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Ron Paul’s Christmas Party of the Century

Reserve your ticket to the Christmas Party you will remember for a LIFETIME.

Join Ron and Carol Paul for a special, one night only, Christmas Celebration!

Hosted by the Republican Party of Iowa, join with your fellow advocates of liberty to Celebrate the Holiday. This event will be jam packed with Christmas food, desserts, cocktails, tons of decorations, great music and the Champion of the Constitution himself.

As an added bonus, your ticket guarantees you a professionally taken, personal photograph with yourself and Ron Paul!

It’s one thing to tell your friends and co-workers on Monday morning that you went to just a regular, old Christmas Party.

It’s another to tell them you went to the Christmas Party of the Century and spent it with Ron and Carol Paul!

More information & tickets here…

Where:

Hilton Houston Post Oak
2001 Post Oak Boulevard
Houston, TX 77056

When:

Friday, December 13, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (CST)

Ron Paul .com

Ron Paul’s Christmas Party of the Century

Ron Paul’s Christmas Party of the Century

Reserve your ticket to the Christmas Party you will remember for a LIFETIME.

Join Ron and Carol Paul for a special, one night only, Christmas Celebration!

Hosted by the Republican Party of Iowa, join with your fellow advocates of liberty to Celebrate the Holiday. This event will be jam packed with Christmas food, desserts, cocktails, tons of decorations, great music and the Champion of the Constitution himself.

As an added bonus, your ticket guarantees you a professionally taken, personal photograph with yourself and Ron Paul!

It’s one thing to tell your friends and co-workers on Monday morning that you went to just a regular, old Christmas Party.

It’s another to tell them you went to the Christmas Party of the Century and spent it with Ron and Carol Paul!

More information & tickets here…

Where:

Hilton Houston Post Oak
2001 Post Oak Boulevard
Houston, TX 77056

When:

Friday, December 13, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (CST)

Ron Paul .com

Ron Paul’s Christmas Party of the Century

Ron Paul’s Christmas Party of the Century

Reserve your ticket to the Christmas Party you will remember for a LIFETIME.

Join Ron and Carol Paul for a special, one night only, Christmas Celebration!

Hosted by the Republican Party of Iowa, join with your fellow advocates of liberty to Celebrate the Holiday. This event will be jam packed with Christmas food, desserts, cocktails, tons of decorations, great music and the Champion of the Constitution himself.

As an added bonus, your ticket guarantees you a professionally taken, personal photograph with yourself and Ron Paul!

It’s one thing to tell your friends and co-workers on Monday morning that you went to just a regular, old Christmas Party.

It’s another to tell them you went to the Christmas Party of the Century and spent it with Ron and Carol Paul!

More information & tickets here…

Where:

Hilton Houston Post Oak
2001 Post Oak Boulevard
Houston, TX 77056

When:

Friday, December 13, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (CST)

Ron Paul .com

Ron Paul’s Christmas Party of the Century

Ron Paul’s Christmas Party of the Century

Reserve your ticket to the Christmas Party you will remember for a LIFETIME.

Join Ron and Carol Paul for a special, one night only, Christmas Celebration!

Hosted by the Republican Party of Iowa, join with your fellow advocates of liberty to Celebrate the Holiday. This event will be jam packed with Christmas food, desserts, cocktails, tons of decorations, great music and the Champion of the Constitution himself.

As an added bonus, your ticket guarantees you a professionally taken, personal photograph with yourself and Ron Paul!

It’s one thing to tell your friends and co-workers on Monday morning that you went to just a regular, old Christmas Party.

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More information & tickets here…

Where:

Hilton Houston Post Oak
2001 Post Oak Boulevard
Houston, TX 77056

When:

Friday, December 13, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (CST)

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Ron Paul’s Christmas Party of the Century

A Century of Failure: Repeal the 16th Amendment

Tax Code ‘bigger than the Bible with none of the good news’

HOUSTON, Nov. 22, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ — Americans For Fair Taxation® (AFFT) announced today their support for Congressman Jim Bridenstine’s (OK-1) transformational legislation repealing the 16th Amendment to the Constitution.

“As the leading advocate of replacing our corrupt income tax system with a progressive, national consumption tax, AFFT is proud to stand with Representative Bridenstine in repealing the 16th Amendment,” said Cynthia Canevaro, Executive Director.

She added, “Recent IRS scandals repeat a longstanding pattern of political attacks, taxpayer abuse and business destruction by a federal agency that knows no boundaries, has no controls and operates without an ethical compass.”

“In 1913, Congress gilded the lily when they enacted the 16th Amendment, providing the most far-reaching and invasive Congressional failure still burdening the American people today.”

Added Bill Harrington, volunteer Oklahoma FairTax director, “The 16th Amendment is an affront to the American people’s freedom. The IRS has the ability to confiscate property and impose fines on every individual in the United States without due process. We are proud that an Oklahoma Representative has stepped forward to finally address this massive injustice.”

“With the introduction of this legislation, Congressman Bridenstine has given the nation a gift. Congress can continue feeding the special interests fatted calf while ignoring the gross injustices brought about by the 16th Amendment, or they can choose to enact this legislation and begin regaining the American people’s trust and admiration,” said Mrs. Canevaro.

Americans For Fair Taxation: www.FairTax.org

Repeal 16: www.repeal16.org

HJ R 104: thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:hj104:

Americans For Fair Taxation® (FairTax.org) is a national, non-partisan grassroots organization that educates public officials, candidates for office and Americans nationwide on the FairTax to gain support for HR 25/S 122. We do not advocate the election or defeat of any candidate, nor favor any candidate or political party, over another. FairTax.org provides information, briefing materials, public policy data and research for all.

