The Vice Presidential Candidates are Picked

Mike Pence is the nominee, it looks like, for Vice President by Donald Trump.  The official announcement isn't scheduled till tomorrow.  Trump's children were leaning toward Newt Gingrich but all of the party officials and heads of delegations want Governor Mike Pence of Indians.  Norman Goldman describes him as a complete nothing while in congress.  He’s definitely “a low energy guy”.  His big claim to fame is that he signed one of these “religious rights” bills enabling anti gay people to discriminate in their business practices.   Tin Kaine might be Hillary’s nominee and speaks fluid Spanish according to Norman Goldman.  He was the governor during the Virginia Tech mass shootings in April of 2007.  Now we learn from Google News that Kaine has joined the Clinton campaign and is a long-term supporter.  Hillary is entitled to pick anyone to run with her whom she feels comfortable with- - and if that’s a moderate, well, our side still has the Platform.   Next week should be the most exciting Republican convention since the sixties. 

Sometimes right wingers are all for states’ rights, like with gutting the Voting Rights Act.  But they are inconsistent.  For instance with the intervention of the High Court by Sandra Day O Conor in Florida, the Republicans were not for the “state’s rights” of Florida by any means.  The constitution says that barring specific statute (which is allowed) the states are in charge of managing all aspects of elections including who is ellegable to vote.  There is another recent example of treading on State’s rights which involves the state of Vermont and GMO labeling.  Vermont passed a law requiring GMO labeling.  Monsanto wouldn’t allow that so they got the republican majority in both houses of congress to pass a “GMO labeling law”, which forbids states from passing laws on the subject.  The Senate passed it with 63 votes and the House has now passed it.  The only thing standing in the way is the president’s signature on the bill.  And we know how in bed the President is with big transnational corporations like Monsanto and in my mind there is little doubt the President will sign the bill, even with all of the phone calls in the world.  There are certain things which transcend democracy such as corporate greed.  This is sad, but true. 

This morning Thom Hartman is talking about incidents of racial discrimination.  One black US senator has been stopped seven times.  I thought US congressmen were “privileged from arrest” by constitutional law.  One Black man was talking to one Black fireman cleaning his truck outside (?) and then in the building another “supervisor” said he was trespassing and had him arrested and he spent a night in jail.  As of now there is not a snowball’s chance in hades of my voting for Donald Trump.  I could not have said that several months ago.  It’s like when John Mc Cain picked Sarah Palin for his vice president there was from that date onward not a snowball’s chance of hades of my voting for John Mc Cain, though prior to that I had been considering it.  I wouldn't consider voting for any candidate who didn't have a good record on civil rights or whom I suspected was a closet bigot.  The Republican establishment seems to assume that fifty percent of America gets off on their inflamed, bigoted rhetoric.  

At least 73 people were killed Thursday night when a large truck plowed through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France, the Nice prosecutor's office said, according to French media.  The driver pointed his tractor-trailer into the crowd and accelerated, mowing bodies over. The driver was shot to death, authorities said. At least 100 people were injured, authorities said.  Here are the latest developments in the tragedy:

• The attack in Nice, France, began when an occupant of the truck shot into the crowd and then drove for 2 kilometers along the pavement of the Boulevard des Anglais, the main street in Nice, regional President Christian Estrosi told CNN affiliate BFM-TV. He said police later found firearms, explosives and grenades in the truck.

• Anti-terror prosecutors have taken over the investigation, according to BFMTV, citing the prosecutor's office.

• Preliminary information from French officials is that there was one individual in the truck, according to a U.S. law enforcement official briefed on the attack. The individual, a male, was killed by police and it does not appear there was any gunfire from the truck, according to the official.

Shawn Hannity is a narrow-minded Racist Idiot

Shawn Hannity was half-way lucid over the noon hour but he had a couple of real lunatics on after two.  One was a so called “Reverand” and the other was a so called forensic researcher.  Their job seemed to be to drive a bigger racial wedge between Black and White.  They brought up Trayvon Martin and the Ferguson shooting and talked about this "scoreboard" where Whites are winning all the contests.  Meaning that the justice system is letting us down in a major way.  Both of them were complete frauds in my opinion ready to whore out any conservative line Shawn Hannity wants them to spout.  There is talk about how the White race is too tollerant of Blacks and too intimidated to "stand up for their rights".  One lie NOT told today was the so called "Ferguson effect" where apparently cops are less agressive and as such more cops are in jeopardy and in danger of getting shot by suspects.  The truth of course is that the shootings by suspects of police has never been lower.  Cops have never been so safe.  But Shawn Hannity lies about practically everything.  You know that, and I should be resigned to it by now.  Shawn believes Trump’s choices have come down to Newt Gingrich and Mike Pence, the governor of Indiana.  Shawn continues to speak of Trump as being at war with the Republican party.  This stems from his ultra rightist views that are so far out of the main stream nobody but me watches the show.  Polls are all over the place, so you probably can’t believe any of them.  Shawn chooses to believe that Trump is more trusted than Hillary.  I choose to give more credence to the ones that show Hillary way ahead because I believe those are correct.  Shawn said that “Black Lives Matters” has contacts with Black extremists, people in Cuba and Marxists, and also with ISIS”.  They are worried about security in Cleveland.  “The New” Black Panthers are going to take advantage of Ohio’s open carry laws.  How hard will Shawn fight for 2^nd amendment rights now?  I’ve said it before but I see no reason to ever watch Shawn Hannity again.    Shawn says that Governor’s Christie’s problems largely stem from the fact that the New Jersey legislature is democratic, much as the situation they have with Bruce Rouner in Illinois.  Shawn wants Governor Christie for Attorney General.  That would be some world class biased justice.  

The following article is nothing particularly new.  We're all numbed to the idea that we have no privacy at all now.  It's "the new normal".  I don't see either political party addressing the issues raised in this article.

FBI Director James Comey got Hillary off the hook but wants to put you on it. He is pushing hard for warrantless access to all of your Internet activity.

Comey, who would have fit in perfectly with Hitler’s Gestapo, tells Congress that the United States is not safe unless the FBI knows when every American goes online, to whom they are sending emails and from whom they are receiving emails, and knows every website visited by every American.

In other words, Comey wants to render null and void the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution and completely destroy your privacy rights.

The reason Washington wants to know everything about everyone is so that Washington can embarrass, blackmail, and frame on felony charges patriots who stand up in defense of the US Constitution and the rule of law, and dissidents who criticize Washington’s illegal wars, reckless foreign policies, and oppression of American citizens.

Washington’s demand for power has nothing to do with our security. It has to do with destroying the security that the US Constitution gives us.

