Someone tell King Obama that it is Time to Bring Em' Home (10/29/2011)
By Amir Shah (Associated Press)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A U.S. official says all 13 NATO service members killed in a suicide bombing in the Afghan capital were American troops.
The official confirmed the nationalities shortly after NATO issued a statement saying that 13 of its forces were killed in Saturday's blast. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which also killed four Afghans, including a policeman.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. FULL STORY HERE.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A U.S. official says all 13 NATO service members killed in a suicide bombing in the Afghan capital were American troops.
The official confirmed the nationalities shortly after NATO issued a statement saying that 13 of its forces were killed in Saturday's blast. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which also killed four Afghans, including a policeman.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. FULL STORY HERE.
Ron Paul on Hannity
Getting rid of government student loans will drastically reduce tuition to the point where a student can work their way through with a PT job, like years ago.
VATICAN has called for a central authority, aka Central World Bank
This only affirms that the New World Order is alive and well. My worst fears are coming true...
Document also calls for "Central World Bank"
* Condemns "idolatry of the market"
* Says reform should start under U.N. auspices (Adds quotes from Vatican press conference)
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY, Oct 24 (Reuters) - - The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a "global public authority" and a "central world bank" to rule over financial institutions that have become outdated and often ineffective in dealing fairly with crises.
The document from the Vatican's Justice and Peace department should please the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrators and similar movements around the world who have protested against the economic downturn.
"Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of a Global Public Authority," was at times very specific, calling, for example, for taxation measures on financial transactions.
"The economic and financial crisis which the world is going through calls everyone, individuals and peoples, to examine in depth the principles and the cultural and moral values at the basis of social coexistence," it said.
It condemned what it called "the idolatry of the market" as well as a "neo-liberal thinking" that it said looked exclusively at technical solutions to economic problems.
"In fact, the crisis has revealed behaviours like selfishness, collective greed and hoarding of goods on a great scale," it said, adding that world economics needed an "ethic of solidarity" among rich and poor nations.
Read More...
Document also calls for "Central World Bank"
* Condemns "idolatry of the market"
* Says reform should start under U.N. auspices (Adds quotes from Vatican press conference)
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY, Oct 24 (Reuters) - - The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a "global public authority" and a "central world bank" to rule over financial institutions that have become outdated and often ineffective in dealing fairly with crises.
The document from the Vatican's Justice and Peace department should please the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrators and similar movements around the world who have protested against the economic downturn.
"Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of a Global Public Authority," was at times very specific, calling, for example, for taxation measures on financial transactions.
"The economic and financial crisis which the world is going through calls everyone, individuals and peoples, to examine in depth the principles and the cultural and moral values at the basis of social coexistence," it said.
It condemned what it called "the idolatry of the market" as well as a "neo-liberal thinking" that it said looked exclusively at technical solutions to economic problems.
"In fact, the crisis has revealed behaviours like selfishness, collective greed and hoarding of goods on a great scale," it said, adding that world economics needed an "ethic of solidarity" among rich and poor nations.
Read More...
Ron Paul's Agenda is to Eliminate 5 Government departments and he will cut his Presidential Salary to $39,000 a year...
http://www.dailypaul.com/182867/ron-pauls-plan-being-announced-monday-cutting-1-trillion-cutting-his-pay-to-39000
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/10/17/ron-pauls-economic-plan-cut-5-cabinet-agencies-cut-taxes-cut-presidents-pay/?mod=google_news_blog
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/10/17/ron-pauls-economic-plan-cut-5-cabinet-agencies-cut-taxes-cut-presidents-pay/?mod=google_news_blog
Operation Fast and Furious
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End the Fed | Ron Paul Vs. Herman Cain
RT News seems legit.
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“Ron Paul is the only Republican presidential candidate to put forth the
notion that a strong national defense means ending destructive
unconstitutional wars having an unclear connection to national security,
ending costly state-building in regions where our presence is unwanted,
and bringing hundreds of thousands of troops home to make America safer
and cut overseas spending,” said Ron Paul 2012 National Campaign
Chairman Jesse Benton.
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Herman Cain (Ex Federal Reserve Employee) compares himself to Moses
Romney-Care is Obama-Care
Occupy Boston | Police arrest veterans!
Shame on the police arresting Veterans. To all my friends who are active military, what do you think they will do to you twenty years from now? How will your country treat you when you come back with all that baggage?
Ron Paul on Wolf Blitzer
Herman Cain get out of here!
Google Herman Cain and the Federal Reserve
Ron Paul on the Russian-Georgian Conflict
unbelievable
Once again our current President has goofed up...
DAN HIRSCHHORN
Politico
October 4, 2011
Ron Paul said Monday that President Barack Obama’s targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki might be an impeachable offense.
Asked at a Manchester, N.H. town hall meeting about last week’s killing of the American-born Al Qaeda leader, the Texas congressman said impeachment would be “possible,” but that he wants to know more about how the administration “flouted the law.”
Paul called the killing a movement toward “tyranny.”
“I put responsibility on the president because this is obviously a step in the wrong direction,” Paul said. “We have just totally disrespected the Constitution.”
Ron Paul, Kucinich, Nader all Speak to Occupy Wall Street | End the Fed
There are differences of philosophy between progressives and libertarians, but we CAN agree on at least four issues upon which we can make immediate and concrete demands. Success on these demands would go a very long way toward saving the United States and prevent us from falling deeper into serfdom and slavery.
