Ron Paul’s Iowa Finish: “Biggest Fraud Since Kennedy Stole the West Virginia Primary”

Kurt Nimmo
 Infowars.com
 January 4, 2012

Following Ron Paul’s suspicious third place finish in Iowa, Lew Rockwell posted remarks by Brad Funkhouser:


“I’ve been following Iowa GOP vote counts for a long time… They are being slow-walked… in 2012. Negotiations are going on… Cash is changing hands. Apparently GOP chieftains are ‘persuading,’ by one means or the other, Perry and Bachmann people who hold considerable sway over large blocs of votes to switch to Romney and Santorum – leaving Ron in the dust… Also abusing suddenly lax ID registration may have created many fake votes for neocons Santorum and Romney. Santorum has no organization, never drew over 100 people during his entire campaign. Of course he did bribe and received the benediction of of that ‘family’ leader who demanded 1 million dollars that were to be distributed in part to cronies. This is the biggest fraud since Kennedy stole the West Virginia Primary. Perry had built a pretty organization and was around 13% of the vote. He drew far larger crowds than Santorum and ends up with just 10%. Did those votes go. Santorum? Santorum didn’t earn 24% of the vote.”

In addition to irregularities in West Virginia, it was rumored that there was fraud in Kennedy’s favor in Chicago — where the vote was controlled by Mayor Daley’s political machine — and Texas where vice presidential candidate Lyndon Johnson was a senator.

Brad Friedman, usually astute on voting fraud matters, pointed out a number of “rules” not set by Iowa, but rather by the GOP establishment, including allowing voters to cast ballots without showing a photo ID.

On Tuesday, we warned that the GOP would try to fix the race in order to get rid of Paul. “Tonight’s final vote tally for the Iowa caucuses will take place at a secret undisclosed location, an announcement that has stoked fears of vote fraud amongst Ron Paul supporters, concerns that were heightened following a Republican insider’s claim that the GOP establishment will not allow Paul to win,” Paul Joseph Watson wrote for Infowars.com.

The secret location was announced after Occupy threatened to disrupt the vote counting process.

In characteristic gentlemanly fashion, Paul told his supporters the third place finish is “nothing to be ashamed of” and prepared them for the New Hampshire contest.

“I think there’s nothing to be ashamed of, everything to be satisfied, and be ready and raring to move on to the next stop, which is New Hampshire,” he said.

Vityaz satisfied with Dynamo shootout loss

29.11, 19:43

KHL team Vityaz has once again made the headlines in Russia after the league disqualified their forward Jeremy Yablonski until the end of the season.

23.11, 14:38

The Canadian tough guys from the infamous KHL side Vityaz were quick to learn the tradition according to which no wedding in Russia passes off without a fight.

19.11, 13:52

The toughest KHL outfit, Vityaz, have got a surprise reinforcement in the face of WBA cruiserweight champion Denis Lebedev and his renowned coach Kostya Tszyu. The pair and their team had the last word though.

07.11, 16:14

The head coach of KHL side Vityaz, Andrey Nazarov, has attacked Belarusian fans with a hockey stick during his team’s away game at Dynamo Minsk.

Published: 09 December, 2011, 18:45

Vityaz’s 21-year-old goalie, Danila Alistratov, saved two of Dynamo’s efforts in shootout. (Image from http://www.dynamo.ru)

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Vityaz coach Andrey Nazarov says even a point against one of the KHL’s leaders, Dynamo Moscow, is still a good result for his men.

­The Muscovites held on at home against lowly Vityaz Chekhov, winning 3-2 after a nail-biting shootout.

Dynamo were 2-1 up going into the game’s final minute when Mikhail Anisin equalized for the visitors, 2-2.

The overtime was scoreless, but three missed attempts in the shootout would cost the visitors dearly.

Dynamo also missed two, but not the crucial one as Czech Marek Kvapil sealed the deal for the Blue-and-Whites.

“We planned to deprive one of the leaders of the championship of some points, and we did it,” Vityaz coach, Andrey Nazarov, said. “Of course, luck was on our side at some moments, but the guys worked really hard tonight. And we are going to continue moving in this direction.”

Ironically, it was Dynamo who got more penalty minutes playing against the leagues roughest teams as all Vityaz’s infamous tough-guys had been disqualified or injured.

