Spirit Brothers Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCY4Dppr1K4

"Come To" Haikus - A Process In Presence

published for title rights purposes 11/21/17 all rights reserved John Randolph j_m_randolph@hotmail.com

Whose Breath? Whose Haikus? Journey In Presence And Love And "I" Get To Watch

John Randolph.  I am going to publish a book on haikus.  At the point I have over a 100 Haikus that "I" hahahaha wrote in 2017.  I plan on using the above title.  I listed a few below for record keeping and title rights' purposes. 

Whose Breath?  Whose Haikus?                                                                                                             Journey In Presence And Love                                                                                                             And "I" Get To Watch

All rights reserved .  Copyrighted material.

Haiku #1-17 "May I Be Aware"

May I Be Aware
Of the thinking within me
That distracts from You

Haiku #2-17 "Love Truly Matters"

Here stories are clear

Such joyful stillness and peace
Love truly matters

Haiku #3-17 "We Have Lost Our Way"

Pussy (full of pus) cancer growth
Our nation - its face exposed
We have lost our way

Haiku #4-17 "The Divine Within"

Open to this life

Love, cry, live, die, remember
The Divine Within

Haiku #5-17 "May Grace Lead Our Lives!"

May Grace Lead Our Lives!
Let go of the hurtful, and
​Choose to cherish love

Haiku #6-17 "See What's Meaningful"

See what's meaningful
Meaningless reactions cause
Pain - meaninglessly

Haiku #7-17 "God's Gift Is Presence"

God's gift is presence
Love not thought, bought, sought, or fought
Felt, seen, heard, observed

Haiku #8-17 "Fall Into God's Love"

At some point notice
Shift from unconscious thinking
Fall Into God's Love

Haiku #9-17 "Feel Grace Resolve"

Thoughts - mind narration
Where thinking creates "our" world
Feel Grace Resolve

Haiku #10-17. In Honor of Tuba our doG.

Heading down your road
Who is it who rescues whom -
On our way home doG?

Haiku #11-17 "Dark Resolves To Light"

Dark Night of the Soul
Applies to countries as well
Dark Resolves to Light

Haiku #12-17 "Distractions From Grace"

How to be aware
Of mental and physical
Distractions From Grace

Haiku #13-17 "Must Know To Outgrow"

Mind's default search mode
"Something's wrong - must be my fault"
Must know to outgrow

Haiku #14-17 "How To Overcome?"

Egotist in charge
Harm themselves, life, all others
How to overcome?

Haiku #15-7 "Come Back To Our Grace"

We have lost our way
Our path now is to come back
Come back to our Grace

Haiku #16-17 "Watch Breathing - Grace - Ease"

Pre-dawn silence, peace

Dark feelings, dreams, thoughts compete
Watch Breathing - Grace - Ease

Haiku #17-17 "Tears For Mister Trump"

Tears for Mister Trump
This self-created nightmare
Affects one and all

Haiku #18 -17 "If Not Us Then Who?"

Government trust is worn
Faith - all common sense - but gone
If not us then who?

Haiku #19-17 "Can Be Felt, Not Taught"

Experiential
Faith; non - intellectual
Can be felt, not taught

Haiku #20-17 "Grace This door Opens"

Grace this door opens
Inspiration beyond words
Seekers know they feel

Haiku #21-17  "Breathe - And Disappear"

Soft breeze - skin caress
Touching chimes - twinkle divine
Breathe - and disappear

Haiku #22-17 "Ours To Fathom Why"

Under the same sky

We walk this earth for awhile
Ours to fathom why

Haiku #23-17  "Grace Not Taught Or Thought"

Vulnerable hearts
Side by side with the unknown
Grace Not Taught Or Thought

Haiku #24-17  "Feel Love Born In Grace"

Here before the Void
See thoughts of present and past
Feel Love Born In Grace

Haiku #25 - 17  "Back From Whence They Came"

Do ocean waves die?

Arise, Resolve, Return, No?
Back from whence they came.

Haiku #26-17 "Behold Mind's Shadow"

Behold mind's shadow
Dark self's inadequacy
Light of Grace will free

Haiku #27-17  "Feel Grace Softly Touch"

Ego survives - thinks
Must judge, compete and react
Feel Grace's soft touch

 

Trump: Self-Aggrandizer In Chief, "Leads" by Creating Chaos

Trump "leads" by creating chaos.  His chaos is a feeble attempt to appear strong and hide his incompetence as president.    

Trump's followers fashion him as some kind of super hero fighting for them and to make America great again.  Tragically the majority of his supporters never quite understand that Trump's bullying behaviors serve only his grandiose, insatiable ego, not them.
  
As Trump the self-aggrandizer said on January 14, 2017, "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters".  This comment speaks volumes about what Trump really thinks of his supporters and his own twisted, self-involved ego.   

We have indeed met the enemy Pogo.   

