Summary: Main issues: Capitalismās dreadful faults, socialism just an improved derivative, and were our founding fathers fans of capitalism or socialism? And how we, the people, can change our cruel world. Furthermore: various news.
Stars and channels: Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff), Sustainable Human, Re/Culture Films, The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow, Economic Update with Richard Wolff, The Gravel Institute, RT America, The Jimmy Dore Show, The Real News Network, The Peopleās Party, Ron Placone, ā¦
Topics:
I. Best Videos
Capitalism vs. Socialism among the Founding Fathers (a good one for the coming 4th of July) ***
How Big Wealth Makes People Bad (by Paul Piff) **
The Brutal Rule of Money **
Anti-Poverty Program (SSI Must be Improved) **
U.S. Propaganda, Political Terminology, and the Forgotten Left GOP Origin **
Does Capitalism Mean Freedom? **
Our Weird Economy Perception Culture **
II. Good Videos
The Trickle Up Economy
Criminal Corporations Example: Uber
DC Attorney General (Finally) Sues Amazon
No Border Change under Biden and Harris
Defective Justice Systems This Day and Age
Waking Up Politically (Separating Fakers from Real Strategies) *
Workers Buy Coffee Shop From Owner, Make It A Worker Co-Op
Mutual Aid & Direct Action ā Bypassing the Restrictive Money Aristocracy *
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Contents: everything ranging from sadness and anger to immediate NOW action and even humor.
Stars & channels: #ForceTheVote Town Hall on Movement for a Peopleās Party (Jimmy Dore, Stef Zamorano, Nick Brana, Cornel West, Kyle Kulinski, and more incl. impressive āregular folksā), Chris Hedges (On Contact, Rolling Stone), Richard Wolff (Democracy At Work), The Hill, Secular Talk, Dylan Ratigan and others incl. Jimmy on the The Jimmy Dore Show, The Grayzone, The Real News Network, David Graeber (RSA), Honest Government Ads (thejuicemedia)
Topics:
A Must See: #ForceTheVote Town Hall
In Conversations Overcoming the Fake-Centrism & Artificial Split from the Top
Cool History And Current Myths Discussion with Chris Hedges
Political Repression: State Power over Private Lives
For others short on time, here is another weekly share of cool videos dealing with our issues. Themes summarized: capitalism = why the American dream died & how socialism would resurrect it, how to politically make change, and global uprisings plus little ones in our States. The time for change has come.
Stars & Channels: Sankento, Second Thought, Chris Hedges and Fabian Scheidler (On Contact), Drew Westen & Ralph Nader (Ralph Nader Radio Hour), Kyle Kulinski (Secular Talk), After Skool, The Jimmy Dore Show, Graham Elwood, and more .
Topics:
Capitalist Cultism
Capitalism = Why the American Dream Died | Socialism to Resurrect It
Meaningful videos from this week. Their main themes: the coronavirus-triggered economic crisis (with abuse from the corrupt āelitesā) and capitalism, how it hurts, and where to move from that. Also, how Europe has handled COVID-19 far less harmfully.
BTW, if you ever wondered why we, the people, should connect differently than only through corporate social media, look at what happened within a minute of me trying to share a previous Video Weekend on Facebook (I originally suspected an anti-democratic algorithm, but it may have been a troll, either way is bad): Public Censorship by Facebook ā Also, I am too busy with continued education currently for sharing these posts on social media. So, subscribers please make use of my posts to save your own time searching for informative alternative media publications and also share the videos you find good, or the whole post, with your friends so that the time I spend sharing them here isnāt totally wasted. š
Stars and Channels: Movement for a Peopleās Party (incl. Nick Brana, Jerry Perez, and more), The Jimmy Dore Show, āUseful Idiotsā (Rolling Stone), Richard Wolff, The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow, Yanis Varoufakis, The Rational National, and the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.
Topics:
European Stable COVID-19 Economic Crisis Treatment
Even the Fed Chairman Suggests Relief for the People
People’s Party Update (National Call)
Seriously Biden?
The Need for System Change
Beyond FDR / Capitalism = Anti-Democracy
Getting Capitalism Out of its Box: UB-Dividend
A Hacker Fighting our Oligarchy’s Un-Unemployment Slavery
In the following recent interview, Bernie Sanders mentioned one of the little known and much overlooked main reasons why he could be truly helpful as our President despite of a stonewalling Congress:
(Note: If the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for The Young Turks and the title: āBernie Sanders Interview with Cenk Uygur of The Young Turksā)
Yep, this kind of a tireless activist is exactly the kind of president we need (and that I was hoping for in 2016), one who doesnāt just loll about in the White House, but one who goes out on campaigns not just to gather votes for his next election but to rally the people to rise up demanding dutiful service from their Members of Congress.
