{"id":15370,"date":"2016-05-19T17:42:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T00:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15370"},"modified":"2016-05-19T17:42:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T00:42:30","slug":"no-slate-of-candidates-no-one-to-shock-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/05\/19\/no-slate-of-candidates-no-one-to-shock-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"No slate of candidates? No one to shock Texas?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ITEM NUMBER ONE:
\nThe Schiller Institute gets into places at the old annual Left Forum<\/a>…\u00c2\u00a0 moderating a discussion on Greece, it’s Helga Zepp<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 And then they’ll be Deconstructing the Subhumanization and Dehumanization of Global Society<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Interestingly enough, the Larouchies are nowhere to be seen in the conferences dealing with the issue of abortion<\/a>, art<\/a>, or the environment<\/a>…<\/p>\n

which they offer different opinions on.<\/a>..<\/p>\n

Lyndon LaRouche really. Is that the best you can do? LOL<\/em>
\n Why not just David Koch for better propaganda?<\/em><\/div>\n
LaRouchie!<\/em>
\nhAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH<\/em>
\nJoke’s on you.\u00c2\u00a0 Best<\/em><\/div>\n

Helga Zepp also seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Where’s (former member) Webster Tarpley?\u00c2\u00a0 Telemundo<\/a>, apparently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

ITEM NUMBER TWO:\u00c2\u00a0 If I read this email message right<\/a>… Larouche is in a sort of “legacy” stage of operation, trying to figure out how to fling his name forward.<\/p>\n

This is a man who has profoundly changed the history of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries,\u00e2\u20ac\u201d with completely deliberate intention, but by using nothing but his own highly-controversial methods. He has changed the history of these decades using his mind alone, without weapons or budgets. Or whatever weapons or budgets he may have had at any time, he obtained using his unique methods, while he was “understood by very few, and supported by no one,” to quote Einstein on Johannes Kepler.<\/em>
\nHow is this possible? Common sense and practicality reject it completely,\u00e2\u20ac\u201d yet it has happened. Not only that, but it is happening now. And not only that, but it was visibly happening on May 10,\u00e2\u20ac\u201d for those who were able to see it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tend to the cult, I suppose.\u00c2\u00a0 And try to bring the legacy forward.<\/p>\n

Liberal Media Bashing:\u00c2\u00a0 To cover the<\/a> Washington Report on Middle East Affairs conference without understanding the publication or the record of its speakers would be akin to covering an Executive Intelligence Review conference on economics without realizing its ties to conspiracy theorist and felon Lyndon LaRouche, or covering a American Renaissance conference on the Black Lives Matter movement without realizing that that publication was dedicated to white supremacism.<\/em><\/p>\n

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ITEM NUMBER THREE:
\nHm<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 “World on Brink of Existential Crisis”.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>Or.\u00c2\u00a0 Wait.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean,\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 US, Russia On The Brink Of Thermonuclear War<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 (Though, I’m pleased to see the photograph of Putin and Obama at the table there, talking it out, presumably.)<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>Putin not strong enough to hold it on, even though…
\nMr. LaRouche has repeatedly identified Putin as one of the most brilliant leaders in the modern time as best exemplified by […]
\n<\/em>So we are now at an existential crisis, nothing short of removing Obama for his crimes which include this crime of deploying these unnecessary missile systems
\n<\/em>Well.\u00c2\u00a0 Putin will outlast Obama in office.\u00c2\u00a0 Which begs the question:\u00c2\u00a0 assuming that Obama’s continued presence in the White House threatens our existence — can we not wait until January?<\/p>\n

So this is the last dinosaur in his last desperate ploy trying to provoke a war which would mean the end of civilization. There would be no winner in such a war and it is our duty here in the United States under Mr. and Mrs. LaRouche\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leadership to galvanize the US support for the BRICS nations…<\/em><\/p>\n

Hmm… The LaRouche Political Action Committee issued its pamphlet, “The United States Joins the New Silk Road. A Hamiltonian Vision for An Economic Renaissance,” precisely as a call to arms in the war to end this literally suicidal submission to that British system.
\n<\/em>Symbolic victory.\u00c2\u00a0 Hamilton had been slated to be nixed from our currency. Seems to have been saved due to popular culture, ie: a Broadway Play with a positive portrayal of Hamilton.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, Jackson was nixed.\u00c2\u00a0 Do I see the Larouchies celebrating this, or building off of it to promote the Hamiltonian Vision?\u00c2\u00a0 No.\u00c2\u00a0 Opportunity wasted, I suppose.
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David Cherry<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 In support of Zuma.\u00c2\u00a0 And on Sputnik TV<\/a>… TPP Deal and their take on the Panama Papers.<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 (Surely we have Cameron tagged, and by extension the British Royal Family… and nobody in Russia.)<\/p>\n

