Truthful News Weekend 2022-09-02 (10 videos)

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Summary: Americans’ trouble, the robber barons’ ideology, our lost democracy and money culture, our online mess, and the COVID lockdowns’ mess

Stars and channels: thejuicemedia (“Honest Government Ad”), Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff), The Jimmy Dore Show, politizane, RepresentUs, After Skool, Russell Brand, GBNews (Neil Oliver)

Topics:

1. Comedy: Treacherous U.S. Supreme Court
2. Today’s American Homelessness, Waterlessness, Loneliness (even when employed)… ***
3. 1 In 6 Americans Can’t Pay Their Energy Bills *
4. Inequality Fanaticism vs Democratized Economy **
5. True Wealth Inequality in America **
6. Our Democracy Bought Away *
7. Online Social Insanity
8. Russell Brand on COVID Lockdowns’ Mess
9. Insane Money Culture

Truthful News Weekend 2022-08-05 (12 videos)

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Summary: corrupted antidemocratic politics and inequality, homelessness, irrational work culture, D-Party-boosted fascism, returned People’s Party national call, Medicare for All, and other issues.

Reminder: Stars (*…***) grade the videos.

Stars and channels: Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff), Sabby Sabs, Democracy Now!, The Jimmy Dore Show, Thought Slime, The People’s Party, Second Thought, John Campbell

Topics:

1. Economic Update & Marianne Williamson Interview
2. Democracy Now Interview of Richard Wolff on our Growing Inequality *
3. U.S. vs Finland on Homelessness *
4. Our Irrational Economy **
5. People’s Party National Call, August 5, 2022 *
6. Why the “Democrats” Fund and Boost Fascism **
7. A Brit Encountering the American Pharma Criminality
8. Ever More Americans Emigrating to Better Lives
9. Failures of COVID Vaccination
10. Infos on Congress Members’ Insider Trading
11. Some Infos on Money Saving by Medicare for All *

Wakeful Video Weekend 2022-07-01 (7 videos)

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Summary: Little time this week, but some very good and important videos for marching toward a better world (‘*’ stars displaying my grading). We must build powerful grassroots. Something good to remember on the 4th of July.

Stars and channels: Second Thought, Thought Slime, Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff), The Jimmy Dore Show, The Vanguard

Topics:

1. Middle Class Meaning *
2. Regarding Homeless People like Zombies *
3. Thoughts about our Duopoly
4. Airlines’ Corporate Crimes
5. “Democratic” Party over Decades Demanding Support for Things it Never Does
6. Voting blue is not enough! Democrats, we call your bluff! (Nice!) **
7. How Independent Candidate Ventura Became Governor Swiping the Rep & Dem Gangs Away ***

Wakeful Video Weekend 2022-06-17 (13 videos)

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Summary: Many good videos this week, lots of them from one channel that overworked this week.

Stars and channels: Julian Assange’s Brother, The Jimmy Dore Show (incl. Danny Haiphong and Max Blumenthal), Ralph Nader Radio Hour (incl. Chris Hedges), Moment Of Clarity with Lee Camp, We Love Animals

Topics:

1. How to Fix Homelessness ***
2. Great Julian Assange Brother Interview ***
3. Bolivia Reminder **
4. China Disinformation **
5. Russia’s Economy Progressing While U.S. Sanctioned by Itself **
6. Nice Conversation between Chris Hedges and Ralph Nader *
7. We Need to Change the Economic Design and its Understanding *
8. Study How Much Universal Medicare Would Have Helped Us During the COVID Pandemic
9. Ukraine War-Outcome Blame Game
10. Ukraine’s Nazi Dictatorship BANS Main Opposition Party
11. U.S.-Ukraine: Empire Puppet Warned or Dismissed
12. In Venezuela Common Folks Attack a Fascist Coup Puppet **
13. The Oligarchy Protecting Itself by Confusing Us *
14. A Brief Reminder How Our Mindsets Should Be **

Wakeful Video Weekend 2022-05-13 (11 videos, commented)

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Summary: neofeudalism and its culture, failed state, bad sanctions, worsening future, terrible school system, homelessness made for profits, effective grassroot actions

Stars and channels: Second Thought, Center for Global Justice, Renegade Inc. interviewing Michael Hudson, The Jimmy Dore Show, Sorelle Amore Finance, Sabby Sabs, Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff), Renegade Inc.

