SPOTLiGHT movie is HALF-TRUTH deceits by VATICAN MOST EVIL POWER on earth. VA’s worst crimes are SECRET Vatican Swiss Banks that HOARD plutocrats’ WEALTH= VA perpetuates poor nations. VATICAN OWNS/CONTROLS SWITZERLAND via SWISS GUARD ARMY. UN must end Switzerland as “neutral” country.ABOLISH ALL VATICAN CONCORDATS. UNITED NATIONS must END VATICAN as a“COUNTRY”. POPES+PRIESTS have NO WOMBS = CANNOT PRODUCE BABIES or BODIES tiny FLESH of Christ in EUCHARIST HOAX+Satanic Mass. VOTE BERNIE SANDERS
Monday, December 28, 2015
Hillary Clinton Investigative Justice Project.The Clinton Family Foundation is effectively a criminal, money-laundering operation
'Hillary for prosecution, not president'
God forbid Spoltight gets any Golden Globes Award or the Oscars . The Big Short should win the best film (as a commenter said) Seven other Berners and I went to see The Big Short last
night. I’ll be honest — I didn’t always understand the financial terms
that were being used, but I certainly got the gist of the money and
absolutely hated Wall Street at the end. Some of the good guy characters
were quirky, and the movie did a good job of portraying the greed,
evil, corrupt side of Wall Street, and there were little vignettes
showing what happened to some of their innocnt victims — like a man who
was being evicted even though he had faithfully paid his rent, but his
landlord had not been paying the mortgage. Some of the characters who
were in lending bragged about making loans to immigrants, people with a
limited education, etc, that didn’t really know what they were getting
into all so the lenders could keep making loans and keep making money..
Pope
Francis went to the Philippines and preach about a church for thepoor while he
was shaking hands with the Devil and his corrupt officials as he hoards their
loots in Vatican Swiss Bnaks.It used to
be the Vatican Bank until it was threatened to be shut down for money
laundering, read our article, Hidden
Heist in the Holy See. The SECRET biggest heist in the history of mankind!
Pope Francis is the Greatest THIEF on earth. http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/hidden-heist-in-holy-see-biggest-heist.html
“The Clinton Family Foundation is effectively a criminal,
money-laundering operation principally established to enrich the
founders with political payoff money, including millions from foreign
donors,” said Joseph Farah, founder and chief executive officer of WND.
“It’s a racketeering enterprise protected by the Democratic Party dons – including the president of the United States and his attorney general.”
“The project is an effort by WND and its dedicated investigative
reporting team, private investigators, judicial watchdogs, state
officials and attorneys who recognize it’s not enough just to document
Clinton crimes, but to bring them to the attention of prosecutors who
will bring them to justice before she can even accept the nomination of
the Democratic Party for the presidency of the United States,” says
Corsi. “We need help to hire the private investigators needed to prove
that Bill and Hillary Clinton, along with a cadre of close associates,
have used the Clinton Foundation to be a personal piggy bank, in
complete disregard of state and federal laws that strictly prohibit what
is known as ‘inurement,’ the crime of using a tax-exempt foundation to
defraud charitable donors so their contributions can be diverted to
personal use.”
All it will take to close down the Clinton Foundation is one or more
state attorneys general who develop the investigative proof the Clintons
have violated with impunity laws regarding the filing of the audited
financial statements and regulatory reports needed to prove a charitable
foundation is being run honestly, Corsi adds.
A state attorney general, armed with proof and a well-crafted
criminal complaint, can get from a state judge a temporary restraining
order that would shut down the Clinton Foundation, replacing the board
and officers with qualified individuals appointed by the court.
In addition to hiring private investigators, attorneys are needed to
draft and file criminal complaints with attorneys general in states
throughout the nation.
Through the use of a private email server that hid her personally
serving communications from the public, Hillary Clinton and a network of
co-conspirators that included Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, as well as
Bill Clinton operatives Doug Band, Ira Magaziner and Sid Blumenthal,
have monetized the Department of State’s trust for Clinton profit and
gain, says Corsi.
“But the time to turn the tables on the Clintons is coming very
soon,” he says. “With adequate funds, we can hire attorneys around the
country to bring criminal complaints against the Clinton Foundation in a
growing number of states where attorneys general can work together to
share information and file what ends up being a multi-state collective
action.”
The Hillary Clinton Investigative Justice Project has been created by
WND staff and associates to bring the former secretary of state and
leading presidential candidate to justice for a pattern of crimes she
and her husband have committed in connection with their non-profit,
tax-deductible Clinton Family Foundation over many years.
The project was conceived and directed by Joseph Farah and Jerome
Corsi – two veteran journalists who have been investigating the Clintons
for 23 years. After Benghazi, the email scandals and the revelations
about how the Clinton Family Foundation was used to feather the personal
nests of the Clintons using foreign donations, Farah and Corsi
concluded there was no chance Barack Obama’s Justice Department was ever
going to prosecute the next presidential nominee of the Democratic
Party. This project, funded by contributions from ordinary concerned
Americans, is an effort to accomplish three goals:
expand the investigative reporting efforts into Hillary Clinton’s illegal activities;
empower prosecutors at the state level to bring charges against her;
prevent her from becoming the next president of the United States;
Farah was responsible for uncovering some of the facts that led
directly to Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998. For his efforts, his
news organization was targeted with politically motivated tax audits by
the Internal Revenue Service at the direction of the Clinton White
House. One of his Cabinet officers threatened donors to the organization
with loss of government contracts if he continued to make contributions
to Farah’s news agency. Farah’s offices were broken into. His Post
Office box was burglarized. He was threatened.
Corsi, a senior staff writer for WND, is most well-known for his two
No. 1 New York Times bestsellers – “Unfit for Command,” credited with
the defeat of John Kerry’s bid for the presidency in 2004, and “The
Obama Nation,” the first major effort to expose the Obama agenda now
all-too-familiar to the American people. His “Where’s the Birth
Certificate?,” a bestseller in its own right, prompted Obama to release
his disputed long-form birth certificate after stonewalling for four
years.
Corsi and Farah are working closely with other investigative
reporters, judicial watchdogs, state officials and attorneys who
recognize it’s not enough just to document Clinton crimes, but to
prosecute them before Hillary can accept the nomination for the
presidency.
Fund will be used to hire legal talent, private investigators and pay expenses for continued investigative reporting efforts.
A 2016 book is also planned for a spring release.
Farah and Corsi believe this effort may be the only one that can stop Hillary Clinton from winning the presidency next year.
Those who contribute $5 or more to this fund will be provided regular insider updates on the progress of the campaign.
WASHINGTON – With the possibility
fading of Barack Obama’s Justice Department prosecuting the inevitable
Democratic Party presidential nominee, a new independent campaign has
arisen to expose Hillary Clinton’s criminal actions and prosecute her at
the state level.
It’s called the Hillary Clinton Investigative Justice Project,
and it was conceived by two veteran investigative journalists who plan
to take their findings to state attorneys general in jurisdictions in
which the nonprofit, tax-exempt Clinton Family Foundation does business.
“The Clinton Family Foundation is effectively a criminal,
money-laundering operation principally established to enrich the
founders with political payoff money, including millions from foreign
donors,” said Joseph Farah, founder and chief executive officer of WND.
“It’s a racketeering enterprise protected by the Democratic Party dons – including the president of the United States and his attorney general.”
Farah and WND senior staff writer Jerome Corsi, a two-time No. 1 New
York Times bestselling author, have teamed up with the express purpose
of bringing the Clintons to justice. Farah and Corsi have been
investigating and reporting on the Clintons for 23 years.
expand the investigative reporting efforts into Hillary Clinton’s illegal activities;
empower prosecutors at the state level to bring charges against her;
prevent her from becoming the next president of the United States
Farah was responsible for uncovering some of the facts that led
directly to Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998. For his efforts, his
news organization was targeted with politically motivated tax audits by
the Internal Revenue Service at the direction of the Clinton White
House. One of his cabinet officers threatened donors to the organization
with loss of government contracts if he continued to make contributions
to Farah’s news agency. Farah’s offices were broken into. His Post
Office box was burglarized. He was threatened.
