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2009’s Most Promising Podcasts

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News. Truth. Common Sense. Inspiration.

If you can’t stand mainstream media sources (I’m talking to you ABC/BBC/CBS/CNN/Fox/MSNBC/NBC/NPR/NYT) that never talk about the real issues and never give real solutions, check these out:

  1. Free Talk Live

    “This show is about Liberty with a capital L.”

  2. Survival Podcast

    “Helping you live the life you want, if times get tough, or even if they dont.”

  3. Wall St. Unspun with Peter Schiff

    Weekly market news broadcast in support of sound money, limited government, and free market capitalism.

Old media is dead. Independent news is our only hope.

Thanks to my friend Tim for pointing me to 2 of these!

RussiaToday: Role Model for American MSM

Perhaps it’s time to move to Russia?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew97V8d1rvY

9/11: ASK QUESTIONS – DEMAND ANSWERS!

Hey– Look over HERE!!!

Holy s—t, a man cheated on his wife, BIG NEWS!!

Meanwhile, we’re on the verge of war with Russia, no biggie. You can go back to American Idol now, everything is fine…

News Overload!

WHEW!

I just got in from D.C., back from the Ron Paul Revolution March. My inbox is overflowing and the RSS updates are in the thousands. But PeaceChicken.com comes first!

Before I forget, I want to share a video of my recent confrontation with Ohio Congressman Pat Tiberi.

I saw him at the Delaware County Parade (I was marching with The Liberty Voice) and decided to ask him about the unconstitutional FISA bill which recently passed through the Senate (FYI, Obama voted YES to spy on Americans.) Tiberi’s response? He turned around and started talking to someone else. The Fourth Amendment obviously not a big concern to him. Fortunately I had my Bill of Rights with me and kindly reminded him what it said.

This is Congress. This is who we’re relying on to save this country. They wear flag pins on their suit lapels and march in Fourth of July Parades, but when it comes time to actually stand up and defend the U.S. Constitution — they turn their back.

The good news that THEY are on their way out and WE’RE on our way in. This weekend at the D.C. Revolution March there were thousands of REAL PATRIOTS from across the country who took over Constitution Avenue and spent the day listening to amazing speakers like G. Edward Griffin, Naomi Wolf, Chuck Baldwin, and Ron Paul.

Together we marched against FISA, against the IRS, against the Federal Reserve, against REAL I.D., against the North American Union, against the war, against attacking Iran, against McCain, against Obama, against the false and dividing left/right paradigm, against everything that’s taking our country down. We marched FOR freedom, FOR liberty, FOR the Constitution, FOR the Bill of Rights, FOR limited government, FOR our Founding Fathers, FOR PEACE!

Aside from the obvious highlights, I also easily handed out a few hundred copies of The Liberty Voice and was interviewed by the National Journal Online (hopefully I’ll have a link for that to post soon, as well as my photos.) If you want to see some of the fun, there are lots of videos already uploaded here from fellow-marchers.

Also this weekend, another Patriot, someone I’m very proud to call my friend (and member of We Are Change Ohio) got the chance to ask McCain a very important question, live on CNN, at a recent town hall event in Portsmouth, Ohio.

He said to McCain:

“Can you tell us about your role as president of the ‘New Citizen Project,’ founded in 1994, which served as a chief fund-raising and parent organization to PNAC? And is this one of the factors that has made you so reluctant to support the victims’ family members and first responders who are begging for a new investigation into 9/11?”

Can you guess what McCain’s response was? YOU GOT IT! Once again, another member of Congress responded by not answering the question. He just rambled on about how he was a co-sponsor of the legislation that formed the 9/11 Commission and how great that Commission was (what a joke!!) Are we seeing a trend here?

Meanwhile… the U.S. banking crisis got some fresh momentum on Friday when there was a run on California-based IndyMac bank, resulting in their seizure by the Federal Reserve. That marked the second largest bank failure in U.S. history.

Short on its tails, ready to fail, are federally-chartered and now privately-owned Fanny Mae (AKA Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddy Mac (AKA Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation), which together guarantee half the mortgages in the country. Of course the Federal Government, Congress, and the Federal Reserve are vehemently denying any problem, but still stand ready and eager to bail them out with OUR TAX DOLLARS (last time I checked, the Constitution said nothing of spending We the People’s tax dollars to save failing businesses.) Which of course won’t work. It’s a band-aid on a blown-off leg. The dollar crash is starting, my friends. Buy some gold and silver (here’s why) then hold on.

Yeah, I know, I have a lot of bad news in this post, sorry. I’m also sorry that I’m not done yet, because Bush has given Israel the thumbs up to attack Iran.

Given our unwavering support of Israel ($6.8 million a DAY, to be precise), of course the U.S. will be by their side in no time. Another attack on a sovereign country that poses no threat is ready to be launched. A third front for our poor soldiers in the Middle East and millions more dead civilians. Another yawn comes from the mouth of mainstream media.

It’s another day in the neighborhood, folks. One by one, the dominoes are falling as predicted. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

How many of these news stories does it take to wake people up and move them to action?

Columbus Dispatch prints Ron Paul letter

Last week, about 30 members of the Columbus Ron Paul Meetup group marched in Columbus’ annual MLK Jr. Day parade downtown. We made up about 10% of the crowd (estimated at 300 marchers) and yet the Columbus Dispatch’s only mention of us was their reference to “…a large sheet of Tyvek home wrap inscribed with a presidential candidate’s name” AKA Ben’s HUGE Ron Paul Revolution banner.

