In capitalistic hierarchical Establishment, the idea of utopia is dismissed as unattainable, regardless of the qualification of the American people as “exceptional”.  And so policies are in place that actualize profits for the wealthy and pain for everyone else.  This is indeed governmental/business policy, and nothing more.  It is not accepted around the world.  If not Utopia, how about a fair shake. Consider Europe.

https://portside.org/2023-05-25/imagine-renters-utopia-it-might-look-vienna   – That’s what differentiates Vienna. Perhaps no other developed city has done more to protect residents from the commodification of housing. 

The key difference is that Vienna prioritizes subsidizing construction, while the United States prioritizes subsidizing people, with things like housing vouchers. One model focuses on supply, the other on demand. Vienna’s choice illustrates a fundamental economic reality, which is that a large-enough supply of social housing offers a market alternative that improves housing for all.

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Although Austria is not a member of NATO, and is not obligated to contribute a cent to that effort, it does rely on the USA to a certain extent.

Meanwhile in the USA, a public housing fiasco is unfolding with so many people living on the streets, and the US citizen does not have universal health care that would be more equitable and less expensive, while taxpayer money from the USA travels to Europe to protect the interests of European citizens who enjoy socialism.  In the USA, the public has been indoctrinated into a paranoia against public well-being, in order to transfer the wealth of the nation to the interests of US and global oligarchs.

This hardly seems fair.

While we are on the topic of pulling the wool over the eyes of the American public, what comes to mind is the statement from a PGA official heard during a C-Span broadcast from Congress about the PGA/LIV merger.  The official took a high road by stating that, as to condemning Saudi Arabia for implication in the 9/11 attack on the Twin Trade Center in NYC, he refuses to play the religion or race card (paraphrase).  Really?  So anyone who questions predatory merging with a nation, (not a religion or race) in attack on the USA, is now to be questioned on this topic?  Please…….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o37OzTAxexU   —

Firelight Chat | CLIMATE: WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT TO DO

–end of mariannewilliamson info———————– https://www.instagram.com/climatehuman/?hl=en

And on the topic of delicate sensibilities of hierarchical Establishment, C-Span offered one such intimation from a Conservative Climate Change Caucus member.–  https://www.c-span.org/video/?529196-3/rep-john-curtis-government-spending-climate-change  –

JULY 13, 2023 | PART OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL 07/13/2023

Washington Journal

Rep. John Curtis on Government Spending and Climate Change

Representative John Curtis (R-UT) talked about government spending deadlines and climate change.

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8:20AM–guest–paraphrase–when asked the reason Conservatives are late to the table on the topic of Climate Change, the reply was “we are turned off by the extremism”.  Also mentioned was a desire “not to hurt our economy”.

Several thoughts–

*The economy delicately protected seems to be for the obsolete fossil fuel economy

*An economy that is more locally inspirational and less devastating to climate seems too challenging for those in the Conservative Climate Change Caucus

*Incidentally the newly-imagined economy would not be beneficial to big-money interest campaign donors

*Extremism seems more descriptive of the reality of the public pertaining to dangerous weather and wildfires, when a word-trick by Mr. Curtis applies that label to the people in distress

Lifestyle change seems unattainable until it is attained.  For example, the poverty promoted by Climate Change disasters (insurance companies pulling out of markets, for example), will inevitably lead to lifestyle change when a thoughtful society would predict how best to change our ways to accommodate survival.  Another example is the diminishing profits report by Florida’s Disney World.  Some people imagine Disney World to be a caricature of the fantasy of The American Dream.

A mature society might wish to install a mature lifestyle.  Maturity, boys and girls, may connote restraint.  Aside from ego, restraint may not be a negative.  The ensuing peace and wholeness may even seem better than the chaos in which too many local-community people live.

Public capture by exceptionalism has reinforced a notion in the USA of competent governance.  This Establishment strategy of indoctrination may have spread to Ukraine, where people who currently live in ostensible socialism including universal health care, are laying down their lives to obtain the “Western values” of which Americans are bereft.  Consider the following–https://mronline.org/2023/07/12/without-the-2014-coup-ukraine-would-be-living-in-peace/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=without-the-2014-coup-ukraine-would-be-living-in-peace&mc_cid=ef06d1b1fe&mc_eid=2833cdb99b   —

There are two main interrelated triggers. The first is the coup in Kiev in 2014. Without this unconstitutional overthrow of power, Ukraine would be living in peace today. Without this coup, for which there is tangible evidence that the United States of America was behind with the help of its European surrogates, there would not be the war we are currently experiencing. It is important to stress that before this event in 2014, neither Crimea, nor the Donetsk region, nor the Lugansk region had the slightest intention of separating from Ukraine. In Crimea, I never heard anyone, either among the ordinary people or among senior officials in closed circles, talk about the possibility or necessity of separating from Ukraine and rejoining Russia. There was no reason to do so.

And even later, within the framework of the Minsk agreements, the idea of the separation of Ukraine from the regions of Lugansk and Donetsk was by no means foreseen, or even raised. It was the supplement of autonomy from the central power in Kiev that was the subject of the agreement, starting with linguistic autonomy: the right of the inhabitants of Eastern Ukraine to speak and use their native language, the language they want and not the one imposed by the new power bearing a more than questionable legitimacy.

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https://portside.org/2023-07-12/how-climate-change-accelerates-danger-worldwide-fascism?utm_source=portside-general&utm_medium=email  – Thus began Europe’s refugee crisis, which just helped bring down Holland’s government.  In two weeks, it may well cause the rightwing fascist-aligned anti-immigrant People’s Party to come to power in the Spanish elections on July 23.

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Capitalism is easy to sell in sound bites because who doesn’t want to live in fantasy land.  Utopia is as possible as oligarchy; it’s a matter of intention. With a livable lifestyle, the public may not need to buy a ticket for a week-long vacation from reality in a corporate fantasy land.  One’s own question is answered.

Extremism seem to be the euphemism for the people who care, or actually people who care is the euphemism for extremism—–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydiOJ9fH87M   —

EXCLUSIVE: I Spoke With Ben of Ben & Jerry’s As He Gets Arrested

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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”