Corsi was credited with a big role in the defeat of John Kerry in his
bid for the presidency in 2004. Corsi co-authored “Unfit for Command,”
one of his two No. 1 New York Times bestsellers that, with the Swiftboat
Campaign, made a difference in a very close race. In 2008, Corsi wrote
“The Obama Nation,” the first major effort to expose the Obama agenda
now all-too-familiar to the American people. His “Where’s the Birth
Certificate?,” a bestseller in its own right, prompted Obama to release
his disputed long-form birth certificate after stonewalling for four
years.
Corsi and Farah are working closely with other investigative
reporters, judicial watchdogs, state officials and attorneys who
recognize it’s not enough just to document Clinton crimes, but to
prosecute them before Hillary can accept the nomination for the
presidency.
“The project is an effort by WND and its dedicated investigative
reporting team, private investigators, judicial watchdogs, state
officials and attorneys who recognize it’s not enough just to document
Clinton crimes, but to bring them to the attention of prosecutors who
will bring them to justice before she can even accept the nomination of
the Democratic Party for the presidency of the United States,” says
Corsi. “We need help to hire the private investigators needed to prove
that Bill and Hillary Clinton, along with a cadre of close associates,
have used the Clinton Foundation to be a personal piggy bank, in
complete disregard of state and federal laws that strictly prohibit what
is known as ‘inurement,’ the crime of using a tax-exempt foundation to
defraud charitable donors so their contributions can be diverted to
personal use.”
All it will take to close down the Clinton Foundation is one or more
state attorneys general who develop the investigative proof the Clintons
have violated with impunity laws regarding the filing of the audited
financial statements and regulatory reports needed to prove a charitable
foundation is being run honestly, Corsi adds.
A state attorney general, armed with proof and a well-crafted
criminal complaint, can get from a state judge a temporary restraining
order that would shut down the Clinton Foundation, replacing the board
and officers with qualified individuals appointed by the court.
In addition to hiring private investigators, attorneys are needed to
draft and file criminal complaints with attorneys general in states
throughout the nation.
Through the use of a private email server that hid her personally
serving communications from the public, Hillary Clinton and a network of
co-conspirators that included Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, as well as
Bill Clinton operatives Doug Band, Ira Magaziner and Sid Blumenthal,
have monetized the Department of State’s trust for Clinton profit and
gain, says Corsi.
“But the time to turn the tables on the Clintons is coming very
soon,” he says. “With adequate funds, we can hire attorneys around the
country to bring criminal complaints against the Clinton Foundation in a
growing number of states where attorneys general can work together to
share information and file what ends up being a multi-state collective
action.”
Let's
go forward in making 2016 a year that people for hundreds of years from
now will remember as the year that we transformed America. Happy new
year!
Bernie
Sanders’ presidential campaign raised more than $33 million in the
final three months of last year in a way that rewrote the record books
for White…
berniesanders.com
More than 2.5 million contributions are powering this campaign. That's what a grassroots movement looks like. ✅$73 million since April 30 ✅2,513,665 contributions ✅More than 1 million donors ✅Average contribution <$30
Bernie
Sanders’ presidential campaign raised more than $33 million in the
final three months of last year in a way that rewrote the record books
for White…
berniesanders.com
This
people-powered campaign is revolutionizing American politics. We will
not accept a political system which is increasingly corrupt, which
allows billionaires to buy elections but that together we are going to
create a government that represents all of us and not just a handful of
billionaires.
WALL STREET is still out of control. Seven years ago, the Federal Reserve
and the Treasury Department bailed out the largest financial
institutions in this country because they were considered too big to
fail. But almost every one is bigger today than it was before the
bailout. If any were to fail again, taxpayers could be on the hook for
another bailout, perhaps a larger one this time.
To rein in Wall Street, we should begin by reforming the Federal
Reserve, which oversees financial institutions and which uses monetary
policy to maintain price stability and full employment. Unfortunately,
an institution that was created to serve all Americans has been hijacked
by the very bankers it regulates.
The recent decision by the Fed to raise interest rates is the latest
example of the rigged economic system. Big bankers and their supporters
in Congress have been telling us for years that runaway inflation is
just around the corner. They have been dead wrong each time. Raising
interest rates now is a disaster for small business owners who need
loans to hire more workers and Americans who need more jobs and higher
wages. As a rule, the Fed should not raise interest rates until
unemployment is lower than 4 percent. Raising rates must be done only as
a last resort — not to fight phantom inflation.
…
Financial reforms must not stop with the central bank. We must reinstate Glass-Steagall
and break up the too-big-to-fail financial institutions that threaten
our economy. But we need to start with fundamental change. The sad
reality is that the Federal Reserve doesn’t regulate Wall Street; Wall
Street regulates the Fed. It’s time to make banking work for the
productive economy and for all Americans, not just a handful of wealthy
speculators. And it begins by making the Federal Reserve a more
democratic institution, one that is responsive to the needs of ordinary
Americans rather than the billionaires on Wall Street.
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders ratcheted up his
criticism Tuesday of Republican front-runner Donald Trump, calling him a
“coward billionaire” and mocking him for talking about Hillary
Clinton’s trip to the restroom during the past presidential debate.
“He has discovered that women go to the bathroom, and it’s been very
upsetting to him,” the senator from Vermont said of the real-estate
mogul during a rally here that drew about 1,800 people. “This is a guy
who wants to be president of the United States. He must have a very
unusual relationship with women.”
Sanders was referring to Trump’s recounting Monday of Clinton’s late
return to the Democratic debate stage following a commercial break
Saturday night.
…
“Now I’ve got to be honest with you. I’ve got to be honest with you,”
Sanders said, speaking in a mocking tone. “I also went to the bathroom.
I know, I have to admit it. … This is the pathology. This is the guy
who is leading in the Republican polls.”
Earlier in his hour-long remarks, Sanders also took aim at Trump for
his hard-line position on immigration and his recent proposal to ban all
Muslims temporarily from coming into the country. Sanders also
lambasted Trump for his objection to raising the minimum wage and his
advocacy of tax breaks for high-income earners.
Let's
go forward in making 2016 a year that people for hundreds of years from
now will remember as the year that we transformed America. Happy new
year!
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders took his message to Iowa Western Community and Harlan, Iowa, Tuesday night.
A few thousand people showed up to support him.
...
"If we are going to be competitive locally, then we need to make sure
that all of our young people who have the desire, who have the ability
and are academically minded, are able to get the higher education they
need," Sanders said.
While the pillars of his campaign ignite millenial voters, polling
data shows they're not attracting senior citizen Democrats. Supporters
believe his message will eventually win them over.
"Bernie is believable and I don't believe that Hillary is," Perry, Iowa resident David Cunningham said.
"I feel like if they really listen to what he has to say, they would
get that same feeling," Atlantic, Iowa resident Andrew Rothfusz said.
"You know what, this guy can do it."
Bernie Sanders spends much of his time on the presidential campaign
trail railing against millionaires and billionaires and the
economic inequality he says have plagued the nation.
But Vermont's independent senator has different sentiments when
speaking about one of the richest men in Burlington, Tony Pomerleau.
Sanders entered a tribute to Pomerleau into the U.S. Congressional
Record in 2012, and has lauded many times the man who made his first
million by age 45.
"He and his family have contributed many many millions of dollars to
people in need throughout the state of Vermont," Sanders said of
Pomerleau at the Dec. 6 annual Pomerleau Family Holiday Party. "I think
today we are honored to have with us a man who is not only a hero here
in the city of Burlington, but a hero throughout the state who
understands that you can't take it with you."
..
The self-declared democratic-socialist politician and the Republican developer are unlikely friends.
