This morning on Fox News, Gretchen and Brian (who both seem oblivious to the news they’re reporting) showed clips of Gingrich and Perry at the recent CBS debate, talking about ending all foreign aid, as if this was some big new idea. Actually, for these two candidates, it was a big new idea. Prior to that debate, they’ve supported foreign aid. So, again, we have flip-flopping candidates and these news anchors don’t take them to task for that, just that they are now against foreign aid.

As most of us know, Ron Paul, is the only candidate who’s been against foreign aid for decades, but this fact doesn’t get mentioned. What also doesn’t get mentioned is that Ron Paul’s ideas are continuing to be used by the other candidates: auditing the Federal Reserve, cutting trillions in spending, eliminating unconstitutional government departments (like Energy & Education),  and now ending Foreign Aid. The fact is, the other candidates are coming around to Ron Paul’s way of thinking because they know that Ron Paul’s voice is resonating with the American people.

The problem is, the lamestream media won’t let America hear Ron Paul! They want America to continue the path it’s on, where corporatocracy (corporations & government collusion) rules and the American people lose.  We must hold the media’s feet to the fire and call, fax and email them that we want to hear Ron Paul’s viewpoint and to quit shutting him out. If that doesn’t work, we must stop supporting them and they’re commercial interests (those companies paying for advertising). We must follow the immortal words of Howard Beale, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore”.

Here are some other recent examples of the lamestream media blackout:

Ron Paul Media Blackout Confirmed

Cries of debate “fixing” following the CBS debate, Saturday, Nov. 12.

Ron Paul Media Blackout

Here is a good interview with Ron Paul.

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I was laying in bed and just could not sleep. I am literally sick to my stomach thinking that we are now going to go into Iran militarily. I predict this will happen soon if history is any indicator at all, which it usually is. I hope I am wrong.

But what can I do about it? Who can I tell to STOP?

The mainstream media and the Obama administration are really pumping up the war propaganda to feed to the American people to get them to back it, and reading comments online it looks like it is working…again.

I feel like I want to go to the White House with a megaphone and yell at the top of my lungs to STOP THESE SENSELESS WARS! STOP LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! LET THEIR PEOPLE LIVE! I know where this would get me however, and that is in jail. My voice would not be heard because mainstream media would not cover that. It does not fit their “agenda.”

Seems they are trying to create yet another “false flag” operation to sell to those who are willing to buy it.

It is all based on lies. All of the information they are giving us about this so called “plot” to assassinate the Saudi ambassador by a failed used car salesman from Texas who has had a drinking problem in the past, a slew of unpaid parking tickets and a history of liking prostitutes and who also just happens to be an Iranian born citizen has no substance.

According to “intel” this guy worked with Iranian intelligence to hire Mexican drug cartel members for something like $1.5 Million to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington DC. I mean this part of the story alone makes no sense whatsoever to me, and I am not “intelligence.”

Think about that. You have a cartel that is making upwards of $40Billion a year delivering drugs, and they are going to risk an assassination on US soil, in Washington DC no less, which is the heaviest police staffed city in America for a measly $1.5Million? Well, I am not buying it. You shouldn’t either!

There are many friends and even the wife of Manssor Arabsiar, the man in question who was going to carry out this plot, who claim the guy was just an absent minded drunk who had lots of minor violations like unpaid parking tickets etc. but lacked the capacity to pull off anything of this magnitude.

And once again, like the case of US citizen Anwar Awlaki, who was assassinated in Yemen just weeks ago, they have nothing to show the American citizens or the media that proves any of what they are saying. Nothing! It is all based on “classified information” that we will never see. Does this not scare you? Does our President really have this much power? If you are not worried…you should be!

Manssor Arabsiar is currently being detained, and who knows how long that could be. This guy is a patsy for sure and we do not even know how he is being treated or if he has a lawyer or anything! It just seems that the government works in such secrecy these days and that too should not be acceptable. These people work FOR US, not the other way around.

Are they setting us up to go into Iran and then Mexico? What is going on here? Is anyone going to hold them accountable? Is ANYONE going to ask them the hard questions and DEMAND proof? Is all of this some elaborate plot to cover up the Fast and Furious incident?