We may never have a better chance than right now.
Ralph Nader, Ron Paul, and Dennis Kucinich offer words of wisdom to the Occupy Wall Street movement. The Occupy Wall Street movement has tremendous potential, but only if we can resist the wedges that the corporate/government cabal continues to try to drive between us.
We may never have a better chance than right now.
Ralph Nader, Ron Paul, and Dennis Kucinich offer words of wisdom to the Occupy Wall Street movement. The Occupy Wall Street movement has tremendous potential, but only if we can resist the wedges that the corporate/government cabal continues to try to drive between us.
History repeats itself. Do not fuck with our freedoms and our civil rights as human beings.
Occupy Wall Street Protests spread across the U.S.
Inspired by the events in New York City, protesters begin assembling in several cities across the U.S. [the infant stages of a revolution]
[Alastair Good of the Telegraph]
As police arrested hundreds of protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, more demonstrations began to spring up across the U.S.
In Los Angeles, protesters gathered in front of City Hall and danced on buses with "peace" emblazoned on the side.
A smaller protest was held in Chicago's financial district where protesters held placards demanding “Jobs Not Cuts”.
Protesters also turned out in Denver, gathering downtown before marching into the city chanting, "Occupy the streets."
All the protests were inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement which has seen hundreds of people camping out near the financial district in New York City and conducting marches calling for an end to home foreclosures and high unemployment.
Los Angeles...
Chicago...
Denver...
Seattle...
As police arrested hundreds of protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, more demonstrations began to spring up across the U.S.
In Los Angeles, protesters gathered in front of City Hall and danced on buses with "peace" emblazoned on the side.
A smaller protest was held in Chicago's financial district where protesters held placards demanding “Jobs Not Cuts”.
Protesters also turned out in Denver, gathering downtown before marching into the city chanting, "Occupy the streets."
All the protests were inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement which has seen hundreds of people camping out near the financial district in New York City and conducting marches calling for an end to home foreclosures and high unemployment.
Los Angeles...
Chicago...
Denver...
Seattle...
New Yorkers receiving care packages and meditating for social change...
RON PAUL 2012
Ron Paul Interview on Jon Stewart
9/26/2011
The truth hurts... Ahmadinejad 22 Sept 2011 U.N. (highlights)
The police are supposed to help us...right?
New York - Rewrite Wallstreet ...WHERE IS LIBERTY? WHERE IS FREEDOM?
Goodbye Perry!
[The Hill]
Polls have shown that while establishment Republicans have all lost popular approval at a similar pace to Obama, Ron Paul already has the numbers to be within striking distance of defeating Obama in a head to head run off – and that’s before he’s even been afforded one half of the national platform the media has bestowed upon Perry and Romney.
Once Ron Paul’s message is allowed to be heard, he will absolutely trounce Obama.
Only Ron Paul offers enough of an alternative to four more years of Obama to give the Republicans a chance of any success in 2012. Only Ron Paul’s solutions for returning America to sound money principles can begin to reverse decades of Republicans and Democrats allowing the nation’s economic base to be disastrously undermined.
Polls have shown that while establishment Republicans have all lost popular approval at a similar pace to Obama, Ron Paul already has the numbers to be within striking distance of defeating Obama in a head to head run off – and that’s before he’s even been afforded one half of the national platform the media has bestowed upon Perry and Romney.
Once Ron Paul’s message is allowed to be heard, he will absolutely trounce Obama.
Only Ron Paul offers enough of an alternative to four more years of Obama to give the Republicans a chance of any success in 2012. Only Ron Paul’s solutions for returning America to sound money principles can begin to reverse decades of Republicans and Democrats allowing the nation’s economic base to be disastrously undermined.
FOX news is BAD news...
[Reuters]
If you’ve noticed a lack of Ron Paul in the mainstream media’s coverage of the 2012 presidential race, it might not be an accident. After he placed first in a Fox News poll, the outlet has removed the results from their website without explanation.
Fox had launched an online poll to gauge readers’ opinions on last night’s Republican show-down and asked their audience, “Which GOP presidential candidate do you think won the Fox News/Google debate?” At one point Paul placed in first, with 30 percent of the votes, but a reader of Infowars.com has pointed out that the poll has disappeared from the website, or has been shuffled to another page far from the front of Fox’s political coverage.
Logging onto the poll now produces an error in which the user is told “No content item selected.”
A screen shot of the poll produced by Infowars shows that Paul led with 24,8945 votes, with Mitt Romney trailing in second place with 22,656 votes, of 27 percent of the total. Rick Perry placed third with 15 percent of the votes, followed by Herman Cain with 9 percent.
Speaking from the stage during last night’s debate, Paul reminded the audience that he has been placing quite well in most surveys as of late. The mainstream media, however, continues to ignore him, despite pleasant polling.
When quizzed during last night’s debate from Orlando, Florida on whom he might consider as a running mate, Paul deterred the question and noted that he wouldn’t bother selecting anyone until he made it in the “top two.” In the meantime, Paul said, he was running in third in most national polls.
The mainstream media continues to overlook Paul, however, favoring Rick Perry and Mitt Romney as the frontrunners, and unexplainably offering more airtime to Michele Bachmann. Speaking to CNN yesterday, former presidential candidate and long-time activist Ralph Nader said he thought Paul was perhaps most appealing of the current GOP candidates.
“He wants to get out of these wars overseas, he wants to bring the soldiers back, he wants to cut the bloated military budget, he wants to change some of the anti-civil liberty provisions in the Patriot Act, he hates corporate welfare an all these bailouts of Wall Street crooks,” said Nader. “He ought to get more attention, instead of ten times more attention being given to Michele Bachmann.”
A USA Today/Gallup poll released on Tuesday put Paul as the number three candidate in the GOP race, receiving nearly three times the favor of Bachmann. In New Hampshire, where the first primary of the 2012 race will take place this winter, Paul came in second place, between Mitt Romney in first and Jon Huntsman in second.
HERE'S SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF RON PAUL IF YOU MISSED IT...
If you’ve noticed a lack of Ron Paul in the mainstream media’s coverage of the 2012 presidential race, it might not be an accident. After he placed first in a Fox News poll, the outlet has removed the results from their website without explanation.
Fox had launched an online poll to gauge readers’ opinions on last night’s Republican show-down and asked their audience, “Which GOP presidential candidate do you think won the Fox News/Google debate?” At one point Paul placed in first, with 30 percent of the votes, but a reader of Infowars.com has pointed out that the poll has disappeared from the website, or has been shuffled to another page far from the front of Fox’s political coverage.
Logging onto the poll now produces an error in which the user is told “No content item selected.”
A screen shot of the poll produced by Infowars shows that Paul led with 24,8945 votes, with Mitt Romney trailing in second place with 22,656 votes, of 27 percent of the total. Rick Perry placed third with 15 percent of the votes, followed by Herman Cain with 9 percent.
Speaking from the stage during last night’s debate, Paul reminded the audience that he has been placing quite well in most surveys as of late. The mainstream media, however, continues to ignore him, despite pleasant polling.
When quizzed during last night’s debate from Orlando, Florida on whom he might consider as a running mate, Paul deterred the question and noted that he wouldn’t bother selecting anyone until he made it in the “top two.” In the meantime, Paul said, he was running in third in most national polls.
The mainstream media continues to overlook Paul, however, favoring Rick Perry and Mitt Romney as the frontrunners, and unexplainably offering more airtime to Michele Bachmann. Speaking to CNN yesterday, former presidential candidate and long-time activist Ralph Nader said he thought Paul was perhaps most appealing of the current GOP candidates.
“He wants to get out of these wars overseas, he wants to bring the soldiers back, he wants to cut the bloated military budget, he wants to change some of the anti-civil liberty provisions in the Patriot Act, he hates corporate welfare an all these bailouts of Wall Street crooks,” said Nader. “He ought to get more attention, instead of ten times more attention being given to Michele Bachmann.”
A USA Today/Gallup poll released on Tuesday put Paul as the number three candidate in the GOP race, receiving nearly three times the favor of Bachmann. In New Hampshire, where the first primary of the 2012 race will take place this winter, Paul came in second place, between Mitt Romney in first and Jon Huntsman in second.
HERE'S SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF RON PAUL IF YOU MISSED IT...
Ron Paul may have only had around 5 minutes to actually speak, but the substance of what he is saying is leaps and bounds more meaningful than what both Romney and Perry had said combined. Any one response that Ron Paul sputters out has more depth than an entire debates worth of nonsense and bickering that spews out of the mouths of the two candidates the media is pushing as our front runners. Therefore, Ron Paul easily wins all debates and especially this one.
More into why Fox is Bad... http://www.infowars.com/fox-news-poll-ron-paul-wins-orlando-debate/
More into why Fox is Bad... http://www.infowars.com/fox-news-poll-ron-paul-wins-orlando-debate/
Rick Perry at Pro-Israeli Rally in New York...
[The Cable]
A top Palestine Liberation Organization official responded to Texas Gov. Rick Perry‘s scathing criticisms of the PLO on Tuesday by telling The Cable that Perry’s comments were “discriminatory and racist.”
Perryhosted a pro-Israel rally in New York on Tuesday morning, during which he repeatedly accused President Barack Obama of “appeasement” of the Palestinians and of bungling three years of Middle East diplomacy. He also called for the closing of the PLO mission in Washington, and the cutting off of U.S. aid to the Palestinian leadership as punishment for their drive to seek member-state status at the United Nations.
But the part of Perry’s remarks that really angered the PLO’s Washington representative, Maen Rashid Areikat, was when Perry said, “The Obama policy of moral equivalency, which gives equal standing to the grievances of Israelis and Palestinians, including the orchestrators of terrorism, is a very dangerous insult.”
“I was appalled by what he said about ‘moral equivalence,’ that there shouldn’t be moral equivalence between Israelis and Palestinians. This amounts to taking a discriminatory and racist position,” Areikat said in a Tuesday interview with The Cable.
Also, Rick Perry Visited the Bilderberg Group in 2007
A top Palestine Liberation Organization official responded to Texas Gov. Rick Perry‘s scathing criticisms of the PLO on Tuesday by telling The Cable that Perry’s comments were “discriminatory and racist.”
Perryhosted a pro-Israel rally in New York on Tuesday morning, during which he repeatedly accused President Barack Obama of “appeasement” of the Palestinians and of bungling three years of Middle East diplomacy. He also called for the closing of the PLO mission in Washington, and the cutting off of U.S. aid to the Palestinian leadership as punishment for their drive to seek member-state status at the United Nations.
But the part of Perry’s remarks that really angered the PLO’s Washington representative, Maen Rashid Areikat, was when Perry said, “The Obama policy of moral equivalency, which gives equal standing to the grievances of Israelis and Palestinians, including the orchestrators of terrorism, is a very dangerous insult.”