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2017/09/trump-self-aggrandizer-in-chief-leads.html

The "Mother" Of All Immigration Rallies - "Hurricane DACA"

The "Mother" Of All Immigration Rallies - "Hurricane DACA"

Hold a rally that will cause Washington worldwide negative attention, shame and embarrassment.
A "storm surge" on the border, if you will.  One they won't soon forget. 

Hundreds of thousands of people protesting Trump's cancelation of DACA which insidiously highlights both county's decades of failed and inhumane bi-national (Mexico/US) immigration policies.

How many bi-national border, illegal immigration, economic, drug war caused, ruined lives and deaths will it take for these two governments to come to their senses? 

They only do what we allow them to do.

Imagine 800 thousand DACA kids, their families, their supporters and hundreds of thousands of citizens on both sides of the border who also have had it with these two plutocratic governments' immigration policies that abuse not only their own citizens but each other's citizens too.

Hook up with the Woman's March.  Peacefully rally at the major ports of entry between the two countries. 

Now is the time to peacefully go for the whole enchilada - don't play small.  

PS  Washington decades old immigration game:  one political party gives, the other takes away, and each blame each other for nothing substantial ever getting done.  Meanwhile how many lives not only in foreign countries but in the US too suffer because of these profit-based, insidious  immigration policies? 

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-mother-of-all-immigration-rallies.html 

  

   

The Insanity Of Trump's Border Wall and Drug/ Immigration Enforcement

The Insanity Of Trump's Border Wall and Drug/ Immigration Enforcement

Please check out this article in Foreign Policy: 

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/29/trump-says-border-wall-will-stop-drugs-heres-what-a-dea-intel-report-says/?utm_content=buffer097ed&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer


Here is my response:

Let's pour billions more into the border enforcement arm of the US military industrial complex. Let's create thousands of more jobs and billions more in profit pretending to be able to enforce the unenforceable. Let's not look at the past 40 years of these "for profit, designed to fail" immigration and drug enforcement policies and strategies.

Because as Einstein said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”.

I am a retired US Border Patrol/ICE agent and I blog under Victims Unite: twopesos.

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-insanity-of-trumps-border-wall-and.html

Have You Seen This US Border Patrol News Report?

Overtime abuse:  still lying after all these years.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApeabkCGDEU

Read and/or Listen To These Stories About Trump and Laundering Russian Mob Money

https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate#.

 

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/report-russian-mob-money-helped-build-trump-business-empire-1002228291948

This Trump Phase - The Dark Night Of The American Soul

This Trump phase brings the dark night of the American soul out into to the light. That soul does not belong to any certain political party or specific group of people.  It is the unconscious American soul that will surface both Individually and collectively. 

It will require a new level of consciousness of Grace to grow beyond .  

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2017/05/this-trump-phase-dark-night-of-american.html
 

Washington and Now Trump Arm The World For Profit - Just As Eisenhower Warned Us Of

Washington and now Trump arm the world for profit then send our kids off to fight in Washington's wars that fuel Washington's propaganda to continue to arm the world. 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-arms-deal-saudi-arabia-110-billion-911-terrorism-international-law-war-crimes-a7747076.html

President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of this.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY

Many American voters are brainwashed by Washington's and now Trump's war narratives.

Perhaps as Americans wake up and see the truth behind Washington's deception we will wake up and survive this dark night of the soul.  

"The Great Dictator Speech" Charlie Chaplin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8HdOHrc3OQ

Final speech from The Great Dictator Copyright © Roy Export S.A.S. All rights reserved

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost….
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. …..
Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!
In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!
Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!
Final speech from The Great Dictator Copyright © Roy Export S.A.S. All rights reserved

 

Nut Job President Orchestrating His Own Leaks and Resignation?

Is this nut job president orchestrating his own leaks so that he can pitch plausible deniability to his die hard-headed supporters when he turns, runs and resigns? 

Or is it simply White House insiders who believe Trump is a threat to our country, unfit to be president and who are willing to break the law and go to prison for their beliefs?   

 

BTW, until we see his taxes, no one knows if he is billions rich or billions in debt and to whom.

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2017/05/nut-job-president-orchestrating-his-own.html 

We Have Met The Enemy Pogo

Fox News banned me from making comments including the one below:

"Many people can't see or even consider the possibility that the real problem with our government may be a corrupt system that only allows voters the choice of a trump or a clinton for president.

God say it is not so! We live in the world's greatest democracy!

Nope. It's those libtards or those foxtards faults! They are trying to destroy our county!

God forbid anyone on either side take the time to consider that their own ignorance and laziness may be the root of the actual problem.

Yes Pogo, we have met the enemy - and the enemy is us."

 

I am thankful to Trump for one reason:  we won't go to sleep at the wheel again.