“They [the tough-guys] are our brothers, and we miss them,” Nazarov added.

After the game, Dynamo climbed to third-place in the league, while Vityaz remain on the second from bottom rung of the KHL.

06.12, 12:44

A major face-lift that will give it four conferences instead of the current structure of two conferences and six divisions awaits the NHL. The radical plan was approved by the league’s officials on Monday.

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The Euro: That Procrustean Bed...

Today: 12:31

The so called “Merkozy” diet plan for Eurozone states does not seem to be appreciated by the entire union which is why the only positive step made so far at the EU summit is to increase supporting funds and apply strict fiscal restrictions to the 17.

Today: 10:29

Twenty-six of the 27 EU leaders have agreed on sealing a fiscal union aimed at solving the region’s debt crisis. Britain earlier upset plans to get backing from all members, saying proposed amendments are “unacceptable”.

08.12, 22:53

If the 17 eurozone countries manage to hammer out a pact, they may be able to impose more centralization of economic power on the wider, 27-member EU. That's the view of Philip Booth from the Institute of Economic Affairs.

Eurozone crisis 08.12, 10:49

Pumping ever larger sums of cash into the global economy will produce correspondingly smaller results. What’s worse, the move will harm emerging economies which have the best chance of pulling the world out of its nosedive, one analyst believes.

07.12, 22:53

Time is running out for Eurozone leaders to save their unified currency as they prepare for eleventh-hour talks in Brussels. But by preserving Euro, Europe dooms itself to Hitler’s dream of Euro dictatorship, believes journalist Tony Gosling.

Eurozone crisis 19.11, 18:47

A veritable re-engineering of the entire planet has been taking place in front of our eyes for many decades now. However, since it is gradual, most people do not notice or understand what is happening.

Eurozone crisis

Published: 09 December, 2011, 16:13

AFP Photo / Joel Saget

TAGS: EU, Crisis, Politics, Europe, Currencies, Employment, Banking, Finance, Global economy

Efforts by European leaders to shoe-horn a range of diverse countries into a rigid financial cage are doomed to fail. But that’s all part of a long-term plan for a global super-currency which can only bring more hardship to ordinary working people.

A question that more and more people are asking nowadays is, “What on Earth were the Europeans thinking when they agreed to have just one currency for all of Europe?”

In Greek mythology, Procrustes was the son of Poseidon, God of the deep blue seas. He built an iron bed of a size that suited him, and then forced everybody who passed by his abode to lie on it. If the passerby was shorter than his bed, then Procrustes would stretch him, breaking bones, tendons and sinews until the victim fitted; if he was taller, then Procrustes would chop off feet and limbs until the victim was the “right” size…

This ancient story of “one size fits all” seems to have made its 21st Century comeback when Europeans were coaxed into imposing upon themselves an oxymoron; a blatant and conceptual contradiction they call “the euro”.

This common supranational currency invented by the French and Germans, boycotted by the UK, ignored by the Swiss, managed by the Germans and accepted by the rest of Europe in blissful ignorance, has finally dropped its mask to reveal its ugly face: an impossible mechanism that only serves the elite bankers but not the working people.

It masked gross contradictions as large, far-reaching and varied as the relative sizes, strengths, profiles, styles, histories, econometrics, labor policies, pension plans, industries, and human and natural resources of the 17 eurozone nations, ranging from Germany and France at one end of the scale, to Greece, Portugal and Ireland at the other.

As we said in a recent article, the euro carries an expiry date; perhaps the eurocrats who were its midwives a decade ago expected that it would live a little longer, maybe even come of age… But they certainly knew that, sooner or later, the euro would die; that it was meant to die.

Because the euro is not an end in itself, but rather a transition, a bridge, an experiment in supranational currency earmarked for replacement by a far more ambitious and powerful global currency issued by a global central bank, controlled by a cabal of global private bankers, obeying a New World Order blueprint emanating from a private Global Power Elite.

The problem today is that what impacted Europe as a financial ripple effect in 2008 has now grown into a veritable financial tsunami threatening to swamp the whole euro system… And more big trouble lies ahead!

