Privacy seems to be a value that straddles legislation and human rights.  We could benefit from a public discussion of these topics.  Laws are governmental and human rights are intrinsic.

https://www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2022/08/03/release-military-veterans-arrested-demanding-presidential-co?sourceid=1262829&emci=bce9ff67-ac12-ed11-bd6e-281878b83d8a&emdi=f1d84546-4913-ed11-bd6e-281878b83d8a&ceid=10527506           –August 03, 2022

For Immediate Release
Contact: 314-899-4515, press@veteransforpeace.org

Military Veterans Arrested Demanding Presidential & Congressional Action on Climate Crisis

WASHINGTON, D.C.- On Wednesday, August 3rd, seven military veterans and supporters were arrested near the U.S. Capitol Building. Members of Veterans For Peace, an organization of over 120 military veteran chapters worldwide, gathered at the foot of the Capitol demanding more robust action on addressing the climate crisis.

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From lakotalaw—-

It’s been quite a week here at Pine Ridge. Last Tuesday, our Tribal Council temporarily suspended Christian missionary work within the Oglala Nation’s boundaries after the distribution of an offensive brochure which labeled Tunkasila, our Creator, as a “demon idol.” 

The ordinance was rescinded a few days later, mainly because folks had events — such as weddings and funerals — scheduled. Still, previous law requiring review and registration of religious entities will now be enforced with greater vigor, and my community is once again reckoning with the living history of colonization, particularly by western faith organizations.

As you probably know, our relationship as Native People to the Catholic Church is long and, for the most part, horrific. To this day, Federal Indian Law still cites the Doctrine of Discovery — which originated in the Catholic Church in the 1490s — as a justification for our subjugation. For five centuries, European powers “discovered” and colonized Indigenous lands using the legal argument that, because Christians didn’t yet inhabit them, those lands were fair game.

Of course, we all know what happened in the wake of this colonization: forced migrations, broken treaties, the Indian boarding school era, and the continued taking of our children by state agencies. And last week, while Pine Ridge was confronting yet another manifestation of the colonial mindset, Pope Francis took a trip to Canada to apologize for the Church’s role in the boarding school era — later even acknowledging it as genocide. I, for one, am happy to see progress; but I’ll be happier when he rescinds the Doctrine of Discovery. 

Obviously, we still have a long way to go and many truths to tell before we, as Native peoples, can heal from the generational trauma inflicted by centuries of colonization. It’s going to have to be one step at a time. In the meantime, I’m proud of my friends — the activists who brought their concerns to the attention of our Tribal Council at Pine Ridge. I actually helped to establish the Oglala Lakota chapter of the International Indigenous Youth Council, which spearheaded that organizing. 

I’m hopeful that we can move forward with better understanding. Churches will now have to register with the Oglala Sioux Tribe, and existing religious establishments will have until Oct. 24 to clear their activities with the Tribal Council. It’s a start.

Wopila tanka — thank you for your understanding and solidarity.
DeCora Hawk
Field Organizer

The Lakota People’s Law Project

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Consider an idea for a step toward justice of putting into the hands of Indigenous People, such institutions as the National Parks.  Some people recognize the inherent ability of pre-Establishment people to interact with nature in a way that has been lost to hierarchical Establishment.  https://us.engagingnetworks.app/page/email?mid=acc0f24595f34f7ca170bbd500e2c720   –A Critical Moment for People and Parks

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Climate Change seems to be a manifestation of improper management by capitalistic hierarchical Establishment; and Climate Change is currently acknowledged by many people as an existential danger to nature and humanity.

Perhaps we could address the management style that generally and not relating only to the parks department, hierarchical, privileged, and often exposed to corruption.

Also of interest is the lack of recognition of a lopsided perception of insecurity for half of the US population that seems to pass as normal, in a society that has grown abnormally violent.   Include the inordinate disappearances of Indigenous women, and the community may have much to say about ability of both women and nature to avoid the violence to which we’ve become accustomed.

https://www.npca.org/articles/3162-trailing-justice    — I’ve been shocked by how many people, especially people who are women or who identify as LGBTQ or nonbinary or any other social minority status, have told me just how impacted they were by this particular crime and how radically it changed their own relationship with the natural world. I know people who used to solo camp and now don’t feel safe doing so, or who are always looking over their shoulder in the wilderness, wondering if they’re safe. 

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Women have a right to privacy against imposition of attention when they are outside of their home.  Perhaps Indigenous management of national parks, along with inordinate reported danger toward Indigenous women, could be challenged under the management of Indigenous guidance.  It’s just a thought.

Perspective seems to have little to do with gender and more about culture.  For example, balance has little to do with adopting the posture of hierarchical supremacy Establishment, when adopted by either sex.  This mirrors a thought that democracy may not be enacted byway of sticking a thumb in the eye of the other.

https://countercurrents.org/2022/08/plas-complete-blockade-around-taiwan-and-the-blockading-exercise-will-be-routine/    –Media reports said:

The exercises are unprecedented as the PLA conventional missiles are expected to fly over the island of Taiwan for the first time, the PLA forces will enter area within 12 nautical miles of the island and that the so-called median line will cease to exist, experts said, noting that by surrounding Taiwan entirely, the PLA is completely blockading the island demonstrating the Chinese mainland’s absolute control over the Taiwan question.

