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Ron Paul Gets 89 Seconds To Speak In CBS Debate
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
November 13, 2011
“…Congressman Ron Paul was a victim of what later transpired to be a deliberate policy on behalf of CBS News to restrict the air time of certain candidates during last night’s Republican debate, after he was afforded just 90 seconds of speaking time during the course of the event in South Carolina last night.
“…Obviously, that policy of limiting air time to certain candidates was also applied to Congressman Ron Paul, despite the fact that he has consistently won straw polls and proven himself as a top tier candidate in national polls.
As we have documented, despite his popularity the establishment media has deliberately downplayed and sidelined Paul’s campaign.
After Ron Paul finished a close second to Bachmann in the highly regarded Ames straw poll, and was subsequently blacklisted by the corporate press, Politico’s Roger Simon said the reason for him being ignored was that “the media doesn’t believe he has a hoot in hells chance of winning the Iowa caucuses, the Republican nomination or winning the presidency, so we’re gonna ignore him.”
“We are in the business of kicking candidates out of the race,” CNN host Howard Kurtz responded. …”
http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-gets-89-seconds-to-speak-in-cbs-debate/
CBS on defensive after Republican debate
By Josh Lederman
“…”CBS’ coverage of the Republican Debate from Wofford College in Spartanburg was scheduled by the network to air for one hour on the CBS affiliates around the country with any overage to air Sunday morning on Face the Nation,” said Rob Romine, the station’s general manager. “We are sorry for the inconvenience this has caused and for any confusion Mr. Pelley’s comments have caused by telling South Carolina viewers to stay tuned for more debate coverage.”
The other major line of attack came from the candidates, many of whom complained during the debate that strict adherence to 60-second time limits and 30-second rebuttals prevented them from fully articulating any policy and kept many of the minor candidates in the shadows. Jon Huntsman joked that he felt like he was in Siberia; Rick Santorum concurred.
Ron Paul’s campaign was the first to cry foul after the debate, with his chairman, Jesse Benton, accusing CBS News of arrogance and of thinking they could choose the next president. Two hours later, Paul supporters received a message with the subject line “What a joke.”
“Ninety seconds. That’s how much of the first hour of tonight’s GOP debate was given to Ron Paul. 90 measly seconds out of 3,600 seconds,” wrote campaign manager John Tate.
But it was Michele Bachmann whose complaint came backed up by evidence that concerns about candidates’ being sidelined were raised even before the debate took place.
Just after the debate ended, Bachmann’s campaign accused CBS News of deliberately keeping her questions to a minimum and planning a biased debate, with campaign manager, Keith Nahigian, reportedly calling CBS’s newly anointed political director, John Dickerson, a “piece of s**t.” …”
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/193263-cbs-on-defense-after-gop-debate
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Ron Paul: Principle, Patriotism and Constitutional Government
This is a classic edition of Conservative Roundtable from 1997, the nationally broadcast conservative television program hosted by Howard Phillips, and produced by The Conservative Caucus. Producer: Art Harman.
Unlike “politicians,” statesman Ron Paul never lost his belief that government is the problem, not the answer; you’ll see here that his positions are as sound today as when this was recorded in 1997!
Alan Keyes discusses media bias with Bernard Goldberg
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Scott Pelley
Pelley’s Liberal Path to the Anchor Chair
“…On Monday, June 6, 2011, Scott Pelley took over as anchor of the CBS Evening News, following the departure of Katie Couric. A review of the MRC’s archive reveals Pelley will most likely continue the long tradition of liberal bias advanced by his anchor predecessors Couric, Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite.
From celebrating the likes of liberal heroes like Hillary Clinton, saying that she is of the rare few that can match Barack Obama’s “global star power” to even offering praise of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, depicting him as a “genuinely humble” figure with “no fancy clothes, fancy cars” who was “absolutely incorruptible,” Pelley’s new stint as anchor promises to be one filled with biased platitudes for those on the left and harsh criticism of the right. Below are just a dozen examples of Pelley’s slanted take over the years as a CBS correspondent for the Evening News and 60 Minutes. …”
http://www.mrc.org/static/profiles/ScottPelley/NewEveningNewsAnchor.aspx
Bolshevik
“…The Bolsheviks, originally also[1] Bolshevists[2] (Russian: большевики, большевик (singular) Russian pronunciation: [bəlʲʂᵻˈvʲik], derived from bol’shinstvo, “majority”) were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction[3] at the Second Party Congress in 1903. [4]
The Bolsheviks were the majority faction in a crucial vote, hence their name. They ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[5] The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which would later in 1922 become the chief constituent of the Soviet Union.
