Sunday, January 24, 2016

How Could Sanders Possibly Lose?


On Hardball Friday’s episode was Ted Cruz day with all those writers from the National Review and Glen Beck and Mark LeVin against Trump.   Thursday it was all about Trump’s poll numbers being way up in Iowa over Cruz, with Rubio coming in third there.  Sanders is 51% in Iowa to Clinton’s 43% and Sanders is happy about that.   Nobody would trust Sarah Palin in a cabinet post.  The weather is overcast and they were specific about predicting rain today.   In terms of the Karl Rove ad in favor of Bernie Sanders and against Hillary, my philosophy is that I’ll take support for all comers.  I don’t care the motive.  It’s a statement that they support ME and not that I support THEM.  My only caviat would be to keep the identity of the ad low key and also that there would be no quid pro quo involved and that the support was free will.  There is that old Egyptian saying from “The Ten Commandments” of “It is pleasing to the Gods to see a man honored by his enemies”.   It’s a hell of a lot better than Sarah Palin supporting Donald Trump.  So when you think about it the way things really are- -Democrats have nothing to fear in terms of losing from a Bernie Sanders nomination.  What have the Republican’s got?  You have a choice between a sweaty, fast talking water gulper, or else a parody of a Southern Texas evangelist, or the ding-bat twins of Trump and Palin.  How could Sander’s lose giving that opposition? 

Well now Donald Trump has pushed the envelope further.  He says “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t go down in the polls”.  But if you don’t like that millionaire- - Mike Bloomburg, former New York mayor - - says he’ll throw his hat in the ring if either Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump or Ted Cruz gets nominated. He’ll run as an independent.   The snow storm on the east coast was a little worse than they were expecting.  The Jersey shore is getting wiped out again by a high sea tide thanks to the full moon and all.  Governor Christie returned to the state from campaigning to be a rally point to the people in the storm.  This is Sunday morning and Bill has the TV on.  This is the season of psychic imbalance.  I couldn’t sleep so I got up at five twenty.  I tried to lay down later with my clothes on.  Bill says it was blowing cold air out the vent which explains why it seems cold in this room even after a shower.  The heat just came on and it’s not cold air but it’s not as warm as it should be.  Glen says his room is like ours was last week with the heat going on all the time.  Why can’t Augustine get it right fiddling with the heat in the crawl space.   I was given three cigarettes from Bill this morning and I’ve already smoked two of them.  I was hoping for free coffee from Glenda this morning like I got yesterday.   I got medication from Tom at six and got cough medicine, and I’m almost out of that.  Last night I got medication from Donnie and Bill gave me his sandwich.  The Chicago Bulls beat the Cleveland Cavileers in Cleveland last night on KABC.   Glen had made it clear he was out of coffee so I didn’t even try.  I watched the Mc Laughlin group.  The first topic was Sarah Palin’s endorsement of trump.  Other topics were briefer but I fell asleep.  After the game was over I watched CSI or something on CBS. 

[Eight Days Ago] Rhapsody in Black featured January of 1954.  The problem is that they repeated four songs they had from October of 1953.  These were “Money Honey”, “Hole in the Wall” “My TV Mama with a big wide screen” by Joe Turner- - and “My soul’s on fire but I had my fun” by Le Verne Baker.  The best song they played all day was “Boogy Woogy” or whatever by Clyde Mc Phatter and the Drifters.  There was that coffin song "My jealous boyfriend has one just your size".  I think if they’d done January of 1955, which seemed more logical to me for them to do- - but Bill Gardner runs the show.


