Their Opinion: A big story — right here in Tifton [Bell Bio-Energy]

May 6, 2008

Their Opinion: A big story — right here in Tifton

By Jana Cone

It has been over a month now since I wrote the biggest news story of my journalism career — and I don’t think anyone in Tifton read it. It ran on Saturday, March 15, with the headline “Researcher: Discovery could end energy crisis.” It was at the top of the front page.

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It was an incredible story. Maybe too incredible. That seems to be the consensus of other news reporters around the country who have been calling me for the past month to ask why my story wasn’t a national news story. I told all of them the same thing I will tell you: I honestly don’t know the answer to that question. The Gazette is a member of the Associated Press and they were free to pick up the article and run it. They didn’t.

The story was about Tifton resident J.C. Bell who has found the solution to the world’s energy crisis through genetic modification and cloning of bacterial organisms that can convert bio-mass into hydrocarbon on a grand scale. Hydrocarbon = gas. Think about this next week when you are at the gas pump paying $3.50 a gallon. Think about the Tifton man who is capable of making as much gas as we will ever need — and he can make it cheap.

How cheap you ask? Well, I didn’t put that part in my article, but let me tell you I think he could probably make it for 25 cents a gallon — but the government would most likely never allow that. The reason he could make it that cheap is because the process is so simple and the materials are essentially free. All he requires is a big tank (think of a silo, maybe), a handful of this bacteria (well, I don’t know that the recipe calls for a handful) and some tree limbs, corns husks, or any of those other once-living things that we dispose of (called bio-mass). Mix the bacteria and the bio-mass together, stir around a little and out comes gas. That simple.

Take a deep breath and let this idea seep into your head. All the gas we want or need. For 25 cents a gallon. Forever. And you don’t have to modify any of our vehicles. And it is environmentally friendly. That would pretty well end the energy crisis and this country’s dependence on foreign oil, don’t you think?

Do you doubt that he can do it? Let me tell you, I believe he can do it. The U.S. defense department believes he can do it. On April 15, J.C. was invited by the defense department to speak at the World Wide Energy Conference held in Arlington, Virginia. He was up there talking alongside speakers from ExxonMobile and the National Science Foundation.

He must have given a good presentation, because shortly afterwards my phone starting ringing. The first to call was Joe Kovacs with WorldNet Daily. He wrote an article headlined: National news media burying amazing oil breakthrough? The last one to call was Herman Cain. He is a news columnist, businessman, politician and former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza. He is also a substitute host on the Neal Boortz radio talk show. He called to say the story was HUGE and to ask for J.C.’s phone number. I think this thing is finally starting to pick up speed.

When I last spoke with J.C. he had not decided where to locate his facilities. The Tifton chamber crowd had started “courting” him, as well they should. J.C. could change the entire economic picture for Tifton single-handedly. I envision a day when there will be a sign at the city limits that says, “Home of J.C. Bell.” By the way, I understand J.C. is distantly related to Alexander Graham Bell, who came up with a dandy invention also.

As he walked me to my car the day of the interview, we had a conversation that went something like this:

Me: You will be a billionaire.

J.C.: I know it.

Me: Your whole family will be billionaires.

J.C.: I know it.

Me: There are people who won’t like this idea.

J.C.: I know it.

Me: There are people who will want to harm you.

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J.C.: I know it.

Me: Is that why I wasn’t allowed to take your photo this time?

J.C.: Yes.

Then, I asked the most important question: Will Bell Bio-Energy, Inc. be a publicly traded stock? He said it would be soon.

When I got back to the office to write the article I was nervous. It is the first time I have ever been nervous about writing an article. I told Flo, my editor, it was the most important article I had ever written. I paced, puffed — and wrote.

Then no one read it. Such is the strange life of a journalist.


Have You Left No Sense Of Decency?

April 29, 2008

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(FROM HUFFINGTON POST)

If the corporate media had been as diligent about watchdogging President Bush as they have been about watchdogging Reverend Wright, it’s very likely we wouldn’t have invaded Iraq.

If the corporate media had spent as much time exposing the obvious flaws and grotesque inequalities of Reaganomics throughout the last 30 years as they’ve spent on Wright, we wouldn’t necessarily be staring into the maw of another depression.

