MSNBC: Facebook poll "chooses" huckabee (22%)... ronpaul 43%

MSNBC reports that a facebook poll "chose" Huckabee... when in fact the article itself reports that Ron Paul leads the poll at 43% . Disgusting.

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Jesse Ventura on display in new book

Offers his take on the world in 'Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!'

"The government is supposed to be us, and it's not us anymore. It's been hijacked. Just when is somebody going to do something?"

MINNEAPOLIS - Former Gov. Jesse Ventura may prefer Mexico to Minnesota these days, but his ex-constituents will still recognize his style if they pick up his upcoming book, "Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!"

Ventura uses the book — part personal memoir, part political rant — to rail against organized religion and the media, detail his brushes with celebrities and suggest that he should be viewed as a possible presidential candidate.

"Is it worth it to put my family and me out there, to take on a force that most of the American people are willing to go along with?" Ventura writes in the book, due in stores in April. "The government is supposed to be us, and it's not us anymore. It's been hijacked. Just when is somebody going to do something?"

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Struggling candidates, Rudy & Hill, play '9/11 cards'

What's a struggling New York pol to do? Never Forget.Clinton and Giuliani both broke out 9/11 references a day after the Iowa Caucuses upended the Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns."None of this worries me - Sept. 11, there were times I was worried," Giuliani said.

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Atrocity-Linked U.S. Officials Advising Democratic, GOP Presidential Frontrunners

From Democracy Now:

Independent journalist Allan Nairn and American Conservative correspondent Kelley Beaucar Vlahos discuss a little-addressed facet of the 2008 campaign: many of the top advisers to leading presidential candidates are ex-U.S. officials involved in atrocities around the world.

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Expert: Torture could only have been ordered by Bush

Jonathan Turley suggested that under those circumstances, the failure to appoint a special prosecutor was a serious problem, because "the investigation will essentially be the Justice Department investigating itself. ... Michael Mukasey's boss is the president of the United States. If torture occurred, he was the guy who ordered it."

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Ron Paul on Larry King 1-2-08 (UNAIRED)

Here's the clip that should have aired last night. No explanation has been issued on why it didn't air.

Related: Iowa Caucus Recap for RP

From Gambling 911

Ron Paul didn't win in Iowa Thursday night and he didn't even come in third or fourth place. But there is some good news that the long time Congressman and his supporters can take away from Iowa....

1. Ron Paul got 10% of the vote and was within striking distance of both John McCain and Fred Thompson, the later of whom is likely to drop out of the race after New Hampshire.

2. Ron Paul came in third place in Johnson County, which perhaps has the closest demographics to that of New Hampshire. It is home to the progressive college town of Iowa City, full of young voters who Paul's campaign is reliant on.

3. He beat Rudy Giuliani by a landslide and Giuliani is considered the frontrunner nationally. And like Rudy Giuliani, Ron Paul did not focus as aggressively on the state of Iowa.

4. Wolf Blitzer of CNN called Ron Paul's showing "impressive".

5. With McCain and Thompson tied for 3rd, Ron Paul technically came in 4th place.

6. There were some counties in Iowa where Ron Paul excelled.

7. Iowa is not an Internet state and the inquiries coming in for Ron Paul (and Internet traffic in general) is not very heavy from Iowa. The great news is that the most significant search inquiries for Ron Paul were coming in from Texas, California, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Tennessee, Massachusetts and California.

He vowed Thursday night to continue his presidential campaign into New Hampshire and other states.

....This is not the end. This is the beginning,'' the Texas congressman told a boisterous gathering of about 150 people at a downtown Des Moines hotel.

The crowd interrupted Paul at times, chanting ....Live free or die'' and ....Ron Paul.''

....I am more encouraged than ever before,'' he said.

Not too shabby considering 60% of the voters at the Iowa caucuses were evangelicals showing up for a baptist minister and a mormon that dropped about $2.4 million on TV ads.

Israeli defense firm that tallies the Iowa caucus

Posted January 1st, 2008 by Give Me Freedom

ELRON - VOXEO: The Israeli Defense Firm That Tallies the Iowa Caucus

Posted By: ChristopherBollyn
Date: Monday, 31 December 2007, 8:10 a.m.

