LINO – Libertarian In Name Only

ORLANDO, Florida – Barely twenty-four hours in and already the Libertarian party of two thousand and sixteen is starting to experience dissention in the ranks.

Over Memorial day weekend Libertarians came together from across the country and around the world to nominate their president and vice presidential candidates at their annual national party convention. And for many the top of the ticket for the fall and the general election season is troubling, deeply troubling.

Many Libertarians say that with the assention of former Massachusetts Governor William Weld to the vice presidency that it will just give the North American Union types and Wall Street Big Money Donors a paper tiger in a Gary Johnson administration, should he win the presidency in the fall.

Because from sun-drenched Florida and the grave of the late great Economist Harry Browne, the 1996 and 2000 Libertarian party nominee for President of the United States of America, you can hear the battle cry of LINO – Libertarian In Name Only!

No doubt the Johnson-Weld ticket will tell Libertarians and you fellow voter nothing could be further from the truth. No paper tigers here, no LINO’s allowed! And so it will go, no?

But lets look at it from this perspective for just a minute, shall we? My prediction is that the Johnson-Weld ticket will be Libertarian-lite in that they’ll run under the Libertarian party banner but will, instead, draw from the well of the Never Trump Never Hillary movements in a kind of “A Coalition of the Willing.” Or as Bill Clinton and Dick Morris did so infamously in the 1990’s, “Triangulation.”

Seeking out those disgruntled and disavowed  Democrats and Republicans who just can’t stand the idea, much less stomach it, of another Clinton or that for matter a Donald J. Trump in The White House.

Or, maybe not? Maybe just maybe it’s what they all really want, and it’s just going to be made to look like it’s not? Just so the media, talking-heads, politicos and party bosses can have something to talk about on the nightly news.

In either case I like Bill Weld and have enormous respect for Gary Johnson, ever since 2011 when he first ran for the presidency. Then as now Johnson stands for some of the same things that I do, but with Charles and David Koch, through Bill Weld, pulling on Johnson like he’s a puppet and they’re the masters even I can’t stomach that!

I hate Charles and David Koch with every fiber of my being for what they have done to this great country of ours and this beautiful world in which we all live. They are evil incarnate, in my opinion, and hell itself would be a far worse place with them in it.

I call LINO – Libertarian in Name Only! And for those disgruntled and disaffected Libertarians I offer this as your Battle Cry:

Hold fast, and as Jesse Ventura says, “Stay Vigilant…”

–Rhett.

It’s Troubling: A Manifesto to the ‘We Want It All’ Ruling Class

To those willing to read: This post will take a bit for you to get through, BUT I promise you, you will get through it and come away wanting a far better way of life than the one that you have now…

“[The] Trail of Tears,” A painting, c. 2015…

The Faux Fo Pas, Politically Speaking:

If true, calls for the Revolution Leader Bernie Sanders to ‘drop out of the race’ for the Democratic candidacy for President of the United States of America in 2016 have begun in earnest now that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has inched herself ever more closer to becoming the defacto nominee of her party in two thousand and sixteen.

We’re told that calls such as these are normal, par for the course, etc. That it’s just political party bosses ‘sewing their oats’ and that since Mr. Sanders has built this grassroots movement, from the ground up for more than thirty years, and that’s nice and all, but look it Hillary Clinton is going to be the nominee come hell or high water so you little revolutionaries, you millennials, who don’t vote anyways, at least not enough of you to matter on the regular,  you just need to set down, shut up and get in line behind Hillary Clinton okay, or else – we’ll talk about what that terminology “or else” means a little later on in the read.

You’ve had your moment in the sun, raised some seriously issues and concerns, but at the end of the day we need adults in the room to govern not little saggy pant wearing potheads with their fingers on the wheels of democracy. Such doesn’t play well with others, after all, in certain Cosmopolitan [European] circles.

“Angry,” Americans or Concerned Citizens?