To be frank, I am tired of spending my whole life searching for survival opportunities and pouring my utmost efforts into them. Every survival opportunity gets destroyed about as soon as I latch on to it. And this has become the life for countless millions of my human brothers and sisters. A precarious life like ours ā a life of broken dreams and endless survival struggle, despair, misery, anguish, and hopelessness ā is no life worth living. In fact, I consider it no life at all. I want to end the systemic corruption that is behind all this misery, so that at least younger generations may be saved from this Hell on Earth that murdered my life in my cradle. Is that hard to understand?
If not, then you now know why I squeeze time out of my little off-work or sleep time to write about political/economic issues. You may read them out of similar motivation. My plea to you: If you find my writings and the videos I share meaningful, please share links to my posts. Thanks. Power to the People!
In solidarity,
Dirk Droll
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Probably all the folks who read my writings have had many, most, or all of their livesā dreams crushed to the point that being born a human in this world is a curse.
My own dreams and goals were crushed again and again, forcing me countless times to restart my ālifeā from scratch and lower my goals to where I am now reduced to a struggle for mere short-term survival, the fight for long-term survival having been lost forever, making me wish ā if I am to be honest ā that I had never been born. (On the side of my struggle for survival, I try to fight this corrupt system through my writing while I still can.)
This depressing hardship is the life not just endured by me but, I suspect, the majority of human beings born in our times… at least once they reach a certain age. How can we be proud of such a failed civilization or not wish to improve it?
I think that most people donāt have it in their nature to rock the boat. They just want to pursue their goals, no matter how sensible or senseless they are; and they want to be left in peace. Therefore it is easy for confidence tricksters to scam them and set up a system that works as a continuous and self-perpetuating scam known as our economic and political system.Ā Continue reading “Discovery and Unity”→
Finally, the peopleās coalition I called for over a year ago seems to be launching.
It has been brewing for a while. In 2008, a landslide of votes put Obama in office because he had promised hope and change. Starting around 2009, the Tea Party was formed to co-opt rebellious right-wing Americans. In 2016, a storm swept through our elections, boosting Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. We are still in trouble. Time and again, we were cheated and lied to. But we are not done. The American People still needs and wants change, and we will keep fighting for it. Now a peopleās movement is being born that transcends political party lines.
Important facts:
The twin-party tyranny has sold us out to the robber billionaires and driven our country to the brink of collapse.
The American People is sick and tired of the twin-party tyranny. Independents are now the largest voting bloc. And, according to Gallop, around 60% of Americans want a new major party, and the trend has been rising for years.
The efforts to flood and take over the āDemocraticā Party for the people have had practically no success. Even though some peopleās candidates managed to take over low positions, the party establishment still rules supreme and is blocking and purging those who donāt share their corrupt ways.
If a political revolution fails, only two possibilities remain: a violent revolution and/or a violent dictatorship
Millions have been leaving the āDemocraticā Party thanks to last yearās rigged presidential primaries and the partyās continued stubborn resistance to reforming away from its big-money-in-politics corruption and towards fighting for the peopleās needs. They, just like independents (and even many Republican Party members) need a new party to represent them.
Existing third parties tend to suffer from low voter confidence and can be in mutual competition for votes. A coalition can help overcome that.
When representatives of the Draft Bernie for a Peopleās Party movement met this September 8-10 with other third-party representatives and activists, the idea finally crystallized to converge into a peopleās coalition. While flooding the base of the existing mainstream parties will help to keep on the pressure, I strongly suspect that a trans-partisan peopleās coalition will achieve the most. So, I am happy today to present a report on the official launch of the āMovement For a Peopleās Partyā:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: Ā»DraftBernie Launches “Movement For a People’s Party”!Ā«)
The one part that may still be missing is the massive grassroots effort I recommended when I suggested the American People’s Coalition a year ago. I still think that all of us who can do so should engage in direct action, including the local hammering out of a broadly acceptable platform of public goals that most Americans can sign on to ā and then implementing it in local politics. In other words, whenever we can to do something ourselves, letās not wait for others to do great things on higher electoral levels. Letās all talk to our friends, family, and neighbors, hold house parties or communal meetings, and move forward together. Even while we wait for national and state level changes, we can often make local changes right now. And also, very importantly, we must inform ourselves and polish our ideas to be ready inside for the changes we want on the outside.
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While nearly all the election fraud and rigging that is rampant in the U.S. never gets reported in our colluding mass media that prefer to drown us in unsubstantiated allegations of Russian meddling (even as it would be very unlikely to amount to anything comparable to what happens domestically right under our noses and the actual allegation is only one of revealing the truth to the American public), one case of election rigging actually didrecently make it into our corporate media for once! Basically, voters in Georgia wanted the possibility of election hacking investigated, and the people in custody of the electoral data quietly erased them to sabotage the investigation, to which I can only say that our security begins at home, not in Russia: