More Criminals Are Patriots — More Patriots Are Criminals

More Criminals Are Patriots — More Patriots Are Criminals

The percentage of recruits requiring a waiver to join the Army because of a criminal record or other past misconduct has more than doubled since 2004 to one for every eight new soldiers. The increase reflects the difficulties the Army faces in attracting young men and women into the military at a time of war. “Each month is a struggle, for the Army in particular,” said Bill Carr, a top military personnel official. CASEY: Deployments strain Army recruiting retention. INCENTIVE: Bonuses boost Reserve’s recruitment. The percentage of active and Reserve Army recruits granted “conduct” waivers for misdemeanor or felony charges increased to 11% last fiscal year from 4.6% in fiscal 2004, according to Army Recruiting Command statistics. So far this fiscal year, which began last October, 13% of recruits have entered the Army with conduct waivers. Most waivers involve misdemeanors. The Army has granted 4,676 conduct waivers among the 36,047 recruited from October through late February. The waivers have helped the Army meet its active and Reserve recruitment goals of about 100,000 people a year for the past several years. A recruit needs a waiver if he or she has one felony or serious misdemeanor or more than three minor misdemeanors. For example, a single charge of possessing marijuana or driving under the influence requires a waiver. Minor infractions include disorderly conduct, trespassing or vandalism. No exceptions can be made for a number of serious offenses, including sexual crimes or offenses related to drug or alcohol addiction. Carr and others say the military has granted waivers without hurting the quality of recruits. Exceptions are granted after examining recommendations from teachers, coaches and others. “We don’t look at them unless their community stands behind them,” Carr said. In another shift in the backgrounds of new Army personnel, the percentage of high school graduates among Army recruits was 79% last year, compared with 91% in 2001. Recruits who have come in with waivers generally perform better than peers who haven’t needed special permission to join the Army, Carr said. “When you have people volunteering that have made some mistakes in their life, you give them fair consideration,” said Frank Shaffery, deputy director of the Army’s Recruiting Command. The Air Force and Navy, smaller forces which have fewer troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, generally haven’t faced the same recruiting pressures. Waivers for the Marine Corps have remained relatively flat for the past four years, according to Pentagon data.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2008-04-06-Waiver_N.htm

Religion — Lawsuit Filed Against The Defense Department

Religion — Lawsuit Filed Against The Defense Department

Military Religious Freedom Foundation [MRFF]

March, 2008 — The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) announced this afternoon that it had filed in the Federal District Court for the District of Kansas City, Kansas a comprehensive, new Federal lawsuit against the Defense Department alleging retaliation and reprisal by the United States Army against its co-plaintiff, Specialist 4 Jeremy Hall. The lawsuit names Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Major Freddy J. Welborn as specific defendants with MRFF and Hall as the plaintiffs.

http://militaryreligiousfreedom.org/press-releases/new-federal-lawsuit.html

http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/

Female Soldiers In Iraq Are More Likely To Be Raped By Fellow Soldiers Than Killed By The Enemy

Female Soldiers In Iraq Are More Likely To Be Raped By Fellow Soldiers Than Killed By The Enemy

