Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-11-16 (26 videos)

Highlights: An excellent (Hedges & Street) discussion over why we need a true people’s party rather than what we now have, a great video on taxing the rich, a clip about the true reason for the Trump impeachment, revealing issues on candidates (Warren, Tulsi, Yang, Bernie), and, and, and… AND much info on last weekend’s coup in Bolivia plus other world issues.

Stars & Channels: BadEmpanada, Breakfast Club, Chris Hedges (On Contact), Richard Wolff (Democracy At Work), Democracy Now!, goingundergroundRT, Michael Brooks, Press TV, Secular Talk, Stansberry Research, The Grayzone, Krystal Ball (The Hill), Jimmy Dore, The Rational National, and more…

Topics:

1. Why We Need a True Left Rather than the “D”-Party (Hedges & Street) ***
2. The “Democratic” Party Against Medicare for All
3. Taxing the Rich Properly ***
4. The R-Like D-Party Establishment Bailing out The Banks Instead of Us
5. SJW Hypocrisy
6. Rich Farts Celebrating Digital Technocracy
7. Economic Update: Stocks, Yellow Vest Revolution, Medicare for All
8. World: Bolivia’s Fascist/Racist/Colonialist Coup
9. World: Brazil’s Bernie, France’s Blue Vests, Britain’s Bernie…
10. Murderous Socialism and/or Capitalism (Soviet Union, UK, & U.S. Facts)
11. Assange: FINALLY an Australian Discussion
12. Laws & Police to Harass People
13. The True Reason for the Trump Impeachment
14. Candidates: Warren (Mask Off), Andrew Yang (Interview), Tulsi (Medicare for All)
15. Bernie Reality

 

1. Why We Need a True Left Rather than the “D”-Party (Hedges & Street) ***

… one that starts organizing from the ground, allying with people in need, boosting them, and growing a political movement from there rather than bickering about a twittering corrupt president in a totally corrupt upper structure that he is a natural product of.

On Contact: Resistance & the Left with Paul Street ~ RT America (On Contact)

Note: This reminds me of what is happening in West Virginia.

Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-11-10 (21 videos)

Another collection of great recent videos best not to miss. JFK’s much forgotten amazing speech on Medicare for All, the ways the oligarchy meddles with our minds, the war on journalism and free speech, the people’s uprising sparked by Bernie Sanders, and more and more and more…

Stars & channels: The Political Vigilante, Bernie, Ilhan Omar, The New School, John Spritzler, Jimmy Dore, Democracy At Work, The Real News Network, The Grayzone, The Zero Hour, Democracy Now!, TEDx Talks, goingundergroundRT, World Affairs, The Humanist Report, The Rational National, The Rational National, and more…

Topics:

1. Amazing Speech: JFK on Medicare for All
2. Alleged Personal Failings vs Reality
3. 2015 Panel Chris Hedges and Cornel West
4. Society for the Rich (Let’s Compete to Death)
5. Modernizing Cuban Socialism
6. U.S. War on Journalism and Free Speech
7. Inequality and the Apparatus of Justification
8. Violence by the State on Homeless People
9. Disillusion
10. MSM Blacking out Bernie AGAIN (Over and Over)
11. Midwest Voters Snubbed by the ‘Elites’
12. Bernie for Farmers
13. Bernie & Ilhan Rally High Points (Minnesota)
14. Humor: Obama Shames Voters For Criticizing Corrupt Politicians

 

1. Amazing Speech: JFK on Medicare for All

JFK Explains Why US Needs Med4All In 1962 — The Political Vigilante ~ Graham Elwood

QuickyPinion: Trump-Ukraine BS

I can only hope that a growing number of people today refuses to let themselves be played by bullcrap stories in the media and corrupted party politics. It is only the constant blare about Trump and Ukraine – just as idiotic and designed 100% to meddle with people’s minds while distracting them from real issues – that has pushed me to write this little commentary today.

Let me break it down into a few short questions and answers:

Question 1: Why is Trump’s using government money to hurt the reputation of a potential presidential D-Party candidate a minor issue? Answer: Because we have much bigger issues, and – funny enough – even this tiny issue contains a much bigger element of concern within itself: namely the exposed corruption of the Biden family. Is exposing corruption of government officials and their family member allies really an offense when funded with government money? A rather arguable issue, isn’t it?

Question 2: Why don’t I care about impeaching Trump on the Ukraine affair? Answer: (A) Because he has committed much worse – and much less arguable – offenses that he could be impeached on. What’s the last count I heard of them? Seventeen, maybe? (B) Impeaching him successfully would only get us Mike Pence as President, a nightmare creature probably worse than Trump (which may be why Trump picked him). (C) All the Trump-mania (including impeachment drooling) is being used to distract us from our real issues like democracy, healthcare, and lives worth living. (D) The impeachment process, so slyly constructed on such a minor and highly defeatable issue when so many better ones are looming out there, may not only distract us from actually important issues but even be designed to lock up Bernie Sanders in Senate hearings and thus keep him from campaigning, a truly desirable goal by our corrupt ‘elites’ represented by both major parties.

I recommend we focus on our issues of real importance, and once we have created a real democracy, we indite all our living former presidents and other criminal government officials for their crimes. Impeachment is like a peach. Criminals deserve more than a mere peach for punishment.

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BTW, if the theme (picture) used in this QuickyPinion appealed to you, you should visit the latest publication on The Revolution Continues which swarms with outstanding memes you really shouldn’t miss. 😉

 

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Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-11-03 (23 videos)

It’s really cool that more and more women are coming out of their traditional closet to speak up and stand up against the corruption and rot of our system – or are finally paid attention to. And, finally this time, the so often forgotten elderly and their terrible sufferings are revealed. And guess which candidate cares about them?

Stars & Channels: Abby Martin (Empire Files), The Real News Network, The Zero Hour, Bernie, John Spritzler, TeleSUR, JRE Clips, Michael Brooks, Hard Lens Media, Ralph Nader, Jimmy Dore, A Current Affair, PBS NewsHour, VICE News, AJ+, Nina Turner…

Topics:

1. Companies Rule the World
2. Neoliberal Fearmongering to Divide Us
3. The Old Age Misery in America
4. Temp Work Used as a Picket Line against Workers
5. Corporate America: Profits over People’s Lives
6. How the Rule of Money Miserably Shapes Society
7. The Path from Police Brutality to State Terrorism
8. Edward Snowden on Mobile Phones Surveillance
9. World News: Overlooked Uprisings World-Wide
10. All the People(s) are Beginning to Rise Up
11. Candidates: Biden, Warren, Trump, Bearnie, $Hillary, Tulsi
12. Bernie: End Corporate Greed Press Conference
13. Whistleblowers are Heroes, Not Spies | None-of-the-Above Voting
14. Despotic Government Bullying True Journalists
15. Another Funny Fox Failure: Reaganite to the Left! Panel SCREAMS!

 

1. Companies Rule the World

… and 80% of TV news stories are manufactured in public relation firms working for governments and the corporations (i.e. the nebulous rich rulers behind these scenes):

Giants: Who Really Rules The World?
Empire Files

QuickyPinion: Warped Socialism for the Wealthy

American citizens keep getting bombarded with smear attacks on socialism. Yet, we live in a country of warped socialism for the wealthy. The very oligarchs who smear real socialism for the people as something that doesn’t work are the ones who receive all the benefits of a socialism for the rich. They are the ones who get enormous freebies from the government and can count on being bailed out by the government if things don’t go well for them.

The very definition of socialism is a socially responsible system of an economy and politics made possible through law and government, the latter often having to come in and help out people at times of need. The goal: everybody receives based on their needs rather than on how much they can pay for in a highly unequal wealth distribution. Instead of this we currently have socialism for the rich, a government and set of laws which almost exclusively helps them at extreme expense for the rest of us.

The rich get huge gifts from our government (like cheap lands and subsidies for their corporations even as they move U.S. jobs abroad or replace working people with machines). They get those even though they are the least needy for financial help (being rich already, after all). These gifts are financed by cutting services to working class Americans who often desperately need them. The gifts to the rich also include tax loopholes and tax breaks. The rich and their corporations get tax havens abroad while working U.S.-citizens get taxed or even hit with ruinous fees by the IRS, treasury, and state tax agencies when they work and live abroad (except when the foreign taxes exceed their U.S. taxes in which case double-taxation protection treaties can come into effect; but costly tax filings are still demanded). And when banks or businesses of the rich fail, they get bail-outs.

