Antiwar America Unite!

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Antiwar America Unite!

impeach_pollIf 80% of America wants to End the War & Impeach Bush, why can't we accomplish our goals?

We have been unsuccessful thus far because we are not united. And why is that? Because many of the anti-war 'leaders' are actually government plants operating in the cointelpro tradition of infiltrate, disrupt and discredit.


Does that sound outlandish to you? Do you still think we're a free country and our government would never use fascist tactics like that? Well it's true.

* Police spies chosen to lead war protest
* Police Infiltrate Protest Groups, Incite Violence
* Pentagon spying on Peace Groups & Quakers

These are not isolated incidents, but a nationwide pattern.

In my little hometown, the anti-war leaders love to march on the beach, or stand in silence with their little signs, but if one suggests we take the truth to the local public radio station, ask for a community dialogue about the war and reasons for impeachment- they are 100% opposed to the idea. Not only were they against it, they did everything in their power to prevent a community discussion- just sign these petitions and go home.

It turns out many antiwar websites are also run by the same type of cointelpro goons. Their goal is not to end the war, but to distract and stall the antiwar movement. These 'fake antiwar' websites refuse to post articles with concrete actions citizens can take to reclaim the country, but they will post just about anything and everything else to keep you busy reading, because that's harmless.

This is why the war continues, because we are divided by cointelpro agents locally and cointelpro websites nationally.

To end the war, antiwar Americans need to wake up to these cointelpro tactics and UNITE. It's not about democrat vs republican- that is just more of the same divide and conquer strategy. Most of America wants the war to end, but do they realize that voting 20 more democrats into Congress this fall will accomplish nothing. Look at Pelosi and Reid- they are not alone as Bush enablers, they were voted to 'lead' by the majority of Dems, ie if we had real Dems in DC, they would have booted Pelosi and Reid a long time ago.

To get real change we need to flush the House, we need to get rid of all the career politicians and put fresh faces in DC. We need to organize true Peace Candidates in every state.

This is a real plan, something actionable that every American can participate in- the goal being to recruit and organize regular Americans to run for Congress.

Sure we can't beat the big money candidates one on one, but if we all unite under a common platform of End the War and Restore the Constitution- then yes we could win.

The goal is to End the War and Take Back America from the corporations- who is truly on our side?

ps- for all you Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich backers- consider this plan B. Recall 2004, the antiwar movement was behind Howard Dean, when he collapsed so did the movement. We need a people's movement that cannot be crushed by the failure of our candidate(s).

I found this at http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_peacecan_071231_antiwar_america_unit.htm

Ron Paul Blimp To Reach 70,000 Voters At Capital One Bowl

The Capitol One Bowl Tuesday was set to pit Florida against Michigan.

Besides their teams in the big game, the two states have one other thing in common: both are holding presidential primaries in January.

At least one candidate has taken advantage of having all those voters in one place.

The Ron Paul campaign planned to put a blimp up over the Citrus Bowl Tuesday before the game, so more than 70,000 fans attending the Capital One Bowl would be able to see it pass by the arena.

The blimp has already flown around Central Florida. It was spotted over the Mall at Millenia Sunday.

The blimp had not received clearance to fly over the Citrus Bowl, so it would have to move to three miles away from the arena before the game's opening kickoff, and it would not be permitted to return until one hour after the game.

Michigan holds its primary on Jan. 15, while Florida's was scheduled for Jan. 29.

This story was found at http://www.cfnews13.com/Features/BowlBlitz/2007/12/31/ron_paul_blimp_to_reach_70000_voters_at_citrus_bowl1.html

Belief in Ron Paul rallies young Iowa volunteers

By KEN HERMAN
Cox News Servi
Published on: 12/31/07

BOONE, Iowa — The polls say one thing. The Pauls say another.

Despite surveys indicating a Ron Paul presidency is about as likely as a balmy January day in Iowa, young supporters who have flocked to his campaign remain upbeat as Thursday's Iowa caucuses approach.

"Do I expect him to be president? I think so," said John Zambenini, a 22-year-old Dayton, Ohio native who became the campaign's Iowa spokesman in October, a month after he first heard the name Ron Paul. "I think the more Americans know about Ron Paul they will realize we cannot afford not to have him as president."

Paul's Iowa campaign claims more than 300 volunteers from 39 states and four foreign countries. Most are bivouacked at seven camps around the state and driven into towns for door-to-door campaigning.

"It's like herding cats," said Jeff Frazee, a Houston native and Texas A&M graduate who is Paul's national youth coordinator.

At a YMCA Camp in Boone rented by the campaign, Frazee on Sunday gave the 8:30 a.m. pep talk to volunteers who signed up for "Ron Paul's Christmas Vacation in Iowa." Participants were reminded in advance to bring "bathroom supplies (toothbrush, deodorant, soap, shampoo, etc. — medication" and "warm/nice clothes ? you will be representing Ron Paul to Iowans, don't be a slob."

A "What NOT to bring" list included "alcohol/drugs" and "guns, knives, fireworks."

Many, like University of Georgia senior Andrew Pierson of Atlanta, are doing something they never saw themselves doing.

"It's 70 degrees back in Georgia," he said Sunday (overshooting the actual Atlanta high by about 20 degrees) as he headed out on a 14-degree morning to go door to door in Des Moines. "Why am I here? I'm here for Ron Paul."

For Pierson, 21 and already "disgusted with politicians and politics," Paul is someone to believe in.

"I thought they were all corrupt. And then I heard about Ron Paul and he really just made me rethink everything," said Pierson, sporting a University of Georgia sweatshirt as one of his layers of clothing against the cold.

After the Thursday caucuses, Pierson will make a 24-hour Greyhound bus trip back to Atlanta.

For Texan Brittney Lowery, 20, the Paul camp is a combination of love and politics. It is, she said, "sort of our honeymoon." Lowery and Adam Weibling, who's also here, got married Oct. 5.

"I've never done anything like this before," Lowery, a University of Houston student, said of campaigning for Paul.

In the face of polls that say otherwise, the young people who gathered here Sunday before fanning out to knock on doors are convinced President Ron Paul will take the oath in January 2009.

"The thing that nobody notices in the polls is that 60 percent of the people have still never heard of him," said 19-year-old Matt Strunk of Vero Beach, Fla., who first saw Paul on "The Colbert Report." "So once his message gets out, that's really all it takes for him to win."

Texas Tech senior Kevin McBride of Bridgeport, Texas, says Paul will win because "the alternative is unacceptable."

The enthusiasm is stoked by a campaign that says the stakes are high.

"Iowa is a key state in the political process," according to the campaign's in-house guide to the caucuses, "and Ron Paul may be our last hope for America."

Dayton native Zambenini came to Iowa with recent experience in accomplishing uphill goals a little at a time. After graduating from Asbury College in Kentucky last May, he got on his bike in Norfolk, Va., and pedaled until he reached San Francisco 53 days later.

At 22, he typifies Pauldom, categorizing himself as a Republican who is "quite disenfranchised with the war and things like that" and fed up with President Bush, who he brands a "tax-and-spend politician."

"Finally," he said of Paul, "a candidate I felt like I could get behind."

I found this article at http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/12/31/caucuspaul_1230.html

British Newspaper Group Supports Ron Paul's Financial Policy -- Dollar Could Drop Further 50 Percent in Value

The Dollar could fall to half or one-third of its existing value -- British Newspaper and Media Group announces 100 percent support for Ron Paul on Republic Radio. Ron Paul's Ideas are heralded on air as the catalyst for the end of communism in China. International support for Ron Paul's message exceeds all expectation.
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At the last US election the people did not have universal access to Google and YouTube. Today they do and truth is speeding its way across this world at rate that even those who own the mainstream media have not yet fully woken up to.

(PRWEB) December 29, 2007 -- With his song and video for Ron Paul climbing up the international YouTube charts, John Mappin was invited onto Republic Radio by Fred Smart in the US Midwest where he was interviewed from Camelot Castle, England. (The Mythological Birthplace of King Arthur)

You can hear the whole interview here:

http://www.camelotcastle.com/download/Interview_on_Republic_Radio.mp3

Speaking later along the same lines to his Media Finance Group, Mappin spoke of the unprecedented international support for Ron Paul's ideas.

"If the the financial management of the US over the last few years had been perpetrated by a foreign power other than the US government, it could be considered an act of war.

"Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate whose policies could prevent a dramatic devaluation of the dollar."

"In the absence of a Paul presidency it is not impossible that the dollar could fall in value against other currencies by as much as half or even two-thirds."

"The US is essentially bankrupt with approximately $156,000 of government debt for every man woman and child in the US on its balance sheet. On top of that individuals have been oversold personal debt and credit. And the biggest US corporations, in debt and over leveraged, are themselves heavily dependent on the international bankers willingness to lend."

"Chinese money is currently supporting the US credit system and effectively funding the war."

Mappin, who had been invited to speak on Republic Radio in the US Midwest, was clear in his support for Ron Paul and pointed out that Paul's ideas and his "Freedom Message" may well also catalyse the end of Communism in China as we know it.