In fact, today’s euro-troubles are nothing more than one of many variations of sovereignty-troubles. Because when a country’s leaders irresponsibly cede a part or all of its sovereignty – whether monetary, political, financial, economic, judicial or military – it had better take a really good look at what it is doing and what the implications are for the medium and long term.

Ceding national sovereignty means that somebody else, somewhere else, will be taking decisions based on other people’s interests. Now, as long as everyone’s interests coincide, then we are OK. But as soon as the different parties’ interests diverge, then you are confronted with a power struggle. And power struggles have one simple thing in common: the more powerful win; the weaker lose.

Now, we have a huge power struggle inside the eurozone. Who do you think will win? Who will impose new policies – Germany or Greece? France or Portugal? Britain or Spain? Germany or Italy?

And that is just on the public scene. You also need to look at the more subtle, less media-highlighted private scene, which is where the real global power decisions are made.

Will the new Italian PM, Mario Monti, cater for the needs of the Italian people or for the mega-bankers’ lodge sitting on the powerful Trilateral Commission of which he himself is European chairman? The same question goes for Greek president Lucas Papademos, also a Trilateral member. The same question goes for all the governments of the EU member states where the real power brokers are the major bankers, industrialists and media moguls sitting on the Trilateral, Bilderberg, World Economic Forum and Chatham House think-tanks and private lobbies.

Global elites will do everything to keep the euro on its transitional path towards a global currency that will eventually replace both the euro and the US dollar. This entails engineering the controlled collapse of both currencies, whilst preparing the yellow brick road for a “Global Dollar” or some such new oxymoron.

The US dollar will be easy to collapse: all that is needed is for the mainstream media to yell, “The dollar is hyper-inflated!!” and the Naked Emperor Dollar will fall swiftly. The euro, in turn, will simply break up as its member nations revert to the old days of pesetas, lire, francs, escudos and drachmas…

Is the time ripe for that? Maybe not… yet. So, no doubt we will still see more “emergency treatment,” more “financial chemotherapy” to “bail out the euro” just as we’ve seen them “bail out the banks,” even though most banks and the Oxymoron Euro cannot be salvaged but just kept artificially alive, like the “Living Dead…”

So, here’s a question for Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Irish, even the French and Germans: will you accept the invitation by your Procrustean Leaders in Brussels to lie down on their bed?

Adrian Salbuchi for RT

­Adrian Salbuchi is a political analyst, author, speaker and radio/TV commentator in Argentina. www.asalbuchi.com.ar

Today: 10:29

Twenty-six of the 27 EU leaders have agreed on sealing a fiscal union aimed at solving the region’s debt crisis. Britain earlier upset plans to get backing from all members, saying proposed amendments are “unacceptable”.

Today: 16:44

Twenty-six countries have accepted EU-wide treaty changes. Only Britain remains opposed. The development is the biggest split in the European Union in 50 years, British MEP Nigel Farage says.

Eurozone crisis

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Stargazers gear up for final total lunar eclipse in years

15.06, 17:00

A total lunar eclipse happened on Wednesday night, when the moon passed through center of Earth’s shadow as the moon, Earth and sun align. The smaller sphere remained absolutely in the dark for 120 minutes.

20.01, 12:41

With so much extreme weather across the world, RT spoke to a weather expert with some strong views on the climate change debate.

03.03.2007, 23:17

Stargazers all over the world have been wowed by the sight of a total lunar eclipse. Europe, Africa and the Middle East were among the best places to watch the spectacle. The moon appeared completely obscured for more than an hour.

Published: 09 December, 2011, 21:21

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A total lunar eclipse will be visible across almost all regions of Russia on December 10.

In Moscow, the Moon will turn red at 4.30 p.m. – so if you have a home telescope, it is finally time to use it.

Viewers in the western United States will have their best views well before dawn – and the farther west, the better. The scene from the Pacific, Australia and parts of Asia will be prime.

Total lunar eclipses are only visible on the night of a full moon. They occur when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are perfectly aligned, with the Earth in the middle.

The celestial phenomenon can last for nearly two hours.

The previous total lunar eclipse was in June 2011, with the total phase lasting for 120 minutes.

The next one will appear in 2014. So until then, stargazers will have to settle for partial eclipses.

Today: 21:18

Three Russian charter air-carriers have been banned from flying to Europe during the winter holiday season.

