Why Surveillance is Not OK

Campaign promises fail again . . .

Obama promised in 2007: No more spying on citizens who are not suspected of a crime, No More NSA Illegal Wiretaps, Man I fell For This One.

Of course, our President also swore to uphold the US Constitution . . . Amendment IV of the Bill of Rights, US Constitution: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” US Constitution, Amendment IV of the Bill of Rights (But, NSA ‘rethought’ the 4th Ammendment to the Bill of Rights)

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Why surveillance is not OK

I live in a country generally assumed to be a dictatorship. One of the Arab spring countries. I have lived through curfews and have seen the outcomes of the sort of surveillance now being revealed in the US. People here talking about curfews aren’t realizing what that actually FEELS like. It isn’t about having to go inside, and the practicality of that. It’s about creating the feeling that everyone, everything is watching. A few points:

1) the purpose of this surveillance from the governments point of view is to control enemies of the state. Not terrorists. People who are coalescing around ideas that would destabilize the status quo. These could be religious ideas. These could be groups like anon who are too good with tech for the governments liking. It makes it very easy to know who these people are. It also makes it very simple to control these people.

Lets say you are a college student and you get in with some people who want to stop farming practices that hurt animals. So you make a plan and go to protest these practices. You get there, and wow, the protest is huge. You never expected this, you were just goofing off. Well now everyone who was there is suspect. Even though you technically had the right to protest, you’re now considered a dangerous person.

With this tech in place, the government doesn’t have to put you in jail. They can do something more sinister. They can just email you a sexy picture you took with a girlfriend. Or they can email you a note saying that they can prove your dad is cheating on his taxes. Or they can threaten to get your dad fired. All you have to do, the email says, is help them catch your friends in the group. You have to report back every week, or you dad might lose his job. So you do. You turn in your friends and even though they try to keep meetings off grid, you’re reporting on them to protect your dad.

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Obama’s Unprecedented War on Whistleblowers

Desperately trying to illegally shut down legions of whistleblowers,

US Government fails again . . .

Trying To Rein in Whistleblowers

Government Will Decide What We Can Know (Source)

President Obama has repeatedly hailed himself for presiding over “the most transparent administration ever.” At the same time, he has waged a sustained and unprecedented war on whistleblowers, press freedoms and the basic mechanisms of the news gathering process.

But it is the administration of Barack Obama that has prosecuted more accused leakers under “espionage” statutes than all prior administrations combined — in fact, double the number of all prior such prosecutions.

A climate of fear is keeping journalists from doing their job — informing citizens about the secret actions of political leaders.

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Awesome collection of news clips–be like Gandhi, simply refuse to cooperate with the elite’s malevolent idiocy

A desperate, failing elite lash out at the public . . .

. . . thrashing about like drowning men.

Leave the Kingdom of Sheep: Be like Gandhi, simply refuse to cooperate with the elite’s desperate, malevolent idiocy. Cooperating just enough to fall into despair is being controlled, being neutralized. Refuse to buy into despair. Refuse to comply.

Disengage, disassociate, disconnect from malevolent idiocy.

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NYT and FoxNews said Bin Laden Died in 2001

2001 portrait of the beardy-guy.

Main spin media fails again . . .

FOXNEWS Report:

Bin Laden Dead

Published December 26, 2001

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html

Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader.

Which Osama?

“The Coalition troops are engaged in a mad search operation but they would never be able to fulfill their cherished goal of getting Usama alive or dead,” the source said.

Bin Laden, according to the source, was suffering from a serious lung complication and succumbed to the disease in mid-December, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains. The source claimed that bin Laden was laid to rest honorably in his last abode and his grave was made as per his Wahabi belief.

About 30 close associates of bin Laden in Al Qaeda, including his most trusted and personal bodyguards, his family members and some “Taliban friends,” attended the funeral rites. A volley of bullets was also fired to pay final tribute to the “great leader.”

Which Osama Bin Laden?

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Plutocracy NOW–groveling before the greedy, saluting their masters with idiotic hand signs

The following message is brought to you by:

Rats monopolize the cheese . . .

(Source)

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Do parasites, like this, infest our economy?

Duh . . .  The Top 1/5 Owns 84% of all US Wealth

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Animals Prefer Organic Foods–but, so what?

“GMO” means Genetically Modified Organism . . . food.

We mistakenly purchased the conventionally-grown GMO corn and I put it outside, thinking that at least something would eat it. It laid out there in the Georgia heat for a couple of months . . .