"Just wait till the youth in China really gets the Ron Paul message and the Freedom purpose. You think 1989 Tiananmen Square shook the world. Think again! Just watch what happens when the youth and middle class in China and India get it."

Mappin's interview on Republic Radio also illuminated that there are many journalists that work in mainstream media that agree completely with Ron Paul and his policy. He highlighted the simplicity that those mainstream media owners that attempt to block the truth from being communicated on media lines will ultimately lose their franchises, compromise their position in the free marketplace and lose the trust of the public.

"At the last US election the people did not have universal access to Google and YouTube. Today they do and truth is speeding its way across this world at rate that even those who own the mainstream media have not yet fully woken up to."

John Mappin's Song for Ron Paul was aired on Republic Radio. You can hear the whole song here:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jQpeldFJG_Y

John Mappin also appeared in support of Ron Paul on Iranian TV in the UK last week:

www.camelotcastle.com/download/1217_THE%20AGENDA.wmv

This show can also be viewed in its entirety at Press TV's web site:

Click this link below and then click the video link titled "Can Hillary Win."

http://www.presstv.ir/prg_detail.aspx?SectionID=3510509

Many Ron Paul supporters have emailed the show and the Press TV network in support and there is now talk of further coverage of the Ron Paul campaign by Press TV. Yvonne Ridley, who hosts AGENDA and is one of Britain's most respected journalists, is interested in interviewing Ron Paul when she visits the US next month.

Please contact Press TV at theagenda@presstv.com and let them know your views.

Or Fred Smart at Republic Radio at aftfmidwest@gmail.com

I looked this up at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/12/prweb593502.htm

Hillary Clinton and Ron Paul winning big on AOL straw poll

Hugo Mann
Published 12/23/2007 - 10:05 p.m. EST
An AOL straw poll that is supposed to be spam proof shows both Hillary Clinton and Ron Paul winning their respective primaries. The poll records national as well as state-by-state results. At the time of this report over 57,000 Republicans and 56,000 Democrats have voted in the poll.

On the Democratic side the results somewhat mirrored media generated polls. Nationally Clinton has 46%, Barack Obama 27%, John Edwards 17%, Biden 4%, Kucinich 3%, Richardson 2%, Gravel 1%, and Dodd 1%.

Clinton leads in most states but Obama leads in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, and Wyoming.

In Iowa the race is tight where Obama leads with 31% followed by Clinton with 30%and Edwards with 24%.

In New Hampshire, Clinton has 46%, Obama 26%, and Edwards has 15%.

On the Republican side the results mirrored media generated polls with one exception. Ron Paul is placing first in most states and second in several others.

The results of the other candidates did mirror media generated polls. Giuliani is winning in New York and New Jersey and Connecticut but is being edged out by Paul in Florida and New Mexico. Florida and New Mexico have changed hands several times between Giuliani and Paul.

Romney is winning Utah, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.

Huckabee is edging out Paul in South Carolina and is being edged out by Paul in several southern states. Several southern states are virtual ties and have swung back and forth between Huckabee and Paul, including North Carolina, Alabama, and Arkansas.

Nationwide Ron Paul is generating 26% of the vote, Giuliani is getting 18%, Huckabee 17%, and Romney is getting 15%, McCain has 14%, Thompson 9%, and Duncan Hunter has 1%.

In Iowa Ron Paul has 38% of the vote. The rest of the GOP candidates mirror media generated polls regarding strength in the state. Huckabee and Romney are tied at 19%. Thompson has 9%, McCain 7%, and Giuliani 7%, with Hunter at 1%.

In New Hampshire Paul has 30% Romney 23% McCain 20%, Giuliani 15%, Huckabee 8%, Thompson 3%, and Hunter 1%. Once again, aside from Paul the candidates mirror media polls regarding strength nationally and regionally.

Paul supporters have maintained that media generated polls have been under representing his support. Paul leads GOP candidates in 4rth quarter fund raising. He has received donations from an astounding 123,000 donors this quarter.

I located this at http://www.usadaily.com/article.cfm?articleID=208588

Paul: Fox News is 'scared of me'

By James Pindell December 29, 2007 01:40 PM

PLAISTOW, N.H. -- Ron Paul said the decision to exclude him from a debate on Fox News Sunday the weekend before the New Hampshire Primary is proof that the network "is scared" of him.

"They are scared of me and don't want my message to get out, but it will," Paul said in an interview at a diner here. "They are propagandists for this war and I challenge them on the notion that they are conservative."

Paul's staff said they are beginning to plan a rally that will take place at the same time the 90-minute debate will air on television. It will be taped at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown.

"They will not win this skirmish," he promised.

The Fox debate occurs less than 24 hours after two back to back Republican and Democratic debates on the same campus sponsored by ABC News, WMUR-TV and the social networking website Facebook.

Paul, the Republican Texas Congressman, was wrapping up his final day of campaigning in New Hampshire until the Iowa Caucuses on Thursday.

He spent much of the day campaigning at diners in Manchester and Plaistow and downtown walks in Derry and Exeter.

I found this at http://www.boston.com/news/local/politics/primarysource/2007/12/paul_fox_news_i.html

Ron Paul surging in Iowa, brings in volunteer army

Hugo Mann
Published 12/26/2007 - 3:48 p.m. EST


Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is surging in Iowa according to sources on the ground despite spending little time in the state until recently. Paul, now the top Republican fund raiser raising over 18.7 million from over 128,000 people this quarter, could disable Giuliani, McCain, and Thompson should he finish third.

Iowa is not supposed to be one of Paul’s stronger states. A strong finish in the state will indicate that his nationwide support is very broad. Paul doesn’t have the organization that Romney or Huckabee might have after spending so much time in the state but there are indications that people may be organizing on their own to support Paul’s ideals.

Paul is also bringing in a volunteer army to make a last minute push. Ron Paul will address more than 250 college students who have volunteered their Christmas vacations to the campaign.

Dr. Paul will speak at 8:00 pm on Thursday December 27 at the Des Moines Marriott in the Des Moines Room. He will be available to the press directly afterward in the Waterloo Room.

The students have come from 39 states and four countries to spend their time off phoning Iowa voters, canvassing and distributing literature as part of “Ron Paul’s Christmas Vacation.”

An indirect indication of Ron Paul’s increase in support nationwide has been the recent orchestration of a massive smear campaign by some corporate media outlets and their highly paid pundits. Apparently they don’t believe their own polls and perceive Paul as a threat.

Although Paul has ruled out a third party run saying that he is 99.9 percent sure he wouldn’t run as a third party candidate some media outlets are saying that he’s left the door open for an independent run. This may also be an indication of Paul’s surge nationwide. Media talk of a third party run seems designed to create the illusion that Paul can’t win the GOP nomination.

Also, a third party run would allow media conglomerates to censor Paul like they did Buchanan in 2000. If Paul starts winning Republican primaries corporate controlled media outlets will only be able to attack him they will not be able to censor him like they could if he ran as an independent.

Paul’s message of protecting civil liberties, ending the Iraq war, eliminating federal income taxes, border security, and reforming the monetary system seems to be attracting broad support

I found this at http://www.usadaily.com/article.cfm?articleID=210089

Ron Paul on Situation Room, 12-27-07 Video

Ron Paul Unveils New TV Ad: ‘Defender of Freedom’

December 26, 2007 05:18 PM Eastern Time

30-Second Spot Highlights Congressman Paul’s Unmatched Conservative Credentials

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Republican presidential candidate and Texas Congressman Ron Paul has released a new television ad – titled “Defender of Freedom” – that will run in Iowa and New Hampshire.

“Congressman Paul has an unmatched record of defending the rights of Americans,” said Ron Paul 2008 campaign chairman Kent Snyder. “This advertisement is about bringing Dr. Paul’s message of freedom, peace and prosperity to potential voters. The more people know about Dr. Paul, the more support he gains.”

The ad can be viewed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AmY-fW3gdc

The following is a transcript of the 30 second advertisement:

Narrator: “He defends our freedom, and his record shows it… Ron Paul.

“Answering our country’s call, Ron Paul became a flight surgeon in the Air Force.

“As a doctor, Ron Paul delivered over 4,000 babies and is a leading defender of life.

“In Congress, Ron Paul never voted to raise taxes, never voted for an unbalanced budget, never voted to restrict gun rights or raise congressional pay.

“Protecting our God-given freedom… Ron Paul for President.”

Congressman Paul: “I’m Ron Paul and I approve this message.”

I FOUND THIS INFO. AT http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071226005216&newsLang=en

In Jersey, Bon Jovi is the hot political ticket

By Jeremy W. Peters
Published: December 26, 2007


He calls her "Mrs. C." And she calls on him to add a little celebrity gloss to her presidential campaign.

The rock singer Jon Bon Jovi and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been friends for more than a decade, uniting for state dinners at the White House and campaign fund-raisers.

If it seems strange that a rocker who sings paeans of working-class New Jersey is so friendly with a senator and former first lady who is using a Celine Dion song as the theme of her presidential campaign, consider a few items on Bon Jovi's social calendar in the last few months.

