Category: Multi-Issued

MONEY IS NOT SPEECH

One is grateful for reminders of the reality of the era of the ’70’s that can be characterized by involvement in social issues by young people.  The issues eventually were captured into political camps for campaign purposes, as subtly as the young people were strained off to the service of those who could be suspected as being the perpetrators of the problems in he first place.  Earth Day seems a great time to consider the underlying malevolence beneath the entirety. read more

JUST BY TELLING THE TRUTH


Is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. choosing a new Presidential-candidate campaign message? read more

WOMEN

C-Span generally hosts public call-in sessions in which people can speak to their personal topics of interests.  These are the most interesting call-in sessions, in one person’s opinion. This morning a caller at about 9:20AM, on the topic of Trans sports people in women’s sports events, suggested Trans men’s teams and Trans women’s teams as being most fair.  Another type of sports event could be a blended Trans men and Trans Women teams as being appropriate, if it is presumed that it is appropriate for women’s teams to be mandated to host Trans participants. read more

RELIABLE TRANSPORTATION OR EGO TRIP?


C-Span is a resource that is as good as it gets on the topic of transparency.  Without information a democracy doesn’t function.  And by the way, as heard on a Bill Moyers Show, government don’t do democracy, people do.   read more

COMMON SENSE


Analytical thinking may be nothing more than common sense.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?527441-1/house-speaker-mccarthy-ny-stock-exchange       —
APRIL 17, 2023

House Speaker McCarthy at the N.Y. Stock Exchange

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) gave remarks at the New York Stock Exchange on the U.S. economy and negotiations to raise the federal debt limit. This event experienced technical difficulties.–end of McCarthy stock exchange info–

A big-money interest-financed politician (byway of Citizens United) speaks to the NY Stock Exchange on the topic of the Reagan inspiration of Trickle Down Economics to presumably some of the same players who were bailed out by the US taxpayer after said players engineered the 2008 Financial Meltdown.  McCarthy seems to imply (paraphrase)…”We couldn’t have done it without ya”.

And how are corporations, devoid of Corporate Character Revocation abilities by local community members, functioning in the new normal of lack of government regulation?  Please consider thoughts from Status Coup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUU3RhWiOLo     —

Erin Brockovich ACCUSES Norfolk Southern of Lying About East Palestine Ohio “Controlled Burn”

–end of statuscoup info–

MSM didn’t report on the decade-long NYS anti-fracking advocacy in which local citizens learned much more than they wanted about corruption.  A few personal and untutored views.  One welcomes correction where warranted—

*Fracking uses proprietary chemicals that are secret from local communities

*Proprietary seems to mean the chemicals used on people and nature are none of our business

*Pollution of several types are found in areas that are subjected to this industrialization

*Many local communities are protected by volunteer fire departments that understand common brush and house fires, but not so much industrial chemical fires

*Some local politicians seem more intent on courting big-money interests into local communities with the excuse of economic advancement than supporting local volunteer groups

*One may suppose a part of the draw may be big-money campaign donations to politicians

*The NYSEG Stadium absorbed curious amounts of local taxpayer funding for renovations when perhaps volunteer fire departments could have benefited from said funding

*NYSEG Stadium is now Mirabito Stadium

*https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/politics/albany/2017/12/21/fracking-landowner-sues-new-york-seeks-compensation-ban/973209001/

*Local municipalities also needed to fend off LG fueling stations, one locally proposed next to a neighborhood school

Capitalism surely benefits from the Trickle-Down Economic system, but that either are beneficial to local communities is highly questionable.  

We The People need to short-circuit reliance on marketing speech from hierarchy and remember common sense.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3y79ZUl-zk      —

Florida Might Be Done For

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From popularresistance  —  https://popularresistance.org/taking-back-our-universities-from-corporate-apparatchiks/            —

New Brunswick, N.J. — Here are some of the senior administrators I did not see joining us on the picket lines set up by striking teachers and staff at Rutgers University. Brian Strom, the chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, whose salary is $925,932 a year. Steven Libutti, the vice chancellor for Cancer Programs for Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, who makes $929,411 a year. Patrick Hobbs, the director of athletics, who receives $999,688 a year. The president of the university, Jonathan Holloway, who is paid $1.2 million a year. Stephen Pikiell, the university’s head basketball coach, who has received a 445 percent pay raise since 2020 and currently gets $3 million a year. Gregory Schiano, the university’s head football coach, who pulls in $4 million a year.

Here is who I did see. Leslieann Hobayan, a poet and single mother with three teenage daughters who makes $28,000 a year teaching creative writing as an adjunct professor and could not afford health insurance last year. Hank Kalet, who, by teaching seven courses a semester at Rutgers, Brookdale Community College and Middlesex College as an adjunct professor (a full course load for a semester is normally four courses) as well as teaching summer courses, can sometimes make $50,000 a year. But even he only has health insurance through his wife’s employer. Josh Anthony and Yazmin Gomez, graduate workers in the history department who serve as teaching assistants, and who each struggle to survive on $25,000 a year, $1,300 of which is deducted by the university for library, gym and computer fees.

–end of popularresistance info–

One is seriously interested in those who have degrees from institutions of high learning and pose as educated, who also carry un-payable levels of debt to finagle said degree.

Common sense would be better.

From Gateway Greens——–

Please take a look at the Green Social Thought website: http://www.greensocialthought.org/

Its focus is: “Produce less. Distribute it fairly. Create a greener world for all www.gateway-greens.org For more info, call 314-727-8554 read more

NUANCE

C-Span is illuminating as usual.  A caller spoke of the wealth of military equipment the USA has left around the globe, free for the taking by others.  She implied this is a bad idea.  read more

DEFINE PATRIARCHY

Anyone ready to rethink the excuse that “boys will be boys” long enough to consider it simple psychosis? read more

SUPERFLUOUS STANDARD OF VIOLENCE

We might consider, while contemplating increasing poor mental health in the USA of individuals, the inane state of capitalistic hierarchical Establishment aggression and violence in its varied forms. read more

MENTAL HEALTH ON THE MORTAL PLANE

The value of not knowing can be found in Buddhism.  This mindset generated ideas millennia ago that suggests quantum physics.  That this may be the closing of the circle isn’t an unknown concept in some spiritual and scientific areas.  Some people believe that science and religion must be connected.  (“Must” as in logically are, not as in hierarchically prescribed) read more

IDEALS

C-Span airs at about 6:50AM a different entry into Student Cam 2023 (www.studentcam.org).  The ideas are relevant and the idealism is admirable.  Is it too cynical to mention that when students take on predatory educational-loan pay back, idealism may be replaced with cold reality.  One hopes not. read more

DEFINE WAR CRIME

Is it only a war if the destruction is against foreign governments, or does it include humanity and nature as the targets? read more

DICTATORSHIP OR ORGANIZED CRIME?

A time existed when posing this question would have felt uncomfortable.  That ship has sailed. read more

COOPERATION OR COMPETITION?

The concept that “we’re only human” can be used as an excuse or an inspiration.  The system of capitalism has been described as offering the greatest good to the most people.  This may be true until it isn’t.  read more

TOUGH NUT TO CRACK


A key component in a democracy is people and our actions.
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MERGER BETWEEN STATE AND CORPORATE POWER

Definitely indicative of dictatorship.  This is what “running government like a business” looks like. read more