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To: Land Shark who wrote (934452)	5/11/2016 2:57:10 PM
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DNC seems more self destructive than the RNC….. to be expected when they let crooks run it. +++ “For months, Bernie Sanders has out-polled Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump, and often by extraordinarily large margins. Because we must do everything we can to defeat Trump in November, our mission is to win as many pledged delegates as we can between now and June 14,” when the primary season ends, Mr. Weaver said. “Then we’re going to have a contested convention where the Democratic Party must decide if they want the candidate with the momentum who is best positioned to beat Trump, or if they are willing to roll the dice and court disaster simply to protect the status quo for the political and financial establishment of this country.” http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/11/sanders-nominating-clinton-would-be-disaster/

To: Land Shark who wrote (934452)	5/11/2016 3:13:18 PM
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MAY 11, 2016 Thank You Barack Obama for Showing Us That Peace is War by GEORGE KATSIAFICAS 360b \| Shutterstock.com Decades ago George Orwell warned us that in 1984, war would be peace, truth would be lies, and love would be hate. Over the years, I’ve caught glimpses of what Orwell had in mind. But it is not until 2016 that I feel I can say his prognosis has come completely true. Thank you, Barack Obama, for that. You have brought savoir-faire into the White House that none of your predecessors even came close to. Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sex with that woman,” Ronald Reagan’s “I can’t remember” funding the contras, and of course, nothing more needs to be said about both George Bushes, progeny of Hitler-affiliated and Congressionally-censored industrialists and financiers, whose presidencies made a mockery of democracy. By contrast, Obama is continually compared to Martin Luther King Jr. In much of the world, especially among Africans, he is admired to the point of being worshipped. He was awarded the Nobel peace prize in his first year in office despite the fact that he had enlarged the war in Iraq and extended it in Afghanistan. Now he has brought total war to Syria, where at least a quarter million people have perished. He has orchestrated the subversion of Venezuela, a country that freely gave aid to many of Latin America’s most impoverished people. He has encouraged neo-liberal politicians to overthrow Brazil’s president, supervised a right-wing coup in Honduras, supported a neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine, helped to overthrow the government of Libya and created a failed state there, paid Kenya and Ethiopia to attack Somalia, supplied bombs to Saudi Arabia to use on Yemenis, and built up offensive US weapons on Russia’s borders. In Asia, his “pivot” has reasserted Japan’s importance—a nation that has never apologized for its role in World War II (not least for its kidnapping of more than 100,000 women whom it turned into sex slaves for its military). He pressured South Korea to draw closer to Japan and threatens China with drive-by aircraft carriers and provocative fly-overs. At home, his bailout of Wall Street and big banks ranks as one of the greatest government supports for big business in history. Yet despite all this, the media bombard us with news of his treaty with Iran and enactment of “Obamacare.” No one comments on the fact that the only “unfriendly” nations to escape his bombardment—North Korea and Iran—are precisely those which remain armed to the teeth, that Obamacare is a pale imitation of his promised quality healthcare for all. In my lifetime, I have seen feminism turned into opposite: from a set of beliefs that promised women wouldn’t rule – – couldn’t rule – – with the violence and brutality of men into the notion that women should play the same combat roles as men, that women should be just as tough in the corporate boardroom and rule with more efficiency and less sentimentality in a system of worldwide immiseration and alienation. With Barack Obama in the White House, the promise of peace that was essential to the African-American movement, of MLK’s dream, which named the US the “main purveyor of violence in the world” and advocated a world without war, serves to legitimate this country’s wars and unending violence. Obama explicitly said he targeted a children’s birthday party for a drone attack in which several were massacred. Given the example set by the man at the top, is it any wonder that American cities are once again sites for daily police shootings of children—and of people murdering each other in record numbers? Nonetheless, in this upside-down world, Obama is seen as a man of peace, while the Black Panthers are remembered as violent—even though they explicitly called for a world without standing armies, a world in which the United States would pay reparations to the rest of the world for centuries of genocidal wars and imperialist exploitation. So thank you, Barack Obama, for showing us all that peace is war. Only you could have used Martin Luther King’s mantle to cover the actions of a war criminal. Thank you for completing George Orwell’s prediction.

