In a republic run similarly to a Pyramid Scheme and not a democracy, the euphemism for price gouging appears to be inflation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOFT77ey8Og      —

$50 Billion MORE to Ukraine?!

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C-Span this morning hosted a discussion about the Biden speech urging support for democracy.  Also discussed was inflation.

7:30–caller—paraphrase–We’re not fighting inflation, we’re fighting price gouging.  “Defund the police” was a call-in-time pleading that law enforcement stop killing citizens at most and to stop harassing citizens at least.  The caller continues (paraphrase)–Some of law enforcement supported Trump regardless of the 1/6 insurrection and without denouncing continued undermining of the authority of voters.  

Another caller reminded once again, we are not a democracy, we are a republic.  

A republic can act like a democracy under the authority of voters or it can act like a dictatorship if the voter is relegated to a status of window dressing during elections run by political Parties such as is the case in the USA, and so implying the Democratic/Republican duopoly political Party monopoly run by oligarchs.  In an oligarchy grounded in capitalism, inflation is a euphemism for price gouging.

Impotence of voters in an oligarchy that is worldwide is challenged in the Green Party by matching worldwide character of action and participation.  Isolation of the American public by the R&D duopoly while international oligarchs fund and direct the D&R duopoly, is the origin of voter impotence.  In other words due to legislation and trade agreements put in place by purchased politicians, American voters are mandated to bring a knife to a gun fight.  This is one standard of a republic that “is not implemented like a democracy”.

TPP is a trade agreement that includes language that prioritizes interests of multinational corporations and foreign players over human rights and nature rights, and exclude local communities from a seat at the table of trade or even survival.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7j-xbQFjCY    — Nov 2, 2022The biggest supervillains in the world are not human, they’re corporations. On this episode of The Most Censored News with Lee Camp, Cargill Inc. gets dragged into the light. The agricultural conglomerate is the largest privately-held corporation in the U.S. by a large margin, and the current price increases in the food market are driving their profits higher. Camp exposes their corrupt practices that are leading to such high returns.

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C-Span caller—9:18AM–paraphrase–(guest speaking about the political campaign in Arizona)– Is anyone talking about Saudi Arabia buying Arizona water?  Saudi Arabia has unlimited access to water in Arizona,  to grow alfalfa to ship to Saudi Arabia while Arizona residents are mandated to conserve.

Due to access to information outside of the censorship by MSM, yes, many people know about this and have attempted to spread this information to a somnolent public.

This is global capitalism at work, and the reason many voters understand that a different system is necessary.  

For example, Bernie Sanders ran on promotion of a 1-payer health care system.  Capitalist-funded politicians took advantage of our somnolent voters to interject a pay-to-play proponent into the Presidency, as pertains to health care.

A campaign sound bite from Biden was that “voters don’t want to ruin their relationship with their medical professional”.  In FACT there is no reason this would be the result of a 1-payer government-run health care system.

We also hear of health-care wasteland in “minority communities” and “rural communities”.  Isn’t that just about everyone?  Anyway, please hear a personal anecdote.

My husband and I live in a NYS rural region.  My primary-care provider is about 30 minutes away.    My husband had an appointment set at this health-care provider since perhaps July. Yesterday he received a phone call that his scheduled provider had quit, which by the way meant my health-care provider had quit.  This is a second health-care provider to quit, of which I’d been seeing.  I really don’t care, but I’m happy with the proximity, and wished the same for my husband, as did he.  However, the health-care provider had shifted my husband to a provider an hour away, even though his wife (me) was established at the nearer practice.  We have the same insurance company and are a family.  However we aren’t being treated that way.  

Is this nonsense because we are rural residents or because he is African-American, or both.    In FACT, one knows it is the frigged health care system that is pay-to-play, with medical professionals chasing the carrot of compensation regardless of the undermining of health care service.

Politicians spit out the word competition as a mainstay of capitalism.  But capitalism seems to have devolved to the point of consumers competing for goods, rather than providers competing for consumers.  And so……inflation (price gouging and lack of service).

