Ron Paul South Carolina Money Bomb Tomorrow January 14

The Ron Paul campaign is gathering pledges to contribute to TV ad funding in South Carolina on January 14th. This may be the most important moneybomb yet. Pledge at the official site.

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Featured Website: WhyRonPaul.com Introduction to Ron Paul

Some call him “radical” or “extreme”, but the reality is that every one of his views on the issues align with that single important principle: liberty! Take a moment to see how Ron Paul’s stances line up with our Constitution and are the best solutions for the problems we face. We’ve also provided some sweet resources for further investigation!

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Gingrich Imploding; Ron Paul Leads in Iowa

Latest polls show Gingrich falling rapidly as Ron Paul takes the lead in Iowa and moves into second place in New Hampshire.

From PPP’s Paul Leads in Iowa:

Newt Gingrich’s campaign is rapidly imploding, and Ron Paul has now taken the lead in Iowa. He’s at 23% to 20% for Mitt Romney, 14% for Gingrich, 10% each for Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry, 4% for Jon Huntsman, and 2% for Gary Johnson.

Gingrich has now seen a big drop in his Iowa standing two weeks in a row. His share of the vote has gone from 27% to 22% to 14%. And there’s been a large drop in his personal favorability numbers as well from +31 (62/31) to +12 (52/40) to now -1 (46/47). Negative ads over the last few weeks have really chipped away at Gingrich’s image as being a strong conservative- now only 36% of voters believe that he has ‘strong principles,’ while 43% think he does not.

Paul’s ascendancy is a sign that perhaps campaigns do matter at least a little, in a year where there has been a lot of discussion about whether they still do in Iowa. 22% of voters think he’s run the best campaign in the state compared to only 8% for Gingrich and 5% for Romney. The only other candidate to hit double digits on that question is Bachmann at 19%. Paul also leads Romney 26-5 (with Gingrich at 13%) with the 22% of voters who say it’s ‘very important’ that a candidate spends a lot of time in Iowa. Finally Paul leads Romney 29-19 among the 26% of likely voters who have seen one of the candidates in person.

From the Examiner’s Newt Gingrich slides in New Hampshire:

According to a recent poll of likely New Hampshire Republican Primary voters, Congressman Ron Paul has raced past former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. In a poll released by the American Research Group, Paul receives 21 percent of the vote while Gingrich has slipped all the way down to 16 percent.

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Featured Site: TeaParty11.com

Each and every one of us needs to donate whatever we can on Friday December 16th, so that Dr. Paul’s campaign has enough money to break through the media blackout, deliver his message of Liberty directly to the people and WIN the GOP race. So please, pledge your support and help us promote what we expect to be “the money bomb heard ’round the world”.

The Ron Paul Tea Party Money Bomb 2011 is an effort to raise notable donation totals on December 16th. The money will be used to run effective campaign ads in New Hampshire, Iowa, and other early primary and caucus states.

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Featured Article: Stop Stealing from Seniors

From State Rep. JR Hoell, N.H. House of Representatives on Fosters.com:

Contrary to the belief of some, scripture does not say that “money is the root of all evil.” The actual quote states that “the love of money is the root of all evil.”

Down in Washington D.C., where elected officials are consumed with the love of power and money, they are willing to devalue the monetary system to support their addiction. The individuals paying the price for this behavior are our senior citizens on fixed incomes.

Unfortunately for the United States, our monetary system has lost any trace of honesty. No one can accurately predict what the dollar will be worth next year because no one can know how many new dollars will be printed in the next series of bailouts. Who does this hurt? Again, it is our seniors…

The U.S. dollar now buys less than a nickel did in 1913. Ron Paul pointed out not long ago that gasoline prices haven’t gone up. A silver dime buys more gasoline than it did 40 years ago. It is the dollar that has depreciated.

Whom does this perpetual inflation affect the most? It is our seniors, those who have been here for our country when we needed them most. Seniors who invested in Social Security, who did so on the promise of a retirement system that would take care of them after they stopped working.

In 2012, seniors living on Social Security will get a 3.6% increase, the first bump in 2 years. However, many food items as well as gasoline are up well over 25% in that same time period. The inflation that subsidizes Goldman Sachs and other financial interests is simply theft from senior citizens.

