Tag: democracy

VIRTUAL DEMOCRACY

Do you wish to buy virtual diabetes?—-


Do you wish to buy virtual diabetes?—-
https://twitter.com/LeeCamp/status/1536740640763043843?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email             –The metaverse is even worse than you think! read more

COMMON PROSPERITY AND DEMOCRACY


While the USA is experiencing rising chaotic episodes that too often include violence, we could discuss whether a leveling of prosperity could short-circuit aggressive tendencies. read more

DEMOCRACIES DON’T SUPPRESS POLITICAL PARTIES

Howie Hawkins suggests New York State has the most suppressive rules to permit political Parties on the ballet.  This paraphrase used is only that, and the actual phraseology of Howie Hawkins can be accessed at the end of this information.  Here’s a fresh bit of thought raised in the Hawkins’ discussion; why do we have a Senate?  His answer, we don’t.  Listen to be awakened.

https://twitter.com/blackintheempir/status/1535412589852774400      —

The United States definition of a dictator is any leader that will not let our corporations control their natural resources–end of blackintheempire post—-

https://twitter.com/blackintheempir/status/1535364644847730688    –The U.S. that helped to overthrow the democratically elected President of Ukraine in 2014, is now fighting for the democracy in Ukraine as the democracy in Ukraine bans all of its opposition Parties.

–end of blackintheempire post—

C-Span hosted a call in about gun control and crime in the USA, with open lines broken down into the Republican Party, Democratic Party, Independents, and law enforcement, with the presupposition that callers needed to identify with one of those concepts.  

https://www.c-span.org/video/?520913-2/washington-journal-news-headlines-viewer-calls       –ON THE MOVEMENT FOR GUN CONTROL. WASHINGTON JOURNAL IS NEXT WITH YOUR CALLS AND TWEETS ON THE NEWS OF THE DAY. (music)–end of c-span info–

Perpetration of misinformation that US citizens are required to identify with a political Party which is suspiciously close to dictatorship, one notices the context of this presentation that asks the question of which will best deal with crime.  Why is so-called law enforcement included as an entity to fight crime, judging from reality in the USA in 2022?

FACTually a case can be made that each of the call-in choices specified by C-Span may be in certain times and places be the origin of criminal activity; or at least the origin of dictatorial presumption toward We The People.  To enforce identification with one of those quite-often authoritarian sources may be a part of the problem of democracy that is surely in decline in the USA.  In other words, indoctrination is open but clothed in notions of Free Speech.  

The dictator feels to be the Democratic/Republican duopoly that is a Capitalist Party that mirrors the actions and control of the Communist Party of the Former USSR.

The acceptance of Sweden and Finland that are enthusiastic to be allowed entrance into NATO, and are wealthy socialist nations that offer universal health care to their citizens, can be a source of funding for the Ukraine military actions defending against Russia, permitting relief to US taxpayers to an extent that permits availability to US citizens the humanity of universal health care——

https://countercurrents.org/2022/06/ukraine-update-kiev-forces-facing-growing-desertion-significant-losses-and-depleting-ammunition/     –Ukraine is now dependent on Western donations of supplies, Ukrainian officials say.

–end of countercurrents info–

From popularresistance  —            Ukraine is now dependent on Western donations of supplies, Ukrainian officials say.                —

As US LNG Expands In Europe, A Hidden Threat Grows

To Save The Salmon, We Have To Slow Climate Change

Protest Against Exclusions At Summit Of The Americas In Los Angeles

Eviction Defense Successful Despite Aggressive Contractors

Minneapolis Fights For Community-Owned Sustainable Urban Farm

Mexico’s President AMLO Condemns US Blockade Of Cuba

When America No Longer Exports Carnage As A Business Model, Maybe We’ll Stop Seeing It In The Streets Here—But hypocrisy and cynicism loom very large for Joe Biden and congress. They want us to believe that state violence is disconnected from violence carried out by individuals.

