Milwaukee, laboratory for the oligarchs erupts in violent protests

First Published in Blasting News

Koch Brothers written Scott Walker and the GOP’s Jim Crow laws have turned Milwaukee into an open air prison for minorities.

The violence erupting in Milwaukee is the result of six years of Walker and the GOP’s assault on Wisconsin’s largest city. Milwaukee has been the oligarchs’ laboratory since Walker assumed office.  The GOP has passed a series of egregious and insidious of laws designed to re-segregate Milwaukee.  When the laws are found to be overtly racist by lower courts, those rulings are overruled by the most racist GOP dominated State Supreme Court in Wisconsin’s history.

In 2011 incumbent Justice David Prosser, was defeated by JoAnne Kloppenburg.  Twenty-four hours later, Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nicklaus declared Prosser the victor claiming she accidentally didn’t count 14,315 votes when she saved the results on her personal computer.  Nicklaus was Walker’s assistant before he became governor and is the only person with access to the computer that tallies Waukesha’s votes.

WI Supreme Court restores segregation in Milwaukee

The oligarchs’ laboratory Milwaukee and its suburbs are more segregated than most of the nation.  It has been reported the chairman of one county’s Republican Party still refers to one mostly African-American neighborhood in Milwaukee as “the colored section.”   One of the most devastating of Walker’s “reforms” has been to remove Milwaukee’s residency requirement for police and fire fighters. 

The 75 year-old requirement ensured the police and fire fighters were invested in the community they served.  The resulting white flight has tripled the population of three rural counties around Milwaukee, where the percentage of African-Americans is under 2 percent. The black poverty rate within the city is the second-highest in the country.  Walker has a history of slashing of programs that benefit inner-city African-Americans, such as public transportation.  Governor Walker rejected Fed. Funds for Amtrak's Hiawatha high speed rail line between Milwaukee and Chicago.

Walker’s war on public education

Milwaukee’s public schools have become intensely segregated, like Lloyd Barbee Montessori School whose enrollment is 92% black.  Walker’s expansion of charter schools and school vouchers is expected to strip $800 million from public schools over a decade. Walker’s $250 million cut in funding from the U-W budget has been awarded to his wealthy hedge fund managers to build an arena for the Milwaukee Bucks.  One of the owners, Jon Hammes’ son donated $150,000 to a pro-Walker super PAC.

 Legalizing bribery

Walker replaced the state’s nonpartisan Government Accountability Board with two commissions made up of partisan appointees.  The board was responsible for election oversight and enforcing ethics codes.  Walker replaced the Civil Service’s anonymous employment exams with résumés, enabling racial bias, impossible to detect because personnel files are not part of the public record.

A Republican three judge panel has stayed a judges’ to issue ID cards to those who want one, declaring ID law disenfranchises Milwaukee’s black and Hispanic population.  The law will remain as written for the November presidential election.  In the April primary when the law was in effect over 300,000 voters lost the right to vote. 

Governor Walker has called in the National Guard to beat Milwaukee’s residents into submission after violent clashes have erupted over the weekend.  Is it any wonder the oligarch’s laboratory has turned Milwaukee into a powder keg? 

By Patricia Baeten

Media commit treason on behalf of the oligarchs

First published by Blasting News

Cable media’s quest to destroy Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for the oligarchs who pay their salaries reaches criminal proportions.

The media have become handmaidens to the oligarchs currying favor by politically assassinating politicians who pose a threat to their special interests.  The attacks launched against Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been unprecedented in their fact free viciousness.  CNN has been the worst, where former journalist turned CNN carnival barker, Jake Tapper has taken lead of the pack of attack dogs manufacturing “scandals” out of whole cloth. 

Media spreads allegations without fact checking

Tapper’s show The Lead promotes every scurrilous allegation made against the candidates, as indictable facts.  Tapper echoed the charges made by Judicial Watch against Hillary Clinton that a Lebanese donor to the Clinton Foundation received special treatment and favors by the State Department.  Fox’s Eric Bolling used the JW talking points to repeat a litany of donors to the Foundation that received special favors after making donations.  What they failed to disclose is JW’s 25 year quest to destroy the Clintons. 

