The immediate reactions to Bernie Sanders' announcement that he is once again running for President are as predictable as they are sad. Apparently, the actual vote totals (not the reported vote totals) from the 2016 general election revealed a major trend towards progressive ideas, thus it has become necessary to convince real progressives to vote for blue political party marketing brand #fakeprogressives, then appoint some of these #fakeprogressives to Congress, where the progressive ideas they were espousing will die a long and tortuous death. This is the reasoning behind the 2018 mid-term appointments of a sampling of #fakeprogressives to the Congress, and it is the reasoning behind the #fakeprogressives running for the blue party marketing brand 2020 nomination for President.
Before discussing the details of Sanders fall—from someone who, early on, was motivated to join the civil rights movement and who was then converted (possibly by threats—the cartel's modus operandi) to a corporate shill who is allowed to propose progressive ideas (and here)—it’s important to understand the global power structure as it is delineated by various peer-reviewed studies. The key point of these studies is that a cartel of the world’s largest private banks control the central banks, multinational corporations, and governments of the US, UK, France, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and many other countries.
In that context, following the announcement of the cartel’s newest illegal attempted coup d’état in Venezuela, and after waiting more than a day to respond, Sanders tweeted the following:
“The Maduro government has waged a violent crackdown on Venezuelan civil society, violated the constitution by dissolving the National Assembly and was re-elected last year in an election many observers said was fraudulent. The economy is a disaster and millions are migrating.”
Regarding the elections in Venezuela, which Sanders called undemocratic, they are considered to be among the most honest in the world, far above those held here in the states, by many experts, including former President Jimmy Carter. Second, the Venezuelan National Assembly has been in contempt of court since 2016, because it appointed three disqualified lawmakers due to voting irregularities. And third, the economic crisis in Venezuela is a direct result of U.S. sanctions. So, Sanders’ position on Venezuela is reactionary, not progressive. Simply put, he is aligned with those committing war crimes around the globe.
This is an important point, because it frames a larger picture of how both blue and red parties and their presidents have supported the same agenda:
• Bill Clinton's crime bill started the acceleration of African-American incarceration; he also de-regulated Wall Street, which led directly to the financial crimes that precipitated the 2008 crash. He could also be indicted for War Crimes in Bosnia.• Under George W. Bush, the cartel used a false flag event (which they famously told us they would do in 1999 in "The Project for a New American Century" white paper) to break the Geneva Convention and invade and destroy a series of sovereign nations that controlled their own central bank and currency, committing a new set of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, and illegally shredding various constitutional rights, while continuing Clinton's policy of mass incarceration of African Americans.
• All of the above continued under Obama, on whose watch surveillance of U.S. citizens was expanded, the wars were expanded, banking executives got off scot-free for continuous crimes, and the insurance industry gave us a bait-and-switch health care rip-off, instead of single payer.
• Under Trump, all these crimes continue to expand.
All that the POTUS does is read the teleprompter. The presidents are puppets, hand-chosen by the cartel.
“... Presidents are not elected, but selected by a small elite.” —Franklin Roosevelt, in a letter to Edward Mandel House
Going back to the last campaign, we see two versions of Sanders: first, a "social democrat"—that is, a capitalist who supports a social safety net—refusing corporate cash and criticizing corporate Democrats; and second, a corporate Democrat, dutifully playing by the party’s rules, courting billionaires, refusing to address the blatant fraud of the Democratic Party in rigging the primaries for Clinton, refusing to address the massive voting irregularities that occurred in state after state, and, finally, endorsing Democrats who espouse positions he once denounced.
Later, in a court case involving these frauds, the Democratic Party claimed it was under no obligation to conduct fair elections and that it could nominate whomever it wanted, in essence admitting it is a tool of corporate capitalism, and not a political party. The judge agreed with the blue party's lawyers!
Sanders, who calls himself an independent—to align with the self-concept of his Vermont constituency—caucuses with the Democratic Party, which determines his assignments in the Senate. In fact, he has a long history of working within the corporate cartel’s blue party marketing brand going back to his time in the Vermont state legislature and his tenure as mayor of Burlington.
Sanders’ decision to solicit contributions from the financiers who funded the Hillary Clinton campaign and who control the Democratic Party betrayed the core promise of his campaign. Eight of 13 staffers in his ongoing organization resigned in protest.
