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PROGRESSIVE TRENDS IN US CITIES = 26 of 30 LARGEST CITIES HAVE DEMOCRATIC MAYORS

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Progressive TRENDS IN CITIES = Greatest partisan imbalance since 1817 = ONE PARTY = “just emerged organically” = cities’ changing demographics

Click for WaPo Source by Harold Meyerson April 2014

GOP = 1 Mayor of 30 LARGEST CITIES

DEMS = 26 Mayors of 30 Largest Cities = Many are Progressives

New York’s Bill de Blasio
Boston’s Martin Walsh

Minneapolis Mayor
Minneapolis’s Betsy Hodges
Pittsburgh’s Bill Peduto
Seattle’s Ed Murray.

1990s-vintage Clintonian centrism = Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel = Cling to the OLD

Platforms = Higher minimum wages + Universal preschool + energy-efficient affordable housing + Living-wage + Local hiring ordinances + Universal pre-K + Policies on police handing over undocumented immigrants to federal agents.

FACT: non-Hispanic white % of Americans dropped from 80% to 64% (1980-2010 Census) = Mostly in Cities

53% to 37% in NYC
48% to 29% in LA
53% to 26% in Houston
78% to 47% in Phoenix
68% to 47% in Boston

Millennials also flocked to urban America = Mostly liberal

New coalitions have powered Progressives into office = local unions = public + private-sector unions of janitors, hotel housekeepers, health-care workers and supermarket clerks whose members are disproportionately immigrant and black.

New coalitions = Unions + Immigrant rights groups + Organized urban poor + Affordable housing advocates + Liberal churches

Some New blue cities are nestled in deep-red states. = AZ Phoenix

FACT = 1880 to 1924 = Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe transformed the population of urban America = Went to the polls in 1928 = Elected Al Smith as NY’s Democratic governor, Catholic + supported FDR’s New Deal.

FACT = Today a similar dynamic = Voters of color and millennials to the polls in record numbers to control City Hall.

Obama’s agenda = Stymied by GOP

But City after City = Versions of MIN WAGE + LIVING WAGE + Reduced deportations + Construction of green infrastructure are underway.

Cities = Hurt on funding to make many of the changes new Democratic mayors seek + Scramble to fund universal preschool + But are incubating the future of liberalism, and the nation.

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WORLD MUST TOSS OFF THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATE COMPLEX = THROW OFF THIS OLIGARCHY AND RETURN TO BEING A DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC – COL. LAWRENCE WILKERSON

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WORLD MUST TOSS OFF THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATE COMPLEX = THROW OFF THIS OLIGARCHY AND RETURN TO BEING A DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC – COL. LAWRENCE WILKERSON

Col. Larry Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell

WILKERSON: “The hypocrisy of the US is beginning to grate on me. We just invaded a sovereign nation called Iraq. We didn’t ask anybody. We fly drones every day across international borders without asking anyone.”

Click for Interview by The Real News

ASIA PIVOT = US WORK WITH CHINA TO SETTLE TERRITORIAL DISPUTES

WILKERSON: Pursue a cooperative relationship in solving global crises rather than domination.

Obama is going to East Asia to meet with several officials in Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines. = An effort to control the influence of China in region

CHUCK HAGEL = “You (China) cannot go around the world and redefine boundaries and violate territorial integrity and sovereignty of nations by force, coercion, and intimidations, whether it’s in small islands, in the Pacific, our large nations in Europe. And nations must be clear on this and speak plainly. It takes courage from leaders.”

WILKERSON: “Chinese need to quit bullying countries like Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam. These countries have legitimate claims to properties the Chinese are very grandiloquently claiming. And these problems, these dilemmas, should be resolved in the international venues.”

US = Militarization of Asia + presence of US in and around China = Exacerbate tensions?

WILKERSON: “We (can) move an extra carrier to the Pacific, bring troops out of Afghanistan and put them, perhaps, somewhere else–Okinawa, Guam, Japan, Korea–it’s really not going to be a formidable move.”

WILKERSON: US should move to an alliances with India.

LONG RANGE CONCERN = Japan becoming a military nation with NUKES = destabilizing

WILKERSON: We should be trying to develop a great-state relationship:

1648 Peace of Westphalia = brought peace and stability to a monarchical world
1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk = Qing dynasty + Romanovs in Russia = 200 yrs peace
1940 Atlantic Charter = UK + US to defeat Nazi Germany and Japan

WILKERSON: China and US = Lead the way to meeting the environmental, the sustainability, the water, the energy–you name it, huge challenges confront.