In fact, Sanders acknowledged at the holiday party he had few
friends in local government when he was elected mayor of Burlington in
1981. Burlington’s political arena was much more conservative in the
1980s, Pomerleau said.
Sanders is scheduled to be at a town meeting December 27 at 4:30PM at
the Reno Ballroom at 401 Center Street. Doors open at 3:30PM. The event
is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required, but an RSVP
is strongly encouraged. (See the attached link.) Admission is first
come, first served.
Sanders will be at a public event in Las Vegas Monday.
The campaign is launching a Nevada-wide advertisting blitz, according
to Sanders’ senior adviser Tad Devine. “The campaign's movement into
Nevada with statewide television advertising is a demonstration of
Bernie's potential and strength with voters and our belief that his
story and message of American's rigged economy held in place by a
corrupt system of campaign finance will resonate powerfully across the
nation.”
Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will travel to
Chicago Wednesday to meet with supporters and talk about his plan for
criminal justice reform.
Sanders is first expected to attend an invitation-only community
gathering hosted by Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Gar
cia. The event will be
held at 3:30 p.m. at El Pollo Feliz, located at 3132 W. 26th St.
Just before 5 p.m., he is then scheduled to hold a press conference
at the Village Leadership Academy, located at 1001 W. Roosevelt.
Chicago’s criminal justice system has been spotlighted in recent
weeks following the release of dashcam video showing a white police
officer fatally shooting a black teen 16 times. The video has prompted
the firing of the city’s police superintendent and sparked an
investigation by the Department of Justice into the police department’s
practices. The officer involved has also been charged with first-degree
murder.
In response to the video, Sanders called for "fundamental reform" in
the criminal justice system and asked activists to take action beyond
chanting "Black Lives Matter."
For the first time since July, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders brought his presidential campaign back to Sioux City.
Back then, Sanders had to contend with Siouxland's summer heat. In
the last few days the Democrat has taken some heat after members of his
campaign improperly accessed voter information compiled by Hillary
Clinton. "In your opinion what's the greater sin, that your staffers
accessed the information improperly multiple times, or that the DNC
failed to protect the information in the first place?" asked Matt Breen.
"It's both, said Sen. Bernie Sanders, (D) Presidential Candidate. "The
problem would not have happened in the DNC's vendor had done their job
properly."
The staffer responsible for the breach has been fired. Two others
were suspended. Sanders, himself, has apologized to Hillary Clinton and
his supporters. "It's not the way we do a campaign," Sanders said.
…
This latest breach certainly hasn't hurt Sanders' numbers. The latest
Iowa poll puts Sanders within 5-points of Hillary Clinton. "I want to
thank the people of Iowa very much for their support," Sanders said.
Bernie Sanders isn't usually one for public self reflection, so it
was noteworthy earlier this month when the Vermont senator candidly
admitted he needs to make a change to his campaign.
"We are doing very badly among older people and I want to change
that," Sanders said, unprovoked, after a two-day swing through Iowa. "We
will change that."
Polls have consistently shown a growing age gap in the fight for the
Democratic nomination: Older Democrats have lined up with 68-year old
Hillary Clinton, while younger voters are so far choosing to stand
behind Sanders, the 74-year old self-described democratic socialist.
..
Sanders' campaign, at the spurring of the candidate, plans to tackle
its age gap in the coming weeks by courting older voters and focusing on
issues like Social Security and Medicare.
Jeff Weaver, Sanders' campaign manager, told CNN the campaign will
use "every tool of modern campaigning to reach out to older voters."
That includes TV and radio advertising aimed squarely at seniors, as
well as direct mail campaigns that will largely focus on Sanders' record
on prescription drug costs and protecting Medicare.
"It is obvious that older voters need more information about Bernie
Sanders, his record and his agenda," Weaver said. "While it is true that
many seniors are online, many seniors are also not and this campaign a
lot of younger voters have learned about Bernie's campaign on social
media and online, so I think it is fair to say that younger voters are
more familiar with him."
With the end of the latest fundraising quarter drawing near, the
campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders played the expectations
game Tuesday -- with both camps suggesting the other Democratic hopeful
very well might raise more money.
In an email blasted to supporters, Clinton's campaign manager, Robby
Mook, said that Sanders was "on track to outraise us this month" and
ominously warned that Clinton "might not have the resources we'll need
to really compete" in the first two presidential nominating contests in
Iowa and New Hampshire.
Not long afterward, the Sanders campaign responded with a statement
proclaiming "we have no idea if we will raise more money this quarter
than the Clinton campaign."
But the campaign's guess: "Probably not."
..
"While we may or may not raise more money than the Clinton campaign,
what is certain is that they will have more total money because they
have established super PACs which are raising money from millionaires
and billionaires," said the Sanders campaign.
In November of 1989, as the citizens of East Germany
broke through, and then demolished, the Berlin Wall, a 48-year-old
socialist in the United States was plotting his next move. After losing a
campaign for Vermont’s lone congressional seat in 1988, and choosing
not to run for re-election as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, the
following year, Bernie Sanders sought shelter, as so many newly
unofficed politicians had before him and have since, at Harvard
University’s Kennedy School of Government, where he taught a course on
third-party politics. The Sanders family settled into a mellow Cambridge
routine: While his wife, Jane, took some courses at Harvard, and their
children attended the Cambridge public schools, Sanders recalls in his
recently reissued 1998 memoir, Outsider in the House, “I went
to more football games that fall than I had in 20 years, and became
addicted to the cinnamon raisin buns at Au Bon Pain at Harvard Square.”
But the former mayor wasn’t just cooling his heels. In an op-ed he wrote for TheHarvard Crimson that month, Sanders wrote that watching the dramatic events unfolding abroad—“glasnost; perestroika;
free speech; open parliamentary debate televised before millions of
viewers; the beginning of organized political opposition to the
Communist Party; mass strikes and demonstrations by workers and ethnic
minorities; serious publications dealing honestly with the nation’s
sordid history which had been covered up for decades by officials
lies”—prompted him to consider the need for something similar to happen
at home
..
In the Harvard Crimson piece, Sanders
suggested “four issues (out of many) at the heart of our existence as a
nation which, within the context of an American Glasnost…need to be discussed vigorously…wherever Americans come together.” These are the four questions he raised:
Do we need radical changes in our economic system to provide a fairer distribution of wealth and economic decision-making?
How do we create a real democracy in which the average citizen has
the opportunity to vote in elections in which meaningful choices are
presented? Further, how do we create a political climate in which
citizens play an active role in the affairs of their community?
Do we need a new political party in this country which represents
the interests of working people, poor people, minorities, women,
environmentalists, peace activists and all people who are not being
adequately represented by the Democratic and Republican parties?
How can we create a media in this country which allows for a wide
diversity of viewpoints, when ownership of the media is currently in the
hands of very wealthy and powerful corporations which are primarily
concerned with protecting their own economic interests?
The Bernie News Roundup
is a voluntary, non-campaign associated roundup of news, media, &
other information related to Bernie Sanders' run for President.
Bernie’s deadpan comedy is classic. Gotta love it!
Mocking Trump is the best way to handle him. It enrages him, and he’s more vulnerable to say something he’ll regret.
Oh...wait. This is Trump we’re talking about here.
He has neither shame nor regrets… Ever.
It’s
a worthwhile sport. Although I wonder if that sensation that Trump is
feeling is burn (as in STD) or Bern as in “you’re going to lose,
sucker!”
Speaking of being schlonged.
Sanders’ plan for the banks (as outlined in the NYT piece,
which btw should be rescued from the NYT paywall at some point) offers a
significant rebuff to those who argue that Sanders “has no plan.” Oh
and as for the Clinton plan, you’ve all seen James Kwak I hope?