There were dinners with Clinton and another Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, her fiercest rival for the nomination, asked Bon Jovi to hear him speak in New York. And the former Vice President Al Gore caught up with him in London for a photo op.

Bon Jovi, 45, whose tousled golden mane and porcelain-white smile have twice helped him earn People magazine's award for sexiest rock star, can lay claim to an unofficial new title these days: the New Jersey's elder statesman.


In New Jersey, it is practically a requirement for any high-ranking politician to attend at least one of his shows. And despite his left-leaning political allegiances, Democrats and Republicans alike seek him out as if he were New Jersey's very own Bono.

When a former governor, Christie Whitman, was deciding whether to build a sports arena, she consulted Bon Jovi - part owner of the Arena Football League team the Philadelphia Soul - and took his advice to pass on it. When Newark needed a marquee name to christen the Prudential Center arena, one of its most important new developments in decades, it turned to him.

"He basically says, 'Hey, here's where I'm from, like it or not,' " said Whitman, a Republican who later became administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President George W. Bush. "And that's refreshing for the state of New Jersey because we don't have a lot of that."

Former New Jersey governors, senators and state legislators who have worked or played with him over the years say it is a combination of his fealty to New Jersey and his blue-collar authenticity that draws politicians to him. And as someone who sings about his "plastic dashboard Jesus" and performs at concerts to fight global warming, his appeal is broad.

Unlike many other celebrities, he keeps his thoughts about the war in Iraq and Bush largely to himself. While a fellow New Jersey rock star, Bruce Springsteen, is not shy about taking Bush to task and speaks out against the war on his new CD, Bon Jovi is more comfortable talking about poverty and affordable housing. And his attention to those causes has earned him an audience with some of the biggest American political names.

"My impression of Jon Bon Jovi is, every time he's been asked to help his state, he's done it," said a former governor, Thomas Kean Sr., a Republican. "We have an enormous amount of entertainers in New Jersey, and I can't say that about a lot of them."

Bon Jovi's high visibility recently touched off speculation in gossip columns that he had designs on running for office, possibly governor, because he is keeping his estate in New Jersey even though he and his family spend most of their time in New York.

But Bon Jovi dismissed the rumors. Life as a rock star, he said, suited him quite well. In a recent interview by telephone from London, he recounted a conversation with President Bill Clinton about two years ago.

The two were on a flight to Maryland for a day of horse racing at the Pimlico race course with some friends when someone asked them to compare occupations. "He said, 'Mr. President, which is better, your job or Jon's?' I said, 'I know the answer to that. Mine, because I get to keep the airplane and the house.' "
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I found this at http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/26/america/bonjovi.php

Edwards says he sounds like a Democratic president

CONWAY, NEW HAMPSHIRE: U.S. Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards tried to increase support in the key early voting state of New Hampshire on Wednesday with promises of fighting the establishment, changing Washington — and even speaking with a Southern accent.

The former U.S. senator, in a tight race with rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, stuck to populist themes.

"You'd better choose someone as your candidate who's ready for this battle. Nice words will not change anything," Edwards said.

New Hampshire and Iowa are the crucial first contests in political parties' state-by-state process of selecting presidential nominees. Candidates who do well in the Iowa caucuses Jan. 3, and in the New Hampshire primary five days later, can gain momentum and media attention, establishing themselves as front-runners. Those who do poorly often decide to drop out of the race.

Edwards has spent years building an organization in Iowa. In New Hampshire, polls show Clinton and Obama in a tight race. Edwards remains a distant third but hopes a strong showing in Iowa will let him go into New Hampshire with momentum.
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"It's a very competitive race. From everything I see, it's a dead heat between the three of us," Edwards told reporters after going door-to-door looking for votes.

He refrained from criticizing his rivals, aware that Iowa voters tend to reject overtly negative campaigning.

"My fight is not with politicians. My fight is on behalf of those kind of people I grew up with who deserve a real chance in this country," Edwards said.

He cited his small-town, Southern roots as an asset in the race.

"The last two Democratic presidents, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter," he said in his Southern twang, "both talk like me."

He said Wednesday was his last day in New Hampshire before the voting begins.

"We'll go from here to Iowa very late tonight. ... I, Elizabeth, my kids, my parents — everybody will be stationed in Iowa between now and Jan. 3."

"Having done this once before, this is crunch time, now's when it matters," Edwards said.
I found this at http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/26/america/NA-POL-US-Edwards-New-Hampshire.php

Iranian TV Network Broadcasts Ron Paul Song

A SONG for RON PAUL from CAMELOT CASTLE - ENGLAND


Iranian TV Network broadcasts Ron Paul song, and gives Ron Paul appropriate airtime during Hillary Clinton debate. Experts conclude that Ron Paul can split democratic vote. Many Ron Paul supporters have e-mailed the show and the Press TV network in support and there is now talk of further coverage of the Ron Paul campaign by Press TV. Yvonne Ridley wants to exclusively interview Ron Paul on a future news show.
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God knows, we need a Ron Paul in England immediately. Truth and wisdom cannot be stopped by even the thickest armour plate and whatever the mainstream media try to do to block Ron Paul's message, in the long run they will fail.

(PRWEB) December 22, 2007 -- Yvonne Ridley, who is one of the most respected mainstream journalists in the UK and who now hosts a TV show called "The Agenda," invited John Mappin, who last week announced his media group's support for Ron Paul in the US, to appear on a news show that was supposed to be discussing what Hillary Clinton's chances were in the election. Ron Paul however quickly became a predominant topic of discussion. As you will see when you watch the show at the link below, Ron Paul's ideas and his campaign quickly grabbed the interest and the attention of the panel of political and media experts who agreed that Ron Paul's nomination would indeed split the Democratic vote and it was clear that the amount of voter support for Ron Paul may well be underestimated.

As US political expert Professor Toni Michelle Travis of George Mason University stated on the news broadcast.

"Ron Paul can split the democratic vote."

The show can be viewed in its entirety at Press TV's web site:



Many Ron Paul supporters have emailed the show and the Press TV network in support and there is now talk of further coverage of the Ron Paul campaign by Press TV.

Please contact Press TV at theagenda @ presstv.com and let them know your views.

Press TV also aired, in full, the song "Inner Truth" which is dedicated to Ron Paul and which shot to number one in the UK last week on Utube when it was released by John Mappin from Camelot Castle in England. The song and clip which can be seen on U Tube here are creating thousands of allies for Ron Paul.



John Mappin was delighted with the way that the program developed.

"It became quite clear to me that the mainstream media has really been caught off guard by Dr. Paul, even those who should be aware of what is occuring with US voters have no idea of the sheer size or the impact and power of the Ron Paul campaign," said Mappin.

"Interestingly Ron Paul's campaign for Freedom is not just a phenomenon that is limited to America. It's Global," said Mappin.

"I am certain that we will now see other Ron Paul like leaders emerging in other countries across Europe, the Middle East and Asia for they have learned from the positive response to Dr Paul's wisdom and will now create political campaigns of their own along the same lines," he continued. "God knows, we need a Ron Paul in England immediately. Truth and wisdom cannot be stopped by even the thickest armour plate and whatever the mainstream media try to do to block Ron Paul's message, in the long run they will fail."

He added, "The fire of freedom is already well ablaze and will not be put out. It is somewhat ironic that an Iranian TV network based in a country that is often presented as a supposed threat to freedom is giving Dr. Paul the airtime that he deserves."

Yvonne Ridley has an extraordinary track record as a journalist of integrity and principle. Captured by the Taliban in 2001, she became a household name, as the world watched with bated breath as her imprisonment and release from captivity on the first day of bombing in Afghanistan grabbed the media's attention.

She has since continued on in her campaign to help diffuse inaccurate and bigoted misunderstandings between the West and Islamic cultures. She is the anchor and presenter of "The Agenda" and one of the most influential journalistic voices on the international mainstream media and political stage today.

"It is no surprise to me that Yvonne Ridley is one of the first mainstream journalists in Europe to give appropriate notice to Ron Paul's Campaign. Yvonne has a history of delivering in her role as a journalist of integrity and is second to none when it comes to searching out the truth and exposing it," said Mr. Mappin


I found this at http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/12/prweb591281.htm

Surprising Ron Paul Sparks A Movement

This info. was found at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/21/eveningnews/main3640041.shtml

GOP Presidential Hopeful Has Fervent Followers And A Message Whose Resonance Surprises Even Him


PLYMOUTH, N.H., Dec. 21, 2007

(CBS) His progress has been as gradual as a tortoise on ice, but Ron Paul can no longer be dismissed as the favorite of the fringe, reports CBS News correspondent Dean Reynolds.

Unlike other candidates consigned to the periphery, Paul has refused to go away. He is now in a tie for third in Iowa with supposed top-tier hopefuls.

And in live-free-or-die New Hampshire, he believes his anti-Iraq war, anti-tax, pro-freedom message with its libertarian tinge may resonate.

"People are flocking to the campaign," says Paul. "Maybe they've been starved for a campaign like this."