WILKERSON: Settle China’s disputes in tribunals = Sign and ratify in Senate the UNCLOS, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea = US one of few NOT Signing. = Held up by the big US MULTINATIONALS like ExxonMobil, who want to mine the seabed floor for private profit = Not common good!

WORLD = Needs to get out of this corporate complex we’re in. = Throw off this oligarchy = Return to a Democratic Republic again.

 

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ISSA – THE FELON PRETENDING TO FIND FACTS

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UPDATE:  ISSA ALWAYS STEALS CARS THAT CONSTANTLY BACKFIRE! = IRS + BEN-GAZI (sic) + Fast & Furious ……

ISSA PROVES = ONCE A CRIMINAL = ALWAYS A CRIMINAL

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FACT = IRS Targeted Progressive Groups More Than GOP = Series of IRS DOCS

FACT = ISSA PROVED A LIAR by Freedom of Information Act = IRS DOCS

CUT THE MIC MIKE!

FACTS = Contradict claims by Issa (R-CA) + GOP + ROVE + KOCH

FACT = GOP + Tea Party applied for and GOT tax-exempt status

FACT = MORE Progressive groups + ACORN successors + Medical marijuana than GOPTP entities.

IRS provided heavily-redacted lists to ThinkProgress = TOOK ONE YEAR

FACT = Earliest lists through 2012 = Encouraged reviewers to watch out for “progressive” groups with names like “blue,” as their requests for 501(c)(3)

