America’s dirty laundry was on display in Chicago where a
violent crackdown on Trump supports by the duopoly’s henchmen caused Trump to
cancel his rally. This isn’t anything
new, the same thing happened at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago 1968
and again during the Florida recount in 2000.
From Consortium News:
Excerpt:
More than three decades apart, two
political riots influenced the outcome of U.S. presidential elections. In 1968,
protests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago hurt Democrat Hubert
Humphrey and helped Republican Richard Nixon eke out a victory.
On Nov. 22, 2000, the so-called
“Brooks Brothers Riot” of Republican activists helped stop a vote recount in
Miami -- and showed how far George W. Bush’s supporters were ready to go to put
their man in the White House.
But the government reaction to the
two events was dramatically different. The clashes between police and Vietnam
War protesters in 1968 led the Nixon administration to charge seven anti-war
radicals with “conspiring to cross state lines with the intent to incite a riot….”
After the Miami “Brooks Brothers
Riot” – named after the protesters’ preppie clothing – no government action was
taken beyond the police rescuing several Democrats who were surrounded and
roughed up by the rioters. While no legal charges were filed against the
Republicans, newly released documents
show that at least a half dozen of the publicly identified rioters were paid by
Bush’s recount committee.
The payments to the Republican
activists are documented in hundreds of pages of Bush committee records –
released grudgingly to the Internal Revenue Service last month, 19 months after
the 36-day recount battle ended.
That’s right, the Brooks Brothers rioters were paid
political staffers, paid by Bush’s recount committee. Do you know who was on Bush’s recount
committee? Why none other than Canadian
Ted Cruz who was an attorney working for Supreme Court Chief Justice William
Reinquist. From Occupy Democrats:
Excerpt:
Everyone knows how, on that awful
night in Florida in November, 2000, some very questionable activities took
place- voter registries purged, people denied votes by being labelled
incorrectly as felons, some ballots disappearing all together, and a relentless
right-wing legal assault all combined to make George W. Bush the President of
the United States and change our future forever.
Jeb Bush’s role in the criminal
misuse of the governor’s powers is well known by this point. What is less known
is the role of another 2016 GOP candidate. The legal team whose machinations
put George W. in the White House was put together by none other then Ted Cruz.
Cruz had formerly clerked for Chief
Justice Willam H. Rehnquist, and one of his first calls was to John Roberts,
the man who is now in his tenth year as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Cruz told the New York Times that “We started to assemble a team of the best
lawyers and in particular the best Supreme Court lawyers in the country, and
John’s name naturally came near the top of the list.” Roberts had also
previously clerked for Rehnquist and was known to be a voracious opponent of
voter’s rights.
My, my my. Guess what
folks, it’s back to the future. But it
wasn’t just the Republicans that conspired to install George W. Bush it was
also the Reagan Democrats, it was the duopoly.
And they’re back. From Patrick Buchanan at Information Clearing House:
Excerpt:
Over the long weekend before the
Mississippi and Michigan primaries, the sky above Sea Island was black with
corporate jets.
Apple’s Tim Cook, Google’s Larry
Page and Eric Schmidt, Napster’s Sean Parker, Tesla Motors’ Elon Musk, and
other members of the super-rich were jetting in to the exclusive Georgia
resort, ostensibly to participate in the annual World Forum of the American
Enterprise Institute…
As revealed by the Huffington Post, Sea Island last weekend was host to a
secret conclave at the Cloisters where oligarchs colluded with Beltway elites
to reverse the democratic decisions of millions of voters and abort the
candidacy of Donald Trump.
Among the journalists at Sea Island
were Rich Lowry of National Review, which just devoted an entire issue to the
topic: "Against Trump," and Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of the
Trumphobic New York Times.
Bush guru Karl Rove of FOX News was
on hand, as were Speaker Paul Ryan,
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Lindsey Graham, dispatched by
Trump in New Hampshire and a berserker on the subject of the Donald.
So, too, was William Kristol, editor of the rabidly anti-Trump Weekly Standard,
who reported back to comrades: "The key task now, to … paraphrase Karl
Marx, is less to understand Trump than to stop him…."
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is a
501(c)(3) under IRS rules, an
organization exempt from U.S. taxation.
Million-dollar corporate
contributions to AEI are tax-deductible….
From what has been reported, it
would not be extreme to say this was a
conspiracy of oligarchs,War Party
neocons…
And this taxpayer-subsidized "Dump Trump" camarilla raises
even larger issues...
Many of those NGOs have had funds
funneled to them from U.S. agencies such as the National Endowment for
Democracy, which has backed "color-coded revolutions" credited with dumping over regimes in
Serbia, Ukraine and Georgia…
Whatever ones thinks of Vladimir
Putin, can anyone blame him for not wanting U.S. agencies backing NGOs in
Moscow, whose unstated goal is to see him and his regime overthrown?
And whatever one thinks of NED and
its subsidiaries, it is time Americans
took a hard look at the tax-exempt foundations, think tanks and public policy
institutes operating in our capital city.
How many are like AEI, scheming to predetermine the outcome of
presidential elections while enjoying tax exemptions and posturing as benign
assemblages of disinterested scholars and seekers of truth?
