RECOGNIZE MIDDLEMEN
This feels like an example of how hierarchical Establishment labels as free trade that which is FACTually speaking, socialism.—–
https://fair.org/home/the-major-insurers-saw-2020-as-a-giant-opportunity-for-profiteering/ –The major insurers saw 2020 as a giant opportunity for profiteering. What had happened is they had been receiving a little more than half of their total revenues from the government, either the federal government through the Medicare program or combined federal and state through the Medicaid program. So our so-called private insurers were already largely publicly funded.
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Predictably in a capitalistic system, socialist concepts are enforced in benefit of industry rather than We The People.
Middlemen have a valid and respectable place in free trade. Like most things, perversion can happen.
America isn’t just North?—-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQPZR_BVzpA –US Just Admitted To Secret WHAT?!
Moment Of Clarity with Lee Camp—end of leecamp info–(sadly-censored comedian)
C-Span aired the hearing about high food and fuel costs. — https://www.c-span.org/video/?520975-1/house-session&live —
JUNE 16, 2022
U.S. House of Representatives
House Session
The House will consider legislation to address high food and fuel prices.
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Democrats are promoting legislation to challenge high fuel and food prices while Republicans are bemoaning regulation as contrary to free market principles. Someone brought up the FACT that at the same time farmers receive lower prices for their products, consumers are paying extraordinarily high costs. Putin is largely blamed by each branch of the Republican/Democratic duopoly for this anomaly. One suspects it may be the middleman absorbing the riches in this system, in keeping with capitalistic principles. Any system to short-circuit this corruption is labeled as socialism.
Popularresistance seems to be a backdrop for the discussion about middlemen who generally are so embedded in the system as to be unnoticeable. The theater of The Americas is important when we notice extraordinary self-respect from many local-community members in South America who are acting out democracy, as compared to compliance from so many portions of North America, to capitalistic hierarchical Establishment.
From popularresistance — https://mailchi.mp/popularresistance/xmt1d9mh4z?e=1b0a9c0541 —
WTO Meeting Is An Opportunity To Challenge Corporate Control Of Food
Algeria To Suspend Friendship Treaty, Imports From Spain
Peasants Agitate Against The 12th Ministerial Conference Of WTO
Biden’s Summit Of No-Shows
The Trend Toward A Multipolar World Is Defined By Class Struggle
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We might wish to question ubiquitous so-called sanctions by the USA on foreign nations, and the curious boomerang effect back onto American families. ———-From MRonline— https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=2833cdb99b&u=36ce609ae68971b4f060ad9c7&id=ffcb40310b —
‘Calibrated’ dishonesty: Western media coverage of Venezuela sanctions
African Union Head calls for lifting of sanctions on Russia
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Could we consider that middlemen in the USA who are pulling government and policy strings, see as similar local-community members in the USA and local-community members in foreign nations, as pertains to sanctions? So who are benefited by said sanctions, if not the middlemen?
Middlemen sell stuff. https://steadystate.org/war-of-the-words-rebranding-the-healthy-economy/ –Industries strive incessantly to increase human productivity, often by way of mechanizing or automating tasks. After all, there are limits to purely human energy, strength, and ability. Without more workers, we require technological innovation to overcome these limitations. Fortunately for the pro-growth industries, technology doesn’t earn wages.
Part of the path to improving people’s health (and arriving at a steady state economy) includes reclaiming the health-related vocabulary pro-growth economists have monopolized. Adjectives like “healthy” and “robust,” nouns like “recovery,” and verbs like “strengthen” have been reappropriated from the realm of human health for an (ironically) unhealthy economic system. A “robust recovery” in the soft drink industry means an increase in cases of type two diabetes, and the health care industry is “strengthened” when more people are sick.–end of steadystate info–
From organicconsumers — https://www.organicconsumers.org/bytes/whose-great-reset?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=OB+761&utm_content=OB+761 —
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM“Happiness is No Longer Important”–Blackrock, Vanguard, and the billionaires will presumably own everything,) but that we—the commoners—will still be able to “live a psychologically rich life.” That is if we just learn to shut up, roll up our sleeves, and follow orders.DON’T PANIC, EAT ORGANICOCA’s ResetAPPETITE FOR A CHANGEReset EatingPODCASTMonsanto’s Military HistoryALL ABOUT ORGANICSUSDA Announces a “Tiny Reset”MILLIONS AGAINST MONSANTOBayer and Monsanto’s Sinister SeventeenBUMPER STICKERSNegotiate, Don’t Escalate |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-KK3CcZCc –[LEAKED] AI Is WHAT Now?!! –“Google’s founding motto was ‘don’t be evil’. A phrase that was included in their official code of conduct. But in 2018 they quietly removed all references to it ……..—end of russellbrand info–
I’m fascinated that this AI situation is happening. This is a reminder of how much we don’t know. This brings one around to Howie Hawkins, who continues to impress with original thought. We also could acknowledge Hawkins often speaks to censored information.
One such topic about which one would never have even considered, is whether the USA needs The Senate. Apparently The Senate is little other than expensive window dressing, promoting hierarchical interests, and too often placed in positions of power by big-money via Citizens United. But the public gets to fund this curiosity of pompous supremacy. Who knew?
The Democratic Branch of the Republican/Democratic Duopoly are especially functional in voter suppression—–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNbdkuU1edw —#GreenSocialist Notes #76
Howie Hawkins brings up the concept of whether the USA needs the Senate. Apparently according to some people, the Senate isn’t necessary. This brings up the blockage from the Senate of many bills that would benefit We The People. Combined with Citizens United that promotes big-money interest choice of Senators, in which laws are passed that benefit big-money interest rather than We The People, and that We The People support economically, the members of the Senate, this seems a good topic for discussion.
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———-