Un-Freaking-Believable!!
House of Representatives Kills Bailout Bill! The unlimited authority of the Fed to continue anyway remains. But still though! Update: And on Ludwig von Mises' birthday too.
09/29/08 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer and journalist and blogger for Harper’s magazine, discusses John McCain’s position on torture legislation, the fifth prosecutor to quit the Guantanamo kangaroo court system and the HBO premier of the Academy Award winning documentary, 'Taxi To The Dark Side,' which exposes the murder of a young Afghan taxi driver at the hands of the U.S. Army.
09/29/08 – Sydney Schanberg – The Scott Horton Show
Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Sydney Schanberg discusses his article 'John McCain and the POW Cover-Up,' the hundreds of U.S. POWs and MIAs knowingly left in Vietnam and Laos after U.S. withdrawal, Arizona Senator John McCain’s suppression of the truth surrounding the abandonment of missing soldiers, personal reasons McCain may have for wanting to keep the records secret, the complicity of the mainstream media and thousands within the government in refusing to address this issue, McCain’s...
09/29/08 – Jeff Huber – The Scott Horton Show
Jeff Huber, blogger at Pen and Sword and At-Largely and author of Bathtub Admirals, discusses the empire’s disaster in Iraq, the danger of the Afghan occupation spreading into Pakistan, the unconstitutional 'war powers act,' the difficulty of being an empire with no one but defenseless people to fight, the John McCain pathology of trying to win the Vietnam war by killing Iraqis, the so-called clash of civilizations and the pure evil that is Dick Cheney.
The Austrian School on the Economic Crisis
Last week I was honored to be asked by Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty if we could arrange to work together on a project to interview the best of the Austrian school of economics, whose understanding and love of capitalism necessitates their complete and total opposition to corporate welfare of any description. And so we did. What causes the business cycle? Is the bailout necessary? How does fractional reserve banking work? What is the relationship between inflationary money and empire? Is...
Bush is a Commie
That's right. And all conservatives who ever supported him are simply useful idiots.
The Great Schlep
Okay, I hate Barack Obama, but I LOVE Sarah Silverman. And she's at least right that McCain is pure evil and must be stopped. Oh, wait... Did she say that...? Maybe that's just me. The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.
A Few New McCain Stickers
Re-elect Dan Quayle
McCain Camp insiders say Palin "clueless" Capitol Hill sources are telling [Ed Schultz] that senior McCain people are more than concerned about Palin. The campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as "disastrous." One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, "What are we going to do?" The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is "clueless."
09/26/08 – Rep. Ron Paul – The Scott Horton Show
As part of Antiwar Radio’s week long series on the economic crisis in association with the Campaign for Liberty, Rep. Ron Paul discusses the current financial crisis, payoffs to special interests and arm-twisting in congress to get the next 700 billion dollar bailout through, the role of the war budget in helping to inflate the dollar bubble, the difficulty in getting the media and politicians to understand Austrian monetary theory, how the Fed's policies send false signals to people in...
09/26/08 – Robert Higgs – The Scott Horton Show
As part of Antiwar Radio's week long series on the economic crisis in association with the Campaign for Liberty, Robert Higgs, senior fellow at the Independent Institute and author of Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government and Depression War and Cold War, discusses the relationship between the inflation of World War One and the roaring ‘20's and the Great Depression, Fed chief Ben Strong's deal with the Bank of England's Montague Norman to inflate in the...
09/26/08 – Ken Menkhaus – The Scott Horton Show
Ken Menkhaus, Associate Professor of Political Science at Davidson College, discusses the crisis in Somalia [.pdf], 2.5 million people on the brink of starvation, the disarray in U.S. humanitarian, counter-terrorism and state building policy within Somalia, disproportionate response to a slight pretext and resulting widespread anti-Americanism where there was none before, Somaliland and the catch 22 of giving humanitarian aid.
09/25/08 – Lew Rockwell – The Scott Horton Show
As part of Antiwar Radio's week long series on the economic crisis in association with Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty, Lew Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, discusses Thomas Jefferson's theory of inflationary money and the business cycle, the history of fiat money in America and around the world from Marco Polo's adventures through Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Revolutionary War, 1812-14, Andrew Jackson's battle with Biddle, Lincoln's greenbacks, the Gilded Age,...
09/25/08 – Jim Ostrowski – The Scott Horton Show
Jim Ostrowski, of LewRockwell.com and FreeNewYork.org calls for the people to innundate the congress in order to try and stop the bailout.
