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Summary: New channel discovery (“More Perfect Union”; samples: Medicais, Medicare, and street-closing demonstration). This channel has nice short videos (although one struck me like a D Party ad, so some can be bad). Also this week: presentations of our political anti-democracy and the harm done by profiteers. And a discussion of People’s Party with The Libertarian Party.
Stars and channels: More Perfect Union, The Jimmy Dore Show, Sabby Sabs (presenting a recent Chris Hedges article), People’s Podcast (Sep 15, 2022)
Topics:
Reminder of Our Vote-Count Cheats ***
Old Age Assistance and Healthcare Blocked by Profiteers
Medicaid Gap and Blocking States *
Town Attempt for Medicare for All *
Amazon Workers Shut Down NYC Streets *
How To Form A Union: Step By Step
Big Pharma only Allegedly “Beaten” by Biden
Company Paid Cops To Arrest Protesters
Messed up U.S.A. (Chris Hedges article points)
The Right-Wing “Left” D Party and Dark Funding
People’s Party Discussion with The Libertarian Party
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Summary: insights on our corrupted society, politics, and massive propaganda and how to build people power (plus some article links)
Stars and channels: The Community Church of Boston (Chris Hedges), DW News, Sky News, The Jimmy Dore Show, Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff), Our Changing Climate, Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Topics:
Mindboggling Speech by Chris Hedges in 2020 ***
U.S. Shootings on 4th of July this Week (2022)
Incredibly Massive Propaganda Drumming Upon Us via Media and Social Media
Dems Illegally Kick 3rd Parties Off Ballots
Richard Wolff: Avoiding Harmful Capitalist Cycles in Co-ops
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Summary: Mostly dealing with censorship and need for major system change.
Stars & channels: Chris Hedges (on substack.com), Sam Vaknin, Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff & Chris Smalls), Russell Brand, The Jimmy Dore Show, The Rational National, Moment Of Clarity with Lee Camp, Bad Faith (with Chris Hedges), The People’s Party (Nick Brana and Lee Camp)
Topics:
Chris Hedges: On Being Disappeared *
Russell Brand’s Demand We Stick Together
Ukraine (and Israel’s) Nazi Problem
A New App For Independent Media
American Sanctions Undermining the American Economy
U.S. National “Security” Committing International Fascist Terrorism
No More Actually Left Politics in America
Our Distopia **
Economic Update: Amazon Workers Organize a Union *
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Summary: Lots of interesting videos encountered again this week. No earlier posting of it because I was too busy programming. Issues: robber billionaires; Ukraine; People’s Party; inflation, debt and our system immorality; American Drain; COVID; and Trucker Convoy.
Stars & channels: Second Thought, The Jimmy Dore Show (with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté), The Hill (Kim Iversen), RichardDWolff & Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff), GBNews, Sorelle Amore Finance, Dr. John Campbell, Epic Economist
Topics:
The Fake Benevolence of Robber Billionaire’s “Philanthropy”
Ukraine Summary
FAKE Russia-Ukraine War Videos
Inflations Made by and Excused by Sanctions (currently via Ukraine)
People’s Party Immorally Attacked by the Establishment *
Any Sense to Play Along with our System Immorality?
End of Liberty by Digital ID
Who is the WEF behind the New Nightmares?
