Bernie Sanders running for preznit?

[Iamwhomiam]

Thank you for explaining. I believe I understand the different purposes for Throat Friction and Throat Singing,but I've quite a bit of reading to do in order to learn more.

Actually, not bad. It was code for "Trump is an alien intruder."

[seemslikeadream]

Risky Business: Sanders`Campaign
History has been cruel to candidates on the wrong side of the ruling Forces of Greed (FOG)
by Jack Balkwill / February 20th, 2016

I find it hard to believe that Bernie Sanders has a chance at becoming president. His views have excited a number of potential voters both in the Democratic Party and outside of it, particularly among the young.

But he’s immersed in the kind of politics which sometimes gets people killed in the Land of the Free.

A year before Hillary Clinton announced she would run for president, I predicted she would get the support of the establishment and “win.” She currently has a massive lead in the primary because of “super delegates,” the party establishment, mostly already pledged to her. The Democratic Party has favored her in setting up the debates, and she’s received millions of dollars from Wall Street and other powerful forces.

I didn’t support Bernie’s campaign largely because I saw it as an extension of the Kucinich campaign. Such campaigns have resulted in the more leftist candidate losing and throwing support to the Democratic Party’s frontrunning corporatist, draining leftist support from alternatives such as the Green Party and dooming hope for the left. Bernie pledged to give his support to the winner, who I assumed would be Hillary, with the deck stacked as it is.

Bernie has done far better than expected, organizing around the corporate media on the internet. The corporate press, as expected, have been brutal toward his candidacy. Still, Sanders has been running nationally nearly tied with Hillary.

But history has been cruel to candidates on the wrong side of the ruling Forces of Greed (FOG).

Senator Wellstone

One recalls another progressive Senator, Paul Wellstone, who died in a plane crash 11 days before he would have been almost certainly reelected. Wellstone, like Sanders, was despised by the ruling FOG. He was known as the conscience of the Senate, and was a one-vote margin against the Bush Republicans. With the popular Wellstone out of the race, a Republican took his seat and the Democrats lost control of the Senate.

One version is that the cause of the plane crash was bad weather and icing, but that’s not true. Another is pilot error, but there were two pilots on this small aircraft, with considerable experience.

Senator Robert Kennedy

Yet another progressive Senator, Robert Kennedy, was murdered while running for president, in an election polling indicated he would almost certainly have won. It should be noted that there were also similarities between the campaigns of Sanders and Kennedy. Kennedy’s platform, for example, was about racial and economic justice, social change, and non-aggression in foreign policy. Like Sanders, a crucial element of Kennedy’s campaign was youthful supporters. Kennedy, like Sanders, was opposed by the ruling FOG, particularly by business interests.

Like Sanders, Kennedy was also blunt and non-traditional in his campaigning. In one speech when asked “Where are we going to get the money to pay for all these new programs you’re proposing?” RFK replied to his audience of medical students, about to enter lucrative careers, “From you.”

Although the legal system convicted Sirhan Sirhan of Robert Kennedy`s murder, acoustics experts have independently concluded from sound recordings of the event that more than 8 shots were fired at Kennedy (one concluding that 13 shots were fired). Sirhan’s gun could maximally have held 8 rounds.

The fatal wound came from behind Kennedy’s ear, opposite Sirhan’s position, indicating, some say, that the shot came from behind Kennedy. Indeed, an eyewitness told CNN that there were two shooters.

Robert’s big brother Jack

The ruling Forces of Greed require almost total subservience, allowing only slight deviations from their demands of presidents, and will not allow major changes which diminish their wealth and power.

The definitive case is the assassination of President Kennedy, who made the mistake of believing it was he who ran the country.

Leftists are divided on this. Perhaps one of the best known debates is the long running one between Noam Chomsky and Michael Parenti.

Chomsky’s view, to paraphrase, is that JFK was part of the establishment, so there was no reason for them to kill him. JFK had a conservative record of balancing the budget (without using Social Security funds to do it), increasing military spending, and taking a clear anti-communist, Cold War stand, so could hardly be called a leftist.

