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Ron Paul on the passage of legislation banning mandatory COVID vaccines in Wisconsin

seanm — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 13:51:23 -0400

Campaign for Liberty Chairman Dr. Ron Paul issued the following statement regarding the Wisconsin General Assembly’s passage of legislation forbidding Wisconsin government officials from mandating individuals receive a COVID-19 vaccine:

“If governments can force individuals to receive vaccines and other medical treatments against their will, there is no area of life safe from government mandates. All who value liberty should celebrate the Wisconsin Assembly’s passage of legislation forbidding government officials from mandating any individual receive the COVID vaccine. "I want to thank the Campaign for Liberty supporters in Wisconsin who contacted their state legislators in support of this bill. The efforts of these grassroots liberty activists were vital to passing this legislation. "Hopefully, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers will sign this legislation and more state legislators will protect their citizens right to decide for themselves whether to get a COVID vaccine. Campaign for Liberty ’s dedicated activists are ready to mobilize in support of any state legislation opposing mandatory vaccines.”

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The cure is worse than the disease

rp_admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:54:16 -0400

Forced vaccinations. . . Digital immunity certificates. . . This is what we face -- and it’s coming at us quickly. I'm very concerned politicians and Big Pharma are just a few short weeks away from stripping away your health freedom in favor of profits for vaccine makers. The plan coming from several states, including Virginia and Ohio, is to strip away rights from those who haven’t been vaccinated. And Congress has ideas about national mandates carried out with force. There are health benefits to some vaccines, but should the government have the power to FORCE them on you and your family? While Speaker Pelosi has been the most vocal proponent of this plan, the sad truth is both parties support a national strategic plan to trace, track, and forcibly vaccinate the American people. . . They are simply haggling over the details. This is dangerous. In my first week in the House of Representatives in 1976, I cast one of the two votes against legislation appropriating funds for a swine flu vaccine. The swine flu outbreak was a media event back then, with all the major networks giving it coverage that no other virus had ever received. The public was scared into a frenzy back then -- though it doesn’t even come close to the hysteria of 2020. Back then, just as now, the clamoring for a magical cure-all, in the form of a rushed vaccine was coming from the media, the politicians, and then the public. Unfortunately, the hastily and rushed into production vaccine was not only ineffective -- it was DANGEROUS. Approximately 50 people who took it contracted Guillain Barre Syndrome, a potentially deadly form of paralysis, which was a tragedy for those families and unnecessary for preventing this strain of the flu. When all was said and done, this vaccine was shown to have increased the odds of getting Guillain Barre Syndrome by 4 times, which is a significant risk. Will that sad history repeat itself with this rushed and overhyped coronavirus vaccine? With an election coming up in less than 8 weeks, there’s a lot of political pressure to have a vaccine ready which would bring a “rescue” of the economy and “allow” us to have our freedoms back. These aren’t my words of course, this is what’s coming from Washington, and I think we ought to tell them we don’t need a vaccine to be free or prosperous. We may be just a few short weeks away from a potentially dangerous vaccine being pushed on the public. What’s worse, Big Pharma is now colluding with software magnate Bill Gates of Microsoft to create a “Digital Certificate” to prove you’ve been vaccinated. This is the worst kind of medical tyranny imaginable and they’re expecting the American Public to accept this, “for our safety,” of course. Another form of this tyranny that’s being forced upon us are these “Contact Tracing Apps” being covertly installed on our phones. They are sometimes presented as “optional,” but they nag you incessantly until you just install them, or it just happens automatically. And just like that a health bureaucracy now has access to your personal and private data so they can track you and “trace” you electronically to see if they need to contact you about a possible exposure to someone with the coronavirus. If that happens, you’ll need to go into quarantine. This is an assault on our privacy and an assault on our liberty! And it’s going to affect your kids if they get their way. States like California have already passed laws that require children to receive a full vaccine schedule to attend school. There are currently a whopping 35 vaccines in their first 6 years, according to the CDC’s website! California’s law is especially terrifying, because it creates a vaccine database of all children, destroying their medical privacy for life and allowing bureaucrats to bully their parents into making sometimes disastrous health choices just to stay in school. If that type of a law ever passes in other states, big government will be inside our homes in ways we never thought possible. President Trump keeps hinting at this coronavirus vaccine being ready before November -- just in time for the election. He may just get his wish, but it certainly should not be mandatory. And please consider pitching in an emergency contribution of $25 or $50 to ensure Campaign for Liberty can keep the pressure on Congress and their cronies in Big Pharma who want to profit off the destruction of your health freedom. The good news is there is much skepticism about this rushed process and we’re now hearing it from corporate media and some of the politicians on the left. Whatever their motive is, it’s causing more people to wake up to the possibility that this vaccine may not have had enough time to be declared safe. Let’s all make sure we make our feelings known to the politicians, bureaucrats, their cronies in Big Pharma and even Microsoft’s Bill Gates that we’re not going to sacrifice our health freedom for their bottom line.

