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    Tulsi Gabbard is a very bright person with ideas and sense IMO.







    Quote Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D–Hawaii)........ different from the other Democrats.

    One difference is that she served in Iraq, and now pushes for ending wars. "We have to honor our servicemen and women by only sending them on missions that are worthy of their sacrifice," Gabbard tells Stossel.

    Instead, American interventions are often open-ended. "There's seldom a discussion that I've heard about what is our mission," Stossel says.

    "Exactly! That's exactly the problem…what is the clear, achievable goal?" Gabbard responds. She says her Afghanistan policy would have been: "Go in. Defeat Al-Qaeda. Get out."

    Gabbard also says: talk with our enemies. She met with Syria's dictator. The media and other Democratic candidates give her grief for that.

    CNN's Chris Cuomo lectured her: "You need to acknowledge that Bashar al-Assad is a murderous despot."

    Kamala Harris called Gabbard an "Assad apologist."

    "What's going on with your party?" Stossel asks Gabbard. "Democrats used to the antiwar party."

    Gabbard responds that both parties are "heavily influenced by the foreign policy establishment…whose whole power base is built around continuing this status quo. So much so to the point where when I'm calling for an end to these wasteful wars, they're saying, 'well, gosh, Tulsi, why are you such an isolationist.' As though the only way that we can relate with other countries in the world is by bombing them, or by putting crippling economic sanctions in place."

    Stossel also asks Gabbard about taking down a Democratic front-runner. In the fourth debate, she criticized Kamala Harris for her history of jailing people.

    "She put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana," Gabbard said in the debate.

    That moment changed the race. Harris lead in the betting at ElectionBettingOdds.com, with a 26% chance of winning the nomination. During the debate, she fell seven points. 10 days later, another seven points.

    "You killed her off," Stossel says.

    "I'm for the people, man," Gabbard replies, laughing. "I was speaking the truth, and speaking for a lot of people."

    Gabbard and Stossel argue, too. Like most democrats, Gabbard would spend billions on expensive new programs. She backs Medicare for All and free college.

    "Don't you think colleges already waste a lot of money?" Stossel asks.

    Gabbard agrees, "They do. Absolutely. Why is it costing more and more and more every single year?"

    "Look how much more it will cost when it's free," says Stossel.

    Gabbard responds, "We have to deal with…the root cause of the problem. One of which is…how much administrators of a lot of these colleges are being paid or overpaid."

    Stossel and Gabbard also argue over her proposal for a $15 minimum wage.

    "How does that not destroy opportunity for a 17-year-old in his first job who isn't worth $15 an hour?" Stossel asks.

    "I think we're looking at this as an investment in people," Gabbard answers.

    In the end, Stossel says, "I'm glad we could have a civil argument about some of these areas where we disagree. Few politicians want to do that anymore."

    She adds: "Look, I love my country. You love our country. Let's come together as Americans with appreciation for our Constitution, our freedoms, civil liberties and rights, and have this civil discourse and dialogue about how we can move forward together."
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    She is Fantastic!! But what is this about?


    TULSI GABBARD IS A CFR MEMBER AND ILLUMINATI PUPPET


    Wish I could ask her why she did that picture.


    She has called out HC very strongly, but what the hidden hand is capable of doing is placing an agent within that anti-war milieu as insurance- so they have a candidate if opinion swings in that direction.


    I really hope she's genuine...


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    She is Fantastic!! But what is this about?


    TULSI GABBARD IS A CFR MEMBER AND ILLUMINATI PUPPET
    Yes, that hand gesture is weird. Are there various meanings to that symbol?



    I think she is smart, articulate and I like the positions she puts out.


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    Baby Steps:

    This might be interesting to you and it has to do with the downward pointing pyramid. Tulsi's was pointed up.... is there a difference?

    Shark Tank – Gematria Study & Illuminati Symbolism



    Quote Tulsi Gabbard is one of the more compelling subplots of the 2020 election
    The Hawaii congresswoman is running a maverick campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
    BY CHRIS ROBINSON
    15 OCTOBER 2019



    Tulsi Gabbard is frustrated. Last week the Hawaiian congresswoman and presidential candidate threatened to boycott the upcoming Democratic presidential primary debate in protest at the DNC’s arbitrary rules for qualifying and lack of transparency in its approved polls.

    Then on Saturday she took to Twitter to hit out at a New York Times profile, titled “What, Exactly, Is Tulsi Gabbard Up To?”, which she described as a “‘greatest hits’ smear piece” and made clear she does not expect fair treatment at the Tuesday’s debate in Westerville, Ohio, for which the NYT is one of the moderators.

