As the U.S. attempts to move past the charade of the 2016 U.S. Presidential nomination and election process--and as we wade through the near endless promulgation of propaganda and pedestrian analysis, as well as ignorance, misdirection, and “limited hangout”[1] in the mass and social media, which flaunts its adherence to logical fallacy--we are compelled to provide advice, based on nearly a half-century of applying the lessons of political science and economics that we first learned at Stanford University, in the classroom and in the streets, during those tumultuous times of the late ‘60’s, protesting the war in Vietnam and U.S. imperialism, which carried us forward--through decades of political activism, research, and public debate--to the present.
This body of work includes a home rule charter and various public laws for the smallest independent municipality in Colorado. Among these legal templates are election laws, aspects of which were adopted by Boulder County, which in turn greatly influenced the vote-by-mail movement in the U.S., before the system was hijacked via electronic voting systems, as we shall show here.
In addition to this political and economic framework for municipalities and counties, we helped found Colorado Public Television, and worked as the station manager there, as well as a producer, writer, and director--production roles which we later reprised at Rocky Mountain PBS. Our career as a journalist also includes broadcast radio, cable TV, newspapers, magazines, and web-based content and multimedia.
This was followed in 2010 as one of five founders of the Public Banking Institute, which has successfully initiated a movement responsible for legislation for publicly owned banks being introduced in more than 20 states and numerous municipalities. Closer to home, this led to our founding Colorado Public Banking, which, four times, brought the question of a state-owned bank through the initiative process, to be denied each time by the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the state government, as detailed in our blog, http://coloradopublicbanking.blogspot.com/.[2]
Whether or not our cumulative expertise is valued by average laypersons any more than the opinions that they hold--based on their beliefs that the narratives, political preferences, and litanies that they have been taught, and which they repeat with great pride--remains to be seen; but, at a minimum, we publish this for those responsible for the more than 135,000 page views, over the past three and one-third years, of our blog, where many of the ideas presented in our upcoming book, 7 Steps to Global Economic and Spiritual Transformation, were first published.
We would also observe that many of those, who insist on their unfounded and illogical beliefs and opinions, would, regarding their own field or specialty, object to someone--whose education in that subject matter consisted entirely of absorbing ideas from the mass and social media--offering unfounded beliefs and opinions that they insist are on equal terms with those of the professional with whom they are debating. This observation is draw directly from our experience with the critical reactions to our own work, where we hold up such parroted beliefs and opinions to the scrutiny of logic, including the identification of logical fallacies and sophistry that pass as intelligent thought in the mass and social media, in a society where the educational system has been purposefully stunted. As Orwell noted, the destruction of language and thought enables the theft of freedom.
In the U.S., such hubris regarding one’s own political opinions is encouraged, because that is the fundamental catechism by which the mass delusion of democracy is sold. To maintain political positions based on beliefs and opinions formed by propaganda, one must live in denial of the truth. A recent example of how far such denial goes is the reaction of Clinton supporters to the emails sent, by whistleblowers inside the Democratic National Committee and the Department of State, to WikiLeaks, which published them.
Consider how the DNC and the candidate tried to pull the McCarthy red-baiting card and blame Russia for interfering in the U.S. election process, in a vain attempt to distract us from the content of the emails, which are authentic and verifiable from other sources (which is why the DNC fired its chairperson, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and why Clinton ditched her most trusted assistant, Homa Abedin). In the social media, the blue party and its supporters passed around a meme dismissing the emails as irrelevant compared to crimes of the red party candidate, or previous administrations. The problem with this line of reasoning is that the emails reveal crimes on the part of Clinton and her associates far beyond anything that Trump has ever done, even if he is also a criminal. The fact that the Bush-Cheney and Obama-Biden administrations engaged in equal atrocities--before and during Clinton's term as Secretary of State--is beside the point, like an old playground excuse, “They did it and got away with it, so why shouldn’t we.”
