When those who perpetuate predatory exploitation get to define their actions, many others suffer and are forced to do so in silence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSt5lhnqEYc       —

The Hidden Truth Behind AFRICOM – US Africa Command

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In Upstate NY, a local law enforcement representative warned a local public-safety advocate, that the advocate using the word “bomb truck” as a euphemism for a LNG vehicle traveling upon local roadways with family cars, school buses, ambulances, local commuters, and teen drivers, could be labeled as a domestic terrorist for using that euphemism.  A discussion as to the veracity of this view could be timely.

https://popularresistance.org/swat-teams-attack-atlanta-forest-encampments-activists-charged-with-terrorism/     –Atlanta, Georgia – On Tuesday and Wednesday this week, SWAT teams and other armed police officers from eight different federal, state, county, and city police agencies conducted a raid on those camping out in the Atlanta forest in hopes of preventing the construction of a 85-acre police training facility that opponents have dubbed “Cop City.”

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War doesn’t create winners.  War seems to be a marketing strategy.

https://www.rt.com/russia/568668-russias-nuclear-arsenal-continue-modernized/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=push_notifications&utm_campaign=push_notifications     –Western and Ukrainian officials have accused Putin of making nuclear threats after he vowed to “use all means at our disposal” to defend Russia. Under Russia’s official nuclear doctrine, which was revised in 2020, Moscow would use atomic weapons in response to an attack with weapons of mass destruction or when there is “a threat to the existence of the state as a whole.”  

Putin reiterated this month that Moscow would only use nuclear weapons in response to an attack.

“Each of you have been charged with domestic terrorism,” Jason said, appearing to read from a document on her screen. “Generally the information that I have on the affidavit of warrant…You did participate in actions of DTAF, Defend the Atlanta Forest, a group that’s been classified by the United States Department of Homeland Security as a domestic violent extremist group.”

“We recognize that cop city is not being constructed so that the police can learn tactics to go after the corporations that are polluting our neighborhoods,” said Burnett, “or practicing wage theft against low wage workers, or go against the developers that are exploiting our communities and literally forcing people out of their homes due to rising rents and property taxes.”–end of rt info–

https://popularresistance.org/journalist-targeted-by-ukraine-speaks-out-wyatt-reed-with-lee-camp/          —Journalist Wyatt Reed is based out of Washington, DC. That hasn’t prevented him from delivering some of the hardest hitting frontline reporting on an impressive list of critical events within the past few years. From Charlottesville to the Venezuelan Embassy, the BLM Uprising, the color revolution of Bolivia, and hot off the heels of a trip to the Donbas region as an international election observer. The quality of his coverage is rivaled only by his ability to ratio so-called “journalists” on Twitter like Keith Olberman in defense of Nicaragua’s democratic election process, which he observed during November 2021.

But there is a twist. Wyatt Reed was put on a dystopian kill list run by the Ukrainian Interior Ministry bearing the name Myrotvorets or Peace Maker. 

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https://portside.org/2022-12-20/big-oil-behind-conspiracy-deceive-public-first-climate-racketeering-lawsuit-says?utm_source=portside-general&utm_medium=email  —

According to the lawsuit – filed in the US federal district court of Puerto Rico – evidence of the conspiracy dates back to 1989 when the defendants, which include ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Rio Tinto, individually and through trade association formed the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) as a “not-for-profit corporation to influence, advertise, and promote the interests of the fossil fuel industry by giving false information to their consumers and the public at large”.–end of portside info—

https://wildhunt.org/2022/12/pagan-voices-welcoming-the-solstice.html   –I’ve always resonated with the idea that solstice is a place where we can return to the breath and, like Atwood said, “unlock, let go, and become the future.” What is more magickal than becoming the future? Solstice as an invitation to reflect, pause and ignite into the new seems to me the essence of what makes our Pagan and pantheist community unique.

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C-Span hosted a predictably interesting caller opportunity to comment on current events and today many callers spoke of the Trump referral.  Some callers opined about those who “go after” Trump.  

A caller offered a tongue-in-cheek suggestion that he should be called Donald Duck.  As to “going after”, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it’s probably…..well you know……

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t7GNMlDb_I      —

*The Coasters* – Charlie Brown

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Happy Winter Solstice….the sun begins its return journey…..

****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!