    Gabbard was back in Iowa last week, the key first-in-the-nation state that holds its caucus on 3 February, meeting voters and supporters at events billed as “coffee and toffee with Tulsi”. When Gabbard first entered Congress in Hawaii aged just 21, she asked her mother, Carol, to make batches of macadamia nut toffee that she then gave to members on both sides of the House as a gesture of “aloha”, which Gabbard describes as respect and underpins her belief that dialogue is key to making progress in politics.

    It is this belief, however, that saw her agree to a meeting with the Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Asad in January 2017 provoking a firestorm of criticism which she has struggled ever since to douse. After a campaign stop in Washington, Iowa, last Tuesday, she defended that meeting as being “in the interests of peace and national security” so I asked her what it had achieved other than gifting the regime a PR coup.

    “It’s not a gift,” she said, “… there was no PR around any meeting. The only coverage that came was a smear campaign from the media saying ‘how dare you meet with a brutal dictator?’ Tell me when peace has ever been achieved by only meeting with friends and allies?” she asked.

    That explanation sounds naïve and does not hold sway for her many critics who believe it had more to do with building her personal brand, and suspect she is doing the same with the presidential campaign, or that she will ultimately become the Jill Stein of 2020 and launch a third party run, something she has already refuted on the record.

    Gabbard’s political views are best understood as a clash between her upbringing in Hawaii and her experiences in the National Guard where she has served for 16 years. She is both a yoga-practising surfer who founded an environmental non-profit as a teenager cleaning beaches in Hawaii on the weekend with her friends; and a hardened, two-term Iraq war veteran who witnessed the cost of war first hand, forever changing her outlook on the world and making her a vociferous opponent of what she describes as wasteful regime change wars, a policy that is at the heart of her candidacy.

    These duelling sides of her personality were on display on the trail last week, first at the home of supporter Harold Frakes in Brighton, where she described how growing up in Hawaii gave her an appreciation of the environment and explained that putting service above self is what motivated her to run for the presidency.

    Later at Café Dodici in Washington she struck a markedly more alarmist tone, asking people to raise their hands if they would know where to go in the face of an imminent nuclear attack.

    Her preoccupation with nuclear war is not an act. In January 2018 Hawaiians woke up to text messages telling them to seek immediate shelter from an incoming missile. That experience further strengthened her belief that deescalating conflicts through dialogue and negotiation is the only way to guarantee national security.

    But it has also created confusion. Gabbard is regularly painted as non-interventionist but she has long since been on the record that pulling out of Syria too early, for example, would endanger the Kurds, and invited the Syrian Kurdish leader Ilham Ahmed to the State of the Union in February.

    This does not alter her belief, however, that it’s time for the United States to dial down its interests in conflicts overseas. “The United States should not be in a position to be the world’s police because it doesn’t work, nor is it our place,” she said in response to a question in Washington, explaining that America’s foreign policy is beholden to corporate interests and needs strong leadership to resist the military industrial complex.

    It’s a line that ought to play well with Democratic voters as the party shifts to the left, but instead she has been labelled an isolationist, much like Trump, a term she wearily rejects.

    “It’s a sad state of affairs that people assume when I’m advocating to end these regime change wars they equate that with isolationism,” she says. “It’s ridiculous because that means what you really believe is that the only way we can engage with other countries is through bombing them or through crippling sanctions.”

    It has left Gabbard in a bind. She has cast herself as an anti-war candidate but is opposed to the United States reneging on its existing commitments around the world, much like the rest of democratic presidential rivals. She is committed to “a foreign policy that’s based on cooperation rather than conflict” but has not articulated what she expects from foes like China or Russia in return.

    Her rivals will probably not welcome her decision, on Monday morning, to participate in the debate after all, but her run for the nomination remains one of the more compelling subplots in the 2020 race.

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    The people we may want to turn towards for current news on the democratic party candidates..... includes Jimmy Dore. Who is telling truth?




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    Thank you, very happy to read that her Mudra is a hindu blessing, this makes sense.
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    explanation to the picture : This is the sign for "protect Mauna Kea" The hands form a symbol for the sacred mountain......






    Native Hawaiians Fight Construction of Telescope on Mauna Kea

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    Quote Posted by Whisper (here)
    explanation to the picture : This is the sign for "protect Mauna Kea" The hands form a symbol for the sacred mountain......






