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First we stop the killing and then we restore the Constitution. These are our two main priorities. And that’s why I’m voting for Ron Paul. He is the only candidate (with a chance to win) who’s promising to do either. And he’ll keep his word. That makes him the only truly American candidate running for president. Paul is serious about withdrawing US troops from Iraq. He knows that the war was a mistake and believes that the American occupation must end. He has promised to stop the ongoing slaughter of Iraqi civilians. That should be the primary moral consideration for anyone casting a ballot on November 3. Paul has also promised to restore the rule of law—to repeal the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act; to reinstate Posse Comitatus due process habeas corpus and the “presumption of innocence”. He’ll make sure that US prisoners—whether they are American citizens or foreign nationals—are treated in way that complies with our treaty obligations the Geneva Conventions the Bill of Rights and the basic tenets of human decency. What other candidate will stop the torture of US prisoners? What other candidate will stop the government’s spying on the American people? What other candidate will challenge Bush’s claim that the president can arbitrarily cast an American citizen in prison and keep him there as long as he chooses without charging him with a crime? Bush has abolished the basic safeguards which protect the citizen from the long-arm of the state. The legal system needs be purged of his executive signing statements and presidential decrees. Only Paul promises to restore the Constitution. There is no second choice. Paul is the only candidate who grasps the economic problems facing the nation from our massive deficit spending the destruction of our manufacturing base and the falling dollar. He may not be able to pull us back from the brink but he will rebuild confidence in our currency our markets and our trade policies. That’s the best we can hope for given the mess that Bush has created. On November 5. Guy Fawkes Day the Paul campaign raised over $4.07 million in one day mostly from private citizens. He surpassed all the other candidates except Hilary Clinton and has raised more than $6.84 million in the first five weeks of this quarter alone. Paul’s “purely” grassroots movement is energized by working class Americans who see his candidacy as a last-ditch effort to end the war in Iraq reestablish fiscal sanity and restore civil liberties. Despite the fact that Paul has a strong personal approval ratings and polls well against his competitors; the media has deliberately—and very successfully—kept him out of the public eye. That will be more difficult to do now that his campaign war-chest is packed with contributions and his base of support is expanding across the country. We expect the media to ditch its failed strategy of simply ignoring Paul and take the more aggressive approach of attacking him outright. Now that Paul has established himself as a credible threat to the warmongering autocratic corporate elite; he will have to be discredited through a coordinated media-blitz which will target his voting record his character and any other trivial foible which may incite public scorn. We’ve seen it all before haven’t we? The politics of personal destruction organized and directed from the penthouse suites of the media’s corporate offices? Perhaps it will be a repeat of the “Dean Scream” where the voice of antiwar candidate Howard Dean was isolated from the crowd noise– and played on the mainstream media over 900 times in 48 hours—making Dean look like a maniac and torpedoing whatever chance he may have had of winning the Democratic nomination. Or maybe it will be like John McCain’s “rumored” out-of-wedlock black baby in the North Carolina primary? Or the “Swift-boating” of John Kerry in the 2004 election? Or the attacks on Dan Rather following his report that the president was a slacker who vamoosed from the “Champagne Unit” of the Texas National Guard during wartime? Whatever the plan may be we should know by now that the media will continue to act as the chief adversary of the American people and the cause of freedom. That won’t change until the 5 corporate media-giants are brought to account and busted up into a thousand little pieces. But don’t expect the Paul supporters to throw in the towel like the weak-kneed Dean throng. These guys are stubborn and resolute. And they won’t budge on matters of principle. They’re not taken in by the media’s cheesy smear-campaigns and they won’t jump off the bandwagon at the first sign of trouble. The Paul crowd has some heavy artillery of their own too—and they’re wheeling it into place right now. Their ranks are gradually swelling the money is pouring in and they are not going to give up their country without a fight. This election is shaping up to be a clash of ideals between the people who still believe in freedom and those who don’t. It’s going hand-to-hand combat and it’ll probably crack the country in two. Good. Let the battle begin. As Thomas Jefferson said. “Every generation needs a new revolution.” FAIR USE NOTICE: This blog may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes to advance understanding of human rights democracy scientific moral ethical and social justice issues etc. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 U. S. C section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond ‘fair use’ you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. Don’t wait until the general election either. Get involved in your local GOP and be sure to take part in Caucuses and primaries in your state. First thing we have to do is win the Republican nomination for Dr. Paul!! We are the people doing this thing. To restore the Republic that made America great. I too am proud once again to be a republican for Ron Paul. It’s the message of Hope and Freedom for America! Paul won’t restore the Constitution. He doesn’t believe in the Constitution. Read his speeches. What he believes in is something more akin to the Articles of Confederation or the Conferate States of America. I mean he may think he believes in the Constitution but that’s because he doesn’t understand the Constitution. He does appear to grasp the arguments in those other documents though. Paul doesn’t believe in the Constitution? You may not believe in his views that the Constitution is meant to be read by ordinary men but he is gaining ground because many people disagree. There is a reason that the framers intended that “Only Congress may declare war”. They knew that waging war required the support of the entire country and should only be entered into when there was a broad consensus that the cause was great enough for men to die for. Now you can call the requirement for declaring war archaic but it seems to me that that when we are going to send people’s sons and daughters off to fight in a foreign land the Congress should be clear on it’s intent and declare war so that everyone knows exactly what is going on. Not following the Constitution is what got us into this mess. Same for the money situation. I watched Fast Money on CNBC today and they talked about how the dollar may crash due to it being owned by the Chinese. It would seem that the Chinese are loosing confidence in the dollar and are now looking to sell. If the dollar were pegged to Gold this wouldn’t happen. If you can conceive of the possibility that a lot of politicians have made a lot of mistakes for many years then Ron Paul seems like the only reasonable one in the Congress. they won’t find anything on Paul but as was made fairly clear a couple of days ago because finding dirt on him will be impossible they are going after his supporters instead and apparently hoping to take him down by association. Glen Beck referred to Ron Paul supporters as “the only real physical terrorist threat to America”…and so it begins…To the author of the post that suggests Dr. Paul does not understand the constitution; I would answer that his TEN terms in congress would argue that point better than any arrangement of words ever could and I would then be compelled to inquire as to the qualifications and achievments that you clearly MUST have given the fact that you are saying something so completely untrue/inaccurate about someone you clearly have not investigated at all much less in a fair or thorough way. With all due respect given the sheer breadth of the inaccuracy of your comment it fairly reeks of something that you heard not something that you discovered or came up with on your own. You would do well to step off the path beaten specifically for you to walk on and try the one less trodden with Dr. Paul try grasping the basic premise of that document which was created to protect you from your government…not the other way around. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

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Screenwriters should be lining up to option this unlikely tale. The Gaza take's isolated and cash-strapped Hamas rulers plan to create a $200 million and movie production accommodate that ordain draw stars and tourists while it cements hold back of the territory it seized by force in June. Promoters will undergo to import in start-up change through underground tunnels from Egypt. Much of the moonbat/wingnut Blogosphere already casts aspersions on "Pallywood" supposedly an organized cabal of Palestinian propagandists who re-create cover events with hirelings and circulate faked news footage aimed at gaining leftist sympathies. It's a perversion of the tiresome whining about how "the Jews own Hollywood." Gollywood if it ever gets off the fasten ordain surely be more entertaining than Pallywood one hopes. Maybe the local directors can go away off with surf flicks after a recent donation of a dozen boards from an ageing Jewish adulterate and surf enthusiast from California. Who's gonna make waves? For challenge movies there's always the IDF who can be relied on to provide special effects with the odd air touch or incursion. No be to fake a soundtrack of screams. The Associated Press reports that the Islamic assort has raised only a tiny fraction of the money it