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Sunday, July 31, 2016

IT'S IN OUR HANDS, THERE IS ANOTHER CHOICE ~ JILL STEIN FOR PRESIDENT

The successful Bernie Sanders populist movement was most definitely grassroots and anti-establishment and now that Bernie has submitted to the Clinton machine, which raised its ugly head at the Democratic Convention and showed its true colors, there is no one in the movement more effectively carrying the progressive anti-war message than Green Presidential candidate Jill Stein ~ whose trusted progressive voice has been consistent for years and must now be heard during the Presidential debates as it was during the Democratic Convention last week (see videos): Allen L Roland, PhD

"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear." : General Douglas MacArthur , Speech, May 15, 1951

I'm no Johnny come lately when it comes to voting for Jill Stein for I was impressed by her and also voted for her in 2012 ~

( see http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/09/27/why-not-go-green-jill-stein-for-president/comment-page-1/ ) but I'm thrilled by the manner in which my fellow New Englander has picked up the battered Progressive grassroots banner and made her stand last week outside the rigged Democratic Convention as well as enlisted the alternative press to state her case for Progressive values, like Real News Today and the Young Turks (TYT), See video ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTG67z0yUag

Virtually 60% of the electorate rightfully does not trust Hillary Clinton and Obama's statement in 2008 that " she'll say anything and change nothing" has permanently infected the Democratic base after the Democratic Primaries which leads to the question ~ can Hillary ignore her base and still defeat Trump?

The answer is simple to Hillary ~ YES, her super donors are jumping on board and the base be dammed, as it most certainly was in Philadelphia this past week ~ but that may be wishful thinking by the Clinton lie machine which is now in damage control.

Make no mistake about this ~ the DNC is officially in damage control as confirmed by Actor and Activist Danny Glover to Paul Jay of Real News as they sped to the Convention Center for a meeting with Nina Turner who supposedly had just been told by convention officials not to nominate Bernie Sanders. See video ~ https://youtu.be/fqUhF1Jal7M

As John Ash (RSN) wrote today ~ "What does produce a big Election Day turnout? Genuine enthusiasm for the candidate, and the candidate’s message. Right now Hillary Clinton’s message is, “I’m a woman and you need to fear Trump.” There is absolutely no indication whatsoever that it’s inspiring Democratic and Progressive voters to any noteworthy degree.

When Bernie Sanders took the stage, he said what every American wanted to hear: “Enough is enough, we need to clean this mess up.”

To rise to the presidency, Hillary Clinton may have to choose between the 99% and the 1%. Right now she does not yet believe it will come to that. What will she do when it does?" http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/38279-can-clinton-ignore-the-base-and-defeat-trump

Right now, I believe she has already chosen the 1% as her base as a proud working member of the establishment and oligarchy ~ the 99% be dammed.

The Progressive base at the gates

In response to Hillary Clinton's acceptance speech, Bill Curry, former counselor to Bill Clinton's White House, says that progressives should now focus on building an independent political movement stressing the rule of law versus military force and the need for a world peace movement ~ and I believe the only Presidential candidate offering that progressive alternative stressing the Rule of Law and Peace is Jill Stein. See thought provoking Real News video with Bill Curry ~

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=16891

The issues of war and peace were largely missing in action during the Democratic National Convention which was obvious to many including myself and WSWS ~

"Despite fifteen years of the “war on terror,” the convention’s headline speakers made no mention of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, the death of Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi or the White House’s drone assassination program. This silence is all the more extraordinary given the fact that the Obama administration is the first in US history that has been at war throughout two full terms in office.

The real decision-makers know, however, that in the background of the 2016 elections are escalating military tensions with Russia and China that raise the danger of world war between nuclear-armed powers.

None of the convention’s speakers saw fit to mention the fact that the Obama administration has committed to go to war with Russia if the highly unstable, right-wing governments of Latvia, Lithuania or Estonia launch a provocation against it."

See the issue of war and the Democratic National Convention / WSWS http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/07/27/pers-j27.html

A telling moment during last week's speeches at the Democratic Party's convention to nominate Hillary Clinton for president of the United States was when former Secretary of War and CIA Director Leon Panetta tried to fear monger by blaming Russia for supposedly interfering in a U.S. election (by allegedly revealing how the Democratic Party had in fact rigged its primary for Hillary Clinton).

