Wakeful Video Weekend 2020-07-19 (17 videos)

Meaningful videos of this week exposing the criminal oligarchy and building a people’s movement for the so much needed system change.

Stars & Channels: Chris Hedges, Jesse Ventura, Richard Wolff, the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow, Psychologist Ramani Durvasula (acTVism Munich), Krystal and Saagar of The Hill, act.tv, Ralph Nader Radio Hour, The Grayzone, NonCompete, Rev. William Barber II & Liz Theoharis (The Real News Network), The Jimmy Dore Show

14 Topics:

1. U.S. Military Murdering Civilians and Journalists & Deep State Persecuting Whistleblowers and Journalists
2. Homelessness
3. Racist Capitalism & People Finally Finding Together
4. Jesse Ventura on Our Oligarchy’s Corruption
5. Capitalism: Government is its Base
6. Mind: Trauma, PTSD, Cultural Lack of Compassion and Empathy, Need for Change…
7. Antidemocratic Duopoly Corruption Revealed by Wallstreet
8. System Issue, Not Pull Yourself up by (Nonexisting) Bootstraps Issue
9. Pandemic: Current, Future, COVID Bio-Weapons Research, Pressure on Gov
10. Media: The “Elite’s” “Cancel Culture” Hypocrisy
11. Moral Fusion People’s Movement: Fighting for Life
12. GOP Wants to Gut Social Security Like Biden
13. The Two-Arm Oligarchic Party (R&D)
14. Time for Solidarity & Revolution

Wakeful Video Weekend 2020-07-12 (22 videos)

Meaningful videos of this week with deep insights and strong demands for a better future: the root of our trouble and need to uproot it, surveillance, the COVID pandemic, transnational socialism, deficit myth, fixing homelessness, uniting the left & right…

Stars & channels: Ilhan Omar & Krystal Ball (The Hill), Edward Snowden & Glenn Greenwald (The Intercept), Yanis Varoufakis (New Economic Thinking), Stephanie Kelton, RJ Eskow (Jun 29, 2020), The Rational National, Richard Wolff (Democracy At Work), Graham Elwood & Ron Placone, The School of Life, Movement for a People’s Party, Nick Brana, Jimmy Dore

16 Topics

1. Wow(!): Ilhan Omar & Krystal Ball Adressing the Need for Real Change
2. People’s Party’s Grassroots Action
3. Edward Snowden on COVID Tracking by Government Surveillance
4. Our Economic Reality & Birth of an International Socialist Movement
5. Post Capitalism: Combine Rationality with Solidarity
6. Good Point from an MMTer
7. U.S.A.: Crisis on Top of 5 Crises, Racism a Buffer for Capitalists, Employers Profiting from
8. News
9. Coronavirus: The Possible Things Affecting Japan
10. Propaganda: Venezuela Spook
11. China-U.S.
12. Economic Insights
13. Homelessness Fix
14. Emotional Immaturity
15. MPP: Uniting Right & Left
16. Humor: What’s Medicare for All

 

1. Wow(!): Ilhan Omar & Krystal Ball Adressing the Need for Real Change

Krystal Ball: Economy revealed AS A SHAM, there’s no going back ~ The Hill (Jul 8, 2020)

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Wakeful Video Weekend 2020-01-12 (21 videos) – 2 Main Themes: (1) U.S. Homelessness, (2) Iran

It must take days to search and select these top videos for a weekend. So much time for the rest of us to save when we make use of them. This weekend’s compilation has outstanding reports on American homelessness not easily found through any other source. The Iran reports are also above the average slew out there. And there is more:

Stars & Channels: Bernie Sanders, Democracy Now!, Emir-Stein Center, Empire Files, Invisible People, Kim Iversen, Milwaukee PBS, Prchuk 911, PRIMO NUTMEG, Ralph Nader Radio Hour, Rebel HQ, Richard Wolff, RT America, The Damage Report, The Hill, The Humanist Report, The Michael Brooks Show, The Political Vigilante