I had an idea for a blog entry of somewhat reorganizing and expanding our own “Tarot Card Deck”.  But I’m not going to bore my readers with it at this time except to say that Mal Evans wants to expand the thing to 26 cards for every letter of the English alphabet, after all we’re Englishmen and not Jews. The four bonus groups have already been picked out.   It will be eight long days till I get paid again.  Here is how the whole ZAC Tarot card deck breaks down.  Down below is a past of the posting from August of 2007, many long moons ago.  I've changed three groups since then.  I noted when this list was compiled we had "Robin Trower" as an alternate "The Sun" instead of The Jefferson Airplane".  Since the spring of 1980 Trower's name has cropped up on "The Sun" card occasionally.  We substituted Steely Dan in position thirteen and I'll leave it to you the group or artist we kicked out to make room for him.  We just now added "Earth Wind and Fire" in "Temperance" or position number eleven.  Guessing the origional group here will take some doing.  You better search it for yourselves.  OK Glen Fry added his two cents in to retain "Jefferson Airplane" in "The Sun" position twenty.  After reviewing every Jefferson Airplane album- - Fry concluded that "The music is really good" and deserves to stay.   We were going to replace them with "The Doors" but now we have other plans.  Mal Evans expanded the ZAC Tarot deck to 26 to conform to the Sirius A alphabet, which is basically English letters.  We needed four more groups and we turned to disciples of another dead rock star, Ron James Dio for that.  We needed four groups and one could say we used a small constintuancy for selecting them.  They are Black Sabbath, Ron Dio, Deep Purple, and the Doors.  These represent in the I Ching, "Heaven and Earth", "The oldest son and daughter", "the middle son and daughter", and "the youngest son and daughter".   The oldest son is thunder and lightning.  The oldest daughter is the tree or "wood".   This is a solid line with two broken lines on top of it in the I Ching.  When you put these triagrams on the back of a card however- - you have to put "the tree" upside down, so you will know when you get "the tree" you have an "upside down" Tarot card- - because whether a card is upside down or right side up is significant in the Tarot.  Capish?  We classify this whole "card" however Source - - Life.  Pink is the lightning and green is the tree.  The mother and father are as Fermion verses Bozon.  This is for Black Sabbath. The colors are black, or south for the earth, and white and north for Heaven.  For Deep Purple we have a correction.  The correct designation is "Follow - Oppose" because the water is the middle son hence masculine hence precedes the feminine, fire, which is the middle daughter.  So the next line or so is now inopperative but we'll leave it in to let you see our error (in brackets) that one of you readers pointed out.  (the middle offsprings) [ we call this "Lead - Follow" or east verses west.  Ron Dio himself came up with the idea of the word "Lead". ]  This differs from the Romulan where they have "Confront" referring to "the east" (in the Bible the really horrible battles always seem to come from the east) verses "Follow" so in Romulan West is the better direction.   We have red for fire and terquoise for "the waters".  Finally we have the Doors, where we have Inside - Outside, or the Mountain (youngest son) verses the Lake (youngest daughter).  The colors here are gold for the mountain and blue for the lake.  These allies from "The rainbow planet" are a constituancy Mal Evans is using in a hope to somehow regain his former power.  Here are the other cards of "The Major Arcena".  

1. Strength - - - - -The Eagles

Biting Down (in the I Ching)
2. The Moon - - - - -David Bowie
"The dark side of the moon"
3. The Emperess- - - - -Queen
The Crystal Pallace of Heaven
4.Blondie- - - - -The Lovers
"Love's True Bluish Light"
5. The Hanged Man- - - - -Alice Cooper
The Pentigram
6. The Pope- - - - -The Rolling Stones
The green fields of Paradise
7. Justice- - - - -Bob Dylan
"The golden throne room"
8. Death- - - - -Judas Priest
The Red Tunnel of After Death Riddles
9. The Charriot- - - - -Blue Cheer
Psychic Travel via Radio Waves
10 The World- - - - -Cheap Trick
"You'll Do Anything for money"
11 Temperance- - - - -"Earth, Wind, and Fire
out of control momentum
12 The Emperor- - - - -Blue Oyster Cult
Cosmic Government of the Orion Federation
13 The High Priestess- - - - - Steely Dan
Ruling in Hell
14 The Star- - - - -Procol Herem
"The bright light of your star confronts me"
15 Judgement- - - - -AC DC
The Fifteen Steps of the Temple
16 Wheel of Fortune- - - - -Electric Light Orchestra
"Somebody got lucky, but it was an accident"
17 The Magition- - - - -Grateful Dead
Evolution and adaptation
18 The Fool- - - - -Elvis Costello
spontanious combustion
19 The Hermet- - - - -Jethro Tull
tracing out the origen of man
20 The Sun- - - - -The Jefferson Airplane
Assylum and Escape
21 The Tower- - - - -Bruce Springsteen or Bob Seeger
The birth process of Zachery from conception
22 The Devil- - - - -Pink Floyd
"Tear Down the Wall"

Saturday, January 23, 2016

More Downer News For You

US “leaders” in government, banking/finance, and media are obvious criminals that should be legally stopped by arrests for the following Emperor’s New Clothes obvious crimes:
Unlawful and lie-began wars.
Crimes Against Humanity for ongoing intentional policy of poverty that’s killed over 400 million human beings just since 1995 (~75% children; more deaths than from all wars in Earth’s recorded history).
So-called “money” that is actually debt that creates accelerating and unpayable total debt. The .01% hide ~$30 trillion in tax havens while demanding public austerity.
Destruction of nearly all rights lawfully guaranteed in the US Bill of Rights within the US Constitution, and in Orwellian inversion of limited government.
“Covering the crimes” with lies by corporate media.

