Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)

Overwhelming! Loved it! Enjoy! Thanks to my dear friend Anael for sending this link!

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

Something Big is Happening

The following statement is written by Congressman Paul about the pending financial disaster. He will introduce this statement as a special order and insert it into the Congressional Record next week. Fortunately, we have the opportunity to debut it first on the Campaign for Liberty blog. It reads as follows:

I have, for the past 35 years, expressed my grave concern for the future of America. The course we have taken over the past century has threatened our liberties, security and prosperity. In spite of these long-held concerns, I have days—growing more frequent all the time—when I’m convinced the time is now upon us that some Big Events are about to occur. These fast-approaching events will not go unnoticed. They will affect all of us. They will not be limited to just some areas of our country. The world economy and political system will share in the chaos about to be unleashed.

Though the world has long suffered from the senselessness of wars that should have been avoided, my greatest fear is that the course on which we find ourselves will bring even greater conflict and economic suffering to the innocent people of the world—unless we quickly change our ways.

America, with her traditions of free markets and property rights, led the way toward great wealth and progress throughout the world as well as at home. Since we have lost our confidence in the principles of liberty, self reliance, hard work and frugality, and instead took on empire building, financed through inflation and debt, all this has changed. This is indeed frightening and an historic event.

The problem we face is not new in history. Authoritarianism has been around a long time. For centuries, inflation and debt have been used by tyrants to hold power, promote aggression, and provide “bread and circuses” for the people. The notion that a country can afford “guns and butter” with no significant penalty existed even before the 1960s when it became a popular slogan. It was then, though, we were told the Vietnam War and a massive expansion of the welfare state were not problems. The seventies proved that assumption wrong.

Today things are different from even ancient times or the 1970s. There is something to the argument that we are now a global economy. The world has more people and is more integrated due to modern technology, communications, and travel. If modern technology had been used to promote the ideas of liberty, free markets, sound money and trade, it would have ushered in a new golden age—a globalism we could accept.

Instead, the wealth and freedom we now enjoy are shrinking and rest upon a fragile philosophic infrastructure. It is not unlike the levies and bridges in our own country that our system of war and welfare has caused us to ignore.

I’m fearful that my concerns have been legitimate and may even be worse than I first thought. They are now at our doorstep. Time is short for making a course correction before this grand experiment in liberty goes into deep hibernation.

There are reasons to believe this coming crisis is different and bigger than the world has ever experienced. Instead of using globalism in a positive fashion, it’s been used to globalize all of the mistakes of the politicians, bureaucrats and central bankers.

Being an unchallenged sole superpower was never accepted by us with a sense of humility and respect. Our arrogance and aggressiveness have been used to promote a world empire backed by the most powerful army of history. This type of globalist intervention creates problems for all citizens of the world and fails to contribute to the well-being of the world’s populations. Just think how our personal liberties have been trashed here at home in the last decade.

The financial crisis, still in its early stages, is apparent to everyone: gasoline prices over $4 a gallon; skyrocketing education and medical-care costs; the collapse of the housing bubble; the bursting of the NASDAQ bubble; stockmarkets plunging; unemployment rising;, massive underemployment; excessive government debt; and unmanageable personal debt. Little doubt exists as to whether we’ll get stagflation. The question that will soon be asked is: When will the stagflation become an inflationary depression?

There are various reasons that the world economy has been globalized and the problems we face are worldwide. We cannot understand what we’re facing without understanding fiat money and the long-developing dollar bubble.

There were several stages. From the inception of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 to 1933, the Central Bank established itself as the official dollar manager. By 1933, Americans could no longer own gold, thus removing restraint on the Federal Reserve to inflate for war and welfare.

By 1945, further restraints were removed by creating the Bretton-Woods Monetary System making the dollar the reserve currency of the world. This system lasted up until 1971. During the period between 1945 and 1971, some restraints on the Fed remained in place. Foreigners, but not Americans, could convert dollars to gold at $35 an ounce. Due to the excessive dollars being created, that system came to an end in 1971.