ELRON ELECTRONICS:
The Israeli Defense Company
That Tallies the Iowa Caucus

By Christopher Bollyn

The Iowa caucus is only a few days away and the nation's attention will be directed to the results, which signify the beginning of the U.S. presidential race. But does anyone watch who tallies the results of the Iowa caucus?

The Iowa caucus results were tallied in 2004 by a company that is headed by a man whose company was bought by Elron Electronics, the Israeli defense firm. I suspect that it will be the same this year. Don't expect to see any grassroots political activists doing the tally in Iowa. The Israeli defense establishment takes care of that part of the American "democratic" election process.

VOXEO

In the summer of 2004, I first learned that a foreign and out-of-state company using Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology tallied the Iowa caucus results.

The system used to tally the 2004 Iowa caucus results was provided by a company called Voxeo, which was apparently based in Orlando, Florida. (Yellow flag goes up in the mind of those familiar with Orlando and electronic vote fraud history. See Bollyn article on Wang below.)

The calls from the nearly 2,000 caucus centers in Iowa went to a Voxeo call center in Atlanta, Georgia.

On January 31, 2005, I wrote to Michelle Bauer, Iowa's Secretary of State with some questions about the use of Voxeo, a foreign company located in Florida, to tally the results of the Iowa caucus: Article Continues

Doubts Raised on Technology Sales to China

From NY Times
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
Published: January 2, 2008

WASHINGTON — Six months ago, the Bush administration quietly eased some restrictions on the export of sensitive technologies to China. The new approach was intended to help American companies increase sales of high-tech equipment to China despite tight curbs on sharing technology that might have military applications.

But today the administration is facing questions from weapons experts about whether some equipment — newly authorized for export to Chinese companies deemed trustworthy by Washington — could instead end up helping China modernize its military. Equally worrisome, the weapons experts say, is the possibility that China could share the technology with Iran or Syria.

The technologies include advanced aircraft engine parts, navigation systems, telecommunications equipment and sophisticated composite materials.

The questions raised about the new policy are in a report to be released this week by the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, an independent research foundation that opposes the spread of arms technologies.

The administration’s new approach is part of an overall drive to require licenses for the export of an expanded list of technologies in aircraft engines, lasers, telecommunications, aircraft materials and other fields of interest to China’s military.

But while imposing license requirements for the transfer of these technologies, the administration is also validating certain Chinese companies that may import these technologies without licenses.

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CNN: On eve of Iowa caucus, some states give e-voting an 'F'

With only a day left before the Iowa caucus kicks off 2008 presidential voting, electronic tabulating machines to be used in some state primaries may be "unfit" for an election, according to CNN.

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The Benazir Bhutto dossier: ‘secret service was diverting US aid for fighting militants to rig the

election.

Times Online UK

On the day she was assassinated, Benazir Bhutto was due to meet two senior American politicians to show them a confidential report alleging that Pakistan’s intelligence service was using US money to rig parliamentary elections, officials in her party said yesterday.

The report was compiled by the former Prime Minister’s own contacts within the security services and alleged that the Inter-Services Intelligence agency was running the election operation from a safe house in the capital, Islamabad, they said. The operation’s aim was to undermine Ms Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and to ensure victory for the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) party, which supports President Musharraf, in the elections scheduled for January 8.

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Ron Paul Excluded from Jan. 6th R Candidate Forum

This really is like kindergarten stuff now. Fox News is outta control. I know ive been pushing it alot on here but people, PLEASE take the time to watch "Outfoxed" on google video. Heres the link to make it simple. You have to understand how deep this "Fox Noise" propaganda cuts.

Click to watch: OutFoxed

Hat tip to kidwave1

New problems identified with Iowa caucuses!

Political operatives have urged citizens NOT to ask too many questions and NOT to take photos or video of precinct caucus results, warning them that only "conspiracy theorists" would want to independently confirm the announced results.Not taking photos or video could be a fatal mistake. If you are in Iowa make sure EVERYTHING gets recorded!!!

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Homeland Insecurity

The Homeland Security Dept.'s over reliance on outside contractors and insufficient management of them could leave the U.S. vulnerable

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Ron Paul excluded from FOX News debate in NH Primary

Wow, what’s up with that? For a guy raising the type of money he is—I don’t understand how they can justify his exclusion.

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