Ron Paul Opposes “Obsession with Iran Act”

Kurt Nimmo

Infowars.com
August 3, 2012

Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich stand virtually alone in the House of Representatives in opposition to the latest round of sanctions the U.S. will impose on Iran in response to its unsubstantiated nuclear weapons program.

“When you put on sanctions on a country, it’s an act of war and that’s what this is all about,”said Paul. “I think this bill would be better named Obsession with Iran Act 2012,” he added.

Following political pressure by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, sanctions were approved and now head to the White House for Obama’s signature. The sanctions target the Iranian oil industry and Chinese and Iraqi banks. Obama said in a statement that existing sanctions will be expanded “by making sanctionable the purchase or acquisition of Iranian petrochemical products.”

Iran is currently under six rounds of sanctions put in place by the United Nations Security Council.

“The sanctions have devastated the daily life of ordinary Iranian people by bringing the price of goods to a skyrocketing height, making the students abroad unable to get financial assistance from their parents in Iran, rendering it impossible for the private companies to do international transactions and making it extremely difficult for Iranians to get visa for traveling to foreign countries. The “smart sanctions” even include a ban on the importing of medicine and foodstuff from the other nations to Iran,” writes Kourosh Ziabari.

“This latest move by the U.S. Congress shows the extent to which Washington has become frustrated and now it is going to step up their pressure on Iranian civilians by preventing the country from importing agricultural products… Iran is a grain importer and the U.S. knows that and by creating obstacles in the way of grain exports to Iran, the U.S. is clearly committing crimes against humanity because it only affects ordinary Iranians who have got nothing to do with the country’s nuclear energy program,” Hamid Reza Emadi, an Iran-based political commentator, recently told Press TV.

The latest round of punitive measures came after presidential candidate Mitt Romney criticized the Obama administration for not moving against Iran in response to its nuclear program. “The regime in Iran is five years closer to developing nuclear weapons capability,”Romney said during a visit to Israel earlier in the week. “Preventing that outcome must be our highest national security priority.”

Paul dismissed the as of yet conclusively proven accusation that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. “The IAEA and our CIA said they are not on the verge of a nuclear weapon. It is so similar to what we went through in the early part of this last decade, when we were beating the war drums to go to war against Iraq. And it was all a façade. There was no danger from Iraq,”he said.

The New York Times Admits That Virtually Every Major News Organization Allows The News To Be Censored By Government Officials

In one of the most shocking articles that the New York Times has ever put out, a New York Times reporter has openly admitted that virtually every major mainstream news organization allows government bureaucrats and campaign officials to censor their stories.  For example, almost every major news organization in the country has agreed to submit virtually all quotes from anyone involved in the Obama campaign or the Romney campaign to gatekeepers for “quote approval” before they will be published.  If the gatekeeper in the Obama campaign does not want a certain quote to get out, the American people will not see it, and the same thing applies to the Romney campaign.  The goal is to keep the campaigns as “on message” as possible and to avoid gaffes at all cost.  But this kind of thing is not just happening with political campaigns.  According to the New York Times, “quote approval” has become “commonplace throughout Washington”.  In other words, if you see a quote in the newspaper from someone in the federal government then it is safe to say that a gatekeeper has almost certainly reviewed that quote and has approved it.  This is another sign that “the free and independent media” in this country is a joke.  What we get from the mainstream media is a very highly filtered form of propaganda, and that is one reason why Americans are turning away from the mainstream media in droves.  People want the truth, and more Americans than ever realize that they are not getting it from the mainstream media.

The following quote comes from the recent article in the New York Timesmentioned above and it is absolutely jaw dropping….

The quotations come back redacted, stripped of colorful metaphors, colloquial language and anything even mildly provocative.

They are sent by e-mail from the Obama headquarters in Chicago to reporters who have interviewed campaign officials under one major condition: the press office has veto power over what statements can be quoted and attributed by name.

Most reporters, desperate to pick the brains of the president’s top strategists, grudgingly agree. After the interviews, they review their notes, check their tape recorders and send in the juiciest sound bites for review.

The verdict from the campaign — an operation that prides itself on staying consistently on script — is often no, Barack Obama does not approve this message.

This is an article that everyone needs to read.  If you have not read it yet, you can find it right here.