It’s the post Bretton-Woods system that was responsible for globalizing inflation and markets and for generating a gigantic worldwide dollar bubble. That bubble is now bursting, and we’re seeing what it’s like to suffer the consequences of the many previous economic errors.

Ironically in these past 35 years, we have benefited from this very flawed system. Because the world accepted dollars as if they were gold, we only had to counterfeit more dollars, spend them overseas (indirectly encouraging our jobs to go overseas as well) and enjoy unearned prosperity. Those who took our dollars and gave us goods and services were only too anxious to loan those dollars back to us. This allowed us to export our inflation and delay the consequences we now are starting to see.

But it was never destined to last, and now we have to pay the piper. Our huge foreign debt must be paid or liquidated. Our entitlements are coming due just as the world has become more reluctant to hold dollars. The consequence of that decision is price inflation in this country—and that’s what we are witnessing today. Already price inflation overseas is even higher than here at home as a consequence of foreign central bank’s willingness to monetize our debt.

Printing dollars over long periods of time may not immediately push prices up–yet in time it always does. Now we’re seeing catch-up for past inflating of the monetary supply. As bad as it is today with $4 a gallon gasoline, this is just the beginning. It’s a gross distraction to hound away at “drill, drill, drill” as a solution to the dollar crisis and high gasoline prices. Its okay to let the market increase supplies and drill, but that issue is a gross distraction from the sins of deficits and Federal Reserve monetary shenanigans.

This bubble is different and bigger for another reason. The central banks of the world secretly collude to centrally plan the world economy. I’m convinced that agreements among central banks to “monetize” U.S. debt these past 15 years have existed, although secretly and out of the reach of any oversight of anyone—especially the U.S. Congress that doesn’t care, or just flat doesn’t understand. As this “gift” to us comes to an end, our problems worsen. The central banks and the various governments are very powerful, but eventually the markets overwhelm when the people who get stuck holding the bag (of bad dollars) catch on and spend the dollars into the economy with emotional zeal, thus igniting inflationary fever.

This time—since there are so many dollars and so many countries involved—the Fed has been able to “paper” over every approaching crisis for the past 15 years, especially with Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, which has allowed the bubble to become history’s greatest.

The mistakes made with excessive credit at artificially low rates are huge, and the market is demanding a correction. This involves excessive debt, misdirected investments, over-investments, and all the other problems caused by the government when spending the money they should never have had. Foreign militarism, welfare handouts and $80 trillion entitlement promises are all coming to an end. We don’t have the money or the wealth-creating capacity to catch up and care for all the needs that now exist because we rejected the market economy, sound money, self reliance and the principles of liberty.

Since the correction of all this misallocation of resources is necessary and must come, one can look for some good that may come as this “Big Even” unfolds.

There are two choices that people can make. The one choice that is unavailable to us is to limp along with the status quo and prop up the system with more debt, inflation and lies. That won’t happen.

One of the two choices, and the one chosen so often by government in the past is that of rejecting the principles of liberty and resorting to even bigger and more authoritarian government. Some argue that giving dictatorial powers to the President, just as we have allowed him to run the American empire, is what we should do. That’s the great danger, and in this post-911 atmosphere, too many Americans are seeking safety over freedom. We have already lost too many of our personal liberties already. Real fear of economic collapse could prompt central planners to act to such a degree that the New Deal of the 30’s might look like Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence.

The more the government is allowed to do in taking over and running the economy, the deeper the depression gets and the longer it lasts. That was the story of the 30ss and the early 40s, and the same mistakes are likely to be made again if we do not wake up.

But the good news is that it need not be so bad if we do the right thing. I saw “Something Big” happening in the past 18 months on the campaign trail. I was encouraged that we are capable of waking up and doing the right thing. I have literally met thousands of high school and college kids who are quite willing to accept the challenge and responsibility of a free society and reject the cradle-to-grave welfare that is promised them by so many do-good politicians.

