Undo the Bind

Media Spun Its Wheel

It boggles the mind just how hard US Media and Government work in order to keep the average American informed. Theirs is a complicated process which I have summarized in brief below.

Insert any of the three following words and spin the wheel to create a headline or news story: FBI, CIA, Podesta emails, Wikileaks, Trump, Clinton, Russia, Hackers, Treason, Lied, Stole, Profited, Misled, High Crime, Propoganda, Fake News, Unnamed Source, Anonymous Informant.

Imagine if a private gang had gained enough power within the U.S. to codify and legalize criminal activities. We would be outraged. The citizenry would take up arms, right?

The age of information could be a time of mass awakening for humanity. However the powers in control have ratcheted up their tactics of chaos, lies, distractions and fear to keep us disoriented and enslaved.

The 2016 election has produced two dangerous candidates. One of whom is a part of a powerful crime syndicate that has kept the U.S. at war for two decades. The other candidate personifies capitalist-gluttony and avarice.

Why are any of the below statistics remotely permissible, and why do debt slaves continue electing dubious actors to public office? 

2.3 million persons are in prisons.

47 million persons are in poverty.

33 million persons lack medical insurance.

43,000 persons 'owe’ 1.7 trillion in student loan debt.

Taxpayers ‘owe’ 19 trillion in national debt.

Our natural resources are being stolen and poisoned.

What is our breaking point? Organ harvesting? Already happening. http://www.decodedscience.org/organ-harvesting-human-trafficking-black-market/56966

Questions: 

Asking why, why, why Hillary again... I wonder how many Americans on the Left, the ones who are being trained by Liberal MSMedia to "not fear Muslims or Islamists”, are in fact deeply, deeply terrified of ISIS, and also leery of those on our Southern border? The groups that Donald Trump so viciously attacks. The bad guys who are supposedly: invading America, plotting our deaths, staging warfare within our borders as well as the border of our allies. I wonder if the Liberal & Moderate Left isn't quaking in their designer boots, wringing their manicured hands over what to do about the 'terroristic invaders'.

A Left exists that is terrified of ISIS/ISIL & assorted immigrants, but unsure of how to vocalize it. Because unlike the frightened voters on the Right, those who can name their enemy, the frightened voters on the Left cannot. The Left must swallow their fears and xenophobia at the risk of offending others, being shamed for being 'politically out of touch', or worse called an Islamophobe or Rascist. 

Wouldn’t a frightened person want a hawkish, protector-leader?

What if many frightened Liberals and Moderates in fact secretly want to wrap themselves in the warm security blanket that is HRC’s foreign policy. Would they not sleep better in their townhouses and lofts knowing that Hillary will increase our military power and be prepared to strike hard? Harder than anyone has struck since Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz sent us into the Iraq war. 

Hillary will protect America, or so many Democrats tell us. Within this group I smell a fear brewing that is much greater than the one they harbor for Trump’s Neo-Fascist rhetoric. If in fact Trump’s message has permeated the collective subconscious. Indeed it certainly appears to have infected a large swath of Democrats, who are currently steadying themselves for more war as they rally behind a person who is ready and eager to strike the other!

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Did anyone notice a rise in indicators of patriotism and nationalism at the DNC?

Dear True Progressives,

Please know that you are doing a wonderful job. Bernie Sanders & other committed progressives moved the DNC platform as far to the Left as it has been in decades, if ever. This is a wonderful accomplishment and you should all be proud. Be very proud.

There will be Democrats who try to convince you to remain within the two-party system. A system that is killing us and the planet. You may succumb to their cries and unite behind Clinton, because after all she is supposedly better than Trump. That is your choice. You alone must decide what is best for you and the world, but never forget that we have options. A 3rd party vote is not a wasted vote. This is a lie. It has always been a lie.

If you decide to vote 3rd party, and if you choose to resist Clinton, I want to arm you with some truth. Neoconservatives are voting for her this year. She appeals to moderate Republicans and even the Bushes have endorsed her. She will be formidable as more and more Republican and Democratic women line up behind her.

Here is why millions of female voters will vote for Clinton; because she is a woman. Period. Many of them see her as a feminist icon. Like it or not, that is what you are dealing with.

