Amos's River of Justice

Our Season of Creation

  • The corporate media didn’t think the drama at Nevada’s convention was important. Nor did media bigwigs think it was important to report the fact that Bernie Sanders won more delegates at the convention than Clinton. For the details of the Nevada caucus see Tom Cahill’s article on U.S. Uncut. ((Tom Cahill, Bernie Sanders Wins the Nevada Caucus After All, U.S. Uncut, April 3, 2016. Available: http://usuncut.com/politics/bernie-wins-nevada-democratic-caucus/))

    Coincidentally, Trump also lost the delegate selection process, in Louisiana, in spite of the media’s fawning coverage of him. Apparently the media’s elites think we’re buying the story that Trump is a populist, like Bernie. Otherwise why would they keep saying it?  Of course that’s nonsense, Trump is an anti-populist. His candidacy has been compared to that of George Wallace, another man who used fear and racism to get his way. And who was Wallace running against? Civil rights advocate Hubert Humphrey. For a discussion of what he hoped to accomplish see the article on Wikipedia. ((George Wallace Presidential Campaign, 1968. Wikipedia. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace_presidential_campaign,_1968))

    Populists don’t turn people against each other by drumming up fear. That’s the plutocracy’s trick.  That’s how they keep us in line.  The media takes us all for fools.

  • Ed Opperman’s YouTube channel, The Opperman Report, reported live on Saturday that Hillary Clinton’s supporters are railroading the Nevada Democratic convention.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhuho4bGNh4&t=1227s

    Opperman reports that Michelle White, Hillary’s Nevada campaign manager, with the help of Marla Turner, Secretary of the Party’s Executive Board, tried Friday night to move someone on Clinton’s alternate list, who was not even there at the time, to the delegate list.  Michelle White had a whole different list of delegates than the one that had been agreed upon by the convention workers.

    Fortunately, the other members at the convention wouldn’t allow them to change the delegate count on Friday, and since White’s faction didn’t have a quorum, they couldn’t proceed.  However Saturday morning at 7 a.m. they removed Christine Kramar the chair of the credentials committee, accusing her of, what else?…giving Clinton information to the Sanders campaign! ((Jon Ralston, Bernie vs. Hillary Boils Over in Nevada Before Clark Convention, Ralston Reports, April 2, 2016. Available: https://www.ralstonreports.com/blog/bernie-vs-hillary-boils-over-nevada-clark-convention))

    Apparently SIEU had handed out letters Friday night telling Bernie’s supporters to return Saturday at noon, while they told Hillary’s supporters to be there at 7 a.m.   So Saturday morning those who objected to these tactics, and who were fortunate enough to be there in time, had to link arms with Christine to keep her from being physically removed.  Some Clinton supporters protested the tactics as well.  The bottom line is that Crystal Glass, Angie Sullivan, Melody Nelson and Christine L. Kramar were given trespass notices at the Nevada Democratic Convention.

  • Since [intlink id=”2473″ type=”post”]Niko House’s[/intlink] report on North Carolina, reports continue to roll in of similar tactics in other states.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuEMOKSaTk0

  • Ryan Hughes, Bernie’s former Michigan Campaign Director, has been accused of taking money from Hillary’s Super PAC, Priorities USA, while working for Senator Sanders. This is illegal. Two additional state directors are being given a chance to come forward before their names are reported. In the meantime, these people are being positioned to work their magic in states like New York, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

     

  • In spite of warnings from Democrats, election officials decreased 200 polling places in 2012 to 60 in 2016.  ((Elvia Diaz, Arizona Election Officials Writing off Voters? You Bet. azcentral.com, March 23, 2016. Available: http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/elviadiaz/2016/03/22/maricopa-county-election-officials-writing-off-voters-you-bet/82145554/))

    People waited up to 5 hours.  ((Editorial Board, azcental.com, March 23, 2016. Available: http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/2016/03/23/arizona-primary-our-view-we-outraged-long-lines/82152636/))

    They were told they could go to any polling place in Maricopa County, but they all had lines.  ((E.J. Montini, Montini: Arizona–Where Registered Voters…CAN’T VOTE! azcentral.com, March 23, 2016. Available: http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2016/03/22/montini-primary-election-arizona/82149170))

  • Did you ever wonder how Bernie could raise so much money from ordinary people and still lose the vote in some states?  Watch this video on Tim Black’s YouTube channel.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl-mHhH4qS0

  • It’s my theory that Merrick Garland will be confirmed to the Supreme Court. I think this is inevitable for the reason that everyone involved in this process has an interest in maintaining the Court’s conservative majority.  Then if the next president has to replace a liberal justice he or she will be able to be magnanimous and appoint another liberal since it won’t affect the conservative majority. But if the Court loses another conservative, a conservative will be appointed to replace him.

    Bernie Sanders is the only candidate who says he will ask President Obama to withdraw his nomination of Merrick Garland if he’s elected to the presidency. He’s the only candidate who has said he’ll nominate a justice who will overturn Citizens United.  He’s the only candidate who will be willing and able to change the majority on the Supreme Court.

