Politicians

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Matthew Ward: The DNC hacks

Message 1:

January 8, 2017

We have been asked our source of information that Russian President Vladimir Putin is justified in denying his country’s involvement in the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails and those on a personal computer, which is contrary to the United States intelligence agencies’ conclusion that the Kremlin is responsible. 

Some members of our universal family living among you are in major intelligence agencies around the globe—it was the ones in US agencies who told us they hacked and released the emails—and other members have expertise in tracking hackers’ “footprints.” Our sources know that Illuminati in those various agencies report false information to breed conflict. 

The reports given to US President Barack Obama put the blame on Russia, which led to more sanctions against that country; this was in line with the Illuminati’s penchant for retaliation—they misled Obama and created more economic problems for Putin because both leaders refused to join forces with them. 

FBI Director James Comey knows who the hackers are, why they released the emails and the criminal evidence they contain; he didn’t disclose that information due to threatening pressure from the Illuminati faction behind Hillary Clinton.

Message 2:

Nov.11, 2016

Clinton supporters in the Democratic National Committee maneuvered to Mrs. Clinton the votes in critical primaries that actually were won by Bernie Sanders; thus, it was she instead of the voters’ choice who became the Democratic party nominee.

As for the FBI’s investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s hacked emails, Director James Comey bowed to pressure from Bill Clinton and other Illuminati to conclude that national security had not been compromised and using a personal server is not an indictable offense. The finger was pointed at Russia for the hacking incident.

Vladimir Putin was justified in claiming that was not Russia’s doing. Individuals in the FBI and other intelligence agencies who know the Clinton's criminal history released the emails—they felt the public had a right to know the truth about Mrs. Clinton. But Mr. Comey had kept under wraps what the emails showed: She used her Secretary of State position to garner donations to the Clinton Foundation and issue favors in return and some Foundation funds benefited terrorists.

When those individuals later discovered that Anthony Weiner’s computer contained evidence of the Clinton's involvement in a pedophile ring, they insisted that Mr. Comey reopen the investigation. Once again he gave into Clinton camp pressure and stated that none of the emails pertained to Mrs. Clinton.

Source: Messages from Matthew

John F Kennedy (spirit) on the 2004 elections

As a graduate of earth school I still have some feeling left for the place. For this reason I wish to reach out once again to the people of earth to express my viewpoint on the current political situation.

In America, power is centred around a man known simply as "Bush". This man is a world wide symbol representing the power of the father who imposes his will upon the son. This father image represents the parent who gives the child what he thinks is best for it, regardless of the child's own wishes. This represents a belief in an authority OUTSIDE the individual, hence the discussion of "God's will" and of "good and evil".

His opponent in the political race is Senator John Kerry. John Kerry is a Vietnam vet who is leery of Government intervention. He saw people around him die because of the wishes of the Government and this made him question the notion of outside authority.

The Dennis Kucinich media blackout: MATTHEW WARD

All who have come to know about Dennis Kucinich are 100% behind him, and the aim of the darkness is to prevent any more people from knowing about him.

The command given your media is, NO publicity about Kucinich whatsoever unless it is to point up his campaign as futile, even ludicrous. He is tied to no corporations’ or individuals’ money and therefore is not subject to their control, and his spiritual, moral and intellectual strength that has garnered grassroots support is taken seriously not only by the incumbent, but also by the other Democratic candidates, so there is a solid bipartisan desire to prevent any media coverage of him.

Source: Message from Matthew, December 31, 2003.

Obama collects the flowers

2012 US Presidential election victory for Barack Obama.

Barack Obama is re-elected President...

of the United States of America!

Joe Biden speaks on behalf of the "Fairness" campaign-

spearheaded by Barack Obama!

Sharka Todd

No-one could govern like McGovern

by John Barron

George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee who suffered a heavy defeat at the hands of incumbent president Richard Nixon, has died at the age of 90.