But Parenti insisted (and I agree) that the establishment requires presidents to toe the line more firmly than did JFK. Kennedy hinted that he was going to destroy the CIA and agree to a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty after being elected, for example, alarming some in the National Security State. The fact that Kennedy was obedient most of the time may not have been enough.

I’ve often thought it more than strange that the most important piece of evidence in the JFK murder was his brain, which went missing. I could understand the brain of a homeless guy missing, but the brain of the president of the USA?

Those who believe Kennedy was not shot from behind, but from the front by men seen carrying rifles (by several witnesses), say the brain is the key piece of evidence.

They say the brain would have shown clearly the entry point for the bullet was through the front of Kennedy’s head, and the massive exit point from the back of his head. This would have made it obvious that the bullet did not come from the direction of the Book Depository from which Lee Harvey Oswald was said to have fired the fatal shot.

But the brain was conveniently lost. It is delusional to fabricate a “magic bullet” theory (the accepted “evidence”) to counter this if one has the intact brain, or what was left of it.

There have been many alleged motives for the murder of JFK, and they all appear to be in some way connected to a pull on the establishment leash by a sitting president. Michael Parenti sums it up with a great many facts most citizens will never see.

Since Kennedy’s death, the most progressive candidates with a good chance to win an election have met with tragic and unusual deaths as I’ve pointed out above.

Murder is not necessary to stop a candidate opposing the system– corporate media generally savage attempts by leftists who somehow manage to catch a bit of attention (as in the case of Sanders), but more generally they are completely censored out of the corporate media, as has been the case for Jill Stein of the Green Party.

Barack Obama

A person on Facebook questioned recently why President Obama hasn’t been killed after his Obamacare legislation became law. The reason is simple. Obamacare is run by corporations that make billions of dollars for our ruling Forces of Greed. Obamacare has far more to do with profit from pain and suffering than it does with medical care.

President Obama has toed the line well, expanding the lucrative wars, bailing out the banksters, and recently pushing one of the most brutal trade pacts ever proposed, the Trans Pacific Partnership, all primarily benefiting the ruling FOG. He should be expected to become fabulously wealthy from making speeches nightly for a quarter of a million dollars each, as did Bill Clinton, the system of delayed payment for services which has become business as usual.

Conclusion

Many leftists point out that Bernie has been supportive of the “War on Terrorism,” and military spending, a record which should please the establishment, just as JFK had a record of supporting the National Security State line, for the most part. But like President Kennedy, Sanders has ruffled the feathers of the ruling FOG.

Bernie is running on taxing trading on Wall Street and actually giving the working class something back for their taxes, which is not allowed by the ruling FOG, who believe the treasury belongs to them. As billionaire Leona Helmsley so succinctly put it, “Only the little people pay taxes,” and woe be it to any presidential candidate challenging that aphorism.

The current establishment plan for Bernie is to do him in with media slurs, a dirty Clinton campaign, and a rigged Democratic Party election system, all of which have worked well in the past to keep democracy from having an iota of a chance to break out in the land (one recalls when Congressman Kucinich qualified for Democratic Presidential debates in Nevada, but was denied participation).

But if these things should fail, it’s hard to imagine the ruling FOG allowing Mr. Sanders to sit behind the desk in the Oval Office.

[Grizzly]

So, is it over for the BERN? WHAT NOW?

[Nordic]

No, not over. The media wants everyone to think that it is.

But the Super Tuesday states are notoriously right-wing. For them, Hillary is about as "left" as they dare go.

Bernie still has a shot, but honestly not much of one.

I mean, if the PTB want it to be Hillary, it will be Hillary. That much is clear. Elections are about as real as WWE wrestling and "dancing with the stars". (actually Dancing with the Stars is probably far more honest).

[RocketMan]

Sanders takes Maine. On to Michigan and Mississippi. A lot can still happen between now and the convention.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016 ... ction-2016

Bernie Sanders won the Maine Democratic caucuses on Sunday, his fifth victory in a caucus state, following wins in Nebraska and Kansas on Saturday.