Housing Rights Militants At The People’s Summit

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Some people in the USA mindlessly sweep together all Europeans under one label, the better to promote propaganda more than reality.  This makes easier promotion of evermore military action under an inane heading of “protecting Western values”.  Life is more complicated—-

https://mronline.org/2022/06/11/how-pre-ww-ii-ukrainian-fascists-pioneered-brutal-terror-techniques/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-pre-ww-ii-ukrainian-fascists-pioneered-brutal-terror-techniques      —

How pre-WW II Ukrainian fascists pioneered brutal terror techniques; later improved by CIA, now ironically taught to descendants

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A first respectable step toward intellectual honesty would be to define “Western values”—-https://portside.org/2022-06-11/gangsters-capitalism?utm_source=portside-general&utm_medium=email      —“I spent 33 years and 4 months in active service as a member of our country’s most agile military force—the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from a second lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.” Smedley D. Butler, major general, U.S. Marine Corps (ret.), 1935

–end of portside info–

From Gatewaygreens——                https://mailchi.mp/3eb94d37a17b/green-party-of-st-louis-meeting-wed-april-19-2017-recent-and-future-elections-6093865?e=d624642c9f            —Green Social Thought online newsletter

The Green Social Thought online newsletter returns. This is the November – December 2021 issue. Green Social Thought online newsletter read more

QUESTIONS, ANYONE?


Marija Gimbutas is an archaeologist who expresses controversial views.  Controversy seems to originate from views of past cultures that aren’t embedded in patriarchy, or one may say yang.  In the following LA Times story about her, you will find many said criticisms.  Many women, however, could be interested to consider that women throughout history were vital members of society.  That aggression and violence have often defined “the winners”, one shouldn’t be surprised that history is written by said “winners”. read more

USA DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE


Disturbingly political for some people, anyway

——https://annebonnypirate.org/2022/06/03/this-is-not-the-end-of-metoo/             — read more

CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY

What else seems unusual?

https://popularresistance.org/connecting-the-dots-the-rulers-are-losing-narrative-control/    –Something strange is going on with the narrative put forward by the ruling elite. They seem to be admitting to a lot of very unusual things over the past couple years. Everything from UFOs to the culpability of Saudi Arabia in the planning of 9/11, the US government seems to be letting loose. Have they lost control of the narrative or are they trying to intentionally muddy the waters? Lee Camp has a theory as to why. read more

FREEDOM AND SAFETY


If one may use artistic license, it seems to be an especially Trumpian-style of hubris in the phrase “it takes a good man with a gun to stop a bad man with a gun”.  First we need to recognize the “good man”.  Would that be one who attracts admiration by denigrating women and talking about grabbing them?  Next one must accept the premise that “good men with guns” aren’t as frightened of “bad men with guns” as may be, for example, 10-year-old girls. read more

STRENGTH OF LOCAL COMMUNITY

We could recognize the strength and integrity of local communities.  This is the reality that must be challenged by hierarchy in order for hierarchical Establishment to mount supremacy and promote their own interests. read more

CODED FOR POLITICS


Anyone who has been a consumer for 50 years or more is aware of the reality of planned obsolescence.  We surely have a throw-away society with consumers indoctrinated into expectations of products that are cheap, superficial, often useless, and manufactured for short-term use in order to encourage repurchase on an ongoing treadmill.  Our landfills are testimonies to progress based on greed, exploitation and privilege rather than progress based on good health, equality, and peace.   read more

GOOD LAW ENFORCEMENT

FACTually speaking, the USA could be viewed as dangerously militaristic and aggressive by some people. read more

NATIVE AMERICANS, HEALTH, AND FOREIGN WAR

We The People, so far, do not have an educational system that promotes ability to self-govern, a 1-payer comprehensive public health care system, or a reliable supply chain when FACTually speaking we need local production rather than supply chains.  Congress hasn’t addressed these topics but seem preoccupied with funding foreign military conflicts.

