Joseph Stalin (or Joseph Biden?) quote: “It’s completely unimportant who will vote, or how. What is extraordinarily important is who will count the votes, and how.”
Bad Biden:
A demented creep with a corrupt scumbag record who is only supported by a minority of ignorants is deceptively placed at the head of primaries via blatant vote count rigging when lesser tricks like voter suppression don’t suffice. And this guy is supposed to be our preferable alternative to Donald Trump?
If you are surprised at such negative claims about Biden, then just skim through the most recent Video Weekend posts on Beanstock’s World. Among other useful stuff, they also contain jaw-dropping reports on and recordings of Biden.
Biden voted for (or even created Congress bills) that harm so many of us, for example by cutting our social safety net (repealing FDR’s Great New Deal), eliminating bankruptcy protections, herding us into pointless evil wars, or placing millions of us in neo-slavery prisons. And he and his family not only made tons of money for themselves via bribery, but on a TV stage Biden arrogantly dismissed young people who complain about our corrupted system. On TV he even once happily admitted his political corruption. And now he is about to be anointed as the presidential D-Party candidate via blatant election fraud? This guy then is supposed to be our preferable alternative to Donald Trump and have any decent chance to win against him?
Asa little hint, here is a video that does NOT review Biden’s corrupt record but DOES dive into his current dementia which would make him a guaranteed loser if he were to run against Trump:
Biden Seems Like He Has Feathers in His Brain ~ Hard Lens Media
And despite his horrible political career record and his grossly evident dementia plus an awfully lazy campaign skipping over many states and offering no real agenda for American voters, Biden is supposed to now be soaring from a very low place in the early primaries to the very top and be magically floating ahead of the vastly popular Bernie Sanders? This is supposed to be true and real voter outcome? Not a fixed election process?
Another collection of great recent videos best not to miss. JFK’s much forgotten amazing speech on Medicare for All, the ways the oligarchy meddles with our minds, the war on journalism and free speech, the people’s uprising sparked by Bernie Sanders, and more and more and more…
Stars & channels: The Political Vigilante, Bernie, Ilhan Omar, The New School, John Spritzler, Jimmy Dore, Democracy At Work, The Real News Network, The Grayzone, The Zero Hour, Democracy Now!, TEDx Talks, goingundergroundRT, World Affairs, The Humanist Report, The Rational National, The Rational National, and more…
Topics:
Amazing Speech: JFK on Medicare for All
Alleged Personal Failings vs Reality
2015 Panel Chris Hedges and Cornel West
Society for the Rich (Let’s Compete to Death)
Modernizing Cuban Socialism
U.S. War on Journalism and Free Speech
Inequality and the Apparatus of Justification
Violence by the State on Homeless People
Disillusion
MSM Blacking out Bernie AGAIN (Over and Over)
Midwest Voters Snubbed by the ‘Elites’
Bernie for Farmers
Bernie & Ilhan Rally High Points (Minnesota)
Humor: Obama Shames Voters For Criticizing Corrupt Politicians
1. Amazing Speech: JFK on Medicare for All
JFK Explains Why US Needs Med4All In 1962 — The Political Vigilante ~ Graham Elwood
The following broadcast deeply struck a chord within me even though I have not been sexually assaulted (besides a failed attempt long ago, that is). Looking at the connection, I found that my existential assaults by soulless jerks ruining my original life’s career and later every new career and job, time and time again… led to the same feelings of grief and low self-esteem and constant fear, the being shrunk and driven into shame and made afraid to exist.
And when my appeals against profession denial based on declaring my education and job qualification invalid for totally unjustified and totally absurd and paradoxical reasons (rewriting history turning my outstanding study accomplishments into trash) were contemptuously dismissed, it gave me the same humiliation of standing up for receiving justice and getting virtually slapped into the face for it, assigning to me the guilt of others who had ruined my life. It makes me think that in today’s precarious life lived by so many of us, these kinds of results are suffered from way more people than sexual assault victims. So many of us are time and again under existential assault suffering precarious lives for no fault of our own and being denied any hope or worthwhile future.
This is the heart-wrenching report on the results of a sexual assault (often considered a dismissible minor issue) that chimes so closely with the existential assaults suffered by a huge portion of humanity:
The Stanford Sexual Assault Case Made Her “Emily Doe.” In New Memoir, Chanel Miller Tells Her Story
Democracy Now!
Indeed. Such an assault has much longer, deeper, and farther reaching consequences than commonly recognized. But, not to overlook, so do the existential assaults suffered by so many of us. Continue reading “Existential Assault”→
Another compilation of informative recent videos on many topics, with an emphasis on the growing oppression from the Internet and AI, the control of our minds by the media & social media and twin-party tyranny, details of the UBI, 5 presidential candidates incl. a deep dig into Andrew Yang, the truth behind the Russiagate BS, and our War Culture.
