Ron Paul talks to Chris Waltzek on GoldSeek Radio. Topics of discussion include the Financial Reform Bill, competing currencies, the gold price, and 2012.

The following is from the July 19th issue of COIN WORLD magazine:

"Through the end of June, the U.S. Mint had sold 4.344 million more American Eagle silver bullion coins than it sold during the same six-month period in 2009.

Through June 30, the Mint recorded sales of 18,168,500 silver Eagle bullion coins in 2010. During the January to June period in 2009, sales of the silver bullion coin totaled 13,824,500.

In 2010, the Mint has sold an average of nearly 3.03 million coins for each of the first six months of the calendar year. During the same period in 2009, the monthly average was slightly more than 2.3 million coins."

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Our foreign policy was in the spotlight last week, which is exactly where it should be. Almost two years ago many voters elected someone they thought would lead us to a more peaceful, rational co-existence with other countries. However, while attention has been focused on the administration's disastrous economic policies, its equally disastrous foreign policies have exacerbated our problems overseas. Especially in times of economic crisis, we cannot afford to ignore costly foreign policy mistakes. That's why it is important that U.S. foreign policy receive some much needed attention in the media, as it did last week with the leaked documents scandal.

Many are saying that the Wikileaks documents tell us nothing new. In some ways this is true. Most Americans knew that we have been fighting losing battles. These documents show just how bad it really is. The revelation that Pakistani intelligence is assisting the people we are bombing in Afghanistan shows the quality of friends we are making with our foreign policy. This kind of thing supports points that Rep. Dennis Kucinich and I tried to make on the House floor last week with a privileged resolution that would have directed the administration to remove troops from Pakistan pursuant to the War Powers Resolution.

We are not at war with Pakistan. Congress has made no declaration of war. (Actually, we made no declaration of war on Iraq or Afghanistan either, but that is another matter.) Yet we have troops in Pakistan engaging in hostile activities, conducting drone attacks and killing people. We sometimes manage to kill someone who has been identified as an enemy, yet we also kill about 10 civilians for every 1 of those. Pakistani civilians are angered by this, yet their leadership is mollified by our billions in bribe money. We just passed an appropriations bill that will send another $7.5 billion to Pakistan. One wonders how much of this money will end up helping the Taliban. This whole operation is clearly counterproductive, inappropriate, immoral and every American who values the rule of law should be outraged. Yet these activities are being done so quietly that most Americans, as well as most members of the House, don't even know about them.

We should follow constitutional protocol when going to war. It is there for a reason. If we are legitimately attacked, it is the job of Congress to declare war. We then fight the war, win it and come home. War should be efficient, decisive and rare. However, when Congress shirks its duty and just gives the administration whatever it wants with no real oversight or meaningful debate, wars are never-ending, wasteful, and political. Our so-called wars have become a perpetual drain on our economy and liberty.

The founders knew that heads of state are far too eager to engage in military conflicts. That is why they entrusted the power to go to war with the deliberative body closest to the people — the Congress. Decisions to go to war need to be supported by the people. War should not be covert or casual. We absolutely should not be paying off leaders of a country while killing their civilians without expecting to create a lot of new problems. This is not what America is supposed to be about.

Article written by Ron Paul
Published 08/03/10

The government is not accurately reporting the unemployment figures and inflation numbers.

Ron Paul tells the Joint Economic Committee that the people can handle the truth about unemployment and inflation numbers.

As tar balls from the BP oil spill wash into Galveston, Texas, Congressman Ron Paul has slammed federal interference in the relief effort that is hampering local attempts to mitigate the consequences of the disaster, mimicking how the feds deliberately botched the response to hurricane Katrina and made the crisis worse.

“They have done a lot to interfere,” Paul told National Political Correspondent Jessica Yellin on CNN’s “John King USA.”

“A lot of local officials, property owners and state officials have wanted to do more over in Louisiana and Mississippi and the federal government, the fish and wildlife people, the EPA and others, they come in and they prohibit them from doing it,” said Paul.

The Congressman also added that if large numbers of National Guard troops were not deployed oversees fighting endless wars, there might be more manpower to call upon in aiding relief efforts.

“If all our states had their Guard units back here maybe they would have the manpower to do more to help clean up the beaches and prevent the oil from coming in, but, no, our Guard units are all over the world fighting wars we don’t need,” said Paul.

In hindsight, it’s becoming clear that the government has deliberately botched the response and prevented local authorities from doing their jobs, just as FEMA deliberately sabotaged the state response to Hurricane Katrina in order to make the crisis worse and create the pretext for a police state response, gun confiscation and ultimately more federal power.

Numerous reports have surfaced of locals and state authorities being prevented by BP contractors and the U.S. Coast Guard from helping to address the devastation the spill has created in the region.

One example of undue federal interference occurred last month when Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal ordered the state’s fleet of sixteen vacuum barges to clean up oil in the Louisiana marshes. The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted the barges for the purposes of an “inspection,” but then promptly failed to conduct any inspection and merely ordered them to turn around and head back to the dock.

While stifling the efforts of local authorities to adequately battle the consequences of the spill, the federal government also refused help from foreign governments who had immediately offered sophisticated technology that could have already fixed the problem.