Why do politicians persist in thinking they can change the way the
world works by forcing regulators to write some more rules and then try
to enforce them? What’s needed are structural changes that reduce the
sources of risk directly—for example, by breaking up large banks or
increasing capital requirements by a factor of three—not more regulatory
discretion. Yes, those types of structural changes will be impossible
to get through a Republican House, but so will every item on Clinton’s
wish list. Change will take years, and it will take leaders who are
willing to make the case over the long term.
Clinton’s supporters will argue that their candidate understands what
she is up against, and that’s why her strategy is to give incremental
powers to regulators and encourage them to use those powers (even if
they aren’t actually new). But that was the Obama-Geithner-Summers
strategy, and it has had little impact on either the concentration or
the mismanagement of the financial system.
And, yes, it’s pretty clear at this point that the “political
revolution” will be necessary to provide the traction for even something
as quotidian as Clinton’s proposal...
Excellent David Morris article, thanks, dkmich!
Imo Obama’s greatest victory was beating Hillary Clinton in ‘08, and
his greatest mistake was when he brought her (and her whole economic
& FP crew) into his administration.
Once that was done his great opportunity to truly transform the
country for the better was lost. But I still wouldn’t call him a
failure.
I believe that in the long run the ACA, Iran, Cuba, and beginning the
real fight against climate change will stand the test of history,
unless Clinton manages to give the Presidency back to the Repubs and all
this is lost.
Go Bernie!
Thanks for the links — Atlantic piece open reading:
Hillary Clinton’s Weak Plans for Changing Wall Street
She’s proposing tweaks when it needs an overhaul.
Wonder if the Bernie website will have the full opinion piece he wrote for NYT. Expect so.
Thanks again for links
Good morning fellow Berners. These articles just keep getting better and better.
Re” Sanders vs. Clinton fundraising numbers 4th qaurter. I read that
some Clinton supporters were not giving as much because everyone assumes
she will be the nominee, so why bother. They’re saving their money so
they can donate it to her after the convention for use in the general
election.
Seven other Berners and I went to see The Big Short last
night. I’ll be honest — I didn’t always understand the financial terms
that were being used, but I certainly got the gist of the money and
absolutely hated Wall Street at the end. Some of the good guy characters
were quirky, and the movie did a good job of portraying the greed,
evil, corrupt side of Wall Street, and there were little vignettes
showing what happened to some of their innocnt victims — like a man who
was being evicted even though he had faithfully paid his rent, but his
landlord had not been paying the mortgage. Some of the characters who
were in lending bragged about making loans to immigrants, people with a
limited education, etc, that didn’t really know what they were getting
into all so the lenders could keep making loans and keep making money..
The music was a little loud in some places (for me) but all in all I
liked it and urge everyone to go see it. If nothing else, it captures
the arrogance and greed of Wall Street and made me really understand why
Bernie hates them so much.
Please increase the coverage of Bernie Sanders and decrease the coverage of Trump.
Doing a search on the Daily Tidings website over the past three
months returns three times the amount of articles for Trump; why is
that?
We get it already, Trump is a straight-up racist whose only goal seems to be dividing the citizens of our country.
Bernie on the other hand is actually talking about trying to improve
the quality of life of everyone in our country, not just the 0.01
percent.
It
works both ways, I had given Bernie around $100 but stopped because I
didn’t see the progress needed to make me think it was a good
investment, though I did kick in some more after DWS shut him off.
Without being negative at the personal level, you can still go
“negative” on policy positions, that is what an election is about… and
he just hadn’t been doing it. He also for the longest time even when
invited, wasn’t explaining socialism and in our country its a dirty
word… then he finally gave a big speech on it, during the middle of the
Paris attack coverage so it didn’t get covered… Missed opportunities….
Its the one thing Trump understands, you have to generate your
coverage. I wouldn’t want Bernie to do it the way Trump does, but when
the media is giving you attention, use it…. if you do things on a rigid
schedule at your own pace, you risk getting passed by with the day’s
events when you expected to get your coverage…. *end rant*
How many people, at the start of this race, expected to see this on December 22?
Clinton's campaign manager, Robby Mook, said that Sanders was
"on track to outraise us this month" and ominously warned that Clinton
"might not have the resources we'll need to really compete" in the first
two presidential nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Attention “inevitability” believers, Mook is managing expectations. It’s time for you to start doing the same — especially when you look in the mirror.
This is a great time to transition to ‘happy warrior’. There’s are
many things to be angry about, but the progress of Bernie’s campaign is
not one of them, and campaigners looking happy tends to be perceived as
confidence, energize supporters, and attract more.
While little more than a third of respondents (36 percent)
could name all three branches of the U.S. government, just as many (35
percent) could not name a single one.
The effects of decline in education and corporate media and drown government in the bathtub
It has worked
An important role is Educator in Chief and our role in the Bernie Movement is education
PHILADELPHIA – Americans show great uncertainty when it comes to
answering basic questions about how their government works, a national
survey conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University
of Pennsylvania has found.
The survey of 1,416 adults, released for Constitution Day (Sept. 17) in conjunction with the launch of the Civics Renewal Network, found that:
While little more than a third of respondents (36 percent) could
name all three branches of the U.S. government, just as many (35
percent) could not name a single one.
Just over a quarter of Americans (27 percent) know it takes a
two-thirds vote of the House and Senate to override a presidential veto.
One in five Americans (21 percent) incorrectly thinks that a 5-4
Supreme Court decision is sent back to Congress for reconsideration.
“Although surveys reflect disapproval of the way Congress, the
President and the Supreme Court are conducting their affairs, the
Annenberg survey demonstrates that many know surprisingly little about
these branches of government,” said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of
the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC). “This survey offers dramatic evidence of the need for more and better civics education.”
Interesting,
I just realized I don’t know the name of my congressman… I had to
think about it for a few seconds, then remembered the a-hole’s name…. I
hate living in a republican leaning district, though, its not as bad as
living a few more miles north…. then I would have been in the district
that elected Michelle Bachmann.
Took
me a while to get used to having Mike Honda as my Congressperson, after
being redistricted out of Anna Eshoo’s. (I think we’ll have Zoe Lofgren
if our move to the Willow Glen area of San Jose goes through.)
Nice to be in the 30% bracket. :-)
I have been hollering, writing, and just generally raising cain about this very subject for like, forever! It’s an old formula that has been used for centuries. It is how you turn people into serfs, wage slaves, whatever term you wish to use. IT WORKS. It really got cranked up under Rayguns. You don’t want people to be educated. Why? Cos they will start thinking forthemselves;
and god forbid, the lords/plantation owners are scared shitless of that
very thing. That’s why our public education system has been
systematically destroyed over the last 35-40 years.
Bernie’s environmental platform revealed in Paris at COP 21
I heard Bernie introduce environmental legislation in the Senate
within the last 2 weeks. It was one of the strongest environmental
statements from any politician.
I didn’t realize that his platform was distributed at COP 21, probably only to the protesters.
This article does a good job of describing Bernie’s platform. It
begins in the first paragraph by pointing out which words were edited
out of the final agreement for COP 21
My comment above is that 1/3 of Americans cannot name all branches of
government means that probably almost NO Americans know Bernie’s
environmental platform
You will benefit from reading the article
In the thirty-one pages of the Paris Agreement, the landmark climate accord signed on December 12 by 196 countries, two words are conspicuously absent: fossil fuels. Nor does the document, heralded in the Guardian as
signaling the “end of the fossil fuel era,” make any mention of coal,
oil, or natural gas. Only once, in the preamble, does it mention
renewable energy. The commitments are not only unenforceable, as widely
noted, but perilously abstract.
Next to the Paris Agreement, Bernie Sanders’s environmental platform,
“People Before Polluters,” is a breath of fresh air. The Sanders
campaign’s climate action plan was released to little fanfare during
COP21 and has largely continued to elude public attention. (During the
third Democratic primary debate, which aired quietly on Saturday night,
ABC News moderators failed to ask a single question about climate
change, and Sanders alluded to it only in passing.)
