Truthful News Weekend 2023-04-15 – (14 videos and many comments)

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Summary: another bunch of informative videos you may have missed this week. Main issues: healthcare mess, money-lives mess, and how to fix them (French demonstrations included). Too sad that I have no fellows to assist with these weekly video tests (thus more time left for other things), and also a pity that we don’t have a community spreading these picked videos to lots of folks who otherwise waste their online time with stupid videos and podcasts.

Stars and channels: Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff & Harriet Fraad), Second Thought (JT Chapman), Dr. Suneel Dhand, Amanpour and Company, TLDR News EU, Democracy Now!, Al Jazeera English, Sabby Sabs (incl. Christian Parenti and Glenn Greenwald), The Jimmy Dore Show

Topics:

1. The Rich Richer & We Poorer Continues, New Deal History, and Need for System Change ***
2. Why Work Is Getting Worse
3. Money is Anti-Democracy (short)
4. $200 Billion Spent Each Year on Unnecessary Medical Tests
5. Even Doctors Recognize Human Caring is Needed in our Healthcare Instead of Money Greed **
6. History and Details on French Retirement Issues *
7. French Demonstrators Wanting to Enjoy Life *
8. Universal Basic Income (UBI) Update ***
9. Our Retirement System is One of the Tricks to Divide us */**
10. History: President Nixon got Forced by the People to do Progressive Things **
11. War & Poverty Connection **
12. Quick View of America’s Global Military Bases
13. Some Hints at Ukraine War Racket

Truthful News Weekend 2023-04-08 – (12 videos)

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Summary: capitalism’s inefficiency and cruelty; demonstrations in France and how to get them going here; our utterly criminalized healthcare system; greed-built homelessness and coming catastrophes in health insurance, food aid, and our Internet.

Stars and channels: Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff and Miguel Robles-Durán), Sabby Sabs (Apr 7, 2023), The Jimmy Dore Show, The Real News Network (Chris Hedges Report w/ Margaret Flowers), The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow (and Wendell Potter), Al Jazeera English

Topics:

1. The Inefficiency (and Cruelty) of Capitalism ***
2. Loving the French Demonstrations **
3. Sadly Still Plenty of Morons in the U.S. *
4. French Protesters and Global Retirement Issues *
5. 15 Millions of Us About to Become Healthcare Uninsured *
6. Our Criminalized Healthcare System ***
7. Class War Against Our Healthcare *
8. Israel Protests (Both Good and Bad), Social Media, “Smart” Phone Malware… *
9. Short Reminder of Israel’s and America’s Illegal Wars
10. Our Internet Censorship *
11. Internet-Related Government Dictatorship Act **
12. Homelessness Caused by Greed over Kindness *

Truthful News Weekend 2022-10-14 – Main Topic: Medicare (8 videos)

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Summary: Big issues of Medicare being corrupted and healthcare denied for Americans get today presented in a lovely short video and very impressive written comments given to it. Yes, quite a bit of reading here for you today on this! Also: exposures of slavish economy and politics. Several GREAT videos!

Remember, the stars are my grading: *** = super good (a must), ** = very good, * = better than average here.

Stars and channels: News2Share (Chris Hedges), The Jimmy Dore Show (with Fiorella Isabel and Craig Pasta Jardula), Democracy Now! (with Wendell Potter), Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff), Heartland Media of Chicago & the Live from the Heartland Radio Show (Brian Mier), Niko House & The MCSC Network, Second Thought

Topics:

1. Slavery State ***
2. Great Brazil-USA Comparison **
3. The Medicare Advantage Fraud ***
4. Deaths from Socialism or Capitalism? *
5. World/War: Ukraine Update
6. World: More Insights on Brazil
7. Julian Assange Exposed War-Crimes and Never Raped
8. Nazis were NOT Socialists – They Were the Opposite

Truthful News Weekend 2022-09-30 (11 videos)

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Summary: especially Medicare undermining, elitists’ ideology, worker poverty, authoritarian culture, and class war.