“I was appalled by what he said about ‘moral equivalence,’ that there shouldn’t be moral equivalence between Israelis and Palestinians. This amounts to taking a discriminatory and racist position,” Areikat said in a Tuesday interview with The Cable.
Also, Rick Perry Visited the Bilderberg Group in 2007
Placebo Effect
According to a chart in The Economist, whenever the number of newspaper articles in the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal that mention the word “recession” goes over 1,500 in a particular quarter, the U.S. economy almost always goes into a recession. Imagine for one second if media (which includes every outlet that supplies news), decided to talk about advancement, I'm certain things wouldn't completely change, but I do know positive thinking grants positive results.
Placebo Effect - Belief is powerful medicine, even if the treatment itself is a sham.
-Hybrid Manifesto
Placebo Effect - Belief is powerful medicine, even if the treatment itself is a sham.
-Hybrid Manifesto
Ask yourself why?
Obama announces debt plan built on taxing the rich
[written by
By JIM KUHNHENN
Associated Press]
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a blunt rejoinder to congressional Republicans, President Barack Obama called for $1.5 trillion in new taxes Monday, part of a total 10-year deficit reduction package totaling more than $3 trillion. He vowed to veto any deficit reduction package that cuts benefits to Medicare recipients but does not raise taxes on the wealthy and big corporations.
"We can't just cut our way out of this hole," the president said.
The president's proposal would predominantly hit upper income taxpayers but would also reduce spending in mandatory benefit programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, by $580 billion. It also counts savings of $1 trillion over 10 years from the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The deficit reduction plan represents an economic bookend to the $447 billion in tax cuts and new public works spending that Obama has proposed as a short-term measure to stimulate the economy and create jobs. And it gives the president a voice in a process that will be dominated by a joint congressional committee charged with recommending deficit reductions of up to $1.5 trillion.
His plan served as a sharp counterpoint to Republican lawmakers, who have insisted that tax increases should play no part in taming the nation's escalating national debt. Obama's plan would end Bush-era tax cuts for top earners and would limit their deductions.
"It's only right we ask everyone to pay their fair share," Obama said from the Rose Garden at the White House. ...[Read More]
By JIM KUHNHENN
Associated Press]
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a blunt rejoinder to congressional Republicans, President Barack Obama called for $1.5 trillion in new taxes Monday, part of a total 10-year deficit reduction package totaling more than $3 trillion. He vowed to veto any deficit reduction package that cuts benefits to Medicare recipients but does not raise taxes on the wealthy and big corporations.
"We can't just cut our way out of this hole," the president said.
The president's proposal would predominantly hit upper income taxpayers but would also reduce spending in mandatory benefit programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, by $580 billion. It also counts savings of $1 trillion over 10 years from the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The deficit reduction plan represents an economic bookend to the $447 billion in tax cuts and new public works spending that Obama has proposed as a short-term measure to stimulate the economy and create jobs. And it gives the president a voice in a process that will be dominated by a joint congressional committee charged with recommending deficit reductions of up to $1.5 trillion.
His plan served as a sharp counterpoint to Republican lawmakers, who have insisted that tax increases should play no part in taming the nation's escalating national debt. Obama's plan would end Bush-era tax cuts for top earners and would limit their deductions.
"It's only right we ask everyone to pay their fair share," Obama said from the Rose Garden at the White House. ...[Read More]
Ron Paul's Tea Party Debate Highlights
September 13, 2011
[adopted from californiality]
Of the eight GOP presidential candidates who participated in the televised debate on CNN, Congressman Ron Paul was the most informative, the least evasive and the most memorable.
Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney each presented themselves very well as 2012 presidential candidates, while Rick Perry and Jon Huntsman seemed like they were treading water.
During the Tea Party debate, Congresswoman Bachmann was particularly effective in making several valid points and not backing down when opposed.
Ron Paul, however, rose above the media-imposed characterization of him as a lunatic fringe "also ran" during the presidential debate. The candidate simultaneously showed both wisdom and reckless abandon in his staunch defense of conservative liberty principles.
Rep. Ron Paul made up his mind to 'go for broke' and, subsequently, the result was phenomenally beneficial to political public discourse. He was a candidate on fire, reminiscent of Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan, and he never backed down.
I first met Ron Paul in the early 1990s, when I was assisting a gubernatorial campaign and a senatorial campaign for other candidates. A mutual colleague introduced us at a Libertarian meeting in Houston after Dr. Paul's first presidential campaign.
After hearing, at great length, Ron Paul's views on politics and ideas for government, I was quite impressed with his mental acumen and dedication.
My reason for this reflection is to attest to Ron Paul's consistency over many years. He is the same guy now as he was then and his message has not changed. His convictions, though, seem stronger and more urgent than before.
Congressman Ron Paul's service on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Joint Economic Committee, the House Committee on Financial Services, and his chairmanship of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology have obviously seasoned his perspective on many issues.
Not surprisingly, Dr. Paul's criticism of current American foreign and monetary policy surfaced assertively during the Republican Presidential Tea Party Debate.
It has been widely reported that Congressman Ron Paul has the most conservative voting record of any member of Congress since 1937, and it certainly showed during the debate and rightly so. It was a Tea Party event before an audience of constitutional conservative voters.