The security that Comey wants to protect is not our security or the national security of the United States. Comey’s intent is to make Washington secure despite its violations of statutory law and the US Constitution. The way Comey intends to do this is by intimidating, harassing, and arresting Washington’s critics.

Comey wants the unconstitutional power to demand from the providers of telephone and Internet services all records and information about you. These demands are not to be subject to oversight by courts, and the communication companies that serve you are prohibited from telling you that all of your information has been given to the FBI.

US Senators rushed to stick their swords into the Fourth Amendment. John Cornyn slapped an FBI-written amendment on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2015. This caused the American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International to withdraw their support for the act, which caused the act to be withdrawn.

Senator John McCain rushed to the aid of the FBI. This Constitution-hating senator proposed an amendment to a criminal justice appropriations bill that would use a provision in the unconstitutional PATRIOT Act to grant the unlimited unaccountable power to the FBI to totally destroy your privacy.

McCain’s amendment failed, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R,KY) changed his vote so that he could negate the Senate’s vote with a vote to reconsider.

The FBI’s senators will continue with amendments to legislation, related or not, until they deliver to the FBI the power it wants.

Unfortunately, most Americans today, unlike their forebears, are too ignorant and uneducated to know the value of the privacy rights that our Founding Fathers put in the US Constitution. The imbeciles say nonsense such as: “I haven’t done anything wrong. I have nothing to fear.” God help the imbeciles.

If the American people were sufficiently sophisticated, they perhaps would wonder why such a large chunk of the US Senate had rather represent the FBI than the American people, their constituents who elected them to represent the people in the state, not a police power in Washington.

Why are so many US senators more responsive to the FBI’s desire for Gestapo police power than they are to the civil liberties embodied in the US Constitution?

As the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and the Defending Dissent Foundation show, the Orlando shootings, the Dallas shootings and whatever shootings, real or staged, next occur have nothing to do with the FBI’s demand to completely destroy all privacy rights of the American people.http://bordc.org/news/senate-rejects-amendment-expanding-fbi-surveillance-powers-by-narrow-margin/

What’s that I hear? You say you knew nothing about this? Little wonder. Your media consist of people well paid to deceive you and to deliver you into a Police State. To strip you of all constitutional protection and deliver you unprotected to a police state is the function of the New York Times, Washington Post, Fox “News,” CNN, the rest of the presstitute print and TV media and many Internet sites.

Clinton and Sanders Are United

Today July 12^th is the date that will mark the turning point of the democratic campaign because this is the day Bernie and Hillary reconciled their differences.  First Bernie spoke saying that yes, “Hillary is the rightful winner of the nomination” and that he endorses her.  Thom Hartman says “I don’t think I disagree with Bernie on any issue and today I am officially endorsing Clinton”.   Both Bernie and Hillary said nice things about each other.  Bernie says that Hillary is going along with eighty percent of the things Bernie stood for in his campaign.  Four out of five ain’t bad.  Hillary is standing for going after Wall Street and taxing the big financial interests.  She wants a free education for anyone under a hundred thousand dollars.  It’s been said that Johnson envisioned that it would be “Medicare for all” eventually as they gradually lowered the elegability age.  But Hillary wants to re-work Medicare Part D so the drug companies don’t hold the rest of us hostage with high prices, and also prescribe more generic drugs.  Hillary came out strongly in favor of repealing Citizen’s United.  I’d like to see a full transcript of this speech as well as listen to the entire thing again.  She wants a living minimum wage so Wall Mart people don’t have to go on food stamps.  The crowd enthusiasm was high for both speeches.  Her slogan is a good one of “Stronger together” and they are a whole lot stronger together than they are at each other’s throats.  Hillary has won me over.  She’s repeated her stand against the Trans Pacific Partnership.  Many have said “The era where a politician can campaign one way and rule a different way - - is Over”.  This enthusiasm should show up in the next poll numbers- - and it’s my guess that Trump will be on the run.   Let’s keep it that way.   There were no hints as to who her vice presidential pick would be.  She’s shown she can get along well with both Elizabeth Warren and Bernie.  Tim Cane of Virginia is still in the running.

 

I didn’t hear the first part of President Obama’s speech in Dallas today but from what I heard on the Gary and Shannon show on KFI, the President spent too much time on race relations and Black frustrations with the police.  I think he forgot whom he was speaking to.  He got a lot of applause lines.  (This group was generous with their applause)   As far as I heard he didn’t spend any time talking about the victims of the tragedy or their grieving families, unless he did that earlier in the speech.  I began listening to this speech right about noon and it went on for another twenty plus minutes.  I think had I given the speech I would have phrased it differently talking about how hard a policeman’s job is and the average person doesn’t realize just what pressures a police officer, or the people he’s dealt with earlier in that day.  After all when you’re dealing with the dredges of society, it’s bound to shape your point of view.  

Donald Trump as of Tuesday July 12, 2016 still hasn’t picked his vice president.  Mike Pence (?) the governor of Indiana has to be picked within two days or he won’t be able to re-file to run for governor.  Shawn doesn’t believe the good governor has the national experience and the broad view necessary to be VP.  Shawn never mentioned Governor Christie so I guess he’s out of the running, at least on Shawn’s list.  There is that military guy who is a democrat and Shawn has interviewed him twice.  But he’s lacking experience with both congress and the economy.  No, according to Shawn the only candidate with the broad experience and ability “to make the case for Donald Trump better than he could make it himself” would be Newt Gingrich.  Shawn believes Newt has such great debating skills and could take apart Hillary’s arguments making the case to the undecided voters.  Personally I think Hillary would chop up Newt like a lawnmower.  It’s the Newt verses the lawnmower.  Of course you’d have six wives between the two candidates and Newt Gingrich is even older than Trump, and many feel the Vice President should be a younger man given the age considerations.  Has Donald Trump been certified to be in pretty good health?  Shawn says that Gingrich is a better candidate today than he was twenty years ago at the height of how power because he reads so many books and he’s gotten a lot more religious, and perhaps has mellowed and isn’t so brash now.  That’s his opinion.

Prime Minister David Cameron resigned today and Teresa Mae of the conservative party is the new prime minister of England.  This took place a lot sooner that we thought it would.   Of course even when we had the labor party in control- -Tony Blair heartily supported George Bush's Iraq War effort.  Bush appeared to have Blair in his back pocket.  Of course at least they change Prime Ministers now and them.  It was twenty years ago in the spring of 1996 that Netanyahoo was elected Prime Minister of Israel and he's still there.  Not only that but he's not the most conservative person in the government.  Apparently others in the Knisett are even more right wing so that Netanyahoo appears to have an almost moderating influence.

