CNN actually gave Ron Paul some air time to talk about his new book that came out earlier this month. Good interview, yet again listening to Ron Paul speak his point of view and policies and it's a breath of fresh air to me :)

Coachella Day Three: Roger Waters...
Rolling Stone

There was no moon in the Coachella sky as Roger Waters stepped onstage for the final headline set of the festival on Sunday, bringing his own airborne props, exploding fireballs and the elegant, mind-expanding music of Pink Floyd. Embedded in Waters’ set was Floyd’s entire 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon, still one the best-selling albums ever, with songs of madness, hope and outrage.

At 64, Waters may have been an unexpected choice to headline a festival with roots in the alternative nation, but Floyd’s soaring waves of forward-looking sounds have been echoed in different ways by the likes of Radiohead and Massive Attack, both Coachella alums. And as huge clouds of stage-fog drifted across a field packed with festival-goers, Waters strummed an acoustic guitar for “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun,” a song from Floyd’s earliest days, accompanied by old black and white footage of the band wandering an English beach. The tune marked the beginning of a major theme of the evening: the genius and tragic breakdown of founding Floyd leader Syd Barrett, who died in 2006 after spending three decades fading into drug-damage and madness.

During “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” blurry psychedelic images of Barrett appeared behind Waters as he wailed, “You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom . . . come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine.” Waters turned “Wish You Were Here” into a British folk ballad, sitting with a guitar, his vocals clenched and deeply felt. The dreamy “Brain Damage” had Waters singing softly “the lunatic is on the grass . . . There’s someone in my head and it’s not me” as the image of multicolored pills tumbled across the big screen.

Waters’ other main obsession had a geopolitical bent, emerging on “Mother” (from 1979’s The Wall), asking “Mother do you think they’ll drop the bomb? . . . Mother should I trust the president?” to a roar from the crowd before stepping back and mouthing the words “No fucking way!” He spoke of a Lebanese family that once took him in as a young traveler, leading into “Leaving Beirut,” an Internet-only solo release in response to the invasion of Iraq. And he did two songs from his final album with Pink Floyd, 1983’s underrated The Final Cut, on which he railed against the foreign policies of that moment: Reagan, Thatcher, a war in the Falkland Islands, nukes everywhere.

Perfected after a week of rehearsals at the Forum arena in Los Angeles, all of it was matched with the sort of special effects and spectacular images Waters and Pink Floyd are known, like the giant inflatable pig covered in graffiti (”Don’t be led to slaughter”) that floated above the crowd during “Sheep” to explosive sparks of electric guitar by Dave Kilminster before being allowed to break free as spotlights crisscrossed the sky. Waters’ night ended with songs from The Wall, with fiery virtuosic soloing by violinist Lili Haydn taking over Gilmour’s original leads on “Comfortably Numb.” During “Run Like Hell,” a pair of dudes in baggy shorts responded on the grass with a lengthy interpretative dance — falling to one knee, finger pointed in the air, stepping forward and back, bowing and swinging their hips — a routine no doubt practiced back home between multiple bongloads.

I haven't really read the news in a while and while catching up, i saw the video of when Ron Paul questioned David Petraeus. Ron Paul has been in the news kind of a lot, I love the article he wrote recently about the loss of the 4th Amendment. Again it made me sad that Ron Paul points out the obvious and the media still ignores him. I watched some of the people who questioned Petraeus but never saw Ron Paul. Of coarse when Obama was questioning him it was broadcast on every main stream media channel. And Obamas questions, quite honestly, look and sound pathedic when you listen to what Ron Paul had to say!

Ah, i love it, Ron Paul rules! He basically made these two look like the warmongers that they are.



It was also posted on Gambling911.com today that Ron Paul and Barney Frank are introducing a bill this week to get rid of the prohibition of on line gambling. It's the light of my world to read among all the depressing news about Ron Paul because everything he does is for the cause of liberty.

Here's also the article Ron Paul wrote in Free Market Man about the erosion of the 4th Amendment. It's a quick read, not long at all...

Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies: Ron Paul on The Emerging Surveillance State
Ron Paul

Free Market Man

April 7, 2008

Last month, the House amended the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to expand the government’s ability to monitor our private communications. This measure, if it becomes law, will result in more warrantless government surveillance of innocent American citizens.
Though some opponents claimed that the only controversial part of this legislation was its grant of immunity to telecommunications companies, there is much more to be wary of in the bill. In the House version, Title II, Section 801, extends immunity from prosecution of civil legal action to people and companies including any provider of an electronic communication service, any provider of a remote computing service, “any other communication service provider who has access to wire or electronic communications,” any “parent, subsidiary, affiliate, successor, or assignee” of such company, any “officer, employee, or agent” of any such company, and any “landlord, custodian, or other person who may be authorized or required to furnish assistance.” The Senate version goes even further by granting retroactive immunity to such entities that may have broken the law in the past.
The new FISA bill allows the federal government to compel many more types of companies and individuals to grant the government access to our communications without a warrant. The provisions in the legislation designed to protect Americans from warrantless surveillance are full of loopholes and ambiguities. There is no blanket prohibition against listening in on all American citizens without a warrant.
We have been told that this power to listen in on communications is legal and only targets terrorists. But if what these companies are being compelled to do is legal, why is it necessary to grant them immunity? If what they did in the past was legal and proper, why is it necessary to grant them retroactive immunity?
In communist East Germany , one in every 100 citizens was an informer for the dreaded secret police, the Stasi. They either volunteered or were compelled by their government to spy on their customers, their neighbors, their families, and their friends. When we think of the evil of totalitarianism, such networks of state spies are usually what comes to mind. Yet, with modern technology, what once took tens of thousands of informants can now be achieved by a few companies being coerced by the government to allow it to listen in to our communications. This surveillance is un-American.
We should remember that former New York governor Eliot Spitzer was brought down by a provision of the PATRIOT Act that required enhanced bank monitoring of certain types of financial transactions. Yet we were told that the PATRIOT Act was needed to catch terrorists, not philanderers. The extraordinary power the government has granted itself to look into our private lives can be used for many purposes unrelated to fighting terrorism. We can even see how expanded federal government surveillance power might be used to do away with political rivals.
The Fourth Amendment to our Constitution requires the government to have a warrant when it wishes to look into the private affairs of individuals. If we are to remain a free society we must defend our rights against any governmental attempt to undermine or bypass the Constitution.

In my entertainment news, ironically 2 weeks before the Denver Roger Waters concert, which i have tickets to :),

I came across a little blurb about Roger Waters talking about the Presidential election and said that "Ghastly Hillary will invade Iran"

Roger Waters: 'Ghastly Hillary Clinton Will Invade Iran'
Jason Gregory

Gigwise

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has attacked democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton – calling the senator from New York “ghastly”.
Waters, who admits to being a fan of Clinton’s rival for the democratic nomination, Barack Obama, said that Clinton would invade Iran if she was elected America’s next president.
“I was so disappointed the other night when the ghastly Hillary got Texas and kept the whole thing going," he told the Independent.
"Please God, let's not have this woman! Hillary will want to make her mark and show that she can be just as good as a male president, and she will fucking invade Iran.
“Trust me. She voted to declare the Iranian Republican Guard a terrorist organisation!"
Despite being ineligible to vote, Waters, who lives in New York, said he would “buy a whole page in The New York Times” in order to “fly Obama's flag”.
“But I would be terribly afraid they'd go, 'This is that pinko shitbag who's attacking our President in time of war',” he added.
Clinton and Obama next face off against each other in the Philadelphia primary on April 22nd.
The eventual winner of the democratic nomination will go head-to-head with Republican John McCain in the battle to become the country’s president in November.

Watching Ventura go out and promote his book and talk to all these disgusting pundits is great to watch!
The Colbert Report interview was good too, but Ventura makes Hannity look like even more of an ass in this interview.
I don't agree with Ventura on everything, but he's got guts to go out on t.v. and tell the truth, and that's all that matters to me.

Jesse Venture Questions Official 9/11 Story

This was a fucking great interview! He kicked off his book tour yesterday by going on Larry King. The Larry King interview is great too, but of coarse on Alex Jones people tend to be more honest.

i don't give a damn about pro wrestling, and i never really listened to what Jesse Ventura had to say, i always just brushed him off as that guy from "The Predator".
Turns out he's just mad as hell too, i'm definitely going to buy his new book "Don't Start The Revolution Without Me", he's going on his book tour now and he's calling for peaceful revolution, just like Ron Paul. Infact on The Larry King Show when he was talking about the war he said he agrees with Ron Paul, that we just marched right in, we can march right out.
He also talked about the JFK assassination, which i love to hear any one's opinion about. That subject is just such a fascinating subject to me, i love it.

By the way, Jesse Ventura isn't just some actor, some celebrity, he's ex Navy, he was Governor of Minnesota. Let's not forget this, he is a prominent guy.

He tells about how after he took the office of Governor the CIA came to interrogate him when the CIA has it in their own charter they are not allowed to operate inside the United States!

He talks about how his wife found out their phone was bugged!

I have a sneaking suspicion Alex is trying to get Johnny Depp on his show, i listen to his show everyday and he's been hinting at it here and there. Just the other day he was saying something about "actors making pirate movies going public". Alex also made a remark not too long ago when they were covering the Oscar winning Best Actress when she said the government probably did 9/11, he said she was doing a movie with Johnny Depp right now, and he went on to say,"I wonder what Johnny Depp thinks about 9/11" and then he just laughed and said,"I'm gonna shut up."

After the Ventura interview yesterday he went on about how he's so close to getting "one of the top 3 actors" on the show.
I'm almost positive it'll be Johnny Depp.