    Native Hawaiians Fight Construction of Telescope on Mauna Kea
    Thanks so much for clarifying the gesture. I am certain that Tulsi Gabbard has a deeper understanding of natural law and truth than the other candidates in the US election. Maybe she is informed by the same feeling as in this article about Mauna Kea? I think she could HELP turn the direction the US is headed. It will take all of us insisting we move towards what we really would like to experience.

    Quote A Sacred Space is Mauna Kea
    Kealoha Pisciotta, October 5th 2014


    I wish to pause for a moment to reflect upon the Mauna (Mountain) and I have extracted some thoughts from my past writings (“No Aloha or Aloha No”, 2001 and KAHEA: The Hawaiian Environmental Alliance publication: “Protecting Cultural Resources and Rights: Mauna to Makai”, 2010) that were inspired by the Mauna and that I share in honor of Mauna Kea:

    Sometimes the actions of others can create an environment of non-peace. Such is the case with the TMT.

    (Wikepedia: The Thirty Meter Telescope is a proposed extremely large telescope that has become controversial due to its planned location on Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawaii, a mountain which is considered sacred by some Native Hawaiians. The TMT would become the largest visible-light telescope on Mauna Kea.Wikipedia)

    When this happens we are deeply saddened, our hearts become heavy with anger and resentment, and defensive feelings come to the forefront of our being. This is justified, understandable, even reasonable. No matter if you are following the laws of the occupier (US) or the laws of the Kingdom of Hawai`i, all laws are a construct of civilization (made by man) for the purpose of helping us live in peace and harmony. In this case, however, we would be remiss if we did not honor the sacred nature of Mauna Kea also.

    Mauna Kea holds a special place on Earth, as it stands as a place of peace and Aloha, not just for Hawai`i but for the world. Many sacred places of the world hold ancient wisdom bound in ritual and ceremony for this time in our history, to help us all heal ourselves and the world. Mauna Kea is one of those places. It is because Mauna Kea resides in Wao Akua--the realms of the Akua (God and Gods); and that it specifically does not reside in the realms of Na Kanaka (Man) that its sanctity is governed by the laws of the Heavens and not by the laws of Man. For it is only on Mauna Kea that one’s breath can be seized in a moment never to be returned.

    So when we walk on the sacred ground in the sacred realms, we are bound by the laws of the Akua, not our own. The Mauna was created by the Akua for man so that he/she could learn the ways of the Heavens. And encoded in the very landscape of Mauna are the great songs of Creation—the first songs of Aloha — and they were sung for us by the Akua to bring us into being and to help bring us into alignment with the Akua—Ke Akua, Na Akua and Na ‘Aumakua.

    These are the love songs that set the first law of the land in motion—the law of Aloha. The Akua are the great composers of these songs, and when sung, the Akua walk the earth with man, just as Tutu Pele honors us with her dance today. Their Aloha flows and envelops us in the beauty that surrounds us. Mauna Kea is the great magnifier/amplifier so the songs of Aloha are magnified/amplified for all to see, feel and hear.

    Aloha is also a sacred word that comes from the time of Creation and Creator, and although man can us it, man cannot profane it. When we utter the sacred word of Aloha, we invoke the spirit of Aloha, and when Aloha is in action, it is felt on all levels and what is contrary cannot exist simultaneously. One can’t be in the Aloha and the absence of it all at the same time. This means that each person engaged in Aloha is bound to the principles of truth and right action. When Aloha is enacted, our actions are overseen by the Akua. Each participant can act as he or she chooses but is responsible for his or her own actions and intentions nevertheless.

    This issue is not about us verses them. It is about the unification of the people and re-imaging the way we wish to live on Earth. So we invoke Aloha in its highest order, we open our hearts so that the Mauna can keep us safe and in right alignment with the Heavens so that all things righteous may be fulfilled.

    ALOHA NO!!!
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    Tulsi is making the sign of “the Mauna”...Mauna Kea on the Big Island in solidarity with the Native Hawaiians who are protecting the summit from the construction of the controversal thirty meter telescope. Here in Hawaii this is a very popular symbol everyone uses with the phrase “ku kia’i mauna”. (Protect the mountain)
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    Is Tulsi Gabbard a Zionist?

    In 2015 she spoke at the right wing "Christians United for Israel" conference, along with Benjamin Netanyahu, Ted Cruz and others.