https://twitter.com/LeeCamp/status/1524828462019661842                       —
“The Squad” just voted to send another $40 Billion of weapons to the Ukraine proxy war, some of which will end up in the hands of Nazis. So what exactly is “The Squad” a squad of? Because it’s clearly not left-wingers or anti-imperialists.–end of leecamp info–

https://twitter.com/blackintheempir/status/1524757908004683776        –Imagine having the power to make over $50 billion appear out of nowhere to buy weapons to send to Ukraine after spending years watching families suffer and entire cities crumble in your own country while doing nothing.–end of blackintheempire info–
C-Span call in at 7:00AM on 5/13/2022 highlighted the Native boarding school catastrophe imposed by the US government.
7:28AM–Caller called CJ–paraphrase—spoke of the ongoing Native protests against pipelines built through local communities, as much but more insidiously through Native land as through lands of all citizens.  ( This is particularly egregious due to original residency of Native Americans on the entirety of North America.)
Host of C-Span–paraphrase–quickly deflected the conversation back to the history of boarding schools effectively ignoring ongoing and current exploitation toward Native Americans.
One views the ongoing expression of “Western values” that cannot escape the filter of capitalism to the extent that censorship results as suggested in the 7:28AM call with the follow up from the host to steer the caller into the path permitted.        —
Some callers mentioned the European origin of said “Western values” with the implication that this is about race.  It is too simplistic and in FACT racist to imply this imposition of capitalism didn’t first happen against white people.  

In FACT, some people see the Russia/Ukraine War to have resulted from the ongoing infliction of “Western values” against local communities. The “Western” media has ignored and censored the war against ethnic Russians in Ukraine since 2014.  Beginning with the Obama Administration including under-investigated participation by the Bidens, the Trump Administration meddling, and now the Biden Administration aggression in that military action, can be imagined as imposition of “Western values”  as much in those regions as is FACTual in North America.
American ideas about foreign nations can be fuzzy at best, and therefore easily manipulated by capitalists selling “Western values”.  This can be easy when people are not interested about others.  That is a reason The Military-Industrial Complex can so easily impose “Western views” about other people onto the American public.  But as is typically in many instances, it’s complicated—–https://www.gzeromedia.com/quick-take/ethnic-russians-in-ukraine-a-look-back       –I mean, in fact, you go to Crimea and Southeast Ukraine, you get people that they look the same, they have the same accent, they’ve got very similar cultural background, they see each other as very similar from an ethnic perspective.—end of gzeromedia info—
One believes many Eastern Europeans with a middling understanding of their own family background, can pin down precisely the nation from which they spring.  So a self-interested Military-Industrial Complex defining foreign nations for political and military expediency should be considered with suspicion.

Russia has historically represented “non-Western values”.  This frightens Americans at the same time that “Western values” are investigated for the atrocities listed above.  The logic of the US could stand to be questioned.
7:50AM–guest Buddy Carter–paraphrase—Warns against funding to promote the health and welfare of Americans after having voted to fund the War in Ukraine to the tune of $40,000,000,000….that’s with a  “B”…….
https://rollcall.com/2022/05/10/revised-40b-ukraine-aid-package-unveiled-heads-to-house-floor/               –The House passed a roughly $40 billion supplemental package of military, economic and humanitarian aid for Ukraine on Tuesday night just hours after Democratic leaders introduced the bill.–end of rollcall info–
8:55AM–caller–paraphrase—-We need money to protect America.
Many paths exist to protect America, but don’t include the bait-and-switch of protecting “American interests overseas” that is about spreading “Western values”, which in FACT aren’t about democracy.  The “Western values” seem to be about oligarchical welfare.
A skeptical person could view the military protection of “American interests overseas” as protecting US oligarchical interests at the expense of foreign local communities.  This may be a reason the US has been singular in funding NATO.  Meanwhile defense of the USA within our borders seems lax, and the health and welfare of local US communities is a nonstarter.
It is reported that Covid-related US deaths have reached 1,000,000, and some people see this as a national security risk.  In other words, the lack of a 1-payer comprehensive public health policy is a danger to Americans that has gone unaddressed, while the Republican/Democratic duopoly enthusiastically supports military action in the Ukraine/Russia conflict.
Near-comic attitude from politicians on the topic of Climate Change ignores the reality of national and global security issues—-https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-07/climate-change-linked-to-5-million-deaths-a-year-new-study-shows        –Extreme weather accounted for 9.4% of all deaths globally between 2000 and 2019, according to researchers who on Wednesday published the first study linking changes in temperatures to annual increases in mortality. While most deaths have been caused by exposure to the cold, the trend is likely to reverse as the planet warms, they said. –end of bloomberg info–

