Wakeful Video Weekend 2019-08-04 (17 videos)

The latest collection of remarkable videos from this week. The biggest theme this time: how we the people are divided and isolated in our suffering.

Stars and channels: Anand Giridharadas, DW Documentary, NonCompete, Ralph Nader Radio Hour, Redacted Tonight, Secular Talk, TEDx Talks, The Jimmy Dore Show, The Juice Media (satire!), The Rational National

Topics:

1. Satire: Tree Politics for Profit
2. Nuclear Armageddon for Profit
3. Tulsi: Finally a Candidate Standing up for Freedom of Speech & Information
4. Yang: Debate Highlights
5. 2016 All Over Again: The 2020 Info-War
6. Funky Debate
7. Bernie: The Wave for Change
8. Environment: Greenwashing Global Logging
9. The Economic Hitman Called for Action:
10. War on the People: The New Aristocracy = The Fake Heroes of Capitalism
11. White Men Caucus
12. Divide & Conquer: A Sample
13. Antisocial Culture
14. U.S. Sex-Trafficking
15. Great Jesse Ventura & Lee Camp Conversation
16. Gangsta Capitalism

 

1. Satire: Tree Politics for Profit

Honest Government Ad | Djab Wurrung Trees
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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.