The Bolsheviks, founded by Vladimir Lenin, were by 1905 a mass organization consisting primarily of workers under a democratic internal hierarchy governed by the principle of democratic centralism, who considered themselves the leaders of the revolutionary working class of Russia. Their beliefs and practices were often referred to as Bolshevism. Bolshevik revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky commonly used the terms “Bolshevism” and “Bolshevist” after his exile from the Soviet Union to differentiate between what he saw as true Leninism and the regime within the state and the party which arose under Stalin. …”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshevik
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“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
~Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.”
~Thomas Jefferson
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Summary of Outlays, Revenues (Receipts), Deficits, Surpluses Fiscal Years 1980-2010(Nominal Dollars in Millions) | |||
Fiscal Year | Outlays | Revenues (Receipts) | Deficits (-), Surpluses |
1980 | 590,941 | 517,112 | -73,830 |
1981 | 678,241 | 599,272 | -78,968 |
1982 | 745,743 | 617,766 | –127,977 |
1983 | 808,364 | 600,562 | -207,802 |
1984 | 851,805 | 666,488 | -185,367 |
1985 | 946,344 | 734,037 | -212,308 |
1986 | 990,382 | 769,155 | -221,277 |
1987 | 1,004,017 | 854,288 | -149,730 |
1988 | 1,064,417 | 854,288 | -155,178 |
1989 | 1,143,744 | 991,105 | -152,639 |
1990 | 1,252,994 | 1,031,958 | -221,036 |
1991 | 1,324,226 | 1,054,988 | -269,238 |
1992 | 1,381,529 | 1,091,208 | -290,321 |
1993 | 1,409,386 | 1,154,335 | -255,051 |
1994 | 1,461,753 | 1,258,566 | –203,186 |
1995 | 1,515,742 | 1,351,790 | -163,392 |
1996 | 1,560,484 | 1,453,053 | -107,431 |
1997 | 1,601,116 | 1,579,232 | -21,884 |
1998 | 1,652,458 | 1,721,728 | 69,270 |
1999 | 1,701,842 | 1,827,452 | 125,610 |
2000 | 1,788,950 | 2,025,191 | 236,241 |
2001 | 1,862,846 | 1,991,082 | 128,236 |
2002 | 2,010,894 | 1,853,136 | –157,758 |
2003 | 2,159,899 | 1,782,314 | -377,585 |
2004 | 2,292,841 | 1,880,114 | -412,727 |
2005 | 2,471,957 | 2,153,611 | -318,346 |
2006 | 2,655,050 | 2,406,869 | -248,181 |
2007 | 2,728,686 | 2,567,985 | -160,701 |
2008 | 2,982,544 | 2,523,991 | -458,553 |
2009 | 3,517,677 | 2,104,989 | -1,412,688 |
2010 | 3,456,213 | 2,162,724 | -1,293,489 |
For a history of the Federal Government’s Receipts (Revenues), Outlays, and Deficits and Surpluses
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals
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Republican Party Budget Proposals
S-1 FY2012 Chairman’s Markup (Nominal Dollars in Billions) |
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Fiscal Year | Outlays | Revenues | Deficits | Debt Held By Public |
2011 | 3,618 | 2,230 | -1,388 | 10,351 |
2012 | 3,529 | 2,533 | -995 | 11,418 |
2013 | 3,559 | 2,860 | -699 | 12,217 |
2014 | 3,586 | 3,094 | -492 | 12,801 |
2015 | 3,671 | 3,237 | -434 | 13,326 |
2016 | 3,858 | 3,377 | -481 | 13,886 |
2017 | 3,998 | 3,589 | -408 | 14,363 |
2018 | 4,123 | 3,745 | -379 | 14,800 |
2019 | 4,352 | 3,939 | -414 | 15,254 |
2020 | 4,544 | 4,142 | -402 | 15,681 |
2021 | 4,739 | 4,354 | -385 | 16,071 |
2012-2021 | 39,958 | 34,870 | -5,088 | n.a. |
http://budget.house.gov/UploadedFiles/PathToProsperityFY2012.pdf
Democratic Party Budget Proposals
S-1 FY2012 President’s Budget(Nominal Dollars in Billions) | ||||
Fiscal Year | Outlays | Revenues | Deficits | Debt Held By Public |
2011 | 3,819 | 2,174 | -1,645 | 10,856 |
2012 | 3,729 | 2,627 | -1,101 | 11,881 |
2013 | 3,771 | 3,003 | -768 | 12,784 |
2014 | 3,977 | 3,333 | -646 | 13,562 |
2015 | 4,190 | 3,583 | -607 | 14,301 |
2016 | 4,468 | 3,819 | -649 | 15,064 |
2017 | 4,669 | 4,042 | -627 | 15,795 |
2018 | 4,876 | 4,257 | -619 | 16,513 |
2019 | 5,154 | 4,473 | -681 | 17,284 |
2020 | 5,442 | 4,686 | -735 | 18,103 |
2021 | 5,697 | 4,923 | -774 | 18,967 |
2012-2021 | 45,952 | 38,747 | -7,205 | n.a. |
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2012/assets/tables.pdf
Tea Party Budget Proposals
S-1 FY2012 Tea Party’s Balanced/Surplus Budget(Nominal Dollars in Billions) | ||||
Fiscal Year | Outlays | Revenues | Surpluses | Debt Held By Public |
2012 | 2,500 | 2,500 | 0 | 10,900 |
2013 | 2,800 | 2,800 | 0 | 10,900 |
2014 | 3,000 | 3,000 | 0 | 10,900 |
2015 | 3,200 | 3,200 | 0 | 10,900 |
2016 | 3,300 | 3,300 | 0 | 10,900 |
2017 | 3,400 | 3,500 | 100 | 10,800 |
2018 | 3,500 | 3,700 | 200 | 10,600 |
2019 | 3,600 | 3,900 | 300 | 10,300 |
2020 | 3,700 | 4,000 | 300 | 10,000 |
2021 | 3,800 | 4,300 | 500 | 9,500 |
2012-2021 | 32,800 | 34,200 | 1,400 | n.a. |
The tea party movement’s budget would require the Federal Government to have a balanced or surplus budget in every fiscal year starting in 2012 with a declining national debt starting in Fiscal Year 2017.
Neither the Republican nor Democratic Party is capable of living within the means of the American people.
The Republicans are proposing a budget for Fiscal Year 2012 of $3,618 billion compared with the President Obama’s $3,729 billion.
This results in a deficit of $995 billion for the Republican budget and $1,101 billion for President Obama’s budget.
As the above tables clearly show, neither party is capable of balancing the budget in the next ten years.
The above budgets are needed to support a warfare and welfare economy with a collectivist state.
The above budgets are not a pathway to a peace and prosperity economy with a constitutional republic.
The budget needs to be balanced starting in fiscal year 2012 at $2,500 billion or less.
The tea party movement demands that from here on out that all budgets be either balanced or in surplus with no tax increases.
Before either political party attempts to reform so-called entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, the tea party movement demands that ten Federal Departments be permanently closed and the budgets of remaining Federal Departments be reduced by 25%.
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“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.”
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
“A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little autthority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such a creature.”
~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“…As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and the Wall Street Journal) on the right to the Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion to buy the investors’ “toxic assets” was the only alternative to the U.S. economy’s “systemic collapse.” In this, President George W. Bush and his would-be Republican successor John McCain agreed with the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama. Many, if not most, people around them also agreed upon the eventual commitment of some 10 trillion nonexistent dollars in ways unprecedented in America. They explained neither the difference between the assets’ nominal and real values, nor precisely why letting the market find the latter would collapse America. The public objected immediately, by margins of three or four to one.