Rapists in the ranks. The stories are shocking in their simplicity and brutality: A female military recruit is pinned down at knife point and raped repeatedly in her own barracks. Her attackers hid their faces but she identified them by their uniforms; they were her fellow soldiers. During a routine gynecological exam, a female soldier is attacked and raped by her military physician. Yet another young soldier, still adapting to life in a war zone, is raped by her commanding officer. Afraid for her standing in her unit, she feels she has nowhere to turn. These are true stories, and, sadly, not isolated incidents. Women serving in the U.S. military are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq. The scope of the problem was brought into acute focus for me during a visit to the West Los Angeles VA Healthcare Center, where I met with female veterans and their doctors. My jaw dropped when the doctors told me that 41% of female veterans seen at the clinic say they were victims of sexual assault while in the military, and 29% report being raped during their military service. They spoke of their continued terror, feelings of helplessness and the downward spirals many of their lives have since taken. Numbers reported by the Department of Defense show a sickening pattern. In 2006, 2,947 sexual assaults were reported — 73% more than in 2004. The DOD’s newest report, released this month, indicates that 2,688 reports were made in 2007, but a recent shift from calendar-year reporting to fiscal-year reporting makes comparisons with data from previous years much more difficult. The Defense Department has made some efforts to manage this epidemic — most notably in 2005, after the media received anonymous e-mail messages about sexual assaults at the Air Force Academy. The media scrutiny and congressional attention that followed led the DOD to create the Sexual Assault and Response Office. Since its inception, the office has initiated education and training programs, which have improved the reporting of cases of rapes and other sexual assaults. But more must be done to prevent attacks and to increase accountability. At the heart of this crisis is an apparent inability or unwillingness to prosecute rapists in the ranks. According to DOD statistics, only 181 out of 2,212 subjects investigated for sexual assault in 2007, including 1,259 reports of rape, were referred to courts-martial, the equivalent of a criminal prosecution in the military. Another 218 were handled via nonpunitive administrative action or discharge, and 201 subjects were disciplined through “nonjudicial punishment,” which means they may have been confined to quarters, assigned extra duty or received a similar slap on the wrist. In nearly half of the cases investigated, the chain of command took no action; more than a third of the time, that was because of “insufficient evidence.” This is in stark contrast to the civilian trend of prosecuting sexual assault. In California, for example, 44% of reported rapes result in arrests, and 64% of those who are arrested are prosecuted, according to the California Department of Justice. The DOD must close this gap and remove the obstacles to effective investigation and prosecution. Failure to do so produces two harmful consequences: It deters victims from reporting, and it fails to deter offenders. The absence of rigorous prosecution perpetuates a culture tolerant of sexual assault — an attitude that says “boys will be boys.” I have raised the issue with Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Although I believe that he is concerned, thus far, the military’s response has been underwhelming — and the apparent lack of urgency is inexcusable. Congress is not doing much better. Although these sexual assault statistics are readily available, our oversight has failed to come to grips with the magnitude of the crisis. The abhorrent and graphic nature of the reports may make people uncomfortable, but that is no excuse for inaction. Congressional hearings are urgently needed to highlight the failure of existing policies. Most of our servicewomen and men are patriotic, courageous and hardworking people who embody the best of what it means to be an American. The failure to address military sexual assault runs counter to those ideals and shames us all.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-harman31mar31,0,5399612.story