During the debate, Ron Paul cast aside 'political correctness' as a doctor giving America a spoonful of strong medicine that many voters say is vital to the nation's health.
As the "Intellectual Godfather" of the Tea Party movement, Ron Paul rose to the occasion during the 2012 Republican Presidential Tea Party Debate, turning his candidacy into a surprising challenge before CNN viewers worldwide.
p.s. it was rude for some of the audience members to think it was acceptable to boo at Ron Paul, those individuals should be lined up and smacked.
[adopted from californiality]
Of the eight GOP presidential candidates who participated in the televised debate on CNN, Congressman Ron Paul was the most informative, the least evasive and the most memorable.
Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney each presented themselves very well as 2012 presidential candidates, while Rick Perry and Jon Huntsman seemed like they were treading water.
During the Tea Party debate, Congresswoman Bachmann was particularly effective in making several valid points and not backing down when opposed.
Ron Paul, however, rose above the media-imposed characterization of him as a lunatic fringe "also ran" during the presidential debate. The candidate simultaneously showed both wisdom and reckless abandon in his staunch defense of conservative liberty principles.
Rep. Ron Paul made up his mind to 'go for broke' and, subsequently, the result was phenomenally beneficial to political public discourse. He was a candidate on fire, reminiscent of Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan, and he never backed down.
I first met Ron Paul in the early 1990s, when I was assisting a gubernatorial campaign and a senatorial campaign for other candidates. A mutual colleague introduced us at a Libertarian meeting in Houston after Dr. Paul's first presidential campaign.
After hearing, at great length, Ron Paul's views on politics and ideas for government, I was quite impressed with his mental acumen and dedication.
My reason for this reflection is to attest to Ron Paul's consistency over many years. He is the same guy now as he was then and his message has not changed. His convictions, though, seem stronger and more urgent than before.
Congressman Ron Paul's service on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Joint Economic Committee, the House Committee on Financial Services, and his chairmanship of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology have obviously seasoned his perspective on many issues.
Not surprisingly, Dr. Paul's criticism of current American foreign and monetary policy surfaced assertively during the Republican Presidential Tea Party Debate.
It has been widely reported that Congressman Ron Paul has the most conservative voting record of any member of Congress since 1937, and it certainly showed during the debate and rightly so. It was a Tea Party event before an audience of constitutional conservative voters.
During the debate, Ron Paul cast aside 'political correctness' as a doctor giving America a spoonful of strong medicine that many voters say is vital to the nation's health.
As the "Intellectual Godfather" of the Tea Party movement, Ron Paul rose to the occasion during the 2012 Republican Presidential Tea Party Debate, turning his candidacy into a surprising challenge before CNN viewers worldwide.
p.s. it was rude for some of the audience members to think it was acceptable to boo at Ron Paul, those individuals should be lined up and smacked.
Perry abused Executive Order as a Governor what will he do as President!?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/63245.html
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-people/rick-perry/facing-new-scrutiny-perry-walks-back-hpv-decision/
"For years, Gov. Rick Perry has taken flak for his 2007 attempt to require girls to be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, the most commonly sexually transmitted disease and the principal cause of cervical cancer. At the risk of angering fellow conservatives, Perry has always insisted he did the right thing.
That unapologetic approach changed this weekend." [texas tribune]
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-people/rick-perry/facing-new-scrutiny-perry-walks-back-hpv-decision/
"For years, Gov. Rick Perry has taken flak for his 2007 attempt to require girls to be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, the most commonly sexually transmitted disease and the principal cause of cervical cancer. At the risk of angering fellow conservatives, Perry has always insisted he did the right thing.
That unapologetic approach changed this weekend." [texas tribune]
Raincatch: A Jacket that collects and purifies rain water
The oversized, tubed rain coat is the brainchild of Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design students, Hyeona Yang and Joshua Noble. When worn correctly (and when it's actually raining outside), the jacket collects, purifies, and stores rain water the wearer can drink through a series of exposed tubes. The design is currently a prototype, but you can see it in action in the video below.
The Raincatch is a proposal for a garment which is at once a coat and water gathering, purification, storage system that allows the wearer to take a drink whenever they're thirsty. We worked with existing raincoats to reinforce the realism of the project but altered the look and feel of the coat enough that it has a distinct look and feel of it's own. The collar of the coat collects rain, which is then filtered down the back of the coat where it would be filtered through charcoal filters and then purified using a chemical process. The water is then stored around the hips of the coat where the weight can be ergonomically carried by the wearer without strain. The aesthetics of the coat and simple but elegant, showing the water and the internal workings of the coat, but hiding the water storage and maintaing a clean form factor.
The Raincatch is a proposal for a garment which is at once a coat and water gathering, purification, storage system that allows the wearer to take a drink whenever they're thirsty. We worked with existing raincoats to reinforce the realism of the project but altered the look and feel of the coat enough that it has a distinct look and feel of it's own. The collar of the coat collects rain, which is then filtered down the back of the coat where it would be filtered through charcoal filters and then purified using a chemical process. The water is then stored around the hips of the coat where the weight can be ergonomically carried by the wearer without strain. The aesthetics of the coat and simple but elegant, showing the water and the internal workings of the coat, but hiding the water storage and maintaing a clean form factor.
Fossil finds offer close look at a contested ancestor
[written by Bruce Brower]
Newly discovered fossils provide the closest look yet at an anatomically quirky, 2 million-year-old member of the human evolutionary family. Discoverers of the ancient bones suspect they come from a species that served as an evolutionary bridge from relatively apelike ancestors to the Homo genus, which includes modern people.