Once Cornered, Trump The Coward Will Resign

Please read these articles:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-knows-the-feds-are-closing-in-on-him-2017-3

http://bipartisanreport.com/2017/03/11/abc-news-hits-trump-hard-with-huge-scandal-leaked-documents-prove-guilt/

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/12/house-intel-committee-gives-trump-monday-deadline-wiretapping-proof?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/323499-fbi-chief-expected-to-testify-in-house-russia-hearing-official

Truthful, or wishful thinking, I think Trump's "White House of Cards" will soon come crashing in on him.  I think that Trump's ego won't be able to handle the reality of it all and rather than Trump going through impeachment, he will simple to what all cowards do:  quit, resign, run away, and blame the media for his downfall. 



 

The Costs And Consequences of The US and Mexican Elite's Border Games Businesses

In response:  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/11/mexico-border-wall-hispanic-owned-construction-companies?CMP=fb_us

Didn't the US GOV just report that illegal immigration arrests on the border are down 40%?

Let the border games begin (anew).

As a retired US Border Patrol/ICE agent, I say from my experience that Trump's wall ultimately will prove to be ineffective in stopping hungry people from getting into the US.

And why are the actual causes of illegal immigration NEVER included in Washington's border narratives? Those causes are poverty and profit. Poverty in Mexico and other countries that incentivize people crossing illegally. The 1% in the US will still profit off of cheap illegal labor and the 1% in Mexico will still profit from billions in remittances annually being pumped back into the Mexican economy.

Then there is the billions in profit for the border enforcement arm of the US Military Industrial Complex. Fences, agents, prisons, courts, judges, guns, vehicles, aircraft, drones, munitions, etc. Don't forget our 40 year long failed drug war and the one trillion dollar price tag that has cost US taxpayers.

Americans are generally unware of the horrendous narco murders, civil rights violations, poverty, and systemic corruption (police, military, judicial, political) that has been normalized in Mexico. Washington turns a blind eye and remains mum to its corrupt, drug cartel run NAFTA trading partner as long as trade benefits the rich on both sides.

Have you ever heard one US or Mexican politician ever suggest that the two governments meet to discuss how Mexico might care for its poor so that they do not have to risk their lives to come here illegally? Do you know about the wealth disparity in Mexico? How might the 6 million or so of Mexico's undocumented people here now being invited to return home with some minimal guarantees of wages that could put food on their families tables in Mexico?

It is not in either government's narratives because there is simply too much profit being made on both sides to effectively change the status quo.

As we see the pendulum swing now some Washington politicians will make a career out of being tough on enforcement or liberal about legalization. Yet if you study this problem you will see that Trump's insanity is the same wheel of injustice turning that has been turning for forty years or more.

Meanwhile, the undocumented poor and the US middle class suffer all of the costs and consequences of the bi-national elite's enrichment. And some undocumented will die crossing the border as will some Americans die from the hands of criminal illegal aliens. These deaths are simply the costs of the bi-national elite doing their insidious, for-profit border games businesses.    

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-cost-and-consequences-of-us-and.html   

 

Trump-ski's (-ский) Tax-skis

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/donald-trump-debt.html?mwrsm=Facebook&_r=0
Trump’s Empire: A Maze of Debts and Opaque Ties

On the campaign trail, Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has sold himself as a businessman who has made billions of dollars and is beholden to no one.

But an investigation by The New York Times into the financial maze of Mr. Trump’s real estate holdings in the United States reveals that companies he owns have at least $650 million in debt — twice the amount than can be gleaned from public filings he has made as part of his bid for the White House. The Times’s inquiry also found that Mr. Trump’s fortunes depend deeply on a wide array of financial backers, including one he has cited in attacks during his campaign.

For example, an office building on Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, of which Mr. Trump is part owner, carries a $950 million loan. Among the lenders: the Bank of China, one of the largest banks in a country that Mr. Trump has railed against as an economic foe of the United States, and Goldman Sachs, a financial institution he has said controls Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, after it paid her $675,000 in speaking fees.

Real estate projects often involve complex ownership and mortgage structures. And given Mr. Trump’s long real estate career in the United States and abroad, as well as his claim that his personal wealth exceeds $10 billion, it is safe to say that no previous major party presidential nominee has had finances nearly as complicated.

 

As president, Mr. Trump would have substantial sway over monetary and tax policy, as well as the power to make appointments that would directly affect his own financial empire. He would also wield influence over legislative issues that could have a significant impact on his net worth, and would have official dealings with countries in which he has business interests.

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Yet The Times’s examination underscored how much of Mr. Trump’s business remains shrouded in mystery. He has declined to disclose his tax returns or allow an independent valuation of his assets.

Earlier in the campaign, Mr. Trump submitted a 104-page federal financial disclosure form. It said his businesses owed at least $315 million to a relatively small group of lenders and listed ties to more than 500 limited liability companies. Though he answered the questions, the form appears to have been designed for candidates with simpler finances than his, and did not require disclosure of portions of his business activities.