The following are observations from Monday.  On C-Span the Republicans in their platform hearings voted down a pro drug amendment.  There were a few “tenth amendment” people who wanted the federal government to get out of the war on drugs because you can’t find support for such activity in the US Constitution.  Honestly I don’t know how I’d vote on this.  Both sides have a  point.  I looked at Finance and the Dow Jones Industrials have in the past couple of days gotten into new high territory.  Indeed that two day market drop was just some sort of an emotional tantrum, a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.  But I’d like to consult with Thom Hartman before I give an all out “buy” signal.  If we are ready for a crash, it’d be nice if somebody told us that.  Right now Norman Goldman is on and apparently Bernie Sanders and Hillary are continuing to reconcile.  We don’t know who either Trump or Hillary will pick for their vice presidents.  Sarah Palin was picked the day after Barock Obama gave his convention acceptance speech to get the cameras off the would be President and on to the next big fad, which is Sarah Palin.  It would only be poetic justice that Hillary would pull the same stunt announcing a controversial vice presidential pick the day after Donald Trump gives his acceptance speech at the Cleveland convention.  

The Empire Endures

This is part two of our little doomsday movie called “The Empire Endures”.  I wanted to use "The Empire Strikes Back" but that one was taken. Unlike part one which is strictly factual, we engage in a little poetic license in this installment.  The scene opens on a cornfield and there is a group of ten rag tag cult members and a strange contraption in the background, which we later learn is a time machine.  Each cult member has a “GW” brand on their arm- - but we never learn what the “GW” stands for.  The cult is resolving to commit mass suicide and get the purple Kool-Aid and cyanide ready with the paper cups.  There is talk about how the view ten years hence for the country is so awful there is nothing that remains to live for because the future things cannot be stopped.  There is talk about “Those who left our group will miss out on the ultimate salvation” and one or two say “But where there is life there is hope” but are talked out of it- - with talk about paying the ultimate sacrifice for the liberties we enjoy.  So they dose all ten members who keel over in agony one by one.  A minute or so later we see a bean from above come along and zap the Time Machine out of existence.  This scene occurs in early July of 2006 in Nebraska where the cult settled.

Next we go to late summer of 2013 when President Obama talks about drawing the red line in the sand with Syria and their poison seran gas- - and how if they don’t get rid of it then the President will start bombing.  But then the American people write their congressmen and the President decides to put it up for a vote, and the Republicans such as Mitch Mc Conell and John Boehner decide “Not to give the president what he wants” because the cloak room conspiracy must hold that we deny the President everything, even when it would be in our interest to agree.  So they vote the war resolution down.  But then Vladimir Putin decides to negotiate with Assad and the Syrians to get rid of the seran gas without American help.  Naturally the Republicans use this as an example of what a great, macho leader Putin is, the sort of guy we need in America.

The next scene is the government shutdown in the fall of 2013 and Ted Cruz making his filibuster speech on behalf of a government shutdown if the President doesn’t go along with de-funding Obama Care, which was just then starting up for people to enroll in October.  Ted Cruz makes the appeal that “Once the American people get a taste of the sugar of subsidized medical care they’ll keep coming back for more and more.  Of course the government shutdown is a farce anyhow and ends up costing American tax payers more money than if they didn’t have it.

President Obama is fuming about Vladimir Putin being such a big shot in February of 2014 during the Russian winter Olympics.  There are scenes worthy of a Simpson’s episode where the bobsled run runs out of snow and the bobsleds get stuck on the track.  And also an American figure skater falls in a big pool of water on the ice rink from excessive melting as reporters wipe sweat from their faces asking someone to turn on the air conditioning.  Then there is the coup in the Ukraine, which President Obama secretly supports though this is kept secret from the American people.   So the Russians retaliate for the coup against the duly elected Ukrainian leader (where a US puppet was installed) and Russian troops take Crimea.

We then have a late night early morning “tin foil hat” talk call in show on KFI where there is a call about a cult in Nebraska where they found ten skeletons a week or so ago in a corn field and there were rumors they were part of a counter establishment type doomsday cult and they had visions of the future and wrote down names of all the sports championship teams and winning horses for the next ten years.  But they checked them and only about a third of them are accurate.  They predict California Chrome will not only win the Derby but the Tripple Crown.  The next Saturday California Chrome wins the Kentucky Derby so this same guest is back.  There were predictions of some mass Israeli genocide against innocent people in Gaza.  There were predictions Donald Trump would run for President greeted with laughter.  But this group, or at least four members of it- -were transported to July 6^th of 2016 and learned we were continuing the Afghanistan war and there was a new police shooting in Baton Rouge and what Trump’s campaign would be like and a new Mideast terror group they thought was “ISHTAR or one of those Egyptian Goddesses”.   A guy named Steve Johnson calls in and explains about karma and predicting future sports events.  He claimed to be a representative of the Taccoma Federation who's goal it will be to conquer planet Earth in the next few years. He’s holding a cat that looks like Patches- - - and Steve says her name is Patches and she’s an under-cover cat.  (but no eye patch for Steve here)

There is a meeting of George Bush, Jeb Bush,  Wolfiwitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Chaney as well as Mc Connell, Mc Carthy and John Boehner- - - in May of 2014 where they intone that Obama himself does only what he’s told and is a puppet “On the important issues, such as national security”.  It is stated that ISIS is not the JV team and it’s time the American people found out just what sort of stuff ISIS was made of.  This is spoken in a bragidicious manner almost as if they were proud of ISIS deeds.  Mc Connel speaks up and says that it’s time to implement part two of the master plan.  Citizen’s United was part one, but now we have to continue with the mission with part two.  The next month, June of 2014 the American People learn about ISIS and how much land they have conquered in the Mideast.  Then the mass beheadings of Americans starts with Jihadi John, and then the twenty Egyptian Christians along the sea shore.  But meanwhile some right wing talk show hosts such as "Sean Flannery" were saying that Obama was doing "pin pricks" against ISIS and not serious about attacking them.  Also there was a blogger video showing some convoy of ISIS vehicles going through an American checkpoint uninterrupted.  The American people are completely panicked.  Then the Ebola virus thing kicks in and the American people are even more panicked and vote republican.  There were a lot of close races in congress in the fall of 2014 but either due to a mass influx of money- - or else growing panic of the American people- - or else funny stuff at the ballot box, every one of those narrowly held races breaks Republican in a big way and the Republicans increase their hold on the House, and more Governorships and State Houses and also the US Senate.

