Wakeful Video Weekend 2021-10-24 (10 videos)

Request: Please share with others. I, for example, can no longer share on Facebook, having been locked out of my account.

Sorry I’m late. Let’s hope this week’s laborious and nerve-wrecking home search was the final phase with success around the corner.

Post Summary: invisible homelessness, COVID updates (with the oligarchy’s evil intention behind it)), more evil of the rich rulers, and a potential escape via self-farming.

Stars & channels: Invisible People, Richard Wolff on Democracy At Work, The Jimmy Dore Show, Breaking Points, Urban Farmer Curtis Stone

Topics:

1. Homelessness: Please, People, Learn Compassion and Social Responsibility
2. COVID in China vs U.S.
3. Much Exaggerated COVID in the U.S.
4. The Tyrannic Intention behind COVID Vaccination
5. Growing U.S. Strikes
6. Corporate Gangster Caught Bragging about Controlled Politics
7. Kidnapping by U.S. Government
8. People’s Way of Life Destroyed by the Rich ‘Elite’
9. Making a Living from Urban Farming
10. Over $1,000 made per Week Growing Microgreens in a Small Room

Wakeful Video Weekend 2021-09-12 (12 videos)

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Summary: Our Broken Country

Stars & channels: Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff, Harriet Fraad), Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller presented on The Hill, The Jimmy Dore Show, Chris Hedges & Michael Moore, The Real News Network, andrewnef, Second Thought, On Contact with Chris Hedges and J. Malcolm Garcia

Topics:

1. Economic Update: Extremes of Rich & Poor in U.S. Capitalism
2. Corporatism = Fascism
3. How Our Country Has been Broken
4. Example of Our Blindness of Our Wars – And One Soldier Wanting to Burn Down this Mess
5. D Party Corruption, Even the “Justice Democrats”
6. Socialism’s Past Failure
7. The Dishonesty of the “Christian” Right
8. Modern Police Brutality Insensible PLUS Rewarded
9. Taxing Us The People vs Giving Interests to the Rich
10. No Need for a Sh*t Society
11. U.S. Dystopia
12. Brutalization in Poverty

Videos Exposing the Creepy Billionaires

Dear fiends, I am currently away from home. So this last week I could not check out numerous potentially good new videos of human trouble and people power for change to thereafter share the best I come across. To not leave this weekend blank, here is a reminder of videos shared over three years ago highly revealing the widespread sociopathic corruption, infantility, and inhumanity among the super rich. (yep, I have yet to meet one who can be considered human)

These videos were spread over the popular four-article “Vapid Lives of Destruction” series I published – the link to which can be found in the “More…” menu at the top, but today also right here:

Vapid Lives of Destruction

One of these videos has been removed from YouTube (and apparently the whole Internet) by now, at least by the title it had. Searching for it, I either found it again with a different title, or at least a very similar one:

Lifting the secretive veil on life as a billionaire’s pleasure wife | 60 Minutes Australia ~ 60 Minutes Australia (Oct 23, 2017, length: 11:13)

So, if you saw them already 3 years ago, watching them again as a reminder won’t be a bad idea. And if they are new to you, freshly go for them. 😉

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Wakeful Video Weekend 2021-06-19 (15 videos)

Summary: Insightful reports, speeches, and discussions on important topics like current rigged robbing, colonialism, and changing awareness and culture to change for the better.

Stars & channels: Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff), Breaking Points (Krystal and Saagar), The Jimmy Dore Show, Second Thought, Breaking Points, Katie Halper, The Real News Network, Ralph Nader Radio Hour, A New Story of the People ~ Sustainable Human (#CharlesEisenstein), …

Topics:

1. News (Immigrants, Injustice)
2. Welfare vs UBI
3. Brief Look Into Our Political Corruption
4. Housing: The Rich Robbing our Homes – The Anti-American Dream
5. How Billionaires Pay Less In Taxes Than We
6. World: Israel’s Colonialism
7. World: Latin America Insights (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Columbia, Mexico…)
8. Police: Cops Framing Innocent People as Felons
9. Young People Power for Change
10. Making War Instead of Solutions
11. Our Weird Society Lacking So Much
12. Considering Interconnectedness

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Proper Tax vs. Iɯdɹodǝɹ ┴ɐx

As the Tax Day is about to hit us over the head or under the belt line again, it makes sense to give a thought or two about how proper or improper our tax system is.

Clearly, lots of people across the political spectrum hate taxes, or at least their own taxes, or would like others to be taxed more, or – in some cases – gladly pay their taxes as a contribution to the society that grants them a civilized life. (I once belonged to the latter group.)

But how many of us have actually thought this through? What our taxes are for and what they could be used for instead?

Since many of us are busy meeting the deadline, I want to keep this article as short as possible, only throwing out a funny historic remembrance and some food-for-thought seeds for our future.  

Financial Security for All via a UBI – Not to be Seen in Isolation

Financial security for us “common” people is an extremely important topic. The video shared below touches upon several highlights of this subject, such as the question of affordability and the worrisome band-aid-possibility of a “universal basic income” (short “UBI”, but better called something else like a citizen dividend in order to frame it properly within the big picture). The video explores these points too superficially, though. Therefore I recommend to first listen to the video conversation and then read my comments below (to which you are welcome to respond and add):  

Disconnected America – A Mentally Unhealthy Place

Americans, today, live in a money-obsessed, profit-driven society which distorts and stifles our shared humanity, resulting in despair, rage, and loneliness that generate, among other things, mass shootings.

The article I wish to point you at contains something to mull over: Capitalism Breeds the Lonely, Alienated Men Who Become Mass Killers?

In short, the article proposes that mental health can be likened to four pillars: (1) an intimate relationship, (2) a circle of friends or family, (3) shared activity groups (like workplace, clubs, political organization, sports teams, and such), (4) connection to one’s nation and the world through political, economic, or similar participation. When people’s lives lack these pillars, they become mentally unstable.  

Our Morally Upside Down Country: Jailing a Man For Trying to Save His Family (JD)

Blithe, privileged judges like this one are the creeps who should be jailed instead of poor people who are simply trying to hold on to life for themselves or their spouse and children:

(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Being Poor Is Still A Crime In America”)

Comments:  

The Competition Curse

Our society = a pyramid scheme!

Quote: “Our competition and internal strife weaken us and prevent us from facing the universe’s tough challenges like disease; the ravages of aging and a short life-span; as well as natural disasters like earthquakes; tsunamis; pandemics; global climate change, with its ever increasing hurricanes; and giant meteorite impacts, such as the one that killed off the dinosaurs…”

Read the full article…

 

Looking at Society from the Bottom Up (PS)

Little of the cruelty, injustice, and nefarious intent is hidden at the bottom:

»Ninety-four percent of the people in our prison system never had a trial. In fact, the students I teach who have the longest sentences, went to trial, and they were punished for it. Because they stack charges against you, and then they barter, like a poker game. But if you go to court, all of those charges are arrayed against you. And they have to give you a longer sentence because they use you as an example. They say, “Look he went to trial, or she went to trial, and that’s the sentence they got, so you better take the sentence we’re offering.” You can understand the awful dynamics of the corporate state by looking at what it does to the most vulnerable among us, and the best place to do that is in a prison where corporations have reached their deadly tentacles down to every facet of prison life.«

The above is a quote from a speech given by Chris Hedges, the former New York Times war correspondent who has seen a lot of evil in the world and recognizes a lot of it here back at home. It’s titled “Chris Hedges: Prison System Slave Labor”:

It is hard not to learn from what Mr. Hedges has to tell. Continue reading…