The delegates from Oregon began a chant of "No More War!" and held up signs including "End the drone wars!" California and other delegations joined in. Panetta had to stop speaking. The party bosses turned off the lights on the Oregon section, which then pulled out cell phones and turned on flashlight apps and finally glow in the dark fluorescent shirts ~ which indicates that strong anti-war feelings of Americans are being played out beneath the surface of our stage managed conventions as well as how our political performance leaders are obviously ignoring that choice.

It's the 900 pound anti-war elephant in the room, that the candidates ignore, (both Clinton and Trump are pro-war nominees) but Jill Stein still proudly reminds Americans of a still existing progressive anti-war choice ~ and here is the evidence that her message is gaining traction.

"JILL NOT HILL" MOVEMENT BREAKS OUT AT DNC

TRNN and Shadow proof's Rania Khalek found Bernie support drawn to the message of the third party candidate, Jill Stein ~ who railed against student debt, militarism, and called for a federal job creation program to confront climate change at the Democratic Convention. See "real time" video report ~ http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=16865

Watch Amy Goodman's (Democracy Now) interview of progressive Cornel West who endorses Jill Stein ~ who strongly opposes Neo Liberal Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Standard bearer / 10 minute YouTube must see interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6pN6x6pGwA&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs

David Walsh, WSWS, offers a devastating critique of the political performance theater of the Hillary's acceptance speech;

" Everything about the final portion of the Democratic National Convention rang false. With Bill Clinton mugging and stage-acting in the audience, daughter Chelsea Clinton introduced her mother, as though this sordid dynasty represented something significant in American political history. The Clintons are primarily notorious for their corruption and venality. The couple accumulated $230 million from 2001 to 2014 through their relations, above all, with Wall Street financial firms and giant corporations.

There was an obvious effort under way Thursday evening to humanize and “soften” Hillary Clinton. Her miserable poll numbers ~ a 38.4 percent favorable rating and 55.6 percent unfavorable ~ are only slightly higher than Donald Trump’s. These are two widely disliked and distrusted candidates, perceived by millions of people to be representatives of a wealthy elite or the oligarchy.

Chelsea Clinton described her mother in glowing terms, as “wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious.” One wondered who she could be talking about. The degree of exaggeration only made the comments absurd. The banalization of American politics has reached a new level. Even some of the crowd at the convention looked embarrassed." See Walsh Article http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/07/29/clin-j29.html

The Clinton's are a true American Horror story and their last season has finally begun ~ hopefully it will be terminated or (like the Sopranos) fade to black but in this case will much more likely end with World War III.

"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." ~ Mark Twain

Allen L Roland, PhD

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2016/07/its-in-our-hands-there-is-another.html

Heart centered spiritual consultant and advisor Allen L Roland can be contacted at allen@allenroland.com Allen is also a lecturer and writer who shares a weekly political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com. He is also featured columnist on Veterans Today and is a featured guest on many radio and Television programs

Sunday, July 24, 2016

HILLARY CLINTON'S GENERAL ELECTION STRATEGY / IT'S MY TURN SO DEAL WITH IT

Imperious Queen Hillary at the Podium

When things get to politically hectic or unpredictable, I usually turn to humor or satire to help lead me to another perspective and in the case of this year's 2016 Presidential election ~ the Onion brilliantly assists along with a weekend major WikiLeaks release which nails Hillary on her principle character flaw, trustworthiness: Allen L Roland. PhD

"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases" John Adams

With just a few days to go before Hillary Clinton is expected to accept her party's nomination for president, WikiLeaks on Friday released almost 20,000 emails sent and received by Democratic National Committee staff members from January 2015 to May 2016 ~ leaving journalists scouring for information potentially damaging to the party and which already implicates her loyal subject Debbie Wasserman, DNC Chairperson ~ who most certainly rigged the Primary for Queen Hillary.

In response to the leaks, Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said Saturday that the emails show "what many of us have known for some time, that there were certainly people at the DNC who were actively helping the Clinton effort and trying to hurt Bernie Sanders' campaign."