ITEM NUMBER FOUR:
\nHar de har har<\/a>.
\nAre you getting the vague sense this wasn’t a Republican presidential primary campaign at all? It was the hapless Shemp Howard of Texas taking on the paranoid, fear-mongering Lyndon LaRouche of the Big Apple to become the Court Jester-in-Chief.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow brings more attention to Larouche on national television than the man has received in 30 years… largely by re-running a newsclip from 30 years ago<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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So, sandwiched between Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan (who Maddow has an interesting relationship with — claims the very clip she shows from the 1992 is what brought her into political activism and today is a co-worker) … it is \u00c2\u00a0 at the 7:30 minute mark, as she segues from Ross Perot to Lyndon Larouche<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 “If Abe Lincoln were alive today, he’d probably be voting for me.”\u00c2\u00a0 Goes on to 12:20 or so.<\/div>\n
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Into the comments<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Partisan wrangling and things…<\/div>\n
RM is correct comparing Trump to LaRouche, both have cult like followings. The only diffence is that some of LaRouche followers were educated and once well meaning leftists who got sucked in by a very cleaver but demented maniac and also the time they were living, the late 1960s and 1970s. Trump and his followers can never be accused of being educated, cleaver, nor well meaning, and he has once and for all transformed the GOTP into a bona fide demented cult.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>Cleaver?
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Larouche went to prison for credit card fraud (one of mine included). Trump has taken investors’ money and has walked away from bankrupt business ventures while his investors took the loss. Trump knows how to take investors’ money and stay out of jail. So far.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Trumpet isn’t just like Larouche, additionally add in that he’s a jumbled-up combination of Nixon, George Wallace, Bernie Maddow, P.T. Barnum, Pat Buchanan, and Mussolini.<\/em><\/div>\n
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at least Lyndon LaRouche has alliteration going for him, trump’s got nothing<\/a>.
\nDonald Drumph.<\/div>\n
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So…<\/em> Trump is doing good<\/a> for Larouche’s name spotting<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 but Americans need to realize that we’re entering uncharted territory. We’ve had our share of demagogues and would-be despots through the years – Huey “the Kingfish” Long, George Wallace and Lyndon LaRouche among them – but never before has one of them captured the nomination of a major party<\/em>.<\/div>\n
It is worth noting<\/a>… (echoed by the photo illustration here<\/a>)<\/div>\n
In 1980, the Democratic Party was targeted for a hostile takeover by the political cult of Lyndon LaRouche, a mysterious but well-funded eccentric who seemingly materialized out of nowhere as a presidential candidate. When the votes were tallied, LaRouche was barely a footnote in that election, which blew out unpopular incumbent Jimmy Carter and ushered in the Reagan revolution. But LaRouche did not fade away. In fact, he’d been doing what Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have not: pursuing a strategy not only to lay the groundwork for his own candidacy, but to build a movement that would advance his programs on a permanent, ongoing basis.<\/em><\/div>\n
In theory that’s what Sanders is now apt to be doing, though of course… he won more votes and can’t figure to be a “footnote”.<\/div>\n
Larouche’s presidential elections are the ultimate footnotes<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 [See?\u00c2\u00a0 300 people keep voting for him in Democratic primaries in Virgo County, Florida!)\u00c2\u00a0 Rounding errors.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s the one big difference between Trump and Larouche:\u00c2\u00a0 assuming something catastrophic in the November election, ala a result akin to George McGovern.\u00c2\u00a0 The tally will show Trump beating Larouche’s best showing by a 40% (or thereabouts) to 0% tally.\u00c2\u00a0 (Or, 0.000something percent).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It<\/a> Could<\/a> Be worse…\u00c2\u00a0 There have been candidates from obscure parties like the Queer Nation Party and the Vampires, Witches and Pagans Party. Animals, kids and cartoon characters have run, albeit not seriously. A whole slew of entertainers, from Stephen Colbert to Roseanne Barr, have run.<\/em><\/div>\n
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More Trump comparison<\/a>.<\/div>\n
The arcane rules of delegate allocation, which vary from state to state, are lost on the Trump operation, which is perhaps the most laughably unserious presidential campaign since Lyndon Larouche ran for the White House from a prison cell.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 The next sentence is moot.\u00c2\u00a0 (As is moot the historical footnoting of how Larouche’s 3rd party runs set up a possible Trump 3rd party run<\/a>.) This means that even if Mr. Trump walks away with the April 19 primary in his home state of New York, it is increasingly unlikely that he will lock up a majority of delegates before July\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Republican convention in Cleveland.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em> Helps to win the thing outright.\u00c2\u00a0 In Larouche’s case, I don’t think he much cared.
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More?<\/a><\/div>\n
I attribute the anger to what I perceive as the old tension between blue-collar workers, who are often less educated and lower paid, and better-off white-collar voters. It is nothing new.<\/em> Even though white-collar liberals have always supported unions, better pay, better hours, and other improvements for blue-collar workers, that love rarely seems reciprocated.<\/em> Blue-collar workers have long been angry. In the past they supported George Wallace, Lyndon LaRouche, Ron Paul, Ralph Nader, Ross Perot and others. So what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new?<\/em><\/div>\n
Speaking of Trump…<\/div>\n
After all, I didn’t see any 2014 stories proclaiming that Lyndon LaRouche acolyte Kesha Rogers is beloved in the panhandle community of Hutchinson County
\n<\/a><\/em>And speaking of which… shouldn’t there be a Larouchie out there running for something, or is that something they’re not doing anymore?\u00c2\u00a0 (Instead, just claim they already have great powers)…
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\u00c2\u00a0ITEM NUMBER FIVE… Australia<\/a>.
\nLURKING on the fringes of Monday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Labour Day parade was a scattering of adherents of the Lyndon LaRouche cult and its political arm, the spectacularly unsuccessful Citizens Electoral Council.<\/em>CEC is the party for those who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think One Nation is nutty enough. But, despite an abysmal vote-catching record that would make even a few senators blush, the CEC has an enviable money-raising ability, notably separating a Queensland grazier from $862,000.
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Also see this bit of history<\/a>…\u00c2\u00a0 And<\/a>… showing Illinois 1986 worldwide…
\nIn 1988, Mr Truss stood as the Nationals candidate in the by-election for his state seat of Barambah.In an upset, he was beaten by Trevor Perrett of the ultra-right Citizens Electoral Council. It was largely a protest vote against the Nationals for getting rid of Bjelke-Petersen.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0ITEM NUMBER SIX:<\/div>\n

