News, deep insights, and some humor as well. Outstanding videos from this week, some of which you may have missed.
Issues: isms, equality of life, UBI, drone wars, billionaire badness, globalist corporatism, Assange, revolution vs reform, lawlessness, refugees, education, Bernie, and more…
Stars & Channels: Cowboy Economist, John Spritzler, Redacted Tonight, Brave New Films, Jesse Ventura, The Michael Brooks Show, The Humanist Report, Jimmy Dore, Thought Slime, The Real News Network, The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow, Chris Hedges (On Contact), Democracy At Work, Newsbroke, TED
Topics:
Thoughts: Capital-/Social-/Marx-/Cummun-ism with a Satirical Bent
Faux Progressives: Their “Equal Opportunity” Trap
Insights: Rational UBI & Google Censorship
Connection: Student Debt, Drone Wars & Terrorism
News: Predatory Corporations and Globalist Fascism
Thoughts: Going Far Enough
Candidates: Fighting Elitist Politics
Candidates: Conversation with Bernie’s Press Secretary
Media War: Hounding a Political Prisoner
Change: Revolution or Reform & Nice or Edgy
Police: Police Protected from the Law
Refugees: Mass Murder by the Supreme Court
Education: Schools Sort People as Commodities
Empire: The Enemy from Within
Poverty: Housing Gouging (and More)
Billionaires: The Oh So Good Ones Are NOT Good
Christian Fascists: Religious Liberty Warped to Crush Liberty
Several funny but enlightening videos mixed with vital news, rare revelations, and deep insights.
Not to miss: a great conversation of Richard Wolff with Chris Hedges and a heart-wrenching speech on the Assange Case. Oh, and so much more.
Channels: thejuicemedia, ContraPoints, The Jimmy Dore Show, Democracy At Work, John Spritzler, TeleSUR English, Brave New Films, Redacted Tonight, The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow, RT America, Cowboy Economist, Empire Files, The Michael Brooks Show, Ralph Nader Radio Hour, redfish, The Grayzone, Rolling Stone
Topics:
Humor: “Honest” Government Ad
Humor: Capitalism’s Badness
D.C. Shutdown
Paying Taxes for a Bad Government
Identity Politics for the Rich
Our For-Profit Wars
Marketed “Mindfulness”
Our Fake Meritocracy
Humor: Is Socialism Alien?
Socialism (Abby Martin & Richard Wolff)
Not only the Top Fights the Bottom, The Upper Middle Does Too
Media for the People or The Oligarchs?
How do Germans See Today’s Concentration Camps in the U.S.?
Nicaragua: Free Healthcare, Free Education, & a Federal Housing Program
Joe Biden Gave us the Refugee Caravans
Media BS: Interview with Jimmy Dore
Free Press and Tyranny (The Assange Case)
1. Humor: “Honest” Government Ad | We’re F**ked
Honest Government Ad | We’re F**ked
thejuicemedia
From back in 2016 and nearly one and a half million views by now. A must-see if you missed it or forgot much of it by now with all that is going on all the time. (and there is a follow-up to be shared this coming Video Weekend)
Marxism 101: How Capitalism is Killing Itself with Dr. Richard Wolff Empire Files
A collection of great videos you may have missed (most of them new this past week). Very informative! And several even comedic and yet very informative. So… revelations and fun!
Stars & channels: Newsbroke, John Spritzler, The Real News Network, Niko House, The Humanist Report, Ralph Nader, The Grayzone, Redacted Tonight, Jimmy Dore, ContraPoints, and more.
Topics:
Humor: Capitalism vs Climate (Newsbroke)
Those in Power Pretending to be on Our Side
You Want to Know the Real Trump Election Fraud? (Not Russiahhh)
Tulsi: An Interview Letting her Answer the Questions
Warren, The Fake Progressive
Healthcare Destruction: Privatization of Medicare
Communism Failing on its Own?
Ralph Nader Radio Hour: “Juuling” & Anybody But Trump?
Media: Insights into the Corporate Media Bias
Why the American People Need to Revolt
Forced Neoliberalism a Stepping Stone for Fascism
The History and Psychology of Genocide Policy
Immigration: Illegal Green Aliens
Mindfulness for Solidarity rather than Personal Isolation
Humor: 4 Humorous Political Videos (on 2016, Biden, Koch, & the Inefficient Left)
Or: The Right-Left Division Isn’t as Real as it Seems
This article is a sequel to A More Relaxed Economy which discussed the UBI aspect of a shared video by NonCompete which I felt needed more mulling over. This sequel now gets into another interesting issue that came up in that video, namely that many “conservatives” or Republicans (or right-wingers) are actually leftists deep down without knowing it . Excavating this hidden treasure could do a lot for all of us. Hence, I will now make the attempt: Continue reading “The Left-Right Division When Deep Down We Agree”→
A conversation with my former employee – Dirty Capitalist Confession Session NonCompete
in which the American Johnson, who feels guilty about his conduct as a business owner in his younger years, says he would have been happier as part of a worker co-op, something important comes up and is only half-discussed, namely the different kind of working life when we can all participate in the business decisions of our workplace.
What gets discussed is the benefit from it, namely you are not being ruled from a top with no means of knowing that the management may be planning your lay-off or firing, and your expertise may actually make it into the decision making that may otherwise be flawed because of ignorance at the managerial (and salesmanship) level, and misunderstandings can be better avoided, and holding our cards close becomes less necessary, and those in key positions will no longer have to bear too much painful responsibility, and so on…
And I basically agree, often arguing for the same, but it also occurred to me – thinking back to when I was working in a similar small family-like company – and that company came down on its luck because of badly timed growth investment and crushing blows from mega corporations invading its market, that we (the people in that company) would also have had to endure a lot of suffering discussing how to survive the financial disaster, who could survive how much pay cut for how long, or who would have to be let go. (The company got so crushed by the mega corporations at the point that its ability to borrow money was gone that it was forced by its bank to slash its workforce by half within a month. That’s how dire the situation was. That’s why even democratic decision making would surely have had to deal with lay-offs.)