 

Beyond finding that companies owned by Mr. Trump had debts of at least $650 million, The Times discovered that a substantial portion of his wealth is tied up in three passive partnerships that owe an additional $2 billion to a string of lenders, including those that hold the loan on the Avenue of the Americas building. If those loans were to go into default, Mr. Trump would not be held liable, the Trump Organization said. The value of his investments, however, would certainly sink.

Mr. Trump has said that if he were elected president, his children would be likely to run his company. Many presidents, to avoid any appearance of a conflict, have placed their holdings in blind trusts, which typically involves selling the original asset, and replacing it with different assets unknown to the seller.

Mr. Trump’s children seem unlikely to pursue that option.

Richard W. Painter, a professor of law at the University of Minnesota and, from 2005 to 2007, the chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, compared Mr. Trump to Henry M. Paulson Jr., a former chief executive of Goldman Sachs whom Mr. Bush appointed as Treasury secretary.

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Professor Painter advised Mr. Paulson on his decision to sell his Goldman Sachs shares, saying it was clear that Mr. Paulson could not simply have placed that stock in trust and pretended it did not exist.

If Mr. Trump were to use a blind trust, the professor said, it would be “like putting a gold watch in a box and pretending you don’t know it is in there.”

‘We Overdisclosed’

“I am the king of debt,” Mr. Trump once said on CNN. “I love debt.” But in his career, debt has sometimes gotten the better of him, leading to at least four business bankruptcies.

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He is, however, quick to stress that these days his companies have very little debt.

Mr. Trump indicated in the financial disclosure form he filed in connection with this campaign that he was worth at least $1.5 billion, and has said publicly that the figure is actually greater than $10 billion. Recent estimates by Forbes and Fortune magazines and Bloomberg have put his worth at less than $5 billion.

 

Trump Is A Symptom Of A Self-indulgent Sickness In American Society

And as a matter of fact, the World. 

 

In order to find our way we must acknowledge that with lost touch with the characteristic that make us human:  integrity, honesty, compassion, generosity, love, self-introspection and humility.

 

Jan 24, 2016 - "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters," Trump said.

Trump's statement sadly reveals just what Trump thinks of his voters. And his lies about Putin - coming straight from their president's  own horse's ass mouth - won't even begin to register in  many of his supporters closed minds.

 

Once people are conned it is baffling how they won't believe or accept the irrefutable truth.  

 

Any competent, common sense investigation begins with reviewing and revealing financial ties and trails. Yet there are those in Washington who are more concerned with staying in political power than they are with protecting America's security.

Considering Trump's economic history and his questionable ties to Russia, We The People have the moral right to know what facts are contained within his tax returns.

I have faith that the current American resistance will hold those in Washington accountable for their refusal to demand the immediate release of Trump's tax returns.

How naïve and insidiously mind boggling to think otherwise.

 

MEANWHILE WE THE PEOPLE fall prey to our own emotions and this farce.  We in fact pay our hard earned money to watch and promote this charade.  We not only believe it is real, but we believe in the process.  We believe our team can win!   Never once does it cross our minds that the two "wrestling" teams are actually actors or performers of a larger organization.  These politico wrestlers are all well paid  actors who are employed  by the super rich, 1% team owners.   WE THE PEOPLE, because of our own ignorance, get taken "or all that we got"

 

 

As Pogo said, we have met the enemy and he is us.

https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6706102374255163284#allposts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

Why Doesn't Trump Work With Mexican President Pena-Nieto To Bring Mexico's 6.8 Millon Undocumented Home?

How is that for a novel idea?  Doesn't quite fit your pictures of what should be or maybe could be done, right?

 

First of all, how many Mexican undocumented are here in the US?   PEW research estimates that of the 11.1 million undocumented  presently living in the US, 52% are from Mexico.  
http://www.pewhispanic.org/interactives/unauthorized-immigrants/

Could these two governments meet at a table and discuss how to support each other in bringing these undocumented Mexicans home?   I fear not.  From my perspective the people calling the shots from both governments - despite what they say or plan to do - like it the way it is.  Why?

First of all, Mexican undocumented workers make about 7 to 10 times more money per hour working here than they do at home.  The Mexican Federal minimum wage is about $5 per eight hours worked.  Not $5 an hour;  about 62 CENTS per hour.  You know what they make here.

 

Mexico gets billions of dollars pumped back into its economy by the undocumented who work and live here.  Works great for Mexico but not so for the US middle class who absorbs the educational and medical costs of those same undocumented who send remittances back home to their families.

 

Who knows exactly how many undocumented work in US factories and businesses. Think of the agricultural, meat processing and construction industries.   I know from my own experience as a retired US Border Patrol/ICE agent, ICE raids a few but does not do a thorough job of effectively keeping the undocumented out of the work force.  Bottom line some American businesses thrive by hiring the undocumented.  So do a lot of American home owners and families.  

