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Saturday, 12 November 2016

Reassesing assumptions

Initial reflections on events in North America
Seemorerocks


I have had to step back since the US election earlier in the week – partially to take stock but also because,in addition to continuing to feel generally unwell have had a sore back that has affected everything and has refused to go away.

In the last five or so years I have had to reassess many previous assumptions.

Through most of my life I have been on the Left and a socialist but rapidly-developing events have seen me reassess this.

Frstly, Mike Ruppert helped me to see that any political philosophy (whether neo-liberalism or socialism) is based on the assumption of “more”, of
‘infinite growth”

Then, the more I know about abrupt and catastrophic climate change the more I realise that nobody has any solutions – because the problems are inherent in what Guy McPherson calls “this set of living arrangements”.

Or to take another quote, we’re “damned if we do and damned if we don’t."

The Left, and in particular,socialism, has always meant for me, social ownership and control of the means of production and has always implied being part of the movement against imperialism, fascism and for peace.

It has never meant “progressive” social policies, still less “political correctness”.

My sense of social justice has meant that I am sympathetic to feminism and to rights for the gay community (right up to being happy to give some support to same-sex marriage).

However, what I have been observing Is that the liberal Left has put these policies on a pedestal while vilifying societies that have made rational choices not to follow the western model, as “fascist”.

This has reached the point where “reasonable” people, people I would have hobnobbed with in the past are baying for war with Russia and wanting to destroy Syria and very obviously – its Christian communites.

Now we are seeing these self-same “democrats” who were accusing Donald Trump of violence and racism while going out into the street and expressing their disagreement (often in a less than peaceful manner) with the result of a democratic election where a majority voted for Trump.



Actually, probably not so much more for Trump but against war, against corruption and cronyism. They are expressing shock and anger over something that they should have seen a mile off. They should have been able to see Wikileaks and the inconvenient (for them) truths that were being revealed.

Instead of that we have a violent reaction and even calls for Trump’s assasination.

This has been bizarre for me because I have been forced to listen to voices I would have eshewed in the past. Fox News, Paul Joseph Watson, Alex Jones and Info Wars for God’s sake! I have to reluctantly recognise that these people that I dislike intensely often (far from always!) carry a lot of truth – certainy more than CNN or the Guardian!

There is disinformation on both sides of the divide so we have to constantly be on the look-out if we want the truth but events are moveing so quickly that I have to admit I can’t double-check everything I post. I certainly don’t stand by everything but by posting different, often opposing viewpoints that people can make up their own minds and find some clarity in contradictory and confusing events.

In short, I see Trump as a consequence, even a symbol.

What we are witnessing is an impersonal process in which everything is breaking down at the same time . Trump, Clinton, Obama and all the others are no more or no less actors in this drama.

Take Trump out of the picture and there would have been another Trump

These are my rather confused thoughts right now.


In the meantime everyone with honesty and integrity that is feeling fear and uncertainty in the midst of these events that I don’t see calming down in any way, has my thoughts and prayers.

 Case in point  is Paul Joseph Watson who is ahrd to disagree with in this video



Ditto



I was rather impressed by Steve of Israeli News. Instead of taking questions about a story about convoys of buses in Austin, Texas. Instead of defending a fixed position, or still worse "debunking" a story he tries his best to investigate and see where the truth lies.

The people of Facebook who "debunk", solely based on the source are lazy and, in my mind contemptible.

I am unable to follow every story up with this details and can mistakes.

Mistakes is what they are.


Chris Hedges is absolutely right here. The failure of the political class in the Untied States has led to the unleashing of forces that can only be described as proto-fascist although right now we are seeing the violence, racism and anti-democratic stance is coming from the Left.




It is normal to protest against the actions of politicians – it is unprecedented to protest against the result of an election and call for the removal (or worse) of a politician on that basis.


It is (perhaps) unrecedented for mainstream media to be cheering on mass protest on the streets. Where was CNN with Occupy Wall Street or the ongong DAPL protests?

Postscript: the only things that are absolutely predictable is social and political breakdown and collapse and ultimately the complet collapse of human, industrial society and the extinction of homo sapiens.
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Wednesday, 20 April 2016

The Stolen Vote in New York

There is no way I can ever do the American election circus justice. I wouldn't even try ihad it not beee for the fact that the fate of the world hangs on it.