These crimes annually cost millions killed, billions harmed, and trillions looted, with recent history continuing literal centuries of US lie-began Wars of Aggression that involved nearly all families in two horrific global wars for colonial empire.

We can add the following economic data for public demand of arrests:
We’ve already documented how the global so-called “elite” 1% are now wealthier than the 99% while ~30,000 children die daily from preventable poverty in gruesomely-slow agony.
The US .1% own more than the bottom 90%.
The top 20 Americans (.000006%) own more than the bottom 50%.

But wait, there’s more:
The top three public benefits of monetary and banking reform would add ~$1,000,000 to every US household. The lies of omission and commission by US “leaders” with legal fiduciary responsibility to communicate full and transparent economic data to never advise Americans of these options is a massive crime causing damages in the trillions of dollars yearly.
Our current system of creating what we use for money as debt has the so-called “developed” and “former” colonial nations $50 trillion in debt, and lying for public austerity rather than admit the option of monetary and banking reforms.

For Americans still zombiefied to “believe” in America, please embrace the reality that 40% of US children live at least one year of their lives in under-measured poverty, while oligarchs most responsible literally laugh in grandiose glee of the poverty they euphemise as “income inequality.” Please absorb this 1-minute reality check:

More game-changing economic data that confirm what we receive for economic leadership is literal criminal fraud:
decaying infrastructure getting uglier from “deferred maintenance,”
real unemployment near 25% with most families demanding both parents work longer and longer hours,
real inflation well above official reports,
US poverty of 20% among children, 40% for living at least a year in poverty,
72% of California students in schools with over half the children classified as “socio-economically disadvantaged,”
a rigged-casino economy designed for “peak inequality,”
“too big to fail” banks demand public subsidies (so-called “bailouts”) while gambling with over $200 TRILLION in derivatives,
these “too big to fail/jail” banks deriving most of their income from subsidies and apparent market manipulations,
Daily and never-ending Orwellian criminal-complicit lies of corporate media.
US college Class of 2015 students average $35,000 in debt, with the total for 2015 graduates nearly $70 billion: more than ten times the amount from just 20 years ago. The average time to pay this debt is now 15 years (think paying until age 40).
half of US 25-year-olds live with their parents, more than twice the number from 15 years ago.
Over one million US college students are “Sugar babies”: selling sex as part-time employment. The UK has the same condition (here, here).
31% of US adjunct professors live in poverty.

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Bernie Sanders Is Very Electable as President

Eric Zuesse

The latest New Hampshire Democratic primary poll indicates not only a current reality in that state, but an underlying and far more important national trend, a trend exhibited in N.H. that has bearing more broadly throughout the country, and that shows U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders already well on the road toward locking up the Democratic nomination, barring any future game-changing disclosures about one or both candidates, which are always possibilities in any political contest, and can never be ruled out. The same poll also shows Sanders performing more strongly against any Republican than Hillary Clinton would. This is not the way things looked to most prognosticators back on April 30th when Sanders started his campaign.

On June 1st, I bannered, “My Prediction: Bernie Sanders Will Win the White House,” based upon the early indications being clear, even then, that he would have a higher net-favorability rating from likely Democratic Presidential primary voters than Hillary Clinton. (The same analysis, from many polls, indicated also that Sanders would likely beat any Republican candidate in the general election.) Whereas far more Democrats at that time were familiar with Clinton than with Sanders, and therefore Clinton scored far higher in the national polls then than he did (and so she was presumed to be the contest’s front-runner), the determinant of the future trendline for any candidate is net-favorability ratings, especially comparing “strongly approve” versus “strongly disapprove,” which ratios tend to be, especially at such an early stage in a contest, a far better predictor of the contest’s ultimate winner than are the sheer poll-numbers at such a time. What the latest New Hampshire poll, taken now near the end of the contest in N.H., shows, is that the campaign in New Hampshire, as it is nearing its end, is increasingly displaying a strong edge over Clinton that Sanders has on this most crucial of all ratios, which is propelling him toward a substantial margin of victory in this, the first, primary state.

The CNN/WMUR New Hampshire Primary Poll, sponsored by WMUR-TV and CNN, and conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, randomly surveyed New Hampshire adults and found 420 who indicated that they intended to vote in the Democratic Presidential primary on February 9th. Here are the results:

More than nine in ten (91%) likely Democratic Primary voters have a favorable opinion of Sanders, only 7% have an unfavorable opinion of him, 2% are neutral, and 1% don’t know enough about him to say. Sanders’ net favorability rating is an almost unheard of +84%.