***Don’t attack their icon on anything other than policy. I repeat. Do not attack HRC on ANYTHING other than policy.***

Some of you may wonder why so many women are going to rally behind Hillary given how anti-feminist her foreign policy actually is. Here is very brief explanation. In the US, we have never had a serious female contender for POTUS. This is a big goddamn deal. Representation matters. Even women who do not care for Clinton recognize the incredible impact of her being named the nominee. And for some women, (those of us who are now 45+), we also remember when the media and the low minded bullies on the Right and Left would attack Clinton in the most vile and sexist ways imaginable. The language was disgusting. The cartoons were sickening too us. Everytime you showed Hillary on her knees, or in a compromised position, every time you talked about her looks or her voice, we wanted to protect her. We too had been bullied. We too had been mocked. We too had been degraded by the same mindset. It was personal to many of us. WE GOT ANGRY. And millions of us have remained angry as we watched Hillary under sexist assault for her entire career. We too were being abused right along side her. We have not forgotten the trauma, and a many feminist still carry a soul wound over what we have witnessed over the past several decades.

So today, here we are, with that open wound, and all the wounds against all the women that came before and after Hillary. When we hear bullies and sexists say nasty things about HRC as a woman, we hate your message, even if it carries a piece of fact alongside the insult. When you call her shrill, or ugly, or unable to control her man, or when you make cracks about Monica, or HRC’s wardrobe and body, etc etc we are filled with the same rage that nearly drowned us in the 90s. We will fight back. We will defend her. Not because she is decent and honest. She is not. Not because she is the best person to lead America. She is not. Not because she is not a butcher. She surely is.

Some of us will fight back with words, but most women will be fighting back with a vote for HRC.

Surely Neo-Liberal feminism (like 3rd wave feminism) is rotten to the core. Commodified and packaged. No content. Useless garbage that serves to reinforce the patriarchy, the patriarchy which fuels force and destruction. Endless growth. Impossible to sustain.

When people tell you Clinton is a feminist icon, I am hear to tell you that she has been elevated to one for two reason. One is because we have so few female leaders in this country, and two, because we are confused about what Feminism is, the Liberation of All Women.

Progressives, If you want to educate others on what HRC’s policies mean to the US and the World, then stick with the facts. The facts alone are damning enough.

In closing I encourage you all to overturn the two-party system and get money out of politics.

The 2016 election is ripe for a 3rd-party or Progressive take-over. Now is as great time to go for it!!

ps fuck Neo-Facsism. fuck Trump.

In four short years, North Carolina became a fascist Right-Wing Utopia. Please don't think this won't happen in your state, the process is already underway. #RiseUp #Resist

-How NC treats peaceful protesters.

Individuals who engaged in civil disobedience during “Moral Monday” protests are on trial in North Carolina. During the first trial of one of the protesters arrested, it came out in testimony that police for the state’s legislature conducted undercover surveillance and collected intelligence on “anarchists.”

http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/10/08/north-carolina-police-engaged-in-domestic-spying-to-root-out-anarchists-at-moral-monday-protests/

-How NC asserts itself as the leading fascist state.

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina have chosen Fascism over democracy, Jim Crow over equality. The NC-NAACP has issued a warning to all Americans living in Republican controlled states … this WILL happen to you. 

http://inyourfaceradio.net/the-fascist-state-of-north-carolina/#sthash.36tFCMFk.dpuf

“People are disgusted by what the Republican leadership has been doing to North Carolina,” North Carolina senate minority whip Josh Stein tells TIME. “There’s a real culture shock here — North Carolinians are inherently moderate people. We focus on the fundamentals,” Stein says. “They’re focusing on an extreme agenda that’s damaging to the state.”

http://swampland.time.com/2013/07/30/north-carolina-reverts-to-red/

-How NC restricts people's right to vote.

