It’s not like there aren’t alternatives to war and Climate Change.   Denial and obfuscation aren’t working so well.  Let’s try reality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkBzVdnLz8o&t=7s           –Green Roofs 101           –Received from Riverkeeper.org…..

First can we recognize the rampant censorship in the USA?—https://www.projectcensored.org/russian-media-censorship-featuring-lee-camp-and-chris-garaffa/     –This week, Eleanor Goldfield hosts both segments of the show. Her first guest is Lee Camp, comedian and political writer, whose TV program (Redacted Tonight) ended with the recent shutdown of the Russia-funded RT America network. They discuss working on RT, and compare the journalistic latitude it allowed, versus that of corporate-owned US media. In the second segment, Chris Garaffa speaks about the shutdown of Sputnik radio in the U.S. and EU, a network where he was a regular contributor. He and Eleanor discuss how large US-based technology and media corporations have worked with the US government and its allies to prevent Americans from hearing Russian points of view, or any Russian-funded program, even if unrelated to Russia itself, or hosted by non-Russians. Garaffa also offers advice to Americans on how to circumvent government censorship.–end of radindie info–
Lee Camp thinks he’s a comedian.  He has nothing on the politicians querying how America can spread democracy around the globe by perforating the censorship of foreign players by using a form of radio-free-Europe.  “How can America transcribe Americanism onto the world?”……seems to be the point.  Is this the concept of censorship, one may ask?  
C-Span this morning—-https://www.c-span.org/video/?518631-4/washington-journal-rep-chris-stewart-r-ut-discusses-russia-ukraine-conflict   — MARCH 16, 2022 | PART OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL 03/16/2022

Washington Journal

Rep. Chris Stewart on Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Representative Chris Stewart (R-UT), a member of the Intelligence Committee, talked about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s address to Congress later that day.–end of c-span info–Representative Chris Stewart (R-UT) — Western economic prosperity should be a choice for people.
How’s that going for Americans?  Why aren’t the majority of Americans participating in economic excellence and is it good enough that the prosperity by proxy of watching a favored few collect the wealth of the nations.  And if the USA doesn’t have a designated strong man dictating and enslaving the public, is that accomplished by employment in which the masses must remain quiet and complacent or lose their job?

Hilarious was watching US lawmakers who have passed the laws that are encumbering Free Speech and a Free Press in order to ensure complete territory marking by the Democratic/Republican duopoly.  And by the way, the US media has censored off the airways, www.rt.com.  And the US so-called leaders are questioning how best to inflict their indoctrination into Russia.  Does anyone else see the hypocrisy, or is that as vanquished by US indoctrination as is corruption?https://www.c-span.org/video/?518622-1/state-department-officials-testify-authoritarianism          –MARCH 15, 2022

