Monthly Archives: February 2012
Rothbard: Martin Van Buren was the best (least worst) President
The Original Title of This Article Was “PayPal founder gives $1.7 million to Ron Paul super PAC”
(according to reddit)
Romney super PAC raised $6.6M in January 
Restore Our Future, a super PAC aiding Mitt Romney, raised $6.6 million in January to aid his presidential campaign, documents filed today show.
The super PAC spent nearly $14 million in January as it blistered Romney’s GOP rivals with stinging ads during last month’s caucuses and primaries. It ended the month with $16.3 million in the bank, some of which is being deployed in Romney’s native state of Michigan ahead of the Feb. 28 primary there. . . .
A report filed earlier today showed PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel donated $1.7 million last month to a super PAC supporting one of Romney’s GOP rivals, Ron Paul.
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If it’s true, they must have re-written the article too.
500 ‘Veterans for Ron Paul’ march on White House to media blackout
Nearly 500 veterans and active duty soldiers marched through the streets of Washington, DC on Monday to show their support for presidential candidate Ron Paul. Men and women traveled from across the country to be part of the historic march.
One soldier, 26, traveled alone, all the way from Alaska to participate. He asked that he remain anonymous, as he was breaking military directives by attending. The soldier from Alaska said that the march was “humbling and powerful” and definitely worth the risk. He told Examiner, “I shared some emotional moments with my brothers and sisters in arms. All in all, it was an amazing day.”
He continued,
I decided to support Ron Paul during the 2008 campaign while I was still deployed in Afghanistan. I started asking questions after witnessing so many injustices occur there.
Not only is Ron Paul the only veteran remaining in the race, he understands that our foreign policy is deeply flawed. Pretending that occupying other countries won’t have some repercussions is absolutely ignorant. The fact of the matter is we create more enemies than we can kill.
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Not unexpectedly, the mainstream media also largely neglected to report on the “Ron Paul is the Choice of the Troops” march in DC. One of the few videos about the event was made by RT, a Russian media outlet. One ABC article listed the march as having “dozens” of troops marching. After outrage in the comments, “dozens” was changed to “several hundred.” NBC was at the event recording, but never aired the footage.
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Why Won’t Republican Candidates Talk To Local Media?
In a nutshell, it’s because they’re lairs and manipulators and greatly prefer staged events over answering difficult questions.
(youtube channel: benswannrealitycheck)
stefan molyneux: Were you bred for war?
Life Magazine, picture of the week, May 1944
During WWII, American culture became indistinguishable from war propaganda. If judged by how much invasiveness they tolerated from their government, the WWII generation was not the greatest, but one of the worst.
The caption to the above picture reads:
May 22, 1944 Life Magazine Picture of the Week, “Arizona war worker writes her Navy boyfriend a thank-you-note for the Jap skull he sent her”
“War is the health of the state.” ~Randolph Bourne
Iran ‘halts oil sales to France and Britain’
You? Sanction us? We’ll sanction you!!!
Iran has halted oil sales to British and French companies, the nation’s oil ministry has said.
A spokesman was reported as saying on the ministry’s website that Iran would “sell our oil to new customers”.
European Union member states had earlier agreed to stop importing Iranian crude from 1 July. (Read more)
No Jail Time for Haditha Murderer
It was the massacre which left 24 unarmed Iraqis dead and cast fresh shame on the American military, already reeling from Abu-Ghraib.
But a military judge yesterday ruled that the final U.S. soldier to face charges over the notorious assault on Haditha will not be jailed.
Instead, Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, who led the attack, faces no more than three months in confinement after admitting the least serious of three charges – negligent dereliction of duty.
He had initially been implicated in 19 of the deaths. Among the victims were seven children and a 76-year-old man in a wheelchair. (Read more)
Photographyers face Copyright threat After Shock Legal Ruling
The case, heard at the Patents County Court in London on 12 January, could have serious implications for photographers, according to photographic copyright expert Charles Swan, a lawyer at Swan Turton, who said: ‘His honour Judge Birss QC decided that a photograph of a red London bus against a black and white background of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, with a blank sky, was similar enough to another photograph of the same subject matter to infringe copyright.’ (Read more)
The two photographs can be seen here
SWAT Team Invades for Student Loan Nonpayment
“It was the Department of Education who conducted the search.”
Constitutionalist vs. Anarcho-Capitalist/Voluntarist
Bernanke Greets Soldiers
The story of American Empire in one photo:
Knock! Knock! / Who’s there? / Democracy!
Vendetta Marine