 

This Mexican merry-go-round has been in operation for decades.    Enforcement (arrest, detention, removals, deportations) has always been Washington's response to the problem.  Actually Reagan's 1985 Amnesty was new and touted as the answer to the problem.  That did not work.  Clinton's 1994 NAFTA with its border factories and border militarization were other ideas that did not solve illegal immigration.  They actually increased it.

 

Think of the fight against illegal immigration as something very similar to the war on drugs.  Both have been going on for at least forty years and to what effect?  The problems are as bad as - or worse - than they have ever been.  

 

So is pouring more money into enforcement going to help?  Trump is doing that right now.  Billions will be spend on his wall.  Ten thousand more ICE agents and possibly five thousand more US Border Patrol Agents.   

 

Mexican illegal immigration and illegal drugs are our Afghanistan.  These Mexican wars can not be won through enforcement any more than a military war can be won in Afghanistan. 

 

The needs of undocumented and American drug user needs are much more powerful than any enforcement efforts can contain.  Very similar to the years of wars in Afghanistan.  Russia started one in 1979 and was defeated.  We jumped in there in 2001 and tried for 14 years.   We are still involved in the region and stupidly continue to try to beat Afghanis who are much more motivated than any other soldiers will ever be.

 

Finally we need to look at the big picture of all of this.  The US Military Industrial Complex (which I consider the Border/Drug enforcement industries to be subsets of ) need war, illegal immigration and illegal drugs in order to keep up the "good" fight for continual profit.  

 

We have the largest prison population in the world.  We make and sell more weapons than anyone else in the entire world.  Customs and Border Protection, DHS and ICE combined are the largest police system in the world.  We have the largest military budget in the entire world.  Need I say more?

So the American narrative - or should I say - Washington's  narrative - pertaining to illegal immigration does not allow for any other conversation except an ENFORCEMENT solution.

Here are these two supposedly democratic, friendly, neighboring nations dealing with a problem that financially affects and even kills their own and each other's citizens - yet dealing with it stupidly by more enforcement.  

Do you know why they stick to the enforcement plan?  They elite who run both countries have and always will profit by the enforcement approach (which by the way, never solves the problem).   The drug money and guns going south and the laborers going north will always continue to fatten this bi-national elite's pockets.

This is why you won't hear any politician in the US or Mexico entertain the subject idea "Why Doesn't Trump Negotiate With Mexican President Pena-Nieto To Bring Mexico's Undocumented Home?".  

There is simply to much money being made by continuing the tried and true insanity.

This Trump border "dust up" will be just another page in this insidiously insane saga.  The  undocumented will continue to come and die in the process.  Some agents will die in the process.  Americans will continue to use drugs as the designed to fail "war on drugs" continues this process.   Neither the corrupt, corporate-run American government or the corrupt, cartel-run Mexican government will take responsibility for the welfare of its own citizens.    We The People will foot the bills for their insanities and the disparities in wealth on both sides of the border (and world) will continue to grow.  

Nothing will change until we clean our own (white) house and demand that Mexico does the same.  

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2017/02/why-doesnt-trump-negotiate-with-mexican.html

     

 

            

 

 

 

 

Woman's General Strike in US - Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - Mexico Please Join In!

Woman's General Strike in US - Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - Mexico Please Join In!

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/15/politics/womens-march-general-strike-date-set/index.html

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/319642-group-behind-womens-march-to-hold-massive-strike-on-march-8

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2017/02/general-strike-in-us-march-8-2017.html

 

It's Pretty Bad When Trump Out Trumps Peña - Nieto In Mexico!

Thousands protest Trump in Mexico City

By Mallory Shelbourne - 02/13/17 10:25 AM EST 64

  

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  http://thehill.com/homenews/319195-thousands-protest-trump-in-mexico-city#bottom-story-socials

Thousands of people marched against President Trump in Mexico City over the weekend, the Associated Press reported.
The march, which was themed around the idea of unity, included about 20,000 protesters. One banner read "Gracias, Trump, for unifying Mexico!"
Demonstrators were speaking out against Trump’s proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as the recent executive order on immigration enforcement.

 

Trump signed an executive order last month calling for construction to begin on the border wall, a signature campaign promise that he has vowed Mexico will pay for—even as the Republican-controlled Congress makes plans to initially fund the wall with U.S. tax money. Mexico’s president had said on multiple occasions that his country will not foot the bill for the wall.Trump recently said it is likely that Mexico will reimburse the United States for the wall in order to speed up construction.
The president also signed an executive order ending the “catch and release” policy, which allowed those who crossed the border to return to Mexico without being detained.
Other Mexican cities also hosted anti-Trump marches Sunday.

New American Century - Propagnda? Conspiracy Theories? 911 Inside Job? Will Trump Start Another War?

