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The new form of revolution in the world is "color." Successful examples include the deposing of Gadhafi, or Mubarak, and a unsuccessful uprising against Bashar Assad in Syria. These "revolutions" exploit popular discontent and amplify it with social media, and militias. This strategy is now in war college. In a prominent Western Hemisphere example, Trump is a victim, albeit in a surrogate, watered down, FBI, CIA, NSA fashion, with this blizzard of orchestrated misinformation. In modern democracies, an engineered vote, is crucial to a coup. If the goal of the US, is to end communism in Cuba, step one is...

President Trump has asked us to be in Washington January 6th, 2021. This is the LAST CHANCE to make it clear, that the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is firmly behind the LANDSLIDE ELECTION OF DONALD TRUMP. We will accept no compromises, no excuses and no fraud. Florida Freepers- Are you IN? Please use this thread as much as possible, to coordinate logistics- rides, connections, best practices and safe lodging.

A mountain of evidence points to a single fact: Russia meddled in the U.S. presidential election of 2016. In both classified and public reports, U.S. intelligence agencies have said Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered actions to interfere with the election....(read more)

In 2014, the World Bank Group committed $5 billion in new technical and financial support for energy projects in six African countries, including Kenya, which have partnered with US president Barack Obama’s Power Africa initiative. Among the projects funded, is the world's longest heated pipeline, which will bring newly discovered Ugandan oil fields to market. The Japanese conglomerate, Toyota, is the major contractor. Much of the oil, is committed to Asian markets, like China. On February 24, 2015 President Barack Obama, vetoed the Keystone XL pipeline, which would be a big boost to mid American and Canadian oil production. When...

My local conservative blogs are being over whelmed by Ron Paul Winter Soldiers. They talk like John Kerry, and claim that more soldiers support Ron Paul than any other candidate. They defend Bradley Manning as a hero. They point to the evidence that more campaign contributions from soldiers go to Ron Paul, the Constitutionalist, than any other campaign. Wrapped up in this stew is jargon that sounds like Occupy Wall Street: Warmonger, Neocon, etc. I looked up the campaign donor sheets. I typed in the search line US Army, and in fact there were a lot more contributions for Ron...

Ron Paul has called Bradley Manning a hero, for bravely releasing national secrets to wikileaks. Has this damaged the US? Has it cost lives?

AX the TAX, a highly successful grassroots political group is pledging $250,000 to fight a new proposal to establish a regional transportation authority for the Tampa Bay area that would include Pinellas, Pasco and Hillsborough County. "The new urbanists and the tax and spend bureaucrats just don't get it. Rail is a two-hundred year old technology with a new millennium price tag that only serves 1% of the traveling public. The only mobility that occurs is billions of our dollars moving from the public treasury into the pockets of the vested special interests," stated Doug Guetzloe, Founder and Chairman of...

Push has come to shove, and the RINO/Obama agenda must be openly challenged in the Florida legislature. If you never read another word about the legislation passed in special session last year to make possible the high speed rail Obama pork barrel boondoggle, you would be a better person for it. If you never had to get into a legislative education committee, to hear how my opponent is advancing “Race to the Top,” the Federal take over of State education, you would count yourself among the lucky. If you never had to squabble over the continual stretch in benefits for...

What truly fascinates me about the affairs of men, and the progression of the course of human events, are those moments, when a single man, armed with a powerful idea, changes the course of the body politic, such that all are prospered, friends, family, enemies and generations yet unborn. We, in the United States of America, because of the blessings of liberty, secured through just such a moment, that day when Patrick Henry cried, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!" have witnessed many such moments. They would be too numerous to list here. But just two examples, John Kennedy's...

H. G. Wells lives today in the person of David Lewis Anderson, PhD. Over a hundred years ago, the proto-science fiction work, "The Time Machine" explored heady subjects of Time travel, post Armageddon societies, and evolutionary genetics when applied along class lines. A more fanciful yet forward thinking and eloquent novel could not be imagined at the time, turn of the Century late Victorian England. Yet science fictions have become reality so often, that to even question the premise is now laughable....

For Immediate Release September 5, 2009 Historic Event Made it alive While experts said it was impossible, after surviving 7,000 miles of open ocean the Brown brothers stepped off their tiny open fishing boat at 6:40 pm, London Time, Friday, September 4, 2009 at the Limehouse Marina in downtown London making world history by setting several world records, The Smallest Powerboat to Cross The Atlantic, The First Flats Boat to Cross the Atlantic, and the Longest Ocean Voyage in a Flats Boat. The tiny open fishing boat, an Intruder made by Dream Boats in Hudson Florida, separates itself from other...

In a recent radio address, President Obama sought to debunk some of the "outrageous myths" about health care reform that he said were circulating on the Internet, cable TV and in town hall forums. Despite the president's efforts, recent polls show that many Americans continue to believe that Congress' reform legislation will create "death panels," will insure illegal immigrants and other rumors. To help make sense of it all, two reporters take your questions on separating health care reform facts from fiction.

It can't sink, it can't sink, it can't sink were the words going through my mind along with help us Lord Jesus, and trust your equipment. Bob is saying don't panic. He did not remember saying those words to me, but it actually helped me to remember not to panic. Huge waves are breaking into the boat, we are being pushed up on a shoal. The boat is full of water and if it is not tied down it is gone. The antenna has fallen, the T top dry box just bounced open and all my important papers are falling,...

The stimulus statists are at it again. This time they want to revive a rail project in Florida that was defeated by public referendum. The lure of stimulus dollars has brought the high-speed railers out in force to grease the skids to the next public boondoggle. Florida already has an Amtrak train in this corridor, yet the ridership is poor. So what is the government solution? Spend 8 billion of borrowed tax dollars on a high speed train that nobody will ride. Now that will fix the economy. Will the tickets be cheaper? NO. Will you get to your destination...

With more than 18 million people in Florida, the issue of affordable health care has been a priority of my administration as Governor. We have found that lack of affordable health insurance coverage and the rising cost of prescription medicine to be the most significant health care challenges facing Floridians. Without health insurance coverage, the cost of health care can be staggering. Some fall into bankruptcy due to their inability to pay. To address these problems, we have instituted two programs in Florida. Our Cover Florida Health Care program and the Florida Discount Drug Card were created by partnering with...

The Founding Fathers in no way contemplated a professional political class. The democratic ideal, expressed and ascribed to in many documents and letters of their day, was a citizen legislature and executives with real world experience. Say what you will about Sarah Palin, she believes in her heart that the citizens of Alaska would be better served by a person who is fully committed to the people's agenda. Not that Palin was not for the people, but she was incessantly distracted from this role by political bloodsport. So Palin did the honorable thing, she resigned. In doing so, she may...

The surge has worked in Iraq. In 2006, the widespread belief of many in Washington, such as the Iraq Study Group, and Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, was that the war was lost, and that we had no alternative but to withdrawal in defeat. History will record that the legacy of the George W. Bush Presidency is victory in Iraq. There seems to be no doubt that despite some danger and setbacks, the signed exit agreement for withdrawal negotiated by the Bush administration will play out by 2010. There is now a relatively stable democracy in Iraq that is...

The following letter (unedited) is endorsed to FreeRepublic on behalf of the cigar workers displaced on the occasion of the closing of the next to the last Cigar Factory in Tampa, Florida. Detroit is losing the Auto Industry, as South Carolina is losing textiles, across the nation, the job loss due to over-regulation and taxes accelerates. To Our Elected Officials: Despite repeated assertions on what the true affects of SCHIP and further increases of taxes on tabacco would be, your short-sightedness has eliminated not only a 100+ year old Tampa business but in the process have cost hundreds of Amercians...

Robert and Ralph Brown are leaving the United States of America today, bound for Hamburg Germany. They are voyaging across the Atlantic Ocean in an open fisherman flats boat to raise money for wounded American soldiers and their families, Saturday June 27, 2009. "There is no such thing as coincidence ... God is always in Control. I am very comfortable with the seaworthiness of the DreamBoat Intruder. I know there is real danger, just like there is in everyday life, I know that in the event of disaster, I trust my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I know my soul...

Former Florida Governor JEB Bush has decided not to persue the Senate Seat being vacated by retiring Republican Senator Mel Martinez. JEB was considered the top candidate for the office. Mr. Bush has stated that he is not yet prepared to return to public office.