Q: Why do animals avoid GMO corn?

[Here's a video of a squirrel who refuses GMO corn, but eats the organic.]

A: Unlike people, animals sense what the following report reveals:

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Congress Not Reading Their Own Bills

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Charities: Inefficient vs. Efficient

America’s 50 worst charities

The 50 worst charities in America devote less than 4% of donations raised to direct cash aid. Some charities gave even less. For example: Every year, Kids Wish Network raises millions of dollars in donations in the name of dying children and their families. Every year, it spends less than 3 cents on the dollar helping kids. (Source: Above the law-America’s worst charities (CNN))

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This chart is from 2005. Read below for updated information. Lol! Outrageous compensation for some charity CEOs has gotten even more outrageous.

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Snopes Update on the above Chart

(Source: http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/charities.asp )

When deciding which charities to donate to, many people consider an important factor to be the “efficiency” of these organizations — that is, what percentage of the monies taken in by a given charity goes to funding its mission rather than being eaten up by costs such as fundraising activities, salaries, and other administrative overhead.

The [chart] reproduced above, which began circulating in 2005 and has been re-circulated every year since then.  . . .  We attempt to present accurate and up-to-date information about the named charities below.

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The Top 1/5 Owns 84% of all US Wealth–while the bottom 40% of US population owns less than 1%

According to a 2011 Harvard University report, 84% of all wealth in America is owned by the richest 20% of the population.

1/5 own 84% of all US wealth.

Do parasites, like this, infest our economy?

Lol! It’s not what you think it is:

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Euro Currency Failing–Nigel Farage was right

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Who’s Up for Killing American Citizens in America–to protect us from the millions who “might” be terrorists

Why Bother with Silly Old Rituals of Evidence and Trial By Jury?

Kill ‘em all and let God sort it out.

Right?

Nancy Pelosi: Obama Can Execute Americans in Secret

Wednesday, 20 February 2013 08:39

‘House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) thinks we’d be asking too much of Obama if we demanded the President publicly acknowledge when he targets a US citizen for assassination. If President Obama wants to drop a bomb on an American with a drone in total secrecy, he should be able to do so.’

Read more: Nancy Pelosi: Obama Can Execute Americans in Secret

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Brennan Refuses to Rule Out Drone Assassinations Within the US

Wednesday, 20 February 2013 08:47

‘In written responses to questions submitted by the Senate Intelligence Committee, John Brennan, the Obama administration’s nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), refused to rule out drone assassinations of American citizens on US soil. The committee on Friday released a declassified version of Brennan’s responses.’

Read more: Brennan Refuses to Rule Out Drone Assassinations Within the US

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“NO MORE HESITATION” Cardboard Targets for DHS Target Practice

Target Practice: Young Moms with their kids.

Paul Joseph Watson has uncovered proof that a U.S. based company called “Law Enforcement Training, Inc.” has been selling millions of dollars worth of “no hesitation” targets to the Department of Homeland Security.

Target Practice: Women in their homes.

These targets (see images) are used to train DHS employees to shoot American citizens and they depict pregnant women, old men, children and even young moms with guns. The purpose of the targets, according to the company that sells them, is to “eliminate any hesitation” that U.S. government employees might normally feel in shooting to kill pregnant women, children and old men. (I’m not making this up. The government’s plan to murder Americans is now right out in the open . . .)

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  Target Practice: Kids.

  A government does not push to disarm the American people for no reason.  A government does not buy 1.6 billion bullets for no reason–enough ammo to wage a 7-year war with the American people.

• The Department of Homeland Security does not buy cardboard targets of pregnant women, young mothers and old men for no reason. They are buying these targets because this is who they are training to kill. Keep in mind that DHS “officers” do not take an oath of office, meaning they do not swear any allegiance to the U.S. Constitution. Their only allegiance is to their paycheck and their dangerous sense of power.

Read more: How Much More Evidence Do You Need? DHS Trains to Shoot Pregnant Women, Old Men and Children with Guns

Shoot first, ask questions later, “NO MORE HESITATION” says it all . . . 

de·sen·si·tize

 verb \dē-ˈsen(t)-sə-ˌtīz\

to make emotionally insensitive or callous; specifically: to extinguish an emotional response (as of fear, anxiety, or guilt) to stimuli that formerly induced it.