Yes, Trump obliged the puppet masters by consistently putting his foot in his mouth three times a day, spouting racist and misogynist remarks, and flaunting his entitled mogul indifference to the law, while setting up Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.[3] Given that Facebook was “brought public” by Goldman Sachs, and Twitter was “brought public" by JPMorgan Chase, all of this ranting provided rich details on the identification of racists, bigots, and misogynists, for the consumption of the FBI, NSA, and others.[4] Further, the emails reveal that what Clinton says in public, to maintain her blue brand and followers who believe her a liberal, is in stark contrast to the war crimes,[5] racist[6] and anti-feminist laws,[7] treasonable offenses,[8] violations of U.S. security clearance laws,[9] tax evasion,[10] and more that she has engaged in, just as one of her own emails says about the need to say one thing in public and do another in private.
Clinton’s supporters point to the fact that she has never been indicted, relying on a misapplied tenet that “one is innocent until proven guilty.” Such a tenet is only true in a democracy, which is not the political process now operating in the U.S.; rather, when bank holding companies and corporations control the state, what we have is fascism. In a fascist state, the criminals running the show are never indicted.
For example, look at the puppet masters who control the red and blue parties: The Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel.[11] They have committed worldwide fraud repeatedly,[12] without ever being indicted for their crimes by the Attorney General of the U.S., who works for them, when he’s not overseeing their regulation.[13]
"Of course we will have fascism in America but we will call it democracy!" --Huey Long
So, what exactly did we just witness during the “nomination” and “election” of the next President of the United States.
“... Presidents are not elected, but selected by a small elite.” —Franklin Roosevelt, in a letter to Edward Mandel House
While the script for this election season was written long ago,[14] the actual events serve as telling examples of how the system operates and how, given the many levers of control, the puppet masters are able to fluidly adapt and alter their strategy in response to changes on the ground. We do not mean to say that Trump was the original selection——he was as surprised by his appointment as everyone else but when conditions changed, the redirection of events were successfully navigated (including Hillary Clinton's fabrication of #russiagate), while the internationalized and militarized local police forces dished out the usual abuse to protesters, who found the succession of events intolerable and implausible.
On the other hand, if one believes that the “whistleblowers” who provided the DNC and State Department emails to WikiLeaks were part of the puppet masters’ strategy from the beginning, then that would mean that Trump was the original selection, and that his ugly antics were a means to empower, identify, and draw to the red silo the underbelly of American ignorance and hatred, for the purposes of keeping the masses divided, as well as having their proclivities identified to the intelligence services. In either case, Trump’s appointment has accomplished the same purpose that he served as a foil, even if it required an obvious hack of the electronic voting machines.
Once the analyses of the independent exit polls versus the reported vote arrived, we were able to see that the results of the blue primary were rigged for Clinton, in at least 12 states[15] (and here), with the red party presidential primary relatively untainted, other than the corporate media extolling Trump’s candidacy at that time, and the corporate polls cooking the numbers to generate momentum. As the WikiLeaks DNC emails show, the plan from the beginning was to support, as first choice, a Trump bid, to make Clinton look like the lesser of two evils,[16] and sure enough, when it came to the actual campaign, the Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel, which controls the corporate media and polls, and electronic voting machines, had Trump playing the part of an ignorant buffoon.
But the release by WikiLeaks of emails, provided by insiders at the DNC and Department of State, made Clinton’s appointment untenable--intended or not--given the criminal evidence that the messages contain (even if she is never indicted, as is the case with top-level criminals in any system run by private bank holding companies and their corporations).
The most damning evidence in the emails are:
1) the expressed intent to destroy confidential emails (thus proving that Clinton was involved and that the FBI covered it up);
2) Clinton’s admission that Saudi Arabia and Qatar fund ISIS, while being among the largest contributors to the Clinton Foundation (before and after she was Secretary of State) and, in the case of Saudi Arabia, the recipients of the largest arms sale in history (over $60 billion), while Clinton was Secretary of State--plus a number of other entries like this that establish the “pay to play” scam being run while she was in office;
3) that the Clinton campaign organization had an agreement with Sanders from the beginning about what he would and would not say, and that his job was to bring the left into the blue silo and, eventually, into Clinton’s camp (a strategy he has followed since the 1990s); which explains Sanders’ switch at the end, and his current position as the lead in “rebuilding the Democratic Party”[17];
4) how a number of well-known corporate network news journalists were vehicles for Clinton’s campaign;
5) and, most damning, a note between intelligence agents discussing Clinton's role in the death of Vince Foster.