In response to this pathetic and overt exclusion, Tim wrote a Letter to the Editor, which was surprisingly printed in today’s Dispatch:

Media routinely overlook Ron Paul

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

I attended my first Martin Luther King Jr. march on Jan. 21. It was pretty cold, but overall it was very rewarding and I’ll do it again. Mostly because I love the King message of peace, civil liberties and judging people based on the content of their character, not the color of skin.

I attended wearing my Ron Paul hat and lapel button and joined maybe 30 other Paul supporters who had signs and banners. Many people were curious about Paul and approached us asking questions, wanting information, asking for buttons and yard signs. Those of us who campaign for Paul are used to people not knowing who he is because many media outlets snub him. So when I read last Tuesday’s Dispatch article “In bitter cold, King’s message forges on,” and it mentioned “a large sheet of Tyvek home wrap inscribed with a presidential candidate’s name,” I was appalled, but not surprised.

The candidate whose name was missing from the story was Ron Paul.

The Ron Paul Revolution is a revolution of love, for peace, prosperity and freedom. Paul is the only genuine anti-war candidate in the race and the most ardent civil-rights supporter of the lot. He views people as individuals, not as groups.

All of this falls perfectly in line with King’s message. For those wishing to support a candidate who truly embodies the legacy of one of the greatest civil-rights leaders of all time, come find out how we share the dream: www.RonPaul2008.com.

TIM WELSH

Great job Tim! Here is another great example— not only of the mainstream media’s perpetual exclusion of the Ron Paul Revolution, but also how important it is for us to never be passive media consumers. We must continue to let the MSM know we are not only watching them, but also that we will forever hold them accountable to reporting the truth. Lies by omission will never be tolerated!

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Tonight’s Republican Debate on Fox News — full of surprises.

Here’s what I learned from tonight’s surprising debate chock full of new questions and equal response time:

  • Gay marriage : BAD. I know I don’t need to point out the obvious: that this is the most important issue facing our country today. Children need a mother AND a father, see. Got that, single moms and widows?
  • Pro-life : GOOD! Unless they’re babies in the Middle East, Asia, or Africa, those we don’t mind killing.
  • The military budget : TOO SMALL! Spending more than every other country in the world combined is not enough. No wonder Iran and Russia are standing up to us, we don’t spend enough on defense!
  • Hillary: BAD. And apparently the only Democratic party candidate.
  • Mitt Romney: PRETTY.
  • Diversity: BAD. Obvious from the demographic make-up of the audience. Or maybe there aren’t any black people in Florida?
  • Ron Paul: BAD. Not enough war-talk. Me need more war! Won’t spend enough imaginary money and bankrupt our future generations. BOOO!!!

Ron Paul, the only passionate and not-full-of-s—t speaker up there, was booed multiple times, including when he talked about non-interventionism and this crazy idea of TALKING with other countries instead of immediately bombing them. There was also booing at his mention of leaving Iraq. You can be sure those that booed are the people proudly shipping their children over there right now.

Here it is, not even November 2007, and already the election has been decided.

You all know this right? It will be Hillary vs. Giuliani whether you like it or not. Forget that we haven’t held a single primary yet, the media has already declared it thus, and so it must be. Giuliani could have stood up there and quacked like a duck the whole time and the commentators afterwards still would have said,

“The obvious front-runner is Giuliani, he did everything right tonight.”

Likewise, there may as well be no other candidates running for the Democratic party nomination, Hillary has already been dubbed The One.

The only way out of this — our only hope — is if we can get people to quit watching these ridiculous “debates”, do their own research on the candidates using objective sources of information (no campaign websites or corporate-owned media websites) and not base their opinions on what ANY members of the mainstream media say. If people would look up voting records, campaign contributions, find out who owns the TV stations they’re watching, and weigh the factors that truly qualify someone to be President — Giuliani, Hillary, and many others would be removed from the equation in a heartbeat, and the media could take their spoon-fed “2+2=5″ rhetoric and shove it up their doublespeak arses.

Get people to do their own research? Turn the TV off and f—k the media?

Yeah, I know, we’re screwed.

P.S. Why no follow-up poll, Fox News? Don’t like the way those pesky non-scientific and easy-to-hack measures of public opinion have been turning out lately?

Columbus 9/11 Truth in ThisWeek Community News article

Police, fire, service leaders remember 9/11

By Candy Brooks, ThisWeek Community News

An organization called Columbus 9/11 Truth made its way to the front of the crowd with its large sign. The 9/11 truth movement questions the U.S. government’s official explanation for what happened that day, and seeks further investigation.

When the protesters first approached the speakers’ area with its sign, a few residents attempted to push them out of the way. Quickly and quietly, police officers stopped what could have become a confrontation, and peace prevailed.

Click here to read the full article.

Not only was our presence prominently featured in the article, there is no use of the phrase “conspiracy theorists” or anything pejorative (yes, apparently now theorizing has a negative connotation) we usually expect to see in mainstream media mentions.

Here are a few pictures from the event:

Photo by John Pouliot.


Photo by John Pouliot.


Photo by Laura.