Then we have the Netanyahoo thing in early March of 2015 and how Netanyahoo speaks before a joint session of congress- - in a move designed as a campaign ploy to win an election at home.  There were scare tacticts of massive Arab voting.  Meanwhile the whole Iranian nuclear deal was being ratified and people from Ted Cruz to John Mc Cain to Lindsey gram say that their first act as President after tearing up Obama Care would be to tear up this important nuclear accord and declare war on Putin, Iran and Russia.  There is another “meeting of the elite” and they talk about the five nations that need regeime change and how they are getting bogged down and behind schedule with their plan for world dominance - - particularly over Russia.  Their goal is to take over the world.  It will soon be time to implement phase three of the master plan.  What we don’t know yet is the true relation between Jeb Bush and Donald Trump.

Then there is another meeting in April and Donald Trump is with them and agrees to lie about his true intentions.  He claims to be anti Wall Street and big money.  He claims he won’t touch social security or medicare but he assures congressional leaders that Social Security and Medicare will be the first things to go when he gets elected.  And all this talk about being against trade deals is bologna.  They agree that like the first tea party in April of 2009 that they said a bunch of stuff that wasn’t so.  They weren’t against foreign wars.  They weren’t anti interventionist.  They weren’t against big money.   Meanwhile we have Bernie and Hillary entering the political race.  “Oh we’ve got special plans to deal with Hillary- - later” they say.

It’s now the summer of 2015 and the 2016 political campaign begins.  You know the drill here.  All the anti Megan Kelly stuff and other anti woman stuff, talk about building the Wall along the border with Mexico.  Yes, the Mexican people are a bunch of rapists and drug smugglers.  There is the anti Islamic stuff of denying all Islamic visas.  There is the attack on POW’s like Mc Cain.  Donald Trump praises the real estate bubble burst of 2008 as another way to make money.  We learn about Trump University and also Trump not keeping his word when it comes to dealing with either suppliers or donations he's promised.  But the most deceptive part of the whole campaign was going after Jew Bush on the issue of whether his brother, George W lied us into the War with Iraq.  Mc  Cain is saying this to appeal to democrats and peacenicks, and those disaffected Bernie Sanders voters.  They say “We welcome you Sanders people with open arms”.  The true purpose was to get Jeb Bush out of the campaign so people wouldn’t worry about him or the Bush Crime Family money.  So one by one Donald’s sixteen republican opponents go by the wayside and eventually even Ted Cruz reconciles with the Donald Trump forces.

In November of 2016 Donald Trump wins the election.  The democrats take the senate but don’t take the house.  The big turning point in the election was when one of these information leak sources appeared a couple weeks before election day and released a bunch of incrimidating E mails saying Russia had hacked Hillary’s E mail servers long ago and others witnessing against Hillary saying they were closer to the Saudi family than anyone realized and other E mails revealed Hillary’s contempt for the whole security process and if she had her way- - - she wouldn’t even have to try and lie about the Clinton foundation.   Hillary’s numbers dropped about twelve or fifteen points over-night.  Trump won all the key states he was hoping to win including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Virginia, and Florida.

Trump was everyone’s worst nightmare as president.  It's clear America is headed for some kind of a police state with the most extreme right wing men in key cabinet posts such as Homeland Security.  He gave an awful Inauguration speech where he threatened war against Putin and Assad and reiterated his pledge to tear up the Iranian nuclear agreement.  But the real shocker was when Donald Trump said that we have to reinstitute the draft to be prepared for the many wars we'll now have to fight because Obama let our military slide to such a low level.  Every piece of evidence indicated we were headed twords World War III.  Such was what caused a group of loyal opposition democrats to formulate a plan to assassinate Donald Trump.  They picked the right campaign rally, and a hail of bullets rang from several different directions killing Donald Trump.  Naturally the stock market had a panic attack.  Trump had picked Newt Gingrich as VEEP.  But how strange it was that it turned out that it didn’t matter whom Trump had picked as Vice President because Jeb Bush reappeared out of the woodwork and announced that he was the one who was really in charge.  And it was Jeb Bush that did everything the civil libertarians feared.  There were also various constitutional amendments that were rammed through gutting the fourth amendment and also the thing about the apportionment of congressional districts based on whether you were eligible to vote or not.  

Donald Trump Will Lose South Carolina

Meet the Press relegated last night’s Republican debate.  I tuned in KNX radio for it at 6:15 remembering the commercials last week.  After the first commercial break I realized the debate was also on television so I tuned in there. They were discussing the death of Anton Scelia and how Ted Cruz want’s a real crusader for the right wing, a real legal heavy-weight to replace him.  I thought that perhaps the Republicans would suspend all their discord and unite for a solid conservative front of unity.  That didn’t happen.   Mitch Mc Connell came out with the statement that no nominee of this President would even get a hearing before this current senate.  To me and others this seems stridently political and altogether premature considering Scelia’s body isn’t cold yet.  But then President Obama responded in kind with an otherwise lauditory commendation of Anton Scelia’s life- - but added that he would ‘fulfill his constitutional duty’ on hoping the Senate will perform their constitutional duty likewise.  The gamble is that if the President nominates a moderate and that candidate is rejected, the democrats could make a campaign issue out of it as an argument for a democratic senate that would “get on with the business of government”.  And either Hillary or Bernie could nominate a real flaming liberal leaving the republicans full of regrets they weren’t more reasonable about the whole thing.  It was a different kind of debate because Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush seemed unified on every issue.  Rubio defended President Bush about 9 – 11 when Donald Trump leveled the charge that the Twin Towers came down on George Bush’s watch.  Rubio blamed 9 – 11 on President Clinton for not killing Bin Laden in 1978 when he had the chance (but failed).   But if Clinton is guilty of sloth, how much more is President Bush guilty of sloth when the facts became a whole lot clearer in midsummer of 2001.  This crowd was very anti Donald Trump.  I can say without much contraversy that Donald Trump is going to lose South Carolina and either Mario or Ted will get a victory.  Every time Trump made a statement I agreed with he got booed by the crowd.  Trump weighed into President Bush on the whole “weapons of mass destruction” argument for going to war in Iraq.  Donald regards the Iraq War as a horrible mistake that destabilized the region.  On Meet the Press they had Trump, Rubio, Cruz, and Kasech on the program.  Kasech agrees with my dovish position that the Iraq War was wrong.  Kasech also agrees that we can’t fight two wars at once against Assad and ISIS at the same time.  Trump also agrees that first we have to deal with ISIS and try and work with Putin if at all possible.  There is some kind of a cease fire treaty going on now between the US and Russia that probably won’t hold.  In terms of immigration- - Rubio and Cruz are still lobbing charges at each other that the other one is soft on immigration and favors amnesty.  Kasech agrees with the Rubio position that we need to eventually think of offering a path of citizenship to those eleven million illegals.  The crowd didn’t mind this apparent mushiness on this position- - and didn’t seem that eager to embrace Donald Trump’s hard line position on aliens.  The program was filled with commercials every few minutes.  Closing positions were issued at a quarter to eight.  I liked Kasech’s speech and Trump’s speech and Cruz was OK.  I hated Rubio and Bush’s speeches.  Different strokes for different folks.  Then I watched Dateline on KNBC.  It was about this Baptist missionary couple with a seemingly perfect marriage.  They had three children and were planning on returning to Lithuania or whatever.  It seems that the husband was sexually involved with a twenty year old Lithuanian student.   Nate and Denise at the time lived in Denise’ parent’s house and the place was burgelerized but the cops sensed certain “irregularities’ about this burglary and eventually charged the husband with murder.  Unfortunately I hadn’t had my coffee for the evening.

