We will stay one more day on the global 1% policies of breaking down US into independent FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE CITY STATES governed by ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE.
A friend who likes to bash REAL social Democrats hit the nail on the head with the problems for WE THE PEOPLE. If we have shouted for 10 years that Clinton neo-liberals are FAR-RIGHT WING ECONOMICS-----we know there will be no left social policy. That is why we know they are POSING SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE as the MOVE FORWARD global Wall Street policy. We also know all national organization leaders, DNC, and Congress ----the national public policy think tanks like Brookings, Roosevelt Institute, Aspen Institute----ARE ALL FAR-RIGHT CLINTON NEO-LIBERAL PUBLIC POLICY THINK TANKS---so they are not writing public policy that addresses PROACTIVELY ----REAL LEFT-LEANING POLICY. They wait until all policy and structures are in place---then they come out to PROTEST AGAINST IT.
WE THE FEELING THE LEFT-LEANING SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC BERN MUST STOP FOLLOWING TALKING POINTS ---WE MUST SHOUT GORILLA - IN -THE -ROOM POLICY STANCES.
FRIEND: uhh i lived in the uk.... the citizen residents of the industrial cities of birmingham manchester newcastle and liverpool knew what they were doing... they are very much different than the south - london southhampton etc
ME: who flooded UK with global labor pool these few decades---was it those UK industrial workers? If you are the global 1% wanting to end national sovereignty---how do you get the populace to do that for you? How do you get GBLT and women voters to come out to vote for a Hillary? You make voters fearful and angry and PROVIDE THEM A SOLUTION------ vote the least worst with Hillary or BREXIT. The citizens of UK may very well have marched for exit-----but who created this ISSUE SOLUTION? That is the problem for the 99%. We have allowed national organizations to create TALKING POINTS----that WE THE PEOPLE simply follow. BREXIT will KILL UK INDUSTRIAL WORKERS. Why did they come out? Because some leader pushed forward this policy as a solution. Global 1% Wall Street is killing WE THE PEOPLE because we do not educate broadly on public policy to know BREXIT WAS WORSE than simply trying to control the flooding of UK economy with a global labor pool. THAT IS WHY AS A REAL LEFT-LEANING SOCIAL DEMOCRAT---I AM CALLING TO STOP THE FLOODING OF US CITIES WITH GLOBAL LABOR POOL WHILE PROTECTING THOSE IMMIGRANT FAMILIES HAVING WORKED FOR DECADES IN THE US-----that is the left-leaning social Democratic solution. BREXIT IS THE GLOBAL 1% GOAL OF ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE CITY STATES. Want to bet who led those UK industrial workers to push BREXIT------INTERNATIONAL LABOR UNION LEADERS partnered with global Wall Street.
The REAL left-leaning stance on global labor pool in US or UK cities is stopping this global slave trade distribution by getting rid of global 1% Wall Street pols. The REAL left-leaning stance would then be protect our immigrant families having been working in the US for decades. It is global Wall Street flooding our cities to DESTABILIZE ---they are not friends to global immigrants. So, we will see CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA pushing here in the US -----this same BREXIT policy-----TXEXIT------CALEXIT-----with a push to US Constitutional Amendment. It will be that 5% to the 1% pushing these global policies.
Thousands Protest Against Brexit in London's Trafalgar Square
Dylan Martinez/Reuters
Crowds demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament during a protest aimed at showing London's solidarity with the European Union in London, June 28, 2016. Thousands of protesters gathered in London Tuesday to voice their support of the United Kingdom staying in the European Union, despite Friday's unprecedented referendum voting for an exit.
An event in Trafalgar Square, titled "Stand Together," had been canceled due to the extraordinary number of people who wished to attend.
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Here we see the far-right Libertarians pushing for BREXIT. BREXIT will make of the UK what SINGAPORE is----SINGAPORE is that far-right, authoritarian, extreme wealth and extreme poverty dictatorship. Global citizens do not have a chance in these super-corporate/wealth CITY STATE structures. They are locked for the long term into these enslaving global corporate campuses. BREXIT kills UK governance structures----all UK history of Rule of Law, UK Constitution ---and ties it only to global corporate tribunal rule. When WE THE PEOPLE hear someone pushing AMEND THE CONSTITUTION AND EXIT-----we know they are the 5% to the 1% ----pushing BAD PUBLIC POLICY.
'Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London, hailed the Brexit victory and reassured those who voted to remain that there was no need to panic: "This does not mean that the United Kingdom will be in any way less united, nor indeed does it mean that it will be any less European."
'Little kooky' idea, arguments built groundswell of British support for Brexit
By Bianca Britton, for CNN
Updated 1:33 AM ET, Sat June 25, 2016
Celebrating the Leave victory, UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, who was at the forefront of campaigning for Brexit, told a group of journalists that the EU is "dying."
He says the UK has now given itself "the chance to rejoin the world ... June 23rd needs to become a national bank holiday and we will call it Independence Day."
"I was written off as being a lunatic and politically the support for this was absolutely tiny," Farage told CNN Friday.
"(It was) a little idea that was considered a little kooky, and 17 million voted for it and I couldn't be happier."
Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London, hailed the Brexit victory and reassured those who voted to remain that there was no need to panic: "This does not mean that the United Kingdom will be in any way less united, nor indeed does it mean that it will be any less European."
Boris Johnson reacts to UK vote 05:41'Noble idea ... no longer right for this country'
What is the European Union? 02:00
While the UK has always had an arm's-length relationship with the EU since it joined in 1973, the Leave campaign has consistently argued the UK has paid too much to be a part of the Union and that the country is being pressured by rules and regulations set by Brussels.
After the announcement that the Leave campaign won, Johnson reiterated: "There is simply no need in the 21st century to be part of a federal government in Brussels that is imitated nowhere else on Earth. It was a noble idea for its time but it is no longer right for this country."
While Prime Minister David Cameron fought for a "special status" that exempts the UK from many of the EU laws, Johnson warned in May that the EU was the latest manifestation of a 2,000-year project to unify Europe under a single government.
"Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically," Johnson told the Sunday Telegraph.
"The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods."
Farage said the move will give the UK "greater influence as an independent country ... We'll make our laws in our own parliament, in our own supreme court and control our own borders."
For those unsure that Brexit is the right decision, Johnson reiterated it wasn't entirely a goodbye to Europe: "Britain will continue to be a great European power, leading discussions on defense and foreign policy and the work that goes on to make our world safer."
Goodbye to an open door immigration policy
Brexit: The immigration number that matters 01:16
During the campaign, the Leave supporters focused heavily on immigration. They argued that free movement in the EU meant Britain loses control of its borders.
EU membership allowed citizens from the other 27 countries to move to Britain and look for work without a concrete job offer. "Leave" supporters pointed to immigrants from struggling Eastern European states who were willing to work for low wages in their arguments about getting out of the EU.
"The introduction of the EU passport, whilst a good idea (because) it allows nice people to travel easily around the continent, what it also does is allow bad people to travel freely across the continent," Farage said.
British Home Secretary Theresa May said free movement in the EU "makes it harder to control immigration."
Pro-Brexit campaigners have suggested the UK establish an "Australian-style points-based immigration system."
The idea is that those who have certain skills and qualifications that are worth more to the British economy will gain more "points," which will help them reach a threshold that allows them to become eligible for a visa.
Whatever the future policy may be, there will be no change for EU citizens already lawfully residing in the country.
"These EU citizens will automatically be granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK and will be treated no less favorably than they are at present," Vote Leave said.
What happens now?
Going forward, Farage told CNN his party "needs to stay strong to make sure the government actually carries out the wishes of the people."
"We're going to watch these negotiations like a hawk," he said. "We've won the vote to become an independent nation, we now need to make sure it actually does happen."
For those who voted to remain in the EU, he had one message: "Don't worry."
"I'd say to them, listen, our trading relationship today is exactly the same as it was yesterday. What we now have is a period of transition which we can get a sensible deal with our European neighbors," Farage said.
"The exciting thing is we can do more globally and we are going to be better off as a result of this."
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The global 1% far-right Bush neo-cons and Libertarians
will sell EXIT as stopping threats to national sovereignty----all those immigrants taking US jobs. Know where most Foreign Economic Zone and global foreign corporate campus development has taken place-----IN SOUTHERN REPUBLICAN STATES.
This will not be a protection from the global labor pool----it will assure UK citizens are thrown into the global labor pool -----same for US citizens. US Congress has always been about a decade behind UK-----so we know these global pols are going to install these EXIT policies with AMEND THE CONSTITUTION.
This is why a Trump Presidency was needed-----they needed a PROTECTIONIST XENOPHOBIC to appear to protect as he simply MOVES FORWARD GLOBAL LABOR POOL POLICIES. Just because global corporate campuses hire some US workers does not mean a decade or so these US workers are not taken to third world wages and become part of rotating labor pool.
This is why global Wall Street sends in international labor unions to sell this----the leaders at the top of global labor pools see organizing millions of developing nation labor earning $3-6 a day more important than
PROTECTING AMERICAN LABOR RIGHTS WON OVER A CENTURY.
It is that partnering with global Wall Street that has right wing Republicans embracing international labor unions----so our labor unions have been taken far-right.....as with CLINTON NEO-LIBERALISM
Goodbye to an open door immigration policy
Brexit: The immigration number that matters 01:16
During the campaign, the Leave supporters focused heavily on immigration. They argued that free movement in the EU meant Britain loses control of its borders.
What do Trump and the far-right Libertarians in UK who push these EXIT policies have in common----they are far-right, authoritarian, extreme wealth and extreme corporate power able to do anything they want to accumulate wealth. How do we think that ends for US labor? Trump is going to hold US workers hostage for jobs pushing wages lower and lower and lower----no minimum wage in US Foreign Economic Zones. Trump is POSING CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN in making right wing labor think he is going to stop the movement of global labor pool across all US cities deemed Foreign Economic Zones.
Just as Clinton 1% Wall Street global corporate neo-liberals LIED in making immigrants feel they were being given SANCTUARY ----while building density to enslave them as they do overseas----so too is Trump LYING to his base in making them believe he will protect US labor from global labor pool.
Donald Trump supports the Brexit, because of course he does
By Ishaan Tharoor May 6
Donald Trump looks on at the 16th green on the first day of the Women's British Open golf championship on the Turnberry golf course in Scotland on July 30, 2015. (Scott Heppell/AP)Donald Trump appears to be in favor of the British movement to exit the European Union, a matter that is being put to referendum next month. The prospect of a "Brexit," as the potential act has become known, is opposed by British Prime Minister David Cameron and other senior European leaders.
President Obama also controversially waded into the heated debate last month, warning that leaving the European Union would diminish Britain's role on the world stage and leave it at "the back of the queue" for trade deals with the United States. Brexit supporters and other conservative politicians reacted angrily to Obama's perceived interference in British matters.
Trump, too, joined the chorus of condemnation.
"I didn't think it was a good thing for him to do it," the presumptive Republican nominee told the Daily Mail earlier this week, insisting that Obama should have remained neutral.