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lSSA, THE CONVlCTED FELON HlSTORY = OF COURSE HE IS A LlAR ON TOP OF ALL THlS!
1971- lSSA STOLE HlS FRlEND’S CAR – “I confronted Issa…I got in his face… and magically my car reappeared the next day, abandoned on the turnpike.”
1972 – lSSA & his BROTHER STOLE A RED MASARATl from A CAR DEALER – OHlO POLlCE ARRESTED THEM BUT EVENTUALLY A JUDGE DlSMlSSED THE CRlMlNALS
1972 lSSA arrested for a CONCEALED WEAPON FELONY!
1982 lSSA did ARSON to HlS OWN FACTORY after did a 462% increase of the lNSURANCE.  9O% OF CLAlM WAS TOSSED OUT — Ryan Lizza, New YORKER 2O11
lSSA = GOP PROPAGATED GWB FAKED WMD WAR lN lRAQ – ZERO REMORE!
lSSA = 69 DEATHS at 13 US EMBASSlES UNDER GWB = lSSA SlLENT
lSSA = SlLENT ON 8,1OO+ TROOPS KlLLED UNDER BUSH IN FAKED WMD WAR!lSSA = SlLENT ON GOP-BUSH BANKSTER CRASH CAUSED BY FRAUD AND GWB DEREGULATlON with MlLLlONS OF JOBS LOST AND 5O% OF RETlREME’NTS = 77O,OOO+ WHlTE-COLLAR CRlMlNALS STlLL RUN FREE!lSSA = CONVlCTED FELON = FAKlNG MORE FAKED CRlSES = ZERO FACTS AND ZERO TO BELlEVE!GOP = THE CRlMlNAL PARTY WITH NO EFFORT TO DELlVER ON LONG-PROMlSED “JOBS JOBS JOBS” = GOAL DESTROY THE MlDDLE CLASS FOR SLAVE LABOR lN AMERICA!
IRONlC lSSA = CONVlCTED CRlMlNAL WHO CANNOT VOTE IN MANY STATES MAKlNG US GOVERNMENT DEClSlONS!
lSSA = CONVlCTED FELON + AUTO THEFT + ARSONlST = SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN ELECTED IN THE FlRST PLACE!
A CRlMlNAL LlKE lSSA RUNNlNG A GOP COMMlTTEE IS THE MOST CRlMlNAL THlNG I CAN THlNK OF!
lSSA = A CANCER ON HUMANlTY = LIKE NORM COLEMAN (R) = RlCK SCOTT (R-FL)
GOP = THE CRlMlNAL PARTY = lSSA = THE PARTY OF LlES AND HYPE!
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM A CONVlCTED FELON FOR GUNS + CAR THEFT + AND ARSON?
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM A PERSON lNVESTlGATED FOR 462% lNCREASE lN FlRE lNSURANCE (REMOVE COMPUTERS) JUST BEFORE A FlRE WITH “SUSPlCOlUS BURN PATTERNS” STARTED IN TWO PLACES AlDED BY GASOLlNE THAT ENDED A BUlLDlNG AND lNVENTORY? lNSURANCE REFUSED TO PAY 9O% OF CLAlM.
GOP = THE CRlMlNAL PARTY = lSSA + OTHER CRlMlNALS ON BOARD SERVlNG BlGGER CRlMlNALS WlTH MASSlVE KlCKBACKS!
WHO WOULD BELlEVE ONE WORD OUT OF THlS CONVlCTED lSSA CRlMlNAL?
GOP = MUCH LlKE RlCK SCOTT (R-FL) = LARGEST FRAUD IN HUMAN HlSTORY!
lSSA = CONVlCTED FELON GUNS = HE CAN’T EVEN VOTE IN MANY STATES!
lSSA = YET GET THlS HE RUNS THE GOP COMMlTTEE ON OVERSlGHT & REFORM
lSSA = KNOWN CAR THlEF
lSSA = KNOWN ARSONlST
lSSA GOAL = GOP GOAL = WHlTE-COLLAR CRlMES GO UNPROSECUTED!
GOP = A LAUGHlNG STOCK!GOP = MOST H8TED BRlBED CONSERVATlVE LYlNG HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SINCE 1775!
lSSA = A CANCER ON HUMANlTY = NORM COLEMAN
GOP = LlARS, FORGED DOCS, AND WORSE = Mc CAlN = NORM COLEMAN = VlPER
lSSA = LYlNG AND PERHAPS TREASONOUS LYlNG FRAUDS!
Here is a VlDEO OF A SCOTSMAN TAKlNG DOWN THE LlAR NORM COLMAN FOR HlS OUTRAGEOUS LlES AND HYPE!
GOOGLE for VlDEO: v=OR_EOTLm5As
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM lSSA = A CONVlCTED FELON FOR GUNS + CAR THEFT + AND ARSON?
lSSA finally promised to investigate FRAUDCLOSURES on MlLlTARY FAMlLlES, BUT lNSTEAD HIS CRlMlNAL BEHAVlOR WENT BACK TO CHASlNG FANNlE MAE AND DROPPED Helping THE TROOPS AGAlNST THE CRlMlNALS
lSSA = CONVlCTED FELON CREATES HEARlNGS FULL OF ATTACKS = THAT FAVOR lSSA’S FAVORlTE lNDUSTRlES FOR BlG FUTURE BRlBES FOR HlMSELF AND GOP!
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM lSSA? = ARSONlST + FELON lSSA = OPPOSES PLAYlNG FAVORlTES BUT lSSA transparently PLAYS FAVORlTES USlNG GOP AGENDA = ONE SlDED HEARlNGS TO lNCREASE GOP BRlBES AND PERSONAL BEN’EFlTS FROM HIS WORK lN CONGRESS.
lSSA = HAS ZERO CONCERN ABOUT HlS FRlEND MURDOCH, THE UK PHONE AND EMAlL HACKER CRlMlNAL, TOSSED OUT ON HlS EAR!
lSSA = WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM A FELON?