These are examples of the unequal treatment of the rich (boost, safeguard, help them in any way, and turn their policy suggestions into law) and the rest of us (tax us, fine us, hold us back, harass us, deny us aid, make false promises, cut our wages and benefits, and ignore our wishes).

So… a gouging capitalism for “ordinary” Americans is combined with a warped parody of socialism for the rich giving them subsidies, gifts, bail-outs, monopoly protections, and tax loopholes while more and more of the rest of us drown in poverty.

 

And if this article was too short for you, there is a great read that came out this Tuesday on The Revolution Continues, reminding me of why I have so long loathed Halloween, telling us how to check up on the toxic tap water we may have flowing at home…

 

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Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-10-26 (22 videos)

An amazing number of brilliant women made fantastic arguments and analyses this week. Don’t miss them nor the also insightful men in these 22 outstanding videos treating what’s wrong and how to make change.

Stars and channels: Krystal Ball, Naomi Klein, Jane Fonda, Jill Stein, Bernie, Richard Wolff, Taya Graham (The Real News Network), John Spritzler, The Rational National, The Michael Brooks Show, Jimmy Dore, Gayle McLaughlin (the California Progressive Alliance), Harriet Fraad, Politics and Prose, Aaron Glantz, Democracy Now!, Ralph Nader, Steven Greenhouse, Nick Hanauer, and more.

Topics:

1. #MfA: Universal Healthcare for Liberty
2. Risks for All, Not Just Investors
3. Police Crimes: Our Dungeon & Dragon Society
4. Let’s Have No Government by and for Criminals
5. Bernie (Reviews, Movement, Track Record, Market vs Society)
6. Bernie & Tulsi Combo: Might it Landslide the Nation?
7. Corporatists and Oligarchs Looking for Another “D” Puppet
8. Organizing Outside of Political Parties
9. The Source and Success of Racism
10. Humor: The ‘Elites’ Crying When We Call Out their Corruption
11. The Twin Party Tyranny Blocking Representation of the People
12. Panel: Naomi Klein & Jane Fonda – Sunrise, Climate, & Humanity
13. Banksters: The Then & Now Real Estate Raid
14. Indigenous Dealing with California Wildfires
15. Immigration & Border: Many Victims are Native Americans
16. American Past, Present, & Future & Comparison w/ Other Nations
17. SCOTUS, The Achilles Heal of Democracy
18. A 0.1%er Getting Some of the Wrongness

Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-10-19, Part B (3 videos)

AOC’s Bernie endorsement and Bernie’s fantastic “Back” rally in New York after he is back out of the hospital:

 

I. AOC’s Bernie Endorsement

This is about a guaranteed advanced standard of living in the United States (the richest nation in hisory) with no ifs no no buts. Power to the people, and a Good Life for All:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Endorses Bernie For President
Bernie Sanders

Additional note: When we mention a people’s revolution, we should realize that this is simply a continuation of our famous 18th century American Revolution where the people shared these aims promoted again today but wealthy creeps subverted the outcome into the mess we are in today.

I hear the echo from the hopeful past: All people are created equal and endowed with unalienable rights – among these life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And the role of government by the consent of the governed is to reflect and protect these and other rights and promote the general welfare (a.k.a. a Good Life for All).  

Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-10-19 (26 videos)

This weekend collection of wakeful videos has two main sections: (A) much on this week’s candidate issues (esp. real & false progressives) and (B) much on the forces that create right-wingers/neo-nazis and neoliberals/meritocracy-believers & hillbots — and if or how to deal with them. The first group is mostly created from people crushed onto the floor, the second mostly from upper middle-classers who won life’s lottery at least to some extent and are either contemptuous or dismissive and ignorant of those who didn’t. Then these two camps go at each other’s throats without realizing that they are being manipulated from the top to defend the status quo that causes all this division and endless suffering.

