The foundation of democracy is individual involvement and the dream of America is the ability for citizens to so act.  A troubling parallel arises between the PRC and the USA, both of which are republics, as we watch the democracy that is the function of We The People, not of government, is restricted by the hierarchic Establishment.  If the common impulse toward peace must be stifled to protect oligarchical control of the global elite, what are we to make of the American Dream of democracy?

https://popularresistance.org/chinese-american-worker-and-activist-arrested-for-advocating-for-peace/    —

Labor leaders and organizers are banding together to demand justice for Chinese-American unionized worker and activist Li Tang “Henry” Liang. Liang was indicted and then arrested in early May in Boston in retaliation for exercising his free speech rights. “The federal government has targeted Liang for advocating peaceful relations between the US and China,” say labor activists in the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance of the AFL-CIO, the largest trade union in the US

“Li Tang has been a participant in important fights for workers rights, including going on strike with his co-workers for 46 days in 2018,” Mike Kramer, Executive Vice President of Local 26, told Peoples Dispatch. “Despite working long hours as a hotel worker, he has dedicated his free time to being active in his community and to the service of others. The charges being brought against this man are a shameful, racist attack.”.—–end of popularresistance info—-

In a predator capitalistic system such as in the USA, profit to corporations outrank concerns for We The People.  This isn’t bad or good, it just is.  Liability has systematically devolved onto the public as hierarchical Establishment cashes in.  When it can no longer do so, to stop selling product is predictable.  A sane system would have predicted that infinite growth using finite resources has a shelf life.

https://mronline.org/2023/06/23/insurance-industry-refuses-policies-to-those-most-in-need-as-climate-change-unfolds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=insurance-industry-refuses-policies-to-those-most-in-need-as-climate-change-unfolds    —

State Farm recently announced that it is halting new insurance policies for homeowners in the state of California, where the agency is currently the top insurance provider, due to rising “catastrophe exposure” coupled with inflating construction costs. In 2022, Allstate quietly discontinued new homeowner policies in California and that same year several other insurance companies canceled thousands of policies in Florida and Louisiana, citing similar concerns. It is inevitable that other companies will follow their lead, as catastrophic disasters are no longer random or unusual in these regions. In places like California, Florida, and Louisiana, devastating climate-related events are at least an annual occurrence, and are increasing in magnitude.

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HO’ers insurance is an interesting complication as we watch our natural areas turned into industrial resources.  The typical HO-3 policy seemed unintended to handle industrial production, and the policyholder isn’t often advised of this FACT as they are solicited by corporate-industry salesmen.

During the NYS fracking dust up, when politicians, college professors, salesmen, and lawyers descended upon the public via local news conferences aired on nightly news, to ‘splain the benefits of fracking, and the local legislators were receiving letters reminding of the danger of conflict of interest for personal gain, one recalls no mention of the ubiquitous HO’er’s 3 that should be considered.  Instances related to business pursuit may not be covered, and the homeowner may be unaware.  Also, due to the character of fracking, a neighbor can expose another neighbor to hazard.

The general natural danger of ubiquitous open-air factory conditions may not be covered under your HO’ers 3.  

In other words, profit accrued to industry and liability accrued to the local community members.  That we haven’t fully discussed this quirk in the American Dream isn’t coincidental.

Signs of turpitude are so in-your-face as to be unnoticeable, about fealty to hierarchical Establishment.  https://mronline.org/2023/06/23/two-episodes-at-sea-the-submersible-titan-and-hundreds-of-refugees-drowned-in-the-mediterranean/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=two-episodes-at-sea-the-submersible-titan-and-hundreds-of-refugees-drowned-in-the-mediterranean  —

The question of class intrudes in both tragedies like a knife-blade.–end of mronline info–

From Thewildhunt  —  https://wildhunt.org/2023/06/how-an-opossum-healed-a-haunt.html  – While living with Bear Path Cottage, I have learned that it is possible to help a piece of land and its natural extensions and resident spirits heal from human-caused trauma. Gentle encouragement from this land and her spirits have enabled me to work magically and physically on that endeavor, and I hold gratitude and love for the opportunity to experience the results of that work.

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Opossum’s are said to be proficient at mitigating tick populations.  One mentions this because in Upstate NY, Lyme disease carried by ticks is an ever-present danger.  Lyme disease carried by ticks is said to have been introduced by some sort of governmental research project.  This feels like another instances of leaving well enough alone, and protecting nature.  But that seldom is a concept in hierarchical-Establishment think.  We are the poorer for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p3x-iwICXw     —

LIVE: This Is How Fascism Will Take Hold (& Much More)

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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!