The priority of People Before Polluters, as the title suggests, is to
call out the polluters that the Paris Agreement so carefully tiptoes
around. “Let’s be clear,” Sanders’s platform reads, “the reason we
haven’t solved climate change isn’t because we aren’t doing our part,
it’s because a small subsection of the one percent are hell-bent on
doing everything in their power to block action.” The plan’s first
policy goal? “Reclaim our democracy from the billionaire fossil fuel
lobby.” To this end, Sanders calls for the Department of Justice to
investigate Exxon for covering up its own research into climate change;
for an overturning of Citizens United; and for banning fossil fuel lobbyists from the White House.
“People Before Polluters” further calls for an outright ban on
fracking, mountaintop removal coal mining, offshore and Arctic oil
drilling, and extraction on public lands. In their place, Sanders
envisions major public investment in renewable technologies, bolstered
by a carbon tax and the repeal of fossil fuel subsidies. Altogether, his
plan aims to cut pollution 40 percent from 1990 levels by 2030 and 80
percent by 2050.
Hurricane
Katrina finally awoke the American public to the danger of climate
change and the incompetence of the George W. Bush presidency. The heat
waves and droughts in Texas and the West coast over the last few years
and super-hurricane Sandy have now awakened many to the effects
of climate change. At some point there will another weather disaster
that will awaken even more people. At that time, we need to be ready to publicize Bernie’s plan for addressing climate change.
The tornados we are likely to see today around Memphis and the balmy
72 degree weather will be felt in New York and Washington,
DC on Christmas day could be a time to do that.
Bill Moyers
The Plutocrats Are Winning. Don’t Let Them!
The vast inequality they are creating is a death sentence for
government by consent of the people. This is the fight of our lives and
how it ends is up to us.
Dear Readers:
In the fall of 2001, in the aftermath of 9/11, as families grieved
and the nation mourned, Washington swarmed with locusts of the human
kind: wartime opportunists, lobbyists, lawyers, ex-members of Congress,
bagmen for big donors: all of them determined to grab what they could
for their corporate clients and rich donors while no one was looking.
Across the land, the faces of Americans of every stripe were stained
with tears. Here in New York, we still were attending memorial services
for our firemen and police. But in the nation’s capital, within sight of
a smoldering Pentagon that had been struck by one of the hijacked
planes, the predator class was hard at work pursuing private plunder at
public expense, gold-diggers in the ashes of tragedy exploiting our
fear, sorrow, and loss.
What did they want? The usual: tax cuts for the wealthy and big
breaks for corporations. They even made an effort to repeal the
alternative minimum tax that for fifteen years had prevented companies
from taking so many credits and deductions that they owed little if any
taxes. And it wasn’t only repeal the mercenaries sought; they wanted
those corporations to get back all the minimum tax they had ever been
assessed.
Sanders Challenges Neoliberal Stranglehold with Call for Free Higher Education
This campaign, and the broader movement it is helping to
galvanize, has the potential to shift the terms of political debate from
privileging Wall Street’s interests to concentrating the demands of
working and middle-class people
The recent New York Times op-ed by N. Gregory Mankiw, "Three Reasons for Those Hefty College Tuition Bills,"
is pure ideological huffing and puffing of the sort we'd expect from a
former chair of George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisors. It's
just a bushel of the same old free-market shibboleths typically invoked
to dismiss out of hand any position that doesn't comport with the market
fundamentalist perspective on the world.
Bernie Sanders describes himself as a democratic socialist,
astounding for a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Whatever the reasons, the socialist is highly popular with Democrats,
giving Hillary Clinton a run for the 2016 nomination.
Sanders is hardly a typical party partisan. When Vermont elected the
former mayor of Burlington to the U.S. Senate, Sanders sat as an
independent socialist, not as a Democrat.
Sanders' support has grown strong despite weak media coverage. By most counts,
he is more popular with Americans than the widely covered Republican
aspirant to the same exalted position, Donald Trump, while running in a
virtual media blackout.
Even the Democratic National Committee seems determined to keep
Sanders from connecting with the voting public, scheduling candidate TV
debates for times when few Americans are available to watch them.
When Sanders set out his socialist creed in a speech at
Georgetown University, it got little coverage in the U.S. Granted, it
takes a few minutes to read; and U.S. editors do not assign political
thought pieces to reporters.
When debating her Democratic rivals about Syria, and
whether the United States should be battling the barbaric Islamic State
or the brutal President Bashar al-Assad or both, Hillary Clinton said
last Saturday night, "I wish it could be either-or."
Mrs. Clinton, it could be. What's more, it has to be. And
the reason came from the candidate whose prescriptions sometimes are
more quixotic than practical, Sen. Bernie Sanders, who put it in the
starkest of terms: "It is not Assad who is attacking the United States."
What Sanders was saying was, let's get real. Yes, Assad
indiscriminately kills his own citizens without losing a night's sleep —
a quarter million and counting, by Clinton's accurate account — but as
atrocious as that is, it is not a direct threat to our own security. As we saw in San Bernardino and will likely see again, the Islamic State is. Put in my own stark terms, Assad is out to get his own people; the Islamic State is out to get us.
[...]
So we turn the other cheek. We have to. It's still about
the lesser of two evils. Whoever becomes president needs to see the
world this way. There is no choice.
Bernie
did a heck of a lot better on the foreign policy front in this debate,
IMO. He seems to be finding his stance and getting more comfortable with
the issues, in a place HRC has dominated in some people’s minds.
Coming out of a phone bank on Monday night, I was getting a bunch of
yard signs out of the field organizer’s car when I was approached by a
woman who saw me unloading them. She pointed to the signs and said she
loved everything about Bernie, but was worried he didn’t have the
“expertise” in foreign policy.
I remembered your comment last week LSM, and asked if she would
prefer “judgment or expertise”. It stopped her cold and she said “you
know you’re right! I hadn’t thought of it like that.” We continued
briefly and I ended with “He’s a good man”, to which she responded “Yes
he is”. I think the argument may have tipped her from the lean Bernie to
strong Bernie camp.
Thanks for the idea, Mike. It is a very powerful one.
It is apparent to anyone who watches TV evening news that there is,
as the Sanders campaign alleges, a “Bernie blackout” by the corporate
media and their local affiliates, among them WGAL. While Sanders is
mentioned in passing, there are vastly more stand-alone network reports
on the Trump and Clinton campaigns than on his news conferences or his
rallies, which have drawn tens of thousands of people and whose
grassroots, small-donor contributions have raised many millions of
dollars.
Every time Donald Trump says something outrageous or Hillary Clinton
tweets or utters a sound-bite policy statement it is “news,” while
Sanders’ substantive, issues-oriented campaign is largely ignored or
given short shrift.
The recent Tyndall Report documents that, in 2015 through Nov. 30,
Trump got 234 minutes on network evening news while Sanders got a
combined total of 10 minutes from CBS, NBC and ABC, even though Sanders’
primary poll numbers show the same level of voter support as Trump’s,
and polls matching the two in the general election have Sanders winning.
Clearly, the major networks, including CNN and PBS, are about as “fair
and balanced” as Fox News. Media bias against Sanders confirms his claim
that billionaires and corporations control our politics and government.
Clinton is the candidate of choice for corporate media, who are doing
their best to silence Sanders. However, his message resonates with
voters disaffected with establishment politics, making him a greater
threat to a Republican candidate than Clinton, who is mistrusted by many
independents and Democrats.
Remember 2007, when Hillary Clinton was the candidate everyone was
voting for? Then came Barack Obama, who galvanized and excited voters,
who empowered them and made it known that they hold the
power. Today we are at the same turn in the road with Bernie Sanders and
Clinton. She is the establishment candidate and the Democratic National
Committee is doing all it can to favor her – and it’s DNC Chairwoman
Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s fault; she worked on Clinton’s 2007 campaign.
