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Summary: A good number of these 14 videos are quite short. All sorts of issues dealt with in the U.S. and abroad.
Stars and channels: Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff), Secular Talk, CCCSpringfield, The Real News Network, Second Thought (JT Chapman), Sabby Sabs, The Jimmy Dore Show
Topics:
General Strike in France: Working People Uniting *
Quick Example (5.5 minutes) of Countless Luxury Homes NOT Built for Living *
Economic Nationalism
Short Summary of Political Ukraine War Mess (10 min) *
The Political Major Party Mafias
Dehumanization vs Solidarity **
Neoliberalism = The Faulty Cult of Capitalism **
History Report Film on American Wars After WW2: ‘War Made Easy’
Socialist Economic Planning OK Because…
SNAP (Food Stamps) Benefits REDUCTION Now During INFLATION *
Tucker Carlson Admitting the Dishonesty of Mass Media
U.S. Government Allied with Mafia-Like Big Pharma *
Netherlands: People Now Fought Back Against Oppressive Government via New Party
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Here are worthwhile speech videos given us by the (sadly now much crushed it seems to me) People’s Party that participated in this rally in Washington D.C.
And, yes, most of us Americans would have overly long trips (days typically) to get there for participation; and most of us are too overworked and life-unstable for such participation, yet. But we must learn to stand up together, and not only in Washington D.C., but make it everywhere across our entire country. Anyway, here are the speeches worth hearing (once again my evaluations: *** = best, ** = better, * = good):
1. Great Speech by Jill Stein ***
Jill Stein speaks at Rage Against the War Machine ~ People’s Podcast (Feb 20, 2023)
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Summary: Numerous national and abroad issues, especially dealing with political and economic (incl. healthcare) corruption and need for change using compassion and resistance.
Stars and channels: CCCSpringfield, Sabby Sabs (with Kshama Sawant), Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff & Miguel Robles-Durán), The Jimmy Dore Show, Democracy Now! (incl. a Bernie Sanders speech segment) , Second Thought (JT Chapman), Sabby Sabs (reporting on Ralph Nader article), Revolutionary Blackout, Chris Hedges Fan Club (Ralph Nader speech segment)
Topics:
Anti-Compassion Example in Our Mafia-Like Society & Need for Resistance Communities **
Beginning Attempt for U.S. Nationwide Grassroots Movement *
Capitalism’s Immoral Consumption & Slavish Labor Instead of Healthy Society **
38% Americans Delay Medical Care Over Costs *
Some Medical Trouble News on Democracy Now
Some Hint on Mexico Damage by NAFTA *
Patriotism Wielded Against Solidarity
Bribery and Blockage in Congress
Homelessness Accolade by Capitalism
Some Hints on Corporate Escape from Lawfulness
Richard Wolff Asking for Senior Activists
Hint at the Scam by “Medicare Advantage”
France: National Strike Against Raise of Retirement Age
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Summary: turning us all into renters; living in an injustice system; getting robbed, dominated, and spied upon; solidarity being the desirable alternative
Stars and channels: thejuicemedia, CCCSpringfield, More Perfect Union, The Jimmy Dore Show, Chris Hedges Fan Club (Richard Wolff), New Economic Thinking (Clara Mattei), People’s Podcast (Cornel West), The Real News Network (Chris Hedges & Dennis Kucinich), New Economic Thinking, Democracy At Work (Harriet Fraad), Second Thought (JT Chapman)
Topics:
Truthful Comedy: Australian Housing Mafia Much Like America’s ***
U.S. Terrible Legal System Rather than Justice System **/***
Water Theft and Resale by Billionaire Couple **
Railroad Strike Discussion *
Big Tech Spying on Us *
Reminder of U.S. Improvements (Now Mostly Repealed) Nearly 100 Years Ago **
The Laws of Capitalism Trailer
Solidarity: Short (past) Reminder form Cornel West of Proper Human Life Aims **
Dennis Kucinich Interview with Chris Hedges
Neoliberal Austerity as People Subordination and Pave to Fascism **
Social Bonds (broken and needed to be repaired) *
Socialism vs Capitalism = Positive vs Negative Incentives *
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Summary: inequality, people-split, fight for justice from the bottom, addictions from mistreatment, vitamin D for COVID, sanctions hitting back, the lies on teacher shortage.
