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Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
APPEARS is the prequalifier, and in reality all you are doing is cherry picking out of context portions to TROLL for a REACTION.
Which is EXACTLY what ATS IS TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM.
This thread is posted in GENERAL CONSPIRACIES as a series of qualified questions.
It is not in Political Madness, it is not in Above Politics it is in GENERAL CONSPIRACIES that asks other conspiracy minded members of ATS to help determine WHAT IF ANY CONSPIRACY IS PRESENT.
Now once again why is it YOU don't want to ACCEPT THAT.
What is your AGENDA that causes you to NOT WANT people to DISCUSS CONSPIRACIES on a CONSPIRACY RELATED web site?
Why is it you REFUSE to ACCEPT that is what is being done?
What is it you hope to accomplish?
Originally posted by moocowman
Christ ! There's a similar thing going on in the UK now I've seen this thing about RP it creeps the hell out of me.
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What other countries got this sort of thing ?
Originally posted by thatguy1
A bit of common sense and match making goes a long way guys.
PS. I think RP is a good person, I don't personally doubt him but I trust his message more than anything. A man can change, if you support his original message then that is what really matters.
Should insider trading by Congress be allowed?
Judges, juries, and court personnel have access to information about the probable outcome of court decisions; and officials at the FDA [Food and Drug Administration], EPA [Environmental Protection Agency], and other administrative agencies have access to information about the likely outcome of regulatory proceedings. All of these individuals are prohibited by law from using such confidential information in the purchase and sale of publicly traded stocks. Likewise, members of Congress and their staffs are also privy to valuable confidential information not yet made public. They have information about the likely outcome of various votes, committee proceedings, and investigations. Such information can be extremely valuable to investors. Those who buy and sell stock on the basis of such non-public information will have an obvious advantage over those who lack such information. This is not the sort of information that even the most savvy and sophisticated investor would be able to obtain legally.
"'Senators' stocks beat the market by 12%' blared a headline in the Financial Times. So what? Isn't beating the market what everyone tries to do?... Like corporate executives, senators also have access to valuable inside information. They are aware of likely changes in the tax laws, government contracts, research funding, trade negotiations, etc. Any of these may have profound ramifications for the various companies or industries involved. In addition, those in Congress have the power to help or hurt individual companies and industries by changing the laws. This also can impact share price. Unlike corporate executives, congressmen can trade common stocks without restriction, buying and selling as much as they want whenever they want. They may vote on issues in which they have a personal financial interest. Furthermore, Senate members are not required to report their transactions to the Securities and Exchange Commission like corporate insiders...
After this generation's corporate scandals, Congress passed Sarbanes-Oxley in 2002 to improve corporate governance and audit independence. But one of the measures added reporting requirements and tougher standards for insider trading. Unfortunately, Congress forgot itself. It remains perfectly legal for a member of Congress to buy and sell stocks based on information that's not available to the public. Last year it was reported that a "political intelligence" firm tipped off its clients to an undelivered speech by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on asbestos liability. The information was profitable to those in the know. "This is simply wrong that members of Congress can exchange information ... and get rich on it," says Rep. Brian Baird, D-Wash., who is co-sponsor of a bill to prohibit insider trading by members of Congress and their staffs.
Congressman Paul Returns Over $100,000 To Treasury
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Ron Paul has continued to run his Congressional office in a frugal manner, and was able to return more than $100,000 from his allotted office budget to the Treasury this year, an increase over the $90,000 returned last year. “Since my first year in Congress representing the 14th district I have managed my office in a frugal manner, instructing staff to provide the greatest possible service to the people of the 14th district at the least possible cost to taxpayers,” said Paul.
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In order to qualify for HUBZone contracts, your small business must meet certain eligibility requirements. These are: Your business must qualify as a small business under the SBA standards. For more information, read Registering with the SBA as a Small Business. 51 percent of your company must be owned by citizens of the United States of America The principal location of your business must be located within a HUBZone 35 percent of your employees must live within the area of the HUBZone The SBA awards HUBZone contracts according to regulations set up by FAR. The three basic HUBZone contracts awarded are: (1) competitive contracts, (2) sole source contracts, and (3) full and open competition contracts.
DETERMINATION OF WHETHER AN ADDRESS IS IN A HUBZONE 203 cannon house, washington DC is located in Census Tract 11001005900 which IS HUBZone qualified. The map below shows the relationship of this address (marked with a star) to qualified HUBZone areas. Below the map, you may find information on why the address was found to be in a HUBZone Area.
Originally posted by Threadfall
I'm surprised that it took this long for the so-called "black helicopter" crowd to cannibalize their own savior. Just goes to prove that you can't break the cycle of conspiratorial thinking...
And, BTW, the title of this thread is pretty confusing.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Just a thought but as soon as you start focusing on some positives instead of focusing on the negatives your arguments will become a lot more effective.