"I would say that I'm not going to give Britain any advice, but I know there are a lot of people that are very, very much against being in the E.U.," he added.
Yet on Thursday, just days later, Trump did give Britain his advice during an interview with Fox News.
"I would say [the British] are better off without [the E.U.], personally," he said, and then offered a rather bizarre clarification to an on-the-record statement: "But I'm not making that as a recommendation, just my feeling."
It's not surprising that Trump feels sympathy for Brexit supporters, whose anger over immigration and frustration with bureaucrats and political elites is echoed by the Republican base. During his first comprehensive foreign policy speech last month, Trump seemed to parrot the rhetoric of Euroskeptics across the pond.
He celebrated the "nation-state" as "the true foundation for happiness and harmony" and said he was "skeptical of international unions that tie us up and bring America down, and will never enter America into any agreement that reduces our ability to control our own affairs."
Earlier this year, Trump was the subject of a somewhat farcical debate in the British parliament over whether he should be banned from entering the country because of his comments about Muslims and other remarks regarded as bigoted. It was decided that no ban should be enacted but not before a lot of colorful language got deployed to describe the loud-mouthed mogul.
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"A poll can one day turn into a movement," Hwang said. "So I think it's the start of something big."
The 2016 election fraud led left-Democrats sick of the process----it left right Republicans hyped over a Trump xenophobia----and here we see live from the US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE----SAN FRAN---GLOBAL GOOGLEVILLE-----the push to get left groups to support this effort of EXIT-----while the right-wing leaders get their supporters pushing EXIT to get rid of immigrant labor pool.
NEITHER HAVE ANYTHING A RIGHT OR LEFT CITIZENS WOULD WANT.
This is why the Clinton Wall Street campaign media team FLOODED national media and election social media with all this hyper FEARMONGERING. IT actually HELPED TRUMP WIN.
If we remember---it was California voters most ANGRY AT DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY FRAUD AGAINST BERNIE-----they have the most election lawsuits in Federal court right now and that was the REAL LEFT-LEANING ELECTION ACTION. The Clinton 5% POSERS made the Trump election the action by protesting after Hillary was deemed loser---and these same POSERS will now lead this EXIT POLICY PUSH.
So, both right and left citizens are going to be sold that AMEND THE CONSTITUTION FOR EXIT is good for WE THE PEOPLE.
This is what CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA have done these few decades---and because WE THE PEOPLE are not out in rolling protest over ELECTION FRAUD----they will MOVE FORWARD this dismantling of our US into SINGAPORE-LIKE GLOBAL FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE CITY STATES. Of course TXEXIT and Trump are selling this same policy to the right wing using global labor pool xenophobia issues.
Presidential Election Aftermath Spurs Cal-Exit Dreams
By Ian Cull
Some California voters are so disgusted with the presidential election outcome, they want the state to leave the union. Ian Cull reports. (Published Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016)Some California voters are so disgusted with the presidential election outcome, they want the state to leave the union.
The post-election outrage from some has sparked an online movement to secede from the United States, in effect making California it's own nation in what some are dubbing a Cal-exit.
"I would sign my name on it, definitely," Berkeley resident Joy Hwang said. "I was just telling my friend I hope and pray it comes true."
One group called Yes California is planning the Cal-exit by trying to qualify an intiative for the 2018 ballot.
"That's crazy; that's just beyond imaginable," Matt Bufka, of Daly City, said.
Law professors said the vote wouldn't work because a secession requires a constitutional amendment from Congress, with two-thirds support.
"So it's not California at all that makes the decision; it's really the entire United States," legal expert Margaret Russell said. "And I just can't imagine any reason why the rest of the United States would be interested in that."
So while it's not likely, it is possible, and that keeps some hopes alive.
"A poll can one day turn into a movement," Hwang said. "So I think it's the start of something big."
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Here is another WALL STREET BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT 'LABOR AND JUSTICE' ORGANIZATION ----pushing bond debt as we have a crashing economy and collapsing bond market---just so Baltimore will be pushed into bankruptcy and none of these bond issues tied to labor or justice will go to labor or justice-------------
Housing for All Baltimore
November 10 at 11:30am ·
Friends, we are excited that Question J passed with 83% of the vote! Thanks to everyone who voted, volunteered and supported this effort. Now, the real work begins.
We see BUILD, UNITED WORKERS----these HOUSING FOR ALL---HEALTH CARE FOR ALL-----all Wall Street organizations POSING LEFT-----bringing US citizens out for policy that kills them and we will see these groups teaching Trump is the PROBLEM.
It's not the US cities as Foreign Economic Zones----its not the subpriming of our US Treasury and state municipal bond market----its not the fraudulent elections -----it's not CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA global labor pool --slave trading-----it is TRUMP.
HERE IS A GLOBAL NGO-----PRETENDING TO BE TRANSFORMATIVE------IT IS NOT LEFT----IT IS NOT SOCIAL JUSTICE---IT PROMOTES POLICIES THAT WILL END BADLY FOR WE THE PEOPLE----AND OTHER SOVEREIGN NATION CITIZENS.
Kairos works to strengthen and expand transformative movements for social change that can draw on the power of religions and human rights.
After the election: Agitate, Educate, Organize
By Dan Jones
Filed underBelow is an interview with Willie Baptist, our coordinator for Poverty Scholarship and Leadership Development. Willie is a veteran of 50 years of poor people’s struggles for dignity and survival, from the Watts uprising to the National Union of the Homeless to the Welfare Rights Movement. In this time of uncertainty and fear, we ask him about the effects of this election and the possible roads ahead.
Dan Jones: What do you think the effects of this election are likely to be?
Willie Baptist: I think the election is indicative of the fact that in this next period we’re going to be going into difficult times. But I think we should look beneath the surface of events and see that there’s dangers there, that some of the more long-standing hate groups and racist groups are going to feel like they can assert themselves much more. But there’s also tremendous opportunities.
The same crisis that basically elected Obama, the prolonged character of it elected Trump. Pennsylvania went to Obama last time, and now it went to Trump, and it was for basically the same reason both times, for a good core of people. And despite what the media say, it’s not strictly a Black and white and race issue. Underneath it, people were voting against the status quo, against the economic situation that they’re in. And there’s no way that Trump can deliver anything to the growing masses of the poor and dispossessed. In Pennsylvania, in Ohio, anywhere in the country, because of the nature of this crisis.
The ruling class and those forces that are in power, embrace a lot more than the presidency. Any president that comes into office has to deal with the fact that they are not in power. They’re going to have to operate in the interests of global capital. And the crisis is such that they cannot deliver for the increasing masses of people.
DJ: And what does that mean for the opportunities and the dangers you talked about?
WB: That means that the people that voted for Trump are going to be pissed off about that, and that’s going to give us an opportunity to really agitate and educate and organize around their issues. What we have in common is this economic crisis: The fact that we’re hurting, our families need housing, decent jobs, healthcare. That’s where our defense lies. When you’re fighting a powerful and dangerous foe, you’ve got to locate their weak point. And this election has revealed that the weak point is the economic crisis.
It’s the vulnerability not just of Trump or Hillary, but of the ruling class. It’s interesting that all the major media, which is under the control of global capital, – that is the Financial Times, the New York Times, Washington Post, and all the other media that follows what they say – all the major institutions and big companies supported Hillary. She was able to raise more than half a billion dollars for the election, and Trump wasn’t able to raise even half as much. And yet he won. He won because a lot of people voted with their feet: They didn’t vote, especially the poor, poor whites included. Or they voted against Clinton because they were voting against the economic status quo and the crisis. Her position was that everything is getting better, but things are not getting better. And things will not get better under Trump.
So I think that beneath the dangers we should see the opportunity. Historically dangers have always come with opportunities. Because of the opportunities, that’s why there’s dangers. The powers that be, the only way that they can respond – because they can’t guarantee the homeless a house, or people health care, and they can’t guarantee an education to our kids – the only thing they have is this racial politics. And the way that they play this racial politics is to attack and isolate one section and then turn sections against each other. That’s how they play it. But they can’t eliminate the crisis, that’s their problem, and the crisis is what we have in common.
DJ: How do you think we can fight against that racial politics of the powerful?
WB: A lot of Clinton’s vote, and a lot of Trump’s vote, came from the middle strata. The needs of the poor weren’t talked about in the presidential campaign, and neither are they going to be addressed in the current presidency. And I think we’re going to have to take those kinds of issues, these economic survival issues, and agitate and educate and organize around them: Really elevate them and identify the leaders who are emerging out of those fights, which are going to continue to emerge and increase as the crisis continues.
And so I think that the Poor People’s Campaign and the efforts along those lines of uniting the poor and dispossessed around the issues they have in common is what we ought to do. It’s the only real defense of any sector of the population: The struggle for our unity and our organization. In difficult times we’ve got to close ranks. Closing ranks means organizing, organizing, organizing, and building community, and building support for each other.
I think uniting the leaders and identifying leaders, as a step toward uniting the poor and dispossessed, is our task. I think we’re got to focus much more, we’ve got to throw more energy into that. We’ve got to take leaders like those coming out of Put People First! PA and others and give them all the support they need in terms of education and development and support. We’ve got to develop collectivity, collectives around our leaders so as to support them in these very difficult times. The idea of superman and superwoman and us going alone is playing into the dangers that are out there. But building community and building collectivity based on a process of political education about what we’re up against, that’s taking the opportunities.
Let’s understand very clearly: What are the opportunities? And then let’s throw everything we can at those opportunities. Where are the leaders like the ones coming through Put People First! PA? Recently I went to their annual Membership Assembly meeting, and that meeting said a lot about the opportunities. There was community at that meeting. There was a high spirit of brotherhood and sisterhood and family in that meeting: Of poor people across the color line, across the urban-rural divide, citizens and undocumented immigrants.
Let’s close ranks and build on what we’ve accomplished at that Assembly meeting, and various other places throughout the country where there’s other families like in Put People First. It’s very important at this time that we strengthen those relationships and we expand those relationships. And they can be expanded based on the fact that this crisis that we’re facing is forcing us to come together and fight against the injustices that this crisis exhibiting.
I think the more we put at the forefront the development of leaders and uniting leaders around the poor and dispossessed – that is, the people who are most hurting from the crisis – the more the crisis can be used as a basis of really striking a blow at the arguments of the forces that we’re up against. They’d like to make it a racial thing, and an anti-immigrant thing, and an anti-Muslim thing, to evade that common hurt and pain that we all feel. And I think the opportunities lie in us uncovering that and bringing it out into the open, so that everyone that’s hurting can come together and not be thrown into a fight against each other.
The danger is that we fight each other, the opportunity is that we have a basis to unite, on the basis of health care and all the things that are hurting every one one of us, I don’t care what color we are.
DJ: A lot of us are deeply afraid after this election, for the safety of ourselves and our loved ones. What’s it going to take to protect ourselves?
WB: We have to take action when the brothers and sisters of color and other vulnerable groups are attacked, but the way we’re really going to defend them is to unite those questions with the problems of the economy.
