Thread: Ron Paul on the Issues

Germany making biggest cuts in military since World War II

Submitted by We the People on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 01:07
Peace / War

The German government announced the biggest cuts in its military since the end of World War Two on Wednesday, closing or significantly scaling down more than 100 of its 400 bases and cutting 15,000 soldiering jobs.
The total number of military personnel will be reduced from more than 200,000 to 185,000, of which between 5,000 and 15,000 will be short-term voluntary recruits. Civilian staff numbers will be slashed from 76,000 to 55,000 under the plan, which is due to be completed by 2017 at the latest. The cuts are the biggest in the Bundeswehr's history.

Big cuts in store for Bundeswehr - The Local

What's our problem? So while Germany is reducing its military, what is our military even still doing there?

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Video Update: Massachusetts GOP Seeks to Disenfranchise Ron Paul Delegates and Supporters

Submitted by AnAppealToHeavenWash on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 07:33
Delegates
Massachusetts



Ron Paul backers protest GOP hearing

“It’s hilarious that they would fight this hard for these (Romney) delegates,” he said. “It’s not going to change the outcome.” OH YES IT WILL!

MARLBOROUGH — Dozens of Ron Paul backers showed up at a state Republican Party meeting last night to protest what they say is a manipulation of power aimed at decreasing their influence at the party’s national convention.

A 14-member GOP committee charged with allocating delegates to the convention held a closed meeting at the Holiday Inn to discuss whether three delegates and three alternates selected at the Fifth Congressional District caucus should be invalidated.

None of the Romney-backed delegates won any of the six seats for the district which includes Wayland, Sudbury, Hudson and Stow. The district is anchored by Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill.

One of the unsuccessful members of the Romney slate challenged the results.

Read more: Ron Paul backers protest GOP hearing - Framingham, MA - The MetroWest Daily News

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Will Ron Paul-ers Vote For Romney?

Submitted by Gmartine on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 07:27
Videos
Colorado

Originally posted April 3, 2012:

This video was just put up by a lovely RP girl and I thought it was just great!



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Review Time Video! Mitt Romney is Not The GOP Nominee

Submitted by LittleWing on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 18:57
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Another great truth blast from Review Manify 'Review Time!'



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Reality Check: Republican Party Winning The Battle But Losing The War?

Submitted by Knucklehead on Tue, 05/29/2012 - 22:59
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Ben Swann always on top of things.

Reality Check: Republican Party winning the battle but losing t - FOX19.com-Cincinnati News, Weather & Sports

Reality Check: Did Mitt Romney Really Secure GOP Nomination With Texas Win?



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I will NEVER EVER VOTE for MITT ROMNEY .... and RIGHT NOW the Republican Party cheats even far worse than the Democratic Party; thats something I never thought possible. It's far past time to start firing these corrupt people and cleaning house

From State to State ... its the SAME SHIT

This hard core Republican has had it with the - too the core Corruption

We on the International stage complain about cheating in elections in other countries when it is far more pervasive in the Republican party that ever known ... Un-freaking believable

Not only will I not cast my vote for Romney.... I will not never /ever vote straight party ticket ... thats all that you accomplished .. you got a gutted Party that stands on NO principles

Look How Different Dem's And Gop'ers Are! This needs to go viral!

Submitted by adampeart on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 17:05
Daily Paul Liberty Forum
Washington

One only needs to look at the 2013 proposed budgets By Republicans and Democrats to see how incredibly DIFFERENT the two parties are! Here's a partial breakdown for you--(hope this goes viral!)

Total Budget: Dems- $3.704trillion GOP- $3.53trillion (difference of 4.8%)
Annual Deficit: Dems- $964billion GOP- $796billion
Defense budget: Dems- $553billion GOP- $562.2billion(difference of 1.48%)
Agriculture: Dems- $21.8billion GOP- $21.7billion (difference of .4%)
Medicare: Dems- $515.1billion GOP- $510.1billion (difference of .97%)
Soc.Security: Dems- $538billion GOP- $517billion (difference of 3.96%)

WOW! What a choice! You can burn to death or freeze to death!

Our 'fiscally responsible Tea Party' GOP wants a whopping 4% less government than those spend-crazy Democrats!

If you ever come across a person who thinks there's a chasm of difference between the two parties, just throw these figures right in their ignorant gullible faces!

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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Nothing Adds up in Ron Paul's Home Distirict. They Cheated.

Here are the links to the election results


Primary 2008 Brazoria County Texas


Primary 2010 Brazorial County Texas


General Election Results 2010 Brazoria County Texas


Primary Election Results 2012 Brazoria County Texas

Time to take those electronic voting machines and use them for an artificial reef off the coat in the gulf of Mexico. They are not doing any good for Texas when they can use them to overthrow the will of the people. Going back to the 2008 elections here are some results up to yesterday

Posted by realman2020 at Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Lone Star Watchdog: Nothing Adds up in Ron Paul's Home Distirict. They Cheated.

Tampa Motivator: How To Create An Angry American

Submitted by JUSTCOMEHOME on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 15:54
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Some of you guys have seen this before, but many might not have.

I like to revisit this video from time to time because it vindicates Ron Paul and reminds me of the horrors of the NEO-CONS



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Blue Republican or Red Democrat? The rEVOLution Crosses Party Lines

Submitted by Robin Koerner on Tue, 05/29/2012 - 21:53
Bio | Blog | bluerepublican.org | watchingamerica.com


The newest and fastest growing political grouping in the USA is driven by the idea that the problems that are facing the nation today have been caused not just by the Left wing or the Right wing, but by the mainstream of both parties, which have for years been eliminating our civil rights, sponsoring and benefiting from a crony corporatist economic system, and operating a militaristic foreign policy, seemingly to the benefit of a military industrial complex more than that to the benefit of the nation.

This growing group of anti-Republicrats are mostly young people who’ve been educating themselves about their nation and its workings – rather than relying on the typically dull mainstream media that continue to filter events through the mistaken ideas that the Democrats and Republicans have fundamentally different political perspectives, and that on any particular issue, one of the parties will know the best political direction for the nation.

In 2012, most of these post-partisan Americans who say to America’s political duopoly, “Pox on both your houses”, are supporting Ron Paul for president, even though very many of them have never before identified Republican.
Now their influence is beginning to be felt outside the Republican party – and not just in the presidential election.

In the 10th District of New Jersey, a candidate for the Democratic nomination to represent his district in Congress, is finally asking the question that hundreds of thousands of young American liberals have already asked - and whose answer has caused them to leave his party.

The candidate is Dennis Flynn, and his campaign video begins by asking, “Where Have Our Liberal Values Gone?”

The voiceover proceeds to provide the motivation for the question …

The following is a quote from the most outspoken voice for liberal values currently serving in the U.S. House of Representatives.

'… it is with the complicity of Congress that we have become a nation of pre-emptive war, secret military tribunals, torture, rejection of habeas corpus, warrantless searches, undue government secrecy, extraordinary renditions, and uncontrolled spying on the American people. Fighting over there has nothing to do with preserving freedoms here at home. More likely, the opposite is true.’

Cutting to pictures of stadiums filled with literally thousands of people, the voiceover continues,

Here are some recent examples of this Congressman’s speaking events. Crowds of young liberals who want to end the rules and protect civil rights are passionately participating in a wave of political action [that is] sweeping across the country.

So what’s wrong with this picture? The congressman they are supporting is a Republican.

Those young liberals are called Blue Republicans, and that congressman is called Ron Paul.

The values that have driven the Blue Republicans out of the Democratic party and toward a conservative septuagenarian Republican are a preference for peace over war, a belief in the Bill of Rights and a desire to end to a government-sponsored crony corporatist economic and monetary system.
What strange bedfellows true principles make!

Whereas a Blue Republican can most simply be defined as a “Democrat or Independent who is registering Republican for one year to support Ron Paul”, more important is the underlying realization that causes people to make what for many of them is a dramatic political conversion: what is most wrong with the United States is not caused by one or other party, but by what both parties have agreed about, often tacitly or implicitly, and caused together.

Don’t like the Patriot Act, the NDAA, or CISPA? Romney and Obama both support them. Don’t like bailouts? Romney and Obama both support them. Don’t like military intervention without the declaration of war? Romney and Obama both support them. Don’t like a secretive central bank and corporations that (under government license) manipulate a fiat currency in a manner that systematically transfers wealth from working Americans to a financial class? Not only do Romney and Obama both support them: they both receive their largest donations from those very corporations.