I watched a thing on watches and clocks on KTLA.  Then it was the saga of this blind teenager who lived a horrible life of physical pain and his twin brother died.  He became a piano protégé at a young age picking up piano pieces by ear and playing them perfectly with little or no prior practice.  He’s a genious to learn them without studying music.  These kinds of stories are often told on Paul Harvey or Christian stations.  What stands out about them of course is that they are things that almost never happen.  Few people have this seemingly super human will and determination to rise against any and all disadvantages in life.  I couldn’t do it.  Then it was the teenage girl that got bullied.  I still can’t figure out why she got bullied.  They said “It’s because she was a nice person”.  Maybe it’s that the other girls were from an enemy planetary system originally from her.  Then it was dinner and that turkey casserole.  We’ve been having a lot of carrots lately.  We had chocolate pudding for dessert.  You know these Republican candidates will be sniping at each other in an hour or so- - and I bet none of them had to face bullying, so what’s their excuse?  KNX will carry the debate on radio.   

A Washington’s blog highlights the five stages of “Awakening” or some might say “Knowing” that parrellel the five stages of grief.  The first is denial.  There is the kind of ‘Ignorance is bliss” denial.  Then there is guilty denial where the party actively invents a cover story or alternate version of events to cover up the truth.  The second stage is anger.  Hopefully this will be a short stage that’s not too destructive that’s not harmful to property or to yourself.  The third stage is bargaining.  Here you can’t wait to “bargain with” or tell others to sell them on your new version of events, to tell them your new Truth.  The next sgage when this fails is depression.  Screw it; it’s useless!  And all that.  The fifth stage I find puzzling as acceptance because to me it canotes a retreat into the past you know can’t be any more.  Here’s a bit of news to brighten your day.  Antanon Scelia has just died.  He died in his sleep.  He was the longest serving justice nominated in the mid eighties by Ronald Reagan.  Well we don’t have to wait for November’s election.  President Obama can strut his stuff and put forth a nominee right now.  I can only be glad if a court justice died that it was him.  Does this reveal my dark side?  But I would like to return to the video.  Apparently people now see in you an “inner light” or something and what they formerly shunned, they now eagerly want to know.  I don’t get it.  Is this some sort of Gnostic enlightenment- - or sudden empowerment from On High?

This is he final paragraph to be typed but the first paragraph planned last week that I was going to write for this blog entry.  It's on the whole subject of Gnosticsm, which for you new readers you may not be familiar with.  I'd first like to mention what I refer to as the "Marcion wall of separation" of the material world and the karmic world.  St Paul subscribed to this view that "the Lord of this world" was bad but there was a different law in opperation that was separate and had nothing to do with the "Elemental principles (natural law) of the Universe.  George Harrison speaks of this in "Living in the Material world".  These two realms of nature and karma never interract.  Therefore when John Calvin says that the things of nature are predestined, this has no effect on the karmic world because your "Spirit" as St Paul says, is not subject to such natural law and things like determinism and predestination.  Do you follow me?  Now there is a passage in Acts where it's said that "Paul visited the school of Tyannus".   This "school" was of Pythagarian gnostics.  There was a messiah figure called Apollonius of Tyannus, where he among other things is said to have visited India, and also ascended into Heaven forty days after he died, which was around AD 110.  Maybe 105.  I believe either Paul was a person that lived decades after the Bible claims or that Marcion invented him alltogether as a vehicle of portraying his theology.  How strange it is that every word of the Marcion "cannon" became accepted as scripture.  Marcion is said to be a backslidden Christian.  But it's my contention that Gnosticsm pre-dated Christianity as we know it.  They say Gnosticsm  - - Marcion Gnosticsm or Pythagarean Gnosticsm existed from about 90 AD whereas Christianity as we know it didn't get off the ground, at least in Rome till after AD 135.  It's Gnosticsm that spoke of "Getting back to the One or The Point".  It subscribed to the law of "limited Good" to the extent that GOD was so "good" that this goodness could not be enlarged upon or expanded without diluting it.  As such even an act of Creation of matter by God- - is said to be "God's original sin".  Hence even the Angels of this Creator God or "Lord of this World" the Angels themselves may appear to be "angels of light' but are in fact Demonic and as such are not to be trusted or listened to.  All this is familiar to my readers but you new ones need to be made aware of it.  When it says in Thesselonians to praise God IN our distress- - it does not say to thank God FOR our "current distress" as St Paul refers to it.  Since creation is a sin for God, it's argued that sex and having offspring is a sin.  Hence sex is seen is seen as sin because it continues this sinful Creation process.  Just how one gets back to "The Point" or "The One" is a mystery but it is out goal.  It's said to be a supernatural process that defies any physical description.  But it's something that once it happens to you it's a "Born Again" experiance and you know that you are never the same.  It's an inner Knowing that passeth all understanding.  As you can see there is a lot of Gnosticsm in Christianity- - but there is a lot about Calvary Chapel Christianity that is NOT gnostic, and you need to beware of that also.  Though sex is sin- - and procreation is sin, the "Sin" is not some physical thing that can be passed on like "bad seeds".  Sin is karmic in nature.  It comes from not exercising the Will to rise above it.  This bit about not exercising the Will to rise above sin is also part of Federation theology.  It is said to have the Mind in you that is in Christ.  St Paul also teaches that "The Law" as in OT is a "covenant with death" and that no good thing can come from it.  It is the product of the evil creater god Jehovah.  It is part of the natural world therefore we as Born Again Christians are not subject to it.  (Selah).  

