Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Billionaires

America is ruled by the Billionaire class.

That's not strange - it's a Darwinistic society: the weak are steppingstones & fertilizer for the megawealthy and favored.

As society becomes frayed and starts to disintegrate, gaps between the top 1% and regular poor schmucks is more noticed.

Typical fools focus on declared winners, as in a sports contest, and then move on. It's a little noticed footnote that tens of thousands of voters were inexplicably purged from eligibility in the 2016 New York primary election (link). Millions more were ineligible -- only registered Democratic Party members are allowed votes in the Democratic primary (not independent voters who might typically vote Democrat). Further, voters needed to have declared as a Democrat or Republican (link) six months or more before the election. The federal lawsuit filed 18 April by Election Justice USA resulted in no substantive official assistance on New York Primary Election Day. (Last November, while a key Hawaiian election was underway, a single US Supreme Court Justice forbid vote counting & publishing results; five days later by 5-4 majority, the full US Supreme Court sustained the halt pending lower court appeal).

The 2000 Presidential election highlighted Florida's inability to count ballots (link), while brief focus in 2004 was on shenanigans in Ohio (link, and more here and here). 

Elections thus display & highlight extreme corruption.

Billionaires bought Clinton. They expect good return on investment. Hillary's a dependable cog in the Big Money Establishment, she's worked many years for Big Business & Israel, and she's sure to continue doing so. Her links to Citicorp and Goldman Sachs draw out her energies & passions as she earns big speaking fees. Hillary's a survivor of Whitewater and Goldmangate. She's wholly prepared to crack-down on America, to sternly oversee continuity, to use our federal ship of state to create a global penal colony.

The Sanders - Clinton contest is important. In many ways, it's far better we proles have rays of hope -- when lost, the mob's more likely to become unruly.


Prepare for Disaster

(Not a post aimed at Mrs. Clinton & U.S. politics)

Last week's earthquakes in Ecuador & Japan, and yesterday's flooding in Houston, Texas, show the importance of disaster preparation.

It's best to keep rescue & safety equipment nearby, and prepare relief supplies.

But basic knowledge is also extremely important. Flooding generally means sewer & cesspool contents enter the floodwaters, so even a small cut or abrasion can have very bad consequences. In the city, manhole covers often lift from below by floodwaters - the spot becomes a mantrap, and horrible death to fall down. Waiting for rescue services in a big disaster is often inappropriate - they cannot arrive in time. Save people from collapsed wooden buildings if at all possible (link) - fire roasted alive 10% of the 6500 dead from the 1995 Kobe earthquake.   etc. etc.

Learn Now,
or be culled by coming disaster...


(Above) Two disaster photos after tsunami, Tohoku, Japan; 
(Below) Joplin, Missouri USA after tornado. Each photo is 2011. 


Goldmangate - No Hope


Election Day in New York.  The Crown is being prepared...

Clinton's greed does not make her a bad candidate.
She's an American capitalist! 

But Hillary evades & minimizes her rich relationships.
Corporatist Hillary is squarely on the side of the bosses.

Same old, same old -- or even worse.
When America needs Big Changes Now.

Tired whine. Thanks for your efforts Hillary.
Please find private sector work.




Monday, April 18, 2016

Goldmangate



Testing Japanese PM Abe

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzō Abe (安倍 晋三), puppet of American militarism, chauvinist of Yamaguchi, has a great chance in the present earthquake crisis to grow & lead.

Don't expect much, but Let's See...  Remember Abe was born to a supremely powerful (and wealthy) political dynasty, grandson of WWII architect & Class A war crimes captive Nobusuke Kishi.  He's sought forcefully and repeatedly to generate new tribalism in an already highly-homogeneous society that has low tolerance for variation.
Good Luck Japan!


Saturday, April 16, 2016

Hillary's GOLDMANGATE

Will Hillary Clinton's speeches to Goldman Sachs poison her candidacy?  


In 2013, Clinton spoke at three Goldman Sachs events for US$675,000.

Former Senator Hillary Clinton still claims solidarity with working folk & asserts (link): "I did stand up to the banks. I did make it clear that their behavior would not be excused."

Seth Abramson writes (link) that if we saw Clinton's Goldman Sachs speech transcripts, "it could end her candidacy for president."

Goldmangate !

Assorted transcripts & tapes of other Clinton speeches now pepper the internet. But the three Goldman talks (reportedly each an hour-long, @ $225,000 each) were "private" sessions not open to the public. Nice work if you can get it -- but surely not a working class wage.

Major problem is seeking to hide the fact she's highly-corporatist.

Worse for Clinton, the financial services industry is belatedly under huge negative attack from the Panama Papers, Oxfam ("Broken at the Top" - link), and the Bernie Sanders campaign. Self-regulation by Big Business is a dirty joke, considering Enron, the four Trump business bankruptcies, disastrous corporate-led trade agreements (TPP, TTIP), and public bailout of private firms. Now Americans wake up to the rude fact they've heavily subsidized top businesspeople. Surely the Clintons , who've lived top of the world now for 25 years, poorly represent typical citizens. They work hard, but protect the backs of big finance, the banking industry, etc. Hillary's big-money endorsements and coziness with big financiers show she herself is a wealthy oligarch -- no time to befriend the common man, and a tough sell when full-time work doesn't pay a living wage.

http://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/research-publications/broken-at-the-top