American's are 'Comical'

Here's a clip from CNN where they discuss a clip of Pres. Bush responding to questions on the latest summit he attended with the heads of state for Canada and Mexico. The question was put forth about the possibility of the meeting really being about the formation of a North American Union, a possibility that the President simply brushed off as 'comical'.



The thing that sickens me a little more than the President's remarks is the sad excuse for reporting by the journalists of CNN, if they can even call themselves journalists anymore. One of CNN's White House Correspondents, Suzanne Malveaux joined in calling the talk of a North American Union simply 'Conspiracy Theory in the Blogosphere'. She goes on to try and discredit the idea that a superhighway is being planned to run from the Mexican border to the Canada border. Don't think it's real? Tell that to the farmers and land owners in southern and western Texas who are on the verge of losing their property in the name of Imminent Domain. Malveaux even mentions the Canadian Prime Minister's comment on standardizing the jellybean (the reason we were given for the heads of states' latest summit meeting) as a viable and believable story. When she can explain to me how with all of our wonderful bureaucracy and useless 'departments', we don't have someone that is capable of standardizing the manufacture of the jellybean, and that it is a job left only to the President, maybe then I will give a little credit to any reporting done by CNN.

In case you were wondering...

...just what the problem with this country is, check out this article from motherjones.com:

IN 1985, THE FORBES 400 were worth $221 billion combined. Today, they’re worth $1.13 trillion—more than the GDP of Canada.

THERE’VE BEEN FEW new additions to the Forbes 400. The median household income has also stagnated—at around $44,000.

AMONG THE FORBES 400 who gave to a 2004 presidential campaign, 72% gave to Bush.

IN 2005, there were 9 million American millionaires, a 62% increase since 2002.

IN 2005, 25.7 million Americans received food stamps, a 49% increase since 2000.

ONLY ESTATES worth more than $1.5 million are taxed. That’s less than 1% of all estates. Still, repealing the estate tax will cost the government at least $55 billion a year.

ONLY 3% OF STUDENTS at the top 146 colleges come from families in the bottom income quartile; only 10% come from the bottom half.

BUSH’S TAX CUTS GIVE a 2-child family earning $1 million an extra $86,722—or Harvard tuition, room, board, and an iMac G5 for both kids.

A 2-CHILD family earning $50,000 gets $2,050—or 1/5 the cost of public college for one kid.

THIS YEAR, Donald Trump will earn $1.5 million an hour to speak at Learning Annex seminars.

ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION, the federal minimum wage has fallen 42% since its peak in 1968.

IF THE $5.15 HOURLY minimum wage had risen at the same rate as CEO compensation since 1990, it would now stand at $23.03.

A MINIMUM WAGE employee who works 40 hours a week for 51 weeks a year goes home with $10,506 before taxes.

SUCH A WORKER would take 7,000 years to earn Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s yearly compensation.

ELLISON RECENTLY posed in Vanity Fair with his $300 million, 454-foot yacht, which he noted is “really only the size of a very large house.”

ONLY THE WEALTHIEST 20% of Americans spend more on entertainment than on health care.

THE $17,530 EARNED by the average Wal-Mart employee last year was $1,820 below the poverty line for a family of 4.

5 OF AMERICA’S 10 richest people are Wal-Mart heirs.

PUBLIC COMPANIES spend 10% of their earnings compensating their top 5 executives.

1,730 BOARD MEMBERS of the nation’s 1,000 leading companies sit on the boards of 4 or more other corporations—including half of Coca-Cola’s 14-person board.

THE BIDDER who won a round of golf with Tiger Woods for $30,100 at a 2004 Buick charity auction could deduct all but about $200.

TIGER MADE $87 million in 2005, all but $12 million from endorsements and appearance fees.

THE 5TH LEADING philanthropist last year was Boone Pickens, in part due to his $165 million gift to Oklahoma State University’s golf program.

WITHIN AN HOUR, OSU invested it in a hedge fund Pickens controls. Thanks to a Katrina relief provision, his “gift” was also 100% deductible.

LAST YEAR 250 COMPANIES gave top execs between $50,000 and $1 million worth of wholly personal flights on corporate jets.

THIS PERK is 66% more costly to companies whose CEO belongs to out-of-state golf clubs.

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT spends $500,000 on 8 security screeners who speed execs from a Wall Street helipad to American’s JFK terminal.

UNITED HAS CUT the pensions and salaries of most employees but promised 400 top executives 8% of the shares it expects to issue upon emerging from bankruptcy.

UNITED’S TOP 8 execs will also get a bonus of between 55% and 100% of their salaries.

IN 2002, “turnaround artist” Robert Miller dumped Bethlehem Steel’s pension obligation, allowing “vulture investor” Wilbur L. Ross to buy steel stock and sell it at a 1,000% profit.

IN 2005, DELPHI HIRED Miller for $4.5 million. After Ross said he might buy Delphi if its labor costs fell, Miller demanded wage cuts of up to 63% and dumped the pension obligation.

10 FORMER ENRON directors agreed to pay shareholders a $13 million settlement—which is 10% of what they made by dumping stock while lying about the company’s health.

POOR AMERICANS spend 1/4 of their income on residential energy costs.

EXXON’S 2005 PROFIT of $36.13 billion is more than the GDP of 2/3 of the world’s nations.

CEO PAY AMONG military contractors has tripled since 2001. For David Brooks, the CEO of bulletproof vest maker DHB, it’s risen 13,233%.