The Eleven Physical Dimensions

Eleven is the number years ago that some said were the number of dimensions that existed when the Universe was created, but that they collapsed down to three.  While there may in theory be more than three spacial dimensions, I don't know of them, and I think their existance may be all but unprovable.  It dawned on me that some of you people may now know that we've done different listings of dimensions in the past and I'm here to review one old one for you.  It was late summer one year, perhaps 2012 where we unleashed "opperation gemstone".  This was a jewel shaped figure with twelve large dots in it, standing for each of the twelve dimensions.  The twelfth dimension was the "God dimension" or "The Twelfth Man" or the fans in the seats watching TV screens.  Since this recitation of dimensions only had one dimension for Time with no allowance at all for linear varience, we came up with the whole "God" concept in that there had to be some overall Big Reality that encompassed everything- even parellel Universes, whose existence can't be proven.  Hence this TV watcher would have a choice of eleven TV screens at one time.  (Back in the old days there were only about a total of eleven TV channels to begin with)   Before we move on to what I now consider the correct picture let me say that that Mal Evans and the Federation are sticking by this twelve dot "Gemstone" symbol.  In addition to only one dimension of Time- - perfectly straight linear time- - the other thing of note is in the four dimensions of properties of "solid" matter.  These are Gravity- - aka - - Materiality and also encompassing force- - and a lot of that General Relitivity stuff Einstein talks about.  Apparently there are some new revelations or observations that prove Einstein that I haven't checked out.  Two more properties of matter are FORM and FUNCTION.  If you are a Deist, and believe in a Creator God, then you would say that Form comes after Function.  That is, a function is "thought of" by God, and then a Form is created to accomidate that function.  Another word for Form could be blueprint or instructions on how to build the thing.  Last of the four material properties is "Common perception".  Mal Evans reminds me today that the original Federation designation here is "The Way Things Really Are".  That's because they're all Objectivists in the Federation where human perception does not alter the nature of reality in any way.

There was one listing perhaps a year ago, perhaps more, where I had as many as Seventeen dimensions listed.  These included the three psychic dimensions ("Close encounters" of the first, second, and third kind, you might say) and also three karmic dimensions.  It is not necessary to understand these if you don't already.  We have discussed karmic dimensions at length in the past.  These account for six.  We then come to the title of this posting "The Eleven Physical Dimensions".   We have pretty much talked about the four aspects or properties or dimensions of Matter.  I would only modify that to say in a human subjective world the fourth dimension isn't just "The way things really are" or "commonly held perceptions" but that the fourth dimension is "Awareness".  You could call it physical awareness if you want.  It's human awareness and all that goes with it.  This accounts for dimensions one through four.  We then have dimensions five, six, and seven, the spacial dimensions of length, width, and height that we are all familiar with.  We have now covered seven out of the eleven.   Bones alias Stu-baby believes in two dimensions of Time, encompassing the fifth dimension encompassing oblique Universes.  We have done extensive writing on this topic.  We have said that under normal circumstances (however you define "normal") that these Universe boundaries or timelines never cross.  Each stays separate.  In case any of you are wondering, Bones is back.  He seems to have won in his battle to be reincarnated as someone else.  Hopefully he will stay "back".  We have now covered nine dimensions with two more to go.  Number ten is the Dynamic called- - Dynamic, and encompasses everything you think it does be it sight, sound, or in graphics.  Think in terms of decibles.  This aspect of reality is everywhere around us and yet we don't think about it, but without Dynamic our world would literally be flat-lining.  (Selah)   We now come to the final dimension of Feng Chue, and if you have a better spelling for that let me know.  Also known as Feng Chue strings.  As you know in our frame of reference strings are great big things that when they are transversed or crossed- - karmic energy is released.  Feng Chue says that the location of nothing is left to chance and everything IS where it is at that moment for an overriding reason.  (Some say for reasons known to God)   If we can change our Feng Chue we can change our destiny.  This is because Feng Chue unleashes "Events" in our lives.  One can say "Astrological" events, but if you prefer Fend Chue string events- - then be my guest.  These are events that are caused by themselves or some say the Feng Chue strings are the causal element.  They are events that could not have been known about or foreseen before they occurred.  These Events in other words don't appear to have prior causes.  Sometimes this is referred to as the Zero dimension.  Space is not a concern because these strings are standing waves of Ether.  It should also be noted that the "What you see is what you get" theory is in opperatio here.  That is- - it doesn't matter that some stars are shining with light released hundreds of years ago- - as far as the law of feng chue goes- - neither time nor distance means anything.  Because they are standing waves of ether, this means they aren't "traveling".  They are part of the psychic "accoustics" all around us all the time.  It's spent more time on this last dimension because I feel it's the most difficult for most people to pick up on because this topic so far as I know, isn't "taught"' by that many other people.

Can We Rewrite History, Please?

 Sometimes you wish history had been different.  I speak in the past tense because I think the fight to get Bernie nominated is over and Hillary has won.  Callers that try to speak up for Bernie now are shooshed if they suggest things such as the number of super deligates pledge to Hillary already make the race unfair.  A woman calling the Stephanie Miller show tried to make the point that the super deligates' votes aren't cast in concrete and never have super deligates determined the eventual candidate.  I guess 1968 was the last time.  If Robert Kennedy hadn't died, those super deligates would have had a choice.  Either go for Hubert Humphrey or shift their votres to Robert Kennedy, keeping in mind that Hubert Humphrey didn't win a single primary vote.  (Selah)  Stephanie is even harder core Hillary this morning.  It seems Bernie didn’t do well in last night’s debate on PBS or whatever.  Was it on free TV and I missed it?  My bad.  I was told the debate was too “wonky”.  One thing Bernie has never been labled in the past is "Boring".  It's difficult to pretend the elephant in the room isn't there with Republican distrust of Hillary because of her E mails and the Bengazi situation and all.  It's baggage, like weights worn by an Olympic runner in training to increase endurance.  But the Apostle Paul urges his readers to "Cast aside every wright and run the good race of Faith".  (Selah) But you don't lose a race with one bad debate.  Bernie still has all of his supporters out there.  It reminds a little of the Jesus Christ superstar song when Simon Zealotes says to Jesus "Christ what more do you need to convince you, that you've made it and you're easily as strong - - as the filth from Rome who rape our country and have terrorized our people for so long.  Keep them yelling their devotion, but add a touch of hate at Rome".   I'd like Bernie supporters to add a touch of hate at Hillary.  Now she's trying to play the race card bragging about her endorsement by the congressional Black caucus.  The charge is falsely made that Bernie never worked for the civil rights causes.  He was involved in SNCC from the early days, and also was a big proponent of gay rights when it wasn't fashionable.  Anyone can change positions when political experiancy forces them to do so.  (Selah) Bernie is a prime mover.  Hillary is not. Others say that Hillary has to go beyond just saying ‘Everything Bernie says I agree with- - and by the way don’t forget that I am a woman’.   From the bits gleaned this morning I would concur that Bernie was weak last night and Hillary took the offensive, even if her barbs were deceptive in nature.  The charge is also made that Bernie said "I am against immigration because all those illegals drive the wage base down".  Even if Bernie said this, I would be in agreement with it.  If Bernie works on one race at a time, such as the Blacks, he will be doing well.  But Bernie seems bound to a rule no other candidate, democratic or republican, has to abide by.  The Republicans have their knock down drag out debates and Shawn Hannity doesn’t object.  He says it’s good for the party and kind of a learning and character development experience for the candidates, and it’s necessary and eventually, down the line- - this summer they’ll arrive at a final nominee.   Hillary could lose out with minorities if they discover Bernie Sanders is just as dedicated, if not more, to their own interests as is Hillary.  Sanders also has it in his power to bring Hillary down on another issue.  And that’s the issue of Hillary attacking the women who had affairs with Bill tarnishing their character.  No woman is going to stand for that once they know.  I had Shawn Hannity on before this in the noon and two o clock hours. 