If the corporate media were as diligent about debunking the lies surrounding Iran’s so-called nuclear program as they’ve been about Wright, there wouldn’t be such a sense of inevitability in terms of attacking — or entirely obliterating — Iran.

So what is the very serious corporate media, the only industry that is explicitly protected by the Constitution, doing to remedy their failures of the recent past? Rather than watchdogging the Bush administration and Senator McCain on Iraq, Iran, the economy and all the rest of it — areas in which Senator McCain is laughably wrong and dangerously inconsistent — what are we seeing instead?

All three major cable news networks are wasting valuable air time on Senator Obama’s former pastor. Why? Is the story newsworthy? Sure. Is wall-to-wall Wright coverage more important than Iraq or gas prices or the climate crisis? No way. But Reverend Wright is a scary, shouting black man and scary shouting black men equal ratings-sweet-ratings.

We expect to see this sort of race-baiting behavior from Fox News Channel, but CNN and MSNBC have, once again, similarly crossed the tabloid threshold into the very same nefarious Roger Ailes realm by beating this nothing story to death.

MSNBC, for example, continues to invite Pat Buchanan onto their air — a known race-baiter and author of a recent article in which he claims that, despite 300 years of slavery, America has been the best nation ever for black people (food stamps, for example). The article, by the way, totally ignores the reality that, had it not been for slavery and Jim Crow laws, Africans could very easily have immigrated to America as free people and enjoyed the benefits of our constitutional liberties; but the article also lords welfare and food stamps over the heads of African Americans — as if Buchanan ever once supported such measures in the first place.

Yet Buchanan gets thawed out of his cryo-freeze chamber every time there’s some race-baiting to be done. Of the thousands of Republicans at their disposal as a means of balancing out the brilliant Rachel and the equally brilliant Keith, MSNBC chooses the one Republican who’s known as much for his racism as he is for his high pitch voice. This leads me to believe that MSNBC is knowingly stoking the racial fires of the Wright story, simply because they continue to invite Buchanan to speak for the angry white men who think they’re God’s gift to black people (food stamps, for example).

The reality is that only one of the candidates is being attacked for their connections when, in fact, all three candidates have controversial and embarrassing relationships. The difference, as near as I can tell, is that only one candidate has an angry, shouting black connection. And — bonus! — there’s videotape of this angry, shouting black man suggesting that America is partly to blame for the attacks of September 11!

Wait, wait. That claim sounds familiar. Who else besides, you know, the 9/11 Commission has claimed that American foreign policy in the Middle East was partly to blame for the September 11 attacks? In other words, who else has basically said — and repeatedly so — that America’s “chickens have come home to roost”?

That’d be Republican Congressman Ron Paul. So let’s see here… Which Republicans must, by their own standards, be held accountable for their relationship with such an obvious America-hater? Who ought to be forced to repeatedly renounce and reject Congressman Paul?

“I think it’s all up for grabs, and I don’t think that anyone’s emerging. I think these people who are racing to declare anyone the true frontrunner at this point — I just don’t see it. Although I am partial to Ron Paul…” –Laura Ingraham

“That’s music to my ears, Laura.” –Tucker Carlson responding to Ingraham’s praise

“I like him personally, I know him personally… I will say that he is also the one candidate that everybody knows who fought against big government. He voted against unsure Medicare, the prescription drugs, and No Child Left Behind. He’s consistent, he’s courageous.” –Pat Buchanan

“Ron Paul is one of the outstanding leaders fighting for a stronger national defense. As a former Air Force officer, he knows well the needs of our armed forces, and he always puts them first. We need to keep him fighting for our country.” –Ronald Reagan

“[Ron Paul] is the only candidate out there that’s talking like a lot of us talked in 94. And that’s what a lot of Americans want but no one will say anything anymore…I bet he’s gonna shock a lot of people in New Hampshire.” –Joe Scarborough

“He’s a very engaging person… I’d like to see him as president.”"I think I’m fondest of Ron Paul… He’s the only person I agree with on foreign policy.”

“Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.) continues to amaze on many levels, and he had finally started to register on the polls. In last Tuesday’s Midwestern ice storm, almost every Iowa event was cancelled. The exception was a Paul rally, which drew hundreds. His crowds are regularly huge and enthusiastic. He chalked up another record fundraising day on Sunday’s anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, with more than $6 million in online donations in a single day.” –Bob Novak

“The most honest man in Congress.” –Senator John McCain

With the exception of President Reagan of course, I expect all of these Republicans politicians and pundits will step forward and declare their intentions to sever all ties to Congressman Paul, and to subsequently retract all praise for the Congressman.

