Genetically Engineered Morbidity and Mortality: Part I - Zika

The American Congress has been genetically engineered.  This first generation of legislators created in the laboratories of the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee have taken control over the 2016 Presidential election.    

The Zika virus is the result of these congressional mutations allowing the introduction of genetically mutated mosquitoes into communities without the knowledge of the citizens.  The morbidity and mortality wreaking havoc across the world are crimes against humanity and the RNC and DNC should get the death penalty.

This genetically engineered congress has no heart, no soul and no conscience.  Paul Ryan, the Republican Speaker of the House was raised in a laboratory run by the RNC in Wisconsin.  Ryan, programmed by the RNC since birth, is famous for robotically regurgitating the RNC talking points, specifically targeting retired people on Social Security and the poor and infirmed. 

Ryan calls the rich and powerful “the makers” and the poor and middle class “the takers.”  But what do the makers make and what do the takers take?  The makers make chaos, misery and death and the takers are those who have no choice but to take it.

According to the International Business Times GMO mosquitoes are scheduled to be released in Florida.

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GMO Mosquitoes In Florida: Mutant Bugs Could Come As Early As Spring, But There’s No Reason To Freak Out

Health officials in Florida have asked the federal Food and Drug Administration to let them release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes to target several mosquito-borne diseases in the Florida Keys, but many residents there are wary of the eradication program out of fear that the bioengineered bugs could be dangerous.

Scientists, however, have maintained that the insects do not pose a threat to humans or the environment, and are actually quite effective at preventing the spread of potentially deadly viruses…

The company has a breeding lab in Marathon in the Florida Keys. Local officials in the Keys have been trying for the FDA’s approval for five years to work with Oxitec.

The bioengineered mosquitoes, all males, contain a so-called suicide gene that they pass on to their offspring. The gene keeps the females from reproducing, and eventually the population peters out.

Oxitec has already released their bioengineered male mosquitoes in BRAZIL, the Cayman Islands and Malaysia, WITH PROMISING RESULTS.

So without the knowledge of the people of the United States, elected leaders allowed Oxitec, a British chemical company, to produce millions of mutant mosquitoes in a lab in Marathon, Florida for release into the Florida Keys.

Oxitec claims these mutants are “safe” and “effective” but are they?  Let’s drill down into those claims and dissect the handiwork of Oxitec.  In 2012 Dr. Mercola, a New York Times bestselling author published an extraordinary article on Oxitec’s genetically engineered mosquitoes.

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Are Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes the Answer to Quell Dengue Fever?

Australian research scientists have developed a strategy for fighting Dengue fever, a viral disease spread by mosquitoes that affects more than 50 million people annually and causes fever and crippling joint and muscle pain—and in some cases even death.

A bacterium named Wolbachiapipientis naturally infects many insect species and has the ability to interfere with its host's reproductive ability in such a way that entire populations become infected within just a few generations. When Wolbachia infects mosquitoes, the mosquitoes' ability to transmit Dengue virus is almost completely blocked.

Researchers are encouraged that these bacterially infected mosquitoes are safe to humans and, once set loose, are capable of spreading on their own and overtaking the wild mosquito populations that transmit disease to humans.

In two northern Australian towns, between 10,000 and 20,000 of these infected mozzies were released ("mozzie" is Australian for mosquito), and wild mosquito infection rates neared 100 percent—meaning, mosquitoes that can infect humans were almost completely replaced by the ones that can't.

Wow, you mean to say that in 2012 Australian researchers have found a “natural” solution to getting rid of the Dengue fever and that is completely safe for humans? Why even bother with Oxitec and their expensive, dangerous “frankenskeeters.”

This approach is a change from the swarms of genetically engineered mosquitoes being bred by companies like Oxitec, a British biotechnology company that has released millions of mutant mosquitoes into the fields of unsuspecting Australians…

These "frankenskeeters" represent a new and terrifying twist in potential GMO (genetically modified organisms) dangers—another product of modern science outpacing common sense when big money is thrown into the equation….

Are you serious??  Oxitec released untested, non-peer reviewed, experimental mutated mosquitoes on the public in Australia?

In the past, the best means for preventing the spread of Dengue involved sustainable, community-based, integrated mosquito control, with limited reliance on chemical insecticides.

However, new high-tech strategies are being developed to further combat the spread of this deadly virus.  Some of these strategies involve genetically manipulating mosquitoes and then releasing them back into the wild, which can have any number of unforeseen consequences…

The scientific community has expressed concern about introducing a new type of mosquito that is infected with a bacterium that could be transmitted to humans. However, researchers claim Wolbachia bacterium is completely benign to humans.

