This weekend collection of wakeful videos has two main sections: (A) much on this weekâs candidate issues (esp. real & false progressives) and (B) much on the forces that create right-wingers/neo-nazis and neoliberals/meritocracy-believers & hillbots â 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 lifeâs lottery at least to some extent and are either contemptuous or dismissive and ignorant of those who didnât. Then these two camps go at each otherâs 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 may put out a part B tomorrow if I can find the time.
The latest weekend collection of recent best videos spreading news and ideas for positive change of our rotten world. Lots of good stuff you may have missed. Every week a new one. (Notice: Producing these when caught in financial struggles is hard. So, spreading the word and subscribing (for free) is a helpful thing to do.)
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This weekendâs online video compilation, sporting many stars (including several non-regulars) like Susan George, Ralph Nader, Abby Martin, Noam Chomsky, Jimmy Dore, Richard Eskow, The Rational National, Jesse Ventura, Brigida Santos, Richard Wolff, Jamarl Thomas, and Thom Hartmann, ranges from news on the oligarchic âDemâ establishment vote-splitting its own base, through deep system analyses, exposure of corruption, media manipulation, economic âfree marketâ reality, political theater, class war, immigration, and automation to enlightened political conversations and spiffy political humor. (Warning: so many good videos piled up this week that I am planning for a Part B tomorrow). Invitation: sign up for notifications from this site as a rich source for eye-opening and ideas-spawning videos and articles.
I. System Analysis
Global Debt Slavery: The people worldwide has been colonized by the rich corporatists (A.K.A. Neocons/Neoliberals / robber billionaires and their millionaire minions):
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Susan George on Neoliberalism“)
Corporate-state elections:
Prophet Ralph Naderâs stunning precognition in 2015:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “The Empire Files: Ralph Nader & Abby Martin on the Corporate Elections“)
Noam Chomski Interview on a broad range of issues:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “PRIMO NUTMEG #144: Noam Chomsky“)
Note: The one thing on which I definitely disagree with him is that âthe weight of evidenceâ suggests that Assad launched chemical attacks. Here, Chomski may have fallen victim to the widespread lies dispersed throughout all the major media outlets. It is simply illogical for Assad to shoot himself into his foot that way (prompting hostilities from super powers like the U.S.), even more so when he is already winning anyway. And that the White Helmets which parade through our media as a kind of Middle Eastern Red Cross are actually a branch of the islamist terrorists, one that specializes in creating fake news (such as those alleged chemical attacks), is pretty well documented by now.
II. Corruptitians
Self-declared gods blowing up smoke each otherâs aâs while they are screwing us over:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Jimmy Dore and the title: “Swamp Creature Scott Pruitt Resigns From EPA“)
âDemocraticâ Party establishment working to split its own âDemocraticâ Party vote to avoid progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from winning the election for Congress. Remember how they were gaslighting and voter-shaming us in 2016 (and 2000), blaming those of us who want policies for the people and end the establishment oligarchy for allegedly having gotten us G.W. Bush and Donald Trump? Well, while all this was total bogus in an electoral system so heavily rigged, they sure seem to not hesitate to use the sppiler effect to protect their bribe-paying donors from their own voter base:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for The Rational National and the title: “Joe Crowley Stays On The Ballot As 3rd-Party Challenge To Ocasio-Cortez“)
III. Systemic Corruption
Jesse Ventura, Brigida Santos, and Richard Wolff discuss the erosion of workersâ rights in America and how our corporatist debt-based economy with lots of welfare for the rich and lots of squeezing for the rest of us leads to ever greater inequality.
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Workersâ Rights & Richard Wolff“)
IV. Media Manipulation
Controlling the people with lies and silencing. Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos discuss Operation Mockingbird and how Americaâs most powerful news outlets have been working with the CIA for decades to plant false stories and mislead the public:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Jesse Ventura, Brigida Santos, and the title: “Operation Mockingbird & John Barbour“)
U.S.A. = Propaganda State :
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Jamarl Thomas and the title: “ALERT: U.S. Funded âMinistry Of Truthâ Is Lying On Glen Greenwald; Legally Spreading Propaganda To U“)
V. Economic Reality
Economic reality of protectionism, government subsidies, and oh-so free trade that never was or likely will be:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “The deceptive promise of free trade | DW Documentary“)
Our Power Eliteâs Corrupt Economy and Political Theater (very insightful speech!):
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Richard D. Wolff and the title: “Global Capitalism: Immigration & Trade War [July 2018] “)
Note: Most important point (which you hear from me again and again, as well) around 33:01 min in, starting with an astute audience comment and continuing with Wolffâs well-put response. And at 40:34 min, he goes over our U.S. experience with it.