So, by this definition, they want to make it easier for normally moral people to perpetuate an attack on a group of people that would ordinarily not be their targets.  They don’t want these officers to have hesitation caused by anxiety or guilt before unloading on an “angry” mom or dad at a school.

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Lance Armstrong–cheating to get to the top, represents so much of what’s wrong with society today

We sued so many people . . .

Lance Armstrong represents everything that’s wrong with society today. He lied his way to the top, he collected hundreds of millions of dollars by cheating, he bullied and threatened anyone who got in his way, and now in a “confession” to Oprah Winfrey, Armstrong admitted to doping with EPO, testosterone and blood transfusions during ALL his Tour de France races.

Lance Armstrong

“I was a bully” Armstrong now says.

And when Winfrey asked him if he sued one particular whistleblower who tried to go public with Armstrong’s criminal doping behavior, Armstrong’s answer was, “To be honest, we sued so many people.”

Yeah, as in too many victims to even count or remember– a person who doesn’t mind how many other people you have to hurt, threaten, lie to or betray as long as YOU are climbing to the top! (Source)

So, Why Did Lance Armstrong Suddenly Take All the Blame? 

Thomas Weisel

Why now you ask?

Perhaps the US Federal investigation was getting close to exposing the man who bankrolled Lance Armstrong’s drug habits? Perhaps Lance Armstrong’s sudden confession was necessary to distract attention away from the real drug kingpin, the one operating behind the scenes.

Meet Thom Weisel, owner of the holding company, Tailwind, which  financed and managed Lance Armstrong’s cycling team.

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Lock Down #101–let’s turn all schools into prisons so the kids can get used to it for the rest of their life

Problem, Reaction, Solution

The official account [of Sandy Hook] is such a mess of contradictions that only the aspartame stoned couch potatoes actually believe that a single autistic child could have carried out all those murders. (Source)

Never let a good crisis go to waste . . .

To “protect” our children Senator Boxer wants schools to have:

• Chip lines [requiring our kids to have RFID identification chips]
• Surveillance equipment
• Secured entrances
• Metal detectors
• Other important “safety” measures
• National Guard troops serving as guards at school
• Strengthening the perimeters of school.

According to Senator Boxer, “WE know what works and what doesn’t work.”

Maybe Senator Boxer should require our kids to wear “uniforms” with broad black and white stripes on their shirts and pants! . . . and have Cops patrolling with AR-15s, checking “papers” and conducting TSA-style “pat-downs” on the private parts of suspicious boys and girls! 

Awesome. Why not? Anything for more “safety”.

Let’s do it for the kids.

Right?

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Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves (Again) the Drug War is a Joke–anti-drug laws don’t apply to rich bankers (who apparently are above the law)

Woman Imprisoned for Life for Minor Drug Offense; Banking Giant Immune to Justice for Massive Drug Laundering

The rich are different than you and me. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Authorities Decide Against Inditing HSBC

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Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke

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Assistant US Attorney General Lanny Breuer

Ramin Talaie/Getty Images

If you’ve ever been arrested on a drug charge, if you’ve ever spent even a day in jail for having a stem of marijuana in your pocket or “drug paraphernalia” in your gym bag, Assistant Attorney General and longtime Bill Clinton pal Lanny Breuer has a message for you: Bite me.

Breuer this week signed off on a settlement deal with the British banking giant HSBC that is the ultimate insult to every ordinary person who’s ever had his life altered by a narcotics charge. Despite the fact that HSBC admitted to laundering billions of dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels (among others) and violating a host of important banking laws (from the Bank Secrecy Act to the Trading With the Enemy Act), Breuer and his Justice Department elected not to pursue criminal prosecutions of the bank, opting instead for a “record” financial settlement of $1.9 billion, which as one analyst noted is about five weeks of income for the bank.

The banks’ laundering transactions were so brazen that the NSA probably could have spotted them from space. Breuer admitted that drug dealers would sometimes come to HSBC’s Mexican branches and “deposit hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, in a single day, into a single account, using boxes designed to fit the precise dimensions of the teller windows.”

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139 Quotes from People Who Consider Us Cattle–hear it straight from those who think they own us

President Kennedy had this to say about those who treat us as cattle, 

. . . and think they own us and seek to enslave us:

Unbelievable? Nope. 

Check it out . . . just Google any of these quotes and read for yourself.

These people (below) really want to impose their will on us–like it or not.