How about it, Joe Scarborough? Does Ron Paul really talk like you used to talk? And would you, Pat Buchanan, define blaming America for September 11 as “courageous.” And do you still support Ron Paul, Tucker? If Ron Paul is the most honest man in Congress, Senator McCain, does that mean he’s telling the truth about September 11?

Naturally, the difference here is that Congressman Paul is a white Republican, and Reverend Wright is crazy shouting black pastor. Many (too many) white Americans fear angry black people, even though, given the historical record, we all ought to fear old, white, powerful Republicans a little more than we do right now.

What about other white Republicans who have said equally crazy things? Pastor Hagee, who has endorsed Senator McCain, just recently claimed that God “damned” New Orleans. Add that statement to the anti-Semitic statements and the anti-Catholic statements and you’ve got yourself a controversy. But are the cable networks cutting to live coverage of Pastor Hagee for two hours at a stretch? Are ABC and Fox News going to question Senator McCain about his relationship with Hagee — the same questions over and over again, backed with the same footage over and over again? Of course not.

In addition to Hagee’s awful remarks about New Orleans, the networks, by-in-large, skimmed past the news that this month has been the deadliest month in Iraq since September 2007. The networks continue to ignore the root causes of the current recession and Senator McCain’s promise to continue the Reaganomics of the current administration. The networks all but ignored Senator Clinton’s promise to “obliterate” Iran with nuclear weapons, even though hundreds of thousands of Iranian people, who held pro-American vigils after September 11, favor government reforms and disapprove of Ahmadinejad.

So I have to ask the appropriate network executives the familiar yet appropriate question: Have you no sense of decency at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

The constant, around-the-clock coverage has become a race-baiting spectacle far beyond the realms of journalistic decency, honor and integrity, especially given the slag heap through which most Americans are marching right now — a march which truly deserves wall-to-wall news coverage. And if the cable news networks can’t help but to prioritize their headlines with the same twisted fury as far-right talk show hosts or racist Republican strategists like Floyd Brown or Alex Castellanos, it’s clear that the answer to that famous question is a resounding “nope.”

UPDATE: Will Senator Clinton be asked to repudiate Governor Easley’s use of an anti-gay epithet? After all, Senator Clinton thought it was funny.


George Washington’s take on the Nevada GOP Convention

April 29, 2008

The following essay was written by a member of a Ron Paul Meetup group that goes by the name of George Washington (his essays have appeared here before). As administrator of this blog, I will tell you that when this individual speaks, I listen. Every time I open my email, I hope to find his messages waiting for me.

Thanks Mr, Washington, for putting things into perspective for t he rest of us. My offer to come on as a contributor still stands.

-Todash19

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Any of you still think my identifying the GOP elites (the GOP party boss thugs) as Nazi fascists as “too caustic” and simply “name-calling”?

Delegates are, in some degree, like members of Congress, representing the people of their precinct and Districts. To so nakedly undermine and attempt to subvert the People’s will and voices is as fascist as it gets. More of the same agenda: Black out, shut out, undermine Dr. Paul’s voice and message at all costs; Keep the MSM from reporting on his campaign and message; Block him from participating in Republican debates; Rig and fix the voting results.

This is genuine fascism – it’s how it was done in Europe- through corrupt manipulation of the political process, the fascists were “elected” into power by “fair electioneering” just like this! The carefully controlled mass media and propaganda convinced the masses to go along in lock-step with “the Party’s platform.”

Also reminiscent of communist states as well — Fascists have “elections” and “open party deliberations” — And the candidates and representatives that have been pre-selected and approved by the Committee give the People a “fair choice” of who to goosestep behind: Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, McMussolini — You see, the Party’s Select Committee gives the people choices. See, we have choices. . . What’s the problem?