Former Secretary of State and 2008 New Hampshire Primary winner Hillary Clinton also continues to be popular in the state – 65% of likely Democratic Primary voters have a favorable opinion of Clinton, 26% have an unfavorable opinion of her, 9% are neutral, and 1% don’t know enough about her to say. Clinton’s net favorability rating is +39%.

Sanders’ net favorability rating has steadily increased over 2015 from +34% in February to +67% in September to +84% in the most recent poll. Clinton’s has eroded through the same period, from +74% in February to +44% in September, and remaining at +39% in the latest CNN/WMUR poll.

The trendlines are starkly indicated in the following, from this N.H. poll:

“Sanders is the most electable Democrat as measured by net electability, the percentage who support a candidate minus the percentage who would not vote for that candidate under any circumstances. Sanders net electability score is +56%, while Clinton’s net electability score is +19%, and O’Malley’s is -26%. Clinton’s net electability rating has been declining over the past year while Sanders’ has continued to increase.”

What this crucial fact means is: the more that voters get to know about Sanders, the more they approve of him, whereas the more that they get to know about Clinton, the less they approve of her. (As regards O’Malley, voters still can’t see any reason for him to be running, other than self-aggrandizement.)

Regarding the general-election contest in N.H., a later headline that same day, January 20th, was based upon the same poll, but included the results also from Republican voters, the 413 who were planning to vote on February 9th in the Republican primary, and the headline was “WMUR poll: Sanders is New Hampshire’s favorite general election candidate: Vermont Democrat fares better against top Republicans than Hillary Clinton.” That result showed:

In a match-up of the current New Hampshire frontrunners in each party, Sanders leads Republican businessman Donald Trump, 57 percent to 34 percent, with 6 percent favoring another candidate and 3 percent undecided. Independents favor Sanders, 55 percent to 33 percent.

Clinton leads Trump, 48 percent to 39 percent, with 10 percent supporting another candidate and 3 percent undecided. Independents favor Clinton 43 percent to 34 percent.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, who jumped to second place in the latest WMUR/CNN New Hampshire Primary Poll of Republican candidates, trails Sanders, 56 percent to 33 percent, with independents favoring Sanders, 56 percent to 24 percent.

Clinton has a much smaller lead over Cruz, 47 percent to 41 percent, with independents slightly favoring Cruz, 39 percent to 33 percent.

Hillary the Hypocrite Part Two - - and Other Issues


I think this stuff that Shawn Hannity is putting out on his show today could turn the tide and do Hillary in for the upcoming primaries against Sanders.  I’ve heard so much other stuff such as that Hillary support has collapsed in New Hampshire against Sanders in New Hampshire, who is surging.  I’ve also heard that in Dallas or somewhere at the airport Hillary only had six people wanting to see her when she got off the plane.  But Hillary doesn’t do impromptu greetings of people.  They have to be pre-screen and carefully staged chats, which she was so proud of last spring as “getting to know the people”.  This is another strike against her.  Then there was that time in Bosnia when Hillary talked about “taking sniper fire and having to run for cover as soon as she got off the plane”.  All of these incidents speak to Hillary’s character.  And I’m not going to forget that stunt she pulled at last Sunday’s debate in saying Sanders was the only one to vote for loosened Wall Street regulation with “no cops on the beat to patrol Wall Street” or whatever.  This was a low-down, highly deceptive sleazy tactic she pulled.  All this stuff I’ve heard about the attacking of Bill Clinton’s female “victims” only reinforces all of the other reasons why I don’t like or trust Hillary.  I’ve spent more of the past 24 years not trusting Hillary than I have trusting her.  Now Hillary is alleging that Bernie Sanders is out spending her in the campaign because (strangely) the Clinton campaign is out of money.  At least that’s what she’s saying.  But when the number one words for her are “liar” and “untrustworthy” it’s difficult to envision any set of circumstances, no matter what apologists like Stephanie Miller say, why anyone would vote for her for President no matter how much experience she’s had. 