North Carolina has a sad history of voter suppression, stemming from the Jim Crow laws adopted by Democrats over 100 years ago that included the poll tax and literacy tests. The parties have reversed roles but the ugliness of this new law is too similar.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/10/15/3284031/why-ncs-voter-id-law-is-unfair.html

-How NC limits the rights of it's LGBTQ citizens

North Carolina voters have passed a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, CNN projects, putting a ban that already existed in state law into the state's charter.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/08/politics/north-carolina-marriage/

-How NC restricts women's reproductive rights.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory on Monday signed into law a measure directing state officials to regulate abortion clinics based on the same standards as those for outpatient surgical centers, a change that critics say will force most to close.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/29/north-carolina-abortion/2598261/

-How NC deals with the elderly, poor and unemployed.

North Carolina has become the first state to cut off welfare benefits to poor residents in the wake of the partial federal government shutdown, ordering a halt to processing November applications until a deal is reached to end the federal standstill.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/16/us-usa-fiscal-northcarolina-idUSBRE99F00Y20131016

With changes to its unemployment law taking effect [in June 2013], North Carolina not only is cutting benefits for those who file new claims, it will become the first state disqualified from a federal compensation program for the long-term jobless.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/28/north-carolina-unemployment_n_3515448.html

-How NC is planning to destroy their environment and demand people frack.

North Carolina landowners would be forced to sell the natural gas under their homes and farms – whether they want to or not – under a fracking recommendation approved Wednesday that’s expected to be enacted by the state legislature this fall.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/08/28/3145187/officials-ok-rule-to-force-fracking.html

The pro-industry rhetoric in North Carolina comes on the heels of Gov. McCrory’s (R-NC) decision to reject the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grants that would have funded water quality studies in some of the state’s most vulnerable wetland areas.

The justification? The fracking boom isn’t enough of an issue in North Carolina to warrant such environmental studies. According to the most recent commissioners debate, however, fracking is enough of an issue to consider changes to its regulations in favor of industry.

Globalist don't care if they control us through Capitalism or Communism. Either system works as long as the puppet State remains in power. The global cartel wants absolute control. They want each and everyone of us to be in permanent debt. They seek to own us, and all of our resources. 

The people of Turkey are rising up against Corporatism and a Government that has sold them out. The Jews, Sunnis, Shias, Armenians, Secularist, Leftists, and Nationalists are all speaking with one voice. Join them in Solidarity, and help spread the word. Enough is enough! 

Remember here in America that major issue such destruction of our planet, and gross inequity will not be solved by our two party political actors. And contrary to what they would have us believe, the American struggle is not about gay marriage, religious freedom, race relations, gun control, abortion rights, the Left or the Right, etc etc. The real struggle is for life and death. We struggle for freedom, and an end to wage slavery. We choose a self directed, purposeful life and resist a return to feudalism. Let's not allow religious leaders, political actors and media strategist to lead us into divisive thinking. Let's not lose focus bickering over petty issues as we will lose our sovereignty, both personal and collective.

How can we take back our power?

Stop buying the corporations food. Purchase fewer imports, and more local goods whenever possible. Stop using the corrupt banks. Stop voting for their treasonous puppets. Demand an end to illegal wars. Participate in, or help fund front line environmentalist. Inform others and resist destructive legislation, rulings and executive orders. keywords: DNA swabs, erosion of civil rights, corporate bailouts, quantitative easing, FEDS, illegal wars, drones, indefinite detention, climate destruction, Tar Sands, global revolution, GMO foods, NDAA, TPAA, PIPA, SOPA, renewable energy.

We are the only ones who can stop the globalist reign of terror.

Johnson signed the Medicare bill in the mid 60's. I was born shortly thereafter, and came to age in a world that was sliding downhill. America had already boomed (for the working class). The Big Banks, FED, Wall Street and the politicians were fast at work, figuring out ways to reconfigure the system; taking from the workers paycheck, to fill the trough of the elite. 

Over the past 40+ years, corporations have tightened their grip on the throat of the working class. The Democrats and Republicans have helped big business deregulate, move off shore, hide taxes and dodge accountability. The American people went along with the charade, primarily because we were busy arguing about who to blame, the Red or Blue team. Overworked. Distracted.

Who do you think instigates these fights, and distractions?

Workadays now argue over civil liberties, women's equality, gay marriage, freedom of choice, gun rights, public education, preemptive wars, marijuana rights, feeding the poor, religion, separation of church & state, (basically anything the elite can conjure up to distract us from the fact that our elected officials no longer served the working people). Washington has manufactured a rigged system that works well for the top 1-20% elite (and their cronies). Wall Street and Big Banks run D.C. Period.

