The Philosopher’s Stone (Gold) Versus Quantitative Easing

Solve et Coagula

Solve et Coagula

“And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.” Genesis 2:12

By: Jay

In recent months we’ve seen the international banking establishment make moves to hedge their bets against the smaller economies, with the intent of wiping up the last vestiges of so-called “sovereignty,” aiming at an eventual world basket currency, the SDR, and the patterned central baking model of a planned economy one sees in most of the world, replete with fiat currency and printing.  Some nations, like China and Russia, would like to hedge their bets against the Anglo establishment by obtaining enough gold to perhaps have a rival to the secretly stashed gold the Anglo establishment likes.  In fact, Alan Greenspan spoke to the CFR in 2010 about this very truth concerning the permanent validity of gold:

“I’m increasingly of the opinion that what is happening here is that there is a connection that is increasingly credible between the issue of the amount of government stimulus — and more, very explicitly, the size of the current deficit that exists, not over the long run, but just concurrently — and, indeed, I’d say between that and the level of capital investment in this country.”

And,

“Gold for reasons we don’t fully understand is still the ultimate means of payment.  And five monies have no place to go because five — exchange rates of five currencies are a zero sum game.  So if you begin to get an undermining of five currency values, you get the whole — the whole structure go down.  But the relationship between the dollar and the euro can stable, and the Yen and the Swiss franc can stabilize.

But they could all go down simultaneously.  And the question is relative to what?  And I think that what we are seeing is this extraordinary rise in the price of gold.

Because gold — I’ve been trying to understand why gold has the fascination it has for generations.  And I’ve come to the conclusion since — for example, in 1944, Germany could not import anything except with gold.  And when we landed in North Africa during World War II, in order to bribe the various potentates around, we needed — only gold would do it.

In other words, it’s the only means of payment which is accepted without endorsing it.  The question is why human beings are so attracted to that, I’ve struggled with for years.  I don’t understand it.  I’ve now accepted the fact that we do.  (Laughter.)  And once we — once you do that, then the question is, it’s the ultimate means of payment.  And it is a signal that there is a problem with respect to currency markets globally.  I don’t think it’s a serious problem unless you short gold.  But it strikes me that it’s the canary in the coal mine to keep an eye on.” Read more of this post

Jay’s Analysis-In Defense of Capitalism

*Note: I misspoke and meant to state that Austrian school investors are bullish* on Asian markets.

In this installment, I deal with an overview of other systems, including Marxism/socialism and its variants, mixed economies, Catholic distributism, and Austrian Economics, as well as analyzing the arguments of collectivist positions in general, laying the groundwork for the biblical basis for capitalism, private property, human action and prosperity. I also look at theology in the history of the West and its relationship to religious systems, focusing primarily on the philosophic basis for market capitalism. I chiefly answer the criticisms of a distributist friend.

Recommended reading:
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal By: Ayn Rand
How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes By: Peter Schiff
Meltdown By: Tom Woods
http://www.mises.org
http://www.jaysanalysis.com

Flashback – Prophetic Rand Paul Message: Globalism, New World Order (2009)

Senator Rand Paul (R) Ky

A prophetic message from Senator Rand Paul during my 2009 interview in the Kentucky senatorial election. The interview and actions further illustrate the Paul family’s consistency.

By: Jay

(2009)
Dr. Rand Paul, son of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, has announced his run for Kentucky Senate as a Republican. I listened to him speak him last week in Paducah, Ky, on a host of key issues regarding his platform, as well as being able to ask him several questions of my own.
Paul began by discussing the central problem of the modern GOP—that it had left its base, and that his father had brought new life to the party, while Rand feels he can bring new people into the party as well, due to his ability to appeal to Kentucky independents and libertarians (20 percent).

The Ron Paul Audit the Fed Bill is growing and is up to 150 supporters, Paul noted. The “Fed works temporarily, but we put so much money into the system that over time, due to inflation, we risk destroying the dollar. We must fix the budget deficit,” he emphasized. Dr. Paul compared the current state of the U.S. to that of the Soviet Union and its rise and collapse, as the soviets would make up plans to fix their deficit, but never act on it. “Republicans introduce legislation, but it doesn’t get done,” Paul stated.

On abortion, Paul proposed that “for years and years we’ve presumed the only way to do anything about it is through the Supreme Court. Our best hope is to return the question to the states and then things will get done. We now have hundreds of thousands of people like you on the Internet,” Paul said to the crowd. “There is a lot of hope.” Read more of this post

Op Ed Piece: Why Rand Paul Makes Sense

Kentucky Senate Candidate, Dr. Rand Paul (R)

By: Jay

    Rand Paul, as many are aware, has become somewhat of a media star of late, with the majority of the mainstream attention focused on anything but the issues. We have heard ad nauseam about “Aqua Buddha,” that Dr. Paul kidnapped women in college, forcing them to smoke pot, he is a “racist,” that he is for drugging children and forcing “everyone” to pay a $2000 dollar Medicare deductible. This is all you will hear from the mainstream media, and guess what—none of it is true.

     The “anonymous source” for the Aqua Buddha fiasco has retracted her story, but the mainstream outlets have not reported this. In fact, there was no kidnapping, and the “secret society” is a joke. When Dr. Paul was on Rachel Maddow’s show, what he responded “yes” to was whether he could hear the audio feed, not “yes” to repealing all civil rights laws. But that is not how the media has spun the incident—it’s far juicier to say he wants to appeal all civil rights.