 RT presents a good place to start when looking at the “elections” in America in which the results of the elections are transparently predetermined

To those who object to a Russian media source and might object that Russia is not a real democracy. The thing is whatever happens in Russia (and its nothing like what its painted by the presstitutes of the liberal media) it is simply what it is.

I’ve never heard Vladimir Putin say that Russia has the greatest democracy which it wants to export round the globe.

I know of another country that does.

I repeat the words - “If Trump wins he’ll destroy the US economy: if Clinton wins she’ll destroy the world”

Sanders’ campaign condemns NY voter irregularities that leave 125,000 Democrats disenfranchised

Voters use booths located on the stage at the polling center at the James Weldon Johnson Community Center during the New York primary elections in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City, U.S., April 19, 2016. © Andrew Kelly

RT,
19 April, 2016

Bernie Sanders’ campaign team has slammed reports of voting irregularities at the New York state primary as “absurd” after more than 125,000 Democrats were unable to cast their ballots due to a mixture of broken voting machines, missing ballots and purged voter rolls.

The figure of 125,000 accounted for voters registered in Brooklyn, the district where Sanders was born.

Thank you to all those who came out tonight in New York! Onward to five more states voting next week.
7:41 PM - 19 Apr 2016

Speaking to his supporters during a rally at Penn State University, the left-wing senator said it was “absurd” that voters in New York were having difficulty in being able to vote, or had wrongly been removed from the voting register.

“It is absurd that in Brooklyn, New York, where I was born, tens of thousands of people as I understand it have been purged from the voting rolls,” he told the rally. “It’s a little bit crazy that in upstate New York they open the polls at noon. What happens to people who get up early in the morning and have to go to work?”

125K voters disappear as the empire strikes back in the Empire state. Together we'll keep the rebellion alive.
7:15 PM - 19 Apr 2016

Even New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is a supporter of Hilary Clinton’s bid for the White House, says that major reforms need to take place, while he said that “numerous voters may have been disenfranchised.”

"It has been reported to us from voters and voting rights monitors that the voting lists in Brooklyn contain numerous errors, including the purging of entire buildings and blocks of voters from the voting lists," De Blasio said in a statement.

"The perception that numerous voters may have been disenfranchised undermines the integrity of the entire electoral process and must be fixed," he added.

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer issued a strong statement saying that an audit of the New York City Board of Elections (BOE) will take place, while he called the whole situation “chaotic” and “disorganized.”

"The people of New York City have lost confidence that the Board of Elections can effectively administer elections and we intend to find out why the BOE is so consistently disorganized, chaotic and inefficient," Stringer said.

The problems started early and were widespread, with several polling stations in New York City and elsewhere opening late.



In Hempstead, the polls opened half an hour late because the poll's chairman, the only person able to unlock the machines, hadn't arrived.

"I felt disenfranchised and dumbfounded," William Charpied told the New York Daily News. "It is difficult to understand how volunteers could be present while the single most important individual, the chairperson, was missing."

Cooper Park Houses polling site not open yet. Good morning disenfranchisement.
4:59 AM - 19 Apr 2016


Two hours after polls are meant to open in and our polling place isn't ready.
5:01 AM - 19 Apr 2016

In some places, including the Bishop Ford School in Windsor Terrace, the voter registration books for the latter half of the alphabet never showed up, Gothamist reported. There were no records there of voter names and signatures corresponding to last names N-Z.

"I told them my name and they just sort of looked up at me and said, 'We're sorry, we only have one of the books'," Leo Roth told Gothamist.

Broken ballot machines held up voting in at least one precinct. As of 11 a.m. local time, all the scanners at PS 216 in Gravesend were down, and it was unclear when two more would be delivered, according to Gothamist.

"Both our scanners are down ‒ it's horrible, we should have had four," a Board of Elections worker told voters, who were instructed to leave their filled-out ballots for agency employees to scan once the new machines arrived.


There was confusion on the ballots, too, at least in the 12th congressional district. While Democratic voters were told to select seven delegates, there were only six possible choices who supported candidate Bernie Sanders. His rival, Hillary Clinton, had seven potential delegates.

When Gothamists’s John Del Signore asked a poll worker what to do, she told him: "Oh, it doesn't matter. Some people don't even fill that part out."

He later found out from Democratic National Committee spokesperson Deshundra Jefferson that there is a process for what happens if Sanders wins the district, albeit a convoluted one.