Obama initially blocked international help, citing the Jones Act, which forbids foreign ships from operating between U.S. ports, and thereby preventing the use of sophisticated technology which foreign firms insist could have sealed the leak.

The Jones Act can be waived in in cases of national emergencies or in cases of strategic interest. Belgian company DEME contends that it has the specialist vessels to fix the oil leak within two to four months, technology the U.S. does not have. By taking bids on a contract to fix the oil leak from international companies, Obama could have the problem solved within a matter of weeks, but he immediately refused the help of “thirteen entities that had offered the U.S. oil spill assistance within about two weeks of the Horizon rig explosion.”

Obama’s two month delay in refusing international help ensured that the window of opportunity was missed to fix the leak before the start of the hurricane season, which will make the crisis immeasurably worse.

The arrival on July 1st of a Taiwanese “super-skimmer” which can collect 500,000 barrels per day of contaminated water was nearly 10 weeks overdue, and inclement weather has now delayed the device from even being tested in the Gulf. Had Obama immediately accepted international support, the majority of the oil could have been cleaned up before the hurricane season began, avoiding the threat that large amounts of oil will be dumped onshore, which if it occurs could mandate massive evacuations of the affected areas.

As we have highlighted, the longer the crisis drags on and the worse it gets, the more political capital Obama accrues in pursuit of his nightmare “green economy” carbon tax agenda. Viewed from this perspective, the federal government has no motivation whatsoever to cap the oil leak or clean up the spill.

Article written by Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Ron Paul’s attempt to audit the Federal Reserve, which was previously co-sponsored by 320 members of the House (HR 1207), failed by a vote of 229-198. All Republicans voted in favor of the measure with 23 Democrats crossing the aisle to vote with Republicans. 122 co-sponsors of HR 1207, all Democrats, jumped ship and voted against the measure.

CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL ON THE ALEX JONES SHOW (July 1, 2010) PART 1/3

The GOP had offered the Fed audit as the minority’s last chance to alter the financial regulation bill. The bill does have a watered-down audit provision in the conference report, but it is limited to loans made by the Fed during the height of the economic crisis. Ron Paul’s bill would have allowed a total examination of the Fed’s books.

CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL ON THE ALEX JONES SHOW (July 1, 2010) PART 2/3

CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL ON THE ALEX JONES SHOW (July 1, 2010) PART 3/3

Click here to see a list of HR 1207 cosponsors who voted against yesterday's motion.

For example, if you or I dumped 650,000 gallons of a toxic chemical in the ocean, we'd be arrested and brought up on criminal charges that would probably include "terrorism" charges under the Patriot Act. But when BP executives do exactly the same thing, nothing happens to them. No arrests. No criminal charges. No consequences.

Heck, you know as well as I do that BP will get off with a slap on the wrist when this is all over. Every major corporation that commits fraud (Big Pharma), steals from the People (Goldman Sachs) or causes an environmental catastrophe (BP) gets off virtually scot-free.

Well why is that? Why can corporations commit the most heinous crimes imaginable and yet never be held accountable? Big Pharma has engaged in so much price fixing fraud, clinical trial fraud and fraudulent marketing that it would make your head spin. Yet the U.S. government continues to do business with Big Pharma, buying up their dangerous drugs at monopoly prices, even though these companies are essentially corporate felons. Read these stories on Merck (www.NaturalNews.com/Merck.html) or Pfizer (www.NaturalNews.com/Pfizer.html) if you don't believe me.

Source: BP Gulf catastrophe typifies corporate behavior in America

Congressman Ron Paul of Texas is the premier advocate for liberty in politics today. Dr. Paul is the leading spokesman in Washington for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies based on commodity-backed currencies.

Privately owned central banks are creating currency out of thin air across the globe. "The one characteristic of a country that debases its currency, and goes to a paper currency - the currency always self destructs, it always ends." - Ron Paul

The Fed is private. Their anonymous shareholders are busy counting their dividends as they print the world economy into oblivion. "It's the biggest scam that has ever been perpetrated, it's amazing that we've gone along with this for close to 100 years." - Mike Maloney

Now is the time to get educated. Your liberty is at stake.

The United States has committed $Billions of taxpayer money to bailing out Greece. The U.S. is one of the largest contributors to the IMF (International Monetary Fund) which is making the loans to Greece. Further, the Federal Reserve has opened a credit swap scheme with European Central Banks to further loot the American treasury.

So, where does all that money come from? The FED prints it; creating more inflation, devaluing the dollar even more, resulting in higher taxes for all Americans.

If the problem in Greece is DEBT, how in the world can we expect to correct a debt problem by creating MORE DEBT? Anybody that has tried using one credit card to pay the other credit card has probably also experienced the downward spiral of simply transferring debt from one account to the other while their total indebtedness continues to rise, interest continues to rise, and eventually they are using their credit card to pay for living essentials just to get by. While that may work for some, most people end up with a debt crisis much larger that leads to bankruptcy.

How is what the IMF is doing in Greece any different?

For those who understand the true nature of the IMF and how they have done this sort of thing in the past, we know the outcome of this latest bailout. It's just another incremental step in the move towards global governance and nothing short of yet another financial takeover by International banks of the resources of a sovereign nation.

Congressman Paul speaks on the House floor in support of a bill that stops the automatic payraise for Members of Congress.