The policies Sanders is pushing are Medicaid for all, universal child
care, tuition-free higher education, paid family leave, cutting defense
subsidies, taxing Wall Street speculation, raising the top tax rate
while closing loopholes and going after tax havens that allow the 1
percent to dodge billions in American taxes. All that money could help
us fund the things we know we should have in the “richest country in the
history of the world.” It’s time for the 1 percent to pay for the
economy they ruined. Those policies are popular with most Americans and
help us save trillions of dollars.
Clinton would be more of the same, and I despise it. We are at the
precipice of voting for another FDR who would put forth not a New Deal,
but a Fair Deal. It’s up to us to make sure Sanders gets that chance.
After Election Day, the real work starts and he needs us to help him see
it through. Sanders 2016!
… the Fed must stop providing incentives for banks to keep
money out of the economy. Since 2008, the Fed has been paying financial
institutions interest on excess reserves parked at the central bank —
reserves that have grown to an unprecedented $2.4 trillion. That is
insane. Instead of paying banks interest on these reserves, the Fed
should charge them a fee that would be used to provide direct loans to
small businesses.
When I first started hearing about Bernie Sanders, I was intrigued
but ultimately knew he was unelectable as the Democratic nominee. I
mean, he's a socialist; people aren't going to go for that. But then I
learned a little more about him. Turns out, he's not a socialist. He's
just a guy who cares deeply about the poor, the environment, the
economy, changing the corrupt political system and the disappearing
middle class, among other things.
Lately, he's been picking up huge endorsements left and right,
breaking campaign contribution records and gaining ground in key early
primary states. Yet I still hear over and over he is not electable. In
fact, polls show even though people like Bernie more, agree more with
his policies and find him to be more honest and trustworthy, they are
still more willing to vote for Hillary Clinton because she is "more
electable." Did you know in recent polling, Bernie has a better chance
against the top Republican candidates than Hillary does?
In order to be elected, Bernie Sanders needs the vote. Your vote. Bernie Sanders has an electability problem alright, and it's you.
Just
this morning I noticed the new slogan “A Future to Believe In” in the
photos above. Personally I don’t think it’s a good one and is too close
to the Obama tagline, Change You Can Believe In (if I remember
correctly).
I would favor Enough is Enough, but what do I know. Anyone have a different opinion or another favorite?
I
like it, unfortunately for very cynical reasons: it's a lot less
scary-sounding (to most people) than”revolution”. And if you notice,
the graphics (typeface, color, etc). are also very reminiscent of
Obama’s, which were, um, revolutionary in 2007. I wonder if they hired some design vets of the Obama campaign.
I
like that very much. But I think the present one, and the visuals, was
specifically chosen to appeal to people who supported Obama, and who
still approve of his job performance.
Oh,
c’mon it’s good! And so is the nice new left margin, and the lines
between comments. I’m hoping that the one-letter columns in blockquotes
over on the right margin are history, too.
It’s
weird; I can see all of those boxes on Safari, but can’t click on them.
I can’t see them at all on Firefox. I guess I’ll try Chrome. Maybe I
have an issue with my ad blocker or something ...
Fresh cookies?
I’ve had to delete stale cookies in between DK5 updates, log out and
start again with an empty cache, that works for me on all devices. HTH
Thank you!
I have been unable to tip diaries since the last change. Just emptied
the cache and like magic — the little star appeared in the tip jar and I
was able to give LD his well-deserved tip.
I see no orange box. This is what I see in the upper left:
Win7/Firefox 43.0.1/AdBlockPlus/HTTPS-Everywhere
I saw downthread about deleting cookies — deleted all kos cookies. No change. Any suggestions?
PS This started happening yesterday at the same time the formatting of the diaries changed.
any help would be appreciated. I could not even find at the help desk where to open a problem ticket }:-(
Click on ABP icon, choose “Open Blockable Items” or hit control-shift-v, find ##.social-block then right click and choose Disable Filter. Recommend button returns!
I very rarely reply to my own comments, and here I’m doin’ it twice!?
The recommend button is on the right near the diary’s title, and on the left just above where the comments start.
Sanders’ issues Lawrence Journal World LTE — Lawrence, Kansas
Kevin Groenhagen’s misinformation (Public Forum, Dec. 17) about both
the Democratic Socialists of America and Bernie Sanders supporters needs
a corrective analysis. He sets up two straw-men arguments which he then
uses to berate Sanders supporters by claiming that “likely a large
percentage” of the supporters hold these views. What he is really saying
is, “I made this up.”
As an active Sanders supporter, I can assure Kevin we don’t talk
about Marx or the DSA. Bernie isn’t and hasn’t been a member of the
DSA. What do we talk about? Racial justice, immigrant rights, equitable
and free public education, minimum wage, economic inequality, declining
living standards for all but the 1 percent, bipartisan corporate control
of legislative bodies, the abuse of the tax code by corporate interests
to enrich themselves, the militarization of the police, an increasingly
polluted biosphere, single-payer health care and free universal child
care among other topics.
These matters have been taken up by millions of Bernie
supporters. This is massive disaffiliation from the senseless nihilism
of oligarchic spokespersons promoting a commercial and predatory
society.
Do these issues which call for a fundamental change in the quality of
life depend on Marx’s “Das Kapital”? More likely it comes from an
increasing demand for societal democratization. So, Kevin, would you
like me to bring you a Bernie bumper sticker?
The presidential campaign is viewed as entertainment by the national
media, and a way of getting ratings political shows seldom get (Dec.
18). Donald Trump, the centerpiece, is a master showman and the media
are his willing lapdogs. He is on TV, radio and in the news every day
without paying a dime.
Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders, a serious candidate who offers
well-thought-out options for us as a country, is too often ignored. The
Democrat establishment wants Hillary Clinton, so the party has limited
the number of debates and offered one of them on the Saturday before
Christmas.
Even still, Sanders’ appearances continue to attract large audiences.
He is obviously making an impact — when he is actually heard.
I
don’t get here every day, and when I do it’s usually just read, tip
& rec, so I wanted to take a minute to thank you, LD, for this
excellent news summary. I never want to take your work for granted. And
happy holidays to you!
Current Facebook stats: as of 7:35 a.m. CST Bernie2016/Hillary2016/Senator Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders 2,223,564 - Presidential Campaign Page
Hillary Clinton 2,054,770 - Presidential Campaign Page
Bernie Sanders 2,695,563- U.S. Senate Page Note: I eliminated the link to compare tweets (topsy.com) because it was owned by Apple and Apple has shut it down as of 12/15/2015
As I write this at 7:35 a.m., it’s already 66 degrees here in Austin
with a high expected of 78. Christmas Day, the low is expected to be 68
with a high of 80! It sure doesn’t seem like the Christmas season here.
Even though I’m leaving for Dallas in a less than two hours, I’ll be
with you all in spirit. It doesn’t matter whether you celebrate
Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or Festivus — have a happy one!
I’ll leave you with a short (2:40) Christmas song from one of our
local artists here in Austin, with some images from the city I’ve called
home for the past 33 years.
Happy
Holidays Bernie supporters, a lot to be happy and proud of this year.
Looking forward to finishing up primary season but I wanted to drop in
and say I love today’s BNR. Good luck and take care everyone!
I
don’t agree with Bernie on continuing ZIRP. Seven years of zero
interest rates had plenty of noxious side effects that hurt ordinary
people and exacerbated income inequality. The fed funds rate is only
at 0.25% today, which is still an historic low rate.
Even
0.25% will raise interest rates for mortgages, car loans, credit cards,
and student loans which hurt ordinary people. And raising interest
rates helps mostly the big banks. Until the recession is over (everyone
who wants a job is working and inflation is rising), the Fed should hold
interest rates at zero and Congress should stimulate the economy. If we
elect Bernie and a progressive Congress, then we’ll get that.