Our safety lies in uniting the poor and dispossessed. That is the only safety we’ve got. And the first step in that is uniting their leaders. We’ve got to make an analysis to be sure we don’t cover up, don’t miss the opportunities in our mourning about the situation. We can make a sober analysis of what are the opportunities: What are the weak points of the enemy, and how can we throw a blow at that weak point? That’s how you win a fight. Trump, as well as global capital, they’re strong on the race question. That isn’t a weak point for them, but our concept of what’s going on is strictly in racial terms, and that’s the way the discussion is going.
But very few are discussing the point of vulnerability of this system, and that’s the prolonged economic crisis. Homelessness is still growing by leaps and bounds, people are still dying from the lack of health care. Walmart and all these companies are planning on replacing more and more of their workers with robots.
You’re talking about those companies having to compete, and to compete today means you have to computerize and robot-ize. And if you still need labor-intensive activity, you’ve got to drive down the wages of those workers, because there’s no other way you can compete under these circumstances of this economic system and this crisis right now. So we’ll see more people thrown out of their jobs, and more people working lower-wage jobs, no matter what Trump promises.
Our strength is only in our numbers. They have strengths in money and their control of organized violence in the form of the police and prisons, military, national guard, all that stuff, and in their control of the major media. But our strength lies in us uniting ourselves on those issues that happen to be the point of vulnerability of the enemy: that’s the economic crisis. That’s the weak-point of the enemy. When you’re in a fight, you identify your enemy’s weak points, and this is his weak point. And that’s what the election showed.
DJ: Anything else you want to add?
WB: The American people are very religious people. And to win them, historically, those movements for reform and those movements for revolution, were able to win the American people because they won the battle for the Bible. They were able to speak in those terms and really deeply believed in the fact that we’re all God’s children and that we all have dignity, we all deserve a decent life.
I think even a lot of the people who voted for Trump believe that as well, they just hate Clinton, and they hate the economic and political situation. A good segment of them.
I watched this interview that Van Jones did. He went to Gettysburg and took supporters of Trump, Hillary, and Bernie Sanders. And he focused on the Trump person. If you listen to that kid, you can’t help but say: “I can unite with that kid!” He’s a decent kid. He goes to church, he helps out the people. He thinks that the Blacks should get what they need, but that Hillary is a crook. There’s a lot that we can unite on: Hillary is a crook. Things are messed up in this country.
I guarantee you that some of the people who voted for Trump, they’re just people who are afraid. A good number of them. I think our protection of the immigrants, our protection of the vulnerable sections that have been under attack, is by breaking their isolation. By organizing among other sections who are hurting, particularly poor whites — and they are hurting. And they are going to hurt even more, and we can reach them around issues like health care.
Now you’ve got the fringe, the Klan, and all these kinds of horrible people that we’ve got to protect ourselves from. But the only way we’re going to protect ourselves is building organization and building community, and being there in support of each other, and really thinking through this problem in terms of both the dangers and the opportunities.
As the situation unfolds, Trump can’t deliver. He ain’t going to be able to deliver. And that’s when he’s going to get raggedy and these people that voted for him, they’re going to be looking for answers. If we have leaders that can provide those answers, we’re going to build the kind of movement that we need to build.
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We spoke of BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES-----where our 5% to the 1% religious leaders are working for extreme wealth and extreme poverty. They are the ones sitting silent during massive and systemic Wall Street frauds and government corruptions----they are the ones allowing those made rich from all these frauds of our US public and personal wealth come back to WE THE PEOPLE as charity -----our wealth coming back to us in charity.
We spoke of concern over 6 of 9 Supreme Court judges being Roman Catholic AND tied to OPUS DEI. PENCE IS ONE REPORTED AS JUST THAT. Trump could care less about religion----national politicians who spent these few decades of LYING, CHEATING, STEALING, NO MORALS, NO ETHICS----NO GOD'S NATURAL LAW PRAGMATIC NILISM----are not religious.
Whether it is global religion coming from NGOs our our US cities----we are seeing FAR-RIGHT AUTHORITARIAN, DICTATOR, AND AUSTERE RELIGION TAKING LEAD.
None of these religious groups or leaders SEE ELECTION FRAUD---none of these religious leaders educate against US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES----the top world issue for GLOBAL LABOR POOL POOR.
Pence was raised in an Irish-Catholic
Bush/Obama was about dismantling all that is public----they outsourced all public agencies to global corporations and they outsourced all public agencies tied to social services to religious groups----WE THE PEOPLE ----have our power and voice in our PUBLIC AGENCIES---especially at local levels. We see Protestant and Catholic groups becoming more and more and more conservative because we always have extreme right religion with extreme wealth and global 1% and their 2% power. It's not because it is good for WE THE PEOPLE----it's not the poor--working or middle-class that are SOCIOPATHS----it is the 5% to the 1% ----these 'religious' leaders.
This is the perfect storm for social unrest. This is the exact condition created in all expansions of Foreign Economic Zones. Looting all wealth from a nation-----creating widespread unemployment and poverty----bringing in religious tensions---and global military forces. THIS IS HOW US CITIES AS FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES WILL BE INSTALLED.
Essay
The Christian Worldview of Mike Pence
By Max Perry Mueller | October 10, 2016
Pence’s place on the ticket mollifies some evangelical concerns over Trump’s past, his inconsistent policy positions, and his temperament. And yet for many other constituencies within the American electorate, Trump’s choice of Pence as running mate presents another set of worries. If Pence becomes the vice president, just a heartbeat—or impeachment—away from the Oval Office will be a politician who, as Pence himself implied at the vice presidential debate, believes it his “calling” to legislate his religious views into public policy.
(AP PHOTO/The Republic, Joe Harpring)
Hours after Donald Trump’s infamous tape was released, Republicans were calling on Mike Pence to replace his running mate atop the ticket. Faced with a 2005 recording of Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women, the vice presidential candidate said, “I do not condone his remarks and I cannot defend them.” Hoping to salvage down-ballot races, at least two GOP senators have proposed to write in Pence’s name on the ballot. Rumors of the replacement persisted even after Sunday night’s debate, and even after Pence tweeted his support to Trump, stating that he remained proud to stand with him as they make America great again.
As increasing numbers of Republicans look to make Mike Pence the face of their presidential ticket in 2016, it’s important to ask, what kind of leader is Mike Pence? “My Christian faith is at the very heart of who I am,” he explained during last week’s vice presidential debate. When he answered “a calling into public service,” first as a U.S. congressman and since 2012 as governor of Indiana, Pence said that he “tried to keep faith with the values” that he cherishes. Pence’s effort to marry his religious views with his politics—from abortion and LGBTQ rights to health care reform and immigration—have won him legions of conservative Christian followers in Indiana and around the country.
It also earned him a spot on this year’s GOP ticket. Trump’s choice of Pence was seen as key to help shore up the white, conservative Christians that Trump needs to turn out in November. And with last week’s misogynistic revelations—and the exodus of support from Republican leaders—Trump will need Pence more than ever.
In contrast to the brash billionaire, Pence is a former six-term congressman and an outspoken Christian, who is widely respected by Republican congressional leaders, especially House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has often been critical of Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric and policy proposals. Pence’s support last year of Indiana’s controversial “religious freedom” bill, which would have prevented local governments from expanding LGBT civil rights protections in that state, brought him national acclaim among conservative evangelicals who wish to reverse the tide against what they see is the erosion of America’s traditional Christian values.
“I’m a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order,” Pence explained in his speech to the Republican National Convention. He pledged to work in a Trump administration—“for the sake of the rule of law, for the sake of the sanctity of life, for the sake of our Second Amendment, and for the sake of all our other God-given liberties”--based upon this professed identity. A Trump presidency would mean a powerful Pence vice presidency: With so little governing experience, Trump certainly would rely on Pence. And since Pence identifies himself a Christian first, it’s worth considering, what kind of Christian is he? And how has his Christianity affected his governing?
Pence was raised in an Irish-Catholic, Democratic-voting family in Columbus, Indiana. He even considered becoming a priest. He met his wife of 30 years, Karen, at Mass at a Catholic church in Indianapolis. Yet, as Pence told the Christian Broadcasting Network in 2010, during his freshman year at Hanover College, while attending a Christian music festival, “I gave my life to Jesus Christ and that changed everything.”
Much has been made of the fact that Pence at one time described himself as an “evangelical Catholic.” However, Pence has become reticent about the shift in his faith identity, according to Craig Fehrman, who wrote a 2013 profile of him for Indianapolis Monthly. Instead, he prefers to call himself an “ordinary Christian.” Pence “was torn between his family’s faith and background and a new more exciting faith,” Ferhman explained.
Pence continued to call himself a Catholic until the mid-1990s, when he began attending an evangelical megachurch in Indianapolis. In her story about Pence’s evolving faith, Michelle Boorstein of The Washington Post noted that it was during this period when “white evangelicals and conservative Catholics in the United States started to realize they had a lot more in common than their more denominationally tribal parents realized.” Together, Catholics and evangelical Christians worked to protect “traditional marriage” and enforce greater abortion restrictions.
Pence earned a law degree from Indiana University in 1986 and entered private practice. After running unsuccessfully for Congress in 1988 and 1990, he became the president of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation, part of a Koch brothers-backed network, which bills itself as promoting “the best thought on governmental, economic and educational issues” by “exalt[ing] the truths of the Declaration of Independence, especially as they apply to the interrelated freedoms of religion, property, and speech.” It was during his four-year tenure there, which coincided with this fuller embrace of evangelical Christianity, that Pence first began promoting “traditional family” ideologies and policies in earnest.
Pence then became the host of a talk radio show—“Rush Limbaugh on decaf,” is how he described his radio persona—as well as a local Sunday TV show. Pence maintained ties, however, with his former organization. In 1996, he published in the foundation’s journal an essay in which he lambasted the Republican Party’s move away from “traditional Pro-Family conservatives.” His evidence was the 1996 RNC speakers’ line-up, which included “pro-choice women, AIDS activists, and proponents of Affirmative Action.” He lamented that the GOP had abandoned the combative posture epitomized by Pat Buchanan’s “culture war” speech at the 1992 convention. Pence even included a bit of unintended foreshadowing of the rise of Trump. He wrote that not only did the 1996 RNC’s retreat from conservatism make for bad politics, it made for bad TV; “ratings were dismal,” he noted.
In 2000, Pence was elected to the House of Representatives. There he became a leader among movement conservatives committed to rolling back federal intervention in education and healthcare, business and environmental regulations. Until just last week, he called climate change “a myth” based on faulty science. In the House, he voted to block policies that would curb greenhouse gases. In 2002, he took to the House floor to call for science textbooks to “be changed” to reflect that evolution “taught for 77 years in the classrooms of America as fact” is just a “theory,” and that “other theories of the origin of species,” notably “intelligent design,” should also be included alongside evolution.