With that said and the dust still settling ~ the presumptive nominees from both parties must now assess how to approach the general election. Here is how Hillary Clinton is strategizing her campaign moving forward (Many are courtesy of the Onion)

Woo Bernie supporters by becoming 30 percent more curmudgeonly
Hold focus groups to help her appeal to a more diverse array of America’s corporate entities
Establish strategic headquarters in thousands of swing living rooms
Delete folder on laptop titled “Liabilities 1998-2006”
Preempt Trump’s wild conspiracy theories by clarifying exactly which former aides committed suicide and which did not
Targeted TV ads that remind viewers she can win this thing without their vote if she has to
Delay border wall proposal until inauguration
Surprise loyal supporters by dropping into a few quarterly earnings meetings unannounced
Go window-to-window in key districts to glare at undecided voters
Mothball your husband and former discredited President Bill Clinton indefinitely.
Kill the pantsuits and show some leg
Be less imperious ~ laughing and stating "We came, We saw and He died" when former ally and head of State Ghaddafi was brutally assassinated is not compassionate nor presidential and most unsettling to your dictator friends and Clinton foundation donors ~ see video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtH7iv4ip1U

Truth dig editor in chief Bob Scheer tells Paul Jay (Real News) that while Trump is a real fascist threat, people should consider voting for a third party rather than support Clinton ~ which I completely agree with.

Scheer specifically mentions the Green Party's presumptive Presidential candidate Jill Stein and rightfully implies that her progressive voice must be heard during the Presidential Debates.

See must see interview with Bob Scheer on Real News ~

https://youtu.be/-5BkcekqemM or http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=16786

Clinton and Tim Kaine / Two war hawks in flight

In selecting Kaine as VP, Hillary Clinton is clearly stating that she will be running a pro-war campaign targeted at winning over the military and sections of the Republican Party dissatisfied with Trump. She also effectively repudiates any association with the issues of social inequality that motivated the widespread support for her main rival in the primaries, Bernie Sanders ~ and in effect has said "It's my turn, Bernie ~ so deal with it".

See Tom Hall (ICH) comments on Kaine VP selection ~ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45167.htm

Here's our scorecard in Iraq ~ and you wonder what fuels terrorist blowback ?

1.2 million Iraqis killed in 2003

3 million dead because of 13 years of sanctions

5 million forcibly displaced since 2003

Neofascist Trump or Corporate Neocon Clinton Are No Choice at All

Both the DNC War makers RNC War party are part of the Political War Racket or as David Swanson wrote ~ "Laugh about it, wrote Paul Simon. Shout about it. When you've got to choose. Every way you look at it you lose. Unless you support Jill Stein and/or build a more principled peace movement." Read ICH article ~

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45157.htm

Of course, once again, I will not be choosing the lesser of two evils and will instead be voting for the good Dr. Jill Stein ~ the Green Party's presumptive nominee for President and I look forward to her presence in the Presidential debates as well as her nomination at the 2016 Green Party's Presidential Convention in early August, 2016.

An uneasy reminder for those who can remember ~

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/06/04/trump-and-hitler-both-rose-from-political-apathy-and-oppression/

I remind you all once again of the rise of that strange Austrian fellow in the 1930's, named Adolf Hitler, who rode a groundswell of apathy and fascist nationalism to victory and shocked a German nation as well as the world in the process. Here he is in full color with English subtitles and, like the Donald, he sold himself to the party as the answer to all of German's problems and demanded the party to believe in him as Hess exults in the final moment at the party's convention ~ "The party is Hitler as Hitler is Germany and Germany is Hitler " See 10 minute video ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV9kyocogKo

I will summarize the last anti-war Presidential candidate Jill Stein's strengths and weaknesses after the Democratic Convention

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.” ~ Mark Twain

Allen L Roland, PhD

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2016/07/hillary-clintons-general-election.html

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

PRIMARY ELECTION ADVICE FOR DEMOCRATS / TRUST YOUR BASE OR LOSE IT

Ever get the feeling that you have been marginalized and steam rolled by a giant political machine ~ welcome to California where two million plus primary votes remain uncounted, where voter suppression definitely occurred, and where Queen Hillary is being prematurely anointed by the party elite, President Obama and the Main Stream Media. This is a desperate political attempt to avoid the stark reality of a severely wounded and out of touch party which has lost its credibility and is in the process of losing its base: Allen L Roland, PhD