Now they say that Bernie Sanders has “attacked” Planned Parenthood.   Was it Hillary’s idea to use the word “attacked”?  Apparently it was a Rachael Maddaw interview.  Bernie says that Planned Parenthood is part of the establishment.  It’s been pointed out that groups that endorse Bernie do so by democratic vote of their membership, whereas those groups that endorse Hillary is because the elite leadership of these groups decides to endorse.  But Planned Parenthood as the dream child of Margetet Sanger, has at its very roots Eugenics or population genocide as one of their core beliefs.  Then I listened to Shawn Hannity talk about Hillary Clinton and how she libeled and slandered the women Bill Clinton had affairs with.  Scheduled later in the show were Juanita Broadwick and Cathleen Willy.  Both women are being interviewed right now on the show.  They both knew they wouldn’t be believed.  The fact is- the smear job done by Hillary Clinton was actually worse than the respective sexual assaults.  Hearing all this afresh, I’m not even sure I could vote for Hillary Clinton in November even if the Democratic Party needs my vote. 

Today is the sixth anniversary of the dreaded Citizen’s United decision handed down by the Supreme Court in January of 2010.  Keep in mind that the decision was completely improper because it strayed so far from the issues of the original case.  All they were asked to do was this narrow ruling about certain arbitrary time limits for airing a movie about Hillary Clinton.  According to Norman Goldman- - it was a last minute decision of the Supreme Court itself that vastly expanded the paramaters of the case.   Norman says “The Supreme Court by law can ONLY decide issues brought up by the litigants in the specific case before them.   This June the Supreme Court will do another case involving President Obama over-extending his bounds on executive actions.  I don’t know how I’d rule on this one.  I can see both sides.  But if the Court thinks it can get political and sway a whole Presidential campaign- - they might just vote to say the President over-stepped his executive authority- - just to stick it to the democrats.  We know how blatantly political justices such as Clarence Thomas and Justice Scelia are. 

Today Norman Goldman advanced a strange argument.  He said that "slow progress that is certain to occur is better than taking risks with the promise of faster progress.  First of all do you think Jack Kennedy or Martin Luther King would subscribe to such a philosophy?  But secondly the American people in 1992 with Bill Clinton and in 2008 with Barock Obama voted for "faster progress".  So what is it that Obama had in 2008 that Bernie Sanders lacks in 2016?  We know both Clinton and Obama took a lurch to the political right the minute they got elected.  We can be pretty sure Bernie Sanders unlike those other two will be true to his word and keep on the Progressive path even after elected.  As to the whole socialism issue we know Obama has been called a socialist since day one.  Barock Hussein Obama also had other strikes against him that Bernie doesn't have.  Bernie has much more political experiance and "maturity" than Obama had when elected.  Obama was called not only an "anti colonialist" and a socialist bordering on communist, he was also accused of being born in Kenya and not being a citizen of the country.  Bernie Sanders was not raised in a medrassa as a child in Indonesia but in fact is Jewish, which used to be a highly sought political bloc vote.  I think I've figured it out why Norman and Stephanie are for Hillary over Sanders.  They don't CARE if we make progress over the next four years or not.  All they care about is keeping their talk shows going and keeping their ratings up.  President Obama's goal was to BECOME President and THAT's ALL.  Once he'd reached that goal little else really mattered.  He had already "won" in his own eyes.  Bernie on the other hand believes in advancing a progressive agenda.  That's what he's fought for his entire life.  Older people like me are growing inpatient with all this incessent foot dragging.  We'd like to see something accomplished before we kick the bucket.  In the past sixteen years we have retrogressed.  Hillary invoked the name of Obama several times during the last Democratic debate.  That's like invoking retrogression and at best stagnation.  Young people have the good sense not to go for all this political caution bullshit to begin with!

I think Governor Snyder of Michigan should be impeached and removed from office.  I've seen videos on the history of the whole Flint Michigan lead in the water case.  Let's just say a hundred thousand people have been impacted and people are suffering symptoms.  If anything this one video under-states the facts.  They are actually worse.  I'm not going to review it all right now.  Some would say that Hillary was smart to bring up this issue in Sunday's debate.  I heard someone else say "Bernie Sanders shouldn't have called for Snyder's removal from office because that's too dramatic and not dealing with the issue at hand" whereas Hillary gave the specific issue of lead in the water lip service, and that's somehow dealing with the problem better.  Snyder is a political dictator and I think the steps he has taken to quash local rights of elected officials is unconstitutional by almost any logic.  

