Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-10-13 (24 videos)

Such cool videos picked up this week! These weekly compilations are really worth sharing. So much wrong today. And so much improvement we can make happen. — Unfortunately, the 31 videos I picked out this week are just too many. I have postponed some for next week. Don’t miss them! 😉

Stars & channels: Bernie Sanders, The Humanist Report, John Spritzler, Be Inspired, TeleSUR, The Real News Network, Richard Wolff, Jimmy Dore, The Zero Hour, Michael Brooks, Ralph Nader, The Hill, LastWeekTonight, Democracy Now!, Redacted Tonight, The Hill, ItHadToBeSaid, and more…

Topics:

1. Bernie (The Role in Life, Money out of Politics, MSM)
2. Wage Slavery & The High Cost of Bad Leadership
3. Our Manufactured E-Lives: Owned by Commercialism & “Smart” Phones
4. Our Junk Economy: Wealth Accumulation by Dispossession
5. Addressing Disparity with More of the Same
6. No Left & Right: The ‘Elites’ Stick Together
7. Inequality System (CEO Kings, Global World Oppression)
8. Deified Greed
9. Trumpoholics (Impeachable Offenses, Can his Impeachment Succeed?)
10. Climate Crisis (Humor, Politics, XR Movement)
11. World: Revolutionary Haiti, Uprising Ecuador
12. Media: Real News Instead of Blabbermouths
13. Why Russiahhh?!? (ahead of all other possible smears & excuses)
14. Today’s American Depravity
15. School as Prison & Boot Camp: Our Manipulation Starts in the Schools

Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-10-06 (22 videos)

Imagine taking a modern online course to become astute in politics and economics, learning what is wrong with our system and how to fix it. That’s exactly what the Wakeful Video Weekend series amounts to, both new and old episodes. My suggestion: watch or listen, share and discuss. (and maybe even voluntarily donate to Beanstock’s World for all that hard curating work)

Channels: TEDx Talks, The Real News Network, Democracy At Work, The Michael Brooks Show, Rebel HQ, Democracy Now!, The Hill, John Spritzler, The Jimmy Dore Show, Corbett Report, and many more.

Topics:

1. Humor: What Does U.S. #1 Mean?
2. Non-Rich Lives: Spending all our Lifetime Not Living! ***
3. U.S. Poverty: Both Old & Poor And Mostly Kept Secret
4. Sick Society: The Capitalist Disease
5. Fascism as Flattery
6. Neoliberalism: Neoliberalism in Short
7. The Soviet Economy
8. Status Quo: Murder by Capitalism & Revolution vs Reformism
9. Truth & Lies: Real vs False Flag Whistleblowers
10. Elections: The Electoral College Favors Swing States, Not Rural Americans
11. Candidates: Bernie, Biden, Warren… True Progressive vs Fakes
12. Strategy: Why the D-Party SoSo-Works with Bernie Sanders
13. Money in Politics: The R & D Parties’ Race to the Bottom ***
14. No Piecemeal But a Big Determined Movement Needed
15. U.S.A. is a Paid Servant of Murderous Saudi Regime
16. Humor: X-Rated Politics (Jimmy Dore)
17. Ancient Wisdom (Fables)

 

1. Humor: What Does U.S. #1 Mean?

Can America Let Go Of Being Number One?
AJ+

Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-09-21 (21 videos)

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.)

Stars and channels: Stars and channels: Chris Hedges, Jesse Ventura, Richard Wolff, Amy Goodman, The Michael Brooks Show, The Real News Network, John Spritzler, Tom Nicholas, Peter Coffin, Cowboy Economist, AJ+, The Grayzone, NonCompete, The Jimmy Dore Show, and more…

Topics:

1. News: Space Warmongering, Neurocapitalism (Thought-Policing), Academic Corruption
2. Economy: Recent Financial Tremor, China, Monopolies & Cartels
3. Corporate Dictatorship (Modern America)
4. Latest Union Fights
5. Workers’ Factory Occupation
6. Immigration & Mass Migration: Weapons of the Oligarchy
7. Inequality Report – A Thorough Overview
8. Neoliberalism: History, Causes, Effects, & Mind Warping
9. Manufactured Division vs Solidarity
10. Satire: Progressive Review of the D-Primary Candidates
11. Police State: ICE Plows into Peaceful Protesters with a Truck
12. Our Gitmo Shame
13. Dealing with a Corrupt Supreme Court
14. Spy Technology’s Corrupt Profits
15. John Bolton’s Firing – The Ins and Outs
16. Entertainment: Gelflings, Skeksis, and the Liberal-Fascist Bargain
17. Humor: Progressive Laughs In Bill Maher’s Face

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

Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-09-07 (20 videos)

Several funny but enlightening videos mixed with vital news, rare revelations, and deep insights.

Not to miss: a great conversation of Richard Wolff with Chris Hedges and a heart-wrenching speech on the Assange Case. Oh, and so much more.

Channels: thejuicemedia, ContraPoints, The Jimmy Dore Show, Democracy At Work, John Spritzler, TeleSUR English, Brave New Films, Redacted Tonight, The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow, RT America, Cowboy Economist, Empire Files, The Michael Brooks Show, Ralph Nader Radio Hour, redfish, The Grayzone, Rolling Stone

Topics:

1. Humor: “Honest” Government Ad
2. Humor: Capitalism’s Badness
3. D.C. Shutdown
4. Paying Taxes for a Bad Government
5. Identity Politics for the Rich
6. Our For-Profit Wars
7. Marketed “Mindfulness”
8. Our Fake Meritocracy
9. Humor: Is Socialism Alien?
10. Socialism (Abby Martin & Richard Wolff)
11. Not only the Top Fights the Bottom, The Upper Middle Does Too
12. Media for the People or The Oligarchs?
13. How do Germans See Today’s Concentration Camps in the U.S.?
14. Nicaragua: Free Healthcare, Free Education, & a Federal Housing Program
15. Joe Biden Gave us the Refugee Caravans
16. Media BS: Interview with Jimmy Dore
17. Free Press and Tyranny (The Assange Case)

 

1. Humor: “Honest” Government Ad | We’re F**ked

Honest Government Ad | We’re F**ked
thejuicemedia

Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-08-31 (18 videos)

A collection of great videos you may have missed (most of them new this past week). Very informative! And several even comedic and yet very informative. So… revelations and fun!