Ron Paul to the Fed: Keep your hands off crypto!

jm_admin — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 14:42:06 -0500

Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul recently penned an op-ed for Fox Business News, objecting to the proposal that the Federal Reserve begin issuing its own cryptocurrency. Dr. Paul also reiterated his opposition to the Federal Reserve’s real-time payment system. Under Dr. Paul’s leadership, Campaign for Liberty continues to be the driving force letting the American people know the truth about the Federal Reserve by passing Audit the Fed. Please join our efforts. You can read Dr. Paul’s op-ed here and below: Ron Paul: No, cryptocurrency is not something the Fed should be getting its 'hands around' By Ron Paul PayPal is perhaps the best way ever designed to move money al from one person to another. Yet it started in failure. In his book, “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future,” founder Peter Thiel explains that PayPal was originally intended to allow owners of PalmPilots to beam money to each other. That idea did not work, but it evolved into using similar technology on eBay auctions. The point is that PayPal was a private company competing in the market economy. That meant it was subject to market discipline. It had to develop an effective product or it would go out of business. The same thing cannot be said of the federal government. In its latest bad idea, movement is building for the Federal Reserve to establish its own cryptocurrency exchange to compete with others in the marketplace and even replace physical cash. “It is inevitable,” Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Patrick Harker reportedly said at a recent conference. “I think it is better for us to start getting our hands around it.” It’s an apt metaphor, since what the Fed always wants to choke off is any competition to its monetary monopoly. This comes hot on the heels of another bad idea, called FedNow, which is supposed to speed up the processing of financial transactions. Speed is great, of course. It can take a full business day for transactions to clear. That’s too slow in our 21st century world of instant communication. But the Fed is late to the party. The Clearing House launched a real-time payment system two years ago that now reaches half the banks in the country. It’s expected to be everywhere by next year. Judging by the non-answers that the central bank has given to members of Congress on its interoperability with private sector systems, FedNow would seemingly not compete on a level playing field; it would simply use the power of the federal government to crush a private-sector competitor. Proponents of a Fed-run crypto exchange argue that such an exchange could stop the current delays in the U.S. bank transfers entirely on its own. This thought proves just how bad the Fed is at making good investments, anticipating changes in technology, and keeping up with the speed of innovation. If board members of the central bank believe that blockchain may soon supplant the need for real-time payment services like FedNow, why the Fed would spend the next 3-5 years building FedNow from scratch when The Clearing House already offers the same type of service is beyond me. If board members of the central bank believe that blockchain may soon supplant the need for real-time payment services like FedNow, why the Fed would spend the next 3-5 years building FedNow from scratch when The Clearing House already offers the same type of service is beyond me. The Fed should stay out of the way and let the private sector blockchain and real-time payments marketplaces settle this debate. Instead, the central bank seems poised to set itself up as both the regulator of all monetary exchanges and a participant in that business. Without assurances on interoperability from the central bank, businesses will always choose the Fed’s offerings instead of a private company’s, since doing so would make the business look better to its regulator The Fed cannot handle real competition, and so it is trying to shut it down. It worries about Bitcoin, it worries about The Clearing House, and it will be worried about the next bright idea for money sharing that comes along. It’s got a monopoly to protect. We need to open up the field for new forms of money. While I served in Congress, I introduced the Free Competition in Currency Act, which would have defined money as whatever people are willing to trade with each other, whether that’s paper, tokens of some sort, or direct barter. It would have ended the Fed’s power to declare that only certain pieces of paper are currency. Let’s allow companies to compete, and let the market set the value. That’s where the next PayPal will come from, and consumers everywhere will be the winners. Dr. Ron Paul, a former congressman from Texas, is the chairman of Campaign for Liberty