So much stuff, I had to move some to a ‘part B’ follow-up.

Topics:

1. Bernie (Black Movement, Grassroots Organizer, Endorsements)
2. AOC on a Just Society & a Planet to Live
3. Mike Gravel’s Analysis: +Bernie, +Tulsi, -Warren
4. Best Not to Waste Efforts on Hillbots
5. Normalized Presidential Violations (Forget Impeachments)
6. Big Money Buying Our Minds
7. How People at the Bottom are Duped into Fascism
8. What Makes the Lower White Working Class Dangerous
9. How to Talk to Cultists (like Fascists)
10. The False License to Dominate
11. How & Why the “Christian” Right Was Manufactured
12. Media War on Bernie & the American People
13. Entertainment: Dolly Parton’s ‘9 to 5’
14. Humor: HRC BS
15. Humor: Talking Back to an Establishment Shill
16. Try Some Anti-Commercialism (Teen without iPhone)

 

1. Bernie (Black Movement, Grassroots Organizer, Endorsements)

Why African Americans are on FIRE for Bernie Sanders

Why African Americans are on FIRE for Bernie Sanders
African Americans For Bernie Sanders  

Existential Assault

The following broadcast deeply struck a chord within me even though I have not been sexually assaulted (besides a failed attempt long ago, that is). Looking at the connection, I found that my existential assaults by soulless jerks ruining my original life’s career and later every new career and job, time and time again… led to the same feelings of grief and low self-esteem and constant fear, the being shrunk and driven into shame and made afraid to exist.

And when my appeals against profession denial based on declaring my education and job qualification invalid for totally unjustified and totally absurd and paradoxical reasons (rewriting history turning my outstanding study accomplishments into trash) were contemptuously dismissed, it gave me the same humiliation of standing up for receiving justice and getting virtually slapped into the face for it, assigning to me the guilt of others who had ruined my life. It makes me think that in today’s precarious life lived by so many of us, these kinds of results are suffered from way more people than sexual assault victims. So many of us are time and again under existential assault suffering precarious lives for no fault of our own and being denied any hope or worthwhile future.

This is the heart-wrenching report on the results of a sexual assault (often considered a dismissible minor issue) that chimes so closely with the existential assaults suffered by a huge portion of humanity:

The Stanford Sexual Assault Case Made Her “Emily Doe.” In New Memoir, Chanel Miller Tells Her Story
Democracy Now!

Indeed. Such an assault has much longer, deeper, and farther reaching consequences than commonly recognized. But, not to overlook, so do the existential assaults suffered by so many of us. 

Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-10-13 (24 videos)

Such cool videos picked up this week! These weekly compilations are really worth sharing. So much wrong today. And so much improvement we can make happen. — Unfortunately, the 31 videos I picked out this week are just too many. I have postponed some for next week. Don’t miss them! 😉

Stars & channels: Bernie Sanders, The Humanist Report, John Spritzler, Be Inspired, TeleSUR, The Real News Network, Richard Wolff, Jimmy Dore, The Zero Hour, Michael Brooks, Ralph Nader, The Hill, LastWeekTonight, Democracy Now!, Redacted Tonight, The Hill, ItHadToBeSaid, and more…

Topics:

1. Bernie (The Role in Life, Money out of Politics, MSM)
2. Wage Slavery & The High Cost of Bad Leadership
3. Our Manufactured E-Lives: Owned by Commercialism & “Smart” Phones
4. Our Junk Economy: Wealth Accumulation by Dispossession
5. Addressing Disparity with More of the Same
6. No Left & Right: The ‘Elites’ Stick Together
7. Inequality System (CEO Kings, Global World Oppression)
8. Deified Greed
9. Trumpoholics (Impeachable Offenses, Can his Impeachment Succeed?)
10. Climate Crisis (Humor, Politics, XR Movement)
11. World: Revolutionary Haiti, Uprising Ecuador
12. Media: Real News Instead of Blabbermouths
13. Why Russiahhh?!? (ahead of all other possible smears & excuses)
14. Today’s American Depravity
15. School as Prison & Boot Camp: Our Manipulation Starts in the Schools