How about a "Fantasy Jesus Christ Superstar".   This is one with a Jesus, Jesus Barrabus, that actually wants to Fight for freedom to win his objectives- - more of a Nelson Mandella type.  As you will remember the opera opens with Judas Iscariot coming to the conclusion (much as Obama did) that Jesus was pushing too hard to advance his cause and the people were getting out of control and all of their support was going to his head.  So Judas makes a determination to betray Jesus at some point in the future.  The next seen in the opera is that "What's the buzz" skit where Jesus is accusing Judas of being too money grubbing.  The Apostle John adds the charge that Judas was a crook, stealing from the kitty, much as Hillary Clinton and Obama are allied with Wall Street and are stealing the American people blind.  There is also the whole interplay with Mary Magdolane and is she really Jesus' wife- - or is Judas write in calling her just another whore that Jesus shouldn't be seen with in Public.  Then we have the whole Hosanna theme.  Then there is the Simon Zealotes song we've referred to above.  The Bible speaks of "A riot that broke out- - and Jesus Barrabus comits a murder".   What if the whole "Temple cleansing" scene were actually something much more than that and a full scale insurrection broke out with Jesus (Barrabus) disciples taking up arms to attack the Romans.  Perhaps some were captured.   Per chance what is Jesus (Barrabus) slipped away and disappeared for a few days.  Perhaps Judas was captured and said he could arrange to have Jesus arrested if they'd just give him temporary freedom where he could ensnare Jesus?  From that point in Judas takes up the mantle of the now disappeared leader talking to the Pharicees about things as the resurrection of the dead (an afterlife) and the authority of John the Baptist, was it from God or from Man.  And of course the widdow's might.  Judas is always about milking every last penny.  So the whole passion play works out with Judas.  Judas leads the cohort of Roman troops against Jesus- - but once again Jesus makes his escape.  Roman troops pursue.  The Bible in a passage in Acts alludes to the fact that Jesus was really "An Egyyptian" and makes his escape southward into the Judean wilderness.  This leaves Judas confronting Pilate and everything.  But then Roman troops eventually track down Jesus.  But soneone suggests that Pilate set one of them free- - and naturally the people scream to let Jesus Barrabus free- - and send Judas to the cross.   - - - well, it's just a scenario.  I think if we translate it to Bernie Sanders winning the White House it means that Sanders needs to learn to Fight for what he believes as right- - not so polite and sedately as in the past.  (Selah)

Let's Declare R I P to the Reagan Revolution

Norman Goldman says the tally was 61% to 49% for Hillary.  That’s a lead of over twenty points and substantially more than I thought.  Trump won every demographic group in New Hampshire except evangelicals.  Bernie won in almost every demographic.  Hillary won with women over 45, and her best strength was with people over 65.  However according to Sean Hannity - - Hillary won fifteen deligates to Sanders’ thirteen.  Now they count the super deligates.  The networks never used to count them before.   Given this evidence, there seems to be no way that Senator Sanders can win with a quarter of the deligates pledged to Hillary at the git go.  This hardly seems fair.  Where I think the Hillary people are making a major mistake is that Blacks are an unknown commodity.  You can’t conclude from Iowa, with its few minorities, that Bernie can’t score with minorities.  This is because a major campaign has not been launched to reach minorities yet in South Carolina or anywhere else.  There is absolutely no reason to believe that Blacks in particular won’t go for Bernie the same way white people do.  They said Blacks were for Hillary in 2008 but they simply weren’t used to any other candidate, and when they heard a better candidate they voted.  We’ll have our next debate tomorrow night and the Republicans will have another one this weekend.  Five percent of the deligates are selected in February but sixty percent of the deligates are selected in March.  Nobody will wrap it all up on March first like happened in 2008.  They vote in South Carolina on February 20^th.   After Super Tuesday there will be elections coming hot and heavy for the next several weeks. 

This is Ash Wednesday and both Teresa and Hernando had the ash marks on their foreheads.   The results of the New Hampshire primary didn’t change from last night.  Trump still came in first with Kasech at about half as many points.  Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio were third, fourth, and fifth and the order never altered.  Governor Christie came in a weak sixth and he is getting out of the race.  Sean Hannity still holds against Christie for making nice with Obama during Hurricane Sandy right before Obama was reelected.  I still subscribe to the theory that some sort of a deal with the Devil was made with the democrats, so I am in agreement with Sean.  Carley Feurina is also withdrawing from the race.  I think she deserves a tribute for being a fearless campaigner with definite opinions about how things should be run.  It’s easier to listen to Hannity than Stephanie Miller because if they ever utter a pro Bernie Sanders thought on that show they all have to do major penance today for it.  If Stephanie doesn’t knock it off, I might have to stop watching her show for a while.

I had a five Messiah theory when it comes to who Jesus Christ was.  I would now like to reduce that number to four.  I am jetezening Luigi Cascioli's theory.  I’m eliminating Jonah of Galilee.  This is a brother in a Jewish novel about the revolutionary Macabees family and supposed brother of Theudas Macabees.  The fact that other brother names were the same as Jesus’ brothers I’m now chalking up to coincidence.  Therefore there is no problem in saying there is a body of historic tradition that Jesus appeared in Galilee at age thirty and got a band of twelve disciples.  This Jesus or Yeshua was a Nazarite and therefore was a “Pescaterian” who only ate fish and no other meats.  He wore long hair and a razor has never come near his head.  He didn’t drink wine and was never allowed to touch a dead person.   We told you that these Nazarites for the most part lived near Mt Carmel.  I think certain details in the text were added later such as the teaching on never marrying a divorced woman, or the bit about the brother who sins and you kick him out of the whole assembly.  Anything that alludes to a “Church” such as Jesus saying to Peter “On this rock I will build my church” and all that stuff about Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, I believe were just added later. 

