Archive for January 31st, 2011
John V. Denson–Videos
The Six Months That Changed the World | John V. Denson
Free Speech and Dissent During Wartime | John V. Denson
A Century of War | John V. Denson
The American Imperium [John V. Denson]
The Fed, Gold, and Troubled Times | John V. Denson
Unsound Money and War in the 20th Century | John V. Denson
Background Articles and Videos
A Century of War
by John V. Denson
“…The most accurate description of the twentieth century, I believe, is “The War and Welfare Century.” This century is the bloodiest in all history. More than 170 million people were killed by governments with 10 million being killed in World War I and 50 million killed in World II. In regard to the 50 million killed in World War II, it is significant that nearly 70 percent were innocent civilians, mainly as a result of the bombing of cities by Great Britain and America.
This number of 50 million deaths does not include the estimated 6 to 12 million Russians killed by Stalin before World War II, and the several million people he killed after the war ended when Roosevelt and Churchill delivered to him one-third of Europe as part of the settlement conferences. George Crocker’s excellent book Roosevelt’s Road to Russia describes the settlement conferences, such as Yalta, and shows how Roosevelt and Churchill enhanced communism in Russia and China through deliberate concessions which strengthened it drastically, while Nazism was being extinguished in Germany.
It is inconceivable to me that America could join with Stalin as an ally and promote World War II as “the good war,” against tyranny or totalitarianism. The war and American aid made Soviet Russia into a super military power which threatened America and the world for the next 45 years. It delivered China to the communists and made it a threat during this same period of time.
The horror of the twentieth century could hardly have been predicted in the nineteenth century, which saw the eighteenth century end with the American Revolution bringing about the creation of the first classical liberal government in the world. It was a government founded upon a blueprint in a written constitution, which allowed very few powers in the central government and protected individual liberties even from the vote of the majority. It provided for the ownership and protection of private property, free speech, freedom of religion, and basically a free-market economy with no direct taxes.
Both political factions united behind the first administration of President Washington to proclaim a foreign policy based upon non-interventionism and neutrality in the affairs of other nations, which remained the dominant political idea of America for over a hundred years.
These ideas of classical liberalism quickly spread to the Old World of Europe and at the end of the eighteenth century erupted into a different type of revolution in France, although a revolution in the name of liberty. The new ideal, however, adopted in the French Revolution was “equality” by force and it attempted to abolish all monarchy throughout Europe. The ideas of classical liberalism were twisted and distorted, but nevertheless were spread by force throughout Europe, thereby giving liberalism a bad name, especially in Germany; and this was accomplished by a conscripted French army.
The nineteenth century largely remained, in practice, a century of individual freedom, material progress, and relative peace, which allowed great developments in science, technology, and industry. However, the intellectual ferment toward the middle of the nineteenth century and thereafter was decidedly toward collectivism. In about 1850 the great classical liberal John Stuart Mill began to abandon these ideas and adopt socialism, as did most other intellectuals. After the brief Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, Bismarck established the first welfare state while creating the nation of Germany by converting it from a confederation of states, just as Lincoln did in America. From this point up until World War I most German intellectuals began to glorify the state and collectivist ideas. They ignored one lone voice in Germany, a lyric poet by the name of Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin, who died in 1843. He stated, “What has made the State a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.” [1] Hegel and Fichte immediately come to mind. …”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/denson5.html
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )U.S. Government Interventionism Does Not End Well At Home or Abroad–Videos
“Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances, with any portion of the foreign world.
~George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796
“As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated into the hands of a few and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war.”
~Abraham Lincoln
“I can only say that while I have considered the preservation of the constitutional power of the General Government to be the foundation of our peace and safety at home and abroad, I yet believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, not only essential to the adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the continuance of a free government. I consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.”
~General Robert E. Lee
Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex.
Eisenhower’s Farewell Address Jan 17, 1961 Pt 1
Eisenhower’s Farewell Address Jan 17, 1961 Pt 2
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Farewell Address
delivered 17 January 1961
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwightdeisenhowerfarewell.html
Ron Paul on the Middle East
Ron Paul on Egypt: U.S. Meddling Leads to Unintended Consequences
Ron Paul on Uncertainty in Middle East
Glenn Beck-01/31/11-A
Glenn Beck-01/31/11-B
Glenn Beck-01/31/11-C
Federal Judge Vinson Rules Obamacare Unconstitutional–Videos
“I can only say that while I have considered the preservation of the constitutional power of the General Government to be the foundation of our peace and safety at home and abroad, I yet believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, not only essential to the adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the continuance of a free government. I consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.”
~General Robert E. Lee
“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.”
“What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy.”
~Ludwig von Mises’
Text of Judge Vinson’s Decision
http://www.scribd.com/doc/47905280/vinsonruling1-31-11
Florida Judge Rules Health Care Law Is Unconstitutional
Obamacare Declared Unconstitutional by Federal Judge
Why Obamacare Was Ruled Unconstitutional
Ron Paul Exposes Obamacare on Freedom Watch
A big fail.
President Obama can kiss his legacy good-bye and his second term in office.
How sweet it is!