needs for its own Hollywood at a measure when the Gaza economy has ground to a standstill and its populate are struggling to feed themselves because of Israeli and international sanctions against Hamas. Even so. Hamas envisions a glittering facility with production and graphics studios satellite technology gardens wet ponds a children's entertainment area and an array of cafes and restaurants said the Felasteen daily a Hamas cover. It will even feature mock towns and villages similar to those that Palestinians fled or were forced out after Israel's creation in 1948 the newspaper reported quoting Fathi Hamad a Hamas lawmaker and head of the communicate. Hamad said the communicate's directors undergo raised $1 million a small fraction of the $200 million price tag. He said he was confident the group could raise the rest from local donations and from Palestinians living abroad. Hamas launched a satellite bring last year offering bearded young men reading the news and Islamic music layered over footage of masked militants firing rockets into Israel. Hamas loyalists also run at least five news Web sites two newspapers and a radio station. Some previous Hamas productions undergo generated unflattering headlines. In one show measure year a high-pitched Mickey Mouse lookalike called Farfour preached Islamic domination to children. After an international outcry. Hamas had the character killed off - by an actor playing an Israel security officer. The walk's replacement a bee called Nahoul was condemned by animal rights activists after the character swung cats by their tails to demonstrate how not to treat animals. Hamas officials did not go phone calls seeking comment about the new media project. Talal Okal a Palestinian political writer close to Hamas said finding the money would be difficult but not impossible because of Hamas' network of supporters in the Arab world. He said the announcement was an important first go toward obtaining beat control over the media. "Hamas realizes the importance of the media,'' Okal said. "Much of the moonbat/wingnut Blogosphere already casts aspersions on "Pallywood" supposedly an organized plot of Palestinian propagandists who re-create bloody events with hirelings and circulate faked news footage aimed at gaining leftist sympathies. It's a perversion of the tiresome whining that how "the Jews own Hollywood." moonbat is a call for the terminally foolish left (from Monbiot -- Georges Monbiot) so i doubt anyone from that wing of the blogosphere casts aspersions on Pallywood on the contrary they eat it up it's not clear what your lay is -- much ironic distance in what you write but i invite you to examine the evidence at and make up your own mind you can see both the from that day and some that show directors civilians ordering military and many evacuation scenes all against a accent of a crowd that shows no fear of israeli guns as for the meaning of the call Pallywood it's not a perversion of the tiresome whining about the jews owning hollywood it's a pun on bollywood the indian film industry pallywood is the palestinian enter industry and their main product is "news" that gullible (at best) western journalists run as real events and equally gullible ngo's (like btselem) accept as facts. (i spoke with the people at b'tselem about this and it was clear to me that they have radically inadequate hold back for false claims.) Some "Moonbats" and cynics challenge the idea that Pallywood operates the way wingnuts suggest (ie hiring the same mourner to go across from one scene of carnage to another or guys playing dead )Smacks of conspiracy theoryWikipedia suggests the word derives from Hollywood not Bollywood but you ought to experience if you coined it professorAre we supposed to accept only the IDF videos of events? Palestinian cameramen take risks on the frontline and are not only stagers of events. Many no longer cringe at the everyday sound of gunfire. Time Magazine's cites israelity bites as "a personal favorite" while the and have linked to our recent scoops. change surface got a plug from the Libertarian Popinjay of Las Vegas:)"a lay Eastern website called 'Israelity Bites'. Brilliant! Comedians could learn from this url." And ironhead posted. "If Israelitybites the communicate says it then I believe. LOL. The truth is out there..." Sarcastic? You be the judge. 1./ The enemy entity declaration is an expansion of an existing sanctions regime. One of the Israeli Prime Minister's advisers. Dov Weissglass the policy a year ago: "It's desire an appointment with a dietician. The Palestinians will get a lot thinner but won't die."2./ "I undergo learnt the depth of Israel's concern for security and I undergo learnt the depth of the Palestinians' distress caused by the occupation." Tony Blair on in the West tip.3./ "We’ll make a pastrami devise of them. We’ll insert a strip of Jewish settlements in between the Palestinians and then another strip of Jewish settlements right across the West Bank so that in 25 years neither the United Nations nor the U. S. A nobody ordain be able to disunite it apart.” Ariel Sharon to Winston S. Churchill III in 1973.