Top stars: Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Jimmy Dore, Tulsi Gabbard, AOC…
Topics:
Internet (Chomsky): The Terminator is Coming
Jesse Ventura: Oppression via IT
Chomsky: The R&D Oligarchy (and the “Dem’s” Gift for Trump)
Chomsky: Democracy
Economy: Good Question & AI
UBI: Digging Deeper into it & Andrew Yang
Chris Hedges & Aaron Mate on Russiaaahhhgate
Russiaaahhh: Who Cast it as the Bogeyman
Tulsi: on the Russiagate BS & our War Culture
Candidates: Jerk Biden, Mike Gravel, Marianne Williamson
Media War: Another Trick How They Deny us the Truth
World & Media: Consistent Underreporting of the Yellow Vests
Starring, among others: Thom Hartmann, Susan George, Paul Jay, Thomas Frank (‘Listen, Liberal’), Kyle Kulinski, Mike Figueredo, Ro Khanna, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Steve Grumbine, Bernie Sanders. — One theme emerging from this compilation is the journey of the Republican party through brainwashing to a rich people’s party supported by its brainwashed, and also the journey of traditional conservatives from the GOP to the “Democratic” Party and possibly beyond the false twin-party dichotomy. Yet another indication that conservative, liberal, and progressive are labels that often obfuscate how we really feel and think. Categories:
Awakening Journey
Language, Narratives, Mindset
Vote Shaming
Immigration & Deportations
Brainwash by the Oligarchy
Neoliberalism brilliantly Explained
New Deal Repeal & Recovery
Corruption
Grassroots Campaigning
Being Human
I. Awakening Journey
The Journey from “Conservative” to “Liberal” to What? (Paul Jay with Thomas Frank). Topics: Reagan. Populism and liberty flipped on their heads.
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Paul Jay, Thomas Frank, and the title: “From Ronald Reagan to Bernie Sanders – RAI with Thomas Frank (5/9) “)
Kyle Kulinski on a topic I recently wrote an article about which I have yet to publish (false label use, in particular the confusion between social democracy and democratic socialism), and that what we really want is what really matters, regardless of labels and smears (Addendum: Psst… my piece is published now.):
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Kyle Kulinski, Secular Talk, and the title: “Democratic Socialism Vs Social Democracy“)
III. Vote Shaming
Deportations & Protecting the Establishment (and getting us fascism) through vote shaming:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for The Humanist Report , Mike Figueredo and the title: »Kathy Griffin Vote Shames Jill Stein Voters: “F**K YOU ALL.”«)
Comment: The thing to remenber is that fascism is a tactic for protecting the establishment during times of popular unrest!
IV. Immigration & Deportations
Hear a Central American talk about Deportations and abuse of immigrants
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Greg Wilpert, Roberto Lovato, and the title: “Media Coverage of Trump Immigration Policies Ignores Democrats’ Complicity”)
America benefits from being an immigrant nation:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Aaron Maté, Ro Khanna, and the title: “Rep. Ro Khanna: Democrats Can’t Be Liberal at Home But Hawkish Militants Overseas“)
V. Brainwash by the Oligarchy
Outrage and Civility: The self-satisfied, easy-living political gentry have anesthetized political debate:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Thom Hartmann and the title: “Is it Time to be Outrageous?“)
The Oligarchy’s “Libertarian” Brainwash has been Working Globally
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Susan George: Trump in Europe“)
VI. Neoliberalism brilliantly Explained
A Physics Model of Neoliberalism (get ready for the bang)
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Neoliberalism as a Water Balloon“)
VII. New Deal Repeal & Recovery
What does it mean to be Republican?
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Thom Hartmann and the title: “How Far will the Morbidly Rich & Donald Trump Go“)
Having money and time for life when employed full time used to be possible before the oligarchy’s raid on and restructuring of our economy. To a small degree, even self-defined conservatives are beginning to agree that a better structure might be possible:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for Thom Hartmann and the title: “Conservative Says If You Work, You Can’t Be Poor? “)
Comment: I wonder if the innate respect for authority and fear of upturning the apple cart makes typical conservatives admire abusive employers.
VIII. Corruption
Government letting the big banks steal:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for TheRealNews, Greg Wilpert and the title: “Fed Lets Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley Off Hook, Investors Profit Billions”)
Comment: I can litterally see Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley asking for a bailout soon. (Note: the guy is really off when declaring low unemployment, though)
IX. Grassroots Campaigning
Remix of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talking:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Could Be The First Latina to Represent Her District in Congress”)
Note: Building local grassrootsis a workable alternative to spending big moeny in order to get on the ballot.
X. Being Human
This week, Steve Grumbine held a moving and inspiring Fourth of July speech I can relate to in a whole number of ways. Maybe so can you. It touches especially upon what it means to be human and living in a society:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Happy Interdependence Day | Steve Grumbine of Real Progressives “)
Comment: Basically the same line along which I wrote my I-Day post this week. Let’s say it together: Happy Interdependence Day! Let’s unf*ck America!
An old man walking… (if it doesn’t display for you, try this link (oh, the eternal trouble with Facebook videos…!)):
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title “#BernieSanders @ #Warrens 4th of July parade in Vermont” and pray since this is a Facebook video.)