Stars and channels: Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff), FightMediocrity, NonCompete, The Jimmy Dore Show (with Stef Zamorano who is a former teacher who fled this profession)
Topics:
How the Money-Lords’ Raid Split Us **
The American People Learning to Fight for Justice **
Addictions Created and Maintained by Mistreatments
Dual Power, Mutual Aid, and Counter Institution Considerations
COVID: Vitamin D Helping a Lot
Russia(n) Sanctions Hurting Europe
Oligarchy Trying to Hide its Evil in Politics
Dishonest Government/Congress: Fake Climate Bill
The Rulers’ Money Greed Preventing Proper Teachers **
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Summary: Our mafiosi economy vs solidarity, and our faulty politics. Also, People’s Party returning.
Stars and channels: Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff), The B1M, Sabby Sabs, The Jimmy Dore Show, Knowing Better, The People’s Party
Topics:
Economic Update 2022-04-25
Largely Empty Billionaire “Homes” used for Wealth Storage and Money Changes
Can Capitalism be Nice?
Lying Elites
Let Down by Bernie Sanders
Black Slavery Lasted Much Longer than Officially Claimed
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BIG NOTE: Criminal YouTube! In the past it (and its owner Google) have quietly changed their algorithms shadow-blocking people who dared to expose bad things done by our oligarchy. Example: hardly anybody finds my blog anymore. But now YouTube went utterly blatant deleting ALL former Chris Hedges’ “On Contact” episodes. Years of work of him (and me, too, since I shared many of his episodes here). It is a crime committed against the free press / free speech guaranteed to us by our First Amendment. But our criminal oligarchs have long stopped abiding our constitution and civil right laws.
I will now increasingly look for alternative video websites. If you can suggest good ones, I will appreciate your suggestion(s). And please share posts like this one with interested people who won’t find them otherwise.
Summary: media censorship, lack of corporate accountability, revolution mindset, civil rights …
Stars & channels: Chris Hedges Fan Club, Second Thought, Sorelle Amore Finance, Democracy Now! (Yanis Varoufakis, Chris Hedges vs. Robert Reich), NonCompete, Ralph Nader Radio Hour, The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow (with Matt Taibbi, Thom Hartmann), The Jimmy Dore Show (with Chris Hedges)
Topics:
Never Give Up Morality ***
Our Plutocratic Fake Democracy
UBI: Considering the Need for UBI and ALSO How it Can be Done Abusively Wrong
Loosing Control over our Money (some good revelations, others missing)
Great Answers by Chris Hedges in 2016
Incredible Revolutionary Heroism **
Ukraine: Risk, Peace Option, Criminal Global Oligarchs
Reboot Needed and Required for our Civil Justice System
Censorship: RT America’s Real Nature and The Lies to Justify the Elimination of it’s Journalism
Privacy Finally Given and Now Taken Away Again
Low Wage Police State (promoted online by admitted right-wingers and fake leftists)
Chris Hedges Interview by Jimmy Dore after DELETED from YouTube!
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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:
Homelessness From Wrong Society
Solidarity: Yes, critters human and otherwise can love others
Note: No video weekend today because I am utterly sick this weekend and had a tough week. So, here is a little article I drafted some time ago:
A weird but not uncommon mentality flaw (typically boosted and imposed by those in power) is: loving and admiring the rich, and despising the poor. This society warp has been around for some time. Even Jesus complained about it according to the Bible, making it pretty long ago by now. This is so badly wrong. We humans should always care about ALL humans (or even beyond!). And the poor are never poor by their own design but by the design from the rich. (And the rich have always (mis-)used religion to oppress the poor and protect their own selfish interests.