Iraqi Plans For Million-Strong March Against U.S. Occupation

Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on Thursday for 1 million Iraqis to march against U.S. “occupation” next week after his Mehdi Army militia battled U.S. and government troops. The government said it would not attempt to block the march if it was peaceful although Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who ordered a crackdown on militia in the southern city of Basra last week, threatened more strikes against Sadr’s strongholds. A statement released by Sadr’s office in the holy city of Najaf called on Iraqis of all sects to descend on the southern city, site of annual Shi’ite pilgrimages that attract hundreds of thousands of worshippers. “The time has come to express your rejections and raise your voices loud against the unjust occupier and enemy of nations and humanity, and against the horrible massacres committed by the occupier against our honorable people,” it said. The demonstration, called for the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad on Wednesday, raises the prospect of unrest coinciding with a politically sensitive progress report to Congress by the top U.S. officials in Iraq. “If his intention is to get a whole lot of people together and go and make trouble in Najaf, I don’t think that is going to be very popular,” U.S. ambassador Ryan Crocker told a briefing. U.S. forces called in helicopter strikes during a clash with suspected Sadr gunmen on Thursday in the city of Hilla and bombed a house in Basra overnight, after days of relative calm that followed a truce Sadr announced on Sunday. The truce ended six days of fighting that spread through southern Iraq and Baghdad. Officially, the Iraqi government is sanguine about the march. Interior Ministry spokesman Major-General Abdul-Karim Khalaf told Reuters: “The right to hold a peaceful demonstration and express opinions is guaranteed by the constitution, and we don’t mind as long as the demonstration is peaceful.” But Maliki has been uncompromising toward the Sadrists, fellow Shi’ites who helped install him in power in 2006 but broke with the government last year. The prime minister told reporters the Basra crackdown could be repeated elsewhere, listing the Shula and Sadr City districts, Sadr strongholds in the capital. “Basra was a prisoner and now it has been freed,” Maliki said. “Other cities need the same battle, and also Baghdad in areas where people are still in the hands of these gangsters.” A senior member of Sadr’s bloc in parliament said the prime minister “must stop playing with fire, or the Sadr bloc and the Mehdi Army are ready for this battle, a crucial battle”. “The prime minister is trying to escalate the situation, and the brothers from the Sadr bloc are calling for calm,” Sadrist lawmaker Bahaa al-Araji told a news conference. Sadr has millions of followers and was able to summon tens of thousands of people on to the streets in Baghdad for demonstrations during last week’s fighting. A march to Najaf would potentially mobilize swathes of Shi’ite Iraq. The cleric also called for a “peaceful sit-in” in Baghdad on Friday to protest against bombings, arrests and vehicle bans that continue to seal off parts of the capital. Police sources in the Shi’ite city of Hilla said five people were killed in Thursday’s predawn clash and helicopter strike, including four policemen. U.S. forces said the clash erupted when gunmen fired on them as they attempted an arrest. A U.S. military spokesman said an air strike in Basra killed “one enemy” late on Wednesday. Reuters television pictures showed a woman’s body in the rubble and rescue workers searching for more dead. Police sources said at least three people had died including a mother, father and son, and three were seriously wounded. Last week’s violence exposed a deep rift within Iraq’s majority Shi’ite community and served as a reminder of the instability after months of security improvements. Hundreds died, making March the deadliest month for Iraqi civilians since last August, according to government figures. Nevertheless, the chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, said Washington would not alter plans to withdraw about 20,000 troops by the end of July. Crocker and General David Petraeus, the top U.S. civilian and military officials in Iraq, are due to report to Congress next week and are expected to recommend a pause in withdrawals after July to safeguard the past year’s improvements.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080403/ts_nm/iraq_dc

How To Make Sane Men Go Crazy

Iraq vets suffer mental health woes. A week before Army Gen. David Petraeus updates Congress on the war in Iraq, two new studies have found that soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering from especially high rates of post-combat psychological problems, exacerbated by an unusually high rate of repeat deployments. Some of the most severely affected troops are in the National Guard, often detailed to front-line combat positions. The studies were conducted by Veterans for America, a nonpartisan advocacy organization led by Bobby Muller, whose efforts to ban landmines earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. Politico received early copies of the reports, set to be released Friday. Muller is particularly concerned because Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, is expected to tell Congress that overall troop reductions should be put on hold, pending a reassessment. Muller’s group argues that changing overall deployment policies to give troops time to recover from combat situations would have a far greater impact than piecemeal mental health legislation. “We are compounding the injuries for those who already served,” Muller said, calling multiple deployments without sufficient rest a “prescription for catastrophe.” Veterans Affairs spokeswoman Laurie Tranter said the department would have no comment because officials had not seen the studies. But in a hearing before a House defense panel last month, Secretary of the Army Pete Geren said the military is trying to deal with the mental health issues. “It’s a challenge for us,” he said. “The military has always struggled with it in wartime.” And he acknowledged that the mental health problems follow the troops home and “affect their families.” A report by the Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health last year found that the military health system “lacks the fiscal resources and the fully trained personnel to fulfill its mission.” The veterans group’s findings come as Congress is considering numerous legislative initiatives to help veterans deal with the stress of the war, with programs ranging from counseling to suicide prevention. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) praised the veterans group’s work and called for “humane deployment cycles.” “These critical reports reveal how our overstretched and misused military is among the most devastating costs of this war,” Reid said in a statement to Politico. “Our nation’s bravest volunteers deserve our gratitude for their service and sacrifice; they do not deserve to be sent on extended and repeated tours in an endless civil war.” The studies found that National Guard troops do not receive the same level of care as regular Army soldiers when they return home. They often do not have the same on-base medical clinics as the regular Army and are often quickly thrust back into civilian life with little support. Psychological effects were found in 49 percent of National Guard troops after returning from the battlefield — 29 percentage points higher than for regular soldiers. The National Guard troops are treated like “bastard stepchildren,” Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) said in a recent meeting with Maryland veterans. In total, more than 1.6 million troops have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. More than a third have served at least two tours of duty, and some, as many as four. Post-combat psychological problems for troops increased by 125 percent between their first and third or fourth deployments, according to one of the studies, which cited internal military statistics. The military acknowledges the problems of lengthy deployments but says it needs to maintain troop levels. In testimony last month before the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey said the Army’s research showed that combat tours of “15 months is too long; 12 months home is too short.” He said that the Army’s goal this summer is to reduce deployment time to one year but that there were no immediate plans to increase leave times. Over the past three years, the Army has begun a program to send mental health counselors to Iraq and Afghanistan. The Army is also providing counseling to military families and is seeking more recruits in order to ease the burden on existing troops. “We are doing everything we can to mitigate [the stress on soldiers] in a time of crisis,” Army public affairs spokesman Paul Boyce said Wednesday.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9360.html

Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining — Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life

Difficult times are like dark clouds that pass overhead and block the sun. When we look more closely at the edges of every cloud we can see the sun shining there like a silver lining.

>>>>>>THERE’S PLENTY OF JOB VACANCIES IN THE MILITARY<<<<<<

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (from Monty Python)

Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you’re chewing on life’s gristle
Don’t grumble, give a whistle
And this’ll help things turn out for the best…

And…always look on the bright side of life…
Always look on the light side of life…

If life seems jolly rotten
There’s something you’ve forgotten
And that’s to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you’re feeling in the dumps
Don’t be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle - that’s the thing.

And…always look on the bright side of life…
Always look on the light side of life…

For life is quite absurd
And death’s the final word
You must always face the curtain with a bow.
Forget about your sin - give the audience a grin
Enjoy it - it’s your last chance anyhow.

So always look on the bright side of death
Just before you draw your terminal breath

Life’s a piece of shit
When you look at it
Life’s a laugh and death’s a joke, it’s true.
You’ll see it’s all a show
Keep ‘em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.

And always look on the bright side of life…
Always look on the right side of life…
(Come on guys, cheer up!)
Always look on the bright side of life…
Always look on the bright side of life…
(Worse things happen at sea, you know.)
Always look on the bright side of life…
(I mean - what have you got to lose?)
(You know, you come from nothing - you’re going back to nothing.
What have you lost? Nothing!)
Always look on the right side of life…
_________________________
Words and Music by Eric Idle

Service Marks Grim Iraq War Milestone

NBC5 video

http://video.nbc5.com/player/?id=232416

There’s Plenty Of Hidden Nazi Gold That’s Never Been Found

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http://www.readersdigest.com.au/content/the-hunt-for-hidden-nazi-treasure/1/
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http://www.julescrittenden.com/2008/02/26/nazi-gold/
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http://www.usmbooks.com/nazi_gold_bar.html
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http://greyfalcon.us/restored/the%20nazi%20spoils%20of%20war.htm
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http://hitsusa.com/blog/515/hitler-s-gold/
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http://www.aracnet.com/~gdy52150/goldp2.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K51FwF1uKw4
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1fr4Sc1BfE
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http://www.state.gov/www/policy_remarks/1998/980602_eizenstat_nazigld.html
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http://www.state.gov/www/policy_remarks/971204_eizen_nazigold.html

Secret Nazi Cult Discovered At U.S. Navy Base

YouTube VIDEO

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iiBMOa887QE

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/us/27swastika.html?em&ex=1191038400&en=0b784e042831bd36&ei=5087

