Governor Hochul has put into place an inducement for sex work.  Sex work should be decriminalized.  But more to the point, we need universal health care that would be less costly and more inclusive and that could serve more of We The People, including sex workers. 

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https://nypost.com/2023/07/23/kathy-hochul-launches-ny-health-care-program-for-sex-workers/   —

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration is going to bat for the “world’s oldest profession” by launching a free health care program for sex workers — a move critics are slamming as encouraging a campaign to decriminalize prostitution, The Post has learned.

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Capitalism isn’t democracy and money isn’t Speech.  Indoctrination into nonsense helps to promote the interests of hierarchical Establishment.  Money is a motivating factor in a corrupt system.  —  https://mronline.org/2023/07/25/argentina-the-imf-a-euphemism-for-politics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=argentina-the-imf-a-euphemism-for-politics&mc_cid=0620b747fb&mc_eid=2833cdb99b    —

From the above it is clear that the IMF is something much more complex than an innocent and beatific international organization. The composition of its board of directors is overwhelmingly eloquent. The United States is undoubtedly in charge, holding 16.50% of the votes on the board, followed by China, with just 6.04%, Germany with 5.31%, and France and the United Kingdom with 4.03%. Two very concrete corollaries emerge from this: first, given that 85% of the Board’s votes are required to make the most significant decisions (not merely routine ones), the United States exercises de facto dictatorial power over what the IMF may or may not decide, reflecting the international correlation of forces existing in the aftermath of World War II. Secondly, note the abysmal disproportion between the gravity of the world’s different economies and their representation in the Fund’s governing body. According to this body, the United States is, measured in terms of U.S. dollars of the year 2021, the largest economy in the world, with 24,796,076 million dollars, followed by China, with 18,463,130 million of the same currency. However, if the measurement is made using another criterion, purchasing power parity, in 2022 the U.S. economy would represent 15.57% of global GDP and China 18.48%. In any case, the Asian giant’s voting power in the IMF is a paltry 6.04%, which speaks of a significant underestimation of its role in the world economy. Only the United States can change this situation, but so far it has stubbornly refused to reconcile China’s gravitas in the world economy with “voting power” on the IMF board.

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MSM reports highlighting finances and business acumen over the damage done from both to our environment.  —  https://portside.org/2023-07-25/gulf-stream-could-collapse-early-2025-study-suggests?utm_source=portside-general&utm_medium=email   – The Gulf Stream system could collapse as soon as 2025, a new study suggests. The shutting down of the vital ocean currents, called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Amoc) by scientists, would bring catastrophic climate impacts.

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War should be a big deal, not a predictable afterthought. to foreign policy.  One continues to urge MSM to compare harm to civilians in Ukraine to harm to civilians in the USA due to global warming, and then explain reasons for massive support for Ukrainian citizens as compared to meager response to needs of US citizens, aside from globalism benefit to oligarchs.—-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3jbyQZrCJw  —

‘War Made Invisible’ With Norman Solomon

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Vague references by experts and ‘splainers promotes division among We The People that may not relate to reality or logic.  Perhaps We The People need to define ourselves rather than leaving it to the experts/’splainers, and then inform Representatives of The People as to what we require.  —  https://mronline.org/2023/07/25/what-is-social-class/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-is-social-class  –

More sophisticated classifications refer to education levels, cultural interests and family occupations as well as income. But again, the outcome is imprecise. Anyone with a university degree becomes middle class, and “working class” often becomes a synonym for “lower class”—that is, anyone economically worse off or with lower formal education levels than those in the “middle”.

Socialists are more precise. While income can often be an indicator of social class, we define the latter in terms of people’s relationship to society’s economic infrastructure. That gives us three categories: the capitalist class, the working class and the middle classes.

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From Mariannewilliamson  —  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ7jcab4i2o   –

The Issue Is: James Gallagher, Marianne Williamson

–end of mariannewilliamson info–The status quo will not disrupt itself.  

Spoiler candidates are a paranoia generated by D&R duopoly Establishment politicians imagined to maintain control over a docile and domesticated constituency.  —

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0EqNnNbTp8   —

Ranked Choice Voting (and other democracy reforms) 101

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Is it possible that disrespect for those advocating woke originated when some of said told everyone else to “hold your nose and vote”, and who said “you will waste your vote if you don’t vote for Biden or Trump”?  What’s to take seriously?  As has been said, people are judged by their character.

Having listened to a capitalist system apologist respond to a C-Span caller who said corporations should be taxed at rates in the ’50’s, the apologist reminded that in the “50’s corporations in the USA had a monopoly.  The implication was that the 2023 unprecedented profiteering by globalized corporations is irrelevant.  After Establishment baited-and-switched America from sovereign systems to globalism, with the explanation that products would be cheaper for Americans. we find wages lower, corporate taxes lower, and products more expensive and hard to get.  —  https://popularresistance.org/record-wages-should-be-received-if-record-profits-are-being-generated/   —

RECORD WAGES SHOULD BE RECEIVED IF RECORD PROFITS ARE BEING GENERATED

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No patriarchy, no pipelines.  The negotiation that included the Mountain Valley Pipeline in the budget talks seems like pure patriarchal flimflam.  Joe Manchin benefited, and is associated with the No Labels Party.  Please beware —-

https://popularresistance.org/barbies-stop-work-on-the-mountain-valley-pipeline/   —

Elliston, Virginia – Barbies stopped work on the Mountain Valley Pipeline! On Monday, July 24, around 20 demonstrators, many wearing bright pink and holding banners that read, “No Patriarchy, No Pipelines” and “Even Barbies Hate Pipelines” walked onto a work site beside Cove Hollow Road and Highway 460 in Elliston, VA.–end of popularresistance info–

No Labels Party seems to be a response to the growing irritation with the D&R duopoly, but FACTually speaking seems to be a safety valve to maintain capitalistic rule as opposed to a functioning democracy.

Destruction or even disregard for the safety of environment has been our system for too long. ——— https://popularresistance.org/enbridge-ordered-to-shutdown-line-5-pay-bad-river-band-5-1million/  —

Ashland, Wisconsin — Canadian oil corporation Enbridge has been ordered to shut down its Line 5 tar sands oil pipeline and pay the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians $5.1 million. Chief Judge William M. Conley of the U.S. District Court for Wisconsin ruled on June 16, 2023 that Enbridge must adopt a more conservative shutdown and purge plan for its remaining time on the Bad River Indian Reservation.

Water protectors gathered on the day of the ruling in Ashland, Wisconsin to demand the immediate emergency shutdown of Line 5. Unicorn Riot heard from water protectors on the state of the Line 5 fight and why they actively protest.

–end of popularresistance info— 

One has no position on UFO’s, but one challenges a nation that suggests conspiracy theories while accepting immaculate conception.  In other words, who knows?  Try reading the old testament with a background suspicion of UFO’s.

https://www.aol.com/researchers-discover-mysterious-interstellar-radio-160227534.html  —

The discovery of the signal, which researchers named GPMJ1839-10, has the scientists baffled. Believed to be coming from around 15,000 light years away from Earth, the signal has been occurring at intervals and for a period of time previously thought to be impossible.

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Analytical thinking of a nation that denies global warming in order to maintain a self-indulgent lifestyle is also open to questions.  —  https://www.aol.com/news/hot-tub-water-temperatures-off-163657904.html  —

–end of aol info–

Ongoing division by political policy seems to work to further divide We The People into Democratic or Republican camps, the better to ensure campaign strategies, in place of good governance.  The example of $1,000,000 of health care benefits for sex workers, when a universal health care policy would be more equitable and less costly, is a case in point.****

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”