Ron Paul recently delivered the following remarks on the floor of Congress. His words reflect truth informing power, something few in Congress are willing to hear. His description of the Orwellian world we find ourselves living in, driven by greed and the lust for power, are reflections of dangerous old paradigm thinking that must give way one day to a world designed to work for everyone, not simply the few at the expense of the many. And while you may disagree with some of the specifics of his words, in times like these, it is wise to consider his overall message. And its not simply about politics but about changing the paradigms of every discipline and institution that have become the tools of special interests. In my forthcoming book, I will outline the inclusive new paradigm world that can work for all of humanity. In the meantime, Paul’s words are a reminder of just where we are in sharp contrast to where we are told we are.

“Could it all be a bad dream or a nightmare? Is it my imagination or have we lost our mind? It’s surreal. It’s just not believable. A grand absurdity. A great deception. A delusion of momentous proportions. Based on preposterous notions and ideas whose time never should have come, Simplicity grossly distorted and complicated. Insanity passed off as logic. Grandiose schemes built on falsehoods with the morality of Ponzi and Madoff. Evil described as virtue. Ignorance pawned off as intelligence. Destruction and impoverishment in the name of humanitarianism. Violence the tool of change. Preventive wars used as a road to peace. Tolerance delivered by government guns. Reactionary views in the guise of progress. An empire replacing the republic. Slavery sold as liberty. Excellence and virtue traded for mediocracy. Socialism to save capitalism. A government out of control unrestrained by the Constitution, the rule of law or morality. Bickering over petty politics into chaos. The philosophy that destroys us is not even defined.

We have broken from reality. A psychotic nation. Ignorance with a pretense of knowledge replacing wisdom. Money does not grow on trees or a government printing press escalating deficits. We’re now in the midst of unlimited spending of the people’s money. Exorbitant taxation. Deficits of trillions of dollars spent on a failed welfare warfare system. An epidemic of cronyism. Unlimited supplies of paper money equated with wealth. A central bank that deliberately destroys the value of the currency in secrecy without restraint or nary a whimper.

Yet cheered on by the pseudo-capitalists of Wall Street, the military industrial complex and Detroit, we police the world with 700 bases in 130 countries around the world. A dangerous war now spreads throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. Thousands of innocent people being killed as we become known as the torturers of the 21st century. We assume by keeping the torture pictures form the public’s eye, we will be remembered as a generous and good people. If our enemies want to attack us only because we are free and rich, proof of torture would be irrelevant. The sad part of all this is that we have forgotten what made America great, good and prosperous. We need to quickly refresh our memories and once again reinvigorate our love, understanding and confidence in liberty. The status-quo cannot be maintained considering the current conditions. Violence and lost liberty will continue without some revolutionary thinking. We must escape from the madness of crowds now gathering.

The good news is the reversal is achievable through peaceful and intellectual means and fortunately, the numbers of those who care are growing exponentially. Of course it could all be a bad dream, a nightmare and that I’m seriously mistaken, overreacting and that my worries are unfounded. I hope so, but just in case, we ought to prepare ourselves for revolutionary changes in the not too distant future. “

In Web of Debt, Ellen Brown delivers a probing account of the never ending debt being created on our behalf, who really benefits, explores how we came to give our power to print money away and how we can get it back. This is new paradigm writing at its finest. Here is one piece of Ellen’s writing that provides a glimpse into a brilliant mind and caring heart in service to humanity.

From the Introduction:

Money in the Land of Oz

If governments everywhere are in debt, who are they in debt to? The answer is that they are in debt to private banks. The “cruel hoax” is that governments are in debt for money created on a computer screen, money they could have created themselves. The vast power acquired through this sleight of hand by a small clique of men pulling the strings of government behind the scenes evokes images from The Wizard of Oz, a classic American fairytale that has become a rich source of imagery for financial commentators. Editorialist Christopher Mark wrote in a series called “The Grand Deception”:

Welcome to the world of the International Banker, who like the famous film, The Wizard of Oz, stands behind the curtain of orchestrated national and international policymakers and so-called elected leaders. 10
The late Murray Rothbard, an economist of the classical Austrian School, wrote:

Money and banking have been made to appear as mysterious and arcane processes that must be guided and operated by a technocratic elite. They are nothing of the sort. In money, even more than the rest of our affairs, we have been tricked by a malignant Wizard of Oz.

In a 2002 article titled “Who Controls the Federal Reserve System?”, Victor Thorn wrote:

In essence, money has become nothing more than illusion — an electronic figure or amount on a computer screen. . . . As time goes on, we have an increasing tendency toward being sucked into this Wizard of Oz vortex of unreality [by] magician-priests that use the illusion of money as their control device.

James Galbraith wrote in The New American Prospect:

We are left . . . with the thought that the Federal Reserve Board does not know what it is doing. This is the “Wizard of Oz” theory, in which we pull away the curtains only to find an old man with a wrinkled face, playing with lights and loudspeakers.13
The analogies to The Wizard of Oz work for a reason. According to later commentators, the tale was actually written as a monetary allegory, at a time when the “money question” was a key issue in American politics. In the 1890s, politicians were still hotly debating who should create the nation’s money and what it should consist of. Should it be created by the government, with full accountability to the people? Or should it be created by private banks behind closed doors, for the banks’ own private ends?

William Jennings Bryan, the Populist candidate for President in 1896 and again in 1900, mounted the last serious challenge to the right of private bankers to create the national money supply. According to the commentators, Bryan was represented in Frank Baum’s 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by the Cowardly Lion. The Lion finally proved he was the King of Beasts by decapitating a giant spider that was terrorizing everyone in the forest. The giant spider Bryan challenged at the turn of the twentieth century was the Morgan/Rockefeller banking cartel, which was bent on usurping the power to create the nation’s money from the people and their representative government.

