Rumi Nations

from "A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings"

Bernie Sandbagged

Political parties are not Constitutional.

Bernie Sanders would win any legitimate population vote in the U.S.A
if not for the tricks and systemic corruption of Democrats and Republicans.

With the notable exception of Mr. and Mrs. Obama, two families have lived in the White House for the past 35 years.

Two families (and parties) have waged the War on Drugs, the War on the Middle East, the War on the Poor and the War on Privacy.

"More than half of American voters believe that the system U.S. political parties use to pick their candidates for the White House is "rigged" and more than two-thirds want to see the process changed, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll." http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-primaries-poll-idUSKCN0XO0ZR?il=0 (font changes here are mine)
 (via Boing Boing)

"Smith estimates that US courts are issuing a half-million secret surveillance orders per year, while the number of completely sealed civil cases and cases whose records are heavily redacted, or have a "substantial number of sealed filings" are mounting, though no accurate records are kept on the total number, "because the numbers would likely have been too large to tabulate in any meaningful way." The number one case name in the DC Circuit of Appeals docket is In re Sealed Case -- the first sealed case only having been filed in 1981." Cory Doctorow http://boingboing.net/2016/05/09/americas-courts-are-going-da.html

 "The NSA later surpassed the Stasi's domestic surveillance capacity, though through much more labor-efficient means -- they employ less than one spook for every 10,000 people surveilled and manage to spy on the entire planet." Cory Doctorow  http://boingboing.net/2016/06/25/stasi-radio-monitoring-departm.html

See More Bush

"And, by the way, you want to talk about conspiracy, Snowden comes out 12 years after they start wiretapping everybody in the NSA, 60,000 people—30,000 people at the NSA and 30,000 contractors, like Snowden was. How many talk in 12 years? One: Snowden. How many talked after he came out? None. Talk about a conspiracy. From the day after 9/11, they began to listen to everybody in violation of every principle that exists in the NSA and in the Constitution. So, anyway, I mean, when people say to me you can’t have a conspiracy, the truth is our government, as Dan Ellsberg will tell you, too—I’ve talked to Dan a lot about this—they can keep a secret. Secrets can be kept, absolutely. And many are." Seymour Hersh http://www.democracynow.org/2016/4/25/part_2_seymour_hershs_new_book

"George Herbert Walker Bush: “Sarah, if the American people ever find out what we have done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us.” http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/4/3/1199001/-Jeb-Bush-Oliver-North-and-the-Murder-of-CIA-Drug-Smuggler-Barry-Seal-in-1986

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In the need to develop a capacity to know what potential enemies are doing, the United States government has perfected a technological capability that enables us to monitor the messages that go through the air. (...) Now, that is necessary and important to the United States as we look abroad at enemies or potential enemies. We must know, at the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left such is the capability to monitor everything—telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide. If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology. (...) I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.[9][10]

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 Senator Frank Church, 1975 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee

 

Clinton sucks for NAFTA, TPP wipes worse,

"The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the largest trade deal in history; 6000 pages. 7 years of secret meetings. 40% of global GDP. 500 transnational corporate interests. 9000 foreign-owned companies. 18,000 US-owned companies. Investor-State Dispute Mechanisms allowing corporations to sue governments. To challenge state, federal, and local court rulings in “special tribunals” – World Bank Kangaroo Courts that could, once and for all, succeed in putting profits before people. Profits before governments. Profits before federal legislation, or fair use guidelines, or intellectual property provisions, or environmental protection, or temporary foreign worker restrictions, or any of those other pesky freedoms that get in the way of shareholder returns. It’s the creation of an alternate, parallel universe for corporations alone, one which has its own charter, its own rules, its own Bill of Rights, one which gives them the ability to crush anyone – people, states, countries – who refuses to comply with their vision.

A line has been crossed. And like before, these are more than just a few lines of text on a page. This is the next step in their evolution. It’s the latest in a line of succession that stretches back centuries. The most subtle changes happen over geologic time. A gradual, creeping erosion of rights that happens so slowly, so imperceptibly, you don’t even notice." Jesse Donaldson ADBUSTERS

C.I.A. still owned by G.H.W. Bush Cartel

"John Brennan: We have family members of agency officers who died in the 1950s whose grandchildren, grandnieces and nephews come back here in order to feel a part of this agency. So it's a great, great honor to be a part of this organization where, again, selfless men and women of the agency have done their absolute best. Have we made mistakes? Yeah, we have. Do we need to be held accountable for them? Yeah. But let's not forget the sacrifices that have been made in the name of CIA." source: 60 Minutes

Top 3 "Better than the Bible" U.S.A. Art

Be Here Now

A Love Supreme

Anything by Ralph Waldo Emerson.