I never expected to see this on the news.
FOX’s news studio “is too small”, so several Ron Paul supporters have volunteered to donate money to FOX to build them a bigger trailer.
In the meantime others are selling their News Corp stock.
Are you going to miss any of these corporations?
Are you an American tired of FOX News’ propaganda?
Are you tired of the war in Iraq?
Are you a Ron Paul sympathist miles across the world?
Do you despise U.S. military intervention in your country?
Are you angry?
Then it’s time to sell Newscorp [NWS].
News Corporation has excluded the most widely acclaimed presidential candidate in the world, Ron Paul, from the next debate.
Many of you have wanted to help Ron Paul in one way or another, but you are not allowed to donate to Ron Paul’s campaign, or you may have maxed out your allowable contribution. Well, here is an easy way to help, which may benefit you in more than one way: Sell all your NWS stock.
Teach FOX News a lesson. Make them bleed green until they put Ron Paul back into the debates.
UPDATE: NYSE has been on the downturn, but it is rebounding, while Newscorp is, for whatever reason, not moving in parallel.
Probably coincidental, but it need not be if people start selling now. Even if people are skeptical that it has anything to do with Ron Paul supporters, it would be smart to sell your NWS stock just to be safe.
The lack of exposure on Ron Paul’s amazing fund-raising yesterday is only compelling his vocal supporters to pick up the slack and do the media’s job for them.
“When this Paul campaign is over I think we should continue the meetup groups and use our influence to bury the main stream media!! Lets demonstrate outside their buildings, boycotts their programs, petitions against their staff and company, mail bomb their comments and feedback, trash and flood their online surveys and hound their reporters everywhere they go!!”
Posted by brotherbaldrick at this Ron Paul video
Rwn, rwned -
Pronunciation: \’rōn ‘rȯn, ‘rän\
Function: transitive verb
To defeat or make an embarrassment out of. A slang portmanteau of Ron (Paul) and Own and Pwn. Similar usage to Leetspeak own as in “Sean Hannity and Michael Steele just got r0wn3d by Ron Paul’s supporters”. Used to describe the act of metaphorically crushing an unreasonable opponent (likely a neoconservative or Patriot Trash), naysayer, after winning an argument or destroying the opposition by proving them dead wrong, via logic, or tangible results that contradict the opponents political position or argument.
Alternative spellings include R0wnd, Rwn3d, R0wn3d.
Synonyms: beat, defeat, overcome, overthrow, vanquish
Connotations: conquest, vindication
Etymology: Term originated on Nov 5th, 2007 on Ron Paul Day as portmanteau of Ron (Paul), own and pwn from English Leetspeak pwned or owned, from Middle English, to possess, own, owe, from Old English āgan; akin to Old High German eigun (1st & 3d plural present indicative) possess, Sanskrit īśe he possesses
Date: before 12th century
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“I have received more emails than I can count from people around the world who write to say that they wish they could be American citizens in order to have the privilege of voting for Ron Paul.” -Thomas E. Woods, Jr. from Having Fun Doing Good
Blogs in the international community are spreading Ron Paul’s message of freedom and giving tutorials on libertarianism, hoping to inform their fellow compatriots and to rally U.S. citizens in support of Ron Paul. The phenomenon is becoming widespread and growing as meet-up groups form around the world as far as Australia, Belgium, and Baghdad to discuss Ron Paul and create inspiring videos. This is what the world is saying about Ron Paul:
Venezuela
Can you imagine the the effect these kinds of politics would have on our [Latin American] countries, eternally paralyzed in the notion that everything that happens to us is the fault of the gringos? Chavez’s tantrums and his assassination paranoia would fall on completely deaf ears. One less tool in the recruitment arsenal of the [Venezuelan] left.
We want to be a bridge between Belgium and the Ron Paul campaign. Mainly to inform Belgium about Ron Paul—we think Belgium has more to learn from Ron Paul than Ron Paul from Belgium—but also to show to Ron Paul that when he becomes president and visits Belgium, there well be cheering crowds, not demonstrations!
Why is Ron Paul relevant to us in Belgium?
Undoubtedly, Ron Paul is an exemplary model for libertarians around the entire world and Europe in particular. Since the Second World War, Europe got stuck with an increasingly sweeping welfare state which cost more and more money to European states. Reagan and Thatcher also had their influence in Belgium, for example, think of the nickname of the then still young Guy Verhofstadt who was called ‘Baby Thatcher’. When both Thatcher and Reagan disappeared from the picture, Verhofstadt had also went with the European flow. He could, as it turns out, not pursue liberalism alone.