And so it goes…

A Cautionary Tale about Revolution:

Revolution Leader Bernie Sanders is a nice old man, in his own way, were told. Is delivering a message of great social change(s) throughout America and the World, but this type of change(s) need to come slowly over space and time. That even Obama, when he first ran for the presidency of the United States in 2007,knew this, all to well. Or did he?

And us little people are reminded by those in authority over us, again and again, that these things are nice, make one feel really good deep down inside, but to just update your social media pages and forget all about it kids. Caution is the order of the day.

To ‘slow your roll’ or ‘pump your breaks’ their speed demon ‘Rome wasn’t built-in a day’ you know.

That these ideas are nice and all, but you can’t govern a nation and the free world in poetry, such takes prose or finesse Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have that finesse and would “make an excellent president, either one,” says the “political establishment,”watch:

And that the Revolution should go quietly into that long good night for your own (safety) good. That Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump are the ones to choose from, choose from these and these only and keep your mouth shut.

And so that goes…

All Throughout History Though… (Revolution/Change comes with a price. Are you willing to pay? I am!):

Since the dawn of recorded history there has been revolution or social change for the better, starting with the Revolutions of 1848 throughout Europe. Costing many lives, to be sure, but bringing about change for the better.

1. The idea that a ban of people, large or small, no matter the cost or the obstacles that stand in their way, are determined to bring about change. And, again, its change for the better.
2. The idea that everyone has the right to be free, especially those who have paid their debt to society – so-called.
3. The idea that everyone has the right to healthcare and should not be charged for it. (Because it’s universally the same. In other words the rich or wealthy elite get the same exact healthcare as the poorest amongst us.)
4. The idea that everyone has the right to a decent livable wage. (Bernie Sanders and others call [Fight] for $15 an hour and a Union to represent the worker…)
5. The idea that you will be treated freely, fairly and equally no matter ‘what you look like or who you love.‘
6. The idea that you will be treated fairly in an open court of law. (Regardless of race, color, creed, ethnic or national origins, etc.)
7. The idea that as a woman you have the same rights as a man, and should be regarded with the same respect.

These ideas, while abstract to some, are in no ways new to others. Remember they’ve been around since 1848 Europe.

They are the things that human beings have been asking for since the Tower of Babel, in terms of communication and respect.

The idea that “No man is an island unto himself,”that we are “all in this together;” politically, socially and ecumenically. No one is better than the other. No idea is best overall. No one concept is better than the rest are. We are. Life is a  Collective Effort. When one of us hurts all of us hurts, and we should all be concerned about that. Watch.

And the idea that the elite and ruling class of this world cannot have it all. They do not own the world because the world belongs to us all, freely and equally.

Such an idea, such a notion scares the hell out of the establishment, here’s proof of that.

But this is just nuance, process or the tone and tenor of otherwise spirited debate on the campaign trail. Not unlike this I suppose from 2007?

But and again it could just be ,as they say, “all a part of the [political] process???” Or so they say.

And no one is to question these idioms of political process because a fear is instilled whenever questions arise through the rank and file of the people, by design to distract and deflect the people away from the truth. Not unlike that of the 9/11 attacks.

Watergate  or the Iran-Contra affair.

Left to Right: Photos from the September 11th 2001 attacks, former Americans President Richard M. Nixon and the Watergate hotel complex in Washington, D.C. USA and former Lt. Col. Oliver North testifying, openly, at the Iran-Contra hearings in the 1980’s (photos courtesy of Wikipedia pages on these controversies and or catastrophic events in American [political] history)….

Known as false flags. They are conspiratorial in nature like the ones that online personalities the likes of Alex Jones and his infamous InfoWars and Prison Planet websites and that of Dr. Michael Savage and his Savage Nation talk radio program espouse. Or even that of WorldNetDaily and its controversial editor and chief Joe Farah,  which [again] are designed to distract and deflect the free world from the truth of the matter – whatever that matter or matters may or may not be.

In any case these are matters of the state that are long overdue to be settled no matter what the establishment might say or lead the public at large to believe. Because the public at large largely doesn’t believe them. Doesn’t buy into the official story.