Healthcare/Health-End: Proposition of Making Viruses
COVID: Natural Immunity Way Stronger than the Imposed Vaccines
COVID: Long COVID Medicine vs Medical Oligarchy
Economic Update: Trucker Convoy
The American $30 Trillion Debt Gimmick hurting the People and Enriching the Rich
Corporate Debt & Government Bailouts
Lots of Stats About the American Life Quality Loss
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Summary: COVID medicine update + our inequality’s mental cult, American Nightmare, and fight for change
Stars & channels: CCCSpringfield, Richard Wolff, Ralph Nader Radio Hour, The Jimmy Dore Show, Graham Elwood, Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar, The Hill (Kim Iversen), America’s Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy. ~ On Contact (Chris Hedges, Steven Donziger, Robert Eisenberg, and Richard Wolff), The People’s Party
Topics:
The Mental Cult of Superior Class and Inequality
4000% Price Gouge for COVID Pills
The New and Also the Hidden Cheap Older Medicine for Treating COVID
Broken Economy Using Negative Interests and Ponzi Scheme Stock Market Gambling
Dirty Work behind the Curtain
Ongoing Persecution of Human Rights Lawyer
Not Just Him But Hundreds of Thousands Denied a Jury Every Year
Millions of Evictions Coming while the Rich buy up Our Homes
US Middle Class Has Less Wealth than the 1%
We Soon Getting Spied Upon Our Little Bit of Money
Capitalism Giving us Only the Choice between Oligarchy and Autocracy
Building Movements and a People’s Party — PP’s Most Recent National Call
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Summary: current economy trouble, good vs bad Christianity, MIC, robbed housing, and making change
Stars and channels: Roger Ray on CCCSpringfield, Second Thought, The Jimmy Dore Show, Wendover Productions, Benji, Richard Wolff and David Harvey on Democracy At Work, thejuicemedia (“Honest Government Ads”), Marianne Williamson, Sustainable Human, NonCompete
Topics:
A Real Christian’s View of Rich and Poor
Historic Shift of American Christians to the Right (i.e. Anti-Christianity)
Genocidal Tyranny & Utter Disrespect of The People
Crapitalism: What’s Behind our Current Products Shortage & Insane Prices
The Delay/Shortage Chain Reaction in Just-In-Time Supply Chains
The Intentional Part of our Current Inflation
Rations as Market Safety Belts
Profit Calculation
Affordable Housing Bought Away by the Money Lords
Military Squandering across the Globe
Making Beneficial Changes in our Past and in Other Countries
Summary: Main issues this time the corruption and tricks of the ruling ‘elite’.
Stars & channels: Richard Wolff (Democracy At Work), Second Thought, Breaking Points, Chris Hedges On Contact (with Thomas Gokey and Jesselyn Radack), The Hill, The Jimmy Dore Show, John Spritzler
Topics:
Capitalism Scapegoating the Governments
Our Deeply Corrupt Healthcare System (and the abuse of patents)
The “Elite” Screwing Us
Considering Rent & Debt Strikes for a Better World
Defining Whistleblowers as Spies (and thus imprison them)
The Terrorist Control of Our Judicial System by Corporations
World Truth: No Huge Anti-Gov Protests in Cuba
A People’s Party Needed instead of Fake Progressives
Strikers Visiting the Criminal Wall Street
American (no longer dream) Nightmare: Millions About to be Evicted
What is an Egalitarian?
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Summary: How our country has over a generation been turned into a rich and poor wasteland and the need for nuclear treatment of our corrupt political parties.
Stars and channels: The People’s Party, Eichard Wolff (Democracy At Work), Ruptly, The Jimmy Dore Show (incl. Graham Elwood), The Robert Escobar Show, Steve Auerbach, Second Thought, Rick Sanchez & Faran Fronczak
Topics:
People’s Party National Call: Getting Nuclear with the Corrupt Major Parties **
M4A March (with good speeches, too)
How much Our Economy and Society Has Crumbled over the last Generation ***
Modern U.S. Wage Slavery
FBI Framing Us
Empire: U.S. Top Country of Meddling with Others
The Rich Buying Away our American Dream (Owned Homes)
Is China Capitalist, Socialist or Communist? – Richard D Wolff
The Needed Change for a Good Nation
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Summary: Best videos captured this week to share with you. A lot about bad government and working lives vs current and coming fights to get human joy and dignity back into our lives. (all week lost again fruitlessly looking for a job, hence at least one good video is missing)
Stars & Channels: The Hill, The Gravel Institute, The People’s Party, Richard Wolff (Democracy At Work), The Jimmy Dore Show, Erik Edstrom interviewed in On Contact with Chris Hedges, Jesse Ventura talking with Jason Flom, Russell Brand, Lee Camp, …
Topics:
UBI Experiment with Very Good Results
Great America Made so Ruined by the Evil Corruption
Working Life Abuse vs Unions Able to Change This
“Democrats” Now BOOST Citizen United, Totally Open the Big Money Bribes Flood Gate, and Bar Third Parties
More Slashing of Government Help for the People (Now by the D Party)
Other Countries Do Apply Wealth Tax (to pay for pandemic destruction of working class)
Here, again, is an online video compilation for the weekend to save you from having to waste your little bit of spare time on watching adults chasing balls or accepting the intravenous drip from the propagandist establishment media. It sports a great podium discussion on moving forward from our mess, as well as news and analyses of the mess: for example on how we are getting exploited and betrayed to the extreme, the American poverty nightmare, the issue of people’s lacking awareness and moral standing allowing this mess (and animals showing us the finger), the continued raid on our healthcare, U.S.-conducted world terrorism, a deep system analysis, and a reminder that the universe is lurking in ambush while we fight among each other.