Who are these “scientists” and why are they so concerned about humans being exposed to mosquitoes infected with natural bacterium?

One thing can be said for certain—this approach to combating Dengue fever renders all attempts at genetically engineered (transgenic) mosquitoes obsolete.

Bingo.  But wait a minute, Oxitec had already released millions of their frankenskeeters in Australia without peer review and without the public’s knowledge.  We don’t even know what the possible effects are.  How could they do that?

Genetically Modified "Suicide Mosquitoes" Secretly Released in Grand Cayman Island

Can scientists simply release flying, human-biting genetically modified creatures into the air anytime they wish? Apparently, the answer to this question is "yes." And they have…

The genetically engineered bugs contain a gene that kills them unless they are given tetracycline, a common antibiotic…

The problem is, millions of these GE bugs have been released into the open air by Oxitec as a means of field-testing their new "Dengue-proof" mosquitoes, without sufficient review and public consultation. They have conveniently chosen several countries with weak regulations.

In 2009, Oxitec released their designer insects onto Grand Cayman Island, an island in the Caribbean…  Once the locals got wind of this, they responded with a fair amount of public outrage—and rightly so! But it didn't stop there.

Oxitec subsequently released their frankenskeeters in Malaysia, Brazil, Panama, India, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. And they are seeking approval from the US Agriculture Department to perform similar open-air testing in the Florida Keys.

Oh my God, this is a nightmare.  Do you know how many animals are treated with antibiotics?  Do you know how much antibiotics are flushed down the toilet or released through urine into the water?  Those “frankenskeeters” have the potential to breed a whole new nightmare.

Unfortunately, like so many other things, neither the government nor the biotech companies can offer peer-reviewed scientific proof of the safety of their biotechnology—they have blithely rushed ahead without any concern about the long-term effects.

ONCE RELEASED, THESE INSECTS CANNOT BE "RECALLED…"

So without any peer-reviewed scientific proof of their safety, four years ago millions of genetically engineered mosquitoes were released into the environment across the Americas. 

Just as with genetically engineered (GE) foods, the long-term effects of GE insects are completely unknown—the Earth and its inhabitants are being used as a laboratory for grand scale genetic experiments. It's a blatant violation of human rights with regard to human experimentation.

The potential exists for these genes, which hop from one place to another, to infect human blood by finding entry through skin lesions or inhaled dust. Such transmission could potentially wreak havoc with the human genome by creating "insertion mutations" and other unpredictable types of DNA damage….

With tetracycline exposure (for example, in a lake) these mutant insects would actually thrive in the wild, potentially creating a nightmarish scenario.

The problem is that genetically modified female mosquitoes can still bite humans. This means the protein, which kills their own larvae, might be injected into humans when the mosquitoes suck their blood, with unknown and potentially ghoulish consequences…

For years, I've stated the belief that GMOs pose one of the greatest threats to life on the planet. Genetic engineering is NOT the safe and beneficial technology that it is touted to be.

Dr. Mercola warned about Oxitec’s genetically engineered mosquitoes and the potential ghoulish consequences.  You know like microcephaly and Brazil is where they did their “field testing” so how did that turn out?  From Reduas:

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REPORT from Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Town regarding Dengue-Zika, microcephaly, and massive spraying with chemical poisons

Main points:

1-Dengue epidemic in Brazil persists endemically (on an ongoing basis) due to the marginalisation and misery of millions of people, especially in Northeast Brazil…

2. A dramatic increase of congenital malformations, especially microcephaly in newborns, was detected and quickly linked to the Zika virus by the Brazilian Ministry of Health.

However, they fail to recognise that in the area where most sick persons live, a chemical larvicide producing malformations in mosquitoes has been applied for 18 months…

3. Previous Zika epidemics did not cause birth defects in newborns, despite infecting 75% of the population in those countries. Also, in other countries such as Colombia there are no records of microcephaly; however, there are plenty of Zika cases.

4. The pyroproxyfen being used (as recommended by WHO) is manufactured by Sumitomo Chemical, a Japanese company associated with Monsanto in Latin America for weed control.

5. Brazilian doctors (Abrasco) are claiming that the strategy of chemical control is contaminating the environment as well as people…

6. Massive spreading using planes, as the governments of Mercosur are considering, is criminal, useless…

7. The last strategy deployed in Brazil, and which might be replicated in all our countries, is the use of GM mosquitoes —a total failure, except for the company supplying mosquitoes.

