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HUMANITARIAN PARTY TO NULLIFY THE “LEAST WORSE CHOICE” = CORPORATE 2 PARTY SYSTEM = AMERICANS NEED A REAL QUALITY HUMANITARIAN-ORIENTED ALTERNATIVE

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HUMANITARIAN PARTY TO NULLIFY THE “LEAST WORSE CHOICE” = CORPORATE 2 PARTY SYSTEM = AMERICANS NEED A REAL QUALITY HUMANITARIAN-ORIENTED ALTERNATIVE

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Corporate 2 Party System = Americans Must Challenge the Corporate Control with a Alternative Party for Humanitarian Reasons.

HUMANITARIAN SOLUTIONS PARTY GOAL = GROW THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS TO INCLUDE MOST AMERICANS AND END POVERTY AND HOPELESSNESS BY PURSING ONLY HUMANITARIAN SOLUTIONS INCLUDING PEACE AND SOLVING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH HUMAN AND PLANET FRIENDLY ENERGY.

Obama = 2 Terms of Corporate MAINTENANCE supporting Wall Street-AIPAC and MIC-WARS = No Transformation of America as PROMISED!

Corporate 2 Party System = Poverty and long-term unemployment still ravage the lives of tens of millions.

How should progressive workers and young people approach the elections in 2-Party Corporate System?

Corporate 2 Party System = Decades of pain inflicted on working-class people and the poor

Occupy Wall Street = Found a new social movement against the ruling elitists = Shut out by the corporate media and Homeland Organized Police State Violence.

The liberal establishment = Corporate Democrats = VOTE FOR THE LEAST DAMAGING CONCEPT = THE OTHER CORPORATE PARTY! = PROGRESSIVE LIE!

Corporate 2 Party System = State of unprecedented crisis = Exposed for their blatant pandering to the corporate elite, the 1%.  Democrats moves so far right THE REPUBLICANS HAD TO BECOME INSANE!

Corporate 2 Party System = A legacy of Faked Wars = 100% SENATE SUPPORT FOR MURDER IN PALESTINE!

Corporate 2 Party System = Failures created a mood of anger = Issue after issue has piled up to the point that young people and working people see politicians catering to the corporate interests that BRIBE AND OWN CONGRESS AND EXECUTIVE AND COURTS!

Pew Research poll = 77% said too much power in few Super-Rich/Corporations

Pew Research poll = 61% of Americans say USA economic system unfairly favors the wealthy.

Pew Research poll = 67% think most members of Congress should be replaced

FACT:  AMERICANS faced with same old choice of 2 CORPORATE candidates BRIBED BY SUPER-RICH AND THEIR CORPORATIONS

O.OOO13% VERSUS 99.99987% = Popularizing Huge Divide

WALL STREET + MULTINATIONAL $BILLIONAIRES + AIPAC VERSUS 311,OOO,OOO on Main Street

WHAT is BEST way to build the continuing movement against Corporate America and 425 BILLIONAIRES?

How do we mobilize the 99.99987% to address the real problems facing young people and workers and start to win concrete victories?

Socialist Alternative = Notably supports the Occupy Homes campaign in Minneapolis and building a powerful mass movement among the public and developing a growing pool of experienced and educated activists who can sustain an ongoing movement. = $15/Hour success in Seattle by KSHAMA SAWANT and others

Socialist Alternative = We must expand this powerful social and political fighting mass movements to force elitist O.OOO13% Capitalist class to give concessions.

Activists like Kshama Sawant have successfully run for OFFICE against
Corporate 2 Party System = Democrat and GOP

FACT: Democrats push a pro-corporate agenda arguing they are the LESSER OF 2 EVILS!  But Corporations always win with the Corporate 2 Party System.

Democrats pro-corporate agenda = As bad as GOP but talk a “BETTER GAME” to the 99.99987% to sound like the “LEAST WORSE CHOICE.”

