5.06.2016

Everyday it becomes more apparent that the Republican neoconservatives and their ilk are going to be supporting Hillary Clinton in the November elections. Yesterday's announcement by House Speaker Paul Ryan that he doesn't support Donald Trump is just another example of that as is the Republican Party brass's Dump Trump movement led by Mitt Romney and others. Today's article 'Trump as Unifier: Are Hillary Clinton and Neoconservatives Ready to Join Forces? says, "Neocon elites are probably the likeliest faction to defect to Clinton...few would argue that among the three candidates of the two major parties left standing, Clinton remains the one "true hawk. And, as a nascent body of evidence suggests, the members of the pro-war and military establishment know it."

IMO, the elites of America can't allow a Donald vs.Bernie contest as it would mean both sides [Dem/Rep] would be out if their control on free trade deals, citizen's untied and campaign finance reform, the war machine, Wall St bailouts, a potential deal with Russia, and the closure of Gitmo and other issues like 911 and torture. IMO, the elites, though well on their way, have not yet consolidated power completely and only a Clinton victory in November allows them to achieve that goal.

This unlikely situation results from the fact that the Democratic Party's voting process involving super delegates will guarantee a Clinton win and stop any chance of a Trump vs. Sanders contest, whereas the less controlled Republican process allowed Trump to win despite the Republican party's attempts to stop him. Consequently having Clinton in and Bernie, despite popular opinion, out now allows the elites to control the corporate owned and secretive electronic voting machines and guarantee that Clinton wins the election regardless.

Rigged voting machines is not a conspiracy theory as the corporate owned mainstream media will continue to trumpet endlessly. There many excellent, reliable sources whose work can be read and facts researched online. For instance, this excellent Democracy Now interview with author Harvey Wasserman who says in response to the question: Could the 2016 Election Be Stolen with Help from Electronic Voting Machines? that "that 80 percent of the 2016 votes will be cast on electronic voting machines, and we have no way of verifying their accuracy." Adding, "When you go to a bank, don’t you want the option to get a receipt of your transaction? Surely, this would be a simple and effective method for checking voting machines and confirming that your vote was registered for the correct selection. It is such a simple solution that you would think that anyone who opposes it is protecting the right to rig elections."

And here is the video of a computer programmer testifying that he was hired to rig the vote count in an election in Florida. As this man asserts, there are two ways to avoid this type of voter fraud: have a paper trail and access to the source code. Both are denied to the American public.

Another well known and reliable source is Greg Palast who has built much of his career with his laser-like focus on how mostly Republican officials have labored hard to disenfranchise millions of minority voters. He has written such books as Billionaires and Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. If you are not familiar with Palast, I highly encourage you to check out his writing with The Guardian or on his website.

As Joe Stalin said, “Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.”

The Democratic Party Machine is already saying they expect many crossovers from disenchanted traditional Republican supporters, And that may be true but in the opinion of many, including me, millions of Bernie's supporters will not back Hillary either. Some will stay home, but many who see the trade boondoggles, Wall St, and Big Oil's influence and the war machine as their top priority will be voting for Donald in November. This will be increasingly obvious to pollsters leading up to the election and in exit polls on election day.

If this scenario unfolds as i suspect, Donald, as he has shown he'll do [perhaps starting pre-election], will start hollering that the election is rigged to defeat him by the elites which could see millions of well armed Americans in the streets and the declaration martial law. These are dangerous times and on top of the global problems facing us all we face the fact that America's voting system is quite possibly rigged to guarantee the victory of the only corporate war machine candidate left standing - Hillary Clinton.

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Sitting Up Mud

"Bokonon made mud. Bokonon said to some of the mud, "Sit up!" "See all I've made, the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars."

And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job Bokonon had done.

"Nice going, Bokonon. Nobody but you could have done it, I certainly couldn't have. I feel very unimportant compared to You. The only way I can feel the least bit important is to think of all the mud that didn't even get to sit up and look around. I got so much, and most mud got so little. Thank you for the honor!"

Now mud lies down again and goes to sleep. What memories for mud to have! "What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met! I loved everything I saw! Good night. Amen."

Quotes

"Our dreams draw us foward, as water whispers to the dowser's wand."- Tony Cohan

"Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide." - Tom Robbins

"Politics is how you live your life, not who you vote for!" -Jerry Rubin

"The pencil is mightier than the pen"- Robert Pirsig

"Resist much, obey little." -Walt Whitman

When the axe came into the woods, many of the trees said, “At least the handle is one of us.” — Turkish proverb

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction" - Pascal

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

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The single greatest service each of us can provide to our planet, our families and ourselves is to grow our own organic food from heritage seeds. Then to save our own seed in turn, and in so doing be part of the future solution to the present day destruction being sown by GMO's, agri-business and the bio-technology giants. - Bob Wiley