Wait a minute.  Are you saying that in Colombia, where about 75% of the population is infected with the Zika virus, there are no cases of microcephaly?  Well, well looky here.  I just found this article in Technology Review:

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Bacteria-Laden Mosquitoes May Be the Cheapest Way to Stop Dengue and Zika

Some Latin American cities could soon begin releasing millions of mosquitoes developed with funding from Bill Gates.

The idea being promoted by Gates is to release mosquitoes infected with a bacterium, Wolbachia pipientis, that prevents them from transmitting viruses such as dengue or Zika when they bite people.

“It’s more economical than insecticides. I think this is the least expensive by an enormous difference.”

“We don’t have to keep injecting it after that—it’s inherited,” says Scott O’Neill, the insect expert at Monash University who leads the Gates dengue program. “We are projecting a cost of $1 a person to implement it in cities, because we only apply it once over a period of months and it sustains itself.”

Now America’s Food and Drug Administration wants to allow Oxitec to release millions of Frankenskeeters into the Florida Keys.  The Food and Drug Administration has approved a myriad of genetically modified food against the will of the American people.  In 2013 the RNC and DNC passed the Monsanto Protection Act.  From Scientific American:

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Congress Just Gave Biotech Firms the Green Light to Ignore Court Orders

The law, nicknamed the "Monsanto Protection Act," exempts firms making genetically engineered seeds and crops from litigation.

The so-called Monsanto Protection Act is actually a provision (officially known as Section 735) within a recently passed Congressional spending bill, H.R. 933, which exempts biotech companies from litigation in regard to the making, selling and distribution of genetically engineered (GE) seeds and plants.

President Obama signed the bill and its controversial rider into law in March 2013 much to the dismay of environmentalists…

Critics point out that the company has spent decades stacking government agencies with its executives and directors. “Monsanto’s board members have worked for the EPA, advised the U.S. Department of Agriculture and served on President Obama’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations,” reports the group Food & Water Watch.

Floridians have launched an effort to stop the release of Oxitec’s genetically engineered mosquitoes that have not only failed to stop dengue fever but actually proliferated the disease.  The Oxitec genetically modified mosquitoes have mutated the Zika virus into a dangerous and fatal form causing morbidity and mortality in infants.

This genetically engineered congress has no heart, no soul and no conscience.  Those GM mosquitoes may have already been released in Florida, in any case this congress doesn’t answer to the people.  The RNC and DNC have already made clear, the people will not be choosing our next President they are. 

The RNC and DNC must get the death penalty for crimes against humanity.  In the meantime “the makers” are making genetically engineered morbidity and mortality while “the takers” are forced to take it.

By Patricia Baeten

Bernie and Ted’s Excellent Adventure in Koch Brothers’ Dismal Dairyland

Before the Wisconsin primary the Koch Brothers, owners of the Georgia Pacific paper mill in Green Bay, sent an e-mail to their employees telling them to vote for Bernie Sanders in the Wisconsin primary.  Odd you say?  No, not at all, it seems the Koch Brothers and Bernie have a lot of the same interests. 

The Koch Brothers and their legislative arm, ALEC control every branch of government in the Badger State, and with the ALEC written voter ID law, one of the most restrictive in the nation, they were able to pull off a major coup for their two favorite candidates Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz.

With complete control of the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, the Governor’s office, the Attorney General’s office as well as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives the Koch’s have made Wisconsin the home base of the GOP so stealing the election was easy. 

But Ted and Bernie should not let their excellent adventure in the Koch’s Dismal Dairyland go to their heads for they are nothing more than tools to stop the frontrunners, Hillary and Donald.  As Big Pink put it Ted Cruz was just a one night stand, a ten cent whore and I would posit so was Bernie.

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But it was the cheese! The wonderful voters of the wonderful state of Wisconsin could not overcome their cheesy love! Cheese! The voters of Wisconsin voted for the rat who shares their love of cheese.

Rat Ted Cruz with his cheese grater teeth, ready to make Parmesan powder out of a whole wheel of cheese, was a natural fit for the GOP establishment in Wisconsin. But now that the whoremonger GOP establishment has used Cruz, like a Kleenex, for their pleasures, they came and went.

Cruz is still in bed hugging the dime he got for letting his orifices be used by the GOP establishment.  On the bed side table stands a radio playing “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?”

The answer is “no”. If the National Enquirer is correct and Ted Cruz himself has employed the “lollypop” whore, then Ted Cruz should know that after the money is paid, the whore is left hugging the dime and not much else.

Ted Cruz is about to learn the lesson that all whores, sex workers, prostitutes, hookers, eventually have to learn: the client is not in love with you.  Ted Cruz is about to learn the lesson that all rats in the city learn: that cheese is in a trap…

The GOP establishment having come and gone will not rescue Ted Cruz in New York. John Kasich will be the whore of the hour now.