To: Land Shark who wrote (934452)	5/11/2016 3:20:27 PM
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MAY 11, 2016 Why Hispanics Should be Suspicious About Hillary Clinton by JOSÉ L. FLORES The media’s reporting of political polls has become a synthetic substitute for actual journalism. However, for the moment let us suppose that the polls are correct and Hispanic-American voters are mostly supporting Hillary Clinton for president. This could raise a simple and important question; why are so many Hispanic voters supporting a Hillary bid for president? It has been argued that Hillary is for immigration reform, raising working conditions for Hispanics and to her credit has denounced the repugnant xenophobic antics of Donald Trump. However, when one examines Hillary Clinton’s record one can see that she has not been an advocate or friend of Hispanic people around the globe. Not unlike many other boarders, the US-Mexican border was established by imperial conquest, when in the early 19th century the United States invaded and conquered half of Mexico. From the end of the Mexican-American war until very recently the boarder has been fairly undefended. In 1994 the boarder became militarized by the Clinton Administration. Attorney General Janet Reno implemented “Operation Gate Keeper,” in order to curtail the flow of illegal immigration from Tijuana into San Diego. This wall is not a hypothetically proposed Donald Trump wall, it is an actual Clinton wall built and fortified. The militarization of the boarder was undoubtedly the administration response to the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which was implemented the same year as “Operation Gate Keeper.” The Clinton administration must have projected that NAFTA was going to have devastating effects for Mexico and these adverse derivations would increase illegal immigration. Over time the wages in Mexico have dropped, hundreds of thousand driven off the land and Mexican agriculture has been greatly diminished. As Mexicans farmers fled their home county in order to pursue their farming jobs, now in highly subsidized highly protectionist USA, the new comers were greeted by a militarized boarder and a considerably xenophobia population. Hillary Clinton supported NAFTA with fervor, up until the moment she decided to run for president. As the First Lady became Senator Clinton she had complete adoration for NAFTA, so much in fact she became a proud advocate for the Bush administration’s Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). The CAFTA deal has created slave labor shops, drove people of their land and privatized public services in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic. It is no surprise that these are the very countries where illegal immigrants mostly derive. The United States’ megalomaniacal imperial and terrorist activities in Central American date back to the late 19th century known as the “Banana Wars.” Continuing this proud American tradition, in 2009 a coup d’etat occurred in Honduras. President Manuel Zalaya was illegally thrown out of office, orchestrated by the Supreme Court and the Honduran Military. Some of Zaleya’s major crimes included trying to raise the minimum wage and the consideration of aligning Honduras with the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA). As the Organization of American States and most major European powers condemned the illegal coup the U.S was seemingly tacit on the state of affairs in Honduras, which is unlike the U.S. as it is often the culprit of coups in Latin America. Later revelations from WikiLeaks revealed that Hillary Clinton’s State Department was actually in full collusion and understanding of the overthrow. Before being murdered, Honduran activist, Berta Cáceres singled out Hillary Clinton by simply quoting Hillary’s book “Hard Choices,” where Hillary recognized that the State Department would not permit Zelaya to return to Honduras as President. Cáceres warned that “barbary” would follow the coup, causing more Central American children to flee their homes. As the crises of unaccompanied refugee children worsened, with this contributing event, Secretary Clinton was one of the officials in the Obama Administration calling for the deportation of migrant children coming into the United States. To add insult to injury Hillary Clinton was a vocal supporter of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). Latin American signatures included Mexico, Peru and Chile with hopes of integrating Brazil and Argentina. As labor standards, wage inequality, destruction of the environment and increased medicine costs have become more apparent in the text of the TPP, candidate Hilary Clinton opposed the deal. This condemnation was almost immediately after she called the deal the “Gold Standard,” in a recent television interview showing absolute support of the deal. The effects of TPP will be the same as NAFTA and CAFTA, the wealthy elites will benefit and the working class people will lose jobs, be thrown off their land and seek refuge most likely in the United States. While Bernie Sanders was still the Mayor of Burlington, Vermont he was fervently opposing the criminal actions of Ronald Regan and his perpetuation of the civil wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador. While the Reagan’s White House was training killers at Fort Benning, in order to kill Jesuit Priest in El Salvador and sell weapons to Iran in order to fund Contras in Nicaragua, Bernie was holding public forums trying to shed light on the criminal activities of the United States government. Central America’s democracies and civil societies have essentially been destroyed by the U.S. in the 1980s and 1990s. Not soon after the gangs and violence flooded in and the trade deals passed in the 2000s. Today the children of Central America are fleeing and seeking refuge in the country that destroyed their homelands, only to be received with a militarized boarder and a once Secretary of State calling for their deportations. This is only a sketch of a laundry list bad decisions of Hilary Clinton, a Student of Henry Kissinger, the man who when remarking on Chilean democracy stated, “The issue is much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.” This statement was made right after the CIA helped install a fascist killer, Augusto Pinochet, destroying Chilean democracy for decades. An old Spanish proverb states, “Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres.” Hillary Clinton is not a friend of Hispanics and does not deserve our votes.