     Ironically, it is not Dr. Paul who wants to see all children “drugged,” as his opponent Jack Conway has implied, but rather Dr. Paul supports decriminalization of drugs solely for the purpose of decreasing out massive prison population. The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world, and most are there for non-violent offenses. To reduce the massive prison complex would cut taxes, as well as create new jobs (since inmates are cheap labor). In fact, as has just recently surfaced, according to the Louisville Courier Journal’s article of October 23rd “LMPD Probes Detectives Who Tipped Off Prosecutor Under Investigation,” it is now Jack Conway and his brother who are embroiled in a possible absconding of a drug investigation. So it appears that in terms of drugs, Conway has more to explain that Rand. In regards to the Medicare, what Rand actually said was that seniors over a certain age might have to pay a deductible if we want to continue the system, since it is not working.

     Now that we have cleared away the smoke and mirrors of the mainstream liberal establishment, it’s crucial to consider that students might be tempted to think Dr. Paul is just a mainline neo-conservative. This is also not true. Dr. Paul, like his extremely popular father, Dr. Ron Paul, has as his main agenda balancing the budget and the private Federal Reserve banking system.  The Federal Reserve is a private institution that prints fiat money and controls our monetary system, as well as our government.

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Tyler Clay Collins’ Saul Alinsky Style Antics at Fancy Farm

Image Positioned on the *Left. ;)

By: Jay

In a desperate attempt to try to smear Rand Paul, the Conway campaign has denied any affiliation with the Rules For Radical’s playbook style operations.  Arriving in blustering heat, I approached the Rand tent to find a tin foil hat-wearing effeminate character slurring his speech and rambling on about “this land your Rand, this land is my Rand…”  Immediately recognizing this character as a leftist Democratic operative, I loosened my tie and prepare for a feast of debate (a delicacy which my palate relishes).  I asked him his name and who he worked for, and got only “Tyler” and more gibberish. 

Tyler had tied a Dora the Explorer doll down on his sign as an enticement to race-bait. I asked what his sign meant, and he responded only with more incoherent songs and murmurings about his local lodge. I told him he worked for the Democrats and he paused a bit, and rambled on about something or other. Then, as a crowd drew, we were approached by two more camera men, one from the Hillbilly Report, another an “independent filmmaker.”  However, the Hillbilly Reporter lost his debate, and has apparently decided not to post our confrontation.

This led to another debate (although not much more sophisticated). The Hillbilly Report utilized the same Saul Alinksy-style tactics as Collins, particularly avoiding all issues and responding with verbal playback, wherein you incite and ridicule your opponent by stating every phrase of your opponent, but twisting it to say the opposite. Well-known communist community organizer Saul Alinksy describes this method in his infamous Rules For Radicals. He writes:

13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.  In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and ‘frozen.’…

“…any target can always say, ‘Why do you center on me when there are others to blame as well?’ When your ‘freeze the target,’ you disregard these [rational but distracting] arguments…. Then, as you zero in and freeze your target and carry out your attack, all the ‘others’ come out of the woodwork very soon. They become visible by their support of the target…’

Unruly Radical Following 'Rules for Radicals'

“One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.” pgs.127-134

“The job then is getting the people to move, to act, to participate; in short, to develop and harness the necessary power to effectively conflict with the prevailing patterns and change them. When those prominent in the status quo turn and label you an ‘agitator’ they are completely correct, for that is, in one word.” pg. 117

Not only does this demonstrate the deceptive, fraud tactics of the so-called social democrats, it shows they are communists at heart, using the same playbook so influential on Barack Obama. The dualistic/dialectical process is seen as the necessary means to bring order out of chaos, and what we see is that the subversives have not died out, they have simply changed their clothing; from the chairman Mao style military garb, to the scarf and latte green garb.

As an aside: Mr. Alinksy famously dedicated his book to Satan – the first rebel.

Proven Dem Operative Busted Smearing Rand Paul at Fancy Farm

Humorous Commentary: The Kentucky Fancy Farm Picnic is Decadent and Depraved

UPDATE Below.

By: Jay

See Also: Tyler Clay Collins’ Saul Alinksy Style Antics At Fancy Farm

as well, apparently. Well, at least the Democratic operatives who parade with the most inane and over-the-top smear tactics are.  In one of the most important and closely watched races in the country, my friends and I attended the famous Fancy Farm debate and ousted this Democratic operative:

Turns out, this character is named Tyler Clay Collins, and is an active Kentucky Democrat. Here he is pictured at a Democratic event, as well as at his local Masonic Lodge:

Tyler Clay Collins at a Democratic event

Tyler at his local lodge

Too bad people cannot deal openly and honestly with real issues and argumentation. Actually, it’s a good thing: these kinds of antics actually show them for what they are: liars. Jack Conway and company will have to do better. Furthermore, this confirms what tea party goers have claimed elsewhere, as this Fox article reports.

UPDATE*****

Tyler has removed his facebook profile, but the captured screenshots are here:

http://redstateeclectic.typepad.com/redstate_commentary/2010/08/democratic-operative-totally-busted-posing-as-racist-rand-paul-supporter.html

Southern Avenger Disses Trey Grayson, Vindicates Rand Paul

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