Photographs Taken By Russian Soldiers

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http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=99988
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http://englishrussia.com/?p=1612
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http://englishrussia.com/?p=1761
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http://englishrussia.com/?p=505

The Early Development Of The Warrior Robot — YouTube VIDEO

Who Needs Conscription When You’ve Got Warrior Robots?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2bExqhhWRI
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http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/video/armored-rc-military-robotic-vehicle-defends-soldiers-fires-rockets-kills-baddies-279830.php
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http://www.metacafe.com/watch/92712/robot_soldier/
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/02/27/scirobots127.xml

Iraq War Costs Censored

Pentagon Removes $3 Trillion Price Tag For War From Web Site After Exposure

The cost of direct U.S. military operations in Iraq—not including long-term costs such as taking care of wounded veterans—already exceeds the cost of the 12-year war in Vietnam and is more than double the cost of the Korean War. These costs are projected to be almost 10 times the cost of the first Gulf War, almost a third more than the cost of the Vietnam War, and twice that of World War I. The only war in U.S. history that cost more was the World War II, when 16.3 million U.S. troops fought in a campaign lasting four years, at a total cost (in 2007 dollars, after adjusting for inflation) of about $5 trillion. With virtually the entire armed forces committed to fighting the Germans and Japanese, the cost per GI (in today’s dollars) was less than $100,000. By contrast, the Iraq war is costing upward of $400,000 per soldier. America is spending $16 billion a month on running costs alone. Running expenses for 2008 are projected to exceed $12.5 billion a month for Iraq alone, up from $4.4 billion in 2003. A contractor working as a security guard gets about $400,000 a year, more than 10 times what the government spends on a soldier. To save money, if a soldier is injured, he is forced to repay his sign-up bonus. One soldier was sued for $12,000 for loss of his helmet and equipment even though he had suffered massive brain damage in an attack. The Pentagon keeps two sets of books. The first is the official casualty list posted on the DoD website. The second, hard-to-find set of data is available only on a different website and can be obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. This data shows that the total number of soldiers who have been wounded, injured, or suffered from disease is double the number wounded in combat. New research by the Stiglitz/Bilmes team shows that the majority of these injuries and illnesses can be tied directly to service in the war. After Linda Bilmes published a paper on the cost to veterans, the then-assistant secretary for Health at the Pentagon phoned her and her dean and demanded, “Where did you get these numbers?” Bilmes said, “I got them from your website, which we now have access to.” He said, “Oh, that can’t be.” Bilmes said, “Well, look at your website.” He said, “Well, fax me my own website.” So she faxed him his website. Then they took down those websites. Then they directed the Department of Veterans Affairs to change the Veterans’ websites. This trickery is seen in the president’s proposal for the FY09 budget for veterans. Ostensibly the budget is being increased by $5 billion, But if you look at the fine print, they’re hoping to recoup over $3 billion by increasing the co-pays and all the fees on the veterans who need to use the services. While shafting the soldiers, the administration insists on “sole-source bidding,” awarding vast, multi-year contracts to Halliburton, et al., instead of putting them out for bids. “An academic might say, ‘How can you be a free market, yet demand single source contracting?’” asks Joseph E. Stiglitz, co-author of The Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/costs_censored129.html

NATO Forces In Afghanistan To Be Supplied By NATO Aircraft From Russian Airfields