 Real journalist investigates

Eric Lipton of the New York Times was a recent guest on C-Span’s Washington Journal to discuss his recent exposé on Washington Think Tanks’ conflicts of interests.  A caller inquired about the charges lodged against Clinton by Judicial Watch and whether Lipton had investigated the charges.  Lipton said he was asked by the Times to help examine the allegation and determine whether or not there had been any favoritism or special access going on at the State Department.

He explained, what happened earlier this week was Judicial Watch released an e-mail from some of Clinton’s aides showing when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State the Clinton Foundation approached some of her aides to ask them to speak with an individual from Nigeria.  That individual was a major donor to the Clinton Foundation that had connections in the Foundation that the gentleman used to contact a Clinton aide for a possible meeting with state department officials. 

Nothing inappropriate happened

Lipton was part of a group of four the Times assigned to the investigation and what they found  was the individual from Nigeria who was of Lebanese descent was simply trying to share information about an upcoming election in Lebanon that he felt the State Department should know about.  Lipton’s team found nothing inappropriate took place.  The individual never got the meeting so there was no pay to play because he never got access.  Lipton further stated it is the obligation of journalists, when allegations of this nature are made against a candidate, to dig into the matter quickly and ensure the facts are available to the public.  He said “It doesn't appear to be anything that consequential.”   

No quid pro quo just another case of media treason, spreading lies to destroy a former first lady and presidential candidate who the oligarchs hate.  That is what our treasonous media does, invents crimes and then tries to poison the minds of the public to advance candidates more to the oligarch’s liking, while lining their pockets in a real quid pro quo.  The oligarchs have selected their candidate Evan McMullin a CIA veteran and Goldman Sachs alum.  Now it’s up to their media toadies to politically assassinate the candidates chosen by the voters, committing treason if necessary.

by Patricia Baeten

GOP Intel officials call Trump a danger to national security

First published in Blasting News

Members of PNAC who overthrew the US Govt. Dec. 12, 2000 and were responsible for the 911 attacks call Donald Trump a danger to national security.

The Project for a New American Century overthrew the American Government December 12, 2000 in a coup and brought in unindicted criminals from the Reagan and Bush I Administrations to populate the State Department and Pentagon.  The PNAC crowd through either gross negligence or deliberately working with Saudi Arabia and Britain’s MI perpetrated the 911 attacks to kick off their new world order.  Many of those same actors remain in the Obama Administration.

Trillions missing

In the name of the war on terror, trillions of dollars are missing at the Pentagon and State Department that has been used to enrich PNAC members beyond their wildest dreams.  Just last week the Fiscal Times reported a new DOD Inspector General’s report revealed the Pentagon can’t account for $6.5 trillion dollars missing from the Army general fund.  That report comes after an earlier report released in 2012 reported $8.5 trillion was missing from the Pentagon.

It was reported in Truth and Action that ISIS has acquired 43 new Toyota Hilux trucks, courtesy of the United States.  The Hiluxes were on the ‘moderate’ Syrian terrorists’ wish list and were delivered.  Once the moderates crossed the border with them they were seized by ISIS. 

In addition to the Pentagon arming terrorists, the CIA has been supplying arms to “moderate” terrorists in Syria that have ended up in ISIS hands.   According to Mint Press, the CIA press conference to explain the stolen arms looked like a “SNL Skit” as officials refused to answer questions about the stolen arms.    

Pentagon backed terrorists fight CIA backed terrorists

In March of this year, the LA Times reported that CIA backed moderates in Syria were battling Pentagon backed moderates.   “Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the bitter five-year-old civil war.”

The Intercept has reported one of the 50 signers, ex-CIA Director Mike Morrell told Charlie Rose “U.S. policy in Syria needs to be to make Iran and Russia ‘pay a price’.” He said the CIA needs to arm local groups in Syria and instruct them to kill Iranian and Russian personnel in the country.  He said this must be done covertly so only Russia and Iran know who’s behind it.

PNAC backs ex-CIA counterterrorism Agent for President

Former CIA Director, Michael Hayden who oversaw the CIA secret renditions and torture said the signers are not backing Hillary Clinton, so who are they backing?  According to The Blaze the chief policy director of the House Republican conference and former CIA Counterterrorism Agent Evan McMullin.  McMullin already has the backing of key Republican contributors.