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/new-american-century/

I post this link with sadness, shame and fear.  I wonder how the Trump presidency will play out in all of this.  I sense Trump will start another war. 


This documentary film goes in detail through the untold history of The Project for the New American Century with tons of archival footage and connects it right into the present.It exposes how every major war in US history was based on a complete fraud with video of insiders themselves admitting it. This film shows how the first film theaters in the US were used over a hundred years ago to broadcast propaganda to rile the American people into the Spanish-American War.
It film shows the white papers of the oil company Unocal which called for the creation of a pipeline through Afghanistan and how their exact needs were fulfilled through the US invasion of Afghanistan.
This documentary shows how Halliburton under their "cost plus" exclusive contract with the US Government went on a mad dash spending spree akin to something out of the movie Brewster's Millions, yet instead of blowing $30 million they blew through BILLIONS by literally burning millions of dollars worth of hundred thousand dollar cars and trucks if they had so much as a flat tire.

Trump's "Ending Mexican Illegal Immigration And Illegal Drugs" Rhetoric - Empty Promises

Isn't it interesting how Trump's and Washington's illegal immigration/drug war narratives do not include poverty as the principal cause of these problems?

I tell you "We The People" are being played like fools.

Political careers are made off of these decades' old narratives. The truth? The 1%'s corporations profit off of the labor of undocumented workers (as did at least one of Trump's billionaire political cabinet nominees). Think of all of the jobs and enormous budgets required to run not only the border/interior enforcement industries, but those of America's failed 40 year long drug war too. Think of all of the prison budgets. Think of all of the police departments nation wide with their narcotic squads' budgets.

Then there is the Mexican elite's part in this too. Billions of dollars in remittances send home every year as a form of welfare for their poor. Meanwhile the US middle class foots the medical and educational bills for the same and suffers the unfair demographic changes to their towns.

Anyone who thinks that the corrupt Mexican government does not cash in on the billions of dollars made off of illegal drug sales needs to think again. Shamefully most Americans are not aware of how many innocent Mexican citizens have been slaughtered since 2006 (200K) when then President Felipe Calderon used the Mexican military (the largest cartel of them all) to wipe out other cartel competition.

And how did Washington reward their NAFTA conspirator Calderon for the havoc he created in Mexico? How about a fellowship at Harvard University with speaking gigs at 100K a pop.

Do you ever hear any criticism of Mexico's corporate-cartel run government by US politicians? How about the ongoing civil rights violations and murders of Mexican journalists? Do you ever hear of any of them suggesting that poverty (which NAFTA exacerbated on both sides of the fence) should be included in trade and financial aid negotiations with the Mexican government?

So all of us who listen to FOX and CNN - we are being hosed by these border wall, drug war, illegal immigration promises. I say that as a retired US Border Patrol/ICE agent. Instead of Trump trying to bully Pena Nieto into paying for the wall he should be negotiating with the Mexican elite about how they are going to provide a living wage for their own citizens.

As far as the corrupt, cartel-run Mexican government and the elimination of organized crime in Mexico? The only hope for the cleaning of either that swamp or the one in Washington is the removal of the influence of the moneyed elite from politics. Both countries will have to have cultural and political revolutions to get that type of corruption out of their respective governments.

Of course this won't happen as long as the real problems of corruption and poverty are purposely left out of Trump's and Washington's solutions to these nightmares. There is simply too much money being made by both sides for either to change the status quo.
http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/...

 

 

Is Not Trump But A Pimple On The Face Of A Much More Insidious Problem?

And what is that "insidious" problem?

Please read this article from Popular Resistance:  https://popularresistance.org/newsletter-the-problem-isnt-trump-its-bigger/

And this one from Bill Moyers: http://billmoyers.com/story/from-resisting-trump-to-what/

And this one from Common Dreams, Chris Hedges:  http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/06/make-america-ungovernable?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork

And very inspiring, Jeremy Scahill:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQtVmhG6Nms

Just found this one by George Monbiot:  http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/39374-how-corporate-dark-money-is-taking-power-on-both-sides-of-the-atlantic

Amy Goodman:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-47CQotpMw

Josh Harkinson:   http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/stephen-bannon-miller-trump-refugee-ban-islamophobia-white-nationalist

Robert Reich:  http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/reich/article/Why-America-First-is-a-dangerous-doctrine-10918308.php

The people who voted for Trump have every right to be angry.  They are in American trenches fighting the disparity of wealth and its symptoms:  failed health care, illegal immigration, low paying jobs, the cost of  higher education - to name a few. 

Then we have the moneyed elite who run this country - and their hired politicians who pretend to represent "We The People".

Not all politicians mind you;  just the majority in Washington.

Whether they are from the smooth talking Clinton/Obama side or the W. Bush's and the brash Trump side, they are in the same "club".   The same 1% club that the occupy movement spoke of a few years back.

And that leaves the rest of us, the 99% in the other club (or sub-sections thereof);  the dwindling middle class and/or all economic levels down to the very poor.