The GOP establishment will pay any whore to get their pleasure. The GOP establishment pleasure is to block the voters, disenfranchise the franchise, and stop Donald J. Trump.

Ahh, the wise sage Big Pink is right, Cruz was just the whore of the hour and Bernie, well his purpose is to stop Hillary.  Once that is accomplished Bernie will be discarded by the DNC just like lyin’ Canadian Ted Cruz and that “Bern” you are feeling might just be an STD.

So why you ask would the Koch Brothers send an e-mail to their employees telling them to vote for Bernie? Because he shares their vision for America.  From the Daily Caller:

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Koch Group Releases Ad Agreeing With Bernie Sanders On Ex-Im Bank

Freedom Partners, a group funded by Charles and David Koch, released an advertisement Wednesday applauding Sen. Bernie Sanders for his opposition to the Export-Import Bank.

During Sunday’s Democratic debate, Sanders and Hillary Clinton spared over the Ex-Im Bank, the government agency gives loans to businesses wishing to export goods. Clinton praised it for bringing manufacturing jobs to the Michigan area, however the Vermont senator criticized it for being “corporate welfare.”

“I don’t think it’s a great idea for the American taxpayer to have to subsidize through corporate welfare profitable corporations who downsize in the United States of America,” said Sanders.

So are the Koch Brothers and Bernie Sanders right about the EX IM Bank?  From PBS.org:

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In short, the Export-Import Bank lends to foreign buyers like Transnet to make U.S. exports competitive. Without an ECA of its own, the fear of the Bank’s defenders is that U.S. exports would lose out to goods produced overseas.

Established in the wake of World War II, when crippled foreign markets weren’t strong enough to purchase American products, the Export-Import Act of 1945 has been renewed by Congress 16 times without a political fight as intense as this year’s…

And without an Export-Import Bank at all, Hufbauer cautioned, there’d be little incentive for American manufacturers to actually make their goods in the United States. They could move to other countries with export credit agencies that would support their exports. The implicit threat in this narrative: the loss of American jobs….

Since 2009, the Bank touts that they’ve supported 1.2 million private sector jobs, and 205,000 in 2013. Even Paul Krugman, not the most enthusiastic supporter of the Bank, has argued that “this is exactly the moment when ending an export-support program really would cost jobs.”

But the bank also supports exports produced by foreign companies in the United States, as long as enough material comes from U.S. suppliers and assembly occurs in the states…

Besides support for American jobs, the Bank champions its commitment to America’s small businesses. In fiscal year 2013, nearly 90 percent of the Bank’s volume of transactions was for short-term deals on behalf of American small businesses selling their goods overseas…

Heritage Action for America and the Club for Growth have slammed the government-backed bank for meddling in the free market, taking from the American taxpayer to enrich big business.

“The Bank doesn’t cost the taxpayer. In fact, it returns a profit to the Treasury — more than $1 billion in fiscal year 2013.”

Yes, Bernie Sanders is a useful tool for the Koch Brothers and their non-profit think tanks Heritage and Club for Growth.  And don’t forget that the Koch Brothers’ Club for Growth was the subject of a John Doe inquiry in Wisconsin.  It seems that they illegally funded and coordinated with the Scott Walker campaign in the recall fight. 

But the Koch Brothers’ bought and paid for Wisconsin State Supreme Court shut down the John Doe probe.  From Journal Sentinel Online:

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Wisconsin Supreme Court ends John Doe probe into Scott Walker's campaign

4-2 ruling halts inquiry focusing on campaign finance laws

Madison— Dealing Gov. Scott Walker a victory just as his presidential campaign gets underway, the Wisconsin Supreme Court in a sweeping decision Thursday ruled the governor's campaign and conservative groups had not violated campaign finance laws…

It could also reshape how campaigns are run in Wisconsin because it makes clear campaigns can work closely with outside groups, allowing more political money to flow without the names of donors being disclosed.

Well Bernie is starting to look like lyin’ Ted Cruz, selling a bill of goods to the same gullible voters who voted for Ralph Nader.  The same gullible voters who voted for the Golden Calf turned Tin Cow, Obama. 

Like clockwork, every four years media whores like Susan Sarandon, Bill Mahr and Michael Moore pedal the illusion of a new “revolutionary” outsider that’s going to bring them to the Promised Land. 

Bernie’s latest lie is that Hillary Clinton is unqualified to be President due to the Panama trade deal she negotiated as Secretary of State.  From Joe Conason at National Memo:

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Sanders Was Wrong: Panama Trade Deal Shut Down Tax Shelters

Ever since the ‪#‎PanamaPapers exploded into public consciousness, many observers have waited with excitement (or trepidation) for the names of Bill and Hillary Clinton to appear somewhere in those millions of pages. So far they haven’t, and frankly I don’t expect they ever will.