Apparently the medical professionals that Biden ran a campaign about, change as frequently as the Upstate NY power grid fails.  (https://www.syracuse.com/news/2007/06/spanish_company_to_acquire_nys.html  —  Iberdrola S.A., an energy company based in Spain, said today it will buy the parent company of two Upstate New York utilities — New York State Electric & Gas and Rochester Gas & Electric.)     

In other words, stability and bureaucracy are as illusive under capitalism as under communism.  All this under the auspices of “a republic”.  

Do we want to be monitored all the time?  —  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTOYJ4QCPnI     –Nov 1, 2022As the IMF, politicians and private sector discuss the move to Central Bank Digital Currencies, is this all leading to a brighter economic future for ordinary people or social credit system to control your every move? (…it’s the latter) #bitcoin#socialcredit#cbdc

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Apparently if a republic can function like a dictatorship, so can a monarchy.  But don’t dare call either a democracy upon pain of reprimand.

From popularresistance —–        https://mailchi.mp/popularresistance/w5mqvz0qrf?e=1b0a9c0541         —

Why Grassroots Activists Are Turning To The Wonky World Of Monetary Policy To Fight For Economic Justice

The Long History Of Anti-Jewish Prejudice And Violence By Ukrainians

How The World Bank Weakens Health Systems

Epic Drought Hits US, Solutions Ignored

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From organicconsumers  — https://www.organicconsumers.org/bytes/beyond-censorship-authoritarianism?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=OB+780&utm_content=OB+780                           —

CENSORSHIPOn Elon Musk Buying Twitter: Is Free Speech Finally Back?MILLIONS AGAINST MONSANTOMexico Banning GMOs, U.S. GMO Corn Imports, and GlyphosateEPA WATCHToxic Agrochemicals and EPA CorruptionTESSA LENAWe Are Being Super-SqueezedWHITNEY WEBBJournalism in Crisis—The War on DissentFOOD SYSTEMSThe Engineered Food CrisisSUPPORT OCA, CRL, & RIFighting Censorship & The New NormalPLANTING PEACENegotiate, Don’t Escalate!—-end of organicconsunmers info–From www.hawkinsmattera.org           —     Despite efforts by the New York State Democratic Party and their functionaries to silence us, we have broken through to the media with this campaign’s message of Inclusive Democracy, a Green New Deal, and an Economic Bill of Rights. We ask that you share this important news coverage to your community, families and allies:Capital Tonight Video: Green Party wages daunting write-in campaign to win back ballot access in New York Albany Times Union Op-Ed: Kathy Hochul, Lee Zeldin and nobody else “Walk into any supermarket and you’ll find a variety of breakfast cereals to match nearly any taste. Shop online and you can select, say, shoes to meet your idiosyncratic preferences. This is what we’ve come to expect in this age of choice. Almost everywhere there are alternatives to the same-old boring whatever. Nearly everywhere, we have options to satisfy every niche, variety that feels infinite and empowering. Everywhere, except at the ballot box…” The New York Times: For First Time Since 1946, New Yorkers Have Just 2 Choices for Governor “…this year, for the first time in over 75 years, the state ballot appears destined to offer only two choices: Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, and Representative Lee Zeldin, a Republican. The paucity of options is largely due to former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who championed changes in election law two years ago that made it far more difficult for third parties to get on the ballot. The changes to ballot access law tripled the number of voter signatures required for groups to get on the November ballot and forced political parties to qualify every two years instead of four.” Focus on Albany Video: A conversation with Howie Hawkins about the campaign for GovernorThe Times nails the issue: Cuomo, Hochul, and their Legislature Lackeys have brought democracy in New York to a 75-year low. And the bar was already disgracefully low.But we can beat this and make our elections more fair and equitable than ever — with your help. We ask that you donate to this campaign today so we can continue fighting through Election Day.And, speaking of Election Day, we ask that you take a moment to look at how you will need to write in our names for Governor and Lt. Governor, and to share this information with voters:         —end of hawkinsmattera info– ****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!