Anyone who has been a consumer for 50 years or more is aware of the reality of planned obsolescence.  We surely have a throw-away society with consumers indoctrinated into expectations of products that are cheap, superficial, often useless, and manufactured for short-term use in order to encourage repurchase on an ongoing treadmill.  Our landfills are testimonies to progress based on greed, exploitation and privilege rather than progress based on good health, equality, and peace.  

Encouraging are the leaders attempting to shine light on ways lifestyle can make a difference, along with understanding that vested interests have a reason to insinuate unsustainable lifestyle upon the public.https://www.treehugger.com/students-building-guide-to-climate-crisis-5272536?utm_campaign=treehugger&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cn_nl&utm_content=27775946&utm_term=             –It is all very much a work in progress, with 160 submissions in 17 divisions so far that vary in quality, and it will take some time to edit, fact-check, and pull it all together. But at some point, I hope it will be a useful reference document. We have just started uploading it all to Carboncrisis.ca but I thought I would share some of the papers here because it is such interesting stuff.–end of treehugger info–
From radindiemedia——https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VydteCTtS6w&t=1s             —

Lee Camp: This Is Unbelievable!

WATCH via Lee Camp: US Healthcare Somehow Just Got Worse——end of leecamp info—–(Lee Camp is heavily censored by hierarchical Establishment in the USA)

This is too precious not to share long and often—-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juMd6OLCwEA                —Bush’s Viral F*ck Up – My Reaction
Lovely when politicians speak truth……..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP9UiAfZ46s        –Wash Post Reporter Freaks Out Over Disinformation Board’s Closure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEV7OLHB7pE                  –It Begins
One suspects one would possibility not get along well with Jimmy Dore or he with me,  or would not feel comfortable with his conversation style; but one would miss excellent views from Dore that address clearly, matters of Free Speech and Establishment censorship.  The point is that politics in 2022 demand attention to style more than to integrity.  This is degrading as applies to truth.  And so we watch, for want of a better example, lipstick on pigs as applies to discussion about democracy.
C-Span offered what may be called an example of that which one imagines.       https://www.c-span.org/video/?520309-4/washington-journal-jonathan-metzl-discusses-gun-violence-race-relations-us     — MAY 20, 2022 | PART OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL 05/20/2022

Washington Journal

Jonathan Metzl on Gun Violence and Race Relations in the U.S.

Dr. Jonathan Metzl talked about gun violence and race relations in the U.S.—end of c-span info–
9:30AM–guest–told a story of a black man in an open-carry state walking into a Walmart, who was tackled by a white “Good guy” with a gun.  The black man was “coded” as an aggressor. 

We would be self-deluded to imagine that a black man with a gun isn’t seen as an aggressor while a white man with a gun is seen as a “good guy”. As a feminist, one is compelled to say that women are generally “coded” as being victims who naturally are exposed, and need to stay home if they wish safety.  
The FACTS of the above statement are too often hidden within flowery language foisted onto the public for political expediency.

The propaganda from capitalistic hierarchical Establishment that the US government better not tax the rich because they will move to friendlier nations raises a few thoughts–*Where are they going?*Will they flee to Finland and Sweden that taxes the rich sufficiently to maintain a universal health care system, among other public-service benefits, and is now trying to gain entrance to NATO, ostensibly enabling Sweden and Finland to reduce the expense of their military, so the USA can pick up the cost in dollars and bodies?*Will the rich flee to China where oligarchs are arrested, convicted, and jailed for corruption, unlike the system in the USA?*Will the rich flee to foreign nations where laws will more closely monitor financial transactions of the rich?*Fascism is spreading, but nowhere as much as in the USA, where the rich can work their magic unencumbered by law enforcement, that seems specifically amenable to the richhttps://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/20/tax-rich-we-need-debunk-myth-fleeing-millionaires       –As it turns out, high-earners won’t leave if you increase their taxes.–end of commondreams byway of radindiemedia info–

Heavy-handed disregard for Mother Earth seems incorporated into hierarchical pursuit of profits.  We probably don’t have a full understanding of the harm done until it’s too late–https://www.ecowatch.com/heavy-farm-vehicles-soil-damage.html          –When soils are subjected to too much pressure, they can become “chronically compacted,” reported The Conversation, and as farm machinery becomes weightier, that pressure intensifies. Over the last 60 years, farming machinery like tractors has become much bigger, and a combine is nearly ten times heavier now than in the 1960s.
“Soil structure emerges as a central trait for many ecological, hydrological, and agronomical functions, serving as a fragile scaffolding for biological activity,” Keller and co-author Dani Or, who is a full professor of soil and terrestrial environmental physics at ETH Zürich, wrote in the study.–end of ecowatch info–
From popularresistance  —  https://mailchi.mp/popularresistance/1tllf6n9mf?e=1b0a9c0541          —