Mr. Andrew J. Breitbart (1969-2012) …

(Even the late great Andrew Breitbart and his infamous Breitbart News got their start in the land of conspiracy theory, false flag and conjecture before they went mainstream news organization on the masses not long after Mr. Breitbart’s demise.)

So We the People should just ignore the questions that we have free-flowing in our minds and skip right to the answers, right to the proverbial climatic ending because this is all very easily explained by those in the know IF we just give ourselves over to the answers, willingly of course.

And we must be willing. And when one is not willing then he is not a willing convert to the easily explained now is he/she?

This is all very easily explained.

And so it goes…

A Manifesto…A (friendly piece of advice) Warning:

We’re told by our media, political pundits and talking heads to not ever venture down the rabbit hole; politically, socially or ecumenically. To stay strictly away from the truth of the matter. Else will live to regret it “if you live long enough to do so,” as our Mama’s used to say to us whenever we misbehaved as children. Right?

Warning signs, roadblocks and distractions from the truth are put up all around us. Books. Movies. Television.

Leaving it up to us to decide as to whether or not we want to quote unquote “buy in to the notion” of this that or the other thing. Some do. Largely though, some don’t. And it’s really all up to the beholder of the information that is in front of them, clearly, as to whether or not they want to believe it or not, accept or reject it or not, but always with the WARNING always with the caveat: Do not venture down this rabbit hole of conspiracy because you will live to regret it [maybe].

But here’s the thing:

The Elite cannot have it all, because there’s plenty to go around – for all of us.

You read that right my fellow American, my fellow free Western Worlder. There is plenty to go around. Plenty of natural resources. Plenty of finances. Plenty of healthcare. Education. Transportation and the like to go around. Enough in fact to circle our globe multiple times over IF you are willing to give yourself over to the truth or the axiom of the Native American which reads:

“Take only what you need and leave the rest as you found it…”

It was both a warning and a friendly request to the early American settlers of the 16 and 1700’s that their were/are plenty of natural resources to go around just don’t abuse the privileges that Mother Earth has bestowed upon us all. But through the advent of social privilege and the social climate of the day most of the white European settlers forgot that warning, willingly, and proceeded to take and take and take some more.

#quotesbyfamouspeople

Greed and selfish behavior is the problem and it will always be the problem until the problem is gotten rid of by the Peoples of this World.

And the absolute best example of where I can find, where I can look to for a much-needed repeat of history is in that of the assassination and slaughter of the brutal Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his Italian Socialist Party henchmen. Drug through the streets of present-day Milan, Italy he was drawn and quartered by the People of Italy in April of 1945. A fitting end to an otherwise brutal, brutal man.

Italian Socialist Party Leader and brutal dictator Benito Mussolini (highlighted second from left) hanging from the rafters of a gas station in present-day Milan, Italy (photo courtesy of Wikipedia, 2016)…

Mussolini’s death is  a case study of what many, if not all, of our world leadership needs to endure. .

We have a duty to ourselves and our posterity to preserve what we can while it is still here. So as to replenish our natural supply. Otherwise people such as the Rothschild family, the Rockefeller family,  and many others will continue to take what is rightfully ours, the Peoples of this Earth’s.

We are our own best friend or our own worst enemy folks…Choice is yours, a decision has to be made before it is too late. I’ve made mine. Care to join me?

–Rhett.

“Judge not, less you be judged..” – Jesus Christ, The Holy Bible #quotesbyfamouspeople

Matthew 7:1-3 Amplified Bible (AMP)

Judging Others

7 “^[a]Do not judge and criticize and condemn [others unfairly with an attitude of self-righteous superiority as though assuming the office of a judge], so that you will not be judged [unfairly].² For just as you [hypocritically] judge others [when you are sinful and unrepentant], so will you be judged; and in accordance with your standard of measure [used to pass out judgment], judgment will be measured to you. ³ Why do you look at the [insignificant] speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice and acknowledge the [egregious] log that is in your own eye?