Yet Bernie Sanders and his campaign nevertheless labored to tar Hillary Clinton with the offshore shelters anyway, going so far as to call her “unqualified” to be president for supporting the Panama free trade agreement (which she did as President Obama’s Secretary of State, of course)….

Specifically, the number of offshore incorporations fell from 4,741 in 2005 to 835 in 2015. Most important, as of last year Mossack Fonseca appeared to have nearly completely ceased incorporating the least transparent form of company — known as “bearer shares” — which often don’t need to register an owner’s name.

Incidentally, last year — like every year since the trade agreement was signed — the United States marked a big trade surplus with Panama, about $7.5 billion. 

Bernie Sanders supporters I talk to say they support Saint Bernard because he voted against the Iraq War authorization.  But like everything Bernie says his history as a pacifist is just another fairytale.  From Alternet:

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Bernie Sanders' Troubling History of Supporting US Military Violence Abroad

Why aren't we talking about Sanders' foreign policy more?

The presidential candidacy of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has excited many liberals throughout the country, but there's been very little analysis of his foreign policy positions.

This past Sunday Sanders criticized Hillary Clinton for her support of the Iraq war, declaring, “On foreign policy, Hillary Clinton voted for the war in Iraq…Not only I voted against, I helped lead the effort against what I knew would be a disaster…."

… but the difference between the two candidates on war is hardly substantial and his political closet is filled with as many skeletons…

While it's true he voted against the Iraq War, he also voted in favor of authorizing funds for that war and the one in Afghanistan. More recently, he voted in favor of a $1 billion aid package for the coup government Ukraine and supported Israel's assault on Gaza.

At a town hall meeting he admitted that Israel may have "overreacted", but blamed Hamas for the entire conflict. After a woman asked why he refused to condemn Israel's actions, he told critics: "Excuse me! Shut up! You don’t have the microphone.”

How low will lyin’ Bernie go when it comes to smearing Hillary Clinton?  According to Juan Cole at Truthdig:  Is Hillary Clinton Responsible for Rise of Islamic State, as Bernie’s Campaign Manager Alleged?

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Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, alleged on Thursday that Hillary Clinton’s policies are responsible for the ‘rise and expansion of ISIS throughout the Middle East…’ 

Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) arose in Iraq as a reaction against the Bush occupation of that country and its punitive policies toward Sunni Arabs, as part of a Shiite-led “debaathification.”  (The ruling party 1968-2003 had bee(sic) the Baath Party, which was secular, socialist and disproportionately dominated in the upper echelons by Sunni Arabs).

It spread to Syria as a result of that country’s 2011 revolution, which turned into a civil war when the Bashar al-Assad regime used military weaponry on civilian protesters.

Although Clinton did vote to authorize the Iraq War, it wasn’t the war per se that created Daesh there but rather the US backing for Shiite policies of political reprisals against the Sunnis.  Clinton did not have anything to do with policy-making in Iraq.

On campaign financing, Bernie is bleating out his fabrications that he doesn’t take money from special interests and that he stands on the picket lines with workers against union busters.  Guess what, it’s not so.  From National Review:

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The Anti-Labor Skeleton in Bernie Sanders’s Closet

On September 4, brandishing a megaphone and wearing the trademark scowl he reserves for talk of “millionaires and billionaires,” Senator Bernie Sanders stood before around 100 picketing employees outside the Penford Products corn-processing plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and denounced “the war against working families.”

“I want you to know being out on a picket line and standing with workers is something I have been doing for my entire life,” he told the union workers. “I did it when I was mayor of the city of Burlington, did it in Congress, did it in the Senate. This is what I do.”

Campaign contributions from Sanders’s recent past, however, paint a slightly different picture. During his 2012 reelection race, Sanders accepted $10,000 from a Midwestern sugar conglomerate that was at the time locked in a long, bitter battle with its labor force — a fight that ultimately left more than 1,000 union workers out of a job…

At the time Sanders took their money, American Crystal was already deep into one of the most contentious labor disputes of the decade. In September 2011, the company locked out 1,300 Iowan, Minnesotan, and North Dakotan workers from the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers Union for their refusal to ratify a labor contract…

Even after the union members’ children wrote to American Crystal executives in September 2012, begging the sugar-processing giant to let their parents return to work before they lost their homes, the company refused to budge…

Sounds like the confectionary’s union felt the Bern.  And Bernie’s populist message is just another rouse, it’s as fake as his “peace” credentials.  Today he stood before his fawning followers bleating out his plan to give all Americans a three month maternity leave. 