To read the full Introduction and order a copy of this powerful expose, visit Ellen’s site.

Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and “the money trust.” She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Brown developed an interest in the developing world and its problems while living abroad for eleven years in Kenya, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. She returned to practicing law when she was asked to join the legal team of a popular Tijuana healer with an innovative cancer therapy, who was targeted by the chemotherapy industry in the 1990s. That experience produced her book Forbidden Medicine, which traces the suppression of natural health treatments to the same corrupting influences that have captured the money system. Brown’s eleven books include the bestselling Nature’s Pharmacy, co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker, which has sold 285,000 copies.

If we have learned anything from the financial collapse we are living through, it’s that derivitives are bad for business and the rest of us and yet the WTO wants developing countries to welcome them. Fuzzy logic at best. What we need are a new set of regulations that eliminate the opportunity for a repeat of the instruments that brought on the financial downfall we live with the consequences of. Unfortunately, that does not appear to be happening, so we face more problems down the road that could be far worse in their impacts. The game is rigged for the wealthy with Main Street playing second fiddle to Wall Street. Banks are too big to fail and people’s homes are considered to small to matter. The solution for the rest of us is paying off debt and living as simple and self sufficient a life as possible. At least that’s how I see it. As I have written before, it’s the difference between more and enough.

For more visit http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091221/palast

Dear NPD Subscriber,

The following letter is from a respected financial analyst and I am reprinting an analysis and invitation to attend a teleconfernce at no cost that will provide a strategy to protect our hard earned dollars from losing their value. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s been happening and looks like its going to continue. Please join me in listening in on this important call on October 6.

It’s starting to look like the Fed’s going to need a skyscraper-full of new printing presses …

In a statement released yesterday, the Federal Reserve said,

“To provide support to mortgage lending and housing markets, and to improve overall conditions in private credit markets, the Federal Reserve will purchase a total of $1.25 trillion of agency mortgage-backed securities and up to $200 billion of agency debt.”

That’s a total of $1.45 trillion! Where’s the Fed going to get the money? Simple: They’ll have to PRINT it — create it out of thin air!

Plus, even former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan is beginning to panic about the dollar’s decline, warning that total U.S. private and public debt — now at 84% of GDP and still soaring — is “very dangerous” and threatens both long-term Treasuries and the dollar.

Thank you, Mr. Greenspan!
I couldn’t have said it better myself!

This is precisely what I’ve been warning you about: Bernanke’s secret war on the dollar. One of the greatest explosions in the supply of unbacked paper dollars in history.

The really bad news? Bernanke’s inflationary chickens are just BEGINNING to hatch. History shows us that it takes months — sometimes years — for the full impact of an explosion in the money supply to be felt.

That means you can look forward to many more months of a collapsing dollar … and many more months of evaporating buying power.

I’m FED UP with Washington’s callous war on the dollar
— and at high noon on Tuesday, October 6,
I’m going to help you DO something about it!

The good news is, if you make the right moves beginning immediately, you still have time to shore up your financial defenses. You can shield yourself, your family, your savings and your investments from disaster as this great dollar decline slashes the value of your money.

More than that: There are many ways to harness this historic convulsion to keep your wealth growing.

That’s why I will be presenting a complimentary online seminar entitled “Washington’s Secret War on the Dollar: Protect Yourself and Profit” — on Tuesday, October 6, 2009.

My mission is clear: To help make sure you have the knowledge and the specific recommendations you need to insulate your wealth and to keep it growing as this great dollar disaster unfolds.

This online briefing is absolutely free for you — part of our ongoing commitment to help you sidestep emerging hazards to your wealth and profit no matter what the economy throws at you next.

I’ll give you the clear, concise, unhedged answers to your most pressing questions about this crisis now.

Right off the bat, I’ll give you my shocking update on this great global war on the value of the dollar …

* Why the REAL national debt is more than EIGHT TIMES GREATER than Washington claims: Why the full weight of our debt addiction is beginning to hammer the dollar NOW … and why our leaders have no choice but to slash the dollar’s value in sheer self-defense.
* Why the world’s governments, central banks, financial institutions and super-rich investors are fed up with Washington … why increasing numbers don’t want to touch the dollar with a ten-foot pole … and what they’re doing to protect themselves at YOUR expense.
* What the news media isn’t telling you about Bernanke and the dollar: And how global plans to stop using the U.S. dollar as a safe haven or for international trade will impact your buying power and standard of living.
* What’s the next shoe to drop in this great global war on the dollar? Could the G-20 be secretly scheming right now behind closed doors to accelerate the dollar’s plunge? (My answer is admittedly outrageous and has tremendous implications for your financial security!)
* Critical steps you should be taking right now to protect yourself from this great dollar disaster: PLUS, the three investments that are most likely to preserve your wealth as the greenback continues to plunge in value worldwide.
* SEVEN often-overlooked investments that are the most profitable way I know to harness this massive, long-term dollar decline: I’ll show you what to buy … where to buy it … and when!

The Title:
Washington’s Secret War on the Dollar:
Protect Yourself and Profit

The Date:
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

The Time:
12:00 noon, Eastern time
(9 AM Pacific, 5 PM GMT)

The Price:
FREE

Here’s how you can help me help you:

FIRST, click this link to reserve your place at Washington’s Secret War on the Dollar and to make sure you get your instructions for attending in time.

AND SECOND, click this link to jump over to my personal blog. Tell me what you’re most interested in hearing from me during this all-important online seminar. I’ll do my level best to make sure you get the answers you need!

Together, we can get you through this with your wealth intact and growing. You have my promise that, for our part, we will do everything possible to make sure you and your family are among the survivors and actually grow your wealth as this crisis continues to unfold.

Best wishes,

Larry Edelson