If more hear the message of liberty, more will join in this effort. The failure of our foreign policy, welfare system, and monetary policies and virtually all government solutions are so readily apparent, it doesn’t take that much convincing. But the positive message of how freedom works and why it’s possible is what is urgently needed.

One of the best parts of accepting self reliance in a free society is that true personal satisfaction with one’s own life can be achieved. This doesn’t happen when the government assumes the role of guardian, parent or provider, because it eliminates a sense of pride. But the real problem is the government can’t provide the safety and economic security that it claims. The so-called good that government claims it can deliver is always achieved at the expense of someone else’s freedom. It’s a failed system and the young people know it.

Restoring a free society doesn’t eliminate the need to get our house in order and to pay for the extravagant spending. But the pain would not be long-lasting if we did the right things, and best of all the empire would have to end for financial reasons. Our wars would stop, the attack on civil liberties would cease, and prosperity would return. The choices are clear: it shouldn’t be difficult, but the big event now unfolding gives us a great opportunity to reverse the tide and resume the truly great American Revolution started in 1776. Opportunity knocks in spite of the urgency and the dangers we face.

Let’s make “Something Big is Happening” be the discovery that freedom works and is popular and the big economic and political event we’re witnessing is a blessing in disguise.

(Source: http://crossingpointoflight.blogspot.com/2008/07/something-big-is-going-on.html)

(Original: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog/?p=115)

Celebrate Freedom with Dr. Greer

July 4, 2008 Celebrate Freedom Why The Orion Project? Why now? Dear Friends and Supporters: People keep coming on board and supporting our vision of free energy. However there are many others that hesitate and have some concerns. We hope to alleviate them here. The two dominant questions that we face are: Why The Orion Project? And, why now? We hope that in sharing our vision with you that you will have faith in our commitment and ability to achieve what the world has longed for… cheap, clean, renewable energy accessible everywhere in the world. But before we do that, we want to reiterate to you that we are not “all talk and no action”. While The Orion Project core team is running our Breakthrough Campaign to make our vision possible, our inventors continue to plug away and make great strides on their particular devices. To demonstrate our continued progress, here is another update on the Mr. Q. PMG device. Mr. Q. and Mr. P. Continue to Approach Over-Unity Against some fairly tough barriers (limited budget, employment limitations, and travel distance), we currently have to plan our experiments and run them continuously for as many hours as they can stay awake. Nevertheless, these 2 ambitious and determined inventors continue to make significant and necessary optimizations and get better results with each trip. Their most recent research week was June 23-27. Details of this research week will be available soon. For those interested in the full update on their first research week, please read the exciting details on our Latest News web page. It should be noted that this particular group (the PMG group with Mr. Q. and Mr. P.) is working on a shoestring budget, which is graciously supported by a single angel investor of limited financial resources. The mere fact that we have gotten this far on so little is, again, a testament to the dedication and desire of all parties involved in bringing this project to fruition. Once we achieve our Breakthrough Campaign and can bring these inventors under one roof in a modern facility, the results of this and our other groups will be vastly accelerated and turbo-charged. To help us move past a shoestring budget, please consider a donation to The Orion Project. Your donation is tax deductible. Our Vision Currently, our Pulsed Motor Generator inventors need to cram 4 round-the-clock workdays in a row every 3-4 weeks when we have the financial ability to bring them together. This isn’t exactly an ideal way to do any job, but we will continue to move forward in anyway we can while waiting for a successful donation campaign. But to give you a taste of what would be possible when we are successful, I’d like you to imagine how much faster, better, and more successful we’ll be with the following: Imagine Imagine bringing all of our projects under a single roof… from garages into a modern facility with adequate floor space. Imagine each scientist being able to work on these devices full time, rather than averaging 2-10 hours a week because of other employment. Imagine these inventors being able to match skill sets, greatly complementing each other’s weaknesses and strengths to achieve FAR MORE together than they ever could individually. Imagine being able to get up and running after Mr. Q.’s anomalous event (see previous article) in a matter of hours rather than a month. Imagine being able to brainstorm with other brilliant inventors in real time, on-site, with proper equipment, space, availability of parts. Why The Orion Project? Why Now? So I ask our readers… wouldn’t we be more likely to succeed? And in a much shorter timeframe? Wouldn’t this help us get working prototypes of these devices to independent testers to verify we have in fact succeeded? Wouldn’t this ultimately accelerate the timeframe in getting these devices to you so you can stop paying $4+ dollars a gallon for a fuel that is finite? We believe so, and we are commited to our vision. Others have failed before us because they lacked funding, matching skill sets, the ability to take a working device and get it into production. We have expertise at all of these levels and our Breakthrough Campaign will help bring these experts together for the sole purpose of seeing this project through, beginning to end, to give us the best chance of succeeding. And the progress will only accelerate with each new substantial discovery and with each stage of the process that we achieve. Right now we have promising results, but we do not personally have a device going over-unity. Once we do and have lab-certified results, we can begin making media announcements and begin to pull in even larger donors and investors as they begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel. But we need to get to that point first! And that is why we have created a lean and straightforward Breakthrough Campaign to get us to and through these first critical stages. What will it take? To make this vision happen, we need your help to achieve a critical level of funding in order to support our inventors with employment and a laboratory facility for 12-18 months. We cannot begin implementing this until we have the entire budget in hand, lest we get caught without the funds to complete the task within a limited window of opportunity. PLEASE DONATE TODAY There is one more way you can help. It’s critical that this thermometer rise quickly. Please pass this email along to 10 of your friends and family who share our concern. Encourage each one to do the same… exponentially, we will become a community working toward a common goal. Thank You I cannot thank the donors enough for their very generous contributions, many of whom are donating well above our minimum request. It humbles me and the rest of The Orion Project team to know that you are putting your faith in us to deliver on our promise. That is our promise to develop at least one free energy device that can be the key to eliminating high energy costs, environmental damage, and the political struggles associated with the world’s energy crises. To do this, we are asking for a meager $3 million to do what NO other energy program will ever achieve with annual budgets that can be THOUSANDS of times larger per year! We at The Orion Project certainly understand the tough economic situation that many are faced with. However, that problem will only get worse if we do not break free from these old paths and paradigms. We hope that others among you will continue to pass our message and our vision to others as well as also donate to our cause so that we can bring about this change in 6-18 months vs. 6-18 years. If you can, please donate today to help us, help you, help the world… Toward a more sustainable future for all of mankind. Dr. Steven Greer www.theorionproject.org Join our mailing list!