HUMANITARIAN SOLUTIONS PARTY = The real left and labor and women and all races and community organizations need a REAL PARTY for Humanitarian Solutions.

HUMANITARIAN SOLUTIONS PARTY = To break through the MSM blackout of everything but the 2 Corporate Parties + Allow in Election Debates

HUMANITARIAN SOLUTIONS PARTY = An great alternative to the exposed undemocratic “LEAST WORSE” 2 Corporate Party System that serves 100s of millions of MAIN STREET Americans with NO VOICE in Corporate Politics.

FAKE LEFT = Call for Americans to support big business to defeat the right = SELL OUT to OLIGOPOLY

HUMANITARIAN SOLUTIONS PARTY = Alternative for Americans who feel a boycott of the elections is their only choice.

HUMANITARIAN SOLUTIONS PARTY = Agrees we must stop the unethical RIGHT but Democrats are NOT that solution as they part of the corporate-owned and corporate-dominated two-party system.

HUMANITARIAN SOLUTIONS PARTY = It is understandable that many Americans want to abstain from the whole political system. Unfortunately, this allows corporate interests and the O.OOO13% to dominate and further their aims. = Democrats have shredded social programs in Washington state.

HUMANITARIAN SOLUTIONS PARTY = Dynamic approach of combining mass struggles of Humanitarian Left working-class with candidates whose goals include truly break the power of Wall Street and the O.OOO13% to abolishing Crony-Capitalist System and replacing it with a new society built on genuine democratic control over the economy and society as a whole.

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S RECORD

Americans are sad and angry at themselves at believing and funding Obama and his PROMISES.  Most kept (40%) on believing even now — despite Obama throwing one pledge after another out the window.

OBAMA PROMISES = 2008 Campaign promised to attack special interests and abuses of corporate power. He promised a new era of progressive actions.

OBAMA SHIFT = After election Obama quickly shifted to the right, failing to deliver on its promises and despite a Popular Mandate and Complete Democratic Control of BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS to make changes. = Obama disappointed millions of Americans by failing to enact any fundamental progressive changes.

OBAMA SHIFT = Once in power Obama surrounded himself with Wall Street executives and conservative foreign policy advisors. While many supporters temporary looked the other way as he enacted a further bailout of Wall Street to deal with the economic mess left by the Bush Administration, some were shocked by the corporate character of his administration, which wasted its political capital on projects that benefited Corporate America more than the average person.

OBAMA SHIFT = His Cabinet and Advisors = 70+ were WALL STREET Clinton Sympathizers as Matt Taibbi wrote in Rolling Stone: “Obama had a clear mandate to rein in Wall Street and remake the entire structure of the American economy. What he did instead was ship even his most marginally progressive campaign advisers off to various bureaucratic Siberias while packing the key economic positions in his White House with the very people who caused the crisis in the first place. This new team of bubble-fattened ex-bankers and laissez-faire intellectuals then proceeded to sell us all out, instituting a massive, trickle-up bailout and systematically gutting regulatory reform from the inside.” = Key positions of authority for economic policy to leading figures of big business. + Appointees to his 17-member economic advisory board included billionaire Buffet + CEOs + Senior executives of Google, Hyatt Hotels, Time Warner, Xerox, JPM, TIAA-CREF + Lawrence Summers and Robert Rubin, neo-liberal offensive in Clinton +Volker (R).

OBAMA SHIFT = Most startlingly, the Economic Team did not contain a single representative from labor unions, which gave $100s of Millions to Obama DEMS

OBAMA SHIFT = Economic Team did not contain a single representative from any social movement organizations.

