Tag: money
FASCISM OUT OF THE CLOSET
A problem on the topic of fascism is that, until authoritarian exploitation of human resources (people) or natural resources (environment) becomes noticeable, the money is nice. A governance based on :”the economy” can be a euphemism for dictatorship. It is easy to overlook corruption when money is being generated, and this includes our nation of shareholders. Add to this the highly questionable policy of Citizens United by which lawmakers are purchased by big-money interests, and supposedly monitoring sources such as the Federal Reserve, which is supposed to maintain balance in “the economy”, has over a decade kept too low, interests. Keeping interest rates abnormally low has forced family savings accounts into the stock market that can be considered speculative. Low interest rates may also promote inflation.
LIVING SATIRE
To be clear, this is sometimes called satire. It is a way to express truth rather than FACTS—
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?
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?
EARTH DAY PREP
A special celebration of our home occurs on April 22; but who doesn’t love their home each day?
BEYOND INDOCTRINATION
One may worry that the standing of Jane Fonda may be sullied among the oligarchs of the globe due to her position on exploitation; but then one recalls that Jane Fonda never held an honored position among those with predatory character—
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.
WHEN OLIGARCHS FIGHT
First oligarchs can be defined as such, rather than in the gently pandering Western phraseology. Crack down on the general public along with indulgence of hierarchy is embarrassingly Western.
FOLLOW THE MONEY
US funds will follow the interests of the American oligarchs….AKA American interests overseas…..Americans are reminded “we are not a democracy, we are a constitutional republic. Jobs have been sent overseas where manufacturing is controlled by foreigners, resulting in empty shelves and high prices in the USA. Demands for a 1-payer comprehensive public health care system by a majority of Americans are ignored by political recipients of industrial big-money campaign contributions. Most deadly is the Climate Change caused by abuse of nature and our environment. The USA feels like the engine of worldwide military aggression and oligarchical models.
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.
DEFINE SANCTIONS
Is anyone else feeling the embarrassment of threats by the USA of sanctioning other nations? Joe Biden asked the Middle East to ramp up oil production to ease the upward spiral of gasoline costs in the USA and they said no. Is this a sanction? China possesses American jobs used to manufacture products needed by the American public and with China in control of the amount if any of the products getting to the USA. Is this a sanction?
DENIAL NATION
Hyperbole is typical in a political campaign but should have become undignified in a leader by the time political office has been reached.
CAN WE ENTRUST THE PUBLIC WITH MONEY?
Hierarchy is hierarchy by indoctrination of enough of the public that supremacy for a few is a good idea for everyone. That idea may not be the FACTual. Capitalism promised that unlike it’s co-authoritarian system of communism, capitalism would keep down costs, increase general lifestyle for the most people, and would ensure empty store shelves would not happen. The evidence suggests differently. Public/private partnerships seem a hierarchical shell game to transfer wealth from the public sector to private commerce. Under the commercial system Climate Change is expanding and worsening. Citizens United has legalized the corruption of ownership of legislators by commercial interests. This seems corrupt.
IT’S LIKE THEY’RE ABOVE THE LAW
Legalized corruption in elections byway of Citizens United seems to have produced the culture in which politicians don’t think they are above the law, they are above the law.
Big-money campaign donors have highly questionable influence over local politicians. One doesn’t suggest money was an influence in the following scenario. But what happened to the governmental suggestion that politicians should avoid the appearance of corruption?