A free market cannot exist without honest money. We have lost control of our monetary system. The Federal Reserve has become a rogue state; it has unilaterally increased the U.S. monetary base from $800 billion to nearly $2.7 trillion in less than three years.

The root of monetary evil is the Federal Reserve. Ron Paul proposes that we end the secrecy of the Federal Reserve by starting with a full audit and then continuing to full openness and transparency. And, of course, he would end all bailouts for the politically connected. This would restore the dollar’s reliability as a store of value, and end the threat of imminent monetary collapse.

We can restore America to prosperity. We can return honesty and value to our monetary system and keep the promises we made to this country’s senior citizens.

Please choose your Presidential candidate carefully; the Federal Reserve seems to have its hooks in several of them.

State Rep. JR Hoell
N.H. House of Representatives
House Education Committee

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Police Surveillance Using Predator Drones on U.S. Soil

From Brian Bennett, Washington Bureau, LA Times

In an interview, Michael C. Kostelnik, a retired Air Force general who heads the office that supervises the drones, said Predators are flown “in many areas around the country, not only for federal operators, but also for state and local law enforcement and emergency responders in times of crisis.”

But former Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice), who sat on the House homeland security intelligence subcommittee at the time and served as its chairwoman from 2007 until early this year, said no one ever discussed using Predators to help local police serve warrants or do other basic work.

Using Predators for routine law enforcement without public debate or clear legal authority is a mistake, Harman said.

“There is no question that this could become something that people will regret,” said Harman, who resigned from the House in February and now heads the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington think tank.

In 2008 and 2010, Harman helped beat back efforts by Homeland Security officials to use imagery from military satellites to help domestic terrorism investigations. Congress blocked the proposal on grounds it would violate the Posse Comitatus Act, which bars the military from taking a police role on U.S. soil.

For decades, U.S. courts have allowed law enforcement to conduct aerial surveillance without a warrant. They have ruled that what a person does in the open, even behind a backyard fence, can be seen from a passing airplane and is not protected by privacy laws.

But privacy advocates say drones help police snoop on citizens in ways that push current law to the breaking point.

“Any time you have a tool like that in the hands of law enforcement that makes it easier to do surveillance, they will do more of it,” said Ryan Calo, director for privacy and robotics at the Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society.

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Paul Campaign Readies Newt Gingrich Attack Ad

The Ron Paul campaign has shortened the ‘Serial Hypocrisy’ attack ad on Newt Gingrich to 60 seconds for television spots in Iowa and New Hampshire and is asking for donations to fund it:

See the full Newt Gingrich attack ad ‘Serial Hypocrisy’ by the Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign.

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Featured Article: The Folly of Sanctions by Ron Paul

Many people have the misconception that sanctions are an effective means to encourage a change of behavior in another country without war. However, imposing sanctions and blockades are not only an act of war according to international law, they are most often the first step toward a real war starting with a bombing campaign. Sanctions were the first step in our wars against Iraq and Libya, and now more sanctions planned against Syria and Iran are leading down the same destructive path.

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) latest report, just out this month, there is no evidence that Iran has diverted enriched uranium from the peaceful and lawful generation of power toward building a nuclear weapon. According to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran has every right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Unfortunately, US foreign policy has boxed Iran into a corner where they may view development of a nuclear weapon as the only way to maintain sovereignty. They are surrounded by unfriendly nuclear powers and history has shown that having a nuclear weapon is the best way to avoid being bombed or invaded. The unintended consequences of our confrontational policies toward Iran may be to actually encourage them to seek nuclear weapons capabilities. We should be using diplomacy rather than threats and hostility.

Read more at Congressman Paul’s House.gov site.

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20,000 Libyan Missiles Unaccounted For

From Is the World Really Safer without Gadhafi? from the Independent Institute:

The demise of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi brings a sense of relief to many, but the rebellion and war that brought him down may have made the world a more dangerous place. For starters, it remains to be seen whether the regime that replaces Gadhafi’s dictatorial rule will end up supporting or opposing anti-Western militants. Another reason is that Libya’s stockpile of shoulder-launched missiles—an estimated 20,000 of them—has reportedly gone missing.