How many of these tax-exempt think tanks are fronts and propaganda organs of
transnational corporations that are sustained with tax-deductible dollars,
until their "resident scholars" can move into government offices
and do the work for which they have been paid handsomely in advance?
The American taxpayers funded that billionaire shindig and
thus the American taxpayers are no doubt paying these violent protesters we are
seeing at Trump rallies. From
Intellipub:
Excerpt:
DAYTON, Ohio (INTELLIHUB) — Secret
Service agents rushed up to the podium to shield and protect GOP front-runner
Donald Trump from a protestor deemed to be a threat at a rally Saturday.
The agents reacted quickly to
shield Trump, who may potentially be the next President of the United States
against all odds.
Now some are left wondering if
recent agitators may possibly even be on the Establishment’s payroll.
Hmmm, what do you think, are these recent agitators on the
Establishment’s payroll? Maybe we should
take a closer look to see who is behind Ted Cruz, who the Establishment is
trying to foist on the American people, since “Little Marco” is going
nowhere: From Info Wars:
Excerpt:
THE MEN BEHIND TED CRUZ: NEOCONS AND A CIA PROPAGANDIST
Remarkably, more than a few
Republicans believe this guy is a libertarian
It is not simply his wife’s
connection to Goldman Sachs and investment banking or his unreported loan from
the multinational investment banking firm, however, that betrays this image.
A closer look at Cruz reveals he is
a neocon insider, not a renegade outsider.
His campaign manager, Chad C. Sweet, co-founded the Chertoff Group with former Bush and Obama administration
Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff…
“Mr. Sweet formerly served as the Chief of Staff of the United States
Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Prior to becoming Chief of Staff of
DHS, Mr. Sweet worked as an investment
banker at the firms of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs as well as served in the CIA’s National Clandestine
Service,” the bio continues.
Cruz’s foreign policy advisor is the notorious neocon James Woolsey, the former director of the
CIA during the Clinton administration. Woolsey
is connected to the now largely defunct Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a think tank with an
agenda formulated by top neocons William
Kristol and Robert Kagan….
PNAC was at the forefront of the
Bush administration push to invade Iraq. He
is a former vice president ofthe
defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and an advocate of the neocon
hardline on Iran.
Ted’s foreign policy team includes Elliot Abrams, a senior fellow
at the Council on Foreign Relations and
the son-in-law of Norman Podhoretz, a trailblazing neoconservative
ideologue.
Abrams was a key adviser on Mideast
policy at the National Security Council (NSC) during the George W. Bush
presidency and also a staunch advocate of the Iraq invasion, the hardline on Iran and military strikes
against the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
Finally, a volunteer working in public relations for the Cruz
campaign, Dan P. Gabriel, is a former
CIA covert action officer…
Gee sound like the same old gang is back, but the truth is
they never left. They are in the Obama
State Department, Pentagon, CIA, Supreme Court and in the Vice President’s
office. They are part of the duopoly
that installed Bush in office, they installed Obama in office and Ted Cruz is
the next to be installed.
They will stop at nothing and nothing is off the table, not
even assassination. From Paul Craig Roberts:
Excerpt:
Does a JFK, RFK, MLK Moment Await Trump?
Guest Column by Stephen Lendman
Bipartisan gangsters running
America let nothing interfere with their ruthless agenda, waging war on
humanity at home and abroad, serving monied interests exclusively…
Will they choose the nuclear option
to prevent it? Will long knives eliminate his candidacy the old-fashioned way?
Facebook outrageously maintains an
Assassinate Donald Trump page, ludicrously claiming it doesn’t violate company
“community standards” left undefined – perhaps including murder.
In 1968, Bobby Kennedy had a lock
on the Democrat party nomination, likely able to defeat Richard Nixon in
November.
On June 5, he was fatally shot,
Sirhan Sirhan falsely imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit, set up as a
convenient patsy.
Bobby, brother Jack and Martin
Luther King were extrajudicially assassinated, victims of state-sponsored
terror – Sirhan, Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray wrongfully blamed.
Are long knives planning Trump’s
removal? Is he being set up for elimination? Has a date, location and
convenient patsy to be blamed for his demise been chosen?
Maybe an unfortunate plane crash,
other fatal accident, or mysterious incurable, fast-acting deadly illness is
planned.
Will Trump be gone before
Republicans choose their nominee in July, or perhaps before November’s
election?
In his earlier article titled JFK
and RFK: The Plots that Killed Them, The Patsies that Didn’t,” James Fetzer
debunked the official accounts, explaining “staged events that fit into a
recurrent pattern in US and world history where innocent individuals (or
‘patsies’) are baited and framed for cover-up purposes,” RFK’s killing “in part
intended to prevent a reinvestigation into his brother’s death.”
“The assassinations of RFK and JFK
were both conspiracies. Both involved the destruction of evidence. Both involved
the fabrication of evidence.”
“Both involved framing their
patsies. Both involved complicity by local officials. Both involved planning by the CIA. Both were used to deny the American
people (the) right to be governed by leaders of their own choosing.”
Yep folks, the America’s dirty laundry is being served up by
the shovel full. Today on C-Span’s
Washington Journal call in show the first 45 minutes the phones were open. The topic selected was “Violence at Trump
Rallies: Who’s to Blame?” C-Span is almost entirely populated by the
American Enterprise Institute, Cato Institute, Council on Foreign Relations,
Heritage Foundation and on and on.
So America enjoy your heaping helping of dirty laundry, if
the propaganda doesn’t work the next step might be Trump’s Assassination.
We live in the United States of Stupid, stupid from lack of
knowledge of recent history. It is
amazing how many people in America believe the Clintons singlehandedly were
able to create NAFTA and reform the welfare system and repeal Glass Steagall, with
no one in congress’ fingerprints on the laws passed.
How stupid are Americans that they have absolutely no memory
of what America looked like when President William Jefferson Clinton took
office? The hatred of the Clinton’s by
the Reagan Republicans is only surpassed by the hatred towards them from the
Reagan Democrats.
Although the Clinton’s were new to the American people when
Bill Clinton won the 1992 Presidential election, they were well known to the
Democratic and Republican establishment.
The Democratic establishment’s hatred of the Clintons is legendary was
on full display during the 2008 Democratic primary.
The lies against Hillary Clinton flew fast and furiously spread
by the Democratic establishment. One of
those lies was that Hillary Rodham the 26 year-old girlfriend of Bill Clinton
was fired from the Nixon impeachment team for lying. From Snopes:
Excerpt:
Is this true or false?
As a 27 year old staff attorney for
the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate investigation, Hillary
Rodham was fired by her supervisor, lifelong Democrat Jerry Zeifman.
When asked why Hillary Rodham was
fired, Zeifman said in an interview, "Because she was a liar. She was an
unethical, dishonest lawyer, she conspired to violate the Constitution, the
rules of the House, the rules of the Committee, and the rules of
confidentiality…"
At that time, the Judiciary
Committee comprised 37 members of the House of Representatives and was chaired
by Representative Peter Rodino, Jr., of New Jersey. The Judiciary Committee was
assisted by a permanent staff, on which attorney Jerry Zeifman served as Chief Counsel
and … by a separate Impeachment Inquiry staff…
That inquiry staff was headed by
former U.S. Justice Department lawyer John Doar, and one of his hires was a
26-year-old Yale Law School graduate then known by her maiden name of Hillary
Rodham…
A pair of articles published during
Hillary Clinton's run for the presidency in 2008, one by Northstar Writers
Group founder Dan Calabrese and one by Jerry Zeifman himself, asserted that
Zeifman was Hillary's supervisor during the Watergate investigation and that he
eventually fired her from the investigation for "unethical,
dishonest" conduct.
However, whatever Zeifman may have thought of Hillary
and her work during the investigation, he
was not her supervisor, neither he nor anyone else fired her from her
position on the Impeachment Inquiry staff (Zeifman in fact didn't have the
power to fire her, even had he wanted to do so), his description of her conduct as "unethical" and
"dishonest"is his
personal, highly subjective characterization, and the "facts" on
which he bases that characterization are ones that he has contradicted himself
about on multiple occasions.
During the 2008 primary race to choose the Democratic
presidential candidate, the partial one term U.S. Senator Barack Obama made the
claim “Reagan changed the trajectory of this country in a way that President
Clinton did not.”
That statement was a clear message to Reagan Republicans and
Reagan Democrats that the policies of George W. Bush would be continued under
an Obama Administration.
Barack Obama was going to return the nation to the Reagan
years. So let’s take a look at the
Presidency of William Jefferson Clinton starting with NAFTA. The Clintons have been accused of passing
NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement that caused massive offshoring
of American jobs. From About News:
Excerpt:
History of NAFTA
NAFTA is the North American Free
Trade Agreement. It was envisioned at least 30 years ago to reduce trading
costs, increase business investment, and help North America be more competitive
in the global marketplace.
What Is Its History?
The impetus for NAFTA actually
began with President Ronald Reagan, who campaigned on a North American common
market. In 1984, Congress passed the Trade and Tariff Act. This is important
because it gave the President "fast-track" authority to negotiate
free trade agreements, while only allowing Congress the ability to approve or
disapprove, not change negotiating points…
NAFTA was signed by President
George H.W. Bush, Mexican President Salinas, and Canadian Prime Minister Brian
Mulroney in 1992. It was ratified by the legislatures of the three countries in
1993. The U.S. House of Representatives
approved it by 234 to 200 on November 17, 1993. The U.S. Senate approved it by
60 to 38 on November 20, three days later.
It was finally signed into law by
President Bill Clinton on December 8, 1993 and entered force January 1, 1994.
Although it was signed by President Bush, it was a priority of President
Clinton's, and its passage is considered one of his first successes…
In 1992, before the trade agreement
was even ratified, Independent Presidential candidate Ross Perot famously
warned that "You're going to hear a giant sucking sound of jobs being
pulled out of this country." Ross predicted that the U.S. would lose 5
million jobs -- a whopping 4% of total U.S. employment -- to lower-cost Mexican
workers.
In fact, this never happened as
Mexico entered a recession and the U.S. entered a period of prosperity. True,
American workers were displaced by low-cost Mexican imports. But research
showed it was more like 2,000 per month. (Source: Brad DeLong, "Jobs and
NAFTA").
That is the truth about NAFTA, the Reagan Republicans and
Reagan Democrats passed NAFTA before William Jefferson Clinton became
President. When President Clinton signed
NAFTA into law, there were worker protections included and through the Clinton
years over 20 million new good paying jobs were created.
