This phrase is attributed to Ron Finley who (paraphrase) says growing your own food is like printing your own money.

One first deviates to a personal common opinion about delusion by the public by hierarchical Establishment, as explained next.

A disturbing trend among voters has arisen recently, in which a well-meaning and frustrated electorate advances a movement of approaching corporations to relieve the corruption in government.   The Supreme Court legalized without legitimizing corruption in the electoral process with their Citizens United decision that implies money is speech.  Money is more nearly corruption rather than speech.  In no meritocracy wet dream is money speech.  That is a marketing phrase.  

Because the government and Representatives of The People of today are a direct result of money in politics, and that corporations figure heavily in campaign donations and connections to lobbyists, to imagine an electorate will benefit as pertains to fair and free elections by begging help from big-money campaign donors is indicative of the deepest indoctrination of a deluded voting base.

The same delusion has been inflicted upon some people by meritocracy that is uplifted by selling out others in compliance with hierarchical Establishment wishes.  An example is a response from meritocracy ensconced within MSM and commenting on self-reliance within low-income communities.  For instance on the topic of growing one’s own food, which is the epitome of independence, one has more than once heard meritocracy characters poo-poo-ing the notion because it is similar to slavery.  This is a specific quote taken from MSM.   More to the liking of meritocracy is inculcation of people into high levels of educational debt that then locks young people into abject servitude to the system to pay back debt entered into to purchase degrees of capitalistic brainwashing preparatory for jobs that are unavailable or that don’t pay salaries commensurate with liability.

This morning on a local PBS station one happened across the following noteworthy presentation.  Please consider in self defense the merits of personal autonomy connected with the same within your local community.

https://www.pbs.org/video/ron-finley-master-gardener-rqyKeZ/     –Ron Finley, master gardener and Founder of The Ron Finley Project, a gardening training facility. Ron believes all life lessons can be learned from gardening and spending time in the garden. Over the flavors of a hearty soul food meal in South Los Angeles at Alta, Ron shares the detour that became the defining trajectory of his life and how it helped him redefine his purpose.

–end of pbs info–

https://ronfinley.com/     –We envision a world where people know nutrition and where it comes from. Where all ages embrace the act of growing, knowing and sharing the best of the earth’s fresh-grown food.

The Ron Finley Project is teaching communities how to transform food deserts into food sanctuaries, and teaching individuals how to regenerate their lands into creative business models. We envision and want to facilitate a world where gardening is gangsta!

Gangsta: projecting strength on one’s own terms, hip, cool, innovative, revolutionary, resolute, vital, the cutting edge.

–end of theronfinleyproject info–(My highlight because this is so crucial.)

The USA supports a state-run media system that the Former USSR could only dream about.  —  https://mronline.org/2023/04/21/the-u-s-could-use-some-separation-of-media-and-state/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-u-s-could-use-some-separation-of-media-and-state&mc_cid=3257cded0d&mc_eid=2833cdb99b   —

Like every high-level government spokesperson, Miller’s job will be to spin the nefarious things the U.S. empire does in a positive light and deflect inconvenient questions with weasel-worded non-answers. Which also happens to be essentially the same job as the propagandists in the mainstream media.

–end of mronline info–

That we have a “left” and “right” MSM wing is the most flagrant insult of media independence considering the Democratic Party and Republican Party are nothing but wings of the Capitalist Party, as juxtaposed against the Communist Party of the Former USSR.

Control of he media by the state is a serious topic for discussion.

https://popularresistance.org/first-amendment-authorized-assanges-possession-of-classified-data/   –While the U.S. government is also charging Assange with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion,  the core of its case is that Assange violated the 1917 Espionage Act by “possessing” and releasing “defense” material that caused “injury” to the United States or gave “advantage” to other nations, a boundless and limitless standard that can turn virtually any journalist or blogger into a criminal defendant.

As the government uses it against Assange, the Espionage Act would criminalize any media organization that receives or publishes “defense information” that embarrasses the government.  This unlimited grasp of the Espionage Act is awe-inspiring in its capacity to criminalize journalistic endeavors.–end of popularresistance info–

Infinite growth using finite resources is a Pyramid Scheme that will fail.  For those at the top to convince people beneath them that collapse isn’t imminent, feels like the game of capitalism.  —  https://popularresistance.org/peak-oil-and-the-flawed-logic-of-infinite-economic-growth/   –In this conversation, Akers discusses his personal journey in learning about climate change, including the concept of peak oil and the flawed logic of infinite economic growth. He explains how fossil fuel extraction technologies have pushed back the point of peak oil, but emphasizes that we need to revolutionize our relationship with natural resources to protect ecosystems, reduce waste, and improve the living conditions of the poor.

–end of popularresistance info–

Because reality matters—–

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AM35kWO5s8   —

Address to the First Global Buddhist Summit

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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!