What all of this means is that both the Obama campaign and the Romney campaign essentially have “veto power” over any quotes from those campaigns that we see in the newspapers.

According to the New York Times, virtually every major news organization has agreed to submit their quotes for “quote approval”….

It was difficult to find a news outlet that had not agreed to quote approval, albeit reluctantly. Organizations like Bloomberg, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Reuters and The New York Times have all consented to interviews under such terms.

This is absolutely disgusting, and it goes against everything that our media is supposed to stand for.

The following is what Joseph Farah had to say when he learned about this story….

All I can say about these people I once considered “colleagues” is that I am so ashamed of them. I am mortified. They are humiliating themselves and a vital institution for any free society.

It seems the biggest threat to the American tradition of a free and independent press is not government coercion. It’s the willing submission of the press to being handled and managed by government and politicians.

Keep in mind that Joseph Farah has been working in the world of journalism for decades.  He is deeply saddened to see what is happening to a profession that he deeply loves.

But he is not the only one.

Just check out what Dan Rather had to say during a speech back in 2009….

“At my age and stage I’ve finally reached the point where I don’t have to kiss up to anybody,” he said. “What a wonderful feeling it is.”

Even so, his talk emphasized what he believes is the erosion of quality journalism, because of the corporatization, politicization, and “trivialization” of news. Those three factors, Rather argued, have fueled the “dumbing down and sleezing up of news” and the decline of “great American journalism.”

Likening media consolidation to that of the banking industry, Rather claimed that “roughly 80 percent” of the media is controlled by no more than six, and possibly as few as four, corporations.

And Dan Rather is right.  The control over the media in the United States is more tightly concentrated than ever before.

Back in the early 1980s, approximately 50 corporations essentially had nearly total control of the media in the United States.

Today, just six monolithic media corporations dominate virtually everything you watch, hear and read.

These six gigantic corporations own television networks, publishing houses, movie studios, newspapers, radio stations, music labels and video game companies.  Most Americans are absolutely addicted to information and entertainment, and those six massive corporations supply the vast majority of the information and entertainment that Americans take in.

The amount of control that those six corporate giants have is absolutely incredible.  For example, the average American watches 153 hours of television a month.  If you can beam 153 hours of “programming” into someone’s head each month, that gives you an awesome amount of influence over that person.

The six monolithic corporations mentioned above are Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., CBS Corporation and NBC Universal.

There are some areas of the media that are not completely dominated by those corporations, but even control over those areas is becoming more highly concentrated than ever.

For example, Clear Channel now owns over 1000 radio stations across the United States.  The power that Clear Channel has over the radio industry in America is absolutely staggering.

Even control over the Internet is becoming much more concentrated.  Giant corporations such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are increasingly controlling what we see and hear online.

But it really is the “big six” that dominate most of what we see, hear and read on a daily basis.

In a previous article, I detailed a portion of the vast media holdings of these gigantic corporations….

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Today, six colossal media giants tower over all the rest.  Much of the information in the chart below comes from mediaowners.com.  The chart below reveals only a small fraction of the media outlets that these six behemoths actually own….

Time Warner

Home Box Office (HBO)
Time Inc.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
CW Network (partial ownership)
TMZ
New Line Cinema
Time Warner Cable
Cinemax
Cartoon Network
TBS
TNT
America Online
MapQuest
Moviefone
Castle Rock
Sports Illustrated
Fortune
Marie Claire
People Magazine

Walt Disney

ABC Television Network
Disney Publishing
ESPN Inc.
Disney Channel
SOAPnet
A&E
Lifetime
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Buena Vista Theatrical Productions
Buena Vista Records
Disney Records
Hollywood Records
Miramax Films
Touchstone Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures
Pixar Animation Studios
Buena Vista Games
Hyperion Books

Viacom

Paramount Pictures
Paramount Home Entertainment
Black Entertainment Television (BET)
Comedy Central
Country Music Television (CMT)
Logo
MTV
MTV Canada
MTV2
Nick Magazine
Nick at Nite
Nick Jr.
Nickelodeon
Noggin
Spike TV
The Movie Channel
TV Land
VH1

