Wakeful Video Weekend 2022-04-23 (8 videos)

Request: Please share with others. I, for example, can no longer share on Facebook, having been locked out of my account and search engines like Google hide posts like these.

Summary: Overcoming the lies, the myths, the brainwashs, by which we keep being oppressed.

Stars and channels: LEOTHEPANTHERA, Ralph Nader Radio Hour, The Hill (Kim Iversen), The Agenda (with Steve Paikin and Yanis Varoufakis), Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff & Chris Hedges), MHFIN

Topics:

1. Wealth Accumulation by Dispossession is Our System
2. Racism/Anti-Racism “Fun” Instead of Civil Rights
3. Ukraine: Report on the Deeper Issues
4. Russia: Tortured by the West over Three Decades
5. Nurses’ Suicides, Rising Inflation and Corporate Profits
6. Profits & Power of the Few, Poverty for the Rest of Us
7. How a Lot of CEOs Get Motivated to Crush the Workers
8. The Terrible-Made Housing Market Likely to Get Even Worse

Making Homeowners Homeless via Property Taxes

(Note: the Video Weekends are currently stalled because of my relocation — in the worst case this blog may pause for some weeks while I lack both time and Internet access)

Have you been mulling over a wealth tax? Are you aware of the wrong kind of wealth tax that has long been in place, not to take back from the thieving rich but to ravage people’s shelter from the elements? Listen to this report video and read my comments below:

$600M Property Tax Overcharge Is Eroding Detroit’s Black Homeownership ~ The Real News Network (Jan 16, 2020)

Comments:

While Detroit hit municipal bankruptcy (as other cities will), it is not the only place where property taxes strangle people who oh-so-facetiously claim to need a roof over their heads. It is really terrible how we American people get gouged and mauled from the top (the rich in cahoots with their political puppets). We try hard to escape some of the rentier gouging by getting to own our homes, but the money lords’ banks often demand about twice the homes’ alleged prices in pay when we take a mortgage (because the interests and compound interests can double the price of the loan the banks make possible with money made by them out of thin air). In addition, the banks play games like stock-market-gambling subprime mortgages and also illegitimate foreclosings on people who did make their mortgage payments on time. And communal governments also ravage us even when we finally DO own our homes. Even then we can get evicted and foreclosed, having our home and entire life’s savings taken away in one big swoop “justified” with property taxes that should not be imposed on people’s homes any more than on the air we breathe.

Imagine toiling all your life to own a home so that when you become too old and sick to pay rent you think you will be safe from having paid off your mortgage and escaped bank foreclosure. But then the local town government forecloses on you because you can’t pay its willy-nilly-rated and even inflated property taxes when you cannot earn an income anymore. Honest property tax should be imposed on luxury property only, such as huge private lands, private jets, fleets of giant luxury yachts, and excessive Wall Street stocks. We should get excessive wealth taxed, not people’s shelters from the elements.

And regard the amazing 18% interest rate a town government imposes on tax payment lag at an age where we working people are lucky if we get a mere 1.2% interests on savings (while paying a cash advance interest rate of 36% to a credit card baron). Holy moly! Maybe we need a new inequality term called “money market inequality”, where the money-gambling banksters and other rich creeps and their political puppets can gouge people at 18% interest rates or 36% (or even a lot more*) while people who have to toil for their living can’t even get 2% on any penny-pinching savings if they manage to scrape away some savings at all in this institutionalized inequality system.

* What’s a lot more? Full payment on payday loans is due on the borrower’s next payday, which typically is around two weeks. Payday lenders usually charge interest of $15-$20 for every $100 borrowed (within those 2 weeks!!!). Calculated on an annual percentage rate basis (APR) – the same as is used for credit cards, mortgages, auto loans, etc. – that APR based on late repays then ranges from 391% to more than 521% for payday loans, making desperate poor working people pay the highest loan interests of all — insanely high rates of having to pay back more than five times what you borrowed in some cases! (one info source: https://www.thebalance.com/average-credit-card-interest-rate-4772408 )

We definitely need a proper wealth tax that recovers the accumulated loot of the rich thieves in human society, not home property taxes that steal even more from common people into the pockets of the super rich. Huge systemic inequality is like cancer in human societies. We should all be opposed to it and get rid of it. If any rich person read this, I ask you to look in the mirror while you mull over it.