First I'd like to spell out ways of getting the economy going again.  We need to discourage states that pass "right to work" laws that weaken or eliminate labor unions.  We need a strong labor movement because it drives up wages even in non unionized businesses.  I think we need to raise the minimum wage to twelve dollars an hour.  I think fifteen is a little too visionary.  We need to scrap the NAFTA treaty and also vote down the trans pacific partnership- - because that will be a disaster in so many ways I can't enumerate them all here.  Next I would penalize employers who hire known illegal aliens because they do drive the wage base down.  I wouldn't do it in any racist manner but merely to have respect for the law.  And if there are any small business regulations that are too burdensome I'd ease up on the paper work.  Judy complains that all that reporting to the government for every little thing is burdonsome.  I would also institute income averaging over five years assuming we don't already have that so if your business has one good year you don't get socked all at once with a whole lot of taxes irregardless of the previous four years of losses.  If we do these common sense things we will get the economy going like it should.  I think the stock market is in trouble.  CEO's are getting paid too much and don't pay their fair share of taxes- - thanks to stuff done by Ronald Reagan.  Because of the actions of Ronald Reagan and later Obama's Federal Reserve- - stock prices are artficially high and don't represent the reality of enemic business.

Basically I'm for Bernie Sanders if I didn't say.  But I think some progressive ideas are a bit too visionary such as having paid medical leave for having a baby.  These things should be negotiated by your union at the time you are hired- - and not mandated by the government with tax dollars.  I also think free College for everybody is not realistic.  I think we need to scale back these endless wars we are fighting in the mideast and not try and start World War III with Putin.  This is an unnecessarily complicating matter.   I have problems with Hillary.  She's against restoring Glass Steigel- - and those FDR stock market regulations.  She voted for the Iraq war in 2003 and this shows bad judgement.  She voted for the bankruptsy "reform" bill that makes it harder for ordenary people to get out from under.  College debt can not be counted in figuring bankruptsy.   Hillary's position on abortion is extreme- - and I think she's for very late term abortions and partial birth abortions.  Now Hillary is even having a problem with younger women.  I guess Madalane Allbright or somebody said 'Younger women just want to hang out with their boyfriends, but women get more radical the older they get.  I think we have an image problem here.  Hillary at times gets too combattive and still doesn't answer the question.  There are all these ties with Goldman Sachs and Wall Street.  Hillary for a long time was for the Trans Pacific Partnership.   HIllary Clinton HAS been known to change her vote after a donation.  She does get that angry rant to her voice that- - - in this society a man can get away with but a woman cant.  I think Clinton is too extreme on the guns issue- - - and wants to sue gun manufactures and store owners.  In this case I agree with the adage "It isn't the gun but the person who fires it".  Then there's the whole judgement question about Libya and deciding to take down Qadafi in Libya setting up the whole Bengazi situation.  Then there are still lingering questions about her E mails.  All in all Hillary has just too much "baggage" making her an easy, attackable target for Republicans in the fall.

The Thing Sanders and Trump Have in Common

Shawn Hannity isn't the only one concerned about the future of the next generation.  It's our duty to insure that they actually have one. 

It's a fact that in this country every Presidential candidate is either a rat, a dragon, or a monkey.  This year?  Let's hear it for the monkey!  Do you think it would help Bernie Sanders' image if he were more energetic and leaped around the stage like Mick Jagger? 

Prelude:   At about ten to three I turned on the computer and I watched a Donald Trump rally in New Hampshire till 3:08 and Trump was talking about all of the Bush and Christie supporters at last Saturday’s Republican debate.  Trump calls them “Paid donors” and Trump stressed how he was free from all of these rich special interests and can “get things done, like they’ve never been done” because of that.   This naturally leads us to the main article which like Marco Rubio may be a bit repetetive, but we need to make sure you all actually "get it" so we need to drive the point home soundly.   

Why Americans Are Backing Trump and Sanders Over the Mainstream Candidates Backed By the Political Machines

We’ve previously noted that polls show that Americans are in a “pre-revolutionary” mood, that less than 1 in 5 Americans think that the government has the “consent of the governed”, that government corruption tops the list of Americans’ fears (gee, we wonder why), and that 3 times as many Americanssupported King George during the Revolutionary War than support our OWN Congress today.

You might assume that such statements are over-the-top … or that the results come from partisan pollsters.

But a  group of Republican and Democratic pollsters and political strategists reviewed polling data last week, and revealed some stunning results:

• 84% of all Americans believe political leaders are more interested in protecting their power and privilege than doing what is right

• 81% percent believe the power of ordinary people to control our country is getting weaker every day as politicians of both parties fight to protect their own power and privilege

• 80% believe the federal government is its own special interest primarily looking out for itself

• 79% of all voters believe we need to recruit and support more candidates for office, at all levels of government, who are ordinary citizens, rather than professional politicians and lawyers

• 78% believe that the Democratic and Republican Parties are essentially useless in changing anything, because both political parties are too beholden to special interests to create any meaningful change

• 76% of Americans agree with the statement that America cannot succeed unless we take on and defeat the corruption and crony capitalism in our government

• 75% believe that the US government is NOT working for the people’s best interest

• 75% believe that powerful interests have used campaign and lobbying money to rig the system for themselves

• 74% see the biased and slanted coverage of the media as part of the problem

• 72% of Americans believe the U.S. has a two-track economy, where most Americans struggle every day, where good jobs are hard to find, and where huge corporations get all the rewards

• 72% believe that the reason families in our middle class have not seen their economic condition improve for decades and economic growth is stalled is because of corruption and crony capitalism in Washington

• 71% believe our government is not only dysfunctional, it is collapsing right before our eyes

• 70% believe the government in Washington does not govern with the consent of the people

• The majority – 56% – say they wish there were a third party with a chance of success to fight for their interests

• Only 15% say the “values and principals of my political party are so important that I strongly prefer to vote for the candidates of my party…”

They concluded:

The country [is] in a pre-revolutionary moment.   If you knew that oily rags in your garage were in a "pre spontanious combustion moment" would you not, if you were the Government be wise in trying to stave off that dreadful moment?

This election could mark the beginning of the end of two-party duopoly in the United States.

The people believe the real struggle for America is not between Democrats and Republicans, but between mainstream America and the ruling political elites of incumbent politicians, lobbyists, big business, big unions, big banks, big special interests and the big media. [The people are correct.]

The power elite asks, “When will this be over?” Although this is seen as a chaotic and temporary situation by most of the political and media establishment, our research shows a strong, evolving tidal wave of discontent and growing pressure for real and dramatic change.

Real change is what that the establishment fears most and fights hardest against.  Since I believe this is true it means if the enemy values certain ground (to use a military metaphor) as a do or die hill that must be taken at all costs, then we the People need to invest all the more resources in this area to defeat the establishment, and I believe that means voting for Sanders and against Hillary.

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This, in fact, is a revolution.