As Flynn’s campaign states, “These are not Democrat issues or Republican issues. These are American issues.”

Exactly, Mr. Flynn.

And yet, since Ron Paul – who stands against all the un-American things just listed, and is unique in consistently voting against the shared assumptions of the two main parties – is a Republican, the Republicans are gaining registrants as the Democratic party is losing them: not because their track record is any better, but just because the guy who’s telling the truth has an (R) after his name.

In New Jersey, Dennis Flynn realizes that it doesn’t have to be this way. Democrats can tell the truth about what most matters, too. Moreover, the Democratic Party has for decades talked as if it had a greater claim to these Blue Republican values than the Republican Party, so surely it can stop the bleeding of support by putting its policies - and its candidates - where its mouth is?

Flynn appreciates that Ron Paul is being carried by a rising post-partisan live-and-let-live pro-liberty political wave that spans the political spectrum, attracting the independently minded of both liberal and conservative sensibilities. His campaign is both effect and cause of the fact that a cultural and political revolution that is bigger than either party is under way in the United States. And if the rEVOLution is going to take root and then take over, it must start to undo the prevailing self-interested orthodoxies of both of the main parties of this nation.

I am pleased to support Dennis Flynn, the Democrat, as I am to support Ron Paul, the Republican. The purists may hate me for it – whether they be party-Democrats, party-Republicans or even libertarians. And that is just fine. In politics, “perfection” - like abandonment of principle - is nearly always the enemy of the good. Given his running on a Democratic ticket, I suspect that Flynn disagrees with Paul on abortion, has softer views on certain government spending, and has an idea of property rights that may not satisfy a “Human Action”-carrying libertarian. But, finally, a Democrat has recognized that the nation is profoundly losing its way – and that all those issues about which he may disagree with a principled libertarian are much less important than those (civil rights, peace, crony corporatism) about which they should agree.

Dennis Flynn is making a farsighted attempt to turn one of the nation’s most powerful institutions – the Democratic Party – toward civil rights and the very values that it has been espousing for decades but long ago forgot to act on. (It was the Democrat, Jim Clyburn, who said only two years ago that most of what Congress does is Unconstitutional – and therefore at odds with the Bill of Rights.)

People who care most about political orthodoxy, a candidate’s political experience, their pet government program or whether their candidate is a party-man won’t care much for Mr. Flynn; nor will those who just don’t like the unfamiliar. However, those who think that perhaps not all blame for America’s mess lies with the political opposition, but that their own party (and nation) might benefit from a little honest self-criticism and house-cleaning, will be excited by the truth Flynn tells and the courage with which he is telling it.

Flynn’s tagline is “Returning Real Liberal Values to the Democratic Party”. Let’s see if he can return some of the real liberals to that party, too.

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SHTF! No More Pretense - London Financial Times: Rockefellers & Rothschilds merge Operations

Submitted by AnCapMercenary on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 18:10
Economy

As if to those of us who have researched into them, it wasn't already a widely known fact that Rockefeller's JP Morgan Chase Bank is merely an American branch of the Rothschilds' operation.

Now, they're simply publicly declaring what was already a fact. Guess there's no need for 'secrecy' when they're stealing everything before the coming collapse.

Rockefellers and Rothschilds unite

By Daniel Schäfer in London | May 29, 2012 11:46 pm

Two of the best-known business dynasties in Europe and the US will come together after Lord Jacob Rothschild’s listed investment trust and Rockefeller Financial Services agreed to form a strategic partnership.

RIT Capital Partners is to buy a 37 per cent stake in the Rockefeller’s wealth advisory and asset management group for an undisclosed sum, giving Lord Rothschild’s London-listed trust a much sought-after foothold in the US.

The transatlantic union brings together David Rockefeller, 96, and Lord Rothschild, 76 – two family patriarchs whose personal relationship spans five decades.

The Rockefeller group traces its roots back to 1882 when John D. Rockefeller established one of the world’s first family offices dedicated to investing his wealth. It has since developed into a provider of wealth and asset management services to other families, foundations and institutions. It is majority-owned by the 19th century oil magnate’s family and has $34bn of assets under administration.

The partnership with RIT will focus on setting up investment funds, eyeing joint acquisitions of wealth and asset managers and granting each other non-executive directorships.

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