Stars & channels: Newsbroke, John Spritzler, The Real News Network, Niko House, The Humanist Report, Ralph Nader, The Grayzone, Redacted Tonight, Jimmy Dore, ContraPoints, and more.

Topics:

1. Humor: Capitalism vs Climate (Newsbroke)
2. Those in Power Pretending to be on Our Side
3. You Want to Know the Real Trump Election Fraud? (Not Russiahhh)
4. Tulsi: An Interview Letting her Answer the Questions
5. Warren, The Fake Progressive
6. Healthcare Destruction: Privatization of Medicare
7. Communism Failing on its Own?
8. Ralph Nader Radio Hour: “Juuling” & Anybody But Trump?
9. Media: Insights into the Corporate Media Bias
10. Why the American People Need to Revolt
11. Forced Neoliberalism a Stepping Stone for Fascism
12. The History and Psychology of Genocide Policy
13. Immigration: Illegal Green Aliens
14. Mindfulness for Solidarity rather than Personal Isolation
15. Humor: 4 Humorous Political Videos (on 2016, Biden, Koch, & the Inefficient Left)

 

1. Humor: Capitalism vs Climate (Newsbroke)

Another attempt to turn scary topics funny:

Can Our Planet Survive Capitalism?
AJ+  

Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-08-24 (20 videos)

Another week’s collection of great videos for political awakening. Loads of info on our rigged democracy and suggestions for a real one. Exposure of the corrupt oligarchy and puppet media. And breaking out of our mental prisons.

Stars and channels: Chris Hedges, Nick Braña, Kim Iversen, Francesca Fiorentini (Newsbroke), Kyle Kulinski (Secular Talk), PDRBoston, The Real News Network, Christo Aivalis, Richard Wolff (Democracy At Work), The Michael Brooks Show, Thought Slime, The Jimmy Dore Show, The School of Life, John Spritzler, and more.

Topics:

1. Movement for a People’s Party (MPP)
2. Democracy: Our Fake Democracy from Above, Real Democracy from the Bottom
3. Toxic Political Partisanship
4. America’s & Israel’s Breeding of Savagery
5. Peaceful Revolution: Learning from Scandinavia
6. Our Real Problem (Culture/Mentality)
7. Economy: Fake Booming Economy & Working Class History, Present, & Future
8. Police Corruption: Our Taxes Used to Silence Victims
9. Uplifting Bernie Discussion
10. The “Liberal” Mind Prison
11. Media War on the People (Anti-Medicare & Pro-Trump/Pro-Oligarchy)
12. How We Lie to Ourselves (Psychological Insight)
13. Egalitarian Movement for Democracy

The Insane War on Immigrants

In a recent video, Kim Iversen takes up the simple fact I have been writing about for years that immigrants and migrants without official papers permitting their entry and/or stay in this country can be easily prevented from coming and staying by enforcing the law that forbids employers to employ them. Going beyond my peaceful prevention recommendation, she actually takes it to the next level of making the enforcement more drastic and quick and thorough to solve the undocumented immigrant “problem” (that we DON’T HAVE, it’s a red herring people, a drop in the bucket compared to the problems caused by the plutocracy!). She then gets into some of the ripples of the ripple effect this would have. Interesting to mull over and think beyond to get a better idea of the bigger picture:

How to SOLVE Illegal Immigration
Kim Iversen

Illegal Aliens! Heeeeeeeelp!

Certain low wage workers nowadays are labeled illegal and non-human. They are referred to as “illegal aliens”. A label based on them working north of our southern border as opposed to south of it, even though the same business owners either employ them south of it or north of it with the exact same result: that they get the work that makes them richer done by people desperate enough to work for starvation wages under terrible working conditions.

This creates a justified worry among American-born working people that the jobs they need are taken away or hurtfully reduced in wages and benefits, destroying their American Dream. However, the flip in responsibility is brainwashed into their minds by claiming these even more desperate fellow workers from the south TAKE their jobs away, rather than that the business owners (and/or their CEOs) GIVE them away.

Have you ever been able to TAKE a job that wasn’t offered to you? 

The Hurtful Use of Wrong Words in Journalism and Public Talk

Words are meant to help humans understand each other and their world. Wrong words can lead to the opposite. Using think-tank-made vocabulary designed to warp reality therefore plays into the hands of the establishment. For example, calling neoliberals a.k.a. corporatists a.k.a. fake-left-rightwingers “centrists” gives them a fake endorsement by being presented as a people’s majority and allegedly being more reasonable than anyone else by being supposedly distant form extremists.

Yet, nothing could be further from the truth when we are talking about a greedy, self-serving minority in cahoots with the robber billionaires who steal the world’s entire wealth from the rest of us and push us into submission. It’s a group of fraudsters hardly different from the neocons that warped the “R” party some time before the neoliberals then warped the “D” party. This party takeover has created the “good cop/bad cop” routine with which American voters have been befuddled in every election ever since. None of these crooks should be painted as “centrists” or allowed by us to present themselves that way.

The same problem can come from one’s own vocabulary mistakes, like when one compares Trump to Obama and describes Obama as nice and Trump as not nice.