American workers had 401K retirement plans and average
Americans were shareholders in the economic boom. Senior citizens were courted by banks
offering them trips and high rates of interest on CD’s. Businesses offered discounts for Senior
Citizens.
There were job fairs with employers competing for workers
offering signing bonuses, paid vacations, sick time, overtime pay, health
insurance, paid and unpaid family leave.
Factory workers we able to retire early giving them more time to work
with their stock brokers, and drive their new Escalades to their summer homes
on the lake.
New business startups were possible because people were able
to afford to buy insurance for themselves and their workers. Every area of the economy thrived.
So what happened?
George W. Bush is what happened.
From Mother Jones:
Excerpt:
Truth on Tour
First John Andrew got laid off.
Then he got pissed off. And then he took his anger on the road.
When John Andrew got laid off this
summer he could take solace in having plenty of company: Since George W. Bush took office, nearly 3 million Americans have lost
their jobs.
But the same day that this
client-services director for a Minnesota software firm got his pink slip, he
also heard that the president's economic team was coming to the Midwest on a
"Jobs and Growth" tour -- a three-day, six-city publicity blitz to
talk up the benefits of the Bush tax
cuts.
"It pissed me off," says
Andrew, who felt the administration had no business crowing about an economy that was shedding one job every
15 seconds. "I'm 41 years old; I got two kids," he says,
"and I decided this would be a good time for dad to stand up and
protest."
So Andrew decked out the family's
blue Honda Odyssey with protest placards and hit the highway on his own
"Economic Reality" tour. He shadowed the bus carrying cabinet
secretaries John Snow, Donald Evans, and Elaine Chao, to give his fellow
Americans "the real facts -- that
this economy stinks, and Bush's tax cuts are making it worse."
It wasn't long before the dueling
economic worldviews collided -- outside a Culvers fast food joint (home of the
ButterBurger) in Wausau , Wisconsin. While the secretaries boasted of
collecting, "real-time economic information from real American
people," they apparently didn't want to hear from Andrew, who was turned
away at the door by security.
Undeterred, Andrew drove his
minivan repeatedly into the window-lined drive thru, hoping to catch their
attention. "I probably went through 20 times," says, whose van
quickly filled to overflowing with the Diet Cokes he kept buying.
On his final pass, Andrew caught a
glimpse of secretary Snow walking outside the restaurant. "I rolled down
my window and yelled: 'Hey John!'," Andrew recalls, "which was probably
kind of impertinent considering he's the Secretary of the Treasury."
Flanked by a secret service detail,
Snow came up to the passenger-side window. Andrew explained to the secretary
that he'd just been laid off. "I
told him that I strongly disagreed with the economic policies that this
administration was pursuing, and that I felt that it was ineffective, wrong
headed, and doing nothing to help the majority of American workers."
Snow, in turn, encouraged patience,
reasoning that the first tax cut (now nearly two years old) hadn't had time to
take effect, and that the benefits of the second tax cut were following close
behind. He then offered two parting words of advice: "Just wait."
"I was stunned by the
response," says Andrew. "I'd like to see those words on a PR banner
behind Snow at the podium: 'Jobs and Growth: Just Wait.' Maybe I should call Citibank, which holds my mortgage, and tell them
'Just Wait -- I can't pay you this month…'"
Yes, that is what happened the Bush tax cuts that turned millionaires
into billionaires. In the first two
years of the Bush Administration:
·He tried to eliminate overtime pay for 8 million
workers
·He refused to extend unemployment benefits by
six months
·He eliminated 140,000 highway construction jobs
·He opposed federal funds for hiring 75,000 new
fire fighters
·He cut funds for job training and workplace
safety
·He cancelled collective bargaining rights for
170,000 Homeland Security personnel
·He forced the EPA to lie about air quality at
Ground Zero, endangering the health of emergency and construction workers
·He appointed anti-labor, big business cronies to
every labor-related post in his administration
That is just a partial list of the damage done to the American
economy, particularly to American workers by the Administration of George W.
Bush and Dick Cheney.
Another initiative of the taken up by President Clinton when
he took office was Welfare to Work.
Reforming Welfare programs was an initiative of Newt Gingrich’s
“contract with America.” and had support in both parties. From Washington Post:
Excerpt:
Clinton to Sign Bill Overhauling Welfare
President Clinton ended what he
described as an intense and searching debate within his administration
yesterday and announced that he will sign into law the most radical overhaul in
60 years of the way the nation gives help to the poor.
For months, Clinton has prodded
Congress to come closer to his views on reforming welfare but preserved his
options by staying silent about whether he would sign or veto the various
versions churning through the legislative process.
Yesterday, he finally announced his
intentions just hours before the House acted on a plan that would end the
federal guarantee of direct cash payments to the needy, limit assistance to
five years, and give states wide freedom to design their own relief programs
requiring work for benefits rather than traditional welfare.
The bill sailed through 328 to 101
and is likely to comfortably pass the Senate either today or Friday. All
Washington-area lawmakers voted for the legislation.
Clinton said the measure has
"serious flaws" – the most important, aides said, is the elimination
of benefits for legal immigrants – but he pledged to sign it anyway because it
is the "best chance we will have in a long, long time" to fulfill his
1992 campaign promise of "ending welfare as we know it."