Regardless of of how weak the dollar is currently, the United States is still the leading monetary power. In the case, and I realize that this approaches utopia, that Ron Paul succeeds in eliminating the power of the inflationary Federal Reserve, this undoubtedly will have consequences on the European central bank (ECB).
People who want to seize liberty in their country must for this reason look across the borders. This opportunity is undoubtedly available to those in the US themselves. There is an extremely large chance that the Democrats will win the elections, as people there do not understand the disadvantages of the welfare state the Democrats are enamored with.
India / Pakistan
Indian and Pakistani Friends of Ron Paul
He is a principled libertarian/classical liberal by political and economic philosophy. That is enough for him to have many new friends in India and Pakistan — both enormously large countries which are sorely in need of libertarian/classical liberal political and economic philosophy to develop themselves. Moreover, Dr Paul advocates a non-interventionist American foreign policy in the world, and he was a principled opponent of the Iraq war from long before it started. That too is something that people in India and Pakistan appreciate. […]
There are rich Indian-Americans paying big bucks to get close to people like Hillary Clinton. They need to stop being so opportunistic and instead look to what is truly in their adopted country’s and the world’s best interests: that is a Ron Paul Presidency.
[Translation: People in other countries wish they had what we have: Ron Paul.]
America launching aggressive wars in the world is not the way to earn the world’s respect or its leadership. Ron Paul, alone among the likely contenders, knows that.
Maybe this will give people in the United States a sense that there are other people out there who care about what we are doing in the world and who would respect us if we had a leader like Ron Paul and a respective foreign policy.
I used to despise America…
Chile
Ron Paul: The Libertarian Hope
Ron Paul has become the third most searched name in Google and his videos have transformed into the most watched on YouTube. Nobody has probably heard him mentioned, or ultimately, you have heard his name in passing. It’s about a congressman for the U.S. Republican party who wants to be president in the United States in 2008.
Now, one could ask, what makes a Republican politician so special?
The answer lies in his history and his proposals, since Ron Paul seeks to return liberty to the citizens of the U.S. embodying the original principles of the revolution that gave the country its opportunities. An example we should attentively look at from Chile.
[…]
Ron Paul thus embodies the spirit of the North American “founding fathers”, who drew up the Constitution with the idea of protecting the citizenry from the abuse of the State. In this sense, Ron Paul embodies, the original North American idealist, largely devoting himself to libertarian ideals more so than the conservative ideals.
His discourse and relevance are causing him to win all the debates for the Republican primaries. […]
From now on, [he is] my favorite candidate for the U.S. elections in 2008.
UK
Because Britain is suffering the EXACT same symptoms as the USA. We are being ruled, instead of having real representative democracy. Like us, the USA are being deceived too. Britain has almost being totaly swallowed up by a corrupt, undemocratic European Union. The USA are starting to go down the route of North American Union.
[…]
The USA has managed to do what we haven’t so far and got itself a champion of freedom. The Americans aren’t quite as docile and ready to accept a police state as we seem to be, so they have rallied behind the one politician they have with integrity. Maybe Britain doesn’t have such a person and thus why we are floundering.
Ron Paul winning in the States will send shockwaves of freedom around the world. Maybe the British will rediscover our spines if he does?
Poland
Public Polish Television (TVA), supported by our taxes, reported on the online presidential campaign in the United States on August 5, 2007. Peter Krazko informed Poles that the most popular candidate among online users is Barack Obama, an obvious lie. In the course of several minutes, not once is Ron Paul’s name mentioned, who definitively leads on YouTube, the biggest online portal in which users can upload videos, also political in nature. The Polish Television propanda is exposed here.
France
From Ron Paul France - with the help of Dutch tourists.
Indonesia
If I were an American I would vote for this guy, no doubt. I had been having this theory that it was the American foreign policy that was so messed up and it was the reason why America was so hated throughout the world and Ron Paul honestly supported my idea during the second GOP Presidential Debate in South Carolina. During the debate Ron Paul, a congressman from the state of Texas, courageously pointed his finger at American foreign policy of making terrible blowbacks in foreign nations. Ron Paul said that America should listen to the the people who attacked America about the reason why they did it. Ron Paul suggested that the only reason why America was attacked was because America had been messing around in other countries. A statement that resulted a hot debate with Rudy Rudy Giuliani. But I have to say, Ron Paul beat him. He said, “They don’t come here to attack us because we’re rich and we’re free, they attack us because we’re over there. I mean, what would we think if other foreign countries were doing that to us?” […]
Untuk Tasa Nugraza Barley: Aku akan memilih Ron Paul untuk kepentingan kamu dan siapa saja yang tidak dari Amerika Serikat. Terima Kasih untuk artikel kamu yang mendangkan ilham; dan salam Indonesia!