In Congress, Pence also worked to thwart advances in LGBTQ and immigrant rights and further restrict abortion access. In 2006, to justify his support for a U.S. constitutional amendment that would define marriage as between a man and a woman, Pence declared that the legalization of gay marriage signaled “societal collapse.” In 2008, Pence explained, “marriage was ordained by God and instituted in law. It is the glue of the American family and the safest harbor to raise children.” Throughout his career, Pence has often highlighted the fact that he is a grandchild of an immigrant from Ireland, and in 2006, he even backed compromise immigration reform that would have created a guest worker program. Yet he also supported legislation to build a fence along the Mexican border and end birthright citizenship. At a 2011 address at the March for Life rally, Pence said he was committed to reducing Roe v. Wade to “the ash heap of history.” He also supported so-called “personhood” legislation, which would guarantee constitutional protections to fetuses starting at conception. In 2011, Pence led the most recent effort in Congress to defund Planned Parenthood and said he was willing to shut down the federal government to do so.
In 2012, Pence was elected governor, and he has continued to govern based on his religiously conservative worldview. Though a federal judge blocked the law’s implementation, in March of this year, Pence signed a law that included a provision that aborted fetuses as well as miscarriages must be interred or cremated. Last March, he signed the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), backed by same-sex marriage opponents. Yet critics of the law believed it would empower private businesses to refuse to serve certain citizens simply by invoking their religious beliefs. Dozens of companies voiced their objections to the law, as did sports groups and religious organizations. Pence and the state legislature quickly caved to the pressure. They added language to the legislation that protected LBGT citizens. Yet the changes left both sides of the fight unhappy.
The RFRA fight hurt Pence’s standing in Indiana. In the spring of this year, while Pence was being vetted to become Donald Trump’s running mate, poll numbers showed that more Hoosiers disapproved of Pence’s job performance (42 percent) than approved (40 percent). The fact that he was facing such a tough reelection might be one reason why Pence agreed to join Trump’s ticket. And still, Trump arguably gets more out of the deal than Pence. Pence’s consistent record on social issues buttresses Trump’s own claim to conservative Christian policy bona fides.
And yet, Trump and Pence don’t always see eye-to-eye on key issues. “He and I haven’t spoken, and he and I disagree,” Trump said of Pence’s views on Syria during the presidential debate in St. Louis. The cornerstones of Trump’s vision “to make America great again” include plans to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border, and implement “extreme vetting” of immigrants from Muslim countries. Since becoming Trump’s running mate, Pence has given full-throated endorsements of these Trump proposals. Still, even a few days before accepting Trump’s offer, Pence refused to support Trump’s wall. And last year, hours after Trump first proposed it, Pence called Trump’s proposed ban on all Muslim immigration “offensive and unconstitutional.”
This contrast, even conflict, between Trump and Pence extends to their public personas—which was fully evident over the past week. Pence’s measured public demeanor, traditional family values, as well as his long political career, present a study in contrast with Trump, the bombastic, thrice-married, political-novice, who brazenly talks about forcing himself on women. And yet, Pence’s first—and primary—identity as a conservative Christian and the governing worldview that it forms in many ways aligns with Trump’s own view of seeing the world divided starkly into allies and enemies, good deals and bad deals, security and menace.
In this sense, both Trump and Pence are restorationists. And their restorationist visions for America are complementary. Trump’s is racial; Pence’s is religious. Together, their ticket embodies a “white Christian America” in decline, as Robert P. Jones has powerfully described it. In a Trump-Pence ticket, white Christian America not only hopes to resist the forces demographic and cultural change, but to restore white Protestant Americans (especially men) to their place of unchallenged preeminence.
According to a Pew Research survey in June, more than 94 percent of white Republican evangelicals were supporting Trump over Clinton, up from 44 percent in April during the primary contest. Picking Pence was the result, not the cause, of Trump’s growing evangelical base. Perhaps it’s fair to think of Pence as part of the political branch of Trump’s evangelical outreach, which includes leaders like Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr., Focus on the Family founder James Dobson,* and Faith and Freedom Coalition founder Ralph Reed, who all serve on Trump’s evangelical advisory board and who have continued to stand by him after the video’s release.
Pence and these leaders have served as Trump’s Christian witnesses, and Pence continues to do so for the many everyday evangelical Christians to whom he has spoken over the last few months in churches throughout the country. Since many Americans don’t know exactly where Trump stands on the issues, Pence reassures them. As he told a town hall gathering last September at a church in Meza, Arizona, “All you need to know about Donald Trump is he loves his family and he loves his country.”
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Please suspend disbelief for one second for those Hillary supporters who don't believe she should have lost. For those KNOWING this 2016 Presidential election was always about installing FAR-RIGHT, AUTHORITARIAN, MILITARISTIC, AUSTERE, DICTATOR-----LIBERTARIAN MARXISM---
What in the world would that look like if not TRUMP ----PENCE-----AND WHAT WILL BE TRUMP'S CABINET.
Hillary was NEVER supposed to win----Hilllary was only meant to kill a left-leaning national social Democratic movement behind Bernie Sanders. When I saw this WIKILEAK of Hillary's emails-----we are led to believe a Clinton 1% Wall Street global corporate neo-liberal strategy was to enhance national and social media around EXTREMISM-----highlighting Trump-----Pence-----Cruz------ Carson.
It was rumored early in Hillary's campaign that she had CRUZ on her short list of Vice Presidential candidates. CRUZ just happens to be OPUS DEI ROMAN CATHOLIC.
KNOW WHAT? THAT IS JUST TOO MANY COINCIDENCES ----NO ROCKET SCIENTIST STUFF GOING ON HERE.
So, Hillary was not trying to make Trump look bad----she was FEARMONGERING and promoting these right-wing candidates in the national media-----KNOWING THE GENERAL ELECTION WAS FIXED FOR A TRUMP WIN.
February 29, 2012
You Shall Know Cruz By His Deeds
By Nicholas G. Hahn III
How does a man who is part Cuban, part Italian, and part Irish end up a Southern Baptist?
"I come from a family that has been Roman Catholic for generations,"
''Calling them the “pied piper” candidates, team Hillary describes Trump, Cruz, and Carson as nominees that could – if handled properly – make the extreme the mainstream.
My right wing friends-----please do not allow extreme wealth to pull our US Protestant----Catholic-----Muslim-----Jewish religions far-right
The REAL issues are stopping the installation of US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES ----stop the global labor pool distribution----and simply RESPECT OUR DIFFERENCES while we as 99% vs 1% reverse these policies.
Leaked Emails Show That Trump Was a Tool Used by the Hillary Campaign From Day One
Posted at 6:30 pm on October 8, 2016 by Brandon Morse
If you were wondering if a Trump candidacy was any worry to Clinton, then wonder no more.
The hacked emails released by Wikileaks shows an interesting tidbit about how the Democrats looked at the idea of a Trump candidacy, and you can safely see that of all the candidates Hillary actively wanted to face, Trump was on the list.
Calling them the “pied piper” candidates, team Hillary describes Trump, Cruz, and Carson as nominees that could – if handled properly – make the extreme the mainstream.
“We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to them seriously,” it said in the email.
The summary is that the DNC and the Clinton campaign wanted Trump to be Hillary’s opponent because they knew his extreme stances could be used to alienate and divide. They could then use these candidates to paint the Republican party as a whole as something dangerous.
Trump was a tool for Hillary’s campaign all along. She wanted the press to take Trump seriously, put him up as the most viable option for Republicans, and the right took the bait, hook, line, and sinker. Now with the Trump campaign burning to the ground, and GOP leaders walking away due to his recent comments, the Clinton campaign’s plan to put Hillary on top is coming to fruition.
In short, the Republicans have been played. Trump was a unknowing puppet for Hillary from the get-go, and the right – though some had very strong suspicions – didn’t know it.
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Now, it again---is no coincidence that CLINTON NEO-LIBERALS are likely to install Ellison who we are told is a Muslim. Now, again---anyone in Congress with absolute fraud and corruption---injustice---tied to the House Leadershop pushing all of the above---IS NOT RELIGIOUS.
Here we see a Trump is supposed to be hostile to this MUSLIM candidate for DNC. I told my Muslim friends----you better watch out-----none of this has anything to do with left religious freedom---it is completely about creating social unrest and factioning. PLEASE FOR THOSE CITIZENS REALLY RELIGIOUS---do not fall into these global Wall Street plans---they do this all over the world to create unrest.
My right wing friends-----please do not allow extreme wealth to pull our US Protestant----Catholic-----Muslim-----Jewish religions far-right
The REAL issues are stopping the installation of US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES ----stop the global labor pool distribution----and simply RESPECT OUR DIFFERENCES while we as 99% vs 1% reverse these policies.
Each one of these religious NGOs need to surround 24/7-----our CITY HALLS----OUR STATE ASSEMBLIES-----OUR CONGRESS----WALL STREET BANKS----GLOBAL CORPORATE EXECUTIVES----AND LAY HANDS ON THESE 5% TO THE 1% -----AMEN!
First Muslim elected to Congress eyes run at DNC chairmanship
By MJ Lee, CNN National Politics Reporter
Updated 6:12 PM ET, Sun November 13, 2016
Keith Ellison on how Trump has 'disturbed' Muslims 02:26Story highlights
Now, the first Muslim-American elected to Congress is eyeing the position of chairman of the Democratic National Committee.Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota is looking to make a run for the influential post, according to a source familiar with his thinking. Although Ellison has not yet officially commented on the speculation, the congressman has already picked up endorsements from prominent colleagues in Congress, including popular liberal Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, as well as New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, who is expected to be the next Senate minority leader. On Sunday Ellison also won the backing from the current Democratic Senate leader, Harry Reid of Nevada.
"My friend Keith Ellison is a terrific leader and a strong 'ECONOMIC' progressive who knows how to get things done," Reid said in a statement. "Now is the time for new thinking and a fresh start at the DNC. Now is the time for Keith."
The election of the next DNC head -- and what kind of Democrats emerge as the new and younger leaders of the party -- will send an important signal about the direction that the Democratic Party takes in the aftermath of Hillary Clinton's shocking defeat to Trump this week.
If Ellison is elected DNC chair, he could play a potentially powerful role in advocating for ethnic minority groups, including Muslims, who feel deeply concerned about Trump's past comments about non-whites.
Earlier this year, CNN traveled to three growing Muslim communities and spoke to more than 40 Muslim Americans about the election. In these conversations, the community expressed emotions ranging from disbelief to anger to fear.
In an extensive interview outside of his district office in Minneapolis, Ellison said at the time that Muslims in his community feared possible backlash and spike in racial discrimination if Trump were to be elected president.
"I've had more than one mom say, 'My kids are asking me whether we're going to be deported, whether we're going to be safe.' Teenage girls asking whether they should wear the hijab if they want to," Ellison said. "It's a choice, but they're now getting the message that maybe it's not safe for them to do that."
Like many others that CNN interviewed, Ellison also made a surprising revelation: that he believes things are worse now for Muslim-Americans than they were right after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
"I think it's probably harder now," he said.
Ellison described a gradual easing of tensions and normalization in the 15 years since 9/11. After becoming the first Muslim-American elected to Congress, Ellison said former President George W. Bush "extended his hand to me and said, 'Ellison, I'm glad there's a Muslim in the Congress.'"
Bush "stood with Muslims and he said that Islam's not the problem -- these terrorists, murderers and maniacs are the problem," Ellison says. "George Bush doesn't get enough credit for that."
