Is the working class trying to send the message to the ruling class, “don’t push any harder”?

https://www.treehugger.com/puerto-rico-sues-oil-majors-over-hurricane-damage-6951116?hid=4246be665c7c525806e26d15079d974213d256e7&did=886203-20221222&utm_campaign=treehugger-daily_newsletter&utm_source=treehugger&utm_medium=email&utm_content=122222&cid=886203&mid=104976699433&lctg=196461004   –States, cities, and counties in the U.S. have filed around 20 cases to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the climate crisis. 

These cases are similar to one another because they all claim that fossil fuel companies misled the public by promoting products that they knew were causing climate harm. –end of treehugger info–

The Founders seemed to have short-circuited predictable predatory exploitation of local communities by big-money interests in the implementation of Revocation of Corporate Charters upon bad behavior toward local communities by corporations.  The Supreme Court has undermined this sensible technique of protection of human rights and environmental rights.

Recognition of topics such as Corporate Charter Revocation and Citizens United could be pivotal in returning democracy to our Constitutional republic that has mired in meritocracy, then capitalism as replacements to democracy, and has harmed government of, by and for The People.;

https://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2002/02oct-nov/oct-nov02corp1.html   –“For one hundred years after the American Revolution, citizens and legislators fashioned the nation’s economy by directing the chartering process,” POCLAD co-founder Richard Grossman and co-author Frank Adams wrote in “Taking Care of Business,” a Tom Paine-style pamphlet published nearly a decade ago.

Once they had thrown off the shackles of British colonial rule, early post-colonial state legislatures chartered only a limited number of profit-making corporations. Only 355 corporations were incorporated in the United States before 1800, most with “public or near public” purposes such as to build canals, bridges or toll roads.

Early state legislators also used corporate charters to place limits on the corporations’ behavior, size and reach. Strict rules limited the issuance of stock, shareholder voting, recordkeeping and disclosure of corporate information. Limits on corporate size and power were placed through rules on capitalization, debt, land holdings and sometimes profits. And states also limited corporate charters to a set number of years, forcing their review and renewal.

By the end of the nineteenth century, however, corporations had been transformed from tightly ruled enterprises which often served the public interest, to a group of industrial-era businesses dominated by giant private trusts that effectively stomped all over states’ ability to control them.

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While we watch Democrats on C-Span this morning who are shocked……SHOCKED….., at the IRS for ignoring its responsibility to have audited Trump while he was President which seems to be a requirement undergone by past Presidents (without whining, tears, and recriminations), some people find equally disturbing the strange relationship between Ukraine and the Biden clan.  We The People deserve better governance.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4819390/vice-president-joe-biden-ukraine&fbclid=IwAR1xjbRDxHQRsv7e3ipP4-plb2vSeDzcGO35IJuPUo_OdImAvVGw7CRiupA     —
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Former Vice President Joe Biden on Ukraine

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Former Vice President Joe Biden on Ukraine–end of c-span info—-

Devoid of a Free Press, democracy doesn’t function.   —

https://www.ecowatch.com/southeast-utilities-media-influence-renewable-energy.html   –In Florida and Alabama, powerful utilities have lobbied against the renewable energy transition. 

At the same time, they funneled money through consulting firm Matrix LLC to six media sites in the two states that published coverage favorable to the utilities, as NPR and Floodlight revealed in a major investigation Monday.

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

YOU WON’T F*CKING BELIEVE THIS

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An easy read that seems to highlight the historical tension between so-called progress and the soul, seems encapsulated in the following book.—-https://www.thomascahill.com/books/mysteries-of-the-middle-ages-tr         —

And the Beginning of the Modern World

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The historic tension touched upon but never deeply so, between hierarchy (Kings and Popes, for example) and artists (painters, musicians, and poets, for example) are highlighted in the book by Thomas Cahill.  That a so-called progress has so-called nullified the importance of understanding history in its reality rather than propaganda, would put on display this ongoing tension that has not progressed as pertains to human emotional evolution, as compared against the technological and industrial so-called progress that is based upon principles of greed, privilege and exploitation.

A tool of uplifting this meritorious system is the indoctrination into American exceptionalism that seems to produce an inability to see clearly, the status of the US as compared with the rest of the world.

And so people such as Dante are lauded as being gargantuan thinkers, while whitewashing the FACT of his relationship to hierarchical Establishment of his time.  In 2022, one imagines the same treatment by hierarchical Establishment of, for example, Julian Assange.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4ldACdQs8w  —

Richard Wolff & Lee Camp: The Rise of The Multipolar World

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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!