Four papers published in the Sept. 9 Science describe a mosaic of humanlike and apelike skeletal traits on Australopithecus sediba, a recently proposed hominid species found at South Africa’s Malapa cave site (SN: 5/8/10, p. 14). Dates for newly exposed cave sediments, presented in a fifth paper in the same issue of Science, indicate that A. sediba lived there 1.977 million years ago, give or take several thousand years.
An international team led by anthropologist Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, views the new findings as consistent with its previous suggestion that A. sediba fossils at Malapa represent late-surviving members of a hominid line that gave rise to Homo.
That proposal is controversial. Some researchers doubt that A. sediba set the stage for the Homo genus. Others regard the Malapa fossils either as an early Homo species or as late-surviving members of Australopithecus africanus, a dead-end hominid species that lived from about 3 million to 2.4 million years ago in South Africa (SN: 5/7/11, p. 16).
“There’s still not enough evidence to place A. sediba squarely at the root of the Homo genus,” remarks anthropologist Brian Richmond of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Several Homo fossils date to more than 2 million years ago, suggesting that A. sediba evolved too late to serve as a transition to Homo, Richmond says.
A virtual, 3-D reconstruction of bumps and furrows on the A. sediba male’s brain surface allowed Witwatersrand anthropologist Kristian Carlson and his colleagues to peer through rock and into the male’s skull to measure impressions made by his brain on surrounding bone.
Surface landmarks of A. sediba’s brain look humanlike, although the ancient hominid’s brain is small, even by A. africanus standards, Carlson says. Markers of frontal-brain expansion in A. sediba align it closely with modern humans.
Reorganization of the frontal brain, not a larger overall brain as is often argued, characterized the transition from Australopithecus to Homo, Carlson theorizes.
It’s not yet clear that A. sediba’s frontal brain was more humanlike than that of A. africanus, comments anthropologist Dean Falk of Florida State University in Tallahassee, who was not involved in the research. A. sediba’s reconstructed brain surface includes a frontal landmark found in apes but not people, Falk points out.
Nevertheless, she adds, “I am receptive to the team’s hypothesis that their A. sediba specimens may represent late-surviving members of the lineage that gave direct rise to early Homo.”
Both A. sediba individuals, and especially the female, possessed bowl-shaped, humanlike hip bones, an unexpected trait for hominids with such small brains, says Witwatersrand anthropologist Job Kibii. This anatomical combination challenges the long-standing idea that wide pelvic openings in the Homo genus evolved in response to brain expansion, allowing females to give birth to babies with relatively big heads, Kibii contends.
Pelvic widening in A. sediba may have evolved in response to an increasing emphasis on walking, he suggests.
Foot, ankle and lower-leg bones from both Malapa individuals underscore that A. sediba walked upright, although more stiffly than modern humans and without abandoning tree climbing, says Witwatersrand anthropologist Bernhard Zipfel.
A nearly complete right hand from the female A. sediba skeleton shows key humanlike features, says anthropologist Tracy Kivell of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Shortened fingers and a long thumb, as well as evidence of powerful grasping muscles, indicate that A. sediba was capable of making and using stone tools, Kivell says.
In Kivell’s opinion, A. sediba’s hand and wrist were more humanlike than those of the 1.75 million-year-old Homo habilis, which means “handy man.” Stone tools found in 1960 among some of handy man’s remains in East Africa — including parts of a left hand — cemented his reputation as a toolmaker. Researchers have unearthed no stone tools at Malapa.
Newly discovered fossils provide the closest look yet at an anatomically quirky, 2 million-year-old member of the human evolutionary family. Discoverers of the ancient bones suspect they come from a species that served as an evolutionary bridge from relatively apelike ancestors to the Homo genus, which includes modern people.
Four papers published in the Sept. 9 Science describe a mosaic of humanlike and apelike skeletal traits on Australopithecus sediba, a recently proposed hominid species found at South Africa’s Malapa cave site (SN: 5/8/10, p. 14). Dates for newly exposed cave sediments, presented in a fifth paper in the same issue of Science, indicate that A. sediba lived there 1.977 million years ago, give or take several thousand years.
An international team led by anthropologist Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, views the new findings as consistent with its previous suggestion that A. sediba fossils at Malapa represent late-surviving members of a hominid line that gave rise to Homo.
That proposal is controversial. Some researchers doubt that A. sediba set the stage for the Homo genus. Others regard the Malapa fossils either as an early Homo species or as late-surviving members of Australopithecus africanus, a dead-end hominid species that lived from about 3 million to 2.4 million years ago in South Africa (SN: 5/7/11, p. 16).
“There’s still not enough evidence to place A. sediba squarely at the root of the Homo genus,” remarks anthropologist Brian Richmond of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Several Homo fossils date to more than 2 million years ago, suggesting that A. sediba evolved too late to serve as a transition to Homo, Richmond says.
A virtual, 3-D reconstruction of bumps and furrows on the A. sediba male’s brain surface allowed Witwatersrand anthropologist Kristian Carlson and his colleagues to peer through rock and into the male’s skull to measure impressions made by his brain on surrounding bone.
Surface landmarks of A. sediba’s brain look humanlike, although the ancient hominid’s brain is small, even by A. africanus standards, Carlson says. Markers of frontal-brain expansion in A. sediba align it closely with modern humans.