A friend who likes to bash REAL social Democrats hit the nail on the head with the problems for WE THE PEOPLE. If we have shouted for 10 years that Clinton neo-liberals are FAR-RIGHT WING ECONOMICS-----we know there will be no left social policy. That is why we know they are POSING SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE as the MOVE FORWARD global Wall Street policy. We also know all national organization leaders, DNC, and Congress ----the national public policy think tanks like Brookings, Roosevelt Institute, Aspen Institute----ARE ALL FAR-RIGHT CLINTON NEO-LIBERAL PUBLIC POLICY THINK TANKS---so they are not writing public policy that addresses PROACTIVELY ----REAL LEFT-LEANING POLICY. They wait until all policy and structures are in place---then they come out to PROTEST AGAINST IT.
WE THE FEELING THE LEFT-LEANING SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC BERN MUST STOP FOLLOWING TALKING POINTS ---WE MUST SHOUT GORILLA - IN -THE -ROOM POLICY STANCES.
FRIEND: uhh i lived in the uk.... the citizen residents of the industrial cities of birmingham manchester newcastle and liverpool knew what they were doing... they are very much different than the south - london southhampton etc
ME: who flooded UK with global labor pool these few decades---was it those UK industrial workers? If you are the global 1% wanting to end national sovereignty---how do you get the populace to do that for you? How do you get GBLT and women voters to come out to vote for a Hillary? You make voters fearful and angry and PROVIDE THEM A SOLUTION------ vote the least worst with Hillary or BREXIT. The citizens of UK may very well have marched for exit-----but who created this ISSUE SOLUTION? That is the problem for the 99%. We have allowed national organizations to create TALKING POINTS----that WE THE PEOPLE simply follow. BREXIT will KILL UK INDUSTRIAL WORKERS. Why did they come out? Because some leader pushed forward this policy as a solution. Global 1% Wall Street is killing WE THE PEOPLE because we do not educate broadly on public policy to know BREXIT WAS WORSE than simply trying to control the flooding of UK economy with a global labor pool. THAT IS WHY AS A REAL LEFT-LEANING SOCIAL DEMOCRAT---I AM CALLING TO STOP THE FLOODING OF US CITIES WITH GLOBAL LABOR POOL WHILE PROTECTING THOSE IMMIGRANT FAMILIES HAVING WORKED FOR DECADES IN THE US-----that is the left-leaning social Democratic solution. BREXIT IS THE GLOBAL 1% GOAL OF ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE CITY STATES. Want to bet who led those UK industrial workers to push BREXIT------INTERNATIONAL LABOR UNION LEADERS partnered with global Wall Street.
The REAL left-leaning stance on global labor pool in US or UK cities is stopping this global slave trade distribution by getting rid of global 1% Wall Street pols. The REAL left-leaning stance would then be protect our immigrant families having been working in the US for decades. It is global Wall Street flooding our cities to DESTABILIZE ---they are not friends to global immigrants. So, we will see CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA pushing here in the US -----this same BREXIT policy-----TXEXIT------CALEXIT-----with a push to US Constitutional Amendment. It will be that 5% to the 1% pushing these global policies.
Thousands Protest Against Brexit in London's Trafalgar Square
- By JULIA JACOBO
Dylan Martinez/Reuters
Crowds demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament during a protest aimed at showing London's solidarity with the European Union in London, June 28, 2016. Thousands of protesters gathered in London Tuesday to voice their support of the United Kingdom staying in the European Union, despite Friday's unprecedented referendum voting for an exit.
An event in Trafalgar Square, titled "Stand Together," had been canceled due to the extraordinary number of people who wished to attend.
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Here we see the far-right Libertarians pushing for BREXIT. BREXIT will make of the UK what SINGAPORE is----SINGAPORE is that far-right, authoritarian, extreme wealth and extreme poverty dictatorship. Global citizens do not have a chance in these super-corporate/wealth CITY STATE structures. They are locked for the long term into these enslaving global corporate campuses. BREXIT kills UK governance structures----all UK history of Rule of Law, UK Constitution ---and ties it only to global corporate tribunal rule. When WE THE PEOPLE hear someone pushing AMEND THE CONSTITUTION AND EXIT-----we know they are the 5% to the 1% ----pushing BAD PUBLIC POLICY.
'Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London, hailed the Brexit victory and reassured those who voted to remain that there was no need to panic: "This does not mean that the United Kingdom will be in any way less united, nor indeed does it mean that it will be any less European."
'Little kooky' idea, arguments built groundswell of British support for Brexit
By Bianca Britton, for CNN
Updated 1:33 AM ET, Sat June 25, 2016
- Markets plunged at the news
- UK Independent Party leader Nigel Farage told CNN the UK will have greater influence as an independent country
Celebrating the Leave victory, UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, who was at the forefront of campaigning for Brexit, told a group of journalists that the EU is "dying."
He says the UK has now given itself "the chance to rejoin the world ... June 23rd needs to become a national bank holiday and we will call it Independence Day."
"I was written off as being a lunatic and politically the support for this was absolutely tiny," Farage told CNN Friday.
"(It was) a little idea that was considered a little kooky, and 17 million voted for it and I couldn't be happier."
Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London, hailed the Brexit victory and reassured those who voted to remain that there was no need to panic: "This does not mean that the United Kingdom will be in any way less united, nor indeed does it mean that it will be any less European."
Boris Johnson reacts to UK vote 05:41'Noble idea ... no longer right for this country'
What is the European Union? 02:00
While the UK has always had an arm's-length relationship with the EU since it joined in 1973, the Leave campaign has consistently argued the UK has paid too much to be a part of the Union and that the country is being pressured by rules and regulations set by Brussels.
After the announcement that the Leave campaign won, Johnson reiterated: "There is simply no need in the 21st century to be part of a federal government in Brussels that is imitated nowhere else on Earth. It was a noble idea for its time but it is no longer right for this country."
While Prime Minister David Cameron fought for a "special status" that exempts the UK from many of the EU laws, Johnson warned in May that the EU was the latest manifestation of a 2,000-year project to unify Europe under a single government.
"Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically," Johnson told the Sunday Telegraph.
"The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods."
Farage said the move will give the UK "greater influence as an independent country ... We'll make our laws in our own parliament, in our own supreme court and control our own borders."
For those unsure that Brexit is the right decision, Johnson reiterated it wasn't entirely a goodbye to Europe: "Britain will continue to be a great European power, leading discussions on defense and foreign policy and the work that goes on to make our world safer."
Goodbye to an open door immigration policy
Brexit: The immigration number that matters 01:16
During the campaign, the Leave supporters focused heavily on immigration. They argued that free movement in the EU meant Britain loses control of its borders.
EU membership allowed citizens from the other 27 countries to move to Britain and look for work without a concrete job offer. "Leave" supporters pointed to immigrants from struggling Eastern European states who were willing to work for low wages in their arguments about getting out of the EU.
"The introduction of the EU passport, whilst a good idea (because) it allows nice people to travel easily around the continent, what it also does is allow bad people to travel freely across the continent," Farage said.
British Home Secretary Theresa May said free movement in the EU "makes it harder to control immigration."
Pro-Brexit campaigners have suggested the UK establish an "Australian-style points-based immigration system."
The idea is that those who have certain skills and qualifications that are worth more to the British economy will gain more "points," which will help them reach a threshold that allows them to become eligible for a visa.
Whatever the future policy may be, there will be no change for EU citizens already lawfully residing in the country.
"These EU citizens will automatically be granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK and will be treated no less favorably than they are at present," Vote Leave said.
What happens now?
Going forward, Farage told CNN his party "needs to stay strong to make sure the government actually carries out the wishes of the people."
"We're going to watch these negotiations like a hawk," he said. "We've won the vote to become an independent nation, we now need to make sure it actually does happen."
For those who voted to remain in the EU, he had one message: "Don't worry."
"I'd say to them, listen, our trading relationship today is exactly the same as it was yesterday. What we now have is a period of transition which we can get a sensible deal with our European neighbors," Farage said.
"The exciting thing is we can do more globally and we are going to be better off as a result of this."
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The global 1% far-right Bush neo-cons and Libertarians
will sell EXIT as stopping threats to national sovereignty----all those immigrants taking US jobs. Know where most Foreign Economic Zone and global foreign corporate campus development has taken place-----IN SOUTHERN REPUBLICAN STATES.
This will not be a protection from the global labor pool----it will assure UK citizens are thrown into the global labor pool -----same for US citizens. US Congress has always been about a decade behind UK-----so we know these global pols are going to install these EXIT policies with AMEND THE CONSTITUTION.
This is why a Trump Presidency was needed-----they needed a PROTECTIONIST XENOPHOBIC to appear to protect as he simply MOVES FORWARD GLOBAL LABOR POOL POLICIES. Just because global corporate campuses hire some US workers does not mean a decade or so these US workers are not taken to third world wages and become part of rotating labor pool.
This is why global Wall Street sends in international labor unions to sell this----the leaders at the top of global labor pools see organizing millions of developing nation labor earning $3-6 a day more important than
PROTECTING AMERICAN LABOR RIGHTS WON OVER A CENTURY.
It is that partnering with global Wall Street that has right wing Republicans embracing international labor unions----so our labor unions have been taken far-right.....as with CLINTON NEO-LIBERALISM
Goodbye to an open door immigration policy
Brexit: The immigration number that matters 01:16
During the campaign, the Leave supporters focused heavily on immigration. They argued that free movement in the EU meant Britain loses control of its borders.
What do Trump and the far-right Libertarians in UK who push these EXIT policies have in common----they are far-right, authoritarian, extreme wealth and extreme corporate power able to do anything they want to accumulate wealth. How do we think that ends for US labor? Trump is going to hold US workers hostage for jobs pushing wages lower and lower and lower----no minimum wage in US Foreign Economic Zones. Trump is POSING CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN in making right wing labor think he is going to stop the movement of global labor pool across all US cities deemed Foreign Economic Zones.
Just as Clinton 1% Wall Street global corporate neo-liberals LIED in making immigrants feel they were being given SANCTUARY ----while building density to enslave them as they do overseas----so too is Trump LYING to his base in making them believe he will protect US labor from global labor pool.
Donald Trump supports the Brexit, because of course he does
By Ishaan Tharoor May 6
Donald Trump looks on at the 16th green on the first day of the Women's British Open golf championship on the Turnberry golf course in Scotland on July 30, 2015. (Scott Heppell/AP)Donald Trump appears to be in favor of the British movement to exit the European Union, a matter that is being put to referendum next month. The prospect of a "Brexit," as the potential act has become known, is opposed by British Prime Minister David Cameron and other senior European leaders.
President Obama also controversially waded into the heated debate last month, warning that leaving the European Union would diminish Britain's role on the world stage and leave it at "the back of the queue" for trade deals with the United States. Brexit supporters and other conservative politicians reacted angrily to Obama's perceived interference in British matters.
Trump, too, joined the chorus of condemnation.
"I didn't think it was a good thing for him to do it," the presumptive Republican nominee told the Daily Mail earlier this week, insisting that Obama should have remained neutral.
