A pivotal Primary night

Media's massages miss messages of Trump

By John Twigg

As the hours tick down to a handful of pivotal Primaries in the U.S. Presidential election process today (March 15) it becomes increasingly frustrating to see how the mainstream news media are still struggling to understand the messages behind the upstart campaign of Republican hopeful Donald Trump, so let me try to help....

On Sunday (March 13) I was watching a bit of CNN coverage and the newsreader, a black woman, was casually reading a script about how Trump's combative remarks supposedly were provoking people to violence such as at his rally in Chicago, which Trump chose to cancel, supposedly needlessly, while CNN's screen showed images of the supposed near-riot over and over and over again.

The engineered spin is that Trump is an ignorant jerk who shouldn't even be in the race because he is merely a populist blusterer with no genuine substance, and worse, that he's a racist baiter, a crook, a womanizer, a sexist pig, merely a huckster with a TV show and a bit of money, a guy who stirs up controversy in order to keep his name in the headlines, as a young white female analyst recently opined on Global TV.

Protesters vs Trump were imposters

But while the CNN news-reader was finishing her script they cut briefly to Trump's opening remarks to another large rally, this time in Florida, in which he defended his handling of the rally in Chicago (to shut it down rather than risk injury) and alleged (albeit wrongly) that the demonstrators had been sent in by supporters of Democratic Party candidate Bernie Sanders, which was a fair supposition insofar as many of them were carrying Sanders signs, though other sources were already reporting that some of the agents-provocateurs were actually affiliated with moveon.org, an outfit backed by billionaire George Soros and affiliated with the Hillary Clinton camp!

I was a bit disappointed that Trump wasn't already aware of that false-flag trick but thanks to the mainstream media's surficial facile coverage of American politics that embarrassing little truth might never reach into mainstream consciousness, though you can see it here.

But moments later I was very annoyed at CNN when they suddenly cut away from what Trump was saying at the very moment he claimed that the attempts to destabilize his campaign were all part of the machinations by the big money manipulators! Oh??

Yes the knock on Trump is that he has no coherent substance but the truth is that he has a lot of policy substance like that that the masters of the mainstream media just do not want people to even hear about let alone persuade them into voting him into power.

Trump will exit bad trade deals

For example, Trump noted he is getting a lot of support in a state like Ohio because it has been hit heavily with new property taxes and its representatives in Congress supported the North American Free Trade Agreement and now are supporting the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) which he said will be "even worse than NAFTA" at exporting jobs to low-wage places like Mexico (due to NAFTA) and China (due to pending TPP) - which Trump says is all part of "monetary manipulation" that hurts American interests.

Trump has been explaining that many ordinary people including even the poorly-educated (who he says he loves) realize that Trump is proposing a bunch of protectionist trade policies that would limit the ability of illegal immigrants to enter and take away even their low-end jobs and he wants to pass laws to prevent manufacturing companies like Apple from moving their factories out of the U.S.A.


The pundits in the liberal media and other left-side politicos have difficulty comprehending the powerful appeal of Trump's stances, e.g. building a proper wall along the Mexican border to stop illegal traffic and cracking down on tax-avoiding billionaires, but average voters, ordinary taxpayers and even small-business operators seem to understand his messages well because they've seen the harm of it all themselves; they're fed up and they're not going to take it anymore.

"We're going to take our country back and we're going to make our country great again," shouts Trump, promising to "stop the nonsense" and negotiate harder against China to defend American interests, which generates waves of supportive applause from people who widely believe their interests have been forgotten by the many mainstream party politicians they've sent to Washington.

And yes there IS a lot of substance in Trump's platform, albeit perhaps poorly explained by him on the hustings, such as a placard he held up recently supposedly supporting a drive to make the U.S. self-sufficient in energy (which I presume includes continuing to get a major portion of its oil supplies from friendly Canada because the present reality is that the U.S. gets about 25% of its oil from foreign sources of which 37% is from Canada and 35% from Saudi Arabia).

