That the phrase treehugger originated byway of followers of Hindu and possibly again byway of followers of Buddhism come as no surprise.

https://www.facebook.com/rema.loeb/posts/pfbid0qPzk9izRvcrBTW7t2WjbC65SbjDhUspjUiY71LTkv8CaA7itfKn9rG27FPZ8bUeZl  –The first tree huggers were 294 men and 69 women belonging to the Bishnois branch of Hinduism, who, in 1730, died while trying to protect the trees in their village from being turned into the raw material for building a palace. They literally clung to the trees, while being slaughtered by the foresters.

–from remaloeb—-who never fails to inspire……

American dismissal of history seems a tool for oligarchy and Establishment characters to carry on predatory policies that promote their own interests over the interests of the global general public.   The public meanwhile are shamed into silence on the topic of lead-in to morass that kills local community members, as being out of touch with so-called progress because the general public is “looking back”…….slick…..

And so the public isn’t supposed to remember the history of Russia and Ukraine.

https://www.rt.com/russia/569385-russia-ukraine-conflict-is-existential/                 –Many of the concepts from the past will not pass the test of this collision. Outright archaic positions are unsustainable in today’s global conditions, even if it seems that the world has turned backwards. But postmodern imitation will no longer work either. It’s too real and tragic. “No mere recital from the actor, but earnest loss he must reveal,” to quote the writer Boris Pasternak, in his poem ‘I Should Have Known that this Would Happen’.

–end of rt info–

One may understand much about the nations that have drawn in the so-called protection of NATO and the US, that could also be identified as self-interest, by reading this comprehensive history of the region—-https://www.amazon.com/Gates-Europe-History-Ukraine/dp/1541675649   —

This revised edition includes new material that brings this definitive history up to the present. As Ukraine once again finds itself at the center of global attention, Plokhy brings its history to vivid life as he connects the nation’s past with its present and future.–end of gates info–

Deflection from history in the Russian/Ukraine War isn’t just a distraction for the local communities of that region.  US leaders have warned the local community members of the USA to expect to sacrifice so the USA can enact their policy in Ukraine and Russia.  This can be explained away as upholding ideology while the FACT is pain and harm to local communities in both the Ukraine and the USA.

Consider the ongoing media coverage of destruction of Ukraine infrastructure that is attributable to “the war” and that denies Ukrainians a stable energy grid, while in the USA that by the way has been said to experience the most violent weather patterns in the world, large numbers of local-community members are denied access to a stable energy grid and is attributable to “free enterprise” of the energy-grid industry.  Aside from the ongoing assurance that capitalism will provide the greatest good to the most people, this has indeed been proven wrong.  Idol Reagan’s Trickle-Down Theory was a lie.

And taking into account these FACTS, Americans should demand an algorithm daily report to compare the number of Americans and Ukrainians without access to a functional energy grid on each given day.  Funding for a questionable war in Ukraine could be put to better use not in killing people but in building a functional American energy grid.

That which is called “free enterprise” but is more nearly predatory capitalism may have contributed to the Climate Change that causes local communities to describe “preparing for war”, due to an energy grid that is strangely attributable to “free enterprise” that is sold as being better for the most people.

https://www.aol.com/news/major-winter-storms-dump-california-110100514.html   –San Francisco Mayor London Breed said at a news conference that the city was “preparing for a war.” Crews cleared clogged storm drains, tried to move homeless people into shelters and passed out emergency supplies and ponchos to those who refused to go.

—end of aol info–

Oligarchs appear to enforce notions of nation vs. nation when globally the FACT probably is more nearly class vs. class.

https://popularresistance.org/british-run-spy-tech-powers-ukraine-proxy-war-putting-civilians-at-risk/  –On December 6th, The Grayzone revealed how British military and intelligence agencies were deploying technology created by shadowy private intelligence firm Anomaly 6 to illegally spy on citizens across the globe.

The company’s technology effectively transforms every individual on Earth into a potential target for surveillance and/or asset recruitment by monitoring the movements of their smartphone. Anomaly 6 embeds tracking software in popular applications, then slices through layers of theoretically anonymous data to uncover a wealth of sensitive information about a device’s owner.

