Category: Multi-Issued
PROGRESS OR DYSTOPIA?
The reminder of the old film called Soylent Green arose while hearing a commercial intended to sell fruit and vegetable related nutrition vitamins using the phrase (paraphrase) –get nutrients of fruits and vegetables without expensive trips to the grocery store.
HARM OF CHAUVINISM
American chauvinism that chooses to define the world according to US views seems self-indulgence.
LEADERS NEED TO EXPLAIN ACTIONS
Someone once said, if you can explain it to others, you probably understand it yourself. This proved to be true.
WHO WANTS PEACE?
C-Span ran a bit of a speech by someone named Mike Gallagher-R, in which he said (paraphrase) the CCP (China) took advantage of US “good faith”. Probably he’s referring to the blind trust of US politicians (AKA jumping through corporate hoops) in imposing the national security risk upon the US public known as globalism, in which jobs, manufacturing, and control evolved to China.
NON-ESTABLISHMENT REALITY
The FACT is raised in this Kim Brown discussion, about local and often volunteer firefighters who didn’t know the type of chemicals in the fire in Palestine, OH that they fought. Some Upstate NY anti-fracking advocates are quite aware of the problem of industrial insinuation of chemicals into local neighborhoods with the possible disasters that are described as “accidents will happen”, and are a part of the nationalizing of risk and privatizing of profiteering that is embedded in capitalism.
VOTE FOR WHAT YOU WANT
Having quasi-quoted this socialist in the past, it’s better to be aware of the author. If you don’t know who Eugene Debs is, inform yourself. It’s a relevant story.
NATIONALIZE RISK AND PRIVATIZE PROFIT
Somehow it feels like corruption when activists are charged under RICO laws, while corporate so-called accident risk is nationalized and profits are privatized.
VIEW FROM THE HEART
A welcome reminder from an associate-in-advocacy from the anti-fracking efforts, about reality
FARM WORKERS AND DENIAL
NYS has passed legislation that would mandate overtime pay for farm workers after 40-hours-per week. Some local lawmakers have expressed concern that lack of understanding about the erratic time schedules in farm work will place undue burdens upon farm employers.
DEFINE HEALTH
The Green Party conversations attempt an exchange between people with differing views in a clear exchange of ideas.
MIDDLEMEN OF WWIII
We will find the middlemen between the producers and the consumers, “earning” wealth.
FREE SPEECH POLICING
While money is called Free Speech, Free Speech is held as suspicious behavior by Establishment.
INDUSTRIAL EXPERIMENT ON HUMANITY
As a child of the 50’s, childhood diabetes wasn’t typical. Today reports suggest childhood diabetes is growing. A personal opine is a memory from around 1970 in which one first began to hear about the interjection of corporate interests into the public school system that was explained as profiting both industry and the school system. At that time the first industrial inspiration was soda machines in school systems. So what about the health care costs that devolved onto the general public due to atrocious nutritional habits, while the public school system and industry profited? This seems a perfect setup for public/private partnerships that are so advertised as promoting economic well being. Another definition could be nationalizing risk while privatizing profit.