Well, as an Australian, I have watched John Howard systematically remove the civil rights of individuals, under the guise of fighting Terrorism.
The most disturbing thing for me though, is coming to the realisation that it is our current political leaders and central bankers, that are the real terrorists of the world.
If Ron Paul does get elected and if he does remove the IRS and Federal Reserve in America and re-introduces the Gold Standard, this will have massive repercussions around the world for all countries.
By taking the above action, not only will he force all other countries running a FIAT money system to re-address just how they are going to Trade with the US, but it will blow the whistle on all other Reserve Banks around the world. I think the populations of all these country's, once they realise they have been being duped, are going to start demanding the re-introduction of the Gold Standard, because the Gold Standard keeps these governments and central bankers honest.
The most disturbing action of Bush/Blair/Howard and it seems most other countries that participated in the Iraq War, was the
lowering of Interest Rates at the beginning of the Iraq War. Lowering interest rates to
1% in the United States was absurd, and now Americans are beginning to pay for this attrocity on it's own people.
With America's Housing Bubble bursting and imminent recession and quite possibly depression, America and sunsequently the rest of the World is sitting on the precipice of economic chaos. This, I am sure has all been done deliberately, because it's quite difficult to create a police state in a country full of rich people, but it's relatively easy if everyone is poor, unemployed and battling foreclosure/bankruptcy.
Spain's housing bubble has also started imploding, and I am waiting for Australia's and the United Kingdoms housing bubbles to implode at any tick of the clock as well. This will probably happen when the world starts dumping the US dollar.
I am certain the lowering of Interest Rates was primarily done to pacify the populaces of the participating countries by creating huge Asset Bubbles and give the illusion to the populace that they have never had it so good. Interest Rates at 1% create Huge Speculative Housing Bubbles(the like of which has never been seen before in human history) in all the participating countries of the Iraq war.
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Unless you have managed to pay off the bulk of your debts and mortgages, you are in for a world full of pain. We are just about to go into a hyper-inflationary/hyper-deflationary period in the World economy which is going to wipe out everyone who has large amounts of unservicable debt.
The worst bit is that the Bush/Blair/Howard's of the world know exactly what is going to happen, when interest rates are lowered too far. A speculative boom in Property and Stocks is triggered. Housing prices go through the roof, Stocks go through the roof and everyone has the illusion that they have never has it so good, that is until the money tap is turned off. This then crashes Property and Stock Prices for everyone who got sucked in, gets wiped out.
The people who print the money, know exactly when the tap is going to be turned off and position themselves accordingly. The people who control the money supply are probably the most evil people on the planet, because they deliberately boom and bust the World's economies.
This is where the saying comes from"In a recession, money returns to it's rightful owner" - The person who created the money is it's rightful owner, the Central Bankers.
What is even worse, is that the US dollars is currently so quickly that countries are starting to de-peg their currencies from the US dollar, because the de-valueing US dollar is creating rampant inflation in the countries that are pegged to the US Dollar. Syria and Kuwait just announced that they are removing their peg against the US dollar, and this appears to only be the beginning.
I cringe when I think of what China's reaction is going to be when they realise that the 1.2 Trillion dollars of American Currency they have accumulated in the last few years selling Plasma TV's and trinkets to the US is actually worthless.
All I can suggest to everyone is get rid of as much debt as possible, and hopefully if Ron Paul get in, he will be able to stop the United States sinking into a Depression. I don't think he will be able to stop a Recession in the United States because it will most likely have started before he can become President, sorry guys.