I. Moving Forward
Brilliant Podium Discussion
(from which the title pic above was taken)
A very important point is the abolition of scarcity. In his marvelous speech (starting ~40 min in), Nick Braña points out that, in the past, humans were pitted against each other over limited resources, but modern technology has abolished these outside limits. Soaring inequality is now artificially created by our outdated thuggish system (as I have written before).
Something else that for me lifts Nick Braña to the very top of today’s political activists is his deep understanding of “technology and the pace of modern change” which he addresses in his speech. I have marveled all my life how my fellow humans could be so blind to things like our rapid perfection of surveillance and public mind controlling technologies, automation, and the tension between aging and genetic engineering and gene therapy about to turn our oligarchs into veritable physical gods and condemn the rest of us into permanently huddled masses of the utterly hopeless never again able to revolt against cruelty… Well, he only hints at some of this, but then who is really ready to hear the full scope, yet?
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Left Forum 2018 Session 1 – Independent Power: Towards a Party for Working People“)
Notes:
And, as Nick also points out, the DP is teetering giving this generation of Americans an opportunity to unite for a major new party for working people.
Tim Canova’s speech (following Nick’s) is also great. And he is right in that, by his running independent this year, independent voters, always blocked from (rigged!) “Democratic” primaries are empowered to throw in their weight. They don’t have to ponder whether it’s worth to bother with rubber-stamping establishment-picked “R” or “D” candidates. When we vote independent or third party, we are no longer forced to chose between cholera and gonorrhea.
Great term: Fusion Politics (ignoring party lines, focusing on working people’s needs and violated rights and a genuine way forward)
1:10:55: Nick brings up the 2nd Bill of Rights, which reminds me to remark that ideas like a UBI are just ways of bringing it to pass.
Nick Braña quote:“Our economic and political systems will act as threat multipliers and they will determine whether we fall on the abundance side of that potential given to us by our technology or on the self-annihilation side. If we remain in a conflict driven society characterized by soaring inequality, sweeping deprivation, and sectarian intolerance, the risk of catastrophe will be extreme. Applying our potential to create an abundant and harmonious world is not just a moral imperative, it’s a matter of survival for all of us.”
II. American Nightmare
Today’s American “Dream”: Rich to the Riches, Rags to the Ditch .
These are Facebook videos… so, no hints on how to find them if they get deleted…
III. Where is our Humanity?
Let’s delve into our psychology and compare with our wild cousins…
The biology of fairness, empathy, sympathy, and lack thereof…:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “The Age of Empathy by Frans de Waal“)
Can we really not measure up to our animal cousins?
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “MUST WATCH THIS VIDEO ABOUT ANIMALS HELPING EACH OTHER!!!!“)
The plutocrats have driven much of our compassion and solidarity out of our human society. It’s time we reassert those principles, don’t you agree? It strikes me as a little odd that we tend to call them human or humanitarian principles, even in an age when we have put them aside and are getting shamed by our animal cousins.