So the CIA’s military industrial complex and their corrupt PNAC war machine is warning that Donald Trump is a threat to American national security.  It appears that the only threat posed by Donald Trump is to the PNAC war machine.  When asked about the letter, Trump called the letter 'politically motivated' and blamed the Intel experts for the Iraq War and the rise of ISIS.  When “America’s Mayor” Rudy Giuliani was asked to comment he said 'Trump is not part of the club – thank God.'  Thank God indeed.

By Patricia Baeten

Oligarchs circle wagons to save Paul Ryan and TPP

First published in Blasting News

Paul Ryan, who has waged war on retirees, school children and veterans is “polling” at 80% in oligarch owned Washington Post.

Paul Ryan the billionaires’ advocate in Washington is facing a challenger in his bid for reelection in Tuesday’s rigged Wisconsin primary.  The 1^st district congressman and Speaker of the House is a member of ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, the Koch Brother’s bill mill.  Ryan has advanced some of ALEC’s most egregious agenda items like lax banking laws, privatization of public utilities and cuts to veterans’ benefits, food stamps, social security and Medicare.  Ryan has been pivotal in the destruction of public education and the proliferation of privately owned charter schools.

Taxpayer funded Charter school benefit foreigners through H1B visas

Charter schools are publicly funded privately operated and provide wealthy foreigners taxpayer funds to promote ideological causes.  The owner of the largest chain of U.S. charter schools is Fathulla Gülen, the Turkish Imam and CIA asset who has been granted asylum in the US after facing terrorism charges in Turkey.  Gülen has funded over 200 trips to Turkey for lawmakers and their staff and is the largest recipient of H1B visas to bring teachers from Turkey to teach in America’s taxpayer funded charters. 

Congress and their staff receive lavish trips for their service

Lawmakers have received lavish privately-funded trips in addition to their taxpayer funded salaries and bennies.  Roll Call reported on some of the hidden sources that pay for the trips, that weren’t vetted by the House Ethics Committee.  One recipient of an all-expenses-paid jaunt to five-star hotels was Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y.  Clarke accepted an $8,700 nine-day trip paid for by the Council of Turkic American Associations.  In 2013 she stayed at Istanbul’s Crowne Plaza & Hagia Sophia and the Rixos Grand Ankara.

The same nonprofit paid for Rep. Leonard Lance, R-N.J., to travel to Turkey where he stayed at the Ciragan Palace Kempinski billed as “a former palace converted into a luxury hotel with suites that promise the exclusive ambiance once enjoyed by the majestic Sultans of the Ottoman Empire."  Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., and her fiancé accepted a package paid for by the Turquoise Council of Americans and Eurasians that included $1,500 for meals and taxis.  The TCAE has refused to cooperate with ethics investigators.

Paul Ryan’s campaign and trips funded special interests

Paul Ryan has received 17 domestic and foreign privately-financed trips.  Much like Fathulla Gülen, Ryan lives in a gated, heavily guarded compound in Janesville, Wisconsin where he enjoys a pampered taxpayer funded life of a royal.  His opponent Paul Nehlen once a staunch Ryan supporter is running against Ryan’s cronyism and corruption. Eighty percent of Ryan’s campaign funding comes from outside his district mainly from DC and Virginia.

Phony Washington Post poll puts Ryan ahead 80% to 20%

The oligarchs have invested too much in Paul Ryan to allow him to be defeated in Wisconsin’s primary.  An ABC-Washington Post poll was cited Sunday showing Donald Trump trailing Hillary Clinton by 8 points.  What they don’t tell you is that the poll is skewed and includes third party candidates to give Clinton the bump.  The Post’s poll also showed Ryan leading Nehlen in the race 80% to 20%, a margin a tin pot dictator would die for.  The oligarchs are circling the wagons and will stop at nothing to ensure a Ryan victory, but will the voters buy it?  We’ll see Tuesday.

By Patricia Baeten

GOP shuns Trump rally in Green Bay prior to Tuesday’s rigged primary

First published in Blasting News

Trump dissed by GOP as he visits Green Bay, WI before Tuesday’s primary with racist voter I.D. law still in force.

Downtown Green Bay is bustling with gala activities this weekend with the Tall Ship Festival, providing the perfect backdrop for Trump’s campaign rally.  Against a backdrop of nine tall ships, with six docked permanently during the festival for tours and the World’s Largest Rubber duck, Trump will address an expected crowd of 5,000.  While 50,000 are expected for the Tall Ship Festival, thousands more will be celebrating on the City Deck and participating in the Nitelite Run, weaving through the streets of Green Bay.

Walker, Ryan and Johnson diss Trump event

Three prominent GOP pols with be “no shows”, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Speaker Paul Ryan and Senator Ron Johnson.  The WI GOP has taken to dissing the GOP Presidential candidate for a myriad of reasons, but most recently Trump’s failure to endorse Ryan who is facing a challenge from Trump supporter Paul Nehlen.  Paul Ryan was slow to endorse Trump, saying “he wasn’t there yet” now the table has turned and Donald Trump is slow to endorse Ryan saying “he’s not there yet.”

The Trump-Ryan pissing match got uglier when Trump gave a shout out to Nehlen thanking him for defending Trump in his feud with the Muslim Gold Star dad, Khizr Khan who delivered a 7-minute takedown of Trump at the Democratic National Convention.  Ryan’s GOP challenger Nehlen sided repeatedly with the GOP nominee in his ongoing dispute with the Khan family.  "Paul Ryan AGAIN Misrepresents Trump Position, This Time on 'Religious Test' Brouhaha," tweeted Nehlen.  Trump responded tweeting a thank you to Paul Nehlen for sticking up for me.  Nehlen promptly tweeted a response, quoting Trump’s own campaign slogan.  “My pleasure, Sir,” he wrote. “Just want to Make America Great Again.”

The GOP is relying on their voter ID law to carry Republicans to victory in the November election, like it ensured a Canadian Ted Cruz victory.  Last week a federal just ruled the WI ID law is overtly racist designed to suppress the vote of Milwaukee’s African Americans. He wrote, the restriction “intentionally discriminates on the basis of race.” Judge Peterson struck down the GOP prohibitions on using expired student IDs that are otherwise qualifying, limiting to one location per city for in-person absentee voting, and restrictions on the hours for absentee voting. 

The ID law will remain in place for Tuesday’s primary.  However, he ordered that the state quickly issue valid voting credentials to anyone trying to obtain free photo IDs, calling the current system for issuing IDs a “wretched failure” that overwhelmingly cut out black and Hispanic citizens. 

Saving Paul Ryan

While the voting ID law protects Republicans in cities like Milwaukee by disenfranchising the unwashed masses it is unlikely to help Paul Ryan in Janesville, where his heavily guarded, fenced in compound protects him from the outside world.  Nehlen has the backing of high-profile Republicans like Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter and has a number of Trump backers working on his campaign to dump Ryan.  So Tuesday’s primary should be a test if the rigged election will save Paul Ryan.

By Patricia Baeten

Will the Federal Reserve Bank pick our president?

First published in Blasting News

The continued corruption of the Federal Reserve Bank by Goldman Sachs shows why Hillary Clinton’s restructuring plan needs to take place NOW.

Thomas Jefferson predicted the financial collapse of 2008 when he said "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered.”  He went on to say banking institution are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies.

In 2008 congress claimed no one could have predicted the global financial collapse, they were lying.  Congress refuses to reign in the Central Bank and provide oversight.  Congressman like Ron Paul have had limited success in auditing the Fed, while others like Bernie Sanders want to dismantling the Fed.  Hillary Clinton has proposed the only viable plan. 

Restructure the Fed

According to Matt Taibbi, Hillary’s bottom-up plan is to rebuild the Fed from its fundamentals at the regional level.  The Fed is a bankers’ institution run for banks and by banks.  The Fed is run by a seven-member board located in Washington, along with a dozen regional Fed bank presidents located throughout the country.  The members in Washington are selected by the president and vetted by congress.

However, the regional presidents are chosen by the financial industry and are either bankers or career Fed employees.  Taibbi writes, “New York's regional president is Willian C. Dudley, previously a Goldman Sachs managing director. Robert S. Kaplan of Dallas was a former vice chairman at Goldman. Neel Kashkari… is a former employee of PIMCO, one of the world's largest asset managers and a subsidiary of German financial behemoth Allianz. Dennis P. Lockhart, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is a former Citigroup executive.”

What Clinton has proposed is removing bankers from the regional boards.  It’s a big deal because if those regional Fed presidents were comprised of business people the risky activity that brought down the global banking system in 2008 would never have happened. 

