A series of electronic footprints residing in computer servers around the world pointed to Ron Paul’s campaign’s headquarters. The mostly unpaid team is charged with sending mass campaign emails and creating self-sufficient robots that have populated the internet.
Astrophysicist Stephen Hawkins’ wheelchair was among those hijacked in the process. “The on-board computer on my wheelchair suddenly signed on to RonPaul2008.com and threatened to shut off my air supply if I didn’t enter my credit card number… It then proceeded to spam websites like Digg and facebook.”
Researchers from the Singularity Institute, a non-profit think-tank tasked with creating Friendly Artificial Intelligence suggested schematics on Seed AI were stolen from their lab.
Ray Kurzweil, a lead Artificial Intelligence researcher and author of The Singularity is Near, believes Ron Paul and his team has created a series of intelligent beings with free-will that now roam the web, “it’s was only a matter of time before they organized and began a revolution. It’s not surprising that these free entities would choose a leader that opposes government and regulation. Information wants to be free.”
Although legislators in both houses of congress are ready to label Ron Paul’s internet self-sufficient robots a terrorist threat, it is not clear whether these organisms present a threat to society. An NSA representative neither confirmed nor denied the existence of designer-AI beings roaming the web, nor whether the rumors are cause for concern.
Paul spokesman Jesse Benton said in an e-mail, “This is the first I’ve heard about this situation.”
“If it is true, it could be done by a well-intentioned yet misguided supporter or someone with bad intentions trying to embarrass the campaign,” he wrote while ferrying his boss to tape an appearance on The Tonight Show. “Either way, this is independent work, and we have no connection.”
Hannity tries to discount the poll results but Ron Paul forces Hannity to affront the audience, insult FOX News, or admit Ron Paul won. In all, a great interview and surprisingly civil.
It appears our military backs Ron Paul in the most important issue facing the United States: Terrorism and our foreign policy. For the second time in a row, Ron Paul receives more donations among Republicans. Data for Democrats is not yet available, but Ron Paul crushed Democrats in this statistic last quarter as well.
This data is sourced from FEC Reports for Q3 and was compiled here by jfletch and RP4.US
*This list uses donators who listed their employer as some variation of Air Force, Army, National Guard, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Retired Vet, Veteran, Civilian Military employee, or Military (no branch indicated). This is preliminary data and may contain insignificant errors.
Now that McCain’s donations are a matter of public record we can see that he received 5.7 million only passing Ron Paul by a mere 0.6 million in third quarter donations. Furthermore, McCain spent approximately the entire amount earned in Q3, leaving McCain with the 3.4 million he started out with and a debt of 1.7 million.
Some other notable republican campaigns owe considerable amounts of money.
CNN - “Ron Paul is here to stay and will become a huge problem for the leading-tier candidates with his anti-war position. He was the libertarian nominee for president in 1988 and has a network of supporters helping him with his campaign. As you travel around the country, you can see Ron Paul supporters everywhere.” -Paraphrased comments by Alex King, correspondent to Wolf Blitzer.
“…does the party want to follow George Bush off a cliff or do they want to follow Ron Paul?” -Paul Beggala
“RP is more anti-war than Clinton, Obama, etc” -CNN commentator.
Cafferty Letter: How can Republicans turn it around?
“Stop marginalizing the smartest among them, that is, Ron Paul.” -CNN viewer.
MSNBC has historically been positive about Ron Paul: Tucker, Chris Matthews and Pat Buchanan like him a lot. They will likely cover him today based on his 5 million for Q3. However, the breaking news coverage on the 5 million incorrectly called him an isolationist.
Any positive coverage by neoconservative FOX News is unlikely to be seen tonight.
And a comment for MSNBC on their breaking news: Ron Paul is NOT an isolationist. He is a non-interventionist, and there is a big difference. Nevertheless, I want to commend MSNBC on their generally fair coverage of Ron Paul.
As for ABC, CNN and FOX News… study ethical journalism and get back to us.
By the way, our prediction that Ron Paul would reach 1.2 million last week held true