Occupy the Rose Parade media
That guy is great! Very creative (and thrifty) injecting the Bern in
every TV shot, no matter the where or what. Solidarity with my brothers
and sisters to the south, take back the airwaves, take back our public
space! Go Bernie
Peace
The
financial sector bailouts did nothing but prop-up a fraudulent system,
in which commercial/investment banks can continue underwrite themselves
by making loans (which were once considered unsecured) to the same
entities/interests in which they're invested, then sell those
stocks/securities (or derivatives thereof) to unsuspecting customers.
It will all work just fine until we experience another general-economic
downturn, producing mass sell-offs, the bottom falling out of the market
again, followed by Wall Street banksters making runs on the Fed
squealing "We're too big to fail", producing bailouts which allow them
to walk away with trillions while the global economy is crashed and
remains drained.
The entire global financial system continues to be one giant deregulated
fundamental-free commercial/investment speculative bubble. But who
needs market fundamentals, full employment, disposable-income, consumer
purchasing-power or anything "real" (or even a general economy) when
banksters can speculate in the stratosphere and remain too big to fail?
Data breach opinion
I just waded through Thorn’s diary from yesterday, couldn’t make it through every comment but wow. Let’s not fight.
I think Bernie recognizes a weakness about data security in the General, and
he has opportunity to rip that scab off now, to give time to heal
properly on our side. Think about how many “data breaches” have occurred
under Obama, under Democratic majority, it’s a poop-ton excuse my
language. One of them was the OMB, hello?!
BEIJING — China accused the United States of making "groundless
accusations" and being "irresponsible" Friday in blaming Chinese hackers
for a vast data breach that could be the biggest cyberattack in U.S. history.
Four million federal workers may have had their personal information
compromised in the attack, which officials said could affect every
agency of the U.S. government.
U.S. officials and lawmakers identified the likely culprit as China,
which has been suspected of involvement in previous government hacks.
And if the nominee is Clinton then festering emails will fill the
echo chamber again, and possibly give a right-wing fascist the
unthinkable upper hand. Imagine that. Bernie is showing what a better
Democrat looks like, what should happen if a mistake is made, and then how to move aggressively forward from it. Go Bernie
Peace
Hi LieparDestin, while I do try to rec your diary everyday, I don’t often comment.
But please know that I very much appreciate all the time and hard work that you put into this news round-up every day.
You do Great Work! Thank-you.
& Solidarity,
JayRaye
Off-topic,
but I can’t seem to “rec” any diaries today — the option doesn’t show
up. (I’m using Firefox on Mac, but this hasn’t been a problem before).
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!
(Now, off to read the comments!)
Eagles92: RandomN is correct. I’m on a Mac Mini using Firefox,
too. You’ll see that orange ‘Recommend’ box. Click on the enclosed
little star. You’ll then see briefly a list of the gang who has rec’ed.
Your name will be on it. Hope it helps.
LD: east central Florida/Orlando Bernster update
We held a Debate Watch Party Saturday night at one of the larger sports
bars a lot of young folks frequent. Had a good 50 or so people crammed
into a small private room. Tried to get pics, but no way. Dark outside,
dim lighting in the room. IPhone cameras no like. There was a guy and
his sister seated next to me. He was a freelance writer who wanted to
interview some of the people there after the debate. His sister was with
him. She liked tRump, but she paid very careful
attention to the TV. She told me she liked Bernie, too. Felt he was
authentic. I’ve been getting a lot of that talk around here lately. I
left when the debate ended. However, you could feel the energized buzz in the room. I like O’Malley even though he’s too conservative for my taste. I just don’t like HRC. There is something, a coldly calculating
air she has, that turns me right off. The Bernster was his usual
genuine, intelligent self. He is definitely doing his homework on
foreign affairs. Last night (Tuesday) I was with the usual crowd of
Berniacs manning a table in front of a bar about a 5-10 minute walk from
my house. It was a “Tasty Tuesday” night in the “Milk District.”
Several food trucks show up in an open parking area behind several bars.
The food is decent considering the source. Young people love this stuff
as I’m sure some of the faithful on here know. :-) We had some action.
Sold some bumper stickers, helped with GOTV, answered questions, etc.
The regulars are beginning to remember us. The guy who owns the bar
where we have our table has already told us he’s cool with our having
that spot for as long as we need it. Good one! I worked
with 3 young Berniacs. One is the proud father of 14-month-old twins
(they are adorable). He told me emphatically that he is working for the
Bernster cos he wants his kids to have a decent future. The other two are married, no kids. They echoed him. Believe me, these young people are VERY AWARE of
what is going down around them. They don’t like it and are continuing
to organize like there’s no tomorrow---there may not be one for them.
Very sobering thought.
Before I close, I want to wish everyone a very Happy Pre Christmas Eve. :-) Hubby is working so it will be a quiet Christmas dinner with our Dobes. I’ll be checking the BNR daily. You Bernster brethren who are traveling take care and stay safe!
Happy
pre-Christmas Eve to you, too … and all our fellow Bernsters! We’re
traveling later this afternoon and will be spending good quality time
with family (I have my Bernie talking points all lined up)! I may not be
around much here, but will pop in when I can, if only to lurk quickly
between visits. If I don’t “see” you before Monday, enjoy the holidays
and GO BERNIE!!!
Also, re: coldly calculating.
Have you seen the whole “7 ways Hillary Clinton is just like your
abuela" fiasco? Manufactured ‘authenticity’ at its worst. Fortunately
Twitter was ready with a smackdown: #NotMyAbuela.
See :5 Ways Sanders Is Gaining Ground as the Primaries Begin
As Clinton said in her fundraising e-mail after Saturday’s
debate, nothing’s for certain. If anything, Sanders may be well on his
way to raising Obama’s 2008 ghost in Iowa.
Bernie
Samders is on fire!!!!! I saw a tweet from his Iowa visit yesterday!
So many people in a packed room in friggin’ campaign-weary Iowa!!! I
think the Iowans are going to do it for us. They will DELIVER.
Has
anyone else lost the diary “recommend” button. Yesterday the
formatting changed (comments shifted to left justified) and the diary
recommend button disappeared. I can not find the place at the help desk
to open a new issue and ask what’s going on. I logged out and back in —
no change.
Morning Sentinel LTE — Waterville, Maine
I was very upset on returning home from work to find news of the
Democratic National Committee’s decision to cut off the Sanders
campaign’s access to its voter data. After signing a few petitions and
contacting my Democratic representative, I continued researching the
reports to get more details and ran across an article explaining what happened from the point of view of the campaign operative who was fired.
I listened to Debbie Wasserman Shultz’s version of events (likening
it to a person walking into someone’s home because the door wasn’t
locked and taking things). But that doesn’t sound like what he was doing
to me. It sounds more like he was trying to understand what was going
on. In these situations (data breaches and reports of suspicious
activity), a certain amount of research is required to assess the scope
of the problem. As a programmer myself, I often am called upon to
investigate unexpected behavior of our data.
From Josh Uretzky’s statement, I infer that he was just a pawn in
this chess game; I would love to hear another computer professional’s
opinion about his actions. I understand why the Sanders campaign felt
they had to fire him, but he may have been just an innocent victim of
circumstances here.
Ironically, this is exactly the kind of dirty tricks Bernie’s
campaign is trying to fight. It’s one of the reasons I support him. I
hope over time that an independent investigation of the way the
Democratic National Committee is managing this data will shed more light
on what actually happened, even if we never know precisely why it
happened.
Bernie
is a real American legislator in congress that has been working hard
for all Americans for a long time. One of the few people in our
legislature that has not been afraid to take on Wall Street, huge
corporations and the rich. I really like what he has said about Wall
Street.
I’d
rather see him camped out in Iowa right now than going to Chicago, but
that’s just me. He has a shot in Iowa. It’s in range. But he’ll need to
secure it by meeting people on the ground there: they expect it.
I’m glad that he’s tackling racial justice, however, since I have
been an activist involved in law enforcement oversight for over a
decade. Still, I want him to win this election.
Gearing up here to phone bank after the recommended Jan. 4th date.
I’ve created my phone banking account and reviewed the script/options.
