Seeing the world as it is, the wizard behind the curtain and reality instead of myth, matters now more than ever. Lose your illusions. Now they could kill you.

In July, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said of his plan to save Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, "If you have a bazooka in your pocket and people know it, you probably won't have to use it." He threatened that we are one step from the abyss. He is the one who should take that step. The dollar is the Fed's but the problem is yours.

Since politics has become a year-round hunt with no definable season, this article is offered as a public service for those who want to become political sharpshooters but aren't completely familiar with the vocabulary of this most ancient and ruthlessly brutal of human blood sports. Politics – The art of manipulating people. This definition can be infinitely refined and redefined but those five words are its essence. Democracy – A system of thuggary in which the majority enforces its will on everyone else, as opposed to the original United States, which was a constitutional republic featuring a minimal government empowered to protect the rights of individuals from the thuggary of the majority.

Paulson is now the most powerful man in the world, the son of Vishnu. "I am become Death, the Destroyer of worlds." We have only a few steps left, going the way of Paulson before our economy implodes. The money supply is growing at the rate of 14 to 18 percent, leading to hyper-inflation. Banks and investment brokerages are being bailed out at tax-payer expense.

Bernanke loses control. He should never have had control in the first place. Let the failing banks and insurers fail. It is the people of the United States and our Life, Liberty and Property that government is supposed to secure, not paper-pushers. Get rid of paper money, make gold money!

Do you know what month it is? No, just knowing the calendar name of the month isn't enough. You need to know what Month the month is. December, for example, and for real, depending on which calendar you look at, on which website, is, among other things, Hi Neighbor Month, National Stress-free Family Holidays Month, and Learn a Foreign Language Month, the latter of which should not be allowed to spill over into January which is Walk Your Pet Month, the poor critter having already waited for you since last January as it is. Nobody knows who names these Months other than the Month-namers themselves. What is known is that many of these Months are fraught with self-serving special interest social, political and cultural over- and undertones.

I’ve discussed just a few benefits of sound money in the last two weeks, and contrasted them to the perils of fiat currency. Sound money keeps government spending in check, keeps trade fair and honest, which reduces the temptations, and many underlying causes, for governments to wage wars. It also gives you the peace of mind of knowing that your savings will be able to sustain you in your retirement.

So if sound money is such a good thing, what is stopping people from simply trading with each other in gold and silver? Why are you still being paid in fiat dollars, and why can’t you pay for gas in gold? The answer is that the government has enacted policies that provide considerable stumbling blocks to such transactions.

Never mistake rhetoric for reality. Live your freedom, a wise man told me that is what you need to do.

In this Year of National Elections, this political horoscope is presented as a public service in an effort to successfully plot the course for all who aspire to political activism. ARIES (sign of the sheared Sheeple) – The moon and stars and unmanned space probes are aligned. You are fated to run for city council because others see you as a natural leader. Those others may be your Mom, your special-needs half brother and your baby sister, but, hey, you're a bleating heart liberal.

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Mr. Chairman, once again we confront the issue of sovereign wealth funds, an issue which has become quite important due to the large amount of dollars and dollar-denominated bonds held by foreign governments, and the fears of these governments given the dollar's precipitous decline over the past few years. The past few days have been quite interesting, with speculation that one of the reasons for the government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was the more than $1 trillion in Fannie and Freddie debt held by foreign governments. The threat of default on this debt would have undoubtedly had massive repercussions on the value of the dollar and might have unleashed the “nuclear threat” of a massive international sell-off of government and agency debt.

A better dinner wine than a sipping wine.

A better dinner wine than sipping wine.

Not a typically white but good chilled for a hot summer day.