THE NAGGING FEELING THAT SOMETHING’S WRONG
Using phrases such as free market, private property, and socialism which are all valid, an involved and accountable governance would also ensure the result isn’t violation of human and environmental rights. So far in the USA, money is corrupting the process.
https://popularresistance.org/business-improvement-districts-quietly-privatize-the-policing-of-public-space/ –Woven into the municipal fabric of the U.S. is a little-known mechanism of privatization and corporate control: the Business Improvement District (BID). In hundreds of urban centers, invisible borders designate zones wherein local governments have granted control of the commons to private interests. Within the bounds of a BID, its corporate operators are empowered to contract for-profit companies to clean streets, make aesthetic and tourism upgrades and, more insidiously, enforce “security” in collaboration with police. In practice, this often results in the exclusion and harassment of populations that businesses find “undesirable” — anyone that is perceived as a threat to consumer activity and profit, and especially the unhoused.The problems with the BID model extend beyond their role in criminalization. The creation of a BID largely circumvents public input. They can be instituted by cities at the request of business or property interests, which, most commonly, petition the government to establish the zone and form a nonprofit to operate it.–end of truthout info–
In the Northeast during the fracking dust-up of about a decade ago, reports surfaced of homeowners living in fracking areas restricted from travel toward their homes by private security of industry. Commercial control of government seems to be organized crime.
Insinuation that our system is capitalism diminishes respect for principles of our democratic (small d) Constitutional republic. Further insult to honesty continues when the label socialism is used by hierarchical Establishment to frighten the public away from questioning Establishment rhetoric.
If history as taught in our educational system wasn’t biased toward hierarchical Establishment, we may have been aware of inspiration from Native American governance upon our US Constitution. We would also be more informed about the extraordinary assault on Native Americans by the presumption of imperialism by non Natives. The assault was not out of keeping with the times; but when can we have the courage to acknowledge the FACTS?
The extraordinary neediness of imperialism that seems to be out of touch with self-confidence in one’s own being, is too often supported by institutionalized religion.
http://ili.nativeweb.org/sdrm_art.html –When Christopher Columbus first set foot on the white sands of Guanahani island, he performed a ceremony to “take possession” of the land for the king and queen of Spain, acting under the international laws of Western Christendom. Although the story of Columbus’ “discovery” has taken on mythological proportions in most of the Western world, few people are aware that his act of “possession” was based on a religious doctrine now known in history as the Doctrine of Discovery. Even fewer people realize that today – five centuries later – the United States government still uses this archaic Judeo-Christian doctrine to deny the rights of Native American Indians.–end of nativeweb ino–
These are reason, one believes, the voice of Native ideas about governance in 2021 is vital to our survival.
https://popularresistance.org/honor-indigenous-communities-leading-the-way-on-climate-justice/ –Settler colonialism has exacerbated climate change and made Indigenous communities sacrifice zones to this crisis. As we honor the truth of how this country was founded and continues to exploit Indigenous lands and territories, we must also recognize that climate change disproportionately impacts the Indigenous and Native peoples who are least responsible for this crisis.Climate change is just another symptom of colonization. First, our lands were stolen from us or we were forcibly moved from our original territories and placed into reservations. Then, those stolen lands were turned into toxic places for resource extraction. In Navajo Nation, you have uranium mining and coal plants that continue to cause disease. –end of popularresistance info–
A different type of society is possible and could be built upon principles of our democratic (small d) Constitutional republic. Please remember ideas in The Preamble—We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.–end of preamble—-
One must conclude the notions of “running government like a business” while labeling as socialism ideas contrary to doing so, is a reference to the red herring Russia to deflect from the society envisioned in the Preamble.
In attempts toward survival we may remember the culture of Native Americans to our advantage.
https://popularresistance.org/indigenous-people-lead-white-house-protest/ –“Joe Biden, you have been making false promises. You stopped Keystone XL — what about DAPL, Line 5, MVP?” said Joye Braun of Indigenous Environmental Network, who was arrested at today’s action. “This is indigenous land. Indigenous Peoples will be here for 1000s of years. Biden, can you hear us now?”The demonstrations marked the first day of “People vs. Fossil Fuels,” a week of demonstrations and civil disobedience organized by Build Back Fossil Free, a coalition of hundreds of Indigenous and climate, social, economic and racial justice organizations. More protests are planned at the White House each day this week except for Friday, when protestors will march from the White House to Congress to risk arrest on the steps of the Capitol.–end of popularresistance info–
Some people believe the ruthlessness of imperialism and colonialism has been working toward its own promotion not only in the USA, but around the globe. For example—https://wildhunt.org/2021/10/roman-era-statue-of-venus-found-in-england.html –“We know pieces like these were made in central France and the Rhineland/Mosel region of Germany during the first and second centuries [C.E.],” Armstrong added. “It seems certain the figurine is from this period and is a representation of Venus. She would most likely have stood in someone’s home shrine for the goddess.”–end of wildhunt info–
Because history is written by the winners, to consider a different notion about a Venus figure found in Gloucester, one may read both of the following—
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/uriels-machine-uncovering-the-secrets-of-stonehenge-noahs-flood-and-the-dawn-of-civilization_robert-lomas_christopher—-knight/326675/#edition=3552998&idiq=5677408 –This description may be from another edition of this product. Modern scientific investigations show that Earth has been hit many times by objects such as comets and meteorites. Laboratory work on comet impact effects demonstrates that comets could cause tidal waves to exceed three miles tall and near 400 miles per hour. In the last 10,000 years, there have been two impacts of such proportion: a seven-fold impact into all the world’s oceans around…–end of uriel’s machine info–
—-and——https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-85230-870-4 –One of the most important developments of the last 50 years in religious studies has been the emergence of suppressed and forgotten texts and lore. A flood of new archeological knowledge and newly discovered ancient texts sheds unexpected light on the traditions of Christian worship. Into this flood, Gardner, who holds the office of the Jacobite Historiographer Royal of the Royal House of Stewart, would like to inject yet another revelation: the bloodline of Jesus Christ.–end of bloodlines info–
The historical documentation spewing from these 2 books and in particular Bloodlines and The Holy Grail seems to reveal interesting perspectives aside from those fed to the public by hierarchical Establishment. These have nothing to do with the colonization of the homeland of Native Americans, but offers concepts that say the same has been done in Europe against Natural-Way communities.
What if we challenged the use of the isms such as socialism and instead more closely considered principles as suggested in the US Constitution and The Preamble? The alternative seems to be accepting strong-arming into acceptance of dictatorship as has been done over millennia and to so many parts of the globe.
Since we live on Native land, perhaps we could respect their voices and views.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghNibe6I6UE –John Trudell Spoken Word Tour 1994
Remember this is not a news report but is opinion developed from many sources, some of which are included for clarity, transparency and rebuttal and is the Free Speech that shares ideas.We deserve better. https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/league-refuses-help-perpetrate-fraud–LEAGUE REFUSES TO “HELP PERPETRATE A FRAUD”