That legislation, though deeply flawed worked due to other
legislation that propped up workers and financially helped the poor families
through other programs designed to lift and keep families out of poverty. From American Progress:
Excerpt:
The Clinton administration also saw
that they could grow the economy by opening up the middle class to everyone
willing and able to take on the responsibility of work. To that end, Congress
and the administration promoted smart labor market policies that included:
An expanded earned income tax credit. The EITC offsets federal
income taxes, and for many low-income workers, portions of their payroll taxes
as well. The EITC increases as earnings
increase, up to a point, so it
encourages additional work. In 1993, as part of his larger budget package,
Clinton and Congress expanded the EITC to give a larger benefit to working
families and allow childless workers to benefit as well.
Welfare reform that put Americans to work. Under the Clinton
administration Congress provided $3 billion to reform welfare to help millions
of Americans take responsibility for their future by giving them a greater
opportunity to work. As part of those reforms, more than 200,000 people on welfare received housing vouchers to help
them move closer to jobs.
A welfare-to-work tax credit encouraged businesses to hire long-term
welfare recipients. And communities received federal support to design
transportation solutions to help low-income workers get to work. Between
January 1993 and June 2000, the number of people on welfare fall by 60 percent,
from 14.1 million to 5.6 million, reaching its lowest level since 1961.
Additionally, the Clinton
administration strengthened those
programs that help middle-class families weather economic storms, such as a
major illness, a job loss, or a divorce…
More federal funding for Head Start and child care. Head Start is a
federal early childhood learning program for low-income families. In 1993, the first year of President Clinton’s
administration, federal funding for Head Start totaled $3.3…
The Children’s Health Insurance Program. In 1997, as part of a
budget deal with congressional Republicans that cut spending overall, the
Clinton administration and their allies in Congress created the Children’s
Health Insurance Program. CHIP delivered
federal grants to states to provide health insurance for children whose
families were not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid but who could not afford
health insurance on their own.
Better nutritional and housing support for low-income families… The
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children—commonly
known as WIC—went from average annual funding levels of $2.7 billion in the
eight years before Clinton took office to $3.9 billion under his presidency, a
45 percent increase.
Together, this broad mix of tax
relief, wage increases, access to health and child care, and protections for
working families helped grow and strengthen the middle class.
The Reagan Democrats blame President Clinton for the repeal
of Glass Steagall Act in 1999. Truth be
told, it was the Reagan Democrats that passed the repeal of Glass Steagall. From New York Times:
Excerpt:
CONGRESS PASSES WIDE-RANGING BILL EASING BANK LAWS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4— Congress
approved landmark legislation today that opens the door for a new era on Wall
Street in which commercial banks, securities houses and insurers will find it
easier and cheaper to enter one another's businesses.
The measure, considered by many the
most important banking legislation in 66 years, was approved in the Senate by a vote of 90 to 8 and in the House tonight by 362 to 57….
''Today Congress voted to update
the rules that have governed financial services since the Great Depression and
replace them with a system for the 21st century,'' Treasury Secretary Lawrence
H. Summers said. ''This historic legislation will better enable American
companies to compete in the new economy…''
''The world changes, and we have to
change with it,'' said Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, who wrote the law that will
bear his name along with the two other main Republican sponsors, Representative
Jim Leach of Iowa and Representative Thomas J. Bliley Jr. of Virginia.
''We have a new century coming, and
we have an opportunity to dominate that century the same way we dominated this
century. Glass-Steagall, in the midst of the Great Depression, came at a time
when the thinking was that the government was the answer. In this era of
economic prosperity, we have decided that freedom is the answer…''
In the House debate, Mr. Leach
said, ''This is a historic day. The landscape for delivery of financial
services will now surely shift…''
''I think we will look back in 10
years' time and say we should not have done this but we did because we forgot
the lessons of the past, and that that which is true in the 1930's is true in
2010,'' said Senator Byron L. Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota….
Senator Paul Wellstone, Democrat of
Minnesota, said that Congress had ''seemed determined to unlearn the lessons
from our past mistakes….''
''The concerns that we will have a
meltdown like 1929 are dramatically overblown,'' said Senator Bob Kerrey,
Democrat of Nebraska….
''If we don't pass this bill, we could find London or Frankfurt or
years down the road Shanghai becoming the financial capital of the world,''
said Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York. ''There are many
reasons for this bill, but first and foremost is to ensure that U.S. financial
firms remain competitive…''
In the House, 155 Democrats and 207
Republicans voted for the measure, while 51 Democrats, 5 Republicans and 1
independent opposed it. Fifteen members did not vote.
Isn’t it interesting that Senator Chuck Schumer, the Senior
Senator from New York, along with Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden were “super
delegates” that supported Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign against
Hillary Clinton in 2008.
Though the citizens in their states voted for Hillary
Clinton by wide margins, 15 percentage points in Massachusetts, their delegates
were awarded to Barack Obama by the super delegates. Shortly after in October of 2008 Barack Obama
received $300 million dollars in small donations of $200 dollars or less in
untraceable, unreportable prepaid credit cards.
The authors of this blog are
concerned internet professionals who have worked in and around e-commerce and
internet marketing for over a decade.