BUT, we do not need to act like cattle, nor be enslaved . . .

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(Source)

1. “If we do not follow the dictates of our inner moral compass and stand up for human life, then his lawlessness will threaten the peace and democracy of the emerging new world order we now see, this long dreamed-of vision we’ve all worked toward for so long.” — President George Bush (January 1991)

2. “The world can therefore seize the opportunity [Persian Gulf crisis] to fulfill the long-held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind.” — George Herbert Walker Bush

George Bush

3. “It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance.” — President George Bush addressing the General Assembly of the U.N., February 1,1992.

4. “In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.” — Strobe Talbot, President Clinton’s Deputy Secretary of State, as quoted in Time, July 20th, 1992.

5. “The Consitution of the United States needs to be reconsidered and altered… to create a whole new structure of government…” The Tofflers say fundamentalist, biblical Christianity is “both dangerous and regressive.” Beliefs in nationalism, patriotism, and an exclusive God, “give birth to violence or repression.” Only when these “Dark Age” menaces are swept away can “advanced wealth creation” by the elite be achieved.” — Newt Gingrich, Mason, member of both the World Future Society and the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote the forward to Alvin and Heidi Toffler’s Creating a New Civilization

Joe Biden

6. “How I Learned to Love the New World Order” — Article by Sen. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. in The Wall Street Journal (April 1992)

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America’s Hitler Youth–fightin’ terrorists at the local mall

Fear, fear, fear . . .

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Winner of the 2012 US Presidential Election Is . . .

UPDATE Nov. 7, 2012: I was right! . . . but wish I was wrong.

UPDATE Dec. 26, 2012: Barack Obama received more than 99 percent of the vote in more than 100 precincts in Ohio on election day. Ohio was a very important swing state in Obama’s election. Third world dictators don’t even get 99% of the vote. See the key Ohio precinct vote counts here. Lucky coincidence for Obama that he was so popular in those Ohio precincts.

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A bold prediction about the outcome of the upcoming U.S. election:

I know, for sure, who is going to win.

The winner will be the candidate who is in favor of and supports:

• Going to war with Iran
• Continuation of bankster bailouts
• Continuation of the ongoing legal corporate “donations” and lobbying that pays politicians to be total sellouts
• Increasing the size of government–through more debt, regulation, entitlements, military spending, etc.
• Restriction of liberties, erosion of the Bill of Rights, expansion of police powers, and the growth of Federal power over States Rights
• Continued multi-trillion-dollar debt-based spending, putting the United States into a position of never-ending debt, and possibly economic collapse.

Which candidate is this, you ask?

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The Cold, Hard Daylight of Temporary End Times

A poignant and powerful essay:

“There is only one thing you can do in terms of Evil and that is to resist it’s appearance inside of you.“

(Source: Les Visible, full transcript below.)

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The Election–finally making sense

VOTE . . . for your favorite puppet.

Top 10 donors for your favorite puppet politician? Go here.

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The Romney Video–Mitt Romney explains the 47% who will never vote for him and why he and his friends don’t care

Mitt Romney explains in “his own words”:

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Why We Occupy Afghanistan–photo essay

Opium poppies in Afghanistan.

Heroin is made from opium poppies. The Taliban had all but eradicated opium growers in Afghanistan before the US invasion.

“Opium production in Afghanistan” Source: UN Office on Drugs and Crime, 2009.

After we invaded Afghanistan in 2001, opium production has gone up, up, up . . .

US troops in Afghanistan.

Curious? Check out the photo essay below. Lots more pictures . . .

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Neil Armstrong 1930-2012

Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was mission commander of the Apollo 11 moon landing in July 1969.

Witness, again, this dramatically strange clip from the first press conference held after Apollo 11′s return from mankind’s historic first visit to the moon.

They’ve just returned, triumphant, from a successful landing on the moon. You’d think they’d be jubilant.

So, why are they so nervous?

Neil Armstrong , clearly nervous . . . about what?

Apollo 11 crew members (L-R) Edwin Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins during the first press conference after their historic first lunar landing mission. Apollo 11 returned to Earth on July 24, 1969; this post-flight press conference was held on August 12, 1969 in Houston, Texas.

For the entire press conference: click here.

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Romney’s Detailed Plan to Restructure America–satire

Romney’s Detailed Plan to Restructure America

Reblogged from: euecon on July 17, 2012

(AP, Washington, D.C.)  Today, the Mitt Romney campaign announced its plans for restructuring America.