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Quotes November 27 2011

“Your chance of dying in a bathtub is about one in a million, and from terrorism is about one in 3.5 million.” – John Mueller

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“When market forces reign there’s no need for protests, tents, and signs; nor is there a need for pandering politicians with superhero complexes to deliver customers from corporate evil.” – Anthony W. Hager

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“The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president—and every future president — the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world.” - Chris Anders, ACLU

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Featured Article: Ron Paul The Founding Father

From John H. Richardson with Esquire:

The Republican leaders who are putting on this show have been as startled as the rest of the country at the sudden potency of once marginal ideas. But to the kids, it’s obvious. This is Ron Paul’s moment. He’s been warning for forty years that easy money would lead to economic collapse, then easy money led to economic collapse. He warned that the Iraq war would be an expensive and bloody mistake, and the Iraq war was an expensive and bloody mistake. He spent forty years asking Congress to follow a strict interpretation of the Constitution and investigate the Federal Reserve, and now there’s a powerful freshman class of Republicans pushing a strict interpretation of the Constitution and an investigation of the Federal Reserve.

In 2009, he slipped an amendment into the Wall Street — reform legislation that forced the Federal Reserve to release the details of thousands of secret loans it made during the 2008 financial crisis — the Korea Development Bank? Caterpillar? — and suddenly polls started showing that Americans disliked the Fed even more than the IRS. Every Republican in the House signed on to his bill to audit the Fed. In Virginia, Republicans have introduced a bill to study the possibilities of a state currency “in the event of a major breakdown of the Federal Reserve System.”

He’s been called the “Tea Party’s brain,” and his son Rand is called the “senator from the Tea Party,” and all day long the speakers seemed to have been participating in a Ron Paul soundalike competition. Senator Pat Toomey told a story about a little red hen who went on strike when a government agent told her that productive workers had to divide their profit with everyone else. Congressman Raul Labrador said that the best thing the government can do for a poor man is get the hell out of the way. Senator Ron Johnson ridiculed Democrats for passing regulations on fugitive dust and spilled milk, and Grover Norquist said that Obama takes money from people who have earned it and gives it to his friends.

To a movement that fetishizes the Founders’ act of rebellion over a tea tax, Ron Paul is the founding father.

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Banned: Claiming Water Prevents Dehydration

From Victoria Ward and Nick Collins with Telegraph:

Brussels bureaucrats were ridiculed yesterday after banning drink manufacturers from claiming that water can prevent dehydration.

EU officials concluded that, following a three-year investigation, there was no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact.

Producers of bottled water are now forbidden by law from making the claim and will face a two-year jail sentence if they defy the edict, which comes into force in the UK next month.

Last night, critics claimed the EU was at odds with both science and common sense. Conservative MEP Roger Helmer said: “This is stupidity writ large.

“The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart and yet here they are: highly-paid, highly-pensioned officials worrying about the obvious qualities of water and trying to deny us the right to say what is patently true.

“If ever there were an episode which demonstrates the folly of the great European project then this is it.”

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‘Gold to Go’ Gold Bullion Vending Machines

‘Gold to Go’ gold bullion vending machines by Ex Oriente Lux AG are operational in locations worldwide including Las Vegas, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Madrid:

“Times are changing. We’re keeping pace and going a step ahead. GOLD to go™ has developed the world first gold vending machine.

A simple and brilliant principle: put your money in and pick your gold!”

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‘Ron Paul Is Right’ Fundraiser in Manhattan December 5

Leading voices on the economy, health care, foreign policy and civil liberties will converge in Manhattan December 5 to fundraise on behalf of Revolution PAC, booster of the presidential campaign of Congressman Ron Paul. “Ron Paul is Right” will present a series of speakers backing the free market positions of the 12-term congressman, who now is tied for first place among Republican contenders in Iowa and polling second in New Hampshire.

Hosted by Dr. Murray Sabrin, finance professor at Ramapo College’s Anisfield School of Business and former gubernatorial and senatorial candidate, the event will be keynoted by Rep. Paul’s selection for Federal Reserve chairman, Jim Grant. Grant – a financial author, former Barron’s columnist and founder of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer – will speak on “Why Ron Paul is Right about the Fed.” Other presenters will include:

• Dr. Michael Scheuer, Georgetown University Security Studies adjunct professor and former head of the CIA’s “Bin Laden Unit,” speaking on “Why Ron Paul is Right about Foreign Policy;”
• Dr. Alieta Eck, President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and founder of the Zarephath Health Center, Somerset, NJ, speaking on “Why Ron Paul is Right about Health Care;”
• NJ State Sen. Michael Doherty, speaking on “Why Ron Paul is Right about Civil Liberties.”