"I would say that I'm not going to give Britain any advice, but I know there are a lot of people that are very, very much against being in the E.U.," he added.
Yet on Thursday, just days later, Trump did give Britain his advice during an interview with Fox News.
"I would say [the British] are better off without [the E.U.], personally," he said, and then offered a rather bizarre clarification to an on-the-record statement: "But I'm not making that as a recommendation, just my feeling."
It's not surprising that Trump feels sympathy for Brexit supporters, whose anger over immigration and frustration with bureaucrats and political elites is echoed by the Republican base. During his first comprehensive foreign policy speech last month, Trump seemed to parrot the rhetoric of Euroskeptics across the pond.
He celebrated the "nation-state" as "the true foundation for happiness and harmony" and said he was "skeptical of international unions that tie us up and bring America down, and will never enter America into any agreement that reduces our ability to control our own affairs."
Earlier this year, Trump was the subject of a somewhat farcical debate in the British parliament over whether he should be banned from entering the country because of his comments about Muslims and other remarks regarded as bigoted. It was decided that no ban should be enacted but not before a lot of colorful language got deployed to describe the loud-mouthed mogul.
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"A poll can one day turn into a movement," Hwang said. "So I think it's the start of something big."
The 2016 election fraud led left-Democrats sick of the process----it left right Republicans hyped over a Trump xenophobia----and here we see live from the US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE----SAN FRAN---GLOBAL GOOGLEVILLE-----the push to get left groups to support this effort of EXIT-----while the right-wing leaders get their supporters pushing EXIT to get rid of immigrant labor pool.
NEITHER HAVE ANYTHING A RIGHT OR LEFT CITIZENS WOULD WANT.
This is why the Clinton Wall Street campaign media team FLOODED national media and election social media with all this hyper FEARMONGERING. IT actually HELPED TRUMP WIN.
If we remember---it was California voters most ANGRY AT DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY FRAUD AGAINST BERNIE-----they have the most election lawsuits in Federal court right now and that was the REAL LEFT-LEANING ELECTION ACTION. The Clinton 5% POSERS made the Trump election the action by protesting after Hillary was deemed loser---and these same POSERS will now lead this EXIT POLICY PUSH.
So, both right and left citizens are going to be sold that AMEND THE CONSTITUTION FOR EXIT is good for WE THE PEOPLE.
This is what CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA have done these few decades---and because WE THE PEOPLE are not out in rolling protest over ELECTION FRAUD----they will MOVE FORWARD this dismantling of our US into SINGAPORE-LIKE GLOBAL FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE CITY STATES. Of course TXEXIT and Trump are selling this same policy to the right wing using global labor pool xenophobia issues.
Presidential Election Aftermath Spurs Cal-Exit Dreams
By Ian Cull
Some California voters are so disgusted with the presidential election outcome, they want the state to leave the union. Ian Cull reports. (Published Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016)Some California voters are so disgusted with the presidential election outcome, they want the state to leave the union.
The post-election outrage from some has sparked an online movement to secede from the United States, in effect making California it's own nation in what some are dubbing a Cal-exit.
"I would sign my name on it, definitely," Berkeley resident Joy Hwang said. "I was just telling my friend I hope and pray it comes true."
One group called Yes California is planning the Cal-exit by trying to qualify an intiative for the 2018 ballot.
"That's crazy; that's just beyond imaginable," Matt Bufka, of Daly City, said.
Law professors said the vote wouldn't work because a secession requires a constitutional amendment from Congress, with two-thirds support.
"So it's not California at all that makes the decision; it's really the entire United States," legal expert Margaret Russell said. "And I just can't imagine any reason why the rest of the United States would be interested in that."
So while it's not likely, it is possible, and that keeps some hopes alive.
"A poll can one day turn into a movement," Hwang said. "So I think it's the start of something big."
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Here is another WALL STREET BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT 'LABOR AND JUSTICE' ORGANIZATION ----pushing bond debt as we have a crashing economy and collapsing bond market---just so Baltimore will be pushed into bankruptcy and none of these bond issues tied to labor or justice will go to labor or justice-------------
Housing for All Baltimore
November 10 at 11:30am ·
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We see BUILD, UNITED WORKERS----these HOUSING FOR ALL---HEALTH CARE FOR ALL-----all Wall Street organizations POSING LEFT-----bringing US citizens out for policy that kills them and we will see these groups teaching Trump is the PROBLEM.
It's not the US cities as Foreign Economic Zones----its not the subpriming of our US Treasury and state municipal bond market----its not the fraudulent elections -----it's not CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA global labor pool --slave trading-----it is TRUMP.
HERE IS A GLOBAL NGO-----PRETENDING TO BE TRANSFORMATIVE------IT IS NOT LEFT----IT IS NOT SOCIAL JUSTICE---IT PROMOTES POLICIES THAT WILL END BADLY FOR WE THE PEOPLE----AND OTHER SOVEREIGN NATION CITIZENS.
Kairos works to strengthen and expand transformative movements for social change that can draw on the power of religions and human rights.
After the election: Agitate, Educate, Organize
By Dan Jones
Filed underBelow is an interview with Willie Baptist, our coordinator for Poverty Scholarship and Leadership Development. Willie is a veteran of 50 years of poor people’s struggles for dignity and survival, from the Watts uprising to the National Union of the Homeless to the Welfare Rights Movement. In this time of uncertainty and fear, we ask him about the effects of this election and the possible roads ahead.
Dan Jones: What do you think the effects of this election are likely to be?
Willie Baptist: I think the election is indicative of the fact that in this next period we’re going to be going into difficult times. But I think we should look beneath the surface of events and see that there’s dangers there, that some of the more long-standing hate groups and racist groups are going to feel like they can assert themselves much more. But there’s also tremendous opportunities.
The same crisis that basically elected Obama, the prolonged character of it elected Trump. Pennsylvania went to Obama last time, and now it went to Trump, and it was for basically the same reason both times, for a good core of people. And despite what the media say, it’s not strictly a Black and white and race issue. Underneath it, people were voting against the status quo, against the economic situation that they’re in. And there’s no way that Trump can deliver anything to the growing masses of the poor and dispossessed. In Pennsylvania, in Ohio, anywhere in the country, because of the nature of this crisis.
The ruling class and those forces that are in power, embrace a lot more than the presidency. Any president that comes into office has to deal with the fact that they are not in power. They’re going to have to operate in the interests of global capital. And the crisis is such that they cannot deliver for the increasing masses of people.
DJ: And what does that mean for the opportunities and the dangers you talked about?
WB: That means that the people that voted for Trump are going to be pissed off about that, and that’s going to give us an opportunity to really agitate and educate and organize around their issues. What we have in common is this economic crisis: The fact that we’re hurting, our families need housing, decent jobs, healthcare. That’s where our defense lies. When you’re fighting a powerful and dangerous foe, you’ve got to locate their weak point. And this election has revealed that the weak point is the economic crisis.
It’s the vulnerability not just of Trump or Hillary, but of the ruling class. It’s interesting that all the major media, which is under the control of global capital, – that is the Financial Times, the New York Times, Washington Post, and all the other media that follows what they say – all the major institutions and big companies supported Hillary. She was able to raise more than half a billion dollars for the election, and Trump wasn’t able to raise even half as much. And yet he won. He won because a lot of people voted with their feet: They didn’t vote, especially the poor, poor whites included. Or they voted against Clinton because they were voting against the economic status quo and the crisis. Her position was that everything is getting better, but things are not getting better. And things will not get better under Trump.
So I think that beneath the dangers we should see the opportunity. Historically dangers have always come with opportunities. Because of the opportunities, that’s why there’s dangers. The powers that be, the only way that they can respond – because they can’t guarantee the homeless a house, or people health care, and they can’t guarantee an education to our kids – the only thing they have is this racial politics. And the way that they play this racial politics is to attack and isolate one section and then turn sections against each other. That’s how they play it. But they can’t eliminate the crisis, that’s their problem, and the crisis is what we have in common.
DJ: How do you think we can fight against that racial politics of the powerful?
WB: A lot of Clinton’s vote, and a lot of Trump’s vote, came from the middle strata. The needs of the poor weren’t talked about in the presidential campaign, and neither are they going to be addressed in the current presidency. And I think we’re going to have to take those kinds of issues, these economic survival issues, and agitate and educate and organize around them: Really elevate them and identify the leaders who are emerging out of those fights, which are going to continue to emerge and increase as the crisis continues.
And so I think that the Poor People’s Campaign and the efforts along those lines of uniting the poor and dispossessed around the issues they have in common is what we ought to do. It’s the only real defense of any sector of the population: The struggle for our unity and our organization. In difficult times we’ve got to close ranks. Closing ranks means organizing, organizing, organizing, and building community, and building support for each other.
I think uniting the leaders and identifying leaders, as a step toward uniting the poor and dispossessed, is our task. I think we’re got to focus much more, we’ve got to throw more energy into that. We’ve got to take leaders like those coming out of Put People First! PA and others and give them all the support they need in terms of education and development and support. We’ve got to develop collectivity, collectives around our leaders so as to support them in these very difficult times. The idea of superman and superwoman and us going alone is playing into the dangers that are out there. But building community and building collectivity based on a process of political education about what we’re up against, that’s taking the opportunities.
Let’s understand very clearly: What are the opportunities? And then let’s throw everything we can at those opportunities. Where are the leaders like the ones coming through Put People First! PA? Recently I went to their annual Membership Assembly meeting, and that meeting said a lot about the opportunities. There was community at that meeting. There was a high spirit of brotherhood and sisterhood and family in that meeting: Of poor people across the color line, across the urban-rural divide, citizens and undocumented immigrants.
Let’s close ranks and build on what we’ve accomplished at that Assembly meeting, and various other places throughout the country where there’s other families like in Put People First. It’s very important at this time that we strengthen those relationships and we expand those relationships. And they can be expanded based on the fact that this crisis that we’re facing is forcing us to come together and fight against the injustices that this crisis exhibiting.
I think the more we put at the forefront the development of leaders and uniting leaders around the poor and dispossessed – that is, the people who are most hurting from the crisis – the more the crisis can be used as a basis of really striking a blow at the arguments of the forces that we’re up against. They’d like to make it a racial thing, and an anti-immigrant thing, and an anti-Muslim thing, to evade that common hurt and pain that we all feel. And I think the opportunities lie in us uncovering that and bringing it out into the open, so that everyone that’s hurting can come together and not be thrown into a fight against each other.
The danger is that we fight each other, the opportunity is that we have a basis to unite, on the basis of health care and all the things that are hurting every one one of us, I don’t care what color we are.
DJ: A lot of us are deeply afraid after this election, for the safety of ourselves and our loved ones. What’s it going to take to protect ourselves?
WB: We have to take action when the brothers and sisters of color and other vulnerable groups are attacked, but the way we’re really going to defend them is to unite those questions with the problems of the economy.
