Wakeful Video Weekend 2022-07-15 (11 videos)

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Summary: Way too many informative videos found this week. I felt forced to put some aside for the next weekend. Those of the current weekend deal primarily with our life-crushing modern system we must struggle to live in and the censorship of news we get (except in little truth outlets like this blog here, making subscription of it useful for people who want to stay well informed).

Stars and channels: Our Changing Climate, Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff), Her Homestead Skills, The Jimmy Dore Show, Then & Now, Second Thought, Ryan Chapman

Topics:

1. Our World Built around Work (killing us and our environment) ***
2. And the Ridiculous Conspiracy Theory to Preserve the Catastrophic System ***
3. Warning From A Farmer: Food Lack Coming Up **
4. Unsustainable Capitalist Farming System *
5. Shrinking Confidence in Institutions
6. The Invention of Individuals’ Responsibility for their Poverty
7. Biden Destroying Social Security
8. Retirement Still Achievable? *
9. Interesting News Comparison of Past and Current
10. Growing Shutdown of Independent Media

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 2021-04-25 (11 videos + 3 clips)

This week: mostly capitalism, esp. financial capitalism and bad vs healthy culture. Also Medicare for All.

Not coming across numerous good new videos on commonly good channels, I did some hard online searching and thus discovered two new channels (Sustainable Human and JENerational Change). Several neat videos from these channels are shared here today.

Stars & channels: Sustainable Human (Chris Hedges, Jon Stewart, Stephanie Kelton, Jon Jondai, Paul Piff), Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff & Marcelo Vieta), The Jimmy Dore Show, The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow (and Richard Wolff), DiEM25 (Yanis Varoufakis), JENerational Change

Topics:

1. The Cult Of Crazy Self (by Chris Hedges) ***
2. Destroying the World and Making Lives Harder and Harder vs Returning to Normal Lives **
3. How Big Wealth Makes People Bad (by Paul Piff) **
4. Learning from Argentina How to Rescue Jobs ***
5. Government Dishonesty Regarding COVID-19
6. Need to Change Our Economic Mentality
7. Labor vs Profits, Better Lives vs Richer Lords
8. Lives Built on Sand (by Jon Stewart) *
9. Real Wealth vs Debt-Based Money *
10. Financial Feudalism (by Yanis Varoufakis)
11. Medicare For All – Pushing Back Against the Private Health Insurances’ Propaganda & Lies

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Wakeful Video Weekend 2020-12-27 (16 videos)

Contents: Our corrupt system and politicians, the top raiding the rest of us, fighting back from the bottom to end the corruption and mental warp (incl. in the police).

Stars & Channels: George Carlin (After Skool); The Jimmy Dore Show; Richard Wolff (Democracy At Work); After Skool; NonCompete; Andrew Yang & Ryan Knight; Jason Kafoury, David Michaels & Ralph Nader; Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos; Taya Graham (The Real News Network); Kyle Kulinski (Secular Talk)…

Topics:

1. Graphic Speech: George Carlin Was so Much Ahead of Us
2. The Top Raiding the Rest of Us Using COVID as an Excuse
3. Current Stimulus Bill Pillaging Us Again
4. No Help from Either Party (But Trump Making Himself Look Better)
5. #ForceTheVote: ForceTheVote.org
6. 2020 Review: The Capitalist Ideology Killing Us and Rebellions Growing
7. Rich & Poor: History of Taxes & Abuse by Corporations
8. Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein
9. Previously Head-Played “Dem” Supporters Leaving
10. Ralph Nader Radio Hour: Holding Police Accountable | Politics’ Pumping Up the Pandemic
11. The World Acc. to Jesse
12. Our Demonic Capitalist Cultist Culture
13. Lowered Stimulus Checks: Bipartisan Tax Steal from Us (with Biden at the front line)
14. Merry Christmas from the Strained Healthcare Workforce

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Wakeful Video Weekend 2020-08-23 (14 videos)

Again, if you are too short on time to discover many top level meaningful videos covering critical events, problems, and solutions, here is a weekly share for you to check out and share onward. Major issues: the nature of capitalism, the massive governmental and political parties corruption, and the blooming of the People’s Party.

Stars & Channels: Richard Wolff (Democracy At Work), Jesse Ventura (The World According to Jesse), Lee Camp (Redacted Tonight), Jimmy Dore and Stef Zamorano (The Jimmy Dore Show), Spring Hill College, The School of Life, Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!), The Rational National, The Young Turks, redfish, and Movement for a People’s Party 🙂

Also: a neat Chris Hedges quote and link.

Topics:

1. Not Only Colored People Have Been Trashed in Our History
2. History Of Ideas: Capitalism Financing Economic Growth but Exploiting and Destroying
3. History Of Ideas: Consumerism’s Part of Play in Prosperity and Decadence
4. Fake News from the State
5. Capitalism = Opression like Feudalism & Slavery (rather than a free market)
6. Things You’re Not Told About the Postal Service
7. News from this Week
8. War Hawks Endorse Biden At DNC Convention!
9. Biden Making Sure to Loose (and denying Medicare-For-All during our pandemic!)
10. DNC Snubbing its Base (example: snubbing AOC)
11. Jesse Ventura on Government Corruption
12. TYT on Government Corruption (esp. the Congress Vacation)
13. COVID: Vietnam’s Success (despite being a 3rd World Nation and on the border of China)
14. People’s Party Shooting Out of the Ground (MPP National Call)

 

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1. Not Only Colored People Have Been Trashed in Our History

35th Portier Lecture: “White Trash: The 400-Year History of Class in America” ~ Spring Hill College (Oct 30, 2015)

Comments made on Youtube:

• “Well she definitely proved who the real enemy is and it isn’t the regular average everyday person. We just want to live in peace prosperity. The enemy is dividing us up over lies!”
• “Exactly what I’ve been stating for decades – racism is promoted by the elite. Truth is: It’s the rich against poor, not color against color.”