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ISRAELI WAR = ISRAELI ECONOMIC CRISIS = 50 DAYS OF MASS MURDER IS EXPENSIVE AND HURTS ISRAELIS FUTURES + BDS MOVEMENT GROWS = BOYCOTT + DIVESTMENT + SANCTIONS SUPPORT GROWS

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ISRAELI WAR = ISRAELI ECONOMIC CRISIS = 50 DAYS OF MASS MURDER IS EXPENSIVE AND HURTS ISRAELIS FUTURES + BDS MOVEMENT GROWS = BOYCOTT + DIVESTMENT + SANCTIONS SUPPORT GROWS

Click for Israeli Author’s view of Israeli Economy after the MASS MURDER on The Real News Network

Israel Facing Major Economic Consequences for 50 Day War on Gaza interview of Shir Hever on The Real News by Charming Peries Sept 15, 2014

Political Economist Shir Hever of the Alternative Information Center says the latest conflict with Gaza began after a crisis emerged in Israel over the defense budget.

Shir Hever is an Israeli citizen and economic researcher for Alternative Information Center, a Palestinian-Israeli organization. His first book: Political Economy of Israel’s Occupation: Repression Beyond Exploitation, was published by Pluto Press:

SHARMINI PERIES, EXEC. PRODUCER, TRNN: The 50 day war on PALESTINIANS in Gaza cost Israeli tremendously. Shir, shed some light on what’s going on in terms of the debates within Israel about the cost of this war.

SHIR HEVER, ECONOMIST, ALTERNATIVE INFORMATION CENTER: Israel is in a crisis of standard of living = Accumulated over many years = MANY Israelis are protesting vigorously against the drop in income (stagnating economy) while the cost of living is going up sharply.

HEVER: Big political parties in the government have made promises to try to improve the situation. Amazingly, the public debate in Israel seems to have forgotten this debate because of the MURDERS OF PALESTINIANS.

HEVER: The poor Standard of living debate was a very heated argument between the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Defense about cutting the defense budget.

FACT = Israel spends the HIGHEST PERCENTAGE on defense of All Developed Countries in the World.

HEVER: This heavy DEFENSE burden hits hard on the population. Attempts to cut down the cost of the military always has the army threaten they’re not able to provide Israelis with enough security. Basically scaring the public about various menaces. When it BECAME CLEAR the Ministry of Finance CUTS TO THE MILITARY was going to win = THEN the BOMBING in PALESTINE BEGAN first with operation Brother’s Keeper in the West Bank.

HEVER: BUT Netanyahu wanted to blame Hamas for this escalation. So he diverted the aggression towards Gaza BEGINNING THIS 50 day MURDER OF 2,2OO+ PALESTINIANS = “Protective Edge.” And that ENDED all of the COST OF LIVING debate = Forgotten. Everybody forgets this was all started by the Ministry of Defense to protect THE MILITARY BUDGET. So now the CUTS to the Military are COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN.

PERIES: Is this an opportunity for Israel to get more USA foreign aid?

HEVER: Israel put pressure on USA to give them $100s OF MILLIONS more money for the Iron Dome system. = 100% SUPPORT FROM THE COMPLETELY BRIBED AND INTIMIDATED USA SENATE AND USA kept PROVIDING ammunition to shell civilian neighborhoods.

HEVER: NOW the opposite has happened, because the USA has become concerned ABOUT THE MURDER AND VIOLENCE. BUT USA is very interested in selling its weaponry to Israel to keep the status quo to maintain its hegemony in the region.

HEVER: Israel is spending to much money on too much violence and getting too much international criticism over its actions = Then USA becomes concerned. Obama disallowed a shipment of antitank missiles to the Israeli army, but Hamas has NO tanks so Israel uses those to LEVEL residential buildings, Schools, and Hospitals. So Obama stopped the shipment of these expensive missiles and the Israeli army panic that USA will restrict the kinds of weaponry it’s willing to sell to the Israeli army.

PERIES: What does this WAR do in terms of the Israeli economy and what people are experiencing?