Previously, Mitt Romney argued that he had vast business experience, and knew exactly what must be done to restore America. He is now making public more specific plans for achieving this goal.

Drawing upon his vast business experience at Bain Capital, Romney announced that he would do what he does best–sell off some of America’s more unprofitable states and acquire some Asian countries that he considers to be undervalued.

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Dr. Steel–not so crazy

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Today’s Zen Koan: Just say “no” to negativity.

David Wilcox, talking about waking up:

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Ron Paul Videos “Copyright Bombed”–censorship?

Got two and a half minutes?

Hundred’s of Ron Paul’s online videos were shut down:

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Curious why Dr. Paul’s videos were shut down?

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Monsanto’s Revolving Door Into the FDA, USDA and EPA

Monsanto is, by far, THE leading supplier of genetically modified “GMO” foods. Curious how many former Monsanto operatives now work in the FDA, USDA, and EPA? Click on this graphic for the details:

Click on graphic to enlarge.

(Source: Dr. Mercola)

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Overwhelmingly, the vast majority of most Americans want genetically modified "GMO" foods labeled. BUT Monsanto, the leading supplier of genetically modified "GMO" foods, objects. Guess who wins--and who loses?

Why shouldn’t genetically modified “GMO” foods be labeled? They are in Europe.

Why not in the US?

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I'm telling you - Government and Monsanto are definitely working together . . .

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Cleaning Up the Global Financial Mess–reset and restart?

Global finance is changing . . .

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594 450 RESIGNATIONS FROM WORLD BANKS, INVESTMENT HOUSES, . . .

Global Mass Bankster Resignations

[For example] . . . Phillip Hildebrand, the head of Switzerland’s central bank, recently handed in his resignation. Not only that, but there have been resignations coming from several other central banks including Argentina, Kuwait, Nicaraqua, and Kenya. Even the World Bank is now accepting the resignation of Robert Zoellick. (Source)

. . . believe me: none of these bankers have suddenly resigned because they have decided to find another job! This is one of the first major signs of what’s about to happen. (Source)

NOT Your Normal Pattern:

The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requires that publicly traded companies must report to the SEC whenever a member of the Board or certain officers resign. Also, the SEC has a database named EDGAR that is open to the public. After a little research, I discovered that corporations must report said resignations on Form 8-K, Item 5.02. From there, it was a simple matter of searching only Form 8-Ks within a specific range of dates, and including the boolean search terms “Resigns” and “Resignation”. (Source)

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Media Disinformation Campaigns–yet another example

The media tells us to not pay attention to Ron Paul.

Why? Supposedly because he’s “not electable”.

Media manipulation?

In February 2012 Mitt Romney held a campaign event at Ford Stadium which didn’t attract enough people to come even close to filling it up (in fact, you could fit Romney’s 1,200 person crowd in the 65,000-seat stadium 54 times over). His campaign scrambled to make the event look as full as possible, but largely failed. Photo via Byron York:

Mitt Romney’s Feb 2012 campaign event at Ford Stadium

In 2000, George W. Bush ran for president saying “I don’t think they ought to be balancing their budget on the backs of the poor.” In 2012, amidst a much worse economy, Romney is running for president saying exactly the opposite. Perhaps that’s why the stadium is empty. (Source: Washington Post)

Meanwhile, a few days later, Ron Paul holds a campaign event:

Ron Paul Michigan State University Auditorium Intro and Crowd – 2-27-12 .wmv

www.youtube.com

Ron Paul’s stadium speech . . .

Ron Paul campaign event Feb 27, 2012

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As always, media’s bogus dis-information campaign is obvious:

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Can you guess which candidate is backed by Wall Street

. . . and, therefore, also by Wall Street’s lapdog, the media?

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Remember: Always trust TV news.

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Straight from Obama–I’m from Kenya

Obama’s Birth Certificate To Be Questioned By Alabama Supreme Court Thanks To Relentless Sheriff

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Yep, Barack Obama was born in Kenya:

Source: http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/2012/02/obamas-hidden-birth-certificate.html

Read about the above document here: Obama’s hidden birth certificate

Not convinced yet?

Want to hear it straight from Barack Obama?

Obama says “I’m from Kenya”

But what about Obama’s supposed US birth certificate?

Obama’s Birth Certificate–discrepancies or forgery?

Obama Mother Not In Hawaii At Time Of Birth

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