Adam Dick

How about a Ron Paul Institute (RPI) conference this year? Ron Paul, RPI’s chairman, is excited about the idea. Of course, he would be a featured speaker at the conference.

The only barrier to making the conference a reality is money. The institute needs to spend its minimal resources on its ongoing activities; there are just not the additional funds now to pay for a conference as well.

Recently, the possibility of a conference became more real. I brought up the topic with an RPI supporter. He told me the conference sounds like a great idea. He donated $500 to help make it happen.

A few additional people kicking in big donations will immediately move the conference from the planning boards to reality.

RPI can put on a top-notch conference if it can raise an additional $5,000 in earmarked donations.

Please email me if you would like to make a tax-deductible donation of $500 or more toward putting on RPI’s first conference.

We are not asking anyone to make a donation right now. Instead we are asking for pledges of large donations for making the conference a reality.

If we receive enough pledged support to cover conference expenses, we will (1) ask the pledgers to make their donations, and (2) immediately begin conference preparations.

If we do not receive enough pledges, the conference will remain on the institute’s “wish list.”

One donation of $5,000, two donations of $2,500, five donations of $1,000, or ten donations of $500: That will bring about a conference featuring Ron Paul and other great speakers. That will also bring together people, from around America and the world, who value Ron Paul’s message.

Donors for the conference will be recognized as the conference’s Host Committee. Host Committee members will receive special perks, including an invitation to a private VIP reception with Ron Paul, additional conference speakers, and other notable people. Host Committee members will also have the satisfaction of knowing that their generous support enabled the conference to occur.

If you are excited about making this conference featuring Ron Paul a reality and are interested in pledging a tax-deductible donation of $500 or more earmarked for that purpose, please email me at adam@ronpaulinstitute.org.

Reprinted with permission from the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.

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Over at The Intercept, journalist Glenn Greenwald has written a powerful and insightful examination of how media provides Americans with many details regarding the deaths and suffering caused by terrorist attacks in “western” nations but shields Americans from anywhere near the coverage of victims of the United States and cooperating governments’ attacks in other countries, including the US government’s “hideous civilian-slaughtering strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Libya, and Iraq.”

Greenwald then takes the extra step in the article to discuss the issue of blowback — in particular, that terrorist attacks can be a means of retaliation against attacks by the western nations. But, the media rarely addresses this fact. Instead, Greenwald notes, the media mainly ensures Americans are “constantly bombarded with images and stories and dramatic narratives highlighting our own side’s victims, while the victims of our side’s violence are rendered invisible.” This perpetuation by the media of “self-pleasing and tribal-affirming — but utterly false — narratives,” Greenwald charges, “is the very definition of propaganda.”

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Speaking Friday with hosts John Berman and Kate Bolduan at CNN, former three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul predicted that shady maneuvers, like the rules changes and replacement of delegates used against Paul at the 2012 Republican National Convention, will be used against Trump at the upcoming 2016 party convention. Paul says, however, that he believes Trump will win the Republican nomination despite such “establishment” efforts.

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