News Corporation

Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Fox Television Stations
The New York Post
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Beliefnet
Fox Business Network
Fox Kids Europe
Fox News Channel
Fox Sports Net
Fox Television Network
FX
My Network TV
MySpace
News Limited News
Phoenix InfoNews Channel
Phoenix Movies Channel
Sky PerfecTV
Speed Channel
STAR TV India
STAR TV Taiwan
STAR World
Times Higher Education Supplement Magazine
Times Literary Supplement Magazine
Times of London
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
20th Century Fox International
20th Century Fox Studios
20th Century Fox Television
BSkyB
DIRECTV
The Wall Street Journal
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Interactive Media
FOXTEL
HarperCollins Publishers
The National Geographic Channel
National Rugby League
News Interactive
News Outdoor
Radio Veronica
ReganBooks
Sky Italia
Sky Radio Denmark
Sky Radio Germany
Sky Radio Netherlands
STAR
Zondervan

CBS Corporation

CBS News
CBS Sports
CBS Television Network
CNET
Showtime
TV.com
CBS Radio Inc. (130 stations)
CBS Consumer Products
CBS Outdoor
CW Network (50% ownership)
Infinity Broadcasting
Simon & Schuster (Pocket Books, Scribner)
Westwood One Radio Network

NBC Universal

Bravo
CNBC
NBC News
MSNBC
NBC Sports
NBC Television Network
Oxygen
SciFi Magazine
Syfy (Sci Fi Channel)
Telemundo
USA Network
Weather Channel
Focus Features
NBC Universal Television Distribution
NBC Universal Television Studio
Paxson Communications (partial ownership)
Trio
Universal Parks & Resorts
Universal Pictures
Universal Studio Home Video

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Please keep in mind that the list above is not exhaustive.  It only contains a sampling of the companies that those six corporate giants own.

So are you starting to get an idea of how powerful they are?

If you ever wondered why the version of “the news” that you get is so similar no matter where you turn, it is because control of the news is concentrated in just a very few hands.

So who controls the “big six” media corporations?

Would it surprise you to know that the boards of directors of those big media corporations have a tremendous amount of overlap with the boards of directors of large banks, large oil companies and large pharmaceutical companies?

The following is from the Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting website….

Media corporations share members of the board of directors with a variety of other large corporations, including banks, investment companies, oil companies, health care and pharmaceutical companies and technology companies.

You can find a list that shows how these boards of directors overlap and interlockright here.

The giant media corporations are not going to criticize the establishment because they are the establishment.

The messages that these media behemoths pound into our heads are going to be the messages that the establishment wants pounded into our heads.

Anyone that believes that the mainstream media is “independent” and that it does not have “an agenda” is being delusional.

Of course it is also worth mentioning that much of what we get from the mainstream media is also often directly controlled by the federal government.

Former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein (of Woodward and Bernsteinfame) has discovered that hundreds of American journalists have worked directly for the CIA.

Not that the federal government and the establishment are opposed to one another.  The truth is that they very much work together hand in hand.  But sometimes the federal government has slightly different priorities than the corporate establishment does.

In any event, the key point to take away from all this is that the news and entertainment that we all enjoy on a daily basis if very highly censored and very highly controlled.

It is imperative that we understand that those that own and control the media are trying to shape society in a certain way.  They want to impose their values and their vision of the future on all the rest of us.

You will notice that none of the major news organizations speak out against the “Big Brother” police state control grid that is going in all around us.

Instead, they insist that all of this added “security” will keep us safe even as our liberties and freedoms are being badly eroded.

You will notice that none of the major news organizations speak out against the population control agenda of the global elite.

Instead, they insist that more “family planning” will help the environment and make the world a more prosperous place for all of us.

You will notice that none of the major news organizations speak out against the Federal Reserve and none of them are warning us about the financial collapse that is rapidly approaching.

Instead, they tell us to keep having faith in the system and they promise us that everything is going to be okay.

Well, you can mindlessly believe the corporate media if you want, but I believe that in this day and age it is absolutely imperative that we all learn to think for ourselves.

Don’t be a mindless robot for anyone.

Think for yourself and make your own decisions.

The truth is out there and you can find it if you are willing to go search for it.

Obama Expected To Visit Israel In Second Term, Focus On It Is ‘A Distraction,’ Campaign Says

The Obama campaign said in a conference call Monday that the president is likely to make his first visit to Israel in a second term, and denounced attempts by Mitt Romney’s campaign to make political hay out of his failure to do so up to this point.

