!’
NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM HAS ANYTHING LIKE A SOLUTION.
Only Ron Paul knows what he’s doing!
It is only a matter of time before that much is obvious, even to the most mania-blathering Obama idolizer.
Truth will out. It always does. So will the treason, with honest inquiry.
Too bad for Ron Paul that the problems these idiots are leaving him are so horrible.
I look forward to the day when our Strict Constitutionalist has the Justice Department say to the rest of the politicians “You have the CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to remain silent.”
Victorian American Fiat Bubbles!
Here’s an interlude: Victorian Americans Currier and Ives drew the many bubbles of fiat currency!
“Why we’re poor!”
I’ve added the picture to this page, but you can see more of their work here.
Ron Paul LISTENS to our forebears. When will we?
Ron Paul: Finally they noticed? A Recession?
Who are they kidding after all? The big shooters are finally coming around saying there MIGHT actually be a recession after all.
Notice how the income for families DROPPED, and they think it will be a DECADE before anyone gets a raise again?
Notice that when they keep printing the money, even without a ‘drop’ in pay the money buys less and less of a living.
But, of course, there are still denials all over the place. Major ‘economists’ are expecting it to ‘turn around quickly’ or need ‘more proof’ that there is a recession.
Our country is living on two different planes of reality. Ron Paul is aware of the reality that I live with.
Which one are your candidates on?
Ron Paul Supporter’s Business Being Destroyed
Kiss Liberty while you still can…
She’s nearly gone!
Out of control municipalities, reckless about small business and the needs of taxpayers, have decided to target the small business of a Ron Paul supporter in Metro Detroit- EVEN IN THE DEPRESSION STATE OF MICHIGAN!
Using pathetic, UNCONSTITUTIONAL petty regulations, the battle for Liberty and Freedom is hitting the streets!
Imprisoned by Health- Big Pharma HATES Ron Paul
Power grabs and big cash go hand in hand, and Big Pharma, who has succeeded in stealing the alternative health care industry, vitamins, homeopathy and all, has decided to support the brain dead democrats for the presidency.
It is meaningless to them that we’ve had a do-nothing Congress for decades now- all they care to have done is what HAS been done. Turn over our health, and our physical frailties, to big corporations.
Billary was one of their best friends from the start. With the institution of HMOs and PPOs, the health care industry was able to dig its claws in one of the most necessary markets of humanity.
Ron Paul, being a doctor, has first hand experience with the damage big corporations have had on our medical system, watching as the greed set in so deeply that people are even dying so that profits aren’t spent on them.
The greed of medical insurers, medical equipment companies and pharmaceuticals has given rise to the Nazi concept of eugenics, killing those who are deemed to have a ‘poor quality of life.’ Why? It certainly isn’t up to the people whether the quality of their lives is sufficient to continue. It is that profits are FAR MORE IMPORTANT than anyone money can be spent on.
Our current miserable roster of greasy palmed politicians think that’s just as it should be. Too bad they’ve all forgotten how expendible their people have been- whether black, female or POWs.
How quickly one can forget when its YOU the corporations want to buy off.
Mark of the Beast on Right Hand or Forehead. Why There?
There is actually quite a lot in Scripture about the Mark of the Beast. These are quoted from the NKJV.
Rev. 13: 16ff He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. Rev. 14: 8ff And another angel followed, saying, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” 9 Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10 he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.” 12 Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Rev 20: 4ff And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
In Romans 13 the Apostle Paul tells us to ‘put on Christ’ 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
Since the earliest Church, Christians have ‘put on Christ’ in the form of a sign, as signs are extremely important in salvation history, not only for the Israelites that came before, but also for Jesus and His apostles.
The sign that ‘puts on Christ’ has been making the sign of the cross, and in both branches of the ancient Church, and in all the branches from there, Christians make the sign of the cross with their right hand, from the forehead, to the solar plexus, then shoulder to shoulder. This is the sign they use to begin and end prayer, by ‘putting on Christ’ they are accessing His power to save, His relationship with God, His intercession that was obtained for us by His sacrifice on the cross.
The mark of the beast is either on the forehead or hand, which subsumes the sign of the cross to the sign of the anti-christ. With that chip implanted in the hand, it is a defiled hand that rejects the cross making that sign. With that chip implanted in the forehead, it would be the FIRST thing touched when making the sign of the cross, subsuming the sacrifice to the anti-christ.