So, the preponderance of evidence indicates that the cartel had to switch horses in mid-stream, and make relatively quick adjustments in how the corporate exit polls and electronic voting machines would produce the desired result for the Presidential race, as well as how each of the most viable third parties (Libertarian and Green) would be denied in their attempt to achieve 5% of the vote, and get a permanent place on the federal ballot.
The exit polls from the Presidential race show hacking in favor of the red party in all the swing states.[18] These are the electoral votes that put Trump over the top. Essentially, then, what we see in the primaries and general election is that the puppet masters twisted the results to suit both their near and long-term objectives. It's a reasonably effective illusion, given the large numbers of people who buy into it, but it is, never-the-less, an illusion that is dissipating.
Because of the clumsy scenarios used to (s)elect Clinton and Trump as the blue and red candidates, a number of stock methods used by the cartel to enforce their objectives became apparent.
For example, note the candidacies of Bernie Sanders and of Trump, and their effectiveness at gathering the more extreme sectors of the left and right and keeping a plausible number of these people within the blue and red silos.
It is difficult to know whether the politicians and celebrities who were recruited to argue for this abandonment of independent third-party candidacies was witting or unwitting collusion, but there is some evidence to show that much of this came by the threat of force.[19] For example, after the blue party nomination of Clinton had been conjured by every type of vote fraud imaginable, a legal aide for Sander's campaign's lawsuit was "suicided", and the lawsuit subsequently disappeared from public consciousness. Another example: an FBI agent believed to be responsible for the latest email leaks "pertinent to the investigation" into Hillary Clinton’s private email server while she was Secretary of State, was found dead.
Perhaps this type of persuasion influenced Sanders, who earlier warned his followers not to listen to him if he endorsed another candidate (video has been removed), and partially explains why he was willing to abandon all his principles to back Clinton and attempt to steer his supporters into working within the blue party. And the same goes for Senator Elizabeth Warren. All of a sudden, Sanders and Warren, who staunchly attacked the world’s largest banks, owners of the Federal Reserve, for worldwide fraud and theft, suddenly backed the banks’ loyal foot soldier, Clinton, who willingly ordered the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of third world people, and the destruction of their SOVEREIGN nations and their infrastructure, as well as the theft of their resources, including oil and gold reserves.
And then there is the long list of celebrities who endorsed Clinton, in an effort to make her wholly unsuccessful campaign--which drew an average audience of 378 persons to her appearances, compared the thousands that showed up for Sanders--look plausible. Worse yet, after the (s)election, many of these same celebrities, as well as some who endorsed Jill Stein (apparently with the idea of eventually diverting these supporters)--including Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, Marianne Williamson, Robert Reich, and other film stars, musicians, and pundits--now tell us to work within the Democratic Party, behind Sanders who has become “the Congressional leader” of the captured left, funneling his followers into working within a wholly corrupt party.[20]
As the bankers themselves admitted long ago, the red and blue political parties are a means to waste our time and keep the focus off of their illicit activities:
“We must go forward cautiously and consolidate each acquired position, because already the inferior social stratum of society is giving unceasing signs of agitation. Let us make use of the courts. When, through the law’s intervention, the common people shall have lost their homes, they will be more easy to control and more easy to govern, and they shall not be able to resist the strong hand of the Government acting in accordance with the control of the leaders of finance.
“We must keep the people busy with political antagonisms. We’ll therefore speed up the question of (fill in the blank) within the Democratic Party; and we’ll put the spotlight on (fill in the blank) [for] the Republican Party. By dividing the electorate in this way, we’ll be able to have them spend their energies at struggling amongst themselves on questions that, for us, have no importance whatsoever.” —US Bankers magazine, 1892 (Sarah E. Van De Vort Emery, Imperialism in America: Its Rise and Progress, Emery & Emery, 1893, pp. 71-72, as quoted in the Chicago Daily Press)
The reaction of the left-leaning masses to this manipulation, including the employment of saboteurs and agent provocateurs by cartel executives such as George Soros, was to be led by the nose into protests, which included violence to property, apparently to serve as a further excuse for the internationalization and militarization of our domestic police forces,[21] as well as the use of the National Guard to quell domestic protests against corporate theft of the nation’s resources,[22] and the blatant racism of corporate policies and its police forces, courts, legislatures, judiciary, and executive branch puppets.