Stars and channels: Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff and Harriet Fraad), People’s Podcast (Erobos … & George Galloway), The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow (incl. Diane Archer and Robby Stern), The Jimmy Dore Show (and Dr. John Campbell in the Honorable Mention videos)

Topics:

1. Harm by Economists: Workers Poverty, Economy Disasters, Elitists’ Crappy Ideology **
2. Traditional Hierarchy & Authoritarianism and People Putting Themselves Down… ***
3. Short Great Speech on our Class War ***
4. Medicare Advantage Plans Entrapping Medicare ***
5. Medicare Getting Looted Away **
6. U.S. Capitalism, Soviet “Socialist” State Capitalism, and China’s Mix
7. While Many Humans Starve our Ultra-Rich Gangsters Get Richer
8. Congressman & Bankers Laughing About Their Corruption
9. Billionaire’s Racketeering Mentioned
10. Consequences of Hiking Interest Rates
11. Most Immigrants Here Being Really Refugees of Terror Made by the U.S.A.

Wakeful Video Weekend 2022-05-20 (14 videos and important comments esp. on Medicaid Mess )

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Summary: This week I spent my free time on learning about Medicaid. Thus, the topics deal with our economic decline and our welfare-undermining like the Medicaid mess.

Stars & channels (this time a lot of commercial ones / lawyers since the Medicaid topic is hardly communicated from anywhere else, *sigh*): The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow (and Richard Wolff), Democracy At Work, Dirty Medicine, Healthcare Triage, Vox, Rabalais Estate Planning, Ettinger Law Firm, Christopher Berry, AmeriHealth Caritas, InfusionCenters, UnitedHealthcare Community & State, Pixorize

6. Our Welfare Systems Converted into More Theft for the Rich (example Medicaid)Topics:

1. Our Dangerous Decline (Always Fakishly Disannounced by our Media and Politicians) ***
2. Three Ways the U.S. Historically Curbed Inflation (NOT With Interest Rates)
3. The U.S. Health Insurance Labyrinth
4. Is Medicaid Coverage Better or Worse than Private Insurance?
5. Medicaid Very Different in Different U.S. States
6. Our Welfare Systems Converted into More Theft for the Rich (example Medicaid)
7. Some Hints at Medicaid Insurance Permission
8. Medicaid can be Combined with Medicare
9. Pregnancy and Child Birth Can Give Medicaid
10. Basic Medicaid vs Medicare explanation

Wakeful Video Weekend 2022-03-26 (10 videos) – With Important Comments

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Summary: Most issues dealt with are today’s online censorship and healthcare corruption (with our Medicare getting taken away from us rather than extended), plus also insightful revelation of our corrupt global economy and at the end a kind reminder of altruism.

Important note: I am beginning to wonder if my blog is also shadow-banned (in fact that it may have been been for some years by now), since comments have stopped being made. I nevertheless have been giving up sharing revelations and ideas, just in case. But I must wonder if ANYONE still comes across them. (reminder: you can set up to be emailed when a post comes out; of course that could also be secretly shadow-banned)

Stars & channels: Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff), Bad Faith, Abby Martin speaking with Briahna Joy Gray, CODEPINK, Consortium News, The Jimmy Dore Show, Chris Hedges Fan Club, CroPETROforeverHR, Pindex, The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow talking with Ed Weisbart of PNHP, BBC Earth

Topics:

1. Global Money Lordship, Impoverishing Sanctions, and Splitting the People
2. Today’s Online Censorship Equivalent of Book Burning
3. Chris Hedges: Wedding Speech for Julian Assange
4. Ukraine: Potential Fake to Justify More War
5. Our Human Spirit Wracked by our Corrupt Capitalism (short Chris Hedges note)
6. Healthcare Corruption by the Global Robber Billionaires **
7. Medicare Being Taken Away from Us – And Org(s) Fighting for Us
8. Let’s Remember Altruism

Wakeful Video Weekend 2022-01-23 (13 videos plus vital comments)

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Summary: This weekend primarily COVID and general healthcare issues, both direct dealing and the context of our wrongly built societies.