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A Century of Failure: Repeal the 16th Amendment

‘Back to the 19th century’: Mysterious techno breakdown hits Gitmo 9/11 tribunal

Published time: August 24, 2013 10:18

Defense lawyers for Guantanamo detainees asked the judge in the military tribunal on Friday to suspend pretrial hearings as mysterious computer glitches are just the latest technological setbacks to complicate the legal proceedings.

Defense lawyers for Guantanamo detainees asked the military tribunal judge to suspend pretrial hearings as mysterious computer glitches have made their job a ‘hot mess’ forcing some of them to draft motions with pen and paper.

“We’re basically put back in the 19th century,” Army Major Jason Wright, who represents the alleged mastermind of the terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, said on Friday, as quoted by Reuters. “It takes about five to 10 times what it would normally take to do defense functions.”

Defense lawyers for five Guantanamo detainees said email correspondences they sent were never received, investigative records that took years to compile had disappeared and external monitors were unable to access their internet searches. Even the prosecuting and defense teams had been given access to each other’s files.

The technical problems had started earlier in the year but by April they had become so severe that the chief defense counsel, Air Force Colonel Karen Mayberry, ordered defense lawyers not to use their Pentagon computers for any confidential casework.

The situation became so dire that when Pentagon officials wished to convey messages to legal advisors in other cities, they had to place the sensitive data onto external drives, head to Starbucks and file them via Wi-Fi using their personal computers and personal email accounts, Wright revealed.

Defense attorney James Harrington, who represents Yemeni prisoner Ramzi bin al Shibh, said he had been forced to draft motions with pen and paper.

Another defense attorney for Mohammed, David Nevin, commented: “In this day and age you cannot practice law this way.”

He said the chief of staff for the Pentagon official overseeing the military tribunals issued her judgment during a conference call on Thursday, declaring: “This is a hot mess.”

Pentagon technical personnel have said it would take “up to 111 days” to fix the glitches once a contract was signed and money allocated, and that it was doubtful the work could be finished before the start of 2014.

The judge, Army Colonel James Pohl, said he would give the matter further consideration at a pretrial hearing scheduled to start on Sept. 16 and decide then whether to cancel hearings scheduled for October, November, December and January.

“I understand the serious nature of being able to communicate as a defense counsel,” the judge said.

This is not the first time that the maximum-security tribunal has suffered from ‘ghosts in the machinery.’

Judge Pohl in January convened an emergency meeting after it was discovered that some outside source was cutting the audio feed when particular subjects in the trial were being discussed. 

The judge stated he was not happy with this interference and added that he would like some clarification on “who turns that light on or off.”

“It’s a ‘whoa moment’ for the court,” Human Rights Watch observer Laura Pitter said in January, as quoted by the Miami Herald. “Even the judge doesn’t know that someone else has control over the censorship button?”

The five defendants are accused of training and funding the hijackers who allegedly crashed four commercial jets into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001, killing nearly 3,000 people.

The Obama administration has backed down on its promise to close Gitmo and give the detainees civil trials on US territory in the face of extreme Republican pressure.

RT – USA

‘Back to the 19th century’: Mysterious techno breakdown hits Gitmo 9/11 tribunal

The US Murder Rate Is on Track to Be Lowest in a Century

This is fairly preliminary data, but Rick Nevin reports that if current trends keep up, we’ll end 2013 with the murder rate in America at its lowest rate in over a century.

• America’s Real Criminal Element: Lead



• Is There Lead In Your House?



• An Interview With Pioneering Toxicologist Howard Mielke



• How Dangerous Is the Lead in Bullets?



• Does Lead Paint Produce More Crime Too?



• How Your Water Company May Be Poisoning Your Kids

More MoJo coverage of the dangers of lead.

Analytically speaking, murder is an especially interesting crime because we have pretty good homicide statistics going all the way back to 1900. Most other crimes have only been tracked since about 1960. And if you look at the murder rate in the chart below (the red line), you see that it follows an odd double-hump pattern: rising in the first third of the century, reaching a peak around 1930; then declining until about 1960; then rising again, reaching a second peak around 1990. It’s been dropping ever since then.

This is the exact same pattern we see in lead ingestion among small children, offset by 21 years (the black line). Lead exposure rises in the late 1800s, during the heyday of lead paint, reaching a peak around 1910; then declines through World War II; and then begins rising again during our postwar love affair with big cars that burned high-octane leaded gasoline. Lead finally enters its final decline in the mid-70s when we begin the switch to unleaded gasoline.

This is powerful evidence in favor of the theory that lead exposure in childhood produces higher rates of violent crime in adulthood. It’s one thing to have two simple curves that match up well. That could just be a coincidence. But to have two unusual double-humped curves that match up well is highly unlikely unless there really is an association. Put that together with all the statistical evidence from other countries; plus the prospective studies that have tracked lead exposure in individual children from birth; plus the MRI scans showing the actual locations of brain damage in adults who were exposed to lead as children—put all that together and you have a pretty compelling set of evidence. Lead exposure doesn’t just lower IQs and hurt educational development. It also increases violent tendencies later in life. If we want less crime 20 years from now, the best thing we can do today is clean up the last of our lead.

Politics | Mother Jones

The US Murder Rate Is on Track to Be Lowest in a Century