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Ron Paul Knows "The Longer QE Lasts, The Worse It Will End"

Posted: October 20, 2013 at 2:40 am

In this exclusive interview with Birch Gold Group, former Congressman Ron Paul shares his opinions on a number of topics, including investing in physical gold and silver, the future of the U.S. dollar and the role of the Federal Reserve.

Full audio if the following interview is available here.

Rachel Mills for Birch Gold Group (BGG): This is Rachel Mills for Birch Gold Group. I am speaking with Ron Paul today. How are you, Ron Paul?

Ron Paul (RP): I am doing very well. Nice to talk to you Rachel.

BGG: Its good to talk to you again, and by the way of information for Birchs audience, I was your last press secretary on Capitol Hill in Congress and I worked for you for the 5 years. So I may be cheating a little bit because a lot of your answers to my questions I maybe have a pretty good guess at what you might say.

RP: Okay!

BGG: But, just really quick today with you Id like to go over several things. But Id like to ask your opinion on things like Janet Yellen as the next Fed Chair, about debt ceiling and shutdown issues. I want to get into, briefly, if you are still a buyer of gold even though it is so expensive. But first I wanted to introduce Birch Golds listeners to your background a little bit because I think its fascinating. In 1971, Nixon closed the gold window which led to the end of the Bretton Woods agreement. That was very important event for you, I know for sure, because you knew at the time that it would eventually destroy the currency, which we are still experiencing. And you said that that was what got you into politics to begin with. Had you been reading Austrian economists before that?

RP: Yes, for a good while. As a matter of fact, it was 1971, there was confirmation of the Austrian economic writers who had been predicting that would happen as early as Henry Hazlitt said when the IMF was set up in 1945. He said it wouldnt work and Bretton Woods would break down. And by the 50s and the 60s people were rejecting it and it was so artificial and it was fragile. So people did know that it was coming, and mainly it was coming because the governments pretended that the dollar would be as good as gold at $35 an ounce forever, yet they kept printing dollars and it was pretty simple logic to figure out therell be a limit. The governments worked real hard to convince the people that there was no problem, that the dollar would always be valued at $35 an ounce.

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Kerbal Space Program – De-Orbiting Epic Space Station – Video

Posted: October 19, 2013 at 1:42 am


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Astronauts On International Space Station Photograph A STRANGE Cloud – Video

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Astronauts on the International Space Station have beamed home photos of an eerie space cloud outside their orbital home, a strange sight apparently created ...

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Steve Wilkos will this dna test destroy our marriage – Video

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World News Today – DNA Results a Key Piece of Evidence in Amanda Knox Case – Video

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Researchers develop DNA test to catch doping cheats in elite sports

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VANCOUVER - Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a DNA test to catch athletes who use blood doping to enhance their performance, but its limitations mean the current testing system will continue to detect cheaters.

James Rupert, an associate professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of B.C., said the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency funded research for the DNA test, which was designed to be cheaper, easier and faster than the existing method.

The agency uses a test that examines athletes' blood for proteins to determine if they've received a transfusion of someone else's blood.

Rupert, whose study has been published in the journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, said Friday that the UBC test allows DNA to be amplified to a high resolution, which can't be done with proteins.

He said the technology enables white cells to be inspected for different populations of genes and reveal if a second person's cells are present. Red blood cells do not have DNA.

Elite cheats, including admitted blood-doping cyclist Lance Armstrong, aim to boost their red blood cells, which carry oxygen from the lungs to the muscles, and help improve endurance.

However, Rupert said the initial quest was to develop a finger-prick test that could be used by volunteer doping control officers at the Olympics, for example, but it did not work.

He said there are also ethical concerns about collecting genetic data for doping control.

"There may be a bit of a block to collecting athletes' genetic data," he said.

The test may also be limited because of the various tricks athletes use to bypass blood-doping detection such as skimming off white blood cells before the blood is transfused from a donor.

