Bernie Sweeps Hillary in the West: Discouraging the Grassroots; Is that the real purpose of the Democratic Party Super Delegates?

Bernie Victory Speech last night!

Bernie Sanders swept the Washington, Alaska and Hawaii Democratic Caucuses by overwhelming margins yesterday. He defeated Hillary in Washington with 72.7 percent of the votes. Although all of Washington’s pledged delegates haven’t pledged yet, they’re usually divvied up based on the voting outcome. So Bernie likely will take 73 pledged delegates to Hillary’s 28. So far 55 delegates in Washington have come out for Bernie, while 20 have sided with Hillary.

Bernie also stormed past Hillary in Alaska with 81.6 percent of the vote. He took 13 of the state’s 16 delegates. He also wiped out Hillary in Hawaii with 70 percent. Sanders took 17 of Hawaii’s 26 delegates.

That means Bernie will likely haul in 103 delegates to Hillary’s 44 for the day.

This gave Bernie a 59 delegate lead between the three states, and eliminated approximately 1/6th of Hillary’s slightly more than 300 pledged delegate lead. That brings the pledged delegate count to 1,243 to Clinton and 975 for Sanders, not counting those delegates who have not pledged yet in Washington.

Hillary also has over 400 Super Delegates pledged to her, but those are not binding. Those folks can change their mind should Bernie end up with more delegates given based on the actual voting, and they likely will.

If the Super-delegates don’t alter their minds if Sanders gets more delegates via the voters than Hillary, the democratic process within the Democratic Party will have proven to be a joke cruelly played upon grassroots Democrats by the Wall Street Establishment that currently controls the party. Hillary is their candidate.

The corporate news media often tells us that Hillary has a massive, insurmountable lead because of those Super-delegates, which are not bound to Hillary at the Democratic Presidential Convention. Yet, the establishment and the propaganda machine want us to believe otherwise.

Therefore, it seems that the only purpose of the super-delegates is to discourage candidates, such as Bernie, and their supporters, from continuing their campaign to overthrow the Wall Street Democratic Establishment and their presidential candidate.

The lesson to be learned is simple; don’t believe the propaganda of the establishment. Bernie can still beat Hillary quite handily, and the super delegates will not be a factor unless they are used to overthrow democracy within the Democratic Party.

If that’s the case, the Party will be ripped apart. Will the establishment risk this? Not likely. Otherwise, there won’t be a Democratic Party, or a Democratic Party Establishment anymore. Certainly, half of Democratic Party voters will leave the party behind.

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Weekend News Dutifully Not Reported by the Corporate News and Propaganda Media: TPP Trade Talks Stall

On Friday, July 31 the negotiators from twelve nations announced in Maui that negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) had reached a roadblock. The TPP is massive income redistribution scam for the 1 percent, and particularly for Wall Street, major corporations and their overpriced CEOs and their shareholders, but it is being falsely marketed as a trade agreement.

President Obama wants to be able to deliver this scam before the upcoming elections so that Wall Street and major corporations who stand to gain at the expense of the 99 percent will open up its pockets more to Democratic candidates. However, as the Democratic base realizes this president and many of his Democratic cronies, such as Wall Street Senator Ron Wyden, has sacrificed their interests and redistributed their income and wealth to the 1 percent over and over again, along with Obama’s Republican party cronies (think Mitch McConnell, Orrin Hatch, John Boehner, etc…, the Democratic base has been abandoning ship.

In other words, the Democratic machine might get the cash to compete on television advertisements with the Republican machine if Obama and his henchmen like Wall Street Senator Ron Wyden can deliver the TPP, but in doing so, the Dems will have fewer and fewer votes on which it can count on. So the party will lose more seats in the US senate and the house of representatives.

That means the party base in shrinking and it doesn’t matter how much money the Democratic leadership can conjure up. They will continue to lose voters as more and more of the base can no longer discern any significant difference between the Democratic and Republican parties on bread and butter issues.

Trying to rally the base with social and international issues, such as the Iran nuclear deal, the liberalization of relations with Cuba, and gay marriage, will be less and less effective in helping to win elections if the sole purpose of the party on economic matters is to continue to impoverish the base with scams like the TPP.