Congress Spending Surge is National Suicide

rp_admin — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 16:43:29 -0400

With a national debt approaching $23 trillion and a trillion dollar deficit for this year alone, Congress last week decided to double down on suicidal spending, passing a two year budget that has the United States careening toward catastrophe. While we cannot say precisely when the economic crash will occur, we do know that it is coming. And last week Congress pounded down on the accelerator. We are told that the US economy is experiencing unprecedented growth, while at the same time the Fed is behaving as it does when we are in recession by cutting rates…and dodging insults from the President because it’s not cutting fast enough. This is not economic policy – it’s schizophrenia! But that’s only the beginning. Take what they call “national defense” spending. This is the misnomer they use to try and convince us that pumping trillions into the military-industrial complex will make us safe and free. Nothing could be further from the truth: probably ninety percent of the “defense” budget is aggressive militarism and welfare for the rich. Under this budget deal the military budget would increase to nearly $1.4 trillion for two years. Of course that’s only a fraction of real military spending, which is, all told, well over one trillion dollars per year. What do we get for this money? Are we safer? Not at all. We are more vulnerable than ever. We spend billions fighting “terrorism” in Africa while terrorism has actually increased since the creation of the US Africa Command – “AFRICOM” – in 2007. Meanwhile we continue to spend to maintain our illegal military occupation of a large section of Syria – which benefits terrorist groups seeking to overthrow Assad. We’re sending thousands more troops to the Middle East including basing US troops in Saudi Arabia for the first time since 2003. Back then, even neocon Paul Wolfowitz praised our departure from Saudi Arabia because, as he rightly stated, US troops on Saudi soil was a great recruiting tool for al-Qaeda. Now we’ve pulled out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty so that we can deploy once-forbidden missiles on China’s front door. A new arms race with China will mean a new boon for our new Defense Secretary’s former colleagues at Raytheon! Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) pronounced the Tea Party dead with the adoption of this budget. He’s right of course, but only when it comes to Congress. Given the opportunity, I still believe a good part of the American people will vote for candidates who promise to rein in the national credit card. President Trump himself ran on a platform of ending deficit spending and even paying off the national debt! So the Tea Party may be dead in Washington, but I am not convinced it was ever really alive in Washington. With a few exceptions, most politicians saw the Tea Party as just the flavor of the month. Spending is what keeps Washington alive and keeps the DC suburbs rich. They’re not about to cut back on their own. But the spending will end. The trillions thrown down the drain on militarism will end. The only question is whether it will end when we are completely bankrupt and at the mercy of countries we’ve kicked around for decades or whether Americans will demand an end to bipartisan addiction to war and spending in Washington!

"John Kerry gives Syria week to hand over chemical weapons or face attack"

ns_admin — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 11:17:21 -0400

Secretary of State John Kerry today gave the Assad regime a new deadline -- one week to hand over chemical weapons, or else. The Guardian reports:

The US secretary of state has said that President Bashar al-Assad has one week to hand over his entire stock of chemical weapons to avoid a military attack. But John Kerry added that he had no expectation that the Syrian leader would comply. Kerry also said he had no doubt that Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack in east Damascus on 21 August, saying that only three people are responsible for the chemical weapons inside Syria– Assad, one of his brothers and a senior general. He said the entire US intelligence community was united in believing Assad was responsible. Kerry was speaking on Monday alongside the UK foreign secretary,William Hague, who was forced to deny that he had been pushed to the sidelines by the House of Commons decision 10 days ago to reject the use of UK force in Syria.

Read the rest here.