We’ve taken to writing this blog due to the media’s unwillingness to tackle what is potentially one of the
largest cases of fundraising fraud in presidential campaign history…
Recently, it has become abundantly
clear that the Obama campaign has deliberately made it easy for motivated Obama
supporters to violate campaign finance law. The Obama campaign has for some reason intentionally deactivated basic
credit card fraud filters on its website, thereby allowing contributors
give donations with fake names and addresses.
What this has done is essentially
create a loophole for folks to circumvent federal election contribution limits
(they can give more than $2,300 and nobody will ever know!). And it creates an added bonus: it is now much easier to give illegal
foreign donations as well!
This is not just
rumor-mongering. Several citizens have
already tested the Obama campaign website by using purposely incorrect names
and addresses. And the results are
in…the Obama campaign has accepted these donations and the respective credit
card accounts were charged.
These fraudulent donations were
accepted as a direct result of the Obama campaign deliberately turning off the
basic fraud checks that are used to verify a credit cardholder’s address. It is
almost unheard of for an online merchant to turn off these filters. Afterall, who wants to ship a product to the
wrong address? Today, it remains unclear why the Obama camp turned these filters
off.
What are the ramifications? Well, the Obama campaign can accept an
almost unlimited amount of money from any contributor by allowing them to
repeatedly use false names and addresses with the same credit card for any
online credit card donations.
This can also feasibly allow non-US
citizens (who are legally prohibited from donating to any US political
campaign) to donate to the Obama campaign by simply making up a United States
address. Depressingly, there are few
real legal mechanisms to prevent this as the FEC reporting requirements for donations under $200 are minimal and
the law hasn’t caught up with regulating these donations online…
There’s a simple way for the Obama
campaign to clear this matter up. All
Obama has to do is simply release his
campaign’s donor records (as have the McCain and Clinton campaigns). If he has nothing to hide, Obama should
welcome the request. Obama talks about
how we need more transparency in government, so let’s see him walk the talk.
Who do you think had the capacity to funnel $300 million
into the Obama campaign through fraudulent credit card donations? After taking office, Obama named the
President of the Federal Reserve Bank and ex-World Bank President Timothy
Geithner as Treasury Secretary to oversee the bailout of the banks.
The Federal Reserve Bank printed up over $43 trillion
dollars to bail out the banks and put it on the American taxpayer’s tab. To this day no Wall Street banker has been
jailed for their overt money laundering schemes. From Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone:
Excerpt:
Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail
The deal was announced quietly,
just before the holidays, almost like the government was hoping people were too
busy hanging stockings by the fireplace to notice. Flooring politicians,
lawyers and investigators all over the world, the U.S. Justice Department granted a total walk to executives of the
British-based bank HSBC for the largest drug-and-terrorism money-laundering
case ever.
Yes, they issued a fine – $1.9
billion, or about five weeks' profit – but they didn't extract so much as one
dollar or one day in jail from any individual, despite a decade of stupefying
abuses….
For at least half a decade, the
storied British colonial banking power helped to wash hundreds of millions of
dollars for drug mobs, including Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, suspected in
tens of thousands of murders just in the past 10 years – people so totally
evil, jokes former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, that "they
make the guys on Wall Street look good."
The bank also moved money for organizations linked to Al Qaeda and
Hezbollah, and for Russian gangsters; helped countries like Iran, the Sudan and
North Korea evade sanctions; and, in between helping murderers and terrorists
and rogue states, aided countless common tax cheats in hiding their cash.
"They violated every goddamn
law in the book," says Jack Blum, an attorney and former Senate
investigator who headed a major bribery investigation against Lockheed in the
1970s that led to the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. "They
took every imaginable form of illegal and illicit business."
That nobody from the bank went to
jail or paid a dollar in individual fines is nothing new in this era of financial
crisis. What is different about this
settlement is that the Justice Department, for the first time, admitted why it
decided to go soft on this particular kind of criminal. It was worried that
anything more than a wrist slap for HSBC might undermine the world economy.
"Had the U.S. authorities
decided to press criminal charges," said Assistant Attorney General Lanny
Breuer at a press conference to announce the settlement, "HSBC would
almost certainly have lost its banking license in the U.S., the future of the
institution would have been under threat and the entire banking system would
have been destabilized."
Yes not one criminal faced charges and yet we are told that
Hillary Clinton is about to be indicted by the Obama Justice Department for
having e-mails on her personal server that were retroactively stamped
classified. A blatant attempt to derail
her bid for the Presidency. From TheDaily Caller:
Excerpt:
Hillary Will Be Indicted, Says
Former US Attorney
A former U.S. Attorney predicts a
Watergate-style showdown in the Department of Justice if Attorney General
Loretta Lynch overrules a potential FBI recommendation to indict Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
“The [FBI] has so much information
about criminal conduct by her and her staff that there is no way that they walk
away from this,” Joseph diGenova, formerly the District of Columbia’s U.S.
Attorney, told Laura Ingraham in a Tuesday radio interview. “They are going to
make a recommendation that people be charged and then Loretta Lynch is going to
have the decision of a lifetime.
“I believe that the evidence that
the FBI is compiling will be so compelling that, unless [Lynch] agrees to the
charges, there will be a massive revolt inside the FBI, which she will not be
able to survive as an attorney general. It will be like Watergate. It will be unbelievable.”
DiGenova is referring to the
Watergate scandal’s “Saturday Night Massacre” Oct. 20, 1973, when President
Richard Nixon sacked Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and Attorney General
Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus resigned in
protest.
