A welcome reminder from an associate-in-advocacy from the anti-fracking efforts, about reality

https://www.facebook.com/vera.scroggins/posts/pfbid0K1vP497sTA2k9MA1NuB1295PihqtL5ibYRgS3ir7zLsDKBXsR2ybuHSkZguJPGKhl      —

His surviving son said, “we all need is to get along and love each other “.

Dog tags found in Vietnam rice fields.

–end of verascroggins info–Thank you, Vera Scroggins……..

Politics has a way of being all consuming, but without a foundation from the spirit, it’s all meaningless.  Just recently one is reading the following—-https://fable.co/book/9781611390957#about        —

Healers on the Mountain

By Teresa Pijoan PhDThis story from the book deserves sharing—-Mountain Way—The visions bring harmony, peace, substance, and subsistence to the one while helping all.  A Zuni woman lived in a community where everyone was starving, greedy, and disloyal.  It is said that the people used each other like pouring sand in an empty arroyo.  There was no pride or respect.The Zuni woman left her people.  Her body was dirty and her clothes were rags, but her spirit was strong with hope.  She walked for four days across he land until she came to a group of trees.  Her hunger ate at her.  Her feet ached.  Her spirit held hope.  She sat down with her back against a tree and rested, holding hope in her being.  She let her head lean back against the strong pine tree trunk.  Her eyes closed, letting sleep take her to another place, a place of visions.The Bear people came.  The Bear people brought her the healing.  They sang:People of the mountains and rocks,I see you wish to be paid respect.I give you corn pollen and hummingbird feathers, and I send to you precious stones and tobacco,which you must smoke.It has been lighted by the sun’s rays, and for this I bet you to give me a good dance, be with me..Earth, I beg you to give me a good dance, andI offer to you food of hummingbird’s plumes and precious stones and tobacco to smoke, lighted by the sun’s rays, to pay for using you for the dance.Make a good solid ground for me,that the spirits who come to see the dance may be pleased as the ground their people dance upon.Make my people healthy and strong of mind and body.
Visions of tied feathers tobacco and precious stones came to the sleeping maiden. The stones were wrapped in leather and hung from a hand-held stock.  Carved dry gourds were rattled by spirits that danced around this sleeping maiden.From below(the earth) corn comes;I walk with you.From above (as water) the young come;I walk with you.From above the plants that grow (come to the earth):I walk with you.From below (the earth) corn pollen comes:I walk with you.Birds of all colors flew overhead in her vision, and from their mouths fell seeds of all colors.  The seeds fell down, down, down, down, and the earth opened and swallowed them up.  Plants grew, entwined, and rose up in their splendor to the sky.  Buds swelled, opened, flowered, and matured into fine fat corn, beans, and squash.The wind blew and the Zuni woman opened her eyes.  She reached out her hand and touched the plants that grew around her.  She gathered up one corn, bean, squash and walked back to her village.  The people ran to her, each one trying to grab the food she held.She taught the people the lesson of her vision.  Now, the earth shakes with the dancers, th fields are fertile with food, and the sky still holds vision ripe with hope.May your path always be of beauty,.May pollen always be on your feet.
—end of a story by Teresa Pigoan as taken from Healers On The Mountain And Other Myths of Native American Medicine.

One finds many Native American stories to seem quite Zen.  Understanding seems required from the heart.  The stories also seem comfortable with nature as seems Buddhism.  This is only the personal thought of one person.

The Chinese invasion of Tibet went mostly unnoticed by Western nations; but opportunity appears to suggest the timing for notice is imminent, as long as pots are being stirred.  Deflection from matters of concern to US citizens may be the reason.

https://www.rt.com/india/572095-great-game-in-asia/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=push_notifications&utm_campaign=push_notifications       –Washington is bending over backwards to lure the newly-formed Communist coalition government of Nepal, which came to power at the end of December, away from its two biggest neighbors — India and China. Both nations are locked in a “Great Game” over the tiny Himalayan nation, which has become collateral in this diplomatic game of football, where the US is trying to make inroads as a third power.

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May one ask the question of the difference between the Chinese invasion of Tibet that went unnoticed by the US Military-Industrial Complex, and the sensitivity about Ukraine, other than perhaps the Hillary Clinton State Department/Clinton Foundation and the Hunter Biden insinuation into Ukraine.  

One is aware that Russia raises the China-Tibet-US topic for propaganda purposes.  That doesn’t mean it isn’t relevant.  That may also be a reason that RT has been censored out of the US airwaves.  This is a matter of concern.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dalai-lama-begins-exile#:~:text=After%20years%20of%20scattered%20protests,democratically%20based%20shadow%20Tibetan%20government.   —

After years of scattered protests, a full-scale revolt broke out in March 1959, and the Dalai Lama was forced to flee as the uprising was crushed by Chinese troops. On March 31, 1959, he began a permanent exile in India, settling at Dharamsala, where he established a democratically based shadow Tibetan government. Back in Tibet, the Chinese adopted brutal repressive measures against the Tibetans, provoking charges from the Dalai Lama of genocide. With the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in China, the Chinese suppression of Tibetan Buddhism escalated, and practice of the religion was banned and thousands of monasteries were destroyed.–end of history info–

The Green Party is indeed divided on the topic of arming Ukraine.  The Green Party offers an opportunity to attempt differing views that are ostensibly censored in the USA of 2023.

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

#GreenSocialist Notes, Episode 113

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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!