  • See Senator Sanders’ speech on YouTube.  It made me feel better.  Maybe it will do the same for you.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZiRprH55yM

     

  • My goal in posting the previous video was not to promote Sanders. His part in it was a bonus. My goal was to call the media’s bluff on this knock-down, drag-out road show, staring Donald Trump. So for anyone interested in the facts I’ll just mention some revelations that I think might explain the craziness of this campaign.

    The main idea that stuck with me from the video is that using violence and ‘patriotism’ to move the working class to the right is the M.O. of Rupert Murdoch. This led me to do further research. Remember Trump’s temper tantrum over Megyn Kelly? It’s likely it had nothing to do with his hurt pride. Trump’s purpose was to show that he’s on the side of conservatives at Fox News who are miffed that Kelly has become the ‘face’ of Fox. [1]And although Murdoch has objected to Trump’s candidacy he agrees with Trump’s plan to temporarily ban Muslim immigrants.[2] Furthermore, Murdoch has been telling the GOP it would be madness to block Trump.[3]

    Then there’s the fact that Trump went out of his way to make this about Bernie. At the time I thought it was a bad move for Sanders’ supporters to close Trump’s rally, but then it came out that it was George Soros who financed it. Soros is a Clinton supporter. Here’s an article from Washington’s Blog that pins the whole thing on Clinton. Gee, I wonder if it means anything that Trump played it the way he did?  Weird.

    Credible Account Says Clinton Is Behind Violent Protests at Trump Rallies
    Posted on March 12, 2016 by Eric Zuesse.

    This concerns the question of the identity of the people who are behind the violent protesters at Donald Trump’s rallies.

    There are going to be ad-hominem attacks against me for my reporting this account, which will contradict the myths that both progressives and conservatives hold regarding the U.S. government, but anyone who recognizes that the press to this day hides its having hidden the incontestable fact that George W. Bush knowingly falsified, lied regarding the evidence concerning “Saddam’s WMD,” will at least give this account, and its source, fair and unprejudiced consideration, as being possibly accurate and honest. Sometimes, in order to get to the truth in a case, it’s necessary to rely upon the testimony of people that one considers despicable; the FBI wouldn’t be able to crack many cases otherwise — and, sad to say, neither can I. So: please don’t dismiss me for relying here upon a researcher whom I personally detest — and whom you might likewise detest.

    I believe that the libertarian Roger Stone, who is the Republican Party’s most gifted opposition-researcher, after having been Richard Nixon’s most gifted dirty-trickster, and after his having ferreted out the hypocrisy of Eliot Spitzer for paying prostitutes — after, in other words, Stone’s having worked for politicians I despise, and destroyed the careers of ones I admire — is among this nation’s stellar investigative journalists; and I have found, over the years, that, when he reports about dirty tricks, what he has reported is only confirmed, not disconfirmed, as time passes. In other words: though I don’t like the man, and I disagree with his politics, I respect his news-reporting. And, here is what he says, in a rush interview with the ‘conspiracy theorist’ (another libertarian) Alex Jones, on Saturday evening, March 12th, and I think that the entire nation needs to hear Stone’s account, at least to give it consideration. So, here it is:

    https://www.facebook.com/AlexanderEmerickJones/videos/10153989651258459

    My rush transcript of highlights from his rush-interview:

    I think everybody in the country has now heard about these violent protests [at Trump rallies] which are being blamed on supporters of Bernie Sanders. … This is a false-flag. These demonstrators are flying under a false banner. They are not Sanders supporters by-and-large. This is an operation directed by supporters of Hillary Clinton, paid for by George Soros and Move-On, by David Brock at Media Matters for America, also funded by Soros, and also by the reclusive billionaire Jonathan Lewis. Now, Lewis was identified by the Miami New Times as a ‘mystery man.’ He inherited roughly a billion dollars from his father Peter Lewis … [founder of Progressive Insurance Company]. Jonathan Lewis interestingly withdrew his support of the Democratic National Committee over the immigration bill that he thought was unfair to gays. In any event, this is a Hillary Clinton operation. The idea here, very clearly, is to divide the Sanders economic voters from Trump; in other words, those voters who lost their jobs because of NAFTA and all of the other globalist international trade-deals that have screwed this country, they now realize that these voters are potentially, when Sanders is out of the race, Trump votes, and this is an effort to make Trump toxic, to disqualify him, [as a] racist, bigot, the whole thing is essentially a hoax. It’s a gambit directed, by the way, by Brock. Brock was once a friend of mine and was a comrade in the fight for freedom; but he went over to the dark side, with the Clintons, for money: big, big, big, money; and this is unfortunately his little dirty trick, Unfortunately, they have leaks within their operation, my sources are of the very best. The entire collaboration in Chicago is a Hillary Clinton operation. And, frankly, I can’t see Bernie Sanders having anything to do with it. I don’t agree with Bernie, but I respect him, and this is not his handiwork or the handiwork of his campaign.