Judge uses Obama’s words against him
By Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
“…Judge Vinson, a federal judge in the northern district of Florida, struck down the entire health care law as unconstitutional on Monday, though he is allowing the Obama administration to continue to implement and enforce it while the government appeals his ruling.
The footnote was attached to the most critical part of Judge Vinson‘s ruling, in which he said the “principal dispute” in the case was not whether Congress has the power to tackle health care, but whether it has the power to compel the purchase of insurance.
Judge Vinson used Mr. Obama‘s campaign words from an interview with CNN to show that there are other options that could fall within the Constitution — including then-candidate Obama‘s plan.
During the presidential campaign, one key difference between Mr. Obama and his chief opponent, then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, was Mrs. Clinton‘s plan required all Americans to purchase insurance, and Mr. Obama‘s did not.
In the heat of the primaries in 2008, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman predicted Mr. Obama‘s opposition to an individual mandate could come back to haunt him: “If Mr. Obama gets to the White House and tries to achieve universal coverage, he’ll find that it can’t be done without mandates — but if he tries to institute mandates, the enemies of reform will use his own words against him.”
Mr. Obama has since defended the constitutionality of the individual mandate, arguing it’s the linchpin of the program to bring in more customers, which is key to expanding the availability and affordability of insurance. …”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/31/judge-uses-obamas-words-against-him/
BREAKING: Federal judge rules Obamacare unconstitutional
“…The full text of the decision from Federal Judge Roger Vinson is not available yet, but according to reporters who’ve seen the decision, he’s ruled the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. The ruling favors of the 26 state attorney generals challenging the law. The judge ruled the individual mandate that requires all Americans to purchase health insurance invalid and, according to the decision, “because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void.”
Background Articles and Videos
Health Care Bill aka Obamacare Ruled Unconstitutional By Judge
Judge Rules Obamacare Unconstitutional(?)
Newt Gingrich says Obamacare dealt a tremendous blow
Federal Judge Strikes Down Obamacare Mandate
PBS: Virginia vs. ObamaCare; the judge’s ruling (pt. 1)
PBS: Virginia vs. ObamaCare; the judge’s ruling (pt. 2)
PBS: Virginia vs. ObamaCare; the judge’s ruling (pt. 3)
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Happy Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre–Obama’s Fiscal Year 2012 Federal Budget of $4,000 Billion: Driving America Off The Cliff–Videos
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Stop Spending Our Future – The Crisis
After listening to President Obama’s State of the Union’s address last week I was curious as to the total Fiscal Federal Budget for Fiscal Year 2012 would be in terms of outlays, receipt and deficits.
At first I expected that the President would submit a budget between $3,700 billion to $4,000 billion.
For fiscal year 2011 President Obama budget estimated outlays at $3,834 billion, tax receipts at $2,567 billion and the deficit at $1,267 billion.
Table S-1. Budget Totals
(in billions of dollars)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2011/assets/tables.pdf
The more I thought about the various investments or “stimulus” spending the President proposed in this speech, I concluded the President would pull out all constraints and stops and propose a budget over $4,000 billion.
The reason is simple.
The Republican establishment is calling for a Fiscal Year 2008 level budget or about $3,000 billion in outlays.
The tea party, conservative and libertarian movements are all calling for massive cuts in Federal government spending, balanced budgets and no increase in the debt ceiling.
A balanced budget would require a $2,500 billion budget for Fiscal Year 2012 which is slightly above the level of Fiscal Year 2005 outlays of $2,471 billion when tax receipts were $2,153 billion and the deficit was $318 billion.
A balance budget assumes tax receipts would be $2,500 billion for Fiscal Year 2012 which could be optimistic.
Historical Tables Budget of the U.S. Government
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2011/assets/hist.pdf
President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2012 Federal Budget will most likely be $4,000 billion in outlays, $2,500 billion in receipts, and a deficit of $1,500 billion. However, he might fudge the tax receipts number and estimate it to be $3,000 billion with a deficit of $1,000 billion.
For Fiscal Year 2010 that ended on September 30, 2010, the actual outlays were $3,455 billion, actual receipts $2,161 billion and the deficit was $1,294 billion.
Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government
http://www.fms.treas.gov/mts/mts1210.pdf
One day after President Obama’s speech the Congressional Budget Office revised its estimate of the Fiscal Year 2011 Federal Budget to $1,500 billion.
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President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2012 Federal Budget will be dead on arrival when it reaches the House of Representatives.
President Obama’s state of the union address was really the launch of his 2012 run for a second term as president.
The American people will soon become aware of President Obama’s Valentine present of a $4,000 billion budget.
With the official unemployment rate remaining above 9% and the total unemployment rate running above 16% for the next 24 months, President Obama is now a lame duck one term president.
President Obama’s budget will be a Saint Valentine’s Day massacre of the Democratic Party.
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St Valentine’s Day Massacre
May they rest in peace.
How sweet it is!
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Background Articles and Videos
FY 2012 budget readied for Valentine’s Day release
By Suzanne Kubota
“…Although the President’s fiscal 2012 budget is confirmed to be released on February 14th, don’t expect there to be hearts and flowers flowing up and down Pennsylvania Avenue.
