Tag: democracy
NEWS BLACK-OUT
This summer we seem to have reached a tipping point about effects of global warming on humanity and nature that would permit denial as an obviously inane view. And so Establishment has assumed a policy of mitigation as to the impact, rather than dealing with the underlying anomalies of lifestyle that contributed to the global warming. This seems to be a policy that indulges big-money campaign donors who profit by the harmful policies that contribute to global warming, and is based on dependence of lawmakers on the largess of Citizens United, to their personal well being. This leaves out attention to the needs of We The People.
CAUSE AND EFFECT
As a child of the ’60’s, one has little to no confidence in militarized law enforcement. While most of us “studied” The Teapot Dome Affair in school, the depth and breadth of that scandal probably was glossed over so as to wall the essence away from student understanding.
BUT WHAT THEY DO
The notion that “we are a 2-Party system” is a presumption of the Democratic and Republican Branches of the duopoly, and not based on Constitutional norms. Other political Parties exist and in FACT have attracted the majority of voters. The R&D duopoly have censored the voices of other Parties, and have passed laws prohibiting equal access.
OLD WAR HORSE
Like an old war horse who smells the gun powder, one again listened to a MSM lovely ‘splain the life of ’60’s era women. Aside from the presumption of defining life said lovely couldn’t even imagine, she joined a retinue of ‘splainers of the female world, said ‘splainers could never appraise.
WHEN DENIAL ISN’T ENOUGH
Does one make oneself even more tiresome by expressing a view that modern-day lifestyle choices are sometime based on TV sit-com illusions, if not full-blown fantasy land for-ever-child-status, that suits demand for infinite progress using finite resources and contributes to Climate Change. Or does one speak to the obvious real-time transfer of liability to the public in order to further the interests of profiteers from this denial system.
MAGICAL MESSAGES UPLIFT ESTABLISHMENT
The topic for call-in discussions on C-Span this morning was about the Supreme Court decision negating Affirmative Action. This opens the door to a perspective about capitalism and democracy, that are opposite concepts.
NATURE AND HUMAN ACTION
Government doesn’t do democracy, people do.
https://popularresistance.org/the-upstate-new-york-town-that-took-back-its-power/ – More than forty years on, Massena — population now around 12,000 — still has some of the cheapest, cleanest electricity in the state. Its electricians are unionized and maintain reliable service in a region bordering Canada and often hit by harsh winter weather. To locals on both sides of the aisle, municipal ownership of the grid has come to seem like common sense.
AMERICAN DREAM
The foundation of democracy is individual involvement and the dream of America is the ability for citizens to so act. A troubling parallel arises between the PRC and the USA, both of which are republics, as we watch the democracy that is the function of We The People, not of government, is restricted by the hierarchic Establishment. If the common impulse toward peace must be stifled to protect oligarchical control of the global elite, what are we to make of the American Dream of democracy?
ROLE OF MSM IN CLIMATE CHANGE
One is grateful for a perspective relating to wildfires that include the FACT of Climate Change. The Central NYS region experienced AQI of far over 400, and this is dangerous. As much as one appreciates the local news reporting that focuses on capitalism as our savior, to insinuate that “experts” he has heard inform that wildfires such as the one in Canada are normal seems to do a disservice to intellectual honesty.
WHAT WAS RADICAL IN 1776 IS RADICAL TODAY
Marianne Williamson commits to sharing of her ideas on Wednesday and with an audience interaction each Sunday. Access to politicians, bureaucrats, and self-defined leaders is the heartbeat of democracy.
PROFESSIONALISM OR DICTATORSHIP
A new normal is in place in the USA about which youngsters are oblivious. Professional designation is the smokescreen for dictatorial control. Education indoctrinates into capitalism rather than teaches democracy.
FERCY JERKY DEMOCRACY
So how is banning action by AI different from the following——fantasies that included spreading disinformation, engineering a deadly virus, and… stealing nuclear access codes.——–different from current foreign policy and military action in the service of oligarchs? Is the deflection to reining in AI meant to take the pressure off of the dictatorial hierarchy of oligarchy? Technology has outpaced human ethics, but to target technology instead of ethical behavior is absurd.—–
NERO FIDDLES
Mocked by the White house Press Secretary, one need only consider the source. If you can turn it into a joke, perhaps the deluded will giggle.
NEED TO IMAGINE
Indoctrination may be called the short-circuiting of imagination by outside intrusion.
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
Judging from calls to C-Span recently, it would seem a growing number of Americans are noticing that any presumption about US democracy or freedom is instead a dictatorship by the Republican/Democratic duopoly.