It took FORTY YEARS for the Republican Party to regain the majority – they did this in 1994 under the Contract with America that contractually promised a restoration of Constitutionally limited government. I believe the young fresh conservative Republicans sent to Washington were sincere and committed to restoring control over the runaway government. But the powers that actually control our government quickly shut them down. Ever since then, Congress has behaved as though they’ve had a gun to their heads – going along and passing unconstitutional draconian legislation with little to no opposition from “the opposition party.” And the average person can’t seem to make sense of it all. The American People absolutely do not support the unconstitutional wars of aggression and demand the US cease and desist and bring the troops home – The Dems hear their voices and could politically capitalize on this issue – but instead, advocate and support the continuation of the same foreign policies . . .??? No impeachment proceedings; no Congressional investigations into the nearly incalcuable felonies, high crimes and misdomeanors, including defiant contempt of Congress. Where’s the Congressional will and voice of the People?! They’re undeniably afraid and intimidated . . . . By who?! and By what?!

The Grand Old Party is imploding — Elitist Insiders, backroom dealing, unethical, lawless undermining the will of the People and fair and impartial elections — If the core conservative base departs and forms/joins a new party, the GOP will forever be a “third party” out of power, as it has abandoned its historic principles and Americanism. Once it’s credibility as the conservative party is gone, the GOP party will forever be fractured and finished as a major party.

Like I stated at our last quorum delegate meeting: Be prepared and expect to play hardball with the fascists of the party at State. Don’t think the WA state GOP elite will conduct themselves any differently than NV – This is a centrally managed and directed National Party agenda: Install the elite’s select puppet. The state and county officials (yes, there are exceptions to this) are goosesteping to the directives of national GOP thugs attempting to manipulate and undermine the People’s will in the GOP in order to install another neo-con fascist committed to advancing the Homeland [IN]Security Surveillance Police State of the New World Fourth Reich Fascist Order (North American Union, SPP, open undefended national borders, open uncontrolled immigration, the Fed Reserve criminal syndicate, etc. etc.).

The more the GOP thugs spit on and mock the core conservative base of the Republican Party, openly violate the laws and rules and openly attempt to openly subvert the will of the Republican majority and the People (pushing a pre-designed outcome), they are guaranteeing the GOP will lose both the Presidential election and perhaps several more Congressional and Senatorial seats. John McCain absolutely does not have the support of the core base, and will not excite Democrats to vote for another neo-con republicrat for four-more years!

Of course, what will a Hillary or Obama presidency mean?

  • The continuation of the war-mongering interventionist foreign policy
  • Moving the New World Fourth Reich Fascist Global Order to power (Just like the neo-con Republicrats)
    • The North AmeriKan [Soviet bloc] Union
    • The SPP
    • Further empowering the criminal syndicate known as the Federal Reserve
    • Furthering the establishment of a fully functioning totalitarian police state in the US, Canada and Mexico
    • The complete dissolution of the American Constitutional Republic

Based on the numbers of voter turnout (Dems v. Repubs) Dems will bury the Republicans this year. Like it or not, the Dems are as enthusiastic and fanatical about their candidate/s, and are very motivated by anti-neo-con Republicrat sentiment (HATE) as Ron Paul supporters. Many of them mistakenly believe the Dem candidate will actually end the illegal foreign wars and destructive military foreign policies. No matter – what they do know for certain is McCain will absolutley carry on perpetual illegal offensive wars, including initiating a war with Iran that will most likely bring the US to war with Russia, China and North Korea and will commit further war crimes in our name, and act against the will of the People and the Constitution.

The ONLY ONE candidate who can change this outcome and the course of America – Dr. Ron Paul. Only his message of Americanism that embraces ALL Americans can win a majority of support from all Americans, not just Republicans. That is why so many RP supporters are disenfranchised Democrats and liberal Americans.

Compare Dr. Paul’s reception to his speech to the NV Convention to the dead silent response McCain’s spokeswoman received here in Clark County. While other former candidates had supporters who were deeply passionate about their candidacy (Romney, Huckabee) McCain does not have such broad support. Romney’s abandonment of his supporters will not allow him to be the water-boy for McCain – Romney’s campaign debate messages clearly idenfying McCain as unfit are not forgotten. Conservatives of real conviction and principle simply cannot and will not vote for McCain, period.

