Can you IMAGINE if 160 people were killed last week, here in the US? Considering what the criminals in DC did to the people of Boston while looking for a teenager suspected of killing 3...its really hard to even imagine the show of force that would be displayed if a handful of individuals killed 160! But, alas, the people who were killed in Iraq last week were not real people at all. They were brown in color, lived in a far away land, and they are still trying to get used to the "Freedom and Democracy" that the MIC has blessed them with.

ARTICLE:
Reuters) - Bomb blasts in Baghdad killed at least 20 more people on Friday at the end of a week of bloodshed that prompted a United Nations envoy to warn Iraq was "at a crossroads".

More than 160 people have been killed since Tuesday, when troops stormed a Sunni protest camp near Kirkuk, triggering clashes that quickly spread to other Sunni areas in western and northern provinces.

Sometimes I look at the Top Forum Topics on the DP and it reads like people said, "Oh, here's some bad news - I'll go post it on the Daily Paul!"

What I would like to see more of is:

News about what you're doing - in your garden, on your farm, at your GOP / Libertarian / Democratic Party meeting, what your kids are learning, what you're learning, what you heard at the grocery store, what you observed in your neighborhood. Not just bad stuff - good stuff too!

What I'd like to see less of is:

InfoWars:

...”the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups”, where they suggest, among other tactics, ”Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action.”

...Because Sunstein explicitly states that “9/11 conspiracy theories” are his main focus, virtually all interpreters have agreed that Sunstein’s call for what is essentially another Cointelpro Operation is directed specifically against the 9/11 truth movement. (Cointelpro, or “Counter Intelligence Program”, was the FBI’s name for its high-priority operations to infiltrate, provoke, undermine and disable civil rights, socialist, antiwar, black power and Native American movements during the late 1950s and the 1960s.) The fantastic picture Sunstein paints of the 9/11 truth movement as “harmful,” “dangerous,” and likely to resort to “terrorism” suggests that he is serving a function similar to Philip Zelikow’s during the Bush/Cheney years; in his own way, Sunstein too is a “myth-maker.”

In his new book Cognitive Infiltration David Ray Griffin has provided the first truly adequate response to Sunstein’s deeply-flawed and legally-questionable arguments...

read more:
http://www.infowars.com/c...

related: Obama Information Czar Calls For Banning Free Speech:
http://www.prisonplanet.c...

(Original title edited for relevance.)

Multi-national corporations upset with Rand Paul, lobbyists cannot budge him

Senator Rand Paul is coming under pressure from some multi-national businesses to drop his opposition to tax treaties between the United States and other nations.

Citing privacy concerns about Americans' tax data, Paul, a Republican and libertarian, has single-handedly blocked Senate action on treaties with Hungary, Switzerland and Luxembourg that have been signed by authorities on both sides, but have been awaiting Senate review since 2011.

Outspoken civil libertarian and Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald made a rare cable news appearance this afternoon to debate with TheBlaze host and former CIA officer Buck Sexton over the role American foreign policy has played in fueling Islamic extremists to execute terrorist attacks against the United States. The MSNBC segment was lamentably much shorter than it needed to be, with the two guests getting into a fascinating debate over the nature of jihad.

By Ron Paul

Forced lockdown of a city. Militarized police riding tanks in the streets. Door-to-door armed searches without warrant. Families thrown out of their homes at gunpoint to be searched without probable cause. Businesses forced to close. Transport shut down.

These were not the scenes from a military coup in a far off banana republic, but rather the scenes just over a week ago in Boston as the United States got a taste of martial law. The ostensible reason for the military-style takeover of parts of Boston was that the accused perpetrator of a horrific crime was on the loose. The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city. This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.

What has been sadly forgotten in all the celebration of the capture of one suspect and the killing of his older brother is that the police state tactics in Boston did absolutely nothing to catch them. While the media crowed that the apprehension of the suspects was a triumph of the new surveillance state – and, predictably, many talking heads and Members of Congress called for even more government cameras pointed at the rest of us – the fact is none of this caught the suspect. Actually, it very nearly gave the suspect a chance to make a getaway.

...who clothes himself in the purity of the Constitution -- according to Dorothy Rabinowitz who sits on the War Street Journal editorial board.

http://youtu.be/sDrBZXuUhqo

Rand is really getting attacked a lot lately - I stand with him more than ever!

If we were to have a sane and adult conversation about drug use and abuse in America instead of waging a war on drugs the same way we wage a war on terror, we might come to the realization that we’re letting the bad ones in our homes freely while some of the most helpful to improving the quality of life of the average person carry some of the highest minimum prison sentences of all, while touting an infinitesimal number of related deaths. Some of you may have read Thad McKracken’s well thought out article on the state of drugs in society today. The numbers fall in lockstep with his thoughts.