A Preemptive Response To Media Attacks On Defend The Atlanta Forest

Huy Urges UN To Protect Indigenous Prisoner Religious Freedoms

Report: Latinos Believe In Better Ways To Improve Safety Than Funding Police

How The Construction Industry Preys On Workers Released From Prison

–end of popularresistance info–

The following link gives ideas from Blackagendareport and Ajamu Baraka, a person, by the way, who I voted for to be Vice-President of the USA.  The ideas from Baraka are typically about race and on point.  The reason I choose to highlight the ideas about the Ukraine and white supremacy is that the USA just funded the Ukrainian Establishment to the tune of $40,000,000,000 (that’s with a B), which money could otherwise be used for the American public.  The racism that manifests violently and physically is not the only type experienced by American citizens, and to the detriment of us all.From popularresistance —–https://popularresistance.org/the-new-white-supremacist-consensus-part-two-shootings-in-buffalo-solidify-the-consensus/         –In fact, while knowing the history and reality of the ultra-right and neo-Nazi elements in Ukrainian society and state, the corporate media made heroes out of elements like the neo-fascist Azov battalion. Is it then hard to understand why an impressionable teen would be attracted to those courageous fighters, especially when he also shares their racial animus?
History will determine that. But what some of us see is a racialized discourse operating just below the surface in which Europe and Europeaness that Ukrainians strive for is also connected to a racialized trope of Europe being ontologically civilized while the less-white Slavs are barbarians, prone to irrational violence, like the Russians who decided “out of nowhere” to just attack Ukraine!–end ofpopularresistance info–

The same Russia that lost so many citizens to fascism in WWII, may feel compelled to challenge this system in 2022.  Non-Eastern European individuals may not understand the nuances of European people on the topic of difference within that social system.  Why would they? This helps Establishment insinuate concepts that may or may not be genuine or applicable.
The same bias is imaginable in the religious argument “for life” that presumes to find economic factors to be crass.  Tim Scott called the FACTS from Janet Yellen that economic constraints may be a reason a woman chooses an abortion as being callous; insinuating a sugar-coating would be more genteel for the fairer sex, in one person’s view.  Meanwhile the sugar-coated sex are expected to deal with the economic inanity of our capitalistic system.  To use the phrase coined by Obama about TPP, “there will be winners and losers”, from governmental policy and laws.https://www.epi.org/blog/abortion-rights/     –The draft opinion of this overtly partisan Supreme Court ignores the rigorous data and empirical studies demonstrating the significant economic consequences of this decision. In doing so, it lays bare the cruel and misogynistic politics that motivate it. Justice Alito’s dismissal of claims that forcing women to bear an unwanted pregnancy imposes a heavy burden is shockingly glib, as he simply asserts “that federal and state laws ban discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, that leave for pregnancy and childbirth are now guaranteed by law in many cases, that the costs of medical care associated with pregnancy are covered by insurance or government assistance….”–endof epi info–
From mronline  —  https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=2833cdb99b&u=36ce609ae68971b4f060ad9c7&id=5ab801b2d7              —

What is the fetishism of commodities?

When saviours are the problem

The new White supremacist consensus, Part 2: shootings in Buffalo solidify the consensus

Did the CIA train Ukrainian torturers?

–end of mronline info–

https://twitter.com/blackintheempir/status/1527638282363973633        –Biden went to Buffalo, read off the names of the people killed by a white supremacist and said there was no place for white supremacy in America Days later he stole $40 billion from the American people to use part of the money to arm Nazis that use the same symbol as the killer–end of twitter info—

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=513OvwW0VZ0    –REVEALING: President Obama Urged Bernie Sanders to Sell Out
Selling out must stop to maintain democracy.  Sanders didn’t sell out, but obfuscation was still so entrenched as to have swayed voters.
The US Constitution doesn’t seem to sanction elections run by political Parties, and to permit control of political debates by political Parties seems equally corrupt.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ7kn2-GEmM       —

Ross Perot in 1992 on NAFTA and the “Giant Sucking Sound”

Centralization is the lifeblood of the R&D duopoly.  It’s the way to enforce capitalism onto workers in 2022.
———————–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.