Forty years ago McGovern won the Democratic nomination over the establishment favourite senator Edmund Muskie of Maine and former vice-president Hubert Humphrey – a campaign immortalised by the late Hunter S Thompson in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.

McGovern's primary and caucus campaign mobilised a grassroots army of baby-boomer volunteers - many who saw him as the heir to the legacy of the late senator Robert Kennedy, who was assassinated during the 1968 primary contest.

McGovern had inherited Kennedy's delegates to the ill-fated Democratic Convention in Chicago that year when Humphrey won the presidential nomination despite not standing in a single primary.

While McGovern's presidential campaign against Nixon was a disaster, being successfully portrayed as "too liberal" and lacking judgement over the "Eagleton Affair", his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination was one that candidates ever since - Obama in particular - have used as a template.

Yet, as Howard Dean found out in 2004, it has become a liability to be described as "another McGovern" – shorthand for "unelectable".

I met senator McGovern at the McGovern Centre and Library at the Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, South Dakota, on a bitterly cold January day in 2008.

McGovern had endorsed his friend Hillary Clinton for president, but had some extremely positive things to say about Obama - in fact, as the nominating contest dragged on into May and June of 2008 McGovern swapped his endorsement to Obama.

At 85 years old, he did not look much different to when he campaigned for the presidency 36 years earlier - one of the benefits of going bald early perhaps.

He was tanned, dressed in a smart blue striped business shirt, red striped tie and navy blue blazer above a faded old pair of jeans and even more faded white tennis sneakers.

By his side the whole time was his ageing Newfoundland dog named Ursa, whose eyes were milky with cataracts - she constantly bumped her large head against his hand seeking a reassuring pat - which he quietly provided while feeding her bits of his breakfast muffin.

Interview

George McGovern: You know who else had a dog like this? Bob Kennedy. He called his Brumus, it was a big dog, it was also the only Newfoundland I've even known that was kind of mean... he'd try to bite people and I've never seen one like it. I was finally over at his house one time and you know Bobby had 11 children and harassed from morning to night by all those little kids that were trying to ride him... and it spoiled his disposition.

John Barron: There have been a number of comparisons drawn between the (2008 primary) campaign of Barack Obama and your campaign of 1972 – do you look at Barack Obama and feel some empathy for him?

McGovern: I do, I like him very much. I have endorsed Hillary Clinton, partly because I've known her for 35 years - she and her husband Bill Clinton became my coordinators in the state of Texas in '72 and so I have appreciated them ever since then. I don't always agree with her stands – I certainly didn't agree with her vote giving Bush her blessings on Iraq...

I admire Barack Obama very much. I think he has the makings of another Abraham Lincoln - and not just because he comes from Springfield as Lincoln did - but because he has some of the same capacity to tap deep moral and spiritual principles and to make them politically acceptable.

I'm 85, but I'd like to live to be 100 – I didn't used to think about things like that but I do now because I want to see some of these things happen. I want to see every hungry schoolchild in the world getting a good nutritious school lunch every day under the auspices of the United Nations – these are some of the things that even as an old guy I want to see done before I say goodbye to this earth.

Barron: Can you give us a bit of an insight into the thinking of the people who put themselves forward as a candidate to become president of the United States, the most powerful political office on earth - you campaigned twice, considered it a third time...

McGovern: I consider it every four years! (Laughs)

Barron: Still?

McGovern: (Chuckling) Yeah, I hear that fire bell ringing every four years - I resist it, but I hear it!

Barron: What's the thought process, because it's a huge responsibility and it's a big job...

McGovern: I think you have to be a bit of an ego-maniac to think that out of a country of 300 million people you are the one best-qualified to be president.

Now, having said that, you need a big, healthy ego to be in public life, you've got to keep it under control, but I don't know anybody who has run for the presidency of the United States who hasn't got a rather large ego. Even the psychiatrists tell us we need an ego, a self-confidence and self-approval, and so if you didn't have that you wouldn't seriously consider running for office.