The NWO fascists and their MSM propagandists are betting on one thing: FEAR. “If you don’t vote for McMussolini and suport the neo-con Global fascists, America will have a woman or black Marxist communist Global fascist as president, Osama Ben Laden, the omnipotent evil one, will come to your house and kill you and your family and the Demican puppet won’t answer your phone call at 3:00 a.m. to come and save you and — and we simply can’t have that. . . ” The illusion of the Matrix is finally beginning to fail.

While I thought our county convention was, for the most part, very balanced and respectful (we most certainly didn’t face this type of militant fascism, and Clark County GOP officials were actually very respectul), our intelligence conference calls reported similar lawless unethical tactics at other county conventions. ALL of the WA State GOP elite will be joined together. No doubt the fascists are strategizing over what transpired in NV this weekend and how to thwart the Ron Paul majority in Washington and other conventions around the country.

One item worth noting of the NV Convention: Chairwoman Lowden pointed out that she afforded Dr. Paul the opportunity to speak to the delegates directly (She should be commended and thanked for this!!) — AND ALL OTHER CONVENTIONS ARE NOT ALLOWING DR. PAUL TO ADDRESS THE GOP DELEGATES! More fascist gatekeeping, more bias, more manipulation.

Is it possible to push for Dr. Paul to speak at the WA State Convention? What about scheduling a speech within close proximity to the Convention, even outside so Delegates can hear Dr. Paul for themselves before deciding?


How the Ron Paul Movement Looks to an American in Europe

April 24, 2008

by Ben Novak
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The following is a report to Americans in Europe for Ron Paul.

Dear Fellow Paulites:

You have not heard from me for a while – I have been off on a seven-week visit to the US. I left February 21, and did not get back until April 9.

When I left, we were all depressed by the results of the Super-Tuesday, and the South Carolina, etc. primaries, in which Ron Paul failed to get much more than 5–10 percent of the vote, and John McCain just about wrapped up the Republican nomination. It seemed the end of Ron Paul’s campaign – and of our interest in it.

On this trip to the US, I had time, for the first time in almost 7 years, to watch television news all day for a couple of days, and then follow the news reports on most days thereafter. I was startled by what I saw. There is almost NO news on the networks! It was all “talking heads” giving opinions on some minor comment of Obama, Hilary, or McCain all day. Almost no foreign news; nothing to explain the economy, the war, the world situation, etc. The American people know nothing from the Main Stream Media (MSM) of what is going on the world! Only disasters make the news – plane crashes, floods, etc. It is positively shocking. It seems Americans are being lobotomized.

I also checked the news magazines. Time, Newsweek, and US News & World Report used to give pretty good coverage of both the nation and the world. But now all three have only “feature” articles, and opinion pieces – almost no hard news at all. Amazingly, the only magazine that they can get any real news from is from Europe – the Economist!

Now I understand two phenomena: 1) Why Ron Paul did so well on the internet and 2) why he did so poorly in the primaries. The reason for the first is that the only place Americans can get any real news is from the internet – certainly not from the MSM. Thus, it is clear why those who followed the news on the internet were overwhelmingly for Ron Paul. Second, the reason that Ron Paul did so poorly is that most Americans get their news from the MSM, so they know little or nothing about what is going on, and were told nothing about Ron Paul.

This is both depressing and encouraging. It is depressing, because here we have the people of the most powerful nation in the world kept utterly ignorant of what is going on by their own “democratic” media. Astoundingly depressing. How can any democracy – let alone the world’s only hyper power – function without an informed citizenry? Yet that is what I saw. It does not matter what your politics are, left or right, the fact is that Americans are being deliberately kept asleep by its media…

But it is encouraging also in this respect: The American nation will someday wake up and realize what has happened, and when they do, it will be something to see.

I like to think that this is what Ron Paul knows and is planning for. He knew he had no chance to win unless the message spread beyond the internet-savvy people. For the fact is that the MSM have totally forfeited any claim to deliver real news. His campaign was premised on his message spreading. Well, it did not spread enough. But, that does not mean it has stopped spreading. It is just taking longer than he or we hoped.

Perhaps, however, it only seems that the Ron Paul 2008 campaign is over, and the nomination all sewed up. Maybe they are. But I would not count out either Ron Paul or his campaign yet. It is my belief, based on what I saw, that the news situation in the US is as fragile as a stained glass window in which all the cement holding the glass panes in place has been removed. All it will take is for the slightest breeze of truth to bring it crashing down. And then Americans will be demanding the truth in overwhelming numbers, and looking for someone they can trust. For, they certainly cannot trust either the MSM or the candidates the MSM has chosen to cover.