Paul's trip to Plymouth was promising: one woman told Reynolds that he was following the next president.

"Absolutely! No doubt," she says.

Paul's supporters are fervent - almost feverish - both on the ground and online.

He has used the Internet to drum up the bulk of an eye-popping 18 million dollars in this quarter alone from what he says are frustrated members of both parties and first-time voters. If money talks, Ron Paul is shouting.

"I am surprised," Paul says. "But I'm disappointed that I am surprised. Why shouldn't this be a popular message? Why was I pessimistic?"

He adds: "Why do we assume that everybody wants the status quo? And evidently they don't."

Rooting for Ron Paul

I found this info. at http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=191721

Comment: Republicans would do well to listen to the Texas congressman

National Post Published: Saturday, December 22, 2007

Ron Paul makes a pretty odd sort of 21st-century JFK. He's a slight-built, goofy-grinned 71-year-old obstetrician-gynecologist from Texas, a man old enough to have delivered milk as a teenager to Honus Wagner's doorstep. In interviews, the congressman comes off a little like your less cuddly but more interesting grandfather. He believes the U.S. should return to a gold-backed currency, wipe out the Federal Reserve and most government agencies, pull out of NATO, and eliminate federal income taxes. At live events, he projects extraordinary charisma. When he starts talking in his bedside-manner voice about the harm done by the blind, senseless War on Drugs, he can move a listener almost to tears.

Even on the libertarian end of the political spectrum, some would consider him pretty hard-core -- a borderline anarchist who has devoted his life to destroying the U.S. federal government as we know it. But if you're looking for a modern candidate who seems to have the Kennedy-like ability to weld disparate social elements into a game-changing campaign, you'll have a hard time making a stronger choice this year than Ron Paul.

He is a Depression-era country boy who has somehow built what may be the strongest Internet following of any 2008 candidate for the presidency -- at any rate, it is the loudest. Cheques from gun-control opponents who admire his strong Second Amendment stance flow into his coffers alongside equally large cheques from peaceniks impressed by his stance against the Second Gulf War. He's an "isolationist" who has thousands of expatriate and libertarian supporters in Europe. By some accounts, his following amongst active-service soldiers abroad towers over those of other Republicans.

In most official polls of Republican voters, either nationwide or in early primary states, he has yet to crack double digits -- yet he now holds the all-time U.S. political record for fundraising in a single day, raising $6-million on Dec. 16, and he has summoned up an astonishing $18-million in the fourth quarter of the calendar year.

Will all this money and energy amount to anything in the end? Republicans on the ground in New Hampshire, which holds the country's first primaries Jan. 8, are warning the national leadership that it is impossible to guess. Congressman Paul may actually be stronger with independent voters than with Republicans, and those independents make up more than 40% of the electorate in the tiny New England state.

It's the same terrain on which John McCain delivered a surprise 49%-30% hiding of George W. Bush in 2000, and where Pat Buchanan edged out Bob Dole in 1996 with his appeal to the "pitchfork-wielding peasants." In other words, it's a playground for "mavericks," and nobody fits the description better than Dr. Paul.

Looking on the Republican race as Canadian outsiders, we're rooting him on -- if not to win (which he won't), then to at least grab his party's bloated, big-spending Bush-ite establishment by the lapels and slap it around a little.

Notwithstanding Dr. Paul's eccentric-- and, many would argue, dangerous -- views on foreign policy, the GOP does occasionally needs a reminder of its roots in limited government and the Constitution. Ron Paul won't be the next president, but the next president will have to take notice of what he has achieved by means of nothing more than patience, plain speaking and stubborn integrity.

Meet the Press with Tim Russert: A Big Weekend for Ron Paul

I found this one at http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272617832.shtml

By Jim Roberts
Dec 21, 2007

Forget the money bombs and all the fundraising for now, this is the big weekend for Ron Paul and it has nothing to do with cash or campaign fundraising efforts. He finally has broken through and will appear on the mainstream number one Sunday morning talk show 'Meet the Press' with host Tim Russert. This is the key point in the campaign so far, he has to deliver a great performance.
Meet the Press with Tim Russert: A Big Weekend for Ron Paul
Meet the Press with Tim Russert: A Big Weekend for Ron Paul

The show is promoting it like this on their website, "2008 Presidential Contender Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) joins us this Sunday as our "Meet the Candidates" series continues. Tune in to find out where Paul stands on the major issues facing the country as he makes his "Meet the Press" debut -- and marks the twelfth installment of our series interviewing the presidential contenders from both parties."

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At least they called him a contender and not a long shot. Love him or hate him, this is a big moment for Paul. It will be quite interesting to see how tough Tim Russert tries to get with the US Congressman from Texas. Russert earlier promoted the appearance on the 'Today' show and may have given an indication on what he will discuss.

He mentioned Paul's fundraising efforts and said that many people will be 'surprised' at some of his positions. That may mean that Russert will give Paul a grilling and expect lots of 'gotcha' type questions. I think that's fair game, and Paul needs to be ready. Expect anything negative (and there has been plenty of negative stuff about the Paul campaign this week) to be brought forward.

Ron Paul Campaign to Turn In Alaskan Ballot Signatures

I found this article at http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071221005655&newsLang=en

Campaign Manager in Alaska, Available for Comment

ANCHORAGE, Alaska--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Republican Congressman Ron Paul's presidential campaign is preparing to turn in the signatures necessary to guarantee a place on Alaska's primary caucus ballot.

Dr. Paul's National Campaign Manager Lew Moore is in Anchorage today for the announcement. Earlier this week, Washington State Coordinator Maureen McMahan Moore visited Haines, Juneau, and Fairbanks to hire staff and meet with volunteers. Another volunteer meetings is planned for this Saturday, December 22, from 10:00AM to Noon at the Anchorage Marriott Hotel.

"Alaska has rallied to Dr. Paul’s message of freedom, peace and prosperity," said Campaign Manager Lew Moore.

The signatures will be delivered to the Republican office in Anchorage early today.

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Ron Paul on "Morning Joe" 12-18-07

You're doing it again!

December 16, 2007


This day keeps getting more unbelievable! For those of you who might not know yet, today is quickly turning into a spectacular fundraising day for Ron Paul. You've already raised over $3.7 million since midnight!

Over 30,000 of your fellow Americans have made a contribution today, including more than 13,000 who have done so for the first time.

As always, you're helping Ron Paul blow past everyone's expectations and moving Dr. Paul one step closer to President Paul. We're all honored to be a part of this historic campaign. We have nothing but admiration for the support that each of you gives everyday to Ron Paul and the cause of freedom.

How high can we go? Who knows! If you've been considering making a donation to our campaign, please help us shatter every possible fundraising record by donating today: https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate

Have fun watching the new graphic on our website: http://www.ronpaul2008.com but don't forget to ask your friends to donate, too!

Jonathan Bydlak
Fundraising Director
Ron Paul 2008

Subject: Holiday VIRUS . . .. .PLEASE read

VIRUS ALERT!! http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/zafi.asp

You should be alert during the next days:
Do not open any message with an attached file called 'Merry Christmas'
regardless of who sent it, It is a virus that opens as an Open Log
Fire
and will burn the whole hard disc in your computer.

This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address
in his/her contact list, that is why you should send this e-mail to
all
your contacts. It is better to receive this message 25 times than to
receive the virus and open it.

If you receive a mail called 'Merry Christmas', though sent by a
friend, donot open it and shut down you computer immediately. This is the worst
virus announced, it has been classified by Microsoft as the most
destructive virus ever.

This virus was dis covered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair
yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector
of the Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept.


http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/zafi.asp

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"We the People" love a Tea Party, right?

Dear Patriot,

The Boston Tea Party 2007 is finally here!

Today we put our money where our hearts are. Today we let our wallets show every last ounce of our resolve! Today we show our fellow citizens, our government, big business and the media that we are a mighty force to be reckoned with and that this country is ours!

We have had quite enough of being ignored, demeaned and manipulated. We accept nothing short of a return to sanity! Only Ron Paul has the common sense and decency to uphold and follow the instruction manual created by the founders of our great nation! Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate with the moral fiber needed to truly lead and save our nation.

Today is all about "We the People"!

Please link here now and make your most generous donation: http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

For Liberty,
Cheryl

Cheryl Ann Scott
TN State Coordinator
Ron Paul 2008
Cheryl@RonPaul2008.com

Ron Paul meets -- and exceeds -- 4Q fundraising goal two weeks early

I found this information at http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/12/ron-paul-meets.html

At $13.8 million and counting, the presidential campaign of Republican Rep. Ron Paul says it has already topped its fourth-quarter goal of raising $12 million.

The campaign just sent out the word in an e-mail blast to reporters.

"The outpouring of support is astounding. Americans are rallying to Dr. Paul's message and showing that they want a government that respects their rights and protects their freedoms," Paul campaign manager Lew Moore says in that press release.