The misinformation that white people were not the first target for the aggression and violence of capitalism is buoyed by the FACT that misunderstanding may be the mindset of too many people toward too many “others”—–https://www.treehugger.com/are-possums-cute-cuddly-5271438?utm_campaign=treehugger&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cn_nl&utm_content=27698337&utm_term=        –Some people mistakenly assume possums are dirty, diseased, and aggressive. In reality, possums prefer to keep clean (they wash themselves frequently, like cats) and their body temperature is too low to effectively carry viruses like rabies, parvo, and distemper. And while they may appear mean, their snarling and teeth baring is simply a desperate attempt to appear frightening in hopes they’ll be left alone. Possums are the ultimate introverts!–end of teehugger info–
Some people can empathize with the plight of the introvert.
From popularresistance  —  https://mailchi.mp/popularresistance/jbz3knfkdk?e=1b0a9c0541                 —

The Hawai’i State Legislature Calls For A Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty        –(Because it isn’t nation against nation, it’s hierarchy against local community)

It’s Time To Challenge The Corporate University

Off-Duty Police Pushed Out Of Atlanta Forest By Land Defenders

Land Defender Sentenced To Jail For Breaching Trans Mountain Injunction

US Boarding School Investigative Report Released
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Interesting is the electorate disdain for socialism at the same time so many of the electorate whines about the capitalism that is curtailing life and liberty.  Go figure—-https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/12/realistic-humane-and-just-choice-sanders-unveils-medicare-all-act-2022?utm_source=daily_newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=TOP+NEWS%3A++The+Realistic%2C+Humane%2C+and+Just+Choice+%3A+Sanders+Unveils+Medicare+for+All+Act+of+2022&utm_campaign=TOPS+NEWS%3A+Thur++5%2F12%2F22     –“As we speak, there are millions of people who would like to go to a doctor but cannot afford to do so,” said the Vermont senator. “This is an outrage.”–end of berniesanders info–

Regardless of votes cast via group enthusiasm rather than analytical reasoning, it is never too late to raise a voice for good governance—–PETITION—-Sign if you wish—–https://act.berniesanders.com/signup/fobs-may22-medicare-for-all/?source=em220512-1-subs&refcode2=9179.105164.loG6Qj&t=4&akid=9179%2E105164%2EloG6Qj    
Now more than ever, we must do away with our cruel and dysfunctional health care system and join every other major country on earth in guaranteeing health care as a basic human right. Please add your name to Bernie’s petition if you agree.
—end of Medicareforall health care—
The same electorate voting into office the sycophants of the health profiteering industry were aghast over Bernie Sanders.  Please explain your rationale.
Good people are attempting good governance in a nation that seems to prefer capitalistic authoritarianism.  Let’s get more views from the good governance crowd—https://www.budget.senate.gov/hearings/medicare-for-all-protecting-health-saving-lives-saving-money?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=8def42a8-8c94-4001-b6f9-77508c1e08dc   —

