C-Span hosted CSIS Keith Jones this morning on the topic of a diminishing military capability for the USA.  An inability to find this on C-Span, the name may be wrong, but one believes it is correct.  The CSIS rep  discussed military readiness of the USA.  He shared that our military equipment is depleted.  He went on to worry on air that the Abrams tanks wouldn’t be available to Ukraine immediately, that will be sent by the USA.  And then he said that the time frame by which Ukraine would receive the Abrams tanks may 

coincide with a war with China over Taiwan.  This CSIS rep also shared that China is communistic and is not friendly toward corporations.  This seems to be FACTual, and begs the question of the reason US politicians have forced living-wage American jobs to China, which has undermined US supply chains.  Also, China pretty much owns the USA.  So the discussion by this fellow seemed to be nonsense.

A point one is attempting to share is that a serious consideration of US policy is about nothing other than enriching US oligarchs, and the rhetoric has gotten silly coexistent with public inanity.

A topic of interest could be the national security risk when the USA emptied the USA of living-wage jobs, that depleted Social Security contributions to the SS Fund, uplifted a communistic system in China, and made beholden the USA to China for products.  By the way, when US corporations are manufacturing on the Chinese mainland, can China nationalize said corporations?  Taking this a step further, if the “fast-tracking” of the TPP, that includes undermining of human rights and environmental rights in the USA by multi-national corporations, then have been subject to Chinese regulation?  Somebody should ask the TPP-maddened Obama.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuO1Ozh9LFo —

How Big Ag Is Crushing Sustainable Farming

–end of leecamp info–

Lee Camp touches on the environmentalist killed at Cop City in Atlanta.  Many environmentalists have sacrificed, but not to that extent.  Financial devastation happens to many people who become involved in challenging Establishment.  When this is done against foreign nations Establishment calls it sanctions.  Many NY’ers are grateful for the energy, time, and brilliance from Bill Huston during the NYS anti-fracking efforts.  Balance is crucial if personal survival is a consideration.  Some environmentalists give it their all.  The contributions of Bill Huston were surely instrumental in the NYS anti-fracking ban.   From Bill Huston—-

–Friends,

Can you please share this?

With anyone local in Binghamton / Endicott who knows my work.

PLEASE READ THIS:
Online here: https://billhustonpodcast.blogspot.com/2023/01/say-goodbye-to-billy-bill-huston.html
or here: https://apocalypticyoga.substack.com/p/say-goodbye-to-billy
Do you need a reminder of who alerted this community that an incinerator was coming to town?
Please read the part that says, “Hey Endicott”

I go to EVICTION COURT at 8:30 AM on Friday, 1/27/2023
I owe $5,200 in back rent.
I have no car and few options. except living on the streets in the coldest part of winter.

I have received about $1,000 in recent donations.
So I have a long way to go.

I am praying for a miracle,
but I am preparing for the worst.

I am asking for your kind consideration of assistance.

Alternately,
I am saying goodbye to you now.I have served this community, Binghamton/Endicott, for 25 years.

I have devoted my life to Public Service Work, and mostly self-funded my efforts.
I just turned 62 and should be getting Social Security in a couple of months.
I am just trying to avoid being homeless until then.

Donate here if you can: TinyURL.com/DonateToBillHuston or Paypal.me/BillHuston
Please select “Friends and Family” not “for Goods or Services”

 –end of billhuston info–

The charm of capitalism is the success bestowed sometime upon the least of us.  For example, a NYS legislator who has self-defined as having lied to the public, has gained the lucrative position of power in our government, while honest citizens working from a place of integrity are undermined by the system that rewards the one and persecutes the other.  Activists are quite aware of the dichotomy, and have made a personal choice.

From organicconsumers  —  https://www.organicconsumers.org/bytes/greater-organic-reset?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=OB+789&utm_content=OB+789——

—end of organicconsumers info–

From popularresistance  —  https://mailchi.mp/popularresistance/popular-resistance-daily-digest-058sxyexvb?e=1b0a9c0541            —

The Nightmare Of NATO Equipment Being Sent To Ukraine

From The FTAA To CELAC, US Interventionism Does Not Rest

Making Politicians Uncomfortable, With Anti-War Activist Medea Benjamin

Women In Nicaragua: Power And Protagonism – Delegation Report-Back

America’s Very Broken Healthcare System

South Korea: Intelligence Agency Raids Top Union Confederation

Democrats ‘Funneled’ Utility Money To Climate Candidate Challenger

Designing A US Transit System With Smaller, Fewer Cars Could Cut Lithium Demand And Mining Harms Of EV

–end of popularresistance info–

Anti-war is still a thing—-

From lee camp—-             https://popularresistance.org/making-politicians-uncomfortable-with-anti-war-activist-medea-benjamin/     —

MAKING POLITICIANS UNCOMFORTABLE, WITH ANTI-WAR ACTIVIST MEDEA BENJAMIN

–end of leecamp 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!