The topic for call-in discussions on C-Span this morning was about the Supreme Court decision negating Affirmative Action.  This opens the door to a perspective about capitalism and democracy, that are opposite concepts.

Affirmative Action seems to be about welcoming everyone into institutions that are promoted by Establishment.  Entrance into this system relates to status.  Status connotes ability to gain economically.  

Alternatively outside the auspices of Establishment, anyone is quite capable of engineering a lifestyle and education that is at least as excellent as any to be found under the patriarchal yoke of Establishment.

An example is Tulsa, Oklahoma.  https://www.tulsahistory.org/exhibit/1921-tulsa-race-massacre/               —

The 1921 Attack on Greenwood was one of the most significant events in Tulsa’s history. Following World War I, Tulsa was recognized nationally for its affluent African American community known as the Greenwood District. This thriving business district and surrounding residential area was referred to as “Black Wall Street.” In June 1921, a series of events nearly destroyed the entire Greenwood area.

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Tulsa seems to be a success story of autonomy aside from Establishment.  This seems to invite violence from some within Establishment.

Another example one suggests is Martha Stewart.  In her own right and according to her own tastes and inclinations, Ms. Stewart created wealth and notoriety according to her own personality.  That Martha Stewart, among a cadre of highly questionable investment personalities, was incarcerated for insider trading seems noteworthy.

https://harbert.auburn.edu/binaries/documents/center-for-ethical-organizational-cultures/cases/martha-stewart.pdf  —

Stewart’s natural business instincts and leadership skills helped her to transform her small business into a media empire. She joined Kmart as an image and product consultant in 1987, and persuaded the retailer to sell her growing line of products. She eventually became partners with the firm. This partnership helped her gain the capital necessary to break free of Time Warner, publisher of her highly successful Martha Stewart Living magazine. When Stewart and Time Warner disagreed on her intentions to cross-sell and market her publishing, television, merchandising, and Web interests, she used everything she owned to buy back the brand rights of her products and

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One might suggest Ms. Stewart was simply better at the game than institutionalized Establishment.

Affirmative Action seems related to the same educational system that has indebted countless of American youngsters and their families.  That educational debt doesn’t qualify for bankruptcy is another instances of control by Establishment.

A degree from institutionalized educational entities can be imagined more as indoctrination into capitalism than as genuine education.  Yet this is the track sold to youngsters as their only path to meaningful existence upon Earth.

In other words, depending upon democracy and one’s personal inclinations, one can create a life that is deeply eloquent.  Such a life wouldn’t, however, carry with it the institutionalized stamp of approval.  And so such a person or community would function outside the control and auspices of capitalistic Establishment.

And so as in Tulsa, Oklahoma and the Martha Stewart dust-up, Establishment will step in to “make an example”.  And so goes patriarchy.

Another monumental example is the overturning of Roe v. Wade.  Some old Feminists who remember and lived the pre-Roe v. Wade days, warned youngsters that their rights were in peril.  It was actually quite obvious.  Dependence upon Establishment to “allow” rights counters democracy.  Establishment, meanwhile, informs that capitalism and democracy are one and the same, when they are quite opposite.

And so as in the Martha Stewart situation and the Tulsa, Oklahoma Massacre, 50 percent of the population needed to be reminded they are nothing more than objects in a patriarchal game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgi-owfAAh0     —

Professor Goes WAY Off Script About U.S.

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Reverse imperialism?  —  https://popularresistance.org/european-council-on-foreign-relations-europe-becoming-vassal-of-us/  – A report issued by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) has warned that the European Union is being vassalized by the United States. According to the policy brief, authored by Jeremy Shapiro and Jana Puglierin, the process of vassalization has been accelerated by the US direction of European foreign policy during the Russia–Ukraine conflict.

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From popularresistance —  https://popularresistance.org/peoples-movements-to-converge-in-johannesburg-for-dialogues-on-socialism/  – Organized by the International Peoples’ Assembly, the conference is scheduled to be held in October this year, to “confront the crises of humanity” and highlight the solutions that movements, governments, and working people are building together to overcome the system.

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From MRonline–  https://mronline.org/2023/06/29/several-senior-u-s-officials-descend-from-slave-owner-families-reuters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=several-senior-u-s-officials-descend-from-slave-owner-families-reuters  – A report conducted by Reuters shows that the current U.S. elite abounds with the descendants of slave-owning families.

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Capitalism is a system of elite superstition, one may posit.  —  https://mronline.org/2023/06/29/the-magic-of-capitalism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-magic-of-capitalism    —

The bottom line is that the RBA is trying to make wage earners poorer to save them from rising prices. That’s the magical logic of capitalism. If this magic appears so dazzling that you can’t figure out how it works, you may just belong to the wrong social class.

How so? Well, take Lowe’s exhortation for people to spend less. 

Those on lower incomes are already trying to spend less on electricity by shivering through winter. According to Lowe, this is for the good of “the economy”. But here’s the rub: the Australian Energy Regulator says prices will jump 20 to 25 percent from July, which comes on top of a 15 percent rise over the last year. In these conditions, even when you try to use less, it ends up costing more—it’s the David Copperfield economy, where the more you pay, the more something disappears. 

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Control is profitable to Establishment.

From lakotalaw—-                 

If you’ve been with us for more than a year, you know we’ve been incubating a teen center at Standing Rock. A separate nonprofit managing this effort uses the building we own in McLaughlin, South Dakota (Bear Soldier District) to run operations. Many of you sent us positive feedback about the teen center when it launched, so I’m happy to report that the project’s doing well! It’s now a reliable space for the reservation’s youth to learn, play, and enjoy — so much so that we’ve decided to donate our building to our nonprofit allies, providing a stable foundation for their ongoing work to lift up the next generations. 

Because we’re assuming substantial administrative, logistical, and legal costs as we transfer the title to the building, today we ask for your financial support. Help gift this important building to the people by donating today! Your contribution to Lakota Law will also help offset other housing-related costs we accrue each month. These include operating our kinship care home (also in McLaughlin) and paying for lodging while we’re traveling to Thacker Pass in Nevada to fight the lithium mine that endangers frontline Native communities, a sacred massacre site, and a delicate ecosystem. As you know, we do whatever it takes and go wherever we’re needed to provide for the people and win Native justice — and your generosity makes it possible!

At Lakota Law, we straddle universes: while we recognize that radical social justice work can’t happen if institutional concerns become too dominant, we also know that without structure — buildings, equipment, and regular travel to the frontlines — progressive intentions often won’t hit their targets. So we strive to strike the right balance, doing our very best to put your resources to ideal uses. Thank you from the center of our hearts for all your assistance!

Once the transfer of title for the teen center is complete, we’ll be in touch again with more updates about the ongoing work to serve children at Standing Rock. 

Wopila tanka — thank you, always, for your support!
Chase Iron Eyes
Co-Director and Lead Counsel
The Lakota People’s Law Project

–end of lakotalaw info–    Many within Indigenous cultures have maintained autonomy outside of Establishment auspices, at a cost, of course.

https://rumble.com/v2wuji5-live-pentagon-pays-51000-for-a-trash-can-and-other-news.html?utm_source=Lee+Camp+Shows%2FUpdates&utm_campaign=891ade0859-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_06_06_31_COPY_188&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_258bd142c2-891ade0859-322594341&mc_cid=891ade0859&mc_eid=4e98d8ae27  —

LIVE: Pentagon Pays $51,000 For A Trash Can! (& other news)

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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”