    I watched this video a few months ago and felt disgusted, that she had clearly been co-opted into Zionism. Decided to give this a second listen so that I could determine exactly where her incriminating words were, and I didn't find them! (Either I didn't listen very well or this is the Mandela effect at work )

    Her words were incredibly well chosen. She focused on what she said were threats to both Israel, the United States and the rest of the world:
    • extremist ideology and it's intersection with terrorism
    • Al Qaeda
    • Iran, and it's attempt to develop nuclear weapons

    While I am not convinced 100% either way, whether or not Iran will soon have nuclear weapons capabilities, I think her focus on Al Qaeda is quite an intelligent move, especially when so many neocons and neolibs have enabled Al Qaeda, especially Hillary Clinton when she successfully worked to create regime change in Libya.

    What she didn't talk about was Israeli's right to exist as a state where Jewish people have special rights over non-Jews, where all the lands that were once Palestine should now be controlled by a militant violent group of Jewish leaders. She didn't come around as a 100% Zionist. On the other hand, she also didn't speak out about the atrocities that the Israeli Zio-Cons have brought about nor has she else where.

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    I am never sure of what is true of ANYONE in politics but I actually see Tulsi Gabbard as a REAL agent for change (against the forever war). The thing is that the Military/Medical/Media industrial Complex is the enemy and I think Gabbard understands the stakes.

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    Quote Democrat Gabbard, who slammed Israel for live fire use in Gaza, to run in 2020
    Hawaii congresswoman and Iraq veteran also controversially met with Syria’s Assad and questioned whether he was responsible for chemical attack on civilians that killed dozens
    By AGENCIES and TOI STAFF
    12 January 2019


    Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who last year castigated Israel for its use of live ammunition against “unarmed protesters” at violent demonstrations on the Gaza border orchestrated by the Hamas terrorist group, has announced that she is running for president in 2020.

    Gabbard said in a CNN interview slated to air Saturday night that she will be formally announcing her candidacy within the next week. The 37-year-old Iraq War veteran is the first Hindu elected to Congress and the first member born in the US territory of American Samoa.

    In May 2018, Gabbard slammed Israel for its use of live ammunition against “unarmed protesters” after a particularly deadly day of violence at the Gaza border on the day the US moved its embassy to Jerusalem, in which at least 58 Palestinians were killed and more than 2,700 Palestinians wounded, according to figures from the Hamas-run Gazan health ministry.

    Hamas later that week acknowledged that most of the dead in that escalation of violence were its members, while Islamic Jihad claimed another three. Salah Bardawil said 50 of 62 Palestinians reported killed during Gaza border riots on May 14 and 15 were Hamas members. “In the last rounds of confrontations, if 62 people were martyred, 50 of the martyrs were Hamas and 12 from the people,” Bardawil said on May 16.

    The IDF spokesperson’s office said that on that day, Hamas deployed 12 separate terrorist “cells” to try to breach the border at different locations, and that all were rebuffed. Among the dead, the IDF said, were all eight members of a cell of armed Hamas operatives, who were killed in a gun battle as they sought to breach the fence in the northern Gaza Strip.

    Since March 2018, Palestinians have been holding the weekly “March of Return” protests on the border, which Israel has accused Gaza’s Hamas terrorist rulers of using to carry out attacks on troops and attempt to breach the security fence.

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    Israel needs to stop using live ammunition in its response to unarmed protesters in Gaza. It has resulted in over 50 dead and thousands seriously wounded.

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    In 2015, Gabbard addressed the Christians United for Israel summit, and that same year said that while the US remained a strong ally of Israel, the two countries diverge on how best to prevent a nuclear Iran, lamenting after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress that the issue was being used as a “political football.”

    Christians United For Israel, founded and led by Pastor John Hagee, has millions of members and calls itself the “largest pro-Israel grassroots organization in the United States.” The organization is said to have been a major factor in US President Donald Trump’s 2017 decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the US embassy there.

    In 2016, Gabbard alarmed fellow Democrats when she met with Trump during his transition to president and later when she took a secret trip to Syria and met with President Bashar Assad, who has been accused of war crimes. She questioned whether he was responsible for a chemical attack on civilians that killed dozens and led the UN to attack a Syrian airbase.

    She said she doesn’t regret the trip and considers it important to meet with adversaries if “you are serious about pursuing peace.” She also noted that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was based on faulty intelligence and said that she wanted to understand the evidence of the Syria attack.