Toxic economy:
A suitable Pruit Epitaph: Poison for Profit. The rich have absolutely no consideration for us.
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Thom Hartmann and the title: “How the Morbidly Rich are Literally Poisoning the Working Class for Profit!“)
VI. Class War
The U.S. Class War (incl. Mortgage Crisis) explained by Richard Wolff:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “How Class Works â by Richard Wolff“)
Iâd like to add that, as I calculated and explained before, about half of the income created by all our work (plus the machines and previously made infrastructure and inventions) goes to the small group of the very rich; and if we simply redirected it to us all by taxing excessive income and wealth, we would all have good lives (except in cases of untreatable health crises and such, which we could then also better fight though, by the way).
VII. Immigration
Some good points made on our immigration situation:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Jimmy Dore and the title: “âWe Donât Want Mexicansâ Say Young Trump Supporter“)
The running for your life part of Hispanic immigration to the U.S. (the oligarchy hurts people everywhere â and too many dupes among us still believe this to be ethical and for our safety):
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Sana Saeed and the title: “How U.S. Involvement In Central America Led To a Border Crisis| AJ+“)
VIII. Automation (quick idea)
Automation could be a good rather than bad thing if handled correctly. Besides Social Security for All as a financial safety cushion and Federal Job Programs (to fund important tasks the private market does not), an additional (not alternative, but additional) way is a shorter work week:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “The Divide: Why You Should Work Less â And How It Could Save The Planet“)
IX. Political Psychology
Culture is only part of our believes and push-buttons. A lot is in-born. We find it among our closest relatives in the wild:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “The surprising science of alpha males | Frans de Waal“)
X. Political Conversation
Good conversation comparing the Democratic and Republican gangs… pardon me… âpartiesâ and how to solve our problems. Oh, look at the front picture:Â more alpha chimps!
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Jimmy Dore, Richard Eskow, and the title: “Whoâs More Corrupt, Democrats Or Republicans?“)
XI. Political Humor
Neat, humorous conversation on immigration, nativism, elite-privilege, election integrity, people striving to make our country being smeared as extremists and the denied the right to do so when they didnât pick the right soil to be born on…:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Jimmy Dore, Richard Eskow, and the title: “Democrats Are Plotting A âCoupâ! Says Tucker Carlson”)
Note: Keep your eyes peeled for tomorrowâs Part B (at least 3 or 4 more videos).
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These days, so-called illegal immigration and mass deportations have been added to the growing hysteria marking the United States of Agony. Emotions are running high for good reason, but logical thinking is getting kicked into the ditch at the same time, as I will point out three paragraphs below. First, though, a look at the pandemonium:Â Â Continue reading “The Deportations Are Only for Show â Take a Second to Dig Deeper”→
This collection of informative online videos for weekend viewing deals especially with where our money goes (why we have so little and the rich so much), the scapegoating and persecution of immigrants, voter suppression and the secret dismantling of a moral society, the poor peopleâs campaign, and more. Stars: Paul Jay, Richard Wolff, Lee Camp, Jimmy Dore (a lot), Thom Hartmann, Greg Palast, Nick Braña, and Martin Luther King.
I. Oligarchy
The billionaires are destroying our world and heading for the hills:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “The Billionaire Class is Not Fit to Rule – Paul Jay“)
II. Economy
Richard Wolff exposes among other things the phony private sector vs government narrative (Big Business has been using government from day one):
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Economic Update: Tariffs In An Unraveling Economy“)
III. Redacted Tonight
Slave Labor, Corporate Crimes, the U.S. is the worldâs 2nd biggest tax haven (for the rich and their corporations, of course, not working people):
Endless blood money disappearing inthe vaults of the rich:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “[115] Truth About $21 Trillion Missing At The PentagĂłn w/ David Degraw“)
IV. Jimmy Dore
Immigration: Jimmy Dore & Abby Martin had a long discussion on the demonization and abuse of immigrants in our immigrant nation. Flogging and murdering the slaves (the refugee and migrant worker ones) instead of reforming the rigged economy…:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Kamala Harris Supports ICE! Says Immigrants Murder & Rape“)
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “NY Times Blames Obama For Trumpâs Immigration Horribleness w/Abby Martin”)
The inhumanity of the establishment defenders:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Laura Ingraham Calls ICE Detention Center âSummer Campsâ. w/Abby Martin”)
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Hillary: Undocumented Children âShould Be SENT BACK!â. w/Abby Martin“)
2. Party Corruption: And if you still had any doubts that the âDemocraticâ Party is just as corrupt as the Republican party and both are essentially acting in concert on behalf of the oligarchy, hear this:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Democrats KILL Net Neutrality In California & Help Trump Again!“)
V. Incrementalism
… leads into the abyss:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “What is it Going to Take for Us to Stop the Rise of Fascism in America?”)