Our safety lies in uniting the poor and dispossessed. That is the only safety we’ve got. And the first step in that is uniting their leaders. We’ve got to make an analysis to be sure we don’t cover up, don’t miss the opportunities in our mourning about the situation. We can make a sober analysis of what are the opportunities: What are the weak points of the enemy, and how can we throw a blow at that weak point? That’s how you win a fight. Trump, as well as global capital, they’re strong on the race question. That isn’t a weak point for them, but our concept of what’s going on is strictly in racial terms, and that’s the way the discussion is going.
But very few are discussing the point of vulnerability of this system, and that’s the prolonged economic crisis. Homelessness is still growing by leaps and bounds, people are still dying from the lack of health care. Walmart and all these companies are planning on replacing more and more of their workers with robots.
You’re talking about those companies having to compete, and to compete today means you have to computerize and robot-ize. And if you still need labor-intensive activity, you’ve got to drive down the wages of those workers, because there’s no other way you can compete under these circumstances of this economic system and this crisis right now. So we’ll see more people thrown out of their jobs, and more people working lower-wage jobs, no matter what Trump promises.
Our strength is only in our numbers. They have strengths in money and their control of organized violence in the form of the police and prisons, military, national guard, all that stuff, and in their control of the major media. But our strength lies in us uniting ourselves on those issues that happen to be the point of vulnerability of the enemy: that’s the economic crisis. That’s the weak-point of the enemy. When you’re in a fight, you identify your enemy’s weak points, and this is his weak point. And that’s what the election showed.
DJ: Anything else you want to add?
WB: The American people are very religious people. And to win them, historically, those movements for reform and those movements for revolution, were able to win the American people because they won the battle for the Bible. They were able to speak in those terms and really deeply believed in the fact that we’re all God’s children and that we all have dignity, we all deserve a decent life.
I think even a lot of the people who voted for Trump believe that as well, they just hate Clinton, and they hate the economic and political situation. A good segment of them.
I watched this interview that Van Jones did. He went to Gettysburg and took supporters of Trump, Hillary, and Bernie Sanders. And he focused on the Trump person. If you listen to that kid, you can’t help but say: “I can unite with that kid!” He’s a decent kid. He goes to church, he helps out the people. He thinks that the Blacks should get what they need, but that Hillary is a crook. There’s a lot that we can unite on: Hillary is a crook. Things are messed up in this country.
I guarantee you that some of the people who voted for Trump, they’re just people who are afraid. A good number of them. I think our protection of the immigrants, our protection of the vulnerable sections that have been under attack, is by breaking their isolation. By organizing among other sections who are hurting, particularly poor whites — and they are hurting. And they are going to hurt even more, and we can reach them around issues like health care.
Now you’ve got the fringe, the Klan, and all these kinds of horrible people that we’ve got to protect ourselves from. But the only way we’re going to protect ourselves is building organization and building community, and being there in support of each other, and really thinking through this problem in terms of both the dangers and the opportunities.
As the situation unfolds, Trump can’t deliver. He ain’t going to be able to deliver. And that’s when he’s going to get raggedy and these people that voted for him, they’re going to be looking for answers. If we have leaders that can provide those answers, we’re going to build the kind of movement that we need to build.
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We spoke of BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES-----where our 5% to the 1% religious leaders are working for extreme wealth and extreme poverty. They are the ones sitting silent during massive and systemic Wall Street frauds and government corruptions----they are the ones allowing those made rich from all these frauds of our US public and personal wealth come back to WE THE PEOPLE as charity -----our wealth coming back to us in charity.
We spoke of concern over 6 of 9 Supreme Court judges being Roman Catholic AND tied to OPUS DEI. PENCE IS ONE REPORTED AS JUST THAT. Trump could care less about religion----national politicians who spent these few decades of LYING, CHEATING, STEALING, NO MORALS, NO ETHICS----NO GOD'S NATURAL LAW PRAGMATIC NILISM----are not religious.
Whether it is global religion coming from NGOs our our US cities----we are seeing FAR-RIGHT AUTHORITARIAN, DICTATOR, AND AUSTERE RELIGION TAKING LEAD.
None of these religious groups or leaders SEE ELECTION FRAUD---none of these religious leaders educate against US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES----the top world issue for GLOBAL LABOR POOL POOR.
Pence was raised in an Irish-Catholic
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Bush/Obama was about dismantling all that is public----they outsourced all public agencies to global corporations and they outsourced all public agencies tied to social services to religious groups----WE THE PEOPLE ----have our power and voice in our PUBLIC AGENCIES---especially at local levels. We see Protestant and Catholic groups becoming more and more and more conservative because we always have extreme right religion with extreme wealth and global 1% and their 2% power. It's not because it is good for WE THE PEOPLE----it's not the poor--working or middle-class that are SOCIOPATHS----it is the 5% to the 1% ----these 'religious' leaders.
This is the perfect storm for social unrest. This is the exact condition created in all expansions of Foreign Economic Zones. Looting all wealth from a nation-----creating widespread unemployment and poverty----bringing in religious tensions---and global military forces. THIS IS HOW US CITIES AS FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES WILL BE INSTALLED.
Essay
The Christian Worldview of Mike Pence
By Max Perry Mueller | October 10, 2016
Pence’s place on the ticket mollifies some evangelical concerns over Trump’s past, his inconsistent policy positions, and his temperament. And yet for many other constituencies within the American electorate, Trump’s choice of Pence as running mate presents another set of worries. If Pence becomes the vice president, just a heartbeat—or impeachment—away from the Oval Office will be a politician who, as Pence himself implied at the vice presidential debate, believes it his “calling” to legislate his religious views into public policy.
(AP PHOTO/The Republic, Joe Harpring)
Hours after Donald Trump’s infamous tape was released, Republicans were calling on Mike Pence to replace his running mate atop the ticket. Faced with a 2005 recording of Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women, the vice presidential candidate said, “I do not condone his remarks and I cannot defend them.” Hoping to salvage down-ballot races, at least two GOP senators have proposed to write in Pence’s name on the ballot. Rumors of the replacement persisted even after Sunday night’s debate, and even after Pence tweeted his support to Trump, stating that he remained proud to stand with him as they make America great again.
As increasing numbers of Republicans look to make Mike Pence the face of their presidential ticket in 2016, it’s important to ask, what kind of leader is Mike Pence? “My Christian faith is at the very heart of who I am,” he explained during last week’s vice presidential debate. When he answered “a calling into public service,” first as a U.S. congressman and since 2012 as governor of Indiana, Pence said that he “tried to keep faith with the values” that he cherishes. Pence’s effort to marry his religious views with his politics—from abortion and LGBTQ rights to health care reform and immigration—have won him legions of conservative Christian followers in Indiana and around the country.
It also earned him a spot on this year’s GOP ticket. Trump’s choice of Pence was seen as key to help shore up the white, conservative Christians that Trump needs to turn out in November. And with last week’s misogynistic revelations—and the exodus of support from Republican leaders—Trump will need Pence more than ever.
In contrast to the brash billionaire, Pence is a former six-term congressman and an outspoken Christian, who is widely respected by Republican congressional leaders, especially House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has often been critical of Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric and policy proposals. Pence’s support last year of Indiana’s controversial “religious freedom” bill, which would have prevented local governments from expanding LGBT civil rights protections in that state, brought him national acclaim among conservative evangelicals who wish to reverse the tide against what they see is the erosion of America’s traditional Christian values.
“I’m a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order,” Pence explained in his speech to the Republican National Convention. He pledged to work in a Trump administration—“for the sake of the rule of law, for the sake of the sanctity of life, for the sake of our Second Amendment, and for the sake of all our other God-given liberties”--based upon this professed identity. A Trump presidency would mean a powerful Pence vice presidency: With so little governing experience, Trump certainly would rely on Pence. And since Pence identifies himself a Christian first, it’s worth considering, what kind of Christian is he? And how has his Christianity affected his governing?
Pence was raised in an Irish-Catholic, Democratic-voting family in Columbus, Indiana. He even considered becoming a priest. He met his wife of 30 years, Karen, at Mass at a Catholic church in Indianapolis. Yet, as Pence told the Christian Broadcasting Network in 2010, during his freshman year at Hanover College, while attending a Christian music festival, “I gave my life to Jesus Christ and that changed everything.”
Much has been made of the fact that Pence at one time described himself as an “evangelical Catholic.” However, Pence has become reticent about the shift in his faith identity, according to Craig Fehrman, who wrote a 2013 profile of him for Indianapolis Monthly. Instead, he prefers to call himself an “ordinary Christian.” Pence “was torn between his family’s faith and background and a new more exciting faith,” Ferhman explained.
Pence continued to call himself a Catholic until the mid-1990s, when he began attending an evangelical megachurch in Indianapolis. In her story about Pence’s evolving faith, Michelle Boorstein of The Washington Post noted that it was during this period when “white evangelicals and conservative Catholics in the United States started to realize they had a lot more in common than their more denominationally tribal parents realized.” Together, Catholics and evangelical Christians worked to protect “traditional marriage” and enforce greater abortion restrictions.
Pence earned a law degree from Indiana University in 1986 and entered private practice. After running unsuccessfully for Congress in 1988 and 1990, he became the president of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation, part of a Koch brothers-backed network, which bills itself as promoting “the best thought on governmental, economic and educational issues” by “exalt[ing] the truths of the Declaration of Independence, especially as they apply to the interrelated freedoms of religion, property, and speech.” It was during his four-year tenure there, which coincided with this fuller embrace of evangelical Christianity, that Pence first began promoting “traditional family” ideologies and policies in earnest.
Pence then became the host of a talk radio show—“Rush Limbaugh on decaf,” is how he described his radio persona—as well as a local Sunday TV show. Pence maintained ties, however, with his former organization. In 1996, he published in the foundation’s journal an essay in which he lambasted the Republican Party’s move away from “traditional Pro-Family conservatives.” His evidence was the 1996 RNC speakers’ line-up, which included “pro-choice women, AIDS activists, and proponents of Affirmative Action.” He lamented that the GOP had abandoned the combative posture epitomized by Pat Buchanan’s “culture war” speech at the 1992 convention. Pence even included a bit of unintended foreshadowing of the rise of Trump. He wrote that not only did the 1996 RNC’s retreat from conservatism make for bad politics, it made for bad TV; “ratings were dismal,” he noted.
In 2000, Pence was elected to the House of Representatives. There he became a leader among movement conservatives committed to rolling back federal intervention in education and healthcare, business and environmental regulations. Until just last week, he called climate change “a myth” based on faulty science. In the House, he voted to block policies that would curb greenhouse gases. In 2002, he took to the House floor to call for science textbooks to “be changed” to reflect that evolution “taught for 77 years in the classrooms of America as fact” is just a “theory,” and that “other theories of the origin of species,” notably “intelligent design,” should also be included alongside evolution.