14 Topics:

1. Why Bernie is the Best Candidate
2. Economics (Richard Wolff)
3. American Dream Replaced with Working Poverty
4. Homelessness (rare OUTSTANDING documentaries)
5. RNRH: Medicare for All (Perfect), Dictatorship Psychology
6. Medicare for All: Andrew Yang Apparently Backing Out
7. Head-Twisted Voters that America Cannot Rely Upon
8. News: Iran
9. Iran: Bernie on the Assassination
10. Middle East & Iran & Us (U.S.)
11. Iran Gov Analysis
12. Anti-Iran-War Protests
13. Candidates (Bernie, Warren)
14. Billionaires in Fake Democracy

 

1. Why Bernie is the Best Candidate *

Bernie Is The Candidate: Here’s Why ft. Meagan Day ~ The Michael Brooks Show

Wakeful Video Weekend 2020-01-05 (27 videos) – Main Theme: Our Inequality

Understanding better our unequal society. And coming to realize that we need to create a nurturing environment that meets basic needs for everybody, rather than continuing to support a system that leeches everything away from almost everyone and places all that stolen prosperity into the vaults of a handful of king-like super-rich — plus their rich and upper-“middle-class” guards. A need to build strong, healthy communities as a basement for and part of revolutionary change before the catastrophic point of no return completely ends our future (the latter only a little discussed).

Since this holiday week produced less vital videos than usual, I dove through older ones that draw a comprehensive picture from which to grow our awareness and build plans.

Channels: Moyers & Company, hearus1, PBS NewsHour, Ubiquity, TEDx Talks, Bernie Sanders Campaign, PRIMO NUTMEG, Democracy Now!, CODEPINK, NonCompete, and more.

Topics (Categories):

1. Living in our Times (Rich or Struggling) II
2. Education: Our Toxic Culture of Education
3. Socialism = Common Ownership (& Liberty from Lords)
4. Neoliberalism fuels Right-Wing Populism
5. Billionaires: Are thieves legitimate “winners”?
6. Iran (esp. the Recent U.S. Terror Strike)
7. The Past & Future (and What to Do)

Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-09-14 (18 videos)

News, deep insights, and some humor as well. Outstanding videos from this week, some of which you may have missed.

Issues: isms, equality of life, UBI, drone wars, billionaire badness, globalist corporatism, Assange, revolution vs reform, lawlessness, refugees, education, Bernie, and more…

Stars & Channels: Cowboy Economist, John Spritzler, Redacted Tonight, Brave New Films, Jesse Ventura, The Michael Brooks Show, The Humanist Report, Jimmy Dore, Thought Slime, The Real News Network, The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow, Chris Hedges (On Contact), Democracy At Work, Newsbroke, TED

Topics:

1. Thoughts: Capital-/Social-/Marx-/Cummun-ism with a Satirical Bent
2. Faux Progressives: Their “Equal Opportunity” Trap
3. Insights: Rational UBI & Google Censorship
4. Connection: Student Debt, Drone Wars & Terrorism
5. News: Predatory Corporations and Globalist Fascism
6. Thoughts: Going Far Enough
7. Candidates: Fighting Elitist Politics
8. Candidates: Conversation with Bernie’s Press Secretary
9. Media War: Hounding a Political Prisoner
10. Change: Revolution or Reform & Nice or Edgy
11. Police: Police Protected from the Law
12. Refugees: Mass Murder by the Supreme Court
13. Education: Schools Sort People as Commodities
14. Empire: The Enemy from Within
15. Poverty: Housing Gouging (and More)
16. Billionaires: The Oh So Good Ones Are NOT Good
17. Christian Fascists: Religious Liberty Warped to Crush Liberty
18. Strategy: Lighting the Path to a Better World

Society Punishes the Poor for Being Poor

I avoid ever referencing a Quora post because of Quora’s censorship against non-privileged people, but today I came across a post that I feel really needs to be shared around. It illustrates the deep immorality in our me-me-me society, and also the reason for why I object to leaving socio-economic justice in the hands of gatekeepers, a chief reason of why I want a universal basic income for all, so that injustices like those described in this post can be stopped in their tracks.