IN CASE YOU MISS THESE VIDEOS WITH RON PAUL

VIDEO 1:
RON PAUL’S ANTI-WAR STANCE RESONATES WITH US TROOPS: TROOPS MARCH ON THE WHITE HOUSE FOR RON PAUL For those who miss it.

The 4th Media News | Tuesday, February 21, 2012


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Ron Paul’s consistently strong anti-war message is one that resonates with many US troops today.

Hundreds of active duty troops, veterans and Paul supporters gathered at the Washington monument this afternoon. After a series of speeches, the group marched to the White house to show their solidarity and support for the Republican Presidential candidate.

“I don’t believe that we should be over in these other countries messing around,” said one protester.

“He wants to close the 900 overseas bases that we are funding at a very expensive rate that is bankrupting this country,” said another.

Paul, often considered a fringe candidate, is seldom taken seriously by the mainstream media.

Despite vowing to cut the military budget, Federal Election Commission records show Paul gets more campaign donations from members of the military than any other presidential candidate, including President Obama.


“The danger is really us overreacting, and we need a strong national defense and we need to only go to war with a declaration of war and not carelessly flouting it and starting these wars so often,” Paul said at a GOP Presidential Debate.

Sick of fighting seemingly never-ending wars overseas, soldiers that took part in the march say they are ready for radical change. The only hope for that, they say, is getting Paul into the White House.


“Ron Paul seems to be the only person who is representing us instead of the Defense contractors and bankers,” said a war veteran.

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VIDEO2:
RON PAUL, ‘THE ONLY CANDIDATE SPEAKING OF LOST CIVIL LIBERTIES AND PENDING ILLEGAL WARS’
Stephen Lendman | Monday, February 20, 2012

United States presidential contender Ron Paul has warned that his country is slipping into a twenty-first century fascist system with a broke government ruled by big business. RT asked some experts whether they agree.

Speaking to supporters in Kansas City, the Republican candidate said Americans’ individual liberties were being stripped away. http://rt.com/news/america-fascism-ron-paul-705/

And, as Houston-based author Anis Shivani says, Paul is “the only candidate on the Republican side who is talking about the loss of civil liberties, pending illegal wars, making the connection between imperialism and the loss of rights at home.”


It now looks like Ron Paul could have won the Maine caucus, and Shivani believes he could have more support with the American public but it seems that the media won’t allow it to happen:

“I think he does have hardcore support – maybe it could be 15 to 20 per cent of people on the conservative side. His support could be wider, but the media will never treat a candidate like him with seriousness, they will just dismiss him as a fringe candidate because of, for example, his very firm stance on Iran, he is saying ‘Let’s not get into another war on Iran, we just can’t afford it, and every time we do this, it makes governance at home more difficult.’ So the media will say he is just not interested in national security and dismiss him.”

And radio host and author Stephen Lendman also agrees that current US policies are evidence that the country has indeed developed a fascist system, going on to disagree slightly: “The only thing I disagree with Ron Paul it is that is not slipping into it – it’s deep into it.”

Noting that while he is not a Ron Paul supporter, Lendman supports his opposition to imperial wars, echoing Paul in his criticism of the Federal Reserve Bank:

“He has gone after the Federal Reserve for years – it’s a repressive group, privately owned and operated, it isn’t federal and it does not have reserves, as Ron Paul explains. It’s owned by the major bankers, maybe the Wall Street ones, and they use money power to create more of it at the public’s expense.”

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VIDEO 3

CORPORATOCRACY: RON PAUL SAYS US ‘SLIPPING INTO FASCISM’
http://rt.com/news/america-fascism-ron-paul-705/
Published: 19 February, 2012.

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul slammed America's system of governance at a rally in Kansas City, saying businesses and government are pushing the country into twenty-first century fascism.
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But before you start picturing fair-skinned, blue-eyed CEOs and bureaucrats running amok and with their right arms held high, calm down. What the outspoken Texas Republican meant was fascist corporatism – an economic model most prominently seen in Mussolini’s Italy of the 1920s to the 1940s. Fascist economic corporatism involved government and private management of full sectors of the economy – which Paul says is par for the course in today's America.

“We’ve slipped away from a true republic,” Paul told thousands of his supporters at the rally. “Now we’re slipping into a fascist system where it’s a combination of government, big business and authoritarian rule, and the suppression of the individual rights of each and every American citizen.”

His words, which a few years ago might have been dismissed by most, rang loud and clear in Kansas. Paul’s rally coincided with long-established Missouri and Kansas GOP events – from which many attendees actually slipped away to hear Paul deliver his speech. Drawn out and bled dry by ongoing and expensive overseas military campaigns, Americans are more and more receptive to a foreign policy of peace, which is what Paul promises to deliver.

The presidential hopeful echoed words already once delivered to the American people – by their president. Dwight Eisenhower said, in his farewell address to the nation, “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

The disastrous rise, it seems, has happened. In 2009 alone, the United States was responsible for almost half of the world’s total military spending – 46 per cent, or 712 billion US dollars. Since then, the figures have only grown, to the point that American military spending now exceeds that of China, Russia, Japan, India, and the rest of NATO combined. The US has more than 700 military bases in 130 countries around the world.

But, one might ask, can’t the American government – which oversees the world's highest gross domestic product – afford some extra military spending?

The simple answer is: no.

The wealthiest nation also happens to have the biggest national debt in world history. With the dollar acting as a global reserve currency, the Federal Reserve leaving the printing press running around the clock, and manufacturing and production being outsourced to cheap foreign labor markets, the US economy looks more like a Ponzi scheme. And as former president George W. Bush told his Argentine counterpart Nestor Kirchner, "The best way to revitalize the economy is war, and the US has grown stronger with war."

But Americans are tired of war – and are tired of waiting for the magical day when war will magically revive the economy. Which is why Ron Paul may have found the perfect note to strike with voters as he continues to fight in the Republican primaries.
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Katerina Azarova, RT