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British Shadow Home Secretary Resigns

David Davis, the Conservative shadow home secretary today announced he would resign as a Member of Parliament, thereby triggering a by-election in his constituency. His resignation came in the wake of a narrow government victory to extend detention without trial for up to 42 days and Davis says he will fight the by election on this issue alone.

In a statement to the press Davis described the new law extending the period of detention without trial as a “monstrosity”.

“In truth,” he said, “42 days is just one – perhaps the most salient example – of the insidious, surreptitious and relentless erosion of fundamental British freedoms.”

“And we will have shortly, the most intrusive identity card system in the world.

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(Full Article: http://crossingpointoflight.blogspot.com)

Become a Precinct Leader for Ron Paul

The Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign is pleased to announce that we are now seeking volunteers to serve as designated “Precinct Leaders” across America. As a Precinct Leader, your goal is to win Dr. Paul a victory in your precinct, by identifying supporters, winning a few undecided voters, and reminding them get to the polls on Election Day.

Precincts can be won with just a small number of voters. The goal is to find voters who support Paul’s message, win the undecided vote, and remind them to vote. Ideally, you can contact each voter in your precinct; however, any amount of usage you get from this system will benefit the campaign, and we strongly recommend that you sign up.

If you are ready to do this, please complete this form. Instructions for accessing the Precinct Leader System will be emailed to you immediately.

(Source: https://voters.ronpaul2008.com/grassroots/)

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