Anecdotes<\/a>.
\nBack in 1976, when I was the head of the Democratic Club at my college, an opponent threatened to bring Lyndon LaRouche on campus for a speech.<\/em>
\nRather than threaten a protest to shut him down, I instead suggested a debate – which never came off. He didn’t come to campus.<\/em>
\n Later, in English Class, we were asked to “Thoroughly explicate a novel” – I did “The Story of O,” by Pauline Reage.<\/em><\/p>\n

And, indeed to this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We can form a political party whose sole end is to promote the candidacy of Lyndon LaRouche or Captain Kangaroo or whomever we want, just as we can run a newspaper that makes comically ill-reasoned endorsements of obviously unfit candidates. No one might join the party, as no one might read the paper. But a political party it would be.<\/em><\/div>\n
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\u00c2\u00a0ITEM NUMBER SEVEN<\/div>\n
Dan Schmidt reports<\/a><\/div>\n
With this beautiful time of Easter, we could enjoy a real Easter blessing, with the resurrection of humanity to a more Christian world by joining\u00c2\u00a0the BRICS nations that Obama, to date, hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t allowed the U.S. to do.<\/em><\/p>\n
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And here the former Pope and Larouche find their vision placed in the same paragraph.<\/a><\/div>\n

9\/11 was an inside job<\/a>… LaRouche had forecast eight months earlier, a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Reichstag Fire\u00e2\u20ac\u009d type of attack shortly after Bush and Cheney took office.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Also<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A plainly unhinged woman writing as \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBrice Taylor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 insists that, when she was a child, Kissinger turned her into a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmind-controlled slave,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 repeatedly making her eat her alphabet cereal in reverse order and taking her on the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Small World\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 ride at Disneyland,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d writes Niall Ferguson, Harvard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History and a Hoover Institution senior fellow, who also scrutinizes Lyndon LaRouche\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s claim that Kissinger is a British agent and David Icke\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s assertion that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a reptilian shape-changer from the lower fourth dimension before concluding, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No rational people take such nonsense seriously. But the same cannot be said for the allegations made by conspiracy theorists of the left, who are a great deal more influential.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00c2\u00a0ITEM NUMBER EIGHT<\/div>\n
\u00c2\u00a0Gonna Shock the nation of France!<\/div>\n
\u00c2\u00a0“I am running for president against the political seraglio who sided with the empire of money,” said Mr. Cheminade on his Twitter account. Confirmation that he made \u00e2\u20ac\u2039\u00e2\u20ac\u2039Monday morning on the set of the 4 Truths of France 2 . “For over 40 years, the policy is conducted is a financial dismantling policy, not a policy of growth.” And so, in 2005, he announced his candidacy for the 2007 presidential election, it will be validated due to an insufficient number of signatures. This is the sixth candidate for the next presidential candidate in 2012 already. “Yes, I will be a candidate for the 2017 presidential election,” thundered one already candidate in 1995 (he had obtained 0.27% of the votes) and 2012 (0.25% of the vote). Just under two years later, he announced having collected the 500 signatures needed, and when the day comes, gets 0.25% of votes cast.<\/em><\/div>\n
\u00c2\u00a0Can he break free to .33 percent, or is he doomed to get stomped by the Trotskyite Party as always?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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