You might recall that the campaign brought in more than $4 million in one day alone last month -- a one-day record for money raised on the Web.
Posted by Mark Memmott at 12:03 PM/ET, December 16, 2007 in Money in politics, Presidential race, 2008, Republicans | Permalink

REVOLUTION FOR RON PAUL, FREEDOM AND THE CONSTITUTION

SUPPORTERS of RON PAUL, UNITED

A letter from Ron Paul

December 15, 2007


What an amazing mission you and I are on. What great ideas we uphold -- the legacy of the most important thinkers of liberty in our country's history, and the most important doers of liberty in America. At the top of that list are the donors and volunteers of this campaign.

I could spend all my time thanking personally you and everyone who has done so much for our country's future, and not scratch the surface of what justice demands. But I want you to know how much I owe you, and everyone dedicated to the real America. You and I know our real country -- the America of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, of economic, civil, and personal liberty, of strong families and communities, of great businesses and professions, of strong peace and low taxes and sound money-all of which are under assault by the politicians who occupy our nation's capital.

With your help -- and I can't do anything without your help https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/ -- I want to change all that. Together, we can restore our constitutional republic, and oust the mountebanks who violate the ideals of the Founders with income taxes, Federal Reserve inflation, deficit spending, preemptive wars, torture, secret prisons, and abolition of habeas corpus.

How thrilling too are all the great Independent efforts in this cause, involving so many tens of thousands of patriots. Of course, since they are Independent, the election laws to do not allow me to coordinate with them in any way. But I will mention that this Sunday, I am really going to enjoy my tea at a party!

We are making real progress. And goodness knows we need to. Help https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/ me keep our revolution going and growing. For freedom, peace, and prosperity, for the real America, all our
generosity and hard work are justified.

Sincerely,

Ron

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Paul: Bush no authority to rule world

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:36:58

Presidential hopeful Ron Paul says President Bush has started empire-building by invading Iraq and Afghanistan and beating the drums of war with Iran.

The decision to invade Iraq in 2003 without a declaration of war by Congress was the most egregious violation of the Constitution in the last 20 years, Paul told Lahontan Valley News (LVN) prior to a campaign speech in Fallon.

He also rejected that there is any military threat to the US and said "to try to propose that the Iraqis were trying to attack us was ridiculous. Now they are doing it with the Iranians and they have proven wrong again."

During his campaign speech the Republican presidential candidate affirmed that no country has the power to control the world.

"There's no constitutional authority to rule the world," he said.

Regarding the threats the US is facing the Texas congressman said that the Chinese could bring the US to their knees with or without any other nation by just rejecting our dollar.

Paul believes financial problems, Washington's invasion of the US citizens' privacy and taxation are the major threats to the US.

Paul would remove America from War

Many years ago President Ronald Reagan said Ron Paul was one of the outstanding leaders of our country, fighting for a stronger national defense.

As a former Air Force officer, he knew well the needs of our armed forces, and he had always put them first. Today, as Paul serves his 10th term in the U.S. House, his feelings have not changed one bit. However, he is totally against our involvement in Iraq because it is a no-win situation costing us thousands of lives for a war that is basically unconstitutional, because it is being fought without a declaration of war voted upon by the Congress.


Currently, as a Republican candidate running for president of the United States, Paul acknowledges the American people have spoken against the war as well. When asked how we end it, Paul says, "Why not exactly the way we began it? We just marched in, and now we can just march out."
Republican candidate for president, Paul, always has believed our founding fathers had it right when they argued for peace and commerce between nations and against entangling political and military alliances. Log on to acaseforronpaul.com and discover how Paul is our only hope for America in the 2008 presidential election. Discover his consistent voting record, his ideas on limiting governmental interference in private lives, his belief decisions with regard to our nation should be based on the U.S. Constitution, and why he was voted the taxpayers' best friend.

These and many other issues pertinent to the future of our country are on line for you to view and perhaps be a part of Paul's Hope for America Campaign.

Tea Party Rally Planned for Ron Paul

I got my information from http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=52638

Saturday, December 15, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com

Hundreds of Ron Paul supporters are expected to peacefully converge in downtown Boston on Sunday, December 16th at 1:00pm on the State House steps for what is anticipated to be the largest one day fundraiser for a presidential candidate – ever.

The event, dubbed The BostonTeaParty07, will coincide with the 234th anniversary of the famous Boston Tea Party of 1773 which is widely recognized as helping to spark the American Revolution.

The event in Boston on December 16th also corresponds to the second planned “Money Bomb” that Paul’s supporters have organized independent of his official campaign.

Supporters of the ten term congressman will begin the rally at 1:00pm on the State House steps and walk the Freedom Trail to Faneuil Hall where the doors will open at 2:30.

Inside Faneuil Hall banks of computers will be set up ready to securely process online donations made directly to Ron Paul’s official campaign site. Tea will be served while participants listen to lectures from prominent figures regarding the historical significance of the Boston Tea Party, the origins of The Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as well as commentary on current events. Dr. Rand Paul, the candidate’s son, is also slated to speak.

Ron Paul stands apart from the other GOP presidential contenders by vigorously opposing the war in Iraq. Citing the Constitution as his guide, Paul opposes law enforcement or anti-terrorism measures that encroach on civil liberties. His views on small government extend to eliminating the IRS and The Federal Reserve. He favors limiting immigration and strengthening border security while promoting a foreign policy of “non-intervention”.

Ron Paul’s campaign made headlines on November 5th with its first “Money Bomb”, a one day fundraiser which netted over $4.3 million. The December 16th event seeks to surpass that number.

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BostonTeaParty07 was planned by members of Boston Ron Paul MeetUp #68 and paid for by Liberty League PAC

www.LibertyLeaguePAC.org

The event is not authorized by the Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign

Republican Mike Huckabee seeks to broaden his appeal

I found this at http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-huckabee15dec15,1,6011085.story

GOP leader in Iowa is trying to win over N.H. and nation

By Jill Zuckman | Tribune national correspondent
9:28 AM CST, December 15, 2007


BOSCAWEN, N.H. - In Iowa, where he's leading the Republican field, Mike Huckabee bills himself as a "Christian leader." But here in New England, where voters are more taciturn about their religious beliefs, Huckabee is a "committed conservative," according to his television ads.

With his 14th visit to New Hampshire this weekend, Huckabee, a Baptist preacher and former Arkansas governor, is trying to build on his inordinate success in Iowa and pick up momentum against a more competitive Republican field. To remain in contention for the GOP presidential nomination, Huckabee needs to show that he can broaden his appeal not just to New Hampshire but nationally as well.

He's also trying to expand his campaign, which is suddenly under pressure from all the attention, to a more national operation. Friday, Huckabee announced that veteran Republican strategist Ed Rollins would take over as national chairman of his campaign in an attempt to do just that.



New Hampshire poses a special challenge for Huckabee, who is polling in the single digits in the state, trailing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Arizona Sen. John McCain and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

"It's going to be very, very difficult for him to get over the hump in a state like New Hampshire that has essentially no socially conservative voters to speak of," said Andrew Smith, a University of New Hampshire political scientist and pollster.

Iowa's strong contingent of Christian conservatives seems drawn to Huckabee's background as a folksy preacher. But if Huckabee can sell himself in this first-in-the-nation primary state, it is likely to be through sheer force of personality as a wisecracking candidate who feels voters' pain and is willing to say so in often-colorful terms.

"Live free or die -- I get the picture here," Huckabee on Friday told employees on the plant floor at Elektrisola, a manufacturer of magnetic wire, echoing the New Hampshire motto.

To those workers he sounded a populist appeal -- decrying jobs sent overseas, lambasting the federal tax system that eats up their paychecks, and underscoring his roots coming from a family of modest means. "It's not OK if you guys are invisible to the people who get elected to office," Huckabee said.

What he did not talk about was his ardent opposition to abortion or his support for a constitutional amendment banning the procedure. Nor did he discuss his support for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

While he talks openly about faith and politics elsewhere, saying his religion drives his decisions, Huckabee did not mention it in Boscawen or at the New Hampshire Veterans Home in nearby Tilton.

Huckabee said he's not trying to obscure his faith or his social conservatism as he campaigns in a state where Republicans tend to be fiscally conservative and socially liberal.

"I've never downplayed or up-played it. More people have asked me questions about it than perhaps any other person running," he said at a news conference packed with a newly attentive media contingent. "What I'm playing up is the fact that I've got more executive experience actually running a government as a governor. That's what's important. People shouldn't vote for me or against me because of my faith."

Rollins, who helped guide Ronald Reagan into the White House, said Huckabee will work for New Hampshire votes by relating to ordinary people's problems. "We're going to be full-bore here," Rollins said. "We're not writing off this state."

While he has little infrastructure in New Hampshire compared to other candidates, Huckabee can point to a small but solid roster of well-known supporters. He's also a natural at the type of retail politics essential for success in this state.

At the Cheshire County Republican Christmas party recently, "he worked the room as well as I'd seen any candidate work a room all year," said Fergus Cullen, the New Hampshire state party chairman.

"I just find him to be very honest," said Dan Philbrick, Huckabee's Strafford County co-chairman, who signed on when the former governor was barely registering in the polls. "He's not scripted, he doesn't have a big staff telling him what to say and not to say. I think he's going to surprise everyone here in New Hampshire."

