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The majority of Americans are against a government sponsored mortgage bailout for borrowers and lenders, but that hasn't stopped the government from working behind the scenes to carry out several plans meant to transfer risk and responsibility to the public. A recent survey found that 62 percent of Americans are against a mortgage bailout. Most people want to see borrowers and lenders work out their own problems. Unfortunately, our government has other ideas. Policymakers have very carefully orchestrated a shadow mortgage bailout.

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The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments.
To get people to sign up, the military gives enlistment bonuses up to $30,000 in some cases.
Now men and women who have lost arms, legs, eyesight, hearing and can no longer serve are being ordered to pay some of that money back.
One of them is Jordan Fox, a young soldier from the South Hills ...
Full story at PITTSBURGH (KDKA-TV2-CBS).

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"Richard Haass the President of the Council on Foreign Relations and Bilderberg luminary was recently interviewed by Katie Couric on the situation with Iran.

"During the interview, Haass predicted that the crisis over Iran’s nuclear program could come to a head within the next few months and that war with Iran would result in oil prices rising to $200 a barrel. Haass also made it clear that sanctions would not be effective in changing Iran’s stance on their nuclear program and that there was a real possibility of a U.S. military strike on Iran using aircraft and cruise missiles.

"When Couric specifically asked Haass if he thought we would see a war with Iran, he responded.

"I don’t think we are talking about invasion, the U.S. doesn’t have ground troops. There could be a military strike using aircraft and cruise missiles, but if you ask me over the next year or two years can I imagine the U.S. and Iran moving to conflict? The short answer is yes."

Source: CFR President: $200 Oil If War With Iran

"In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the Contest with G. Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending providence in our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance?"

-- Benjamin Franklin during the Constitutional Convention, Notes Of The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, Introduction, Bicentennial Edition, June 28, 1787, Reported by James Madison, With an introduction by Adrienne Koch. W. W. Norton & Company, N Y. London. (1987) pp. 209-210 --

What an incredible day to be a supporter of Ron Paul!

You have raised over
$4.3 million
on November 5!
This is more than any Republican has ever raised online in one day!

UPDATE:
November 5, 2007

Is it possible to comprehend what we've done [November 5]?
Over $3,800,000 raised.
More than 35,000 total donations.
1 message - and 1 candidate - unlike any other.

Jonathan Bydlak
Fundraising Director
Ron Paul 2008

Today, Nov. 5, marks not only Paul's best fundraising haul in a single day -- approximately $3.75 million by 11 p.m. EST -- but online observers say it's also the most money raised by a candidate on the Web in a single day. And the day's not over yet. "Damn. Wow. Um, that's pretty awesome," said a stunned Jerome Armstrong who served as Howard Dean's online strategist. Armstrong, the founder of the popular blog MyDD, said Dean raised as much as $700,000 in one day toward the end of the primary race. "But not a million," Armstrong added. "What Paul is doing -- or what his supporters are doing -- is really impressive." You can view all the fundraising data here.

Source: Washington Post

"On Monday, a group of Paul supporters helped raised more than $3.68 million in one day — more than half of what the campaign raised in the entire last quarter ... The Paul campaign has raised more than $6.45 million in the first five weeks of this quarter ... On Monday alone, the campaign signed up more than 21,000 new donors ... Mr. Paul has surpassed the best day of Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, who raised $3.14 million on Jan. 8 ... Mr. Paul has stood out from the Republican field for his opposition to the war in Iraq ... [H]e argues that the fight against terrorism is threatening American democracy.

"Mr. [Jesse] Benton clarified that Mr. Paul did not support blowing up government buildings. “He wants to demolish things like the Department of Education,” Mr. Benton said, “but we can do that very peacefully, in a constructive manner.”

Source: New York Times

By JIM KUHNHENN – 45 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, aided by an extraordinary outpouring of Internet support Monday, hauled in more than $3.5 million in 20 hours ... Paul's total deposed Mitt Romney as the single-day fundraising record holder in the Republican presidential field. When it comes to sums amassed in one day, Paul now ranks only behind Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton, who raised nearly $6.2 million on June 30, and Barack Obama.

Full story at AP

By Z. BYRON WOLF
Nov. 5, 2007
"Mark it down:
A landmark moment
entered the annals of
political fundraising
November 5, 2007."

Source: ABC News

Paul Calls $4M Haul 'Remarkable'

Candidate Says Campaign Will Spend Money in Early Primary States
By Z. BYRON WOLF and JENNIFER PARKER
Nov. 6, 2007 The day after Ron Paul shattered fundraising records by raising $4.3 million in 24 hours -- $4 million of it online, more money online than any other Republican has ever raised -- the candidate told ABC News he was pleasantly surprised by the historic financial boost.

Source: ABC News article

    

"Rep. Ron Paul has surprised pundits and his rivals with his fundraising.

"WASHINGTON (CNN) – Presidential campaigns and supporters use all sorts of gimmicks to try and raise money, such as celebrating birthdays, winning a chance to dine with a candidate and marking November 5 as an anniversary.