Let’s say for argument sake this is all indeed true. Let’s say Iran did indeed plot to assassinate one of their enemies on our precious American soil…well did we not just do that with Awlaki? Do we have double standards? Are we to think we are the ONLY ones who can target our so called enemies for assassination on other nations soil? Is this the example we want to set around the world?

We are not making many friends in this world with our constant Empire building. If anything we are making us weaker and weaker as a nation because more and more people are going to hate us. Not for our freedom, but for the simple fact that we are occupying their land and forcing our “democracy” on them in the name of “peace.”

We have killed hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children in these countries. What would we do if someone did that here? (see video below) We would not take it. We would stand up against it. Why do we not expect them to?

Many Americans just sit back and yell and scream for their blood like we are spectators at the Roman colosseum watching gladiators fight to the death. That is how I see this whole “war on terror.” Are we the Roman Empire? The Nazis? When does it end? When our economy completely crashes?

We need to get out of these wars. I want to let the Iranian people know right now that I do not condone any of this and I am sorry for the choices our government has made…I would have spread a message of peace by example, not militarily.

This is why we NEED Ron Paul. He has to become the next President of the United States as I feel any of the others will push the status quo and continue to weaken us as a nation so badly that we will soon be fighting World War III on our own soil, and I do not want to fight people who I have no issue with.

Ron Paul is the ONLY top tier candidate who wants to end these wars. All of the others believe that we need to continue to be the policeman of the world. We need to stand with him and put an end to this. He is our ONLY hope!

Some will say that one man cannot make a difference, but I know different. Look at what Ghandi or Martin Luther King accomplished. They had a message that they did not force on people…people took their message and made it their own. They did not follow these individuals, they walked beside them. We need to walk beside Ron Paul.

Watch this video as it speaks VOLUMES about how the nations feel that we continue to occupy.

I feel in my heart that this is the most important election of my lifetime and yours. The reason I feel this is because if we get even 4 more years of the same thing we have now, we are going to crash economically and spin into a depression like none we have ever seen making us defenseless. This is just like the Roman Empire when it fell. They expanded themselves right into failure. I do not want to be a citizen of another country…I want to keep THIS country…but if Ron Paul does not win, I fear we will lose it.

Visit http://RonPaul2012.com to learn more about this great man. We need your help and support. Join the ORIGINAL Revolution and lets restore our Republic before it’s too late!

Ron Paul is NOT proposing so much sweeping change that the government is unrecognizable – He doesn’t believe that the president has any legislative power.

He is NOT proposing that we allow polluters to pollute or that we regress back to the days of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle – those kinds of abuses are not tolerable in a libertarian society either.

He is NOT proposing anarchy; he is proposing a system in which all rights are protected and upheld instead of just the rights the chosen groups the government wishes to bestow favor upon. The reason that he sounds so radical to you is because we have drifted so far away from those principles that once made this the Grand Experiment. He is proposing a return to the constitutional values that once made this country great while keeping what we have improved upon.

We are not proposing to reinstate the 3/5ths clause – that is anti-libertarian; all people are of value in a libertarian system. We are not proposing to let pollution run rampant – that is something that causes harm to others and, in effect, is an act of aggression not tolerable in such a system. We are not proposing that people hire their own chemical labs to test their food, but that the market be opened up to allow more agencies to compete with the FDA and other regulators with allowance for people to ignore such regulations if they feel informed enough – but they make THEIR OWN decision.

Most importantly, we are trying to give people back the freedoms that have been taken away from them in the course of adding false rights to the mix. There is no right to income, healthcare, or a job. To say that you have a right to another’s money, time, or property without earning or bartering for it is to moralize theft and that is not okay. If I can’t steal from my neighbor, why can my government steal from me? That’s not a slogan, by the way, it’s a factual inquiry – can you answer me why?

I have no problem voluntarily paying for roads, protection, school, or many of the other things that society provides, but being forced to pay is not ok. Something many non libertarians don’t understand – many libertarians too – is that there is a difference between forcing someone to pay for or do something as opposed to offering them many alternatives that they reject, thus causing them to chose to pay for the thing – without it being a false choice. For instance, the private and charter school movements offer choices where students and parents can send their children to schools where they believe they will better be able to perform, but the government forces those parents to prop up failing systems.