Banks fight Hillary

In the 2008 Wall Street Banks laundered three-quarters of a billion dollars into the Obama campaign after super delegates, led by Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden and Ted Kennedy gifted the nomination to Obama; he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton.  What did the banks get for their money?  A massive bailout.

Today it was reported that the Fed has fined Goldman Sachs a tawdry $36 million for the theft of confidential information.  In 2014 a junior Goldman banker, who was previously New York Fed employee, took confidential information from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.  The information included “confidential reports prepared by banking regulators,” which Goldman used in presentations to current and prospective clients “in an effort to solicit business.”

Hillary’s plan would put an end to that criminal behavior and that is why FBI Director Comey has made statements that contrasted the findings of career investigators who exonerated Hillary.  Comey failed to reveal that prior to becoming FBI Director, he was legal counsel for HSBC, the London bank that laundered money for terrorists and drug cartels in the US.

Alan Grayson who is running for the Senate Seat in Florida has been the victim of a smear campaign run out of the White House.  Obama, Biden and Schumer are backing Patrick Murphy.  This country can’t wait for Hillary, the Fed must be restructured NOW.

By Patricia Baeten

TPP and capitalist crimes against humanity

First published in Blasting News

American congress with the aid of a compliant press is rushing through TPP to cover up the capitalist crimes they have committed against humanity. 

The Vladimir Lenin said “All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake public opinion for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.”  The bourgeoisie press was on full display at the DNC and RNC when they featured grieving Gold Star parents to attack presidential candidates Clinton and Trump. 

Oligarchs interfere with Presidential election

Barack Obama took advantage of the press conference from the East Room of the White House where he stood alongside Singapore’s Prime Minister and called Donald Trump unfit for the Presidency.  "The notion that he would attack a Gold Star family that made such extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of our country, the fact that he doesn't appear to have basic knowledge of critical issues in Europe, the Middle East, in Asia, means that he's woefully unprepared to do this job.”

After attacking Donald Trump who opposes TPP, Obama pushed TPP saying "Right now I'm president, and I'm for it, and I think I've got the better argument. I've made this argument before. I'll make it again. We are part of a global economy. We're not reversing that." Obama, the RNC and DNC don’t give a rip about the Gold Star families they are just using them for political gain. 

American Exceptionalism

Meanwhile W. Bush, speaking at the Diamond Club also took a swipe at Trump saying Trump is a threat to “American exceptionalism.”  As, Bush made those comments Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan released a campaign ad in Wisconsin focused on American exceptionalism and passing the TPP.  Ryan is being challenged by anti-TPP businessman Paul Nehlen.  Nehlen an early Trump supporter released this ad.

Ryan has been guaranteed reelection after Wisconsin passed one of the most oppressive voter I.D. laws in the US.  The 4th Circuit of Appeals overturned significant portions of Wisconsin's law that were designed to repress minority voters in cities like Milwaukee.  Republicans are appealing the decision and plan to have the law reinstated as written in time for the primary August 9^th. 

Rush to pass TPP

The Oligarchs intend to pass TPP no matter what the results of November’s election are.  They have already passed the Monsanto protection law that prohibits states banning GMO’s and GMO labeling laws that limit identification to bar codes.  The FDA has allowed Oxitec to release millions of genetically engineered mosquitos in Florida, to “fight” the Zika virus. 

 The genetically engineered mosquitos carry a “suicide” gene that causes the females to destroy their own larvae.  These genetically engineered mosquitoes were designed to die in the absence of antibiotics, assuming they would NOT have access to that drug in the wild. But Tetracycline and other antibiotics are now showing up in the environment, in soil, in water pools and lakes.  With tetracycline exposure these mutant insects thrive in the wild, creating a nightmarish scenario. 

If a genetically modified female mosquito bites a human, the protein which kills their own larvae, could be injected into the human when the mosquito sucks their blood, with unknown and potentially ghoulish consequences.  Just as with genetically engineered (GE) foods, the long-term effects of GE insects are completely unknown—the Earth and its inhabitants are being used as a laboratory for grand scale genetic experiments. It's a blatant violation of human rights with regard to human experimentation

That is why congress is rushing through TPP.  Whatever the November election results may be, the best the world can hope for is that the American people drive a stake through the heart of the mutated two party system.  It’s time to end the capitalist crimes against humanity.

By Patricia Baeten