The call comes ahead of Romney’s planned foreign policy tour this week, during which the former Massachusetts governor is expected to visit London, Israel, Poland and Germany. It is likely that Romney will use his time in Poland to criticize Obama’s “reset” with Russia, which has worried some key eastern European allies, and his time in Israel to underscore the lingering anxiety many strong Israel supporters feel about the sincerity of Obama’s loyalty.

“Being friend to Israel shouldn’t be judged just by a travel itinerary,” said Colin Kahl, a former defense official speaking on behalf of the Obama campaign. “It’s relevant to point out that Ronald Reagan never visited Israel, and George W. Bush never visited Israel until the final year of his second term. So I don’t really think this is a serious policy difference, it’s basically a distraction, says nothing about the commitment the Obama administration has made to Israel.”

Kahl added that voters “should expect [Obama] to visit Israel in the second term.”

The Romney campaign has high hopes of winning over chunks of normally Democratic Jewish voters, many of whom perceive Obama as insufficiently supportive of the Middle Eastern ally.

Over the course of the call, Kahl argued that these attempts were bound to fail, and offered a litany of examples of how the White House’s support for Israel has been “unprecedented.” The campaign also trotted out several quotes from top Israeli officials describing the relationship as strong as ever. But some, like a reference to a speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at last year’s AIPAC convention, which was largely an attack on Obama’s Iran policy, may actually understate the level of personal distrust and tension that has come to characterize the relationship over the past four years.

The campaign call was set up largely to criticize Romney’s upcoming world tour as superficial, contrasting it with a 2008 campaign trip by then-Senator Obama that saw him meeting with world leaders in international hotspots like Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel and several countries in Europe.

“The question for Governor Romney is whether this trip will be similarly substantive and meet the bar set in 2008, or whether it will be one long photo-op and fundraising tour,” said Robert Gibbs, a senior campaign adviser.

The Romney campaign has been tight-lipped about the precise details of the trip, but on Monday the British prime minister’s office confirmed that the governor would at least be meeting with David Cameron, likely followed by sessions with several other political leaders.

Prediction: Romney Will Not be the Republican Nominee

No one who has received amnesty for a serious crime, such as tax evasion, can be president. One would think that someone for whom the clear implications are that he has received amnesty, but will not release exculpatory documents, also cannot be president.

As the press has been focused on what we now know as Romney’s “retroactive retirement”, that does not help him escape clear responsibility for his outsourcing strategy anyhow, I have tried to shine a light on the clearest, cleanest, unspinnable, problem with Romney’s finances — amnesty for his Swiss accounts — suggesting that the Republican leaders, who dislike him anyhow, could not abidesuch a fatally-flawed nominee.

But, all I had on my side was logic. Why would he have closed only the Swiss Account when the Cayman/Bermuda accounts are also abusive tax havens, and he left those alone? Why would Romney have bothered to close the Swiss account at all? I deduced that what was special about his Swiss Account was the amnesty program allowed by the IRS. I also surmised that it was amnesty, more than anything else, that would keep him from releasing earlier tax returns.

Now, through investigative reporting, there is highly suggestive evidence that the logic was not wrong. Romney failed to disclose the documents he filed with the IRS in 2010, the year he has already released, that detail his Swiss Account holdings.

Hence, I am now prepared to go beyond my suggestions that the Republicans would not give him the nomination to a firm prediction: Romney will not be the 2012 Republican nominee for president. (He may be the “retroactive 2008 nominee” as Darrell Issa, who also cannot run for higher office due to his shady past, suggests).

Who will be? Before Romney is forced to withdraw, he will make a Vice Presidential selection, as an attempt to make it seem that his nomination is just rolling along, and is inevitable.

That person will have been fully vetted, (including his/her tax returns!).

I predict, therefore, that the Republican nominee for president will be the person Romney selects as his VP.

How ironic if that turned out to be T-Paw, who dropped out after losing to Michelle Bachmann in Iowa, (and whom Lawrence O’Donnell picked all along) becomes the 2012 Republican nominee for president!

Obama Singing Mocked By Mitt Romney Campaign

Two days after the Obama campaignreleased a brutal television ad mocking Mitt Romney singing “America The Beautiful,” the Romney campaign responded with a web video mocking his singing of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together.”