Reorganization of the frontal brain, not a larger overall brain as is often argued, characterized the transition from Australopithecus to Homo, Carlson theorizes.
It’s not yet clear that A. sediba’s frontal brain was more humanlike than that of A. africanus, comments anthropologist Dean Falk of Florida State University in Tallahassee, who was not involved in the research. A. sediba’s reconstructed brain surface includes a frontal landmark found in apes but not people, Falk points out.
Nevertheless, she adds, “I am receptive to the team’s hypothesis that their A. sediba specimens may represent late-surviving members of the lineage that gave direct rise to early Homo.”
Both A. sediba individuals, and especially the female, possessed bowl-shaped, humanlike hip bones, an unexpected trait for hominids with such small brains, says Witwatersrand anthropologist Job Kibii. This anatomical combination challenges the long-standing idea that wide pelvic openings in the Homo genus evolved in response to brain expansion, allowing females to give birth to babies with relatively big heads, Kibii contends.
Pelvic widening in A. sediba may have evolved in response to an increasing emphasis on walking, he suggests.
Foot, ankle and lower-leg bones from both Malapa individuals underscore that A. sediba walked upright, although more stiffly than modern humans and without abandoning tree climbing, says Witwatersrand anthropologist Bernhard Zipfel.
A nearly complete right hand from the female A. sediba skeleton shows key humanlike features, says anthropologist Tracy Kivell of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Shortened fingers and a long thumb, as well as evidence of powerful grasping muscles, indicate that A. sediba was capable of making and using stone tools, Kivell says.
In Kivell’s opinion, A. sediba’s hand and wrist were more humanlike than those of the 1.75 million-year-old Homo habilis, which means “handy man.” Stone tools found in 1960 among some of handy man’s remains in East Africa — including parts of a left hand — cemented his reputation as a toolmaker. Researchers have unearthed no stone tools at Malapa.
Why we really went to Iraq...
[Whats On Sanya , Inc]
The main justifications for the war in Iraq was a bunch of lies.
Known to U.S. agents as Curveball, accepted for the first time that he simply made up tales about Saddam Hussein’s supposed biological weapons program, Rafid Ahmed al-Janabi helped persuade President George Bush that there were mobile bio-weapons trucks and secret factories in the Iraqi desert.
And the lies were used at the United Nations to persuade the world that the U.S. should go in to unseat the Iraqi dictator.
Speaking to the Guardian last night, Mr Janabi said: ‘Maybe I was right, maybe I was not right. They gave me this chance. I had the chance to fabricate something to topple the regime. I and my sons are proud of that and we are proud that we were the reason to give Iraq the margin of democracy.’
Mr Janabi fled Iraq in 1995. He said: ‘I had a problem with the Saddam regime. I wanted to get rid of him and now I had this chance.’
Among his claims were that he worked on a team which assembled germ-production units on trucks at a seed purification plant near Baghdad. The trucks could be moved from site to site – evading UN inspectors, he said.
He also claimed there were plans to build mobile bio-chemical factories.
President Bush’s secretary of state, Colin Powell, used the testimony in a key speech to the UN on February 5 , 2003, in which he made the case for war.
In spite of being discredited for previous information he had given to the German Secret Service, the BND, his allegations were still taken seriously. He had told them of mobile weapons laboratories, and of experiments which had killed many people. His information was even used by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell when he appeared before the UN in New York, a move which left the defector 'shocked', he says. In a major speech making the case for the U.S.-led invasion, Powell told delegates of uranium, Al Qaeda in the country, and also of an informant who was 'an eyewitness, an Iraqi chemical engineer who supervised one of these facilities.
'He actually was present during biological agent production runs; he was also at the site when an accident occurred in 1998'. The Iraq War has dogged many of the leading figures involved, including UK Prime Minister Tony Blair who has had to face two grillings by the Chilcot Inquiry into the war and continual opprobrium from the families of those who died.
He has admitted he ignored advice from the Attorney General that the war might be illegal, and concealed the Government’s legal doubts from the U.S. President. Donald Rumsfeld, the former U.S. Defence Secretary, said he 'made a misstatement' when he claimed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction sites.
He wrote in his memoir Known and Unknown that he should have said 'suspect sites': 'While I made a few misstatements – in particular the one mentioned above – they were not common and certainly not characteristic.'
The main justifications for the war in Iraq was a bunch of lies.
Known to U.S. agents as Curveball, accepted for the first time that he simply made up tales about Saddam Hussein’s supposed biological weapons program, Rafid Ahmed al-Janabi helped persuade President George Bush that there were mobile bio-weapons trucks and secret factories in the Iraqi desert.
And the lies were used at the United Nations to persuade the world that the U.S. should go in to unseat the Iraqi dictator.
Speaking to the Guardian last night, Mr Janabi said: ‘Maybe I was right, maybe I was not right. They gave me this chance. I had the chance to fabricate something to topple the regime. I and my sons are proud of that and we are proud that we were the reason to give Iraq the margin of democracy.’
Mr Janabi fled Iraq in 1995. He said: ‘I had a problem with the Saddam regime. I wanted to get rid of him and now I had this chance.’
Among his claims were that he worked on a team which assembled germ-production units on trucks at a seed purification plant near Baghdad. The trucks could be moved from site to site – evading UN inspectors, he said.
He also claimed there were plans to build mobile bio-chemical factories.
President Bush’s secretary of state, Colin Powell, used the testimony in a key speech to the UN on February 5 , 2003, in which he made the case for war.
