The USA generally have state-influenced-corporate-owned media posing as news outlets.  This isn’t a Free Press.  It seems more nearly to be advertising.  If democracy is to continue, it is each member of the public who is responsible for searching out and verifying information that supports the vote for or against political policies.  This would be the case even with a Free Press.  It’s even more necessary when news reports are based upon political and commercial collaboration.

Honest views originate from many sources—https://www.rt.com/shows/redacted-tonight-summary/548164-mckay-interview-defund-police/       –This week on VIP, Lee Camp looks back to a 2016 interview with the director of the Netflix smash-hit ‘Don’t Look Up’. Adam McKay is responsible for brilliant social criticism in movies like ‘The Big Short’, which took on the 2008 financial crisis, and a satire of corporate media in ‘Anchorman’. His latest movie skewers inaction in the face of climate change. Naomi Karavani reports on the corporate media’s lies about crime rates and their causes. Police propagandists are on a constant hunt for reasons to expand their budgets and their current argument is that the ‘Defund the Police’ demand from the BLM movement has led to an increase in crime. What isn’t being said is that police budgets are still growing. Finally, Anders Lee looks back at the Boxer Rebellion when Western Powers faced opposition in their drive to colonize China.–end of leecamp info–

What is an impeachable offense?—-***https://twitter.com/B52Malmet/status/1489605053283508225   –The line up of speakers at the Federalist Society Florida chapter secret meeting in Florida today: Pence, DeSantis, Gorsuch. The Supreme Court Justice sure looks like a political hack.–end of twitter input—
***https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/1489706526205960198    –Emails we obtained, reported on by @politico, suggest that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is in regular contact with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In a June 2021, Ginni Thomas said DeSantis should be familiar with her because “my husband has been in contact with him[.]”–end of twitter info———–end of impeachableo-action questions——–Bounties aren’t just imposed upon women and their friends——https://twitter.com/TrophyXpose/status/1489579282854649858            –It’s $500 to shoot green iguanas for 4 hours, or $600 for 6 hours with Florida Iguana Hunting tours. No limits no rules- they’re feral animals. The damage they do- eating ornamental plants.Undeserving of such brutal slaughter! #BanSportsHunting–end of twitter info–
Respect begins with self—-https://twitter.com/RARE_SriLanka/status/1489434342275563522      –Illegal night safari driver harassing wild elephants in Sri Lanka. An Idiot who thinks it’s funny to taunt a wild elephant! It did not take much to discover the identity of this clueless fool so we hope DWC -Department of Wildlife Conservation take immediate action against him!–end of twitter info–

We need a MD prescription to understand the benefits of nature?  —-https://www.ecowatch.com/prescribtion-nature-canada.html    –Many of us may have become reacquainted with the healing power of nature during the pandemic. After a long day spent indoors, we step outside, go for a walk and catch the smell of pine trees, flowers or even snow and feel the sunshine on our faces.Health care providers in four Canadian provinces — British Columbia (BC), Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario — can now prescribe time in nature, and even a Parks Canada Discovery Pass, to their patients to help improve their physical and mental health through the country’s national nature prescription program, A Prescription for Nature (PaRx). The passes are being offered through a partnership between Parks Canada and the British Columbia Parks Foundation.–end of ecowatch info–
Human rights seem to be a topic from world leaders to get a reaction from each other as the effects are felt by world-wide local community members rather than those pulling the strings of authority.  Should we call them on this?  — https://countercurrents.org/2022/02/afghanistan-suffering-skyrockets-as-us-replaces-soldiers-with-sanctions/     –Afghan society has for decades been unable to survive without foreign funds. Despite promises to build its economy, the United States’ twenty-year war bequeathed to Afghanistan an economy dominated by opium trading and smuggling and corruption. This cannot sustain a population of millions.The Afghanistan war did not end with the defeat of the U.S. military. It simply shifted to war by other means.–end of countercurrents info–
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History is taught by the so-called winners.  The USA common-core style of education seems to be about indoctrination into capitalism that has erroneously been called democracy.  This definition of democracy is diametrically contrary to FACTS.  But the hubris of holding a degree from an institution of higher learning seems to assuage said holders into parroting this notion.  Those old enough to recall the US advertising against communism will remember the foibles of communist Soviet Union of a past era, have come home to roost in capitalistic USA.  As some people have said, communism and capitalism are opposite sides of the same coin of authoritarianism.
https://popularresistance.org/how-we-broke-the-supply-chain/       –Anyone old enough to remember the Cold War is familiar with a scene routinely depicted on U.S. television at the time: the Soviet breadline. Warning Americans about life under communism, these clips showed Russian citizens lingering forlornly outside businesses for hours to obtain basic goods—indelible proof of the inferiority of central planning, and an advertisement for capitalism’s abundance.Almost none of these stories will explain how these shortages and price hikes were also brought to life through bad public policy coupled with decades of corporate greed. We spent a half-century allowing business executives and financiers to take control of our supply chains, enabled by leaders in both parties. They all hailed the transformation, cheering the advances of globalization, the efficient network that would free us from want. Motivated by greed and dismissive of the public interest, they didn’t mention that their invention was supremely ill-equipped to handle inevitable supply bottlenecks. And the      –pandemic exposed this hidden risk, like a domino bringing down a system primed to topple.–end of popularresistance info—

A  past President was strident in begging to be allowed to fast-track TPP that is trade agreement that contains language that promotes commercial interests over environmental and human rights.  
It seems poetic justice that as the USA insinuates into the Ukraine, Russia is asked by South American nations to collaborate economically with them.  https://popularresistance.org/argentina-to-russia-we-want-to-end-dependency-on-us/   –The President added, “The context is very favorable to deepen the links between Russia and Argentina. We have to see a way for Argentina to become a gateway for Russia in Latin America”.–end of popularresistance info–
https://mronline.org/2022/02/04/the-struggle-to-decolonise-the-mind/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-struggle-to-decolonise-the-mind&mc_cid=6e897c8201&mc_eid=2         –The claim to a national culture in the past does not only rehabilitate that nation and serve as a justification for the hope of a future national culture. In the sphere of psycho-affective equilibrium it is responsible for an important change in the native. Perhaps we haven’t sufficiently demonstrated that colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native’s brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures, and destroys it. This work of devaluing pre-colonial history takes on a dialectical significance today.–end of mronline info–
From corporate-owned-politically-influenced US state media, one hears concern that the USA is losing our democracy.  Also reported is a Russian plot to prepare the world for an atrocity of some sort in the Ukraine that is reported to be the prelude to a Russian invasion.  This may or may not be FACTual.  However it suggests the same as US media spreads the story that the US is losing our democracy that seems a motivation for acceptance of hierarchical control of the public.
As heard on a Bill Moyers’ discussion, “Governments don’t do democracy, people do democracy.”
Along the same notion of wag-the-dog, is reinterpreting violence as “legitimate political discourse”.  Republicans need to flesh out this erroneous statement to better clarify their view of democracy, if they still hold said view.https://portside.org/2022-02-04/gop-declares-deadly-capitol-attack-legitimate-political-discourse    –“January 6th was not “legitimate political discourse”—it was a violent insurrection on our Capitol,” Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) tweeted in response to the RNC declaration.”I didn’t know if I’d make it out alive,” she added. “Some didn’t. We cannot let the GOP whitewash what happened.”–end of portside info–We deserve better.      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!
Along with Climate Change, many people oppose the imperialism of the USA under control of the Republican/Democratic duopoly.  Use of the wealth of our nation should be to enhance quality of life for We The People rather than for imperialism.  Some people vote accordingly.I———————–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.