Europe
Do you trust your politicians?
Some people ask us, why we care about an old Congressman from Texas. They ask us, what it has to do with Europe.
Well, it`s pretty simple: we support the only honest politician around. We support the only politician who addresses the REAL problems, who stands up against the lies we are being told.
It`s not our fault we don’t have any of those in Europe.
This is not about the USA. This is not about national entities. And, by the way, this is not about being “Anti-European“. The politics of the EU are “anti-european” as they breed conflict among us.
Germany
Dear Americans, vote for this guy and I’ll take pride in the words: Ich bin ein Amerikaner!
A comment by Tuur from Belgium to Bavaria for Ron Paul
Thanks for the post. We must secure our own Ron Pauls here in Europe - it is extremely necessarily. And we will do it! The European r3volution will come, it will be so memorable we will tell our children about it :-))) heartfelt greetings, Tuur (RP Belgium)
Ron Paul Revolution Worldwide (in German)
Who is Ron Paul (video in German)
Ron Paul sympathizers in München (video)
Brazil
Ron Paul’s grassroots campaign is especially interesting for functioning with an unknown degree of spontaneity and decentralization. It compels one to imagine a similar occurrence here in Brazil, right?
Ron Paul’s position on the Iraq war deserves special clarification - not only because this is one the more controversial aspects of the campaign, but mainly because it has great chance of being misunderstood by the majority of the Brazilian public.
Ron Paul, like the majority of Brazilian journalists, is against the Iraq war; however, his reasons for it are very different from that of our journalists. […]
[He is] against the war, but not against the United States […] He can be against the war and at the same time defend American values […]
Military force does not generate democracy: the futility of artificially creating new social orders […] The idea of spreading democracy through military intervention, therefore, is strictly anti-conservative, therefore a true conservative would know that each social order has deep roots in the culture of a people, and could not easily be modified through an external influence - less so if the external influence is military force, which tends to only disorganize effective institutions, without provoking changes in respect to values and ideas.
Therefore, Ron Paul contends that the only role the American government must have in relation to the internal affairs of the other countries is “to give a good example”. That is, the American government must show to the world the benefits of a free society, without involving itself directly in the decision of whether other countries imitate the American model or not. […]
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Ron Paul respected around the world
The media has put out the idea that somehow Ron Paul isn’t right for our national security. Really? I wonder how much these critics know about Al Qaeda, our real interests, strategy or world politics.
Afterword
Of course we too have plenty to learn from the world. Economies such as that of Hong Kong rely on a very free market with no minimum wage, and their employment rate is very similar to that of the United States. The Netherlands is very tolerant of victimless “crimes” and encourages young people “to make fact-based decisions” instead of scaring them into ignorance. (Not to mention, your own government lets you take harmful drugs, but jails you for taking the safer ones).
Students and schools in Belgium and around the world outdo their counterparts in the United States; but it’s not about lack of money, it’s lack of competition and a surplus of bad teachers who have no incentive to teach well. But guess what? Independent schools that spend less money per student, but more per teacher in the United States outdo our public schools as well. How do we fix the problem? Increase competition. Does it still sound strange when Ron Paul says he wants to do away with the Department of Education? Don’t miss the following video:
Stupid in America
Do you want to learn more about Ron Paul? Visit RonPaul2008.com and watch the following video:
One consequence of Ron Paul’s sound foreign policy, is that people around the world will stop hating us - what will that do for terrorism?
Request: Please inform me about any translation errors, particularly in Dutch and Polish. If you come across any notable website supporting Ron Paul, particularly in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, please send us a link, or post it under comments!
Patriot Trash is defined as people who claim to be patriots, but whose actions and ideology are actually bad for this country. That includes most neocons and supporters of this [Iraq] war.
Chicken-hawks are a subset of Patriot Trash.