No one is asking the poor to rot in the streets, uneducated, unfed, and unclothed. What we are saying is that the regulation and governmental corruption that has plagued our country for too long is what has caused the disparity to become so difficult to overcome.

There are those who say “Who will educate our poor?” The answer is, whom ever thinks it is important to educate them. There are those who say “Who will feed our poor?” The answer is, whom ever wants to bestow such charity. There are those who say “Who will take care of the poor when they are sick?” The answer is whom ever wishes to offer such services at an affordable price – including donating time at a free clinic.

It is, however, the prerogative of each individual how much help they are willing to give. No person has any right to force someone to help someone else to help another.

Charity, however can cause dependence and when that point is reached, people should have the choice to withdraw their charity as it is no longer helping the impoverished at that point.What we do have a right to do is act as agents for those who cannot help themselves. We can use force in defense of the defenseless and, in fact, we have a duty to do so.

That does not mean showering them with money and it does not mean forcing anyone else to provide for them, it means offering our own services at our own prices (including free of charge) for their defense whether in legal or life-threatening matters against aggressors – not those who would do no good, but those who would do harm.

Furthermore, the effort to tie libertarianism to communism in an effort to stir the old red scares into new fear mongering is, frankly, kind of lame.

Contrary to misguided attacks, most of the Ron Paul supporters are those who are bucking their parent’s system. To think for ourselves, when that’s exactly what led us here. Perhaps if you actually did some research on what Dr. Paul believes and proposes you would most likely see what he really stands for, and that is freedom. YOUR freedom. Join the Revolution!

But this is the type of math Washington uses to mask the incriminating truth about the unrepentant plundering of the American people. The truth is that frightening rhetoric about default and full faith in the credit of the United States being carelessly thrown around to ram through a bigger budget than ever in spite of stagnant revenues. If your family’s income did not change year over year, would it be wise financial management to accelerate spending so you would feel richer? That is what our government is doing, with one side merely suggesting a different list of purchases than the other.

In reality, bringing our fiscal house into order is not that complicated or excruciatingly painful at all. If we simply kept spending at current levels, by their definition of cuts that would save nearly $400 billion in the next few years, versus the $25 billion the Budget Control Act claims to cut. It would only take us five years to cut $1 trillion in Washington math just by holding the line on spending. That is hardly austere or catastrophic.

A balanced budget is similarly simple and within reach if Washington had just a tiny amount of fiscal common sense. Our revenues currently stand at approximately $2.2 trillion a year and are likely to remain stagnant as the recession continues. Our outlays are $3.7 trillion and projected to grow every year. Yet we only have to go back to 2004 for federal outlays of $2.2 trillion, and the government was far from small that year. If we simply referred to that year’s spending levels, which would hardly do us fear, we would have a balanced budget right now. If we held the line on spending and the economy actually did grow as estimated, the budget would balance on its own by 2015 with no cuts whatsoever.

We pay 35% more for our military today than we did 10 years ago for the exact same capabilities. The same could be said for the rest of the government. Why has our budget doubled in 10 years? This country doesn’t have double the population or double the land area or double anything that would require the federal government to grow by such an obscene amount.

In Washington terms a simple freeze in spending would be a much bigger cut than any plan being discussed. If politicians simply cannot bear to implement actual cuts to actual spending, just freezing the budget would give the economy the best chance to catch its breath, recover and grow.

However, Mitt Romney’s socialist policies (Romneycare, gun control, etc.) are not yet widely known. As they grow more public, his numbers will fall.

Sarah Palin hasn’t declared that she’s running yet.

Ron Paul, of course, is the anti-Politician, who walks his talk (proven by his voting record) and his talk is the U.S. Constitution.  He is the ONLY hope for America to get back on course and become the peaceful and prosperous nation we once were.

