Truthful News Weekend 2023-04-15 – (14 videos and many comments)

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Summary: another bunch of informative videos you may have missed this week. Main issues: healthcare mess, money-lives mess, and how to fix them (French demonstrations included). Too sad that I have no fellows to assist with these weekly video tests (thus more time left for other things), and also a pity that we don’t have a community spreading these picked videos to lots of folks who otherwise waste their online time with stupid videos and podcasts.

Stars and channels: Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff & Harriet Fraad), Second Thought (JT Chapman), Dr. Suneel Dhand, Amanpour and Company, TLDR News EU, Democracy Now!, Al Jazeera English, Sabby Sabs (incl. Christian Parenti and Glenn Greenwald), The Jimmy Dore Show

Topics:

1. The Rich Richer & We Poorer Continues, New Deal History, and Need for System Change ***
2. Why Work Is Getting Worse
3. Money is Anti-Democracy (short)
4. $200 Billion Spent Each Year on Unnecessary Medical Tests
5. Even Doctors Recognize Human Caring is Needed in our Healthcare Instead of Money Greed **
6. History and Details on French Retirement Issues *
7. French Demonstrators Wanting to Enjoy Life *
8. Universal Basic Income (UBI) Update ***
9. Our Retirement System is One of the Tricks to Divide us */**
10. History: President Nixon got Forced by the People to do Progressive Things **
11. War & Poverty Connection **
12. Quick View of America’s Global Military Bases
13. Some Hints at Ukraine War Racket

Wakeful Video Weekend 2022-04-01 (12 videos) – With Important Comments

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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:

1. Never Give Up Morality ***
2. Our Plutocratic Fake Democracy
3. UBI: Considering the Need for UBI and ALSO How it Can be Done Abusively Wrong
4. Loosing Control over our Money (some good revelations, others missing)
5. Great Answers by Chris Hedges in 2016
6. Incredible Revolutionary Heroism **
7. Ukraine: Risk, Peace Option, Criminal Global Oligarchs
8. Reboot Needed and Required for our Civil Justice System
9. Censorship: RT America’s Real Nature and The Lies to Justify the Elimination of it’s Journalism
10. Privacy Finally Given and Now Taken Away Again
11. Low Wage Police State (promoted online by admitted right-wingers and fake leftists)
12. Chris Hedges Interview by Jimmy Dore after DELETED from YouTube!

Big Solution: Tax Away the Rich Like Treating Fouls in Sports

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(no weekend videos post this weekend – I had no time for it; instead a little write of an important thought)

The option to think about is not merely having the ultra-rich “pay their fair share” in taxes by raising the marginal tax rate to a measly 70% or such while letting them continue to be an elevated ruling class – much like the medieval aristocrats – based on hoarded wealth. Rather we need to think about using taxes to peacefully (no guns or guillotines) dethrone the rich ruling class by simply placing a cap on wealth and income inequality. It’s just like rules in a sports game. Each football and baseball field has limits, a border, an outer line the players can’t cross to seek paths to victory elsewhere. A boxing ring has it’s border the boxers can’t cross. When they do, they lose.

That’s the principle we must apply to our steep economic pyramid that forms a dung heap society of enormous precariousness, anxiety, poverty, excessive hoarded wealth, and widespread suffering. Our current pyramid actually has standing on top of it a thin spire of the super-rich which goes miles high into sky while far below them there is a very broad base of countless people who are condemned to have more debt than assets, a negative net value, and be stuck in a poverty trap created by this system.

When someone manages to lift themselves up “by their bootstraps” it just means someone else sinks down into the poor base as long as the shape of this pyramid stays the same. We need to flatten it, lowering the top and elevating the bottom (with means like universal basic income and gradual transfer of corporate stocks into public funds (Universal Basic Dividend) securing us all from poverty), just like a sports field is properly shaped, so that there are no lords and serfs; so that people can play with merit pay and compete as they please if they want (or not if it doesn’t please them), while living in a calm, safe, and stable system that gives us a Good Life for All.

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Wakeful Video Weekend 2021-08-01 (11 videos)

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)

Wakeful Video Weekend 2021-03-07 (9 videos)

Best videos captured this week shared with you. (only 9 this time, I was way too busy struggling with tough job applications)

Stars & channels: Democracy At Work, The People’s Party, PF Jung, Stacy Sanseverino, The Jimmy Dore Show, Ralph Nader Radio Hour, Graham Elwood…

Topics:

1. Texas Targeted by our Tribal Politics
2. Capitalism as Efficient in Producing Poverty as it is in Producing Wealth
3. People’s Party on Our Corporate-Bought “Justice” System
4. $15 Min Wage rejection vs UBI
5. Information Warfare: The Real “Russiagate” is the Exact Opposite
6. World: U.S. Gouging Syria
7. “Medicare Advantage”: Corporate Profiteers Undermining Medicare
8. Biden Opens Trump Era Cages For Migrant Kids

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Wakeful Video Weekend 2020-10-18 (16 videos)

If you lack time to discover many top level meaningful videos about major events, problems, and solutions, here is a weekly share for you to check and share onward. Major issues this time: mentality for change, the global rule of money, and how to find affordable homes. Also a smart insight on COVID.