As a follow up on military service people being “heroes” and all…
These are some reasons to join the military:
for honor
for country
for money
free tuition
travel abroad
“blow shit up”
because you hate brown people
because you hate Muslims
because you think you are going to do something good for our country
because you are politically illiterate
because you want to kill people
for the adventure (good one)
for the hookers near military bases, esp. coastal cities
because you are not disciplined enough to do things on your own and you want somebody else to tell you what to do
because you can’t get a job in the real world
because your buddies “did it”
because you parents did it
because your brothers did it
because it was expected of you
“Taking a stand against terrorism” Yeah right…
for the experience (this is a good one)
to learn new things (good one too)
to protect your country (another good one, if you are not starting wars with random countries and your commander in chief is not an idiot)
for potential prestige (not bad)
work experience (decent, too)
to say you did it
so you won’t be called a chicken-hawk
because it makes you look brave
because people will blindly see you as a hero, even if you don’t deserve the title
because you want to know what a bullet feels like
because you want to play with guns or tanks
because it’s easier to follow orders than to think for yourself
health care benefits
dental benefits
military discounts
free flights between bases
pay back your expensive college loans
get to tell people what to do (at some point)
advanced and technical training (nice choice)
because you think God wants you to (lol)
pension
get to yell at foreign strangers
you enjoy pain
you enjoy inflicting pain
because your recruiter lied to you (ouch)
to get citizenship
to be freed (if you were previously a slave)
to get away from your parents
you lost a bet
to meet exotic women abroad
you don’t care for your right leg (you are hoping you’ll be shot and compensated for it)
you think you owe tribute to fallen soldiers
to take revenge
because you want to kill japs
because you want to kill towelheads
because you want to kill Nazis
to find Osama Bin Laden and kick his ass (probably the greatest reason of all)
to kill real terrorists (not Iraqi civilians)
to kill Iraqi civilians
because you think you can force people to be free, even when their idea of freedom is radically different from yours.
to destroy Al Qaeda (another great reason)
for a good career (maybe)
to take out Saddam Hussein (no longer applicable)
to prepare for a career with the CIA
no more job hunting or resumes
pride
false pride
because you liked the boy scouts or girl scouts
you enjoy fighting
you enjoy martial arts
your parents or the politician near you won’t let you carry guns
you want to learn new languages
you are preparing to work for blackwater
to protect Israel (even though they don’t need or deserve our protection anymore than their neighbors)
because you think it’s your duty (…why?)
you are preparing for a criminal career
because you adore Hitler
because you want to be a skilled, high-profile terrorist
because you think you won’t be in the front lines
because you were drafted
because you were shafted
because your parents made you
because your family is way poor
because you got your high school sweetheart pregnant (need money)
because your girlfriend/boyfriend thinks men/women in uniforms are hot
because you think men/women in uniforms are hot
because you are gay (in the homosexual sense)
to freak your parents out
because your parents asked you not to
because you hate yourself
for the adrenaline rush
you like to go camping/hiking/hunting
to put your parents through hell
because you are not worried about brain damage
because you think you are invincible / indestructible
because you are not worried about amputation / blindness (extremities are redundant anyway)
because you look forward to begging for money on the streets as a war veteran
because you were told you would never see combat
because “more people get killed in NY than in Iraq” every day
because you can “choose any job you want” (hahahaha)
because you are not worried about blatant discrimination
because you detest freedom (your own)
because you didn’t realize there are many other ways to get all of the above
to take part in history (not too bad)
to become an officer (power)
to learn 100 ways to kill someone
to learn to defend yourself
to learn to defend yourself if you ever lead a revolution
because you thought you could quit anytime
because you thought it would be easy
because you want to learn to use nuclear weapons
to fly a jet
to learn to command a helicopter
because it might be funner than Halo
because you want to join a special operations team (even though you probably won’t make it due to competition)
to learn to be a sniper (could be neat)
because you enjoy war movies
because you are not smart enough to do something else
because you’ve always wondered what food in the military tastes like
to march around in funny suits
to join a band and wear funny suits
to clean toilets with only toothbrushes and spit
because it’s cool to get promoted
to challenge yourself (another good one)
to get strong
to get lean
to get in shape
to be prepared in the event of a terrorist attack
because you were abused as a child and want revenge (the training)
to get a free nosejob
free liposuction
free breast enlargement
breast augmentation
facelift
cosmetic surgery (courtesy of Donald Rumsfeld)
your girlfriend/boyfriend wants you to get plastic surgery
because you think you are patriotic
because you don’t realize that the military is making things worse for the United States and the world.
because you think you’ll be defending your country
EDIT: because you worship Bush (one of the worst reasons, probably)
EDIT 2: No, because you worship Giuliani, lol
P.S. Joining the military doesn’t make you a hero; all it takes is a signature.
EDIT 3: I’m not insulting the troops. If you don’t understand satire, don’t bother posting a comment.
Myth Number 1:
“My friends and sons and daughters are dying for your satire and your freedoms.”
No. They are probably in Iraq fighting people who have nothing to do with 9/11.
Myth Number 2:
“By making personal attacks on the author of this article and telling the author how he/she couldn’t write this if it wasn’t for the soldiers he/she is criticizing, I’ll show him/her.”