AT THE $10 MILLION bat mitzvah party Brooks threw his daughter last year, guests got $1,000 gift bags and listened to Aerosmith, Kenny G., Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, and 50 Cent—who reportedly sang, “Go shorty, it’s your bat mitzvah, we gonna party like it’s your bat mitzvah.”

FOR PERFORMING IN the Live 8 concerts to “make poverty history,” musicians each got gift bags worth up to $12,000.

OSCAR PERFORMERS and presenters collectively owe the IRS $1,250,000 on the gift bags they got at the 2006 Academy Awards ceremony.

A DOG FOOD COMPANY provided “pawdicures” and other spa treatments to pets of celebrities attending the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.

ONE OF MADONNA’S recent freebies: $10,000 mink and diamond-tipped false eyelashes.

PARIS HILTON, who charges clubs $200,000 to appear for 20 minutes, stiffed Elton John’s AIDS benefit the $2,500-per-plate fee she owed.

ACCORDING TO Radar magazine, Owen Wilson was paid $100,000 to attend a Mercedes-Benz-sponsored Hamptons polo match. When other guests tried to speak with him, he reportedly said, “That’s not my job.”

-- Clara Jeffery (Ed.)

The Man Who Got Too Much Support

In the past we have seen some noteworthy Presidential candidates that turned out to be the dark horse in the end when they ran as independents and snagged just enough of the vote for the other guy to win. It was always clear who was going to stick around as the dark horse independent, but this time around it seems that the likely independent will more likely snag the Republican party nomination and be on the main ticket. At least, I certainly hope it turns out that way, because he's already got my vote.

Who am I speaking of? The congressman from Texas. The only candidate that mentions the constitution as part of how he will change the direction of our nation. The only candidate that has the guts to point out the real reason for September 11th and not hide behind the statement "The terrorists hate our freedom, war good, mmkay" as Giuliani does. That clown actually asked him to retract his statement at the debate in order to make himself look tough on terrorism. The only candidate still gaining in campaign contributions, and not only that, but all of his campaign funds are coming in small donations from regular hard working people, not large lump sums from corporations. Heck, he's already raised nearly another million in October alone, and we're no even halfway through the month. I am talking about Ron Paul.

Recently CNBC pulled the post-debate poll off of their website because Ron Paul was at around 75% of the vote, which obviously can't be accurate. They accused Paul's campaign workers and supporters of flooding the poll and 'hacking' the results. Even if that were true, it's amazing that the media reacts to normal people doing it, but not major corporations rigging presidential elections. They claimed that since his support in the online poll didn't match other polls conducted over the phone, it couldn't be trusted. How many of you have ever actually been polled over the phone? I know I haven't. I've had friends that worked for a polling company that sat around all day calling and polling people, and they say the only people they talked to were old retired people, because they're the only ones sitting around at home in the afternoon with a LAND LINE. Besides, in a telephone poll the polling company can pick who they call (even though they say it's random, how am I supposed to believe that on their word alone?). Whereas an online poll is open to everyone that wants to voice they're opinion. It's just too bad that when they voice an opinion the company doesn't like, they are forced to take down the poll and resort to slandering the candidate.

Out of Thirty-Five Straw Polls conducted at debates and other live functions, Ron Paul has placed first in Sixteen of them, and second in Six more. He dominates the online polls, and the youtube page dedicated to his videos receive over 4.5 million views from more than Thirty-Two thousand subscribers since March of this year. All I had to do to find that youtube page was type in 'Ron Paul' in the search and it was the first or second result.

I did the same search with Rudy's name and pulled up more videos slamming him and calling him on all of his crap without a loyal page in sight.

Hillary Clinton's channel was pretty low in the search as well underneath videos that were not in her favor. Even then her channel has struggled to get close to a million views since July of -2006-! It's been up nearly a year longer and still doesn't have a fourth of the viewings Paul's channel has garnered in little over six months.

Mitt Romeny's channel has been up since January of this year, two months longer than Paul's, and he has less views than Hillary at just under 800,000.

John McCain's channel has been up only a month longer than Paul's, yet he's only sitting at just under 500k views, not too mention a couple of not-so-nice videos before finding his channel in the search.

Fred Thompson only recently threw his hat into the ring, and his youtube channel has only been up since May of this year, so I guess it isn't too surprising only 57k people wanted to see one of his videos.

The only other Presidential candidate running to get onto the ticket for their party that has more views than Ron Paul is Barack Obama. His channel has been up since September of last year, and he sits at around 11 million views, but only has a third the number of subscribers as Paul.

After looking through three to four pages of search results on youtube I could not find one video that tried to shed a negative light on Ron Paul. Each of the other candidates, asides from perhaps Obama, had a handful on every page of search results. Why is this? Is it because there is no dirt on the congressman from Texas?

Check out this clip for yourself and get an idea of why Ron Paul is garnering so much support on the internet despite being purposefully ignored by the mass media.


And here's another video giving some more background on Ron Paul. Watch both of these and educate yourself, then go vote in the primary, then vote in the presidential election.


It is only going to be because of people like you, people that turn to the internet rather than just the mass media for their source of information, that will change history come the next Presidential Election. When Ron Paul wins the presidency it will show the corporate world they can no longer control the population through the spin of the mass media. The truth is out there, and because of the internet we can find it for ourselves after we deny the lies they feed us. It should say a good deal that of all the candidates, Ron Paul is likely the only one that has voted against attempting to regulate the internet.

You vote. You decide.