American foreign policy seems to have devolved into military promotion and action.  This is in compliance to benefits for The Military-Industrial Complex.  The Military-Industrial Complex is the engine for world-wide oligarchy.  Military action has replaced declared war, giving unspecified bureaucrats and politicians ability to wage war according to personal whim (The Bush/Cheney “War in Iraq” is an example), and relieves Congress of its responsibilities the better to pretend to outrage and innocence.  Our bureaucratically-labeled “Proxy War with Russia in Ukraine” is an insult to intelligence.

https://demilitarize.org/media_news/gdams-2023-april-13-may-9/?emci=d9cf574c-bedf-ed11-8e8b-00224832eb73&emdi=e10d5e44-a9e2-ed11-8e8b-00224832eb73&ceid=294197      –This year of war in Ukraine has meant a huge boost for militarism and military budgets across the world, especially in countries of the Global North. But at GCOMS we believe the response should be quite the opposite: we should drastically reduce military spending and invest in common & human security instead…The 12th edition of the Global Days of Action on Military Spending will take place from April 13 to May 9, 2023. Join us protesting military budgets & warmongering, and take action for peace & justice!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K1DoKt61iY&list=PLpw9L2pYzmPPrfPxhW1EuKYr2udu66BH3     —

How the Global Wildlife Whistleblower Program Works | National Whistleblower Center

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From whistleblowers.org           —              National Whistleblower Center has a playlist of informational videos on YouTube. The Incentivizing Whistleblowers to Report Illegal Wildlife Trafficking video shows how whistleblowers around the world can report wildlife crime, and how these whistleblowers may be able to receive rewards under the Lacey Act and the Endangered Species Act. In the video, Dave Ochoa, foreign communications advisor, shares that “whistleblower reward laws worldwide have resulted in over 50 billion dollars in fines and penalties, and over 3.5 billion in compensation to whistleblowers”.  Furthermore, this video discusses Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS) rewards for whistleblowers and the vital importance of these rewards being given to wildlife whistleblowers. Stephen Kohn explains that, “when rewards start to be paid in wildlife trafficking cases, we will see a massive uptick in high quality reporting in the ability to detect these crimes,” overall making it mutually beneficial for the whistleblower and the US government. For more information, watch here. 

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Some whistleblowers, like Julian Assange, are in jail.  Some even worse—-https://popularresistance.org/cities-across-the-us-are-mobilizing-to-honor-tortuguitas-birthday/    –Moreover, the call for continued solidarity comes as the Dekalb County Medical Examiner has released the damning results of their autopsy, which directly contradicts claims made by law-enforcement that Tortuguita fired upon them, causing them to fire back and kill them in mid-January of this year, when police carried out a raid on protest encampments in the Weelaunee forest.

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Some people know the price of everything and the value of nothing: Not so many Indigenous communities.  —-

https://popularresistance.org/indigenous-leaders-call-for-an-end-to-environmental-destruction/     –New York – Indigenous peoples around the globe agree that their health and the health of the planet are interdependent and in jeopardy. On day two of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, or UNPFII, this fact—that Indigenous people make up 5% of the world’s population but are responsible for 80% of its biodiversity—was repeated again and again by global Indigenous leaders.

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RFK, Jr. expresses truth in saying the impulse is good to support Ukrainians in the War with Russia, at the same time the underlying reasons as expressed by politicians and bureaucrats that the US has as their motivation as diminishing of Russia as a power.  As our poliicians and bureaucrats “spread Western values”, we might consider whether life is so exceptional for the average person in the USA, as to put at risk the lives of local communities in foreign nations to create a world-wide web of “Western values”, considering the cost.  Americans also need to consider whether the treasure of the USA should be so expended when US local communities are dealing with so many qusi-warlike conditions such as pollution, industrial accidents, and power outages so ubiquitous as to perhaps rival those of war-torn nations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icyU3LDzRXw     —

Media RELUCTANT To Cover RFK Jr. 2024 Presidential Announcement: Brie & Robby

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The following is odd beyond expression, if you knew Rema Loeb    –FB has restricted me for 19 hours, citing community standards. This is the second time in three days. If they really care about such things, they should tell me what was offensive. I don’t swear, don’t hate anyone, don’t use porn. Is this an algorithm or someone who doesn’t like my comments? Makes no sense to me.

–end of remaloeb info–In a dictionary for the definition of inoffensive one might find the name Rema Loeb…….

C-Span hosted a topic for their call-in show this morning about SNAP benefits and whether they be tied to work requirements.  As a person who has been around for a while one notices boredom from youngsters, with reminders about how it used to be.  But then how else would they know the level of deviation down the path of capitalistic hierarchy?  For example—-

C-Span–caller–9:48AM–paraphrase–Why doesn’t government give jobs to people in exchange for welfare benefits?  (Well, they did.  It was called the Welfare-To-Work program in which benefits were paid to recipients for on-the-job training, at which point the individual simply became an independent employee to the same employer participating with the government…..win…win…win…..So what happened to this logical and common sense program?  Trickle-Down-King Reagan demolished this program.  Undoubtedly Idol Reagan had feet of clay.  Idols generally do.)

C-Span–9:46AM–General-topic call in–paraphrase of caller—-There is no Constitutional right to homosexuality and the Bible calls it an abomination.  (One doesn’t believe a Constitutional right exists for heterosexuality either.  And as to the Bible, heterosexuality wasn’t treated too well beginning with Adam and Eve.)

One is currently reading a book called Vox Dei.  It is the Bible written in modern-day English.  For any who object to a translation from archaic English to modern-day English, one believes it can’t be any worse than the translation from Aramaic to Greek to English by any bozo who came along.  But aside from the matter of translation, that which is proposed as law in the Old Testament is fascinating.  One challenges those cherry-picking topics to annoy  others, to justify their position as relates to the entirety of mandates.

After rather widespread reading on the topic, one suspects the “sin” of sexuality is as the vehicle of transport of a soul onto the mortal plane and in so doing into corruption.  

Ideally (and knowing the ideal is close to impossible) parenting should be a conscious act of spirituality commiserate, perhaps, with a Bodhisattva.

1. (in Mahayana Buddhism) a person who is able to reach nirvana but delays doing so out of compassion in order to save suffering beings.

Taken in this light, we might better approach separation of church and sate.

RT isn’t a whistleblower, but seems censored as such.  —  An easily-investigated story via MSM follow—-

https://www.rt.com/news/575244-poll-americans-dont-want-biden-trump/         –NBC News shared the results of a survey on Sunday that it conducted among 1,000 individuals from April 14 to 18.

Of those questioned, 70% said they do not want Biden to run for four more years in the Oval Office. That number dropped to 51% for Democratic Party voters.

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Having picked up this story on MSNBC, one noticed a flippant ignoring of the FACT of voter preference, as Party hacks right and left seem to proceed to choose the candidate for the voters, to stuff up our noses in 2024 as they did in 2020.  This anomaly of democracy is noteworthy.

Perhaps we should rise up against this presumption by corporate political Parties.****

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!