The powers-that-be, of course, can’t have that and have the mainstream media ignoring Paul (once again) and are bombarding us with Palin, Romney, Newt Gingrich and little known Herman Cain, “the sleeper”. Why do I call him that? Because Cain is an ex-Federal Reserve Board Chairman. If Palin is convinced not to run (as were Huckabee and Mitch Daniels), and we’re left with Romney and Gingrich and their baggage. It is this authors belief that they are trying to make a rising star out of Herman Cain, who voted for Tarp and doesn’t think the Federal Reserve should be audited (gee, I wonder why).

But don’t take my word for it… Google these candidates and see what you come up with. Do a little research for yourself and don’t drink the mainstream media kool-aid!

Ron Paul gives:

“Questions to consider:

1.  Do the American people deserve to know the truth regarding the ongoing war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen?

2.  Could a larger question be: how can an Army Private gain access to so much secret material?

3.  Why is the hostility mostly directed at Assange, the publisher, and not our government’s failure to protect classified information?

4.  Are we getting our money’s worth from the $80 billion per year we spend on our intelligence agencies?

5.  Which has resulted in the greatest number of deaths; lying us into war, or WikiLeaks’ revelations or the release of the Pentagon Papers?

6.  If Assange can be convicted of a crime for publishing information, that he did not steal, what does this say about the future of the First Amendment and the independence of the internet?

7.  Could it be that the real reason for the near universal attacks on WikiLeaks is more about secretly maintaining a seriously flawed foreign policy of empire than it is about national security?

8.  Is there not a huge difference between releasing secret information to help the enemy in the time of a declared war—which is treason—and the releasing of information to expose our government lies that promote secret wars, death, and corruption?

9.  Was it not once considered patriotic to stand up to our government when it’s wrong?”

Read the full article here.

Ron Paul announces last night (Dec. 8, 2010) on Freedom Watch that Cong. Spencer Bachus has promised him the Chair of the House Sub-Committee on Domestic Monetary Policy.

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Of course, America has never enjoyed absolute free-market capitalism: creeping government intrusion and special interest political patronage have existed and increased since our founding.  But America historically has permitted free markets to operate with less government interference than other nations, while showing greater respect for property rights and the rule of law.  Less government, respect for private property, and a relatively stable legal environment allowed America to become the wealthiest nation on earth.

By contrast, the poorest nations almost always demonstrate hostility for free markets, private property, and the rule of law.  Capital formation, entrepreneurship, credit, and wealth accumulation are uniformly discouraged in poor countries.  Private contracts are not reliably enforced, and private property is not secure in the hands of owners.  The predictable result is widespread poverty and misery.

First and foremost, the role of government in business should be limited to resolving contractual disputes.  As long as both parties of a contract enter into the arrangement willingly, without coercion, and with complete and accurate information, they should be expected to live up to their end of the deal.  When a party cannot or will not honor the terms of a contract, it is acceptable for government to provide a court system to resolve disputes in a fair and impartial way.

Government should not dictate the terms of a contract to the parties involved.  However, throughout the 20th century, our government became increasingly comfortable mandating terms that politicians find acceptable without regard to what businesses or their customers might want.   This interference has had a chilling effect on the economy.

For example, government increases labor costs through minimum wage laws, union requirements, healthcare mandates, and various other stipulations that decrease a business’s capacity to hire as many employees as they might otherwise.  And because they can only hire a few, they must reserve those spots only for top candidates.  Thus, a teenager or a handicapped individual may miss out on job opportunities and work experience because of government-created job shortages.  What if someone was willing to work for less than the government-mandated minimum wage, and a business was willing to give them a chance?  Government makes this illegal, and both the business and the worker are worse off for it.

By contrast, business flourishes when government gets out of the way. One example is playing out in the 14th congressional district in Texas. A major multinational company, Caterpillar, is building an assembly facility in Victoria, Texas, rather than in one of the heavily unionized midwest states where it operates other plants.  Texas, as a “right to work” state, offers more manageable labor costs. It also offers a more business-friendly regulatory landscape, and an overall lower tax burden with no corporate income tax.   I am pleased that because of this, the people of Victoria will be rewarded with more job opportunities.

Freedom and a restrained government are what made us an economic power house.  If we keep chasing businesses away with onerous taxes, mandates, and regulations, they will eventually leave.  The best approach to our economic woes that will help the most people is simple: get back to the Constitution and demonstrate respect for free markets, private property, and the rule of law.