How will Bernie accomplish that if he’s unwilling to reign in military spending as is pointed out by Margaret Kimberly at Black Agenda Report?

Freedom Rider: America’s Endless Wars

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

There is no “peace” wing in either the Democratic or Republican parties. “Not only has Obama declared unending war against the rest of the world, but so has the rest of the two party duopoly…”

 “How can Bernie Sanders bring social democracy to the United States if he won’t cut the military budget or foreswear interventions?”

America’s grand fantasy of a Project for a New American Century has experienced a serious setback. Yet this country still isn’t dissuaded from pursuing the imperial effort…

For nearly five years the Syrian people have suffered as a direct result of American aggression. More than 250,000 people are dead and 9 million are refugees in their country and abroad….

While Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, including “socialist” Bernie Sanders, express unending support for imperialism and brutality in Syria, the project is falling apart…

The Democratic and Republican candidates sound alike as they eagerly proclaim their loathing for Putin and their determination to continue war by other means….   Even liberal darling Bernie Sanders spouts nonsense about “Saudi skin in the game” in Syria when the Saudis have been an integral part of the regime change effort…

If candidates like Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders are slick enough they can market themselves as peacemakers when in fact they will create as much chaos and suffering as any of the Republicans.

So as Bernie and Ted are basking in the afterglow after their Koch Brother corporate coup in Wisconsin and their “caucus” win in Wyoming.  They are now headed into what Glen Ford at Black Agenda Report calls “Sports Bar Politics and Corporate Duopolies.”

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From the perspective of a sports bar, Bernie Sanders’ 57% - 43% victory over Hillary Clinton’s Corporate Demo Crusaders, in Wisconsin, keeps his Leftish Upstarts in the playoffs, although their chances of grabbing the brass ring in Philadelphia this summer are slim to none.

Donald Trump’s White Knights stumbled, but may still rally to shut out the Corporate GOP Avengers, in Cleveland, in July…

The corporate duopoly electoral system is the equivalent of the sports league cabal: whatever the score, the owners win. The best possible outcome of their quadrennial games would be a breakup of the duopoly, through a split in one or both of the corporate parties.

For the first time in at least a century, such an earth-shaking fracture is possible, and even likely. Therefore, those who seek fundamental change in U.S. political alignments and structures should root for whatever primary election results that contribute to the dissolution of the Democratic-Republican duopoly system.

Amen brother Glen.  It’s just a matter of time until Bernie and Ted find themselves lying in bed hugging the dimes they got for letting their orifices be used by the GOP and DNC establishment. 

And just like clockwork the Nader/Obama/Sanders supporters will wake up in a cheap hotel, the whores gone and their wallets gone.  As they hear “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?” playing on the bedside radio, they realize they’ve been rolled again.

By Patricia Baeten

GOP Looks to Koch Brothers’ Banana Republic Wisconsin to Steal Election From Trump

Elections in the Koch Brothers’ banana republic of Wisconsin leave little to chance.  The Wisconsin 2016 primary election is Tuesday, April 5th and the political establishment sees an ideal opportunity in the Badger State where election fraud is rampant. 

It has been reported at Infowars that the GOP establishment is pulling out all the stops has laid the ground work for the great heist in Wisconsin on Tuesday.

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THE REPUBLICANS ARE ALREADY STEALING THE NOMINATION FROM TRUMP

The Bush, Cruz, Rubio, Romney, Ryan, McConnell faction has united and is moving into high gear to steal the nomination from Trump. The immediate plan is an all out bid to deprive Donald Trump of victory – and the delegates – in Wisconsin.

Governor Scott Walker, long reliant on Koch money, will endorse Cruz. A victory in Wisconsin for Cruz makes the big steal possible. A loss there makes the big steal much more difficult….

Wisconsin appears to be the battleground for the GOP cabal to take Trump down. Sources tell me $25 million from Cruz and Cruz related super PACS as well as three different anti-Trump PACS funded by Romney backers will flood the state. Trump himself told me he won’t be out-campaigned in the Badger State. 

This is ground zero for Cruz. He must win it to have any shot of stalling Trump. Trump can sustain a loss but it will be costly.

Of course the great heist must have the cooperation of a compliant media and the press in America is more than compliant.  From Hillary is 44:

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So what is happening in the GOP side of the presidential race? Well there was a very well done poll that came out with a 1% margin of error and a 7,000 sample for Wisconsin which had Trump barely ahead.