VI. Voter Suppression
Thom Hartmann interviews Greg Palast who is suing our vote suppressors, and they are scattering like roaches in the light:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Why Journalist & Filmmaker Greg Palast is Suing Ohio & Kansas for Voter Purges“)
VI. Right to Life
The dispossessed call for their right to live â real life, not just a painful existence pushed to the margins of our world by establishment bullies and their injustice machine:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “MLKâs Poor Peopleâs Campaign 2.0 Kicks Off”)
Ref.: poorpeoplescampaign.org(gee, I wished I had discovered this clip sooner, considering the June 23rd announcement)
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This online video compilation for enriching weekend watching presents news and sharp analyses over a wide spectrum of issues, among these: wrongful government spending; oligarchy; disaster capitalism (such as is currently ravaging Puerto Rico); better health in China than the U.S.; burial of the Bernie Bro Myth; the establishmentâs smoke and mirrors; the race to the bottom; voting, guns, and healthcare in Australia, and an expert analysis of the âDemocraticâ Partyâs psychology.
I. Government Spending
Bernie speaking in the Senate about âourâ governmentâs blank-check war industry spending ($716 billionâââmore than the next ten countries combined while always whining about the deficit when it comes to helping American families in trouble):
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Our National Priorities: Endless Defense Spending or Working Families?“)
A comment left on Youtube: »âDefend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.â Psalms 82:3-4«
Why we âCanât Affordâ Nice Things. When billionaires and their politician shills tell us we canât afford nice things like healthcare for non-billionaires, itâs not because the government is poor (after all, it spends avishly on the war industry and on tax cuts for the billionaires) but because the billionaires siphon off the government money into their own coffers and they donât want it to go elsewhere:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Billionaire Says We âCanât Affordâ âMedicare for All,â Bernie Sanders Responds“)
II. Disaster Capitalism
The pillaging of Puerto Rico:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “âThe Battle for Paradiseâ: New Intercept Doc Goes Inside Struggle over Puerto Ricoâs Future“)
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Puerto Rico, âPlayground for the Privilegedâ: Investors Move In as Homes Foreclose & Schools Close“)
III. Empire
Bernie warms up to the fight for a responsible foreign military policy:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Bernieâs Amazing Foreign Policy Smackdown Excites Progressives“)
The U.S. Empireâs heavy hand in Venezuela explained in a nutshell:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “[114] Abby Martin & The Neo-Liberal Plan To Bring Down VenezueIa“)
IV. Bernie Bro Myth
Burial of the Bernie Bro Myth
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “New Poll Completely Demolishes the âBernie Broâ Myth“)
V. Smoke & Mirrors
Fake Charities and Humanitarian Foundations. The thieving oppressive oligarchs like to make themselves look good with charities and also appease and co-opt people by pretending that organizations are in place that take on humanityâs problems when in reality they only white-wash the oligarchy and its cruel empires. So, is it any wonder that only crowd-funding supports truly helpful organizations, candidates, and alternative media (sadly way too little, in part because of these false flag organizations giving the impression that we underprivileged folks donât have to sacrifice our few hard-earned dollars)?
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Garry Kasparov Unhinged! – His Human Rights Scam Exposed w/Thor Halvorssen“)
VI. Economy
China now has better health than we do, the race to the bottom with systematic tactics to impoverish working people, and more:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Economic Update: Standing Up“)
VII. Oligarchy
As Bernie Sanders says, this is what oligarchy looks like:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Amazon & Bezos Screw Homeless In Seattle“)
VIII. Elsewhere in the World
Voting, guns, and healthcare in Australia:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “What America can Learn from Australiaâs Progressives“)
IX. System Analysis
Todayâs America: a system where nobody in power does anything for working people anymore. The disease of the âDemocraticâ Party:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Frank : âTrump won because Clinton and the Democrats dismissed the concerns of working peopleâ”)
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This weekendâs video compilation covers various areas:
U.S. Barbarity
Voter Manipulation
Economy
Corrupt Politics
Shamestream Media
Change
I. U.S. Barbarity
Finalizing the transformation of the U.S. into a country of 100% barbaric brutality:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Bolton Fabricated Lies that Justified War on Iraq “)
Note: Letâs be careful not to make this only about Trump. Reagan invaded Granada. G.H.W. Bush invaded Iraq. Bill Clinton ravaged flourishing Yugoslavia leaving a clutter of tiny, weak, and poor new nations behind. G.W.-Cheney invaded Afghanistan and Iraq (war for oil). Obama expanded our wars and drone-based from-the-sky terrorism on civil populations in many nations (the kind of horror which breeds violent terrorism coming back at us). Trump is just the latest and possible last step. (Letâs see how much our domestic corporate police state brutality, not discussed in this news video, will also be revved up during his tenure.)