The president has already said he wants a 5-year, non-security discretionary spending freeze, while promoting other investment spending.
Republicans, however, pledge deeper cutbacks in view of Congressional Budget Office estimates the deficit will hit $1.48 trillion in fiscal 2011. …”
http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=35&sid=2254253
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Little Egypt, Percy Shelley, and Fouad Ajami On Bill Bennett’s Morning In America–Videos
Elvis Presley – Little Egypt
Central Intelligence Agency, The World Fact Book, Egypt
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/eg.html
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear —
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.’
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“…Fouad Ajami is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the cochair of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. He is also the Majid Khadurri Professor of Middle East Studies at The Johns Hopkins University, the School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author of The Arab Predicament, The Dream Palace of the Arabs, The Foreigner’s Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq, and his forthcoming book Crosswinds: The Way of Saudi Arabia (Hoover Institution Press 2010) . His writings also include nearly four hundred essays, reviews, and columns of opinion on Arab and Islamic politics, American foreign policy, and contemporary international history. His research has charted the road to 9/11, the Iraq war, and the American presence in the Arab-Islamic world. He is a member of the editorial board of Foreign Affairs …”
http://www.hoover.org/fellows/8881
One of the best talk radio shows is Bill Bennett’s Morning in America.
Only on the Bill Bennet’s Morning in America can you hear The Coasters singing Little Egypt,
The Coasters Little Egypt
the poetry of Percy Shelley, and an outstanding interview with Professor Fouad Ajami on the situation in Egypt with the pressure on President Hosni Mubarak to leave.
If you missed Monday’s show, please listen to the Fouad Ajami segments for an insightful analysis:
http://www.bennettmornings.com/
Bill Bennett also had the wisdom not to follow the advice of The Coasters when he married his wife, Elayne.
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Rebellion in the Land of the Pharaohs
A man who places himself at the helm for three decades inevitably becomes the target of all the realm’s discontents.
By FOUAD AJAMI
“…Egypt had been the trendsetter in Arab politics, in its self-image the place where all things modern in Arab life—the cinema, radio, women’s emancipation, parliamentary life, mass politics, forced industrialization—had begun. The sight of Tunisians, hitherto a marginal people in the Arab consciousness, taking to the streets and deposing their tyrant, both shamed and emboldened the Egyptians. They had wearied of the large prison that Mr. Mubarak had constructed for them. A man who places himself at the helm for three decades inevitably, and justly, becomes the target of all the discontents in the realm.
Revolts of this kind are always a gamble on the unknown. At bottom, they are an attempt at self-purification, a society wishes to be done with the stain of submission to a dictator’s transgressions. Amid the tumult, what is so clear today is the hatred felt for the ruler and his immediate family. Reigns like Mr. Mubarak’s devour the green and the dry, as a favored Arab expression has it. The sycophants come to the fore and steal what they can. Those with heart and character and pride are hauled off to prison, or banished to the outer margins of public life.
Mr. Mubarak has been merciless with his critics. For this isolated, aging man of the barracks, dissent is always treason. There remains, of course, the Muslim Brotherhood. It was in Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood was born in the late 1920s. The Brotherhood has been the alibi and the bogeyman with which Hosni Mubarak frightened the middle class at home and the donors abroad in Washington and Europe, who prop his regime out of fear that Egypt would come apart and the zealots would triumph. …”
Egypt Opposition Calls For 1 Million On Streets
By MAGGIE MICHAEL and HAMZA HENDAWI
“…A coalition of opposition groups called for a million people to take to Cairo’s streets Tuesday to ratchet up pressure for President Hosni Mubarak to leave.
American and other world leaders were also ramping up pressure for an orderly transition to a democratic system.
The coalition of groups, dominated by youth movements but including the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, said it wants the march from Tahrir, or Liberation Square, to force Mubarak to step down by Friday.
Spokesmen for several of the groups said their representatives were meeting Monday afternoon to develop a unified strategy for ousting Mubarak. The committee will also discuss whether Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei will be named as a spokesman for the protesters, they said. ElBaradei, a pro-democracy advocate and former head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, invigorated anti-Mubarak feeling with his return to Egypt last year.
The Muslim Brotherhood, which wants to form an Islamist state in the Arab world’s largest nation, said it would not take a leadership role. Western governments and many secular Egyptians have expressed fears about a significant Brotherhood role in Egyptian politics.
“We don’t want to harm this revolution,” said Mohamed Mahdi Akef, a former leader of the Brotherhood.
The groups also called for a general strike Monday, although much of Cairo remained shut down, with government officers and private businesses closed.
“We don’t want life to go back to normal until Mubarak leaves. We want people to stay away from their jobs until he leaves,” Israa Abdel-Fattah, one of the protest organizers and one of the founders of April 6 group, a grassroots movement of young people that has been pushing for democratic reform since 2008.
Banks, schools and the stock market were shut for the second working day. Long lines formed outside bakeries as people tried to replenish their stores of bread, the main source of sustenance for most Egyptians. …”
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110131/D9L39P7O0.html
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