Wakeful Video Weekend 2021-10-10 (13 videos)

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Summary: current economy trouble, good vs bad Christianity, MIC, robbed housing, and making change

Stars and channels: Roger Ray on CCCSpringfield, Second Thought, The Jimmy Dore Show, Wendover Productions, Benji, Richard Wolff and David Harvey on Democracy At Work, thejuicemedia (“Honest Government Ads”), Marianne Williamson, Sustainable Human, NonCompete

Topics:

1. A Real Christian’s View of Rich and Poor
2. Historic Shift of American Christians to the Right (i.e. Anti-Christianity)
3. Genocidal Tyranny & Utter Disrespect of The People
4. Crapitalism: What’s Behind our Current Products Shortage & Insane Prices
5. The Delay/Shortage Chain Reaction in Just-In-Time Supply Chains
6. The Intentional Part of our Current Inflation
7. Rations as Market Safety Belts
8. Profit Calculation
9. Affordable Housing Bought Away by the Money Lords
10. Military Squandering across the Globe
11. Making Beneficial Changes in our Past and in Other Countries
12. Resisting Radical Evil
13. An Ashamed American

Wakeful Video Weekend 2021-07-04 (17 videos)

Summary: truths and ideas to share on the 4th of July (and later). 😉

Stars and channels: Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff), Second Thought, Secular Talk, The Jimmy Dore Show, J.J. McCullough, Roger Ray on CCCSpringfield, act.tv, Chris Hedges interviewing Nina Burleigh (On Contact), Russell Brand, The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow, The Real News Network

Topics:

1. Capitalism vs. Socialism among the Founding Fathers (a good one for the coming 4th of July) ***
2. Capitalism = Technologically Advanced Feudalism **
3. Shifting from Violence and Oppression Abroad to Decency, Compassion, and Health at Home **
4. Non-Americans Respond In HORROR To US Healthcare System
5. Empire: The U.S.A. Empire Base Standing so Alone
6. Republican Evangelical “Christians”
7. Amazing Talk on UBI and a Better U.S.A. and World ***
8. True Democracy Would Not Only be in Politics
9. Healthcare: The Odd Treatment of the Pandemic
10. Our Deluded and Deluding Media and Political Parties
11. Is Jeff Bezos a Child?
12. Basic Public Services vs Being On One’s Own
13. Former Cop Became a Cop Watcher
14. News: More Lies That Were Handed to Frame Julian Assange
15. Our System: Talking the Talk vs Walking the Walk
16. Striking for a Proper Life – Room for Life
17. Rest in Peace our Fellow Mike Gravel

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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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Wakeful Video Weekend 2021-03-14 (13 videos)

Summary: Best videos captured this week to share with you. A lot about bad government and working lives vs current and coming fights to get human joy and dignity back into our lives. (all week lost again fruitlessly looking for a job, hence at least one good video is missing)

Stars & Channels: The Hill, The Gravel Institute, The People’s Party, Richard Wolff (Democracy At Work), The Jimmy Dore Show, Erik Edstrom interviewed in On Contact with Chris Hedges, Jesse Ventura talking with Jason Flom, Russell Brand, Lee Camp, …

Topics:

1. UBI Experiment with Very Good Results
2. Great America Made so Ruined by the Evil Corruption
3. Working Life Abuse vs Unions Able to Change This
4. “Democrats” Now BOOST Citizen United, Totally Open the Big Money Bribes Flood Gate, and Bar Third Parties
5. More Slashing of Government Help for the People (Now by the D Party)
6. Other Countries Do Apply Wealth Tax (to pay for pandemic destruction of working class)
7. Afghanistan: America’s Longest War
8. Good February Episode of World according to Jesse
9. “Philanthropic” Tax Evasion by the Rich
10. Economic Update on Continued Inequality Making
11. RW: Capitalism Blocking COVID Vaccines, Workers Cancelled, Scapegoating, Wealth Tax…
12. Media War: Highly Paid Propagandist on Social Media
13. Lee Camp: Wealth Redistribution (rant)

Electoral & Economic Integrity – Not Just Votes & Jobs for All

(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Jimmy Dore and the title: “Fighting Debbie Wasserman Schultz & Election Fraud w/Tim Canova”)

This brief piece joins two major topics together around a neat video shared above.

What’s with the Anti-Welfare Argument: “I can spend my money better than the government”?

Well, sure. If you’re rich you can spend the money that fell into your lap better on YOURSELF than the government would after taxing some of it back from you. Duh!

How does that disqualify taxes or government spending on the poor, though?  

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. 

Tax Cuts as an Excuse for Government Spending Cuts on the People

People need to wake up to the game that has been played by the Republican and neoliberalized “Democratic” Party to defraud the American People.

To summarize, our founders intended to create a government which would ensure liberty, justice, and prosperity for all. Any other kind of government they considered subject to revolution. But our government has since then be bought up by our plutocratic and kleptocratic oligarchs to kill democracy and have government do the reverse of its duty to us. 

Good short discussion of the UBI from Australia (Podcast-Video)

It makes sense to me that the personal exemption from income tax is like a basic income guarantee, but sadly not universal because people so poor that they fall below it don’t get it in full. Completely income-less people (like the long-term unemployed) get none of it! How is that fair? It’s yet another part of our system that from so may angles gives to the haves and takes from the have-nots.

(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Economist Peter Martin on Universal Basic Income and Automation”)

Another point made: when too many jobs disappear, the idea of time being money will no longer hold true. (it still does now, though; so I appreciate donations to this site, sharing of links to what appears here, or contributed fitting posts, because my time and money are limited)

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UBI to Balance the Scales of the Economy — to a Degree — and Change the Meaning of Labor (Video)

There seem to be two groups of people who are at the forefront of discussing (and usually wanting) a universal basic income (citizen’s dividend, free money not just for the rich): IT professionals and artists (in the broad sense, comedians included). The former because they are right at the cutting edge of robotics and artificial intelligence giving them a first class view of the coming tsunami of jobs automated out of existence. The latter because they have always been intimately familiar with low and precarious income. Since I have belonged to both groups, it is therefore no surprise that I love the idea (when properly implemented and not left alone as a single silver bullet, as I know that no single program will cure all ills — other things like a Federal Job Guarantee and pay-with-assets would also help, best when used together).

Since I have already presented a lot of proponents and arguments from the first group, it may be time to showcase a video from the second. Thanks to Cindy Matthews, another great blogger who alerted me to it. Yes, this one is really good:

(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Universal Basic Income Will Change Labor”)

Some good points: