Category: Multi-Issued
DEFINE SANCTIONS
Is anyone else feeling the embarrassment of threats by the USA of sanctioning other nations? Joe Biden asked the Middle East to ramp up oil production to ease the upward spiral of gasoline costs in the USA and they said no. Is this a sanction? China possesses American jobs used to manufacture products needed by the American public and with China in control of the amount if any of the products getting to the USA. Is this a sanction?
WHAT WILL REPLACE CAPITALISM?
Someone asked a completely relevant question which was “what will replace capitalism”? The answer was entirely too glib but deeply truthful which was “soul”. Surely preoccupation was the cause of this reply, combined with dismay that over years of discussion as to the universe of possibilities of replacement of capitalism, this question was asked. In FACT it is a timely question as we are beginning to recognize that capitalism is a Pyramid Scheme. Capitalism like communism thrives when a Free Press is replaced by corporate-owned-state-influenced MSM that has given us news blackouts whenever anyone mentions what will replace capitalism. But once again, the possibilities are endless.
GERBIL-WHEEL NATION
A war posture is the fall-back stance for too many politicians and the USA is not an exception. To be a functioning part of the problem takes no effort or imagination. In a nation wrapped in the mantle of exceptionalism, we should be capable of better. Can we recognize our own weak areas? Or like schoolyard bullies will we use threats and intimidation when we could use our intellect to promote peace? Currently heard on MSM is so-called tension between the USA and Russia over the Ukraine with little to nothing mentioned about the ideas from European nations. Do they not have ideas? Or are the battling capitalists in Russia and the USA drowning out other views?
DENIAL NATION
Hyperbole is typical in a political campaign but should have become undignified in a leader by the time political office has been reached.
LEAD BY EXAMPLE
Remembering that the Haudenosaunee are said to be the origin of principles included in the US Constitution that don’t appear to rest on a foundation of capitalism but rather on a foundation of free enterprise as pertains to but are not limited to financial matters, hope continues that culture as lived pre-colonization can triumph. Time will tell. Meanwhile, Upstate NY is benefiting, so far, from said leadership. The hope builds that we remember nature and the wilderness.
TRUTH AND FACTS
As pointed out by a particular Establishment character commenting negatively about the grammar and language of Lee Camp, a person could look beyond the window dressing to hear truth. As one who finds FACTS to be useful while attempting to avoid truthfulness of any opinion one offers because that is subjective, we can recognize truth in the views of others. Lee Camp may make Establishment uncomfortable. Others may receive his comments less as a grammar tutorial and more as shining light in dark corners
CAN WE ENTRUST THE PUBLIC WITH MONEY?
Hierarchy is hierarchy by indoctrination of enough of the public that supremacy for a few is a good idea for everyone. That idea may not be the FACTual. Capitalism promised that unlike it’s co-authoritarian system of communism, capitalism would keep down costs, increase general lifestyle for the most people, and would ensure empty store shelves would not happen. The evidence suggests differently. Public/private partnerships seem a hierarchical shell game to transfer wealth from the public sector to private commerce. Under the commercial system Climate Change is expanding and worsening. Citizens United has legalized the corruption of ownership of legislators by commercial interests. This seems corrupt.
WHY SHOULD WOMEN OWN WOODS?
Filling out the following NYS survey about broadband and asking my husband the answers to questions about which I am uninformed, he asked, “why are you doing so much work for them for free?” Good point. The reason was I was ultimately wishing to ask about our electrical grid that goes out periodically for no reason. This is a more crucial issue than broadband. Again one wishes to remind that our NYS NYSEG utility company is owned by a company in Spain, which nation is quite friendly with Russia. More power to them, but another FACT is the increasing electrical rates in our area, the unreliable service, and the enormous cost transferred from local-community, poverty-burdened Upstate NY people to wealthy corporations in Spain.
CONTEXT
Information gathered from MSM could be considered as pertaining either to We The People or hierarchy. The same information implies different outcome depending on the group discussed. We don’t filter information correctly when we confuse the two. MSM is all about hierarchy and seldom about the public.
IT’S LIKE THEY’RE ABOVE THE LAW
Legalized corruption in elections byway of Citizens United seems to have produced the culture in which politicians don’t think they are above the law, they are above the law.
Big-money campaign donors have highly questionable influence over local politicians. One doesn’t suggest money was an influence in the following scenario. But what happened to the governmental suggestion that politicians should avoid the appearance of corruption?
DOUBLE TALK NATION
Politics has used misogyny for campaign promotion, especially among Democratic strategists, and particularly against “especially white women”. One has refused to be shamed into silence by said misogyny campaigns, and continues to speak the FACTS of danger to women in general from patriarchy.
BELLICOSE LEADERSHIP
The current definition of progress in terms of privilege, greed, and exploitation along with use of technology included to further delude and deflect seem to be a model for barbarity. The apparent unwillingness of hierarchy to recognize a definition of progress in terms of peace, good health and equality seems to be fatal human flaw in survival. Bellicosity in hierarchy needs to be recognized as turpitude rather than strength, if humanity and nature are to thrive or even survive.
OBSESSION WITH ONE SPECIES, GENDER, AND RACE
Without personally supporting this group at this time, their ideas are stupendous and meaningful and to stay informed seems a good idea
SICK CARE ISN’T HEALTH CARE
Indoctrination seems to mean people reject if each even understood one’s personal humanity. To be human seems to imply the connection between each and The Creator in whatever way one sees He/She/It?Cause and Effect. A deep connection of this type may interfere with advertising and business concerns. One has recently mentioned a frightening concept spoken of perhaps 35 years ago, pre-globalism and pre-fascism. That was an idea of what was called subliminal advertising in which indoctrination would occur without the individual being aware. One idea of what was meant was that words would be flashed on screens of media without the individual being aware, but that the idea would be internalized. This sounds as nonsensical now as it did then. But a point can be made that media take-over of culture and news is less subversive than that notion suggests, but much more aggressive and openly arrogant in transmission of indoctrination. And the public doesn’t even challenge the ethics of this indoctrination as it did 35 years ago.
THE OTHER NEWS
The USA generally have state-influenced-corporate-owned media posing as news outlets. This isn’t a Free Press. It seems more nearly to be advertising. If democracy is to continue, it is each member of the public who is responsible for searching out and verifying information that supports the vote for or against political policies. This would be the case even with a Free Press. It’s even more necessary when news reports are based upon political and commercial collaboration.