It can’t be bought.

We could begin with a voice from people with inherent rights to the Americas. 

   Thanks to Rema Loeb…..https://www.facebook.com/alexandthe/videos/10224277165456419

https://www.shambhala.com/grandmothers-counsel-the-world-2080.html         —We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers. . . . We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics that threaten the health of the Earth’s peoples, and with the destruction of indigenous ways of life.
We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, believe that our ancestral ways of prayer, peacemaking, and healing are vitally needed today. . . . We believe that the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future.

–end of shambhala info–

Shambhala has long been a source for alternative ideas and if we don’t need alternative ideas now, we never will.   https://www.shambhala.com/

The Amazon Rain forest is vitally precious to humanity. The more Americans know about South America, the better can be our views and decisions about our own actions.

https://popularresistance.org/former-bolivian-president-evo-morales-calls-for-a-global-campaign-to-eliminate-nato/ –Morales is one of the most successful presidents in Latin American history who closed down a U.S. military base in Bolivia, expelled the CIA and DEA, and helped reverse half a millennium of colonial history by helping Bolivia to industrialize its economy.

In November 2019, Morales was ousted in a U.S./UK-backed coup that culminated with the army’s massacre of anti-coup protesters. Morales survived an assassination attempt only because Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, sent a plane to rescue him.

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Many medicines are plant based and an extraordinary number of medicines originate in the Amazon Rain Forest.  Pharmaceuticals are cutting out of the story, Indigenous People who seem to hold the key to the knowledge of their own land.  In other words, the middleman with an apparent focus on profits, may turn an ostensible Eden into Hell for profit, according to the views from some people.

Russell Brand offers authentic views in many instances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMbxATXqbUk        —

“They Came After Me”

Pertaining to political Parties, the electorate would be thoughtful to avoid jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.  Andrew Yang has associated with the epitome of hierarchical capitalists.

https://mailchi.mp/whowhatwhy/watching-back-at-big-brother-if-congress-were-all-scientists-and-more-767289?e=1c922d77a9          —

Andrew Yang’s Forward Party Uses GOP Talking Points to Describe Democrats
DONKEYHOTEY 07/31/22————The Forward Party launched as an alternative to crazy Republicans and far-left Democrats. The problem is the DC Democrats aren’t “far left” — they have many of the same values as the Forward Party.

Welcome to the Anthropocene — The Age of Human Die-offs

THOM HARTMANN 07/31/22————We are stumbling into the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch driven by humanity itself. We are walking straight into it and pretending it’s not here.

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C-Span hosted a call-in discussion this morning on the topic of burn pits and Veteran Benefits in relation to harm inflicted thereby.  Several thoughts—

*Why is he US military-Industrial Complex supporting the Ukrainian military rather than supporting our own military personnel?

*Why doesn’t the USA simply support universal health care for US citizens, as do other industrialized nations?

*Soldiers subjected to toxic burn pits are the military side of the coin of harm inflicted upon Americans by industrialization that has manifested currently by extraordinary deaths of people in Kentucky due to Climate Change flooding probably originating from over industrialization for profits

*All of “protecting American interests overseas” and harm to US local community members due to industrialization promotes interests of US oligarchs who buy into office politicians byway of the corruption inherent in Citizens United that legalizes without legitimizing money in elections

*Politician interest in foreign nations supersedes concern for the interests of We The People

A caller to C-Span asked the question as to the presumption by oil corporations that they own the resources within our collective planet.  That’s an apt question.  No answer was hazarded.

Some people are interested in an especially American type of racism that is voluble on the topic within our borders without noticing the same toward other people around the world.  Many of those other people have excellent ideas separate from concepts of hierarchical Establishment supremacy.  Ideas could be gleaned from such societies.

https://aeon.co/essays/how-a-small-island-capital-reimagines-the-bureaucratic-state?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2752982358-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_08_02_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-2752982358-70464341            –In Buka, human emotions, relationships and preferences were harnessed for official duties in the service of the state, and sometimes vice-versa. This was why the government of Bougainville worked (or didn’t work) the way it did. The relational state was hiding there in plain sight, as long as one knew how to look. So the question becomes: how can the relational state be reconciled with Weber?

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Having heard some Democratic Party stalwarts defend as acceptable, a system of meritocracy, may be a reason for strange adherence to the capitalism that exploits natural resources (environment) and human resources (people) for profit.  Dehumanization of the other is a strategy built upon denial.   

https://portside.org/2022-08-01/turning-congos-looting-machine?utm_source=portside-general&utm_medium=email            –But Belgium’s role is only part of this sordid history. The DRC is a case study of how greed-fueled transnational economic exploitation can continue for centuries. Companies and consumers in the United States and Europe – and more recently in China, Uganda, and Rwanda – have reaped enormous gains as a direct result of the Congolese people’s brutalization. As US Secretary of State Antony Blinken prepares to travel to the DRC in August, he has an opportunity to help prevent another chapter of devastating exploitation from being written.

–end ofportside info–

One’s memories from the ’60’s include the history of Patrice Lumumba and Fidel Castro from a time when intellectual understanding was nil but emotional and instinctual understanding formed thoughts. One hopes today’s children retain ability for instinctual and emotional understanding for what they see.

Feminine power is often acknowledged and respected in other societies, even where misogyny exists.      https://aeon.co/videos/tantra-is-and-was-a-subversive-philosophy-of-feminine-power?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2752982358-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_08_02_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-2752982358-70464341         —

Tantra is, and was, a subversive philosophy of feminine power

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The USA seems to be struggling with the frightening reality of existence that is transforming into laws to control the feminine.  This feels like a strange and childish response.  Apparently some people are challenged by the reality that half of humanity is feminine.   Control and human rights violations seem to be the reaction.

From MRonline                       —  https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=2833cdb99b&u=36ce609ae68971b4f060ad9c7&id=eb3b6d49f9           —

Glen Ford’s irreplaceable journalism

What the U.S. government and The New York Times have quietly agreed not to tell you about Ukraine

West prepares to plunder post-war Ukraine with neoliberal shock therapy: privatization, deregulation, slashing worker protections

Child labor is alive and well in the United States

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****As one who would be perfectly contented to retain the Senate if they adhered to Oaths of Office more than to Citizens United campaign donations, one is interested in a topic raised as to the reason we maintain the US Senate—-
 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———-

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.