Today: 21:54

Daredevil drivers can sigh with relief, as two thirds of Moscow's 150 speed cameras are not properly functional.

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Russia defeated in third straight Super Series clash

15.11, 13:26

The OHL All-Stars have won their second straight game against Russia’s junior hockey squad to help Canada level the score in the Super Series at 2-2.

10.11, 12:47

In a repeat of events two days ago, the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League All-Stars were unable to find the keys to success against Russia’s junior hockey team in game two of the Super Series in Canada.

08.11, 18:08

Russia’s junior hockey team got off to a solid start in the six-match Super Series in Canada, collecting a 2-0 win against the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League All-Stars.

19.11.2010, 15:00

Russia’s youth hockey team have collected a historic win in the Super Series against their Canadian contemporaries, sealing the deal with a 5-2 win over Western Hockey League all-stars squad.

Published: 17 November, 2011, 12:00

WHL All-Stars's forward, Jordan Weal (Image from subwaysuperseries.com)

TAGS: Hockey, Russia's hockey squad

Russia’s junior hockey squad have lost to the WHL All-Stars 5-3, allowing the Canadian Hockey League to take the lead in the Super Series.

­The Russians got a head start through Bogdan Potekhin in the middle of the first half, but found themselves a goal down in the second.

Pavel Medvedev leveled matters for Valery Bragin’s men at 2-2, but that was all the Western Hockey League squad allowed the visitors to do on the night.   

The game took place in Regina, Canada and it was local player Jordan Weal, who scored the winner for the Canadians late in the second period.

Two more goals from Max Reinhart and Brad Ross in the final 20 minutes sealed the deal for the WHL All-Stars, 5-3.

“It’s always good when you beat the Russians,” Jordan Weal, WHL All-Stars forward, told Ottawa Citizen newspaper. “We got on them early. We took a couple of penalties, but we recovered from that. We played a good 60 minutes and never let up. Hopefully we can keep it going.”

This third loss in a row sees Russia trail in the Super Series with 3-2 score line. Russia’s lads could still finish the event in tie though, if they wreak revenge on the WHL in Game 6 on Thursday.

15.11, 21:31

Held in Moscow over the weekend, the Cup of Legends saw the brightest stars of Soviet hockey, representing CSKA, Dynamo, Spartak and VVS, back on the ice on the eve of a great jubilee.

Today: 16:11

Despite having to get by without head coach Andrey Nazarov, Vityaz Chekhov, who are rock bottom in the KHL’s Western Conference, have claimed a 3-2 away victory against Spartak Moscow.

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OWS ‘Day of Action’ to crush NY Stock Exchange

16.11, 21:36

While eyes and ears across the globe were watching Occupy Wall Street protesters reclaim New York’s Zuccotti Park Tuesday night, on the other side of the US police brutally cracked-down on other OWS encampments in San Francisco and Seattle.

Occupy Wall Street 16.11, 01:51

Anger and disappointment is erupting from New York City this afternoon, after a judge ruled that Occupy Wall Street protesters must discontinue camping at Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park.

Occupy Wall Street 16.11, 02:52

You could say Occupy Wall Street started with a whisper - a call by Canadian activist group Adbusters that spread on Facebook to gather on September 17, 2011.

Occupy Wall Street 14.11, 20:58

Nearly 60 days after the Occupy Wall Street movement began, cops across the country cracked down on encampments in Oakland, Albany and cities in-between over the weekend, in a series of events perhaps the most detrimental to the movement so far.

Occupy Wall Street 05.10, 01:42

With week three of Occupy Wall Street protests in full swing, the mainstream media continues to present the demonstrators as teenage anarchist slackers.

Occupy Wall Street 06.10, 03:31

Police in New York have reportedly made dozens of arrests and have been using pepper spray and batons as they try to stop anti-Wall Street activists from storming barricades blocking them off from the Stock Exchange.

Occupy Wall Street

Published: 17 November, 2011, 02:47
Edited: 17 November, 2011, 07:00

People walk by Zuccotti Park a day after it was cleared of Occupy Wall Street protesters in an early morning police raid. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

TAGS: Protest, Politics, History, USA, Banking, Culture

First it was Zuccotti, then the Brooklyn Bridge. Times Square followed, as did Washington Square and spaces — public and private — across the US. Now the Occupy Wall Street movement is calling for a day of action — and they want to see it everywhere.