Stars and channels: Second Thought, Secular Talk, Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff), MedCram, John Campbell, DW News, The Jimmy Dore Show, Academy of Ideas, The World according to Jesse, Ralph Nader Radio Hour (with Marshall Allen, investigative journalist an author of “Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win”)

Topics:

1. The Lack of Left in U.S. Politics
2. Bernie Sanders finally Criticizing the Corrupt “Democratic” Party
3. Economic Update: Huge Inequality, Missing Health Service, & Uncaring Politicians
4. Short Glimps: Our System Flaws Getting More Visible
5. COVID: Dealing with Infection
6. COVID: Apparently Now Shrinking into Regular Cold/Flu
7. COVID: Finally a More Reasonable Death Check
8. COVID Reactions: Austria vs Spain
9. Massively Reduced U.S. Hospital Beds in Corrupt Profit Corporatism
10. Escaping Totalitarianism
11. Reduced Danger of Healthcare Surprise Bills
12. Healing with Fever and Less or Special Fluid
13. America’s Criminal Healthcare Enterprise and How to Deal with It ***

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:

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

Wakeful Video Weekend 2021-07-11 (14 videos)

Summary: various topics, esp. U.S. Healthcare, Medical Bankruptcy, and #M4A Movement.

Stars and Channels: The People’s Party, Graham Elwood, Salari, Chris Hedges on mediasanctuary, Richard Wolff on Democracy At Work, Richard Wolff on The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow, The Rational National, LastWeekTonight, Vox, Sustainable Human, SeniorLiving.Org, … (no Jimmy Dore in the last days; let’s hope he is fine)

Topics:

1. People’s Podcast: Does Everyone Deserve Healthcare? ***
2. Inequality – Our Money Aristocracy and Medieval Life **
3. Right Wing Culture (made to keep us all confused and abused) *
4. Chris Hedges on “American Sadism”
5. People’s Party National Call
6. Democracy vs Capitalism
7. Richard Wolff on Housing and True Democracy
8. Sociopathic Ideology: Libertarianism
9. Ecology: Amphibians’ Important Role in Keeping Nature Healthy
10. M4A / U.S. Healthcare
11. Money Making us Lonely
12. Rescue Attempts in our Current System

Force The Vote TOWN HALL (for proper American Healthcare, esp. M4A)

Today (8:30 pm EST) there will be an online Force The Vote “town hall” you may be able to participate in. Sign Up here: https://forcethevote.org/town-hall/

Some folk’s doubts and hesitations, and why forcing the vote is really best:

I. Doubted Victory
Some people think that forcing a House of Representatives vote on Medicare or All is unimportant when we can expect the many congressional corrupticians to vote it down. I’ll try to explain why it is important: It’s our historic experience of making positive changes. All changes for better took a series of battles (incl. a number of votings). Desirable changes can’t happen when the series of battles never gets started. Yes, the first M4A floor vote is likely to be voted down by the corrupticians in Congress, no matter when it will be held (just like previous good changes were). But, by doing so, the corrupticians will expose themselves and in the next election battle be kicked out (or even sooner). This is like things always went in the past, and they will continue to go that way. It’s just how politics works. With tens of thousands of us dying each year from healthcare denial and hundreds of thousands going bankrupt from astronomic healthcare bills even without a pandemic, it’s high time we finally get this series of battles started. And there is no better time than during a pandemic.

II. Voting Pelosi out of Office Instead
Yes, Pelosi is one of the top corrupticians. Finally reducing her corrupt power would be good. But thinking that at the current time she could be replaced with a significantly better politician when our Congress is still almost completely filled with mafiosi types is simply not realistic. She could even be replaced with an even worse corruptician, and if by miracle she were replaced with a less corrupt one, there still would be no significant changes as long as the status quo remains maintained. We must battle for the changes we need, not merely switch faces. (getting Obama and Trump into office should have made this clear for all of us by now; please wake up if you haven’t yet)

And don’t forget to sign the #ForceTheVote petition or even make the time to push your Congress members.

Here is Jimmy Dore’s town hall announcement:

Announcement: Force The Vote TOWN HALL! #MyStory #ForceTheVote ~ The Jimmy Dore Show (Dec 28, 2020)

Yes, forcing a vote is one of the weapons for change. Did you hear about the Bolivian people forcing an election in which they then voted the fascist state coup regime out of office a few months ago? After the governmental mistreatment during the pandemic it is high time we Americans finally stand up and show the universe our hearts and fists, as well. Let’s unite and have OUR money (yes, the government money is OUR money) spent on US, not robber barons any more. Let’s spend the necessary portion of it on our health not on soul-less insurance owner profits.

Best wishes. Power, justice, health, and worthwhile lives for the People!