Amazing how that works. Just notice how badly God takes it.
Playing Games: Ron Paul Revolution Not Over Yet
No, despite news reports to the contrary, the Ron Paul Presidential Campaign isn’t over yet, and here’s why.
Despite the fact that ALL the Presidential Campaigns are winding down, Ron Paul’s has been SINGLED OUT to make it look like he’s throwing in the towel, something the MSM has tried over and over to do, and every time, r3volutionaries just keep on coming.
They have done this to discourage everyone AGAIN.
This is the strangest political year I’ve ever seen. Hidden things are suddenly coming to light, like crocuses peeking out first thing in the spring. All of those things that are hidden now will be FRONT AND CENTER before November. Some of these things will change the way the world has worked for 50 years, and we aren’t going to like what we see.
Ron Paul could still win in a write-in vote drive. In a rebellion of republicans who despise McCain- there are many of those.
Ron Paul may be DRAFTED by the people to serve in the event of an economic collapse, of which we are in great danger and which no other Candidate knows anything about.
He may be DRAFTED by the people to intercede and intervene in the event martial law is declared.
Right now there are so many people earning their living from what the government does, bureaucrats, contractors, etc., that they won’t want ANY CHANGE. They’ll do everything in the power of the MSM to convince regular working folks to keep things the same.
But, this is the year. It won’t work much longer.
So, Ron Paul is right- we all have to roll up our sleeves and keep on working on this r3volution.
We have no idea what inner rottenness will be exposed this year in the parties, but we know that there will be something.
Work now, work for the future.
Feel Your Strength, Ron Paul’ers! Awesome!
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. -Albert Einstein
I love this little YouTube! Sometimes you just gotta FEEL your strength, you gotta just SHOW your strength! Some problems require a total commitment to overcome, and Ron Paul people have the cause!
Surviving Inflationary Depression
Aside from the usual, and I think mainly naive advice about how to survive inflationary depression (goods for barter, etc.,) I have gone out of my way to talk to folks that had experienced some incredibly difficult financial times to see what advice they could give. For example, the Great Depression and the economic collapse of the USSR.
These things were just suggestions from the discussions that we had. It was average (but educated and knowledgeable) people, not the rich, and it was people who were most directly impacted by these problems at the time. Take them for what they are worth to you. At least it gives you a few things to think about.
It must be broken down, somewhat, because of different circumstances and some assumptions that are made by the bunker mentality people that aren’t particularly helpful.
Inflation/hyper-inflation
Let’s start with hyper-inflation. The value of the money you do have drops so fast that you need to spend it as soon as it is in your hand, or the prices of everything will be higher the next day, or even in the next few hours. Therefore, if there is something you NEED, like dental care, GET IT NOW while it is still ‘cheap.’ If you are able to finance it, do so. If the credit industry completely collapses, repayment will be impossible and therefore you will have saved yourself the out-of-pocket expense, and done your part to keep the credit card criminals from getting back up anytime soon. There will come a point when the monopoly money in your game set will be worth more than the paper currency we’ve all been used to. (See the caveat below with electronic funds.)
However, keep in mind the recent changes to the bankruptcy laws. Like income taxes and student loans, now credit card debt is not dischargeable in a bankruptcy court (for average people). Therefore, no matter what happens to the economy you could still be on the hook for your credit card debt. I don’t recall seeing any language in the new law that accounts for hyper-inflation, so those bills could actually become ‘cheaper and cheaper’ to pay off as inflation gets worse and worse. It was a temporary oversight, I’m sure and once it dawns on the powers-that-be, they’ll be working overtime to get that ‘adjusted’ as quickly as possible.
Medical care and highly regulated services.
Many industries like medicine are so super-regulated that the days of visiting the neighborhood doctor (who is now as poor as you are in the inflationary depression environment) will be gone. They will not be able to practice medicine legally. If they do help, it will be a great risk to them if something goes wrong, and there will be no malpractice insurance that will cover them, if they could afford it in the first place. This has been an extremely litigious society, and our medical practitioners have been trained to be very careful of that; and patients and lawyers are careful to find things upon which to sue. This mind-set will NOT CHANGE just because everyone is just as poverty stricken as everyone else. It has fomented a hideous distrust among doctors and patients, and tolerance of difficult situations is gone. Therefore expect that medical attention will be difficult to obtain. Hospitals are already closing because of the inadequate funding and huge demand for services by uninsured people. In an inflationary depression, hospitals are extremely likely to close all over the country, as will clinics and emergency rooms.