    Gabbard has long opposed a policy of regime change there, arguing that the country would descend further into chaos should Assad be ousted. Top leaders from her own Democrat party were not informed about her trip to Syria in advance, the Guardian reported.


    Palestinians chant slogans during clashes with Israeli troops near the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel east of Gaza City, on May 14, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

    Gabbard is joining what is expected to be a crowded Democratic field. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has already formed an exploratory committee and is moving quickly with trips across early primary states. California Sen. Kamala Harris, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders are all weighing their own presidential bids and are expected to announce decisions in the upcoming weeks. Former Obama administration housing chief Julian Castro plans to announce his run for the presidency on Saturday.

    Gabbard was one of the most prominent lawmakers to back Sanders over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary. Her endorsement came in dramatic fashion, with her resigning as a vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee to express her support.

    Asked last year whether she would still consider running if Sanders ran, Gabbard said Sanders is a friend and she didn’t know what his plans were.

    “I’m thinking through how I can best be of service and I’ll make my decision based on that,” she said.
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    Today I’m officially announcing that I will not be seeking reelection to Congress in 2020. Throughout my life, I’ve always made my decisions based on where I felt I could do the most good. In light of the challenges we face, I believe I can best serve the people of Hawaiʻi & our country as President and Commander-in-Chief. As president, I will immediately begin work to end the new cold war & nuclear arms race end our interventionist foreign policy of trying being the world’s police. Join me in ushering in a new Democratic Party that is of, by, and for the people. Together, let’s bring integrity and the spirit of putting service before self to the White House, so that our White House can truly be a beacon of light, hope and opportunity for all Americans.

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    Gabbard is the first female combat veteran in history to run for President. She breaks it down with fellow combat veteran Rieckhoff for a focus on the national security, and veterans issues that are often left off the debate stage. The dynamic and spirited conversation is an insight into the battle to defeat Trump, the battle to defeat American’s enemies, the battle for the future of the Democratic party, and the battle to define the future of American politics. And this news-making episode of Angry Americans gets into all of it–along with why Gabbard doesn’t drink alcohol, what she really thinks of Vladamir Putin, Bashar al-Assad, Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan—and what she gave up as a teenager to buy her very first car.

    As a candidate for President, Tulsi Gabbard has vehemently opposed what she calls “regime change wars”. But she’s still an officer serving in the Hawaii National Guard. So if she was called up to active duty to fight in one, would she go? If elected President, would she again meet with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad? Will she leave the Democratic party and run as an independent? Find out now.

    Host Paul Rieckhoff leads a fascinating conversation with Gabbard–and takes Angry Americans into the latest headlines you need to know about. From the devolving situation in Syria, to Secretary of Defense Esper’s struggles in the media, to Shaquile O’Neal’s good deed, Rieckhoff quickly takes you through news headlines that are important and inspiring.

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    Is Tulsi Gabbard a Zionist?

    In 2015 she spoke at the right wing "Christians United for Israel" conference, along with Benjamin Netanyahu, Ted Cruz and others.



    I watched this video a few months ago and felt disgusted, that she had clearly been co-opted into Zionism. Decided to give this a second listen so that I could determine exactly where her incriminating words were, and I didn't find them! (Either I didn't listen very well or this is the Mandela effect at work )

    Her words were incredibly well chosen. She focused on what she said were threats to both Israel, the United States and the rest of the world:
    • extremist ideology and it's intersection with terrorism
    • Al Qaeda
    • Iran, and it's attempt to develop nuclear weapons

    While I am not convinced 100% either way, whether or not Iran will soon have nuclear weapons capabilities, I think her focus on Al Qaeda is quite an intelligent move, especially when so many neocons and neolibs have enabled Al Qaeda, especially Hillary Clinton when she successfully worked to create regime change in Libya.

    What she didn't talk about was Israeli's right to exist as a state where Jewish people have special rights over non-Jews, where all the lands that were once Palestine should now be controlled by a militant violent group of Jewish leaders. She didn't come around as a 100% Zionist. On the other hand, she also didn't speak out about the atrocities that the Israeli Zio-Cons have brought about nor has she else where.
    Very smart of Tulsi. (Holy Basil in Hindi)

    She represents the left side of the neo-isolationist trend articulated by Trump. She continually signals withdrawal from the middle east. She is signalling to friends of Israel that, although she supports a hands-off diplomatic approach to the area, she is not in favour of abandoning Israel, who depends on military aid from the USA to keep its missile defences working.

    This is a sensible realistic position from an electoral point of view.

    Go, Tulsi!
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