    [Jones here goes on to explain why he respects the investigative reports from Stone, then says, “When I saw all these Bernie shirts and Bernie people saying ‘We attack!’ — you know, people shooting guns in the air saying ‘We support Bernie!’ that is so clearly a way to attack him, make him look like a radical revolutionary, and to make Hillary look good, and also make Trump look like a racist when the media plays this up. You’re absolutely right. … To be clear: you have sources inside saying this is a Soros/Brock Media Matters, which they admit is run by the White House, they have weekly meetings, Obama’s former transition chief. … We’ve seen the build-up toward race-war this summer, this fall, to try to cloud the entire election; is that what you’re getting at; is this the opening salvo … ]

    [Stone continues] I think Hillary understands that Trump would lose the votes of certain establishment Republicans if he is the nominee. On the other hand, it doesn’t matter, because of his crossover outreach. Right now in Ohio, Democrats and independents in the Mahoning Valley, these people have lost their jobs because of these great globalist trade deals, are lining up to vote for Donald Trump in the Republican primary, which is legal in Ohio with some paperwork. And we saw this same crossover in Michigan. So it occurred to the Clinton people that Bernie’s economic voters — not his hard-left voters, she’s not going to get them, they’re not going for Hillary, blue-collar folks who have just figured out that they have been left out of the new-world-order economy, are a ripe target for Trump; he’s already getting that, she is petrified of it; so, this little maneuver, this David Brock dirty trick, solves two problems at once: it helps knock down Bernie, because after all these people are involved in violence; and it also disqualifies Trump as a future vote, by portraying him as a racist or a bigot. The whole thing is a kabuki dance. And I think it’s very important that Trump understand that it’s not the Sanders campaign that’s disrupting his rallies; this is a Hillary Clinton operation.

    [Jones asks for more details.]

    [Stone continues] Hillary Clinton empowered a certain member of Congress to approach the billionaire John Lewis to pay for a portion of this overall program. This isn’t just Chicago. You’re now going to see these phony demonstrators, these ringers, showing up at other Trump events. … That’s as much as I’m prepared to say. …

    ——

    That’s the interview.

    Hillary Clinton’s campaign benefits enormously by this tactic:

    1: It re-orients the issue away from economics toward race; away from economic issues and toward ethnic conflicts

    2: It identifies Sanders with violent supporters.

    3: It identifies Trump with racism and violence by his having black ‘Bernie supporters’ (of which there are few) disrupting Trump’s rallies.

    4: While it smears both Sanders, her current opponent, and Trump, her likely future opponent, it leaves Hillary herself unscathed.

    So: the proposed explanation makes sense, and it’s entirely in character for Hillary Clinton.

    Therefore: I believe it. ((Washington’s Blog, March 12, 2016. Available: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/03/credible-account-says-clinton-behind-violent-protests-trump-rallies.html))

    The only part of this article that I disagree with is the claim that one of the purposes of the demonstration was to hurt Trump.  It will be interesting to see how it affects his campaign.

     

    [1] Cathy Burke, Sources: Trump Will Only Speak to Rupert Murdoch to Resolve Fox Feud, News Max, 27 Jan, 2016. Available: http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Sources-Trump-Rupert-Murdoch-Fox-News/2016/01/27/id/711311/

    [2] CNN reported, Rupert Murdoch Praises Donald Trump, Epic Times, Jan. 17, 2016. Available: http://www.epictimes.com/2016/01/rupert-murdoch-praises-donald-trump/

    [3] ((Justin Carissmo, Donald Trump: Rupert Murdoch says Republican Party Would be Mad Not to Unify Behind Fellow Billionaire, Independent, 3 March, 2016. Available: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-rupert-murdoch-says-republican-party-would-be-mad-not-to-unify-behind-fellow-a6909586.html))

  • One of the most disturbing parts of the violence at Trump rallies is his refusal to acknowledge his part in it. The other disturbing part is the media’s collusion. The networks give Trump more press than any of the other candidates, while at the same time they insist that all the candidates are interchangeable. Likewise they insist that Trump’s followers are interchangeable with the followers of Bernie Sanders.

    Considering that we’ve spent the last 50 years fortifying ourselves against the kind of behavior we’re seeing at Trump’s rallies—for the reason that its effects on the human race are only too well-known—Trump’s behavior should give us doubts about his motives and intentions. When you add the media’s behavior to the picture, as well as the bias that the police and secret service have shown at Trump’s brawls, you realize this is bigger than Trump.

    Another term for today’s media is ‘the corporate media’. The media became corporate through a process rather than a single event. The following YouTube video published back in 2013 lays it all out.

    If you want to know which candidate best serves our political and media grand poobahs, find out which one gets the most air time. Based on the amount of air time Donald Trump gets relative to other candidates, I think it’s reasonable to ask whether he’s really the rogue player he claims to be.

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