And, clearly, I am not the only one thinking this way:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “”Charity Is The Opiate Of Capitalism” – Nellie McKay”)
The interview continues here (discussing Bernie and 2020, among things).
IV. Economy
“Disruptive” Tech as an additional thumb screw and bloodletting on the people:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “How Tech Giants Feed Off Capitalism’s Failures“)
The Mechanism of Rich-and-Poor:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Scumbag Amazon Swimming In Taxpayer Subsidies, Pays Food Stamp Wages“)
Myth and reality:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Are the Rich White Boomers Taking of Millennial Wealth?“)
And the biggest economic unit, our government, which used to spend on us (FDR’s New Deal), today spends on the billionaires instead (who keep telling us that it can’t afford to spend on us):
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Starbucks Billionaire: You Can’t Have Healthcare Or College“)
V. Healthcare
Once again, corrupt politics aims at benefiting the rich (health insurance owners) at the expense (ruin, pain, and death) of non-rich Americans (you and me and our friends and families):
This is, once again, a Facebook-only video, so it has no title which I could use to give clues for searching for it. So, good luck finding a copy if this video gets deleted. (Youtube may be working to skew things on behalf of the establishment, but if one posts videos only on Facebook (which isn’t trustworthy either), then the lack of titles makes deleted or re-pathed videos all the harder to find again, which is why it keeps boggling my mind why certain information sources only or mostly post on Facebook neglecting other ‘tubes’. Also, Facebook video streaming is cumbersome, feature-poor, and buggy on the viewers’ end. Oh, well… Enough of my ranting.)
VI. The Terror Empire
No, it’s not ISIS. It’s the U.Sis:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “~199~ 121 Bombs A Day, Poor People Get Angry, Death Of Local News”)
Also: more on other things like healthcare.
VII. System Analysis
A structural system analysis surely giving a high percentage of listeners a lot to think about if the highly intellectual language presents no barrier. The clip, in so many words, agrees with my regularly made claim that our corrupt politics and lousy lives both derive from our rigged economic system which in turn depends for its continuation on our manipulated mentality that has our perceptions and priorities being all wrong:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Critique: Bernie Sanders “Inequality in America” Town Hall from 3.19.18, by Peter Joseph”)
Comment: Bernie may or may not think this deeply, but – running for office – he naturally has to focus on the things that touch people more unquestioningly (the symptoms) rather than a deep system critique (the causes) which many still struggle to comprehend due to the lifelong system propaganda we have been exposed to (unlike the animals shown earlier).
VIII. The Real World
Why humanity cannot afford a corrupt system:
Nature isn’t friendly. Our primary human defense is sticking together, preparing for disasters, and changing our environment to be more supportive of our lives. When we create and maintain a socio-economic-political system that adds more problems, like our current system does (albeit it also still provides some improvements, e.g. running water and groceries), it’s like we are shooting ourselves in the foot.
As a graphic reminder of nature’s threats, here is footage of people fleeing from a pyroclastic flow belched up by a small volcano in Guatemala last week:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Videos Impactantes Captados Durante La Erupción del Volcán en Guatemala 04/06/2018“)
If the locals were better educated, their government more responsible, and our global society geared towards optimizing human life rather than squeezing and suppressing everybody on behalf of the rich, people might have been evacuated on time or not lived so dangerously close to their active volcano in the first place.
And if you succumb to the idea that we are so much more advanced as a society a thousand miles north here in the U.S., ask yourself did we properly prepare the levees for Hurricane Katrina? Did our government provide proper help after Katrina hit, or did it rather enable corporate raiders to take people’s homes away from them to convert them into money-making investments for the rich? Has our government done anything to help our fellow citizens in Puerto Rico devastated by another big hurricane last year, or is it leaving the door open for disaster capitalism again (a form of vulture capitalism) same as in New Orleans? Is it smart of us to ignore nature’s curses and constantly fight among ourselves because we can’t get our act together and dethrone the pillaging oligarchs and abolish the greed-driven, inhumane, anti-human system they imposed on us generations ago, the system which incentivizes inhumane acts and is ruining our country?
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