Footnotes:

1. Matthew 7:1 This is not a prohibition of judgment, nor is it a command to stop using godly wisdom, common sense, and moral courage together with God’s written word to discern right from wrong, to distinguish between morality and immorality, and to judge doctrinal truth. There are many judgments that are not only legitimate, but are commanded (cf John 7:24; 1 Cor 5:5, 12; Gal 1:8, 9; 1 John 4:1-3; 2 John 10); however, you cannot judge another if you are committing the same type of sin.

Amplified Bible (AMP)Copyright © 2015 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, CA 90631. All rights reserved.

From questioning one’s qualifications to be President of the United States to questioning the judgement [of a woman to be President – its implied] of someone being President of the United States “on day one”. Some would say that Bernie Sanders stepped in it, big time, this week.

On Thursday of this week Senator Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet in as many weeks since they rolled into New York, New York for the Democratic primary process to become President of the United States in 2016, co-hosted by CNN and New York 1 (NY1).

And as the “J” and “Q” words along with “Gestapo tactics,” and[“the devil made me do it”] per Sanders’ Campaign Manager Jeff Weaver made their respective rounds in this primary process for two thousand and sixteen I couldn’t help but think of Jesus Christ’s own words and that of then Delaware Senator Joe Biden when discussing judgement. Watch.

And then watch this!

We can also take a few slips, trips and falls down memory lane here,here andhere.

“Full disclosure: I do not have absolute faith in the judgment and wisdom of the American people. We’re all human, and we can all be misled. When leaders don’t level with citizens, we can’t expect them to make good judgments. But I do have absolute faith in the heart of the American people. The greatest resource in this country is the grit, the resolve, the courage, the basic decency, and the stubborn pride of its citizens.” – “Promises to Keep,” By U.S. Senator Joe Biden, Page xx

You say well, “Bernie Sanders started it when he openly questioned Secretary Clinton’s foreign policy credentials.”

Tis true! He did. Watch.

But here’s the thing:  Prior to her excursions into “women and girls issues,”  “fighting for lgbtq [community],”  “women’s rights and equal rights,” etc. etc. we’re told that Hillary Rodham Clinton was a career woman, stay at home mom and a woman who was, “standing by my man…baking cookies”. And so it goes…

That was until she was judged by Democratic Socialist turned Social Democrat Bernie Sanders. Watch.

 

As with anything in politics you have what’s known as a walk back and the walk back started after Senator Sanders said this:

And continued on here:

But never one to be satisfied Hillary Clinton doubled down on the Senator’s comments about qualifications. Watch.

The New York, New York media scrum continued for these last many weeks, leading us up to these comments from Bernie 2016 Campaign Manager Jeff Weaver. Watch HERE. (Wow!)

Bernie 2016 Campaign Manager Jeff Weaver speaking at a press event in front of the campaign headquarters in Burlington, VT. USA (photo courtesy of Getty Images, 2016)…

And no doubt its wrong to say that someone made a “deal with the devil”, deliberately, BUT lets look at the context behind those words as well as the fallout from them since.

As I begin to close out this posting, and since Mr. Weaver spoke those words, a lot has happened.

There’s a strike on in the New England States with Verizon [Wireless] Communications. 

The head of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, and the GOP front-runner for 2016 ,Donald J. Trump, are fighting over wait for it, wait for it “GOP party rules,” and delegates. [In the wake of the Colorado GOP delegate fight.]

Love him or hate him Donald J. Trump, Sr. is driving the debate. Resetting the political pins at the bowling ally known as American democracy, and for some that’s pretty damn scary! Maybe even down right political sacrilege? But the bottom line is judgement. And judging not lest you be judged.

And in the last two weeks more questions have been raised about judgement and qualifications in terms of the Democratic (as well as the Republican) primary process for 2016 in the Empire State than ever. “Who’s ready to be President on day one?” Etc. Etc.