In spite of being discredited for previous information he had given to the German Secret Service, the BND, his allegations were still taken seriously. He had told them of mobile weapons laboratories, and of experiments which had killed many people. His information was even used by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell when he appeared before the UN in New York, a move which left the defector 'shocked', he says. In a major speech making the case for the U.S.-led invasion, Powell told delegates of uranium, Al Qaeda in the country, and also of an informant who was 'an eyewitness, an Iraqi chemical engineer who supervised one of these facilities.
'He actually was present during biological agent production runs; he was also at the site when an accident occurred in 1998'. The Iraq War has dogged many of the leading figures involved, including UK Prime Minister Tony Blair who has had to face two grillings by the Chilcot Inquiry into the war and continual opprobrium from the families of those who died.
He has admitted he ignored advice from the Attorney General that the war might be illegal, and concealed the Government’s legal doubts from the U.S. President. Donald Rumsfeld, the former U.S. Defence Secretary, said he 'made a misstatement' when he claimed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction sites.
He wrote in his memoir Known and Unknown that he should have said 'suspect sites': 'While I made a few misstatements – in particular the one mentioned above – they were not common and certainly not characteristic.'
Ron Paul is leading the Presidential Poll!
[infowars.com]
MSNBC’s First Read continues attracting votes for its post-Presidential Republican Debate poll. As of 3:30 a.m. Sept 9, more than 205,000 votes have been cast. Ron Paul has widened his lead over Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. Paul has 57.1%, Romney 14.5%, and Perry 12.4%
Despite the thunderous “thumbs up” for Paul, mainstream media continues to virtually ignore the poll results and the comments about a candidate that the public has enshrined yet the media continues to write him off as not a serious contender for the Presidential nomination. MSNBC, the New York Times, Washington Post, and L.A. Times all called the debate a Romney vs. Perry event.
“The New York Times, like everyone else, frames last night’s debate a clash between Perry and Romney,” states First Read from MSNBC/NBC.
Those writing short comments in the poll have even slammed the website for disproportionate graphs of the on line straw vote results. Paul’s green line reflecting 57% (over 117,500 votes) is only twice as long as that of second place finisher, Romney, who has received about 25,500 votes.
MSNBC’s First Read continues attracting votes for its post-Presidential Republican Debate poll. As of 3:30 a.m. Sept 9, more than 205,000 votes have been cast. Ron Paul has widened his lead over Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. Paul has 57.1%, Romney 14.5%, and Perry 12.4%
Despite the thunderous “thumbs up” for Paul, mainstream media continues to virtually ignore the poll results and the comments about a candidate that the public has enshrined yet the media continues to write him off as not a serious contender for the Presidential nomination. MSNBC, the New York Times, Washington Post, and L.A. Times all called the debate a Romney vs. Perry event.
“The New York Times, like everyone else, frames last night’s debate a clash between Perry and Romney,” states First Read from MSNBC/NBC.
Those writing short comments in the poll have even slammed the website for disproportionate graphs of the on line straw vote results. Paul’s green line reflecting 57% (over 117,500 votes) is only twice as long as that of second place finisher, Romney, who has received about 25,500 votes.
We need Ron Paul as President
Reagan Debate highlights 9/7/2011
Ladies and gentleman Ron Paul's has balls being able to stand up there knowing full well he's surrounded by AIPAC scrotum sniffers not to mention the Zionist moderators. FOX and CNN, and all others are only talking about how high Romney and Perry were able to hoist the Star of David over their heads. The red, white, and blue has lost its red. The trembling you feel underneath you is the forefathers rolling over in their graves every time anyone but Ron Paul is speaking.
Just watched CNN, not one mention of Ron Paul its all about the two babies Mitt and Perry attacking one another, Ron Paul probably delivered those two. On the way to work I listened to 95.5, the radio show host spoke about the Debate last night, yet no mention of Ron Paul.
The coverage of the debate on Good Morning America, again...just talked about Rick Perry battling with Mitt Romney on who produced more jobs in their respective states, Which has nothing to do with the presidents responsibilities.
Ladies and gentleman Ron Paul's has balls being able to stand up there knowing full well he's surrounded by AIPAC scrotum sniffers not to mention the Zionist moderators. FOX and CNN, and all others are only talking about how high Romney and Perry were able to hoist the Star of David over their heads. The red, white, and blue has lost its red. The trembling you feel underneath you is the forefathers rolling over in their graves every time anyone but Ron Paul is speaking.
Just watched CNN, not one mention of Ron Paul its all about the two babies Mitt and Perry attacking one another, Ron Paul probably delivered those two. On the way to work I listened to 95.5, the radio show host spoke about the Debate last night, yet no mention of Ron Paul.
The coverage of the debate on Good Morning America, again...just talked about Rick Perry battling with Mitt Romney on who produced more jobs in their respective states, Which has nothing to do with the presidents responsibilities.
Who do you think won the Republican debate at the Reagan library? Who do you think won the GOP debate? Ron Paul Total of 90,476 votes Ron Paul 48.7%(44,035 votes) Mitt Romney 18.2%(16,505 votes) Rick Perry 14.8%(13,398 votes) Jon Huntsman 7%(6,361 votes) Newt Gingrich 4.5%(4,080 votes) Herman Cain 3.2%(2,873 votes) Michele Bachmann 2.4%(2,207 votes) This is last night Poll.... Ron Paul 2012