The event will begin at 5:00 p.m., Monday, December 5 at the Manhattan Bridgewaters, 11 Fulton Market Building in New York City. Individual tickets begin at $300; event sponsorships are available. Phone 866.202.9367 for more information and to reserve tickets.

“Ron Paul is a physician and AAPS member who understands the danger of too much regulation and government control over the practice of medicine,” explains Dr. Eck. “Eliminating the middleman will help us secure the best medical care for the lowest cost.”

Adds Scheuer, “U.S. Special Forces deploy to Africa? U.S. Marines deploy to Australia? Senators McCain and Graham move to stop defense spending cuts? Each of these makes perfect sense based on the addiction of both Republicans and Democrats to relentless foreign intervention. But, you cannot build and keep an empire without blood and treasure. Dr. Paul’s sturdy, non-interventionist doctrine is the only foreign policy prescription that allows Americans the chance to protect their own country first, last and always by avoiding participation in other people’s wars that do not involve any genuine and material U.S. interest.”

“I have known Rep. Paul for nearly 30 years and have supported his political campaigns for the House of Representatives and the presidency,” remarks Sabrin. “His devotion to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States is not just words; he has lived up to his oath in every vote he has cast. This alone makes him the most qualified candidate to occupy the Oval Office.”

Revolution PAC is supporting Ron Paul’s consistent, constitutional message with targeted TV advertising, direct mail campaigns and innovative Web promotions complemented by billboards and radio ads in key primary states. Unlimited donations by individuals, businesses and organizations are being accepted by Revolution PAC to support that effort.

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Ron Paul: Cutting Military Spending Does Not Mean Cutting Defense

By Ron Paul, U.S. Representative and Republican Candidate for President

When asked about my intention to cut the U.S. defense budget, I am always quick to clarify that I want to cut military spending, not defense. I want America to be the most strongly defended nation in the world, but I oppose our current foreign policy that stretches our troops thin across the globe so we can play world policeman. This foolish endeavor costs us dearly in lives, and it has become far too expensive to sustain.

In the past 10 years, overall military spending has more than doubled, which should be extremely troubling for those claiming to be fiscally conservative. Frankly, it is impossible that government does not waste any of the hundreds of billions we spend on defense yearly.

We cannot control government’s growth without reining in the expansion of the military industrial complex. If we are really serious about balancing the budget and addressing our unsustainable debt, nothing can be off the table.

For instance, President Obama claimed we were drawing down troop levels this year and turning over operations to the Iraqis. Surely, at least a 10 percent cost savings should have come from that move alone. Yet the funding for 2011 was exactly the same as 2010, and the spending outlook for 2012 doesn’t seem to indicate any reductions in this area.

We will remain in great jeopardy if we do not immediately change course. Either we make the tough choices now, or we face the even tougher consequences later.

My Plan to Restore America does not cut one penny of defense. But it helps make America more secure, and it brings our troops home to defend this country. Under my plan, America will retain the strongest national defense in the world, but we will end expensive foreign wars, overseas nation building, and foreign welfare.

Under my presidency, the United States will still spend more money on defense than President Bush did in FY 2005. America will still spend four times more on defense than China and more than all the countries of Western Europe combined. We will continue to maintain our status as the most dominant military force on the planet, but we will do so with a much more sensible and sustainable foreign policy.

And we will be more secure.

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Quotes November 21 2011

“Just as U.S. leaders in both parties are proving themselves impotent and/or unwilling to stop the destruction of the U.S. economy they have engineered through their policies, they are likewise unable and/or unwilling — with the exception of Dr. Paul and a few others — to see that another set of failed policies, those in the foreign-policy realm, are leading to a greatly expanded war with Islam that will accelerate the collapse of the U.S. economy.” – Michael Scheuer

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“Most Americans under the age of thirty speak, text and tweet fluent libertarian.” – Karen Kwiatkowski

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“In my budget, Social Security, Medicare, — and yes, student loans — are not cut in any way for those currently receiving such services or for those who will be in the near future. Our economy is not healthy enough, nor are most Americans in a financial position at the moment, for any of these programs to be significantly altered now. But perhaps after balancing our budget during my presidency, reining in the government and easing the regulatory burden placed on the taxpayers — which will result in a more robust economy and new jobs — the price of education and other services will decline because of more free market competition and less government interference. Then, and only then, will we be able to address whether some of these programs are the best way to care for people.” – Ron Paul

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Obama Dept. of Agriculture to Impose ‘Christmas Tree Tax’ ?