State Department Officials Testify on Authoritarianism

State Department officials testifed before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on authoritarianism.    — EVERY AMERICAN CAN TURN ON THE TV AND SEE THE AUTHORITARIANISM IS ON THE RISE FROM PUTIN’S PERSONAL WAR, VERY PERSONAL WAR AGAINST UKRAINE TO CHINA’S GENOCIDE…–end of c-span info–May one bring up The War In Iraq, Syria, Libya, spreading of “Western ideals” in the Ukraine…..etc, etc, etc…..For how long have Eastern Europeans fought for liberty?  Surely for millennia.  One probably shouldn’t but will shine sunlight on the frightening corners of corporate-owned-state-run MSM in the USA, when one heard a sorry excuse for journalism refer to dumb-Belarus. Some chauvinism of Americans is revolting.   And as we celebrate those who challenged Tsarist Russia, we could remember they are the same Russians who fought in The Russian Revolution and challenged Tsar Nikolai.  Sound bites are good for media ratings, one supposes.  But they are a dismal explanation of humanity and history——https://twitter.com/franakviacorka/status/1503037631235608585        –On this day, 141 years ago, the Belarusian revolutionary Ihnat Hryniavicki threw the bomb and killed the Russian Tsar Alexander II. Hryniavicki was fighting against Tsarist Russia and for independent Belarus.
Belarusians are partisans.–end of twitter info–The Soviet Union arose out of The Russian Revolution.  As one who sees communism to be as inhuman as capitalism, one still can consider reality.  Neither communism or capitalism could function under the historical Tsarist regimes, but who would want that back?  Probably not even the people of the Ukraine.Thinking of the flaccid character of some passing as journalists, we could serve logic to be careful of how others are defined—-https://twitter.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1503484866725244929         –If America had listened to Jimmy Carter half a century ago and started to transition to renewable energy independence in the 1970s, we wouldn’t be in the situation we find ourself in today. Instead, Republicans mocked him as a crazy person.–end of twitter info–“The West” has a habit of overthrowing democratically or traditional installed leaders.  “The West” has not as yet been accountable for this behavior.I recall the news stories of the assassination of Lamumba.  This was brought to mind today watching Dr. Phil.  Dr. Phil interviewed someone from Congo who reminded us that 6 million people have died in that nation since 1998, due to political violence.  Aware of conflict in Africa, I had no idea of the extent of the violence.  The USA was installing “Western values” at that time, also.  One can translate into exploitation of natural resources.  Still unaccountable and unquestioned is involvement by the Clinton Foundation around the globe and including shell corporations reported to have been held by politicians.https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/jan/17/patrice-lumumba-50th-anniversary-assassination  –Patrice Lumumba, the first legally elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was assassinated 50 years ago today, on 17 January, 1961. This heinous crime was a culmination of two inter-related assassination plots by American and Belgian governments, which used Congolese accomplices and a Belgian execution squad to carry out the deed.–end of theguardian info—Other such instances of installation of “Western values” include The Shah of Iran.https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cia-assisted-coup-overthrows-government-of-iran  –Mosaddeq came to prominence in Iran in 1951 when he was appointed premier. A fierce nationalist, Mosaddeq immediately began attacks on British oil companies operating in his country, calling for expropriation and nationalization of the oil fields. His actions brought him into conflict with the pro-Western elites of Iran and the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. Indeed, the Shah dismissed Mossadeq in mid-1952, but massive public riots condemning the action forced the Shah to reinstate Mossadeq a short time later. U.S. officials watched events in Iran with growing suspicion. British intelligence sources, working with the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), came to the conclusion that Mossadeq had communist leanings and would move Iran into the Soviet orbit if allowed to stay in power. –end of history info–Other nations include but are not limited to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.  Installation of “Western values” may be seen as a wholesome pursuit, mostly to “The West”.We should have an uncensored discussion about this affectation..A Free Press is a requirement for a democracy.  The USA doesn’t have a functional Free Press.  Corporate-owned-state-run MSM has lulled too many of the public into a childlike state of disregard.—https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-protests-france-presidential-election.html      –The 2021 film Don’t Look Up is an account of astronomers trying to warn Earth’s population about a comet barreling toward the planet, a threat they cannot get the U.S. president or members of the media to take seriously. As France’s presidential election approaches next month, tens of thousands of protestors in the country called for action concerning another global menace: the climate crisis.The nonprofit Alternatiba — which means “Alternative” in the Basque language — nicknamed the climate protests “Look Up Day,” reported Variety. –end of ecowatch info–Much of imperialism has been based on capitalistic greed for natural resources regardless of the nation where they reside.  The hierarchical Establishment in the Democratic Party has been obnoxious in raising voices against racism at the same time that they promote imperialism against foreign nations in a manner that should be seen as racist.  Shrill calls in the USA against what is called “environmental racism” don’t comport with reality.   The lack of sound intellectual honesty in demanding a lower inflation rate by expanding fossil fuel use is a display of the most obvious turpitude.  To wrap the entirety into racism as the USA continues to exploit foreign nations is despicable.  It seems a path to WWIII.