In Congress, Pence also worked to thwart advances in LGBTQ and immigrant rights and further restrict abortion access. In 2006, to justify his support for a U.S. constitutional amendment that would define marriage as between a man and a woman, Pence declared that the legalization of gay marriage signaled “societal collapse.” In 2008, Pence explained, “marriage was ordained by God and instituted in law. It is the glue of the American family and the safest harbor to raise children.” Throughout his career, Pence has often highlighted the fact that he is a grandchild of an immigrant from Ireland, and in 2006, he even backed compromise immigration reform that would have created a guest worker program. Yet he also supported legislation to build a fence along the Mexican border and end birthright citizenship. At a 2011 address at the March for Life rally, Pence said he was committed to reducing Roe v. Wade to “the ash heap of history.” He also supported so-called “personhood” legislation, which would guarantee constitutional protections to fetuses starting at conception. In 2011, Pence led the most recent effort in Congress to defund Planned Parenthood and said he was willing to shut down the federal government to do so.
In 2012, Pence was elected governor, and he has continued to govern based on his religiously conservative worldview. Though a federal judge blocked the law’s implementation, in March of this year, Pence signed a law that included a provision that aborted fetuses as well as miscarriages must be interred or cremated. Last March, he signed the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), backed by same-sex marriage opponents. Yet critics of the law believed it would empower private businesses to refuse to serve certain citizens simply by invoking their religious beliefs. Dozens of companies voiced their objections to the law, as did sports groups and religious organizations. Pence and the state legislature quickly caved to the pressure. They added language to the legislation that protected LBGT citizens. Yet the changes left both sides of the fight unhappy.
The RFRA fight hurt Pence’s standing in Indiana. In the spring of this year, while Pence was being vetted to become Donald Trump’s running mate, poll numbers showed that more Hoosiers disapproved of Pence’s job performance (42 percent) than approved (40 percent). The fact that he was facing such a tough reelection might be one reason why Pence agreed to join Trump’s ticket. And still, Trump arguably gets more out of the deal than Pence. Pence’s consistent record on social issues buttresses Trump’s own claim to conservative Christian policy bona fides.
And yet, Trump and Pence don’t always see eye-to-eye on key issues. “He and I haven’t spoken, and he and I disagree,” Trump said of Pence’s views on Syria during the presidential debate in St. Louis. The cornerstones of Trump’s vision “to make America great again” include plans to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border, and implement “extreme vetting” of immigrants from Muslim countries. Since becoming Trump’s running mate, Pence has given full-throated endorsements of these Trump proposals. Still, even a few days before accepting Trump’s offer, Pence refused to support Trump’s wall. And last year, hours after Trump first proposed it, Pence called Trump’s proposed ban on all Muslim immigration “offensive and unconstitutional.”
This contrast, even conflict, between Trump and Pence extends to their public personas—which was fully evident over the past week. Pence’s measured public demeanor, traditional family values, as well as his long political career, present a study in contrast with Trump, the bombastic, thrice-married, political-novice, who brazenly talks about forcing himself on women. And yet, Pence’s first—and primary—identity as a conservative Christian and the governing worldview that it forms in many ways aligns with Trump’s own view of seeing the world divided starkly into allies and enemies, good deals and bad deals, security and menace.
In this sense, both Trump and Pence are restorationists. And their restorationist visions for America are complementary. Trump’s is racial; Pence’s is religious. Together, their ticket embodies a “white Christian America” in decline, as Robert P. Jones has powerfully described it. In a Trump-Pence ticket, white Christian America not only hopes to resist the forces demographic and cultural change, but to restore white Protestant Americans (especially men) to their place of unchallenged preeminence.
According to a Pew Research survey in June, more than 94 percent of white Republican evangelicals were supporting Trump over Clinton, up from 44 percent in April during the primary contest. Picking Pence was the result, not the cause, of Trump’s growing evangelical base. Perhaps it’s fair to think of Pence as part of the political branch of Trump’s evangelical outreach, which includes leaders like Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr., Focus on the Family founder James Dobson,* and Faith and Freedom Coalition founder Ralph Reed, who all serve on Trump’s evangelical advisory board and who have continued to stand by him after the video’s release.
Pence and these leaders have served as Trump’s Christian witnesses, and Pence continues to do so for the many everyday evangelical Christians to whom he has spoken over the last few months in churches throughout the country. Since many Americans don’t know exactly where Trump stands on the issues, Pence reassures them. As he told a town hall gathering last September at a church in Meza, Arizona, “All you need to know about Donald Trump is he loves his family and he loves his country.”
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Please suspend disbelief for one second for those Hillary supporters who don't believe she should have lost. For those KNOWING this 2016 Presidential election was always about installing FAR-RIGHT, AUTHORITARIAN, MILITARISTIC, AUSTERE, DICTATOR-----LIBERTARIAN MARXISM---
What in the world would that look like if not TRUMP ----PENCE-----AND WHAT WILL BE TRUMP'S CABINET.
Hillary was NEVER supposed to win----Hilllary was only meant to kill a left-leaning national social Democratic movement behind Bernie Sanders. When I saw this WIKILEAK of Hillary's emails-----we are led to believe a Clinton 1% Wall Street global corporate neo-liberal strategy was to enhance national and social media around EXTREMISM-----highlighting Trump-----Pence-----Cruz------ Carson.
It was rumored early in Hillary's campaign that she had CRUZ on her short list of Vice Presidential candidates. CRUZ just happens to be OPUS DEI ROMAN CATHOLIC.
KNOW WHAT? THAT IS JUST TOO MANY COINCIDENCES ----NO ROCKET SCIENTIST STUFF GOING ON HERE.
So, Hillary was not trying to make Trump look bad----she was FEARMONGERING and promoting these right-wing candidates in the national media-----KNOWING THE GENERAL ELECTION WAS FIXED FOR A TRUMP WIN.
February 29, 2012
You Shall Know Cruz By His Deeds
By Nicholas G. Hahn III
How does a man who is part Cuban, part Italian, and part Irish end up a Southern Baptist?
"I come from a family that has been Roman Catholic for generations,"
''Calling them the “pied piper” candidates, team Hillary describes Trump, Cruz, and Carson as nominees that could – if handled properly – make the extreme the mainstream.
My right wing friends-----please do not allow extreme wealth to pull our US Protestant----Catholic-----Muslim-----Jewish religions far-right
The REAL issues are stopping the installation of US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES ----stop the global labor pool distribution----and simply RESPECT OUR DIFFERENCES while we as 99% vs 1% reverse these policies.
Leaked Emails Show That Trump Was a Tool Used by the Hillary Campaign From Day One
Posted at 6:30 pm on October 8, 2016 by Brandon Morse
If you were wondering if a Trump candidacy was any worry to Clinton, then wonder no more.
The hacked emails released by Wikileaks shows an interesting tidbit about how the Democrats looked at the idea of a Trump candidacy, and you can safely see that of all the candidates Hillary actively wanted to face, Trump was on the list.
Calling them the “pied piper” candidates, team Hillary describes Trump, Cruz, and Carson as nominees that could – if handled properly – make the extreme the mainstream.
“We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to them seriously,” it said in the email.
The summary is that the DNC and the Clinton campaign wanted Trump to be Hillary’s opponent because they knew his extreme stances could be used to alienate and divide. They could then use these candidates to paint the Republican party as a whole as something dangerous.
Trump was a tool for Hillary’s campaign all along. She wanted the press to take Trump seriously, put him up as the most viable option for Republicans, and the right took the bait, hook, line, and sinker. Now with the Trump campaign burning to the ground, and GOP leaders walking away due to his recent comments, the Clinton campaign’s plan to put Hillary on top is coming to fruition.
In short, the Republicans have been played. Trump was a unknowing puppet for Hillary from the get-go, and the right – though some had very strong suspicions – didn’t know it.
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Now, it again---is no coincidence that CLINTON NEO-LIBERALS are likely to install Ellison who we are told is a Muslim. Now, again---anyone in Congress with absolute fraud and corruption---injustice---tied to the House Leadershop pushing all of the above---IS NOT RELIGIOUS.
Here we see a Trump is supposed to be hostile to this MUSLIM candidate for DNC. I told my Muslim friends----you better watch out-----none of this has anything to do with left religious freedom---it is completely about creating social unrest and factioning. PLEASE FOR THOSE CITIZENS REALLY RELIGIOUS---do not fall into these global Wall Street plans---they do this all over the world to create unrest.
My right wing friends-----please do not allow extreme wealth to pull our US Protestant----Catholic-----Muslim-----Jewish religions far-right
The REAL issues are stopping the installation of US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES ----stop the global labor pool distribution----and simply RESPECT OUR DIFFERENCES while we as 99% vs 1% reverse these policies.
Each one of these religious NGOs need to surround 24/7-----our CITY HALLS----OUR STATE ASSEMBLIES-----OUR CONGRESS----WALL STREET BANKS----GLOBAL CORPORATE EXECUTIVES----AND LAY HANDS ON THESE 5% TO THE 1% -----AMEN!
First Muslim elected to Congress eyes run at DNC chairmanship
By MJ Lee, CNN National Politics Reporter
Updated 6:12 PM ET, Sun November 13, 2016
Keith Ellison on how Trump has 'disturbed' Muslims 02:26Story highlights
- Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota is looking to make a run for the influential post
- The election of the next DNC head will send an important signal
Now, the first Muslim-American elected to Congress is eyeing the position of chairman of the Democratic National Committee.Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota is looking to make a run for the influential post, according to a source familiar with his thinking. Although Ellison has not yet officially commented on the speculation, the congressman has already picked up endorsements from prominent colleagues in Congress, including popular liberal Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, as well as New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, who is expected to be the next Senate minority leader. On Sunday Ellison also won the backing from the current Democratic Senate leader, Harry Reid of Nevada.
"My friend Keith Ellison is a terrific leader and a strong 'ECONOMIC' progressive who knows how to get things done," Reid said in a statement. "Now is the time for new thinking and a fresh start at the DNC. Now is the time for Keith."
The election of the next DNC head -- and what kind of Democrats emerge as the new and younger leaders of the party -- will send an important signal about the direction that the Democratic Party takes in the aftermath of Hillary Clinton's shocking defeat to Trump this week.
If Ellison is elected DNC chair, he could play a potentially powerful role in advocating for ethnic minority groups, including Muslims, who feel deeply concerned about Trump's past comments about non-whites.
Earlier this year, CNN traveled to three growing Muslim communities and spoke to more than 40 Muslim Americans about the election. In these conversations, the community expressed emotions ranging from disbelief to anger to fear.
In an extensive interview outside of his district office in Minneapolis, Ellison said at the time that Muslims in his community feared possible backlash and spike in racial discrimination if Trump were to be elected president.
"I've had more than one mom say, 'My kids are asking me whether we're going to be deported, whether we're going to be safe.' Teenage girls asking whether they should wear the hijab if they want to," Ellison said. "It's a choice, but they're now getting the message that maybe it's not safe for them to do that."
Like many others that CNN interviewed, Ellison also made a surprising revelation: that he believes things are worse now for Muslim-Americans than they were right after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
"I think it's probably harder now," he said.
Ellison described a gradual easing of tensions and normalization in the 15 years since 9/11. After becoming the first Muslim-American elected to Congress, Ellison said former President George W. Bush "extended his hand to me and said, 'Ellison, I'm glad there's a Muslim in the Congress.'"
Bush "stood with Muslims and he said that Islam's not the problem -- these terrorists, murderers and maniacs are the problem," Ellison says. "George Bush doesn't get enough credit for that."
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