"Huh? November 5?

"Supporters of Rep. Ron Paul’s presidential bid are using this date to help boost the Texas Republican’s campaign coffers, in what is being described as a massive grassroots on-line fundraising drive.

Full CNN article

Related video: Ron Paul's fundraising shocker

Ron Paul Cracks $3M in One Day,
Melts Down Server, Burns Bandwidth
National Ledger, AZ - 4 hours ago

Ron Paul, long shot no more
Throw the polls out the window, Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul, made fund raising history today, raising more money online than any candidate in
USA Daily - 42 minutes ago

Ron Paul makes fund raising history
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul made online fund raising history today.
USA Daily - 3 hours ago


IT'S NOVEMBER 5TH AMERICA.
RON PAUL TIME!
"Come on America!
Show the world
that your people
are going to take back ...
Your FREEDOM!"

-- Brits 4 Ron Paul --

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November 4, 2007
Ron Paul Report:
Who Supports Him and
Why is November 5th Important?

"Remember, remember the fifth of November"

"I went under cover in the past week to investigate
the 'Ron Paul Revolution' ...
Before I describe who I see them to be,
I will explain who they are not ..."
Full article by Jim Peterson of Mens News Daily here.

Help make history!
Contribute directly to Ron Paul on November 5th!

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November 2, 2007
Gen. John Abizaid Threatens A 50-year U.S. Presence in Middle East

Retired General Believes It Might Take 50 Years Before the U.S. Can Pull Out of the Middle East

Retired Gen. John Abizaid, the former commander of the U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in a 27-country region that covers much of the Middle East, said Monday that it might take half a century before the U.S. military could leave the region.

"... we shouldn't assume for even a minute that in the next 25 to 50 years the American military might be able to come home [from the Middle East]..."

-- Retired Gen. John Abizaid, the former commander of the U.S. Central Command in his keynote speech at the Joint Improvised Explosive Devices Defeat Organization technology outreach conference, "Abizaid Warns of 50-year U.S. Presence in Middle East," ABCNEWS --

• Source: abcnews --

" For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on ... weapons of mass destruction [as justification for invading Iraq]. "
-- Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense -- (19)

" While ... Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for ... American force ... in the Gulf transcends the ... regime of Saddam Hussein. "
-- Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century -- (20)

" We will deal with them [Iran, Iraq, Syria and Saudi Arabia] ... It's not going to happen overnight and it won't be defined by a single battle. "
-- American Enterprise Institute --

Just before Gulf War II… February 17, 2003
"If we go to war [with Iraq], it's not about oil. But the day the war ends, it has everything to do with oil. "
-- Larry Goldstein, president of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation -- (1)

After Gulf War II ... June 21, 2003
"It won't be long when you will see Iraqi oil flowing to Haifa [Israel]. "
-- Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Finance Minister --

"I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil ... [the removal of Saddam Hussein was] 'essential' to secur[ing] world oil supplies ..."
-- Alan Greenspan, Republican with 18-year tenure as head of the US Federal Reserve, 'Alan Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil,' September 16, 2007, London Times; According to the Washington Post, Greenspan [emphasized this point to the White House in private conversations before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.] --

"[U.S. security requires that the U.S. tolerate no rivals to its global dominance] … We endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power. "
-- Paul Wolfowitz, defense official in both Bush administrations -- (3)

" America's global primacy is directly dependent on … its preponderance on the Eurasian continent. ... [The] Eurasian Balkans are [an] economic prize ... of natural gas and oil reserves. ... [America’s] primary interest ... [is to] ... ensure no single power ... controls this geopolitical space ... to prevent the emergence of a ... coalition that could ... challenge America's primacy. ... The three grand imperatives of IMPERIAL GEOSTRATEGY are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the VASSALS, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the BARBARIANS from coming together."
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski (Carter Administration National Security adviser in his book " The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives " ). --

"America ... may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely PERCEIVED direct external threat." (emphasis added)
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski -- (4)

"Of course the common people don't want war . . . [but] all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
-- Herman Goering, Nazi General during the Nuremberg Trials -- (5)

"I think all strata of our society should share in this next 20 years we have ahead, which is undoubtedly going to have a lot of combat situations come up … We're not looking forward to just a little bit of combat once in a while; this is liable to be a much greater combat role than anybody ever thought we were getting into."
-- John Glenn, former Ohio Democratic Senator -- (6)

"I can't think of anything more worthy than this project of inspiring America's youth to dedication and to patriotism and to national service at a time when our country needs it, and we will need it ... for a good long time ... it's not going to be over anytime soon."
-- Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Defense Secretary --

"Creative destruction ... both within our own society and abroad ... [foreigners] seeing America undo traditional societies may fear us, for they do not wish to be undone ... They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission."
-- Michael Ledeen, in his publication, 'The War Against the Terror Masters', American Enterprise Institute --

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and thus clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
-- H.L. Mencken --

PRESIDENT RON PAUL
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IN HIS FIRST YEAR AS PRESIDENT!

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