Then it was “Breakfast with David Bowie” to commemorate his death.   They even had two quiz’s like they usually do.  There were two songs from the sixties (1965) I could not identify at all, but I don’t think they were that old.  They played “Space Oddity” and “An Occasional Dream” from that album, and ‘The Man Who Sold the World’ from that album, and then “Queen Bitch” and “Pretty Things” from “Hunky Dory”.    They ended up playing a total of five songs from the Ziggy Stardust album if you count “Hang On to Yourself” I heard playing on Joe’s radio.  They played “Panic in Detroit” and “Cracked Actor” from Aladen Sane, and “Diamond Dogs” and later in the dining room “Rebel, Rebel” from that album.  They played the title song from “Young Americans”.  They played “TVC15” and “Wild is the Wind” from Station to Station- - and the latter was the final song they played before noon.  They played “Heroes” and “All The Young Dudes” (in the dining room) and “Ashes To Ashes” from Scarey Monsters.  I had two cups of iced tea in the courtyard.  For lunch we had spiced tomato soup with a patty melt and better pasta salad.  We had a banana for dessert.   There were no doubt other Bowie songs but Joe had the volume too low.  

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Hillary Is A Liar and a Hypocrite


This is January 20, 2016 and Hillary Clinton delivered a low blow against Bernie Sanders in last Sunday’s debate.  She said “Bernie is the only one on this state that voted to loosen wall street regulations in the “Comodities reform act” to allow investment swaps and all that Wall Street hanky panky, as it were, taking the tops off of Wall Street”.   What she didn’t say was that 430 out of 435 congressmen voted for the bill because it was the omnibus budget bill and you had to vote for that bill to keep the government from shutting down.  But her husband, Bill Clinton signed that bill with those provisions and Hillary was not even in the senate yet.  She neglected to tell new viewers that little detail.  This guy who put the poison pill in the budget bill worked for Goldman Sachs and was later hired on as an economic consultant by the Obama administration and this same guy now works for the Hillary Clinton campaign.  Thom then read off a whole list of issues were Hillary and Bernie part company including marijuana legalization and the Iraq War.  Hillary wants to deport refugee children from Central America,  Hillary supports the Patriot Act, she supports bulk data collection by the NSA,  she says Snowden is a criminal and not a hero, and she supports hydraulic fracturing.   This is what you get with Hillary.  She also voted for the bankruptsy ‘reform” act of 2005 or whatever.   Hillary’s deception doesn’t hurt Bernie because his supporters are smart.  “Google Gary Gensler and find out he was eighteen years with Goldman Sachs”, etcetra.  It does make Hillary look like a real jerk in the eyes of the general public, and Bernie supporters will remember it. 

Sarah Palin endorsed Donald Trump’s candidacy for President.  This is a good thing for the Republicans because it vastly increases the likelihood that the Republicans will avoid a brokered convention this July.  This is good for democrats because it gives democrats two ready targets to attack in the campaign as both laughable buffoons- - Donald Trump and Sarah Palin.  It is said by pundits that Palin’s logical move is to endorse Trump because neither is as conservative as their PR would indicate.  Trump has flirted with the idea of liberalizing health care for instance, and Trump is pro China tariffs and anti Trans Pacific Partnership (a topic that was never even raised in the democratic debate)  We are exactly one year away from swearing in a new President next January.  If Bernie is elected- -Thom Hartman believes he will have longer coat tails to elect vitally needed members of Congress on the democratic side.  TH says “Obana generated a popular progressive “wave” that Obama failed to cash in on.  I see Bernie doing the same thing only he’ll cash in on it”.  Rush Limbaugh and other Conservatives remind us of the Reagan revolution where Ronald Reagan cashed in on the sleeping giant of a conservative tide in this country just looking for an outlet of expression. Bernie is still continuing to surge in the polls over Hillary- - like in New Hampshire.   Rather than worry about these mythical centrists or “undecided” that will be turned off by “Democratic socialism” one should be concerned about the fact that internet savy people know what a hypocrite Hillary is if you dig just a little in from the surface- - and lots of thinking voters will have their enthusiasm dampened and “turned off” to some degree.  They may not vote- - or they may be just a little less enthusiastic about getting others to support the ticket.  There is a saying “For want of a nail the horse was lost - - for want of a horse the battle was lost, and for want of a battle - - the war was lost”.  (Selah)  

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Glen Fry Dies Of Intestinal Complications at 67


Glen Fry of the Eagles died today of intestinal complications. Later details indicate rumatoid arthritis, ulcerative collitus, and pneumonia.  He had been sick for weeks and not just days.   He was 67- but when you run down the songs Don Hendley did a lot more overtly solo songs than Glen Fry did.  They say deaths come in threes.  First you have David Bowie dying at 69 and then you had that Allan guy British actor dying at 69 and today Glen Fry is dead.  Cosmically he went to Sirius A in what’s known as the “Howard Richards” wing of the ZAC.  The same spirit guides that were around him when he was alive are now around him in death.   In one other bit of cosmic news Mal Evans contacted me last night waiting for medication but I’m self censoring that exchange.  But it had no connection with Fry’s death.