According to CNN the negotiations broke down over the following:

Canada is balking at opening its dairy market for more imports — a key demand not just of the United States but also of New Zealand, where dairy giants like Fonterra are eager to expand the country’s top export.

In Japan, the United States wants easier access for its agriculture and automotive companies, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe faces a legislature strongly influenced by small rice farmers. Long-standing foreign auto trade barriers are difficult to tear down in that country.

And the United States’ push for 12 years of patent protection on pharmaceutical drugs is tripping up poorer countries — such as Malaysia and Vietnam — that fret they’d face public health challenges without access to cheaper generics.

Critics in manufacturing states have said the deal should include a crackdown on countries that manipulate the value of their currencies to give their exports a price advantage in the United States. That, though, is a non-starter and would halt the deal’s progress entirely, negotiators from several countries have said.

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In-the-belly-of-the-chemical-beast-hawaiian-activists-confront-syngenta-on-its-home-turf

Hawaiian protestors are hounding the pesticide/GMO manufacturer Syngenta, all the way to the company’s headquarters in Switzerland, where many of its products are banned due to health concerns, but which are perfectly legal in the United States.

Malia Chun was one of the protestors. “Traveling with a small delegation from her island, Chun came halfway around the world to confront Syngenta as both a mother and a practicing teacher of Native Hawaiian culture. Chun and others in her community suspect the pesticides may be responsible for an uptick in health problems such as asthma and birth defects, including several cases where babies were born with their intestines outside of their bodies. “As far as pesticide exposure goes, it’s most harmful to children, both born and unborn,” Chun said. “‘It’s also a direct desecration of our culture.'”

Check out the full story by clicking on the link below at Truthout.org.

in-the-belly-of-the-chemical-beast-hawaiian-activists-confront-syngenta-on-its-home-turf–Truthout.org

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The Real Dangers of GMOs Dow Chemical Doesn’t Want You to Know About

By Paul Koberstein, Earth Island Journal

12 October 14

Data shows insecticides can cause significant harm to children. Dow Chemical is trying to convince the EPA otherwise

The bodies and minds of children living on the Hawaiian island of Kaua‘i are being threatened by exposure to chlorpyrifos, a synthetic insecticide that is heavily sprayed on fields located near their homes and schools.

For decades, researchers have been publishing reports about children who died or were maimed after exposure to chlorpyrifos, either in the womb or after birth. While chlorpyrifos can no longer legally be used around the house or in the garden, it is still legal to use on the farm. But researchers are finding that children aren’t safe when the insecticide is applied to nearby fields.

Click on the link below for the rest of the story.

The Real Dangers of GMOs–Earth Island Journal

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Vermont Calls of Congress to Overturn the Corrupt Citizens United Decision

The great state of Vermont became the third state on Thursday to call on the U.S. Congress to overturn the Supreme Court’s controversial and corrupt ruling in Citizens United v. FEC.

The Vermont House passed the resolution by a 92-40 vote. The Vermont Senate passed the resolution 26-3 last week. No doubt, representatives who voted against the measure may have been on the Koch brothers pay roll.

The 2010 Citizens United ruling struck down key provisions of the federal McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law and gave rise to super PACS, officially known as independent-expenditure only committees, which can raise an unlimited amount of money to influence federal elections as long as they do not directly coordinate with a candidate’s campaign.

The ruling held that limiting corporate campaign spending violated the First Amendment, because political contributions were a form of political speech and corporations were legally persons. It should be pointed out that the word “corporation” does not appear in the constitution, a point the Koch Brothers wing of the court refused to acknowledge, Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito.

“The General Assembly urges Congress to consider the request of many Vermont cities and towns to propose a U.S. constitutional amendment for the state’s consideration that provides that money is not speech and corporations are not persons under the U.S. Constitution and that also affirms the constitutional rights of natural persons,” Vermont’s resolution, authored by State Senator Ginny Lyons (D), stated.

Similar resolutions have passed in Hawaii and New Mexico.

“By fighting so passionately, Vermonters have put the state on the map as opposing corporate influence in our elections. Public Citizen is proud to have played a coordinating role with our Vermont partners in this movement victory,” said Aquene Freechild, senior organizer with Public Citizen’s Democracy Is For People campaign.

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