You won’t learn from MSM, whether right or left, about this.—

https://portside.org/2023-05-15/contemporary-pundits-need-refresher-populisms-history?utm_source=portside-general&utm_medium=email    —
In this ahistorical babble, you rarely hear mention of the men and women who organized a multiracial resistance to the first corporate oligarchs.

“The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few,” the Populists announced when they formed the People’s Party in 1892. The mega-rich who “despise the republic and endanger liberty” were the real danger to democracy.

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That the person killed is an activist and that a public investigation with transparency hasn’t happened, seems to question law enforcement action against those attempting public notice.  What is the Constitutionally-supported pathway to justice in this case?–

https://popularresistance.org/three-face-felonies-for-allegedly-flyering-near-home-of-georgia-trooper/    –In order to call attention to the escalating repression, groups such as the Mass Defense Committee of the National Lawyers Guild and others have launched a new campaign called ‘We Are all Forest Defenders,’ calling on supporters to publicly express solidarity with those arrested. “In many cases the police cited ridiculous things in arrest warrants like ‘having muddy boots’ or ‘having a legal support number written on them,’” wrote supporters in a public announcement of the campaign.

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Some people have been placed on a “kill list” for speaking truth to power, so to speak.  This feels like an act of authority that may seem counter to democracy.—-

https://popularresistance.org/independent-ukrainian-kill-list-actually-run-by-kiev/      –These included Manuel Pineda and Clare Daly, both leftist Members of the European Parliament (MEP); Also counted are people on the right, such as Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute, neocon and former IDF officer Edward Luttwak, a slew of rightist MEPs; Ex CIA officer, Ray McGovern; former military and intelligence figures such as Scott Ritter and Douglas McGregor, as well as academics such as John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs. Journalists on the list included Glenn Greenwald, Tucker Carlson and Eva Bartlett, Roger Waters from Pink Floyd, and even actor Steven Seagal.What was my crime? It said my “pro-Russian narrative” was claiming that “NATO’s proxy war with Russia is taking place in Ukraine”. Of course, a NATO proxy war is exactly what is happening there, as this article will only further confirm.

As it turns out, the covert “kill list” website is a product of the Ukraine regime, effectively funded by the CIA (amongst others) and is hosted by NATO.

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

US Comedian Added To Ukraine’s List

–end of killlist info–Lee Camp is shocked…SHOCKED….about the MOVE bombing.  Mr. Camp was apparently too young to have personally been aware of this bombing.  Some of us weren’t, but the rug underneath which the story was swept, and going back an additional 25 or 30 years, has so much more, what’s one more story?  This is a reason some of the elderly remind youngsters that their delusion is precious, and just wait…….another 30 years will make you even crankier.  No wonder Establishment, backed by irate youngsters, would just as soon cut off Medicare benefits and get rid of the witnesses to history.   And in so doing, we could even pretend that technology will save Earth and humanity.

One is concerned that so many young Americans pride themselves as “backbones of democracy” while seeming ignorant of the ideal.

https://popularresistance.org/the-censorship-industrial-complex-top-50-organizations-to-know/   –Now it did, and this new sector, Eisenhower said, was building up around itself a cultural, financial, and political support system accruing enormous power. This “conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience,” he said, adding:In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes… Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.This was the direst of warnings, but the address has tended in the popular press to be ignored. After sixty-plus years, most of America – including most of the American left, which traditionally focused the most on this issue – has lost its fear that our arms industry might conquer democracy from within.

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Marianne Williamson’s Presidential Campaign Faces Many Challenges

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nicx-GCbo00       –(“Trying to force” Marianne Williamson is not the same as excluding her from polling)

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This perspective on Tibetan Buddhist practice jarred the imagination.  One suspects as many paths of practice exist relating to Buddhism as are practitioners.  That a Buddhist gospel doesn’t exist reminds of the individual work expected.

https://aeon.co/essays/medicine-or-poison-when-buddhist-compassion-goes-too-far?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=1f643669c7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_05_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-dee638f785-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D          –In my 20s, I began to practise Tibetan Buddhism. I was still sorting myself out after a tumultuous youth, still healing from sexual assault and other abuse I’d experienced as a teenager. It felt auspicious to stumble into a community of people dedicated to self-cultivation through contemplative practice. I was inspired by a tradition that was centred around a deep and compassionate sense of intimacy with the world. And I remain grateful for the years of practice that helped me grow up and learn to meet the world with genuineness and clarity.

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*Attitude toward an Eastern mindset from a Loyola writer, along with association with notions of psychology, seems to base said attitudes on Western views

*Discussion about a type of universality of good and bad seems to be unavoidable when speaking of our mortal plane

*One could suspect that assuming the bad karma of another is similar to the Christian practice of Indulgence in which the church accepted cash to absolving of action

*The same church hierarchy includes Establishment that decided which gospel would be included in the Bible, and which would be left out

*Left out were many Gospels that if considered, would support a different notion from that of institutionalized religion

*An example is https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-lost-books-of-the-bible_william-hone/254994/item/400113/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=pmax_high_vol_scarce_under_%2410&utm_adgroup=&utm_term=&utm_content=&gclid=CjwKCAjw04yjBhApEiwAJcvNocan6VAC0Kpr8MC7bsNhMkNIAQkaiSE2df1mh5hCHOMrABGLDIHemxoC-moQAvD_BwE#idiq=400113&edition=2406436   –Suppressed by the early church fathers who compiled the Bible, these apocryphal books have been shrouded in silence for centuries. Here are the Apostles’ Creed, the girlhood and betrothal of Mary, the childhood of Jesus-told in all their warmth, intimacy and humanity. Translated from the Original Tongues, with 32 illustrations from Ancient Paintings and Missals.–end of thriftbooks info–

*The point is that “Western values” may have interfered with Christianity; so that it treats Buddhism similarly, isn’t a surprise

Perhaps the Establishment that promotes an idea of “Western values”, needs to be taken into consideration when attempting FACTS and truth.

The C-Span morning call-in topic was about the Durham report.  According to Trump in his own words, this was the Bull Durham report; and some people chuckle about the senility of Biden.  And so starts the duopoly smokescreen.

But as to the Durham report, it seems to confirm questionable behavior in American political campaigns.  One could also identify a global collaboration or interaction between oligarchs for economic and political power.  Has anyone ever mentioned the strange spectacle of the Clinton State Department/Clinton Foundation “work” around the globe?  How similar to the Trump family dynasty business around the globe that was streamlined by occupation of the Executive Branch. 

Russia was used as a campaign strategy in the USA, with Ukraine deeply involved, and under a silly presumption that Russia wouldn’t notice.  We didn’t need to spend millions on the Durham report to be aware of what was happening.

As James Carville said (paraphrase) anything goes in a political campaign, but elections need to be fair.  No, anything doesn’t go in political campaigns.  That is corruption.

Said “Western values” don’t comport with principles of the US Constitution.  For example, political Party corporations aren’t intended under the US Constitution, to run elections.  But that is what we experience in 2023.  Money isn’t supposed to buy politicians into public office, but an intellectually honest view is that it does.

So why conflate the Durham report with Christianity or Buddhism?  Actually they seem all entangled in “Western values” that ignores essence in preference to hierarchical interpretation for consumption by We The People.****

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!