Tag: health
AMERICAN COMEDY
The first discussion on C-Span today asked about the Pentagon-budget request from Biden. The first caller set the tone of comedy as this person who identified as calling from the UK where he must enjoy his nation’s 1-payer government-run health care system urge Americans to dump more money into the Pentagon due to the dangers around the world. The dry humor from this caller masks the irony and insult of the call.
CAPITALISM AND CARTELS
So many words are spoken at the public everyday using words that detour away from actual meaning. Words are used to terrorize, inform, or confuse and media is often the vehicle of transmission. When money and power enter into the formula, delusion is possible. An example is the phrase most of us have heard over decades that “we are a 2-Party system”. In FACT our system doesn’t require political Parties, and elections surely shouldn’t be run by political Parties. Yet, this idea is accepted as Constitutional.
PEACE AND LIBERTY
What is the message that is sent either accidentally or intentionally sent by John Lennon as he mimics the stance of our Lady Liberty? Can we manifest both liberty and peace?
REASON
As one who, like the majority of people went along to get along, the ego-busting reality of Climate Change was the catalyst to speak up regardless of consequences. When fracking came to town in Upstate NY and local bureaucrats and politicians bought and paid for by big-money interests began to run so-called news reports over local news channels that were more nearly sales seminars and said individuals shouted their battle cry of “drill baby drill”, the consequences seemed so dire as to eliminate reticence.
DEVIL IN THE DETAILS
Propaganda seems to be the hierarchical spewing of their perspective in language that seems to forestall the willingness of too many recipients of said information to see the details beyond the rhetoric. Is this the framework used by dictators?
DEFINE NATIONAL SECURITY
Mitch McConnell graced us with his view about expanded funding for The Military-Industrial Complex to enhance national security. The view from Mitch McConnell is predictable when one considers reports of his familial connections to commercial interests in China. National security for American oligarchs is often imagined in terms of “protecting American interests overseas” which is commercial interest in foreign nations.
AMNESIA AS PUBLIC POLICY
Corporate-owned-state-run MSM has an easy job in broadcasting news when the public has the focus and memory capacity of a gnat. A different view can be spewed each day with little to no comment from consumers.
WHAT WE VOTE FOR
A democracy requires FACTual information and this implies a Free Press. Notoriously the news sources in the USA are owned and controlled by only several corporate entities that seem as involved in disseminating reports as they may be in donating to political campaigns. This further implies that commercial interests and governance are closely connected.
EGO WANTS WHAT IT WANTS
WHO ARE WE?
Who doesn’t understand the motivation of Zalensky and in FACT who wouldn’t act the same in his shoes? And this may be how history is rewritten to fit the Establishment script. The movement of non-violence that was the foundation of ideas from MLK, Jr. has been white-washed for political expediency by capitalists who are posturing as pro-democracy when an informed person can understand that capitalism is hierarchical and antithetical to democracy.
CLIMATE CHANGE OR WAR?
THESE ARE NOT OUR ONLY CHOICES.
We have more serious topics to consider than interests of individual nations and the ideology of each. The public of the world need to challenge using local communities for the exploitation for the elite. So far local communities aren’t doing so well, but seem to follow the lead from their tormentors.
DEFINE AMERICAN INTERESTS
First define American interests. So far, oligarchs seem to have defined American interests for a silenced American public.
BLINKEN ‘SPLAINS RUSSIA…’NUFF SAID…
Revolting is the idea of Blinken ‘splaining the views of Russia; especially since the USA and “Western concerns” have been instrumental in actions within the Ukraine when the USA has described Ukrainian government as the most corrupt in the world. Equally revolting has been the habit of corporate-owned-state-run MSM talking heads with little understanding of recent history, equate Russia with fascism when Russia was instrumental though brutal in challenging Hitler and Nazis during WWII. To understand other people is essential to be intellectually honest. This isn’t about the level of governmental corruption peculiar to any one government; but more about the corruption of oligarchy.
DEFINE PEACE
What do we call peace under the influence of Climate Change caused by profiteering by hierarchy?
Fundamental refining of approaches to existence are needed in order to enhance quality of life for everyone. Dependence on hierarchy to initiate remedies inevitably will lead to the same system we now endure, due to corruption. Quite plainly when economic excellence is the priority, as inviting as this seems, in the end division will prevail as to who benefits and who pays the price.
WHAT CAN BE DONE NOW?
To lead by example is preferable to dictating. The USA can do this with the involvement of We The People; in FACT there is no other way. Politicians have over centuries been recognized for what they are. Money in elections has not burnished their image.