President Obama’s Agriculture Department will impose* a Christmas Tree Tax of fifteen cents per tree to support a Federal program to market Christmas trees. Seriously.

From Obama Couldn’t Wait: His New Christmas Tree Tax by David S. Addington with Heritage.org:

In the Federal Register of November 8, 2011, Acting Administrator of Agricultural Marketing David R. Shipman announced that the Secretary of Agriculture will appoint a Christmas Tree Promotion Board. The purpose of the Board is to run a “program of promotion, research, evaluation, and information designed to strengthen the Christmas tree industry’s position in the marketplace; maintain and expend existing markets for Christmas trees; and to carry out programs, plans, and projects designed to provide maximum benefits to the Christmas tree industry” (7 CFR 1214.46(n)). And the program of “information” is to include efforts to “enhance the image of Christmas trees and the Christmas tree industry in the United States” (7 CFR 1214.10).

To pay for the new Federal Christmas tree image improvement and marketing program, the Department of Agriculture imposed a 15-cent fee on all sales of fresh Christmas trees by sellers of more than 500 trees per year (7 CFR 1214.52). And, of course, the Christmas tree sellers are free to pass along the 15-cent Federal fee to consumers who buy their Christmas trees.

Jake Tapper with ABC News is reporting ‘The U.S. Department of Agriculture is going to delay implementation and revisit‘ the Christmas Tree Tax.

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London Olympics Security Considers Using Missiles

From Missiles ‘could be used to protect Olympics’ by Helen William with The Independent:

Surface-to-air missiles could be used to protect the skies over London during the Olympics, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said today.

He insisted that “all necessary measures” will be taken to ensure security.

Mr Hammond told the Commons “appropriate ground to air defences” could be in place if that was recommended by the military.

The statement came as Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Chris Allison, the officer in charge of policing at the London 2012 Games, said he “did not recognise” suggestions the US is to send 1,000 agents, including 500 FBI, because security will be inadequate.

Former defence secretary Liam Fox, who raised the issue of Olympics security with his successor, noted that surface-to-air missiles had been used at Olympic Games since Atlanta in 1996.

He said: “Since the Atlanta Games there has been an internationally accepted minimal level of protection for the Olympics.”

He asked Mr Hammond to confirm “there will be a full level of multi-layered defence and deterrence for the London Games, including ground-to-air based missiles in London”.

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Rand Paul’s Resolution to End the Iraq War

The Senator of Kentucky’s website sent out the following press release:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Rand Paul introduced an amendment to the Department of Defense Authorization bill to formally end the war in Iraq.

The war in Iraq cannot be considered definitively concluded if Congress does not reclaim its constitutional power to declare war by repealing the underlying authorization. Until Congress takes this action, the President would still possess the legal authority to move troops into Iraq or to conduct kinetic operations within its borders, agreements with the Iraqi government notwithstanding.

“On several occasions this year, Congress has been ignored or remained silent while the President committed our forces to combat. It is my intention to urge Congress to reclaim its constitutional authority over the decision to go to war, or to end a war – it is one of the body’s most important powers,” Sen. Paul said. “It is right that we wrest it back from a President who has shown he cannot be trusted to obey the Constitution or powers prescribed to Congress in it.”

The President has ordered withdrawal of most forces by the end of the year, and Sen. Paul’s amendment continues the spirit of that decision by formally ending the war. Sen. Paul will push for a vote on this measure during consideration of the Defense bill. Under existing laws, necessary actions to protect U.S. personnel in Iraq (such as at the embassy) will still be allowed.

“Americans should celebrate the safe return of our soldiers, thank those who served, and mourn those we lost. We should honor them by committing to a return to a more rational and constitutional foreign policy,” Sen. Paul added. – Source

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