With 91% of results counted, the leftwing Vermont senator had 64.3% of the vote to the former secretary of state’s 35.5%.

[tapitsbo]

No, not over. The media wants everyone to think that it is.

But the Super Tuesday states are notoriously right-wing. For them, Hillary is about as "left" as they dare go.

Bernie still has a shot, but honestly not much of one.

I mean, if the PTB want it to be Hillary, it will be Hillary. That much is clear. Elections are about as real as WWE wrestling and "dancing with the stars". (actually Dancing with the Stars is probably far more honest).

Hillary will have an even bumpier ride than Obama, it will be back to George W. Bush times with endless chatter about impeachment, Libya, etc.

[RocketMan]

[conniption]

OpEdNews

3/6/2016

America's Radical Transformation From a GM Economy to a Wal-Mart Economy

By Bernie Sanders

Reprinted from Reader Supported News


Bernie Sanders with supporters
(image by Gage Skidmore) License DMCA

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and I have differences of opinion on many issues. In no area are our differences stronger than trade policy.

In 1960, Detroit was the richest city in America and General Motors was our largest private employer paying union workers a living wage with affordable health care and a secure retirement.

Today, Wal-Mart is our largest private employer paying nonunion workers starvation wages with little or no benefits and selling products made in China.

America's radical transformation from a GM economy to a Wal-Mart economy has decimated the middle class, turning Detroit into one of the poorest big cities in America and hollowing out communities across the country.

No city in America has suffered more than Flint. Long before Flint's children were poisoned by contaminated drinking water, the city was poisoned by disastrous trade policies that allowed GM to eliminate more than 72,000 jobs and move several factories to Mexico.

Unfettered free trade turned this once-prosperous middle-class city, where residents could own a home, raise a family and retire with security, into a place where good jobs are scarce and extreme poverty is high. Today, a quarter of Flint residents have an annual income of less than $15,000 and 65% of the city's children live in poverty.

The decimation of Detroit, Flint and communities all over this country did not happen by accident. It is a direct result of disastrous trade deals that have allowed corporations to ship our jobs to low-wage countries.

Since I have been in Congress, I've helped lead the opposition to these trade agreements. Not only did I vote against them, I stood with workers on picket lines in opposition to them. Meanwhile, Secretary Clinton sided with corporate America and supported almost all of them.

Here is the sad truth. The North American Free Trade Agreement, which was supported by Clinton, cost our nation 850,000 good paying jobs. It cost Michigan 43,000 jobs, Ohio 35,000 and Illinois another 35,000.

Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China, also supported by Secretary Clinton, cost our country 3.2 million jobs, including 80,000 in Michigan, 106,000 in Ohio and 132,000 in Illinois. The agreement exploded our trade deficit with China to a record-breaking $365 billion last year and made it increasingly difficult to find a product that is not made in China.

One of the major reasons why our middle class has been disappearing for the past 40 years is the decline of the manufacturing sector. Incredibly, over the past 15 years, we have lost nearly 60,000 factories and almost 5 million manufacturing jobs.

Not only has our trade policy cost us millions of decent paying jobs, it has led to a race to the bottom. American workers are forced to compete against desperate workers abroad who make pennies an hour. In Grand Rapids, 300 decent-paying jobs are being shipped to Monterrey, Mexico, where Dematic will pay workers an estimated $1.50 an hour. That's unacceptable.

It is easy for candidates to say what they want on the campaign trail. But voters must look at their record, rather than their rhetoric.

Throughout my political career I have stood with workers and demanded that corporate America invest in this country. Secretary Clinton's position has been very different.

Not only did she support the North American Free Trade Agreement and special trade status with China, she also supported disastrous trade deals with Vietnam, Colombia and Panama.

Enough is enough! As president, we will work together to fundamentally rewrite our trade policies to make sure American jobs are no longer our number one export.
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Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader Supported News.

Bernie Sanders is the independent U.S. Senator from Vermont. He is the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history. He is a member of the Senate's Budget, Veterans, Environment, Energy, and H.E.L.P. (Health, Education, (more...)

[kool maudit]

I really like when Sanders goes anti-globalist.

[RocketMan]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/us/po ... -news&_r=0

Sanders managed an incredible upset, based on polls he was trailing Clinton in Michigan by double digits. The media reports it as business as usual.

Senator Bernie Sanders scored an upset win in the Michigan Democratic primary, threatening to prolong a Democratic campaign that Hillary Clinton appeared to have all but locked up last week.

Mrs. Clinton lost badly in Michigan among independents, showed continued weakness with working-class white Democrats, and was unable to count on as much of an advantage with black voters as she had in the South.

Apparently the Clinton campaign had already demanded that Sanders withdraw For the Good of the Party.

Clinton's success among the African Americans I will never get.

[82_28]

I don't get it either. I refused to vote at all because of Obama. I dis-voted because there is no way this charade was real. I didn't vote because my thinking was that my problems with him were indistinguishable from a racist.

Reason being that everyone was stoked to get a black prez that "ousted" bush. My point was is that this is not real. Sure it happened. It's great to have an articulate "leader" and all that shit. People, liberals etc wanted to punch me and shit because I was all "hold your horses" type shit. Nobody understood the "how do you go from bush to the 'first black president'" shit with some form of an actual "change"?

It was progress insofar as yes a brown skinned guy became president. To that I totally applaud.

I'll just end this by saying shit has always been fucked and we need to keep up.

[NeonLX]

Bernie sure sounds as though he's the "real deal". Or as close to the real deal as we are gonna get in this oligarch-controlled reality.

I'm cautiously supporting the guy. But I don't want to set myself up for yet another disappointment. I'd have more disappointment finding that he is just another corporatist neoliberal than I would if Trump somehow became president.

That's some crazy shit I just wrote there. But I think I meant it.

[Luther Blissett]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/us/politics/primary-elections-michigan.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-ab-top-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Sanders managed an incredible upset, based on polls he was trailing Clinton in Michigan by double digits. The media reports it as business as usual.

Senator Bernie Sanders scored an upset win in the Michigan Democratic primary, threatening to prolong a Democratic campaign that Hillary Clinton appeared to have all but locked up last week.

Mrs. Clinton lost badly in Michigan among independents, showed continued weakness with working-class white Democrats, and was unable to count on as much of an advantage with black voters as she had in the South.

Apparently the Clinton campaign had already demanded that Sanders withdraw For the Good of the Party.

Clinton's success among the African Americans I will never get.

I watched MSNBC for this and was completely floored (I know, I know). They wouldn't even say his name or show his image. At one point, they just showed duplicates of Hillary's face, side-by-side, up on the screen. Every discussion between the pundits was framed around what Hillary needed to do in order to win. I thought my partner was going to throw a shoe at the television. I honestly thought that they'd need to be a little more covert in their fealty.

When the call finally came, I seriously thought Brian Williams was about to run into the basement, Karl Rove-style. They all looked shook.

I don't think Clinton has as much success amongst African Americans as the media says. I think it's just something they say and use a handful of examples to "prove" it. Like the rest of this race, I think the support is also split along age, class, and urban-rural lines.

I noticed the way the map is filling in - Clinton is carrying states that only go republican anyway.

And that's about as much attention as I want to pay to this entertainment cycle.

[NeonLX]

[quote="Luther Blissett » Wed Mar 09, 2016 9:20 am"
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Nobody pisses me off more than the corporate talking heads. NOBODY.

Wolf Blitzer and Brian Williams are right at the top of my despise list.

I'm so happy that my TV only broadcasts videos that I want it to.

[Luther Blissett]

It is my fault for choosing to expose myself to this, but instructive. Like I said, I feel like it used to be more covert, which makes me wonder if it's true that their partial exposure is a limited hangout of sorts.