I agree with the linked articles.  We have to keep our eye on the system that keeps producing the Clintons and Trumps - yet never really stands for We The People.  We need to stop Trump's and Bannon's attempt to create an authoritarian state.  We have to restructure our government so that it is not all about money, greed and control.

We need to wake up.  Just as the promises that Obama made faded off into the sunset, so will Trump's.  Why?  They are two sides of the same golden coin that belongs to them - not us.  They flip their own coin which always comes up heads for them.   Then they try and convince us that we will finally win the toss for our side.  Just hang on.

So I ask those of you who voted for Trump and those of you who didn't:  consider the possibility that both sides are being played against each other.  Is that not what is happening?  We have to be smarter than that.  

Consider what Trump promised and what he does.  Most importantly, he claimed he would make America great again and stand for the workers.   I dare say that hiring a cabinet of billionaires, not showing his tax returns and removing environmental and Wall Street regulations should be taken as red flags.  Red flags that he has conned you and lied to you.  He is not going to do as he promised.

I ask you to educate yourselves and listen to other news agencies than FOX or CNN.  I ask you to take responsibility for your picking Trump if and when in fact that choice turns out to hurt America.

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2017/02/trump-is-but-pimple-on-face-of-real.html

 

The Trump "Administration" Is Going To Implode

 I pray he doesn’t take the rest of America and the World with him.

Will Trump's Insults To Mexico Inflame Mexican Terrorism?

https://apnews.com/0b3f5db59b2e4aa78cdbbf008f27fb49

Who in their right might would insult our good neighbors to the South?

Isn't it bad enough that we have home grown terrorism?  Will Trump's ignorance and macho talk enflame more lone wolf or organized terrorist acts stemming from Mexico?

Trump is putting American lives in danger. Trump, Steve Bannon, Sean Spicer and Kelly Anne Conway need to step down immediately.  

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2017/02/will-trumps-insults-to-mexico-enflame.html



 

The US and Mexican Elite Have Normalized The Profitization Of Illegal Immigration

The US and Mexican Elite Have Normalized The Profitization Of Illegal Immigration

It's all about the haves and the have-nots.  Or how the "haves" will get more, and the "have-nots" will get less.     

For decades now the elite who run both the US and Mexican governments have rigged their economic plans in order to simultaneously exploit the Mexican undocumented AND the US middle class.

Check out the disparity of wealth in Mexico:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Mexicos-Extreme-Inequality-1-Owns-Half-of-Countrys-Wealth-20150625-0034.html

And in the US:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/18/pf/wealth-inequality/

And in the world:  http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/20/morbid-inequality-now-just-six-men-have-much-wealth-half-worlds-population

I knew something was totally screwy when I was a US Border Patrol Agent.  We worked in Carlsbad, CA.  We chased field workers around and around.  Most of the workers were from Oaxaca, Mexico.  They picked our tomatoes and strawberries and we were paid to arrest them and take them back to Mexico via Tijuana.  The majority of them made it back in a day or so.

Twenty six years of service later (seven with the USBP and nineteen with INS investigations/ICE) and twelve years in retirement and I still struggle with the "whys".  Especially now when I see Donald Trump say he is going to build his wall and fix the problems of not only illegal immigration but illegal drugs coming from Mexico.

I know many people in the US are rightfully angry and fearful about illegal immigration.  I also know many who see Washington's forty year long drug war as a total failure.

My brother is one of them.  He has witnessed our small town of San Jacinto CA turn into something that resembles a Mexican border town.  Our small town is not only filled with undocumented people, it is filled with Hispanic and Black gangbangers too. 

So my brother lives with the gun shots ringing at night and a police helicopter flying above his and his wife's home.  The same house that we grew up in. 

He walks downtown on the same streets that we rode our bikes on as kids.  The majority of the downtown stores' signs are now in Spanish, not English.  He sees homeless people and drug addicts wandering the streets.  He wonders how all of this happened.

My brother is the face of America who elected Donald Trump.  They elected Donald Trump because of Trump's promise to build a border wall, stop illegal immigration, stop illegal drugs and make America great again.  They elected Donald Trump because they are done with the Democrat's empty promises and useless narratives about immigration reform.

I understand my brother's dismay.  With that said, I combine my own experience from working as a US Border Patrol/ICE agent with a view that illegal immigration is a symptom of something much more insidious.

I see the influx of the undocumented (especially after NAFTA) as the planned economic exploitation of  these cheap laborers in conjunction with their medical and educational costs being passed along to the American middle class.  Of  course the Wall Street created Mortgage Meltdown of 2008 exacerbated much of with my brother sees and lives in.  Yet the presence of the undocumented in the US and the downsizing of the American middle class are simply the bi-national elite's "costs of doing business" i.e. the business of getting rich.