II. Voter Manipulation
Twitter, Facebook, Cambridge Analytica…
More on political social media abuse, the corrupt government-corporation marriage, etc.:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “âPro-Hillary Botsâ Used Twitter Bots on Sanders Supporters | Americaâs Lawyer on RT America | “)
More confirmation of the Cambridge Analytica Meddling and also an example of how money can mess with integrity. After all, the oligarchs have their paid foot soldiers:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Brittany Kaiser, former Cambridge Analytica director: âI voted for Bernieâ“)
If you missed them, here are this weekâs articles on electoral rigging via Twitter and Facebook:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Economic Update: Capitalism Breeds Inequality“)
Robert Reich on why are we working harder than ever and getting nowhere. Itâs the rigged âPolitical Economyâ which structures the market against us.
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Robert Reich, âSaving Capitalismâ“)
Gist: The market vs government debate is a distraction. There is no market without a government (that sets and enforces the market rules, like what is legal tender, what is fraud, contract fulfillments, etc.). So, the real question is whether the market-government system (which is the real economy) works for most of us or merely a small number at the top. The other common myth that is utter nonsense is that (in our current system) people get paid what they are worth. Also, trusts and lobbying create behind-the-scenes pre-distributions which shift wealth and income to the top while they raise our living expenses.
Good point: If we give up on politics, we give up on a good nation and world.
More government rigging for the Robber Billionaires:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “On Contact: The New Gig Economy with John McDonagh“)
Note: So, New Yorkâs taxis were limited by number to some 13,000 for umpteen years. Then, Uber comes in, promises the regulators comfy kickback jobs on its board, and suddenly 100,000 more taxi-like Uber cars are allowed into the market, and the taxi drivers â whose earnings have been ruined in one fell swoop â get levied an additional congestion tax to penalize them for all the extra cars. Their garages switch from splitting profits with their drivers to charging them a whopping $120 leasing fee each morning, putting them into a hole they must try to dig themselves out of in the next 16 hours or so of uninterrupted work and customer-hunting, while the garage owners income is thereby secured. And, eventually, a taxi driver who canât take it anymore drives right up to the front of City Hall and blows off his own head with a shotgun. Thatâs how our rigged market-government economy is screwing workers and coddling the top and their corrupt political handmaidens until life for the rest of us becomes an agonizing ordeal we prefer not to stay in anymore.
IV. Corrupt Politics
The GOP raiders and their Dem enablers committing the latest Wall Street deregulation:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Bernie Sanders Cites âCorruptionâ as Reason for Wall Street Deregulation Push “)
Change on the Outside, Continuity on the Inside (the roll-back of Dodd-Frank by a Repucratic-Dempublican alliance):
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Democratâs Playbook To Sell You Out Revealed “)
V. Shamestream Media
Why we need independent media:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Bernie Sanders Calls Out Mediaâs Obsession with Stormy Daniels Scandal“)
VI. Change
An academic analysis of our flawed world and a suggestion for how to fix it:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Is Another World Possible? – Leo Panitch on RAI (4/4) “)
Notes: Living conditions were actually improving during much of the 20th century under a system of capitalism held to certain limits and socially responsible rules by a political upheaval and lingering political awareness of the citizenry. But when these improved lives led to a slothing off of public political awareness and participation, the plutocrats that had been left in their seats of imbalanced power, started rolling back the societal advances so we ended up in our current mess echoing medieval conditions of autocracy and serfdom. Now we need to think about change, fundamental change, so it wonât be rolled back again. Various ideas are being discussed.
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Government is the problem only when it is controlled by the 1% instead of the people. ~ Dirk Droll
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I suspect that, as a thin âblackâ man, he isnât very attractive to many. In an age when the rich, sexy, and powerful get the most attention, his skin color or ethnicity probably keep many folks from ever listening to him. Furthermore, his English grammar sometimes slips (unfortunately thatâs true for many Americans nowadays). And, yet, I find it shocking that he doesnât have more viewers on Youtube, because â quite frankly â some of the most brilliant political commentaries I have heard are from this man: Jamarl Thomas. Just as I believe that I should have more readers to spread good sense, he should have more viewers â in spades! Continue reading “A Rarely Heard Brilliant Voice”→
When you lose most of your possessions, you also lose most of your identity:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “The Financial Crisis Is Forcing America To Redefine Its Values”)