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DNA Extraction HD – Video

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Cold Justice – Small Town Tragedy – DNA Evidence – Video

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DNA links mysterious Yeti to ancient bear, scientist claims

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A British scientist says he may have solved the mystery of the Yeti, the elusive ape-like creature of the Himalayas. DNA analysis conducted by Oxford University genetics professor Bryan Sykes suggests the creature is the descendant of an ancient polar bear.

Sykes compared DNA from hair samples taken from two Himalayan animals -- identified by local people as Yetis -- to a database of animal genomes. He found they shared a genetic fingerprint with a polar bear jawbone found in the Norwegian Arctic that is at least 40,000 years old.

Sykes said Thursday that the tests showed the creatures were not related to modern Himalayan bears but were direct descendants of the prehistoric animal.

"It may be a new species, it may be a hybrid" between polar bears and brown bears," he said. "The next thing is go there and find one."

Sykes put out a call last year for museums, scientists and Yeti aficionados to share hair samples thought to be from the creature.

One of the samples he analyzed came from an alleged Yeti mummy in the Indian region of Ladakh, at the Western edge of the Himalayas, and was taken by a French mountaineer who was shown the corpse 40 years ago.

The other was a single hair found a decade ago in Bhutan, 800 miles to the east. Sykes said the fact the hair samples were found so far apart, and so recently, suggests the members of the species are still alive.

"I can't imagine we managed to get samples from the only two 'snow bears' in the Himalayas," he said.

Finding a living creature could explain whether differences in appearance and behavior to other bears account for descriptions of the Yeti as a hairy hominid.

"The polar bear ingredient in their genomes may have changed their behavior so they act different, look different, maybe walk on two feet more often," he said.

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Nazneen Rahman on why she wants to make genome evangelists of us all

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Harnessing the power of genome sequencing could have a "really tremendous impact" on cancer testing and treatment, says Nazneen Rahman of the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden Hospital.

Speaking at Wired 2013 in London, Rahman who is a geneticist and doctor specialising in disease gene discovery, cancer predisposition and clinical genomics explains that she wants to make genome evangelists of us all. We should sit up and take notice, because she says we all have the ability to develop cancer -- "cancer has no respect for age or gender, race or ethnicity, wealth or class".

"Our genomes are both beautifully simple and unfeasibly complex," she says. They consist of the three billion letters of code, inside which are stored the instructions for how our cells divide. Looking for a mutation in the code has up until now involved combing laboriously through it.

A new process though, means you can break up the code into millions of fragments and read them all at once. Rahman describes this as "an all-bets-are-off, anything-is-possible kind of change" that has vastly changed the potential of what scientists are able to do in all areas of medicine.

To discover the mutations that have caused cancer in people, doctors used to have to look down the microscope, but now they can just look at the genome and trace the path of the mutating code. Similarly, chemotherapy used to tackle all fast-dividing cells, but we can now make a specific targeted drug that only tackle the mutating cells.

The same tactic can be used to identify mutations that are passed down through generations which means lots of people in the same family are affected by the same cancer. Using the old process for combing through genetic code for hereditary mutations was so time-consuming and difficult that it's very expensive, and therefore only available to the super rich. If we adapt the new changed in genome technologies though, says Rahman, we can make genome testing an affordable possibility for everyone.

In looking for mutations, one of the challenges is that our genomes are littered with mutations -- some of which are dangerous, some of which aren't -- but misinterpretations rather than helping people, can end up doing harm. To avoid this, more people will need to be sequenced, because the more data you put into a system, the better interpretations you get out of it. "This is an area where big data is going to be a big help," she says.

In order to have a way that doctors can routinely use these tests, we need to make sure tests are accurate, but also that people are educated about sequencing and have confidence in the process. This is why we all need to be genome evangelists, but, she adds "we do have to be cautious evangelists -- if that's not a contradiction in terms."

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