"It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people" Gore Vidal

The major clue that the Clinton lie machine was prepared to dump California voters and prematurely crown Hillary the winner of the Democratic primaries was at the Nevada State Democratic State Convention on May 14 and William Boardman (RSN) fills in the details;

"The evidence-free claims about “thrown chairs” (none) and “death threats” (tasteless insults) have been widely rebutted, but they have served their purpose all the same: taking attention away from the arrogant, autocratic management of the Nevada convention by establishment Democrats working on behalf of Hillary Clinton….Their fear of Bernie Sanders must run deep for them to follow this authoritarian performance with a smear campaign based on lies about the Sanders campaign. Establishment Democrats should be afraid, since almost half the voters allowed to vote in Democratic primaries reject establishment Democratic “values.” But their shamelessness, pusillanimity, and obtuse arrogance march on toward a possibly disastrous November that is wholly self-engineered." Read article ~ Clinton to California / "Drop Dead" http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/37009-clinton-to-california-qdrop-deadq

Boardman described the entitled arrogance of the Clinton lie machine but I experienced it in May of 2016 and both wrote about it and shared of it on Susan Lindhauer's Covert report on May 21, 2016.

I said that the California primary will be a game changer and set the stage for a bitterly contested convention in July. In the end, it always comes down to trust ~ and no one rightfully trusts the Clintons.

With Trump, it's always about the deal, trust be dammed.

Bernie is trustworthy and that just may hopefully carry the day.

If not, we're politically doomed. Here's the promo for that show ~

An epic show down as Fortune’s Wheel spins again! Our guests, Dr. Allen Roland talks about the California Primary, voter suppression, and “scorched earth” threats from Bernie Sanders! While media pundits screech in alarm, Democrats are clearly headed for a Contested-Convention in Philadelphia. Meanwhile Scott Bennett defends Trump from accusations that he’s a Camouflage Candidate.... http://truthfrequencyradio.com/tag/susan-lindauer/ Episode #209

I was right about the Clinton's and here's what actually happened in early May ~

I got my Primary mail in ballot as one of 4.2 million No Party Preference ~ "NPP" voters ~ or what we know as "independents" who favored Sanders over Clinton by a stunning 40 percentage points ~ but I could not vote for Bernie because that choice was clearly not acceptable to the Clinton Machine.

In some counties like Los Angeles, it's not easy for an NPP to claim their right vote in the Democratic primary ~ and in other counties, nearly impossible.

For example ~ In Santa Rosa County, if you don’t say the magic words, “I want a Democratic crossover ballot,” you are automatically given a ballot without the presidential race. And ready for this, if an NPP voter asks the poll worker, “How do I get to vote in the Democratic party primary, they are instructed to say that, “NPP voters can’t get Democratic ballots.” They are ordered not to breathe a word that the voter can get a “crossover” ballot that includes the presidential race.

It took me a few days to call the registrar of voters to request a mail-in cross-over ballot and I barely made the deadline of May 23th to make that request to vote in the June 7th election ~ this was obvious voter obstruction or suppression.

But here's more to chew on ~ Flipping the electronic voting machines. There are many reports of voting machine irregularities across the state. Poll workers in Los Angeles and Orange County report that Bernie won the electronic votes in their precincts by well over a 2 to 1 margin, the opposite of the result of the vote count. The contrast between this and the outcome is indicative of vote-flipping. This result in another 7 figure number of Bernie Sanders votes not being counted; in fact, this is much worse. Millions of Bernie Sanders votes were actually counted as Hillary Clinton votes

Now you probably understand the not-so subtle voter fraud and suppression the Clinton machine used to produce the election havoc that now reins in California with over two million uncounted votes ~ and on top of that Another dirty trick ~ exit polls were cancelled for California.

Note that the exit polls have not matched the official results OUTSIDE the margin of error in many states in the Democratic primary election. It has been a red flag for fraud. WHY did the networks cancel exit polls in the remaining upcoming primaries?

Simple. They do not want to provide a means of evidence to document this grand theft.

The mass media rushed to proclaim Hillary Clinton the winner of the Democratic nomination on June 7th, even before voting in the California primary had taken place. 100,000 people attended a rally for Bernie Sanders, but the mass media failed to mention it at all. On Tuesday, June 7, 2016, the California primary took place. It was, and is, too close to call. Gross voter suppression took place. But the mass media rushed to proclaim Clinton the winner and now you know why.

This is not only sickening but blatant voter suppression. Enough is enough!

This is fear based political overkill by a Democratic political establishment that is married to corporate power as well as the status quo and obviously afraid of the people's will and vote ~ note super delegate power play.

There needs to be a COMPLETELY new primary election for California. Sign this petition if you support a new free and fair election: https://www.change.org/p/california-democratic-party-redo-the-california-democratic-primary-election

Here's how WSWS saw the election ~

"The ruling class, and, in particular, the Democratic Party establishment, is far less concerned about the rise of Donald Trump than it is about the broad support for Sanders, which created a political crisis for Clinton and seriously jeopardized her planned coronation. The surge in support for Sanders came as a frightening shock to the entire political establishment—including Sanders himself ~ and the corporate-controlled media, because it demonstrated the emergence of a mass constituency for anti-capitalist, socialistic ideas …… There is a broad consensus, across both parties, that the class issues raised by the Sanders campaign in the primaries must be buried in the general election campaign. The decision has been taken at the highest levels of the political establishment to direct attention to issues of race and gender ~ including deliberately provoking such issues ~ in order to distract the public from the more fundamental economic division in society."

As Greg Palast confirmed on June 7th ~ [Los Angeles] How California is being stolen from Sanders right now ~ Special bulletin from Greg Palast
"It's not some grand conspiracy, but it's grand theft nonetheless. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ voters will lose their ballots, their rights, by the tens of thousands." http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/37325-stealing-california

Let us hope Bernie insists on a proper counting of those ballots in California, by the convention in July, and by implication a change in party rules to prevent such increasingly obvious election fraud and suppression.

At times like this ~ I always seem to come back to George Carlin's wise election advice ~ 3 min video ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5dBZDSSky0\

Finally , I'm afraid the Democrats will learn all the wrong lessons from their brush with Bernie as Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone strongly suggests;

"Politicians are so used to viewing the electorate as a giant thing to be manipulated that no matter what happens at the ballot, they usually can only focus on the Washington-based characters they perceive to be pulling the strings. Through this lens, the uprising among Democratic voters this year wasn't an organic expression of mass disgust, but wholly the fault of Bernie Sanders, who within the Beltway is viewed as an oddball amateur and radical who jumped the line.

Nobody saw his campaign as an honest effort to restore power to voters, because nobody in the capital even knows what that is. In the rules of palace intrigue, Sanders only made sense as a kind of self-centered huckster who made a failed play for power. And the narrative will be that with him out of the picture, the crisis is over. No person, no problem.

This inability to grasp that the problem is bigger than Bernie Sanders is a huge red flag. As Thacker puts it, the theme of this election year was widespread anger toward both parties, and both the Trump craziness and the near-miss with Sanders should have served as a warning. "The Democrats should be worried they're next," he says.

But they're not worried. Behind the palace walls, nobody ever is."

See Tiabbi article ~ http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/37391-democrats-will-learn-all-the-wrong-lessons-from-brush-with-bernie

But Democrats most certainly should not only be worried but petrified of the danger that lies just outside the palace walls ~ for the ghost of Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr are inspiring the angry hoards who are demanding a voice in a rapidly disintegrating and corrupt Plutocracy.

Today, in 2016, another election is apparently being stolen from the people of the United States. Both Clinton and Trump are highly unpopular. Polls show that Trump might defeat Clinton in November, but that Bernie Sanders would easily beat Trump. Could it be because Bernie truly represents another life affirming choice of peace and individual empowerment versus more war and individual disenfranchisement and that Bernie also represents the true will and voice of the people ~ which the establishment continues to turn a deaf ear ~ for fear of their own survival.

This election is not over by any means, the revolution continues and needed change must truly happen in July.

"They [Democrats] ought to be horrified to their marrow that the all-powerful Democratic Party ended up having to dig in for a furious rally to stave off a quirky Vermont socialist almost completely lacking big-dollar donors or institutional support." Matt Tiabbi

Allen L Roland, PhD

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2016/06/primary-election-advice-for-democrats.html

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