Wakeful Video Weekend 2021-12-12 (13 videos)

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Summary: COVID updates & insights plus trouble in worker lives, politics, and climate crisis

Stars and channels: Unlearning Economics, Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff), The Jimmy Dore Show, Secular Talk, Psych2Go, Hoover Institution, Hindustan Times, Democracy At Work, On Contact (Chris Hedges & Joe Lauria & Alfred McCoy)

Topics:

Worker Co-Ops Analysis
Economic Update: U.S. Inequity
Corrupticians Preventing Protection from Surprise Medical Bills
The Stupidity of Identity Politics, Example: LatinX
Lockdowns to Enrich the Billionaires Rather than Protect People
Recognizing Burn-Out (it’s NOT Laziness)
COVID: The Public Health Establishment Has Failed the Public (explained by an epidemiologist)
COVID Rule Protests: In Brussels thousands clash with police over new COVID rules (film 2:31 min long)
COVID: Omicron May be Better than any Vaccine
Discovering the Toxicity and Fakery of our Workplaces
Another Money Hustle by the Money Lords: Credit Cards as Refunds
The UK Switching Back to Assange Extradition
Dreadful Global Future Expectations

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1. Worker Co-Ops Analysis

I find the conclusion at the end of this rather long investigatory video quite good: Worker co-ops generally make life better for workers and create more economic stability. OTOH, this is not enough for a good world to create, especially because only half of us are employed workers. The other half are kids, retired old folks, handicapped and sick people, carers, homemakers, and the unemployed (the not hired). Hence other means of change like a UBI, universal healthcare, free education, and home guarantee are of even more vital state. And – giving my own addition – to make such a safe floor under our feet stable, we also need to add things like cap taxes on income and wealth to eliminate easily psychopathic rich money lords who will happily destroy everything for others.

Worker Democracy ~ Unlearning Economics (Dec 4, 2021)

2. Economic Update: U.S. Inequity

Economic Update : Class Struggles in the US Today ~ Democracy At Work (Dec 6, 2021)

3. Corrupticians Preventing Protection from Surprise Medical Bills

Surprise Medical Bills Coming to an End? ~ The Jimmy Dore Show (Dec 8, 2021)

4. The Stupidity of Identity Politics, Example: LatinX

Finally a non-hispanic-ethnicity-familiar person realizes how utterly wrong the “Latinx” label is.

Hispanics DESPISE ‘Latinx’ Label & Dems Who Use It | The Kyle Kulinski Show ~ Secular Talk (Dec 8, 2021)

5. Lockdowns to Enrich the Billionaires Rather than Protect People

Basically the first half of this video is nicely informative. Later it slows down. Here is a summary quote from the first eleven minutes: “Marketed as life-saving public health measures, lockdowns trigger death and economic devastation on a global scale while doing little to slow the spread of covet 19. Now they’re back with a vengeance. … the [previous] lockdowns that had transferred wealth upwards … and created a new 40 new billionaires … billionaires increased their wealth in the U.S. by 54%. The top 1 percent of U.S. households now control more money than the entire U.S. middle class. … 200 000 small businesses were completely shuttered … 10 million [cancer, etc.] screenings being missed in the U.S. … 1.4 million medical workers lost their jobs in April 2020 alone…”

How Lockdowns Devastate You While Boosting Billionaires ~ The Jimmy Dore Show (Dec 5, 2021)

6. Recognizing Burn-Out (it’s NOT Laziness)

Important because very common nowadays thanks to our insanely corrupt system.

6 Signs You’re Burnt Out, Not Lazy ~ Psych2Go (Jul 18, 2021)

7. COVID: The Public Health Establishment Has Failed the Public (explained by an epidemiologist)

A long-life epidemiologist (Dr. Jay Bhattacharya) has been from the very beginning of the COVID-19 crisis on the front lines of analyzing, studying, and even personally fighting the pandemic. In this episode he is interviewed and reveals a ton of horrible mistakes made and how to improve this situation and better handle future pandemics. Some points: the lockdowns gave way more harm than help, the vaccines should not be mandated, sensible public information and focused protection should be done instead, plus more healthcare rather than less.

What Happened: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on 19 Months of COVID ~ Hoover Institution (Oct 21, 2021)

Note: Left out though are the dangers from the currently still only given in our country new experimental mRNA and live adenovirus vaccines instead of by now finally developed regular ones of dead viruses or fractions of dead viruses (developed abroad, hence no profits for our billionaire oligarchs, or lesser ones). Left out is also the issue of eternal boost demands, forcing us to get the (potentially dangerous experimental) vaccine again and again and again. – And why do I mention potential dangers from the current experimental mRNA and live adenovirus vaccines? Because I have some personal experience with them, not just remote reports

8. COVID Rule Protests: In Brussels thousands clash with police over new covid rules (film 2:31 min long)

Watch: Brussels on edge as thousands clash with police over new COVID rules amid infection surge ~ Hindustan Times (Dec 5, 2021)

9. COVID: Omicron May be Better than any Vaccine

Nice that others finally present what I with my biomedical background started thinking right away when hearing about the weak COVID variation.

Is Omicron the End of the Pandemic? ~ The Jimmy Dore Show (Dec 9, 2021)

10. Discovering the Toxicity and Fakery of our Workplaces

… when returning to work after lockdowns.

Ask Prof Wolff: Why Workplaces Get Toxic ~ Democracy At Work (Dec 9, 2021)

11. Another Money Hustle by the Money Lords: Credit Cards as Refunds

Ask Prof Wolff: Credit Cards as Refunds – Another Profit Hustle ~ Democracy At Work (Dec 11, 2021)

12. The UK Switching Back to Assange Extradition

Disgusting. Over years by now I have come to understand why the French revolutionaries executed so many oligarchs and their (alleged) henchmen. Humans should never be so unfair and cruel to each other as so many are, especially those at the top. Those who then create the only trickle down we ever get (a trickle down of cruelty which then can lead to home violence and mass shootings committed at the bottom – but I truly feel the cruelty consistently starts at the top).

Assange can be extradited, says court ~ Chris Hedges & Joe Lauria On Contact (Dec 11, 2021)

13. Dreadful Global Future Expectations

Let’s dearly hope this professor is wrong.

The New Global Order ~ Chris Hedges & Alfred McCoy On Contact (Dec 4, 2021)

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