It appears to be an attempt to change the subject from the debate over when Mitt Romney left Bain Capital and his responsibility for investments made during 1999 to 2002. The video juxtaposes Obama crooning “I’m so in love with you” with headlines about Obama rewarding lobbyists and campaign donors, similar to Obama’s ad showing Romney’s singing contrasted with headlines about Romney’s offshore financial holdings and Bain’s outsourcing. Watch it here:

Mitt Romney’s Defense Simply Not Credible

As I watched Mitt Romney bomb the networks on Friday, steadfastly sticking to his story that he had nothing whatsoever to do with Bain Capital after February 1999, even though he was listed as the firm’s Chief Executive Officer, President, and Managing Director well into 2002, I was reminded of the lame defense put up by Jeff Skilling, the now imprisoned CEO of Enron, claiming he knew nothing of the activities of Andrew Fastow, his CFO, in dozens of off balance sheet transactions, asset shuffling, and mark-to-market scandals that drove the company off a cliff in 2001, at that time the largest bankruptcy in US history. What made Skilling’s story unbelievable was that he was well known as a brilliant micro-manager. Ultimately, the jury didn’t buy his excuses. The Enron collapse seems like ages ago, especially after it has been so totally overshadowed by the gargantuan financial failures of the last 5 years.

What makes Romney’s story also so completely unbelievable is that he claims that when he was off running the Salt Lake City Olympics during those 3 years, he apparently was just signing whatever SEC disclosure document that was put in front of him, not exercising his fiduciary and managerial responsibilities as CEO of Bain. So, either Romney is not telling the truth, or, his actions were so reckless as to disqualify him from the office of President of the United States. I can tell you from my personal experience as a CEO who has run both private and public companies, you don’t just sign whatever’s put in front of you, especially with the additional scrutiny to which all CEOs are subject since the Enron collapse. Further evidence that Romney is not telling the truth or that he is unbelievably reckless is that during the very period he signed some of those documents without managerial review was the very time that the Enron scandal was unfolding. I can assure you thatno executive during that period of time was signing anything that he/she was absolutely sure was correct and accurate. Even today, responsible CEOs do everything they can do to assure that the documents they sign are true and accurate.

It’s time for Romney to come clean about the entire Bain story, especially since he uses his experience at Bain as his primary qualification to be President of the United States. I remain unconvinced that the current story line is true, especially in the context of that particular time in US history when all executives’ awareness of their actions was so acute. Until Romney tells the entire story, the American people are being denied the very information they need to exercise their most important right.

The right to vote.

Dick Durbin: Mitt Romney Running From Bain ‘Like A Scalded Cat’

WASHINGTON — Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Sunday joined the chorus of Democrats attacking Mitt Romney for his tenure at Bain Capital, saying the candidate is trying to evade questions about his record there.

“Why is Mitt Romney running away from his company, Bain Capital, like a scalded cat?” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Because there is abundant evidence that under Bain Capital, they were exporting American jobs to low-wage countries. and he doesn’t want to be associated with it.”

Romney has said he left Bain in 1999 when he went to work on the Olympics, but he in fact was listed as CEO, president and chairman on official documents up until 2002. Campaign adviser Ed Gillespie said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Romney “retired retroactively” from Bain after quitting day-to-day work there.

Durbin said the question of Romney’s involvement could be resolved, in part, if his campaign released more information.

“Mitt Romney can clear the air this afternoon on this whole issue by making a more complete disclosure of economic information,” he said.

Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), also appearing on “Meet the Press,” defended Romney, saying President Barack Obama’s campaign was trying to distract from his economic record.

“The reason that businesses find that they have to find employees in other states or even sometimes in other countries to do their work is that this administration is making it so hard to do business in the United States and be competitive,” he said.