At a quarter to six I went down for medication but Donnie was mopping the floor.  Norma had the Bible study and they were singing hymns like “Rock of Ages” and “The Old Rugged Cross” while we waited.  They had NBC network news and then they had the Democratic debate, which might be the last one with O Mally.  He spoke less often than the other two but his words were often insightful and clarified some issues.  Hillary was smug and immovable.  Bernie was put on the defensive even on issues he should be proud of taking.   Hillary kept saying she had a plan to deal with Wall Street but never said what it was, whereas Bernie Sanders was very explicit as to what he wanted to do.  The debate ran two hours and there were increasing commercial breaks.  Paul lent me a cigarette about a quarter to eight.  I heard the introductions but not the summaries, if there were any.  Then it was the Simpson’s. 

Donald Trump says “The Art of the Deal” is the 2nd best book ever written second only to the Bible.  He quoted second Corinthians of “Wherever the spirit of God is, there Liberty is”.  OK.  We need to revive Christianity because it’s under siege and we need to band together.  Relations between Trump and Ted Cruz are getting rockier all the time. 

Black people are serious about boycotting the Oscars.  They said 94% of something of the academy award nominators are lily white and the median age is rising all the time.  For the second year in a row Black actors and actresses are getting snubbed.  “Out of Compton” was left out for best picture, along with a lot of other movies Blacks are involved in.  And we may be moving to a situation where we are re-segregating show business, like baseball used to be. 


Marco Rubio is a dreaded “Anchor baby” born in Miami, with neither parent at that time a citizen.  Ted Cruz was born in 1970 but Canada didn’t allow dual citizenship till 1979 so legally Ted Cruz was exclusively a Canadian citizen for those years of his childhood.  

Last night I had a dream me and Glenda were getting married.  Actually it was a double wedding with Glenda’s younger sister with piercing blue eyes marrying somebody.  There was one scene where me and Glenda were in a swimming pool and Glenda was riding on my waist or something totally nude.  But the thing is we were going to live with Elvis and his Memphis mafia living in a mansion with a nice courtyard and flowing fountain.  Elvis said that every day my refrigerator would be freshly stocked with whatever food I wanted and all I needed to do for that is do chores around the house.  Everybody in the Memphis mafia had some ranking, and me and Glenda were about number eight, and I was honored that we were that high.  Elvis had a lot of VCR’s of old movies and a lot of them were his- (not that I recognized any plots of any actual Elvis movies)  - but Elvis had this 3 D technology where you wore Google glasses or something and headphones and had a virtual environment that was like surround stereo with 3 D.  There was one movie in particular- - a thing like “The 300” only it was an extra terriestrial army but they were fighting with swords and shields in sort of an epic battle for the cosmos.

I had a dream last night where Paul was talking about putting a GPS device on me and a blood alcohol monitor to measure whether I’d been drinking alcohol.  There was also a scene where Paul and Judy and I were at parents’ frematic house- - but the landscaping had been redone and the back yard was a lot bigger and it had a really high fence and I said to Judy “That fence is even higher than the last time I saw it and it was high then”.  Judy agreed.  There were a lot of vines or something growing on top of the fence.  It was early morning about seven and I had been auditing a class but told others I was taking the class for real, and now there was some big final project that was due.  Paul and Judy asked if I wanted to help them build some planters or something with redwood planks or something and that seemed more agreeable to me- - then attempt to do a final I didn’t have to.  I was still hoping to get to the store to buy alcohol. 

Saturday, January 16, 2016

Is It Russian Propaganda- Or the Way Things Really Are?

Eric Zuesse

The same person, Teddy Roosevelt’s grandson, who planned and headed the CIA coup to overthrow Iran’s progressive secular democratic anti-communist President Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953, and toreplace him with the brutal dictator Shah Reza Pahlevi, so as to continue Western oil companies’ control over Iran’s oil and gas, went on to plan four years later, in 1957, the invasion of Syria by the U.S., along with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey; and it’s virtually exactly the plan that U.S. President Barack Obama has been placing into action ever since Obama first stepped into the White House: Obama’s plan, like Kermit “Kim” Roosevelt’s plan, entailed what in the intelligence trade is referred to as “false flag” events, which are intended to deceive the public into thinking that the actual victims of the overthrow-operation were instead to be blamed for it. (That’s like Obama’s 2013 sarin gas attack in Syria that he wanted to use as an excuse to invade Syria to remove Assad.)