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Some people seriously support Tibet as relates to China, still is the situation today better or worse than it was a week ago?

What is the reason for a visit to Taiwan, but not to Tibet? —https://mailchi.mp/cd87e318796a/35b-from-us-taxpayers-funded-world-health-organization-59143?e=9050ba47ba—

BREAKING: OPENTHEBOOKS.COM FINDS BILLIONS SPENT ON PRIVATE BUSINESS DEALS IN HOSTILE NATIONS

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As one who currently lives in a small house, one can attest to the economy including of housekeeping, offered by such lifestyle.  This opens up finances and time for other interests.  This from one who dedicated 45 years to a career and has no interest in retiring into the role of housekeeper.  If housekeeping is your thing, a big house may be preferable.  But then there’s the expense of a big house.         treehugger.com/cabn-prefab-cabins-conscious-consumers-dream-6281652?hid=4246be665c7c525806e26d15079d974213d256e7&did=819250-20220804&utm_campaign=treehugger-daily_newsletter&utm_source=treehugger&utm_medium=email&utm_content=080422&cid=819250&mid=93790330992    ——Their EID model also accounts for location, occupancy rate, insulation, ventilation, infiltration, fenestration, and configuration. Whew! They write, “CABN is considered a Net-positive Energy Building when applying thermal bridge free components airtight construction, electric systems with heat exchange ventilation and on/site renewable energy generation within the building elements.”

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Downsizing to a small house inevitably challenges American over-consumption habits, which is also good for the psyche and the wallet.     One also gains reading time.     

Hmmm…..voting matters.  Who knew?   —  https://popular.info/p/what-we-can-learn-from-kansas?utm_source=email&triedSigningIn=true            –What happened? First, the efforts to keep turnout low were entirely unsuccessful. In the 2018 midterms, 473,000 Kansans voted. But more than 900,000 people voted for or against the Constitutional amendment on abortion. The turnout was much closer to what Kansas sees in a general election. 

Kansas also saw a surge of new female registrants as election day approached, particularly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe.

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However, the next thing to go may be the 19th amendment.

From MRonline   —      https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=2833cdb99b&u=36ce609ae68971b4f060ad9c7&id=563ba8b611           —

To save the Planet, we must choose

Inflation as a political power play gone wrong – Project Syndicate op-e—So, what is really going on? My answer: A half-century long power play, led by corporations, Wall Street, governments, and central banks, has gone badly wrong. As a result, the West’s authorities now face an impossible choice: Push conglomerates and even states into cascading bankruptcies, or allow inflation to go unchecked. 

Clinic defense in the era of Operation Rescue

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Laws matter—-

https://portside.org/2022-08-03/share-buyback-rape-american-business?utm_source=portside-general&utm_medium=email      –Corporations buying back their own shares was a crime for which corporate executives could go to prison until 1982. It was outlawed after wild manipulation of the stock market led to the Great Crash of 1929 and the subsequent Republican Great Depression. Joe Kennedy (JFK’s father), in fact, was the guy who made it a crime.

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The Teapot Dome Scandal is mentioned in most middle-school textbooks, but the gist of that story may be understood by far too few Americans.  One was enlightened after reading    https://www.davidgrann.com/book/killers-of-the-flower-moon/       —From New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history

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https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/teapot-dome-scandal  –The Teapot Dome Scandal of the 1920s shocked Americans by revealing an unprecedented level of greed and corruption within the federal government. The scandal involved ornery oil tycoons, poker-playing politicians, illegal liquor sales, a murder-suicide, a womanizing president and a bagful of bribery cash delivered on the sly. In the end, the scandal would empower the Senate to conduct rigorous investigations into government corruption. It also marked the first time a U.S. cabinet official served jail time for a felony committed while in office.

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Citizens United feels like a decision that supported cash for campaigns to place into positions as lawmakers, politicians who will pass laws to promote capitalism more than democracy.   This is the opinion of one uninformed person; and personal attention should be used by anyone interested in learning more. One welcomes rebuttal from informed sources.

.organicconsumers.org/bytes/mid-summer-madness-resistance?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=OB+767&utm_content=OB+767   —

FARMING

From Bill Gates to the Great Refusal—Farmers on the Frontline

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

Russell Brand on What Happens in Davos, Where the Global Elite Meet-Up?

GATES WATCH

From the Archives: Bill Gates and Neo-Feudalism by RFK Jr.

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One can imagine that privacy (as in privatization) can be used as a promotion of dictatorship byway of challenging privacy for everyone else.  Words are interesting instruments.  Pay attention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cYzWncik_g              — Jul 27, 2022 Davos where Klaus Schwab has constructed an exclusive zone for the wealthy to virtue signal while pursuing deals. I’ve been talking to Peter S. Goodman, an award-winning journalist and the author of ‘Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World’ about the annual event. #davos #wef #klausschwab –end of youtube from organicconsumers————–

****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.