Wakeful Video Weekend 2020-01-12 (21 videos) – 2 Main Themes: (1) U.S. Homelessness, (2) Iran

It must take days to search and select these top videos for a weekend. So much time for the rest of us to save when we make use of them. This weekend’s compilation has outstanding reports on American homelessness not easily found through any other source. The Iran reports are also above the average slew out there. And there is more:

Stars & Channels: Bernie Sanders, Democracy Now!, Emir-Stein Center, Empire Files, Invisible People, Kim Iversen, Milwaukee PBS, Prchuk 911, PRIMO NUTMEG, Ralph Nader Radio Hour, Rebel HQ, Richard Wolff, RT America, The Damage Report, The Hill, The Humanist Report, The Michael Brooks Show, The Political Vigilante

14 Topics:

1. Why Bernie is the Best Candidate
2. Economics (Richard Wolff)
3. American Dream Replaced with Working Poverty
4. Homelessness (rare OUTSTANDING documentaries)
5. RNRH: Medicare for All (Perfect), Dictatorship Psychology
6. Medicare for All: Andrew Yang Apparently Backing Out
7. Head-Twisted Voters that America Cannot Rely Upon
8. News: Iran
9. Iran: Bernie on the Assassination
10. Middle East & Iran & Us (U.S.)
11. Iran Gov Analysis
12. Anti-Iran-War Protests
13. Candidates (Bernie, Warren)
14. Billionaires in Fake Democracy

 

1. Why Bernie is the Best Candidate *

Bernie Is The Candidate: Here’s Why ft. Meagan Day ~ The Michael Brooks Show

Video Weekend 03-31-2018 (9 videos)

This weekend’s video compilation deals with our growing poverty, a historic review of how we have been sliding down the drain in a sequence of steps, a system analysis with an eye on mentality and egotistical partisanship (such as of those who have a pretty good life and turn a blind eye to their victimized fellow Americans), systemic corruption, gun violence, and getting to know Lee Camp and Richard Wolff a little better (for example, their beginnings). Other figures of note: Bill Moyers, Robert Reich, Paul Jay, Jamarl Thomas, and Lauren Steiner…

1. Growing Poverty
2. System Analysis
3. Corruption
4. Economy
5. Gun Violence
6. So, who is Lee?

I hope you enjoy another informative and interesting video weekend.

 

I. Growing Poverty

Humanitarian Crisis In America! That’s why we need a universal basic income (and federal job programs for additional improvements) as a guaranteed insurance of income not only for the rich, as it is currently done, but for everybody — a failsafe against conditions like this:

(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Humanitarian Crisis In Hollywood “)

 

II. System Analysis

America’s long slide down the drain and today’s glimpse of hope:

(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Robert Reich – The Common Good”)

America’s Class Society (speech video) . Paul Jay gives a good account how in our system different classes of our inequality pyramid are played against each other and dominated by the top class (this makes a good follow-up to Wednesday’s article which shone a light on the very top whereas Paul Jay here reminds us of their henchmen in the upper middle part of our wealth and income pyramid):

(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Paul Jay: Threats Facing Humanity, Basic Income & Importance of Historical Context “)

 

III. Corruption

Boundless and institutionalized corruption from the top is where all the suffering comes from:

(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “13 Ways We Are The Most Corrupt Nation”)

More on the criminal collusion between bought government and the billionaires’ corporations:

(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Were You Drinking Micro-Plastics From Your Water? | America’s Lawyer on RT America | “)

 

IV. Economy

A look five years back (the weakness of Dodd-Frank and regulations within our fundamentally corrupt system, Richard Wolff and his message becoming known, the globalist inequality-economy, capitalism vs democracy, American team spirit, Wolff encouraging our college students to organize…):

(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “What Has Capitalism Done for Us Lately?”)

Note: The preceding Wolff interview was shared here previously.

 

V. Gun Violence

An attempt to approach the issue of mass shootings and gun violence with a calm head:

(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “AntiGun Protesters March Totally Miss Point. Dems & Reps Positions Are Also Absurd. Here’s TRUTH!”)

Gist: The big question in gun violence is why, and this isn’t really being addressed by background checks. Poverty and our systemic injustice are the main causes of gun violence in America and should be cured. Lines are – and obviously must be – drawn as to what kinds of weapons are allowed in private hands (assault rifles, nuclear bombs…); so that at least that part of the current public discussion makes sense…

More on gun violence (and the immoral values of our system) :

(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “[104] The Gun Debate Not Allowed On Corporate Media”)

 

VI. So, who is Lee?

Lee Camp being interviewed in part about himself:

(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Conversation with Lee Camp of “Redacted Tonight””)

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All the GOP Has Done is Attack the Poor

It’s the gist of 2017, but it’s also been true for a very long time. The thing to add is that some thirty years ago the “Democratic” Party joined in this feeding frenzy of the rich upon the poor. The Dems try to save face by sometimes standing up for one or the other safety net program when the Reps are attacking it. However, in the long run, both political gangs are set to steal from the poor to give to the rich. It’s the millionaire minions working for kickbacks from the robber billionaires. And whenever we, the people, turn a blind eye because the current raiders are affiliated with the party we believe to be ours, we enable them.

The below video describes the current raids:

(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Donald Trump & Republicans Want to Cut Social Safety Net Programs in 2018 “)