Still, Huckabee has a lot to overcome. He's up against Romney, a well-known former governor from next-door Massachusetts; McCain, who is still popular after winning the state's 2000 Republican primary; and Giuliani, lionized for his performance in New York after the Sept. 11 attacks.

David Carney, a longtime Republican strategist, said Huckabee's socially conservative views won't disqualify him, but that he's hurt by having a limited operation in place.

"In this year, anything is possible, but ... I don't think people should expect him to win New Hampshire if he wins Iowa," Carney said

For his part, Huckabee said he understands that it's his turn under the spotlight as the media scrutinize him and opponents criticize him. Most recently, he apologized to Romney for asking if Mormons believe Jesus and the devil are brothers.

"Lately I've been accused of just about everything including the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby and being complicit in ... the JFK assassination," he told the factory workers. "Don't tell me what they'll do next."

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jzuckman@tribune.com

Paul group reserves booth at gun show

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul’s Quad-City 2008 Meetup group is sponsoring an informational booth Saturday and Sunday at the Big Bore Gun Show inside the Army Air National Guard Armory at the Davenport Mount Joy Airport.

People interested in learning more about Paul or more about the Quad-City Meetup activities can visit the booth from 9 a.m to 5 p.m. Saturday or 9 a.m to 3 p.m. Sunday.

For more information about the Meetup group, go to ronpaul.meetup.com/117 or call (563) 570-5395.

I found thi Info. at http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2007/12/12/news/local/doc4758e53b8497c796041827.txt

Season's Greetings from the Ron Paul Family

Season's Greetings from the Ron Paul Family

RON PAUL, THE VOICE OF REASON

dr paul is the one voice of reason in a political sea of fools

Ron Paul revolution: It has just begun to fight

I found this at http://www.chicagotribune.com/services/newspaper/printedition/monday/chi-paul11dec10,0,6882753.story?coll=chi_mezz


By Jason George | Tribune staff reporter
December 11, 2007



MANCHESTER, N.H. — Cheese pizza powers the Ron Paul revolution.

So do Doritos, Cheerios and beer. Junk food in general dominates the menu at this rented house, full of young people who’ve moved in from Seattle, South Florida and points in between to push for the Texas Republican’s long-shot presidential bid in the Jan. 8 New Hampshire primary.

At first glance, the abundance of T-shirted youths with laptops gives this outpost the air of a fraternity or an Internet startup. Instead it represents a new type of political fundraising and may be a sneak peek at campaigns to come.


WHAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT ... RONALD ERNEST PAUL

BORN: Aug. 20, 1935; Pittsburgh

EDUCATION: Gettysburg College, graduated in 1957 (BA, major in biology); Duke University School of Medicine, graduated in 1961 with a medical degree.

POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House of Representatives, 1976; 1978-84; 1997-present. Defeated in GOP primary for U.S. Senate in 1984. Ran as Libertarian Party presidential candidate in 1988.

OTHER JOBS: OB-GYN

FAMILY: Wife, Carol Wells (married Feb. 1, 1957); five children: Ronald, Lori, Randal, Robert and Joy

RELIGION: Baptist

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT: None

POLITICAL HERO: Sen. Robert A. Taft

FAVORITE FOODS: Tilapia, chocolate chip cookies

FAVORITE MODE OF EXERCISE: Tries to walk at least 3 miles in the morning and bicycle at least 10 miles in the afternoon.

FAVORITE BOOKS: "Human Action: A Treatise on Economics" by Ludwig von Mises and "The Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich A. Hayek

FAVORITE TV SHOW: Financial news

FAVORITE MOVIE: "Dr. Zhivago"

FAVORITE HYMN: "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"

TELL US A JOKE: He doesn't joke.



Presidential contributions
Who gave what to whom.



Consider Trevor Lyman: Two months ago he lived in Miami Beach and ran a small online company that helped bands promote their music. Then he stumbled onto Paul’s campaign via a MySpace page—not from a newspaper article, television report or presidential debate. He liked what he saw, particularly Paul’s “out of Iraq now” stance.

Lyman knew he wanted to help. But instead of just giving money to the campaign, something he’d never done in his life, he created a Web site directing people to Paul’s campaign coffers on Nov. 5, a date other supporters had declared a day to “money bomb,” or send frequent and fast donations. They ambitiously aimed for $10 million.

Nov. 5 arrived and organizers fell well short of their goal, but they still made history by raising $4.2 million for Paul, a 10-term congressman. It was the largest 24-hour total for any Republican candidate this year.

The feat was even more impressive given that the Paul campaign had no direct involvement in the effort and that 95 percent of the donations were made through the Web, the largest online funding day ever.

“It was an amazing day,” said Lyman, who was immediately heralded as an online campaigning wizard—not a bad achievement for a 37-year-old who’s never voted.

“Sure, I had my part,” he added, sipping Corona out of a coffee mug. “But I didn’t do it. It’s the energy out there.”

That energy also streams through Lyman’s roommate Vijay Boyapati, a 29-year-old engineer who quit his job at Google to become a full-time volunteer for Paul, who polls nationally in the single digits.

“I think a lot of people think I’m a bit crazy,” Boyapati said, laughing. “But it’s very important to me.”

Boyapati rented the house that he, Lyman and up to five others will inhabit for the next month. He spends his days online, organizing a drive to get 1,000 out-of-state Paul supporters to New Hampshire for the primary (405 have signed up so far). He’s also raised $55,000, from roughly 3,000 donors, to provide housing for those volunteers.

When filled, each of these houses — soon to number 20 across the state—will have different people and missions. But all will share certain tools of success: new technology, little hierarchy, microdonations and a democratic delegation of work. You could call it wiki-paigning.

The fact that it’s coming from political neophytes and not seasoned Beltway bundlers makes sense, said professor Bruce Cain, director of the University of California, Berkeley’s UC Washington Center.

“Innovation often comes from outsiders. It’s the people who have to throw the long bomb,” Cain said. “If you’re a front-runner and try different things, it can backfire.”

The men in the house speak often of personal freedom, the Constitution and the idea of limited government—central Libertarian positions espoused by Paul, who ran for president as the Libertarian candidate in 1988. It’s a position that traditionally has attracted passionate adherents, but never in great numbers.

Costas Panagopoulos, director of the Center for Electoral Politics and Democracy at Fordham University, said the Paul phenomenon is the technological descendant of Howard Dean’s blogger base in 2004. That “revolution” also created excitement, but Dean quickly faded once the voting started.

Paul insists his fate will be different than Dean’s, and not just because online campaigning is more important today––YouTube, Facebook and MySpace are all sponsoring debates—but because he’s tapped into a deep public sentiment. How else could he raise so much money, he asks?

“The disgust with government and the spread of our message, plus the willingness of these individuals on the Internet to organize, is going to make a difference,” he said in interview.

The Internet fundraising crusade has given Paul a far bigger role than he would otherwise have. Paul spokesman Jesse Benton said the campaign is budgeting advertising buys through the Feb. 5 primaries, no matter what happens in earlier states.

At the Manchester house, Lyman is working on “Tea Party ’07,” a fundraising push scheduled for Sunday, the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, which organizers hope can raise $10 million in 24 hours. Their goal is for 100,000 donors to each give $100.

Lyman is also working on the Ron Paul blimp, scheduled to fly along the Eastern Seaboard until the New Hampshire primary. The blimp will invite observers to “Google Ron Paul.”

Such original thinking came from hundreds of people, from attorneys to graphic designers to blimp pilots.

They all came together — where else?—online.

Bush: Iran Must Explain Hidden Nuclear Weapons Program

By Scott Stearns
White House
11 December 2007


President Bush says Iran must explain why it hid a past nuclear weapons program from United Nations inspectors. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, Iran says it is enriching uranium only for a peaceful civilian program to generate electricity.

President Bush speaks about Iran during a meeting with Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano, not pictured, 11 Dec 2007
President Bush speaks about Iran during a meeting with Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano, not pictured, 11 Dec 2007
President Bush is trying to keep international pressure on Iran after last week's National Intelligence Estimate found that Tehran stopped its nuclear weapons program four years ago.

Mr. Bush says the U.S. intelligence report proves that Iran was lying to the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency.

"Iran must explain to the world why they had a program. Iran has an obligation to explain to the IAEA why they hid this program from them," he said. "Iran is dangerous, and they will be even more dangerous if they learn how to enrich uranium."

The president spoke following a meeting with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano during which the two men discussed the nuclear standoff.

Iran's Fars news agency says Tehran has begun a new round of talks with U.N. experts who are seeking information on past nuclear activities.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the latest U.S. intelligence report is a step forward. He told reporters if further such steps are taken, the way will be open for resolving regional and bilateral issues

White House Spokeswoman Dana Perino called this "fanciful thinking."

"It's a very opaque society in Iran," she said. "The president asked for more information from our intelligence community. He got more information. And it confirmed what he thought to be true, which is that Iran was a threat, is a threat, and will certainly continue to be a threat if we don't stop them from obtaining that capability to have a nuclear weapon."