It turns out that, aside from Alcohol, Big Pharma is the #1 killer while drugs that have been used traditionally as entheogens hardly appear in the statistics at all. Drugs like LSD, DMT, Marajuana, Peyote and other psychedelics are used as a religious sacrament in many belief systems around the world, but are vilified because of their tendency to provide people with what Terence McKenna simply called ‘funny ideas’.

In 2010, there were 80,000 drug and alcohol overdose deaths in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s WONDER database. The database, maintained by the National Center for Health Statistics, keeps a tally of all the deaths listed on certificates nationwide. They’re classified by the ICD-10 medical coding reference system.

http://disinfo.com/2013/04/out-of-all-drugs-legal-and-illega...

Paul has hold on three treaties, more in the pipeline

Senator Rand Paul is coming under pressure from some multi-national businesses to drop his opposition to tax treaties between the United States and other nations.

Citing privacy concerns about Americans' tax data, Paul, a Republican and libertarian, has single-handedly blocked Senate action on treaties with Hungary, Switzerland and Luxembourg that have been signed by authorities on both sides, but have been awaiting Senate review since 2011.

The Boston police state lockdown was a beta test. It went over swimmingly. Residents obeyed orders and stayed in their homes. Grocery stores closed. Hospitals were inaccessible. Roads were empty. Schools closed down. Taxi cabs didn’t run. Local business lost millions of dollars in revenue. Get ready. It’s a distinct possibility “shelter in place” will be coming to your neighborhood soon, especially after the display of groveling submission in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Kurt Nimmo

http://www.infowars.com/police-state-euphemism-shelter-in-pl...

If I could teach only one value to live by, it would be this: Success will come and go, but integrity is forever. Integrity means doing the right thing at all times and in all circumstances, whether or not anyone is watching. It takes having the courage to do the right thing, no matter what the consequences will be. Building a reputation of integrity takes years, but it takes only a second to lose, so never allow yourself to ever do anything that would damage your integrity.

This article is full of massive propaganda. Lone wolf, homegrown terrorists, mastermind, rabbit hole, conspiracy theory, brainwashed etc. Also, I thought the msm said the little brother told "officials" that he and his brother "planned" an attack in NYC? Well, if thats the case, what does this quote mean?

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"According to accounts of the surviving brother's responses to questioning, he has insisted that they acted alone and that he knew of no other plots or undetonated bombs."

Other excerpts from the article:

The 26-year-old, who has been identified through fingerprinting as the man killed in the shootout with police in the Watertown suburb of Boston, is widely assumed to have been the mastermind of the marathon outrage, with his younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev allegedly playing the role of junior partner.

Federal investigators and counter-terrorism experts are increasingly of the view that the brothers were acting alone. The surmise is that the elder Tsarnaev largely provided his own motivation and training, through the internet.

My fellow liberty lovers and residents of NY State. Our group http://themidnightride.org has been working on a voting registration drive of all gun owners that we can possibly register before election day.

Based on numbers given to me by local politicians we know is anywhere from 4.5 to 5 million gun owners, but ONLY 1 million of those vote or are registered to vote. That is why we have undertaken this task and started the process, but we need boots on the ground. The idea is to assign people to register at the range, gun shop, church, etc.

Again visit us at http://themidnightride.org. Molon Labe!

As martial law is declared in VALLEY SPRINGS California, Philadelphia told to be ready for 3-day detentions. When it happens, it happens fast. Faster than the courts can keep up with.

Child killing prompts order for "shelter-in-place"
http://www.modbee.com/2013/04/27/2690155/9-year-old-killed-i...

City of Philadelphia tells citizens to be prepared for spontaneous 3-day "shelter in place"
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/04/24/city-of-philadel...

During Rachel's latest attack on Alex Jones and Ron Paul she ridiculed a person for saying they live in FEMA region 9, as if the whole idea of FEMA regions was just part of a ridiculous conspiracy theory.

She also led her audience to believe that Ron Paul believed the latest conspiracy theory about the Boston bombings when in fact he never said anything of the kind. He did say that the actions of the government to put all of Boston under martial law and drive up and down the streets in armored vehicles and point guns at anyone who looked out their windows was really scary and that the governments willingness to violate our rights is worse than he thought. Only a fool would not be scared by that.

Anyway, here is a map of the FEMA regions on the official government website. Rachel, click on the link and become educated.

http://www.fema.gov/regional-operations