Eager to do that.
Tipped & rec’d as always for a great daily roundup!
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Bernie has inspired SO MANY VOLUNTEERS that is has been literally impossible to even contact them all, and it is essential to begin to involve them in their local communities to create ACTION. Volunteer calls build our movement, even if we just leave a voicemail telling them to visit /u/rcas’ map. Connecting "vols"
across the political spectrum is essential for this movement to begin
to understand who we really are. We don’t know yet! And we learn that by
talking to each other and building relationships.
Lots
of good comments here in this thread which I would dearly love to
recommend but our crazy “New & Improved” website won’t let me
because it says they are “too old.” How dumb is that?! Why oh why, with
the importance of 2016 looming large, did DK shoot themselves in the
foot with this folly? Incomprehensible.
Should
have had a major campaign for young people to talk to their parents and
grandparents about Sanders when families are together for the holidays.
The campaign could still send an email to young supporters with
talking points summarizing why Sanders is great for older voters.
Medicare for all, to take one example, strengthens Medicare financially
and politically by bringing younger, healthier people into the pool.
REBUTTAL: Pope Francis is not the Vicar of Christ but the Vicar of Capitalism and Vicar of Vatican Empire akaVatican Mammon Evil Beast that exploits the poor.
REBUTTAL: Pope Francis is not the Vicar of Christ but the Vicar of Capitalism and Vicar of Vatican Empire akaVatican Mammon Evil Beast that exploits the poor.
REBUTTAL:
New York Times, Gotham & L.A. Critics awards, ‘Spotlight’ reviews by
160 Americans journalists. (FYI today’s journalists write for money, for their
capitalist boss’ agenda, for ratings)
We're
gonna have some fun, we're gonna make a political revolution, we're
gonna transform America. Other than that, not much. Watch Cornel West
give a fiery introduction:
KEOKUK, Iowa – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following
statement on Wednesday after Republican presidential hopeful Donald
Trump, in a speech in Hilton Head, South Carolina, accused Sanders of
wanting to raise tax rates to 90 percent:
“It appears that Donald Trump, a pathological liar, simply cannot
control himself. He lies, lies and lies again. Today, he repeated his
lie that I want to raise taxes to 90 percent. Totally untrue. And
PolitiFact gave Trump’s same statement last October a ‘Pants-on-Fire’
rating.
“What is true is that at a time of massive income and wealth
inequality billionaires like Trump should pay their fair share of taxes.
Unlike Trump, who wants to give huge tax breaks to his fellow
billionaires and large multi-national corporations, what we need is real
tax reform which asks the very wealthiest people in this country and
large, profitable corporations to start paying their fair share of
taxes.
“It is absurd that in America today we have multi-national
corporations who stash their profits in the Cayman Islands and other tax
havens and, in a given year, pay nothing in federal income taxes. It is
grossly unfair that there are millionaires in this country who take
advantage of all kinds of loopholes and end up paying an effective tax
rate lower than a middle-class worker.”
REBUTTAL: Pope Francis is not the Vicar of Christ but the Vicar of Capitalism and Vicar of Vatican Empire akaVatican Mammon Evil Beast that exploits the poor.
Pope
Francis (cardinals, bishops, priests) – by the power of his papal mouth in a
few seconds – of reciting Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation
(deceit) script – cannot instantly clone the real flesh-and-blood of Jesus
Christ – because His mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary, had to carry 9 months in
her God-designed female womb – and then give birth (painfully) like all other
women. Pope Francis and priests
have no wombs to reproduce a child and their mouths cannot reproduce the body
of Christ either.
The
little white host in the Eucharist is the biggest lie of Satan since the Garden
of Eden where God forbade that mankind eat of the Tree of Knowledge of good and
evil that was exclusively for God. The Eucharist makes man even greater
than God because he can reproduce His flesh and blood -- and it is the bait to
trap idiots especially stupid Americans Catholics to worship the Vatican Mammon
Evil Beast guarded by Swiss Guard Army in Vatican Swiss Banks that hoard the
ill-gotten wealth of despots, American imperialists, European imperialists,
corrupt government officials, war lords, drug lords, name it, they have
it.
The Vatican is the most evil power on the planet that breeds corruptions
among government officials, which breed wars, violence against the poor, women
and children. Pope
Francis is the greatest thief in mankind’s history and the greatest Jesuit
Master of Deceits and he is only headed to the lake of fire where he will join
his real father of lies who came to kill, steal and destroy. Pope Francis
is the Devil turned into an Angel Pope-in-white in the Vatican Circus of lies,
deceptions and corruptions worldwide.
Hail Mary, full of
grace
Hell Pope Francis, full of deceits
The Lord
is with
you
The Devil is with you
Blessed
are you among women Cursed are you among all men
And
blessed is the
fruit
And cursed are your Vatican
The Roman Catholic Church is –– not Christ’s
Church –– but the church of the Vatican Mammon Evil Beast. Idiots Roman Catholics –
especiallyidiots
Americans –give moral and financial supports and are cooperators
in – crimes against humanity – committed by the Vatican and Pope Francis!
It’s
false to claim that “the gates of Hell shall
not prevail against the Catholic Church”
–––– because the truth is thegates of Heaven cannot prevail against the Vatican –which is the Kingdom of Satan on Earth –– with
its perpetual Pope Crimes and Vatican Evils – already with two millennium of
Vatican Evils – and now on its third millennium of crimes against humanity –
and still going strong. The gates of Heaven is helpless especially
against the Vatican Mammon Evil Beast Empire in Switzerland and its Swiss Banks
run exclusively by so called very evident ‘Pope’s Army aka God’s Army’ – the
Swiss Guard Army alumni.Read the
Hidden Heist in the Holy See. The SECRET biggest heist in the history of
mankind! Pope Francis is the Greatest THIEF on earth. http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/hidden-heist-in-holy-see-biggest-heist.html
To serve and protect children, Hollywood should
produce a reality TV crime show to depict the Vatican sex crimes by the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army -- at 52 weeks a year – it would
take 25,000 years -- to cover 1.3 million episodes!
They
have already outperformed the 2,000 year history of the Roman Catholic church
and its Pope Crimes and Vatican Evils, and The Borgias! The JP2 Army
Reality TV show would outperform the NCIS series, the Kardashans, Survivor and
all NYPD and Chicago PD shows!
So, to estimate, it is very probable that those 6,500 pedophile priests in the USA – (not
counting other pedophile priests in other countries in the world) – each abused 200 children = that’s
equivalent to 1,300,000 (1.3 million) children victims.
As a service to mankind's children, Hollywood should
make a JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army Reality TV Show – about
these 1.3 million American victims -- and that would last 25,000 years – at 52
weeks a year.
Newcastle
local court has heard the brief of evidence in the case against a Catholic
brother, accused of hundreds of child sex offences, is now more than 9,000 pages long.
Bernard
Kevin McGrath was extradited from New Zealand last year to face 252
child sex offences,
alleged to have happened in the Lake Macquarie region in the 1970s.
McGrath
faced court today via video link, dressed in prison greens and showing no
emotion.
The
court heard McGrath has recently changed lawyers, with his new solicitor
expressing concern about the size of the brief of evidence.
She
said she is at a slight disadvantage having only recently taken on the case.
The
court heard a trial is likely to last at least six months.
Bob
Schwiderski wrote us this comment for our article
"I admit to being angry when the impression is given
the 'crisis' began in Boston. Thanks for capturing and posting the
articles about clergy sexual abuse well before the Boston articles of 2001/2002. Here are
published articles from the
corn fields of Minnesota going back to 1994, years, years,
years before Boston. " http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news13/1994_04_23_Grace_FourSue_William_Joseph_Marks_1.htm
Two-faced Pope Francis: Laughing THIEF & Grim
LIAR. Two
completely different faces that reveal his inner soul. Strange Case of Dr
Jekyll and Mr Hyde at the Vatican?
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