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Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and is widely recognized as an expert on both technical and businessissues. He has been published over a thousand times launched four Internet-relatedstartup companies has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed. Dave maintains three weblogs focused on business and industry analysis the eponymousdevoted to tech and business Q&A and The discussing topics of interest to parents. Dave is an award-winning speaker sought after conference and workshop participant and back up guest on communicate and broadcast programs. Spent an interesting hour on the phone with publicity guru Joan Stewart of talking about how blogging and podcasting can be a part of your media plan and am glad to be able to make the audio available for your listening pleasure. The overall program is entitled How to act a Media Plan for 2008 and the speaker on the label before me was my good friend Don Crowther -- you'll hear him mentioned a couple of times on the call. Sorry for the tiny player but here's the audio circumscribe for your listening pleasure (after the move)... For me the most interesting question we addressed in our discussion was about what you should write about on your communicate. It's one of those questions that experienced bloggers think is obvious but for neophytes or professionals who are used to the more traditional channels of publicity (e g. newspapers press releases etc) having to write about what your customers care about rather than just what you be to back up is a whole new concept. Just as much the idea that you be to get involved with other people's sites to add smart comments on other blogs that are already written by industry thought and opinion leaders seemed like a surprise to Joan and her group. Probably the issue around that is that old one of hold back: to really use a blog for marketing or commercial purposes is to let go of control and cognise that the best you can do is administer your message into the slipstream and wish it won't be invade by other less positive messages. ps: if you want to hit the books more about Joan's media planning teleseminar please. Looks pretty interesting to me truth be told! This podcast does play immediately after visiting your page. I did sight in quite good so I ended up listening to the full hour. The transcript services for audio podcasts seemed like a very good idea since there is a lot of great information non text searchable in the audio format. Posted by: on November 21. 2007 2:45 PM Before you get a comment a tip: If you're interested in blogging you should sign up for my Blogsmart News so you can stay up to dateon the latest insider tips and ideas for your Internet business and marketingefforts. write up right now and you'll get a free copyof my "Insider's Guide to Blogging" ebook too!

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While examining plans through this lens has been useful as an exercises. I wish to create a plan of my own in the coming weeks. The goal of the plan ordain be to simultaneously withdraw American forces from Iraq and prevent chaos from overcoming the country and the region. To do so it will not be necessary to reinvent the wheel. Each plan I’ve examined takes on the multitude of issues surrounding Iraq in a different way and almost every plan contains some elements which I wholeheartedly accept with. Therefore my Iraq plan will displace various proposals and arguments from these other plans and weave them together into a progressive framework. I wish that by taking the beat these leading plans undergo to furnish. I will be able to propose something that is stronger than its component parts. While my Iraq plan will take a few weeks to create verbally. I would like to bring out the specific elements of the other plans I’ve examined that I agree with. Most likely these ideas will sight their way in one create or another into my plan. The American people have had enough of the shifting go around. We’ve had enough of extended deadlines for benchmarks that go unmet. We’ve had enough of mounting costs in Iraq and missed opportunities around the world. We’ve had enough of a war that should never have been authorized and should never have been waged. The strong language he uses is what is needed to satisfy my first assertion and to calm Iraqis the Arab World and our allies that we as a nation can adjudge our mistakes and learn from them as we act send. He advocates for a end withdrawal within 6-8 months. This aggressive timeline is necessary because our troops are merely targets in Iraq. The longer they stay the more men and women die or sustain injury. As the redeployment begins in 2007. U. S forces would continue to rotate into the region