Worse yet, the DNC emails leaked to WikiLeaks and later published reveal that Sanders had agreed to run for the nomination to ensure that Clinton won. And let's not forget that Sanders agrees with Clinton on bringing Edward Snowden to trial.
After the election, Sanders adopted the cartel’s strategy of blaming the Russians for Trump’s appointment when, in fact, there has never been any proof of this, as even the corporate media is now admitting, and, in fact, the evidence from independent exit polls clearly indicate that the electronic voting and counting machines are hacked by those who manufacture and program them—that is, the international banking cartel and its corporations.
None of this should surprise us. Going back further, during the 1990s, the not-so "independent" Congressman Sanders voted for and/or otherwise supported:
• Economic sanctions that killed more than a million Iraqi civilians
• Every U.S. bombing of Iraq from 1992 on
• The sending of U.S. military units to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to threaten Iraq because "we cannot tolerate aggression"
• The objectively racist mass-incarcerations of African-Americans and others that resulted from Bill Clinton’s Federal Crime bill.
• Every US intervention since elected to Congress—Iraq, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Liberia, Zaire (Congo), Albania, Sudan, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia.
Moving forward, Sanders backed Obama’s numerous murderous military actions and provocations around the world, from Libya, Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Iraq to China, Ukraine, and Russia. His views on foreign policy remain aligned with corporate-controlled lock-stepped blue party pseudo-liberals.
As discussed in our article on the fake progressivism of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and "the Squad," the blue political party marketing brand is making a concerted effort to lure real progressives under its tent, to keep them from voting for third-party candidates. This comes after a massive suppression of vote reporting for Jill Stein, which is why three swing states (which were manipulated for Trump in 2016) broke the law and refused to audit the vote. Thus, Sanders has suggested to split U.S. foreign aid to Israel with "the Palestinians," that is, Hamas, which runs Gaza. Sanders seems to think that money going to Gaza would go to "humanitarian" aid, rather than used by Hamas to attack Israel. This willful ignorance and avoidance of a 1400-year religious war between Islam and Judaism, and the aim of Hamas and Hezb'Allah to wipe Israel from the map, follows the same pattern of all failed solutions to the hostilities in the Levant.
On June 7, 2019, Brig.-Gen. Morteza Ghorbani, an adviser to the Chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), called on the region's Muslim countries to join Iran. Instead of "seeking the wishes and objectives of the global arrogance and the Zionists," all Muslim countries should back Iran, Ghorbani explained, because "together, we can establish an Islamic superpower." (here)September 6, 2019: "The Zionist Entity of "Israel" is living its last days, said Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, head of the Iranian army, saying the fall of "Israel” will occur in the near future." (here)
September 9, 2019: "... Hezbollah is NOT playing a silly tit-for-tat game with Tel Aviv drones and toy-size weapons, it is currently quietly playing for ... the liberation of Galilean Arab land from Jewish occupation. A consequential military mission that is engineered to initiate the road to the liberation of Jerusalem and the whole of Historic Palestine." —"Hezbollah Will Liberate the Galilee," Plato’s Guns, September 8, 2019 (here)
This will certainly draw historically ignorant so-called progressives into Sander's camp. For this declaration, Sander's won the endorsement of Ilhan Omar, who takes money from Turkish forces that support Erdogan. Erdogan is in the midst of ethnic cleansing the Kurds, and threatening Turkish Jews with the same treatment. Under Erdogan’s watch, Turkey has become the world’s leading jailer of journalists, according to Amnesty International. For example, Turkish novelist Ahmet Altan was just released from prison after spending three years incarcerated on trumped-up charges. Of course, the same thing is going on in the U.S.; for example, the arrest of Max Blumenthal.
In summary, Sanders promises legislation that would help working people, the elderly, and the poor while he repeatedly blocks the building of a political movement and party that might actually make such promises legitimate. Whatever Sanders was during the Civil Rights movement is gone. He is controlled by the same forces that control the U.S. government.
Copyright 2019,
Robert Bows
Good read! Some great insight. I was a Sanders supporter myself upon the debut of his presidential campaign. It is more clear day by day that all politics are a big puppet show. Thanks Bob.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, Drake!
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