I know a number of people that have been in public life that would have made a great president but have no interest in it and I've often wondered if it was because they had too limited an ego and not enough self-confidence - that explains why they back away from that task.

Barron: In part is that because of proximity, that if you are a US senator you get to know the president and the people who run and you say "well if that guy can do it..."

McGovern: Yes, I think proximity has something to do with it ... in my own case, president Kennedy named me as Food-for-Peace director in 1961 and '62 and my office was part of the White House structure. so I would see him frequently in the course of a week.

A couple of years of that I began to think, first of all that I ought to take another run at the United States senate and then it was only a short step to think 'Well look, if John Kennedy can do this, maybe I should consider running for president'.

So I think that proximity process has something to do with it. Then there is the very practical issue that if you've had some experience as a governor or United States senator, it tends to equip you to deal with the kind of problems a president is going to have to deal with.

Barron: Do you think all people who succeed in becoming president - at least in the modern era - have something in common or are there different kinds of presidential personalities and characters?

McGovern: I think there are great differences in presidents, in their style, in their values, in their temperaments and their judgemental strengths.

John Kennedy once said that he thought his greatest qualification for the presidency was his sense of history. I would say somewhat the same about myself - I'm an old history professor and I always thought that equipped me to take the long-view of public issues.

I know presidents that I wish had more of that, more knowledge of history - including George W Bush - maybe we wouldn't have stumbled into this foolish war in Iraq if we had had a president who was more familiar with what happened to us in Vietnam. So yes, I think there are differences in presidents.

Barron: There have been reports in recent times that the quote on which that label of Acid, amnesty and abortion was taken which was from a then-unnamed senator - the columnist who wrote that said after his death that it was in fact Tom Eagleton who said that to him.

McGovern: Well that's what Bob Novak the columnist said, he said it was the first time he heard it – I don't know, I never discussed it with Tom Eagleton or any other senator. So I don't know where it came from but I do know that the Republican leader of the United States senate (Hugh Scott) got up on the floor of the senate and called me the triple-A candidate – Acid, amnesty and abortion.

In talking word-of-mouth with people he changed the word "abortion" to "ass" - amnesty, acid and ass - it was one of the crudest things that I ever heard one senator say about another on the floor. I was outraged by it, and we should have nailed those things hard, we should have had other people speaking out on it but maybe I put too much faith in the common sense of the voters - I think I have had a tendency to do that sometimes in my career.

Barron: Politics is full of sporting analogies, some even talk about it as being a game, something not to be taken too seriously - is it a game, is that how you saw it?

McGovern: I didn't, I didn't see it as a game – I saw it as a more thoughtful, well-motivated proposition than you would bring to the playing of a game. I know that players in football and elsewhere play hard and give their best but politics at its best should go beyond that, it should strike the mind, the heart, the soul of the people - it should try to lift us to a higher standard and help us to do better.

I was very serious about those objectives in '72 - perhaps I underestimated the gamesmanship on the other side - Pat Buchanan and I have talked about this in the years since '72 - we've become more or less friends - not intimate friends but I think we have a mutual respect for the other person as an individual.

And Pat's gotten more mature - maybe I have too - he's gotten more humane and I even find myself agreeing with him on a number of things including some of the major issues coming out of the Middle East, I think he's against this war in Iraq - so I give him credit for growing with the years.

Barron: How did you feel about the fact that the Nixon administration was ultimately brought down by the lengths to which they went in that dirty tricks campaign against you?

McGovern: Well I had been warning against the bad conduct of the Nixon administration, I warned against the implications of the Watergate break-in - I warned against other things I thought were illegal and improper and so I drew some satisfaction of the impeachment of president Nixon.

But let me say this to you; I don't think the things that Nixon did in 1972 were as impeachable as Bush-Cheney - I think they did more damage to America's standing in the world than what was done by the Nixon people. That is not to say that I feel Nixon should not have been impeached - I think he should have been - I am saying to you that his offenses and those of his vice-president Spiro Agnew were less damaging to the country and I think less impeachable.