See more:
http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-us-and-mexican-elite-have.html

In the final analysis both groups are the victims of the greed and immigration ineffectiveness of both elite-run governments.

So is Trump's border wall and "Put America First" the solution to my brother's problem? 

I - at this point in my life - say "no".  I say no because Trump's solution does not recognize the actual cause of the problem.   Illegal immigration, a symptom of the bi-national elite's continuous greed, has been normalized to be held as a problem that causes itself.  Hence the immigration narratives of America's and Mexico's politicians never address their masters' greed as the cause of poverty that in turn causes illegal immigration.  

How does their greed turn into profit?  Primarily the Mexican elite export their own poor in order to receive back into Mexico billions of dollars in remittances.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexicos-remittances-reach-almost-27-billion/2017/02/01/19771e14-e8a3-11e6-903d-9b11ed7d8d2a_story.html?utm_term=.5b0ed8ee283c

Kind of like a welfare system in which the undocumented support their own poor families back home by working in the US.  Additionally the Mexican government does not have to provide health care and schooling for millions of its own citizens.  We The People do. 

By the way, the same corrupt Mexican elite pulls off a very similar, insidious export/import scam with the production and distribution of illegal drugs.  The cartel run government clandestinely exports drugs and billions flow back south into their pockets. 

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/03/20/291934724/awash-in-cash-drug-cartels-rely-on-big-banks-to-launder-profits

It is the same strategy - only using a different commodity.  And if any of you can't imagine Mexico's government being that corrupt you need to think again.

How does the US elite turn their greed into profit?  Primarily through the Mexican undocumented providing cheap laborer to US corporations.   I used to work for ICE and I know their employer sanctions efforts are totally ineffective.  I think that that ineffectiveness is by design. 

Meanwhile the US middle class suffers all of the costs and consequences of said "export/importation".   Do you think the "bubbles" that our millionaire politicians live in contain overcrowded hospital emergency rooms and overcrowded school rooms like those in my brother's area?  Do these millionaires see the demographics of their small towns being unfairly changed by this "export/importation"?  Do these millionaires have to worry about drug addicts or mentally ill criminals burglarizing their homes?  Or the loss in value of their homes due to this influx?

Speaking of greed and profit, look at the ever increasing budgets of the entire US immigration and drug enforcement complexes.  Billions of US tax dollars annually poured into the largest police and prison systems in the world.   Not unlike the US military industrial complex which produces the most weapons and therefore the most wars in the entire world.

http://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/economic/budget/dhs

These industries are dependent upon the Mexican elite's "exportation" of undocumented people and illegal drugs.  They are also dependent upon the our foreign wars against terrorism too.    

We must also become aware of their propaganda strategies.

For the "build the wall" industries it is "those murdering, raping illegal aliens, Mexicans and drug cartel thugs".  For the US war machine it is the lies of our own government such as those about WMD's in Iraq.  It is alto the fear creating/stereotyping/marginalizing labels such as "those Mid-Eastern radical Muslim terrorists" who must be banned from the US. 

Ban Muslims.  Build Trump's Wall.  Build an oil pipeline that endangers American Indian's sources of water and sacred land.  It's all for the elite's economic and military security at the expense of "We The People" in our "land of the free".

From my experience as a US Border Patrol/ICE agent if the Mexican poor have no hope of prosperity  they will keep coming to the US.  Remember, the approximate minimum wage in Mexico today - for an eight hour day of labor - is equivalent to about four US dollars (four US dollars a day). 

As long as the Mexican elite does not provide for its own people the Mexican undocumented will keep coming.  As long as the US elite dangles the labor and immigration reform carrots out in front of the Mexican undocumented  - they will keep coming.

As long as the politicians of this bi-national elite profit from this twisted and failed immigration status quo - the Mexican undocumented (and others) will keep coming. 

AND as long as this nightmare continues the American middle class will continue to foot the bills. 

And last - but horribly not least - undocumented people will continue to die crossing the border.

http://tucson.com/news/local/border/deaths-per-border-crossers-are-up-times-from-a-decade/article_c1279aaf-4ad8-51c9-82d8-3143b836f52e.html

Criminal aliens will continue to commit murders in the US.   And more world refugees will die as a result of US military actions around the world.

As long as Washington's narratives demand that the undocumented and Muslims are the cause, rather than symptoms of  more treacherous problems - our illegal immigration problems will never be solved.

And how the US elite gets away with profiting from not solving problems is beyond me.

I ask that you educate yourselves so that you know what the actual problems are.  Only then will we have a chance at solving them.

Finally, I do not know what Trump is up to.  Check out this article which claims Trump threatened  Mexican President Pena Nieto with US troops going into Mexico. http://thehill.com/policy/international/317463-ap-trump-told-mexican-president-to-handle-bad-hombres-or-us-troops-would
     
Trump is a madman.  He needs to be kicked out of office.

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-us-and-mexican-elite-have.html