–end of popularresistance info–

Fascinating and shameless transparency—–https://mronline.org/2023/01/04/blackrock-logo-to-be-added-to-ukrainian-flag/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blackrock-logo-to-be-added-to-ukrainian-flag            –Kyiv has announced the addition of a fifth corporate logo to the Ukrainian flag following news that BlackRock will be playing a crucial role in the reconstruction of the nation. The world’s largest investment management firm will join Raytheon Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and McDonald’s upon the now-omnipresent blue and yellow flag.

–end of mronline info–

Sounds far-fetched about industrial logos on the Ukrainian flag, doesn’t it.  I thought so too, so delved a bit deeper.  One semi-trusts info from VOX, not so much from Johnstone, for whatever reason.  So here’s what was found.  —  https://www.vox.com/world/2022/12/16/23507640/dc-party-invite-military-contractors-money-ukraine-russia-war-us  —

The logos of military contractors Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Pratt & Whitney, and Lockheed Martin were emblazoned on the invitation as the event’s sponsors, below the official Ukrainian emblems and elegant blue script that said the Ukrainian ambassador and defense attaché “request the pleasure of your company.”

“The only difference is instead of adding states, we’re adding multinational megacorporations,” the leader said.

Zelensky then took a large bite of a McDonald’s Big Mac™️, saying, “Mmm mmm, I’m lovin it!” in English, eliciting awkward applause throughout the Walt Disney Company Presidential Press Hall.–end of vox info–

In FACT, industrial logos on the Ukrainian flag would be more intellectually honest.   And by the way, one refers back to the interesting history of the region as reported in this book—–https://www.amazon.com/Gates-Europe-History-Ukraine/dp/0465094864#:~:text=Situated%20between%20Central%20Europe%2C%20Russia,Reich%20and%20the%20Soviet%20Union.

It’s not that Bernie Sanders is back, it’s that he never left.  —

https://portside.org/2023-01-03/not-business-usual-health-lobbyists-brace-bernie-sanders?utm_source=portside-general&utm_medium=email    —

Sanders’ well-chronicled antagonism toward lobbyists has some concerned they’ll be unable to blunt criticism of their clients’ profits or corporate executive salaries

Most senior members of Congress have relationships with K Street because lobbyists had worked for — or closely with — them while serving as Capitol Hill aides, have donated to their campaigns or otherwise have become close with their staff.

Sanders, meanwhile, isn’t rubbing elbows with executives and lobbyists at fundraisers and doesn’t have a “kitchen cabinet” of donor-advisers he talks with about policy, Crowell and others said. He’s sworn off all money from political action committees — even ones run by other senators and members of Congress — to his Senate campaigns.

–end of portside info–

As Sanders would say when DorR duopoly types asked him the reason he says the same things, is because nothing has changed.  The USA still requires and doesn’t have a 1-payer comprehensive public health care policy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ_DdM9ujEk     —

This Will End Us

–end of russellbrand info————  The negative link between spiritual awareness and technology is raised, and history may be the foundation that needs to be ignored in order to complete the degradation of human and environmental rights.  

This is a reason to understand the origin of the label treehugger is important.

https://www.organicconsumers.org/bytes/threats-solutions?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=OB+786&utm_content=OB+786   —

SAVE ORGANIC STANDARDS

Big Corporations Threaten Organics: Real Organic is Fighting Back

COVID-19Big Pharma Threatens Your HealthGMO DAIRYGot MilQ? Gene Engineers Move to Replace Dairy and Breast Milk FOOD SYSTEMSWhat’s Driving Netherlands’ Plan to Shut Down 3,000 Farms?THE NEW MDSGlyphoWhat? The Daily Poisoning of Our ChildrenDENTAL HEALTH WINAmerican Dental Association Finally Moves Away from Amalgam (Mercury) FillingsVIDEO OF THE WEEKKim Iversen on Florida Grand Jury Investigating Criminal Actions of Pfizer and COVID-19 Vaccine ProfiteersNATURAL HEALTHNational Survey Shows Strong Support for Natural HealthSTOP WEAPONIZING PATHOGENS”Gain-of-Function” is Euphemism for BioweaponsGLOBALIZATIONFacebook as Fact, Government as Truth, Big Pharma as GodNEXT PANDEMICBill Gates’s Plan for a New Catastrophic Contagion   —–end of orgnaicconsumers 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!