You have a chance to contribute something positive to the thread but by taking a constant negative and decidedly hostile approach to everything you are in essence sabatoging your own arguments and suppositions because there is nothing positive or informative about them.
Some of us look for the possibilities the what ifs. We are on the quest for knowledge and udnerstanding.
We discover intriquing things and we discuss and debate them looking to see what fits and what doesn't.
Conspiracies are all about detective work, asking questions, questions that assume a certain level of guilt or complicity and that then either lead to the elimination of suspects and theories and motives or lead to more suspects, or different suspects, theories and motives.
Its a process that detectives in law enforcement use also, as well as private investigators.
It's hard but when you show up at a crime scene where the husband has been murdered and the wife is in tears, even though they are married you still have to ask yourself objectively could she have killed her own husband? If any kind of ellement is evident, then you start asking harder questions as to motive, associations, actions, etc., etc., by framing hypothetical scenarios and then seeing what other elements are evident to see if the scenario works.
It doesn't mean that the hypothetical scenario you first come up with is going to fit even though the questions regarding it seem damning. Just because the initial hypothesis is not correct does not mean in and of itself that the wife didn't murder the husband, different scenarios are looked at, different motives examined, different associations, etc., etc., until they are either all eliminated and exhausted and a determination of innocense is made, or the opposite the guilt is established.
Maybe because you are looking at this process in a negative way based on your affinity and admiration for a personality a person, a politician in this case Ron Paul, it's just not possible for you because of your political inclinations to be an objective and positive part of that investigatory team.
Maybe because you are bent entirely upon some notion of vindication and validation for wanting vindication its just not humanly possible for you to objectively look at the over all substance of this thread?
Maybe you have failed to notice that it has prompted a lot of positive discussion and information regarding the base underlying issue of corporate entities and how they play out across a broad spectrum of institutions and people that many posters find both intriquing, thought provoking, alarming and worthy of discussion and investigation that people do enjoy or at least feel a compulsion to particpate in on a genuine interest level.
Maybe the only way you feel you can achieve your political agenda and achieve that vindication and validation you seem to be solely and intently focused on is your belief that the incessent attempts to be negative, discredit, chastise, and attempt to domineer are the only skills you have or wish to use in such an entirely limited and self serving enterprise.
I really don't know, I don't really care, whether its a fragile ego, a propensity towards the negative, a political agenda, a cult like desire and admiration for a politcal personality, an overwhelming need for attention or to try to dominate by being domineering doesn't really much matter.
It's negative, it's not productive, it's adding little if anything of substance to the thread, and makes what you write hardly worth reading.
Maybe if you focused a little less on critiquing question and sentence structures in embellishing and out of context ways of others and trying to deminish others who have a general and genuinel passion for conspiracies and sharing knowledge you could then actually instead speak positively and passionately to your obvious reverence and worship of Ron Paul and try to do something positive in a positive way that would have a positive impact.
When a person isn't negative they don't have to be defensive about how that negativity is percieved by others.
Lots of people are particpating in the thread in positive ways, contributing great sources and links about what many of us feel is a corporate conspiracy.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
But the truth of the matter is that the only absolute statement made in the Original Post is that Ron Paul really does trade as the United States Congress, and the United States House of Representatives.
You are free to start your own thread on the issue and frame your initial post anyway you like.
None of your agruments in fact can eliminate Ron Paul from possibly being a Puppet Master, because Puppet Masters are the hardest types of Masters to ferret out because they are ingenious at disguising themselves and the
extent of their dominance.
Now there is not one word or portion of the Original Post I feel a need to retract or appologize for because they were all posed as questions and hypothetical questions in the original post except for the title which is actually true.
I am rejecting your arguments out of hand and carte blanche that the Original Post is some how misleading or speaks in absolutes, anyone but you can apparently read it as intended as a series of hypothetical questions and an open invitation for others to help in that detective process.
A list of congressman. I picked a few randomly from my state and entered their name. Surprise surprise, EACH AND EVERY ONE of them had the EXACT SAME types of entires. You obviously didn't even do the smallest amount of research before posting. I guess they are also all "Presidents of corporate congress".
Originally posted by jackflap
You don't find this in the least bit suspicious? Why would they come up like that and what in the heck does it mean? It could be that they are all presidents of a corporation. You see nothing strange here?
Originally posted by DeathShield
I don't get it? Why would ron paul be a schill for the very system he is decrying? The guy is constantly writing books on why our current economic practices (the ones being used and pushed by the current crop of corporations and politicians) are going to ruin our nation. The only logical answer i can draw is that TPTB in this situation are trying to stop him by releasing evidence that shows him to be "one of them" Knowing full well that the conspiracy community will pick it up and run wild with it.