It’s ironic when people claim hat it is in fact very difficult for a rich person to live a virtuous life. It is actually much much easier for rich people to live virtuous lives, if they only tried. They cpulf gove away so much stolen wealth or even use it to set up stabilizing institutions. But they never do. I still have to meet one who does; hence Jesus’ promise that the rich will never go to heaven.
There is a nice comment I came across online (on dailykos, which is a platform I rarely look into because it so so DNC-allied; in other words allied with a corrupt elite; blasting Sanders in 2016 and 2020… still, sometimes (very rarely) good folks show up there). Here is the quote:
Jesus was asked by a virtuous rich man what ELSE he could do as he obeyed all the commandments. Jesus told the man the only thing the man needed to do was to sell everything he had and give it to the poor and then, “…come and follow me…” When the rich man refused to give up his riches, Jesus watched the man walk away in tears because the man was so tied to his comforts he could not give them up. Then Jesus turned to the crowd and commented, “Truly, it is harder for a rich man to enter the gates of heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle….” (Matthew 19:16-25).
Yes the next passage (Matt 19:26) is about Jesus’ apostles being astonished when he said that, and his comment that “with God all things are possible…” but again you have to understand it in the context of the times ~ and actually our times as well.
There is a mistaken belief that if you are rich than somehow God loves you more than poor people. This is something the rich hold over others’ heads with all three of these religions in spite of the very strict and quite clear mandate and morals that all say “You SHARE.”
I suspect the man referred to nowadays as Jesus having been one of history’s greatest grassroots activists for solidarity and societal justice, quickly executed by the criminal lords, and then repainted by wannabe lords (preachers / church masters) in alignment with the already existing lords into an alleged promoter for a god and angels and an afterlife. Real Christians would fight for democracy and a no rich and no poor egalitarian society. But where are they nowadays? Most supposed Christians now align themselves with the Hell on Earth power and wealth pyramid, making them Anti-Christians actually. So sad.
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WARNING: This can be painful. It might help young (even so-called ‘middle-aged’) people finally grow up inside. But it tends to come with pain. Unlike my fellow human beings, I got to this stage of revelation in my infancy, a condition that always made my fellow humans strike me as some kind of dim-witted semi-sentient alien creatures on whose planet I had unfortunately been dropped somehow. When you get to this stage of awareness (and there is one realization-stage even beyond that *sigh*, one that this frankly imperfectly insightful man in the shared video below has not yet reached) it becomes impossible to glorify or even accept commonly promoted goals and deifications of “meritocratic” competition, rich ruling classes, allegedly “free” markets, oh-so-successful big business “thought leaders”, warmongering jingoism, and similar blind idiocies. It is our lives that really count, both our own and all the other lives in the world, lives infinitesimally short and usually very painful at least towards their ends (if not throughout as they are increasingly becoming to more and more of us human beings despite human domination). To not prepare for the end phase (or ideally even consider preventing it, which would be our ultimate ascension) — not just for oneself but for all of us — and to even artificially make life terrible at younger stages through things like exploitation, abuse, solidarity replaced with excessive competition, and the artificially created poverty; is just utterly insane.
It’s also a main reason why so many people seek refuge in religions who promise eternal lives of some kind or another — but without any evidence. Without any evidence whatsoever. How is that different from putting blinders on? (and may I remind you that Buddha, Jesus, and at least partially Muhammad, as far as I have seen, fought for social justice, solidarity, and compassion?)
Well, below is this video you have been warned about. I can easily imagine folks managing not to really get its message (thanks to their blinders and inner mental walls), but if you do, if you try hard enough, you may come to view our world through new eyes and grasp the insanity of our established and institutionalized cultures and customs, and the huge looming vacuum of stuff we should do, should have done, but haven’t. I am reluctant to share it because of the potential pain and the potential mind-blocks raised against grasping the understanding that takes the blinders off. Still… if one person does have the click happen in his or her brain, it may lead to some reasonable actions. So, with hesitance, here it is:
A 97-Year-Old Philosopher Faces His Own Death ~ The Atlantic (Jan 14, 2020)
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