Controversial Romney Fundraisers in London and Jerusalem

by Michael Carmichael





Next week, presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, will hold controversial fundraisers in London and Jerusalem as part of his international itinerary.
Romney insiders are saying privately that the primary purpose for Romney’s international jaunt is his determination to raise more funds than President Obama.
The ticket price in Jerusalem is $50,000 per couple which exceeds the federal limit for contributions to US presidential campaigns where an individual may not contribute more than $2500 to any candidate including the president.
The legal basis of Romney’s fundraisers is still unclear, and it is not known whether the controversial casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson and or his wife, Miriam Ochsorn, will attend. The Adelson’s are reported to have lavished over $70 million of their casino profits on the GOP in this presidential election cycle.
Romney will be visiting Jerusalem after attending the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London as a guest of Prime Minister David Cameron. Romney’s horse, Rafalca, will take part in the dressage events at the Olympics. In the British press, Ann Romney is described as a, “deep-pocketed patron of dressage.” The Romneys are known to have spent several million dollars on dressage in recent years.

“The invitation to the fundraiser, first reported by the Post, also specifies that dietary laws will be observed and that no refreshments would be served until after the fast.
The timing of the fundraiser at the end of the fast day commemorating the destruction of the First Temple has raised some eyebrows in Jerusalem.
The “evening reception,” as the invitation puts it, also requires that attendees contribute $50,000 per couple or have raised $100,000. The Post originally reported that the cost for attending the dinner would be $60,000.
The fundraiser is set to cap a day of meetings and a speech by Romney, who will be visiting Israel after attending the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympic Games in London.
Plans for the visit are being made as speculation swirls over who Romney will pick to be his vice presidential running mate.
On Thursday, the Drudge Report put former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s name back on the front burner with a story suggesting campaign sources have placed her at the top of the short list. Rice’s name has surfaced in the past, but she has consistently denied being interested in the position.
Instead, New Jersey Governor Christ Christie, Ohio Senator Rob Portman, Florida Senator Marco Rubio and former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty are all seen as leading choices.
Rice, however, has done well in polls of potential vice presidential choices, though she has detractors on the right due to her pro-choice views and charges that she was not tough enough on countries like Iran while in office. She also could alienate some moderates who see her as too closely aligned with former president George W. Bush, under whom she served, and unpopular policies such as the Iraq war.
However, she reiterated her disinterest in the position through a spokesman after the Drudge Report came out. ABC News said that Rice, according to the spokesman, stands behind earlier comments ruling out the job possibility.
In one of several recent statements on the subject, she told CBS last month, “There is no way I would do this.” (http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=277417)

In London, Romney will hold two fundraisers. The 5:00 pm reception will require ticket-holders to max out at a cost of $2500, but a dinner may violate US laws by requiring ticket-holders to pay prices between $25-75,000. Banking officials at Barclays (the center of the $330 trillion LIBOR scandal) and Wells Fargo join European bankers and the owner of the New York Jets in organizing the controversial London fundraiser.

“The events are being hosted by a range of business luminaries, including several bankers. The first event is at 5 p.m. with a reception requiring a $2,500 donation, and the second is a 6:30 p.m. dinner requiring at $25,000 to $75,000 donation. Donors must show a U.S. passport, the Boston Globe reports.
The Olympic backdrop is fitting for Romney, who is credited with financially saving the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Host committee members for the events include Barclays bank lobbyist Patrick Durkin, Dan Bricken a managing director at Wells Fargo Securities, Dwight Poler, managing director at Bain Capital, the private equity firm co-founded by Romney; Raj Bhattacharyya, managing director at Deutsche Bank; Woody Johnson, owner of the New York Jets; Eric Varvel, CEO of Credit Suisse bank; and Gregg Lemkau, a mergers and acquisitions executive at Goldman Sachs. Read more on Newsmax.com: Romney to Appear at Two London Fundraisers Ahead of Olympics. (Newsmax Wires, July 11, 2012)

Paul Krugman: Romney Knows The Truth Will Hurt Him

The New York Times:

Once upon a time a rich man named Romney ran for president. He could claim, with considerable justice, that his wealth was well-earned, that he had in fact done a lot to create good jobs for American workers. Nonetheless, the public understandably wanted to know both how he had grown so rich and what he had done with his wealth; he obliged by releasing extensive information about his financial history.

Read the whole story at The New York Times

David Koch’s Mitt Romney Fundraiser Protested By Several Hundred Dissenters

Southampton Patch:

Billionaire David Koch hosted a $50,000-per-person fundraiser Sunday afternoon for Governor Mitt Romney at his oceanfront Southampton estate, as a blockade of local police, New York State troopers, a canine unit and federal authorities kept the several hundred protesters at bay.

Read the whole story at Southampton Patch