Liberty NewsWire: October 1, 2012

admin — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:10:52 -0400

Bernanke sought to reassure investors that the timetable for keeping rates low "doesn't mean we expect the economy to be weak through 2015." Rather, he said the Fed expects to keep rates low well after the economy strengthens. - USA Today

Economics

USA Today- Bernanke strongly defends Fed rate policies

Individual Liberty

CBS- Beware: Your gadgets at risk of theft from TSA

Foreign Policy

CNN- At least 14 killed in suicide attack on NATO patrol in Afghanistan

CNN- September is deadliest month in Iraq in more than 2 years

CNN- What Obama administration has said about Libya attack

Liberty NewsWire: September 28, 2012

ns_admin — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:15:52 -0400

With the announcement that the U.S. Postal Service will be unable to make a $5.6 billion payment to its employees’ health benefit plan due on September 30th, calls for privatization of the archaic service are mounting. The service already failed to make last year’s payment of $5.5 billion which Congress had allowed to be delayed until August 1st. And it’s no wonder that the service can’t make those payments: it lost $5.2 billion in the third quarter this year, up from a loss of $2.1 billion a year ago. Estimates are that the service will lose at least $10 billion this year without counting the default of $11 billion in payments to its benefit plan.” - New American

Government New American- Privatization of the Postal Service Moves Closer Washington Times- Senators join suit over Obama’s constitutional powers Foreign Affairs BusinessWeek- Iran Denies Syrian Troop Presence as Kerry Warns Iraq on Aid CNN- Panetta: Terrorists 'clearly' planned Benghazi attack Economics Bloomberg- Consumer Spending in U.S. Stagnates Bloomberg- Business Activity in U.S. Shrinks for First Time Since 2009 CNN- Stocks fall on scary manufacturing data Internet Freedom Fox- U.S. lags Estonia in web freedom, reports says

Liberty NewsWire: September 27, 2012

ns_admin — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:51:58 -0400

A tiny solar company named SoloPower will flip the switch on production at a U.S. factory Thursday, a major step toward allowing it to tap a $197 million government loan guarantee awarded under the same controversial program that supported failed panel maker Solyndra.” – Chicago Tribune

Government

Chicago Tribune- U.S. poised to hand over $197 million to another solar panel start-up

Foreign Affairs

BusinessWeek- Foxconn Workers Labor Under Guard After Riot Shuts Plant

CBS- Burma's reforms bring easing of U.S. sanctions

Economics

Bloomberg- U.S. Economy Expanded Less Than Forecast in Second Quarter

Bloomberg- Orders for U.S. Goods Excluding Transportation Unexpectedly Drop

Liberty NewsWire: September 25, 2012

admin — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:42:20 -0400

On Wednesday a government watchdog issued a report finding widespread failures with the government's "Fast and Furious" gun trafficking operation. On Thursday, the watchdog at the Justice Department, Inspector General Michael Horowitz, told a House panel that federal agents and prosecutors failed to protect public safety — and their bosses didn't pay enough attention. – NPR

Government

NPR- 'Fast And Furious' Operation Blasted On Capitol Hill

NPR- ACLU Pushes For Answers On Drone Strikes

Foreign Policy

The Telegraph- 'US drone attacks are counter-productive and terrorize civilians'

Reuters- Iran sees cyber-attacks as greater threat than actual war

Health Care

BusinessWeek- Health-Care Price Rise Poses Challenge for U.S. Overhaul

Economics

Reuters- Analysis: As worst euro fears fade, U.S. fiscal cliff looms

Liberty NewsWire: September 24, 2012

admin — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:12:28 -0400

Three minutes after midnight Friday leading into Saturday morning, the Senate rejected by a vote of 81 to 10 a proposal offered by Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to hold aid to the governments of Egypt, Libya, and Pakistan pending the surrender to U.S. authorities of those suspected of carrying out the attack on U.S. diplomatic offices in Egypt and Libya. U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was murdered in the attack on the Libyan consulate. Senator Paul’s bill also contained a clause requiring the release of Dr. Shakil Afridi, currently imprisoned by the Pakistani government, before any more money would be sent to Islamabad. – New American

Government

New American- Senate Rejects Rand Paul's Call to Cut Aid to Pakistan, Libya, and Egypt

Foreign Policy

New York Times- In U.S. Exit From Iraq, Failed Efforts and Challenges

Alaska Dispatch- Drones: Deadlier UAVs are on the way

The National- Al Qaeda chief Zawahiri's brother says West 'must leave Middle East'

Health Care

Reuters- Hobby Lobby sues U.S. government over healthcare mandate

Internet Freedom

Reuters- Iran readies domestic Internet system, blocks Google