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It was recently observed that Ron Paul was to the left of Obama on national security and the best evidence for that statement can be found when one year ago Ron Paul joined forces with Barney Frank​ on a proposal to gut national defense via a panel of experts, quite a few of whom were tied to George Soros​. In July 2010, Barney Frank and Ron Paul co-authored a Huffington Post article rolling out their Sustainable Defense Task Force. The Task Force “consisting of experts on military expenditures that span the ideological spectrum” would recommend a trillion dollars in defense...

An article in Friday’s Wall Street Journal says exactly what so many in the media have thought, but what so few have been willing to say. “Barack Obama has turned fearmongering into an art form, “ the Journal opined. “He has repeatedly raised the specter of another Great Depression.” “…In his remarks, every gloomy statistic on the economy becomes a harbinger of doom. As he tells it, today’s economy is the worst since the Great Depression. Without his Recovery and Reinvestment Act, he says, the economy will fall back into that abyss and may never recover.” “This fearmongering...

Military intelligence services (WSI) report may give Russians cause toworry - Polish PM WARSAW. FEBRUARY 20. INTERFAX CENTRAL EUROPE - The publication of a report revealing alleged irregularities at Poland's Military Intelligence Services (WSI), which also identifies alleged Russian spies, may give Russians cause to worry, Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said on a Radio 1 morning program, Tuesday. "The Russians are probably very worried that the secret service in which they had very large influences for a very long time, in which tens, hundreds of persons schooled by [the Russian Central Intelligence Directorate] GRU and the [secret services] KGB...

Geopolitical Diary: Trying to Redefine Poland February 20, 2007 03 00 GMT Polish President Lech Kaczynski on Feb. 17 released a 374-page report on the workings of the recently liquidated Military Intelligence Service (WSI). The report betrays the country's intelligence apparatus of the past 15 years, outing its practices, people, connections and expertise. Opposition leaders have said the report is a guidebook to Poland's national security. Kaczynski dissolved the WSI in October 2006, saying the agency had overstepped its jurisdiction and infiltrated every aspect of Polish life with agents in political parties, media and businesses. The report is intended to...

Poland: parliament votes to dissolve military 05/24/2006 22:08 Source: Lawmakers voted 375-48 to abolish the Military Intelligence Services, Poland's only secret service unreformed since the fall of communism in 1989, and replace it with two new agencies, called the Military Intelligence Agency and the Military Counterintelligence Agency. The socially conservative Law and Justice led government made disbanding the agency a key pillar to last fall's parliamentary election campaign, arguing that it was raft with post-communist corruption, maintained strong ties with Russian intelligence and had shady dealings with businessmen, the AP reports. Its replacement agencies will employ both military personnel and...

Traitors of Record: The Record of the New York TimesBy Fedora “. . .the most untrustworthy paper in the United States. . .” --President Dwight Eisenhower, referring to the New York TimesIntroductionLast week Senator John Cornyn criticized the New York Times for endangering national security with a James Risen story on NSA surveillance timed to coincide with a vote on the Patriot Act and, incidentally, with the release of a book by Risen. A review of the record illustrates that endangering national security through irresponsible leaks is nothing new for the New York Times. Some particularly outrageous examples are worth...

Washington -- The nation was divided as never before over a foreign war, and in the country's capital, as protesters massed by the tens of thousands, the president felt he was under siege. It was April 1971, the president was Richard Nixon and the war was in Vietnam. While Nixon and his aides conferred about ways to subvert the protests by seeking court injunctions and blocking anti-war veterans' access to Arlington National Cemetery, a 27-year-old former Navy lieutenant was girding for the biggest moment yet in his public life. John Forbes Kerry's two-hour appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...

A combat veteran who testified to war crimes during the 1971 "Winter Soldier Investigation" has filed an affidavit claiming John Kerry and other leaders of Vietnam Veterans Against the War coerced him into making false claims.

Vast attention has been given to the ads in which Swift Boat Veterans For Truth allege that John Kerry lied about his Vietnam service, but we’ve been looking at the wrong question. The question is not whether Kerry is a hero or the liberal version of Major Frank “Ferret Face” Burns from “M*A*S*H.” The question is whether Kerry is a traitor or a war criminal, or both. If that seems like strong language, you haven’t read Kerry’s book, The New Soldier, which you can find at www.wintersoldier.com. It details some of Kerry’s activities with Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW)...

WASHINGTON – A John Kerry veterans' organizer lived in Hanoi for five years in the 1990s, testified that American troops skinned and crucified Vietnamese in the 1960s and joined the presidential candidate at an infamous 1971 meeting of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War executive committee in which the assassination of U.S. senators was debated, Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin reports. Joe Bangert, a Massachusetts English teacher and longtime friend of the junior senator, has campaigned with Kerry in several states and serves the campaign as a veterans' organizer. At the Winter Soldier Investigation, sponsored by Jane Fonda and the VVAW...

My name is Steve Pitkin, age 20, from Baltimore. I served with the 9th Division from May of '69 until I was airvaced in July of '69. I'll testify about the beating of civilians and enemy personnel, destruction of villages, indiscriminate use of artillery, the general racism and the attitude of the American GI toward the Vietnamese. I will also talk about some of the problems of the GIs toward one another and the hassle with officers. -- Steve Pitkin, Winter Soldier Investigation, February 1, 1971. ---------- Steve Pitkin never intended to speak at the Winter Soldier Investigation. He agreed...