This consideration drives me into the thought realm of the universal basic income (a UBI, better thought of as a citizens dividend when financed not by taxing middle income workers but only the rich as a method of reshaping our wealth and power pyramid into an egalitarian broad building with No Rich and No Poor). Because, if every earned dollar has at least another dollar going to the ultra rich at the top, as things are right now, many of us are struggling to make ends meet. But if that dollar was not robbed but stayed with each of us (by cap-taxing the wealthy and shaping the revenue into a UBI), we could all be way more relaxed in our working lives and business management. We could shape our workplaces as worker co-ops in a far more relaxed economy where no worker or worker’s relative would have to worry about sinking into poverty because all the money we earn from labor would only be extra money, not our full livelihood. Business downturns could be handled much more easily.
It’s something to think about for those who worry that a UBI could only be a hand-out to placate the poor, or those who regard it as too much state power becoming too much burden on the private sector. I really think that a correctly done UBI (a citizens dividend) would lead to a far more relaxed economy that would benefit all the unemployed, all employees, and even business managers and owners; in other words: everybody.
It is our current stressful economies that lead to brutal lay-offs, slashing of salaries and benefits, warlike struggles between companies, manipulating and cheating of customers, ruthless destruction of the environment (even our planet’s human-life-supporting climate!). It leads to offshoring jobs, illegal employment of undocumented migrants, worker-income-depriving automation (rather than reduced working hours at unreduced income), and to bloated pharmaceutical prices, because profits become the dominating decision making factor, and people all over the economy are desperate. Desperate people will do desperate things that often are catastrophic.
A relaxed economy would be far better, and it relies on a principle of there never being poverty for anyone. Additionally, to make it happen, there also must be no ridiculous richness for anyone turning that person into a modern day god-king ruling over thousands or millions of fellow people whom he or she rarely perceives as fellow people but as commodities.
Let’s aim for a relaxed economy, shall we?
A soon to come continuation on thoughts about this video: The Left-Right Division when we Fundamentally Agree
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Another week’s collection of great videos for political awakening. Loads of info on our rigged democracy and suggestions for a real one. Exposure of the corrupt oligarchy and puppet media. And breaking out of our mental prisons.
Stars and channels: Chris Hedges, Nick Braña, Kim Iversen, Francesca Fiorentini (Newsbroke), Kyle Kulinski (Secular Talk), PDRBoston, The Real News Network, Christo Aivalis, Richard Wolff (Democracy At Work), The Michael Brooks Show, Thought Slime, The Jimmy Dore Show, The School of Life, John Spritzler, and more.
Topics:
Movement for a People’s Party (MPP)
Democracy: Our Fake Democracy from Above, Real Democracy from the Bottom
Toxic Political Partisanship
America’s & Israel’s Breeding of Savagery
Peaceful Revolution: Learning from Scandinavia
Our Real Problem (Culture/Mentality)
Economy: Fake Booming Economy & Working Class History, Present, & Future
Police Corruption: Our Taxes Used to Silence Victims
Uplifting Bernie Discussion
The “Liberal” Mind Prison
Media War on the People (Anti-Medicare & Pro-Trump/Pro-Oligarchy)
In a recent video, Kim Iversen takes up the simple fact I have been writing about for years that immigrants and migrants without official papers permitting their entry and/or stay in this country can be easily prevented from coming and staying by enforcing the law that forbids employers to employ them. Going beyond my peaceful prevention recommendation, she actually takes it to the next level of making the enforcement more drastic and quick and thorough to solve the undocumented immigrant “problem” (that we DON’T HAVE, it’s a red herring people, a drop in the bucket compared to the problems caused by the plutocracy!). She then gets into some of the ripples of the ripple effect this would have. Interesting to mull over and think beyond to get a better idea of the bigger picture:
Once again a great alternative to pointless cable news and entertainment for this weekend. Great videos on politics and economics helping us to become more informed and able to fight for much needed change.
Rational Push for Change (A Must Hear) ***
Government Money Spent Wisely or Not
Public Enemy Billionaires #1
Immigration: The Rulers Playing us Against Each Other
Bernie: Once Again Impressing the Lost
Medicare for All: The Private Insurance False Flag
Media: Public Brainwash
Economics: Profit vs Prosperity | Democratic Socialism
Fascism: Right-Wing Identity Politics & Terrorism
The Greed Culture
World: Yellow Vests Update
Empire: U.S. Starves Venezuela
Elections: U.S.A-Gate & Our Fake Elections
The D-Party: Terror Oligarchy | “Moderate” Dems | Obama
Certain low wage workers nowadays are labeled illegal and non-human. They are referred to as “illegal aliens”. A label based on them working north of our southern border as opposed to south of it, even though the same business owners either employ them south of it or north of it with the exact same result: that they get the work that makes them richer done by people desperate enough to work for starvation wages under terrible working conditions.
This creates a justified worry among American-born working people that the jobs they need are taken away or hurtfully reduced in wages and benefits, destroying their American Dream. However, the flip in responsibility is brainwashed into their minds by claiming these even more desperate fellow workers from the south TAKE their jobs away, rather than that the business owners (and/or their CEOs) GIVE them away.