Stars & channels: Chris Hedges, Katie Halper, Jimmy Dore, Scott Santens, Ryan Hibbs, Richard Wolff (Democracy At Work), The Hill, Medlife Crisis, BiggerPockets, Homemade Home, Morning Invest, Bryan Casella, DebSpecs.com, and more.

Topics:

1. Cultural Irrationality: Are We Adult Enough to Handle our Crises and Corrupt System?
2. Plagiarist President
3. Profit-Making from Blaming Failures on Russia
4. UBI Data (An Economic Boost Not Loss)
5. UBI Against the Curse of Money
6. School’s Grading is Capitalist Conditioning
7. Our Fakefully People-Serving Presidents (Case: Obama)
8. The R&D Voter Scheming: Chomsky Stuck vs So Insightful & So Sadly Dead David Graeber
9. Economic Update: How to Handle Country-Destroying Globalist Overlords
10. The Rich Bastards
11. COVID: Insights From a Cardiologist, Internal Medicine Doctor & University Researcher
12. Many ways to find homes
13. Awesome Cheap House (dirty, damaged roof, bad plumbing)
14. Off-Market Properties
15. Clip-on Flip Reading Glasses

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Wakeful Video Weekend 2020-09-27 (17 videos)

If you lack time to discover many top level meaningful videos about major events, problems, and solutions, here is a weekly share for you to check and share onward. Major issues this time: the need for and development of a people’s party and dealing with the housing crisis, now and in the future.

Stars & channels: TheMiddleBlitz, The Intercept, Jimmy Dore, Ralph Nader Radio Hour, The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow, Richard Wolff (Democracy At Work), Secular Talk , Movement for a People’s Party, BuzzFeedVideo, Living Big In A Tiny House, Bushradical, The Outsider, Jack of All Master of None, Kristina Smallhorn, MINDS EYE DESIGN

12 Topics:

1. Edward Snowden talking to Joe Rogan about Julian Assange
2. Joe Rogan vs Propagandist Mass Media of the Oligarchy
3. Trump’s Judges Approved by the Oh-So-Opposite “Democrats”
4. Selfish Oligarchy: MSNBC Host Complains that Park Avenue LIVES MATTER!
5. A little Joe Biden Review
6. Trying to Justify Anti-Democratic Actions of the D Party with a GOP Smear
7. Non-Persecuted Voter Suppression & Family Farms Killed by Capitalist Oligarchs
8. Uniting Left & Right with Fake (Trick by both Hitler and Trump)
9. Economic Update: Degrading U.S., Financial Capital Cheats, & How to Change
10. UBI in the View of the Pandemic
11. MPP: Forget About the General Election, Do Vote, But then People’s Movement
12. Alternative Affordable Housing, Part 2

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Wakeful Video Weekend 2020-09-12 (16 videos)

If you lack time to discover many top level meaningful videos about major events, problems, and solutions, here is a weekly share for you to check and share onward. Major issues: Corona Crisis; Evictions; Affordable Housing; Liberty, Democracy, and Free Press; Workplace Tyranny; UBI to deal with an Unreliable Economy; and the growing People’s Party for highly needed change.

Stars and channels: Noam Chomsky, Nick Brana, Richard Wolff,

Topics:

1. Corona Crisis Evictions
2. Affordable Housing
3. Giving Up Liberty by Giving Up Free Press and Investigative Journalism
4. System Involved in Keeping us Physically and Mentally Healthy
5. Julian Assange’s Judge is a Deep State Mafia Monster
6. Oligarchic Dictatorship Eliminating Journalism
7. The Legal System Abuse & Banning of Journalism
8. Marianne Williamson and Jimmy Dore Discussing the People, System, and Mentality
9. A Good Noam Chomsky Conversation from 2015
10. Economic Update: More Years of Labor Crisis
11. Robert Reich: UBI Required by Our Unreliable Economy
12. Justice Mentality (and Placating Religions)
13. Noam Chomsky on Workplace Tyranny (short but sharp comment)
14. A Worker-Friendly CEO & the Concept of an Economy & Mindset that Works for us All (incl. UBI)
15. People’s Party: Good Questions Answers from Nick Brana (National Call)

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1. Corona Crisis Evictions

Sad sample of police earning generous salaries (from our taxes) evicting corona-crisis-empoverished people from their homes during a pandemic (not just harming victims but boosting the pandemic wave that way even more). (Unfortunately, the rest of the video loses quality. If only Jimmy would use the f-word less (like not calling the victims fucking people) and would learn proper English grammar (“should have done” not “should have did”)).

Eviction Crisis While Dems & Republicans Do Political Theater! ~ The Jimmy Dore Show (Sep 5, 2020)