The Bush administration is pushing for another round of U.N. sanctions against Iran. Officials from the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany are to discuss the draft of a new sanctions resolution Tuesday.

President Ahmadinejad says there is no legal basis for new sanctions against Iran.

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Christmas Miracle? Ron Paul Blimp Close to Take Off UPDATE 1

Friday, December 07, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com

Only yesterday, an innovative marketing vision supporting the presidential campaign of Ron Paul (R-Tex) was losing altitude faster than the notorious and tragic Hindenburg blimp. The grand vision of a vast hot-air balloon hovering over the Super Bowl asking the Randian question, “Who Is Ron Paul,” was seemingly deflated, a victim of unfilled pledges and generally slow fund-raising.

Twenty four hours can change a lot. Today, Friday morning (EST) with nearly $190,000 in actual donations, and more money regularly pouring in to www.RonPaulBlimp.com, it looks as if the vision of Trevor Lyman and his associates will soon achieve some sort of take off.

Lyman, the volunteer marketing guru for the presidential campaign of Jeffersonian conservative Ron Paul (R-Tex) will likely help Ron Paul raise up to $10 million by mid December through various “mass donation days,” and now his dearest brainchild is shaping up as well.

If it flies, as it seems to be on the verge of doing, modest Lyman, who only yesterday was “almost broke” according to friends, will thank thousands of Ron Paul supporters who decided the "big idea" of a high-flying blimp was impassioned as his fundamental belief in Ron Paul, which nearly led him to bankruptcy.

Only 24 hours ago, an impassioned and “grim” Lyman reached out to the Ron Paul community for help to salvage the blimp project, after certain pledges taken by the blimp site turned out to be bogus. The dire need was for $200,000 - and that seems almost achieved, as of this writing, Friday AM/EST.

But yesterday, friends carried the word to Ron Paul web sites and news networks such FMNN that Lyman was literally down to his last dollar and would be returning to his music marketing business. Now, the blimp looks likely to fly - as improbably as the limited government campaign of Ron Paul itself. Fund-raising will continue as long as Ron Paul supporters believe in it, according to sources close to the project.

These supporters add that the for-profit status of the project was invented purely as a legal response to FEC regs, and that Lyman himself is first and foremost - and always - a supporter of Ron Paul and his limited-government beliefs, and that has always been his sole motivation. He still, as of this writing, has not taken a penny of a modest blimp stipend, despite his circumstances. Likely he will have to, at some point, unless someone can lend him some money.

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There are hurdles of course, as to be operating on anything but the proverbial shoestring, the project needs continued donations - and funding in excess of $200,000. But sources close to the project are betting that with the generous support of the Ron Paul community, the blimp will fly for weeks and even longer.

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UPDATE: A press release has been issued about the blimp as follows:

Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Has a Blimp

7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Supporters of Presidential candidate Ron Paul are excited to announce the launch of their very own privately funded Ron Paul blimp. In less than a month the idea has gone from a wishful post on a website to a full-blown and flying reality.

Launch date is set for the morning of December 11th from Elizabeth City, NC where the blimp will then fly north to New Hampshire with stops in Washington D.C., New York City and Boston. The blimp will be met at each stop by thousands of Ron Paul supporters who will come to cheer it on as it continues its journey while passing over stadiums, parks, highways and anywhere else people gather.

This is a historic event as no other candidate has ever had their own blimp, let alone one initiated by and paid for by their supporters. Paulites, as they are known, have pledged to donate over $420,000 to fund the blimp for as long as it is needed.

The blimp measures 197 feet long and over 66 feet high, making it one of the largest airships in the world. Along with two pilots the blimp comes with a ground crew of 15-20 that travel with the blimp and assist with landing and takeoffs. The gondola seats 12 passengers, plus the pilots. These seats will be made available to supporters, veterans, charities, dignitaries and the media.

The Ron Paul blimp plans to be in Boston for the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party on December 16th where it will join supporters on the ground who will be protesting the high level of taxation we experience. Weather permitting, plans have it in New Hampshire for as long as possible up until the New Hampshire primary at which point it will fly south to South Carolina and Florida.

Contact:
Bryce Henderson, Media Coordinator
Liberty Political Advertising, LLC
www.RonPaulBlimp.com

Ron Paul interviewed by Wolf Blitzer, CNN 12/2/07

SPECIAL COMMENT 12/6/07, keith olbermann

Ron Paul is no longer a dark horse

CARLA MARINUCCI
San Francisco Chronicle

They were a lonely band of rebels until just a few weeks ago, backing the darkest of dark horse presidential candidates.

But with Republican Rep. Ron Paul's fundraising on the rise - $4.2 million raised on the Internet in one day this month - and his poll numbers jumping, the Texas congressman might no longer be a "who?" but a potential problem for leading Republican presidential candidates in key states such as New Hampshire.

And in California, the state where the 72-year-old doctor-politician has raised the most money, those who call themselves part of the "Ron Paul Revolution" couldn't be happier.

Paul's backers are people such as Brad Sanford, 29, a Silicon Valley tech worker who said he never had been involved in politics or campaigns until this year.

Sanford, attending a Paul campaign Bay Area "meet-up" event, said he first caught Paul's appearances on cable programs like "The Bill Maher Show," "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report." Since then, Sanford has registered Republican for the first time to vote in the California presidential primary on Feb. 5 while "maxing out" his political donation budget with $2,300 to Paul's campaign.

Sanford now is walking precincts for Paul because he said the candidate is strongly against the war in Iraq and can appeal to millions who believe that America has "strayed too far from our values" and fundamentals laid out in the Constitution.

"For young people, it's the war; for older people, it's a straight common-sense approach" to taxes, the economy and values, said Holly Clearman, California field coordinator for the Paul campaign.

Clearman said the life of a Ron Paul supporter used to be a lonely undertaking.

"I thought there were only 10 of us, and nobody I knew," she said. But that changed in recent months as the candidate raised $9 million this quarter, and "the cat is out of the bag."

Paul followers are buoyed by the latest polls from CNN and the New York Times showing that their candidate has jumped ahead of former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in Iowa, the site of the nation's first 2008 primary on Jan. 3.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Arizona Sen. John McCain still dominate the race in that independent-minded, "Live Free or Die" state. But Paul's recent rise has prompted pundits to acknowledge that the Texan - once dismissed as a fringe candidate - could have an impact on the presidential race.

Paul's eclectic mix of fiercely libertarian and conservative values has created a passionate support base that might be unlike any other candidate in the 2008 presidential race.

The former practicing obstetrician, who has served in the House about 20 of the past 35 years, is vehemently anti-abortion - voting against federal funding of abortion, stem cell research and even family planning funding in U.S. foreign aid - and strongly pro-gun rights. His views have gained him high ratings from conservatives and groups such as the Christian Coalition and the National Rifle Association. Paul also is seen as strongly anti-environmental by groups such as the League of Conservation Voters, which gave him just a 5 percent legislative rating on his voting record.

But Paul also appeals to progressives on a number of issues: He supports repealing most federal drug laws, including those against medical marijuana, is against the death penalty, vigorously opposes the war in Iraq and is against the Patriot Act and free trade agreements such as NAFTA.

Indeed, some political analysts suggested he is the 2008 campaign's political ink blot test - able to represent whatever voters see in him.

Stephanie Burns, 50, a construction manager from Sausalito, Calif., who helps arrange biweekly Bay Area meetings in support of Paul, said the Texas congressman's campaign - like Democrat Howard Dean's in 2004 - has skillfully utilized the Internet to reach out to voters who might otherwise never be connected. "And ever since the $4.2 million, it has changed things," she said. "There's a lot more recognition by the media."

Burns motioned around the room to some of the people the Internet has brought to Paul's cause.

"I've never even been interested in politics my whole life," Brandy Alexander, 34, a University California-San Francisco researcher, told the group.

But after she and her boyfriend, William Newby, 28, a computer programmer, watched Paul slam U.S. involvement in the Iraq war and expound on his views during the televised GOP debates, they were hooked.

Thanks to Paul, she said, "Now, I find myself borderline obsessed with it.

NAIS, New law could make animal id required

By Alexis Hunt
Posted: Thursday, December 06, 2007 at 5:50 p.m.

The U-S Department of Agriculture wants to pass a law that'll affect farmers in the Tri-States as well as across the country. The U-S-D-A has designed a National Animal Identification System or N-A-I-S. This system requires all livestock get registered by placing a plastic tag in their ear. That tag has an electronic number that gets scanned through a computer when the animal goes through a livestock auction. The U-S-D-A says this process is for disease traceback, but members of R-Calf and the Missouri Farmer's Union beg to differ. They met today to discuss these issues.

"We're not against the technology at all...the reason we're against this is the government is intending to make this mandatory. Also there's a significant cost...and there's no program to assist us in that cost," said President of R-Calf Max Thornsberry.

The law won't take effect until 2010. When it takes affect, it will be a federal offense to remove the id.