HEVER: Israeli government believes Gaza is a soft target they can just bombard, mow the lawn every couple of years, and also experiment with new Israeli weapons. This has happened the last four attacks of Israel against Gaza. This time, Hamas did not just take it lying down, and fought back, against overwhelming odds, and refused to accept Israeli terms for a ceasefire.

HEVER: Israel demanded a surrender, but Hamas wouldn’t take that option resulting in a 50 day war. = Something the Israeli Government and economy was not prepared for. It affected every aspect of the Israeli economy = Massive economic damage to the areas surrounding the Gaza Strip, where people were afraid to go to the factories, so the factories stopped working. Farms have stopped working as well and produce was not harvested. And there has been a slowdown in the shopping habits of Israelis. There’s been fewer cars being bought, fewer houses being bought. Tourism has taken a very serious hit of 25%. And for 50 days of slowdown of the economy, that has very long term impact on the Israeli economy.

HEVER: In addition the impact of the international boycott movement against Israel = Boycott, divestment, and sanctions = Each time Israel uses so much violence, more and more people joined this movement. = Very large successes for that movement to make the Israeli economy accountable for the crimes committed by the Israeli government and the Israeli army.

HEVER: Add in the cost of the defense budget + Government is trying to meet over 3,000 demands for compensations from Israeli businesses and farms for damage inflicted during the war. But Gov announced a widespread cut that is planned for all of the ministries–health, education, transportation, everything–in order to finance a massive increase in the Ministry of Defense. And that shows that this war has really been unsustainable for the Israeli economy.

PERIES: How are they financing this war?

HEVER: They don’t have a source to finance this war. Borrowing to finance the war would increase Israel’s budget deficit to a level where the Israeli credit rating by international credit rating agency, is certainly going to drop. And that’s something the Israeli government is very worried about, because, of course, if you increase your debt and at the same time your credit rating drops, you’re going to pay a very high interest rate on the debt that you’ve accumulated. And that’s going to mean that a larger part of the Israeli budget is actually going just to pay the interest and to service the debt rather than to provide those services, the public services that are so direly needed.

HEVER: This debt and credit rating issue is very well understood by the general public. And because of that, many Israelis are leaving right after the end of a ceasefire. A poll among young Israelis shows 33% responded that if they have the chance, they would rather leave Israel.

PERIES: Shir, I guess the entire international community is wondering whether the divestment campaign has had any real impact in the Israeli economy. Has it?

HEVER: Every time Israel kills innocent civilians, this motivates a lot of people around the world to join the BDS movement, boycott, divestment, sanctions. Every Israeli knows that BDS is one of the prices the Israeli economy has to pay for their attacks. During this Murderous Operation Protective Edge, there’s been more people joining the BDS movement and more campaigns of the BDS that have been successful than ever before. We’ve seen even cargo ships of the Israeli shipping company, Zim, which were prevented from docking in several ports in North America. And this is something that is very concerning for Israeli companies.

PERIES: Shir, can you give us some specific examples of how the BDS campaign is having effect on the Israeli economy on the ground, in terms of real, everyday life?

HEVER: Most Israeli citizens have a pension plan or an insurance plan, monthly payment from their salary. These are placed with large institutional investors who invest a very large proportion of their money into these massive Israeli corporations that dominate and monopolize the Israeli economy.

HEVER: These same corporations are targeted very effectively by the BDS movement. Some of these corporations or the ownership of these corporations, being so concerned about the BDS movement and the fact that there’s so much criticism, are trying to move their investments outside of Israel and abroad, and they’re doing that very fast. Some have made their shift of investment outside of Israel so fast that they made very bad investment decisions and got almost to the verge of bankruptcy. And that means that every Israeli citizen who’s invested into these corporations through their pension fund or through their insurance scheme suddenly lose money.

HEVER: Israelis and Israeli newspapers, economic newspapers, don’t really like to talk about this. They say it has nothing to do with the War. It’s because of the international financial crisis. But the truth is those companies that are hurt by the BDS movement, holding them accountable for their support of the Israeli government and its crimes, are also the same companies that have the biggest losses.

PERIES: Does the Israeli state have anything to gain financially from reconstructing and redevelopment of Gaza?

HEVER: The biggest voice is Military inside Israel calling on the Israeli government to allow reconstruction of Gaza, to allow the entry of construction materials and so on, so that some of the damage can be eased. This is very surprising, as they are the same people who called for use of maximum force and violence in Gaza, against civilians, half of which are children. Now they’re saying we have to be generous, we have to help them rebuild, we have to help restore them. And the reason is exactly that the defense industry in Israel understands that they need this enemy that they can attack again and again.

HEVER: If the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is allowed to unfold and expand, the whole political situation for Israel falls apart with no New attacks. = A BIG Problem for the Israeli military elitists. Israeli military-industrial complex needs enemies, and they tried to use Iran as an enemy. But Iran can defend itself, and because the international political situation doesn’t allow Israel to just willy-nilly attack Iran without provocation.

HEVER: They tried to make Lebanon their enemy and attack Lebanon, but the Hezbollah in Lebanon are actually able to defend Lebanon quite effectively, and in the war of 2006 they delivered a painful humiliation to the Israeli army, which was, again, a war that cost Israel more than the Israeli society and government were willing to absorb.

HEVER: So Gaza remains the perfect soft target to justify the military’s budget and existence. = Gaza is the target that can just attack again and again every two years or so in order to test their weapons and then sell these weapons for profits.

HEVER: I’m not so sure this can continue, because Hamas said there is no sacrifice they’re not willing to make in order to make this difficult for Israel, and they were willing to keep on fighting for 50 days, which is something that nobody expected. And so I think that the profits of these Israeli military-industrial companies are now at risk.

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INVERTED TOTALITARIANISM = MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS KEEP 99% IN PERSISTENT STATE OF POLITICAL APATHY

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DEFINE INVERTED TOTALITARIANISM = MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS KEEP 99% IN PERSISTENT STATE OF POLITICAL APATHY

DEFINE: Inverted Totalitarianism = Term coined by political philosopher Sheldon Wolin in 2003 to describe US GOVERNMENT = illiberal democracy = A system where corporations have corrupted and subverted democracy and where PROFITS and BRIBERY trumps politics. = Every natural resource and every living being is commodified and exploited as the citizenry are lulled and manipulated into surrendering their liberties and their participation in government through excess consumerism and sensationalism until collapse

Click for Definition of Inverted Totalitarianism

TOTALITARIAN MANIPULATION HUXLEY

Wolin = Illustrate similarities and differences between the US governmental system and totalitarian regimes of 1930s Germany and Stalinist Soviet Union. =

Wolin = Totalitarianism of Nazism and Fascism consolidated power by suppressing liberal political practices that had weak shallow cultural roots.

Wolin = USA has become increasingly totalitarian as a result of the military mobilization to address THE SO-CALLED AXIS OF POWERS in the 1940s, and during the Cold War to become a “Superpower” driving towards totality, but cleverly uses the words of liberalism and democracy but doing the opposite. = NEOLIBERALISM

Inverted Totalitarianism = Nazism turned upside-down = Driven by an ideology of the cost-effective PROFITS rather than of a “master race” = The material rather than the “ideal.” But for public relations reasons uses CLEVER WORDING of Liberalism and Democracy!

3 ways Inverted Totalitarianism inverts classical totalitarianism = Multinational Corporations, instead of the STATE, through political contributions and lobbying, dominate the USA + Uses Bribed GOV as the servant to MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS (considered “normal” rather than corrupt) + Multinational Corporations keep the 99% in a persistent state of political apathy rather than Germany’s constant political mobilization of the population. = ONLY type of political activity expected or desired from the citizenry is voting with very low turnouts. = THE LARGE MAJORITY has given up hope that the GOV represents them.