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NWCorona's JournalBERNIE RIPS INTO HILLARY OVER ‘PANAMA PAPERS’: ‘AMERICANS ARE SICK & TIRED OF ESTABLISHMENT POLITICI
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has released an official statement criticizing Democratic presidential front-runner and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her support of the U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA). The official statement by the Sanders campaign comes after the “Panama Papers” leaks, through the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
The “Panama Papers” include about 11.5 million documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which reveal how the wealthiest one percent use shell companies and exploit loopholes in tax laws to spirit away billions of dollars to offshore accounts as a way of avoiding their fair share of taxes.
So far, 140 world leaders from 50 countries, including Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Iceland’s Prime Minister Davíð Gunnlaugsson, have been implicated in the leaks.
And as the entire world reels under the impact of the staggering implications of the massive leaks revealing the offshore tax havens that the global elite use to hide their wealth, Sanders released a statement yesterday (April 5, 2016) drawing attention to his vocal opposition to the Panama Trade Agreement back in 2011. He also contrasted his position on the trade agreement to the position that his Democratic primaries opponent Clinton took at time, pointing out that while he warned the Senate back in 2011 (see video below) that the agreement would only facilitate corruption, Clinton had supported the trade pact."
http://www.inquisitr.com/2966525/bernie-sanders-rips-into-hillary-clinton-over-panama-papers-americans-are-sick-and-tired-of-establishment-politicians/
Two Guys From Brooklyn: The Bernie Sanders Interview by Spike Lee
"For THR's New York Issue, the Hollywood director and the senator from Vermont he supports for president — both of whom hail from Brooklyn — meet for the first time to talk free education, guns, a certain "demagogue" (you get one guess) and Obama's legacy on the eve of the crucial New York primary.
It's the last night of March, and there are hundreds of people lined up on the sidewalk outside St. Mary's Park in the Bronx. The rainbow crowd, mostly under 30 but with representation from every generation (and based on the packed subway on the way here, every borough), is buzzing with anticipation. Some 18,500 supporters are gathering on this unseasonably mild evening to see Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders speak at his first big New York rally, and even though he's a long shot to win the state's Democratic primary April 19, the mood is celebratory.
On the sidewalk outside the park, a man in a Donald Trump mask holds a sign offering foam noodle whacks for $3, and two eager pint-size activists are gleefully whacking away. At the entrance, everyone submits calmly to Secret Service inspections, including a young woman in a college sweatshirt who sets off the metal detector ("I have a lot of piercings," she explains). And inside there's an energetic sense of mission pervading the crowd — along with the unmistakable whiff of marijuana. ("Smell the Bern," jokes one journalist in the casually cordoned-off press area, and it sounds like it's not the first time he's used this line at a Sanders event.)
This is what 74-year-old self-proclaimed "Democratic socialist" Bernie Sanders' political revolution looks like in New York, a must-win for him in what most still see as his quixotic bid to arrest the inevitability of Hillary Clinton's selection as the Democratic presidential nominee."
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/bernie-sanders-interviewed-by-spike-880788
"Smell the bern" lol
Bernie Sanders On the Panama Papers: Told You So
"BACK IN 2011, Bernie Sanders told the Senate that Panama was “a world leader when it comes to allowing large corporations and wealthy Americans to evade US taxes.”
This week, those words are sounding eerily prophetic, and the Sanders campaign, for one, would like to remind you of that fact.
As the world reels from the so-called Panama Papers leak, which exposed the offshore tax havens of world leaders from Russia’s Vladimir Putin to Icelandic Prime Minister Davíð Gunnlaugsson, Sanders is calling attention to his opposition to the 2011 Panama Trade Agreement.
“I was opposed to the Panama Free Trade Agreement from day one,” Sanders said in a statement today. “I wish I had been proven wrong about this, but it has now come to light that the extent of Panama’s tax avoidance scams is even worse than I had feared.”
As president, Sanders says he would terminate the agreement within his first six months in office and “conduct an immediate investigation into US banks, corporations, and wealthy individuals who have been stashing their cash in Panama to avoid taxes.”
So far, news on Americans implicated in the Panama Papers scandal has been scarce, though early reports show that 211 names included in the leak correspond to US addresses. Still, given just how much data was leaked—a whopping 2.6 terabytes—it will likely be a while until the journalists involved in the investigation can sort through it all."
http://www.wired.com/2016/04/bernie-sanders-panama-papers-told/
Tim Black: Hillary Clinton Is No Champion of the $15 Hour Minimum Wage!
Hillary Clinton is shameless. As New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the first statewide $15-an-hour minimum wage in the nation Hillary was there. Clinton was there not because she was a supporter of the "Fight for 15"movement, but because she's a dirty politician who wants to mislead voters and snag a gratuitous photo op. Bernie Sanders has been fighting for "Income Equality" his whole career. The $15 hour wage increase has been a pillar of the Sanders Campaign meanwhile Hillary has appeared in National Debates and on the campaign trail chiding Sanders as "All Talk, A Big Dreamer and Unrealistic" to fight for $15 hour living wage.
