STANDING WITH MICHAEL MOORE FOR BERNIE SANDERS

 

 

 

I'm standing with Michael Moore for Bernie Sanders because he is the only candidate who is running for all of us, he's authentic and real and he is beholden to no corporate interests but most importantly I trust Bernie and his message ~ which is something I cannot say about any other Presidential candidate: Allen L Roland, PhD

 

Want to experience the Real Bernie Sanders ~ watch this brief informal street interview when Bernie Sanders spoke with RT’s Ed Schultz, on the eve of the Iowa election; about how he became a serious contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, after being 40 points behind in the polls ~ and also about how his “terribly radical” ideas reflect the will of the American people. A true revolution is brewing and it gained momentum in Iowa.

 

But also watch the unguarded moment just before the end of the interview when they were interrupted by another interviewer and Bernie gruffly said "how rude, can't you see we're talking" ~ and that unguarded moment caught the real and not politically correct Bernie and explains his growing appeal to the politically disenfranchised electorate ~ he doesn't suffer fools lightly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Q5U65JfiY&feature=player_embedded

 

 

 

Michael Moore, another truth teller, wrote an excellent article on why he is endorsing Bernie sanders and included this wonderful graph which summarizes the differences between Sanders and the establishment candidate, Hillary Clinton. See article ~ but remember, true to form, Hillary changed her mind about supporting TTP when she recently read the populist handwriting on the wall.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/34936-my-endorsement-of-bernie-sanders

 

 

" I first endorsed Bernie Sanders for public office in 1990 when he, as mayor of Burlington, VT, asked me to come up there and hold a rally for him in his run to become Vermont’s congressman. I guess not many were willing to go stump for an avowed democratic socialist at the time. Probably someone is his hippie-filled campaign office said, “I’ll bet Michael Moore will do it!”

They were right. I trucked up into the middle of nowhere and did my best to explain why we needed Bernie Sanders in the U.S. Congress. He won, I’ve been a supporter of his ever since, and he’s never given me reason to not continue that support. I honestly thought I’d never see the day come where I would write to you and get to say these words: “Please vote for Senator Bernie Sanders to be our next President of the United States of America.”

I wouldn’t ask this of you if I didn’t think we really, truly needed him. And we do. More than we probably know."     Sincerely Yours,  Michael Moore

Bernie has just fired a volley across the bow of the Clinton establishment Battleship in Iowa which is committed to maintaining the Status Quo but that's just the opening round ~ there's more to come ~ Bernie's just getting warmed up particularly when you can truly see the real implications of trickle-down economics.

 

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The indignation of the bottom 90% has steadily mounted, as it's income has disappeared, as seen in this graph ~ especially since Wall Street threw the US and world economy into the abyss in 2008 and then used the crisis to further enrich itself at the expense of the working population or bottom 90%.

 

The bitter betrayal by the Obama administration, which came to power by promising progressive “change” and instead has maintained the status quo as well as overseen a further and unprecedented transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top, along with an expansion of militarism and war ~ has only intensified the anger and combativeness of working people and youth ~ who are all part of the growing Bernie revolution which will soon hit New Hampshire.

 

New Hampshire will not be decided by coin flips as in Iowa ~ but could be decided by illegal electronic vote flips. The bottom line here is that some 80% of the votes in the 2016 primaries will be cast or counted on electronic voting machines owned by private corporations. Courts have ruled the source code proprietary, and thus inaccessible to the public.

What this warning means is that much of the nation has no legally binding mechanism by which results can be publicly verified ~ If the Sanders campaign fails to aggressively push for exit polls and a verifiable vote count, this current thrilling attempt to restore American democracy, as well as the power of the people, might prove futile ~ for the establishment has no moral rules.

"The way the Clinton campaign has been red-baiting Sanders is unfortunate ~ and tone deaf. According to NBC, 43% of Iowa Dems identify themselves more closely with socialism (sharing, helping) than with capitalism (greed, inequality). Most polls now show young adults (18-35) across America prefer socialism (fairness) to capitalism (selfishness). So, what is democratic socialism? It's having a true democracy where everyone has a seat at the table, where everyone has a voice, not just the rich.": Michael Moore

 

Allen L Roland, PhD

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2016/02/standing-with-michael-moore-for-bernie.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.

 

OCW WAVE WILL SOON BECOME A TSUNAMI / WALL STREET BEWARE

Every city that joins the Occupy Wall Street movement is another Banderilla placed in the back of a corrupt capitalistic system whose days are numbered. This movement started as a ripple, is now a wave and will soon become a people led Tsunami which will change America forever: Allen L Roland

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. - Epicurus

There is something glorious in the people led Occupy Wall Street movement for it is rooted in the moral imperatives of justice, self-sacrifice and social responsibility.

The New York Times reports that a recent poll shows that 54% of Americans have a favorable impression of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which is twice the 27% who have a favorable impression of the Tea Party movement. The apparent reason is the Tea Party sees itself as stressing only individual responsibility ~ whereas the Occupation Wall Street Movement is stressing both individual and social responsibility

Chris Hedges calls it non historical values ~ “values closer to Martin Luther King than Abby Hoffman ... the movement eschews the hedonism of the New Left; indeed it does not permit drugs or alcohol in Zuccotti Park. It denounces the consumer culture and every evening shares its food with the homeless, who also often sleep in the park. But, most important, it eschews, through a nonhierarchical system of self-governance, the deadly leadership cults that plagued and ultimately destroyed the movements of the 1960s.” http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/24-1

And therein lays its magnificence ~ OCW is rooted in truth, fairness and social responsibility which were once the underpinnings of our once great Republic.

We have obviously forgotten the words of Benjamin Franklin ~ " Wise and good men are, in my opinion, the strength of the state; much more so than riches and arms.”

As I stated on Press TV Saturday night ~ Occupy Wall Street will soon become Occupy America and any politician that does not heed its call for real moral and economic change, including President Obama, will be left in its wake. Occupy Wall Street is also the global elites’ greatest nightmare for their dreams of a new world order cemented in debt and controlled by the IMF and secretive Federal Reserve will also be cast aside by ripped off taxpayers as is apparently now happening in Greece ~ which could soon become Occupy Greece.

This should sound familiar ~ First, there's the media story and hymns of self-congratulations by the EU politicians.

Then there are the numbers and the details of the bail out deal.

The gap is big enough to drive a Mack truck through...

and Max Keiser does.

Video: Six minutes http://www.realecontv.com/page/5538.html

As Robert Reich recently wrote ~ “You don't have to be an occupier of Wall Street to conclude the Street is still out of control. And that's dangerous for all of us.”

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Michael Moore correctly reports on the immensity of this OCW movement from Occupy Oakland, California ~ where he obviously grasps the collective anger of millions of Americans who are getting off the couch and making their presence felt;

“ This movement is not about candidates or bills ~ it’s about presence”

“ The Congress and Senate are employed by Wall Street and k Street ( its lobbying arm ) ~ not the people”

“ Capitalism 2011 is now an evil system set up to support the few at the expense of the many”

Here’s Michael Moore on the Anderson Cooper Show Live from Occupy Oakland. Six minute must see video on what OCW is really all about. http://therealnews.com/t2/component/seyret/?task=videodirectlink&id=11234

Get off the couch ~ there is no change without action and action always involves risk or difficulty ~ which makes the resultant change, as Epicurus wrote, far more glorious.

As such, this is change we can finally believe in.

Allen L Roland

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/ocw-wave-will-soon-become-tsunami-wall.html

Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com )

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net