Which Democrat's Health Plan

By LAURA MECKLER
December 5, 2007; Page A8

While the leading Democratic presidential candidates agree on most policy issues, a sharp dispute has emerged: Who would do more to provide health coverage for the uninsured?

Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been engaged in a bitter back-and-forth over whose health plan covers more people. Former Sen. John Edwards has jumped in, saying his plan is the best of all.
• The Players: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards all claim to have universal health-care proposals.
• The Background: Clinton and Edwards, but not Obama, would require all Americans to have insurance.
• The Bottom Line: Mandates may be needed to get everyone insured, but it's unclear if these plans provide enough subsidies to make the mandates affordable.

The argument concerns whether the government should require all Americans to get insurance. Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Edwards would require people to get insurance, either through work, a government program or new health marketplaces that all three candidates promise to set up. Mr. Obama would only require that children be insured.

Other elements of their plans are similar, including subsidies to help lower-income and even middle-income families pay premiums, and various proposals to cut the cost of health care. The candidates say they would pay for their plans by rolling back President Bush's tax cuts for upper-income earners and by savings in health spending through various measures.

None of the Republican candidates has proposed a universal health plan. But with the race tight and health care the No. 1 domestic issue for Democrats, the differences among Democrats have become a point of continuing tension.

Mrs. Clinton charges that Mr. Obama's plan would leave 15 million people without insurance. Outside experts agree that number is in the ballpark. If people aren't required by law to buy insurance, many won't. There are millions of children, for instance, who remain uninsured, even though they qualify for free or subsidized government programs.

In addition, all three candidates want to bar insurance companies from rejecting sick people or charging them more. But it is hard to require companies to insure expensive sick people if they aren't guaranteed that cheap healthy people will balance them out.

On the campaign trail, Mrs. Clinton has attacked Mr. Obama for his plan, saying it betrays the Democratic principle of universal coverage. Her campaign has demanded that he take down an advertisement that claims his plan "covers everyone."

Mr. Obama has replied that her attacks are more about politics than substance; they didn't come, he noted, until she lost ground in the polls. But his advisers don't dispute her central charge. Rather, they claim Mrs. Clinton's plan would also leave millions without coverage.

Obama adviser Austan Goolsbee argues that if Mrs. Clinton's health plan is enacted, she will have to waive the mandate for millions of people. That is because, he says, there isn't enough money for subsidies to make health insurance affordable enough for people to buy it.

"You can't put in a mandate until health care is affordable," he says. He predicted that a Hillary Clinton administration would wind up exempting 20% of the uninsured, or about 10 million people. That is the percentage of uninsured adults who were exempted in Massachusetts, the only state to try an individual mandate.

That view may not be true. Ken Thorpe, a health-policy expert at Emory University who has advised all three major Democrats, said he ran cost estimates for the Clinton plan at the Clinton campaign's request, and found there should be enough money to make insurance affordable for all. He said he ran three scenarios with varying levels of subsidies -- from $100 billion a year to $120 billion a year. The campaign chose one in the middle: $110 billion.

If it turns out that isn't enough money to make health premiums affordable, Mrs. Clinton would have to spend more on subsidies, one of her health-care advisers said.

But, the adviser said, it is wrong to assume that 20% of Americans will be exempted. It is impossible to say for certain, because the campaign has not explained how large the subsidies will be or who will qualify for them.

The Obama plan does some other things to get people insurance. It allows adults up to age 25 to stay on their parents' insurance even if they aren't in school. And it attempts to lower the cost of insurance overall through a reinsurance plan, whereby the federal government would cover some expenses of some of the most costly patients.

Outside experts note that the Clinton and Obama plans propose spending about the same amount of money, while Mr. Obama uses some of his to pay for the reinsurance plan -- an initiative that could cost tens of billions of dollars. That should help lower premiums across the board, but it means there would be less available for direct subsidies.

Amid the Clinton-Obama dispute, Mr. Edwards, who was the first to propose a universal coverage plan, has tried to jump into the debate. He notes that he has been much more specific than Mrs. Clinton has about how he will enforce the mandate. Indeed, Mrs. Clinton has suggested some options but has not made as clear a statement about enforcement.

Under the Edwards plan, people will have to prove their have insurance when they file their taxes, and the government will seek to collect back premiums, with interest, for those who refuse to get it.

None of the candidates want to talk about the fact that even if their plans worked out exactly as designed, none would cover all 47 million uninsured people in the U.S. That's because several million of the uninsured -- estimates put it up to seven million -- are illegal immigrants, and none of the front-runners include them in their programs.

Write to Laura Meckler at laura.meckler@wsj.com

HUCKABEE LIES ABOUT RAPIST PAROLE

Monitoring Agency Praises U.S. Report, but Keeps Wary Eye on Iran

By ELAINE SCIOLINO
Published: December 5, 2007

PARIS, Dec. 4 — The International Atomic Energy Agency on Tuesday publicly embraced the new American intelligence assessment stating that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons effort, but in truth the agency is taking a more cautious approach in drawing conclusions about Iran’s nuclear program.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency says it has "outstanding issues" about Iran’s nuclear enrichment complex in Natanz.

“To be frank, we are more skeptical,” a senior official close to the agency said. “We don’t buy the American analysis 100 percent. We are not that generous with Iran.”

The official called the American assertion that Iran had “halted” its weapons program in 2003 “somewhat surprising.”

That the nuclear watchdog agency based in Vienna is sounding a somewhat tougher line than the Bush administration is surprising, given that the administration has long criticized it for not pressuring Iran hard enough to curb its nuclear program.

But the American finding has so unsettled governments, agencies and officials dealing with Iran that it has suddenly upended commonly held assumptions.

There is relief, as one senior French official put it, that “the war option is off the table.” There is also criticism and even anger in some quarters that the American intelligence assessment may be too soft on Iran.

Israel, for example, on Tuesday took a darker view of Iran’s nuclear ambitions than the American assessment, saying that it is convinced that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons and that it has probably resumed the weapons program the Americans said was stopped in autumn 2003.

The British government said the international community should maintain pressure on Iran over its uranium enrichment efforts. “It confirms we were right to be worried about Iran seeking to develop nuclear weapons,” a spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown told reporters. He said the American assessment had also shown that past international pressure on Iran had succeeded “in that they seem to have abandoned the weaponization element.”

He added, “But it also tells us the intent was there, and that the risk of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons remains a serious problem.” That, he said, justified maintaining pressure on the Tehran government to abandon efforts to enrich uranium and to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, processes that could provide fissile material for nuclear weapons.

Iran’s foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, told state-run radio that Iran welcomed the change of opinion about its nuclear program. “Some of the same countries which had questions or ambiguities about our nuclear program are changing their views realistically,” he said.

A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Mohammad Ali Hosseini, said the report showed that American accusations about Iran’s secret weapons activities were baseless, reported ISNA, the Iranian student news agency.

“This report can be good news for U.S. allies so that they would change their unreasonable policies,” he said, ISNA reported.

The International Atomic Energy Agency’s public stance, and the main message of Mohamed ElBaradei, the director general, was to praise the new finding as proof that his agency had been right in its analysis.

The American assessment “tallies with the agency’s consistent statements over the last few years that — although Iran still needs to clarify some important aspects of its past and present nuclear activities — the agency has no concrete evidence of an ongoing nuclear weapons program or undeclared nuclear facilities in Iran,” Dr. ElBaradei said in a statement.

He said the American intelligence assessment “should help to defuse the current crisis.”

But the agency has been frustrated by shrinking access for its inspectors in Iran, and Dr. ElBaradei also called on Iran to “accelerate its cooperation,” adding that the new American finding “should prompt Iran to work actively with the I.A.E.A. to clarify specific aspects of its past and present nuclear program.” He urged Iran to allow more intrusive inspections of its facilities.

Inside the agency, officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity under normal diplomatic rules, said that Iran must not assume that the American report relieves it of pressure to work with the agency, and that the country must do more to prove its good will.

“We are still worried about certain aspects of Iran’s nuclear program, and we need answers, particularly about so-called military aspects of the program,” said the senior official close to the agency.

Dr. ElBaradei’s most recent report to his agency’s 35-country board last month is less categorical in its conclusions than the American finding.

The agency acknowledged there were still “outstanding issues” regarding the scope and nature of the nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz and activities that could have military applications, Dr. ElBaradei said.

The American analysis twice describes the Natanz enrichment program as civilian, and omits the administration’s oft-cited analysis that there is no logical application for enriched uranium other than eventual military use. Referring to the finding’s characterization of uranium enrichment, the official allied with the international agency said, “We wouldn’t go that far.”

The official also refused to rule out the possibility that Iran might have programs involving centrifuges — the machines that spin enriched uranium — that it had not disclosed to the agency.

The agency plans to use the new assessment’s revelation that Iran had a nuclear weapons program in the past to pry more information out of it about its suspicious past activities.

“If they had a weapons program, they better tell us now,” the official said. “We need to know where they ended up with their program before they terminated it.”

John F. Burns contributed reporting from London, and Nazila Fathi from Tehran.