There will be a Hearing of the Committee on the Budget 

On:  Thursday, May 12, 2022, 11:00 AMIn:  Room SH-216. Members of the Committee may participate in person or by video conference technology.To consider: Medicare for All: Protecting Health, Saving Lives, Saving Money
—end pnhp info–
From wecaninternational.org——Mother’s Day is internationally celebrated throughout the month of May, and at this special time, the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network invites you to join us in honoring, celebrating and standing in solidarity with matriarchs around the world rising for our communities and the sacred Mother Earth!
We also honor our collective home, Mother Earth, this beautiful planet that provides us all with deep love and care. A place to call home. The waters, prairies, deserts, mountain tops, forests that nourish us individually and as a community. We are Nature, and we are committed to working together diligently across movements and continents to build a just, thriving and liberated world.
Please continue on in this newsletter, to learn more about our recent campaigns, events, and actions to support frontline movements and organizing!
For Mother Earth and for each other, we continue to rise.
–end of wecaninternational.org—-From wecaninternational—–https://www.wecaninternational.org/PressReleases/Indigenous-Women-Leaders-&-over-200-Groups-Urge-the-Army-Corps-to-Stop-the-Line-5-Pipeline-Expansion           —USA, April 27, 2022 — Today, Indigenous women leaders, joined by over 200 organizations, representing millions nationwide, submitted a letter to the Army Corps of Engineers urging the department to deny necessary permits for the expansion of Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline, and to conduct a federal Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the entire pipeline within the Army Corps of Engineers’ jurisdiction.
Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline was originally built in 1953, and continues to operate nearly 20 years past its engineered lifespan, transporting 22 million gallons of crude oil each day through northern Wisconsin, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and under the Straits of Mackinac. Currently, Enbridge is proposing to expand the Line 5 pipeline, despite the strong opposition of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and other Tribes.
Enbridge proposes to route Line 5 through hundreds of waterways that flow into the Bad River Reservation, their extensive fisheries, and the navigable waters of Lake Superior. The letter sent today delivers key information detailing the impacts the Line 5 tar sands pipeline expansion project would have in the region, and clarifies how it directly undermines Indigenous rights and perpetuates the climate crisis:–end of wecaninternational info–
From Gatewaygreens   —-      https://mailchi.mp/e963e6053c3a/green-party-of-st-louis-meeting-wed-april-19-2017-recent-and-future-elections-6037133?e=d624642c9f      —
It’s ready now!  
To see the VIDEO of the May 4, 2022 webinar “Ukraine, Fossil Fuels and
Unanswered Questions
” click HERE or copy this link into your browser:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgebAeZdlHbkisFMTC2jpNQ

Many folks commented during the webinar about the perspectives they had
not heard from corporate media.

People registered from these state in the US:
CA, CO, CT, FL, HI, IA, IL, IN, KS, MA, MI, MN, MS, NJ, NY, OH,
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In addition, folks tuned in from Canada and Ukraine.Please take a look at the Green Social Thought website: http://www.greensocialthought.org/

Its focus is: “Produce less. Distribute it fairly. Create a greener world for all www.gateway-greens.org For more info, call 314-727-8554 read more

THE MORE YOU KNOW

Mothers Day seems dissimilar from Mothers’ Day.  How did Mothers’ Day as a strong voice from women against militarism, become Mothers Day, the retailers dream? read more

HEALTH AND WHY CAN’T WE HAVE IT?

Capitalism has over decades been advertised by Establishment as the guide book for the greatest good for the most people.  Evidence in 2022 suggests this was a sales job.  Supply chains are broken down, from foreign nations where US products are manufactured in order to secure low wages to workers.  Transportation surely must increase Climate Change.  US workers are competing with low-wage workers in foreign nations outside of the jurisdiction where there is any possibility of securing human and environmental rights.  Important products are becoming sparse if attainable at all to the US public. Corporations are experiencing exaggerated profiteering while consumers pay astronomical prices for products.  Health care is non existent as the health industry manages disease without improving the public health.  Democracy is under attack by many who prefer authority from hierarchy.  The US educational system seems used to reinforce these principles before children are even out of school. read more

ANTI-SOCIAL LEADERSHIP

The following news stories encourage the opinion that greed may be at the bottom of many of the troubles of society, including poverty and war.  These are topics that should be aired openly and discussed from the view of different people.  As one with an overriding concern for the environment and opposition to Climate Change, the health of people and nature are the subject. read more

INSTITUTIONALIZED CONFUSION

That “we are a 2-Party system”  is misinformation from the Democratic-Party corporation and the Republican-Party corporation, which in collaboration illegitimately purport to “run American elections”.  This is not specified as legitimate in the US Constitution.  In contrast, 3rd-Party Greens are expressing their platform in NYS in the election for governor.  Political Parties should participate in elections; political-Party corporations aren’t sanctioned to run elections.  This isn’t the Former USSR. read more