Topics:

1. Good Comparison of Feudalism, Capitalism, and Socialism ***
2. How and Why our Failed State Cannot Recover *
3. The Failing Sanctions Altering the World
4. Brazil, Saudia Arabia, China, Russia adapting against the U.S.
5. Social Credit System (a terrible future being attempted) **
6. Independent Candidates and Actually Effective Grassroot Actions *
7. Teachers Not Allowed to Make a Positive Difference **
8. Home Office Work Made Less and Less Livable *
9. Neoliberalism Being a Societal Narcissism/Sociopathy Culture
10. Capital is Not Just a Thing But a Process
11. Economic Update: Housing – Human Right VS System Failure *

Wakeful Video Weekend 2021-12-19 (13 videos)

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Summary: Once again a collection of shared good videos found this week on dealing with the flaws of the world we must live in and how to make it better. Main issues: corruption, COVID, schools & prisons, and People’s Party.

Stars & channels: Second Thought, Richard Wolff (Democracy At Work), The Jimmy Dore Show, The Real News Network, A⁺Students Abacus Maths, Steven Donziger & Marianne Williamson, The People’s Party

Topics:

1. “Centrals”/”Moderates” Always Serve the Right Wing
2. Long Growing U.S. Homelessness
3. Government vs Capitalism in Regard to Homelessness
4. Economic Update: Corruption for Profits and Power
5. The Establishment Burning Away Free Press
6. How Truthful are COVID Death Numbers?
7. COVID and Morality
8. Cops wanted to arrest one for a red light infraction, but then…
9. U.S. Terrible Schools (& Prisons) vs other Countries
10. Friendly (Finnish) vs Fiendish (American) Schools
11. Steven Donziger Update (The Human Rights Lawyer Chevron-Convicted Returned from the Prison into Home Confinement)
12. People’s Party Conversation on Pushing for Single Payer Healthcare
13. People’s Party’s End of Year Review 2021

Wakeful Video Weekend 2021-10-31 (8 videos)

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Summary: some really neat videos about mentality (good vs flawed) – incl. meaning of life, American fascism, and People’s Party. – Sorry, I had little time this week when finally getting a home. Still some nifty videos to share.

Stars & channels: Democracy At Work, MAD LAB, Not Just Bikes, Spread Positivity, Quotes, The Hill, The People’s Party, RT America

Topics:

1. Homelessness From Wrong Society
2. Solidarity: Yes, critters human and otherwise can love others
3. Economically Ineffective American Suburbs
4. Wrong Human Attitude
5. Interesting Insights from Thousands of Years Ago
6. Failed U.S. Lock-Downs and Unjust Mandates
7. People’s Party: National Call
8. American Fascism

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

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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 2021-10-03 (13 videos)

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Summary: homeless/worthless lives, oligarchy, COVID-updates, and Peoples Party

Side-Note: The Delta-variant of COVID-19 now seems to hit us. (Vietnam locking down 100%, Israel hit hard despite massive vaccination (the imposed vaccines having been shitty, and better ones getting blocked by the profit-making corporations and their corrupt political allies), rapid tests in the U.S. running out, students beginning to get quarantined…)

Stars and Channels: Woody Guthrie, NonCompete, The Jimmy Dore Show, Ralph Nader Radio Hour, The People’s Party, Richard Wolff (The New School), Town Hall Seattle, Kim Iversen (The Hill), After Skool, Jason Hickel & Dean Baker (The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow), JEFF DUNHAM

Topics:

1. I Ain’t Got No Home In This World Anymore – Woody Guthrie
2. Delta-COVID Coming Without U.S. Protection
3. Delta-Variant & COVID-Vaccines Update
4. Our Careless Healthcare (Huge Malpractice) & Corporate Games with Union
5. People’s Party National Call
6. The Mindset of Corporate Money Lords
7. History of our Oligarchy
8. American Drone Terrorism
9. Why so Much Illness Nowadays?
10. Our Culture of Wasting our Working Lives
11. The Capitalist Catastrophe of Pharmaceutical Industry
12. Capitalist Silly Myths and Painful Realities
13. Comedy: Biden Interview

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Making Homeowners Homeless via Property Taxes

(Note: the Video Weekends are currently stalled because of my relocation — in the worst case this blog may pause for some weeks while I lack both time and Internet access)

Have you been mulling over a wealth tax? Are you aware of the wrong kind of wealth tax that has long been in place, not to take back from the thieving rich but to ravage people’s shelter from the elements? Listen to this report video and read my comments below:

$600M Property Tax Overcharge Is Eroding Detroit’s Black Homeownership ~ The Real News Network (Jan 16, 2020)

Comments:

While Detroit hit municipal bankruptcy (as other cities will), it is not the only place where property taxes strangle people who oh-so-facetiously claim to need a roof over their heads. It is really terrible how we American people get gouged and mauled from the top (the rich in cahoots with their political puppets). We try hard to escape some of the rentier gouging by getting to own our homes, but the money lords’ banks often demand about twice the homes’ alleged prices in pay when we take a mortgage (because the interests and compound interests can double the price of the loan the banks make possible with money made by them out of thin air). In addition, the banks play games like stock-market-gambling subprime mortgages and also illegitimate foreclosings on people who did make their mortgage payments on time. And communal governments also ravage us even when we finally DO own our homes. Even then we can get evicted and foreclosed, having our home and entire life’s savings taken away in one big swoop “justified” with property taxes that should not be imposed on people’s homes any more than on the air we breathe.

Imagine toiling all your life to own a home so that when you become too old and sick to pay rent you think you will be safe from having paid off your mortgage and escaped bank foreclosure. But then the local town government forecloses on you because you can’t pay its willy-nilly-rated and even inflated property taxes when you cannot earn an income anymore. Honest property tax should be imposed on luxury property only, such as huge private lands, private jets, fleets of giant luxury yachts, and excessive Wall Street stocks. We should get excessive wealth taxed, not people’s shelters from the elements.

And regard the amazing 18% interest rate a town government imposes on tax payment lag at an age where we working people are lucky if we get a mere 1.2% interests on savings (while paying a cash advance interest rate of 36% to a credit card baron). Holy moly! Maybe we need a new inequality term called “money market inequality”, where the money-gambling banksters and other rich creeps and their political puppets can gouge people at 18% interest rates or 36% (or even a lot more*) while people who have to toil for their living can’t even get 2% on any penny-pinching savings if they manage to scrape away some savings at all in this institutionalized inequality system.

* What’s a lot more? Full payment on payday loans is due on the borrower’s next payday, which typically is around two weeks. Payday lenders usually charge interest of $15-$20 for every $100 borrowed (within those 2 weeks!!!). Calculated on an annual percentage rate basis (APR) – the same as is used for credit cards, mortgages, auto loans, etc. – that APR based on late repays then ranges from 391% to more than 521% for payday loans, making desperate poor working people pay the highest loan interests of all — insanely high rates of having to pay back more than five times what you borrowed in some cases! (one info source: https://www.thebalance.com/average-credit-card-interest-rate-4772408 )

We definitely need a proper wealth tax that recovers the accumulated loot of the rich thieves in human society, not home property taxes that steal even more from common people into the pockets of the super rich. Huge systemic inequality is like cancer in human societies. We should all be opposed to it and get rid of it. If any rich person read this, I ask you to look in the mirror while you mull over it.

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