lSSA = PARTlSAN WlTCH-HUNTS = ZERO CREDlBlLlTY
lSSA = THRlVES ON CONFLICTS OF lNTEREST = APPEARANCE OF lMPROPRlETY lSSA’S = OFFlClAL ETHlCS COMPLAlNT = lSSA RAlLED AGAlNST GREEN WHlLE SEEKlNG A DOE LOAN for a major GOP BRlBER.
lSSA = WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM A CONVlCED FELON?
lSSA = CONTlNUED TO PROTECT HlS PHONE AND EMAlL HACKER FRlEND, RUPERT MURDOCH BY REFUSlNG TO lNVESTlGATE THE NEWSCORP SCANDAL DESPlTE CALLS FROM COLLEAGUES!
lSSA = VlOLATED a FED JU’DGE’s ORDER TO RELEASE SEALED lNFORMATlON
lSSA, THE CONVlCTED FELON HlSTORY = OF COURSE HE IS A LlAR ON TOP OF ALL THlS!
1971- lSSA ARMY STOLE HlS FRlEND’S CAR – “I confronted Issa…I got in his face… and magically my car reappeared the next day, abandoned on the turnpike.”
1972 – lSSA & his BROTHER STOLE A RED MASARATl from A CAR DEALER – OHlO POLlCE ARRESTED THEM BUT EVENTUALLY A JUDGE DlSMlSSED THE CRlMlNALS
1972 lSSA arrested for a CONCEALED WEAPON FELONY!
1982 lSSA did ARSON to HlS OWN FACTORY = After 462% increase of the lNSURANCE. 9O% OF CLAlM WAS TOSSED OUT — Ryan Lizza, New YORKER
2O11 lSSA = GOP PROPAGATED GWB FAKED WMD WAR lN lRAQ – ZERO REMORE!
lSSA = 69 DEATHS at 13 US EMBASSlES UNDER GWB = lSSA SlLENT
lSSA = SlLENT ON 8,17O+ TROOPS KlLLED UNDER BUSH IN FAKED WARS!
lSSA = SlLENT ON GOP-BUSH BANKSTER CRASH CAUSED BY FRAUD AND GWB DEREGULATlON with MlLLlONS OF JOBS LOST AND 5O% OF RETlREMENTS = 77O,OOO+ WHlTE-COLLAR CRlMlNALS STlLL RUN FREE!
lSSA = CONVlCTED FELON = FAKlNG MORE FAKED CRlSES = ZERO TO BELlEVE!
GOP = THE CRlMlNAL PARTY WITH NO EFFORT TO DELlVER ON LONG-PROMlSED “JOBS JOBS JOBS” = GOAL DESTROY THE MlDDLE CLASS FOR SLAVE LABOR lN AMERICA!
ETHlCS COMPLAlNT FlLED ON lSSA = TIME TO HOLD ISSA ACCOUNTABLE
lSSA = THE FELON = BATTLES THE EPA THAT IS TRYlNG TO KEEP THE PLANET ALlVE
lSSA = WANTS TO KlLL THE EPA standards FOR CLEAN AlR AND WATER THAT MAKES SO CAL LlVABLE!
lSSA = FORCED THE DELAY OF NEW GREENHOUSE STANDARDS!
lSSA = NATURALLY IS VEHEMENTLLY OPPOSED TO ANY REGULATlON OF BUSlNESS CRlMES = LET CRlMlNALS LlKE lSSA RUN WlLD!
lSSA = WlLLlNGLY TAKES THE HEAT FOR NOT lNVESTIGATlNG NEWSCORP-GATE – MURDOCH’S PHONE AND EMAlL FRAUD THAT DROVE HlM OUT OF THE UK!
MUST BE BlG REWARDS FOR THAT ONE!
lSSA THE FELON = LlKES TO FlRE PEOPLE LlKE ROMONEY = Kurt BardeIIa for a breach of trust – then rehired 9O DAYS LATER
lSSA = EVEN NOW IS lNVENTlNG NEW DlSTRACTlONS FROM HlS CRlMlNAL FRlENDS AND BRlBERS USlNG lNCREDlBLE MADE-UP CONSPlRACY THEORlES
lSSA = RUNS A WHlTE-COLLAR CRlMlNAL PROTECTlON RA’CKET FOR RlCH CRlMlNALS!
BUT lSSA AREN’T THESE LlES SOMETHlNG TO MAKE YOUR CRlMlNAL BASE FEEL GOOD?
BUT KA’RL: “Is this just MATH you do as a Republican to make you FEEL BETTER.”
— MEG’AN KEL’LY (R) to ROVE on FOX
ISSA’S REQUESTED DOE LOAN WOULD HAVE BENEFITED MAJOR GOP DONOR
Darrell Issa used to be a big fan of the Department of Energy’s clean energy loan program, promoting several California companies for consideration by the DoE’s program.
One of the companies, Aptera Motors, has spent the last few years bouncing around Northern San Diego, seeking different funding models before announcing several months ago that it wouldn’t be expanding in the region, instead looking to the Midwest and South for possible expansion options.
I WANT TO SEE lSSA’S LONG FORM ARREST AND COURT REPORTS!
WHO WOULD BELlEVE ONE WORD OUT OF THlS CONVlCTED lSSA CRlMlNAL?
GOP = MUCH LlKE RlCK SCOTT (R-FL) = LARGEST FRAUD IN HUMAN HlSTORY!
lSSA = CONVlCTED FELON GUN’S = HE CAN’T EVEN VOTE IN MANY STATES
lSSA = YET GET THlS HE RUNS THE GOP COMMlTTEE ON OVERSlGHT & REFORM
lSSA = KNOWN CAR THlEF
lSSA = KNOWN ARSONlST
lSSA GOAL = GOP GOAL = WHlTE-COLLAR CRlMES GO UNPROSECUTED!
GOP = A LAUGHlNG STOCK!
GOP = MOST H8TED (95+%) BRlBED HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SINCE 1775!