Joe diGenova and his wife Victoria Tensing have been
pursuing the Clintons for years. When
the Bill Clinton ran for President in 1992 the FBI assigned 200 agents to
Arkansas to comb every trailer park to find anyone willing to make scurrilous
charges against Bill and Hillary Clinton.
When the Whitewater “scandal” turned out to be nothing, they
finally found Paula Jones and her Elvis impersonator husband to bring a well-funded
lawsuit against a sitting President. Just
another bogus lawsuit against the Clintons.
So do you want the truth about Clinton’s Welfare Reform,
NAFTA and Repeal of Glass Steagall?
Maybe Americans can’t handle the truth, they just want to hear lies.
America the United States of Imbeciles. Archie Bunker, a character in the TV show “All
in the Family” said faith is when you believe something that no one in their right
mind would believe. Americans believe
that they are smarter than anyone else, that they are exceptional. Yet time and again, they are herded like
sheep, accepting absurd bullshit as fact.
America does not have a free press, America does not have a
Democratic Republic. America does not
have honest elections. In America you
are not innocent until proven guilty, you are accused and tried by a media
empire that destroys anyone that threatens their financial interests.
Just look at America’s primary elections that choose the two
parties’ Presidential candidates. Isn’t
it funny that in primaries, where the voters enter a voting booth and cast a
secret ballot, the winners are Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton, whereas in
the caucuses the winners are chosen by the party establishment? Presidential candidates are not chosen by the
voters, they are ordained by the party bosses who are brought to power by
special interests.
How long will Americans accept this sham where Presidential
elections go on for two years? George W.
Bush was not elected President in 2000, nor in 2004 and Barack Hussein Obama
who lost the popular vote in the 2008 primary was advanced after the “super
delegates” overrode the will of the voters.
Here is an excellent example, in Kansas, home base for the
Koch Brothers and Koch Industries, the results of the March 5th
caucuses were reported by the Lawrence Journal World as follows:
Excerpt:
Sanders, Cruz win Kansas caucuses; Douglas County voters turn out in
droves
A big turnout in Douglas County for
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders helped push him over the top in the Kansas
Democratic caucuses on Saturday, while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz won both the local
Republican caucuses and the statewide GOP vote.
Both Sanders and Cruz took Kansas
by more than two-to-one margins over their nearest rivals, according to preliminary vote totals from both state parties…
More voters than expected turned
out for both the Republican and Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday in
Douglas County.
Sanders nearly swept the caucus in
Lawrence, winning 81.4percent of the vote. But Hillary Clinton won just enough to remain
viable in the 2nd State Senate District caucus.
Sanders also won by a huge margin, 78-22 percent over Clinton, at the 3rd
District caucus site in Eudora…
Statewide, the Kansas Democratic Party said, Sanders beat Clinton, 68-32 percent
out of just more than 39,000 caucus votes counted. As a result, he will get
23 of the state’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention, while
Clinton will receive 10. The party
will also send four “super delegates” who go to the convention not bound to any
candidate.
On the Republican side in Douglas
County, where 2,407 ballots were cast in Lawrence and Baldwin City, Cruz led
with 37 percent of the vote, followed by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at 20
percent; Donald Trump with 18 percent; and Ohio Gov. John Kasich with 16
percent.
The total GOP vote in Douglas County also included 190 provisional ballots that will be counted within the
next several days, according to Douglas County GOP Chairwoman Kathleen Ammel.
Really? There are 190
provisional ballots to be counted in the next several days, why are there
provisional ballots cast at a caucus?
This makes no sense.
Statewide results showed Cruz
finishing with 48 percent of the vote, followed by Trump with 23 percent; Rubio
with 17 percent; and Kasich with about 11 percent…
Of the 40 delegates Kansas will send to the national GOP
convention, the party said,Cruz will get 24, followed by nine for
Trump, six for Rubio and one for Kasich…
If that vote took place in Venezuela instead of Kansas it
would be roundly condemned as a fraud.
The large turnout left some voters
frustrated and even caused some to not cast a ballot at all.
“My wife and I allotted 40 minutes
to come to the caucus to cast our vote, and due to the delay in the process we
are unable to stick around and vote,” said Steve Conley, a Lawrence Republican.
“We just cannot say enough about how sad that is, the whole process of not
being allowed to cast a ballot in 45 minutes of one’s day…”
So many voters turned out for the
Democratic caucus in Lawrence that two gymnasiums could not hold them all. Hundreds of voters stood outside on the
football field to be counted.
Republican officials said a slow Internet connection at Southwest
Middle School caused delays in early voting, with some voters having to
stand in line 30-40 minutes just to verify their voter registration…
… Vera Cole, who said she’s
accustomed to voting in traditional primaries, said she did not enjoy the time
spent listening to campaign speeches before the votes took place.
“I want to vote,” she said. “I’ve
already read. I already know. I’ve listened. I don’t want to come and listen. I
only have time to vote. And I don’t like
the idea of 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Four hours? Look at the crowd. It’s not fair to
people. Look how many wheelchair people we have.”
For Democratic voters, the process was longerbecause instead of casting paper ballots, as Republicans did, they had to physically stay in place, in
some cases for hours, to be counted….