Barron: You talked about the historical context through which you view a lot of things and how you would have brought that to a presidential role for yourself - what's your view on the way in which in presidential elections it seems history can turn on something - and how American might have been different at certain turning points.

McGovern: It's too bad that we lost in '72...it really is. That could have been a turning point in American history; if I had won I would have quickly taken the United States out of the war in Vietnam, I would have gone overboard to treat the veterans of that war more justly than they have been, and then I would have begun to divert the enormous resources we put in to the Vietnam War - close to a trillion dollars - to divert those resources to things like healthcare, universal healthcare for the United States, assistance for students to go on to higher education - something like the G.I. Bill which permitted me after World War II to go all the way to a PHD in history at Northwestern all at government expense - I would have advocated something like that for students.

I wanted to build a trans-continental railway system - the fastest, the cleanest, the safest, the most comfortable train system in the world. I wish we had it now that our airline system is under such strain that our airline system is almost inoperable.

Then I would have changed America's role in the world from a confrontational affair that assumed we had to intervene everyplace where some rival ideology raised its force to a more cooperative, sensible approach to the globe.

So I think that we missed a great turning point for the better in '72 – I don't say that as a boast but because we had that great army of millions of Americans, well organized and ready for change - we didn't have enough to win the election - we did have enough to fill the government with well-motivated Americans who would put us on a new course.


Source:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-22/george-mcgovern-remembered---john-barron/4326150

The likeable Presidential candidates

2012 US presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.

Campaign signs for Barack Obama

Image edit by Sharka Todd

Ron Paul's position on the Drug War

Ron Paul is a constitutionalist who wants to send US drug law making back to the states (and end the costly and crime enhancing Federal drug war which is currently being exported around the world from the USA via United Nations agreements).

This would mean that medical marijuana would be fully legal in states that currently allow it and drug raids by federal agencies on local growers and distributors in these states would end.

Sharka Todd

Matthew Ward predictions for 2012.

"Because the bulwark of Illuminati control has long been in the United States, everything of economic and political importance happening in that country has significance for the rest of your world. People in all countries are speculating what that government will do relative to Iran and North Korea, so we say that you can expect more tough rhetoric, but there will be no escalation into armed conflicts.

Also there is keen interest in what is transpiring within the Republican party, who will become the party’s candidate, who will win the presidential election, and what will happen with the country’s economy in the intervening months. By November so much will have taken place throughout the world that the current political scenario in the United States will be as insignificant as a speck of dust in a whirlwind and the economy globally will be stabilized."

Full article here.

Matthew Ward

My response to "Progressives and the Ron Paul fallacies" by Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald's article can be read here.

A well written and balanced article, congratulations.

Like many people in 2008 I was excited to see Barack Obama become President. He was my second choice for President after Dennis Kucinich. Sadly, as you mention in your essay Obama has had little positive impact on the issues that concern me the most- a peaceful and sane foreign policy, scaling back and eventually ending the drug war, protecting civil liberties, beginning proceedings to end the reign of the corrupt Federal Bank, and addressing the federal debt crisis.

Obama cares!

The surprising rise of Ron Paul- JUAN WILLIAMS

Here’s a news bulletin — it is becoming increasingly clear that we are living in a time when Republican politics are being shaped by a 75-year-old, 12-term Texas congressman with a son in the Senate. And incredibly, it is no longer out of the realm of possibility that this outcast of the GOP establishment may win the party’s presidential nomination.

If you have not been paying attention, it is time to look around and realize that we are living in the political age of Rep. Ron Paul.

A CNN/Opinion Research poll released late last week shows Paul faring the best against President Obama of any potential Republican candidate. He trails the president by only 7 points, 52-45 percent, in a head-to-head matchup. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee trails by 8 points, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney down 11 points to Obama.

Hoody ho!

Barack Obama on the campaign trail!