There are so many directions from which the wind of truth can come: the falling economy, the falling dollar, the price of oil, the scandals in credit, the mounting national debt, the balance of payments, the loss of jobs, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the situation in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, an attack on Iran, etc. From all of these (and many more) shocks may come, which will wake the Americans out of their sleepiness and laziness which has allowed them settle for the pablum being offered as “news.” The American people are not dumb.

I like to think (but do not really know) that this is the way Ron Paul understands the situation. As the old saying goes, “Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.” Well, RP has the idea, and he has the wisdom and the patience to wait till its time has come. So far, he has beautifully positioned himself for when that time comes. He has waged his campaign to take the word out to the people. Only a few heard, but they have seen for themselves how the MSM works. Ron Paul has earned their trust. He is the only one who has come through this campaign more trusted than he entered it. One out of twenty voters already knows and trusts him.

That means when the wind of truth begins to blow, each one of those one-in-twenty Ron Paul supporters need only bring the facts to nine or ten people to create a majority in the whole country. And when the jolts and shocks of reality hit and break through the web of obfuscation and lies of the MSM, people will be looking for real facts and truth. And Ron Paul supporters will already be armed to give it to them.

And it may come sooner than expected. All the things Ron Paul said about the economy are coming true in spades – with credit collapses, falling dollars, rising oil prices, and recession (perhaps soon to become “Depression”), and most of all, spreading wars and endless quagmires.

The truth will spread, even as it did behind the Iron Curtain and eventually bring the whole thing down. The American economy is poised for further jolts, which the MSM will not be able to explain or spin away.

Remember, although Ron Paul only got one in twenty votes, that means in reality, that one person in twenty in America is already armed with the real facts and the truth. That means that the facts and the truth can spread fast, once people are brought to realize that the MSM is not giving the truth at all.

So, we have a lot of reason to hope, even for this present election. The situation is volatile. Ron Paul is still a candidate for the Republican nomination. Many things can happen. Just as John McCain was once written off and then suddenly emerged out of nowhere, Ron Paul may suddenly emerge from the nowhere that the MSM have consigned him to.

Further, we have reason to hope that even if the election goes to Obama, Hillary, or McCain, that Ron Paul’s ideas and movement will grow even faster. For, each of these front-runners is committed to doing all the things that Ron Paul has said are bringing on disaster. The American people will wake up to this very fast once they see where they will begin taking us, and opposition will form.

Already Ron Paul supporters are becoming prominent in the Republican Party across the nation, beginning at precincts and moving up to state level. Soon they will be in positions to educate others in the Party. By 2010, there will be several Ron Paul–educated members of Congress, and Ron Paul will no longer be alone. The movement is growing and will continue to grow.

Back in December at our meeting for the Strasbourg Tea Party in front of the European Parliament Building, I kept stressing that what we were doing that day in supporting Ron Paul was of historic importance. Allan Stevo downloaded the famous St. Crispin Day speech to read to us, and Michael Bauwens made a great video of it. What we did at Strasbourg did not cease to be historic just because Ron Paul seems to have lost the nomination to John McCain. The movement goes on and will triumph, and the fact that the road to victory is longer and harder than we thought will only make our participation on that day all the more historic and memorable.

April 24, 2008

Ben Novak [send him mail] is co-founder of Americans in Europe for Ron.


Media Caught Lying, Version2

April 23, 2008

UPDATE FOR KEITH MORE, USER COMMENT

Keith, please see the graph below that illustrates what the video was trying to say, as I think you may have misunderstood the message. As you can see in the search volume, Ron Paul is leading the way as they all go up on volume together. But for that same time period, as his search popularity goes up along with the others, the NEWS REFERENCE VOLUME clearly indicates a decline in news coverage, while the others get plenty. This is what Mr. Day was referring to. If his popularity goes up above all others, then one would think the media would catch on that and would be reflected in the matrix. But it isnt. That leaves 2 suggestions…

1) The media is intentionally ignoring Dr. Paul.

2) The media is out of touch with the american people so much so that they cant see whats right in front of them.

I believe its a little from column A, and a little from Column B.

- Todash19