—https://moguldom.com/399345/wsj-poll-black-support-for-democrats-is-collapsing-inflation-causing-financial-strain/?utm_source=moengage&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=subscribed      –Some of those surveyed in the poll said they blame President Joe Biden for inflation because he has taken actions to limit oil-and-gas drilling and pipelines in the U.S. They didn’t cite the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a cause of inflation, as some government officials have been saying.–end ofmoguldom info–Denial may permit some people to equate inflation with the need to produce more fossil fuels, but if this also impacts human health, to label it some kind of “ism” is pure ignorance—https://www.treehugger.com/food-prices-are-affected-by-fossil-fuels-5222251?utm_campaign=treehugger&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cn_nl&utm_content=27039249&utm_term=        –When we worried about all this last September, we spoke with futurist Alex Steffen, who told Treehugger: “We’re living in a planetary emergency. One of the most severe symptoms of that emergency is the loss of predictability – the need to prepare for a wider variety of foreseeable disasters. To be caught catastrophically unprepared by the unexpected is a failure of leadership.”Food price increases were predicted then and we still had Russian fuel, wheat, and fertilizers. And we are, indeed, catastrophically unprepared.–end of treehugger info–
The weight of consequences is currently on the people of the Ukraine.  We should all remember that in these oligarch vs. oligarch military actions, it is local community members who usually pay the price.  So what was the set-up for the Ukrainian issues?  As we listen to reports that “Western values” are desired by the Ukrainian people, and living the unrest in the USA among different groups of the public, can we say that the ideals of American exceptionalism that were sold first to the US public and then to the world-wide local community members, actually exist?  Those who live in the USA are quite aware of the difference between the political-elite bubble messages and the real life of everyday Americans.  One can’t blame foreign local-community members for believing the manufactured sales ads of life according to “Western values”.  In FACT the Americans who are devolving into poverty too often still believe it.  As the US establishment gin up the public to support democracy around the globe, we could remember we have a very dismal form of democracy in the USA.  It is devoid of a Free Press that is crucial for a functioning democracy, and instead we have a corporate-owned-state-run media system that spreads capitalistic propaganda each day.  Our electoral process is also questionable.  The NYS District 22 election was a circus.We are warned that the USA “isn’t a democracy, but is a Constitutional republic”.  As heard on a Bill Moyters discussion, “governments don’t do democracy, people do”.  “Doing democracy” in the USA can be dangerous due to police-state actions.This is a seeming pro-Western view of the Maiden Revolution—-  https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/explainers/understanding-ukraines-euromaidan-protests        –The protests were more than a demand for closer EU relations; they were a rejection of injustice as a way of life and of the post-Soviet politics of corruption and nepotism. Ukrainians took to the streets to denounce the country’s endemic corruption, from the grand corruption practiced by ex-president Yanukovych and his peers, to everyday corruption and petty unfairness—like the need to bribe a teacher to get better classroom conditions for your children, a doctor to get an appointment, or the traffic police to avoid unlawful fines.—-end of opensociety info–Even with a pro-Western explanation of the Maiden Revolution, consider the following—*Corporate-owned-state-run media talking heads have reported expansion of fascism in the USA, which is based upon ‘running government like a business*Citizens United supports the fear of the above talking heads, because money in elections is corruption*Past Presidential Administrations have promoted TPP which is a trade agreement that sent middle-class jobs overseas and that includes language permitting eminence of multi-national corporations over local-community human rights and environmental rights (this belies any conversation about environmental racism which is in FACT legislated racism if it can be called racism at all, because Climate Change endangers everyone.  Racism is a good political-campaign deflection and seems used as such)*The Democratic Establishment Presidential Administration of 2014 and currently are deep into the business practices of the Ukraine that NATO has described as too corrupt to be admitted into their clique.*When Putin speaks of drug addicts working in the Ukraine, must we really pretend to whom he refers?*That John Kerry’s son bowed out of the partnership in the Ukraine is at least a hint that something was up; and good for John Kerry’s sonThe USA has a long and well-known but seldom mentioned habit of overturning democratically-elected foreign leaders who didn’t comply to wishes of the US oligarchs.  Considering the list of examples above, will we really say differently?So the tragedy in the Ukraine was at least precipitated by “Western interests”.  The war should stop immediately; even better it should never have been instigated.We could be working toward peace rather than toward war—-https://countercurrents.org/2022/03/towards-a-peaceful-solution-to-the-conflict-in-ukraine/   –In my opinion, the golden rule for conflict resolution should be established on two grounds.The first is to guarantee the territorial integrity of Ukraine. And regions with a Russian majority can have a solution such as autonomy, for example, within the Ukrainian state.The second point is to address Russian security concerns and not underestimate them, as previously happened.These two points represent, in my opinion, the pillars for moving towards a better future… War does not solve problems but somewhat complicates them. The poor die in wartime, and arms dealers are the beneficiaries of this. The poor in the world are now paying the price of the price increase, which is expected to rise by about twenty percent.–end of countercurrents info–
From mronline—–https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=2833cdb99b&u=36ce609ae68971b4f060ad9c7&id=f0d41bbd94          —