But then the same Marquette University that schlonged Hillary in Wisconsin came out with a stunning poll with Trump falling behind Cruz by ten points. That the Marquette poll had a much smaller sample and with a margin of error of 5.8% was not taken note of….

That Marquette poll? It has a high margin of error which likely means the race is very tight. Trump was off the campaign trail for a week too while the poll was in the field. What do we see? The race is Wisconsin is very tight…

The person that absolutely needs a big victory in Wisconsin is Ted Cruz, not Donald Trump. Donald Trump merely needs to pile up on delegates which he will. Wisconsin is not winner take all statewide. Wisconsin is a winner take all by congressional district and Trump is doing very well on that front.

Trump will increase his delegate totals, already fattened this past week with the official Missouri win and 12 additional delegates. After Wisconsin, Trump heads towards his biggest victories in states such as New York and New Jersey.

Yes, Wisconsinites are being told by the media that Canadian Ted Cruz has a 10 point lead over Donald Trump and Walker appointed Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley has a large lead over Justice JoAnne Kloppenburg. 

This is Kloppenburg’s second run for a seat on the Wisconsin State Supreme Court.  In 2011 Kloppenburg had won a seat on the high court after defeating incumbent right-wing Justice David Prosser. 

Prosser, a right-wing Republican politician turned State Supreme Court Justice is known as “the choking judge” after grabbing one of his female colleagues by the throat.  From Politicus USA:

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Prosser Allegedly Chokes Female Justice

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Prosser, the man who called the Chief Justice a “bitch” while threatening to destroy her and went on to be re-elected after a dubious election of “found votes”, has allegedly choked his colleague Justice Ann Walsh Bradley during discussions surrounding the union-busting bill last week.

Justice Prosser, who ran his re-election campaign as “complement” to Walker, was also a former Republican legislator and Assembly Speaker. Last week, before announcing their 4-3 decision that overturned county Judge Sumi’s void on the collective bargaining law that was passed in clear and documented violation of Open Meeting Laws….

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser allegedly grabbed fellow Justice Ann Walsh Bradley around the neck in an argument in her chambers last week, according to at least three knowledgeable sources…

This is not only horrifying in its physical abuse, but also because it was predictable. Prosser has been known to be a man bearing no respect for women… 

So how was it that the choking judge maintained his seat on the high court for another 10 year term?  Why it was nothing short of a miracle.  From LA Times:

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Wisconsin high court election turned on its head

The challenger to conservative Supreme Court Justice David Prosser had already declared victory in a vote that drew national attention because of the state's union battle. Then Waukesha County's clerk announced she had neglected to count 14,000 votes.

In a shocking twist, a clerk in a conservative Wisconsin county announced Thursday that she had discovered a net gain of 7,582 votes for an embattled conservative Supreme Court justice…

Unofficial tallies Wednesday had put Assistant Atty. Gen. JoAnne Kloppenburg 204 votes ahead of Justice David Prosser…

Then Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus announced at a 5:45 p.m. news conference that she had left out the 14,315 votes cast in the city of Brookfield in the totals she released Tuesday night.

Prosser won 10,859 votes there to Kloppenburg's 3,456. Coupled with small increases elsewhere in the county, Prosser gained a total of 7,582 votes on his challenger, giving him a 0.5% margin — enough to avoid a state-financed recount.

Nickolaus has drawn controversy for keeping election data on private office computers that are not part of the county network…

How much do you want to bet that those “private office computers” that Nickolaus keeps the election data on are hooked up to the Koch Brothers?

Rep. Peter Barca, the Assembly minority leader, in a statement noted that Nickolaus had worked for Republicans in the Legislature when Prosser was a leader there.

Yep, Wisconsin has become the Koch Brothers’ banana republic with cookie cutter laws written by ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council and passed by the GOP.  In June of 2015 when Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced his candidacy for President of the United States of America, he was expected to be ALEC’s first President.  From PR Watch:

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Scott Walker: The First ALEC President?

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will address the annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in San Diego this July.

Walker’s speech at ALEC will be a reunion of sorts. Walker was an ALEC member as a state legislator in the 1990s, and the agenda that Walker has championed throughout his long political career has closely tracked the policies promoted by ALEC and its corporate funders, despite public opposition to many of those measures.

More than 200 corporations and a quarter of state legislators belong to ALEC, where corporations vote as equals with state legislators on "model" bills before they are introduced in legislatures to become binding law.

The group receives 98 percent of its funding from corporations like Shell Oil, Peabody Coal, and Altria/Phillip Morris, and from sources like the Koch family foundations, and many of the “model bills” that it has promoted – from prison privatization to environmental deregulation -- directly benefit the financial interests of its funders.