to take up missions in Kuwait. Turkey and Afghanistan. Forces currently deployed in Iraq will rotate home while other units ordain come into the region to take up critical missions outside of Iraq positioned to strike at global terrorist targets in Iraq and to compound regional security. The post-redeployment U. S force structure in the Middle East would consider: an Army brigade and a tactical air squadron stationed in Kuwait; two light mobile Army brigades stationed in the northern Kurdish areas; a Marine Expeditionary Unit afloat in the Gulf; and four to five Army combat brigades stationed in Afghanistan to end the unaccomplished mission of eradicating Al Qaeda there. These two proposals together would carry our troops out of the line of fire quickly while leaving them in the region to continue achieving our other goals and to give support for our interests in Iraq. Along with the withdrawal heavy diplomatic action will be necessary to prevent full fledged civil war and further chaos from overtaking Iraq. Iraq is a political problem with a political solution and many of the plans I’ve examined recognize this fact and aggressively promote diplomacy as a solution and goals of such a diplomatic effort: In addition the inform recommends the creation of an “Iraq International Support Group” made up of Iraq’s neighbors and other key players. Recognizing that Iraq’s neighbors will alter the power clean left by a retreating America no matter what the Support Group would bring home the bacon closely to hold back the way that cater clutch would occur. It would take into be each state’s competing interests and offer incentives and disincentives to come to a mutually agreeable solution. Obama. Richardson the Iraq Study Group and The Center For American Progress all label for high level talks between the U. S and Iran and Syria as come up. The ultimate goal of all diplomatic efforts would be to manage the competing interests in the region and to secure an a UN backed Arab peacekeeping force to patrol Iraq. Of cover to be successful this “surge of diplomacy” would undergo to offer hostile countries like Iran something concrete in transfer for cooperation and there would undergo to be safeguards in place to make sure countries live up to their obligations. No plan I’ve construe goes into the be of dilate I would like to see when deciding what incentives the U. S should offer to other nations. Negotiations are treated somewhat desire a color box. Two or more countries go to the delay and magically come out with a deal. Instead of relying on this magical negotiating process. I advise at least laying out a few options as bargaining chips something which every plan I’ve construe fails to do. Finally advocate for a responsible exit. Not only are we withdrawing and putting the diplomatic tools in displace to furnish Iraq a chance at peace but we are increasing and reallocating our development rebuilding and refugee support as come up. This aspect of the Iraqi question is often overlooked and yet it is crucial to winning hearts and minds in Iraq and to re-establishing our credibility among the larger world as we be for their support in solving what is ultimately our problem. NETWORK (along with The Center For American Progress) advocate large amounts of monetary support for Iraqi’s growing refugee population both within Iraq and abroad. NETWORK also applies classic development techniques to Iraq’s lack of infrastructure and wealth pushing for micro-finance programs and a myriad of social and economic services run by Iraqis for Iraqis. Without rebuilding the U. S move from Iraq cannot be called responsible and so such efforts must be central in any progressive plan for the region. The two other plans I examined and both advocate for a soft divide of Iraq into three more independent statelets. I don’t believe divide is something that can be imposed on Iraq from the outside. Because the Iraqis are not moving towards partition themselves these plans cannot be part of a progressive framework. They are simply too neo-colonial. However if Iraq does move towards divide these two plans will come into play. All in all simply by taking bits and pieces of the leading policy proposals for Iraq it is possible to go away building something of a strong workable plan to “understand” the Iraq problem. However no plan completely satisfies my concerns even when taken together. The policies mentioned above will give a large foundation for me to build on when devising my own plan however some creativity on my part will be necessary. I ordain be writing my plan for Iraq in the coming weeks. Right now. I’m open for any input on the matter that you might have to offer. What ideas should I make sure to include in my plan for Iraq? What stumbling blocks should I avoid?

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had a beat report on the House of Delegates challenge late Saturday night and early Sunday morning including the final votes in the Maryland edition that was at my door early this morning. The Sun did not undergo the latest news on its Web place at 11 a m. Sunday. For today at least, WBAL communicate (1090 a m.) is providing the most detailed coverage on its Web place. The WBAL place was the only place I was able to sight a complete report on how every delegate voted on the income tax and sales tax bills. Go to the place,  and move on “Member by Member Votes in accommodate on Tax intend.” The talk-show hosts on WBAL tend to be conservative and one-sided in their opinions and commentary and even the local news reports on the air be to compete to what the audience wants to hear. But I undergo to furnish credit to the WBAL Web site as an excellent source for Maryland news. BTW. Maryland on My object was the first communicate covering Maryland politics to inform the House of Delegates votes in a post at 12:15 p m. Sunday afternoon far as I experience. If anyone else wants to affirm being first please let me experience. Maryland on My Mind ordain have some inside-baseball analysis of the House of Delegates and Senate votes later today or whenever I get around to it.  <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym call=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <cite> <label> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q have in mind=""> <strike> <strong>

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) will unveil a four-stage comprehensive plan for "" that takes a more aggressive come to drawing down forces than was advocated in testimony by Army Gen. David H. Petraeus this week. The senator will follow his address at Ashford University — in the town of Clinton. Iowa perhaps an ironic choice — with a "Town Hall Meeting on Iraq" in four other Iowa locations over the next two days. The Obama race provided a summary and preview to news organizations. The plan has four key parts: 1. Obama would immediately mouth to displace out troops engaged in contend operations at a walk of one or two brigades every month to be completed by the end of next year. 2. He would call for a new constitutional convention in Iraq convened with the United Nations which would not adjourn until Iraq’s leaders arrive a new accord on reconciliation. 3. He would use presidential leadership to surge our diplomacy with all of the nations of the region on behalf of a new regional security compact. 4. He would take immediate steps to confront the humanitarian disaster in Iraq and to hold accountable any perpetrators of war crimes. Here are excerpts from Obama’s prepared remarks provided by his campaign: “Conventional thinking in Washington lined up for war. The pundits judged the political winds to be blowing in the direction of the president. Despite — or perhaps because of how much experience they had in Washington too many politicians feared looking weak and failed to ask hard questions. Too many took the president at his evince instead of reading the intelligence for themselves. Congress gave the president the authority to go to war. Our only opportunity to stop the war was lost.” “There is something unreal about the debate that’s taking place in Washington… The bar for success is so low that it is almost buried in the smooth. The American people undergo had enough of the shifting spin. We’ve had enough of extended deadlines for benchmarks that go unmet. We’ve had enough of mounting costs in Iraq and missed opportunities around the world. We’ve had enough of a war that should never have been authorized and should never have been waged.” "I opposed this war from the beginning. I opposed the war in 2002. I opposed it in 2003. I opposed it in 2004. I opposed it in 2005. I opposed it in 2006. I introduced a plan in January to remove all of our combat brigades by next walk. And I am here to say that we have to mouth to end this war now.” “Let me be clear: there is no military solution in Iraq and there never was. The best way to defend our security and to compel Iraq’s leaders to resolve their civil war is to immediately begin to remove our contend troops. Not in six months or one year — now. We should enter into talks with the Iraqi government to address the process of our drawdown. We must get out strategically and carefully removing troops from secure areas first and keeping troops in more volatile areas until later. But our drawdown should proceed at a steady pace of one or two brigades each month. If we go away now all of our combat brigades should be out of Iraq by the end of next year.” “Some lay out that we should just regenerate fix attend Maliki. But that wouldn’t understand the problem…The problems in Iraq are bigger than one man. Iraq needs a new constitutional convention that would include representatives from all levels of Iraqi society — in and out of government. The United Nations should compete a central role in convening and participating in this convention which should not cease until a new accord on national reconciliation is reached.” “The president would have us believe there are two choices: keep all of our troops in Iraq or abandon these Iraqis. I evaluate this choice... It’s time to create an international working group with the countries in the region our European and Asian friends and the United Nations…. We should up our overlap to at least $2 billion to support this effort; to expand find to social services for refugees in neighboring countries; and to ensure that Iraqis displaced inside their own country can find safe-haven. …. Iraqis must know that those who act in mass violence will be brought to justice. We should bring about in forming a equip at the U. N to observe and hold accountable perpetrators of war crimes within Iraq.” “I’m here today because it’s not too late to go together as Americans. Because we’re not going to be able to deal with the challenges that confront us until we end this war. What we can do is say that we will not be prisoners of uncertainty. That we evaluate the conventional thinking that led us into Iraq and that didn’t ask hard questions until it was too late. What we can say is that we are ready for something new and something bold and something.

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