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16 years ago @ Patrick J. Buchanan - Newt, Sarah and a New GOP · 0 replies · +1 points
16 years ago @ Patrick J. Buchanan - You Might Be a Constit... · 0 replies · +1 points
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16 years ago @ Patrick J. Buchanan - Netanyahu Vows Never t... · 0 replies · +1 points
A world court should not have to try the leaders of these countries for war crimes. The people of the U.S., Great Britain, and Israel should try their own for such criminal activities.
16 years ago @ Patrick J. Buchanan - Hire Americans First · 0 replies · +1 points
Well over 100 million citizens are sitting in their church pews this Sunday contemplating what Jesus would do. Their outrage is displaced with praise and worship music, and Jesus is not listening. Their comfort zones are much more important than any display of national outrage.
16 years ago @ Patrick J. Buchanan - Epitaph on Empire · 0 replies · +1 points
The same demented mentality showed its ugly face when the U.S. government incinerated the Branch Davidian complex in Waco, TX. Once again, I heard people I knew saying, "Those weirdos deserved to die."
These two incidents have pretty much been swept under the rug, and the guilty parties complicit in murder have gone without prosecution; but I have not forgotten what they did. I don't attend church any more. I can understand why the Vietnamese, the Iraqi, and Afghanistan people dislike the U.S.
16 years ago @ Patrick J. Buchanan - Netanyahu's '... · 0 replies · +1 points
Judeo-Christians think and act as though political Israel was a god. They have been misled, especially at the seminary level, by deliberately corrupted scripture and commentaries about scripture, which has then been taught from thousands of pulpits and media outlets. The driving force behind their leaders is almost always tainted by money and the power of fame. Southern Baptist pastor Jerry Falwell was one of the first leaders to recognize the potential for linking dispensational Christianity with Zionism and harness its combined power into a political movement with loyalty to the state of Israel as its primary and passionate mission. In the early 1980s, Falwell called his fledgling army “The Moral Majority.” It was later referred to as the “Christian Right.” Today, millions of people have made the present state of Israel the centerpiece of their Christian religion. Almost 60 percent of American evangelicals erroneously believe that the geopolitical nation state of Israel is a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. Christian Zionism is not true Christianity, but rather a religion into which Judaism was injected, producing a radically altered hybrid.
These Judeo Christian institutions have the responsibility to know the truth and tell it, regardless of the cost. Truth is the product of Jesus’ work, but those who claim to follow Him from the mega-church pulpits have played the monopoly game of war along with the bankers and politicians.
16 years ago @ Patrick J. Buchanan - The Economic Recovery ... · 0 replies · +1 points
Nationalization of money does not necessarily equate to socialism. Private enterprise and ownership of property can still flourish if it be the will of the people; and people have a better chance of holding their governments accountable than they have of holding private banking institutions accountable. Of course, this means that credit cards would be prohibited. A debt based monetary system puts money out in front of the production of goods and services; so that the people are forever playing catch up.
Any corporation that wishes to operate in any given sovereign country must be prohibited from operating in any other country. In order to preserve the integrity of a country's monetary system, all avenues of capital flight must be cut off. Foreign trade is best regulated by each individual country rather than a central world authority, such as the IMF, World Band, or BIS; or by any trade agreements between countries. Foreign trade settlements are best configured by the governments of individual countries.
There should be no pegging of currencies to any one particular country's currency. Contrary to popular belief, this system does not afford more efficiency, but rather gives unfair advantage to certain countries. A one world currency would be disastrous. In the world today, there is approximately ten times more wealth on paper than there is actual total world gross domestic product. Needless to say, this situation obscures and confuses real time wealth and worth of goods and services.
The United States should lead the way in abolishing private banking, starting with the Federal Reserve. I believe that many other countries would realize that it would behoove them to do the same.
16 years ago @ Patrick J. Buchanan - The Economic Recovery ... · 0 replies · +1 points
Because money and credit are social utilities that should be made available to all within a sovereign society, all private institutions that create money or credit should be made illegal by the sovereign authority. In the United States, the Constitution provided that Congress be the sole issuer of currency. Any legislation that provides for private institutions to create money is illegal and should be repealed. Fractional reserve banking should be outlawed.
The government should appoint a commission of accountants who would be charged with setting up accurate bookkeeping as regards the sovereign currency. Money would then be issued as new goods and services are provided; then withdrawn from circulation as these goods and services are consumed. This would create a constant balance between the capacity to produce and the capacity to pay: that is between prices and purchasing power. Every citizen would be given a monthly dividend equal to a sum of money to fill the gap between prices and purchasing power. It would be equal in totality to the collective prices of consumable goods and services for sale.
Economically, what is left of the United States must be rebuilt from the ground up. The flaw is not in the productivity of natural resources, or the availability of those resources, or lack of ingenuity, nor the ability to work. The flaw is, and has been, in the financial and monetary system, along with greedy, corrupt politicians.
16 years ago @ Patrick J. Buchanan - ElBaradei Says Nuclear... · 0 replies · +1 points