"This means that the [Sanders] campaign only had 6 [delegates] to file while the Clinton campaign had 7. The total allocation will be proportionally allocated to the two candidates based on the results in that congressional district,” Jefferson said. 

“Finally, if a candidate had not slated enough delegate candidates, there is a process in the Delegate Selection Plan to allow for that candidate to elect the additional delegates."

You can pick 7 delegates for Clinton, just 6 for Sanders, but does this part matter? "Some people leave it blank"
4:19 AM - 19 Apr 2016

At the Lower East Side’s PS 20, Katelyn Glass, a registered Republican, was handed a Democratic ballot because they didn’t have any for GOP voters, she told Gothamist.

"I then came back and... told them I was a registered Republican, and they instructed me that they had no ballots for my table but I could either come back or just vote affidavit," Glass said. "The women in charge literally said, 'You're going to love this. They never delivered the Republican ballots. I'm a Democrat, but even I think this is a complete injustice’."

but it wasn't without incident. Please read this.
9:15 AM - 19 Apr 2016

lawsuit lawyers say fact that motion wasn't dismissed is good thing since it preserves right 2 contest election
12:21 PM - 19 Apr 2016

There was some movement on a lawsuit filed Monday by Election Justice USA on behalf of Democratic voters who claimed their party affiliation was changed without their consent. Because the New York primaries are closed, independents and unaffiliated voters are not able to participate in Tuesday’s hotly-contested primary.


While there was no hearing, the lawsuit wasn’t thrown out, either. Affected voters were told to ask for affidavit ballots (another name for provisional ballots), as they may be counted in the future, depending on the outcome of the court case.


The lawsuit is likely not going to affect voters who were not able to change their party affiliation in time, like Eric and Ivanka Trump, two of GOP candidate Donald Trump’s children.

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders sought to comfort independents who weren’t able to vote for him. The Brooklyn native gets boosts from non-Democrats in open primaries.

“Today, 3 million people in the state of New York who are independents have lost their right to vote in the Democratic and Republican primaries,” Sanders told an independent supporter who was unable to vote for the Vermont senator, according to The Hill newspaper. "That’s wrong.”
If correctly registered as Dem and weren't on rolls for , ask to vote via Affidavit. Don't wait for Injunctive Relief from court.
12:22 PM - 19 Apr 2016

“You’re paying for this election; it’s administered by the state, [and] you have a right to vote,” Sanders told Michael Cantalupo, a 21-year-old independent who had tried twice to register as a Democrat. "That’s a very unfortunate thing that I hope will change in the future.”

Cantalupo claims that last May the Department of Motor Vehicles lost his paperwork to change his party affiliation. When he tried again in December, it was already too late ‒ the deadline to switch parties before the closed primary had passed in October.


For its part, the New York Board of Elections blamed the counties for any voting problems.

NY Board of Election said they have nothing to do with the problems, are "not responsible for the counties"
12:09 PM - 19 Apr 2016
Other headlines

Sanders wins majority of NY counties despite Clinton victory

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton had a decisive victory in Tuesday’s New York presidential primary, but rival Bernie Sanders won a majority of the counties in the state.
The Vermont senator won most of the counties, including Albany County, where the capital is located.

This is how New York is voting for Sanders and Clinton:

7:38 PM - 19 Apr 2016

Clinton’s victory came largely from sweeping all of New York City’s boroughs and the surrounding counties, as well as the cities of Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse.
With 88 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton led Sanders by 15 points. She was declared the victor about 40 minutes after the polls closed at 9 p.m.
Her win in the Empire State, where she served two terms as a U.S. senator, was a significant boost as she sought to blunt Sanders’s recent winning streak.
Clinton will take a majority of New York’s 247 pledged delegates. She was ahead by 244 delegates entering Tuesday's primary, according to The Associated Press

Sanders expresses 'concern' over NY voting laws after primary defeat




 New Yorker, Anissa Naoui of RT explains things quite well

U.S. Election Primaries: Why your vote doesn’t mean a thing




 And sometimes humor is the best way of presenting the truth



Here is how the CNN presstitutes presented the whole circus



Here is the liberal Young Turks - "vote for the lesser Evil"

 And this gives some indication as to why a vote for Bernie might not be quite the revolution people think.




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