What kind of civilized people allow their leaders to be chosen
in such a haphazard way? The faith based
caucuses are rife with fraud. Take the
Republican Iowa Caucus where the winner, Ted Cruz was accused of fraud. From Intellihub:
Excerpt:
(INTELLIHUB) — Accusations of voter
fraud have compounded since Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was crowned winner of
the Iowa caucus Tuesday, raising suspicions that something nefarious may have
actually taken place. However, what makes the accusations all that much more
interesting is the fact that they are coming from two rival Republican
candidates, Dr. Ben Carson and Donald Trump.
According to investigative reporter
Bin Still, “Just before the voting began, Dr. Carson was receiving excited calls
from his workers reporting large turnouts at caucus sites.”
“I got calls from several people
who told me their internal intelligence said I was going to do extremely well,”
Dr. Ben Carson stated.
Still reports:
It all started out 33 seconds
before 7pm, which was the official time for the start of the Iowa Caucuses.
The Ted Cruz 2016 official Twitter
site sent out this tweet seconds before the top of the hour:
“CNN is reporting that Ben Carson
will stop campaigning after Iowa. Make sure to tell all of your peers at the
Caucus supporting Carson that they should coalesce around the true conservative
who will be in the race for the long haul: Ted Cruz!”
Perfect timing! The Cruz speakers
at caucuses across Iowa got up and repeated the news to the assembled crowds
and urged Ben Carson voters to switch immediately. How many is not known, but
at the very least, several sites.
This was quickly followed by an
official Ted Cruz 2016 press release on official stationery:
“Breaking news. The press is
reporting that Dr. Ben Carson is taking time off from the campaign trail after
Iowa and making a big announcement next week. Please inform any Carson caucus
goers of this news and urge them to caucus for Ted Cruz.”
By 7:07 pm, a mysterious former CIA
operative supporting Cruz by the name of Dan Gabriel chimed in on his twitter
account:
“Source inside Ben Carson’s New
Hampshire campaign just confirmed to me: Ben Carson is out. Choose Cruz.”
The self-proclaimed ex-CIA operative Dan Gabriel even brags he
specializes in “insurgencies, foreign and domestic.” This is right out of
the White House takeover manual people. Subsequently Gabriel’s tweets were
deleted until BigFry Social Media exposed the archived versions, one of which
can be seen below.
Americans are asked to have faith, that Ted Cruz’ campaign
workers made an honest mistake. It was
CNN who erroneously reported on caucus night that candidate Ben Carson was
dropping out of the race. CNN claims it
was just an honest mistake that they corrected shortly after but the Cruz
people didn’t get the retraction.
Is this the best America can do in electing their government
officials? The two parties have complete
control over the election process. They
determine who will vote, when they will vote and how they will vote.
They determine who will conduct the debates and who may
participate. This duopoly brings back
the days of Boss Tweed, the corrupt New York alderman who filled important
positions with cronies to advances his own interests.
The American people are told to have faith that Ted Cruz,
who was born in Canada to his American mother, who was a Canadian citizen at
the time, is a natural born American citizen.
No one in their right mind would believe that.
But Americans aren’t in their right minds, they haven’t been since they
were duped into believing George W. Bush won the 2000 election.
Both the Democratic and Republican
Mesquite caucuses are done for another four years – thank goodness. Perhaps
both parties can spend that time deciding that the caucus system is outdated,
unworkable and ripe for abuse and fraud. It shouldn’t take four more years to
fix the process.
The democrats’ rules required
everyone to remain for the entirety of the caucus – three to four hours of mostly sitting around waiting for everyone to
get inside. Once everyone was signed in, they physically had to move to one
side of the room or the other depending on who they were supporting. That in
and of itself defies all the traditions of secret ballots…
The process allows no bounds of
intimidation…. Particularly in union-dominated Las Vegas where many of the
caucuses took place it would be extremely easy for union bosses to see just
which members were abiding by their wishes and which ones weren’t.
Many people who wanted to
participate in the vote could not because of the hours-long requirement to
remain in place until everyone was signed in. That’s not fair to anyone
especially the candidates.
The republican rules were changed
this year to allow a balloting process that provided for some semblance of
privacy… Voters simply had to mark the
ballot and drop it in a box – an open box.
Unless republican participants
wanted to be considered for a delegate position in the future county convention
they were free to leave the building…
Many people didn’t know their
precinct number requiring them to stand in a consolidated line until they got
to the front and could find out their correct precinct. Some precinct lines
were long and others were empty….
The open ballot box makes fraud all
too easy. If Joe wanted to get rid of ballots marked with candidate C, he could
easily look through the pieces of paper and grab the ones he wanted to discard…
In the Nebraska caucus Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary
Clinton garnering 56% of the vote to Clinton’s 44%. In the Maine caucus Cruz beat Trump with 46%
of the vote compared to Trump’s 33%.
However, in Louisiana where they had an actual primary with voters
entering a voting booth to cast a secret
ballot, Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders 71% to Sanders’ 23% while Trump
beat Cruz with 41% to Cruz’ 38%.
The American people shouldn’t be expected to have blind
faith in the primary election process that selects our candidates for President. Faith in our election process should not mean
believing in something no one in their right mind would believe, i.e. our
politicians are honest the vote totals reflect the will of the voters. Americans should demand honest elections.