8 years on, the Ukrainian crisis is still the West’s fault

Many Africans reject Washington’s position on Ukraine crisis

Crimean War wasn’t “collective security”

Anti-Russian hysteria in the U.S.: Who does it serve?

Imperialism and the weaponization of empathy

–end of mronline info–

War is more patriotic to talk about than is challenging Climate Change, in a nation that has been absorbed into capitalism.  Capitalism is hierarchical an antithetical to democracy.  We see language abused in defining the crisis in the Ukraine as a fight for democracy.
Citizens United has promoted corruption in the US political process—-https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/15/disgraceful-oil-soaked-senators-force-out-bloom-raskin-over-climate-stance        –“By blocking a Fed nominee for not being pro-fossil fuel enough, Joe Manchin is loudly saying to America two simple words: Drop dead. Good to know he’s fine with the coming environmental apocalypse.”–end of commondreams info–
It couldn’t be the greed of the capitalists—-https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/15/biggest-oil-giants-made-eye-popping-205-billion-profits-2021-report    –Now, fossil fuel giants are trying to “cash in on inflation and the crisis in Ukraine,” said one critic.–end of commondreams info–
Pray for peace.  Visualize peace.  Live peace.https://moguldom.com/399470/ukraine-and-russia-draw-up-15-point-neutrality-plan-to-end-war-stocks-go-parabolic/?utm_source=moengage&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=subscribed           –https://moguldom.com/399470/ukraine-and-russia-draw-up-15-point-neutrality-plan-to-end-war-stocks-go-parabolic/?utm_source=moengage&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=subscribed–end of moguldom info–
———————–We can do better———-

That “we are a 2-Party system” is a fabrication of the Republican/Democratic duopoly and spread by MSM.  In FACT the majority of voters aren’t either registered Democratic or Republican.  The censorship about this info must be envied by bureaucrats of the Former USSR and their simplistic style of 1-Party elections.  

Regardless of which character sits in the Oval Office, We The People have work to do to maintain principles of our democratic (small d) Constitutional republic.  Several items to challenge—*We need the integrity of ranked-choice voting so voters won’t feel compelled to “hold your nose and vote”*Censored debates must be stopped.  The Democratic/Republican duopoly pretends to legitimate debates in what is nothing other than another campaign show.  Independent debates run by uninterested sponsors such as The League of Women Voters, must be restored.  (Access www.debates.org to understand the extent of duopoly control).  The so-called Debate Commission is a corporation to promote the Democratic corporation and Republican corporation, not to inform We The People*Challenge and stop gerrymandering that is a trick especially of the Republican branch of the duopoly.*Stop voter suppression by political Parties, and especially confront and stop Party suppression, which is the over-arching approach to voter suppression.  Party suppression seems to have been the responsibility of the Democratic corporation*Promote by law ranked-choice voting, so we won’t be told again, by D&R duopoly, to “hold your nose and vote”
If these issues are handled, our next elections can be honorable. 
*******************************************************************https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx—-Political Party affiliation of voters.
    https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/league-refuses-help-perpetrate-fraud–LEAGUE REFUSES TO “HELP PERPETRATE A FRAUD”

WITHDRAWS SUPPORT FROM FINAL PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE–end of lwv info–Murray Bookchin, who founded social ecology, a theory that strongly influenced early Green Socialist thought, strongly advocated the discussion and study group as the first step of any revolutionary movement. A group of individuals meets to expand their knowledge of radical thought and form a radical intellectual community; through the give and take of discussion, can eventually form ideas for next steps in organizing and political activity. According to Bookchin, study groups help create solidarity and a shared language — with a shared coherent vision — for building a mass, organizing, political movement!
Along with Climate Change, many people oppose the imperialism of the USA under control of the Republican/Democratic duopoly.  Use of the wealth of our nation should be to enhance quality of life for We The People rather than for imperialism.  Some people vote accordingly.I———————–That “we are a 2-Party system” is a fabrication of the Republican/Democratic duopoly and spread by MSM.  In FACT the majority of voters aren’t either registered Democratic or Republican.  The censorship about this info must be envied by bureaucrats of the Former USSR and their simplistic style of 1-Party elections.  

Regardless of which character sits in the Oval Office, We The People have work to do to maintain principles of our democratic (small d) Constitutional republic.  Several items to challenge—*We need the integrity of ranked-choice voting so voters won’t feel compelled to “hold your nose and vote”*Censored debates must be stopped.  The Democratic/Republican duopoly pretends to legitimate debates in what is nothing other than another campaign show.  Independent debates run by uninterested sponsors such as The League of Women Voters, must be restored.  (Access www.debates.org to understand the extent of duopoly control).  The so-called Debate Commission is a corporation to promote the Democratic corporation and Republican corporation, not to inform We The People*Challenge and stop gerrymandering that is a trick especially of the Republican branch of the duopoly.*Stop voter suppression by political Parties, and especially confront and stop Party suppression, which is the over-arching approach to voter suppression.  Party suppression seems to have been the responsibility of the Democratic corporation*Promote by law ranked-choice voting, so we won’t be told again, by D&R duopoly, to “hold your nose and vote”
If these issues are handled, our next elections can be honorable. 
*******************************************************************https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx—-Political Party affiliation of voters.