But No Plan To Send Russian Troops To Afghanistan

NATO said on Saturday that it was nearing a deal to use Russian land and airspace to supply its security forces in Afghanistan, but Western diplomats denied any trade-off with Moscow to keep Ukraine and Georgia out of NATO. A NATO spokesman said the alliance was negotiating accords on land and air corridors to transport troops and equipment, which could be announced when President Vladimir Putin attends a NATO summit next month. Diplomats said a NATO-Russia council meeting on Monday would discuss a “package of deliverables” also including the possible leasing of Russian planes and trains, Russian training for Afghan helicopter pilots and counter-narcotics assistance at a centre near Moscow. “Discussions are under way. There is no deal done. We are working towards an agreement at the Bucharest summit,” NATO spokesman James Appathurai said of an April 2-4 meeting in the Romanian capital. The US secretaries of state and defense, Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates, will visit Moscow on Tuesday to discuss with their Russian counterparts a wider package of issues including missile defense, conventional and nuclear arms control as well as cooperation on Afghanistan and Iran, the diplomats said. NATO’s 43,000-strong operation in Afghanistan is facing a severe challenge from resurgent Islamist Taliban fighters. The former Soviet Union intervened in the mountainous central Asian country in 1979 but was forced out after heavy losses in the 1980s inflicted by Islamist guerrillas partly armed by the West. Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza said on Saturday that Russia’s offer of help was made in the hope of persuading NATO allies not to admit Ukraine and Georgia to a Membership Action Plan - a key stage on the road to joining the Western defense alliance.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Nato_may_get_to_use_Russian_soil_airspace/rssarticleshow/2869692.cms
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080315/ts_nm/afghan_nato_russia_dc_2
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http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=26819
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/abe724fe-ebc5-11dc-9493-0000779fd2ac.html

This Is Where They Store It

Located on Gold Vault Road, approximately 30 miles southwest of Louisville, Kentucky 40121. The building is 100 foot square. It’s supposed to be bombproof. The walls and roof are faced with granite blocks which are lined with concrete and steel. Inside the building is the vault. The door to the vault weighs 20 tons. It’s surrounded by a steel fence. There’s supposed to be somebody guarding it, but there’s no guard in the photograph.

http://www.bigwaste.com/photos/ky/fortknox/

The Road To Victory And Economic Ruin

Am I the only one who thinks the rising price of gold is a bad thing? I’m not an economic analyst, nor do I claim to be, but I am a proponent of returning the U.S. dollar to being measured by a gold standard. However, with the increase in value of gold and the decrease of the value of the dollar, this seems like an ever-widening turn in the opposite direction. With the value of gold skyrocketing, it encourages people to sell their gold, and not to buy it. People are replacing their solid valuables with a paper currency that is ailing. Do we really want to turn more of the riches over to the rich? And yet certain networks paint this as a pretty picture, as if this is the one good thing that’s come about from “rising oil prices.” In the January 30th Republican debate, presidential candidate Ron Paul - the only candidate in the race who has been speaking out about the Federal Reserve and the fall of American currency - gave us a strong warning that came from former President Ronald Reagan. “I supported Ronald Reagan in 1976, and there were only four members of Congress that did that,” Ron Paul said. “And also in 1980. Ronald Reagan came and campaigned for me in 1978. I’m not sure exactly what he would do right now, but I do know that he was very sympathetic to the gold standard, and he told me personally that ‘no great nation that went off the gold standard ever remained great.’ And he was very, very serious about that.” “So he had a sound understanding about monetary policy. And for that reason, I would say look into Ronald Reagan’s ideas on money, because he too, was concerned about runaway inflation and what it does to a country when you ruin the currency. And that’s what’s happening today. The dollar is going down and our country is going to be on the ropes if we don’t reverse that trend.” Of course, that was also the same GOP debate on CNN where Paul was given only 6 questions to answer, less than half the questions Mitt Romney and John McCain, at the time, were allowed. Now Ron Paul is almost out of the media’s collective mouth entirely, and I’m left to reread the advice he’s given, continue to hope against hope that people hear it before it’s too late, and wonder what might have been - had everyone been given an equal shot in this race. Paul appeared before the U.S. House of Representatives on March 12th to again discuss the federal budget. Here is first Democratic Representative Carolyn Maloney pointing out the expansive drop from a federal surplus into a deficit, and then Congressman Paul speaking about the role the current administration played in our economic downfall.

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http://www.connietalk.com/gold_prices_031408.html
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul442.html
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http://freethemarketman.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/ron-paul-what-the-price-of-gold-is-telling-us/