While your ire and distrust of the Federal Reserve System is quite accurately rational, the depth of distrust for monetary institutions that Rep. Ron Paul sinks to is simply unwarrented — and furthermore, out of tune with the founding of the United States.
Here’s a nice video that sums up all the salient points those who think they hate the idea of a National Bank might want to consider, put out by the Basement Team of *FULL DISCLOSURE* the LarouchePAC organization:
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Hello ladies and gentlemen. Unfortunately as you may have noticed the Webster Institute had to go on an extended hiatus concerning most of our activities and outreach.
There were several reasons for this but it primarily broke down to lack of resources and people. Getting individuals excited and active within a new and tentative organization is tough in any field, even more so when it comes to politics and government policy.
The Webster Institute has thus decided that it will continue to operate within the sphere of influence it can, but that our ambitions must be cut back to a guiding track where our activities can result in success.
In the following days and weeks we will present more for you, with a revised mission statement. We feel strongly that an organization such as ours has a place in todays political climate and refuse to merely go away, our heads bowed in shame.
Thank you for all of you who have stood with us.
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Finally, a real debate with political substance! The 8-podium game show system has obviously played out its role in the GOP’s primary process and we are now at the stage where they are feeling out who will be the clear nominee and who is up for veep and cabinet positions. Fortunately this means we the public finally get more than a magazine-gloss look at the candidates. There was a lot of beltway snickers as to the gimmick of a Lincoln-Douglass style debate but the Webster Institute was absolutely delighted at the prospect. We are also glad to report that it went as planned, with calm and reasoned discourse and detailed policy discussion.
This was certainly Gingrich’s brightest moment so far in terms of coming across as appealing to independents; as it was a debate focused on foreign policy there was little room for Newt to joyfully promote Dickensian labor laws.
Huntsman was very much in standard form: crisp, technical and extremely Whiggish; occasionally dropping left-field Bush Snr. style metaphors which make sense apparently only to himself. As for Gingrich, his cultish devotion to management theory led him to recommend the entire US government go Six-Sigma. One of Huntsman’s daughters in the audience off nodded during the discussion of the Arab Spring.
All in all, it didn’t come across as a gimmick or boring to us, it has greatly informed our understanding of both Huntsman’s and Gingrich’s basic ideological stances and the flavors of policy nuance they prefer without having to view it through the glib and tinseled lens of the major debates.
We welcome more of these small forum, long-form debates as they clearly tell a person much more about the candidates and how they would act as president than any of the previous 14 large forum debates combined.
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Richard Winger of Ballot Access News reported recently that a Libertarian Party candidate for partisan office in Indiana won by one vote.
On January 1, 2010, an Alabama bill to open up access to the ballot for independents and third party candidates, lost in committee by one vote. Also, on September 10, 2009, the California State Senate defeated an Instant Runoff Voting bill by one vote.
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Yes, lots happened and we do have opinions on them but, from us to you – there comes a time to just shut up and eat turkey. Have a happy thanksgiving weekend everyone!
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The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) would ruin so much of what’s best about the Internet: They will give the government and corporations new powers to block Americans’ access to sites that are accused of copyright infringement, force sites like YouTube to go to new lengths to police users’ contributions, and put people in prison for streaming certain content online.
There’s a good chance this legislation will pass – but Senator Ron Wyden is a steadfast opponent, and he says he’ll try to block it by filibustering if it comes up for a vote.
Sometimes filibusters last hours – or days – leaving Senators reading out of the dictionary or cookbooks to pass the time. But we’ve got a better idea:
Millions of Americans support Internet freedom. What better way to demonstrate our strength than to ask Senator Wyden to read our names into the record during his filibuster? He’s agreed to read censorship opponents’ names from the floor of the Senate, and to try to enter the rest into the Congressional Record.
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We talk about what’s been going on outside of Wall Street with the Occupy movement protesters and then also discuss a little bit about what’s going on inside Wall Street as well.
You can download it here in PDF form, or as always, it is available on the Reports & Pubs page. Thanks!
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Huntsman might be having trouble getting the word out and building momentum but his media team is TOP NOTCH. Here’s the latest:
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A new poll out by Politico lays it out on the line.
50 percent said they were “not at all familiar” with the supercommittee while 38 percent said they were only “somewhat familiar” with it.
56 percent of respondents in the Politico/GWU survey said they “strongly” believed the group would not meet its deficit reduction goal.
WaPo’s article adds:
“”Most people think it’s all phony,” said Republican pollster John McLaughlin. “Most people want the economy fixed and jobs created so this is all Washington dysfunction and not getting done what they want.”"
Along the same lines, a recent CNN poll found that 78% of people questioned in the survey say they think it is somewhat or very unlikely the committee will develop a plan to significantly reduce the federal budget deficit.
The American public can clearly see what is apparently blind to the beltway media: The Supercommittee is an illegitimate farce, bound for failure and plagued with the exact same problems that the congress is currently mired in.
American’s realize now that this crop of legislators are not going to fix things, and they’re starting to get rather cynical about it.
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The Webster Institute is not endorsing the statements Mr. Shields is making, but feels this speech captures the grand Hamiltonian vision of the American System, and as such is worth a view.
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Scientist Sky Shields, leader of the LaRouche Movement Basement Team, challenges the common (and not so common) assumptions of what time is. After exhausting a number of paths, volunteered by the audience, Sky takes a sharp turn, to the development of human languages, the Credit System – and Immortality.
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