With big pharma having been able to obtain regulation over wholistic medicines, in its own favor, it will be almost impossible to get any of those, either. You may want to have lots of vitamins, medicines and home remedies set aside. In other words, GET THEM WHILE YOU STILL CAN. Big Pharma won’t permit it much longer.
Now the Depression part. Collapse of all financial institutions.
Friends of my family who had lived through the economic collapse of the USSR explained that when the whole financial industry went down, everyone just stayed in the homes they were in. There came a point when it was just much too expensive to go through the process to throw people out. In our country we also have squatters laws that enable people to obtain ownership of an ‘abandoned’ home based on their staying in it for a certain length of time. This may apply to you and your home in the event all the financial institutions collapse. You may want to discreetly check around and see if there are any such laws in your area. Friends or families could ‘exchange’ homes and squat in order to keep the properties.
FDIC insured savings & pensions.
Understand that, like the Savings and Loan debacle, the savings of average people were NOT paid by the FDIC insurance, in many many cases, but only the larger depositors. Many people had saved all their lives and lost their funds when the S & Ls collapsed, although this was not widespread knowledge because the MSM did not report on the fact. The current situation is far, far worse for the FDIC, who has a barely functional amount set aside for such catastrophes. IF they do happen to pay out, it will (if you are lucky) be pennies on the dollar. Do not expect to receive your life savings back.
Since the first Bush administration, there have been people waiting for a catastrophe to take down the pension funds. During that administration laws were changed that permitted pensions to USE the money for other investments, rather than keeping those funds set aside. Immediately pension funds did, in fact, invest that money elsewhere and so nearly all pension funds are purely paper tigers. This is another case of the chickens coming home to roost at the worst possible time for it. Like the sub-prime mortgage debacle, there were PLENTY of people warning about the danger to the pension funds at the time, but they were ignored, even thought the amount of money at risk was vastly greater than the S & L losses. Its one more case of legalized looting of the people’s savings, that is only now coming up on the radar of the average person.
This will also be true of your 401k programs, IRAs, CDs, and other ‘highly recommended’ investment vehicles. Your money is already gone.
Worthless cash.
Some years back when I was travelling Mexico, I found that tourists from other countries were very surprised that Mexicans believed that Americans walked around with bags of money. It was one of the reasons that the war on drugs was so difficult to wage, because nobody was surprised by people walking around with bags and bags of money. The reason is that the peso had so little value that if you ‘cashed in’ a couple of hundred American dollars for spending money, it actually took bags to hold all the pesos you would get in exchange!
Since that time, the value of the peso has been ‘reset’ from 3500 pesos per dollar to something in the area of 7 per dollar, perhaps even less now. However, do not expect that to be the case with the American dollar in the event of a collapse. The American debt is just too great to recover that currency.
The Mexicans were able to re-value the peso because their country had some assets that belonged to them.
We have no such assets any longer. They have all been sold to foreign investors and, as many people believe, even Fort Knox is most likely empty. Ron Paul’s requests for an inventory of the people’s gold have repeatedly been ignored. It isn’t there but the ones who have it don’t want us to know it for sure, at least not yet.
Alternative currencies.
Ron Paul has talked about an alternate currency of silver and gold coin. So far that idea has had NO FLOAT among other members of government, and in fact, the government has been extremely vigilant and harsh if it thinks there is an alternate currency of any type being developed in the country. Even bartering associations have had great difficulty with the government because the barter ‘credits’ were considered an alternate cash form by the government and those associations had to develop suitable methods of reporting transactions to the IRS before they were able to continue operations. Recently in Minnesota, a company that was minting commemorative coins out of purchased gold was shut down and wiped out by the government without explanation.
The euro is also a fiat currency and will most likely be severely impacted by inflationary depression here. It is NOT a safe haven for you to invest your funds into.
Electronic replacement currency.
All signs point to the government getting ready to substitute the American dollar for an electronic currency of some type, whether it be the Amero for three countries, or an American hemisphere currency. In any case, it will certainly be another fiat currency, and it will only be available to those who carry or have implanted, an electronic chip of some sort.
This is the primary reason that credit and refinancing has totally dried up, as it did in the Great Depression. Then, it was a strategy for certain robber barons to purchase people’s assets for pennies on the dollar, making a few people very, very rich. Now, the commitment to turn to a RFID based identification and currency is primary, and would never work if alternate forms of currency were available to the people who refused those chips.
