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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!

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

9/11: ASK QUESTIONS – DEMAND ANSWERS!

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

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 interaction 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?

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.

• 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?

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.

• Cheney predicted quagmire in Iraq — all the way back in 1994.

  They really don’t want you to see this video. Too bad it already has over 700,000 views.

• NYC Mayor Bloomberg confronted by 9/11 Truth activists on the subway

  Amazing video from WeAreChange! They had lots of good questions, he of course pretended not to hear them.

• 40-story building next to Ground Zero burned yesterday for 7 hours and didn’t collapse

  It always helps when the building isn’t laced with bombs.

• Ron Paul is kicking ass and taking names in Alabama and New Hampshire straw polls

  81% of the vote in Alabama. Next-highest was Romney with 5%. What, you didn’t hear about that? Huh.

• 9/11 Truth knocks on Pelosi’s front door

  She didn’t want to come out and play…

• U.S. Army suicide rate hits 26-year high

• Senior US official suggests America could fall like Rome

• The Nation writes about the NAFTA Superhighway

There’s so much going on right now, I can’t even try to keep up, so this is just a tiny little taste. Don’t wait for me to post it all, go find it for yourself!

I have a funny feeling about this bridge collapse story, that’s for sure. And I’m not alone. When consuming stories like this one happen, that’s when you should pay attention to OTHER events happening, the ones in smaller print. Use your detective skills to find what’s NOT on CNN, what’s on the last page of the newspaper, or what is being bumped completely off the headlines right now.

Like this little gem:

Karl Rove granted executive privilege — real original Mr. Bush!

US President George W Bush has ordered close adviser Karl Rove not to testify before a Senate hearing on the sacking of eight federal prosecutors.

Mr Bush used the executive privilege he has as president to exempt Mr Rove from having to appear.

The US Senate committee is investigating whether the White House arranged the sackings for improper political reasons.

The Bush administration maintains that the dismissals were justified.

“Mr Rove, as an immediate presidential adviser, is immune from compelled congressional testimony about matters that arose during his tenure and that relate to his official duties in that capacity,” White House lawyer Fred Fielding wrote in a letter to Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy, and made available to the Reuters news agency.

Mr Rove had been due to testify at a hearing on Thursday morning, along with another White House aide, deputy political director Scott Jennings.

You have the internet, therefore you have a choice.
Get – your – news – from – somewhere – besides – the mainstream media.

- Remember Gonzales?

- Did you hear about the 6 Iraqi cabinet members quitting?

- The 3,653 U.S. soldiers killed by two illegal occupations justified by lies?

- Have you noticed that all political news is now focused on the 2008 Presidential election? Not what’s going on right NOW. Not the complete inability of Congress to stand up to Bush, get our civil liberties back, repair our broken Constitution and Bill of Rights, and heed the demands of a majority of Americans calling for an IMMEDIATE end to the Iraq occupation.

Don’t be distracted.

Every day: Our military perpetrates this kind of violence.
Every day: Iraqi civilians risk their lives when they go to the market.
Every day: Our troops risk their lives trying to calm the chaotic stew of a country their Commander in Chief stirred up and mercilessly threw them into.
Every day: The roads blow up underneath them.
Every day: The families of 9/11 victims wonder what really happened to their loved ones and why their deaths are being used to justify so much violence and destruction.

Our media doesn’t deliver the news you need to know. It delivers what they want you to know. Seven corporations control ALL of your tv channels.

You can’t be lazy anymore, you have to get the news for yourself, dig a little, read news from outside the U.S. Don’t assume that if it’s not on the front page it’s not important. Likewise, don’t assume that if it is on the front page it is important. Usually it’s the back pages that hold the real stories.

EDUCATE & INFORM YOURSELF.