Wrong. Since I never in this article insult the military, it goes to show just how retarded you are. You continue to validate the list by showing me that people are too stupid to understand politics and satire. When soldiers go to Iraq, they are in NO WAY defending my right to write any of this. Iraqis have NOT threatened my freedom, so there is no need to kill them.
Tancredo suggested we bomb Muslim holy sites in retaliation for a future terrorist attack. Perhaps Tancredo wants to punish 99.9% of Muslims for a crime they did not commit. Perhaps Tancredo, like Rudy Giuliani, needs to learn about blowback.
I suppose Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina among other majority Muslim countries are going to applaud Tancredo and the United States for turning Mecca into a glass crater. I’m sure bombing Mecca will have no negative consequences in regard to our political and economic situation.
Of course, this is not the first time such a ridiculous strategy has been suggested. You may recall when President Bush allegedly expressed his desire to bomb Al-Jazeera in 2004; while this story may not be true, two British journalists were charged with disclosing secret information.
It is curious that when it is done to us it constitutes terrorism. But when we terrorize others, somehow it is not classified as terrorism. I think threatening 1.5 billion people and a symbol of their religion constitutes terrorism; but maybe the modern definition of terrorism doesn’t have anything to do with terror anymore.
For a psychological perspective on this phenomenon read the following article by Shankar Vedantam: Disagree About Iraq? You’re Not Just Wrong — You’re Evil.
Partisans within ideological groups tended to view themselves as atypical vis-a-vis their group: atypical in their moderation, in their freedom from bias, and in their capacity to ’see things as they are in reality’ even when that reality proves to be ideologically inconvenient or ‘politically incorrect’. –Harvard Business School researcher Robert J. Robinson
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All he talks about is 9/11. You know why? Because that’s his entire platform. He pretends he is tough on terror, but he is weak. He hasn’t read the 9/11 Commission Report, and he doesn’t know what blowback is.
He claims the nation will be str
onger with a Republican in power, especially him. Yet, he’s got nothing to back that up with. What exactly does Giuliani know about terrorism?
His children hate him. NY Firefighters hate him. Ferrets hate him. Ferret poop hates him. Jaywalkers hate him. The American Psychological Association hates him. His wives hate him. His children hate him. NY Bus drivers hate him. TouchingYou guy hates him. The first amendment hates him.
Did you know terrorists can use RFID chips to blow up Americans? All they need is a RF receiver linked to an explosive device. Then they can target Americans carrying REAL IDs or the new American passports.
Now the terrorists can track you.
What a genius!
Did you know his children hate him? I’m not surprised because he contradicts himself every time he speaks.
“Dad, are you coming to my graduation?”
“No son, I have to battle terrorists today.”
“Good, I was going to ask you not to come.”
“Actually, I’ll be there with your third stepmother.”
“What about the terrorists?”
“That’s OK. When they attack us, my ratings go up.”
(Source: detailed random imagery that popped into my head).
So why write this article? It’s not an article. It’s a plea to all retards (probably not you, dear reader) begging them not to vote.
“Freedom is about Authority” - Rudy Giuliani.
The internet impacted the air waves and shocked commentator Sean Hannity last Wednesday, July 18th. He found himself experiencing cognitive dissonance when statistics published at The Spin Factor made it on his radio show:
Sean Hannity may be remembered for playing down statistics from FOX News’ own text messaging poll and asking loaded questions at the May 15th, 2007 South Carolina debate. He experienced blowback when a enthusiastic caller called in. From Vote Write In for Ron Paul 2008:
“Normally Paul supporters come right out of the gate, guns blazing, confronting Hannity on Ron Paul related issues (also known as common sense). This time was different. This Ron Paul supporter disguised himself as a man un-decided on which canditate [sic] he’d support, going so far as to calling Hannity a ‘great American’ like most of his boot-licking audience tends to do upon introducing themselves. Little did Hannity know, he was in store for a Ron Paul sucker punch.”
Hannity claims to favor the troops, and when told that a republican candidate had received the most contributions from military and veterans, it validated his belief that the military supports Republicans and the Iraq war. When the caller, Kylan, revealed Rep. Ron Paul was the recipient, Hannity had to resolve the conflict between his perception that troops favor the war and “want to win” and the implication by the FEC statistics that the troops favor Ron Paul’s non-interventionist policies. The result? If Hannity supports the troops he must support a withdrawal from Iraq. The only way out of this contradiction is to ignore the data and hang up.
Update: Suprisingly, FOX News eventually reported the story here.
Related:
Ron Paul leads all 08 candidates with one-fourth of military contributions for Q2
Dear Media: Thank you for your honest reporting!
Cognitive Dissonance
Justifying Iraq war and escalation
Escalation of commitment
Blowback