Nearly 50% of the 113th Congress are millionaires. What do millionaires have in common with working people?

So here we are 2013. Will we keep arguing with each other, or do we pursue an alternative course? Serious question. What will we do now that we know?

State & Federal Officials must be severely scrutinized, and in most cases indicted, tried, convicted, and imprisoned.  

We must stop arguing with one another over two-party political distractions. Elected officials belong to one party. And it isn't our party, friends. 

Patriotism & Dissent overview 2011-2013:

Occupy Wall Street protesters were beaten, harassed, arrested and denied their first amendment rights because the refuse to accept the status quo.

The Tea Party & conservative groups were given 'the special treatment' by the IRS, because they refuse to accept the status quo. 

Both groups questioned tax dollars being exhorted and stolen by our government officials. 

Both groups recognize our government is controlled by large corporations whose interest lies on in their bottom line.

Both groups have been lied about endlessly in the media. 

Both groups fought co-option by the monied elite who wished to steer their narrative.

These groups have differences too, but one thing they are both willing to do, is to question authority. And the authority in this country is cracking heads.

The local police, as well as the CIA, DHS, IRS and other tools of the ruling class can take their despicable hands off of patriots and dissenters.

Our government's highest ranks are corrupt and should be under 24/7 investigation, and indictment, followed by prosecution and lengthy prison terms.

It is time to get the criminal thugs out of office by any means necessary. 

Yesterday when SF Pride announced Bradley Manning as the Grand Marshal of the 2013 San Francisco Pride Parade, our Occupy hearts swelled. The SF Pride electorate had, for the first time since the 1969 Stonewall riots, offered the Queer community a chance to return to their Radical Roots. 

Sadly this evening, the SF Pride board members appear to have succumb to pressure from 'the war mongering establishment', and have now stepped back their decision to appoint whistleblower Manning as their Marshal. 

Pro-Manning counter demonstrations are already being planned.

Tonight we recall the words of Daniel Ellsberg as he speaks of the hero that SF Pride has shunned, "For the third straight year, Manning has been nominated for the Noble Peace Prize by, among others, Tunisian parliamentarians. Given the role the WikiLeaks cables played in the Arab Spring, and their role in speeding up the end of the Iraq War, I can think of no one more deserving who is deserving of the peace prize.

He's also deserving of the Congressional Medal of Honor. This medal, awarded by Congress--and not the executive branch--is given to military personnel, who during wartime, do what they should do for their country and their comrades, at the greatest risk to themselves.

Of course, there have been many who shown great courage on the battlefield in Afghanistan and Iraq. But some have noted that we don't have the named heroes of the kind we did during World War I and World War II, such as Sergeant York or Audie Murphy.

I see a hero in these wars whose example should inspire others. His name Bradley Manning."

To those who would minimize the sufferings of another, I write this letter:

We should be thankful to everyone who is supporting the Boston victims and their loved ones, as well as those who support victims of violence around the globe. Humans' ability to feel compassion for domestic and international victims (of war and terror), is not mutually exclusive. We can simultaneously empathize with those whose lives were shattered in Boston, as well as with the victims of the American Empire. 

The majority of Americans do have the capacity to mourn for foreign victims of war. We can draw comparisons and discuss how human suffering is a global issue in need of eradication. But it is also essential that we  allow ourselves an opportunity to grieve for these domestic victims fully and completely. 

Let us be mindful to not draw comparisons, or attempt to negate anyone's suffering. To lessen the emotional outpouring of those affected by the Boston bombings, is negligent at best, and cruel at worst. People's feelings of empathy should be cultivated when horrible events like the Boston bombing occur. Now is a ripe opportunity to broaden our compassion for 'the other'.  

The surest way for us to win the peace debate is by harnessing empathy, not by dismissing or trivializing human suffering. Let us move towards responsive dialogue and thoughtful action to end the climate of war and fear that we now know. 

Peace on Earth.

note: The Boston marathon was attended by people from 96 countries. Thus framed, this was an international incident.