Occupy organizers are calling November 17 an “International Day of Action” and, in celebration of the movement’s two-month anniversary, are plotting events across the world. In New York, of course, where OWS began 60 days earlier, demonstrations already have an agenda planned of occupations across the Big Apple in what looks to be their biggest series of protests yet.

Beginning at 7 a.m. NYC time, protesters will gather in Zuccotti Park — since renamed by the demonstrators as Liberty Square — and will rally to the New York Stock Exchange, aiming to effectively shut down Wall Street before the morning bell opens up the day for trading. “Enough of this economy that exploits and divides us,” organizers write on the Occupy Wall Street website. “It's time we put an end to Wall Street's reign of terror and begin building an economy that works for all.”

After the NYSE is occupied, demonstrators plan to take over the New York subway by gathering at 16 of the mass transit system’s central hubs. Organizers say that will employ the “People’s Mic” to share stories on subway and will do so by boarding the trains in various locales of all five boroughs — The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island.

By 5 p.m., organizers predict that tens of thousands of protesters will have already joined their forces as the group gathers in Foley Square in front of New York’s City Hall and lead a march to the bridges of New York. Accompanied by instruments, choirs and musicians, protesters say they will bring lanterns in order to shine light “into our broken economic and political system” as festivities culminate on the historic crossings that connect Manhattan with the rest of the City.

In the first weeks of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a mass protest on the Brooklyn Bridge ended with more than 700 arrests. In the weeks since, however, the movement has only gained momentum, however, and Thursday’s events aim to be the biggest step in the demonstration so far.

After almost two months of holding an occupation of Zuccotti, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg barred protesters from keeping tents and shelters in the private park after an early morning raid on Tuesday. Similar crack-downs have occurred in the last few days in cities across the country, though protesters have repeatedly returned to their encampments in bigger numbers every time. 

In preparation for the International Day of Action, authorities in New York say that they are taking extra precautions. "Our plan is to be prepared," Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway told the press on Wednesday. "Our goal is to ensure this city continues to run."

Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson adds that they expect protesters to try to disrupt locales across the city and the NYPD and MTA have been working alongside one another to try to keep the city in tact.

Solidarity demonstrations are being planned in conjunction with the NYC protests on Thursday in cities across the US and the world.

17.11, 00:55

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich didn’t deny his role with Freddie Mac during a recent GOP debate, but now the former House speaker is being asked if he bothered to tell the truth about how much he made from the firm.

US Election 2012

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Russian Duty Free Shops could run dry

14.04, 21:19

The airport ritual of buying a bottle or two of something strong before takeoff may soon become history.

20.10, 21:14

Aviation chiefs have today held a meeting to work out how to make flying in Russia safer.

20.07, 18:11

The days are numbered for the popular tradition of enjoying a beer on the streets, as Russia is banning the sale of beer at kiosks starting 2013.

Published: 09 December, 2011, 13:29

RIA Novosti / Aleksey Nikolskyi

TAGS: Retail, Russian economy

Travelers flying from Russian airports may have to go 'cold turkey' as new regulations will force duty free shops to stop selling alcohol.

­The new rules being introduced by the Russian Alcohol Market regulator require all shops selling alcohol to have separate stock rooms. Duty Free operators say their shop locations in air and sea ports makes this impossible.

They have appealed to the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) concerned the legislation could force them out business the Kommersant Daily reports.

Operators say they could loose more than a billion dollars profit as alchohol sales make up 40% of all duty free sales. They are warning a third of duty free shops could be put out of business if their alcohol licences are revoked.

Pleas from the Duty Free Operators Association have fallen on deaf ears at the Alchohol Market Regulator, which says it would be illegal to introduce new regulations on a selective basis.

Today: 12:31

The so called “Merkozy” diet plan for Eurozone states does not seem to be appreciated by the entire union which is why the only positive step made so far at the EU summit is to increase supporting funds and apply strict fiscal restrictions to the 17.

Today: 14:03

While the EU struggles with the debt crisis which has almost spiralled out of control Russia is trying to distance itself by expanding export opportunities. Herbert Moos CFO of VTB says Russia will do well to learn from the EU experience.

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