Parity: The Key to Economic Sovereignty

Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it

“I think Cargill’s view is much like the European view, or the Japanese view. They generally regard the United States as a grain colony.”
- Bob Bergland, former US Secretary of Agriculture (quoted from Ralph Nader’s The Big Boys)

It was no accident that Franklin Roosevelt’s proposed “second bill of rights” contained within it’s short list of particulars:

• The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
• The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living; and
• The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad.

In Defense of Abraham Lincoln

“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.”
- Abraham Lincoln

No American, perhaps, has been so mythologized as Abraham Lincoln. In part, the myths were of his own making. Lincoln often concealed an immense intellect and political fortitude behind language, imagery and ideas familiar to the common man. Other myths created and repeated by scholars, historians and public figures of the last 150 years have elevated Lincoln to messianic heights and debased him with unfounded innuendo and accusation, both obscuring his true legacy.

Ron Paul: Oligarchs’ “Operation Briar Patch”

“Drown me! Roast me! Hang me! Do whatever you please,” said Brer Rabbit. “Only please, Brer Fox, please don’t throw me into the briar patch.”

In the “conspiracy” media, few conclusions more closely approach consensus than that: 1) Ron Paul is the last and only hope of America, and 2) The manifold forces of darkness are arrayed against him.

I will not accuse the good doctor of being a secret zionist, freemason, jesuit or interdimensional reptile. I think he has in some respects been a courageous and useful public servant. I do, however, suppose that Ron Paul – whether he knows it or not – is a perfectly acceptable option, and perhaps favored by some elements of the power elite, to be elected in 2012.