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Videos Exposing the Creepy Billionaires

Dear fiends, I am currently away from home. So this last week I could not check out numerous potentially good new videos of human trouble and people power for change to thereafter share the best I come across. To not leave this weekend blank, here is a reminder of videos shared over three years ago highly revealing the widespread sociopathic corruption, infantility, and inhumanity among the super rich. (yep, I have yet to meet one who can be considered human)

These videos were spread over the popular four-article “Vapid Lives of Destruction” series I published – the link to which can be found in the “More…” menu at the top, but today also right here:

Vapid Lives of Destruction

One of these videos has been removed from YouTube (and apparently the whole Internet) by now, at least by the title it had. Searching for it, I either found it again with a different title, or at least a very similar one:

Lifting the secretive veil on life as a billionaire’s pleasure wife | 60 Minutes Australia ~ 60 Minutes Australia (Oct 23, 2017, length: 11:13)

So, if you saw them already 3 years ago, watching them again as a reminder won’t be a bad idea. And if they are new to you, freshly go for them. 😉

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Wakeful Video Weekend 2021-07-25 (11 videos)

Summary: How our country has over a generation been turned into a rich and poor wasteland and the need for nuclear treatment of our corrupt political parties.

Stars and channels: The People’s Party, Eichard Wolff (Democracy At Work), Ruptly, The Jimmy Dore Show (incl. Graham Elwood), The Robert Escobar Show, Steve Auerbach, Second Thought, Rick Sanchez & Faran Fronczak

Topics:

1. People’s Party National Call: Getting Nuclear with the Corrupt Major Parties **
2. M4A March (with good speeches, too)
3. How much Our Economy and Society Has Crumbled over the last Generation ***
4. Modern U.S. Wage Slavery
5. FBI Framing Us
6. Empire: U.S. Top Country of Meddling with Others
7. The Rich Buying Away our American Dream (Owned Homes)
8. Is China Capitalist, Socialist or Communist? – Richard D Wolff
9. The Needed Change for a Good Nation

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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 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 2020-02-23 (19 videos)

Major videos you shouldn’t miss, especially on these three main issues: (1) the D-Party’s developing 2020 primaries fraud and need for a people’s political revolution, (2) the healthcare profiteers’ “choice” fraud to rob you blind and oppose Medicare for All, and (3) the insanely huge and growing income and wealth inequality that turns our entire world into one gigantic fraud. Some are highly emotional. Share those you can with those who need.

Stars & Channels: Bernie, Tulsi, Legacy Zero, Richard Wolff (Democracy At Work), Jimmy Dore, Lee Camp, Redacted Tonight, The Hill, RJ Eskow, LastWeekTonight, The Real News Network, The Hill, Toronto Star, Secular Talk, Kim Iversen, UBIVisuals, The Young Turks, New Economic Thinking, …

Topics:

1. Life by Human Spirit
2. Nevada Victory – Finally the Numbers we Need
3. The 2020 Election Fraud is Under Way
4. Healthcare: Profiteering “Choice” Fraud vs Healthcare for All
5. Housing: Owned by the Lords
6. Injustice Society: Neoliberalism = Political Capitalism
7. Candidates & Campaigns (Bernie, Tulsi, Bloomberg, Cheating…)
8. News (Trump’s Silly Wall, Terrible GOP Budget, War for Profit…)
9. Wealth & Income Inequality (evilly insane levels nowadays)
10. Economic Update
11. The Debate Theater about the Old New Deal
12. Humor: Jimmy Dore Tour on D-Dem Flip

 

1. Life by Human Spirit

Charlie Chaplin’s amazing speech for humanity coupled with modern video footage, all the more touching:

You, The People | Bernie 2020 ~ Legacy Zero
(If it gets deleted, maybe try this Effbook link where it was also stored: https://www.facebook.com/patrick.lindsey.372/videos/10223095271469714/)

A reminder: In his last phase of life, Charlie Chaplin was exiled from the U.S. and had to die abroad. Our horrible masters have been taking over our country and world for generations. You can read his amazing speech (and a little about it) here: https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/synopsis/articles/29-The-Great-Dictator-s-Speech

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