For me, at least, it all adds up to one thing. One saying, one expression in the form of action, “Judge not, least you be judged” so says the Lord Jesus Christ, and that for me says everything BECAUSE if you can’t function, perform as a fellow human being, behave accordingly as an American running for the highest and best office in the land THEN you have no business doing so. And in Christ’s own words you will be judged accordingly.

–Rhett.

Bibi Netanyahu’s in town, you know, in case anyone’s interested…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – So on Monday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ‘Bi bi’ Netanyahu came to town to see if he can’t get some more money for “Israeli defense,” rally the so-called ‘American right’, and otherwise schmooze with the [Washington,] District of Columbia beltway insiders.

But as luck would have it he’ll be going back to Tel Aviv with nowhere near the money he was expecting according to this reporting from PressTV.

White House sources told the New York Times on Friday that Israel would not be receiving an increased compensation package from the US government. … One of Netanyahu’s main objectives for the trip was to reach an agreement on a new military aid program for Israel worth $5 billion a year, including compensation Israel was supposed to receive following the Iran nuclear deal.

It was reported this week that Israel requested that the US raise its annual military aid program from the current $3 billion to $5 billion, amounting to a total of $50 billion. … Obama is not expected to authorize this agreement, instead granting Israel a billion dollars less. – From PressTV article titled, “Israel to receive less US Military aid than Netanyahu requested: White House sources…” 11/09/2015

Because in a moment of clarity Mr. Obama decided to appeal to his ‘better angels’ and withhold, albeit one billion U.S. Dollars less, a margin of the standard foreign aid for the Netanyahu government. Of course political hay will be made out of this news as yet another example of Obama being ‘icy’ towards Mr. Netanyahu. Or because Mr. Obama just wants to somehow put the screws to the Jews because he likes the Palestinian people more. And damn those Jews and Netanyahu anyway for what they do to the ‘poor whittle ole Palestinian people.’

“They have a fraught relationship and it’s fueled by a belief on the part of both of them that the other is trying to screw them, trip them up, thwart their policies, corner them, ambush them. They each have a number of cases where they feel the other acted in bad faith.” – Mr. Martin Indyk, a former Special Envoy to The Middle East for President Obama

A ‘peace in the Middle East’ Meme…

When nothing could be further from the truth. If anything the President is far more inclined to Israel’s side of the ledger.

People worldwide were very interested and following the 2012 American election believing that their future would, somehow, be affected by the foreign policies of the new American President. Only the Palestinian people were totally apathetic to the election.

They believe that the American stance toward the Palestinian cause, specifically, and towards the Middle East, generally, would not change no matter who becomes the American president; whether a democrat or a republican. … people, including large percentage of the American people, are under the illusion that the President really has the power to change things.

It appears that a president may have the power to take his country to war, to create jobs, to improvise and improve medical care plans, or to change tax laws or any other law, in that matter. Such matters are determined by a power elite representing the very rich and very influential 1% of the population, who owns, controls and manipulates the economic, political, industrial, and social structures of the country.

The President is just an employee, who is appointed in a theatrical game of fake democratic election, in order to carry the plans of this power elite. … The American people have been in uninterrupted continuous state of wars of aggression against other countries since the establishment of the federation for the control of natural resources locally and around the world.

The real war has always been a class war, where the rich abuse and manipulate the poor. … When Obama was first elected a president in 2008 with the slogans of “change” and “yes we can” addressing the Muslim and Arab world in his June 2009 speech in Cairo university, many Arabs and Palestinians had the illusion that Obama; coming from a black African and Muslim background, may be more sympathetic towards the Palestinian cause than any other American President.

Unfortunately Obama turns out to be a more aggressive president towards the Muslim world and worst to the Palestinian cause. – By Dr. Elias Akleh, PhD. “Obama’s Presidency through Palestinian Eyes” 11/13/2012

But what it all really means is, is Endless War in The Middle East.

And through it all Netanyahu, Obama, Abbas and all the rest will be just fine. Instead it will be the poor, the hungry, the downtrodden, ‘the least of these amongst us’ who will be the ones to suffer through endless wars and occupation. To pay the price with blood and treasure in the name of ‘peace’.