Combined with the massive data collection on all Americans that has been going on, in banks, loan companies, credit reporting agencies and etc., and the institution nationwide of the REAL ID, all of your bills are known to someone, or many people electronically, and your obligations and income (if you have any) will be transferred over to the electronic bookkeeping that manages the new alternative electronic funds.
Therefore, it is conceivable that there could be a return of ‘debtor’s prisons’ or some sort of indentured servitude to force payback of debts, especially if there is no job market to access. Perhaps the government will provide ‘busy work’ to get some income into the hands of the populace, but most likely it would be paid in the electronic currencies just described. In any event, if it is possible the creditors will do everything within their power and influence to get a payback and will work to legislate that.
Other issues to consider.
Like the Amish, there are still many people who own their properties outright. Also like the Amish, you can have every single thing paid for, but still be subject to property seizure due to inflationary tax rates or, like the Amish, for refusal to participate in the chipping program. Like Tara in Gone with the Wind, while the land was paid for, there was simply no income of any kind to pay the taxes. Unlike Tara, the government agencies have such a far reach that they have no consideration for the constitutional rights of the Amish, and have no need to. There is no one with power who is interceding for the Amish to save their properties and animals from fines and seizures.
No one will intercede for you, either.
New regulations have changed important things.
The Amish are an excellent example of the difficulties people will be facing. Because of Homeland Security, and the NAIS program, because of the rare instances of mad cow disease or tuberculosis among wild deer herds, the government can seize food/farm animals at its discretion. If the animals are chipped as required by law, they cannot be hidden or moved around without being able to be traced.
The organic produce scare from out west has also brought regulation down on crop production and limitations to the ability of people to grow food on their own properties. Zoning laws in your community most likely prohibit keeping chickens, goats, rabbits or any other ‘livestock’ that could provide you a living. You might try for a time to keep such animals, but be advised they will most likely be seized when the government is alerted to their existence.
Without professional standard facilities, even farmers are no longer able to offer fresh baked pies or other homemade goods at their roadside stands anymore. Trade or exchange of foodstuffs may be facing enforcement of Homeland Security food safety regulations.
Furthermore, since that horrendous and illegal debacle called WACO, it is now illegal to have more than a two month supply of food on your premises.
Transportation
Inflationary prices will affect your transportation as well, as the prices of gasoline, oil and all fluids having to do with maintaining your vehicle properly will skyrocket in price. This will be much more difficult for suburban dwellers than city dwellers, because in urban areas deliveries of foodstuffs and necessities are more likely. Suburban areas with large lots and spread out community areas will have farther to walk (or ride bikes) to get to supplies, and much farther to get them back home.
Keep in mind we haven’t even discussed the chips that will be put into your license plates on your vehicles (as long as they’re AMERICAN vehicles), corporate owned toll roads, built at taxpayer expense, roadblocks and etc. Expect problems with all of these.
Social Chaos
The 1967 riots in Detroit were in large measure a response to severe economic hardships, and things became very violent and dangerous. My own father was severely beaten and left for dead simply because he worked in the area. Even a severe shortage of food supplies can bring on food riots, not to mention the gasoline shortages, rationing and high prices.
It is reasonable to expect that there will be some sort of a sweep by militias (constitutionally illegal ones) to take away all types of firearms, regardless of your right to own them. Martial law will certainly be declared, perhaps just over the economic collapse, but unquestionably because of the social chaos that is likely to break out at some point.
In all this we haven’t even discussed the recent legislation passed by our current administration and representatives in the house and senate. For example, the Patriot Act, etc. Now, for simply protesting, you can be branded a home grown terrorist and disappeared for up to three years without recourse to a court or lawyer.
There are others which you are aware of I’m sure.
In sum, the government will, at some point, provide some relief to the inflationary depression, but it will be done in such a way that you will be forced to accept radio chipping and a host of other things that are intolerable for Americans, such as relinquishing sovereignty to a hyper-political organization.
Because of the sheer desperation that will ensue from inflationary depression, it is certain that most people will accept the compromise.
There is only one thing that can protect us from much of this, and that is a STRICT RETURN TO THE CONSTITUTION. Without that, there is no basis for your rights and, under the scenario that is all set up and that we are awaiting, you will be given no rights either.
Margaret Schaut 