When this majority discovered that virtually no one in a position of power in either party or with a national voice would take their objections seriously, that decisions about their money were being made in bipartisan backroom deals with interested parties, and that the laws on these matters were being voted by people who had not read them, the term “political class” came into use. Then, after those in power changed their plans from buying toxic assets to buying up equity in banks and major industries but refused to explain why, when they reasserted their right to decide ad hoc on these and so many other matters, supposing them to be beyond the general public’s understanding, the American people started referring to those in and around government as the “ruling class.” And in fact Republican and Democratic office holders and their retinues show a similar presumption to dominate and fewer differences in tastes, habits, opinions, and sources of income among one another than between both and the rest of the country. They think, look, and act as a class. …”
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G. William Domhoff
“…George William (Bill) Domhoff (born August 6, 1936) is a Research Professor in psychology and sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His first book, Who Rules America?, was a controversial 1960s bestseller which argued that the United States is dominated by an elite ownership class both politically and economically.[1]
He was born in Youngstown, Ohio, the son of George William and Helen S. (Cornet) Domhoff. He received a B.A. in Psychology at Duke University, a MA in psychology at Kent State University, and a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Miami.
In the early 1960s, Domhoff served as an assistant professor of psychology at Los Angeles State College. In 1965, he became an assistant professor at the University of California, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, where he is now professor of psychology and sociology.
Domhoff is the author of Who Rules America? (1st ed. 1967, most recent edition 2009) and many other well-known books in sociology and power structure research, as well as Finding Meaning in Dreams (1996) and The Scientific Study of Dreams (2003). …”
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There Are No Conspiracies
by G. William Domhoff
“…There are several problems with a conspiratorial view that don’t fit with what we know about power structures. First, it assumes that a small handful of wealthy and highly educated people somehow develop an extreme psychological desire for power that leads them to do things that don’t fit with the roles they seem to have. For example, that rich capitalists are no longer out to make a profit, but to create a one-world government. Or that elected officials are trying to get the constitution suspended so they can assume dictatorial powers. These kinds of claims go back many decades now, and it is always said that it is really going to happen this time, but it never does. Since these claims have proved wrong dozens of times by now, it makes more sense to assume that leaders act for their usual reasons, such as profit-seeking motives and institutionalized roles as elected officials. Of course they want to make as much money as they can, and be elected by huge margins every time, and that can lead them to do many unsavory things, but nothing in the ballpark of creating a one-world government or suspending the constitution.
Second, the conspiratorial view assumes that the behind-the-scenes leaders are extremely clever and knowledgeable, whereas social science and historical research shows that leaders often make shortsighted or mistaken decisions due to the limits placed on their thinking by their social backgrounds and institutional roles. When these limits are exposed through stupid mistakes, such as the failure of the CIA at the Bay of Pigs during the Kennedy Administration, then conspiratorial theorists assert that the leaders failed on purpose to fool ordinary people.
Third, the conspiratorial view places power in the hands of only a few dozen or so people, often guided by one strong leader, whereas sociologists who study power say that there is a leadership group of many thousands for a set of wealth-owning families that numbers several million. Furthermore, the sociological view shows that the groups or classes below the highest levels buy into the system in various ways and support it. For example, highly trained professionals in medicine, law, and academia have considerable control over their own lives, make a good living, and usually enjoy their work, so they go along with the system even though they do not have much political power. …”
http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/theory/conspiracy.html
Interview: G. William Domhoff
by Chip Berlet, September 2004
“…New Internationalist: Don’t you study how power elites conspire? How can someone tell the difference between conspiracism and criticism of the status quo based on power structure research?
Domhoff: I think I study how elites strive to develop consensus, which is through such publicly observable organizations as corporate boards and the policy-planning network, which can be studied in detail, and which are reported on in the media in at least a halfway accurate manner. I think this is the opposite of a small, secretive, illegitimate conspiracy because this large group called the power elite is known to the public, clearly states its aims (profit, profit, and more profit, and less government), publishes its policy suggestions, and is seen as legitimate by a great majority of the public.
I also study the way in which elites in the United States and other democracies have agreed for a few hundred years now to settle the issues where they can’t reach complete consensus, namely, through elections, which are also public and legitimate, and which can be observed by researchers in a fair amount of detail, including on the issue of campaign finance, and which are reported on fairly well in the media.
The interesting thing with elections, in terms of addressing the conspiracy kind of stuff, is that rival elites have in effect agreed not to get into all out violence and war with each other, although Americans elites did so only 144 years ago in the bloody Civil War. Political scientist John Higley talks of elites coming to “settlements” or “pacts” that lead to elections, but this is not through conspiring, historically speaking, but through sitting down to talk in frustration and exhaustion, usually after fighting each other to a draw over decades. …”
http://www.publiceye.org/antisemitism/nw_domhoff.html
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