LIVESTREAM: Ron Paul Institute Media & War 2018 Conference 8/18/18

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https://mailchi.mp/ronpaulinstitute/is-war-popular-rpi-19th-april-update-114045?e=[UNIQID
Supposed to be streaming from Ron Paul Liberty Report's YouTube Page and on Ron Paul's Facebook Page, but nothing is there at the moment? What gives? Censorship? :confused:



...The good news is that we plan to live stream tomorrow's conference on the Ron Paul Liberty Report's YouTube Page and on Ron Paul's Facebook Page. We have not live streamed our events before and hopefully this will come off without a hitch...

Ron Paul Institute Media & War 2018 Conference
August 18th, 2018
Agenda

Registration opens: 8:30 AM

9:30-9:45 – Daniel McAdams Welcome and introduction

New RPI Board Member Announcement
9:45-9:50 - Greetings from new RPI Board Member, Gary Heavin
10:00 – 10:20 – Col. Lawrence Wilkerson - "What Is the Empire's Strategy?"
10:30-10:50 – John W. Whitehead - "Battlefield America: The War on the American People"[/I
10:50 – 11:10 Coffee Break
11:15 – 11:30 - Caitlin Johnstone (Skype) – [I]“How To Win A Grassroots Media Rebellion“
11:35 – 11:55 – Jim Jatras - "Have You Committed your Three Felonies Today?"
12:00 – 12:30 - Nassim Nicholas Taleb – “Skin in the Game”
12:30 – 1:30 – Lunch
12:45 – 1:30 Luncheon Panel “How to Build a Broad Coalition”


Adam Dick (Chair)
Daniel McAdams
Jeff Deist
Norman Singleton
Paul-Martin Foss
Chris Rossini
1:40 – 2:00 – Col. Douglas Macgregor “President Trump's new Pax Americana."
2:05 – 2:30 – Gerald Celente – “How Presstitutes Rob America of Peace & Prosperity”
2:40 – Ron Paul Keynote Speech

https://mailchi.mp/ronpaulinstitute/is-war-popular-rpi-19th-april-update-114045?e=[UNIQID

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9:30-9:45 – Daniel McAdams Welcome and introduction

New RPI Board Member Announcement
9:45-9:50 - Greetings from new RPI Board Member, Gary Heavin

Gary Heavin talked about satellite warfare on the liberty report. I have heard about a cold war space race going on with China but I thought Trump making it public with the "space force" was ominous. It seems like there is more to this that meets the eye. Is there some sort of foreign presence (not alien) in space that is demanding national attention at the level of Apollo and 9/11? If the public isn't receptive enough are they going to motivate us like they have before?

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11:35 – 11:55 – Jim Jatras - "Have You Committed your Three Felonies Today?"

Have You Committed Your Three Felonies Today?
By James George Jatras
Strategic Culture


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But America today must be the only country that’s ever been so goofy that the losers are able to terrorize the winners. Whatever your feelings about the current administration, consider: the feds come in like gangbusters, breaking down doors, rousting targets from their beds, seizing their personal documents and devices, and subjecting them to piled-on charges and questioning designed to result in perjury, obstruction, and conspiracy charges – especially the phony crime of “lying to the FBI” – adding up to decades in jail. Those accused are forced to plead guilty to a lesser charge or bankrupt themselves hoping they will be vindicated by a jury of sheep their peers, where the feds have a 90 percent-plus conviction rate. That’s treatment meted out to Paul Manafort, Mike Flynn, George Papadopoulos, Michael Cohen, and others.

Conversely, clear evidence of crime, such as mishandling classified material, is a freebie: “No reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.” Oh, some of the emails are “personal?” That’s OK, you decide what’s what – we trust you! There’s a claim a foreign power hacked a computer server, which some compare to an act of war demanding retaliation – no, we don’t need to see the server itself, your contractor’s report is good enough for us! And while you’re at it, go ahead and purge your electronic records (even material you’re obligated to preserve) and smash up your smart phones and pull out SIM cards. Oh, hey, does anyone need immunity? No need to bargain, we’re happy to provide! That’s the treatment accorded to Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, Tony Podesta, and their ilk.

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Which brings us to the biggest threat to what’s left of our liberties as Americans. (No, not the yanking of the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan.) As is well known, we are facing an unprecedented, coordinated campaign of deplatforming, shadowbanning, flitering, and other foul means of putting dissenting voices into a digital GULag. While the glove belongs to tech giants and their executives, the hand inside is the government’s. Using Russian meddling as a pretext, companies that do billions of dollars of business with the federal government are only too happy to police the web of “suspected Russian-linked accounts.” And since, as Hillary says, Putin is the leader of the worldwide “authoritarian, white-supremacist, and xenophobic movement” who is “emboldening right-wing nationalists, separatists, racists, and even neo-Nazis,” anything and anybody that fails Virginia Senator Mark Warner’s or Mark Zuckerberg’s sniff test is now fair game. We are told that to sow discord and chaos Russian troll farms and social media ads target “divisive” issues related to race, Black Lives Matter, and Ferguson, absent which we’d all be holding hands singing Kumbaya. Connecting Putin and Russia with racism feeds into a cockamamie phantasmagoria of Crimethink concepts that increasingly are considered outside the protection of what was once quaintly known as free speech: hate speech, fake news, conspiracy theories, white nationalism, white supremacy, white privilege, patriarchy, “cisgenderism,” and many more. The idea of “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” is out the window. Instead we have: anyone to the right of me gets what he deserves.

While we hear a lot about the “input” end – violation of free speech rights, a deadly, valid concern – even more worrisome is the “output”: limiting what Americans can see and hear that differs from the official media line, itself largely a bulletin board for government sources. Unsurprisingly, that line is unfailingly for war and intervention. As Patrick Armstrong puts it, maybe the censors could just buy some old Soviet jamming equipment.

It is hard to escape the notion that we are approaching the edge of some profound historical moment that will have far-reaching, literally life and death consequences, both domestically and internationally. In the period preceding World War I how many Europeans suspected that their lives would soon be forever changed – and, for millions of them, ended? Who in the years, say, 1910 to 1913, could have imagined that the decades of peace, progress, and civilization in which they had grown up, and which seemingly would continue indefinitely, instead would soon descend into a horror of industrial-scale slaughter, revolution, and brutal ideologies?

Whether opposition to the gathering darkness can be effective is uncertain. But what is not uncertain is our duty to oppose it, even at the risk of committing three felonies a day. “Fellow Thought criminals – unite!”

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/08/no_author/have-you-committed-your-three-felonies-today/