If Walker is successful in his presidential bid, he would be the first ALEC alum to take the oval office.

Yes that was then, but Walker dropped out of the race after failing to perform on behalf of his benefactors.  Not to worry though, the Koch Brothers had another ALEC candidate in waiting, Canadian Ted Cruz.  From Political Research:

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Ted Cruz & ALEC: Seceding from the Union One Law at a Time

Tea Partiers, Tenthers, and the corporate sponsors who support them have come up with a variety of ways to circumvent the federal government and bypass the federal regulatory system, including efforts to hold an Article V Convention, commonly called a “Con Con,” to amend the Constitution and the Sen. Ted Cruz(R, TX)-developed plan for use of “interstate compacts” to block federal law.

In a report for the Center for American Progress, Ian Milhiser described these state’s rights efforts as a project for “seceding from the union one law at a time.”  These initiatives could result in a Balkanized confederation of states that would be no match against the power of international corporations and would allow for eliminating the regulatory system and the social safety net…

But another route to “nullification” was popularized by Senator Cruz before he even became a senator, and promoted through Tea Party organizations and the highly-controversial American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

Cruz’s idea is to use “interstate compacts” to shield states from federal laws… While the concept of interstate compacts is not new, Cruz’s idea to use them as a strategy for shielding states from federal laws is uniquely original…

“Under our Constitution, interstate compacts that regulate matters within the enumerated powers of the federal government require congressional consent….

Critically, once Congress consents to an interstate compact, the compact carries the force of federal law, trumping all prior federal and state law.”

In other words, Cruz and Loyola claim that an interstate compact can be formed and made the supreme law of the land… by simple “acquiescence” of Congress and therefore bypassing the need for the president’s signature….

Cruz himself presented the idea at the 2010 American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) conference…

The vision of shielding entire areas of state regulation from the federal government has been further enshrined by ALEC in the form of a model bill….   giving ALEC a role in forming and running the commission that would organize the interstate compact, and ensuring that like-minded conservatives would control the topics and outcomes of a convention.

Until now, the only method used to amend the Constitution has been through a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress, followed by ratification by three-fourths of the states.  However, there is another process in Article V that allows for a convention to be called by two thirds of state legislatures.

Yes, until now the constitution required that you be a natural born citizen to qualify for President of the United States of America.  Ted Cruz, the Koch Brothers and ALEC don’t like the constitution and want to get rid of it.  Ted and the Kochs want “a Balkanized confederation of states that would be no match against the power of international corporations.”

So Wisconsin infested with Koch Brothers and ALEC minions is fertile grounds for election fraud and Tuesday is D-Day for Canadian Ted Cruz.  Imagine a President Cruz enacting his dream plan of using “interstate compacts” to shield international corporations from federal laws passed by congress.   

Interstate Compacts that President Cruz and Speaker of the House Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan can pass by “simple “acquiescence” of Congress and allow ALEC to form and run the commission that would organize the interstate compacts.

Think that sounds farfetched?  Well let’s see what else Infowars says happened at that Republican meeting to “dump Trump”:

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Ted and Heidi have both worked for Bush 41. Ted and Heidi have been on board for the Globalist agenda. She worked in the NSA with Condi and then with the neocon warlord Robert Zoellick, a modern day Dr. Evil (World Bank, CFR and Goldman Sachs)…

He supports TPP. He’s a globalist.  Even worse Cruz named Phil Gramm as his economic guru. This guy virtually crashed the US economy. Gramm is largely responsible for two bills which led to the speculative bubble which popped in September 2008. 

First was his  Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill repealed Glass Steagall, which separated investment banking from commercial banking…

The second bill was the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (CFMA), which totally freed derivative trading from any regulatory oversight.  This was another Phil Gramm bill, and was central to the bubble creation from 2000 to 2008, and then again today.

Following the crash of 2008, the Dodd Frank bill was backed by Obama and teams of Wall Street lobbyists, who mobilized to make sure that Glass Steagall was not restored, and that the CFMA was kept in place…

The Kingmakers aren’t wedded to Cruz…  What the Kingmakers must do first is stop Trump.  The establishment elite will do anything and everything they can to disregard the democratically expressed wishes of the American people….

In their deluded minds their plan to steal the nomination from Donald Trump will work just the same as it did with Ron Paul in 2012. But Trump has a constituency that will not stand for it.

Joseph Stalin said “It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”  Here in the Koch Brothers’ Banana Republic of Wisconsin people will cast their votes in the primary on Tuesday April 5^th. 

But it will not be who votes that counts, it will be who counts the votes, guess who will be counting the votes in the Wisconsin. 

By Patricia Baeten