Tag: health

IGNORANCE IS AN EXCUSE

Perhaps the stories we tell ourselves are the deflection we need to go on. read more

FREE SPEECH POLICING

While money is called Free Speech, Free Speech is held as suspicious behavior by Establishment. read more

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIMENT ON HUMANITY

As a child of the 50’s, childhood diabetes wasn’t typical.  Today reports suggest childhood diabetes is growing.    A personal opine is a memory from around 1970 in which one first began to hear about the interjection of corporate interests into the public school system that was explained as profiting both industry and the school system.  At that time the first industrial inspiration was soda machines in school systems.  So what about the health care costs that devolved onto the general public due to atrocious nutritional habits, while the public school system and industry profited?  This seems a perfect setup for public/private partnerships that are so advertised as promoting economic well being.  Another definition could be nationalizing risk while privatizing profit. read more

DO IT LIKE A GIRL


How’s patriarchy going for us?

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WHAT WE MUSTN’T TALK ABOUT

Is dictatorship when open reporting and citizen communication is stifled?  Money isn’t Speech but can stifle Free Speech.  Why aren’t more people talking about Citizens United? read more

VOICES

C-Span offered a vibrant discussion about socialism v capitalism in Congress today.  The USA is mega capitalist.  Here is an informative perspective read more

COMPLIANCE TO A RIGGED SYSTEM REQUIRED

One listened to portions of the US Conference of Mayors discussion as aired on C-Span read more

DO QUESTIONS COME TO MIND?


You won’t ask the questions if you don’t hear the stories. read more

DEFINE LIBERTY

Is it a dictatorship, when transparency to the public is challenged and laws are enacted to benefit the elite while the majority of the public are used to that end? read more

FRESH VIEW

While monopolies are ignored and price gouging has become a way of life under capitalism, workers are subjected to restraint, scrutiny, and exploitation compatible with hierarchical predatory behavior of big business and corporations.  Non-compete agreements are only one example. read more

PEACE AND WAR

One believes the following book by Tolstoy was banned in Russia.  Oligarchs (those who steer public opinion for personal promotion) are similar. read more

TREEHUGGER AND HISTORY

That the phrase treehugger originated byway of followers of Hindu and possibly again byway of followers of Buddhism come as no surprise. read more

RIGGED NATION

On involvement in Ukraine, US leaders have warned the US public that pain could be felt at home.  How is this supportive of the USA and We The People?…..And to what end?– read more

DEFENSIVE RATIONALIZATION


Bait-and-switch may be a reason some people have labeled as war crimes (remembering that war crime is an oxymoron) Russian targeting of civilian infrastructure in Ukraine that denies to local community members the civil and human right of the dignity of a functional energy grid while accepting a dysfunctional US energy grid by labeling this as free enterprise. read more

DEFLECTION

Some people recognize Trump for the deflection that has been his use by the Democratic/Republican duopoly.  Meanwhile the real issues that impact the lives of the public go unaddressed. read more