Trump has lots of real policies

The Washington Post recently compiled a list of 76 promises by Trump, his own campaign website has statements on six major policy positions and it posts hundreds of news releases on various topics such as one from October 2015 in which he calls for rival politicians to disclose and return their "dark money" donations  - and a Google search yields a trove more such populist policies from Trump.

So the problem self-styled progressive people seem to be having with Trump is not his lack of policies but rather it's with the substance in them!

Though most mainstream American journalists may not be aware of it, that protest that Trump is leading against self-serving centrist powers is also a world-wide movement in which incumbent regimes are falling like flies and upstart populist protest movements are gaining power; that certainly happened in Canada last year with Justin Trudeau (he came from third place to supplant a right-wing tyrant), it happened to some degree yesterday in Germany (an anti-immigrant party gained some new seats), in Brazil recently (a popular revolt against a corrupt President) and we may soon see more (e.g. the coming U.K. vote about its membership in the European Union).

Meanwhile many central banks and finance ministers are struggling to cope with loss of confidence and deflating cash flows, with underfunded pension plans, negative interest rates and rising unemployment, with waves of economic migrants - and Trump being the only candidate tapping in to that angst, though of course Hillary Clinton is hypocritically claiming that she is the only firm hand around able to tame the global turmoil which regrettably was caused in large part by the monetary manipulations of the very powers backing her, namely the billionaire class on Wall Street, as detailed here via Alternet .

Whether it's voters in Greece or Germany or bankers in London and Paris or peons in Rio and mad bombers seemingly everywhere, the world is increasingly nervous that too many things are going awry now, that governments are becoming powerless or worse - and now along comes Trump promising that he as President could insulate Americans from all that mess by isolating their economy from it - and compared with the iffy alternatives the voters might just give him a chance to try.

We'll get a much better view of that when the votes come in tonight. Any bets?

Money manipulation is a major problem

That said, I want to rant a bit about the money-manipulation issue, namely that there has been far too much artificial exploitation of interest rates and currency exchange rates, and excessive speculation on financial instruments in general, including stocks and commodities, but especially the huge sums of financial futures routinely traded in micro-seconds by a few handfuls of major financial houses using massive computing power to speculate on vast sums of money, mainly in New York and London but also some in Paris and in a few other major capitals of capital - including by the governments of Russia, China and Saudi Arabia.

Such markets are increasingly seen to be rigged, such as seen in who survived and how out of the debacle of 2008 on Wall Street (in which most of the big bad bullies got bailed out by U.S. taxpayers via lackey politicians), but really the problem is wider and deeper, including such things as massive insurance payouts on criminal sabotage conspiracies of which 9/11 is the prime example (double insurance on the towers!) but also things like engineered plane crashes with heavy insurance payouts, well blowouts with massive payouts and of course the banks' laundering of massive amounts of money from illegal drugs and other criminality.

We are in a sick sick world now in which the very rich are getting ever richer (as documented by The Economist in 2013 ) and the rest are getting angry because way too much of all that is being done by criminal conspirators.

Recently Russia and China have been trying to protect themselves by hoarding physical gold but meanwhile the commodity markets have been keeping its price relatively low, at least in U.S. dollars, but that's another story too, in which America has no hope of ever paying off its bond debts to China unless the exchange rates are greatly adjusted.

But how can America manage its money supply when it is dependent on buying currency from the cabal of privately-owned banks? It can't unless the politicians use Congress to give themselves the power to create fiat money (like some other nations do) and the last guy who tried that, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated for trying to do so.

This money monopoly game has been going on for ages, of course, maybe even since before Noah's Flood, and the Bible specifically instructs against the charging of interest to neighbours in Exodus 22:24, Leviticus 25:36-37, Deuteronomy 23:20 and several other places.

But it goes beyond that into charging or giving of unfair exchange rates between currencies too, which is seen in Mark 11:17 and John 2:15 in which Jesus calls the merchants and money-changers in the temple in Jerusalem a "den of thieves" and violently turns over their tables!

Though it isn't widely discussed or taught, that could be a prophecy of what things will be like when Jesus returns: if there is still a form of money in use then its cost to acquire and borrow will be free among friends and relatives and its exchange rates fair to all.