Is Citizens United the uniting factor in the decline suspected in the USA, of meaningful values?  In other words, is corruption becoming apparent.?

C-Span hosted a discussion about guns, predictably.  C-Span is a mirror of what’s going on in bureaucratic America.  

https://www.c-span.org/video/?526809-4/washington-journal-kris-brown-discusses-gun-policy-mass-shooting-nashville          —
MARCH 29, 2023  | PART OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL 03/29/2023

Washington Journal

Kris Brown Discusses Gun Policy and Mass Shooting in Nashville

Kris Brown, president of Brady, talked about gun violence prevention, the mass shooting in Nashville, and President Biden’s executive order on gun background checks.

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8:55AM–paraphrase–guest Kris Brown–Technology exists that will finger print ability of the owner of the gun to use a weapon.  

9:05AM–paraphrase–caller—A chip could be placed in all assault weapons in order to be able to know where each weapon is at all times.  This is FACTual, one understands, regarding cell phones.  One doesn’t support the concept of universal surveillance, but if this technology is used on one product, why not the other?

To opine on gun legislation without first challenging Citizens United is characteristically edentate.

C-Span–caller–paraphrase–9:25AM–  weary of those who blame mental health rather than guns for gun violence, in a nation where the notion of a 1-payer comprehensive health care system is rejected.

Violence in our society isn’t only gun related, and often is the lifestyle inflicted up constituents by politicians bought in positions of power by big-money interests.

This is a topic that should be a question for the typically loquaciously irrelevant Jim Clyburn who insinuated into the Presidency an opponent of 1`-payer comprehensive public health care who could be well positioned to address the mental health that is tenuous at best in the USA.  The problem may answer the question, yet Mr. Clyburn should be asked anyway.  And while a question could be posed about a 1-payer system, he could also expound on the topic of Citizens United.

On the topic of questionable leaders in high places, one questions sending billions of dollars to Ukraine considering reports that 2,000 homes were demolished in the South of the USA this weekend due to hazardous weather, who could better use attention.  Better if you’re an American, anyway.

Some people see the questionable amounts of money sent to Ukraine as a type of money laundering, and this again raises the topic of Citizens United.  How better will the military-Industrial Complex get the funding to make big-money campaign donations?

Some people see Citizens United as the fundamental tool to centralize government.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm6UhLc2wnw     —

Decentralization 101

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Had he won his bid for the Presidency, Howard Schulz wouldn’t have needed to go through the annoyance of answering questions.  —

https://www.c-span.org/video/?526579-1/starbucks-ceo-howard-schultz-testifies-labor-practices-hearing&live     —

MARCH 29, 2023

Former Starbucks CEO Testifies on Treatment of Union Organizing

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz testified on his coffee chain’s treatment of union organizing efforts, before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Mr. Schultz stepped down as CEO days before his testimony.–end of c-span info–

From Remaloeb on a very important topic which is PFA’s  —  https://www.facebook.com/rema.loeb/posts/pfbid02TaxC8zTppHiCo6TmPXpbRSNBDTmxVKYJWV263cHBNyrimXhyTjjFaGk4M3sm6CQ7l    —

As part of my work with PFAS, VT PFAS/Military Poisons Coalition, WILPF Burlington, and WILPF’s Earth Democracy Committee, I am giving an educational workshop on PFAS for the the Boston and Cape Cod Branches of WILPF, as well as others in Massachuesetts who may be interested in learning more about PFAS. The free Zoom program will be this Saturday–April 1, 10:00 AM to Noon. If you want the zoom link to join, please contact me at my email address: PFASinfo@wilpfus.org–end of remaloeb info with gratitude——

From lakotalaw  —  As you’ve likely heard already, President Joe Biden recently approved the Willow Project — an absolutely horrendous oil drilling enterprise by ConocoPhillips in Alaska and the Western Arctic. Willow will exacerbate the global climate emergency, and it will endanger a remote, fragile ecosystem and Alaska Native populations on the frontlines.

Biden promised to be aggressive in addressing climate change. He signed an executive order pledging that the federal government would reduce emissions by 65 percent by 2030 and be net-zero by 2050. He also said he’d ban new oil and gas permits on public lands and waters and create a pollution-free power sector by 2035. Willow’s approval, then, is a slap in the face to every climate-concerned citizen who cast a vote for him. Now, we must hold the president accountable. Please read my new blog and then sign the petition to Biden demanding an end to drilling on public spaces.

In my blog, I describe in more depth the myriad problems with the Willow Project, which Biden approved despite several million people publicly calling for its denial. Long story short, over 30 years, Willow will release 260 million metric tons of carbon emissions into the atmosphere. That’s not good, especially given a United Nations climate report saying global carbon emissions rose in 2022. Also, Alaska Natives are sharply divided on this project. The blog explores the long history of extractive capitalism in Alaska, and how that has essentially put impoverished Indigenous people at the end of the barrel of a gun when it comes to fossil fuel projects like Willow.

It’s also worth mentioning that the presence of man camps — temporary housing for oil workers — will likely exacerbate the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) in Alaska, which is already so bad there that even network television shows have begun to explore the topic.

A pair of lawsuits have now been filed. Over the coming months, we’ll monitor the legal landscape and frontline action opportunities to keep you informed. In the meantime, please read my blog, take action, and pass along our petition to hold Biden’s feet to the fire on climate. We simply can’t afford to take any more steps backward. The future for my generation and those who will follow is on the line.

Wopila tanka — thank you for your advocacy!
Tokata Iron Eyes

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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!