Back in 1957, there was no Assad dynasty in Syria, but only the Ba’ath Party, which was, and is, the only effective non-sectarian, or non-theocratic, political force in Arabic countries; so, America’s oil companies used instead the Islamic forces, in order to grab Middle Eastern oil, and to be able to use Syria as the vital pipeline-route for it into Europe (the world’s largest energy-market). The Ba’athists refused to cooperate with any such plan for foreign control over their national resources. This was the basis for America’s determination to overthrow the Ba’athists, and replace them with their enemies, the Islamists. (This was likewise a reason for America’s wars against Saddam Hussein.)

Whereas U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower was ultimately forced to cancel Kim’s plan because only Turkey was willing to participate in it, Obama was able to get the royals of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to perform as Kim had planned for them: getting U.S. weapons to Syria’s jihadists, and supporting the main jihadist organization, Sunni Islam’s fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, to be the chief Syrian participants in overthrowing the Ba’athists.

Kim’s plan, just like his earlier and successful plan to take over Iran, enjoyed the full backing of both of the Dulles brothers — Allen Dulles who ran Eisenhower’s CIA, and John Foster Dulles who ran Eisenhower’s State Department. Both Dulleses headed the U.S. operation to bring top Nazis to America and give them fake backgrounds. Here’s a good documentary about specifically their still-ongoing European “Operation Gladio” to conquer Russia, but which until 1990 fronted as being instead (and was widely thought to have been) anti-communist. It actually was anti-communist, in the very narrow sense that any pro-fascist operation is, but it was anything but ‘democratic’ or pro-democratic. The CIA was set up by Eisenhower as a fascist entity, after President Truman had dithered with its predecessor the OSS, not knowing what to do with the post-WW-II incipient emerging U.S. intelligence bureaucracy. Eisenhower as President was no longer answering to FDR as he had been doing in WW II; he was on his own after the war, and became more and more fascist, so that, when he put together his Presidential Administration, the switch of the U.S. toward fascism began in earnest, and it has never really stopped.

Obama, also unlike Eisenhower, enjoyed additionally the backing of the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda, called Al Nusra. Al Qaeda was actually created by the U.S. in the late 1970s to exhaust the Soviets in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda was financed by Arabia’s royal families, especially the Sauds. After that success in supplying Osama bin Laden’s people with U.S. weapons paid for by the Sauds (and incidentally boosting profits for U.S. armaments-makers), the Sunni aristocracies had more respect for Kermit Roosevelt’s original vision. Obama tweaked Kim’s plan, which had been sitting on CIA-MI6 shelves unused, for more than 50 years; but it was, indeed, KR’s plan, not originally Obama’s. Only now in Obama’s time, the situation was finally right for it.

Kermit Roosevelt was at least as effective at advancing the American aristocracy’s conquest of foreign lands, as his much more famous grandfather had been. (The FDR wing of the Roosevelt clan were utterly opposed to American Empire, but FDR fatefully decided in 1945 to ally with King Saud in order to block Britain from resuming after the War the British aristocracy’s control over Arabic countries. It was FDR’s hope to break up even the British Empire — and the U.S. had actually even developed a secret plan between 1927 and 1939, for a military conflict between the U.S. and Britain, because the two countries had been at war against each other several times prior to WW I. FDR thought that America’s alliance with King Saud would make that plan unnecessary.)

The fact that defeating Soviet communism is no longer even an available excuse for overthrowing Russia-allied rulers, doesn’t deter Obama at all, because Obama has been skillful at demonizing post-communistRussia, which still remains as Syria’s key backer, even after the so-called ‘ideological’ war is long-since over, and NATO now increasingly surrounds Russia at Russia’s very borders. If Hillary Clinton or another candidate who demagogues against Russia becomes the next U.S. President, there’s no way of telling how bad things will get, because they’re already almost out of control.

The plan that Obama dusted off and placed into action has turned out to be, under Obama, part of a far broader U.S. war against Russia. One of the major decisions for the next U.S. President will be what to do with that broader war. Vladimir Putin can’t prevent it from become even more intense, because he has been doing everything possible in order to stop it. But Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize; Putin didn’t.

As Seymour Hersh has reported, Obama’s aggressivism in Syria was too much for the head of his Joint Chiefs of Staff to be associated with, so he quit. And as I have reported, it was also too much for his second Secretary of State, John Kerry, to accept, and so he virtually dared Obama to fire him, but Obama fortunately backed down there. The world might not be able to afford another Peace Prize Winner — or American President — like that.