Meanwhile, distractions (false messaging and fake news) abound, for example:
• Vote fraud versus voter fraud: In an effort to hide its vote fraud strategy, the cartel attempts to change the focus from vote fraud (that is, the theft of votes via electronic voting machines, voter suppression via Crosscheck, gerrymandering, elimination of polling stations, and party registration switches) to voting fraud (individual instances of vote fraud, such as voting multiple times, or ineligible voters) to diminish and marginalize the public’s understanding of the greater theft that has been perpetrated.
• War refugees versus immigration: In an effort to hide the results of the slaughter they have perpetrated across the globe, the cartel and the media shift the focus from war refugees to immigration as an isolated subject not tied to their illegal wars, which they have justified by the staging of false flag events. Additionally, the long and the lethal history of Islam (which, like Christianity, grew through proselytizing, forced conversions, and torture) is ignored.
• Electoral College versus popular vote: In an effort to hide its hacking of electronic voting machines and other means of altering the vote totals across the country, the cartel pushes memes in corporate mass and social media regarding the popular vote versus the electoral college, while ignoring the original basis for such a process (i.e., state sovereignty [each state having two seats in the Senate] versus population representation [each state having a proportional number of seats based on population in the House of Representatives]).
• Democratic republic versus democracy: In an effort to hide our actual form of government, which is corporate control over the state (fascism), the cartel pushes confusion over the political processes governing the nation; for example, concerted attempts to cloud the fact that a democracy using paper ballots necessarily operates within the framework of a republic, as long as the Constitution requires elected representatives (which is one of the identifying characteristics of a republic).
• Third parties versus the red-blue charade: In an effort to keep third parties from having a permanent place on the federal ballot, the cartel limits its televised (major networks) debates to the red and blue parties, and promulgates discussions of how the red or blue party can win back its traditional constituency, whenever one or the other is defeated. Stories and memes are then planted in the corporate ("slanted news and/or limited hangout") press that attempt to show that third parties cost one candidate or the other the election, ignoring the theft of the election via voter suppression techniques and electronic vote switching.
• History versus fiction: In an effort to hide the key dialectic of the history of Europe and the United States for the last 500 years, the cartel has made a concerted effort to alter the historical record to cover up the role that privately controlled central banks have played in determining events. In the U.S. for example, this data cleansing includes twisting the stories of those who played significant roles in banking and currency matters, including Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln. A recent example of how twisted the narrative has become is the incident involving the cast of the popular musical “Hamilton,” which called out the then Vice President-elect, Mike Pence, for his racist and misogynist views. The irony of the cast’s actions is that in their production they are popularizing Hamilton, a man who sold the fledgling nation--via the creation of the First Bank of the United States, which was wholly owned by the privately controlled Bank of England--back to the British bankers whose mercenaries the colonists had just defeated on the battlefields; that is, Hamilton was a traitor, who worked for the same cartel to which Trump, Pence, and the entire red and blue parties are beholden. Meanwhile, an earlier musical depicted Jackson (who refused to sign an extension of the charter of the Second Bank of the United States, also controlled by the Bank of England) as a racist, ignoring that Washington and Jefferson were also slave owners (So much for the "politically correct" version of history, which ignores context by judging the past with present standards. Such revisionists would do well to ponder Jefferson's lament, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever ..." [Notes on the State of Virginia, "Query XVIII"] in the context of our present illegal wars around the globe. ). The upshot is that Jackson will be removed from the currency, and his opposition to the Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel (which resulted in more than a half dozen assassination attempts on his life) will be jettisoned "down the memory tube" (to borrow an expression from Orwell's 1984).
Through all of these distractions, the agenda and actions of the U.S. government (in service to the bank holding companies and their corporations) do not change from Clinton to Bush to Obama to Trump: worldwide bank fraud goes unpunished; wars for control of banking, currency, oil, gold, and strategic geo-political targets continue to slaughter millions, create refugees, and provide unending distractions, while healthcare and education are eviscerated, all at a great profit to the few; and racism and sexism are used to further divide the people.