Today was a shameful, disgusting, sick day for New York Politics. Tim Black breaks it down
The Stranger: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and the Impact of the Panama Papers on the Race
"As I said yesterday, the Panama Papers (documents of offshore bank transactions and accounts that shelter the global rich from taxes) scandal is going to be good for Sanders and bad for Clinton. And sure enough, Sanders had this to say about Panama in 2011, when he opposed a free trade agreement between Panama, a country with a tiny economy, and the US
And what was Clinton's position on this trade pact, which included South Korea and Colombia? In the opinion of U.S. Uncut, a group "established in February 2011 to combat corporate tax avoidance": "She was on the complete opposite side of the issue." What is for sure is she had nothing substantial to say about how a trade agreement with Panama (Sanders' first point) would generate jobs in the US. She only stated that it would do so by the pure voodoo of opening its market to US products. This same voodoo is being promoted in TPP.
In the narrative of the elite (a narrative that received a major and fatal shock with the crash of 2008), trade agreements are never about rich people really, but always the poor, the American worker, the man and woman on the street. The rich are just doing all they can for us at the bottom. That's how they see themselves. That's their man and woman in the mirror. And that's how most politicians represent their causes to us. Read Clinton's press release. She is speaking the language of the elite. What will come out of the Panama Papers is the fact that Sanders really does not speak this language at all."
http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/04/05/23908452/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-and-the-impact-of-the-panama-papers-on-the-race
This is looking bad for Hillary.
Central Wisconsin voters could outpace state
"Election officials are prepared for high voter turnouts for the primary election.
In the first hour polls were open Tuesday, more than 200 people had voted at Mead Elementary School in Wisconsin Rapids.
"We had a line at 7 O'clock," said Ramona Lubeck, chief election inspector at the site.
People were patient and considerate of each other during the first rush, Lubeck said. People seemed to understand how important the election is and wanted to get in and vote before lines became longer later in the day, she said.
Lubeck expected a lot of voters Tuesday and she said election workers are prepared for a large turnout. There also is a large number of absentee ballots for the election, Lubeck said.
Wood County has 2,193 absentee ballots, according to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board. Portage County has 2,553 absentee ballots and Marathon County has 3,908. The ones turned in will be counted after the polls close Tuesday evening.
With a compelling mayoral race and provocative presidential primary on the ballot, early morning voting on Wausau's southeast side was similarly brisk. As of 7:50 a.m., 125 people had cast their ballots at Pilgrim Lutheran Church, the polling place for Wausau's Districts 1 and 2.
About 25 people were lined up at the door at 7 a.m. when the poll opened, said Tanya Pagel, a chief inspector at the site. “We’ve had a steady flow since then,” Pagel said. “People want to get their votes in before going to work.”
Election officials expected a turnout in excess of 60 percent of registered voters in Wausau.
That’s about the same number of expected voters in Marshfield: City Clerk Deb Hall said she was hoping for a turnout between 60 and 65 percent of eligible voters — more than the expected statewide average of 40 percent.
“We tend to be a little bit higher than the state,” Hall said"
http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/story/news/2016/04/05/voting-off-quick-start/82644460/
Hillary Clinton "The View" full interview
Hillary Clinton Waits Until $15 Minimum Wage Passes in New York and California to Endorse It
"This week, California and New York passed landmark bills that would increase the states’ minimum wages to $15 an hour. Hillary Clinton joined New York governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday to celebrate the win—despite advocating for only a $12 minimum wage since at least October.
Speaking to the bill’s supporters, Clinton said, “It’s a result of what is best about New York and what is best about America. And I know that it’s going to sweep our country.” This is curious, considering the fact that Clinton previously refused to endorse a national minimum wage of $15, something the Democratic party leadership did in August.
Last summer, she told Buzzfeed:
I think part of the reason that the Congress and very strong Democratic supporters of increasing the minimum wage are trying to debate and determine what’s the national floor is because there are different economic environments. And what you can do in L.A. or in New York may not work in other places.
More curious still is the former Secretary of State’s work on minimum wages in other countries. In 2009, Haiti wanted to increase the minimum wages at its textile factories to $5 per day. After American manufacturers protested, the State Department intervened"
http://gawker.com/hillary-clinton-waits-until-15-minimum-wage-passes-in-1769031084
#WhichHillary
Tim Black: Hillary Clinton Insults The Intelligence of Bernie Sanders Supporters
"Hillary Clinton appeared on "Meet The Press" with Chuck Todd responding to allegations she takes money from the Fossil Fuel Industry. Hillary Clinton denies taking money from Oil, Coal and Gas Companies. Clinton went on to say "I feel sorry sometimes for the young people who believe this, they don't do their own research. I'm glad we can now point to reliable, independent analysis to say: No. It is just not true."
Tim Black presents the facts concerning the Greenpeace as well as Bernie Sanders accusations of Hillary Clinton's Fossil Fuel Industry connections and lets you decide which you believe"
Video: Bernie Sanders: I Don’t Want to Get Hillary Clinton More Nervous Than She Already Is
"At a campaign event in Wisconsin, Bernie Sanders said he thinks he’ll win the state’s primary if there is a high voter turnout. While not wanting to “get Hillary Clinton more nervous than she already is,” the Vermont senator said he thinks a win in Wisconsin would propel him to a victory in New York."
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/videos/2016-04-04/sanders-i-don-t-want-to-get-clinton-more-nervous
I think he's right and will win both!
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