Comment: Those kinds of clips are very moving for me. A thought that comes to mind, besides gratefulness for Bernie’s impact on public debate, is that most of us are ignored to the extent of becoming invisible when we reach this age, and very surprised how bad life then becomes for most of us captivated in aching withering old bodies and failing minds with no preparation for it by our society or ourselves, as we were busy all our lives struggling to survive within a system of exploitation and oppression.
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This weekend’s video compilation covers various areas:
U.S. Barbarity
Voter Manipulation
Economy
Corrupt Politics
Shamestream Media
Change
I. U.S. Barbarity
Finalizing the transformation of the U.S. into a country of 100% barbaric brutality:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Bolton Fabricated Lies that Justified War on Iraq “)
Note: Let’s be careful not to make this only about Trump. Reagan invaded Granada. G.H.W. Bush invaded Iraq. Bill Clinton ravaged flourishing Yugoslavia leaving a clutter of tiny, weak, and poor new nations behind. G.W.-Cheney invaded Afghanistan and Iraq (war for oil). Obama expanded our wars and drone-based from-the-sky terrorism on civil populations in many nations (the kind of horror which breeds violent terrorism coming back at us). Trump is just the latest and possible last step. (Let’s see how much our domestic corporate police state brutality, not discussed in this news video, will also be revved up during his tenure.)
II. Voter Manipulation
Twitter, Facebook, Cambridge Analytica…
More on political social media abuse, the corrupt government-corporation marriage, etc.:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “‘Pro-Hillary Bots’ Used Twitter Bots on Sanders Supporters | America’s Lawyer on RT America | “)
More confirmation of the Cambridge Analytica Meddling and also an example of how money can mess with integrity. After all, the oligarchs have their paid foot soldiers:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Brittany Kaiser, former Cambridge Analytica director: ‘I voted for Bernie’“)
If you missed them, here are this week’s articles on electoral rigging via Twitter and Facebook:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Economic Update: Capitalism Breeds Inequality“)
Robert Reich on why are we working harder than ever and getting nowhere. It’s the rigged “Political Economy” which structures the market against us.
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Robert Reich, “Saving Capitalism”“)
Gist: The market vs government debate is a distraction. There is no market without a government (that sets and enforces the market rules, like what is legal tender, what is fraud, contract fulfillments, etc.). So, the real question is whether the market-government system (which is the real economy) works for most of us or merely a small number at the top. The other common myth that is utter nonsense is that (in our current system) people get paid what they are worth. Also, trusts and lobbying create behind-the-scenes pre-distributions which shift wealth and income to the top while they raise our living expenses.
Good point: If we give up on politics, we give up on a good nation and world.
More government rigging for the Robber Billionaires:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “On Contact: The New Gig Economy with John McDonagh“)
Note: So, New York’s taxis were limited by number to some 13,000 for umpteen years. Then, Uber comes in, promises the regulators comfy kickback jobs on its board, and suddenly 100,000 more taxi-like Uber cars are allowed into the market, and the taxi drivers – whose earnings have been ruined in one fell swoop – get levied an additional congestion tax to penalize them for all the extra cars. Their garages switch from splitting profits with their drivers to charging them a whopping $120 leasing fee each morning, putting them into a hole they must try to dig themselves out of in the next 16 hours or so of uninterrupted work and customer-hunting, while the garage owners income is thereby secured. And, eventually, a taxi driver who can’t take it anymore drives right up to the front of City Hall and blows off his own head with a shotgun. That’s how our rigged market-government economy is screwing workers and coddling the top and their corrupt political handmaidens until life for the rest of us becomes an agonizing ordeal we prefer not to stay in anymore.
IV. Corrupt Politics
The GOP raiders and their Dem enablers committing the latest Wall Street deregulation:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Bernie Sanders Cites “Corruption” as Reason for Wall Street Deregulation Push “)
Change on the Outside, Continuity on the Inside (the roll-back of Dodd-Frank by a Repucratic-Dempublican alliance):
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Democrat’s Playbook To Sell You Out Revealed “)
V. Shamestream Media
Why we need independent media:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Bernie Sanders Calls Out Media’s Obsession with Stormy Daniels Scandal“)
VI. Change
An academic analysis of our flawed world and a suggestion for how to fix it:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Is Another World Possible? – Leo Panitch on RAI (4/4) “)
Notes: Living conditions were actually improving during much of the 20th century under a system of capitalism held to certain limits and socially responsible rules by a political upheaval and lingering political awareness of the citizenry. But when these improved lives led to a slothing off of public political awareness and participation, the plutocrats that had been left in their seats of imbalanced power, started rolling back the societal advances so we ended up in our current mess echoing medieval conditions of autocracy and serfdom. Now we need to think about change, fundamental change, so it won’t be rolled back again. Various ideas are being discussed.
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The great people-power movement known as Represent.Us has added a cure for our idiotic “lesser evil” voting system to their anti-political-corruption fight. Watch and share this video and then act:
(Note: if the video linked above gets deleted, you may search the Internet for the title: “Ranked Choice Voting vs The Corrupt Establishment”)
In an article worth reading, its author, James Altucher, wrote:
From the moment our feet finally leave the inside of our mother’s womb, until the day we die, life is a battle. Respect everyone’s battles. Respect that everyone has it [as] hard, or harder, than you do.
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