Yet, during this worst political season on record, the transparency of criminal actions by the red and blue parties and their candidates has served to educate millions of people as to the nature of the planetary power structure, which will hopefully feed a politically independent movement capable of overcoming the forces of devolution and to bring about the necessary steps for human evolution and a progressive and spiritual world.
Footnotes:
[1] “Limited hangout” is a term used by intelligence agencies to describe a particular type of propaganda that they generate to mislead by mixing some facts (which perhaps have already been compromised) with lies that misdirect the target audience.
[2] The blog also includes essays on various political and economic topics.
[3] http://coloradopublicbanking.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-plan-from-beginning-was-lesser-of.html
[4] Well-funded studies, e.g., “Identifying optimal targets of network attack by belief propagation,” arXiv:1603.05781v3 [physics.soc-ph] 28 Jun 2016; and “Mathematical analysis of the spreading of a rumor among different subgroups of spreaders,” R. Isea and R. Mayo-García, Pure and Applied Mathematics Letters (2015), Vol. 2015, pp 50-54.
[5] As a U.S. Senator, Clinton voted for the invasion of Iraq, and as Secretary of State, she was the principle advocate for the invasion and destruction of Libya, which ended with her gloating over Qaddafi’s brutal murder (http://giphy.com/gifs/3oz8xEZ9n98C4zgxby). Literally, every incursion of the U.S. military (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, Syria, etc.) is in violation of international law and the Geneva Convention.
[6] Hillary Clinton has been a staunch supporter of her husband’s legislation (Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) that increased the incarceration of African-Americans 50% before the end of Bill Clinton’s term as President (http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/22/hillary-clinton-the-anti-woman-feminist/)
[7] “Clinton was instrumental in ginning up support for the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). This bill, passed with the support of a right wing Republican Congress, effectively ended welfare programs designed to provide real assistance to women and children in desperate need.” (http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/22/hillary-clinton-the-anti-woman-feminist/)
[8] Clinton’s emails at the Department of State show that she was aware that two of the largest donors to The Clinton Foundation (which the Clintons use as a write-off and to receive funds from corporations and individuals, domestic and foreign, in exchange for services and favors)—Saudi Arabia and Qatar are also the two states that fund ISIS, against whom we are (supposedly) at war.
[9] Emails from John Podesta to Hillary Clinton show criminal intent to destroy Confidential emails on her private server.
[10] http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines-2016/fact-check-hillary-said-90-of-clinton-foundation-donations-go-to-charity-actual-number-57
[11] https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354-500-revealed-the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world/, http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746, and http://dowbor.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf
[12] http://coloradopublicbanking.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-running-tab-on-bank-fraud.html
[13] http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/31208-eric-holder-wall-street-double-agent-comes-in-from-the-cold
[14] There is something eerie about seeing Trump enact the exact same gestures, at the same angle, on the exact same conveyance, from a cartoon broadcast decades earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irrbuaiUMVw.
[15] http://trustvote.org/latest-updates/vote-fractionalizing-and-election-theft/ and http://www.opednews.com/articles/CA-Exit-Polls-reveal-23-D-by-Stephen-Fox-21st-Century-Tammany-Hall-New-York_Andrew-Jackson_Bernie-Sanders-2016-Presidential-Candidate_Brooklyn-And-Bronx-Disenfranchisement-160615-269.html
[16] http://coloradopublicbanking.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-plan-from-beginning-was-lesser-of.html
[17] http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/40282-focus-bernie-sanders-the-democrats-must-become-a-party-that-feels-the-pain-of-working-class-people
[18] https://richardcharnin.wordpress.com/2016/11/12/implausible-the-2016-unadjusted-exit-poll-ohio/, http://tdmsresearch.com/2016/11/10/2016-presidential-election-table/, and http://www.alternet.org/something-stinks-when-exit-polls-and-official-counts-dont-match
[19] http://www.usasupreme.com/assange-bernie-sanders-was-threatened-to-drop-out-of-the-race/
[20] http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/11/16/winning-back-working-class-time-reckoning-progressives and http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/40227-focus-its-time-for-progressives-to-seize-control-of-the-democratic-party
[21] http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/manufactured-civil-unrest-leaked-docs-prove-the-real-goal-is-federalizing-americas-police.html
[22] For example, the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Copyright, Robert Bows, 2016
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