Mr. Netanyahu and his dog ‘Obama’.

So what if Netanyahu, in tears, runs back home to Tel Aviv with a billion less than expected? Poor baby. Have you seen the so-called ‘Iron Dome’? Or Israeli Defense forces filled to overflowing with guns, bombs, and bullets courtesy of the good ole U.S of A? Or how about Israel’s biggest money-maker, “World Gay Pride,” an annual festival and celebration of alternative lifestyles held annually in Tel Aviv, Israel every Summer?

Annual World Gay Pride Festival in Tel Aviv, Israel (photo courtesy of beforeitsnews.com 2015) …

Care to ‘Pray that Gay away’ Mike Huckabee and Kim Davis?

Did you know that the New York City Police Department sends officers of the law to train in Israel? A few years ago, in fact, at the height of the Occupy Wall Street Movement it was Israeli Defense forces, and Israeli police that trained NYPD ‘Storm-Troopers’ on how to descend and stop people who were peacefully protesting on the streets and in the heart of Wall Street the income inequality across the United States. Even now the New York City Police Department has a field office in Israel. Now why would it be necessary for the NYPD to have a field office in Israel?

putting my foot down…

So for Israel and in fact the Netanyahu government or even the Abbas government to say, “Poor pitiful us. Look at us…help us world! Help us President Obama.” When you guys are getting all the “help,” that you could ever need, minus a billion dollars, is not only the height of hypocrisy its obscene.

“A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money…” – Lord Daniel J. Hannan

Netanyahu and the lot need to get over themselves. Go home where you belong and for once in your miserable lives do something of benefit to help your people. Enough is enough!

“… far from apologizing for leading the United States into the Libya war based on a false pretext, President Obama is taking US ground troops into Syria on a false pretext. … After one year and thousands of bombing runs against Iraq and Syria, Obama announced last week he is sending US ground troops into Syria after promising no fewer than seven times that he would not do so. … They are ready to spend us into Third World status to continue their empire. When we get there, we will never hear their apologies…” – By Dr. Ronald E. Paul, M.D.; Op-Ed titled, “Save the Apologies, Stop Promoting War!” 11/01/2015

How Mr. Netanyahu can come to the United States of America with hat in hand and say, “give me more money because…” and go tink, tink champagne glasses with Abbas and John Kerry in Paris is beyond me?! Maybe though his bold is so more tunnels, bombs, walls, and encroachments can be built? – Not “settlements,” I didn’t stutter – and call it giving Jews a place to live – you mean all the white Jews though don’t you Mr. Netanyahu? Because black Jews don’t have any problems relocating to Israel do they Mr. Netanyahu?

But hey! You need more money don’t you Mr. Netanyahu? You and Mr. Abbas need to meet more with John Kerry in Paris and Geneva. And like I said tink wine glasses, eat cheese and share a good laugh and photo-op for the world, right? That matters.

Left to right: Benjamin Netanyahu, John Kerry & Mahmoud Abbas (photo courtesy of News Nation, 2015)…

For anyone or all three of these men to be considered serious world leaders. Serious meaning? That they put others interests before their own. Is not only a lie, it’s a damn lie!

These three men are a plague upon decent society.

All three need to be found and drug through the streets. Shot. Stabbed. Hung. Drawn and quartered like what was done to the Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini in 1945.

Italian Dictator and Tyrant Benito Mussolini and his lieutenants hanging upside down in Milan in 1945 (Mussolini is second from left) … (photo courtesy of Wikipedia, 2015) …

History has a way of repeating itself, oddly enough. The Nuremberg trials. Arab Spring. Even the Libyan civil war that ousted Gaddafi in September of 2011. Remember?

History is a keen-eyed judge filled with wisdom, sage, and character. She will judge us all, accordingly, soon enough. And all the money in the world won’t afford you the opportunity to escape her rule or her reign.

–Rhett E. Column

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